skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems difficult to definitively prove that ghosts do not exist.

It's pretty difficult to definitively prove anything doesn't exist.

Big Foot, unicorns, leprechauns, grachflaxaprods. I made the last one up just now, but hard to prove it doesn't exist.

I think that when people say things like you did, like the existence of ghosts or Santa Claus, it is generally presented as binary choice. They exist or they don't. In reality, it is a continuum and looked at as the odds for something like that to exist. So the odds that a different species of lemurs exist and we have not found it might be 80%. But that a god exists, let alone the one that you happen to believe in rather than the other 10,000+ that have existed, is .0000000000000000000...0000000000000000001%.

For example, I'm not saying a god doesn't exist, but I AM saying that the odds are not binary, meaning a 50/50 chance. Agnosticism therefore is an extremely weak position. This is important, because no scientist is going to try to prove leprechauns exist, because the odds are so exceedingly low that it is a bad choice to try to prove it. Sure, one scientist in the world might, but the vast majority don't. It's a poor choice of where to beneficially spend one's time.

And on some things, like a god, the odds are so extremely low that you might as well be like limits in calculus - you just say "close enough" and say it is zero odds of a god existing, so practically speaking, you're an atheist. Which isn't to say that if the evidence changes, as a scientist you would wouldn't change your mind - of course a scientist would...because there is evidence. However, the evidential burden would and should be quite high that this "entity" is indeed a god.

And really, a god's power is really only just atom-moving (or changing quantum field states if you prefer). For example, if we take the story of Jesus turning water into wine, people look at it as "turning water into wine", but it isn't. Not really. It is just moving atoms. "Turning water into wine" is a misnomer. What actually happens is take H2O atoms, grab two Carbon atoms and extra 4 Hydrogens atoms and rearranging them into C2H5OH - Ethanol alcohol. This is the reality. Jesus was just an atom twiddler. Sure, wine might have more actual atoms arranged into additional molecules, but still it is the same thing. So when you think about it, Jesus had to take the Carbon and extra hydrogen from the air or dirt on the ground or rearrange the atoms into a different molecule.

It's the same thing with everything - bringing Lazurus back from the dead? No. Jesus just twiddled some atoms in Lazurus' body.

This is pretty much true for any god.

If I can move individual atoms, like the replicator in Star Trek, am I a god? If I can bring atoms into existance from quantum fields, am I a god?

Ooops, got off track there on the whole god (Jesus) "miracle" thing, sorry.
Thats really complicated.

A really rough breakdown is an employee is somebody who is bound to the directives of the company he is working for. Ie. cant by themselves choose their working hours freely (amount as well as time) or what they are working on.

This looks somewhat ok for a more in-depth explanation:

https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/employee-employer-relatio...
Cryptocurrency is by definition, an open transparent market and as such not a Ponzi scheme. Quite literally by definition.

Also many of the current cryptocurrencies run on tiny amounts of energy (Algorand, Cardano).

Some of the brightest minds in applied mathematics and cryptography are working on this stuff. Maybe you should be a little more open minded.

Edit: downvoted without any discourse. This site is so strangely anti crypto, stay smug, let’s see how it works out for you.
> Apple has had a monopoly on two device platforms (iPods, then iOS) and has abused both of them to its own profit.

iOS is not a monopoly with 50%. We had a real judge during the Epic vs Apple case say as much.

Encarta was also available for the Mac.
> This clearly solves the halting problem (we assumed the existence of halt as the first step of our proof by contradiction).

Implementing the halting problem using addition does not assume the existence of halt. It assumes the existence of addition, and you use that to show that halt must also exist. And that's not possible to do.

To implement halts using addition, you need to:

- Take the input to halts, namely the source code to a program.

- Convert that into an input to addition, namely two numbers.

- Call into addition, which adds the numbers.

- Use the result of that addition to infer whether the original program halts or not.
>The average cost to incarcerate someone for a year is $31k.

In the Baltimore-Washington stretch of Maryland, it's hard to find a retail store with an ATM in the front, because it's common for thieves to crash a vehicle through the glass into the ATM, load it into their vehicle, and drive away. I've talked with a couple store owners where it has happened, and apparently, nobody was ever caught in their cases.

Baltimore has some parts where you can't even enter stores. Instead, you have to wait in enclosed bulletproof glass areas while the clerks gather items for you.

The restaurant where I work at on the weekends once got a GrubHub driver open carrying with a bulletproof vest. One of our regular GrubHub drivers got carjacked by a man who shot a police officer right out front of the restaurant.

Everyone I've mentioned so far is black, in case it matters.

If we do not swallow the costs of jailing lawbreakers, then the rest of America will be like this.

>I'm sure not going to opt to spend an order of magnitude more trying to punish thieves.

Judges typically balance 3 primary factors in sentencing criminals:

- Punishment of the criminal.

- Protecting the community from the criminal.

- Provide justice and closure to victims of the criminal.

Punishing the thief is just one aspect of this. It's an important one, because it serves as a deterrent for future would-be thieves. Crime is going unpunished in Baltimore. As a result, the community is not protected and victims have no justice. People have been leaving for years now.
Protect our Future PAC is just one of several donations that were enormously larger than the $286k R / $283k D total direct candidate donations.

Meanwhile, just because a donation is received during the primary season doesn’t mean it can’t be spent during the general election period, when the candidate in question wins the primary.
One of the wisest people I ever met was in a meeting, after another Fortune 250 bought our Fortune 250 (as a "merger of equals," which ended up in a textbook raid). The question at hand was: "What do we do about all the people who are going to quit and leave?" His response? "I'm more concerned with all the people who quit and stay." This keeps echoing in my mind as I read about these tech layoffs, 25 years later.
Elon Musk says Twitter will manually verify accounts again
As it happens, you don't need much content to convince people that petty criminals are scum and the only solution is more and meaner cops and prisons. After all, the retail lobby says so!
You can usually set a custom date format without changing the locale, and you can usually find a tool to edit the nasty config file it's buried in. It is a pain though.
Can anyone confirm if nested virtualization is available when running asahi on m1/m2 ?
Also, 60% of the Internet is not indexed by Google (if you exclude duplicates).
you forgot 1 figure: 30x
Kagi has been amazing: verbatim mode that actually works, blocking sites you don't want to see, boosting sites you always want to prioritize, and lists of sites you can customize for specific searches.
Have to use the word "AI" for SEO and clickbait purposes. If you can't relate to
Current Thing then are you even worth reading?
Maybe the other way around - his ignore file has "Tesla" in it?
I wonder whether he’s just taking revenge upon the employees for mocking him buying it for 3x its revenue. “SEC wants me to buy it whole because I have 9%? Employees and board are happy to force my hand? Ok.”

Being suicidal and ready to lose everything to make a point, is probably another facet of the same character trait.
We can do both!
This seems to be a too sophisticated attack, sometimes simplicity is better:
https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-1000...
Are people not paying taxes in Zimbabwe or Venezuela? It seems there has to be more to it than that.
Just bad form to mention your own score, period.
Funny, because traditionally it was (ALL-UPPER-CASE)

Nowadays, indentation does a bunch of heavy lifting when it comes to readability. Modern Lisp-inspired languages (such as Clojure, but also some dialects of Scheme) also use other symbols in addition to parenthesis (like square brackets). Usually they are interchangeable, but I found that it can sometimes help.

I find it difficult to read LOOP macros. And some versions of LET. But they are bastions of readability if you compare with languages like_c<with<templates>>(T) and_macros(void);{}
This is not Reddit, please don’t treat it as such
Was it DDLC? A 12-year old boy in Croatia commited suicide partly because of emotional trauma caused by it.
I know. But I can't be completely cynical in all my comments here.
Time for a TeslaDAO. The cryptonomics are in the favour of us plebs, and I reckon we'd meme up a100z billions in no time.
South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies
The hardware is pretty good. Utterly unmaintainable, unserviceable and unapgradeable, extremely overpriced tiering (e.g. adding storage or RAM which you have to do at purchase time), with limited options (e.g. i cannot stand glossy screens with shitty reflections everywhere causing eye strain), but still very good. However the software (macOS) is pretty shit and IMO hard to adapt to coming from any other OS.

Raw performance per watt, and per weight/dimensions is best in class. For pure performance (e.g. an Asus ROG Zephyrus) or lightness (e.g. LG Gram) there are better options, but if you want all three it's hard to beat.

I personally think the hardware is so good, even with the caveats, but the software so bad that I'm honestly tempted to get an Air for portability or a Pro as a daily driver when Asahi Linux is good enough for me and the prices are right (so some sale or something, sticker prices are ridiculous if you max everything, and you kind of have to due to the impossibility of upgrades).
Check the model on https://mrchromebox.tech/ but I'm not sure if you'll have good luck with an Arm based chromebook.
What sort of nodes are you using, can you add a node pool with a different SKU?
Wow, what a poorly written article and ugly website.
Sharing pornographic deepfakes to be illegal in England and Wales
A planned new law would make sharing pornographic deepfakes without consent a crime in England and Wales.

Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person's face is put on someone else's body, is part of a crackdown on the abuse of intimate pictures in the Online Safety Bill.

This law would also make it easier to charge people with sharing intimate photos without consent.

Prosecutors would no longer need to prove they intended to cause distress.

[...]
Explain it in terms of what people already know, like Wikipedia for example. Help the reader to imagine what kind of world this tech enables.
French company in Paris:
- 600€ /day for a good developer (a few years of experience in stacks related to our needs)
- 700/800€ for a more senior one (someone that can very well train the rest of the team or handle complexe features by himself)
Same with Macs not supporting display port daisy chaining over USB C (not Thunderbolt), it's purely a software limitation.
Markets have been trained to expect easy money from central banks, he said, and the “perverse effect” of that has been for “a significant chunk of global financial activity” to flood into asset management, private equity and hedge funds, among other less-regulated entities. The gyrations in markets since the easy money era ended this year can be understood as that significant chunk looking for a new home, investment-wise.

It also links to Adam Tooze's article coining "polycrisis". https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-130-defining-poly...
The last one I remember is this one from August this year: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2022/08/30/microsoft-blames-... It was not a complete outage but these DNS issues caused a lot of pain.
I bought a French brand pressure cooker about 10 years ago and use it almost every day (vegetables, pulses, grains). I usually boil water in an electric kettle first though - a 3kw kettle will have the water hot in 2 minutes, then I clamp the lid on the opposite cooker and it's at full pressure pretty quickly afterwards. If I'm doing potatoes I typically cube them, and they're done in 6 minutes on full pressure.
That's also the name of the DRM system it had.
Thanks, this all looks really neat. Just getting my head around it though. I've been interested in IPFS for a long time, but still haven't dug into it.
> Can Teams make phone calls?

Yep: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/voip-voice-o...
> I contacted Glynn County emergency services about Macleod’s 911 issue. The county said it “did not find any record of these calls registering in our system during the time in question” despite Macleod’s phone log showing she called 911.

I was under the impression that (successful) 911 calls aren't recorded in the call log.
Remarriage migration of women in Asia: The case of Japan
Can someone explain why this is leaky and how it can be exploited by malicious actors?
There was a TW on the opening screen about suicide. I'd have liked to see it. Obviously that was my friend's error and not the game's, and we discussed this afterwards. What I wanted to highlight is that a trigger warning was erased, and this was a very vulnerable time for me when it would have been very useful.

I'm not entirely sure I've understood your objection properly, but I'll try to address your questions.

Yeah it's expected that I'll be put in unusual situations, no I don't expect authors to anticipate each trauma I could possibly have, but surely the very obvious ones can be covered.

Should art immitate life or be safe? Neither and both, there's plenty of room in this world for the most gritty horror movie and for Blue's Clues.

How could I have known it was the outcome? The trigger warning was as specific as it needed to be - "TW: Suicide" is plenty.

ETA: The general vibe I'm getting here is you're asking, "where do you draw the line?", as if this were a slippery slope. The answer is, it's a matter of taste and judgement. It's not any less tractable then the question, when do you decide a work of art is done?

Naturally this opens up the observation that, if it's about judgment, one could decide to include no trigger warnings, like my friend did when presenting the game to me. And sure, I'm not saying that's invalid. More that its bad taste, and I've elaborated as to why I feel that way.
Because FOSS is by programmers, for programmers. Programmers like programming. Programmers will consider a UI that feels like doing programming work to be a good UI.

Non programmers want a premade spp and process for doing whatever the software says it does, including all variations they will encounter.

Programmers want an open ended kit to build their own solution, and continually adapt it to fit their needs with nothing extra. They don't want software, they want a special purpose programming environment.

They like power and simplicity more than convenience.

And it seems like they commonly think on multiple levels of abstraction at the same time. If the internals of something are complicated, it seems to bother them the way a very bad mess in a closet would bother someone.

I would imagine they are actively aware of the technology behind the things they use. They are probably not just thinking "Oh, click the button, this happens", they might have 4 different possibilities of how it might work in their head, and that part of their brain doesn't seem to have a sleep mode.

Maybe it's distracting to them to use something that doesn't transparently expose what it actually does behind the scenes, like an unsolved puzzle with a picture they don't think they'd like the look of if they did solve it.

Plus, programmers like to code. So a lot of what they do is aimed at helping them make... more code. The requirements are different than tools for noncode goals.

Programmers also don't trust technology. The more UI conveniences, the more it's probably hiding in some dependency. Many programmers would gladly spend hours maintaining something to avoid Google knowing their location.

Programmer psychology makes no sense if you haven't actually worked with them. You think "Oh, like in the movies, they've got a gadget for everything, they'll reprogram a ship's computer in 5 minutes and their curtains probably open themselves".

But really it's more like "They swear at machines a lot, wish they could live in an offgrid cabin or at least like the idea in theory, and they would rather have a lathe from 1937 than a smarthome hub, but they'll also spend 60 hours learning how interrupts work in the Linux kernel for fun".

Note: I'm specifically talking about most other programmers, not myself, I can't stand most of those UNIXy modular suites you have to fuss with to use.
Why are apps allowed to take over the main dialer?
> The UK lost its literal empire because of the costs of two wars that devastated the continent - not domestic politics.

That’s the story the British like to tell themselves.

I don’t think it fits the counterexample that Germany was able to rebuild itself enough after the first to be a world-scale threat by the second (and might have won the second in the alternative timeline where they had not been so anti-communist to attempt to conquer the USSR before the UK, and possibly also in the hypothetical alternative timeline if they had not been anti-Semitic — even before all the horrors of Holocaust became known, they were bad enough to make a significant number of Jewish scientists run away, in particular the ones went to the USA and helped with the Manhattan Project); and again after WW2 and being divided by the Allies, that Germany went from having their industrial base punitively dismantled in 1949 to The Times referring to the its reconstruction as a Wirtschaftswunder by 1959. (Yes I do know they got help, but it’s important to also know why the UK didn’t get that help, and I think part of that is the USA while part is internal domestic UK politics).

It also doesn’t fit that the observation that empire, which was worldwide, had been bringing riches to the UK before the war. One thing that might have changed the cost/benefit ratios was all the locals finally getting their hands on sufficient firearms to make it expensive to suppress independence movements. Given what else the British government was busy doing with local industrial policy at that point, and the honours granted to those directly involved in war crimes during the Mau Mau uprising, I don’t think they were that self-aware. (Could also be that the USA was putting pressure on the old powers to drop their imperialism, but I don’t feel confident about the dynamic there given British cultural attitudes to the USA vary from it being “one of us, even if they don’t realise it” (no, I don’t get it either, but I’ve seen it) to “if they say jump, we ask how high”).

It also doesn’t fit that the Commonwealth’s GDP is now about $11 trillion, about 3 times the UK itself; although I would regard the end of Imperialism as a morally good thing and correct all by itself, I don’t think “money” is a reasonable justification for giving up on that potential. Morally, sure. Politically, it is “gave up an empire to gain a continent… hang on, why isn’t the continent doing what we say? That must mean they are dictating to us!”
Are Concept Drift Detectors Reliable Alarming Systems? A Comparative Study
At least https://www.tesla.com/.git/config is not accessible but still. This should never happen to a company that considers itself a software company first and a car company second.
You're not getting it. A "CanBeRegex" function which (always) correctly indicates whether a code block could be replaced by a regex MUST be able to solve the halting problem. The same is not true for addition.
It would seem like pundits make this sort of prediction every year.
"The color of the yolk has very little to do with its nutritional content. Actually, yolk color depends almost entirely on pigments in the food chickens eat. If a hen eats plenty of yellow-orange pigments called xanthophylls, those pigments will make a darker orange egg yolk."

I've adjusted my previous bias thanks to this article.
> I think a modern smartphone is a portable network computer/camera/sensor-package, with the telephone bit being something like the human appendix.

A modern smartphone is a convergence of two devices: a PDA and a cell phone (this is more obvious with older devices like the Palm Treo 650). Once the telephone bit is no longer relevant (probably replaced by a data-only cellular modem), it will go back to being just a PDA.
Microsoft has learned through the decades where you can make big bucks: charge enterprises through the roof for “basic” stuff, and in return promise them to _not_break_their_shit_ and help them (for even more money) if they screw up themselves.

Now with Azure, basically they’re making that available to smaller scale players as well.

Meanwhile Google operate GCP in fundamentally the same way they operate free Gmail accounts: hey, this stuff is super neat! So neat actually you bunch of freeloaders are not allowed to complain if this free and neat thing spectacularly breaks once in a while! Wait…you pay for this stuff? Naaah!
The start/stop at the bottom makes that look like it's come canned with a CMS and they've just tacked on what they needed to. It's 90% boilerplate.
Thanks! How is this service even free? Absolutely love the dead simple API, too.
No, I don't remember the title (and I feel like the post is better with keeping it abstract, I don't want to get into the weeds of discussing this particular story) but I have played DDLC and it wasn't that one in particular.

That's terrible about the 12 year old boy. I would say DDLC is a powerful and compelling piece of art that subverts & interrogates it's own genre and reveals the flaws of that genre, and I'm certainly not advocating for people not to make really challenging art like that. I wish things could have been different for that boy, but I'm not sure that's something better trigger warnings would solve.