skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right. That's the "humans are magic" argument. It's a rehash of the "first cause" argument from theology for the existence of a creator. ("But who created God?" "Shut up, kid.")

I don't think that's a fair summary of the argument. The conclusion of the argument is a dilemma: either (i) humans are not conscious or (ii) humans are conscious but so are lots of other things (like rocks) that we don't usually take to be conscious. If you aren't willing to accept (i) or (ii), then you can either look for flaws in the argument that led to the unwelcome conclusion, or consider the possibility that there is more to consciousness than just executing a particular program. We know virtually nothing about consciousness, so we can't confidently eliminate the possibility that certain physical properties of neurons are a necessary prerequisite for it. Being sensibly open-minded about this possibility is not akin to a belief in magic. I would rather say that the magical thinkers are those who have an unwavering faith in the ability of computer programs to conjure up conscious experience in the absence of any known causal mechanisms.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin

I barely remember hearing about this
Yep, I agree, valid criticism.
There are things like git-crypt, pass-tomb etc, but those can get messy real fast.

However, git repo != GitHub.
Putting the repo on a home server in the LAN has served me well over the years
Datafusion is okay. Ballista is not at all ready at the moment.
I doubt anyone, save Iran's western opponents, believes the demonstrations are a result of built up systematic repression. ONLY women are participating the vast majority of the times and males who are attempting to support THEM. This is not something that has been building up. But rather was instigated in a color revolution.

Calling Alinejad a journalist is like calling Edward Snowden a journalist. They are nothing other than whistleblowers. Except Alinejad lied this one instance and shows glee when people die.

Please don't make these protests largely about the regime. They are specifically protesting for their rights.
Just to put things in perspective: for ~350 years (1600-1949), the West dominated and exploited India. The British taught the Indians that it was OK to steal from another nation. And they taught them English too.

What goes around comes around.
Sometimes helmet grease works, too.
> monitoring Tesla's stock price like a hawk and if the sentiment drops he'll be aware of it well before the figures are published.

This is not a thing. The figures come out in real time for very basic trading accounts and iirc google finance gives them real time from the exchanges.

Also, the opening price is not set by pre-market action unless there a massive amount of abnormal AH volume. The participants that show up for the opening bids are 3-4 orders of magnitude higher in volume than the pre-market traders. Gauging general market sentiment from after hours action is folly, even in highly traded instruments like the index futures or the SPY etf.
It would be a cruel person indeed that would suggest that someone must suffer in agony because it suits their definition of morality.
I see where you're coming from, but talking to my father-in-law who grew up in Queens in the 60s and he remembers something quite different. The city was a dangerous mess and they never went to Manhattan, they essentially never left Astoria. They didn't take vacations, have A/C, his room was basically a walk in closet with a window, they ate awful food most fo the time, and went to a low cost catholic school. He has nothing romantic or nostalgic to say about it at all. My own parents at the same time were farmers, and I certainly wouldn't want to do what they had to do as children.

If you want to stuff 4 people into two bedrooms with no A/C and never take vacations you can do it today in most cities in the US for the wage you'd earn at 1 corporate job. It won't be comfortable, but that isn't new.
Just as a note: they are about to issue a $458M dividend.
They plan to spend $4-4.5B in 2023 on planes.
How much are they spending on system modernization?
Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
It's amazing what civil, mechanical, structural, electrical and all other "real world" engineers have built for us. They need to be paid way more than software engineers IMO considering how critical their work is. Yes, I know it's a pipe dream, cause supply and demand. "Have you seen how much big tech makes?".

Whenever my mind wanders off and lands on a video of practical engineering, it boggles my mind how complex real world systems are put in place. Big hats off to those engineering these systems so us pampered folks can whine about RTO vs WFH and Rust vs Go.
The environmental impact of plastics not degrading isn’t something to be ignored just because CO2 emissions are also an immediate concern.

What we should be doing is shifting away from plastics and towards using materials that are biodegradable.
But was it real communism?
> Not that that disagrees with the hypotheses that the US is a world empire and the EU's present existence is predicated on US military size and operations.

oh, so why are you replying?
For men, at least
I disagree that the "Do-Not-Track header is a perfect solution to this", because it implies that the default (i.e. the header being absent) should allow sites to track you. I (and apparently EU legislators) think opting in to privacy is wrong. You should have privacy by default. If anything, there should be a "Creepily-Track-My-Activity-Over-The-Entire-Internet" header, that, when present, allows tracking.

There also used to be another standard called "P3P" that tried to integrate privacy into browser UIs with a more or less standardized interface and that, too, failed. Among other reasons because companies wanting to track people subverted it.
Have a look at this tool to help find out what 'capabilities' your cables have:

https://github.com/alvarop/usb_c_cable_tester

It has a number of connectors, the cable gets plugged into the board with both ends and labelled LEDs will light up for wires that are connected. It runs off a coin cell, no microcontroller, no single-board computer, no nothing. Just a power source, LEDs and connectors.

From what I remember, the creator said that the repo should contain everything required to have some manufactured by JLCPCB (that's a large Chinese PCB prototyping service that also populates boards with components if you like).
Yeah the bull case would be something close to considering TSLA to be AMZN in 2006 or so launching AWS and taking advantage of first-mover advantage in the cloud space--only with clean energy and FSD.

If you believed that was a likely outcome then the insane valuations would seem not so insane, which is why it got bet up to those levels.
Learn more about social security. The worst case scenario is that you'd get roughly 74% of your promised benefit. If Congress intervenes, the outlook will improve. All the arguments are about how much of that shortfall to make up, and how to do it. Aside from some GOP outliers, the broad consensus is that it will continue to exist.
Fair question, but since it's not a service, I don't see how that is KeePass' responsibility. But, It's really just a simple as making sure your dependents have a copy of your master password. If I remember correctly, the native Windows version has a step to print of a sheet to share with family members when you create a new database (I could be wrong, it's been a while). Either way it would be trivial to type up a word document to print off. If you use a key file as well, it a little more complicated. Depends on if you're assuming folks have access to your machine or not. As someone else suggested, a thumb drive could be a good solution. Whatever you choose they need to have a copy of the DB file, master pass, and key file and you're good :)
This is why I don't think that would change anything. I am more that certain Apple would abuse the standard to force the users to only buy its cables.

Edit: I know complaining about downvotes only solicits more but I am genuinely curious why two people thought this comment was so irrelevant to the discussion that they downvoted it. Only explanation is that they believe that Apple could do no wrong. Lol
Sure, but believing them to be the same is also a philosophical argument.
100% VTSAX has actually performed pretty well relatively. International & Bond markets are not doing great either.
Fuck the US government, full stop.
Is the "Institute for New Economic Thinking" some sort of journalistic publication?
it's pretty easy to prove that a brain can simulate a Turing machine, and it's pretty hard to disbelieve that a computer can simulate a brain (by running the physics)
But those are things that are worth solving _now_, not just once you die.
> "Whereas in the ancestral past, humans lived in geographically isolated communities where inbreeding was rather common,[65] modern transportation technologies have made it much easier for people to travel great distances and facilitated further genetic mixing, giving rise to additional variations in the human gene pool.[93] It also enables the spread of diseases worldwide, which can have an effect on human evolution.[65]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution#Early_M...
This is the type of question that will start arguments on both sides, but the truth is no one outside Tesla could possibly have the data to say one way or the other.
I've abandoned some of my favorite tools and libraries because they went to a subscription format.

A license for a major version number? And then buy a new license for the next major bump up?

Okay fine.

But a never-ending fire hose of money coming out of my bank account is big nope. I have enough small monthly recurring charges, thanks.
This isn't really here or there, but I've recently been going through the deeplearning.ai course by Andrew Ng and friends, and at the end of each week, there is an interview with a luminary in deep learning.

A couple of weeks ago it was Andrej Karpathy. I got about three sentences in when I realized this guy is really, really smart. The way he spoke about neural nets and the problems he was working on suggested to me a deep and nuanced understanding, and a way of thinking that always tries to expand that depth and breadth.

Anyway, I figure if a guy like that couldn't make it work after so many years, even with a team that surely has other strong players, then it's just out of reach for the time being, with the hardware they're constrained to. It's even possible that deep neural nets will just never be able to do FSD at a level that will gain broad acceptance and some new architecture will be necessary.
The water memory folks will be up in arms over this discovery!
Use cfiresim or any other retirement calculator and you can choose your length and mix. We don't have to rely on the calculations of someone from 1993...
They changed the way they're counting deaths at least in the USA.
Rapamycin in the context of Pascal’s Wager: generative transformer perspective
If you prefer a similar approach, but as a single compiled binary, there's Restic: https://github.com/restic/restic

Update: yet another take on basically the same approach, also as a self-contained binary: https://github.com/kopia/kopia
Is there any certification body that also has a list of certified usb products ?

I literally cannot predict if a cable can charge, transfer data slowly, fast or if it will fry my device.

I mostly want a *hard requirement for a specs label ON THE CABLE*. How else am I supposed to know what they are for? Even Apple is not labeling their cables.

Same physical appearance and no labeling is recipe for disaster
You can drill the initial failure, but not really the cascading events. In something as large as a global airline you are dependant on 1000s of third parties actions and the weather. No simulated drill is going to be sufficient or realistic. The only way to really mitigate or plan for something like this is multiple layers of segregation so that events in one area have less or no impact on others. Then you could drill total failure in various segments.
The thing is that every time the EU shows any interest in integrating its military forces into a something new that would be under the control of the EU rather than individual member states, the US argues against it at both the diplomatic and PR levels. This pattern has been going on since at least the Clinton administration.
Tesla's approach has always been the least credible of the self-driving companies: they seemed to belive that if you just iterate on driver assist enough you get self-driving, and they seemed to want to make the system work on far more constrained hardware than their competition (because they were for some reason aiming at selling direct to consumers, which is not a particularly good business strategy for self-driving. A cynic would suggest it was vaporware for marketing all along). Other groups working on the problem (especially Waymo) seemed to actually grok that this is by far the most complex safety-critical system ever envisioned and approached the problem accordingly (with a lot of caution, laying of groundwork, a plan to roll out the system gradually, and bulding the it from the ground up to work on its own, not as a driver assist).
Do not use Telegram. It is an FSB (ex-KGB) operation.
Betting on female jockeys can bring greater rewards, but it's not all good news
Oh, I have taken the vaccines. I just believe that informed consent is always a must. I should be informed of the side effects, all of them. Hiding them from me is not an option.

I guess we fundamentally disagree on the need for informed consent. I believe that "you don't get to know that" is not acceptable, no matter how well-meaning people are. We used to sterilize people without telling them, under the exact same auspices (Buck vs. Bell). I quote Oliver Wendell Holmes "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."

So don't read about the side effects of anything you are prescribed, I would still like to.
> I wonder why they would do such a thing?

For me it would be having used "full self driving" mode, diligently, for X years or X miles without any issues.
Companies offering stock-based compensation should be fine?
I used to work for the FBI.
Whenever I asked for something there was an understanding that it would happen.

When is a question not a question?
Where's the part where the welders start doing needless welding to satisfy the helper's target?

Or is the point that a good consultant knows to leave before that happens?
Not always. I for one am just not upgrading at all due to costs.

It would be a lot better to make $500 profit for each of the 100k people buying your product than $1000 profit for each of the 20k buying.
This probably isn't your issue, but I've had issues in the past, usually with a cell phone that sits in my pocket, that show up as cables no longer maintaining detent and falling out. The issue was actually accumulated dirt in the bottom of the female connector. Scraping it out with a toothpick fixed it for me. Just a FYI.
It depends on the kind of pain, the kind of misery, doesn't it?
Isn’t this due to things like the opioid crisis etc? Is it still true if you marginalize on HN readers? There might be a few fentanyl addicts here but I suspect fewer?
well said.

I'll take a cold shower occasionally, usually for specific reasons (just came inside from hot, dusty work and want to cool down). It's no more uncomfortable than jumping into a cold creek to swim as a kid, it kind of amazes me that people do it thinking there's a philosophical aspect to it.

I would almost argue that maybe if you think that's uncomfortable in some significant way that you live a very comfortable life.
yes an unaccountable agency that does not have to report to anyone, and can classify all of their actions under national security directives would never violate their mandate. Never..

Let me tell you about this new crypto investment I have...
Safer than human driving isn't the bar that needs to be cleared. I consider myself a much safer driver than the average human (which also includes 70 year olds with driver's licenses) and I don't drive when I'm sleepy or drunk or even a little impaired. Even if the claim that it's "safer than human driving" is true, I would only ever use it if it was safer than my driving.
Nope, this is a bad take, parroted without understanding; if it got moved into the std lib, it was probably useful enough. You can even read why in the original proposal if you comb the archives enough (from https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end):

> It is highly probable that the majority of current string padding implementations are inefficient. Bringing this into the platform will improve performance of the web, and developer productivity as they no longer have to implement these common functions.

“It’s too trivial” is not why left-pad was in the news. Go read about it to understand the actual issue: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2017/07/12/javascript_spec_s...
Found Computers and Gear in Abandoned Power Plant
Everything was built on the shoulders of giants
I'm really enjoying this discussion that's being had about these things, I think that while these developments will be able to do things, in the end we won't create AGI, but it will help us better understand what consciousness or cognition actually are.

I personally believe, for reasons I haven't fully fleshed out enough to clearly articulate, that an intelligence cannot be created by emulation, that the computation or process or whatever it is has to occur on the "bare metal" of the universe. This is alluded to in this article, that a machine cannot experience raw sensation. I also think it is possible for some reason that the process has to emerge naturally the way we did, although whether "emerge naturally" includes being created by something that emerged naturally I am not sure of, and at that point it becomes a meaningless distinction.
I use this on an ancient Chromebook because VSCode and Lapce feel sluggish in comparison. What it really needs is a plugin manager.
Is this a project you are working on?
I'm a developer and I seek a project where developers care about the project, I went through few projects where many have a routine attitude towards the job.. every project I worked on was like a moving train where each should throw as much coal as possible into coal-burning boiler, otherwise it will stop and fail. For that reason many technical decisions were not as thoughtful as they could be which lead to complications and overall messy design, code.. it makes me feel uncomfortable and unprofessional, what is your thoughts on this topic..
But people did complain. And Musk did not change his behavior. And I suspect that as long as he isn't smacked down really hard he won't change it in the future either.
It should instead be a credit, where earning income replaces the benefit $1 for $1

This does not incentivize anybody to start working -- every dollar they make (and hence, energy they spend) adds nothing to their monthly balance. If you want to realistically get these people back into the workforce, you will have to allow them to make money on top of their benefits (e.g. up to 125%) before you start tapering off the benefits they receive.
These people spreading this type of macro info in my circles are the ones who never get sick.
I think it isn’t exactly as conspiratorial as you are portraying it. It is a mess and some of that is an amalgamation of cruft. However limiting social spending is a major political point of conservative politics, like it or not.

There is very little effort towards making the system better for people who rely on it. And a lot of that is specifically due to politics.

The barrier between a recipient of benefits and the SSA is insane and has the obvious effect of making it harder to access those benefits. That isn’t just happenstance.

People living off SSA benefits aren’t exactly living large. I know because I work in a field that provides income based services and is almost entirely funded with federal/state money. Preventing fraud is not the primarily objective of the SSA when it comes to benefits, it is preventing paying out at all.

Edit: On the PPP Covid loans, I agree they were made in a way that allowed them to be abused. The thing about that though is that corporate welfare is the only acceptable form of welfare based on recent history. We throw millions at telecoms companies, who are often the worst rated companies in the country. Verizon even told the federal government that more money wouldn’t help them roll out infrastructure any faster, but the government still gave them more.

The obvious difference between social welfare is that people have a major inequality of power and that leaves them in an incredibly disadvantageous position to climb over a very tall obstacle. Corporations meanwhile pay lobbyist out the ass to basically ghost write legislation to benefit them personally, as well as get government money. But hey, that’s free market capitalism, right? Sorry this is a little aggressive and I don’t mean this as a personal attack on you, just got a little angry as I watched a client struggle with the VA over benefits between the time I wrote this post and this edit.
I hate licenses like these that try to make themselves look like something innocuous like the MIT license, but are actually closed-source and proprietary.
$20K/yr is ridiculously low spend. Do you opt out of health insurance or something? I don't know how you could do that unless you are in extreme VLCOL area.

For comparison I'm in MCOL US and my spend this year will probably be about $28K. Taxes, healthcare, groceries, eat up a huge chunk of that. And I buy nothing but essentials (no TV, no streaming, no vacations, drive an old car, no restaurants, starvation level food consumption).
It would have rear sensors. It knows something is behind at a fixed distance, so it must be matching your speed. If that distance is less than a safe reaction time, stopping is bad.

It knows stuff is happening to the sides and swerving is bad.

Unlike a human, it can slow down to hit the object at minimum speed, then speed up again just in time to not get hit even if the driver behind does nothing, at an optimized profile that gives the person behind time to not overreact and cause a pileup.

Self driving also has the advantage that people might stay away. Unlike regular tailgating you have machinephobia that might actually make people not tail you.
Many humans avoid malicious compliance, because they want to keep their job.
From personal experience, I can say what they have now drives worse than a drunk teenager.
Readme contains "why edict", but not "why would I want to use this paradigm instead of my normal way of specifying business logic"
Robotaxis are on the road today in multiple cities. That's nothing to sneeze at, large fleets of totally autonomous vehicles in complex city environments is something something roboticists have never done before!
I seem to have dropped my /s ;)
Ford’s Bluecruise is far more limited than autopilot. It’s geo-fenced to some freeways.[1] Autopilot works on any road with lane markers. My guess is that few Ford drivers use the feature.

1. See the map on this page: https://www.ford.com/technology/bluecruise/
The connector on every phone I have ceases to work eventually not because the connector is broken, but because the socket has (sufficiently) filled with pocket lint such that the plug isn't able to reliably connect anymore. One just needs to remove the lint from the port. (And note that you won't see the lint by gazing into the port, either; it has usually been compacted into the bottom of the socket by the plug squishing it down.)

I've fixed ~4 phones by doing that.

This was a problem with USB micro, too.
IRRC Facebook's report flow used to have a "This account has been hacked" reason selection, but they dropped it.