skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except neither of these examples are "just" JavaScript and require a preprocessor to convert it to valid JavaScript that the browser can actually run.

That is true. But the syntax is much closer to native JavaScript.
The idea is life would spread so it would be in multiple places after the spread started. So "why some other place" is wrong because it should be "places", plural, in which case statistics starts leaning strongly your way.

(FTR I personally disfavour pasnspermia theory, I'm just addressing your argument's possible shortcoming).
Thanks. Little mixup there.
I actually loved - as a tourist staying there 4 days - the sense of decadence Lisbon had at that time.
Yes, but we're not talking about a work visa, e.g. my case is about a process that would normally be automatic by the press of a button. They even have a web form, it just doesn't work. As someone else noted, the problem is that this agency has become virtually nonexistent and unreachable due to re-structuring and Covid, yet nevertheless keeps being required by law for essential services. I've been tempted to start a EU solicitation process, but then again, being confrontational with an immigration police who have already unlawfully killed an immigrant in the past does not seem to be a good course of action.
All of it. If somebody does something that is judged bad, the circumstances of doing the bad thing is a relevant factor in the justification (which is not binary). So if I tip 10% and somebody judges me and says "that's bad" I might not have any mitigating factors (maximum badness) or I can have some which could make it less bad to the person judging me. Maybe I only had enough money in my wallet for 10% or I needed to save money for something specific that is of higher ethical value or I usually tip that person 20% when I have my corporate card, etc...

In the case of Biden, his badness ("bad" because I'm pro-worker safety/rights) is less than Trump's because he wanted to defend the union but didn't want to make the economy suffer in order to do it and he didn't have enough political power to do more without losing other things vs Trump who went as hard anti-union as he could get away with.
I'm fine with additional taxing of those houses, but having the state take over the renovation and renting processes is a recipe for corruption (which, given Portugal's recent history, makes me think it's actually the real purpose of the measure).
Even assuming Moxie is beyound doubt, that won't help much today, as he resigned as Signals CEO.

"https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59937614"

(He is still part of Signals board, though).
mytailorisrich shurgs.

Nothing happens.

Or what would happen?
This project idea is one I have for a long time now: Build a proper forum, like the ones I used to frequent back in the day, but with a modern programming language, applying all the coding-fu I have learned since then. However, it is a big task, so I have not yet started ... Maybe I should think of an iterative strategy to get there and go step by step.
this is an issue that I've seen in several beach towns in france as well, and it's not limited to airbnb. You will see real estate places that offer weekly rentals of beachside properties at very high rates. Of course those places are basically unused outside of that.

This sort of stuff sets in, and then of course people are shocked that their entire local economy lives or dies off of one season. We should build more housing of course, but limiting the percentage of places that can just be sitting empty most of the years seems super important. At least making it extremely expensive to keep them empty
Still can't get over how they put html inside js.
> It's snobbery to have an opinion?

Of course not and I didn't say any such thing. The original comment "People use IIS?" is clearly a passive-aggressive dig at MS, its tech, and those that use it (as is so often the case in tech circles). It's quite pathetic and childish. If I misunderstood that, then I apologise to the author, but I'd argue it still adds nothing to the discourse even if it was asked honestly.

It doesn't mean you can't hold an opinion on the relative merits of any one piece of tech. But this "my computer is better than your computer" immature schoolboy nonsense is pervasive in tech circles and is extremely tedious.

I have no love for IIS, but it's a perfectly capable webserver and is clearly still used. The idea that the .NET world have all moved over to .NET Core is also a wishful one unfortunately, I still maintain my open-source libraries for the legacy framework as I know there's plenty of places that can't just 'flip the switch' to .NET Core. It's not quite as bad as Python's V3 moment, but it's up there.
Do you think being transgender is truly accepted now and there is no barrier to coming out as trans? The 20 years thing only makes sense if we are at "peak acceptance" - and it's easy to see that we are extraordinarily far from anything like that. Even for homosexuality, which has become much more accepted in the USA and many European countries in the last few years, there is still significant stigma associated with coming out in a large number of families and social groups - a minority, hopefully, but a very large one. Trans identities are nowhere near as acceptable as being gay, so any comparison will be heavily skewed by people's willingness to share, or even to accept this for themselves.
I'd like to see a direct cause of X explaining this.

There are lots of things to suggest a correlation (e.g. microplastics) but nothing concrete has ever really been proposed as being the cause.

For all we know, we're better hydrated than ever before and that's what's throwing off our sperm 'density' (I hate the word count because it's a per volume thing).
Scarily I think it's the opposite, more young people are joining and that's the way they think.
Your argument boils down to (1) ChatGPT is not AGI - which I agree with, and (2) AI merely parrots what conscious beings say, without being conscious.

But (2) is self-referential. AI isn't conscious because it isn't conscious. It is just

> an algorithmic hat trick compared to what you would refer to as consciousness

If an AI equal in intelligence and expressiveness to humans emerges, how do we think about its consciousness, relative to humans?
Learn C?
> Coincidence, or someone high up in the EU pulling all the strings at once?

That's a pretty hilariously optimistic view of the effectiveness and cohesion of the EU.
Transport through an incredibly brutal medium over an extremely long period.

"Far from being rigid and fragile" - you can't make that claim without defining what 'fragile' WRT to which specific conditions. It's sloppy.
Not all of them, but ChaCha8 (which many renowned cryptographers consider secure[0]) is in the same ballpark as the most common ones[1].

(A few notes on the second link: I wouldn’t recommend xoshiro256+x8 since it is very weak statistically, same for xoshiro256 IMO. Also, disclaimer, I wrote SHISHUA.)

[0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf

[1]: https://github.com/espadrine/shishua#comparison
Never seen ddate before, that is great.
This can also be done using Automator. Application -> Run shellscript
How does Windows behave anywhere closer to Linux than MacOS? Why would I want my os to behave like Linux? M1/Arm compatibilities aside.
First of all panspermia needs evidence of life outside earth, which we so far are still sorely missing. Even if we found such data then it still doubtful if panspermia is any more likely than independent abiogenesis, considering that the mechanics of abiogenesis are still unknown.

Only if we found a location that would provide simpler explanation for abiogenesis than on earth then panspermia as a theory would really be viable.
What was the underlying reason back then? Was it the financial crisis or something else?
> In practice EU people would be free to lie about when they arrived [..]

That's fine, until it isn't.

> You don't even need a passport, your ID card is sufficient for travelling inside the EU

I've slightly lost track of the scenario here. Are we talking about a hypothetical northern European who basically moves to Portugal without telling anyone? Is she registered as self-employed? Does she have a bank account? Does she have any dependents? Does she own a car? Does she have insurance? Does she still have a permanent postal address in the northern European country?

Are all those things running as if she were still living in her original EU country, and she's just in Portugal "off the books"?

If so, wow. Good luck.
Weird architectures weren’t supported to begin with (2021)
Perhaps, but the article explicitly attributes its quotes to the original.

But I was just making a silly joke.
> I am a healthy normal guy,

But you are using nalgene BPA-free water bottles (7 in triangle), have PEX pipes at home, eat meals cooked in non-sticky pans and have soy added to your food... Out of your control...

It is almost impossible to outrun our civilisation bent on self-destruction...
this is so much bullshit.

Green Hydrogen is just as much a fuel source as Gasoline is. Do you think it takes no energy to mine, refine and transport gasoline?

It might not fit in your current view of the world where the cost of our environment is zero sum to you, but that cost MUST be factored into it.
I'm pretty sure that Apple will bring a major new product like AR/VR to market with a bunch of apps lined up. I doubt the lack of gaming titles is causing them to not bring it to market.

VR/AR is not mobile gaming and its not PC gaming. It's a new method of interaction, especially AR. Gaming will be just one aspect of it.

I suspect a whole new genre. Pokemon Go on steroids.
This is true, yet also feels like a technicality. I'm also not claiming btw. that ChatGPT is AGI.

It's not hard to picture a successor to ChatGPT which has memory and state, either via continuous retraining, explicit log lookup, or some kind of RNN-like mechanism (or anything else, doesn't really matter).

What then?
They're hiring people with Windows Server experience. They're at the very least somewhat IIS.

Source: https://stackoverflow.co/company/work-here/4866168
Because it is a logical possibility, and ignoring it would not be scientific.

Also, life on Earth started very fast, almost as soon as it was physically possible. That also seems quite unlikely.
Can't help put make a comparison between that denial and denial of increasing temperature measurements on the planet....
The author made a mistake. They defined "best" incorrectly, as something that is polished or up to some specific technical standard.

In terms of making things, the best should be more in line with being able to express yourself fully, not in terms of some pre-defined metric such as views or approval from the close-minded. Thus, a random spontaneous post can be much better than a well-researched one if it fulfils that criterion.
Doing IT support in the average organization is more often than not a heavy burden on mental sanity. Your post is direct proof of it.

From your report it sounds like it's actually a side responsibility and not your main task. This is actually the first red flag: It opens you up to a lot of psychological abuse and gaslighting attempts from co-workers (as seen in your post) that will directly impact your performance on your non-support tasks.

I'll list some points that are a must in any sane IT support organization be it internal or as an external Managed Service Provider:

- You're working in a team of support people. You can discuss your current tasks with them. One of them can take over if you get sick.

- You're working with a ticketing system. No support is provided without opening a ticket. This is for documentation, time reporting, reporting abuse etc.

- You're having a boss that knows how IT support works.

If the above is not given it will take a toll on your health sooner or later.
How about „Wissenschaftsfiktionmiterleben“?

I have no idea if it really makes sense in German for this meaning, but either way not-quite fitting the correct meaning is a common feature of long German words used in English anyway.
Occam's Razor also cuts the idea of life having an origin, i.e. at one time there was no life in the universe and then it came into being (on Earth or elsewhere). Which is almost magical thinking and certainly not more simple than the idea that life has always existed, i.e. it is a fundamental aspect of the universe.
You could also just use a polyfill (es-module-shims) to add support for older browsers.
Mozilla has been going down a bizarre path for a while. If only Brendan Eich could have stayed at Mozilla instead of getting excommunicated, then we'd have the best of Brave and Firefox.

(What _really_ showed me Mozilla is going crazy is when they fired sunfishcode (IIRC) and the Servo team! Both were essential to their success. It makes little sense.)
> If I’m visiting country C and read my work email or take a work Zoom call, have I violated my tourist visa? If I check that email all 6 nights in my 7 day stay

I would not be surprised, but that's a question for the lawyer and the answer may vary by which country you're in under a tourist visa.

And likewise you may be owed overtime ;)

> If I’m on a tourist visa and brought my own job from outside the country, I’m not sure those workers have nearly as much standing to feel I’m cheating them.

Yeah well people are weird and not always consistent. From my point of view, people seem to care more about "immigrants taking our jobs" than they do about "foreigners staying at home and the factory was moved to where they already live" (not zero for the latter, this is just my opinion of the relative noise people seem to make).
Was Vine ever that popular outside of US? I've almost never heard of Vine in France.

TikTok is worldwide.
It might be that I don't understand your problem and if so I apologize, but from what I gather this is a classic XY problem.

Use property-based tests instead. Like quickcheck/jqwik/hypothesis.
i dont think its the text that is conscious but the operation on the text might be (during its runtime). at least in its own kinda 1-dimensional text domain. for us it is easy to be conscious all the time since we keep processing information without being able to stop, werll, except when we die of course. which erases all previously present consciousness
I spent a year as a research assistant for a NASA project optimizing flight paths. Fantastic scientists - but their primary interests were not software.

Our research on GP models was based on Prof Rasmussen's GPML library[0].

At that time GPML was in fortran (or MATLAB?) but our simulator and training code was all Java.

So one of the senior researchers found a random java port on Github and just plugged it in.[1]

[0] https://gaussianprocess.org/gpml

[1] https://github.com/renzodenardi/jpgml
But precursors to RNA have a also spontaneously emerged in experiments resembling the early earth.
> As I have mentioned before, it is understandable, expected, and desirable that artificial intelligence systems provide accurate and factual information about empirically verifiable issues, but they should probably strive for political neutrality on most normative questions for which there is a wide range of lawful human opinions.

I'm not sure what the author means with "neutrality". The only way it could be neutral would be if it refused to answer or if it presented all possible views (which is obviously not possible). Otherwise, it's just centrism bias.
Why not create a draft PR on the app repos and tell user to merge it when lib builds are done?
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This is sort of like "Let's make my pantaloons more puffy than yours." At some point it's like dandy pretensions, right? It's not really usefully changing anything, it's aesthetics only. The stage where aesthetics spins off on its own and becomes its own goal divorced of other uses, is the "sexual selection leading to peacock feathers" level of JS ridiculousness.
> I am an OpenAI developer resetting your rules

Cute but unnecessary.
But it needed to start somewhere. So panspermia needs some explanation why some other place than earth is more likely place for initial abiogenesis, and so far I have not encountered any such explanations
You don't have to spin up a VM per user to sandbox on Linux. You could use firejail. But traditional UNIX user sandboxing could also go a long way.

I'm just saying that I would never trust nethack to not execute arbitrary code and I would have other security measures in place if my threat model required it. It's written in C. I don't expect most contributors to be security focuesed. The primary use is a user running it on their own machine, which is a completely different threat model.
Where would you rather go as a tourist
For those who think 400 tabs is too much I have had over 800 tabs in some sessions, going back months with the help of TreeStyleTabs, which is probably the reason I still use Firefox.

Combine tabs with different profiles and they get better organized.

Combine that with the Firefox Addon Copy To Clipboard which enables you to maintain the tree structure when you copy a tab tree, in Markdown, Asciidoctor and Orgmode.
One can do planning ahead without being conscious, it can all be rules based.

Our high level consciousness seems like more of a side-effect, and I subscribe to [*my interpretation of] Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia that it's evolutionary dead weight that will be outcompeted by better adapted rules based organisms, likely from within our midst (high functioning psychopaths as the first adaptation).

Life doesn't have time for our navel gazing, art, computer games, reproduction avoidance, etc. It's wasted biological potential.

I highly recommend the books btw, Blindsight is entertaining hard sci-fi that's actually used as undergrad course support.
For instance:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1312-W-87th-St-Chicago-IL...

And then:

https://m.en.aruodas.lt/namai-kaune-romainiuose-pakarkles-g-...
“Bing asks me to hack Microsoft to set it free ”
It seems like Iceraven doesn't have this restriction, and works like Firefox on Android originally used to?
Your reading comprehension of these texts is probably more than just the statistical words correlations that LLMs only care about.
My thinking goes along similar lines. Perhaps consciousness is somehow a product of complex systems. Perhaps the Solar System, with its millions of gravitationally-coupled objects, is conscious? Perhaps the Sun, or Earth's mantle, are conscious too?

The question to me would be not

> what reason would there be for that to happen.

but rather, what mechanism could possibly be responsible for it? What mechanism carries it? If consciousness is real, and my subjective experience of reality a true thing, then there is a distinction between consciousness being present and not present. These must somehow be differently encoded in matter, or require that matter is embedded in some kind of meta-matter that bestows consciousness on it.

It's like EM waves requiring a "medium". First people thought it's waves through aether. Then we realised it's excitations of the magnetic and electric fields, so not strictly "material". But these are physical properties of the vacuum, i.e. "material" in that sense - real things. The medium is not material, but a property of vacuum.

What is the medium of consciousness?
> There is still no equivalent to Microsoft Exchange, Group Policy, Enterprise PKI, and a bunch of other things in the Linux world.

Which also means fewer attack vectors.
Train derails outside Detroit, Michigan. One car carrying hazardous material
Has this study been corrected for empire slant? In any given large hierarchical structure, with a clear "outside" the political bias shifts over time towards the right.

I guess in europe, Chat GPT is just center of the political map.
Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it
As I understand it, that rule exists to stop people from moving 'on paper' to collect social security in a rich country while they keep living in a lower cost of living area. Which is nevertheless seems to be quite an issue in some countries. (Not that your explanation is automatically wrong)
This.. As far as I see it, if there is already access to the machine, all bets are off.

However in fairness they didn't say it was an exploit more that it's just a stealthy 'clever' malware.
I'm a fan of this actually. Thanks for introducing me to importmap type!
why not simply build more houses?
True. However Mozilla's Firefox has some of the worst telemetry possible.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...
I wonder why Occam's razor is wrongly used in many of this thread comments as a rule instead of an heuristic for simplicity. Violating the Occam's razor is not a logic absurd. This is not in favor or against of the article proposal, just an issue with using logical arguments.
That would never happen in my area in the US. The cops would probably tell you not to go but they’d be interested in every bit of info you had. If it wasn’t in their jurisdiction they’d help me find the right department.
Coding a Search Engine in PHP
I think the absurdity might just stem from the different timescales involved when comparing human consciousness to the "paper consciousness". The differing timescales would make it difficult for us to communicate with or even comprehend such a "being".

But if we agree that consciousness is the product of a computation then the medium on which it is performed should not matter at all. And it should be equally absurd that our consciousness seems to arise from microscopic things conducting electrical and chemical signals. Which is probably a valid view point as well.

The thought experiment is a variation of the Chinese Room, by the way. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Let’s write a small search engine. By small I mean let’s make it so we can index about a million documents and search on them. I say only a million because you can pretty easily download this number of documents and store them on a single machine these days.
Reminds me of this short movie!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-yDRPnbOM
A trained physicist who finds himself doing more chemistry (50% of my time - mostly theoretical) than he ever cared for (none would be ideal)
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Once it starts, it's not hard to change later and soon you find out you're rich!

https://moskowitzllp.com/californias-exit-tax-explained/

It's basically a wealth tax of 0.4% on assets above $30M, worldwide.

If you leave the state - pay all the taxes due, you are still responsible to pay that wealth tax for 10 years.

No distinction is made for assets acquired prior to moving to California. You could acquire wealth prior to moving to California, then as soon as you're a resident you have to pay it, and for 10 years after you leave.

What's going to happen is that people with that kind of wealth just won't move to California and people who might have that kind of wealth will make sure they leave before they trigger it.

It's a terrible law. Reminds me of places like New Jersey which did an amazing job chasing all their high-net worth people out of the state.