skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://i.imgur.com/OXXrT5g.png

Free will and desires is highly debatable, because it ignores external influences like culture and conformity, the effect some chemicals can have on decisions eg pheromones and food, and the effect of things like bacteria or viruses, rabies being one most should be aware of, covid being another.

Where others have suggested Turin and the conversation where the identity is masked, I'm reminded I cant have a conversation with my dog, despite my one sided attempts and I'm sure there is consciousness there.

Trying to define consciousness is very difficult because I could say consciousness is the ability to adapt to ones environment, yet I know there are humans that cant adapt to a change in their environment and there are bacteria than can, yet we define humans as conscious and bacteria as not.

Some people could class chat-gpt as like a human consciousness but I find some of its answers less accurate and more chatty than I would get from Kim Peek of the film Rain Man.

So should the definition of consciousness be restricted to those that have an inner monologue with themselves?

https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/z5bi5p/some_people_...

In other words there are literally people walking about with nothing in their head!

Its so difficult to define consciousness because there are always exceptions seen in other humans, even people hooked up to life support machines in hospital with no ability to communicate with the outside world, and this bit is important, in the same time frame as the communicator. I say that, because people hooked up on life support in coma's of sorts (induced or otherwise), might be experiencing time on a different timescale. You see this delayed mental processing with people on drugs like alcohol or spice zombies or people doing hallucinogens.

So when you see a medical expert claiming someone is not responding when in a coma, are they monitoring them for things like delayed responses which only a cctv and some basic AI monitoring the patient could detect because the medical expert doesn't have the patience with the patient?
It would be really interesting to see what's possible taking one of the more advanced/featureful MUD engines and combining them somehow with LLM text generation (especially text-davinci-003 from OpenAI since its so human-like).

I guess AI Dungeon is attempting something a bit like that. But what I am thinking is keeping the core as the MUD, which will ensure that game state and things stay consistent. Then having the AI generate things based on this core state fed as part of each prompt, to add a bit of variety to descriptions, or allow NPCs to have conversations. But always anchored by the world state tracked by the MUD. Except maybe for some random encounters inserted here and there.

That's the biggest issue with AI Dungeon is that it tends to not quite track whats going on properly from one sentence/paragraph to the next. Although they have improved it recently.
That is fair enough, I was weighing the cost of getting it wrong very highly (probably more than I should have).
How do you handle a DB connection time out in your stack? You can log it and retry, eventually the entire call must be terminated though, and the quickest way is through exception propagation.
At $20 billion net worth he (his estate) could have done all of it.
soon(tm): amazon mandating 5 days in office since people were so easy to show up for 3 days
It's all fun and games until some else's carelessness drive oneself into penury.

At that point, all of the taxes one has paid to fund a government that is supposed to referee these matters... may result in some scant comfort.
I think a better definition of woke is that it’s about being aware of others struggles, and recognizing how those struggles have manifested.
You still need a top level exception handler in your main loop.
The part that really bugs is when some privileged criminal goes through all the trouble of white washing their online presence only to commit more crimes. Shouldn’t that be an aggravating factor during sentencing to prove premeditation?
The US is far from the only country in which states/provinces/regions/etc have their own flags. Australia's six states (and its two self-governing mainland territories) each have their own flag. Canada's ten provinces and three territories have flags too. Mexico has 31 states, but only 7 have official flags. Germany has 16 states, all of which have a flag. Austria has 9 states, which all have flags. Switzerland has 26 cantons, all of which have flags too. The list goes on and on. Doing it for just one country is biased, but doing it for all is such a gigantic project, probably biting off more than anyone could chew.
Looks like a larger one than usual: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t2xwk9mz56f4
I guess that his point is that language is partially genetically transmitted (the universal language bits of it), and is also the bedrock of our social world ?
"Some of you may lose your lives in this endeavour, but that is a risk I'm willing to take." ;)
And also in to a way for companies to encourage users to upgrade their OS
Oh, with OLED you could probably design it to mimic the raster scan of a CRT perfectly, cascading the row and column signals along at 15kHz. The issue is, who is going to build that? I don't think Duck Hunt is too high on the priority list for OLED panel makers.

The really sad thing is that some day all of the CRTs will be dead and all of the expertise to build them too. The tooling and factories are already gone, so it's unlikely new CRTs will ever be built, unless some Ben Krasnow-esque super-hobbyist gets really passionate about it.
For Reaper's release schedule this is actually fantastically generous. I bought my license 6 years ago and it's still valid. I'm sure I only have a year or so left, but $60 for 7 years seems VERY fair.
what? no- it directly says so in the linked article:

> We encourage non-Twitter Blue subscribers to consider using an authentication app or security key method instead.
The minimalism of necessity that previous years had can’t be imitated. Of course, one can intentionally limit their art now, but it’s not the same. That minimalism necessitates creativity.
But thats the response you are getting from me.
Fun fact: The Adobe enterprise slack workspace is not only open to everyone to add emojis, but (AFAIK) every slack-using company that Adobe has ever acquired has had their slack workspace subsumed into the Adobe one, which includes bringing in all of the acquiree's emojis. :-)
requests using the "_gh_sess" cookie are failing. If you can remove that cookie, request will work. Of course that means you cant make any authenticated requests, but its a workaround.
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t2xwk9mz56f4 should be the URL
Would you be open to a generic “hangry” emoji?
Exactly, having your programs able to run on a developer's machine is really important for productivity.
Great. If Arizona has water next year it will be host to a massive new chip plant and tens or hundreds of thousands of new people and homes because… Biden needs to win an election. We aught to force his and Pelosis children to live there for 3 generations. Like North Korea.

Maybe we’d get some long term planning from these ghouls.
Did you pay for access to tates discord? This is the same type of demented antisocial rhetoric he uses.
Sure, but I'd say the benefits outweigh the lack of choice about the infrastructure.

I frequently talk to my friend about work, and I realize most of the problems they face - even at good tech companies - are something I never have to think about. I don't mean the actually difficult problems which any Software Engineer would love to tackle, but the grungy ones.
I always wonder, when people were spreading across the Americas/world for the first time, did they move huge distances in a single generation? Or travel a bit, settle down, then the next generation traveled a bit further and settled down, repeating for hundreds of generations?

It takes a ton of work and time to be able to survive in a new environment. It's hard to imagine someone crossing and mastering several new ecosystems in a single lifetime, figuring out which plants are edible and which animals will kill you and so on.
Bwahahah.

I guess they fired the whole copyright infringement team by now. 2.7 million views and counting. Nothing to see here, move along.
> Then the most complex front-end was having two forms

You have no clue what you're talking about. In the late nineties we had just about every bell and whistle working that I see in websites today, hardware limitations permitting. Some of it did not work well because client browsers were slow but it was all there: full interactivity through Java applets, VRML, media control API etc. Websites in the nineties were not two forms and a table tag. My masters project was embedding a voice recognition engine for interactive web search.

Yeah we didn't do SPAs and instead implemented interactivity locally. That was a good thing that you threw in the garbage for a fad.
No comment on the executive, but the intelligence apparatus? They tracked the Chinese balloon from its launch on Hainan Island. They did their job. Identifying and tracking hobby balloons is somebody else's job.
Are there any cell phones left that can connect to modern cell networks but cannot run a TOTP authentication app? There are even authenticator apps for Java ME!
This is a better URL for this incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t2xwk9mz56f4

Everything is currently marked as "degraded", but in reality the entire website is returning 500s.
You can’t fix lazy users and Twitter is not so valuable (being social media) to mandate 2FA. Twitter still offers 2FA options, just not the low effort low security one (per NIST and CISA) for non paying subscribers. If you’re an unpaid user, you shouldn’t be surprised when the burden is being shifted to you (as SMS has a cost; TOTP and passkeys do not). With that said, they should implement passkeys and eliminate SMS auth entirely. 2FA is then a moot point, and everyone can move on to complaining about passkey edge cases.

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Presentations/2022/multi-fa...

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/fact-s...
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Wow this is quite a takedown. For many years I was feeling like I let myself down by not reading the book Clean Code. I now feel like, by accident, I did exactly the right thing. That sample code he quoted is near unreadable to me. I also did enjoy A Philosophy of Software Design; the main thing I took away from it was to avoid unneeded complexity because you want to be able to “spend” your complexity budget for doing actual work.
I was curious about this and found something fascinating in Michael Benson's book 'Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece':

> One document sent from Tony Masters to Roger Caras on June 29 listed matter-of-factly—under a letterhead replete with the roaring MGM lion—nine props that he asked Caras to help him with. Number one was “2001 newspaper to be read on some kind of television screen. Should be designed television screen shape; i.e., wider than it is high.”

> Within a week or so, Caras had indeed made an agreement with the New York Times permitting use of its logotype in a mocked-up electronic edition of its front page. If it had made it into the film, it would have been read by an astronaut on the iPad-type tablet computers seen on board Discovery. And had Kubrick followed through and actually presented the newspaper in this way, there’s no doubt that 2001: A Space Odyssey would be remembered today as an important harbinger of the internet. Instead, the director elected to use only a TV transmission, seemingly from the BBC, on the portable tablets.

> As a logical spin-off of the tablet computer concept, a sheaf of production notes written in December 1965—immediately prior to the start of live-action shooting—contained an offhanded description of a sight so common today that it’s hard even to remember when it wasn’t ubiquitous in the world. “A rig should be made for the newspad, so that if one is looking straight at it over a man’s shoulder when he is reading, we can illuminate a fixed transparency of one page of a book,” Ordway wrote. “On the reverse shot, we will have to place a small light on the hidden face side of the newspad, so that a little light can be shining on his face.”
Its how you bump the price up when selling to rich people, they love the talking point backstory of a toys recent history vs just buying a new one direct from a sweatshop.
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> it runs seven hundred and fifty miles under the Baltic Sea.

That's not a realistic measurement. Did you mean the length? The deepest part of the Baltic Sea is 459 meters deep. The ocean's deepest point is roughly 7 miles deep.
This troll obviously has a very juvenile understanding of power dynamics. While there are plenty of powerful people who have these mindsets, I’ve yet to find one that rants about it so brazenly. Which is smart. Smart psychopaths understand that they’re rejected by society when they’re discovered so some form parasitic relationships to protect whole others learn how to be a decent human being.
I didn't paste the rest of it:

Paying users 100-999 are "Early Grugs."
Same deal, at 20%

Paying users 1000-9999 will be "Grug 'Ohana."
Same deal, at 15%
I’ll take that over the peril of ruining my health by driving an hour every day to be forced to stay inside all day and eat at shitty restaurants around the office.
It's all fun and games until the engine or propeller goes out....

Mustard on YouTube did a video on the French SNECMA Coléoptère, which had a ring for a wing. It tended to rotate while hovering, and hard to steer during landing.

(9 min)
https://youtu.be/unz6mfjS4ws
> Oh, with OLED you could probably design it to mimic the raster scan of a CRT perfectly, cascading the row and column signals along at 15kHz.

You could but it wouldn't have the same brightness as it sweeps so I don't know if that's good enough to trick a light gun by itself.

But I still think you shouldn't discount LCD. If you can get an LCD to switch a good fraction of the way in half a millisecond, and use the right backlight, you could make duck hunt work.

> The issue is, who is going to build that? I don't think Duck Hunt is too high on the priority list for OLED panel makers.

To trick the frequency filter might be too much effort, but the latency of having each row come along instantly might get some effort into it. Marketing loves low latency.
I think you missed the point of their comment -- you both agree with each other.
What's so odd is the secretary of transportation himself downplayed it by saying "hey, there are a thousand train derailments a year [big whoop]!

Really so the implication is there are ~2.75 of East Palestine derailments per day and therefore no biggie? Or, the others are mostly very minor but I want to downplay this so I'll say this happens almost three times a day, big whoop, deal!
> A while back there were concerns (notably not from physicists) about the LHC forming black holes.

There were concerns, but they were not well founded in actual physics.

> I remember the response being that tiny black holes frequently form in the upper atmosphere due to high energy particle collisions

I'm not aware of any such response. The response I'm aware of was that events with higher energy than the LHC is capable of creating happen routinely in cosmic ray collisions, and no black hole formation has ever been observed in such collisions, so black hole formation is not going to happen at the LHC either. That is consistent with our best current theoretical prediction, which is that you would need an accelerator capable of reaching the Planck scale, many orders of magnitude higher energy than the LHC, for black hole production to be possible.
Download > Drag into /Applications isn't easy enough for you?
We know from math though that it’s impossible to prove there are no bugs. Maybe complicated systems will always have these types of exploits.
No, only SMS is being paywalled:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update...
there's still no leek / scallion emoji despite the family being the 2nd most used vegetable in SEA cooking.
I'm guessing it's something like "pay us for the hassle of having to clean up your mess when you end up getting hit". But the reality of it is "please pay for twitter blue. we can't just make the whole site blue only so we'll piecemeal each bit of functionality until we can just make the site paid-for only."
Except all of those things is NOT what the actual emoji conveys.
A common theme not only in software but other industries: Beware of people selling you advice. They are the ones who will breed dogmatic illogical cargo-cults of people whose only rebuttal when questioned is some variant of "because someone who sold me this book that claims it'll make my code better said so", and that can't be a good thing in general.

but we assume that Martin doesn't literally mean that every function in our entire application must be four lines long or less.

Unfortunately I have worked (and fortunately, briefly!) with codebases like that --- not surprisingly, in Java. In addition to the complexity of whatever the code is doing, smashing things into tiny pieces also adds its own complexity. The fact that a short function is "easily understandable" on its own, which is what a lot of proponents of this dogma argue, is useless for understanding the functioning of the whole. The latter is far more important when debugging.

Function length is ultimately meaningless. I'd rather have a 5000-line function that reads top-to-bottom, than 1000 5-line functions if it means I don't have to jump around several-dozen-level-deep callstacks and try to keep track of 30+ character long identifiers to understand how the thing works.
I am referring to the comment the OP is talking about. Updated to make that clear.
> it's easy to veer off in a crazy direction if it keeps on going

You seem to have a higher tolerance than most who care to pay attention.

There's plenty of evidence crazy is mainstreaming in legacy school boards and among influential university professors. At least for those who appreciate talent and measurable outcomes, not naive and idealistic "let's make everyone equally mediocre" approach.

IMO, as a Canadian, the fact a single US state (Florida) is engaging in the inversely crazy radical-right response in education - similarly using banning and ideology to silence dissent and push their own weird versions - doesn't really do much to counter the mountain pushing back against meritocracy and talent in the last decade. The trend in the rest of the western world is very apparent once you view US national-level politics in a realistic real-world context.

You could justifiably argue there's plenty of dominant rhetoric in national US politics/media (and related global media which feeds off the US) to balance the narratives, maybe even argue it's more fundamentally centrist than either/or. But in the real practical world of education (and HR/private employment, journalism, health care, movies/TV, etc) there really is no comparison of ideological cultural impact and high-risk experimental adjustment going on.
Does someone know of a good article on the issues with SMS 2FA suitable for non tech folk? I would like to send it to friends and family members. It just has to be easy to digest for a general audience.
Said "stealth weapon" has been running wild for millennia. Our DNA has long been messed with by the environment, well before we knew what DNA or a virus were. The difference is now it is possible to have DNA altering viruses which aren't "almost certainly guaranteed to only do bad things to you".
Nope. FEMA and the EPA are going to be helping.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3864078-ohio-g...
This reminds me of FSD behavior.. flawlessly navigate lane changes in heavy traffic around a bend at 100kph, but then get paralyzed at 0kph by a lone stop sign in my home neighborhood with no cars in sight.

Maybe it spends so much time over fitting for the hard cases it just doesn't have enough basic experience.
Interestingly, the Seattle 'Museum of Communications' has remained open, rebranded itself, https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/ and joined sites with the 'Connections Museum Denver' in the past couple of years. Also not a high-budget operation.

And, in another signal for computer-collectors, "The Digibarn Collection is on long term loan at the Computer Museum at System Source in Hunt Valley, Maryland."
... https://www.digibarn.com/index.html
You‘d be surprised how much SMS to some countries cost!

They‘re only (almost) free in the US and a few other places.
1. almost certainly, but
2. we'll never know, as it will never be available, because...
3. see #1. Anything else will damage the brand.
They should also probably be heat treated to avoid the possibility of bed bugs.
Autodesk Fusion 360 does this too. It's "installer" downloads the multi-GB package for it + installs the whole thing into a local user folder which the OS has no knowledge of.

Apparently they do this so they can control when it's updated, without having to go through any OS controls.

Needless to say, when people "delete" it they often are just deleting a stub rather than the actual multi-GB file set. :(
Yeah that's exactly what it is, them desperately trying to find reasons to force people to pay.

This one in particular is just a very odd choice. Pushing people away from SMS 2FA is one thing, but not like this.
https://archive.is/bMSHL
How would you change the Type System to fix this particular issue?

>> Don’t pass bare functions if you don’t know what the parameters are.

> This is exactly the kind of thing I want my programming language's type system to catch for me, if I'm working in a language with a static type system like TS.

Hows your compiler supposed to know you don't know what the parameters are?
I don't think it's about Biden.

I think it's about Pete Buttigieg and his 2024 presidential prospects burning away faster and more effectively than the chemicals in this terrible accident.

If Democrats think this unbelievably stupid approach will work in the election, they might as well be regarded as Trump supporters. The country is watching this incident with bated breath and tremendous skepticism.
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Be afraid of ChatGPT. Very afraid :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCNW1OCk_M
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How do you handle database/data store upgrades? It seems there is a window where both the old and new system write into the same data store.
> But there’s also the complaint that corporations don’t contribute to the public good.

Then there's the complaint that corporations will do things like spend X dollars on a park to show what great guys they are, and then engage in tax-dodging like registering their trademark to a foreign entity and coincidentally every year the "royalties" on the trademark just magically work out so the domestic company doesn't make any money...and they end up avoiding Y taxes, where Y is probably several orders of magnitude greater than X.

And then there's all the tax breaks companies get when they make noise about thinking of moving somewhere else.

I don't know if 1password does any of this, primarily because I can't find the slightest bit of tax information about 1password (or "Agilebits", the actual corporate name.)
Most windows installers do not bother to clean up /Program Data or ~/AppData

Nor do most linux programs remove dot files when they go away.
Janet is really powerful. Here's a small TUI text editor I'm writing in it, if you want to see a non-trivial example: https://www.github.com/CFiggers/joule-editor