skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about this too.. it seems like it might be some intricacy because of Verizon business and Verizon telecom being two different entities, but I am curious if there is a technical reason for it too.
It's not a loophole, it's part of the point of being a contractor. You have a temporary relationship that doesn't have all the requirements of a full-time employee. When I hire a handyman to come do some repairs at my house, I shouldn't have to provide health insurance for him.
Again: there's no advocacy (at least nothing evident to me) in that comment. It's a descriptive comment, not a normative one.
> Just pretend everything is a function call

D uses Universal Function Call Syntax, where:

f(a)
g(f(a))

can be written as:

a.f
a.f.g

It's a very popular feature.
This is true, now more than ever I wonder how humans will fight back against the ever watchful eye of AI. The mops are wet with moon drapes.
It passes that test with flying colors:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/113jeeb/managed_to_ga...
The burning of books is referenced in my username.

I think both things are bad.

One of the joys of being politically indie is that I can feel disgust at actions originating from across the political spectrum.
Here’s the evidence for you. Fact: You ghostbanned my account “unknownaccount” after posting the Fischer article - allegedly for making “unsubstantiated” submissions despite not posting any submissions for a week prior. You admitted in your own comments that I was indeed linkbanned and it was just a coincidence about the Fischer link and that I was actually retroactively banned for posting unspecified “unsubstantiated content” Like what does that even mean? All my submissions were legitimate, thought provoking logical and relevant including some well-received whistleblow criticisms against Megacorps and including the likes of Microsoft and Cloudflare-which hundreds of users upvoted mind you. It’s understandable that a myriad of corporate elements wanted me silenced, but I think you fell into their play too much. You should really give the community the FREEDOM to see what it wants, stop taking down or editing posts which PEOPLE want to see. Not just what (your handlers, their handlers, other moderators, downvote&reporting botfarm ops, gov & political agencies etc) permit the sheeple to see. Please for the sake of this community tone the oppressive censorship down a little, Get rid of your dystopian mechanisms of [deleting] wrongthink, of shadowbanning and ghostbanning. Give less credence to false flag and bad faith reports which lead to silencing as what happened to my account. The right thing to do would be to reverse the ban as there was and is infact substance to all of my claims, which many reasonable people were able to see hence why over many people agreed with my posts yet so many of them got taken down anyways. Funny how that works.
You could stake your reputation on publicly denouncing the change. It may not do much but at least it would have a minute effect.
>the Florida school book ban which applies not just to new editions of one author, but to an entire state's education system.

I see no problem with the government determining what information can and can't be made available to children at public school. This isn't the government making certain information verboten universally, it's ensuring that other people cannot indoctrinate your children with information you find objectionable. Children's minds have become the new front-line of the culture war, and this is an entirely reasonable reaction.
Just buy a used one. They pop up with great regularity on second hand sites. If the tip isn't usable then just get a fresh tip and you should be good for many years.
> This; the old books still exist. No one is coming for them.

Sure, and beyond that, my point was, if copyright deposit is working, there are copies in public hands, specifically for the purpose of preservation and availability beyond the expiration of exclusive rights, not just old books in private collectors hands.
The problem is the people you are talking about aren't going to work more at home. They will work even less. They ruin this for people like you and me because they can't be disciplined. If they aren't at an office they can't get their job done.
I have a “ground source heat pump” (a long pipe zig zagging under my lawn at about 2-3 foot depth) and kinda sandy soil and nobody mentioned no water table and it works great. Sand is not ideal but it’s not a blocker.

The most common heap pumps use bore holes straight down into the rock here in Sweden, but lateral installs are marginally better performance (sun reheats soil every summer) if you have a big garden.

Heap pumps dominate in Sweden so the installers have a lot of confidence and give good practical advise.
To be fair, though, space heaters are dangerous in older homes with unknown electrical system quality. You're running a circuit at just shy of it's max load for potentially long stretches of time. Any poor connections (cough, backstabbed outlets) along the circuit or damaged wiring could result in a fire.

Aux heat for heat pumps (not mini splits) usually starts at 5KW (4 space heaters) and is a dedicated circuit direct to the panel and sized correctly. It's also contained in a steel enclosure with strict rules about distances to flammable items.
I've used silver solder for very special stuff (HF, high power) where skin effect matters but wouldn't bother beyond 63/37 for normal soldering and that will melt a lot lower than your silver solder would.
There are a ton of valid reasons to have a disposable workforce - seasonal employees, specialists who do work outside of the company's core competencies, temporary employees to fill the roles of those who are out on disability/family leave/what have you, etc. There are totally reasonable needs for these kinds of employees, and if you didn't have contract workers you'd just be hiring them as FTEs and then firing them shortly thereafter. I think it's clearly better for the employee to understand the temporary nature of their job.
No big deal here, hence they are contractors. Interesting though is the timing of this, I remember reading last week (?) about the inconsistent quality from the Indian factories could be why this was posted
> doesn't do anything useful for an amateur

It really depends on what you are building. If you're building a HAM transmitter then it is very useful.
"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]."

"In the article Software Disenchantment, author Nikita Prokopov exposes how bad software has become commonplace in our daily lives [35]. From programs that get incredibly bigger and slower with each new version, offering little or nothing more in return, to the fact that they get worse as they are used, to the most complete chaos that is the software development process.

For example, when creating an empty (!) project in npm for web development more than 50,000 files are downloaded, taking about 350 MB. This house of cards is so fragile that it gives rise to situations that are, to say the least, embarrassing. In 2016, an npm library called Left-pad, downloaded about 2 million times a month, was removed from the repository by its author, resulting in many web projects around the world crashing, including large corporations, forcing npm to revert the deletion [36]. The library, which contained 10 trivial lines, could be implemented in a few minutes even by programming students."

Some, but not all, developers get defensive when the issue of "bloat" is raised.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34842863
Im not too interested in debating the topic as I am not Swiss. However, this was explained to me by those who are, and there is a lot of literature on the subject.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2021/01/switzerland-and-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Constitution
Does the strange loop explain how sensations like color and pain come from the isomorphic self-description?
Enough to make it a law to move over one lane if you see an emergency vehicle on the shoulder. And enough to put it on signs on the highway all the time.
If I had more money than sense, I’d do the same thing.

If I was filthy rich (which I’m not and probably never will be), I’d build a data centre in my mansion and buy a brand new IBM mainframe and stick it in there. Because I can. For the same reason other rich people build some huge garage with dozens of cars in it.
> Furthermore, padding oracles are completely irrelevant to data at rest, like as described in this topics use case. So it really is a bit of a non sequitur too.

That's not true and extremely dangerous to say. In an offline, black-box scenario no server is needed for a padding-oracle. You are thinking of a side-channel oracle. A padding-oracle attack can absolutely be feasible in many cases.
But Reagan got things done by blatantly violating the law with impunity. Lovers of democratic forms of governance ought to look with disdain at such shenanigans.
> It already is taken as fact in many circles

You can really say this about anything. Not that I am disagreeing with you, but it’s a dubious way to frame anything you wish to state.
Autoscaling Thread Pools
Canada's really big. Vancouver and Toronto are both definitely warm enough for a heat pump to make a ton of sense.
Did We Adopt AI Too Early?
Funny, that's actually how Jay Cotton (co-creator of Kali) learned about Doom and what led him to start exploring the network side of gaming.

There's a decent interview with him that relays the story: https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/08/26/kali1/
Intelligence exists. AI doesn't.

Why would one assume that intelligence existing on a different substrate would be artificial?

So far we have no example of intelligence that is not tied to a living organism.

If a computer can simulate a living organism to a sufficient degree of detail the simulation may be intelligent and alive.

Thus life is at least a sufficient condition for intelligence. It may be a necessary one as well.

How GPT is different from life is that it lacks biological goals. It also lacks the abstract modeling ability that higher organisms have.

In other words GPT fails because it relies on combinatorics without real modeling of the world (aka understanding).
I wonder if that was also an I/O limitation rather than just a CPU thing. Old floppies probably would not handle 128kbit. Hard drives were slow too, so was memory and bus.
It’s typically in the eye of the beholder what “finished” means. With stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 I’m not at all fussed by there being bugs in a complicated video game. But most of the complaining about the game was feature requests. Maybe those elements make you like the thing less, but it’s not necessarily incomplete. You’re rarely gonna ship something perfect.
If Hosfadter is correct, then chatGPT already fits that definition.

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

Read to the ending where it closes the recursive loop.
But Reagan’s “effectiveness” includes murdering and torturing human rights advocates who opposed his unlawful actions in Central America. The U.S. and world would be better without such “effectiveness”.
All the technicalities aside, this is beautiful.
This is a real factor, and it’s good that it prevents people from ending up homeless. However, making lifestyle changes like this definitely stings hard enough to make people angry at the foreigners.
Rehab only works for those willing to do the work. For those that cannot or are unwilling, they should be offered the choice of jail or a work camp (keep on abusing but you're spending 4 hours a day picking up garbage).

We need to have compassion but it doesn't mean these people get a free pass to literally trash our commons and steal to sustain their habits.
The evidence where you pretty much admitted that you ghostbanned my main after mass reports (which could have 99% been in bad faith and/or bots) flagged me and then you judged
Me to be guilty of wrongthought and taken my away link posting ability has been posted above.
Emacs Lisp actually has threading macros natively (seemingly since at least 2016), but they're (IMHO) obnoxiously named `thread-first` and `thread-last`.
I got hired after 11 weeks of interviewing and a significant paycut.
You would be surprised that Amazon would make a decision based on anything but facts? Measuring productivity, especially for office workers is extremely difficult except in gross terms. You mention these "issues" that they've been unable to address, but as you say, there's no issues coming down from the Emperor.

And companies that consider good communications with their employees to be "an unproductive activity" are shit companies. There's a reason that Amazon has such a bad reputation amongst all the FAANG. Whether you work in one of the fulfillment warehouses, or are a coder hoping to avoid the mandatory PIPs, it's the worst.
Microsoft Edge received the lowest privacy rating among browsers
> Yes, they are censorship by the rights owner of the author's work.

Is that true when the rights owner (as is often the case) is the author? If it is not (or if it is but it is not problematic) in that case, why would it be if the rights owner is the author's heir, or an entity to whom the author or their heir has voluntarily, whether for value or other reasons, transferred the rights?

> also, a “rights owner” is what we call someone who has a government-granted monopoly on the right to publish a work.

Yes, under our copyright system that is, with very rare exceptions, the author, their heirs, or people to who such rights have been transferred by one or the other (and, in the case of transfers by authors, there is even a one-time take-back privilege with a specific time window.)
Would you be willing to expound on this? A friend lives in Sydney and they say the rents and house prices are very high. Is this a matter of excessive speculation, a lack of supply and no will to build, or a combination of factors?
Red auroras explode over America's and Europe's north
It sounds like they wanted 2 separate network paths but they still end up with only 1 where they can use BGP. Maybe they can still use their residential connection as failover, with a VPN to a VPS where they can use BGP?
> I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

It certainly is a cult since it works exactly like one, it has rules, a unquestionable creed ("diversity and inclusion"), struggle sessions where members have to admit their "crimes" in public like "their privileges", a hierarchy between its members (the pyramid of oppression), a caste that is above any criticism whatsoever, blasphemy, lists of forbidden words, and shunning of its members when they do something deemed "insensitive".
They should base it on their gut feelings. The same gut feelings that led them to over-hire for the last two years. These "leaders" are clowns with no true leadership skills.
It's the combination of mediums that makes faking things harder, when combined also with proper regulation, we have a much safer and accountable solution than just text responses alone, which can be faked and mimicked as Ai far more easily.
I don’t have a twitter account to get updates on this, so I just try to avoid nouning adjectives related to any hot button issues. I dunno, I’m not the Word Police, just interested in avoiding unnecessary conflict.

I’d hope that most people would give the benefit of the doubt people who aren’t native English speakers, though.
Agree, but it is an optimization problem: maximize meaning while minimizing identifier length. Recognize that it is possible to have identifiers that are too long.
I think the security implications of this would qualify as a fantastic new problem to solve if it's really of any meaningful consequence.
// why but usually it’s because housing is expensive

Is that really true? "Housing is expensive" suggests that these people are working but the rent is too high, and that's not what's happening in most cases. The druggies had dropped out of working a long time ago.

// More expensive cities see more homelessness.

Are folks living in tent cities natives? A lot of them migrate as part of their homeless experience because these cities are better for being homeless than wherever they are coming from.
Yes but its a different problem. Thats a capital allocation issue, a VC problem.

His larger point seems to be that we are relying on increasingly complex systems that may become unmaintainable. Its the great tech circle of life.
This brings back good memories as a kid watching Huell with my parents
A moment for pause seems unnecessary, but perhaps some perspective is warranted.

Automatic Emergency Braking only has a 30-80 percent success rate, depending on speed and conditions. Sort of irresponsible and unnecessarily inflammatory to call out Tesla when this technology across all manufactures isn’t a panacea. The driver is still ultimately reasonable for the vehicle regardless of safety or driver assist system used as US law stands today.

Tesla pushed a software update (feature first seen in version 2021.24.12) that slows the vehicle if emergency vehicle lights are detected by forward facing cameras. Again, no safety system is perfect, and no other auto manufacturer does this.

https://insideevs.com/news/534868/tesla-autopilot-update-eme...

> AAA took a range of modern vehicles equipped with AEB to determine just how well these systems work in practice. The testing concerned T-bone crashes and incidents with cars turning left across traffic, as well as rear-end crashes at 30 and 40 mph. The tests were performed with a selection of popular SUVs, with AAA selecting 2022 models of the Honda CR-V, Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Equinox, and Toyota RAV4 for the project.

> At 30 mph, AAA's testing found that AEB was able to avoid a collision entirely 17 times out of 20, an 85 percent success rate. In the other three cases, speed was reduced by 86 percent prior to impact. Performance was worse at 40 mph, with AEB only avoiding a crash six times out of 20 tests, a 30 percent success rate. Impact speed was reduced by 62 percent on average in the 14 tests where a collision did occur.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/automatic-emergency-braking-is...

> The result shows that rear-end frontal collisions were reduced by 27% for cars with AEB, compared to cars without the system [6]. Many existing studies have shown that AEB can reduce rear-end collisions by 25%–50%

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037779/

For comparison, GM killed 124 people with an ignition switch they knew for a decade was not fit for purpose. They recalled 30 million vehicles, and as part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, agreed to forfeit $900 million to the United States government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
Is there a book or resource that describes the state of the art in our knowledge and understanding about the nature of consciousness (Not cognition) and provides a survey of the popular and promising theories?
Readable by someone who isn't in the field(s). Maybe even a good popsci book on the topic that is the neuroscience's equivalent of "Universe in a nutshell"
> After the fiasco that was the release of Cyberpunk 2077 — a game estimated to cost more than 300 million dollars, including the performance of actor Keanu Reeves —, many people began to question how far the so-called late stage capitalism can go.

Really? Releasing a multi-year software project worked on by many, many people that was buggy but still more or less served its purpose is someone's idea of capitalism teetering on the precipice? If we truly believe "bad results for consumers" means capitalism itself is reaching its end stages, an earlier stage of capitalism featured people just brazenly selling pills with tapeworm eggs as a weight loss supplement and no real regulatory apparatus equipped to stop that, so what was that? "Late-stage capitalism" is becoming one of those buzzwords that doesn't mean much of anything.
Very impressive but it’s just south of 34th Street, so I can’t look in my own window.
That's a form of the resource curse. Portuguese economy relied heavily on exploiting the colonies. They then used the wealth they acquired to purchase foreign goods. Their domestic economy didn't develop properly, as exploitation and trade were more lucrative. That became a major issue once industrialization moved the focus of economy away from primary production.

Something similar also happened to Spain.
1) Yes but those business spent that money! On stuff, or services, or people! And spending drives prices up!

2) I agree it's a vast oversimplification, but the point is that money was put in and prices went up. They went up by an amount surprisingly similar to the amount of additional cash available. It's totally an oversimplification, but do you have a better explanation? Like your theory is that corporations are greedy? Sure. Are they greedier than they were before? Are the checks on their greed - competition and consumer reluctance to buy higher cost products - suddenly absent?

3) For a possible explanation of the duration, I would direct your attention to: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/zd4ppn/hous... Essentially regular people, on average, still have a lot more cash than they had before the pandemic. Generally speaking I'd say this is great but the fact is that this cash is not associated with any productivity increases, we have the same amount of stuff, but more cash.

So prices go up.
No, it was a big downgrade. It wrecked game balance, and the AI was incapable to deal with the new system... all while the worst issues with stacks had been solved years ago in Alpha Centauri !

Just because new players didn't know how to scout and/or that artillery does collateral damage to stacks...
Completely wrong, it's a pretty naked power play by the governor.
After all, to some degree, human intelligence is also "just a fancy autocomplete" built from a giant network of interacting nodes.

I don't think we understand human intelligence well enough to say this with any certainty. And it could only be true if all our previous experience and knowledge was input to the autocomplete function and continuously integrated into the model.
> Apple, known for supposedly delivering sleek products, launched in 2010 the iPhone 4, still under the tutelage of Steve Jobs. Within hours of release, users flooded the internet to complain about dropped connections and abrupt reductions in internet speed. The problem, according to Jobs, was with users holding the iPhone 4 with their left hand [8]. As this was a hardware issue, it was never really solved.

They did fix it with later versions of the iPhone 4 and with the iPhone 4S. Also, I remember that they made the "bumper" cases to alleviate the issue with the antenna: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPhone_4_Bumper