skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you can only suspect.

Seeing how everyone is so divided on this really highlights how it's almost purely a philosophical argument about what intelligence actually is.
Fun fact: JDBC was one of the (if not the most important) blocking APIs that people tried to convert or redesign / reimplement as async, and failed miserably.

Now, with the advent of virtual threads this should no longer be a problem! JDBC can block all day long, and your app will still scale without a problem.
Well, yes, there's obviously some confusion and ambiguity there.

Exodus has a couple of sets, but that one I cited is the third one from 34.

If you're constrained to the OT then it's tricky, as the NT suggests JC only mentioned 5 or 6 and they were also poorly enumerated and conflicting.

Worse, those were of course third- (or more) hand accounts of what JC may have actually claimed.

I'm not sure if the whole 'mixed fabric, shellfish are okay, etc' covenants that were undone in the NT included week-long unleavened bread obligations, or how else they may have adjusted the intent around interpreting the several conflicting sets of commandments from the OT.

So I can definitely understand why Makenzie chose a Sagan book -- much more clarity, much less ambiguity.
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Python has strong typing, but it does use duck typing.

Weak typing is when a language inserts implicit coercions in unexpected places, such as 42 == “42”. It’s not a precisely defined term. Another example is in C where pointers and values may be mixed and matched, although less so nowadays.
When you say it would not be possible, do you mean that it couldn’t handle the volume? That hardly means it’s worthless. And I already granted it’s worth less than the current financial system. So I believe we’re in agreement.
Back in a previous life in a chemical R&D lab the company did layoffs and claimed to the media that it was all to marketing and administration. In the lab we lost about 50% of our researchers but weren't allowed to talk to anyone about it. I'm guessing companies really want to make it look like layoffs aren't impacting the people responsible for the product, and feed questionable data to that effect.
We would not use Bitcoin for ordinary transactions, at least not Layer 1. That would be the equivalent of transporting your money in an armored truck. There is plenty of ways to scale with Layer 2, but Layer 1 fees on Bitcoin Cash or other smaller cryptos are currently so low that this is not necessary.
I agree with your first point, but I think the Massachusetts Bay colony is actually a model of democracy. It was an authoritarian theocracy, but not a top-down one. It was built on distributed social consensus between autonomous congregations, a structure that survives to some extent to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregationalist_polity

And it was a vehicle for “grassroots change.” They came over here and built exactly the kind of society the people wanted. Maybe it’s not the kind of society you’d want, but it’s the kind they wanted.

The Taliban analogy is interesting. I think democratic theocracy would have been a much better model for our nation building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan than the secular liberal democracy we tried to impose on those countries.
Sometimes I think you need to use a new tech for a while before the benefits become obvious. I worked for Apple retail back when the iPhone was first released. I remember even after getting our hands on it release day that it was neat and exciting, but also something I'd completely written off at $800 because I just didn't see enough use for what it offered compared to a dumb phone and an iPod.

Part of the sales experience at the time was they gave all of us one to carry around during our shift on the sales floor and encouraged us to show it off and use it to look up things we'd normally have gone to one of the demo computers to look up. About 2 months later, I'm taking a road trip with a destination plugged into my Garmin GPS (remember those?). I'm in the final stretches of getting where I need to go when the GPS says "you've arrived" while I'm driving down a road with nothing on either side of me. I go for another half mile or so just assuming it was off by a few hundred feet and I'd find an entrance but no such luck. Turn around, punch in the destination to the GPS again and try from the other direction, same deal. "You've arrived" in the middle of nowhere. Tried a couple more times and then pulled off to the side of the road and reached for the iPhone in my pocket to pull up some information / a map quest search, and then remembered that I don't have an iPhone in my pocket because I don't own an iPhone and just carry one on shift at work. That experience convinced me that there was value in this whole "smart phone" thing and that I would eventually be getting one.

Which isn't to say that crypto or NFTs are like iPhones, but more that I think you can't necessarily understand how useful a given piece of tech is just by someone else explaining it to you. Some things you just have to use.
In Germany, such lopsided agreements are illegal and ineffective.
Personally, I like that future.

I just don't see any evidence that social graphs are becoming more relevant or even that they exist for many people onboarding on to the internet/apps for the first time. You can use Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and even Facebook now without creating any social graph at all. In fact, it seems like they prefer it that way.
That's definitely true and why the Pi is so popular at all, but if you don't need to explicitly interact with hardware there are generally better options.
"Wouldn't you need some sort of "heat shield" offset from the outer walls for your approach to work at night, if at all? "

It sounds like this paint is a "heat shield" that modifies the rate of thermal transfer.

Shouldn't that mechanism improve the performance of the existing substructure and insulation?
I'm fairly certain simglish was a deliberate choice. There was nothing stopping them from having text.

Really, these sorts of ideas feel like we're getting to the "put everything on the blockchain!" phase. "Let's spend more GPU power for creating speech for the Sims than it takes to run the Sims itself!"
I agree.... but I am not sure how to feel about your comment after seeing your username xD
Are you writing everything with a so-called superoptimizer (because mind you, not even your hand-written assembly will be the fastest, hell, C++/Rust will likely beat it in the general case)? Because it has always been a tradeoff between programmer’s sanity-correctness-maintainability-productivity-performance, at the least. Java does very well on most of it, including performance — it will JIT compile code comparable to C, the reason for the performance discrepancy between the two is memory layout, which may or may not matter for the problem at hand.

In my experience, most (especially business) applications are absolutely not going through millions of data entries doing some local calculations over them, that part is delegated to a database. They either do some IO over them, or have much smaller element sizes.

Java has escape hatches even for handling some of the “millions-of-elements in a hot loop”, but for an AAA game engine it might not be the best choice, but for anything else? It is more than fair game.
Very cool. Brings back memories! Though by the time WP came along I was already a solid WordStar user so customized all the keyboard shortcuts to match WordStar.
Having thoughts that show separation between self and individual is not what is at stake. LLM’s can show these thoughts. That is a matter of sophistication of thought.

What is at stake is how do you know there is more going on than an elaborate parrot that keeps screeching it is conscious. (Both in the LLM and you.)
> why are we still covering homes with big chunks of styrofoam

The energy loss through foam depends on the temperature on each side of it. So if you can use a fancy coating to keep the outside of your house cool/hot in the day/night, then the energy losses through the styrofoam are reduced, and eventually your heating/cooling bill is reduced.
How much of that effect could be explained by the ability to afford better legal representation rather than direct preferential treatment?
They are of type `Thread`, for interoperability with existing code.
I hope the video was dramatized and that you didn't actually hurt yourself!

Rather than type every letter, a more efficient system is to represent sounds with keys. This is how stenography works. Each stoke of the keys is mapped to a series of characters; a letter, a grouping (such as 'sh' or 'ing'), or a complete phrase. Using such a system would allow one motion, for example for 'b', to map to a whole word, such as 'be'. Something as simple as that would reduce your risk of injury by something like 50%.

A major difference between stenography and typing is that steno is chorded: the signal is sent when the keys are released, not when they are depressed. I'm not sure how that would work with the full body.

Check out the OpenStenoProject for more about steno. Their community would probably enjoy discussing a full body steno theory (if they haven't already) .

Take care and thanks for all the effort that went into producing the video! It was a lot of fun :)
I bought Turboscan Pro by Piksoft sometime in 2016 and it's been one of my most used apps. Still works great. Still gets the latest updates.
Well that’s useful for everyone, just not useful ENOUGH. Everyone needs to know the system they are using has integrity. Let me be clear, this does not mean the regular financial system doesn’t have integrity.

As I said the current system is better so I don’t see your point as some sort of counterpoint to my observation that crypto has utility, it’s just relatively low or tuned to less in demand needs.
I think the Apple headset will be a (relative) disaster. I'm sure it will sell OK, but we're talking Apple TV numbers not iPhone numbers.

What AR/VR needs is a mass market killer app, like Pokémon GO (in its heyday) or World of Warcraft or something. Not another headset. People will put up with all kinds of discomfort/inconvenience/cost if there's something interesting to do. The current crop of Metaverses don't cut it in this regard.
What percentage of cars on the road are brand new? You think BEV don't need brakes and rotors or have mechanical issues?
I don't know the contract law in the relevant (presumably US) jurisdiction, but surely an asterisk in the contract that's basically:

Lifetime perpetual licence!*

*but we can cancel any time without any penalty lol teehee

is not enforceable? I don't think it would fly in court where I live, it doesn't matter if it was in a signed contract if it's preposterously unfair.

edit: and I don't even necessarily think a lifetime licence is something a company should offer, they are quite unfair on the developer. It's a big commitment to say you'll support some software in perpetuity. But the solution to that is to not offer a lifetime licence. It's not to just outright lie and say you are when you aren't. And if you're one company looking to buy another, you buy those contracts along with it and should take that into account in your due diligence.
What is a small amount? 1%? 0.1%?
> The alternative is to start your own business. If you did and generated more revenue while your employees were in the office based on previous data, I think you’d end your remote work policy for all but the people who are irreplaceable to your revenue stream.

I think it’s simpler than this and if my goal is maximum productivity to recognize that different work modes get me there. I think some work and people combo (eg, software dev and data work) is well-suited for remote work. So I’ll actually outperform in office companies in my field by strutting my work culture to maximize this.

I’d certainly start my own org if needed. Or more likely just choose to work with others who have done the same.
Fashion brands remain relevant by leveraging scarcity and tightly controlling supply.

They also cycle their top talent.

Facebook does neither of these.

If LVMH were to design social networks, they’d look nothing like what Facebook has developed and more like members only clubs with glass windows.
I mined bitcoin in 2011 which didn't go well and then made first transaction in 2017 which took 2days to be processed as a result i ruled it as stupidest digital currency.

Even though I feel technical right all these years i regret for not buying as many as i could have even back in 2017/18.

Centeral banks turned everything like a Ponzi scheme. How the heck borrowing and spending is a better option than saving.
try the nvidia jetson nano (for industrial application), we switched to that and its worked pretty well for us. A little faster for some workloads too
Are they attempting to generate electricity from these coatings yet?

Sounds like both the "keep warm" and "keep cold" coatings offer that possibility.
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It reasons with tokens, not words. They can be words, but they can be anything. Visual data can be tokenized and reasoned with.
I don’t understand your point. Are you implying that people don’t have access to western finance because they are not sophisticated enough?
If you don’t luck into being born with good citizenship lots of things you might take for granted are inaccessible. It has nothing to do with level of sophistication
It has a lot of uses for their metaverse push. You could imagine a future social platform where AI generated pictures and video instead of selfies is the communication medium du jour.

But in that sense they're not far behind the pack as it is.
But if the code was written with intention to be platform-independent, and turned out to be platform-dependent... it's the programmer who wrote it is wrong, not the code itself? Or do I misunderstand you completely?
Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!?

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...
What you've said is pretty much what I always say about Notes, it was much more than Outlook and when Outlook took over I often wondered what folks did for all the things that Notes did that weren't just email and calendar. I wonder what is comparable now in the ability for someone not very technical to be able to knock up, say a simple change approval system? It sometimes seems with the loss of such things as Notes, Foxpro and Hypercard that it has become less easy for non-dev folks to create simple apps rather than more easy.
And friendster.
It’s less about desire and imagining there may be perfectly reasonable scenarios that exist without one needing to be aware of them or them having to be universally applicable.

I found little utility for appliances with remote access until the number of humans to keep fed and clothed grew beyond myself and a partner.

How?

Every little tweak can add up to a staggering amount of time around monotony in a lifetime.

A basic example: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/water-per-second/
Well she has already tried to run once. She will likely try again, lets wait and see if she pulls it off or not before we mark her down as actually serving time. That she is not ion custody might be an indication that she has paid off the right people to allow her to disappear into some far away country.
One way to handle this is combine those two mechanics: the quorum gets lower the more time has passed. When I was playing GitHub Nomic [1] we decided you needed one fewer player to vote for each day that had passed since the proposal was initiated.

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/news/nomic
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I guess it’s all semantics to me, as when I read “merger“ or “merger of equals” there is usually a dominant partner. Either way it gets to the end you’re pointing at. Less need for excess sales, support, etc.

I see this in some acquisitions too. (Like when IBM buys anyone)
I had a lifetime license with a forum software company that switched to a subscription model. I questioned the fairness, but they claimed the new product was built on an entirely new foundation different, the forum utilises that foundation, and that's why the lifetime license no longer applies. Since then, I've been skeptical of lifetime licenses. Business model pivots often leave early adopters with a negative impression due to poor handling of the switch
I don't think the European Union regulatory bodies would have allowed Facebook/Meta to integrate stuff like payments and, as such, to "become PayPal in the process". Maybe if that all had happened before 2015-2016, but in today's political and business climate I see no way for that being allowed to happen.
non-Christian reader of Jesus son of Mary here.

He is simply saying that your outward promises must be a simple reflection of your internal resolve. "simple yes or no". And dressing it up either as being based on divine attribures or your given nature is a form of deception, self-deception or otherwise.

"anything more than this comes from evil"

Which is basically true. You know your internal position. It is either yes or no on 'promise x'. Why dress it up?

> No Christian can obey all the statutes of the Bible

Love God with all your heart and all your mind, and love your neighbor even as yourself. All the law and prophets hang on this.

That's the meta "statue". It's basically the foundation of a subset of human religions, certainly the Abrahamic ones.

Most struggle with loving ourselves, our fellow bipeds, or our God, or some combo but the clue is the implication that they are all one and the same. ["even"]

It is really core to the entire matter. Love in the fullness of its meaning.
Seriously need an edited title then. Original title is wildly misleading.
> As long as conversion between representations is well-defined and not hugely surprising, what does it matter?

Surely the MD5 example demonstrates exactly how this ends up being a problem.

On the surface "1e5" == 100000 seems like a reasonable conversion between representations and unsurprising, but by silently converting things and then comparing the result we get this astonishing result.

Conversions need to be made explicit. This is an opportunity for programmers to consider whether they actually wanted a conversion (the MD5 programmer did not) and for API designers to offer multiple distinct conversions when appropriate. "1e5" == 100000 is only one reasonable interpretation. Maybe it's a lowercase hexadecimal value. If you make the programmer explicitly convert they can choose.
You don't even have to swear at all, the Constitution allows officials to swear or affirm. This is because some religious groups at the time of the drafting of the constitution were morally opposed to swearing oaths: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmation_(law)
I just want to state outright that OP was wronged, and I side with them.

That being said; I dislike both full subscription (i.e. breaks on expiration) and lifetime licenses. Subscriptions are too expensive for software that rarely gets major investment and lifetime licenses are dishonest (e.g. company cannot work for free, so their funded is based on unlimited growth, which isn't realistic for most).

My current favorite business model is the "You're buying the current version and [years] of updates." Then typically you'll get some discount to renew your "[years] more of updates." This incentivizes them to deliver value, or you'll just stick with whatever version you purchased. Your software keeps working no matter what ("lifetime"). One example of someone who does this well is Jetbrains, but there are several companies.

Obviously subscription is the only option if they're delivering most of the value via a web-service of some kind (e.g. ChatGPT Plus).
How do they do that? I thought it would need to be done at the JVM level so that stack didn't grow.
Look into https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/fileacomplaint.aspx

I imagine an expert from the DMHC can advise on your specific situation.
Pretty hard disagree. There are fundamentally different definitions of "equal", and pretty much all languages I can think of support that (e.g. reference equality vs. Object.equals in Java).

You can argue that triple equals is a confusing syntax, but the underlying problem is inherent in the world we live in.
https://rekt.news/ is similar and generally does a good job of explaining the "how"
Oh no, not his tattoo costs.
Reminds me of recent WSJ article, laid of WhatsApp engineer saying he isn’t applying to anything in this environment:

“ Com­pet­ing with thou­sands of other work­ers for po­si­tions he sus­pected might not ac­tu­ally get filled or get­ting a low­ball of­fer didn’t ap­peal, so Mr. Moyni­han has in­stead been lever­ag­ing his strate­gic part­ner­ship skills to help clients on a project ba­sis at a rate of $300 an hour.

“It’s a cau­tion­ary tale for the ti­tans be­cause I do think amaz­ing tal­ent is be­ing dis­persed into smaller tech com­pa­nies that even­tu­ally end up com­pet­ing,” he said.“
Every basic washing machine I've owned has had an option to delay the start for an adjustable amount of time.
I can understand you being pissed having paid for it, and I don't want to come across as a simp, but... if you play regularly enough to advance through the "rocket pass" you earn enough credits to pay the next season's pass. I only ever paid that one off £7.99 or whatever it was and always get far enough through. I guess it's a tax on people who either not very good or don't play often enough. Still sucks that going from paid product to "freemium" there wasn't some kind of "thank you" for having been an early supporter.
well, in this case we can guess that carl sagan is meaningful to a larger than average subset of hackernews readers.
Completely agree. I'm frustrated that Oculus and VR tech in general has been lumped in, via the "metaverse", with a bunch of less useful and less interesting crypto/NFT stuff. All I wanted was some cool niche flight and mech sims, maybe some interesting AR projects beyond what Niantic could offer. Instead, we got a bunch of ugly tech demos, outright scams, and virtual meeting rooms that nobody uses.

Being able to buy drugs online was cool, but I'm not sure it was worth the billions of dollars invested and vast amounts of carbon emitted.
Interesting. What about Firefox? What about hardware acceleration?
Mmmm it wouldn't be too different from using a DDR pad I suppose?
One is my fusion page always going back to a clip I’ve never opened in fusion. The bigger one is an insane rendering time that grows endlessly on a small clip (36+ hour estimated time before I finally cancelled it) that otherwise only takes a few minutes to render and display inside the program itself.
Soon enough, governments will attempt to eliminate cash transactions, control every financial transaction, and limit the ways money can be spent on undesirable products, i.e. put quotas on fossil fuel or meat.

Whether crypto can actually mitigate that is an open question. Arguably, a society that accepts strict financial controls would also prosecute crypto users.
gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D. he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful
Oh you're right. I actually was thinking python "is" was written "===" because I got confused with javascript, yikes.

And I don't speak PHP.

Anyway yeah being able to compare identity and equivalence separately seems important.
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> Maven isn't Java.

The wheels aren't the car. Sure, try to drive around without wheels.
> You work for Aker/Kvaerner, by chance? :)

Oh, heavens, no!

I used to work for Rolls-Royce Marine, but have since jumped ship (or walked the plank!) and now work for a smaller, independent company manufacturing all sorts of offshore handling equipment.

I am of the firm opinion that life is too short for working at large corporations. Obviously, YMMV.