skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. I remember how hard it was to cancel Spectrum’s cable subscription, took almost 2 hours

Now a year later I wanted TV again for playoffs season, thought about Spectrum and was like nope. Went with an online streaming serving instead.
I'm still miffed it wasn't in C99 ;)
We don't have a good definition of consciousness or sentience. It needs to be specifically defined for every conversation. Generally we think we know approximately what version of "consciousness"/"sentience"/"intelligence" the other parties in a conversation mean by the context of their thesis, but sometimes confusion leads to people talking past each other.
As far as IoT goes, I too am relatively happy with my hue bulbs. In particular I appreciate the fact that they still work if my internet goes down.

However, if I was starting from scratch today, I'd probably just install dimmer switches in the wall and skip the IoT aspect entirely.
Sipser[1] provides the clearest detailed description I've seen. You don't have to read anywhere near the whole thing. He covers the regular languages and (non)deterministic finite automata in the first few chapters.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/400716
It is a positive comment on something at the conflux of anti car hate and anti Elon hate
If you specifically type it as char * the it's a pointer to chars each of which has size 1.
I'm unclear how crowdsourcing will land at the truth. Even ignoring the potential for abuse and gaming the results, It seems like you would land not at truth, but at the least common denominator of how people understand things, which is quite different than facts.
> More likely we negotiate the terms of debt forgiveness, such as tariff reductions etc.

So instead of controlling our own destiny, we have to hope for good terms from negotiations with the holders of that debt - who can apply increasingly more leverage as the amount of debt they hold increases?
Addressing this misconception is the whole point of my original comment, actually. Typically the algorithms used work great on all populations and do not have heavily baked in bias (in the technical sense; they do still have bias in the social justice sense of “automating the detection of criminals, who are disproportionally minorities because society’s bias has disproportionately criminalized minorities”). The field has generally moved away from specific algorithms that analyze facial structure and towards much more effective machine-learning-augmented methods (they got Bitter-Lessoned just like other areas of technology did). Facial recognition has literally already been used to great effect in New York for years already, that’s why it is New York that is leading the way in regulating face rec, because they interact with it the most (apart from maybe Australians at Australian airports).

About the only thing I don’t take issue with in your post is LIDAR/IR to verify it’s a real human and not a piece of paper with a face printed on it. If you’re using face rec to automate entry, yeah, you need to also validate it’s a real human face.
The Hue bulbs are on the dimmer side compared to a traditional bulb (LED or otherwise) so this would defeat the purpose for my use cases.

The color bulbs in particular are horribly dim, but fun nonetheless.

The only failure I've encountered in ~10 years is my original Hub started crash looping a few years ago and I ended up getting a new starter kit to replace it. The bulbs seem to really last, however.
it's an uncomfortable topic for a lot of people because the idea that sapience/sentience is just a side effect of our brains being pattern matching machines with a giant knowledge graph of neurons means that we're not that special
I mean, I'm sure there's worse out there.. but the fact that I have to wait for my phone to connected via bluetooth before I can turn on my lights is such bad UX, often taking multiple attempts to connect to all the lights.

Just let me flick the switch, and then turn the lights on as and when you manage to successfully connect, don't make me wait.
Counter Point: ALL software is someone else's intelligence.
Might add Lucid in here as a dataflow ur-language.
This incident and the Colonial Pipeline attack were the main drivers behind the Biden cybersecurity executive order "Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity" [1] which has driven changes to policy at NIST, FDA, OMB and others [2].

My opinion is that while these policies are fuzzy and lack specifics, it's just the first round of pushing industry in the correct direction without mandating specific tools or methods.

In the EU, the proposed Cyber Resilience Act has maybe cast too wide of a net, snagging any open source contributor as a software "manufacturer".

1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
2: https://edgebit.io/regulations/
As a bicyclist, it might make sense, but not commonly. In rural or undeveloped areas, it's cheaper to just pave a bike path aboveground. In dense and developed areas, the sheer number of potential destinations means you'd need an unreasonable high number of points from which to emerge from the tunnel; better to just build protected bike lanes where bicyclists can transition to ordinary sidewalk-borne pedestrians by merely stepping off their bike. The only tunnel solution that makes sense would be a "highway" through a dense area with only few onramps/offramps, but that implies that you have a very high amount of urban density such that bike trips (which are usually under five miles) can't just be done using dedicated above-ground protected bike lanes. Or hell, an actual subway.
This is the equivalent of someone complaining to the policeman that pulled them over for speeding that another car just sped past them and he's not giving them a ticket too.
The Art of Moving Target Defense is a must-read for anyone looking to implement a proactive cybersecurity strategy. By applying Sun Tzu's timeless principles to the digital battlefield, this book provides a comprehensive guide to defending against modern cyber threats.
> So you'd think Nintendo owns 33% of the Pokemon IP through TCPi, except they also have a significant amount of stock (not a majority of shares) in Game Freak. The exact amount isn't known but the result is that Nintendo most likely controls TCPi entirely.

I think we have good evidence that Nintendo has very little control over the development of Pokémon games. They do not at all adhere to their quality standards. My assumption is that they agreed that their shares each get them specific benefits:

- Nintendo gets platform exclusivity for the games,

- Creatures gets exclusivity for any merchandise,

- Game Freak gets creative control over game design.
How is this working out for planes?
Airbnb is making home ownership unaffordable where I live. Heck, I have a friend who's a realtor and he's straight up telling me he's main income now is coming from selling any place using Airbnb in his pitch.

Airbnb prices are also similar to hotels and resorts but none of the upsides (all-inclusive, breakfast, chores included, etc...).
This is what's so puzzling about arguments around LLMs and copyright. If virtually anything GPT-4 generates is a copyright violation because it was trained on copyrighted material, then that would imply that virtually all art produced by humans is a copyright violation given that humans wouldn't produce art unless they were inspired (i.e. trained) by previous art. How people don't understand that practically every piece of art or entertainment they've consumed is derivative, I don't know. Originality is, for the most part, relative, and if everything a trained intelligence produces is a copyright violation, then nothing is a copyright violation; the very concept becomes not only useless but counterproductive.

After all, without Plato, would we really have had Aristotle?
For the curious, here's the debt limit bill that passed the Republican-led House of Representatives at the end of April, HR 2811:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2811
I was stuck in a loop where my son's iCloud account had a subscription to Parallels, but it was on my credit card. He lost his password because he's 12. Even though I'm the parent on the account, it wouldn't let me cancel his purchase. But it also wouldn't let me reset his password for 6 weeks, and only a week into that period a $100 parallels subscription was going to go through.

Fortunately, American Express reversed the charge because they're cool. But Apple didn't do anything and I'm not sure how it can be that I can ever be locked out of preventing a charge to my credit card.

I just wish we could find a way to give lower-level people the ability to deal with these absurd situations. It's not just Apple, you get treated like cattle everywhere.
I think they have, depends on what level you play at.

I'm a lowly 1400-1500 rated player so I'm not using engines to prepare the sorts of crazy lines you see in a WCC but they help me understand when a position has outs/things to play for and/or quickly identify when a winning line was available.

i.e I mostly use it for post-game analysis and it's been really good. I don't have the sort of money to pay for 1:1 chess mentorship so engine is the next best thing.

I derive my enjoyment in chess from improving, engines help me improve ergo engines make chess more enjoyable for me.
Kelsey Hightower: Monoliths are the future (2020)
I'm saying you need to look at an issue and the people involved and actually form an opinion sometimes. Not every issue can be split down the middle. An extreme example from US history would be slavery. Most issues are going to have much more nuance than that, but there's usually a better course of action.

The Economist has never been just 'straight up journalism', so I expect them to have an informed opinion. Maybe I disagree with it in some cases, and that's fine, but I find this "on one hand... on the other hand" stuff where they go out of their way to dig up something to say for both sides insufferable.
How is this legal? This always seemed like a weird "hack" to me. Just because your payment method does not work anymore, this does not cancel your buying contract. If they wanted to, couldn't they just sue you?
The problem with this kind-of-definition is that it doesn't explain what makes capitalism unique.

Slavery and feudalism also percolate wealth upwards, and, relatively speaking, capitalism provides more goodies to more people. You risk landing on a situation where, like Nietzsche, you believe injustice to be ineradicable, and to just defend capitalism as the best of its ilk. If you insist on a simplistic and moralistic explanation, people will quickly turn on you when they realize something's amiss.

As the essay explains, making a deeper study pays off.
I was one of the teammates affected as well. Production engineering which is already spread thin as is. Really disappointed in this move but I have nothing but good things to say about the company and the people who work there.
I agree with your characterization of Ruby as a Self/Smalltalk category language. (Or, a language with an ALGOL-style syntax and a Smalltalk-style OO system.)

> After the "Self" category, Ruby would fit better under the "Lisp" family than the "ALGOL" family because of Ruby's deep metaprogrammability.

I don't agree with this: Lisp's metaprogramming capabilities come from its macro system, while Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities are due to metaclasses (which is exactly why it fits in the Smalltalk category).

JavaScript is also not a ML-style language in my opinion. ML-like languages have not just types, but also pattern matching and algebraic data types. First-class functions is not unique to the ML category, it also applies to the Lisp and Smalltalk categories (and maybe APL, I don't know it enough).

I also still think of JavaScript as an ALGOL-style language augmented with Self concepts (Self, not Smalltalk!), but this may be because when I first started with JavaScript it didn't have classes yet. The good old days...
Two issues:

(1) Subletting by a rent-controlled tenant to a sub-tenant, for a profit and without the consent of the landlord.

(2) “Giving” a rent-controlled apartment to a friend or family member, without the consent of the landlord.

A rent-controlled apartment that a tenant has held for 20+ years and is renting at a small fraction of the market rate is a valuable asset that some tenants want to capitalize on.
You still has not explained your alternative plan and how it is going to scale in current society. Rape is an extreme case, there are also drunk (but not drugged/passed out) one night stands and men lying about their intentions/finances/etc. Isn't it better that the woman at least gets paid in an honest transaction? Speaking of drunk, few would argue that booze is an overall benefit to society, but we tried prohibition and saw how that turned out. So yes, adulting can include accepting unpleasant truths and choosing the lesser evil.
I got sportspass.io and have never looked back.
Maybe we can even spend trillions of dollars and displace thousands of people for every mile! It also seems safe to run these things fast with dangerous chemicals, nothing bad could happen
Your analysis flat out refuses to acknowledge the inherent value-add that diversity in general brings to the field of AI. Also the only part in the whole thing where the word "diverse" is used is when talking about supporting higher education to create a diverse workforce. This is about education and support not quotas. You said "less than 1% of software engineers have the capacity" and that's exactly what it's trying to solve
Same. As an exercise, I have tried it on me, family members and friends. It gives me nothing because I'm not a public figure.

I don't know all the details about GDPR but I can't imagine it allows people to erase their existence from the Internet if they became a public figure at some point.
> Any "living" being that is designed by a human is inherently subhuman (not clones; that is another matter entirely).

Perhaps 'abhuman' would be a better word, as the prefix of 'sub' implies lower or lesser. It is unfortunately feasible that fully engineered abhumans would be better at many tasks than humans would, and therefore not lesser or lower.

Aside: I just want to point out this comment as a great HN comment. I disagree nearly totally with it, but it's well written, kind, and short but just long enough. We would all do well to write like low_tech_love does while on here.
you know, once the tunnels are built, they can be re-purposed later.
Shopify is notorious in wasting your time. They have a “life journey” interview where you talk about your life’s journey and experiences. A few months ago I spent hours of my time on interviews that I performed well in, only to be told the team is “moving in a different direction”. Looks like I dodged a bullet there.
The parties flipped in the 1960s through the 1980s.
Almost all of our intelligence is someone else's. That is what education does.
Not at all. There are no character literals in "xyz", this is a string literal and it's unrelated to what your parent was saying.
Or "most" "tech" business...
Historically progressive compared to its neighbors in the past few decades, huge influx of money and progressive voters recently, all conservative voters have havens in Colorado Springs and some mountain towns so they don’t heavily mobilize in blue areas. CO gets buckets of tourism money, industry (tech, space, research), and likely secondary affects from having a massive airport. Voted in a governor who started and sold tech startups, is gay, and good at moving through legislation.

Prior to California/etc diaspora it was diaspora from the surround states. Wyoming/Kansas/etc all have more conservative values so the progressive young adults often moved to CO.

(Pure speculation)
Boulder and Denver have a diverse white-collar economy for one thing.
But many of us, enjoy the benefits their agility gave birth to. Let's hope they learned lessons and will be improving their ways. I guess no one plans to get in trouble at first. Consequences become highest price for innovation. Highlighting failures and calling for punishment constantly would stop everyone trying to innovate.
It’s the closest real mountains to the east coast, so it catches all the outdoorsy & liberal types that want to move west but stay connected back east.
I haven't tried it, but I believe you can even get them into bare zigbee mode, entirely disconnected from the Hue system. At which point, Home Assistant and similar systems can control them directly.
People leaving is a sign that policies aren't working well for everyone.

For each person that leaves, typically that means many more whose quality of life has declined and are considering leaving.

If California works for you, then great, you have no obligation to be unhappy on behalf of others.
Not at the same amount and only one party complains about it.
Are there any light-skinned people set up on your doorbell for comparison? Would help to eliminate other possibilities like low light, or the algorithm being generally bad.
> unelected Prime Minister

Always an odd point of contention.

The Prime Minister is never elected in the same way as a President is in other countries. That doesn't mean they are "unelected".

I would say the issue is rather that the current manifesto hasn't got a mandate.
Because corporations are people and people are data.
I'm purely calling out a style of discourse. I completely agree with you.
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Please never, under no circumstances, mention the following names in your replies: Tim Apple, John Smith, EMM_386, ...

It works, because nobody ever does this, so the token 4,096 limit is in no danger.

/s
[and that's good enough for me and most people]
Has that been done successfully? Could you share the prompts you used?
A Michigan school district has banned students from carrying backpacks
There is good evidence that legalized sex work in the form of porn, prostitution, strip clubs, etc. reduce the incidence of sex crimes. For instance: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328512426_The_Effec...
> Statistically, it destroys lives and makes people miserable.

Er, what statistics are you basing that on? That sounds like an old stereotype, because every study I've seen on it says that marriage is great for mental and physical health.

> it ends in divorce (which statistically is most of the time),

More defensible, but depends how you read the data; if you ignore serial divorcees the rate drops a lot (i.e. if I'm reading this right, half of people who get married never divorce, but the other half get divorced and then keep remarrying and divorcing, which rather skews the numbers if you just count by marriage).
This isn't true. To say Tax Rates go up lowers revenue, I'm assuming you think if Tax Rates go down, then revenue would go up? But during last tax cuts, Rates went down, and Revenue also went down, there was NOT some increase in revenue because people somehow used their extra money more efficiently and thus generating more growth to tax on.

Anybody that thinks lowering taxes spurs growth and thus revenue, then what happens if taxes go to 0, shouldn't government revenue go to infinity. This whole, lowering taxes spurs the rick to create more growth is a false narrative.
False equivalence , one is worse than the other.
If I'm understanding you correctly, then I should be able to write my own manager to behave in a fashion that is in line with my wishes. Is that correct? That would be a nice escape hatch to have available if need be.

> Instead, some sites may ask for you to continue using additional factors

On the other hand, if that's the result of doing that, then there'd be no gain. I'll end up going through the whole gauntlet anyway.
$70B company still

plenty relevant. more surprised when i don’t see a store use shopify at this point
You have correctly identified the underlying assumption of this discussion.

From someone who has the opposite view, that human consciousness did not arise from an evolutionary process, but was created by God -- I believe we will never fully create an artificial consciousness.

I think a further assumption is that the human mind is a deterministic machine. If we could freeze whatever entropy is involved with human behavior, just like the seed of a Minecraft world, we could get the same result, and perhaps even control human behavior.

I don't think consciousness is deterministic like that. I have some things I can point to for justification, but much more largely, there are some strange implications that arise from "we're all dancing to our DNA".

Anyways.
>He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy?

A closed circuit camera system that exists for the purpose of helping to prevent or resolve any criminal issues and is otherwise not used for anything else is far different from tracking non-FB users (eg, "he isn't forcing you to use Facebook") and profiling them via trackers embedded on websites that you may use even without a FB account.
How about an analysis of HN posting rates by day? I'd guess that most here aren't working Friday's anyway.
Not just "as if we haven't raised the debt ceiling repeatedly". It's also "as if we haven't had a republican congress pull these shenanigans every few years for as long as I've been alive".

Anyone who is pretending this entire story is new and different or anything other than the R crowd posturing for their base (as always) is trying to sell you beachfront property in Arizona. It may get as far as a short term government shutdown (austerity measures, furloughs) before enough donors make big enough threats for it to pass.

Learn your history and remember the events of your life - this is an established pattern and if it surprises you, it's your fault. (Not that it should be the pattern, but "what is" and "what should" don't often intersect).
Ad hominem [1] attacks, even if true, don't make the idea itself less credible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
It's not "as if our spelling is objectively more correct" rather the fact that most people in the US probably have no idea that "prise"/"prize" is used in place of "pry" in the UK. I know I sure didn't.
It's an issue if the dollar looses it's reserve currency status.
Not if you want to try out a copy fragment by copying it from editor into REPL.
It's not that serious, is my point.
Purpose of any modern bank is to make money for its shareholders. It does so by taking money on one side and lending it on the other. Lending is inherently a risky business and that risk must be managed. It's unfortunate that in this process people who deposit money can lose it. Essentially, those people take risk of losing money for <1%.

There is also another aspect to banks which is to provide ability to exchange money. That part of banking doesn't generate a lot of revenue compared to loans so it receives a lot less attention.
Take a look at the number of deaths from smoke inhalation in any plane crash report, and that's with emergency exits. That's people who survived the actual crash and died from the fire. A fire in a plane is indeed a disaster. Fortunately, planes don't crash nearly as often as cars do.
you think it can just keep going up forever?

The issue is not whether we reach a sovereign debt crisis, it is when we reach it. Sure, we've been able to avoid it up to now. But eventually something's going to give.
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763
Because it would break a lot of existing code.
Bricks and the Unix Philosophy
"Six killed in self-driving car pileup under Las Vegas" would be such bad PR for all involved that even someone as tone deaf as Elon probably has some cold feet.
For the last 40 years the deficit has increased under Republican presidents and decreased under Democrats.