skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federation is great example of this. They go to planet and one of their crew members commits a crime... And then they fail to allow just punishment to happen to that crew member. Just goes to show that they feel superior to other races and do not follow any laws that might apply to them.

With such people how could contract be contract?
I thought light was chemical? I think photosynthesis is a highly evolved process. Much higher evolved to be considered the beginning.
Wagner is not advancing anywhere, they got a city because they were simply there to begin with and then decided to say "we are on a different team now".

Nobody will support a mercenary team which shoots down their own fellow citizens
No. It still wouldn’t be backwards compatible and would have the same exact implementation problems as IPv6 would.

Besides a 48 bit address length makes very little sense.
Sorry about that. Email provider didn’t like the rapid increase in signup emails. Tested it, and it seems to be working now. Give it another shot.
Some good discussions earlier which was unfortunately flagged

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457433
Apparently it was written with kooks in mind. I’d guess you are right in that they are writing for Congressmen. There are kooks there. Overall, I think it a bad idea for intelligence agencies to write public statements to combat nutty ideas (unless such ideas are held by Congressmen).
thank you for this, i just had alot of fun with 0xf.at !
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

LLMs should make us take seriously that the whole idea of consciousness is just superstition and unnecessary.

That definition is precisely how people define something that isn't real and doesn't exist.

If you can get there, it is quite amusing to think about a huge group of people who would think the idea of angels as complete foolish superstition but consciousness? Of course, we just haven't located this extra property of the brain, yet! It is there though, I know it is because I know is.
Yes but it’s part of how this site has avoided being sucked into the culture war vortex.
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This was incredible writing. The voice reminded me a bit of David Foster Wallace. I think I’ll be making my way through these archives :)

And I’ll be sure to head to Huis ten Bosch next time I’m in the area. I think soaking in the echo of everything it is, was meant to be, and did not become, will be a real treat.
You’ve got to remember that a significant aspect of his writing is designed to make a certain type of programmer feel special and revered so that they’ll want his company’s VC money.
AI models don't always copy things verbatim. Clearly if they do and then you use that it's copyright infringement, but Google isn't illegal just because you can search for code that's under a license agreement (not that AI models are search engines). Then again, you can't download Google's index, but you also can't for many AI models... there's a lot of nuance here, I don't think it's clear one way or the other
I always felt that the DS9 relationships between Cardassians & Bajorans was a product of the time when the show was written, and had stronger overtones of the 1990s Balkans conflicts and Israel/Palestine than anything else. (Though it’s far from a direct allegory for either)
The TS devs have mentioned that they wish JSON.parse returned unknown, but the change is too disruptive now.
About ~75% of my traffic by TBs at home is IPv6. Of course a lot of it is Netflix & Youtube etc., but still.

Not sure how it’s looking like per host.
I'm a big fan of public engagement with science, but it's a double edged sword. A lot of people get the impression that they have a good handle on it and an opinion that demands attention.

I cannot tell you how tired I am of people arguing about the merits of string theory, where effectively none of the people involved know even the first thing about it. It's not that people shouldn't get involved, but involvement should be more than just cheerleading as if it were a sports game.

Maybe that's inevitable. Maybe the public engagement will always produce 99 dunces shouting and one young scientist who goes on to study it for real. But it can be disheartening when it looks as if 100% of the public discussion is both ignorant and mean.
Great, neat way!
Other good discussions that got flagged as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457433
Note that Object.entries also returns keys as strings (and not keyof T), just like Object.keys does. It has the exact same problem and rationale as explained in this article. This means that if you just want to loop, you’re good, but the moment you need something fancier than a console.log you might need the keys to be typed stronger again.
Hah, thanks for bringing that up. I’ve been wanting to document the API, but have left it on the back burner so-to-speak since I figured nobody would reach it.

If you’re serious about giving the mobile client a shot, feel free to shoot me an email hwgilbert16@gmail.com and I might shift some priority over to the API.
This is what I took from them as well, particularly since Star Trek was set in an Earth post-scarcity. When humanity has progressed to the stars as a result of the end of modern society in a war, the Ferengi were a foil against what we have versus what we can become.
> The question is also 'why does a human form a single consciousness?'

The answer should be obvious to anyone earnestly thinking about the question: it doesn't. The "single consciousness" is just the abstraction we apply. We can, and often do, apply that same model to entire groups of people from cliques, to communities, to cultures, to nation states and just about any cross section of humanity one cares to. With a little effort we can apply the same model to internal mental processes[0].

The human mind is good at abstraction, which is fortunate because abstractions are useful. Unfortunately, it is often so preoccupied with any given abstraction that it forgets that abstractions are only useful contextually, because abstractions are not reality.

[0] As in Internal Family Systems, a model sometimes used in therapeutic contexts.
when trying to read through it - it's kind of a bad example of a website, that turns out to be unusable. unreadable, definitely. or maybe it's just this kind of format, 'bunch of separate pages, sidebar with nesting, and clicking, clicking and more clicking between pages' - is actually bad for reading through content. mostly because of constant reading flow interruption.

pages are too short, there's too little information on them, switching between pages and reading through is clunky, there's too much clicking - and not enough 'actual content' in comparison. (there's too much clicking in proportion to actual content being shown, and it ends up being an annoyance and a disappointment in 'received/perceived value from actions'.) even the individual pages - besides being alarmingly most of the time too short to even be an individual page and not a section on a larger page - pages also have a bunch of overstructured 'junk' on them: those bizarre blue (?) cards stacked at the bottom (wanna highlight something? one or two cards - fine. five, six, more? that's entirely too much), 'related topics' (that look just like a meaningless list of random links), and sources (dumped at the bottom, instead of being interspersed throughout the text, or being tucked away somewhere else). it all just looks like a bunch of visual clutter with dubious value, and even if there's actual value there, it gets diminished by having stuff be scattered like this, in a 'what should I even pay attention to' kind of way. and when all that junk in comparison is even longer than the 'page' and its actual content itself - it really gives an impression like 'what the hell is even happening here? what's the value of this'. being forced to scroll through that junk to even get to 'prev/next page' buttons, feels kinda like a betrayal of good reading experience.

it's a good example of why websites like this are so bad at being 'readable'. like, compare this mess to the experience of reading a book.
Yeah I refuse these take-home tests. I counter with "put me in the room with one of their engineers and let's solve a real problem". I also judge them by how much skin they put in the game too.

Ive done the "2-4h take home test" once. It was blatantly clear they wanted a day or 2 of free labor, with no real feedback. So, no. I'm not doing that. You want me to do a day's labor? Pay my standard rates.
We have plans in the works to allow imports from Anki. Right now, it only allows imports from Quizlet, but the ones you mention will be added in the future, assuming these other services provide a way for me to get the data other than web scraping.
*chuckles nervouthly*

Maybe it's the nesting that's the problem? Like, refactor it out into its own function/paragraph?
No one is building dams to fail. But they can fail for a variety of reasons. They need constant monitoring by experts for signs of failure and lots of costly upkeep when issues arise. This is a hard problem. The Netherlands is one of the foremost experts in this field. Just because it looks easy doesn’t mean it is.
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Layoffs. Bonuses cut. Raises and promos frozen. No shit a random employee survey is going to trend downward.

Ask the outside world on the other hand and they’ll say Microsoft leadership is doing a stellar job. The stock market definitely reflects it.
*not my politics
The world isn’t black and white.

It’s typically shades of gray and requires judgement, discretion.

And consequences of breaking a rule or law require even more judgement.

The world isn’t a “smart”contract.
I don’t think I’m following well enough to provide a meaningful response.

This is not meant as an argument against what you’re saying, because I know you were just giving an example, but I found this and thought you may find it interesting:
https://www.hacklewayne.com/a-truly-strongly-typed-printf-in...
1. Each generation was a branch based on the reaction not necessarily a genetic mutation as we understand them.

2. I'm not sure if that is what I said but I believe that.
* I did state it but I plead sloppy articulation rathe than believe each branch is a genetic mutation(an increment smaller than a mutation).

3. I figured it was far enough away to be a valid timeframe for sophisticated consciousness but not so close that the thread would be distracted by historical interpretations.

4.Something manifested consciousness and my thinking it based on some sort of survival reward system.

5.A genome maybe too much for a consciousness.
There is a difference between:

A) “All meetings are a waste of time.”

B) “There are productivity tradeoffs between a managers schedule and makers schedule.”
The whole discussion hinges on the definition of "vehicle", which is not defined. If I take my definition as being "a vehicle that meets the definitions of a motor vehicle in the UK Road Traffic Act 1988, but not including those in use as emergency service vehicles" then the majority are indeed correct. And that's how I answered, because it's consistent with my expectations for a sign like that which has been placed by a human authority. If you choose the rather broader definition (from Wikipedia) of "machine that transports people or cargo" then more scenarios are excluded. But that's a more fuzzy definition too: is a remote controlled car (neither carrying people nor cargo) really not included in the category of "vehicle"? In practice you won't typically find humans placing signs with that intent.

So I agree with the parent and grand-parent comment. Without a context in which to understand the terms presented, even an apparently-clear statement and introduction can be entirely unclear. I suspect that if you pointed to an actual physical sign and a scenario unfolding in front of them, and asked people whether they objected, rather than asking as an abstract concept on a computer screen, you'd get a different distribution of answers.
I think it does apply here because the point is that learning isn't direct copying and the knowledge you get from it isn't copyrightable, and AI could be the same in instances where it's not directly copying
If only someone invented something that could translate something akin to yourname.com to the said gazillions of characters…
Depending on when you started using Spotify, accessibility might have gotten infinitely better. The original Windows app, with its custom GUI toolkit, was completely inaccessible with a screen reader. Then they re-did the UI using Chromium Embedded Framework.
We’re planning to add study analytics in the future to track progress. It’s possible that we’ll have it so that this data can be shared with another user.
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I'm all in on Go and enjoy how the toolchain simplifies things so you can just think about writing code. But I am not a fan of this. I don't want my compiler to execute remote code uninstructed.
I really did not like how the Ferengi evolved under TNG/DS9. The first episode with the they were truly unique and alien. Then as things progressed they were turned into to cowards and clowns.

I also say the same for the Borg, the first episode there were hive minds connected with tech, they had their own babies and no one leader. Then the TNG turned them into ants/bees with queens.

To bad they did not expand upon what seemed to be the original intent.
Maybe your consciousness:)
Right, but what I mean is, if you press some keys to move from one screen to another, you can start typing before the navigation is complete and those keystrokes will be buffered by the terminal. They won't just be discarded, meaning you can learn to type ahead of where the server is up to.
> Granted it was a big jump

Node v16: 20 Apr 2021

Node v18: 19 Apr 2022

Are they shipping a major release every six months?! No wonder it’s such a mess.
And this got flagged too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457511
Panpsychism is also, at this point, just a placeholder for anything resembling an explanation, and it is not necessary for dispelling the notion that humans are unique (in fact, it is quite plausible that other (now extinct) hominids also had self-aware, theory-of-mind-holding, language-using consciousness.)

As to whether there is something special about it, I personally feel that the difficulty of explaining it is enough to regard it as such.
What exactly does it do?

I live in UK, would it be able to work out how much tax I need to pay on crypto gains?
This is indeed so.

But the standard clearance for air gaps is 1 mm / kV, and arching distance is below 0.4 mm / kV. More advanced and faster mechanical switches should work fine at 400V DC.

Also IGBTs may be a preferred way, especially with various smart switches.

Sockets and plugs seem to be the hardest part to make cheap and reliable. But industrial solutions can likely be adapted.
A potential coup in one of the world's most populous countries, who are also in the midst of the largest war in Europe since WW2, is not just "politics". That's ridiculous.

A major portion of Russia's de facto military, led by one of the country's most prominent figures, has left Ukraine and is heading for Moscow. This is history happening right in front of us. If HN was around in 1989, would the fall of the Berlin Wall have been [flagged] too?
Difficulty of the problem you’re trying to solve.

Just like it could take 5 hours to come up with 5 lines of code, it could also take 5 minutes to produce another 5 lines. All depends on how complicated the task is.
Yes, sounds very reasonable. But what to do about it?
You should take a look at https://zod.dev/ if you haven't already - it's a library for runtime parsing that works really well for your use case.

Types are inferred from the schema though personally I like to handwrite types as well to sense check that the schema describes the type I think it does
What popper are you using?
Can you clarify why it is a "terrible product name?"

Frankly I'm tired of these un-google-able cutesy names that aren't unique. If you want some examples look at the other suggestions in this thread (Jeeves, Mother, Intuition). ChatGPT is only exactly one thing, and you "chat" with it, that's good enough to me.

"Bard" is alright but harder to uniquely google, and Bing's ChatGPT implementation is the terrible since I cannot even figure out what the name is ("Bing AI?").
I don’t think so. It seems like the agpl covers everything this does as I don’t think agpl cares about interactive vs non-interactive.

That being said, I hope people choose to use this new license.
Yes, my point is that an alternative OS design could serialize keystrokes such that a keypress has to be handled (including focus changes) before the next keys are delivered, allowing you to type ahead without keypresses going to the wrong place or depending on the vagaries of timing. It might require a different approach to UI API and design, though.
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> I grew up in America which is fairly rule-obeying.

I also grew up there. I think there’s a low level compliance with what I’d call daily/minor rules. Cigarette butts tossed wherever you are when you finish one, speed limits are barely even advisory, jaywalking widely practiced, etc.
> According to Stuker, 2019 was his best year. He took 373 flights that covered 1.46 million miles. If he had bought all these flights in cash, it would have cost him $2.44 million.

wow, that was some expensive flights... $6500 per flight on average?
Who is the head of the mercenary group calling for an armed rebellion in Russia?
Fair dinkum? I've lived in Oz for many decades and travelled widely. I have never seen obedience as a common trait. In fact, rule breaking with a shrug is far more prevalent.
Because options is good for consumers and drives healthy competition leading to more innovations.
This may be true in general, but it brings to mind this one experience where I had the gall to stop my doctor for a moment so that I could write down the name of a diagnosis. Looked at me with annoyance, like no one ever did that before.
> I don't know, but it doesn't matter, just like it doesn't matter if the code on your computer is on a HDD or SSD.

But it does matter! You arbitrarily dismiss the brain as "wrong level of abstraction" then bring up the computer which internals we know and understand as an example of parallel system.

If both are same, where's the hard drive in the brain? Which part of the brain is the CPU dedicated to consciousness? We know regions of brain are specialized in function, like the computers.

> But nevertheless, until people realize that this is what they should attempt, or research how it can be done, I feel we won't make any progress on the nature of consciousness.

This reminds me of the famous Andy Grove's fallacy. To paraphrase:

The engineers tend to apply knowledge and concepts of their field to biology because they think both engineered and organic systems are the same. In doing so they miss the elementary difference that engineering is about creation and development of new systems, and biology is about researching and understanding existing systems we have no prior knowledge of.
Shrug.

Iron is abundant on Earth, including within the crust, where it's the fourth most abundant element (after Oxygen, silicon, and aluminium), roughly 5% by mass. And yes, considerably more prevalent in the core. Iron and oxygen account for roughly 32% of Earth's total mass, each, the largest proportion of any element.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mass>

Sure, not as abundant as silicates. But nowhere near as rare as gold, platinum, and rhodium. Or even copper, silver, or lead.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...>

There's even a fair bit of it flowing though your veins and arteries right now.

And yes, the major ore deposits are old. Most are BIFs (banded iron formations), and date to 1 bya or 3.5 bya, laid down by early oceanic algae for the most part.

Sometimes it's more than fine to allow a slight exaggeration to pass without litigating it to death.
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:)
> The Ferengi never tolerated slavery.

Ferengi females were arguably slaves since they had so few rights.
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You’re talking about people who use Macs.
Yeah but it's usually something akin to "capital punishment for pressing the grass" which is just ridiculously outlandish pardon the pun.
I was actually in the school of thought that this article describes until I read and worked through the book How to Design Programs [0]. The rest is upto you to judge.

[0] https://htdp.org/

Edit: I would love others, who have read the above mentioned book, to weigh in with your anecdotes.
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Such differences in the number and organization of chromosomes are the reason why the hybrids of distantly related species are usually sterile.

Only when gametes are produced by the hybrids for their reproduction, during the meiosis the homologous chromosomes must pair and in such hybrids this fails.

On the other hand, when the first hybrid cell is formed by the fusion of gametes, and also during its later divisions, which will grow the hybrid body, the number and organization of the chromosomes matters very little.

What matters is just the amount of differences in individual genes and in their regulation, which should be small enough so that their functions remain compatible, which must be true in this case.

It is normal in animals for the number of chromosomes to fluctuate due to fusions or fissions and for the order of the genes to be modified, but such changes do not modify the complete set of genes or their functions and these changes may happen without any changes in the appearance of the animal.
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Great experiment and thank you for doing this instead I have to do it.
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> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. [0]

This is just way outside of the HN wheelhouse. The guidelines are pretty clear.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I’ve used zod and every other schema validator available for this. Some problems:

1. Types are not written in typescript anymore. Or you have to define them twice and manually ensure they match. ReturnType<typeof MyType> pollutes the codebase.

2. Types have to be defined in order, since they’re now consts. If you have a lot of types which embed other types, good luck determining that order by hand.

3. Recursive types need to be treated specially because a const variable can’t reference itself without some lazy evaluation mechanism.

TS could solve all of this by baking this into the language.
We have no meetings at all, other than one weekly a 30-minute standing meeting. Email or slack and no expectation on response time. Been doing that for 5 years with no problems.