skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that definitions are the problem. It seems the conscious term is overloaded and refers to a lot of concepts some of which are overlapping and some are totally different.

People also want to define conscious in terms of the concept they feel is most importantly different about humans. So this definitions conversation gets mixed with a what concepts are important conversation.

For example, the thing that I think is important is subjective experience. I think this is the most important difference between beings that need to be given moral consideration and those that don't and this is always what I have thought of as consciousness. However, I often have conversations where I am just talking past someone because they are interested in something else entirely. I hope we can start defining this upfront and having separate conversations here.
I don't really buy that theory. There's no explanation for why it needs to be this very-hard-to-cast bronze dodecahedron, instead of just a wooden board with pegs and holes, which is all that would be needed for the video above.
Houses that are good for wealthy retired people are not so good for young couples raising children.

In particular, the school systems that are around such homes. Location, Location, Location.

Secondly: those houses have tenants. They're not sitting empty.

Thirdly, for the young couple. Being tied to your parents financially basically makes them a slave-owner of you. When the parents drop by or use the yard to store project-cars, or refuse to fix issues with the house... the young couple is not in a position to fix those issues themselves without pissing off the parents. (Its not their house after all). So getting their own house leads to a better relationship between child and parent anyway, and should be preferred.
The be fair to customs, there is magnitudes more attention to things coming into the country than to things leaving the country. It's an exceptional situation for exports to be checked by customs.

Over the past six months the government has ramped up export checks (given that criminal groups are basically looting the country at this point) but it's still a minor, low risk operation for exporters.
Paris seems to do pretty OK on all of density, vibrancy, and aesthetics, while segregating all their somewhat-tall buildings to La Defense. I'm skeptical that moving all those into the city proper, let alone aiming for top-X-buildings slots, would improve the city in any way.
> you still have to log in to all your sites

Are you running very tight cookie/session settings or something? A restart definitely does not result in having to log in again for the stuff I'm logged in to.
> I would hope that no one is convicted on this tech alone.

I have bad news for you about what is already regularly used in court to convict people, and the scientific validity thereof.
Imagine if, with advances in materials science, that it was. Could we make a 3 meter cube that was acoustically isolated from the rest of the world? Then they could do all the heavy drilling they want.
Got me a week or two ago. 2018 Intel Mac mini on Monterey. Also did me the lovely convenience of changing my iCloud settings, my desktop background, and turned on screensavers.
Measuring devices do not need to be standard size if you're not comparing them or following a recipe of sorts.

You can use anything as a "ruler" to measure something and transfer that measurement to something else. It's what a jig or form does, after all.
Nix can read JSON, there's a deserializer as one of the builtins you can call. So you can make a bridge where Nix reads your JSON and does something with it, and you can generate the JSON externally like you want. It's how things like poetry2nix work.
California drivers are on their own with this new parking law
Actions have consequences. Boeing decided they wanted to focus on maximizing profits rather than allowing organic growth to follow on continued high quality engineering and services. In regulated industries, especially where safety is of utmost importance, this is exceptionally risky. They F'd around and found out, and imho the only solution is leadership and strategy changes to shrink their business and refocus on becoming an engineering-led firm cranking out superior products & services.

If we're being honest, I think the same is true of Google/Alphabet.
I used to feel the way you do. I am also a big Star Trek TNG fan.

But I feel in the real world the profit motive is pretty important. In systems that have been tried so far that attempted to eliminate the profit motive (Soviet system, Chinese economic system prior to free market reforms) the lack of profit motive seems to have led to stagnation and bloated centralized bureaucrats unable to do things effectively.

Also remember that there are lots of important jobs out there for society to function properly that are unglamorous. Lots of jobs in the medical field for example or waste disposal or toilet cleaning and so on. In a world without money who would be doing such jobs? Why would anyone clean toilets without being paid for it?

In the Star Trek utopia the assumption is that people would do it anyway for the betterment of society. But today in the real world it seems money and the profit motive is necessary both on a micro level and on a macro level.

EDIT: I realized this comment may come off as too argumentative. Not my intention. I sympathize with your underlying sentiment. I just wanted to add my thoughts too. I apologize if any of this came off as hostile in any way
My motorcycle, a pretty small one, weighs twice as much as you do, with fluids.
It is based on income; just not Amazon's global income. It's based on their income in France.
How do we make sense of less being spent on mortgage as a percent of income than has been historically? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MDSP

If you financed during low rates, you're OK, but if you're trying to buy a house now, you're it is hard?
US police forensics is absurd fakery once again. I'm going to be optimistic and just hope this is ignorance and not knowing maliciousness. If so it's a trend that's not going to go away without making police take lifetime training, testing, and certification like nurses and other professionals have to do. They need to stay up to date on both the law and the technologies used in their careers.
I think you're describing the maximum complexity of life over time, which is an interesting thing to think about: the life forms that stand out among the rest for "how far" they evolve.

In terms of other measures (total biomass, long-term survival, short-term adaptability), the life forms that stand out, historically, are very different. Ants, roaches, sharks, bacteria.
We're using jsonnet for our systems and they have absolutely nothing to do with k8s. I'm not sure it's true to say it has ever gained much traction. It's just a niche case for complex configuration, and isn't the most publicised tool.

It does precisely what we need with zero fuss, cross platform and cross _language_ (we've embedded it in C++, .NET, and JVM executables).

We can use the resulting json config with a vast array of tools that simply don't exist for the alternatives such toml/yaml/hocon/ini whatever. In fact we tried to get HOCON working for non-JVM languages but there was always some edge case.
As someone who worked on the backend (workflow, infra) side of a game dev studio, there are a lot of massive benefits I see with this sort of "what if Dropbox but Git" product workflow.

We couldn't actually use git for our asset management, because when you're dealing with 1GB+ Photoshop files, versioning them with any reasonable granularity breaks your Git repository, makes clone times and local file storage requirements astronomical, and doesn't really make sense anyway. We ended up using SVN, since it only transfers what you check out and you can check out subtrees trivially, but then that required getting a GUI SVN client, providing it to our art team, teaching them how to use it, and then having them come to me whenever something in SVN got confused or broken (e.g. they opened and then closed a document and Photoshop updated the thumbnail, now there's a merge conflict and they can't commit).

We also ended up using Google Drive for a lot of stuff, and eventually migrating to Team Drives once that was a thing, but that doesn't integrate with... basically anything, honestly, or at least not with any reasonable degree of straightforwardness.

I don't work for that company anymore, but the thing that would make me most interested in this product would be:

1. Self-hosting it (would pay 'enterprise' rates for this); or

2. Being able to locally proxy/cache assets for users in the office, so that committing a 1 GB PSD didn't require 20 artists to all pull down 1 GB each from the server

A lot of people seem to be comparing this to actual Git, but this doesn't replace Git unless you're using Git wrong; what it replaces is the absolute disaster of a workflow that a lot of companies have to try to build/use/teach internally.
The recipient of the message, not the sender, determines whether it’s malicious.
As a frequent pedestrian in Los Angeles, the hierarchy of people being absolutely furious at me for walking on the sidewalks or using crosswalks goes (in decreasing order of rage):
1. Pickup/SUV drivers
2. Luxury car drivers
3. Other automobile drivers
4. Cyclists with fancy bikes and cycling gear
5. Dog walkers who are paying attention to their phone, not their dog
6. Ordinary cyclists
7. Pedestrians staring at their phones
XP has Internet Explorer and I tried this in a VM once, and 99% of sites didn't load because they used TLS 1.2/1.3 which IE doesn't have functionality for. But plaintext HTTP sites loaded fine.

I wouldn't use XP as a daily driver if that's what you intend. There's so many exploits that have piled up over the years that getting pwned is inevitable at some stage and the attack surface of XP is massive.
Brex will lay off 20% of its staff
The article talks about chiplets. I presume the wafer will still be cut into distinct chips? I thought there were thermal (and yield) reasons to not making chips that are too large.
I use another extension for this[1], which shows search results in a pop-up window, and also lets you submit a post from that pop-up window.

Your approach of opening two tabs, one with the submission and one with the search results, is also interesting.

One minor thing: I'd just use the HN favicon as icon. The extension I use uses a Y on an orange background with a talk bubble, which is also fine, but I'd still prefer just the HN icon. I'm not sure what the official policy here is, I think it would be great to make clear that it's OK to use that for browser extensions.

When I make a chrome extension for a web app that I made, I obviously use the same icon for both, and you're only going to use one extension for one web app.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/what-hacker-news-sa...
> blowing gently, ejecting the coffee puck

This works similarly well with the Flair brand espresso maker filter cup -- though suggested nowhere in Flair's written or video instructions. Too undignified an act I suppose for prospective customers to imagine themselves performing every morning in future.
At this point, it’s quite pertinent how many corners Boeing has cut over and over again—the company’s culture and management is obviously poisonous.

I’m probably a minority of folks, but at this point I’m flying on airlines with the fewest Boeing Max generation planes in their fleet. I also don’t really trust the FAA to properly regulate Boeing after years of a close relationship—the recent groundings are the bare minimum.
A better question is what will Southwest Airlines do? They exclusively run 737s as I understand it and they effectively have no choice here to beta test Boeing's garbage.

I think United CEO's comment is at best a renegotiation attempt.
That's just silly. The realistic alternative isn't a strong Canada with a strong economy, low inflation, and engaged workforce. The likely alternative is Canada facing demographic collapse! We'd have a shrinking workforce as the boomers retire, persistent wage inflation as we allocate more and more of the youth into elder-care, rising taxes, and flight to the USA by the talented and ambitions. CPP is bankrupt in 15 years without substantial immigration.

Canada is currently having a spirited debate about levels. It's pretty obvious that 500k/a is higher than we can currently absorb. But 0 is just a recipe for a different disaster.

I gave you a concrete list of people (real estate agents, furniture sales, monopoly owners, retiring home owners) that make tons of money off mass immigration. Your answer is "no they don't".

If you can point to single country in the world that has defeated the stagnation of an aging population, I'm all ears.

But if you are going to give me unrealistic counterfactuals, I might as well wish for a pony too.

Here's Canada's dependency ratios over time:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-229-x/2009001/demo/de...

And here's the global context:

https://data.oecd.org/pop/old-age-dependency-ratio.htm

We're in better shape that Italy and Japan. But absent immigration, we're in exactly the same boat. The baby boom has turned to baby bust.
> The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class.

Yup. I've met people living paycheck-to-paycheck, never having much more than 1 paycheck's worth of money in their bank account, that think they're middle class. Shit, I've seen people that are on food stamps that think they're middle class.

The worst part is that so many of them will vote against their own best interests because they think they'll be millionaires one day.
I would feed it no more than a few gigabytes to start, then gradually
increase by 10% each day.
The cops should think it's a bad idea too. The data will be junk and lead to worthless expenses to track down those garbage leads.
This is a great move. Google committed to 7 years of parts as well via iFixit.

Of course, paired with the extra long support it now seems like Samsung is also possibly going to subscription models where they force you to pay to not have features taken away, so maybe it won't turn out well. Who knows.
> My 12 year old and I made a little game in Godot and it turned out pretty playable.

> I think in her peer group the second most popular device after the iPhone is the Switch. It would be incredibly cool if we could get our game to run there.

I don’t think buying her friends Steam Decks is a very scalable solution for this sort of thing.
As entropy goes up in the universe complexity first increases and then decreases. And life is probably a consequence of this.

Sean Carroll explains it quite well in his book The Big Picture and also in this video series from minute physics

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoaVOjvkzQtyZF-2VpJrxPz...
It could. In the same way that when fossil fuel companies found out their business is destroying the planet they could have pivoted into renewables. But they didn’t.

With profit being the deciding factor it’s anyone’s guess what the people who are in charge of these companies will do to avoid bankruptcy.
Bombardier is out of passenger jet business - they sold it to Airbus and now they focus exclusively on business jets.
Based on previous discussions, I don't think so. If they're really for knitting gloves you'd expect to find a lot of standard 'adult hand' sized dodecahedrons along with a few large & small (if that), but in fact you find a whole range of sizes (from tiny to gigantic), with far fewer mediums than you'd expect. They don't cluster around commercial towns: were people really knitting most gloves in border forts? They'd have been very expensive and difficult to produce; it wouldn't make sense for a master metalworker to spend weeks working on a trinket for knitting gloves when it could just as easily be made from wood for a fraction of the cost & effort. IIRC, they don't all have the knobs & holes, or they're oddly sized, and generally they're pretty nonstandard. You find them included in wealthy burials: were these rich people really knitting their own gloves--along with soldiers on the front lines? Why would they be buried with a knitting tool specifically for gloves?

Altogether, it seems pretty unlikely they were an aid to knitting gloves.
Must have been an Ubuntu problem.

I install Firefox via Debian's package, and have never had 'snapd' installed.
Other than Airbus, are there any alternatives?
It probably takes Amazon of 2023 about an hour (after taxes) to pay this off.
fish has by far the best auto-completion out of the box. That’s what sold me.

And the website is amazing. “Finally, a command line shell for the 90s”
I think I created my first IPv6 tunnel in 1998 or 1999. Not holding my breath. For as fast as everything technology seems to move, the basic building blocks of TCP and DNS evolve very, very slowly, if at all. I wonder if there's a genuine lack of interest all around or if there are business interests at stake to prevent people from having their own routable IP addresses and facilitate peer-to-peer networking.
One success story of core.logic was its use in Threat Grid's software, which apparently ran core.logic on a cluster. Threat Grid was bought out by Cisco for an undisclosed--but apparently large--amount of money.

The Clojure community is very pragmatic, and uses (or used?) core.logic more like an embedded Prolog than for purely relational programming like in most of the miniKanren research. The fact that core.logic doesn't try to do everything is a benefit in the eye of Clojure programmers, I believe.

I don't know to what extent core.logic is still used in the Clojure community. Datomic uses Datalog as a query language. I don't know if there any any projects that combine Datomic and core.logic; certainly both could be used in the same application.
It was not exactly methodically chosen by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century. Mostly to replace Diocletian's calendar.

Jesus was most likely born before 1 AD.
That's wonderful to hear. I attribute my innate love of computers to my father making a mess of the kitchen table while working on the family PC.
There's a big difference between "a customer asked for this once" and "people need actual human help to accomplish X, because it's not working nearly as well as we advertise it to work, and we're spending a huge chunk of our time compensating for a design flaw with human intervention."
> scooters/bicycles are far more of a hazard than cars

No they're not, because they carry an order of magnitude less kinetic energy.

> Cyclists taking up the entire lane and not permitting cars to pass

as they fucking should, this is the safest thing to do, you're in a metal box and if I let you pass you'll do it too fast and too close

> Cyclists ignoring red lights
> Cyclists ignoring stop signs

In civilized places bikes are explicitly allowed to treat red lights as stop signs and stop signs as yields.
I recommend "Software Foundations" by Pierce and others https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/ if you're a programming fan.

If you're also into math, it's a beauty in itself (Godel's incompleteness theorem, quantifier elimination for logic formulas about complex numbers). I think there should be a good book on math logic somewhere, but I'm not familiar with books in English.
2 decades now. He was the best teacher I had. Sadly only for 2 years as he came temporarily out of retirement when our math teacher at the time died.
"How did that lump of plutonium become a lump? That part wasn’t natural."

Allow me to become a little philosophical but since human beings which are product of nature made plutonium, isn't the making of plutonium natural too?

I mean everything that is happening in this universe is natural!

I know the general usage of the words "artificial" for human-made and "natural" for everything else. But when we are talking at the grand scale of life and universe I think a human-made plutonium is as natural as bee-made honey.
There is Poundbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury
> you are trying to describe a program in a data structure

This describes 100% of software development, though! Programming is just designing data structures that represent some computation. Each language lends itself better to some computations than to others (and some, like YAML, are terrible for describing any kind of computation at all), but they're all just data structures describing programs.

The problem isn't that GitHub Actions tries to describe a program in a data structure, the problem is that the language that they chose to represent those programs (YAML and the meta language on top) is ill-suited to the task.
I often wonder if the only reason we haven't used lisp more as a society, and certainly in the devops world, is because our brains find it easier to parse nested indentation than nested parentheses.

But in doing so, we've thrown out the other important part of lisp, which is that you can use the same syntax for data that you do for control flow. And so we're stuck in this world where a "modern-looking" program is seen as a thing that must be evaluated to make sense, not a data structure in and of itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1pyg07/why_not_use_in... is a fascinating 10 year old discussion. And of course, there's Smalltalk, which guided others to a treasure it could not possess. But most younger programmers have never even had these conversations.
> I agree that YAML templating is kind of insane, but I will never understand why we don't stop using fake languages and simply use a real language.

The problem is language nerds write languages for other language nerds.

They all want it to be whatever the current sexiness is in language design and want it to be self-hosting and be able to write fast multithreaded webservers in it and then it becomes conceptually complicated.

What we need is like a "Logo" for systems engineers / devops which is a simple toy language that can be described entirely in a book the size of the original K&R C book. It probably needs to be dynamically typed, have control structures that you can learn in a weekend, not have any threading or concurrency, not be object oriented or have inheritance and be functional/modular in design. And have a very easy to use FFI model so it can call out to / be called from other languages and frameworks.

The problem is that language nerds can't control themselves and would add stuff that would grow the language to be more complex, and then they'd use that in core libraries and style guides so that newbies would have to learn it all. I myself would tend towards adding "each/map" kinds of functions on arrays/hashmaps instead of just using for loops and having first class functions and closures, which might be mistakes. There's that immutable FP language for configuration which already exists (i can't google this morning yet) which is exactly the kind of language which will never gain any traction because >95% of the people using templated YAML don't want to learn to program that way.
They also have a captive market which is why they can get away with this. Switching plane manufacturers is a long process around pilot and maintenance retraining. Additionally orders for planes go out years and years in advance and you can't just call Airbus and ask for new planes next week. I think it's inevitable consequence of no competition in the market.

Boeing is the stadium food of planes, poor quality & expensive, but if you're hungry you still eat it.
Yes, through enthusiasts from China. They make their own motherboards and install modern components. There is no warranty though, and you need to wire them funds, there is also no returns. It worked for me though. I have 64GB ram, 2 SSDs 1TB each. It's mostly silent after I configured things in BIOS. The battery life still sucks.
Cities matter to the future – science must serve them better