skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Um, obviously? What distinguishes a person from a braindead patient is that one of the two has a mind. Are you saying that the fact that you talk to a person and have them recall facts is not enough to say that they have a mind? Also, to say that a mind has never been observed either dependent or independent of a brain would mean that the idea of mind has no basis in reality at all.

You're observing communication, which like the gravity example, is one effect that's discernible and understandable to us. Much like the effects of gravity could be observed by people of the past but without sufficient measurements and tools, they did not attribute the orbit of the planets and what glues us to the earth as the same principle.

> The upside of this is that if there's a phenomenon that does not interact with matter in any way whatsover, even indirectly, then that phenomenon cannot possibly have any relevance to human life.

First, whether it has relevance to human life had nothing to do with something being true or not. Secondly, clearly mind does interact with matter, it does so through the brain. We can already construct devices that interact with mind, by making babies.

But we cannot construct devices that can peer into your mind and perceive experience in the way that you do. You might theorize that we should or that science will, someday, but this is a promise not unlike religious ones.

> What aspect of reality informs that belief of yours?

The most fundamental aspect of reality is that which perceives reality in the first place, aka. your experience. Without this awareness, there is no perception, no memory, no intellect. Without these, there is nothing to construct and hold the theory of how mind came to be out of matter.

Fundamentally, I can posit that it is all a dream, the matrix, plato's cave, etc, but whether the contents of experience are illusory or not, it can't be denied that there is the fact of experiencing taking place.

The scientific fundamentals are posited on the premise of "if we didn't exist, what would we agree on is true about the universe". And that's a valid endeavor, but it rests on a hypothetical because we do exist as sentient beings.
Aren't robocalls already illegal? (except for charities and maybe a couple other exceptions)
I'm trying to find the sample size, and where the studies took place, but am having trouble pinning it down.

I'm certain that unless the sampling was large, and spread-out, you'd get skewed results.

My gut feeling is that "Or another power" is wrongly correlated in the conclusion, and it shouldn't have been part of the same statement or question. I know there's all kinds of higher powers than me, but I don't believe in a surveillance sky dad. There's real ones that are man-made.
Not sure on the free part but yes, it’s a public utility no matter how tech hems and haws- good luck navigating civil life without a smart phone, for instance.

And on top of that originally developed by the govt, then handed over private sector, and then 20 yrs of effort forced everyone to run their lives through it. But definitely not like a utility, at all.

The audacity to treat it like a market good vs as a public utility astounds me.
The 77% is total government debt, which includes provincial and local government debt - national government debt is only about 10% of GDP. The 280% figure includes corporate and household debt.
Why do people get so horny pretending they are targets of state surveillance.

It’s an astonishing mix of ignorance and narcissism all rolled up into one.
This assumes that the parts of number theory that ended up being useful could not have been developed after people realized you could do public key cryptography with primes.

If the work is undertaken for its own sake, there should not be a need to argue about how it will be useful in the future.
They read between the lines.
This is just so expensive that it seems to me like something you just see people who get it for free or as a tax deductible try it on in YouTube.

I honestly don't know if it something you'd like to upgrade on coming from something like the quest 3 (which is actually affordable). So it might be trying to pave the way for something else in the future.

Thing is... VR is more fun than it is something you'd wanna be productive on? I just can't see myself wearing a screen up close on my face for so many hours a day. It seems like much more something I'd wanna do for maybe 2-3 hours.

Idk. Wish I was a tech youtuber so I could just give my advertisement piece and get this thing for free, that'd be cool.
To add to pj's comment -

We are adding more blocks constantly. We're also considering allowing the community to push their own blocks using an open api schema.
This is perfect for me, thanks for posting it!
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You might like the Datasette project: https://datasette.io/

I don't think they are desperate for contributions but it's a welcoming environment and a fun project to hack on. You'll learn a lot just from reading the source and the incredibly informative PRs. The creator is a really talented developer with a great blog which shows up on the HN front page often.
> Free speech doesn't imply not being questioned or corrected

Right. That's why the post I responded to shouldn't object to calling this "stochastic terrorism" on the basis of free speech. In the immediate discussion the argument is inherently self-contradictory.

It also muddies the meaning of free-speech from a profound principle to a cheap argument to club people with online when they criticize something in a way you disagree with.
Reason #1: Mismanagement.
>And as we've seen with today's announcement, which also excludes the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the UK

I'm unsure what this is referencing. Bard (and thus Gemini Pro) is available in all of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK.

>OpenAI itself will just block Canada if the regulatory authorities get too aggressive

So Google has withheld Bard from Canada for a year+ because maybe at some future point Canada might have some burdensome AI legislation (if some toothless bills that are unlikely to ever receive ascent might take some future form eventually), and this is validated because OpenAI can withdraw their service if at some point Canada might have some burdensome AI legislation.

Okay.
AI is wayyy better at writing backend then it is at writing CSS. Its magic to it, if you don't have an exact problem that you can probably find on stack overflow just as easily, you are fucked.
Any time someone tries to talk up cryptocurrency, in my mind, I just see some dude crying "please buy the crypto, I bought near an all-time high and now I'm holding a bag, please buy and push the price up, please, my wife is so upset with me, I lost the kids college savings!"

Ya'll come up with these huge mental gymnastics about why cryptocurrency is so great and then move the goal posts every couple years to suit your fancy. First it was a currency and a great method of doing online payments without a company like PayPal getting in the way. But as the value went up, the network got busier, and transaction fees reached the 10s of dollars, ya'll decided it wasn't a currency, it was a store of value! But then it crashed from over $65K to under $17K and decided it wasn't a good store of value anymore, but I see now it's crept back up to $43K again.
Appin's global censorship campaign to stop you from reading these documents
More info in a directive from 1/14/24, https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-24-01-mitigat...:

> CISA has observed widespread and active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure solutions, hereafter referred to as “affected products.” Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities in these affected products allows a malicious threat actor to move laterally, perform data exfiltration, and establish persistent system access, resulting in full compromise of target information systems.
> It costs more to connect neighborhoods which are further away from the town core

Isn't it usually the wealthier neighborhoods that are farther out?
Many editors have great git blame integration that makes these messages quite accessible.

It's really easy in emacs with magit to view commit messages from git blame view.

I believe vim, vscode, and jetbrains IDEs all make this simple.
Even ignoring the fact that the AI Act has not been formally approved yet (although it looks done), the forbidden activities are listed as:

biometric categorisation systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race);
untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases;
emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions;
social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;
AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;
AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).

Is any of this so hard NOT to do...?

To me it just looks like Google is being petty here.
I know the OP didn't mean it this way, but after reading HackerNews for the last decade or whatnot, it never ceases to surprise me how often developer complaints stem from developers just not doing their damn job.

"Almost nobody ever sees it.... nobody reads anything other than the first 50 chars of the headline."

On the one hand, I get it. If a tool makes something difficult, people are less likely to do it, and as engineers we want to make tools to cause people to fall into the pit of success. So, improving this part of git makes sense.

On the other hand, just do your damn job. If a coworker doesn't understand a code change, because they didn't bother to read the commit message, they're a bad developer. If they didn't write a git commit message because "no one is going to read it anyway", they're a lazy engineer. These things aren't excuses, they're incompetence, and not everything needs to cater to the least competent people in our profession.
You're free to use your own private definition of OOP, but nobody else is obliged to join you.
Is it okay to use the unit like "1 GIGAFLOP of computing power" and "thousands of GIGAFLOPs in our pockets"? I thought the base unit was "flops", where the "s" always stood for "second", as in "1 flops" (1 floating point operation per second).
Every American social media|insurance|telecom|financial|tech company are a surveillance endpoint for the FBI or LE in general and/or a foreign policy endpoint in terms of being an effector for economic warfare.

No legal fiction is inured to the machinations of its host state.
One missing feature is the native code support for JNI.. Currently you have to manually provide JS functions to CheerpJ, and this isn't integrated with CheerpX AFAIK
> "gray trail"

gray tail. USAF cargo a/c are gray.
Am I going to one day miss the era when I could just type "pizza" and get adequate results? I don't see what benefit more language processing is going to give me.
This is the reason I prefer the intuitionist view of mathematics vs the more common platonic view. Something as simple as the Pythagorean theorem is true because it has found so many ways to solve practical problems, the Sumerians and Egyptians basically worshiped that formula.
It is clearly good.
Well, `git` is still the primary way I interact with a git repository, and `git log` shows the entire commit message by default. So I don't run into this problem.

If some "modern" git frontend is only capable of displaying the first line of a commit message, then this is a problem with that tool, not git itself.

(I'm also not convinced this is a limitation of all modern tooling...)
AI assistant that generates visual guide in real-time by user input
https://Smartsistant.com

Here's how it works:

1. Users interact with the chatbot

2. AI analyzes the user's input and generates a visual guide

3. Smartsistant enhances the guide by focusing on and describing each step, highlighting relevant elements.
That’s a leading theory. Afraid of the dark? It’s evolutionary adaptation to living side-by-side with humans who could see in the dark: and yes, Neanderthals could.
Now that image generation models have generally solved the finger-count problem, my new benchmark is the piano-key problem.

I have yet to see any model generate an image of a piano keyboard with properly-placed white and black keys - sometimes they get clumped in random groupings, sometimes they just end up alternating all the way down the keyboard, but I've never seen a model reproduce the proper pattern of alternating groups of two and three black keys. I wonder what would be required to get to that point.
I often wind up talking to Adobe employees when I post on those forums.
Is it great for historical research? I feel like the format and tooling around it is uniquely _not great_ for historical research. I think it's optimized for discussions before integration, which is largely what PR descriptions and comments are largely used for now.

I feel like given great commit messages, determining a story and useful history around any block of code given the Git tooling is incredibly difficult even if there are _amazing_ commit messages.

Like say you are trying to determine why a 10 line function is the way that it is. You blame it. Not even with the stupid-simple GitHub UI that _I_ originally wrote, but with the more expensive CLI interface that follows renames and ignores whitespace changes, etc. Now you get a list of SHAs of commits and the first 50 chars of commit messages for each line for the last modifications, etc. How do you even stitch those messages into a useful story (in order) to tell you how that function evolved to what it is now and why?
I think every major update to Google maps in the last decade or so has made it worse. I expect no different with this one.
Didn't work for me. When I used some negative words negatively, to mean a positive feeling, it did not detect it.
And this is a model you feel should be implemented here?
This is a good thing (where it happens) - it means more people are getting things done in your city. The purpose of a city is all the things people can do in them, so more traffic means people doing more things which is good.

Now it would be much better if your city built great transit so people didn't have to drive their car.
You make a great point. Personally, I'm Christian. And I've seen a surge in interest within Christianity (online, at least) concerning many of those topics. Maybe not with the end in mind; Christians aren't trying to learn witchcraft to practice it, but stronger attention is now paid to the sections in the Bible that mention astrology, other types of beings, the spiritual realm, and alternate dimensions.

Whatever your inclination, I recommend listening to Timothy Alberino and Michael Heiser.
Likewise, thank you for defining it! I would have assumed it was some sort of technical language and not bothered to look it up!
A round cover wont fall in, but a square or rectangular can.
Agreed. Which is why we are sticking to the definition as has been already defined. Anything else, while perhaps interesting for a completely different discussion, would be clearly off-topic for this one.
The dumbness of the LLM inference ruined this for me. Fossil + Fire = Dinosaur? Okay.
AZERTY, just like QWERTY, and QWERTZ should probably be all discarded anyway, since they date back to the now nearly 150 years old era, designed so that typists don't type too fast, which caused jamming to these early machines.

In favour maybe of the likes of Dvorak (hey, wasn't he Czech ?) or BÉPO (any central/eastern-European equivalents ?). (The same researchers seem to have made a "new BÉPO" version, which, I guess, might be a "next step", when/if the new AZERTY becomes common ??)

But that's not the point of the new AZERTY, its point is to provide a keyboard layout that finally allows proper typing in (Latin- and Greek-based) languages other than English. (The old AZERTY still didn't allow that, for instance no capital letters with diacritics, unless if maybe you use more advanced software ?) (Also, a much easier access to the {([])} symbols than the old AZERTY, which programmers are sure to appreciate !)

All the while still keeping a familiar layout - and you'll have to concede that it should be more familiar to QWERTY / QWERTZ users than Dvorak / BÉPO, won't you ?
Yeah I set the animations to zero, the latency is still quite a bit higher.

One of the main reasons I use neovim is because everything feels so instant.
That animated cursor move effect is very interesting! I wonder if it could display extra information for the user, with some tweaking. Trying to think of some things that we do subconsciously while navigating code...

Moving across a code block with "{" and "}" could highlight the parentheses and the link between them, for a fraction of a second.

Highlighting or landing on a variable could send a tiny zip of pixels towards the nearest uses of that variable.

I've wondered sometimes if making the current function or block pop a little brighter than its surroundings could also give your subconscious mind a bit more information.

All these would have to be incredibly fast animations, just a few ms would be great for me. I loathe the slow-to-me animations in Android, and always use the dev tools to speed them up.
I did "generate a photorealistic image of a polar bear that is riding on top of a skiing unicorn" just now and it has amazing and expected results. Even with your quote I got a polar bear on top of a skiing unicorn that had a rainbow colored mane!

https://imgur.com/a/s31Y7qA
Common Lisp compilers do not interact with read macros at all. Read macros are done by the time a compiler gets to the code.

Depending on the design, macros may also be expanded already; the compiler works with macro-expanded code.

The easiest approach, from a boostrapping point of view, is to write an interpreter in some host language. Get macro expansion and read macros working in the interpreter, and then add a compiler.
Absolutely. The satire was lost on those who needed it most.
Apple Maps came out with that feature years ago
Where did you get that idea?

US Constitution Article III
I don't think you can use the old toolchain; newer kernel+busybox are unlikely to build with that old of a compiler. Although, following the build steps with modern sources and toolchain would be an interesting exercise.
I was working on an obsidian datatviewjs with ChatGPT and just not getting that I wanted so I asked Google Bard, “can you take a look at this code” and pasted the code block. It’s response, “As an AI, I do not have eyes and cannot look at anything so unfortunately I cannot help you.”

So, yeah, I am not sure Google “supercharged” AI id going to work for a product that requires a precise but fast user feedback loop.
Municipal broadband is what needs to happen. Water, electricity, and garbage are considered basic services and are provided by the government, so should Internet access be.
They're called "none" because that's how they categorize their religion: "none", when surveyed. This has been a group that has been watched and talked about this way for at least a decade, the "nones" have been growing.
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I be predict it’s going to be useful at first and then end up becoming overdone and eventually burdening the product — unless they find a way to make it essential to the UX.

Like all hype cycles, the syrup ends up everywhere. You need an actual user need to have the long-term product justification to add features.

There probably is one with maps. It just may not be this early.
> Trader Joe’s, accused of union-busting, stated in a hearing that the Board was unconstitutional, and that it would “preserve the issue for further briefing and argument,” according to a transcript of the hearing shared by the Huffington Post.

A bit more context... Trader Joe's is owned by the same "family wealth office"/trust that also owns Germany's Aldi Nord, who have been accused of union busting [1] both in the recent past as well as years prior [2]. Aldi Süd, owned by a different branch of the Albrecht family, had a unionization meeting two years ago escalated so far that police had to be called [3].

It is absolutely zero surprise for me that this kind of behavior passed onto the USA. Can't accrue billions of wealth after all when unions annoy you.

[1] https://handel.verdi.de/unternehmen/a-c/aldi/++co++8efa185a-...

[2] https://www.merkur.de/wirtschaft/verdi-wirft-aldi-nord-beste...

[3] https://arbeitsunrecht.de/aldi-sued-betriebsratsgruendung-en...
> you can't really alter the commit message after it's written

You can append with git notes, though on a message that long I expect they're unlikely to be noticed.
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ok so?
In what ways are they liable?
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That far I was able to get by myself ;-)

I was wondering if someone had a good link to a book or paper or blog or something.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for not having put all that cruft in, and by Apple's sheer size, effectively discouraging many from producing and circulating those abominations.

Adobe has an awful track record of security (how many exploits in the past 25 years were in Acrobat (not the PDF spec, the actual Acrobat software) and in Flash?) but PDF is an amazing gift to the world, and, thanks to people like you, effectively safer than how Adobe designed it :))

Unfortunately I have the full Acrobat on my work computer, mandated by my employer, sigh, but that's another story.
> ISP in late 90s. NTFS was absolutely rock reliable, then

Well, i stayed away from NTFS in the Win2000 era because crashes would make your system unusable.