skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not willing to abandon reproducibility, so I'm not on the "let's just philosophize and stuff" side, although I think it's relevant to do so.

I think the onus is on the brain folks. In order to solve this, they need to prove that qualia lives as an emergent property in the brain. I'm not presuposing tht the consciousness lives somewhere outside the brain, I'm asking for proof that it does (which is reasonable).

What we have is proof of neither and no way to get there. The reductionist approach offers a more systematic way of approaching the problem, but there are no guarantees. Breaking down a problem into smaller questions is not a proof if there are still smaller questions unanswered.
Took me a while to understand what's ambiguous about that. For anyone else, what they're saying is that this often (typically, I guess) refers to 2000-2099 and not the other 900 years.
Slightly different take on it, as I think that some of us already look at others as idiots. So some are ahead of the curve. We're still waiting for the "idiots" to have that aha! moment.
"I got annoyed with the occasional inability to use the 'Copy' menu item and couldn't fathom training my muscle memory to instead use ctrl+c, so I switched to a browser that spies on me and actively ignores my consent."

I really don't get how people work, sometimes. Stuff like this tells me the privacy fight is just completely unwinnable. It's not even that people don't care; people actively make choices that make their privacy situation worse, because apparently enduring the most minor of annoyances is unthinkable as an alternative.

(And this isn't even an unloved bug that someone arrogantly thinks doesn't matter, and has been languishing for years. It's actively being worked on, and it turns out the various interactions involved makes tracking it down and fixing it difficult. And it looks like there are patches that might fix the problem after all.)
Information leakage - it leaks how many records have been created [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem]
Kye Prigg left Rogers shortly thereafter and ended up at Lumen (merger of CenturyLink and Level3), which is another company facing some issues: https://ir.lumen.com/news/news-details/2023/Lumen-Strengthen... "Kye most recently served as Senior Vice President of Access Networks and Operations for Rogers Communications. "
> CPU works just as fast with both

They don't. CPUs have as many issues with data alignment as with cache sizes.
From the Netherlands, UK Office, as that one was broadcast on Dutch television already before the American version existed. So I guess the answer depends on your age :)
I'm surprised there is no mention of hash based indexes (i.e. CREATE INDEX ... USING hash...) since lookups would conceivably always use equality.
Usually smaller ISPs use the Bell/Rogers for last mile, but have their own backbone. IIRC Beanfield is completely independent, but is only available in Toronto
I've recently switched from Firefox to Edge until they fix this bug. Every now and then I go back to Firefox hoping it'll be fixed, and then it bites me again.
Fusion power could transform how we get our energy (or make things worse)
Appeal to ignorance and anti-intellectualism, congrats.
I just bought one of the zyxel 24-port poe switches for use with openwrt.

I've been using openwrt on mikrotik switches, but max was 10-ports. the extra ports and poe will be nice.

I think the zyxel gs1900 48-port switches are also supported.
Original: https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/...
That's actually a comfort to hear.

I use private browsing when doing legal work so an errant Google session doesn't hoover up anything it shouldn't, and I've had so many random documents and briefings just disappear that I'd convinced myself that I was just mistaken about saving them.
No, Beanfield is probably not solely dependent on Bell and/or Rogers for transit. Toronto is one of the few cities in Canada where there are loads of transit providers to purchase bandwidth from (including most tier 1s). There are also multiple carriers with transport fibre going east and west from Toronto that is not owned by Bell or Rogers. Bell and Rogers are not the most competitive for transit, but they may well be in the mix that Beanfield uses.

That said, if 151 Front Street West gets wiped off the face of the planet, the internet is probably going to be degraded for just about everyone in Ontario.
You can try Ungoogled Chromium. It's an offshoot based on Chromium, just like Edge basing on Chromium, without the Google stuff.
Actual topic is "Pixel fonts are a much richer, much more approachable, and an ever-relevant canvas for creativity. I want you to fall in love with pixel fonts the way I keep falling in love with them, over and over again."
I love Ursula Le Guin's writing so damn much. I am reading, "Lathe of Heaven" right now, such a great book to come off of Sula by Toni Morrison.

Maybe if I pull the right strings, I can get reincarnated as one of Luisito's nose hairs, https://luisurrea.com/2018/01/tolfink-was-here-on-ursula-k-l...

> Then she terrorized us by bringing Toni Morrison into the room to meet us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daf1FH7fWFk
Why shouldn't you?

I use a Yubikey as the 2FA for my bitwatden, then store all the TOTP codes with the passwords in the same vault. Quite convenient, and also adheres to the principles of MFA
Ah, looks like you need RTX to run. Sadly I only have a 1080ti
Also auto increment IDs that are exposed publicly cause [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem].
Modern drives wont last 10 years unpowered in storage, you are between leaking Helium and NAND losing charge.
What made Canada special died decades ago, were it not for the strict visa process I would be living in the states (Vermont) right now, with a significantly higher salary (as a principal engineer), a lower income tax, healthier housing market, lower cost of living, and better quality of life.
I have to say that I don't think this is really a problem.
I skipped point 1 because I don't have a problem with it. I am a materialist until I hear compelling evidence that that is not sufficient. I don't deny we have consciousness, but I don't believe we have libertarian free will. I don't see why that is funny except to people who have never thought about it.

Here is an analogy. When playing a video game, the world is fictional and enemies are algorithmic creations. Yet, while playing that game, it is useful (that is, one plays the game better) by accepting the rules of that world and pretending as if the experiences are real at some level. Eg, "This guy is trying to kill me" vs the reality of "a microprocessor is reading state in memory and as a result is rewriting that state and some of that state shows up on my monitor as colored pixels and I'm not in actual danger."

Although I intellectually believe I'm an incredibly complex mechanism that is simply letting the laws of physics play out, it is useful while playing the game of life to utilize the evolutionary developed fiction that I do have free will.

Here is another intuition pump. Do you believe the weather has a free will, or is it just a physical phenomenon? (presumably the latter) Yet when we talk about the weather, we might say there is a 30% change of rain tomorrow. The reality is it will or it won't rain, but we can't measure the state of the system's initial conditions nor simulate its evolution accurately enough to say exactly what will happen. So we use the convenient fiction that whether it rains or not is statistical. People are too complex that we can't even calculate our own behavior, so it is a convenient fiction to act as if we have free will.
The info leak, specifically, is [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem].
Sometimes I get into conversations with TCM advocates.

"If you get into a car accident in China," I say, "an ambulance will take you to a hospital where they will treat you with western medicine. Why do you think that is?"
I’d love to see this overlain on a map of Wales
Timing attacks?
Show me someone who understands the rules, and I'll show you a compiler engineer... who probably doesn't understand the rules.
Type safety.

Compare `int albumId, songId;` versus `AlbumId albumId; SongId songId;`. The former two variables can be assigned to each other causing potential bug and confusion. The latter two will not. Once you have a basic wrapper for integers, further wrappers are just a one-liner so why not. And also in practice making the type more meaningful leads you to shorter variable names because the information is already expressed in types.
Yeah, if this was some bug that had been languishing for years without anyone caring to look at it, I'd consider this a stain on Firefox's reputation. But that's not what's happening: it's a bug that manifests in what probably looks to the user like a simple way, but tracking down the problem and fixing it is not simple at all. People are working on it, and it looks like it'll be fixed in a public release before too long.

Agree: this is the process working.
Can you point to any Tegra data showing that it’s actually competitive with Apple?

I just searched and don’t see that.
In my opinion, from what I am reading, there is a root cause analysis in there under the heading "Reliability of Rogers network architecture". I removed the redundant and contradictory parts.

> [...] both the wireless and wireline networks sharing a common IP core network, the scope of the outage was extreme in that it resulted in a catastrophic loss of all services. [...] It is a design choice by [...] Rogers, that seeks to balance cost with performance.

Based on this write up and details I gathered, I believe the root cause, the fundamental reason for the failure is incorrect cost-to-performance balance at senior management.
This has been driving me crazy on both Windows and Linux as you say.
The Art of Quantum Forces
"Two artists reveal the hidden magic in particle physics."
Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface
I fished today, 3 halibut. Fish tacos for the win! If you cook halibut, be warned that you must take it off at 125 degrees, let it get above that and it turns to shoe leather.
birthday != date of birth

“Birthday” really means “anniversary of the date of birth”.
Didn't we have this already? Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts were both XMPP under the hood like 8 years ago. Am I missing something or is there an actual innovation to be found here?
It should be so rare that if it did happen, you likely have a serious bug somewhere. Crash dumping and investigating is the right course of action, not building in retry logic.

So if you are using it as a PK
value, only ever insert and if there is a duplicate, blow up
loudly.

Performance wise, that isn’t particularly impactful IMO.
And this bug will likely be fixed soon. 8 months for a bug that's hard to reproduce, and seems to involve some unexpected interactions between various browser components in a complex code base... yeah, that seems fairly reasonable.
Instead of a house full of furniture, a pile of catoms that splits off and goes to form a chair, table, couch, bed, ottoman, whatever, just in time. Specialized upholstery catoms form surfaces, etc. When you move to a new home the catoms reconfigure for travel and follow along.

The Terminator 2 T-1000 was a kind of fine grained catom bot.
I remember that lots of communities didn't want 7-11s in their area, because they showed up as red blotches in the crime maps.
Somewhat related: I hope there will be more news coverage/attention on the whole Ravio situation. It totally seems like something that should be reported on. Raivo, marketed as open source, despite never being OSI-defined open source, created by a computer security professional & expert sold it (2fa app) to a shady & unknown guy from Morocco, who put people's codes behind a paywall. Crazy story. And we (probably) found out the guy behind it too.
Dennett was a determinist, but he preferred a compatibilist definition of free will. He didn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater so he kept the term but defined it to mean what he wanted it to mean. I have no problem with that. I don't use that definition of free will so I say I don't have free will.

"There is no I, soul, no suffering in ... a human. " You have an idiosyncratic definition of suffering. If I offer you the option of having a warm bath or having your skin flayed and then be dipped in lemon juice, which would you prefer?
Whoa I thought it was just me
You make great points.

Most of which you enumerate, if not all, can be traced back to two fundamental concepts; communication and understanding.

Communication because this is how understanding can be propagated and the lack thereof remedied.

Understanding because this is fundamental to the success of any endeavour. Without it one or more of the symptoms above will manifest. With it, they may still, but at least there can exist a pathway to success.

In my experience, the majority of problems in the software engineering industry are people problems. Not technical, nor technology, nor process problems.

This is why communication and understanding are vital to success.
It is safe and not too painful or stressful to occasionally skip a day of your medicine?

If you can occasionally skip a day then maybe you could try skipping a day every so often until you've got a comfortable gap between when they think you've run out and when you actually run out.
> Java constructors can throw exceptions and return the partially constructed object at the same time

Can you show some sample code to demonstrate this issue?
> Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence.

What? I can't tell if I'm missing something, or is this some meme.
This has been happening to me on MacOS as well
The weight difference between equivalent carbon and aluminum eMTBs is generally around a kg, but the argument for carbon MTBs has mostly shifted away from weight. While carbon fails more catastrophically than aluminum, it's harder to hit the failure point and it's less susceptible to stress fractures. It is also generally argued that carbon is both more dampening and stiffer in the places you want stiff, but it is very hard to tell how real that is.
I can't imagine anyone loving "the idea" of Le Guin who hasn't read her books. What an idea. It's not like she's famous enough to have acolytes who spout her stuff without having read it. And what's "the idea" of Le Guin? Just that she's a female sci fi writer? I'm missing the implication.

I love her books and have for over 20 years.

And I can't imagine that any author looks good when subjected to the "GoodReads snippets" treatment. Can you find an example of an author coming off well? What snippets get upvoted by people? It's all going to sound like trite stuff, for any author.
If I lived much longer than 100 years I might care more about the precision of such language. However, as it stands, I know what people mean when they say "remember the early 2000s". I know that doesn't mean the 2250s for example - a reasonable characterization for someone living in 3102 perhaps.
I think the The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin would be the short story that got to me. I don't know if when I read it was particularly revelatory but I think about it a lot.

This will rightly get me down voted but in U.S. politics lately I was thinking, "How much would you be willing to lie to get towards a desired or avoid a bad political end?" Though that thought is really just Le Guin retold.
> Reduce incoming light via sulfates works, but could cause crop failures due to said light reduction.

The temperature change and extreme weather events will also do that. Can it be localized to have its main effect over the ocean and deserts instead? (Afaik it's spread by airplanes anyway.) Or would the amount of light reduction needed to move the needle back from, say, +3°C to +2°C be enough to actually starve plants of light? We're talking of small percentages of light afaik and crops are surely able to deal with cloudy conditions; some even work great with agrivoltaics (but none of this is my specialty; there's a lot I don't know here).

Not sure I'm adequately responding to, or understanding, your overall point though. On the one hand, I read "we can potentially cause a whole lot of other issues." with examples, which sounds like we shouldn't even try, but on the other you say "This is not a case of, don't do anything but an acknowledgement of the predicament." which sounds like the comment might be meant as at least not opposed to trying alternatives since we are increasingly finding ourselves in a climate (figurative and literal) where prevention has failed
There used to be a roundabout (unsupported) way to export from Authy Desktop to another app but Authy discontinued the Desktop app and Windows at least won't let you launch it anymore.

I'm not aware of a way to export from the Authy phone app.
Not sure why this is big news, big enough to be in the #1 spot right now. From reading the comments on the bug, it seems to be an issue that's hard to reliably reproduce, and -- despite how simple it sounds from the editorialized HN title -- it involves interactions between different parts of the browser, and it's hard to track down and fix.

Nonetheless, there are some proposed fixes, and I expect a near-future release will have one of them.

This isn't that stereotypical "simple bug has been sitting around unresolved for years because (arrogant|understaffed|uncaring) developers can't be bothered" story that is unfortunately all too common in software (and not just open source software -- we just don't get to see it on a public bug tracker when it's in a proprietary product).

This is the process working.
Yes but, is there such a thing as a zeroth-order pedant, someone not pedantic about year ordinality? As a first-order meta-pedant, this would be my claim.

Moreover, I definitely find the ordinality of pedantry more interesting than the pedantry of ordinality.
I did not mean to endorse current software interviewing practices by pointing out a small overlap with good optimization fundamentals. The current status quo "google" style interview is basically a joke. It started from a good place, but fizz buzz eventually became invert a binary tree on the whiteboard, which by this point has been gamified to an absurd degree that it means very little, and likely optimizes for the wrong types of candidates entirely.
its a conundrum. WebKit is a great engine, but nearly all good implementations are provided by Corps who's interests have very little to do with providing a good browser, and lots to do with what you do with that browser.

Firefox in turn might be one of the last major alternative Engines that is maintained by a company who's mission indeed is in a large parts to provide you with a good browser, but seems to progressively struggle to do so, while the engine is a good part of that problem aswell.

I find it harder and harder to deal with the many issues in daily usage -- and from a dev standpoint, FF is slowly surpassing Safari as the main blocker for being able to adopt new web frontend features.

I dearly hope Mozilla can get back on track. Accessing the open web shouldn't end up depending on a pick of Google, Microsoft or Apple.
It's the Cyber Security Group within Singapore's GovTech.
I am talking about this photo [1], even though it's not after all taken by an electron microscope. Pretty scary, but intelligent face, is it not?

[1] https://factcheck.afp.com/macro-photograph-ant-taken-stacked...
I really don't get how people work, sometimes.

Same. I can’t fathom having a reaction like this to someone using a web browser that I didn’t.
Im not sure WHY the author is shocked:

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

Mismanagement, greed, protectionism... The irony of Toyotas whole process coming from an American and not being embraced by Americans is amusing (Demming).

The natural evolution of business is to grow large, and bloated and then fall apart, or decline. The author's article laments manufacturing and looks at services, but fails to look critically at IBM following that same arc.

It's a good read and some interesting data but nothing new to any one in the know.

What should be interesting is the fact that manufacturing is coming back to the US in the small. You can boot strap a manufacturing business in your garage, and the machine(s) to do it (CNC) are cheaper than the giant pickup you would have in there anyway.
3 hours a day
A professional photographer in California before the age of the Internet, explained with great emphasis that is was not legal at that time to take photos of people for commercial purposes without a signed consent form. Following that talk, I was handed real consent forms to carry with me. At that time, privacy and commercial rights for resale were taken seriously. It is a social contract between strangers, and yes people can get very agitated.

Fast forward to the age of the smart phone. The expansion happened so fast, for so many.. and with the marketing commercials and endless hype on using the phone to take "fun vacation photos" or whatever, and the explosion of Facebook uploads with "friends at a party" .. that social contract changed rapidly. New adoptors are often under 25 years old, and may not have heard of this formal signed consent form.

Now, mass facial recognition at public events is "no big thing" ? Everyone has heard in California from someone that "privacy is dead - get over it" ? Then, covid-19 and masks. Now lots of people wear masks on the street or on public transport, with questionable effectiveness over disease prevention, but is that the only reason? Young thugs dudes certainly wear masks with hoodies every day here..

This situation is not settled and still evolving.
> foreign competitors are still prohibited from coming into the market

There is some foreign competition via roaming, e.g. both T-Mobile and AT&T have US mobile postpaid plans with unlimited Canadian roaming, https://www.att.com/international/canada-roaming/ & https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/use-your-phone-in-...

For devices with low data (text/email/web) usage, there are vendors of global prepaid eSIMs that last 6-24 months, which roam on Bell and Rogers 5G networks, priced around $5/GB, e.g. Eskimo (Singapore) and AIS (Thailand) eSIMs.
I can reproduce. Firefox 127.0 under wayland, arch linux
Oh my God! I thought it was just me and some silly "we only enable copy for sites without iframes (or something security related) feature". I was quietly hoping someone here had the secret "type 'unprotected pasted' in the devtools console" solution
I think this is a suggestion made with the best intentions, but hopefully the absurdity of it isn't lost. We don't suggest people should keep their glasses in their cases on the weekend, or avoid insulin on holidays.
Yes, so much is lost.

道可道

This is three words:

道 -- dao, it means literally a road or path; metaphorically, it used to mean a spiritual way of life

可 -- ke, this generally is used today to indicate capability, actuality or acceptability: something is possible or something is actually true

道 -- same as the first one

Now how do we translate this into ten or more English words?
Rogers is a monopoly. There is no incentive to improve. No incentive to hire good people on the floor to fix fundamental issues. Just middle management and c-level suite hoarding all of the money.

At this point, the government can fine them but it’s just passed on to the consumers. Maybe a random regulatory fee. Can’t close them down otherwise risk massive downtime to critical infra (emergency services)