skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I fully understand what Nagel means by developing objective tools to describe experiences, I should re-read the full article a few more times. I think, though, that you're exactly right: We _do_ have a shared understanding and experience of what its like to see a red ball, and we can talk about it in the abstract. My reading of that is that because we do have a shared human experience there can and indeed must be a physical account (Nagel's term) of it. Nagel's argument brings in a wedge of doubt about whether that shared experience itself is real by saying, at least partially, that because we can't explain what it is like to be a bat (bat point of view) in human terms we won't be able explain what consciousness is for humans _or_ bats with a physical account (at all or at least right now). Dennett, I think, says that that is more or less backward, and that all the means is there are different kinds of consciousness. In the article I mention he says,

"The big mistake we’re making,” [Dennett] said, “is taking our congenial, shared understanding of what it’s like to be us, which we learn from novels and plays and talking to each other, and then applying it back down the animal kingdom. Wittgenstein”—he deepened his voice—“famously wrote, ‘If a lion could talk, we couldn’t understand him.’ But no! If a lion could talk, we’d understand him just fine. He just wouldn’t help us understand anything about lions.”

“Because he wouldn’t be a lion,” another researcher said.

“Right,” Dennett replied. “He would be so different from regular lions that he wouldn’t tell us what it’s like to be a lion. I think we should just get used to the fact that the human concepts we apply so comfortably in our everyday lives apply only sort of to animals.” He concluded, “The notorious zombie problem is just a philosopher’s fantasy. It’s not anything that we have to take seriously.”

I found that convincing, I'm curious if you do as well?
My understanding is to make it less likely to hit populated areas in case of a launch failure:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

There's an energy benefit for some launches at lower latitudes, but that's separate from being near an ocean:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-launches-to-orbit-take-pla...
Wow, I thought you were exaggerating. That made my blood boil and I have zero stake in this whatsoever
Why? Because it doesn't fit your world view and what the media is feeding to you?

The left is throwing a temper tantrum, at the same time hand waving away any possible wrongdoing by their members.
Even though it is listed on Sony's website, none of the vendors on Sony's website has any in stock, and CDW lists it as discontinued as of January 2017.

(I checked B&H, Amazon, and CDW.)
That asks the rest of us to abandon inference, which I'm not inclined towards.
Try putting NaN into your equation: not equal to itself.
Cross compiling is very easy since Go 1.5, just add some environment variables before running `go build`, which can be put in a Makefile.

Distribution is a little trickier since there is no package manager ala npm, however it's a little easier in that you don't need anything except for the binary. For people who have Go installed they just `go get REPO` and it's installed, for others they can just wget the binary into their bin.
Who says the mental has no rules?

Anyway, the question of what fundamentally exists is an ontological question. Materialism is one possible answer. All that fundamentally exists is material objects, and everything else, including mind, society, abstract concepts, etc emerge from that material substrate.

Idealism would be the opposite answer. Everything is mental, and material objects are just ideas presented to the mind.

Everything is mathematical would be another possibility. Or information, perhaps qubits (it from quantum bits).

But maybe aspects of mind and matter are both fundamental to what exists. Or maybe it's some third neutral substance that's neither.

But whatever the case, none of that need involve the supernatural. It can, if one is disposed to think that way. One can say that God created the material world (granted, that leaves God as the something else, but at least the world gets to be entirely material).
Was he really foolish or just ahead of his time and willing to brave the risks?

OK, that one guy was foolish he should have started small and worked his way up. Perhaps a death defying leap onto a mattress, would have been better. But there are plenty of others who were close to a variety of successes and them not succeeding doesn't mean they were foolish.

There must have been hundreds or thousands of potential aviators, but we remember the brothers at Kittyhawk because of their success. This doesn't make the others fools, likely they were successful in some of their other plans or iterated on designs more like the flyer afterwards. From all of their perspectives as long as they minimized danger, unlike Franz, they would live to see another day and keep attempting High risk High reward situations.

This is much the same with startups today. Plenty made their fortunes in tech startups and while history might call all but a few failures, many are relaxing with their millions or even just comfortable enjoying their backup plan of a high tech job and settling down with a family.

EDIT - Grammar, wording and spelling.
Minor correction, Gwynne said that this rocket only took 4 months to inspect. The rest of the delay was due to pushing the launch schedule back after one of their rockets exploded, with payload atop, during testing.

You are correct, they are retiring this rocket. In fact, SpaceX is giving a piece of the rocket to SES to hang in their conference room.
Does anyone actually use Tormentor (other than Calibre for DRC)?
Right; but in the article the author mentioned using DNSSEC as a way to gain privacy. Just want to point that out.
Quicksight fell short for us in a number of ways. We ended up using Looker with their app hosted on our AWS account. Amazon wins either way. That being said, after this and equally disappointing WorkDocs it will be a while before I look at their products as a first choice.
Airplanes are the comparison that SpaceX uses.
> Flynn didn't do anything illegal (I've yet to see a compelling argument that the Logan Act would apply here), just a breach of protocol. It was lying to Pence that did him in.

Maybe you're right, but he's asking for immunity for something—see elsewhere in this thread where Flynn has made his views on immunity deals clear.
Not sure if you did this on purpose, but I really appreciated that you didnt mention the problem's name in your comment. You could copy paste this exact comment into any number of threads and be spot on. Climate change, political division, etc.

Personally I think it is like any other bias, or maybe a combination. People are doing it subconsciously, which means it is going to be hard to get them to stop.

Confirmation bias kicks in when we see a person of $group acting in a way that confirms our existing beliefs. Also when a person who feels that discrimination is rampant feels they have been discriminated against. Fundamental attribution error might explain why some people feel like they are the victims of intentional malice, rather than a mistake. Self serving bias might explain why members of $group are unwilling to admit that they discriminate against $group2. Or why we dont hear about how $group2 is a minority in other professions. Framing might explain why a story about one person, which might be missing details(such as seniority); is used to demonstrate the problem.

Unfortunately this would mean the solution is for everyone to behave rationally...
Recurly, Aria, Zuora
Link to source broken.
It depends on whether physicalism can account for all aspects of mind along with abstract concepts and the laws of nature (or causation). To be a successful monism, one has to be able to explain everything in terms of that monism.
Could you please elaborate in detail on the ways in which you feel that panpsychism fails?
AirBnB is a business.
Check out these guys https://www.chargebee.com/
What do you mean? If I click the headline I go to the article.
It seems pricey for what amounts to a smart USB-C hub.

Microsoft Display Dock sold for $99, although this one has an ethernet jack.
I had an in-flight emergency (kind of) today while doing a cross country flight with a friend who is a PPL. We lost the alternator and lucky for us the weather was really good, sans high winds. That means we had no instruments and no comms.... except the back up handheld radio and our cell phones. No harm, no foul and we landed safely...

I say that to say this; I would hope they are just really fast at inspections. There is a real reason to get them right. Failures happen, even to super analog tech.
So much of our "work" these days are only paid by the works ur in the office, where as most of the answers come to us at other hours of the day. Number of times I've emailed code snips to work....
There were some startups in the 90's doing analog synthesis, but all flopped.

Tools for MMIC & RFIC design have become pretty advanced (specifically AWR).
Franz Reichelt clearly failed in his approach, but his idea was not crazy -- today we have wingsuits that can fly.
The original text is about suffering and pain (presenting an interesting philosophical argument which I've come to associate closely with George Lakoff's "moral credit and debit" theory, that we tend to think people who have suffered automatically earned virtue from it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum#Latin_source

Of course that doesn't mean that people who use this text are wishing suffering on anyone.

See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%...
Doesn't this all go back to Plato, where Plato thought knowledge depended on the forms, because the flux of particulars cannot provide knowledge?
Do you have an equation for easing violence? There is an equation that tells us how to get to mars - we only need to design a machine that meets the requirements.
The point stands, with that revision, which can't be worked in due to hackernews not letting you edit your comment indefinitely.
> extremely bad communicator

I don't know, some mistakes were made, but he was also pretty throughout in his Reddit AMAs. I think he does deserve some credit for that.
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Iran-Contra was a pretty high level scandal.

And Bill Clinton was put on trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
I was kind of hoping someone would point that out.
We scheduled family dinner at 5:15 and then I told all my coworkers about it. They think it's cute and appreciate that I'm not staying later than them anymore.
What did Luckey contribute? The first seed of the idea? A proof of concept [0]? I haven't followed it very closely, but it seems to me that Carmack is the one that not only had the technical skills at the early stage and did a lot of evangelizing for the young technology even before he joined Oculus, his name was also a major factor in bringing in other talent and investment. I don't think Oculus would have been close to where they are today without Carmack, I've yet to read about any crucial contributions by Luckey. Right place at the right time does sound accurate.

And of course companies need more than engineers, Steve jobs wasn't and engineer and his importance for Apple can hardly be overstated.

[0] https://youtu.be/kw-DlWwlXHo?t=169
A world without retirement
You mean the neural nets reported being puzzled by consciousness? Otherwise, I think you're conflating subjectivity with cognitive abilities, which need not be subjective at all.
Or you use XeLaTeX and you don't do those things. You just write Greek and say you want to use whatever normal font you like best for typesetting English and Greek at the same time. Because the "inputenc" package shouldn't be necessary in 2017. For more than obvious reasons, _everything_ is now utf8 encoded, including ascii files. Unless you live in a CJK country. Then you might have a reason to still use BIG5 or JIS... although that reason is slowly eroding in favour of UTF8 too.
Amazing! I genuinely think that this is a bigger deal than the moon landings.

The moon landings were pretty awesome in their own way, but at the end of the day, with the way they were done, it was basically a stunt. None of it put any infrastructure for the long-term access of space into place, or anything to make future moon landings easier.

This paves the way for the costs of space flight to be cut in half, or even a little further. This has the potential to set off an exponential chain of growth of space travel. The further they cut prices, the more customers and launches there are. The more customers there are, the more profit they make, to be plowed back into better, more reliable, and more reusable rockets. And the more incentive their competitors have to come up with their own reusable rockets. The more reusable they are, the further they can bring prices down. Every step reinforces the next, and in 30-50 years, the price of a launch may well be a tenth of what it is today. Maybe closer to a hundredth.

What will we build when access to space costs 1% of what it does today? Maybe a huge space station, or a moon colony, or asteroid mining, or all of the above. The more traffic we have to space, the more infrastructure we build, and the cheaper and more reliable it all gets. Off-world colonies might become about as practical as a trip to and colony in Antarctica is today - still tough and hazardous, but well within the budget and vision of any developed nation. This is freakin' awesome for the future!
I hate ISPs because of their strong desire to monitor and track everything that their clients use it for to then sell to other companies to target ads to me and to openly give my information to big gov. It is also bullshit that I have no choice on providers, its either move to a different side of town or dont use the service.
All of the examples you've been given are hilariously wrong. 'Shitposting' is a play on the idea that people with non-pc views are 'shitlords.' It grew out of groups like "Shit Reddit Says" and "Shit 4chan Says" that meant to police language on those sites. tl;dr A "shitpost" is a post that's not politically correct.
Presumably "Machine Language" which is what we called Assembly, back when the translation between what you wrote and what the CPU actually did was pretty transparent.
Likely because someone wanted to play around, which is how even popular APIs like the Pokemon and StarWars ones started.

Besides, being an API it can be extended with things like quotes, exact appearance times etc etc.
"A small thrust for a rocket, a big boost for mankind"

I am super happy for this achievement.
Do "fruitcake" and "intense loons" pass as "civil...things you [would] say in a face-to-face conversation" these days?
This is part of the law for a digital republic from october 2016 and just got its implementation decree published.

Rough translation:

To be able to use people private communications for advertising purpose, it is required to collect written consent of the person and it's valid for no more than one year.

This covers everything: email, instant messaging, PM, facebook messenger, etc. for the purposes of advertising, statistics or improving the service and applies to content, sender and receiver identities, and attached documents.
Consent of both sender and receiver is required.

Existing practices have 6 months to comply. Consent is specific to each usage (you can't bundle advertising with improving the service, those have to be distinct and are forbidden from being buried in terms and conditions).

This could be a fatal blow to surveillance capitalism. Let's see how facebook, google and the like react to this and if their usual "national law does not apply to us" stance will help them.
Most people moved from something like CVS/SVN/Perforce to Git. There are also a lot of people who started using Git at their first job. And most of these developers think of it as the same thing as GitHub. As others have said on this thread, you could try Mercurial. It is pretty nice. More user friendly than Git. But it does not do branching well. The original design did not include "named" branches, it was added later. Because of this it feels like it.

The usual way that people work in Mercurial is to make a clone - which is a whole copy. If you were working in SVN you would probably make a branch first (on the server), and then check out that branch. When you are done with your branch, you get up to date with trunk, then merge it in. And, this is the important part, your merge is treated as one commit. Pretty normal stuff. Mercurial though threads all your local commits into the log. So even though you make one merge, you can't find that merge in the log. All the commits are shown stuffed in there by date. And everyone is sad.

Now, you can change that if you use named branches instead of cloning. But it has other problems. The biggest one is you get "multiple heads." If I make a branch and you make a branch and we both commit, they both get stored in the index. But they get stored as different heads. So when I do a "pull" I get this strange warning about multiple heads - the "trunk" and your branch. I'm actually still not sure how to unwind it actually. I'm not enough of an expert.

So I try to user Bazaar wherever I go. It doesn't always happen - it is hard to change people's minds or have a company that is flexible enough to try different solutions. And, because Git is so popular, there is an integration with just about everything. For a 3-rd party candidate like Bazaar IDE integration is half-baked. So is Jira integration. Actually, just about all integrations. I'm considering becoming a committer on like 10 different Bazaar-related projects. :)

Check this out: https://duckrowing.com/2014/04/25/git-vs-mercurial-vs-bazaar...
Yes GitHub is popular. But out there in the non-Opensource world, Git is WAY behind SVN. Which is totally fine. Use what works. If you have a centralized development organization, and everyone sits near each other and talks all the time, why do you need distributed VCS? And if everyone at the company knows how to use a tool and there aren't constant mistakes - just use it. It gets easy to not be able to see the forest for the trees when you spend 6 hours trying to figure out how to rewind a busted git repo.
typically it's for if things go poorly - a lot less mess to clean up if it's on the bottom of the sea
I think this has all the warning signs of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Don't get me wrong there is nothing that hinders poor Muslims from Syria to adapt to and eventually contribute in Canada but you just need a look at many europea countries to see the issues statistically it's quite depressing. (One a positive note though muslim women are some of the best educated in many countries of Europe)

The US as far as I am aware is still the country who have found the best model for integrating people from other cultures into their country.

This is not because the US is a melting pot as many like to claim but rather a tossed salad.

No other country allow people to maintain their own culture while still forcing them to contribute to society if they want to make it.
I'd like to see more of the comments in here actually discussing an honest assessment of the trade-offs when compared to other approaches.
The Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi plan over a hundred years ago specifically calls for overwhelming host countries with refugees to cause the genocides of the peoples of Europe. Seems like this plan is exactly what is happening when I turn on the news every night.
This is an interesting approach to request rate limiting - the simplicity and lack of tuning is definitely appealing.

Did you do anything to mitigate the scenario where multiple users are behind the same IP address? With this approach I would worry about locking out all users in a NAT when a single user misbehaves.

It's also scary to me to process something "last" - under high enough load you might never get back to the (potentially briefly) abusive user? Did you attempt to guarantee some minimum passthrough rate even for misbehaving users?
I thought that was a labia, as I don't see any other male organ...
Thank you for this important message. Genocide is going on right now in the US, but at a slow pace, and disguised by bullshit.
> it stores 4 gigs of data in memory

I'm not sure how a single node process was able to load 4 gbs worth of data into memory? I thought there was a hard limit of 1.5GB per process.
GreenLightning: Small Java HTTP/s server many times faster than Netty or NGINX
Apollo works fine with Meteor. It works like any other node module.
Not really? XeLaTeX is "the LaTeX API (because it's an API built to be run by a TeX engine. LaTeX is built on TeX the same way jQuery is built on JavaScript) run using XeTeX" (the natively-unicode-aware TeX engine).

So if your publisher has a LaTeX template, that's pretty much guaranteed to work just fine when you \usepackage it in XeLaTeX context. Needless to say, except it really does need to be said, that also means full Unicode Maths support (through \setmathfont{A normal font name} without needing TeX metrics nonsense because it's 2017) for any OpenType font with maths support (Cambria Math, XITS Math, etc. etc.)
Fuel is ~$200k. "Logistical things" is much more.
Yes, and many have done so. Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Dennet come to mind. In philosophy lingo I think it all ends up being functional physicalism.
Open spec IoT hacker SBC has a GSM radio
I last used OrCad about ten years ago, and I hoped to never have to look at it again. It was a shit show, and even the terrible state of the open source tools available at the time was better. The whole EDA industry is a shit show, and it's no wonder they don't make any money; it's because they keep bodging on bit and bobs of incremental improvements, usually after someone else independently invents them. Why would anyone upgrade when the new stuff was the same as the old stuff? And look at what horrible problems document revision control are for CAD tools, they spawned a whole 'nother industry just to do the clerical work for the engineering staff.

>Synopsys and Cadence are the leaders of the pack.

Only by default and only through the inertia of lazy risk-averse management.

The CAD/EDA industry is a scourge.
+1, although it can be challenging - Ghibli covers are extremely popular in Japan, they are now classics and even Ghibli themselves pushed different albums at different times. It's a bit like trying to get the original for "The Girl from Ipanema".
I'll ask for sure but I remember the folks in the vocational program (finish carpentry) using one they bought at Home Depot.
> Their rocket has not gone into deep space

Nor has Falcon 9. It would be more correct to say that no Blue Origin rocket has been to very high energies though, much less returned from them.
Yep! Never tell me the odds! Great moment in human history.
What you're doing right now fits my worldview like a nice pair of gloves.
I don't think consciousness is a distinguishing characteristic. We are all just highly complex chemical chain reactions occurring in the context of a changing environment. Our chain reactions are sufficiently complex that they're capable of communicating information to other chain reactions, and we happen to communicate about our experience as a chain reaction. You can't infer from the absence of communication that other chemical systems don't have experience.

I do agree that self-awareness and intelligence exist along a spectrum, along which we are apparently the farthest point.
The company itself is okay, but the people? Ha... they even promoted her to a senior position.

So if you think about it, this was over an hour of company time wasted on debating Lorem Ipsum.
Yet as of today nobody has ever landed with just a wingsuit. You need a parachute.