skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is logical to conclude that we are not "blessed" matter, and there really isn't a good basis for excluding non-biological matter from the property of having an internal experience. I wouldn't call myself a materialist though, because I don't know that mental states are caused by physical states. It is just as possible that the arrow of causality goes the other way - evidence only demonstrates correlation. Additionally, while I'm skeptical of the possibility of matter without consciousness, I'm willing to consider the possibility that consciousness can exist in a state that doesn't correspond to what we currently consider "matter"

If I had to label myself I would say I'm a monist, in that I don't think mind and matter are separable or independent. I lean towards idealism in the sense that I suspect the set of possible states of consciousness is a superset of the set of states of matter that are possible according to the current "laws" of physics. Don't read too much into those labels though, that's only a first order approximation of my view.
If only it didn't use ~1GB of RAM, I used to be a huge fan of Dropbox and I'm still looking for that feature in coding. Something like an auto-github diff upload. I saw some stuff with this I think regarding the particular text editor that I use.

My computer's are garbage that's why 1GB to Dropbox is a lot to me.

Edit: I'm curious how OneDrive compares. I have Windows on a junk laptop I have but I don't use it to work on (too weak). Maybe it has better idle RAM use.
> a boost as well when flying east due to the earths rotation

This will slow the earth's rotation slightly. Future generations will rue our profligate wastage of earth's angular momentum.
Not to be confused with the Dornier Do 217 'flying pencil'.
Then I RTFA and learned they are the same company!
Yeah, that's one thing I wasn't clear on from the story, whether or not the host was violating the terms of his lease.

It's not just in England. In the US, while subleasing is sometimes allowed it is almost always forbidden for short-term rentals. Many landlords now include explicit "no AirBnB renters" clauses in leases as AirBnB has become more popular.
Yes.Infact, if you conceal the information about the crime and the crime happens to be felony, you will be charged for "misprision of felony."

The federal definition of misprision requires that, “(1) the principal committed and completed the felony alleged; (2) the defendant had knowledge of the fact; (3) the defendant failed to notify the authorities; and (4) the defendant took affirmative steps to conceal the crime of the principal.” See United States v. Baumgartner (6th Cir. Sept. 24, 2014)
The space program of the 1960s, culminating with the moon landings, seems like a far greater achievement to me than what SpaceX is doing, adjusted for the state of the art.
Right, just recordings of her bragging and laughing about getting a child rapist off scott-free.
You can't "agree to disagree" about facts. You're throwing out assertions that are simply false (e.g. that companies agreed to deploy fiber in return for being granted monopolies). Doing that has been illegal under federal law for 20 years. Did you read the Verizon franchise I linked you? Did you notice how it said it was "non-exclusive?"

> Do you have fiber from Verizon? If not maybe take a step back.

My parents have had FiOS for more than a decade, and I've had it for several years in four different houses and apartments. I always get 5-10% over the advertised speed (even during peak times) and my ping times are similar to the Cogent business internet we have at work.

> They have failed so far, it is 2017 and barely anyone in the US has fiber or gigabit.

About 11% of all U.S. broadband connections are fiber: http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm. 25% of the country can get it: http://broadbandnow.com/Fiber (FiOS's uptake rate is less than 40%). We're doing better than most of the other big OECD countries. Canada is at 8%, France at 6.5%, Germany, Italy, and Austria are under 3%. Spain, South Korea, and Japan are the only big OECD countries doing better than us.

Moreover, the overall statistic ignores the fact that broadband is largely a state level issue, and deployment varies a lot by state. E.g. Maryland, where I live, has about the same population and population density as Switzerland, and has similar fiber availability (over 60%).

> A decade ago, we wrote about how Verizon had made an agreement in Pennsylvania in 1994 that it would wire up the state with fiber optic cables to every home in exchange for tax breaks equalling $2.1 billion.

There was never any "tax breaks": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401102. (Read the thread--the guy who came up with the $400 billion and $2.1 billion numbers explains how the number is based on calculating "excess profits" compared to regulated rates).
Dropbox is remote backup and cloud storage. It solves a rather different (larger) problem from a local backup.
That article is the source, but yes, the source link should not be there.
So given "random" or ill-defined JSON data, this enables a "diff" of the structures.
I'm just going to come out and say it.

There is no good reason to believe that any ontology you can come up with to help you describe and attempt to comprehend reality, on the time and energy scales you live on, has any basis in the fundamental nature of reality.

The only distinction between atoms and phlogistons, physiology and the theory of humors, is their explanatory and predictive power, but none of those is any more "real" than the others beyond how they help us symbolize the world in a way we can reason about.

There is no good reason to believe that consciousness is any different, other than unexamined chauvinism, or, at best, wishful thinking.

Reality doesn't give a fuck what circles you draw around some fuzzy densities in an energy field, and what labels you write on them. Cars and sandwiches, atoms and quarks, where you end and the air around you begins, these distinctions that only matter to "you". This is the tyranny of the dichotomous mind.

The amount of unjustifiable, and, on the scale of the universe, unearned arrogance that it takes to assert that you or anything about you is set apart from the rest of material reality, is staggering, and just not something that I'm capable of sharing, having seriously considered the alternative.

Honestly, I'm just not sure we can have this conversation unless you can assure me that you have fully considered this to the point of having to pull yourself out of a serious existential crisis at some point in your life.

Any platitudes that come down to "there must be something that objectively privileges the nature of our existence above that of a rock or an endless field of eternal cold emptiness" are just totally baseless, and fail every test that might distinguish it from "god has a plan for me", "love is a physical force that directly manipulates time and space", or "it's turtles all the way down".
But irritating 90% of your audience with a distracting something that only 1% of them use is the preferred stylish design choice of the modern era.

Whether it's share buttons or an email signup...I mean heck, Europe essentially passed a mandatory website popup law for telling you about cookies.
The fact that they're trying to chisel this customer out of a few grand suggests to me that host compensation must be a real cost center for AirBNB... which is actually worse than if it were just really bad customer service, because it means that the chances of this happening to your apartment are much higher than advertised. Neither way, of course, is a good look.
Cuts costs about 60%.
A bit better than spacebshuttle economics which was more like 40%.
The following two sentences, from the second page of the paper, are where he really nails it:

"We may call this the subjective character of experience. It is not captured by any of the familiar, recently devised reductive analyses of the mental, for all of them are logically compatible with its absence."

All of today's science is logically compatible with the absence of subjective experience, because science cannot even define what subjective experience is.

Every "definition" of subjective experience (SE, in what follows), is actually an ostension: the reader's attention is directed to his own SE. For example:

- Perhaps nothing actually exists -- except SE. That's the one thing that MUST exist. [Descartes]

- "There is such a thing, as what it's like to be..." [Nagel, in the posted paper]

- There's such a thing, as what seeing red is like: a quale.

- Science can't rule out that a behaviorally perfect duplicate of you, could lack SE (i.e. be a zombie).
Science can't rule it out, but maybe SE does: why would a zombie vociferously assert the existence of SE?
Those who claim SE is an illusion, i.e. that you actually are a zombie but don't know it,
have the burden of explaining why zombies claim to have SE.

All of these "definitions" require an audience that has SE and is able to recognize it. A scientific definition would not.
Ignorant guy here:

Wondering how the two words "scale" and "limit" go together. My only experience right now with someone's API and rate limiting is Cloudinary. They give you 500 requests/hr (free). Which can be a lot or nothing at all.

No sorry it does make sense, don't allow one person to exhaust/consume your resources.

What about using Go? I hear crazy stuff like going from 2000 servers to 2, and doing 25,000 requests per second. Or is this a bandwidth concern?
To turn on a Reed Hastings quote, 'Tesla needs to become BMW faster than BMW can become Tesla'.
No, Uber's lawyers said they wanted him to release the information. Very different from what you said.
I didn't ask a question because I stated my opinion as to the single mass-murderer's state of mental health. I made no comment about the larger mentally ill community.

Just by virtue of his actions, and also because the news mentioned that he's been in jail, I think he's probably got some kind of mental illness or thought disorder. I could be wrong or I could be right, but for the moment I'm going to stick to that opinion.

I never said all mentally ill people are violent or dangerous, because I don't have some concealed anti-mentally ill agenda.

I do however have a bias in thinking that mass-murderers are generally mentally ill, and a quick google implies I'm factually correct in having that bias.

> He doesn't have a long history of contact with MH services

Hmm. Just the fact that he has had contact with mental health services strengthens my opinion that he's probably mentally ill.

As you've said yourself, some mentally ill people are violent and dangerous, some are not. I am aware of that.

When people are around trigger-happy US cops with guns pointed at them, they get shot, which is no surprise with such a militarised police force. Unfortunately that's the society some people live in.

If cops shoot mentally ill people, that's a problem with the cops and the society that tolerates that behavior, not me for speculating about whether or not a single mass murderer has a mental illness or not.

Don't try to imply that my opinion of a single case is in some way responsible for trigger-happy police in a country I don't even reside in.

I'm neither in the US, a cop, nor mentally ill so none of those are my responsibility.

Once again, I'm talking about this particular mass-murderer, and I think he's probably mentally ill. Nothing you have mentioned has swayed me from that opinion.

I think we're done here.
How so? That site says the inflation since 2000 is 41%.
What it will be like? Series of sounds, which reprogram brain structure to develop image processing networks?

I can't say it sounds plausible.
Zynga billionaire Mark Pincus involved in big-money divorce
If I were in charge I would institute a basic income for all citizens over the age of 18 (no additional money for children) and would make each child someone had a significant tax break against income. People who could afford them would be incentivized to have them.
> I'm not sure SCOTUS is "deeply hostile to the intent of the Constitution."

Wickard v. Filburn was a mockery of the intent of the Constitution in all but name. And it's not the only case like that.

The problem with SCOTUS is that it can really do whatever the hell it wants. It's <em>supposed</em> to do the right thing, but because it is the final arbiter, they get to decide what the right thing is. Sometimes they do it in ways that are wrong in any other meaningful sense.
Didn't they recover the fairings on today's launch?
https://paddle.com
If you ever find yourself assigning a unique URL to a thing which has a name and a type, and assigning a unique URL to the type which has a name and a supertype, consider dusting off rdf:type and rdf:subClassOf and maybe JSON-LD rather than reinventing something very similar.
I was hoping it would be in Racket. Nonetheless great!
Hand task training transfers motor knowledge to feet
Correct. Since I am a geophysicist I met him a few times. He was pround of his achievements despite limited recognition. A defect of the US R&D system which promotes competitive secrecy over scientific gain.
> My parents have had FiOS for more than a decade, and I've had it for several years in four different houses and apartments. I always get 5-10% over the advertised speed (even during peak times) and my ping times are similar to the Cogent business internet we have at work.

Consider yourself lucky then. You might view it differently if you are in an area that is yet to have fiber. Here in AZ, Tempe and Scottsdale have it but nowhere else. Cox put gigablast/fiber in only in response to Google Fiber and has subsequently stopped after Google slowed, so maybe we have different experiences. It is very frustrating. You are in a very small state that is near D.C. which is one of the heavy focuses of fiber (New York, DC, CA, WA, etc). If you move to an area where it isn't as prevalent, you might not be so pro-broadband/ISP providers.

> You can't "agree to disagree" about facts. You're throwing out assertions that are simply false (e.g. that companies agreed to deploy fiber in return for being granted monopolies).

I should have said semi-monopolies like I did initially. In many cases this is true simply by being the one to run the lines and discouraging competition. In many, many cases we only have one provider for most of the US. Providers are also heavily against municipal broadband and other competitive services, only Google Fiber really scared them into increasing rollouts.

I can agree to disagree, many of the things I have posted back up my main point that fiber rollout is slow, there have been lies and incomplete rollouts and it is holding us back in the US. According to you broadband/ISPs are doing exactly what they can and pushing the limits of capabilities and innovating like they did in the 90s. That may be the case in Maryland in your area, I have a differing opinion and frankly I have never met someone so pro-broadband/ISP/Verizon unless they were investors or worked there. I do hope broadband/ISP providers return to their innovative glory of the 90s and early 00s. They are failing in that regard today.
How would you handle the problem where one API user would exhaust all your resources and your servers don't melt? Other than spending an ever increasing amount of money expanding capacity you would need rate limiting.
What if the API call is computationally expensive ? What if someone is trying to maliciously use your API?
Noooo. The term shitposting significantly predates SRS. Please see the Know Your Meme entry on it for more info.
How I wrote a programming language, and how you can too
I wonder if there are instances where people signed the NDA and took the money, that we have not heard about.
It would seem so: https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/overview
Thank you, now I understand
You need to read up on Levandowski a little bit. To quote a Bloomberg article:

> “Whatever Google may say about him stealing lidar trade secrets, he was the lidar team at Google,” says someone who worked at the company’s driverless car program. “This is like the Swiss patent office suing Einstein for inventing the theory of relativity while he worked there.”

> Google’s self-driving car project began the following year with ... hardware supplied by Anthony’s Robots. Like 510 Systems, Anthony’s Robots was operated as an independent company. The arrangement—whereby Levandowski was at once a founding member of the Google self-driving car team and a vendor who was also selling technology to other companies—was well-known to Google executives, though it was never publicly disclosed. “Anthony is a rogue force of nature,” says a former Google self-driving car executive. “Each phase of his Google career he had a separate company doing exactly the same work.” According to two former Google employees, founders Page and Sergey Brin tolerated Levandowski’s freelancing because they saw it as the fastest way to make progress. Google’s car team embraced Levandowski’s nature, too. The attitude, says a former colleague, was “he’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-16/fury-road...
I remember them mention about making a good messaging app without calling fluff (can't exactly point to which blog/faq)
I rarely have such urges
Hey. I'm available at my username @ gmail. I really should put that in my profile. I'm living in rural Shizuoka prefecture, and don't make it to Tokyo very often, but I'd be happy to meet up sometime.
Thank you for posting.

> If you know some basic C, take a look at this block of code, and see if you can find a clue as to what went wrong:

> char *filename="models/";

> strcat(filename,"bullet");

> strcat(filename,".h3d");

That code being written in the first place does not inspire confidence. "strcat" has almost no valid use cases, and the suggested solution of using a fixed-size buffer is likely to lead to further instances of exactly the same variety of error at some time in the future.

> char filename[256];

The sane solution here is to use strncat or another, more appropriate, function such as snprintf. The length of the buffer should at least be a macro rather than a magic number.
> customers at the high end care MORE about money, not less. the company spending $1 million/month on AWS is desperately looking for ways out.

Our monthly AWS spend was six or seven figures. We were ostensibly looking for ways to both move to and from AWS, but we were hardly desperate. It turns out running data centers is HARD and it simply wasn't our core competency. If you're not profitable with AWS you're probably not going to be profitable moving to your own data center (or racks within a data center).
honestly can we stop fanboying over Comey's twitter account and see some real action against this shit - tech giants super quiet this past week
Not thrilled with it but we use paypal for our reoccurring payments. Users trust it and don't have to fork over their credit cards, but I get scared every time someone lies and says they didn't authorize the charge and having to prove to paypal that they indeed did get what they ordered fearing they'll freeze our account or something. Also it does cause confusion where the subscription is managed at paypal instead of on our site. That said, it does work 99% of the time.
It's interesting that we're getting fairly close (a decade or three?) to being able simulate brains and the we could combine human and bat simulations to be able to check out what it's like.
Don't have any offhand but I'm constantly seeing friends asking for node devs.
Proceeding from the bottom up makes for interesting reading.
It's a legal settlement of a claim for money damages. Those usually do come with a confidentiality clause.
If you could boil it down into a few key sentences, what would they be?

From my perspective WRT occam's razor, it looks quite different. If panpsychism is right, there is only one kind of matter. For panpsychism to be wrong, there has to be two different kinds of matter (conscious and unconscious), along with a mechanism to transition between the two states that is mediated by a physical process. Furthermore, despite the transition being mediated by a physical process, the difference between these two states is something undetectable to current science.

Beyond that, if you assume consciousness is the result of some physical characteristic of brains (which materialists usually do), you have to realize that most of the biochemistry going on in brains is going on all over the body. Do my organs and other body parts have their own consciousness? Furthermore, our experience of consciousness doesn't even extend to the entire brain. What is different between non-conscious parts of the brain and conscious parts? Physically the neurons themselves are basically identical. If it is the way that they're connected, those connections just change the simple physical forces acting on the particles of the brain. You again have to answer the question of how simple physical forces convert matter from unconscious to conscious.
p.s. Ajit Pai is a puppet
The recent law enacted by Congress countermanded an Obama-era regulation that had never gone into effect. Thus, the current situation is the same as it ever was - ISP's can sell anonymized and aggregated customer behavior data today, just like they could yesterday.

Also important to note -- existing regulations still in effect prevent selling un-anonymized data. Selling someone the browsing habits of a particular identifiable customer is not allowed, never has been.
> there is no legal claim

There might not be a lawsuit, but this sure sounds like a legal claim.
The most misused social security number of all time
I wasn't aware of the ambiguity surrounding the underflow flag noted in your second link. However, the other complaints I'm reading from your links (things not specified by the standard may vary in behaviour; the standard is written in English and could have been written in different or better English) do not impact the semantics of floating-point arithmetic in a material way.
They can't make it disappear but they can create a condition whereby you'll never stray from the "real" news they offer and cordon you off into an internet environment where you'll never even be exposed to "fake" news. There are methods of achieving that.
Ideo Studied Innovation in 100+ Companies–Here’s What It Found
And that's the problem with the mobs on the internet.
The Nine Lives of Cat Videos (2015)
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
I guess if that became a bottleneck, they could set up a queue for write requests. Maybe even something more sophisticated that automatically batches similar writes that pile up in the queue. They could use something like Kafka for this...
In my experience, innovators hate big companies. The culture and people there are all selfish, self involved, trying to "beat the game" by maximizing their RSUs, piggy backing on other people's work.
But does it sound square?
How to Unmake a Memory
As further support of this argument: the Ruby community is rich with metaprogramming, sometimes going to extreme lengths, frequently for API-improvement purposes.

With a little knowledge about how it all works, it's not too obtuse, and the developer benefits can be pretty significant - ever found an API annoying, or resisted doing something "right" because it's more work or less performant than a simple option? With rich enough metaprogramming, the best option can be the simplest and most-obvious in nearly all cases.

Maybe Ruby has irreparably tainted me, but as time goes on I fall further towards "more power is more better". 99.9% of the time you won't touch it, but it's a lifesaver when it's available and you need it, and that comes up much more often in libraries. The community as a whole reaps the benefit even if less than 1% know how to use it.