skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to know what kind of physical structure produces consciousness, you need to know what consciousness is, and we have no way of doing that.

I don't see how this is different than any other empirical fact we didn't know before we started exploring the world. In what way could we properly characterize fire, or stars, or bacteria before we had any conception of such things? Yet, I don't think anyone sensible would disagree that we largely understand these concepts now.

Similarly, consciousness is an amalgamation of different information processes that we have yet to disentangle, and all we have is a catch-all term "consciousness" to describe our ignorance.

> In an effort to clarify, let me ask you this: why do you care what is and is not conscious?

I care about anything that is not yet explained.
And, on the other side, Fox just got bought by Disney.
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Sure, this varies. If your POS system uses dialup, it can take tens of seconds, if it uses wifi it will be just a few seconds. If it uses contactless it can be sub-second. But in principle it can be as fast as the network and one trusted node.

The fundamental problem with bitcoin is that it is decentralised and trustless, and those two properties preclude fast transactions at a global scale - for that you need a federated system with trust between nodes. If you remove those properties, you're no longer using anything resembling bitcoin, and why not use a system with proper validated parties in the first place?
Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (1900)
It is the way jokes work, however
How is enabling people to live longer going to address a healthcare crisis that is primarily about the cost of care? If people live longer they are going to end up paying more for care, especially for whatever treatment any of these companies comes up with that enables them to live longer.
An incredibly complex issue. I'd be here all day trying to address it and my quibbles w/the article, e.g. "race" ≠ "ethnicity," nor is it uniformly defined across countries, since it's a (BS) social construct...

In any event, my knowledge of the issue leads me to think that the outcome is more a feature than a bug.

That said, while I think the article attempts to link (growing target) population size(s) with an increased need to address the "deadly outcomes," I didn't see anything about wealth. Medicine (in America, at least) is a business. How much money do/will the groups in question have to spend on 'services'? I suspect that unless the answer is (a lot) more than that of the current general focus of research (outcomes) things will remain as they are.

Nevertheless, thanks for raising 'the" issue.
Maybe I worded my reply poorly, because that is exactly what I was trying to say. Let's try this again.

Dems who voted against the Amash/USA Rights amendment: https://twitter.com/gzornick/status/951501089047764992

All votes for the Amash/USA Rights amendment: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll014.xml

All votes on S. 139, aka the main bill: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll016.xml
I have. It is a pain in the ass but certainly doable.

I am experienced with iOS, but honestly it is a big app so those who are familiar with Android could do this better, as I believe they actually have decompilers versus needing to read the compiled ARM code.
OK. And? Is the point to be perfect, or is the point to be useful?

False fakes--and a wisely designed system would probably say "probably fake" in the first place, not outright "fake"--are less damaging than false truths overall.
As we are discussing elsewhere, this is the vote on the Amash amendment, which is what people here are talking about.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll014.xml
i don't see how, in theory, the points brought against bitcoin differ from potential vulnerabilities of traditional currencies. they all suffer from the same problems.

> Bitcoin is vastly more volatile than conventional money and relatively few people trust it as a store of value.

that could and has happened to a real currency; there were lots of countries that preferred, e.g., dollars or euros to the native currency as soon as this native currency started to tank.

> Even if that hurdle [trust] is crossed, how much crypto-currency will people need? Putting it in economic terms, will the demand for Bitcoin have the same velocity as the demand for money?

trust would mean, more sellers would accept crypto-currency as payment. the more sellers accept crypto-currency, the more of it people would need. this is purely a question of trust. bitcoin may not be trusted yet, but that's one of the prerequisites for the discussion given earlier in the article. no reason you shouldn't be able to use bitcoin to buy bread at the local store or as down payment for a house.

> Will there be the same number of hoarders?

i don't really understand this point - but even if it was true, that's not an inherent fault of bitcoin.

> And what about all the other cryptocurrencies that exist today, and those that will arise in the future? Bitcoin might well be replaced by something different and better, and end up being worth nothing at all.

this has happened to lots of traditional currencies.

moreover, traditional currencies are subject to counterfeiting (even though it doesn't matter much in practice).

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sure, in practice it's different, as (rich, stable) states have an interest in keeping their currency reasonably stable and can act in certain ways as an informed actor to control/steer their currency in a certain direction. this is the only major difference i see (as long as bitcoin isn't derailed by a hostile actor).

but in the end, currencies are worth what actors are willing to pay for it, a principle that applies to both bitcoin and traditional currencies.
To be fair though, we are really close with cancer. Like really really close. cfDNA is revolutionary for our measurements. Crispr is revolutionary for understanding. So close.
Yes medium and twitter are in the pipeline. Sites are being selected based quality of articles.
Especially since Elon Musk is known for creating companies that have nothing to do with the car -- SpaceX, Neuralink. Amusingly, Elon does not tack on "Tesla" in front of his other companies / products (like Apple and their use of the "i") -- so this is actually a good indicator that Teslasuit is not connected to him.
Agreed. But, we're missing the point quibbling about search histories and emails... That's nothing compared to what's coming. The data already exists to track your every move. It's just a matter of consolidating and organizing it. Right now, there is money to be made selling customer data for marketing and the like. This keeps the repositories of our data from sharing with one another.

But, soon, the economics will flip. And, there will be money to be made from selling privacy. For instance, assume all credit card, phone, cable companies, etc. pool their data. For a monthly subscription, this conglomerate will keep your info (or parts of it) hidden. The default will be everything is knowable about everyone, except for those who pay a fee to erase info from their records.

Far more money to be made selling privacy than selling info. 4th amendment and all the rest is moot. Our info is held by private international companies who, eventually, will begin charging you to keep things hidden from others.
I guess it is a matter of taste.

In any case, it should be impossible to trademark a name like "Tesla", because it is a common term in electrical engineering and transportation (Tesla wasn't the first company making electric cars).
What an eyesore.
Without addressing the tinfoilery... ummm... have you ever actually looked at the size of government contracts in the US? They're usually the largest customer any Fortune 500 company has, so large that losing them as a customer would destroy the company. There are a handful of exceptions, but for most companies, they are very much not going to bite the hand that feeds them. If daddy asks for access, daddy gets access. That's one of the reasons I support making ISPs a municipal public utility. Municipal governments will tell the government to pound sand if they don't have a court order with a judges seal. Any private company in the US will only open the door for them and ask if they've had a chance to review their bid on the latest government contract.
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Not necessarily; if you hook up people on free and have them invest time money or resources into your free by walled system, the cost of moving elsewhere overweight a small upcharge once you start charging.

Example is Twilio. They were first and we implement them very heavily into our systems. Currently our bills are at around $400 per month. Phaxio is much cheaper, but we just got used to Twilio and unwilling to spend time money and resources into jumping to something else just for the sake of little savings.
Only in the general case. In many/most loops that humans would find useful in practice you can prove termination.
Note that it appears CRISPR will not be easy to implement in humans, thanks to some pre-existing immunities from frequently colonizing bacteria.
I get hives from heat and large temperature differences. What consideration have you taken of malicious use of climate control?
>overall the space is mostly filled with scientists and doctors trying to make people healthier, and mostly failing.

Failing flat, i.e., not making people healthier but not making them sicker either, is not a problem. Failing down, i.e. trying to make people healthier but making them sicker instead, is and has been a huge problem with modern medicine, even when done with the best of intentions.

Yes, the past century has seen great progress in neutralizing infectious disease (though it is likely that the HIV epidemic itself was an "own goal" of basically iatrogenic origin [1]), but nearly everything else, including cancer, is a wash.

Unfortunately, a sober analysis of the benefits and harms of actors in the medical space cannot afford to give much credit for effort or good intentions.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/21
I'm with @wadkar on this. I think the Fake News Challenge Stage 1 (FNC-1) was a good step towards this effort. They acknowledge (almost) all of these concerns and start with Stance Detection as their first stage. In this problem, pairs of article headlines and body text were classified into {Agrees, Disagrees, Discusses, Unrelated}.

Constructively criticism to the OP: I'd suggest they read the nuance and discussions on the Fake News Challenge [0] and then look into their datasets + evaluation code [1] instead of hand-coding their own "biases" into a {"Fake news","Not-Fake-News"} binary classifier. Feel free to replace "Fake News Challenge" with any other similar effort so that OP isn't tasking themselves with the massive task of "Solving Fake News" all alone.

Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in FNC-1

References:

[0] http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/

[1] https://github.com/FakeNewsChallenge/fnc-1
Oh, I misinterpreted the article.

If the test data was collected in the same way that the training data was collected, this was a rather ridiculously round-about way of writing what should've been a 5 line perl script, and I'm really curious where the 5% error could've possibly even come from :-\
There should be a phrase that evokes the ability of the porn industry to innovate, eg: "this haptic VR technology is really at the fapping edge"
What is it you would say Hulk Hogan's career is?
I think if Google would put serious thought into Drive (desktop client, like Drop) and give 10 years of unlimited but reasonable (you know - don't dump all your DVDs and BluRays into cloud just because you can), I imagine plenty of people moving on. Its just Google Drive Sux... at the moment :)
I think you're assuming some kind of broken strawman version of Filecoin. (Edit: This wasn't really justified, see below.) The price of retrieving data needs to be agreed ahead of time and nodes that refuse to provide data need to lose collateral. Ultimately there's also replication/erasure coding so that one node can't hold your data hostage (but it would be worrying if evil was a dominant strategy because then all the nodes might hold your data hostage at the same time).

(Also, for step 3 I think proofs of storage are supposed to be calculated continuously, not once. So you'd be constantly reading data from S3.)
This shouldn't be any surprise to anyone. Congress gives lip service to representing their constituents. In reality, the only people (and interests) they represent are THEMSELVES.
Yes, congratulations to this individual who has built a classifier that classifies news from sources they like to peruse.
I got a glimpse of this working on my open source Minecraft clone, and it's at least half of the reason that game is sitting on the backburner. Gamers can be a pretty entitled group.

I also see this in the rest of my open source work, to a lesser extent. On the whole I probably get slightly fewer "fuck you"s than I get "thank you"s.
I think that's important as well, but both the Gawker and MJ cases are entirely irrelevant because they both were able to defend themselves.
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eBay is decent for used equipment some glassware, but would not recommend it for chemicals.
Is the answer to this problem simply more minority volunteers in clinical trials?
With you on this one. I have had a similar experience with a semi-famous scientist that I used to looked up to and admired. They made some completely incorrect personal assumptions about me and I was left feeling upset and depressed about it. It's just not something you expect.

It was like finding out one of your friends only kept you around to make jokes about you behind your back.

Unfortunately they have now retrospectively tarnished everything I used to look up to them about. It still leaves me feeling bitter but I deal with that by recognising their contributions to science without recognising them as a person.

Like you, I think we all need to do better maintaining the civility in 'civilisation'. It wasn't easy to get where we are and it won't be easy to get where we are going.

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Opengrok implements hyperlinking for C/C++ code which is the primary productivity multiplier since it allows you to easily jump around callgraphs. That functionality is sorely missing here (unless i am missing this feature somehow).
So there should be optimal pairing... I guess the problem is if both sides are exercising minimums. "I don't want the best of the shitty programmers remaining, I want someone with at least this much experience."

I don't want some random company, I want a supermodel!
What is "right" in news has become "a compelling narrative that appears plausible to the reader."

What is "wrong" in news is "an implausible narrative relative to the reader."

Plato deals with truth which is something entirely different, not in the same realm of the current state of news.

To be more specific, news can be one of four things to a reader: plausible and true, plausible and untrue, implausible and untrue, and implausible and true.

Most readers seem to more concerned with a stories' plausibility and not it's trueness.

Most importantly though is readers no longer value the "truth" component of news. They value whether or not the narrative aligns with their own view of the world.

Because what truly happened doesn't matter to most people, only that they have a way to make sense of it themselves. Even if it's a partially or completely false narrative.
A real issue that should be considered before the technology is actually upon us. I do think that the emphasis shouldn't be on CYA legal concerns, but rather on ensuring that the hardware and software environments being built aren't alienating to roughly half of your userbase (women).
Nothing about Signal itself is changing. This is Microsoft adopting the Signal Protocol for a new feature in Skype.
By the same argument, patent trolls are NBD. Except, of course, we know for a fact that lots of people are extorted into paying BS fees because they can't afford to go to court.
We’ve designed the Signal service to minimize the data we retain about Signal users, so the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.

Notably, things we don’t have stored include anything about a user’s contacts (such as the contacts themselves, a hash of the contacts, any other derivative contact information), anything about a user’s groups (such as how many groups a user is in, which groups a user is in, the membership lists of a user’s groups), or any records of who a user has been communicating with.

All message contents are end to end encrypted, so we don’t have that information either.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/
Yup. The whole P2P and Supernode architecture didn't just fail when it came to mobile devices. The Christmas 2010 outage was also caused by the reliance on supernodes.
By the way, can someone tell a reason why these parallel independent discoveries came during the same year as Project Zero? The vulnerability has been there for 20 years, and it is somehow strange that over the past two decades nobody thought of this, and now there are several who do and disclose it independently.
It seems... very strange that it doesn't allow the use of port 443/HTTPS with a self-signed cert. It's exactly the same thing.
I think you are reading this bit of PR far too optimistically.

For example, where in this statement does it say that Intel is actually going to change the way they design their chips to make them more secure? It doesn't. It only says that they will be more transparent about disclosing vulnerabilities, and presumably that means they will continue to disclose those security holes to the so-called "Tier 1" group, which excludes quite a few projects.

The most interesting thing to me was the subtle shift of responsibility onto vendors and consumers to make sure to patch their broken hardware promptly.
Tesla (the car company) also probably picked this name because the scientist's reputation (as an "under-apreciated genius of electricity") would bolster their electric car brand with their target audience. I don't see an issue.
I am not from your tech utopia, but i get the feeling that your so called "values" are more to blame for the wealth disparity than any single actor, regardless of their net worth. Assuming you live in SV, you are the folks that moved there, get paid obscene money to wrangle 1s and 0s, drive up the property value, and demand changes to the community to suit your tastes. When you were boarding your chartered bus to get you safely to the Green Zone, did you think you were part of the solution? I can think of 1 famous conservative VC (not my world so there are presumably more) and maybe 2 companies that make some claim to be, or are labeled as, conservative. The vast majority of the SV tech crowd and companies are liberals, and your Bernie T-shirt doesn't make you an "ally". Be honest with yourself: SV companies generate spam email, dump tons of thermal excess into the environment, and gentrify neighborhoods. Acting like you are somehow a different breed, and not a parasitic community (i know that term seems negative or besmirching but i mean it in its purely biological form), is something no one else is falling for. I realize this is an emotional rant that brushes with broad strokes, but i am pretty tired of West Coast folks acting like everything was fine before Trump and conservatives are backwards racists incapable of espousing compassion or modernity. That isn't an excuse, it is an explanation.
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Your assumption seemed to be that genetics didn't tie to ethnicity, which it is hence I restated it.
> I don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.

If I was you, I'd make it my priority to find out why ohers think different to myself. I really think it would be the best thing to do for anyone, for any subject or persons.

The not even amateur psychologist in me suspects that deep down we do know why but that it scares us. At any rate, a good inquiry into oneself would prove enlightening.
LOL, you're just getting your hopes up. This is 100% PR.

Personally, I'd be surprised if he actually even read this before it went out -- although, in this case, he may have.
Seriously! At least a for-profit prison would be sure to at least maximally charge the inmate for the privilege.
> Are you advocating companies exploiting uninformed investors or just saying that it's the "money-smart dickish move"?

I'm not advocating it. I'm saying there is a logic to it.
I was interested in the context of longevity - of it being a "happy side effect" of dropping fertility. Trans men and women take hormones that make them infertile, does that enhance longevity?

Trans people often do desire to have biological children. I wish I had ovaries and a uterus and all of that, but I can't with the current state of medicine, so biologically, I'm limited to playing the male role. Hormones do nuke fertility, but I froze sperm beforehand.

I don't think the desire to have biological children is any different in trans people than it is in cis ones. I find the idea of being a mother much more appealing but that's not the hand I got dealt.

Trans men do become pregnant (look up the man who got pregnant, it was a bit of a news sensation)

Everyone experiences gender in their own way - "the most female thing a person could do" is not a fair way to describe it. Although I desire it, as a trans woman, I don't think of it as the holy grail of femininity. Perhaps biologically it is; but as a social creature how I am received socially matters more.

I also can nurse, it turns out, and if I ever did have children with my cis partner, that duty would probably fall to me.

Plenty of trans people, like cis people, have no interest in having children; still others are not invested in them being biological. It's a personal thing that varies with each individual.
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You have a typo under "How does this work as a patient?": "You can simply visit our Find a Triala> page", pretty sure you don't want the "a>" there.
'Serious gap' in cosmic expansion rate hints at new physics
Signal takes metadata protection very seriously: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
Cold emailing local leads and meeting them in-person for a conversation.
> so a name that evokes electricity seems fairly appropriate

Only if the car was (somehow) powered via alternating current (bonus points if via wireless energy transfer, for obvious reasons).

I'm actually not sure what the motor tech in the Tesla vehicles are; likely some kind of 3-phase BLDC (or maybe synchronous AC).

So I guess in a way, it is "AC" at some point in the powertrain.

:)
That's how all blacklists work.