skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And a radical change it truly is. Philosophers and neuroscientists often assume that consciousness is like software, whereas the brain is like hardware. This suggestion turns this completely around. When we look at what physics tells us about the brain, we actually just find software—purely a set of relations—all the way down. And consciousness is in fact more like hardware, because of its distinctly qualitative, non-structural properties. For this reason, conscious experiences are just the kind of things that physical structure could be the structure of.

I'm not sure I buy the thesis, that conscious experience is the "hardware" and the brain is the "software".

It's hard for me to understand how a rock is ultimately comprised of conscious experiences, at its most fundamental level.

The attempt to tie together the "hard problem of consciousness" with the "hard problem of matter" comes across a bit square-peg/round-hole to me.

If I had to take a wild guess at these-

Hard problem of matter: it really is just vibrating strings at the bottom, and this is indeed where physical reality and math become indistinguishable. Blows the mind, and still so much more we can learn.

Hard problem of consciousness: I wish I knew more about the evolution of nervous systems, how can we tell when chemistry/biology becomes conscious thought? It's clearly some kind of feedback loop. In the future we could safely & non-invasively study the "bootstrap sequence" for various species brains as they make their first neural signals, from the earliest stages.

I really think we can solve this, or get a lot closer, but it will require some far-future technologies.
I knew somebody will get my random examples and turn them against me. :D Serves me right for not researching several hours to find the perfect example, I guess!

I am well aware of the differences in scope between K8s and Erlang/OTP. My point was that they kind of try to do the same only on different levels.

And I am still not sold on the idea of throwaway containers. That works well if you have a hyper-network of microservices that are able to discover each other and self-heal a bigger graph of services but if you have any sort of a more classic coherent whole app... then not really. Throwing containers away and rebooting new copies isn't something that looks viable for many projects.

But hell, who knows. K8s team and their audience are really dedicated. They might change every single tool of the trade just to make K8s work well. I was mostly saying that I don't feel it brings something really radical to the table.
Encryption ensures ONLY one thing: that the connection is private. You could be having a private conversation with Satan
My understanding is that the point of microservices isn't to just move what would have been a relational join in SQL to an equivalent join in the service layer, which is what the author is implying. Instead, the order service should already have the subset of user data it needs to perform its function. If a user name changes, for example, that would trigger an event that gets consumed by a handler in the order domain. You embrace some denormalization and duplication of data in order for each service to have as much of what it needs to perform its function without a ton of other dependencies.

I'm not saying this is necessarily the way to go, I'm just saying that this is my reading of the microservices design pattern.
Say you have a bug in a minor feature, that most people wouldn’t care about, but triggers the crash. Now someone’s trying to use this feature once or twice per minute.

If you rely on the infra for recovery, you’re going to be in serious trouble. There may be 300k users connected to an app instance, and you’re going to be kicking all of them out and restarting an instance every time the minor feature is called. This turns a minor bug into a full-blown outage.

Now we’re talking about a “printf crash” as an example, but in my experience the issues are more subtle. I’ve seen a Python app leak file descriptors due to a bug in an object’s destructor, which only happened when an exception was thrown in a certain place. This caused a service outage as the app looked “fine” from the infra’s point of view (it could respond to health check requests), but the functionality was dead. With Erlang processes, using a process per connection, the VM guarantees resources are cleaned up when a process dies, so that kind of issue doesn’t happen.

The Zen of Erlang goes a bit deeper into transient issues and why the supervision model helps: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
Asking the real questions here.
I’m trying to think of a reason I would want to be able to wrap my phone around a pole... I’m happy with it being non foldable.
Talking about substitution like food is some thing that you just pick the 'best' possible at any moment and just eat that.

You don't want to eat the same thing over and over again, there are infinite number of recipes based on meat, and whatever that substitute is going to be, isn't going to replace everything else, it's going to be yet another option on the table in the best case scenario.

Also, take it from a jew in Israel, the saying "stolen water will sweeten" is very true. The fact some things are not "Kosher" here (say pigs, sea food) just make the people who oppose "Kosher" to want them even more.

If you think morale has anything to do with changing people's eating habits, you're so wrong.
I was speaking more in a hypothetical sense, but you're right. The DNS as currently implemented is sufficiently broken so as to preclude securing it.
This only works if the developer will be donating to open source already and not caring about deducting it on taxes, but they could say “donate to charity in my name and let me know how much” and then they donate that much less.
There are a number of SIP gateways that you can use for free. You'd have to read their individual TOS and/or trust them about tracking and monetization.

One of the other guys that's working on this has a list of a few providers that offer a free account and work with the WiPhone. I'll see if I can post it once he's here.
Are we all just the same universe perceiving itself?

(Which philosophies have developed this thought?)
Not requiring a service subscription is one of the selling points. Additionally, there are no open-source cell basebands and they all allow your carrier to track you.
Over time, our picture of the universe become more clear with more understanding. If you think about the direction we are heading, you might imagine the picture becomes so clear, that the act itself enters into the picture of the universe and you find yourself staring into a mirror.
All this is true, but not really fair. Count up the issue raised by the OP, and Nvidia really has the most power to stabilize the linux desktop. I read that gamers who want peak performance on Linux can get the proprietary Nvidia drivers running well. So it's possible, but it will never be without the friction of open source running along side signed proprietary binaries.

What I would love to know is why linux isn't equal or superior to Apple and Msft in power management.
> has shown they are rare or absent in two out of five fields

The title presumably should say 40%
Sure, but it won't cause "subtle bugs" as the parent comment points out. It'll just make emulation a bit slower.
They are reading the Wikipedia article, without attribution.
Vote purchasing?
Well, a big problem here might be engineering thinking, as opposed to design thinking.

If you view the problem as, "I have to enumerate all the [Linux on Desktop] problems, and if I enumerate enough problems and fix all the ones I enumerated in the right order, then I've solved [Linux on Desktop]," then "Main Linux problems on the desktop" is, by virtue of having done exactly that, and not being the first or last iteration of that, part of the problem!

Not that I begrudge Linus Torvalds for saying things sort of like, Linux is evolved, not designed. It just shows that one of the big holes it has is its use on the desktop, and the major Linux designed product (Android) isn't really libre, and that Linus is a brilliant guy but he doesn't have answers to everything nor claims to.

Meanwhile take a look at elementaryOS, which I think has a lot of opinions you'd never find in an evolved or engineering-rational platform (like their own UI programming language). I think if they had the resources of a giant corporation they could make a meaningful impact on the desktop market.

I'd say it's very similar to a debate I heard from head of an architecture school attached to a university better known for its engineering. "When we looked at expanding the campus, decisions were made in terms of parking spaces per square foot, and whichever had the most parking spaces per square foot is where we would build the building." It's not that he's going around arguing his ambitious and less efficient designs are better, just because he's coming in with qualitative or emotional impacts incalculable by an enumerative cost-benefit analysis.

He's just saying enumerating all the considerations, and then solving, is a really reductive way of thinking about things.
I cannot think of a single atheist who ever tried to convince me I was required to join them in being an unbeliever. I don't try to cram my beliefs down their throats, they don't try to cram theirs down mine, IME.

On the other hand, I grew up in the Bible Belt and have known plenty of hellfire and damnation type Christians who wanted me to convert or die.
I see the appeal. Sometimes you want a small tablet sized screen but you want to carry around and use something with a phone sized form factor.
Yes, but as far as I'm aware that's an undesirable outcome?
nads would have been a nice addition to that thing.
NTSB investigates hundreds of "major" highway accidents per year. Typically accidents with multiple fatalities and at least one of the vehicles being operated for hire. For example NTSB investigated the Schoharie limousine crash where 20 people died.

Graduated drivers license laws for young drivers, age-21 drinking laws, smart airbag technology, rear high-mounted brake lights, commercial drivers licenses, and improved school bus construction standards all came about at least partially due to NTSB recommendations.
> there are many other options beyond just materialism and Cartesian dualism

Can you give some examples of the kind of options you're thinking of? I mean, I have a lot of time for functionalist accounts, and given Sufficiently Smart Technology (tm) I'm happy to allow for the possibility of something recognizably "me" being artificially duplicated in a different physical substrate. (After which we'd rapidly start diverging, and would need some new vocabulary to describe what's going on.)

But GGP's question was specifically about being born. I really struggle to imagine how someone born somewhere else, somewhen else, could be "me" with anything like the fidelity I think our intuition demands. And if you loosen your identity test to the point where it could, doesn't it then become useless as an individuation test, in that lots of people could be sufficiently like me all at the same time?

This is why I think it's tough to say "I - singular - could have been born in Brazil in 1873" without invoking something like a soul which acts as both an arbitrary GUID tag and as kind of mutex on embodiments.
Is there a way to disable data collection by the Chinese government on these? Or at least a way to toggle which government agency (NSA, GCHQ, etc) my data gets sent to?
Design Your Own Memorial Product - Material Design & createJS put together
I'm really disappointed (?) that nearly all of these answers are about money. I strongly prefer smaller companies for the larger impact you can have, the intimacy between a smaller team, and more freedom for self directed work.

That is worth a lot of money to me, to each there own, but I definitely prefer less money but a more enjoyable work experience.
> Apple has transformed into a company that lags in innovation.

At no point was Apple a company that was first in a product category. They didn’t make the first PC, the first portable MP3 player, the first smartphone (not even the first all-touchscreen smartphone), or the first smart watch. They won by jumping into these categories afterward and doing them better. Comments like this display an incredible ignorance of how Apple does business just to score cheap points.
I see that, but I'm trying to find a use case for this that doesn't require people to carry a regular cell phone around anyways :/
PG&E to judge: Impossible to completely comply with wildfire prevention rules
There was a recent freakonomics podcast [1] from which I learned that greenhouse gas emissions mostly come from cattle breathing, not their manure (I guess the manure imagery that often goes along with describing livestock environmental impact is just used because it's evocative?). Also that livestock farming in the US only contributes 3% of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions [2], which I wouldn't call a particularly "impressive percentage".

[1]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/meat/

[2]: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Do you happen to know the efficiency basis for insects?
They have a pretty good answer for this [1].

Basically, it's a black box component that introduces privacy risks and requires service plans.

[1] http://a.wiphone.io/#but-i-need-my-gsmcdmalte
I'm reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport right now which was the first thing that came to mind reading this article as well. For others that are curious, that book asks the question "Does the way we spend our time [particularly in the digital world] reflect our values?"

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-N...

http://calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/

IMO Cal's approach being driven from core values and encompassing all device usage resonates on a deeper level for me than the author's. That said, I haven't read yet the book written by the coach of the article author, How to Break Up With Your Phone. Looking forward to checking that out.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Up-Your-Phone/dp/039958112X
There's a big section on the page devoted to these points, but the main reason is this:

We aren't designing a phone, we're designing a device that allows hardware and low-level firmware hackers to do the things we want to do with phones, but can't due to being effectively locked out of modern smartphones.

That said, it should work perfectly fine as a home or office phone, or as a light-duty mobile one.

Longer reply here:
http://a.wiphone.io/#but-i-need-my-gsmcdmalte
I haven't had this problem with my "Oryx". I'm running the laptop monitor, a dell 24" vertical and old dell "Dual link dvi" 30 monitor.

Sometimes I plug into a hight dpi 28". Thats hit or miss depending on the applications. There are a few that don't scale well at all.

The only problem I have sometimes is the apple thunder (lightning?) adapter sometimes doesn't wake up, so I have to unplug the usb cable thats powering it.
I do it for selfish reasons. Veggies are cheap and easy to grow and full of minerals and protein. And high fibre legumes and grains are really good for gut bacteria

Not anti meat, just pro plants
Love the idea (ish) and the form factor, I am a firm believer that a small and thinner (width not depth) form factor will be the future of phones until the next big leap, so a lot like this form factor, but with the ability to throw some LTE hardware in here and make a phone you can slap any pay as you go SIM in, I just wonder why not?

Btw this is not the future: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ezgif-4-fb...
I just don’t see the point to this. If I’m on Wifi I already have my computer. Why would I need an extra phone...?
_For instance Microsoft and Apple regularly update ntoskrnl.exe and mach_kernel respectively for security fixes, but it's unheard of that these updates ever compromised the boot process._

I had updates rendering my computer unbootable by messing up the MBR at least twice.
Surprised you lump those together. Seitan is the best, but I've never found a tempeh recipe we can tolerate.
Three Hundred Users in Seven Weeks
Maybe your phone could trust all base stations operated by AT&T and T-Mobile, instead of manually verifying each one.
> But what if the space is only confined to "succumb to bad habits" for some people?

No person would be so constrained. The space of possible behaviours is simply too large, so you're arguing a moralistic stance from an unreasonable assumption.

Furthermore, free will and determinism are not at odds. Even if someone were fully constrained to act in only a single way, that doesn't entail they would not be morally blameworthy.

The mistake you and others who argue against free will make, is that you assume moral blameworthiness necessarily entails punishment. While this is often the case in religious beliefs, it simply does not follow without additional assumptions. Your beef is not with free will. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
This is so cool. I will always try to support any project that takes mobile computing/communications in a more libre, hackable, privacy-respecting direction.

However, I don't buy the argument for WiFi only. Sure, you are often on WiFi... But if I wanted to make a private VoIP call in such locations, I would just use my Linux laptop (or, realistically, any computer).

The reason for having a phone like this is for essential communication on the go -- not just to be an application specific piece of hardware.

That said, they have to start somewhere and I'm sure LTE integration is a lot of work. It's cool just to have something like this being developed. Keep it up!
I can only know for sure that I am conscious, I only assume others are conscious because they are built kind of similar to the way I am. Though if we weren't conscious then would we talk about consciousness? What other topics wouldn't we talk about if we weren't conscious? We could still talk about experience because it would be functional, e.g. "I am experiencing pain" could be something I expect to come from an unconscious thing that has evolved to communicate pain in order to avoid death.

Could a conversation about consciousness occur from unconscious things?
All this time spend creating this list could've been spent fixing at least one single little thing.
And yet, I didn't cause the chair, and the chair didn't cause me.
Can Arduino run Python? Seems a bit heavyweight for an embedded system like the ESP32…
I recently tried Android again on Pixel 3 and effectively I have to find a way to send a file to an app without the storage permission. Is that an app-specific thing? I have yet to find an app that doesn’t do that. I understand the issues with the older versions that required install-time permission grant and this is not that issue.
As someone who is a "save the planet" vegetarian, I am mystified by your comment. No, I wouldn't start eating meat if there was a magic machine that sucked carbon out of the atmosphere, and I am not claiming my personal reasons for not eating meat are somehow not selfish.

But most of all, that's not the only reason I'm a vegetarian.

I don't think you're going to end up with a good discussion if you start it like this.
As a staunch lover of meat I am fundamentally against meat substitutes. I love vegetarian dishes and eat them often, but I will not touch a meat substitute if I can avoid it. Many asian foods include tofu and that’s fine.

My reasoning is that if a dish is supposed to be vegetarian, or it just doesn’t include mat because it doesn’t need to, then keep it vegetarian. Veggies are delicious. Why ruin a perfectly good dish with fake meat?

If a dish is meant to include meat, then just use meat. It has different macros and very different taste than current meat substitutes. Why ruin a perfectly good dish with fake meat?

If you’re gonna not eat meat all the power to ya, don’t eat meat. But don’t then try to replicate meat with not-meat that’s just lazy. Explore the world of proper vegetarian and vegan dishes. You might be pleasantly surprised by how great they are.
Fair enough, but those are kind of testing 101, so I’d be a bit dissapointed if they influenced the numbers given.
But GGP's question was specifically about being born. I really struggle to imagine how someone born somewhere else, somewhen else, could be "me" with anything like the fidelity I think our intuition demands. And if you loosen your identity test to the point where it could, doesn't it then become useless as an individuation test, in that lots of people could be sufficiently like me all at the same time?

Up front let me admit this is effectively a cheat.

BUT in a multiverse or infinite universe not only are there multiple “you’s“ there are in fact infinite identical versions of you. I grant that this is not taking the spirit of the conversation into account, and is untestable to boot, it is genuinely possible.
IIRC Apple jumped on the bendable-phone trend a few years ago, before everyone else.
I mean you can do authentication without doing it per base station... the real reason we don’t have anything like this is because it’s a lot of work to make this work well worldwide and because a lot of governments are not interested in making spoofing base stations harder on themselves.
> that nice tasting veggie dishes are often being replaced in restaurants with horrible tasting meat-substitute dishes

Ha, this is a problem my wife has started having after impossible burger became popular in the bay area. All our favorite burger joints now serve that, instead of the brilliant vegan burgers they used to have (including my workplace).
we have the viewpoints of a lot of living beings here, but none from any actual, static, dead matter. sometimes our voices can be so numerous and loud they crowd out and frighten others. i guess what i'm saying is: can we perhaps take a breath, create some space and hopefully encourage some dead matter to step up and offer its perspective?
Can't wait to see the meat substitutes (Impossible, Beyond Meat) break away from their current association with luxury foods and become much cheaper.

When I met two guys from Impossible ~3 years ago they told me they wanted to make a ground beef substitute at $0.20 a pound. That would, as PG says, make it almost indefensible to eat real beef in many situations.
how can it every be superior to Apple when they control the whole thing from processors to OS through hardware (and most peripherals), impossible feat
The climate is harsher than -25C/-15F in the winter?
not having to lug a traditional gearbox around

You mention the Prius. Are you unaware of the complexity of its complex, heavy drivetrain?[1] Much heavier than even a traditional gearbox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive#Transmiss...
If you give me a team that's already delivered a modern smartphone design from scratch I'll have a tilt at that windmill. :)

For now this is a realistic goal. We'll see what happens after.
How about a list of all the things that really work great?

I've been using Linux on the desktop for nearly 20 years and I'll have to say it's fantastic, despite the occasional headache, which seems to be at a far less frequency than other major desktop operating systems.
On the contrary, contemplating the death of the animal that provided it is the primary reason I am compelled to eat less meat. I find it difficult to imagine that contemplating the death of an animal might have any other effect.
What I get out of this is that while each of these issues may be individually dismissed, they together make for a very "non-premium" experience.

I use linux myself, but when people I know try it out, they immediately leave after encountering problems with audio, dpi scaling, etc
Came here to ask the same thing. G.722 springs to mind as the simplest to implement that could reasonably be called "HD".