skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're forgetting that Silicon Valley is saturated with new age beliefs and other woo. Just because someone's smart and is good with computers doesn't make them any less susceptible.
To me "consciousness" feels mostly like early chemists talking about pholgiston. Or like early biologistis discussing elan vital. Or even current physics' "dark matter". These are words that don't really point to single externalities with sharp borders, instead they are terms we apply to disparate, but seemingly (somehow) related phenomena.

> The real answer is that we don't yet know enough about how the brain works...

I don't think the "problem of consciousness" is one of missing empirical evidence so much as simply a fuzzy (ill-posed?) question. Though enough evidence might be sufficient to forcefully dissolve an irreal question. On the flipside, a lot of the current ML research does a good job at addressing consciousness by breaking it into concrete, communicable actions.

Instead of asking, "What is consciousness?" try asking, "What actions could XYZ take that would convince me it's conscious?" A related question is "What actions (in minute detail) are involved as I believe/think/feel I'm conscious?" Those two questions are similar, but tend to evoke quite different sets of "external" experiences and actions.

It might turn out that there is some mathematically invariant property of things that are capable of acting as convincing conscious agents, a la the physically precise definition of heat turning out to behave kind of like a phlogiston. In such a case, we might in fact find a "thing" that deserves the label "consciousness"---such as Hofstadter's idea of a strange loop---but for now I think the term is used pretty much used in a way that's synonymous with "magic".
I feel like someone who would write an article like "Research Debt" is someone who truly gets it. Someone who sees the enormous upside potential that can be unlocked through just investing in quality.

I'm deeply interested in these topics, but I'm not so good at them. I have gotten much further than I ever would because of efforts like these.

Thanks for being you.
NPM and Yarn are hardly "open-source competition".

They're loss-leaders in a SaaS market competition between private corps Facebook and NPM.
Like I said, in extremis. The same way you might ask to use a bathroom at a business you were not a customer at, or to borrow something from a stranger to solve a clear temporary need.

The sort of request that is granted with a smile if asked politely, and denied if asked rudely, basically. Part of the general fabric of society.

You would only ask if you'd been out a while on a hot day and were parched, or something similar. There's surely some social analogue not involving water where you live?
Thank god I don't live in a planned economy where you can't axe the dinner shift and a bus boy.
Boston's 'Big Dig" urban centre highway construction created 2 miles of roadbed at. costs of $15 - $24 billion, (up to $12 billion/mi), carrying 536,000 vehicles/day. At an average of 1.55 occupancy rating, about 830,000 passengers/day. Two miles.

DC Metro's Silver Line is 29.6 miles long, has 26 stations, and cost $6.8 billion, or $229 million/mi, roughly one tenth the cost of Boston's freeway project.

Peak capacity at 26 8-car trains of 120 passenger earch per hour is just under 25,000 passengers/hr. Over nearly 30 miles. Or roughly 750,000 passenger miles per hour, as compared with 70,000 passenger-miles/hr sustained for the Gig Dig.

Note that, yes, I'm comparing Metro peak with Boston daily average. The >10x advantage remains. "More than 70% of rail ridership occurs during the morning and evening rush hours, and 43% of these commuters ride Metro in a one-hour time period' (WMATA Core Capacity study).

This gives us about 3,200 passenger-mile/$billion for urban highway, versus 110,000 passenger-mile/$billion for DC Metro.

Metro wins handily. Rail is 34x more cost effective than highway.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-...

https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1219/p02s01-ussc.html

https://nhts.ornl.gov/tables09/fatcat/2009/avo_TRPTRANS_WHYT...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Line_(Washington_Metro)

https://web.archive.org/web/20101203024521/http://wmata.com/...
The fact that they prompt you for your literal bank password when funding your account says everything you need to know about how they look at security.
Year is 2040. Candidate for Senate was linked to foreign agent for some innocuous reason. FISA court grants warrant. Justice find nudes, because obviously. Incumbent administration leaks to Twitter.

This is such a bad move the tragedy/comedy writes itself.
I was in the belief the main difference between vegetarian and vegan diet is vegetarians eat eggs, dairy and some borderline products, e.g. honey.

The Vegetarian Society does not explicitly mention the ovo-lacto vegetarians: https://www.vegsoc.org/info-hub/definition/

Thanks for the update!
It's more of a compromise between the humans dealing with language (compiler, editor, DSL authors) and the humans who exclusive want to write application code.

Common Lisp is far from the only option, but it's arguably the best compromise of popularity / feature set. There are a variety of s-expression, stack-based or simple syntax languages that could work.

As a counter-example in a more popular language, look at how much effort went into "function builders" for Swift. They're solving a real pain point, but it took five years to get there, the feature isn't backward compatible to old versions (unlike a lisp macro), and the standards process was minorly subverted to add them.
I recall an article last week (I think?) about a team managing to get multiple electrons (?) from a single photon, so it seems like would could put everything together and get a decent (overall %) efficiency increase - though I’m sure none of these are particularly close to mass production/deployment
The Tools Challenge: Rapid Trial-and-Error Learning in Physical Problem Solving
If the history of science is of any guidance, it's fields which have "no doubt left" which are ripe for a major revolution. Witness: pre-Copernican astronomy (no doubts about Earth being in the center for like a thousand years), pre-Newtonian mechanics (Aristotle had it all explained), pre-Mendelian biology (Lamarckian inheritance), pre-Einstein physics (only a few questions remaining... like that pesky photo-effect, and Newton explained it all about gravity), pre-Goedel mathematics (Hilbert program, anyone?)
> why do you go for tap water?

It's wasteful not to. I wouldn't say it tastes the same, but even though the water where I live is very chalky, I'm personally fine with it.

> why would tap water have to be free

Because it's virtually free to the restaurant. Having it free also promotes the healthy habit of drinking water instead of other drinks: When thirsty, if tap water is not an option, many people will choose soda over water… if you're paying for it anyway.

> would you pay for it?

If it's water I want, I'd rather pay for tap water than pay for bottled water, simply on the ethics of it. But I would find it absurd and disgraceful to charge for tap water. Remember, this is a custom that is standard in many countries.

> Are you in Belgium?

Brussels. Sablon to be specific :)
Some degree? That's putting it very lightly. FAA lets Boeing certify their own jets.
There is absolutely no evidence to support that claim, nor is there any plausible reason to believe it.
Remember when Yahoo turned down $1 million to buy Google ?
Europe heat wave: Historic event underway as all-time heat records are shattered
Gmail takes a good five seconds to load the basic UI on my i7 laptop (and then some more time to load messages), but for some reason the Basic HTML link in the corner doesn't work. I've logged in a few times this week and clicked the link each time, and the browser confirms the click with the focus rectangle appearing, but it still loads the slow version of Gmail. This is in Firefox as well as Falkon (WebKit-based).

My company uses Outlook/Exchange and it also has a webapp; the website is pretty feature-rich and has a UI very similar to native Outlook, but it is blazing fast. The folks at Google are doing something very wrong to make it this slow.
Moffet Field is probably the tough part. It's true they operate it but it's a federal air field. Privatizing the ownership may be challenging.
Often the taxi driver has waited for a long time (sometimes hours) in the airport queue for it to be their turn to get a fare. If you take a $5 ride they’re upset because they invested all that time for no payoff. I don’t think it’s wrong for the passenger to do this, but I understand why it’s frustrating for the driver.
Flatten a list in Python using list comprehension

flat_list = [item for sub_list in orig_list for item in sublist ]

Using itertools

flat_list = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(orig_list))
Why it's so hard to find text-only static article sites which render with JS disabled.
How does this compare to `screen` and `tmux`?
A man cannot survive on beer alone he also need a cow shirt
The problem is best understood from a supply chain management perspective.

A clothing retailer ordered that stuff six months ago and they only took a two minute glance (if that) at the one model sized 'medium' garment the wholesaler got the supplier to make. Every other size was just a tickbox with some guesses made as to how many items to stock to get through the sales season.

The importer took the orders from retail and topped up the order so they can do some mid-season re-stocking. They know that they have to get the order right as it is not as if the product is going to be made again.

The retailer does not have to make a sale from every customer that walks through the door. For people with XXS or XXL size requirements they might only have something to sell, the one coat in the super-sized option. Even this may be a carryover item from a previous season, kept in stock for the guy with arms that reach down to his ankles.

It is quite a risk to get the sizing wrong, you can't have a garment on the shelves with just the XXS and XXL sizes with nothing in-between. If this happens then it is straight to the sale rail. Particularly if the supplier didn't overstock the popular sizes.

We also live in an age of fast fashion where people buy clothes the whole time. Truth be told, if everyone out of childhood stopped buying clothes today we wouldn't have a mass nakedness problem for years. Clothes are that abundant. There have always been tailors and dress makers that will make clothes to fit any body, maybe a service for this is needed rather than a newsletter about what trousers in the world of fast fashion can be squeezed into.
Dreams —- to me pose as the lowest hanging fruit to peeling the viscous mutable layers of ...our consciousness.
> a small price for the safety of air travel?

You're taking it way too far in the other direction. It's not whether we have safety or not, it's a matter of some very close to 100% number vs. a different very close to 100% number. (And at this point it's more likely the same future safety level but different amounts of training.)
Google Photos joined the billion-user club
> Who goes into a restaurant, does not order anything, and asks for free ice water?

Never done that nor heard of anyone ever doing that. I've always ordered food/drinks and tipped at restaurants where I've gotten free water which is everywhere. The no pay example I cited is Starbucks which is an order and pick up coffee shop. I actually pulled out my wallet ready to pay for the cup of water but they were nice enough to give it to me for free which is probably a good idea in hindsight considering mint says I've spent $1200 there over the past 4 years and I appreciated that.
The question is fairly bad, but reneging on the offer on your first day on the job isn't all peachy either.

Perhaps it would've been better to hold off on accepting until you have had the responses from every potential employer (Source: have had people not show up on their first day of work way too often)
Yes, up until the recent advent of genetic sequencing, we humans have often mistakenly considered two organisms that look the same to the naked eye as being the same.
> Especially because this looks like an nbconvert workflow under the hood.

It is, however I convert it to the most basic html and add custom css and js to it. So that I can change it to whatever I want. I don't see any problem with that maybe you could point some out.

I didn't go with pelican(or any static gen) because the build times will be much slow later on as blogs increase [1] as this guy faced.
I like to configure a lot of things manually and don't want the burden of static gen if that make sense to you. I just needed a converter.

1. https://nipunbatra.github.io/blog/2017/Jupyter-powered-blog....
Videogames are deterministic too, but that doesn't mean all of the things that a player's character does are predetermined inside the videogame. I like to think that there is a similar analogy for our universe, where a soul is controlling our body the same way we might control a game character.
Optimum for me would be links along with client integration to open said links inline. Links for example in a plaintext email are clickable - not because of HTML, but client integration. The same can be done on image links.

That way the big screenshots don't destroy the flow of text like in http://example.jpg [+] (open inline) and instead information is condensed and digested in the most optimum way possible.
IANAL but my sense is that it will be a number of years before we really know what works with regards to this kind of licensing of DNN/ML training data sets. It's almost certainly going to be decided on the basis of what's called "case law", which really just means "a bunch of random judges who don't know anything about ML made decisions on a bunch of random lawsuits that probably were not good samples to pick and which were probably taken to court by pairs of parties with wildly different abilities to pay lawyers and now we are stuck with those decisions as precedent for future cases."

If that sounds like a crappy legal footing for the next 20 years of software development, yeah, it is. It's also why Mitch Kapor and a few others founded and funded the EFF to try to encourage better case law decisions around the early days of electronic privacy law. We definitely need an EFF like effort around ML/DNN/etc., but I'm not holding my breath.

I wish I had a better answer, I'm mostly hoping someone else here does.
>Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy',

Source?
How is the (attacker-controlled, no?) version & purpose field in PASETO not subject to the same issues as the JWT header? (Are we just lucky that none of the currently existing version/purposes can conflict?)

The issues folks have around JWT's header field always seem to be interface issues: libraries need to understand what keys they can use to validate, and what types those keys are, and validate them against the header.

(Though, I do not know why there is a "none" algo. That does seem like a folly. Could we recon that in the RFC?)
Experience is even less mysterious than consciousness.

A recording is experience. Information you recall and inspect is experience. Experience of consciousness is recollection of mental states.
We all love VLC and know the hard work you put into it, and into keeping it secure. Don't stress too much. The media buzz will die down soon.
A Permanently Magnetic Liquid
Starbucks is the only restaurant I've seen here in Belgium that will systematically give you tap water on request, no questions asked. They usually throw in some ice for you as well. I'm guessing they train their employees on that, because it's actually very non-standard behaviour over here.

Just the fact they do that makes me want to go there more often.
https://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/08/so-why-isnt-riding-b...
> What obligation did Krebs have to be nice to these people?

I’ll take that as an agreement that it wasn’t nice then?

Regardless, I don’t think I said anywhere that he had an obligation to be nice, only that his comments were a violation of Twitter’s TOS. Which presumably he does have an obligation to follow since he’s using their platform.

> The professional ethics rules of journalism have more the opposite directionality, cautioning journalists against maintaining anonymity of sources to the detriment of the readership.

Krebs is not posting their names and location as a journalistic act, he’s posting them to serve as retribution for speaking badly about something he has a personal involvement in. I don’t know what the professional ethics rules of journalism say about that, but I think it’s something most people would agree is pretty shitty.
Given that most definitions of consciousness I've seen essentially express that you are capable of symbolic/abstract thinking, I'd say:

1) (extreme) autistic person that doesn't speak, but can, and arguably thinks too abstract, rather than not enough : yes, conscious. Probably more conscious in some sense than "normal" people, whose consciousness is more a group thing, or at least less independent.

(also: not speaking is a pretty extreme form of autism, certainly not something you'd see in your average school)

2) person that grew up without ever having any reason to learn symbolic or abstract thinking ? No, not conscious

But it's going to be a sliding scale thing. By some measures a cat and a dog are conscious because, well, because they are certainly capable of making humans think they are suffering (and therefore they both think and feel, which is where consciousness definitions are going on now. Fish, for instance, are not). This seems to me a really bad way to define it but it's certainly widely used.
Honestly, I used to order delivery all the time from Grubhub, and occasionally the other services. I hate it when my order arrives late or incorrectly, and Grubhub was the most reliable out of the bunch. A big concern for me while ordering from Simmer would be the accuracy of my order and completion!

When it comes to delivering food, I like the process to be as swift and clear as possible- probably because I can't see the food or the place making it. I usually choose my dish/restaurant based on what I already know is good/craving. When I create group orders, which is more often than not, lots of recommendations are being exchanged because I'm definitely quite indecisive.

Because it's delivery and I'm limited to what's open/within a price range, I'm not very adventurous to avoid "risking it". I prefer to have a great meal than an adventurous one on busy days/days in.

Hopefully, with Simmer I can explore some new options confidently!
Why Billy Corgan uses short cables
I'll admit, that's a good point that made me go, "Hmmm."
It still means an industry is paying ~85% of the sales taxes it should.

Overall, businesses will charge what they can. And if they don’t have to pay taxes, they can keep that $ for themselves.
Not to mention the new signs can involve the hand shapes from, say, the first letter of the borrowed English word. Say the word starts with a D, and everybody recognises the fingerspelt word just from the D alone (in context), then the new sign might use the hand shape for D but give it a specific action.
Unfortunately, due to vanity sizing, most people don't actually know their real waist measurement either.

IME the only places that actually stick to proper sizes on belts are places that cater more toward "working belts" - selling to people who carry guns or gear - not for fashion or "just" to hold up their pants.
It is because we believed in it that chemistry was invented! The worst case by pursuing an impossible thing is that you acquire a ton of knowledge in the process.

If ITER fails, what we will have learned about superconducting magnets manufacturing and high-temperature plasma will surely be useful.
I also left Gusto for that exact reason. Especially when there was a holiday involved!

It pained me to return to ADP, but I had no choice. My employees would not be excited if I made the choice to return to Gusto.
This seems so intuitively wrong to me; like postulating that Windows is necessary for assembly to exist.

Almost none of the preliminary claims in this article feel compelling to me: "no physical property or set of properties can explain what it’s like to be conscious". Where is the proof of this? All the author does is re-state this sentence in different ways.

I imagine people have had similar conversations throughout history: "no one can really predict weather", "no-one understands economics", "no-one understands what makes people fall in love"; but would you claim that (for example) love is the trigger, or boundary condition which causes reality to coalesce?

The claims which do feel believeable are:
1) Many aspects of physical reality are relational
2) Some boundary conditions are necessary in order to make everything well-defined

But there is a real gap from the points above, to the conclusion that consciousness is the missing boundary-condition. Maybe we just haven't discovered the missing boundary-condition yet. Or maybe there is none, and reality is ill-defined.

Everyone who's going on about "we don't know enough about the brain to even START this" feels like a Sunday-school teacher telling me not to question the Greater Truths. It's a thought-killing sentiment. It's a subconscious defense mechanism for people who can't admit that they're a mostly-deterministic machine.
But here's the thing, is it possible under current regulations to add on that training to existing pilots, without making them do everything else over again?

If they would have to treat this plane as completely unrelated to any existing model, doing an entire training program from scratch, then there is a legitimate need for regulatory compromise.
> Then why isn’t there a function to flatten a list in Python?

There's a function to flatten an arbitrary iterable into a flattened iterable and a function to turn any iterable into a list.

> I can write software in Scala or OCaml or Racket in less than half the time of Python, while also being 10x faster.

Many people, on many types of problems, find the reverse of the first relationship.
wow. Great way to understand how the games were created back then with the low storage space. It would be great if this game can be remade to play on the browser. I remember playing this from my older brother's console but never got through it because at the time, it was well before my time and the graphics just didn't work for me. Older now, and I feel like I can appreciate this game now and overlook the old graphics... I know emulators exists, but never understood how to set it up.
Sorry, but this smells like bullshit.

First, the anonymous email is from someone unwilling to go on the record.

Second, they won't even say what classes they experience a 95% failure rate in. Nor do we know what school. These details really count. A community college is not an ivy league medical university with an interdisciplinary STEM curriculum and SEAS programs.

Third, the professor is sort of complaining that the students are basically all behaving as ADHD cases, but it's just a quick email rant, so there's probably more going on...

It could be hundreds of little things affecting why this one professor is stuck in the doldrums of a really bad group of students. Are there lots of meat head athletes trying to coast on sport scholarships and float through his department? Lots of schools accept mediocre drop outs.

I don't doubt that recent batches of students suffer from severe lack of focus and motivation. It's probably all too true that technology has produced some detrimental cultural shifts that leave students drifting even more aimlessly than ever before, but this complaint lacks meat.

There's nothing to back up this guy's complaints. It's just an hastily written email venting frustration.

How do we prove true facts that validate it?
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