skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, you are waving off potential answers because you are convinced there are none.

I agree with you, the cited papers probably don't solve the hard problem of consciousness but to assume that qualia is just intrinsically unexplainable won't help solve anything either.

I can imagine that consciousness will either turn out to be something completely groundbreaking (i.e. the universe consists of consciousness) or completely mundane (i.e. it's an illusion all sufficiently complex information processing systems develop), but ignoring research is not the way find out.
Why do you think only people in USA would switch?

Although they create 10x more CO2 than average iirc.
Session cookies should be locked to a TLS channel ID.

Then they are useless to anyone who steals them, since a TLS channel ID can't be recreated except with access to the TPM of the computer which initially created the cookie/session/TLS connection.
Relayed where?

The target audience of the protests are (1) local officials, and (2) fellow citizens who do not share the gravity of the situation.

CCP will, of course, know of the protests with no need for any relay.

The “HK students protested against pro-China regulation and quickly succeeded, rejoice!” articles in Western media, though, will also be read by CCP. What would you do if you felt yourself losing your hard-earned strong image in front of the whole world?

Local media attention helps, worldwide—not so much.
Jessica Buettner pulled 227.5kg (502lbs) at 72kg last year at 23years old, Amanda Lawrence pulled 252.5kg (557lbs) at 84kg this year at 22years old, both in Junior women classic powerlifting.

It's OK to be to pull whatever weight, lifting should be about realistic self improvement and self empowerment. My point is because records are getting chipped so fast, and for the first time, extremely strong women are entering the stage due the raising popularity of lifting among women that it's causing a lot of issues (and toxicity) in lifting social media, which I recommend most people to stay away from.
YouTube does not have a big influence on society. Culture reflects society and not the other way around. Although YouTube can act as a censor and slowly cast away people from society.
Boston had to pare back stations on its Green Line Extension to save over a half billion dollars: https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2016/05/10/frequent-serv...
Because if you do it in two rollouts, you don't find out that the first one is broken until you do the second one... which means the first isn't necessarily a safe rollback target for the second. But the one before the first isn't safe either once the second has been rolled out because it doesn't have any logic to not explode upon seeing new values.

The third can be a flag flip instead of a code push, but it still needs to be a discrete event to start generating the new value that triggers new behavior.
> These things vary wildly in terms of quality and fitness for purpose in ways that are wickedly hard to pin down in a document listing objective criteria.

It's more work. It's not impossible. And when the difference is literally millions of dollars, it's worth doing the work.

> The best tools may be open source, or from small time shareware shops that will not submit proposals.

If they're open source then you don't need to solicit bids because you're not appropriating money, and if the bidding process excludes small legitimate vendors then you can start by addressing that.

> There may be some discount IDE out there with the same feature set as IntelliJ but unbearably frequent crashes.

"Doesn't crash more than once per N hours of normal usage" is a fairly objective criteria that can be specified under terms like "if it does that then payment is withheld until you fix it."

> There are some ridiculous programming languages out there, but “not ridiculous according to my team” is a clearly subjective and corrupt requirement.

Then identify the thing that objectively makes it unsuitable and add that to the requirements. It can't be subjectively ridiculous yet have no objective defects unless your subjective determination is without merit.

The difference between this and rigging the bid is that if e.g. the IDE that is only unsuitable because it crashes all the time could have that defect corrected for a million dollars, and it's a ten million dollar contract, it becomes worth it for the other vendor to fix their code so they can bid on the contract, whereas if you rig everything then that's impossible and the sole vendor gets to charge the taxpayer monopoly prices.
At any rate Steerforth really reinforces my point - how is he wealthy? Like many wealthy characters in Dickens he is because it is a fact of his nature to be so, as it is in his nature to be handsome.

He does not do anything for his wealth, the wealth does not force him to attend board meetings or consider what competitors will do in other regions or how the slow down in the business means he will have to lay off workers or sell some of his land. The wealth allows him to have merry adventures with a pretty girl until he dies.

In Dickens it seems wealthy people never lose wealth by bad decisions or new technologies supplanting what they had or ships failing to deliver cargo on time, they tend to loose wealth by profligacy in either gambling or drink but generally both.

This is not a fault in Dickens, not everyone has to focus on the mechanics of wealth. Indeed perhaps his keeping away from such details helps hold the atmosphere of the fantastical that clings to his works, and has allowed them to keep being read so long.

The details of businesses that no longer would be viable probably make for dreary literature.
Maybe Mubert is what you are looking for? https://mubert.com/

It has a lot of channels including ambient music.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cow-orker
I think you are very mistaken about an assumption, that GPT-2 can not experience qualia.

I am not even sure it would need any additional training.

Or I misunderstand what you mean by qualia. But the only other alternative interpretation of a word I can think of is identical to "being a specific physical system", which does not involve consciousness at all.
Alternative: If all your software work has to be done at a computer you probably aren’t thinking hard enough.
I guess OP means preventable by others who are knowledgeable of the preventability?
I'm not sure why you think that. While this is a very dense document, it details a lot about the fatality statistics around Teslas and Autopilot. The short version is that Teslas are actually not very safe cars (relatively speaking), and Autopilot is probably much more dangerous than manual driving (although Tesla won't release the data, so we don't know for sure).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESnyJ4b7m96OCjs3GSQ6...
No doubt. I strongly believe go is a major advancement over c/c++ for routine work and an improvement over python.

There are, however major footguns, I find it hard to read other people's, or even my own code (parsing nested if conditionals is no fun when you're debugging under duress), and CSP is really just.... Not the best concurrency paradigm.
I was going to type Jukedeck. Thought I'd visit the site first. Offline. Apparently TikTok has bought it!
That brings back memories! I actually reverse-engineered that exact sprite compression (at least the G/S variant) back in 2001, when I was involved in the early ROM hacking community [1]. I stared at disassembled Z80 machine code for many, many hours to figure out and document the various quirks. I wrote a decompression program in (terrible, self-taught) QBasic, the only programming environment I had access to / knowledge of back then.

[1] https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/59/
Functions in most popular languages behave this way. `get` is just a method; its arguments will never be short-circuited. If you wanted short-circuiting, use the ternary operator:

my_dict['existing_key'] if 'existing_key' in my_dict else foo()

You could also define a `get_lazy` method that does the above, taking a nullary function as its key and evaluating it if the key is missing. But then you would need to wrap your default values in a lambda, which would look absurd for the common use case of calling `get` with some constant default value. Seems unnecessary when the ternary operator works fine.
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They will surely offer "promoted content" and claim it to be popular. Honestly, while I don't like point/karma systems very much, I think the development to even more artificially placed content will not be in favor of platforms in the long term.

Advertisers encroach on every platform and it really sucks. Youtube for example didn't really develop anything worthwhile for users. 5 years ago the platform was so much more interesting. It still is, but navigating content was made really difficult with "adjusted" search results.
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There is a limit to the precision of a position measurement of any particle, and atoms are made of many particles. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the uncertainty of the position and momentum of a particle are related. In particular, the product of the errors has a constant lower bound. Visually, if you think of (1d) position and (1d) momentum plotted on a 2d graph, then Heisenberg's principle means that particles are not points, but rectangles with a minimum area.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/31/eating-disor...

Just in general, there have been quite a few articles like this in the last few years. Particularly affects bodybuilding communities trying to get to sub 10% bodyfat. One of the problems is that lifting social media is basically Youtube recommendation on steriods (pun intended), the average lifter that lifts or diets for health doesn't get as much attention as the shredded one lifting big weights, probably on drugs, and if not, have genetics 99.99% of people doesn't and therefore have effectively zero chance of replicating.

Edit: another issue is because health culture likes to emphasis on hard work and discipline without acknowledging that 2sigma genetics is precursor to being at the very top. Kids see juiced idols who play the eat well and work hard card (including wholesome figures like Arnold), whose livelihood depends on perpetuating that myth, and telling the truth is tantamount to admitting you committed a crime due to legislation around steriods. The incentives are stacked.
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I did not say Pickwick was a villain, I said that my original statement was true except I did not talk about the villains. I wrote "did not have a fascination with wealth and its technical details." the AND in the sentence is meant to combine the two as I thought was clear, sure he had a fascination with being wealthy in the same way that I do about having enough money to never work again, travel the world, and have heaps of fun.
> thus any assumption there is something outside of consciousness is just that

I've also watched the video you linked to. His argument is indeed strong, but the scientist was rather weak. They (seemed to) agree that experience is mediated by our physical bodies (brains). So did the universe (matter) exist when there was no evolved consciousness to observe it? If the matter did not exist before the mind, how did we come to be?

Yes, our whole world could be somebody's dream or we could be "brains in the vat", but then the question is only changed to "who is dreaming or maintaining the vat"? And since we cannot observe the dreamer, does he exist?
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One of the idioms of Golang is not being clever but being verbose and clear.

Looks like your senior dev has completely missed that.
It really depends. Anabolic-androgenic steroids come in a rather wide variety. It's one thing to inject Test Cyp or some other bio-similar to natural human testosterone in "normal" doses as part of TRT or similar therapy. It's quite another to inject something like Trenbolone[1]. That and similar drugs will produce extreme results in anyone who isn't androgen resistant. And they have all kinds of other nasty side effects too. Suppressing intratesticular testosterone is virtually assured without additional intervention.

Interestingly there is some evidence that the effects of steroid use continue even after discontinuing use. Also, thanks to the unexplained secular testosterone decline, pretty much every American man who doesn't medicate is going to be well below his genetic potential. Unless, of course, the secular testosterone decline is a consequence of some dysgenic force.

[1]Used to make cattle get meatier. And it works exceedingly well.
There's no such thing as "C/C++".
Unless you're doing singles, a significant amount of energy is being delivered aerobically (I can't find the study atm, but I vaguely remember numbers around 50-70%). The longer you go, the higher the contribution by your aerobic system. It's a different stimulus from an hour of steady-state, of course, and it might be closer to HIIT than jogging. As for the benefits, there's this https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/10251-weightlifting-c...
Nicely Put
Eddie Hall pulled 500kg 1102 ibs
Incredible video (he nearly killed himself)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y4o_BqC0A
He weighs around 160 kg so a bit over 3
It's a loss of potential revenue that advertisers and content creators can make advertising deals directly, without depending on instagram as a middleman.
Do you dislike drunk-drivers and phone-drivers with the same passion and focus? Do you expect them to gradually become better and better at driving through natural evolution?
I actually like the idea of weekly “sprints” for a family. That’s a pretty cool way to set goals and actually work towards achieving them as a family. Life and personal development is iterative, the “sprint” concept fits into that perfectly.
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There is no such thing as "internal experience" IMHO. You draw the boundary arbitrarily. Me + Wikipedia have a different idea of myself, than me without one.
That first image really needs to be the game itself. I had such an instinct to click it as soon as I saw it and was sad when I noticed it was just an image. Overall the article is nice, if a bit dated, but at least it's a change from a new reactive library.
By clever I mean clever reuse of system resources, e.g. This is not anything being more verbose would have helped.... Race conditions and deadlocks were introduced.
" and to me this seems like a very similar misunderstanding of how cities work."

This is an interesting rebuttal to those re-inventing cities. From 1965. Short summary: The new hierarchical designs are callously authoritarian and socially disruptive and pathological.

http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexan...
Python is generally terrible at providing immutable types and workflows. No such thing as a constant, class variables are mutable by default, no built-in immutable dictionary class, etc.

I use a linter to catch this sort of thing and subclass `collections.namedtuple(...)` whenever I need to at least try to abolish mutability. It's one of the worst things about the language.

[edit] You can argue that there would be use cases for mutable defaults, and as with any edge use case you'd be right in asserting its existence. Unfortunately, I can't think of any solution (typing, changing function argument evaluation rules, etc) that wouldn't fundamentally change the language and break just about every sizable python library in existence. This looseness is baked deep into the language as far as I can see.
- how does the language know a thing is (not) mutable?

- how does it know you're not doing that on purpose?
Genetics are important, but when people from one population move to a different region they tend to get the cancers of the new population.

Prostate cancer and breast cancer rates are low in Osaka, but in Japanese people living in Hawaii the rates match the Hawaiian population.

Japanese people living in Japan have high rates of stomach cancer, but those rates drop for Japanese people living in Hawaii.
As of my writing this, HKFP hasn't written about this exact story
There's this thing: https://trykno.com/

As they're incredibly opaque about what they're doing, it's hard to tell whether they're part of the "get it wrong" crowd, but being incredibly opaque about what they're doing doesn't bode well.
I'd agree with you there. I run Arch on my home computer and update fully pretty much every time I use it (because it's so fast to update everything) and I think I've only had 1 breaking change in ~5 years.
quite literally pastes replies

Can you find a concrete example of that?
Junior is usually defined as "inexperienced" (as in "junior developer")

They might be at a competition "junior" level but I'm willing to bet they have at least 5y.r. of experience lifting weights

She was competing already in 2014 (source https://www.openpowerlifting.org/u/jessicabuettner ) and she's also Type 1 diabetic

Also this is a competition/record level of weight for their bodyweight, men might be lifting 220kg for their usual workout
In general top down master planned design works out quite poorly. https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas...
The difference shows up as you lengthen the session. Aerobic exercise is efficient for long exercise sessions where the goal is to build up general endurance, because it's not inherently time-constrained like anaerobic exercise is.
An intriguing hypothesis, is there any data to support this theory ?
My friend (Math genius) made a video tutorial about writing Minesweeper in JS in a Notepad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuahlosQ1m0

* It is in Czech :(
Sorry c/c++ family. Explicit is better than implicit.

Pardon me. C was my second real language after Pascal and c++ came immediately after that in a 6 month timespan, so for my underperforming and scelerotic brain (aside from an ld_preload shim I wrote two years ago haven't touched them since the aughts) they are "together" in my brain. Curly braces and all that.
I hate drunk drivers way more than I hate Tesla. That stuff never shows up on HN though, whereas Tesla is on the front page all the time.

Autopilot (and by extension Tesla) is also a lot more controversial than drunk driving, and by extension more interesting to discuss.
Temperature records broken in three European nations
> Then they figured out how to use Facebook to get themselves a POTUS

One might wonder why didn't Hilliary figure out how to use Facebook. The answer might be, that she did, but just like with the Russia buying their own ads with peanuts money compared to the DNC spend - it didn't really matter. Seeing people parrot the Russia narrative, the same day the Man himself testified that it didn't actually happen, entertains me a bit.
So basically clojure is awesome
Very true, on both counts. Though laughably UK was once respected for what it brought to international relations. Had UK been a more willing EU member they may once have been able to galvanise some EU action.

The problem for anyone contemplating China sanctions is we got too dependent on them, making sanctions too expensive.
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I am surprised the author didn’t use one of the most salient examples: navigation. I used to consider myself quite good at navigation because I took the time to explore my city. Now, I blindly follow instructions until I am lost when my phone dies.
As a go lover who programs in it daily... That section was fantastic, and I agree (almost) wholeheartedly.

And the select code [0] is kind of horrifying.

I am going to disagree with this, though:

> Go's native package system does not support specifying versions or commits in the dependency information. Instead, the go community recommends that each major release have its own separate repository; github.com/user/package/package-{v1,v2,v3}.

As far as I'm aware, you don't create a new repo for a new major version - just a new branch, or a subdirectory. This comment [1] from Russ Cox describes it pretty well IMO. (Though it appears that the page hasn't been updated since 2017, and Go Modules is more recent than that)

0: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/select....

1: http://disq.us/p/1qcpqao
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I'm not as close to the situation right now, but several mainland Chinese people that I talked to following the mid-June protests (up to 2m protesters) hadn't heard of any of it happening
Vectorised byte operations in Java 13
“I'm a Programmer”
Ah this is extremely cool - having set up slackops by building bots on lambdas in the past, I can attest it's way more difficult and time consuming than it should be.

For an example of an unexpected issue you face - slackbots must give responses within 3000ms otherwise slack reports the slash command as failed. This means you have to do things like set up a proxy and worker lambda for anything that doesn't execute essentially instantaneously, and even then it sometimes fails to respond within 3000ms on cold starts.

A purpose built interface you can just get set up with a few clicks would be a great improvement. Hope the other cloud providers introduce similar services as well.
Put a guy playing DotA 2/chess/any other multiplayer game. Estimate his ranking/MMR. Give him a drink. Watch the number drop.

Not precisely consciousness, but scientifically way better, than this BS article and many comments supporting it, because it is:

- measurable

- gives verifiable predictions, that actually hold true

- actually has some relation to real world which is also a multiplayer game of sorts

- shows you can reproduce the phenomenon in other forms (classical state enumerating programs, neural nets)
I like the idea of a Mac-native code editor (although I spend most of my time inside vim or VS Code). Regardless of all the alternatives, it might be worth pointing out that Coda was really good, but that its extension ecosystem and language support was... well, limited.

I hope they have a real solution for that this time around, since I eventually stopped using Coda even for relatively common stuff like Python.
I agree that in a vacuum, zero sum games aren't necessarily a bad thing. However, in our hypothetical economy, the actors obviously aren't at parity for their level of skill at playing the game. In a zero-sum economy, consolidation is inevitable. At least in the presence of growth, the avoidance of consolidation is a possibility.

> Suppose every year Farmer Joe has to borrow money to buy seeds and pay workers to plant, grow and harvest the crops. Then after harvest he sells the crops and uses the money to pay back the loan. Every year it's the same, every year he starts and ends the year with the same amount of money, there is no economic growth, but the lender is still earning interest on the loan every year.

> Meanwhile the lender is your 401K, so it makes money over time which you then spend down in your retirement and die with the same amount of money in real terms as your parents did, and so on indefinitely.

I feel like you're making the assumption that the agents in this system don't make an attempt to consolidate (and obviously if and when they do, they will have varying levels of skill at doing so.)
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