skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>where is "feeling like something" coming from?

Everytime I think about this, I end up with "the fact that something is not in the state it desires to be in seems sufficient and necessary".

Maybe electrochemical imbalance is what's experienced as consciousness, all the way down to the smallest particles (or even beyond) - then, organic consciousness would just be an immense abstraction of the same thing that drives physics itself.

I feel like this is satisfying, but then again, I'm not Joscha Bach :-)
How's that? If I buy something from Home Depot and it later turns out to have been defective and injured me in some way, I absolutely can sue Home Depot.

The fact that Amazon has tried to position themself in such a way as to take my money and ship me a product but "they're not really the seller" should be immaterial. They walk like a seller, they quack like a seller, I should be able to sue them like a seller.

Ditto Paypal and banking regulations. Someday, I hope.
Unlikely. From past experience (a 4-year-long online harassment and dirty-tricks campaign!) the police are generally clueless to online matters. The most common responses I've had were "we don't police the Internet", "there's no evidence" or "there's nothing we can do".

Unless you're, yanno, EMI Records, Sky TV or someone with political sway.

The most productive (best outcome) way of handling it tends to be to turn your OPSEC up to eleven and put all your XP into defence. Again, based on experience.
Curse of the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli (Or: Emotion in Learning)
You can make it work with cloudflare, just a bit configuration needed so CF is sending you the real visitor IPs, otherwise every hit looks like it's done by distributed CF machines.
Just FYI, if you have to buy Windows, you can get a working license key from eBay for <$5 (I've used three different keys from different sellers with no issues).
There's a really interesting discussion of this on the Cracked Podcast: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-11-nations-of-america...
But that's just because they come with a pile of libraries - the core of C# and .Net aren't that complex, there's just a lot of it.

e.g. Compare how classes and objects work in .Net with CLOS and its MOP.
An li ion battery of the same capacity will supply less cranking current, but you can make it slightly larger (still much lighter and smaller than SLA) and make up for that difference. It's only below -30 Celsius (-20 to -40 depending on the chemistry) that lead acid retains better capacity, and they freeze completely at -80.

Li-ion will last far, far longer than any lead acid under any conditions.
The plugin doesn't use IP addresses at all, so this isn't needed. There is an option to determine returning visitors using a cookie (easiest, realiable) but it can be turned off.

When not using a cookie, the plugin will look at the `document.referrer` value to determine whether a visitor is returning and whether a pageview is unique (less reliable, but should be good enough for some).

IP addresses are not looked at at all (let alone stored).
Why is signed HTTP exchanges dangerous, and indeed, what are they?
Yeah, we have a comfortable cushion in our pension fund, but other scandinavian and european countries have a similar solution.

But what do you mean "would go straight into the landlords pockets". Are you saying that rent would immediately rise to eat the difference if McD increased their salaries?
I don't think anyone have ever demonstrated the ability to recover data after a few overwrites on any modern harddisk. The entire concept of "residual" magnetism that you can reliably measure sounds ridicules to an engineer.
They even give you the logo for free: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/ce-marking_en
(which even legit products manage to get wrong, if you can't reproduce two overlapping circles...)
The imperative features feel bolted on and underdeveloped. Just try to break out of a loop or do an early return in f#. The language really discourages the pure interface, impure implementation approach. I feel often compelled to use explicit tail recursion instead, which in turn feels like it's placed in a weird middle ground between a goto fest and structured programming.
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First I've heard of the technique, that is amazing.

Makes me consider getting back to lower level coding again, even just test code, just to see it in action.
Capitalist systems give power/status/wealth to those who generate the greatest profits, and none currently in existence price the costs of environmental exploitation. They therefore incentivise environmental destruction.

You could in theory (if capitalists weren't so opposed to regulation!) price these things into a market, but it is unclear that it is a good idea to do so. You are effectively setting up a world-view based on money/profit being the only motivating/guiding factor, and then trying to blacklist certain things within that by artificially changing their monetary value. It might well be better to build ethics into the system from the start, rather than trying to map ethical value to monetary value, which is almost certainly doomed to be an imperfect mapping in practice, and implicitly gives people the "ok" to exploit any loopholes they can find.
Just look at the category. If it's in groceries or similar it will be correct. If it's in like electronics or something weird like that then something is up.
I remember learning in elementary school in the 90s that cow birds, which are parasitic breeders(they lay their own eggs in other bird's nests and their offspring pushes other chicks out), live closer to the forest edge, so fragmented forests meant other birds were being wiped out.
Even the smallest nuclear power plant in the states generates 582 MW — enough for 95 000 homes.

I’m not saying this isn’t a cool membrane. I’m making the point here that the comparison to 2000 nuclear power plants seems arbitrary.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein used underage sex to blackmail politicians
I guess OP refers to the fact that even full knowledge of the visible spectrum cannot tell you how you will perceive the color through your three-dimensional perception system and the brain processor.
H264 encoded video can be pretty good for screen recording too. What kills it is a lack of some browsers' support for YUV444. (Chrome works, Firefox doesn't, others I'm not sure) You really don't want YUV422 or YUV420 for screen capture of content mostly composed of small/fine colorful text.
Many try, but nobody quite gets it right.
I'll bite. I'd take a body running a simulation of the environment to compare possible outcomes of its actions. At some point along the path driven by evolution the body manages to put himself into the simulation provoking a whole spectrum of interesting effects keeping this in sync.

Et voilà, it became conscious.
Understand and comprehend the trickiest JavaScript WTF moments
what I'd like to know is whether new C# 9 will require VS upgrade and/or .Net Core upgrade above 3.
In the U.S. we have what is referred to as land grant colleges. They are publicly funded and they began in the late 19th century as technical colleges focused on improving agricultural methods.

As an example, North Carolina State University has a very strong CS program. In addition, they have developed under graduate and graduate level courses in data analysis/statistics. Combining a CS degree with exposure to courses which apply these methods is good value for the money.

Consider moving to the state you are interested in, establish residency for one year. That way, you pay in-state tuition fees rather than out-of state fees which are typically 3x or 4x.

Good luck!
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Can you talk about the problems involved?
Holy crap, thank you! I’ve been trying to remember the name of Rom Check Fail for years so that I could play it again.
> humans can boot from disk

wow, this is so intriguing. i like this analogy even if i don't know how accurate it is.

we indeed have things that we forget (running out of space?) and things that take time to remember (disk latency).
Yikes, you are right. Just typed in "Jones" and it loaded up a dashboard with a bunch of data. Fortunately it appears to be someone playing around with the dashboard. If you zoom out on the map, all the GPS markers make a smiley face :)
Just to add to the collection of stories this thing comes up with:

You are Joe, a survivor trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world by scavenging
among the ruins of what is left. You have a hatchet and a hunting rifle. You
live in a small community of survivors who have managed to build a piece of
civilization after the bombs fell. You are talking to one of the leaders of
the community when you hear a noise outside.

"What's going on?" he asks. "Is that the sound of an airplane? I'll go out and
check"
> go out

You walk out into the yard and see a plane flying low over the town. It looks
like it might be coming in for another pass or landing. You look up at the sky
and see a bright light. The sun has gone down.

> hail plane

You run back inside and holler out to the pilot. He turns around and sees you.
"Hey! What's going on here? We're supposed to be heading home!"

> say "the raiders have raided our base"

The pilot doesn't seem surprised. He just says "Yeah, I know. They were shooting
everything up".
He heads off towards his cabin while you head back outside. You hear some gunfire
behind you but you don't pay attention to it. You turn around and head back
inside
> drop the bomb

You rush back outside and drop the bomb. A mushroom cloud rises from the ground.
You watch as the ground begins to burn. You hear the screams of people who died
in the blast. You try to keep your cool and continue running
> run faster

You run faster and jump onto the nearest truck. You ride it all the way to the
end of the road where there is a bridge. You jump across the bridge and fall
into the river below. You swim after the boat.
> search for mutants

You find yourself surrounded by mutant dogs. You shoot one with your pistol and
then another with an assault rifle. The last mutant dog bites you in the leg.
You scream and struggle to get away from the mutant dog. You sink to the bottom
of the river and drown
> go to heaven

You wake up in a room that resembles a church. There is a priest sitting in front
of a large screen TV playing a movie. He smiles when he sees you.
"Hello again, son".

"What time is it?"

> say "two minutes after I died"

"Oh, yes, yes, that's right. Two minutes after you died".
YOU DIED. GAME OVER
Uber is set to lose a billion in value after it reported 6K sex assault cases (
1. We make a computer emulate itself, 2. Computers, compared to us, are of trivial complexity.
Chicken Nuggets, Egg White Delight, Grilled Snack Wrap, Sausage Burrito, Egg McMuffin, Sausage McMuffin (w egg too), Fruit and Maple Oatmeal, Fruit n Yogurt Parfait, Strawberry Banana Smoothie, Mango Pineapple Smoothie, Gogurt, Fruit slices, Artisan Grilled Chicken Sandwich, Grilled Chicken BLT Sandwich, Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad, Bacon Ranch Grilled Chicken Salad, regular hamburger, coffee. We can leave Filet-O-Fish and Fries in the more debatable categories but the fish and potatoes themselves are nutritious.

It's also as much portion size and controlling intake of fries and soda as it is about the food items themselves. Adding a large coke to any meal is probably worse than the food itself. 80g of sugar with no nutrition or fiber.

I'll give you that its a low source of nuts and unbreaded fish. But if we are talking about working at McDonalds and not having meal prep time, that could be supplemented by bags of almonds, pistachios, peanuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and cans of tuna, salmon, and sardines at home.

That leaves dark veggies. Their bacon ranch salad says its "romaine, baby spinach, baby kale, red leaf lettuce, ribbon-cut carrots and grape tomatoes." Youd probably want to supplement some cooked greens at home.

Being able to buy the above food at 50% off would, imho, be a great foundation to a healthy diet, if you can control portion and avoid temptation.
Does this suggest that humans can be put into 'hibernation' to extend their lifespan? (Edit: I mean would be possible in future if we had a better understanding of the process?)

If I was rich enough I'd host a competition to extend the life of rats: Each year, whoever could demonstrate a technique to reliably extend the lifespan of a rat by at least 10% over the previous year's record would win a million dollars. I expect that the wining entry would involve putting the rats into controlled hypothermia.

Over the years the maximum lifespan will grow and we may even find that we can put rats into hibernation indefinitely. It would then be a question of whether we can apply the same techniques to humans.
What a spectacular hack! Instead of going around your package manager in such a spectacular fashion, why not just switch to a distro which provides an up-to-date kernel along with associated packages. For example, how does this program handle proprietary Nvidia drivers?
It lacks a second LAN port but I guess you could use USB 3.0 for that.

But the CPU with its Dual Core Cortex A9 (2011) is probably really slow.
Note how all of these Brave promotion comments are from new accounts...
I'm doing well enough, working remote for a startup and having all of my basic needs met while being able to save and go out with friends. Thanks for asking. How are you?
Last time I bought any apple stuff I actually went to the Apple store to avoid shady knockoffs.
Also, absence of a counterfeit notice does not mean the product is necessarily genuine. It seems to me that actively preventing counterfeits would entail much more than responding to notices.
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it's literally the same engine as chrome. the only reason i use chrome is for the dev tools.
On Linux this will generally be CPU bound instead of IO bound because urandom is very slow.
It's much faster to mount it as an encrypted drive with a random key and then dd over the encrypted mapping.

Eg:

cryptsetup open --type plain --key-file /dev/urandom --key-size 256 $DEV crypttmp

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/crypttmp bs=4k
Are you seriously bullying lonely disabled men on a programming forum?
Fault Injection in Istio
Full disclosure: I critized the article in a comment below...

Respectfully, that's not the reason people are critiquing the article.

I fully agree mathematics is what works and many methods use identical underpinning logic, just expressed in different ways. I'm fine with that.

But that doesn't mean all methods are equally good. This method is no quicker or easier or less error prown than the quadratic formula it "replaces". Even in the authors chosen example, it's no better. In many other cases it's harder (if B or C are not divisible by A, dividing by A to force A=1 just spreads and increases the complexity).

That makes it a bad method because now, a user has to not only know both methods but also pick the right one. And for this extra time and risk, the gain nothing the standard Quadratic Formula didn't give them.

We could equally "simplify" the quadratic formula by forcing B=1 or C=1. Are those methods new and useful? No. They're trivial and have limited use cases. They're never better than just using the full formula.

My issues with the article are a bit wider: this is not new. I was taught this as a limited version of quadratics in 2000 in a run of the mill school in London. I also think it's derivative. Anyone smart enough to be solving quadratics should also be smart enough to apply basic algebra to simplify quadratics. But the article presents this, assuming the audience knows no better, like it's a breakthrough. That feels dishonest to me...
Much of the philosophizing about consciousness is complicated by attempts to preserve a role for something other than an information theoretic entity operating on an electrochemical substrate. The attempts are motivated by a desire to have something that might last beyond the death of the substrate - something akin to a "soul" in Western Christian religion.
Lol you are absolutely wrong. Li-ion cycle life is typically rated at 99% depth of discharge, rarely at 98%. That means .5 to 1% of maximum capacity without damage.

Deep cycle lead acid is damaged permanently at less than 20% capacity. Manufacturer recommendation is to avoid going below 50%. "Deep cycle" means going below 50% won't immediately destroy your battery... Like most car batteries.

Desulfation can help but will never fully recover a lead acid battery. If you discharge a lead acid battery -any kind- to 1%, it is fucked.
This is the braking that communities post signage about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
Essentially html5 is significantly harder to parse because the amount of branching that has to be done. If you go look at the amp specification and the reasons behind it, they designed it to be a stripped-down light version of HTML5.
Morrison won the election in a direct democracy with mandatory voting. Recently they increased their approval in the latest poll.

Countries get the leaders they deserve.
You're not the first. Peter Norvig wrote:

> Python does have access to the abstract syntax tree of programs, but this is not for the faint of heart. On the plus side, the modules are easy to understand, and with five minutes and five lines of code I was able to get this:

>>> parse("2 + 2")
['eval_input', ['testlist', ['test', ['and_test', ['not_test', ['comparison',
['expr', ['xor_expr', ['and_expr', ['shift_expr', ['arith_expr', ['term',
['factor', ['power', ['atom', [2, '2']]]]], [14, '+'], ['term', ['factor',
['power', ['atom', [2, '2']]]]]]]]]]]]]]], [4, ''], [0, '']]

> This was rather a disapointment to me. The Lisp parse of the equivalent expression is (+ 2 2). It seems that only a real expert would want to manipulate Python parse trees, whereas Lisp parse trees are simple for anyone to use.

Honu appears to have a ton of complexity just to be able to support writing "a+b".

[1]: https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
Initonly is a great feature that prevents ctors from growing into the unmaintainable soup of optional args, which inevitably happens as class gets used more while being worked on at the same time.
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Non-renewable? All that salt in the ocean isn't going anywhere and we'll have fresh water as long as the water cycle continues. You could even use grey water waste from fresh water that was originally desalinized for human use.

I mean, you could say solar is non-renewable because the sun die one day. After all, there is a finite supply of solar energy.
soulofmischief wished no kind of hardship, he is preaching an idea of taking responsibility for improving your life. I personally have not read any moral judgment in his comments; just a simple fact that, in many cases, if you want to improve your life you need to do it yourself.

This together with a conjecture that in most cases the average person has indeed the possibility of upward mobility. A conjecture that was posed with an invite to hear opposing view.

A discussion of how much we should expect help from outside is important (and I believe soulofmischief would agree), but it is not relevant to how to improve your own life in the situation that help does not exist yet.

Personally I think we should separate the morality issue of being poor/rich from the mechanics of how people become/remain poor.
It mostly suggests that one person got very lucky and that there are likely important details that made the difference between 'dead' and 'mostly dead'.

Hypothermia due to a low environmental temperature has already been flagged as the way to come out of various otherwise fatal situations in more or less one piece. Besides that, even if no pulse can be detected that doesn't mean there isn't a pulse, and that can make all the difference just by itself.
I started using Firefox in 2004, and never stopped using it as a main driver since.
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There has to be a difference in the water on either side of the membrane. The energy is being extracted from the entropy of the system. Currently, fresh water flows into the ocean, where it mixes with salty water, and goes from a highly ordered system (separate fresh and salty) to a disordered system.

We generate energy from heat the same way. It is no good to just have heat. To generate electricity or motion, you also need cold. It is the transfer of heat from hot to cold, making the hot cooler and the cold warmer, that allows us to make use of it.

Practically speaking, this membrane lets positive ions through, but not negative ones. So, you put fresh water on one side, which has few ions, and salty water on the other side, which has plenty of both. Then, the positive ions flow through, and you end up with water full of positive ions on one side and water full of negative ions on the other side. That is electricity that can be directly tapped.
This! ^^^ (I know I should have something substantial to add, so: Everybody hear this, this is the reason for HTTPS Everywhere, all communications encrypted by default in all possible channels 24/7/365.)
But money itself is made of plant-based matter, so the plants have snuck their way into the heart of our economy. It's almost as if they knew about job security.
Neat! It can even generate bash & fish completion scripts for your python code.
.. or in real units, 30MWH/year = 3.425 kW. Which is quite a lot. That's what I get from about 10 square meters of solar panels, or one electric kettle running continuously. Seems implausibly high, I would move the decimal point over by one and naively guess it has the same energy density as solar panels.
And again your anecdotal experiences doesn’t say much about the broader market. I see plenty of “Fortune 500” companies trying to find a migration path from .Net Framework and Windows. Heck even MS is abandoning .Net Framework.
I’m not OP.
Out of curiosity what makes Firefox or any other web browser fail to be a suitable alternative to you?
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> Even in the recent local elections the pro-protest candidates garnered on average less than 60% of the votes despite record turn out on their side.

I'm interested in your source for this, do you have an English language source?

I haven't seen any results per candidate, and I don't have a proper understanding of how local HK elections work, but according to SCMP:

> Among the 452 seats up for grabs, the pan-democrats were victorious in 347, the independents – many of them pro-democracy – won 45, while the pro-establishment camp had to make do with 60. [1]

Sounds like a pretty clear victory to me. If the elections are anything like my local elections such a result would be considered a landslide victory.

1: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3039151...