skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings up Ned Block's paper on the Harder Problem of Consciousness in which he uses the example of Data from Star Trek to demonstrate the epistemic bind we are in when trying to decide whether anything non-human is conscious. Another example would be a society of people (China for example). Do all their interactions result in consciousness? How would we every determine this?
HK has been in a bad economic situation for many years. Without mainland China's support, it's even worse. The tension in the HK society is at the breaking point. Young generation has less opportunities to improve their life quality.

People who support CCP believe that it is the greedy capitalism caused the problem. Implementation of the CCP regime can rebuild HK. People who support democracy believe that it is the CCP iron fist caused suffocating.

No one is backing down. It ended up with a civil war.

Humans repeat their mistakes generation after generation.
It does lack a significant number of people willing to take over somebody else's IRC channel though. There is a lot of cultural inertia around it
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Elementary OS is Ubuntu LTS. You can do what you'd do on Ubuntu just fine. (I use it exclusively for technical work, for example.)
? almost every iphone since 4 had at least one design defect. 6 Touch disease, bend gate, 7 no sound, no service, 8 restarts, freeze, 10 touch again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/11/11/apple-wa...

"More notable is Apple’s latest warning means serious hardware faults have now affected the iPhone X, iPhone 8 (details), iPhone 7 (details) and iPhone 6 (details). That kind of track record is not going to help boost Apple..."
I agree with you, but it's not a tautology. It's saying that free individuals (slave-owners) should have freedom to do stuff they want, e.g. own slaves, without having a government stop them from doing it.
I don't think they add those one by one...
Don’t be such a tease, who would this other master be?

Any large movement has divisions within it with different priorities.
Ask HN: Advice on printing a paper xmas jumper?
With Christmas Jumper day rapidly approaching, and the news that the xmas jumper industry is contributing to the microplastic crisis (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50682657), there couldn't be a more timely time for this Xmas Jumper Pattern Generator to come to my attention: https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/full/ZEYzMBj

I was thinking that with the right kind of paper (a bit more flexible than writing paper) and the right design (and some tape) one might be able to fashion a snazzy, eco-friendly christmas jumper which could be printed at zero cost using the office colour laser.

Unfortunately my google-fu is letting me down, in terms of finding
- the right kind of paper to use
- the right kind of clothing pattern to print out

Can you help me save Christmas?
Explicate please
Not that I'm a fan of the metaphor but that's not a great counterargument.

If a semicolon is programmable it obviously can also decide not to execute later computation. Otherwise it wouldn't actually be customizable.
https://elementary.io/get-involved
If it can influence how the wave collapses, it is conscious.
is it down? getting a 403 "Could not fetch resource at https://clients6.google.com/drive/v2beta/files/1u7flclharvMc...: 403"

Guess too many people trying to access it will limit Colab's free offering :)

Why is it on colab anyway?

EDIT: is anybody else experiencing this, I'm using the official play link from the website which points to --> https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1u7flclharvMchwWHY7Y...
An important aspect of leadership is the courage to do the right thing, even at risk to one's own personal comfort and safety. In light of facts, you could make the argument that either she doesn't believe in the importance of sovereignty for her fellow citizens, or she doesn't have the courage to speak up for it.
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How many decades ago was this? From what I've heard, things have become exponentially more expensive.
How do you think energy determines this at the moment? The grid is, to a first approximation, the same price everywhere people live.
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> Today I do not buy anything on Amazon that isn't marked as "Sold and Shipped by Amazon".

After this experience, why do you buy anything at all from Amazon? They surely deserve not a single penny of your money.
And C# edges closer still to F#

F# should be Microsofts main language, not C# It's a great language that doesn't get enough attention IMO.
Highly unlikely, as we are not nearer conscious machines now than we were 100 years ago. There is nothing about computers that make them more conscious than e.g. radiators.
Here is the context necessary to understand the story:

https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-s...
> The pro- slavery rigid society that somehow values individual liberty? Would anyone be able to explain how that works?

Same way as in classical Greece (both Sparta and Athens, etc.) and Rome - slave-holding aristocrats value their own freedom highly, will fight and die for it.

Actually, that led to hatred of monarchy and use of republican forms with class equals. But 'sic semper tyrannis' wasn't a servant's battle cry.
> There’s a similar process of losing some consciousness when I become too stoned

Hey could you please check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia and tell me if this is this is similar to the too stoned/not sleeping state (except the paralysis, I assume you can move with enough willpower)? Did you ever take psychedelics? What's your meditation experience?
I can't imagine Beijing even trying to purge a sympathetic HK official lest the public reaction render the city completely ungovernable.
For a more direct example with future actors:

Cell phone battery life has stayed mostly stable, even as battery capacities have gone up and processor energy/instruction has gone down. This is because mobile device performance is mostly power-constrained: manufacturers have a target of about a day of battery life as the minimum consumers will put up with, and whenever more energy is available they'll turn up performance or add features until battery life goes back down to that minimum.
Perhaps you're thinking of (the now discontinued, and unrelated) Remix OS?
> My pet theory

It may be similar to Russelian monism. A theory that I'm most aligned to. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russellian-monism/
She's likely not too bright. Of course there's going to be problems with her decision making process. Can she be blamed for it? Not really, because intelligence is mostly genetic.
Genuinely asking as I've had to tackle modification of large deeply nested immutable objects in JS. Because of the large and varied object, I used a generic approach of set/get functions that could take paths using https://github.com/mariocasciaro/object-path-immutable

Use of this lens pattern as given in the article seems to lead to a lot more boilerplate with lenses that have knowledge of object structure, which doesn't seem optimal. So I must be missing what this specific+compositional approach gives over using something like object-path-immutable. Perhaps they are two approaches for two different situations?
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I am sad they didn't decide to build it with Objective C. It would have made sense given Objective C could work well with GTK, and Apples devs would have felt half at home. Swift would be cool nowadays. https://rhx.github.io/SwiftGtk/

New apps in the Pantheon system could I guess be written in any language.
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That's why I don't believe unregulated markets are be-all and end-all. These feedback loops are stronger than any one of us, the lowly worker and the lofty manager alike, they'll eventually grind us all to dust if we let them. Brakes must be put, because humans can't survive a perfectly efficient economy.
And what other master is comparable (in demonstrated authoritarianism, number of tanks, willingness to roll said tanks, etc...) to the Chinese communist party?
Is it really that bad? I surely hope it's not.

I noticed that even Wikipedia is reported as having some trackers. But when I looked closer I noticed that most of those belong to the Wikimedia foundation, which is fine. I mean, I don't mind site owners tracking what I do on their site, I just don't want to be followed across the whole Web.

The rest of the Wikipedia trackers are supposed to be Google fonts and statics, but I couldn't witness any calls to those. Maybe the stats are not quite up to date?

If such a score is to be given, it better be fair and reflecting the current state of affairs.
That is stupid conspiracy theory, lithium is cheap. Cobalt is what makes the price, so keep an eye on Congo. But done if the social problems thanks to Cobalt are already welly known there.
Thank you! Installed. Commenting so I can find it later and put on other computers.
From what I can see, the account you're accusing of sockpuppetry here (battleangle) reflects a perfectly mainstream opinion among Hong Kongers. The accusation of sockpuppetry is unfounded and you should take it back.
F# is intentionally cumbersome for imperative/OOP programming which makes it impractical for many project types.
The existence of the world, and of myself as a subjective being, are beyond reason. Understanding how either work provided they exist isn’t a priori unsolvable.
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Are there any guarantees we are not going to repeat mistakes from dog breeding?
How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
It's worth pointing out that the bill was introduced in order to extradite someone who was accused of murdering his girlfriend in Taiwan, with which Hong Kong didn't have an extradition treaty, but it wasn't sufficiently narrow in scope to do just that, which caused fear that it could have been used in future to extradite citizens to mainland China.
"Hrm.

The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
"It's very hard to change people's minds about something like consciousness, and I finally figured out the reason for that. The reason for that is that everybody's an expert on consciousness. (...) With regard to consciousness, people seem to think, each of us seems to think, "I am an expert. Simply by being conscious, I know all about this." And so, you tell them your theory and they say, "No, no, that's not the way consciousness is! No, you've got it all wrong." And they say this with an amazing confidence."

"A lot of people are just left completely dissatisfied and incredulous when I attempt to explain consciousness. So this is the problem. So I have to do a little bit of the sort of work that a lot of you won't like, for the same reason that you don't like to see a magic trick explained to you. How many of you here, if somebody -- some smart aleck -- starts telling you how a particular magic trick is done, you sort of want to block your ears and say, "No, no, I don't want to know! Don't take the thrill of it away. I'd rather be mystified. Don't tell me the answer." A lot of people feel that way about consciousness."

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_the_illusion_of_consci...

"in fact, you're not the authority on your own consciousness that you think you are."

The paper: "Explaining the "magic" of consciousness", Daniel Dennett, 2003:

https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/explainingmagic...
Second that for Germany (though we are well known for our low-wage-sector allowing us to export a lot for a developed country). In addition a good lot of people working there are kids, which (like in most services) is quite an unfair competition for people having to earn their living wage with those jobs...
Just crush it. Free penetest lab will be launched on Dec. 10
Don't underestimate the complexity of a rock's internal state. There is a unfathomable number of atoms in complex crystal lattices in there. Defects in that lattice alone can encode a ton of information. Then you have a bunch of quantum state for each elementary particle. All of that reacts to external stimuli like temperature, pressure, or the occasional cosmic ray.
This is exactly my thoughts when I hear people complaining that they pay more tax as high earners because they're "worked hard" for the money and to get there.

Hard work is relative and people are working very hard at all salary levels. There are many other constructs which are the true reasons behind how much people earn.
as PoC sure, but as productive system, I would always rely on the best performance out there
Or perhaps people in the late 2010s are just better placed to answer this sort of question easily than people were in the late 1960s.
You can easily update using one of the Kernal sfor the upstream Uubuntu release using this tool: https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu
It's not really withdrawn, it's just postponed for 28 years. "One country, two systems" expires in 2047, and the mainland government takes the long view.
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yep, RISE In Peace ;)
I checked and in Sweden a low level employee in McDonalds would earn 21930 sek (2300 dollars), or 17593 sek after taxes, which might be just enough to live from if you live outside of big cities.
The absolute worst part is all the legacy bits that Microsoft made and later abandoned. We set up a Microsoft Service Center Orchestration service for Windows 2012, and while we’re migrating it to Azure now, the C# library that handled authentication became obsolete in 2014, at least to Microsoft. Which means that even with 100% Microsoft tech, you still have to build your own library extensions if Microsoft moves another direction.

It’s like that with a lot of our systems, and it’s pushed us more and more from C# to Python where a lot of things are just easier.
I've worked with various from McKinsey. The work is not that impressive. It's like having an MS Office expert, especially Excel and Powerpoint. The person is able to work long days, so after a workshop they spend a huge time to make it look nice again. Though one told me they have a separate department for quickly making presentations look "nice". Meaning, the consultant just sends it off to that other department.

Reading how expensive they are I'm glad McKinsey isn't used anymore.

The major reason they're hired is because of the McKinsey name (convincing others in your company). Not so much for anything else IMO. Maybe you we're doing great work but that's not the ones we saw (I saw various).
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It is:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/stable && sudo apt install elementary-desktop

Then, select elementary when you log in.
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Thanks. I don't really understand what is light about that.

Being able to compare memory to compare two object doesn't make an object any lighter, compared to magically calling a compare method on the object itself (can be decided at compilation time, thus no performance penalty: it depends on what the compare method does.)

Immutability also doesn't make the object lighter, it's again a compile-time property.

I am still missing something...
Somehow the party with the worst taste always seems to win.
> Simon Sinek has never actually led anything and is basically someone who is an expert at marketing himself.

Taking him at his word on several of his talks, he leads a team right now. Presumably one focused on advancing your second point: his marketing of himself.

> His advice doesn’t say anything new and is usually extremely banal.

The corollary being they’re banal to you, cue tangential XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

Note I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you. He also seems to me like someone who teaches what he learned by theory, not practice. However, I do believe his intentions are genuine, that he wants to make the workplace better for everyone, and that his points are actionable and positive. Contrast that to someone like Tony Robbins, which I view as little more than a scammer that wants to trick you into thinking anyone can be successful at anything if they just believe in themselves and pay him hefty sums to attend his seminars.
Here's the American argument in a nutshell:

"I got mine, fuck all of y'all"

Americans are greedy, we lack empathy, we lack humanity. Our nation was founded on religious genocide by radicalized christian terrorists.

I don't understand why anybody expects better from us. We have never been good citizens of the world. Not once.
That is an interesting starting point.

How do you set the bounds of a conscious entity though? Does the concept make sense in QM?

How would it explain the persistance of identity across lapses of consciousness?
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It's an extraordinary claim that mainland has been supporting HK. What support do you mean by this?
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For anyone curious as to how, GNU `shred` can do that. Something like:

`shred --force --zero /dev/sda`

should wipe the whole drive, overwriting 3 times (the default) with random bits and once with all zeroes.
What makes you believe that your conscious perceptions have any specific (let alone regularizeable) kind of relationship to reality at all? In all likelihood, conscious perceptions are guided entirely by evolution, emphasizing those aspects of reality needed to keep us alive and filtering out those we can safely ignore.

https://www.nature.com/articles/544296a?WT.mc_id=FBK_NA_1704...
Likely unrelated, but Kanagawa prefecture is home to a large US Navy base in Yokosuka city. A lot of military and US government employees likely have some of their data somewhere on those servers.
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My pet theory is there is nothing to explain. It is emergent. Over the next couple of decades, hardware performance improvements and specializations plus algorithmic breakthroughs will make AI start to crawl up the chain from useful pattern matching from messy data to useful dullard able to reason. And we still won't know why because the "insight" is buried in the network state and our little human brains cannot deal with that level of detail.
It seems like a catch 22 for language developers if you want to maintain backwards compatibility.

Either you freeze the language and let it stagnate or you keep adding features without removing them and suffer from bloat.

Seems like the slow churn of high level languages is inevitable while maintaining backwards compatibility.
Policing. By informed humans.

Yes, it's expensive and carries its own risk of corruption and insider fraud, but either Amazon polices itself or others will police it, and they will be less kind on the organisation as a whole.

If Amazon manages to get a reputation among the public for fakes (rather than just us, a specialised audience), it will be extremely expensive and hard to shift.
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Seen as we still can't even define and measure consciousness how do you think this is going to work exactly? AI is not some kind of magic box despite what a lot of "thought leaders" might lead you to think.
There may be some consciousness in the rock.

The gist of these theories is that consciousness is isomorphic to specific aspects of information processing that can be quantified.
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Here's the problem: The doorbell thing is useful.

I've already given up my location data to Google by using Android with Google's services. It's fine if the doorbell sees me entering and exiting. By adding the doorbell, my threat surface isn't expanded by very much, but I get all this extra doorbell utility.

I don't really have a problem with Google seeing the outside of my home. I wouldn't put a Nest camera inside. Personally, that's my line. The important thing is that I can change it later if I want.

As far as your rights, sure, sue Google or Amazon if you want. It's not really my problem unless the devices get banned, which won't happen. If they do get banned, I'll replace them with whatever the next best thing is, or roll my own.

I understand the frustration, but at this point, the only rational thing to do is adapt.
Dutch here, too. While everyone below a certain income gets benefits like healthcare subsidy you can still live okay on a McDonalds salary. If you make €10 an hour you get €1600 a month. And at that level you pay almost no income tax. While not a lot, you don't necessarily need the foodbank or other subsidies than the regular ones to make ends meet.
Any adequate description of consciousness will break down in to "does this thing have an internal life of the mind, a subjective experience of reality, so to speak, or is it merely an extremely convincing automaton?"

Of course, this applies to other people too if you want to be solipsistic about it.
I think it's worse than other Ubuntu distros as they lock it down "for my own safety". But for parents and other people not too good with computers it's a good windows alternative
I love programming languages, and I regularly spend time to explore new ones. I'm mostly a Ruby dev. Every time I look at a new language, it's a bit painful. Maybe because I'm used to Ruby, or maybe, Ruby is really that much more beautiful than the rest.

The only alternatives that I've found to enjoy recently are Elixir and Crystal. But hey, they are so much Ruby influenced. (TypeScript isn't bad as well)
I work with C# daily, and I don't really feel like this. In general, I really like how C# has evolved over the years.

I think it helps a lot if you use Rider, or Visual Studio with ReSharper, as they will automatically make suggestions to use new language features when appropriate - that way you always get exposed to new syntax.
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>He named bits of his proposed OS after an obscure racist.

Who and what bits? I don't understand why you're being so stingy with information lol
Anyone linking to trash like The Japan Times should be banned from HN. It’s on par with stormfront in its push for genocide and mass extermination of a people (by prying open the borders of an ethnostate to flood it with aggressive alien brutes as it’s now widely understood is happening all throughout the West). Precisely zero actual Japanese people agree with anything published by Japan Times. Shame on you for not only spreading this filth but also acting like it’s somehow a respectable publication.
This is an awesome project with awesome write up. I miss the days of pixelated console games. The constrained environment led to so much creativity. Are there any new games like this being written anymore?
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Yeah, please don't add lazy loading.

- It breaks viewing the site with javascript disabled.

- It prevents viewing the site offline (e.g. on an airplane) without first scrolling through the whole content while online.

- Unless implemented perfectly it adds delays before content you have scrolled to becomes visible.

Deciding when to load stuff should be the browser's job. Don't reimplement the browser in javascript.
It is. On Fedora you can do

sudo dnf group install 'pantheon desktop'
Why do you think it's intentional, and what could be done differently?
yeah as said, normally people would see records/data classes as classes that don't use the same amount of memory than a normal class. i.e. some kind of immutable struct. that's why I'm a little bit salty about the feature.

currently records are more comparable to the scala case classes, where you have automatic destructors, better equality, immutability, etc... and not necessary a compacter memory data.

reading the proposal makes more sense than this deep dive, since it explains the reasoning why they don't added special cased data classes.
Emergentism doesn’t explain qualia. You won’t be able to explain the difference between green and magenta to a blind person.