skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch! Firebase generates links for me but I'll take a look at what I can do.
You're assuming most of planet even understands what you just said. They just want 4 lines of code that they paste in their Wordpress for free.
Funny to use “parity raid bit” on an SPOF organ such as is the liver.

Though, i have always been curious as to why the body only has one liver while having pairs of many other organs...
It all rests on what your definition of consciousness is.

Philip:
> But when I use the word consciousness, I simply mean experience: pleasure, pain, visual or auditory experience, et cetera.

But that just kicks the can again. What is "experience"? What is pain versus pleasure?

Ultimately we have to arrive at a reductionist definition that doesn't reference undefined terms. After many years of thinking about this problem, here's my best shot:

Experience is equivalent to state change, e.g. the state change induced in a thermometer or a radio receiver due to stimuli. Consciousness is ultimately a system of modeling that is complex enough to have developed a model of itself, thus "realizing" that the system is separate from the environment that produces stimuli.

Humans arrived at consciousness through evolving larger and larger brains whose main goal is to model the environment and behavior of other individuals in order to predict what will happen next, in order to make plans for survival.

Panpsychism is then scientific, and perhaps inescapable, if we use these definitions. But, it doesn't mean that rocks and black holes are conscious. Only those things that undergo state change in response to stimuli and are complex enough to have models of themselves. There is no evidence that rocks have information-processing capabilities at all, and worms' brains are too small to have a model of themselves, however simplified.
I find it more interesting that they are threatening journalists with civil lawsuits and criminal penalties for disclosing the contents of their advertising brochure than the actual contents of that brochure.
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"Diary" usually means personal and private. But it can mean a lot of things. I can imagine cases where people are okay with that. I've managed a personal "diary" that's on Github publically. It's really just a reference of tech stuff I've learned.
Just because they didn't need to 'circumvent the law' doesn't mean what they did was any less than subversive. Thanks to secret courts the law is whatever they want it to be.
I wonder what the purchase price was. According to TechCrunch, Packet was valued at $100M and had raised $36M.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/14/equinix-is-acquiring-bare-...
Ahh, cool! Someone else linked to your privacy policy where it's super clear "Visitors are not tracked by using e.g. persistent cookies".

Might be worth clarifying by bringing this line up especially as there are tons of "gdpr compliant" products that get fuzzy on the details pretty quickly.
Consciousness is obviously a property of the universe somehow, or else humans couldn't have it in the first place, since we're part of the universe.

I've long assumed it has to be something that appears qualitatively like magnetism -- no large-scale effects in most materials, but when small-scale elements of certain types are configured/aligned in certain ways, presto it appears. And that brains evolved such a configuration because consciousness must have conferred certain evolutionary benefits.

But it's not clear to me whether that is considered panpsychism, though. Because it doesn't imply that e.g. rocks have any meaningful level of "consciousness" any more than most rocks would be considered magnetic.
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Interesting idea.

I have noticed that after I buy something I start seeing ads for the exact item, which I have never seen before. These aren’t things you buy more than once.

I always thought it was pretty dumb if you are serving ads for something someone just bought... but maybe they do it because some small % of people will click on it and they can claim the ad was associated with the sale in some hand-wavy way. Or maybe people are just more likely to click on these post-sale ads, and that’s all that matters.
>Don't be angry at the people who are benefiting from a system, or at the system itself.

But understand the impulse to be angry, and hear what it’s trying to tell you.
I am almost through the book "Attached" by Amire Levine, on 'advise' from HN last week. It talks about the spectrum "fear/insecure - safe - avoiding" in relationships. It is very systematic in its approach and it opened my eyes to this way of looking. It is about the interactions between people on that spectrum inside a relationship.

I look at my past 2 relationships now quite differently. I am mostly safe attached, and tend a bit to avoiding as well. My first relationship was with a fear/insecure someone, which ended with a lot of drama. My second relationship, I wanted to avoid drama, and ended up with someone who was avoiding. That pushed me more in the direction of fear/insecure, but since I am more on the side of avoiding than fear/insecure, there wasn't enough glue to make it last. Now I am with someone who is mostly safe, but has some fear/insecure tendencies. We do manage quite well I think :)

I tend to look at it like this; people are individual and always unique. When you bring together 2 unique persons, you end up with a unique relationship. But there are still systems that you can discover there.
Companies are not your friends, no matter how much they try and pretend they are. When your employer says "we're a family here" or something like that, that's simply untrue. I don't think that the people that say that are "lying" exactly, since "lying" implies intent, and I think most of the time when your manager tells you that they do think it's true.

If being a worker at a job were really "family", they wouldn't fire you off the second you start underperforming, or the second the economy tanks, or the second that they found someone cheaper to replace you; if someone's mother or father did that, you'd rightly think of them as a jerk.
I think the worst-case here is that political stagnation and populist anger continue to increase, leading to popular unrest and a military coup or other suspension of democracy. Factional civil war seems very unlikely because urban vs rural is not a regional divide.

But what's interesting is that political breakdown leading to a military coup wasn't what brought down the Roman Empire, but it was what brought down the Roman Republic! So maybe we're just entering the real imperial phase of our history.
Any app that displays tweets outside of Twitter, e.g. Tweetbot.
According to PG's Tweet, it seems quite simple - just fund them.
@jstanier on Twitter if that works for you.
never got pass the spinner. is this an insider joke? the spinner was pretty fast
There is no API, and unless a lot of people ask for it I'm not planning to build it any time soon either. Making an API isn't too hard, but providing a stable API would slow down development quite a bit as this project is really still in its early days. I don't think it's worth it right now. Sorry :-(

Better data export facilities is something that I intend to do soon-ish, and you could build your own UI with that, but it'll be based on data/DB sync rather than querying an API, which is quite a different workflow.
> And why in the world would (...) people being systems to be optimized rule out treating people with respect, empathy, and kindness.

Because seeing people as systems to be optimized is per definition dehumanizing which is an action that is not respectful or empathetic?
> The economic crisis of 2008/9 could have easily been prevented.

That's not clear at all. There are systemic changes one might have made that could have reduced the impact at the margins, but ultimately the cause was too much much money chasing too few assets and I have yet to see any plan that would have changed that.
A surveillance company can have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Methinks they doth protest too much.
We probably are not yet able to tell if we can simulate a brain fully, with something we call a computer nowadays.

If we can, then indeed consciousness comes from the collective function of individual cells. But maybe there's more to the workings of the brain?
Give you an example: A highway in my neighborhood is congested often but if you can put 3 people in your car, you are eligible to use the HOV lane and usually you can watch the cars next to you moving slowly while you can go in 50mph. Google won't know you are eligible for HOV lane and assume you are not.
And colors are part of a painting. Do you believe that colors are copyrightable?

Letters are part of a novel, do you think that authors have a copyright to the letters that they use?
Yes, it happens. Deal flow is a common performance metric in funds so if you catch someone at the right time they will read it. You can't raise a whole round that way, but you can definitely get a meeting and leverage that for intros into other funds. Once you have a foothold it doesn't really matter. Most VCs do deals referred by other VCs, even if the first VC doesn't make an investment.

Important note: this only works if you are credible. Credible doesn't mean FAANG, it means you can be googled and you look like you might be a credible founder.
Well I don't know if that would necessarily prove anything, since in this scenario, microsoft and the nsa are working closely enough together to modify one of their drivers. In that case, couldn't the point of contact at microsoft simply send the message to the nsa to have it signed, and then show it as proof that the key is owned by microsoft?
This is an absurd statement. It has no basis in reality and inflation even in the 20% range is problematic. 50% inflation causes a lot of problems.
I also very much recommend reading Hoffman and watching his talks if you want precise wording and not new-age woo.

Bernardo Kastrup is also interesting in that field.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

Just looking at learning curves per industry, do you think its possible to make educated guesses as to which would stand to benefit more from improvement?
Are you under performing due to lack of competence, or lack of motivation?
Toronto Old IBM Datacentre Renderings
Awesome suggestions thank you. I had to go to Care Oncology to get a metformin prescription which just arrived at the house today.

I tried going the A1C route to justify intervention but anemia and transfusions both push A1C low. I also just got a prescription for a Freestyle Libre to monitor blood glucose.

We’ve never got quite to the level of ketogenic but have tried focusing on fats and proteins for calories and keeping carbs between 50-100/day.
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We have been using proprietary CANoe for well over 6 years. Will evaluate this. But don't know if corporate will like it or not.
While I understand the similarity to what BoiledCabbage is saying to whackjob theories, BoiledCabbage is actually referencing real physics discussions that have occured in the past. Specifically, there is the problem of measuring the universe when you don't have anything not in the universe itself to do the measuring with. What if, for instance, the three dimensions aren't all the same size as it seems, but actually, x is five times larger than y or z and everything time things rotate, including all of your measurement apparatus, they actually grow and shrink? How would you detect such a thing? What if as you look out into the universe, all the constants actually shift in a way that time ends up running at a different speed, so instead of an expanding universe and light taking a long time to get to us, instead there is some sense in which the external universe "really is" younger, and the reason we witness ourselves in a bubble of old universe is simply the anthropic principle?

These were all very serious questions around the time of relativity being nailed down, especially since one of the implications of relativity is precisely that you don't have any absolute rulers anymore. While overall the scientific consensus is the scientific consensus, the problem still remains to a lesser degree even today. There's a recent paper questioning whether or not the universe's acceleration rate is actually expanding, because they posit a systematic error in our understanding of the standard candle supernovas used to measure it. What if the "standard candle" turns out to be more dependent on the chemical makeup of the stars than was previously understood, which as the universe gets older the stars have more non-hydrogen in them, so as you look to the younger parts of the universe you misjudge how far away they are systematically? Your ruler was bent in a way you didn't realize, so the distances don't work, so it looks like the universe's expansion has been expanding and there must be this "dark energy" that ends up making the majority of the universe, when it could just be a chimera of our inability to reference absolute measurements.
“Rotary and Mission Systems, which makes Sikorsky helicopters and ships, ended the year strong with quarterly net sales up 14 percent to $4.35 billion from $3.81 billion.“

Quarterly. That’s a lot of luggage. Also you can’t easily replicate a Blackhawk from the same factory and slap a badge on it.

Unsure of the margins, but there seems to be plenty of wiggle room, and contracts run into the 10s of billions for major buyers like Saudi Arabia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lockheed-results/lockheed...
Awesomness
Getting on for a million for one of the riverside places in Vauxhall last time I looked, possibly more now - for a not especially large, 2/3 bedroom place in what is not a terribly attractive area at ground level. For half that you can find a 7 bed place with a sea view in St Leonards on Sea.

The worst thing about all of this is that the irresponsible borrowers have in many cases come out on top. People earn more from their house than they do by going to work.
I had never heard of Away until I saw the Twitter thread. I assume that this is because it is a niche "luxury" brand that appeals mainly to a relatively small set of well-off younger buyers, which it targets via Internet channels like Twitter and other websites (such as the news organizations who wrote extensively about Away's woes.) Unfortunately for the Away company, the recent bad PR is also disproportionately going to transmitted to its potential customers via those same channels.

TL;DR maybe if this was ExxonMobil, some controversy on Twitter would be easy to shrug off. When you're a small Internet-focused company that's trying to sell a niche audience on your aspirational products, being savaged on Twitter and half the trendy Internet seems like terribly bad news.
Why do you consider the time playing Everquest wasted? It was what you wanted to do, you did it and had fun. Now you want to do something else and that's fine.
NSA found a dangerous Windows bug and alerted Microsoft rather than weaponize it
Is it like that for other FANG companies? Which ones constitute being an “elite”?
Gmail has an autocomplete function which means it’s inherently reading everyone’s email (for training).
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Great job.
Here is what I propose to make it more secure and prevent you from being able to read anyone diary...

I propose that each day a link/token is sent to your email. The link then ask for a password that is handled only with client side javascript and does the encryption of the data before sending it do the server. Look at what Blockhain.info or myetherwallet is doing for client side encryption. Maybe also propose provide all the front end as opensource and provide a way for people to host their own front (a few HTML, JS files where you input the link or token sent to you by email...)
This was linked in a Reddit thread about the old IBM Datacentre located on King St E in Toronto circa 1960's

I also wanted to link this hilarious story about operating the machines there:

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Ah, yes, Nosferatu.

That was the name for the reel-to-reel tape drives, for two reasons.

The tapes had to be fed manually into the input loop, until the light sensor detected the start of tape, at which point the automated feed would clasp the tape and start reeling it in automatically.

One of the problems was that on sunny days, the light coming through all that glass to the outside confused the tape sensor, and it would refuse to feed the tape. Operators would either have to shield the sensors from the light with their bodies (which was difficult), or wait for a cloud to go by, at which point the tape sensor would work properly until the sun came out again.

The other problem was that the tape clamp on some of the drives was a little too aggressive, and clamped down so quickly that the operator couldn't get his finger out of the way in time. There were lots of tape that had skin and blood from slower operators.

The tape drives had a taste for human flesh and drank their blood, but at least they were powerless in sunlight. And that's how the nickname "Nosferatu" came about.

They later added some kind of polarizing filter so that that outside light didn't confuse the light sensor (at least as much), as well as some safety features to cut down on the finger eating. Later models were a lot tamer, but operators would still occasionally get nipped by overly aggressive tape feeders.

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(Original comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/eojygy/the_ibm_dat...)
The main reason is that it took tens of years to build Google Analytics as it is and Google has the advantage to be able to provide more information about the user such as demographic data (gender, age, etc) since they have all the data in-place.

Having said that, there is no need to create an exact copy of Google Analytics because most of the people probably use only 20% of the features anyway. Each business has its own use-case and data source so it would be much more convenient to ingest all the raw event data into your data warehouse either using third-party tools such as Segment or open-source tools such as Snowplow and Rakam. This is the only way to have full control over your data.

1. If you don't want to store sensitive user-data, just don't send it to your servers.

2. Create the reports either using SQL or something like Rakam that provides you an interface similar to Amplitude / Mixpanel but on top of your data-warehouse so that you don't need to share your data with a third party service.

Shameless plug: I'm working for the company behind Rakam. (https://rakam.io)
Maybe that was the incompetence you guys are talking about.
We already have non-human beings with legal rights - companies :)

Nobody cares if they are conscious, people care if they pay taxes and follow the law :)
> I've managed a personal "diary" that's on Github publically.

Well that's more of a journal. But yeah, a "diary" service can be used for less private stuff too.
Why doesn't the guy just write a python script to mail himself that prompt everyday? Sometimes I think if Paul Graham tripped he would start wondering if there was a start-up aiming to put an end to uneven ground.
> So the question is, this simulated brain, which is behaving very similarly indeed to a biological brain: does it have consciousness? Does it feel?

I think there are more easily accessible examples that investigate this problem closer. Are animals conscious? How about children? How about very slow people?
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I see a lot of questions down-voted due to insecure code: PHP & MySQL injections for example. It's a site for asking a question and learning, a down-vote is so discouraging to a new programmer.
You're basically screwed. Go ahead and defend yourself, but you'll likely be charged with a serious crime.
And the exact same thing can be said about “Java” or in this instance “Python” or any other jargon. Why does no one ask for those terms highlighted? All technical documentation is not a Wikipedia article. It’s just not appropriate imo.
That's called hypocracy
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Only if we succeed at caricatures
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>"There's no qualities in the universe, just quantities and we arbitrarily assign labels (qualities) to them."

I understand your standpoint. I feel pretty frustrated with these questions too - especially when people throw large assumptions around like panpsychism. However, I gotta disagree with the idea notion that no qualities exist in the universe. Afterall, isn't every single thing a part of the universe, including thoughts, feelings, and experience?

Here is a thought experiement:

Think about experiencing pain and what it feels like to you. Really try to simulate it in your thoughts. Probably sucks. Now think about happiness and what that feels like to you. Probably doesn't suck as much. Without watching a scan of your brain, and without collecting any sort of scientific data about your nervous system, you were most likely able to discern the difference between those two feelings just now. You didn't do this by any type of measurement of quantity, just by quality of experience (qualia).

So I would argue that either quality definitely exists, or everyone reading this just experienced something that is extra-universal, which in my opinion is just as fantastic and assumptive as panpsychism.

Also, I am not a theoretical physicist nor do I have half of a firm understanding of even classical physics, but apparently there has been advances in theoretical physics to include consciousness into the same theory as quantum and classical physics. Might be interesting for some readers to check out - The Causal Theory of Views: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338544509_The_Causa...
Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) which is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy has pretty much the same arguments.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology
At least the arbitrariness is obvious :)
Needs a bunch of high-profile logos (of people you're muting) after the three-horizontal-blurbs part.
So you let your young (under 10yo) kids bumble around on bicycles in the streets with traffic whizzing by at 30-45mph?
I guarantee Away used some ridiculous number to cite their audience. Something like "The 500 TRILLION dollar GLOBAL travel market."