skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be many that have non-competes, but I think you will find that many of them would allow blogging (or at least be willing to make an exception). Stopping engineers from blogging is typically not the reason they have the non-compete.

Alternatively you could try to convince your employer to add an exception to the non-compete. It's not unthinkable that they would allow it, if it's just for blogging.
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I'm not sure how someone would use such questionary, as simply summing up points and comparing the final result doesn't seem to be useful by itself.

What's the purpose of this?
A hammer and a nail is also a system.

In all seriousness, though — what alternative do you propose? When nothing seems to violate the laws of physics, we can make sense of things using our understanding of those laws.
"Absolute moron" is a bit unkind when he was an unsuspecting subject of CIA research into the effects of LSD, isn't it?
This is a well-thought and written article, thank you!
If all seven are the same except for one or two cases, it doesn’t mean that you have to have a bunch of if statements, you either use inheritance or composition to create special cases and judiciously apply “pull members up” and “push members down” refactoring, interfaces, abstract classes, virtual methods, etc. These are all solved problems.

Yes I know about the whole “a square is not a rectangle problem”.
Is there a reason to claim that access to pornography is effecting employment rates for men?

Women did not exist the job market after internet access became widespread. It is thus hard to see any relation between access to pornography and employment rates outside of any gender stereotyping regarding both men and women.
The doctor though should be able to provide access to a clinical dietician to help think plan the diet and think through the implications. I imagine some chemo and targeted drugs could interfere with lipid metabolism and there is also a risk of acidosis. So I would ask the doctor. It will probably be a case of "we don't know" but diet is basically the one variable under your control besides listening to the doctor.

There's one paper on it from a completed clinical trial. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525031?dopt=Abstract

Also clinical trials using metaformin during cancer treatment. You might consider enrolling in one of these if it is feasible.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...
Why such a quick dismissal? We have virtually zero evidence one way or the other. Calling consciousness an “emergent property” is a cop-out answer. What, materially, is that property, what physical laws explain it, and by what mechanism does it emerge from mere electrical impulses?
What about Matomo[0]?

[0]https://matomo.org/
Moral blame doesn't do you much good when dealing with a population. If most people in a population show poor judgement (let's say they are overweight) your argument for moral blame might still be true, but does nothing to solve the problem. Why does a population of people all make the same error? Well, because people are only ever in partial control of their impulses. Some more than others, but no one has total control.
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Providing a service sucks way more than having a product if you value your work-life balance.
> Think about how you got here.

I would add that, when asking yourself questions, make sure it’s your intellect and not your ego answering. They’re part of the same machine, but sometimes they give very different responses to the same question. Be suspicious of any answer that’s easy to accept.
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Am I the only one who thinks the consciousness question is really quite easy to understand and answer?

The illusion of consciousness is obviously beneficial. For example, I could tell a computer, through the use of sensors, to report that it's in pain when it's hit. But you wouldn't take it seriously, or care for its suffering, because it hasn't also declared that it is under the illusion that its suffering has a kind of physical manifestation in its mind.

The reason we care more about animals today than in the past is because we finally began to question whether or not they had a similar sense of self as us - perhaps when we are cruel to animals they don't just know they're in pain and understand like a computer might that pain is bad, but their brains actually tell them they are physically feeling a sensation of pain. Similarly, I presume if an AI ever said it had a similar physical experience of pain to us then we would considering treating that AI with similar regard to that of a human.

If I'm correct, then an illusion of consciousness makes complete evolutionary sense. It's not really consciousness, but a sense of self, and more importantly, a sense that there are others with a similar sense of self to our own.

Our consciousness is just our brains saying you're a real thing that thinks and feels. It's a lie our brain tells us that our pain and the pain of others is important and worth caring about.
It's the "every problem is a nail" statement in slightly different guise.
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How do they not have incentive?

If ad tech company X is more effective than Y at generating sales, eventually the money will shift away from Y.
> you just assume it is true because they seem to be like you

A minor, but important point. I don't assume it's true. I just think it is more likely than not.

I suppose that the philosopher I'm talking about could say the same of their theory. And I guess that's OK, if all they're claiming is that this is something that seems likely. My only response to that would be that his induction is prima facie questionable to me.
My one windows machine (gaming rig) is still waiting for a simple, low cost option to get a LTSB release that has zero telemetry code, zero upsell gimicks in the start menu and has a simple option to look identical to windows 7, but with a newer kernel. I have used wine for games, but the performance just does not meet my own personal needs.
Because it doesn't explain my experience.

You can still be a materialist and allow for consciousness via emergence, but that is not quite the argument you are making.
> There is no way to measure the consciousness (again, the experience of being) of something

Right - that's the whole game this author is playing. One question that is so easily answered if you spend time observing is whether or not YOU are conscious. That is the only thing you can ever be sure of. Because you feel conscious. You feel like something is happening. You might be a brain in a vat and everyone else is an automaton. But you definitely know that you are experiencing something.
This is appealing, but I think it's important to recognize just how hard that is.

Abstractions by definition lose information. If that information becomes important, to any user, at any time in the tool's lifespan, somebody has to go and claw the thing open to find it.

Picking an abstraction that never leaks essentially means correctly predicting the entire scope of your problem. There are ways to improve on this, good abstractions try to offer contained 'leaks' that you can enable or access if needed, but that still means predicting the set of possible use cases.

(For a code-adjacent example, Excel is popular as an abstraction on an RDBMS, but it's low-level and even Turing complete. Higher-level tools which don't permit arbitrary data association constantly get scrapped or exported down to Excel because they don't cover every interesting relationship, and Excel data semi-regularly gets pushed back down to databases.)

In school, I learned a lot about the wonders of encapsulation, black boxing, and so on. Within a few years out of school, I realized that one of my most valuable skills was being able to move down the stack when those things inevitably break down. When I do have to go and a library's source, and very occasionally find a bug in it, it often feels like something that couldn't realistically have been anticipated.
Took about 3 mins to get working with my jekyll github pages site. Very simple, informative backend panel too. Thank you very much. Shall be donating!
We’ve lost 5%, that’s a lot.
I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.
Thanks! What browser do you use?
i think i am an under-performing developer. if you dont mind sharing some secret sauce... what are the first questions you think about asking to diagnose whats going on?
Sadly, this seems to be common with many startups in terms of treating the support + success team like garbage. Which is so short sighted because they tend to be the teams that many customers have their only interactions with at the company.
You should check out the book The Case Against Education if you want to pull on that thread a little more with signaling. It's a compelling book for me.
In OpenLaszlo, you can create trees of nested instances with XML tags, and when you define a class, its name becomes an XML tag you can use to create instances of that class.
That lets you create your own domain specific declarative XML languages for creating and configuring objects (using constraint expressions and XML data binding, which makes it very powerful).

This gives me nightmares of over engineered xml programming that is infamous I the Java community. You lose all of the benefits of static type checking.
I think there's a fundamental principle/security in privacy that we don't really understand broadly enough across the industry -- that if you allow someone to know whether or not you're hiding/disabling something, they can often just force you to change the setting.

Just as one example, active-permissions that can be revoked after being granted aren't perfect, but are a big step up over manifests, because they're more work to exploit and often allow users to retroactively change permissions after an app checks if they're allowed.

Not to pick on the Privacy Budget specifically, but I worry that proposals like this don't really get that larger principle yet -- that it's still something we haven't quite internalized in the privacy community. If a site exceeds the privacy budget, it shouldn't get told. It should just get misinformation.

It's like autoplay permissions. Autoplay permissions on web audio are awful, because you can just keep trying things until you get around the restriction. What would be better is to auto-mute the tab, because that would be completely invisible to code running on the page.
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this post is a bit of an oxymoron to me.

You say you're great at seeing other perspectives, but then you dehumanize them by calling them stakeholders (a term that is the new "resource").

They're people. Call them people.
When I was a young man, I was working at a children's museum, and one of our guests got sick by the front door. I was dispatched to clean it up. While cleaning, (no customers were around at the time), I flippantly said, "Where's the dignity in this?" An elderly woman who was working as a volunteer at the museum overheard me and said, "The only dignity a job has is the dignity you bring to it."
OK, my use of "emergent" is not appropriate either, it's just difficult to say anything as I have no clue what is behind it, if it is emergent, if it is an inherent property of universe, if it is outside universe in some "machine" or superbeing or whatever. Those are great sci-fi and philosophical topics, not sure about science itself as we know it right now though.
"things that move small numbers of people to exactly where they want to go" -- I can describe feet in the same way! My feet also work after drinking, they don't take up space, they gave me independence at a young age, and they provide health benefits (even the thirty minutes a day of walking needed to get to public transit and do grocery shopping makes a big difference over a totally sedentary lifestyle).

A lot of that science fiction was written by Americans.
How functional must a brain be? We know that we can remove at least half of a human brain and still have a somewhat functional person. Where is the line drawn?
There are some basic simulators out there that use single board computers. I've been meaning to try to build one at some point.

https://github.com/carloop/simulator (RasPi)

https://github.com/limiter121/esp32-obd2-emulator (ESP32)
More on this can be found on the Privacy page: https://www.goatcounter.com/privacy
> I'm more worried because the mentality that lead to this doesn't seem to have changed whatsoever.

I think the current attitude of "new technology will solve this" is an example of this mentality. Examples readily available in this thread.
It was actually written as an alternative to Fathom! My original plan was to contribute to Fathom until it suited my needs, but the Open Source version of Fathom is on indefinite hiatus and the maintainers are working on a (closed) rewrite. I decided that starting from scratch would be better, as there were some things I would have preferred to do fundamentally different. What I really wanted was to add analytics to another idea I was working on, and while it's a cool idea that everyone I pitched it to seems to like, it doesn't have any good monetisation options, so I decided to work on this first.
In the scenario where NSA gave Microsoft a public key to include in the product Microsoft doesn't have the private key. That's the point-- NSA would want their own root-of-trust in the product.
why is coming back a failure to accept they made mistakes?
Finally a simple counter with no tracking. Most companies use Google Analytics, because the current alternatives are lacking. Piwik is a good alternative but harder to configure.
To build on your thought experiment:

> So the question is, this simulated brain, which is behaving very similarly indeed to a biological brain: does it have consciousness? Does it feel?

If you answer "yes" to this question, what happens if you split the computations of that simulated brain over a million people equipped with pen and paper? Where is its consciousness happening now?

I have yet to hear a satisfying answer from anyone who believes that an AGI will automatically be conscious. But then again, I have yet to hear a satisfying explanation of consciousness from anyone...
So it's a fear that if we explore things that might not be true, we'll all accidentally believe it? For all our flaws, I think humanity deserves more credit than that :)
Just set this up for my blog https://fnune.com/

Thank you!
It's not that surprising that someone hasn't come up with a product as comprehensive, and most importantly "free". That's a lot of infrastructure.
The wheels are pretty fantastic on the Muji cases. IMO, they're equivalent to the wheels on the Away cases. They're not as nice as the wheels on my Rimowa case, but the difference is not worth the premium (given how cheap Muji is).
i mean its available for free so its not for sale or anything?
This. Pretty well done OP, congrats and good luck.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I did not. I built it some time ago, but I was quick to reply, so there's a chance that Paul tried the service. I'm such a fanboy, haha.
If you did a cursory scan of a 2900 line spreadsheet, just to call it laughably incomplete, maybe you have some insight of value to share too?
I’ve seen this but the one leaving wrote the ad. Yes, it was after they had given notice and made and amicable split
Yeah, I think the repetitive part is what drives us crazy.

The worst jobs are probably done by prison labor and slaves. 8, I would actually classify as dangerous labor, things like how prisoners are made to peel garlic which corrodes their fingernails and teeth.
They do seem to be still called "embeddings" although yes, that's become a somewhat misleading misonmer in some sense.

However, the analogy still is somewhat meaningful, because if you want to look at the properties of a particular word or token, it's not just a general pretrained network, it still preseves the one-to-one mapping between the input token and the output vector corresponding to each particular token; which is very important for all kinds of sequence labeling or span/boundary detection tasks. So you can use them just as word2vec embeddings - for example, if you'd do word similarity or word difference metrics with 'transformer-stack-embeddings' then that would work just as well as word2vec (though you'd have to get to a word-level measurement instead of wordpiece or BPE subword tokens) with the added bonus of having done contextual disambiguation; you probably could do a decent word sense disambiguation system just by directly clustering these embeddings; the mouse-as-animal and mouse-as-computer-peripheral should have clearly different embeddings.
While what you're saying has a truthful ring to it, I fundamentally disagree with your hypothesis. The theory behind insurance is that everyone pays a flat rate so that there is enough money in the pool to cover statistically rare events. It works for fire, flood, life insurance, anything really. And the great thing about it is that the premiums are generally substantially lower than people expect. There's enough room there to charge enough for insurance companies to make a profit and still have affordable premiums.

This has gone haywire in recent decades due to corruption. In their never-ending quest for more profit, insurance company lobbyists have bribed politicians to change the laws so that they can create new brackets. Now car insurance costs more for young drivers. Now people in the south find they have no flood insurance or that their coverage wasn't good enough to replace their home or that there is so much red tape that they have to sue their own insurance company to get paid. Or the company simply doesn't pay, and the US government has to bail everyone out.

The fact that smoking is the single biggest discriminator in insurance premiums after age is a huge red flag that corruption is afoot. Here are a few things statistically more dangerous than smoking:

* Texting while driving

* Not eating right or exercising

* Working a blue collar job

Corruption just shifts costs onto the poor in the name of efficiency.
If if emergence is right, you should be not so confident about it because it is an extremely delicate position with also a lot of handwavimg and question marks
I was hoping for Packet to be the next big bare metal provider so this is kinda sad at first glance. I’ve heard great things about them but haven’t used them; I was considering them for a side project of spinning up my own k8s cluster just because.

GCP and AWS probably fit the needs of most established businesses. I know quite a few startups that use bare metals though since they cost a lot less. Plus, you have complete visibility and control over your entire stack.

I hope others spring up to address the market of users needing extremely highly customized systems at the lowest costs.
It's a bit like saying everything can be modeled. What do economists, biologists, and traffic engineers increasingly use to do their work? Models. An awful lot of things are actually nail-like for this particular hammer.

Applying it to relationships and society feels like a slippery slope. People are still people. But there's definitely cases where the analogy is useful, and maybe even spot-on.
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I was hacked 3 times on okc. Thankfully, all the info there I put was fake, I somehow sensed their security is wack judging from the user interface and the constant app crashes and bugs. There are also multiple reports of users who got hacked. I remember on one occasion my phone number was on a conversation and was picked up by hackers to text me in person pausing under some "Jessica".
Capitalism is the way a system set of connections between subsystems and politics is a way to reorganize a system from within itself.

> can the system still be simplified enough to grasp it well enough to change it?

That would be a model of a system not the system itself, and as George box said "All models are wrong, but some are useful"

> where would an individual who has grasped it find the power to change anything?

If an individual is able to change connections between subsystems, they can change the behavior of the higher level system. But the impact of the change is dependent on the systems being changed.
Neurons are only part of the brain (50% ?). Glia have been shown to be part of the NMDA repair/replace cycle [0]. And that's just some prelim stuff. We've no idea what else the other cells may/not be doing yet. Just replacing neurons is unlikely to replicate a brain's functions. You need the whole caboodle.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=glia+cells+NMDA&atb=v173-1&ia=web
Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200M cable modems
It works well too! Too bad is not easy to fetch history.
Snark isn't the enemy. And 'trolls' were originally forces for social good, countering new usenet posters who decided rules and research weren't for them, they were just going to burst in on whatever conversation was happening and inject their unwarranted opinions.

Those people do more collective damage to the community than the most sadistic or narcissistic agitator. Communities can unite against an asshole, but in a room full of idiots the best individual course is to show yourself out. And gods help you when the idiots unite against you for not following the mob zeit geist (reddit du jour).
The question isn't whether they pay taxes,

It's whether they ought to pay and get away with not doing do (due to lack of oversight), or if they are allowed not to pay.
Well, Chrome was based on Webkit for a while and then they forked it and as a result stopped contributing to it. For Google, Chrome is a major product (as it forces their Search engine and products). For Apple, Safari is pretty minor. Apple simply doesn't have a reason to throw so much manpower at it.
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Not sure if can even be attempted. If turns out to be a phenomenon that originates in a sub-Plank's scale then "machinery" isn't something conceptually possible there.
Instagram Is Having an Outage
Instagram's login verification servers seem to be down.

I can reliably trigger the issue by logging in from a "new device", i.e. incognito mode with a different user agent. Once this happens, when I login to the account, or try using an active session from another device, I will reliably get redirected to `https://www.instagram.com/challenge/<some_random_id>` which promptly spits out a 500 Internal Server Error ("oops, an error occurred.")

It has been around 12 hours since the outage started and I'm beginning to wonder if Instagram is even monitoring these errors.
Passing a bong around?

This is a trite dismissal of a genuinely interesting attempt to get to grips with what the nature of consciousness might be.

It would be more convincing if you offered intelligent counters to the arguments of panpsychism rather than silly clichés intended to derail discussion.
Peronally, my response is not anything more hostile than a tendency for my eyes to roll -- and the reason for that comes from how this argument seems to be using the flexibility of language to avoid the issues.

There is a problem that precedes this essay: 'consciousness' nominally has a meaning of merely being aware of, and responding to, the environment, but this is not the self-aware consciousness that is currently unexplained, and a definition that would include thermostats does not help with that problem. The author compounds this by additionally defining 'experience' as any form of 'undergoing interaction'.
How do you define an illusion without first positing a being that can experience (hence conscious) an illusion?

What does it mean that consciousness is a 'lie our brain tells us', who are we? Are you assuming some form of cartesian dualism, or perhaps you are making a sort of homunculus argument?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument
You're right, and the market for the Black Hawk is better.