skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The very concept of p-zombies illustrates this a priori refusal to admit any possible evidence whatsoever of consciousness. Another person could simply decide that I am in fact a p-zombie and lock themselves in a closed system of thought out of which there is no path to demonstrating that I "experience" anything at all."

This is a good point and makes the problem interesting in an additional way. We (I) assume something like p-zombies exist in non-human consciousness, dogs and cats for example. It's like something to be a dog. How far down do we want to go ? Frogs? I'll bite; it's like something to be a frog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8IY2eTBqd8

But here's a counter to the p-zombies argument, OK?

The p-zombies argument is usually taken to mean there comes a point where what has been created is so indistinguishable from "real" people, ala Ex Machina, that arguing over it is a form of ideologically motivated perversion.

Let me turn that round and say that the p-zombie argument is (accidentally) making the following strong claim- it is impossible to build a machine which in every way acts human but has no experience.

That's a very very strong claim on this universe. I wouldn't take the bet, because someone's going to do it.

But if someone is going to do it, how can we tell when they have or they haven't? The Turing Test is outdated (as I see it) and anyway already passed for some judges ( re: ELIZA).

To me, this circles back to the original problem. We can't distinguish between the high probability that someone can eventually create an actual zombie and "real" experience-having artificial intelligence, and why is that ?

The issue is just another form of the basic problem- we don't have the conceptual framework to get our minds around what experience is.

Our basic assumptions may be off. Instead of quarks et.al. being the basic building blocks of matter and matter of brains and brains of consciouness, some people take experience to be the most basic building block of the universe.

This was my conclusion and I thought it would just brand me as an eccentric so I never pushed it, but now I see it's being kicked around by people with careers.

Another assumption is that experience/consciousness is comprehensible to the level of scientific causality/reality we're aiming at, (let's just shorthand it to "ultimate reality"), because there are separate, distinct things in the first place.

But what if separate things is not a fact about ultimate reality? What if they're more like a hardwired perceptual compulsion we can't escape? Then we might very well find truly insoluable mysteries on the foundational tier of our conceptual scaffolding, because none of the "things" we think about are real in the first place. Things which don't exist, don't have to "add up".

So this would mean our minds and ultimate reality are just not made for each other, even as that reality directly impinges on our personal daily lives in ways we can and do readily experience and talk about.

It seems like the most far fetched and deflating hypothesis possible, but consider we'd merely be joining the rest of the animal kingdom in this regards.
Right, and I'm saying that both `mapState` and `useSelector` perform the same behavior: allowing your component to subscribe to portions of the Redux store state, extract that, and update the component when that data changes.

So, I don't understand what points your parent comment is trying to make, because the whole point of React-Redux _is_ to keep your components in sync with the data in the Redux store state.
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Does it still show your old profile? I use to log into my account but I'm not getting the password right anymore.

Last time I logged into my account a couple of years back, it still showed the last profiled update I filled in the 2000s.
I’ve been tempted to do a week long phone and news fast while I am stuck here. Maybe I’ll hide my browser and make myself only go online from a computer like the old days.
This is exactly the video I was about to respond with
Did anyone from the Weather Company join IBM senior leadership?
Thanks to your video I've got my server running in no time. But in the end you end up with a jitsi installation that is public and can be used by any visitor without login. Is that by design? Seems a bit odd. Wouldn't that create a burden on my server if everyone would start using that jitsi to host video conferences for free?
Apple cannot do this "silently".
>the same way your car or your day job are illusions

But what work is calling these things illusions doing for you? That they're not fundamental units of the furniture of the universe doesn't mean they don't exist or play necessary causal or explanatory roles.
They are not even bothered by arguing two sides of the same issue at the same time. All that matters is to stir the pot, to make more foam because foam obscures what is actually important. It isn't about 5G or pizzagate or the fact that 9/11 was an inside job by the mossad. It is about distracting you, me and a ton of other people from the things that are really going on and that then makes you look like just another conspiracy nut.

This is just one giant misinformation campaign directed towards derailing informed consent and an informed electorate. Every little bit helps in that overarching plan.
When I researched elm a few years ago, I pretty much came to the same conclusions that the author came about the hard way.

1. The native / non-native split and coming hard deprecation of native, although makes sense from a 'code purity of the ecosystem' perspective, will ultimately be a huge hindrance in practice.

2. Elm specifically puts it's author as the single point of failure, decision making and design, because he wants to make sure the language features are designed right by sacrificing development multithreading.

3. Because of the 2 decisions above, forces elm to effectively be a research / toy language, who's ideas we benefit from the ideas showing up in other languages. Such as elm's error messages probably inspiring rust and swift to improve their error messages. You can't rely on elm as a business.

4. Elm might of been better off not using the browser as it's runtime environment in the end because of the above 3 issues and how bad javascript is and went straight for a flutter or squeak style of implementation setup, which doesn't cause as many 'temptations of native' kinds of issues.
John,

I think this is a great idea! This is probably not a core competency in your platform, but I can imagine a lot of artists don’t have a resource to get decent photos taken ( not good camera, or understanding of composition, etc). Would there be some way to partner with local photographers to have them come out using your platform to either connect or maybe even pay for it? For example, $50 for the trip out and to set up if within 30 miles, and then $20 per piece to digitize it with multiple angles and staging?

Either way, good luck with the platform and I’ve passed it along to my wife, who is an artist.
French regulator orders Google pay copyright fees to media groups
It does, because the third party may share their keys with others.
I may have found a partial answer to that, or at least a track to explore. I read some research articles from Robin Carhart-Harris on psylocibin/psylocin ("magic mushrooms") last year. The effect of psylocibin on the Default-Mode Network (DMN) seemed to be a critical part of his research, and so I searched if there was also some observations on the antiphasic nature of the DMN and the Dorsal Attention Network (DAN), and I found something rather interesting [1]:

"The following example may help to illustrate what is meant by competition between conscious states—and the loss of it in primary consciousness. Functional brain imaging has identified distinct brain networks that subserve distinct psychological functions. For example, the DMN is associated with introspective thought and a dorsal frontoparietal attention network (DAN) is associated with visuospatial attention and is a classic example of a “task positive network” (TPN)—i.e., a network of regions that are consistently activated during goal-directed cognition. If the brain was to be sampled during a primary state (such as a psychedelic state) we would predict that the rules that normally apply to normal waking consciousness will become less robust. Indeed, we recently found this to be so when analysing the degree of orthogonality or “anti-correlation” between the DMN and TPN post-psilocybin. Post-drug there was a significant reduction in the DMN-TPN anticorrelation, consistent with these networks becoming less different or more similar (i.e., a flattening of the attractor landscape). The same decrease in DMN-TPN anticorrelation has been found in experienced meditators during rest (Brewer et al., 2011) and meditation (Froeliger et al., 2012). Moreover, decreased DMN-TPN inverse coupling is especially marked during a particular style of meditation referred to as “non-dual awareness” (Josipovic et al., 2011). This is interesting because this style of meditation promotes the same collapse of dualities that was identified by Stace (and Freud) as constituting the core of the spiritual experience. The DMN is closely associated with self-reflection, subjectivity and introspection, and task positive networks are associated with the inverse of these things, i.e., focus-on and scrutiny of the external world (Raichle et al., 2001). Thus, it follows that DMN and TPN activity must be competitive or orthogonal in order to avoid confusion over what constitutes self, subject and internal on the one hand, and other, object and external on the other. It is important to highlight that disturbance in one's sense of self, and particularly one's sense of existing apart from one's environment, is a hallmark of the spiritual (Stace, 1961) and psychedelic experience (Carhart-Harris et al., 2012b)."

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.0002...
I appreciate your sharing this view... but i lack background as to why. This tone and line of thinking is quite regular with the exception of a few friends who prefer surrendering privacy for safety.

Tell me more about your views? Basically im trying to get at does this non psychologist have valid insight or is this just a knee jerk disagreement+quarantine comment?

And to better clarify my boiling over thing it is really to say that with the added time on our hands we all have so much time to read and think about our lives.

Just in case you’re right... hello from loony town. Haha. Sorry not funny.
>India banning critical medical exports

At this point I need to mention this:

The USA has managed to successfully enforce bogus patents of drugs that should be generics in the EU. So instead of producing them at home we import them from India. The ICU I did my rotation on would be impossible to work without drugs produced in India.
> far more sophisticated means of communication

Or far more simple means. It's trivial, really, to write your own app for encrypted communication or signaling. I bet I could build one in a day.

Even without programming skills, you could set up a shared drive containing only a keepass file. Download the file, use your key and password to open it, then read the message. Monitor the last updated timestamp to see if there have been any changes.

Securing your communications is not hard.
Zimbabwe's inflation rate surges to 231M% (2008)
Thank you. roam is an outliner tool that I hear often mentioned these days
do you have evidence for your claims?

i know people who live in china, including those who work in hospitals, and the situation handling there is night and day compared with that found in the u.s.
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What I've done in the past is build a library for functional testing of the API. You can use that library writing functional tests, and to create an API status test that runs periodically to provide monitoring.

This generally does require that your APIs have some idea of multi-tenancy, as you don't want your tests modifying some customer's data.
To summarize:

- A Yelp account exec inappropriately shared another business's profile stats with Louis.

- Louis reported this privacy violation to Yelp, and Yelp decided to fire the account exec.

- The fired account exec blamed Louis for getting fired and subsequently got her friends to write negative reviews on Louis's Yelp page.

That's not evidence that Yelp practices extortion.
Original author of the elm-firebase ( https://github.com/pairshaped/elm-firebase ) here. While I think Elm certainly has some rough patches in both their aggressively PC community and the immaturity of the language (still many breaking changes, not 1.x, etc.), it's not that awful. I was told that elm-firebase was basically a waste, and don't use native modules, so I stopped development. I didn't need to make a big stink, and write a huge blog post on why I'm leaving Elm and how the community is toxic.

If the author needs to leave the community, then do it, but no one needs to leave a community with so much drama.
The revenue for these businesses cratered. It cratered due to government actions. For service businesses or businesses that sell to service businesses the revenue is zero or nearly zero. The reason why the businesses needed X employees before is because to support Y revenue pre-closure X-1 employees were not enough. In order for the the payroll portion of a loan to become a grant a business cannot decrease the number of workers even though it has no revenue to support them. Reductions in payroll costs reduce the forgiven part of the loan. Reduction in a headcount reduces the forgiven part of the loan.

Essentially, in order for a loan to be treated as a business makes the following bet:

"In no more than 2.5 months from the moment the loan is funded the revenue will return to pre-closure levels"

The non-grant part of the loan (or entire loan if it no longer qualifies) must be repaid in 2 years at 1% APR.[0]

The only real play for a small business that is planning on being around for a long time is to get the loan based on the top payroll number, immediately lay everyone off taking 1% APR hit and repay outstanding loans with higher APR. This is only applicable to businesses that have a lot of cash in a bank.

[0] Before Wells Frago/BOA/Chase etc complained to Treasury that they were not going to make enough money to "make it worth for them to do these loans" the repayment terms were 0.5% APR for 10 years.
https://archive.md/IuHN0
I find the hook API cleaner for most common use cases. It is also better for things like forms, which redux wasn't intended for.

https://redux.js.org/faq/organizing-state#should-i-put-form-...
Sad to see this downvoted, that's exactly what it is.
DARPA Reveals Supercomputers Used for Mind Control of Targeted Individuals
I feel completely different. I think I would be happy if I had free time, but my university is giving me more work to do now and finding the motivation to study is very difficult.
The stupidest 30% are walking around with phones that are already easily tracked.
If you believe a zero click iOS compromise would infect more than 20k devices, can you give an example of such a thing happening?

If not, why not? Do you believe that 20000 people would never noticed such a thing over a sustained period?

As for 2: there are public examples (again, Aurora) of teams with more funding being caught in less time. So I think you are underestimating the security capabilities of Google (and similar companies). For example, are you familiar with beyond corp?
I believe the goal of this disinformation is to cause democracy to undermine itself. I think that whoever is spreading this thinks that once we're all accustomed to YouTube and Twitter banning mostly harmless urban legends, then soon they'll fall down the slippery slope toward more advanced silencing of politically unpopular opinions or whatever. I don't think it'll work, but it's the only sensible explanation I can think of. I mean if a state actor is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into promoting this disinformation, there must be some anticipated ROI. And other possibilities like "make people in the west distrust 5G so Huawei can stay ahead" and "promote general distrust of people in power" don't seem as plausible to me.
How certain of this are we (for the flu)?

When I've looked into it, I've found it difficult to assess the degree to which we are looking at "behavior changes between seasons" vs "the season matters".

Reasons the season might matter: Thicker air (higher humidity) may reduce particulate spread. Viral lifespan may be different under different temperatures.

Yet, in researching the issue, I tend to find things like "well, in animal models, this is what we've seen". Or "we think the heat reduces the effectiveness of a protective membrane that the flu uses".

Despite some effort, I've not found sources that both (1) seem reliable, and (2) provide a clear/concise understanding of what we know and why/how we think we know these things.
Sometimes these idiots have posted on Facebook about their planned attacks. And we still did not manage to stop them.
The comment immediately before rtfeldman's references patching the compiler for this project, which is an implied necessity if js code is to continue to be used. It's essentially a soft-fork, and that is what rtfeldman is objecting to.
You remember when Goldman peddled mortgage backed securities during the bubble and then bet against the same securities after selling it? Making cash on both sides of the scam.

If it’s not as simple as that, then the only intricate manipulation I can think of is that by playing It up, then playing it down, you normalize the need to treat the issue with credibility. Why is a news agency lending their name to even address this?
>They're relying on a purely behavioral understanding of consciousness

They're relying on the fact that consciousness has physical manifestations in behavior. The alternative is epiphenomenalism. While it may be a philosophically interesting position, its useless scientifically and so its fair to assume consciousness has some physical artifacts in a scientific context.
I still use Trillian just for the UI. I can have several chat windows open along the top of my screen without taking up much of my working space. Since I work remotely from most of my colleagues this is priceless and I don't know what I'll do when I am forced to switch. I was also a heavy ICQ user from the 90's into the early 2000's for all the reasons you cited.
How will the process for the "last mile" be implemented?

There still needs to be tests taken from individuals and conveyed to the labs?
many of these tests will be repeats from individuals who might have taken it earlier? etc
The big difference between visible light and 5G in this case is humans are known to be capable of sensing visible light, while no person has ever demonstrated the ability to sense radio waves like 5G signals. Of course we can't sense gamma radiation either, but in the case of ionizing radiation we at least have solid evidence humans can be harmed by it. But for radio waves? There's nothing, no hint of how any harm might occur, short of being put in a microwave oven and receiving thermal burns.
Could ISPs threatened by 5G be involved? Just something I've wondered.
Do I not need a component library if I use Flexbox ?
I try to minimize my exposure to non-actionable news. Once we went into total lockdown almost all news became non actionable so I’ve insulated myself from pretty much all of it. Just working through the $2000 of food we stocked up.
Disney+ streaming service hits 50M users
Here's a twitter thread with more detail about dairy in Canada: https://twitter.com/FreshAirFarmer/status/124787620556452659...
Well, if that’s true for every project...
That reminds me of how the biggest thing that Airbnb did for growth in the early days was offer to send hosts a professional photographer to make their flat look more appealing. I bet you could do something similar.
Garbage in, garbage out! Can't build good models with data that's terrible. Inconsistent testing, different reporting methods, lying from governments.
Not really, it's not your privacy if it's your work account/email.
I'm glad there are some people taking this approach, but I just can't do it. There's way too much, and the majority of it is fear based and predicated on incomplete models and assumptions. And it just feeds my anxiety with information that is rarely actionable. I also feel like there's a danger of getting so caught in the weeds of the day to day headlines that the bigger picture is somewhat lost, leading to less accurate personal predictions.

So I'm staying informed, but mainly through local news (because that's where the majority of actionable information will come from).
Survivorship bias is a valid thing to bring up when the odds are low. When the odds are fairly high, it isn't very useful. "A tech job, somewhere" is not a high bar.
Highly recommend watching Bigclivedotcom's video on the issue. Especially if electromagnetic spectrum isn't your strong suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8yQeQdMBk
> This has made me reconsider my intention use Elm in my startup.

Choose Boring Technology http://boringtechnology.club/

Seriously, don't use up your startup's innovation tokens on some guy's hobby programming language.
Ask HN: How do you keep application data synced with a CRM
I work for an early stage startup (~8 people). Our business is high touch and we store a lot of the data we gather in our CRM (Salesforce). When our custom built applications need that data, they access it via the CRM's API.

This has worked very well for us, but we're starting to bump up against API limits. I'd like to move more of that data into our own DBs, but then we run into consistency issues: If a Sales Rep edits a customer's name in Salesforce, how do we keep our database consistent with that? We could build services to propagate any DB edits to the CRM and vice versa, but I don't think we have the person power to do that in a robust way.

I have to assume that many, many startups have run into the issue of needing to keep application data synced with CRM data. Any advice?
a lil bit of website feedback:
on route change, please scroll the page to the top.

if i scroll to the end of the home page, then go to "how it works", i'd expect not to be at the end of that page.

love it, though!
Not "Peter and the wolf", you mean "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". There are no villagers in Peter and the Wolf, and no statistical errors committed.
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> He doesn’t shy away from Oracle-style tactics

And that will be the end of RH products in my shop. Fuck that noise, if you treat your customers like adversaries, I won't be one of them.
Why is there an application process for artists? I have some art but I doubt I would be accepted because there are loads of more famous and highly credentialed artists in my area.
Now imagine that for whatever reason you suddenly become persona non grata, and https://login.gov/ refuses to attest that you are you to any of the services you have come to depend on.

Or just imagine https://login.gov/ passively collecting information about all the services you're logging into.

I wouldn't be opposed to common login protocol—preferably a distributed or federated one—where the government and other parties can add their own signatures to attest that a particular identity belongs to a certain real-world person, and you can choose which of those signatures you present to any given service. However, having the login itself go through a government server would be an incredibly bad idea.
The irony of this comment coming from a low karma, anonymous and brandnew account with a gibberish name should not be lost on you.
This is insane. This is going to lead to nationalization of our corporations. This is too massive and you cannot allow the government to do this. This is full on fascist.