skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you write off consciousness as illusory, don't you have to write off suffering as illusory?

Just because it’s illusory doesn’t mean you can or should write it off. Illusion is not a synonym for unimportant, so please do not put those words in my mouth. I certainly don't "write off" the suffering of living beings in any way.

We are entitled to care, and in fact justified in caring, about these illusions.

> Saying there's nothing of interest to explain

I didn't say that. You are again putting words in my mouth. This isn’t a healthy form of discourse.

> We have various avenues of introspection into consciousness

Externally, sure. But if it’s external then it doesn’t qualify as introspection from my understanding of the word. I don’t like semantic disagreements so I apologise for not being clearer.

> Do you think greater introspection abilities would cause consciousness to dissolve away?

Taking your question as charitably as possible, the answer is yes, I think that is likely. I believe that if we had greater powers of introspection, the illusion would be shattered. Our lack of introspection seems essential for the illusion to work, at least it seems to me.

Similarly and alternatively: I could imagine a hypothetical future where we create an artificial intelligence that does everything a human brain does, including an equally effective illusion of consciousness, but be unable to validate the instantiation of the illusion.

> the question is Why is there consciousness.

I don’t agree: that formulation of words can’t be answered without begging the question. A better question is “why do humans seem to agree that we have this sensation of self awareness?”

This whole subject reminds me of the famous quote by Arthur C. Clarke — ” Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
What this means is that GPT-3 is good enough to fool a crypto VC.

@balajis being generated by GPT-3 would make a lot of sense, though.
Oh man. I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just say that this analysis is predicated on someone who thinks Bitcoin has proven anything in the real world. We’re way past BTC being a subculture experiment. Everyone knows about it. And still nobody (in the statistical sense) uses it.
I can't speak to Europe but I've been directly told that with a number of the Asian carriers, the expectation is that young, attractive, educated women become flight attendants, travel the world for a few years, get married, and leave.
I've always thought about mental illness in this context - we define it as illness because of negative consequences, but it's really just the deviation from a norm.

I think Elon Musk is the best example of this - even ignoring some of his childish Twitter behavior, the guy's brain is waaaaaaaaay far off from the normal human brain. He thought he could start an electric car company from scratch and be successful. That's... crazy. And yet, because he's been successful at it, we don't label him as mentally ill.

The really interesting cases are people like artists - David Foster Wallace committed suicide because of his depression, but only after creating one of the great works of American literature. We label him as mentally ill for his depression, but we don't really have a label for the positive side of the fact that his brain was far from an average brain.
Otherwise known as a subsection of the general rule "Never fuck a workmate", especially if one or both of you are married.

If you do, sooner or later, one of you is going to have to leave that business.

Been there, done that. It's never worth it. It's like having to stay married when you should be divorcing.
> Labor is more expensive in Europe probably because the pool of workers is smaller due to mandatory retirement age.

Labor is more expensive in Europe because of taxes, primarily. The fully loaded cost of a professional employee is often double their salary, and sometimes more.
I agree, but on the other hand one has to be careful not to be blind to the obvious power of a new technology, simply because it cannot be immediately turned into $$$.
I doubt many companies will stick to it. I'd venture an estimate that less than half of the population will be happy or successful in remote work. One factor is that significant portion is extrovert and will have psych issues if isolated for too long. At the other end you have people drinking while working, you can find tips about how to do this without getting caught.

Most companies and people have not figured it out and never will. We are social beings and there is no tech that can get around that
> Has the open source branch of the project stopped entirely or is it more of the "open source core" approach used by Sidekiq and others?

No further commits. However most of the core libraries I wrote for it are open-source, so in some sense it's not entirely closed.

> How do you think about the growth/monetization trade-offs?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that.
Thanks for the reply!

You listed a lot of "features", but I don't understand the problem they are solving or what half of those features mean. Personally I don't understand why I need "links" to be surfaced, as they immediately appear when I search for them. I also don't search a lot on a page, when I do is just to find the "Pricing" or "About" link, which as soon as I type it I will be sent to the correct section.

I still don't understand what would be the use case of this? When exactly would I use it? When I want to do X? What is X? How does it fit into my existing flow or just browsing?

I think having a video that shows the exact process that I would take would help (from problem to solution, not only showcasing features).
How Apple's design team approached designing the iPadOS pointer [video]
I would suggest a meaningful interpretation of the word normal is kind of like 'a reliably orthogonal measurement of the thing being reacted to'.
LinkedIn already bought Lynda.com to create LinkedIn Learning. They've got no incentive to work with a competitor.
On cruise ships they have been working this out for a bit. There's a bin by the door. You grab the handle with your towel, put the towel in the bin while holding the door with your toe, and then exit. Ship's health propaganda points out that this will be the case.
> So these guys were just about as smart as us.

Environmentally we know if you took a modern human back then they will be at least 20 IQ points less. Probably far more from lack of micro-nutrients and the Flynn Effect.

On top of that our IQ will have changed over hundreds of years. We have evolved living in cities, it genetically changed our minds, see the Peppered moth for the cliche on cities and evolution.

It's probably only in the last 100 years our evolution has stopped, perhaps moving backwards but we are going full into intelligent design.
I was really excited when I started using racket that I could switch to static typing when I wanted it. However after trying out contract's, I must say I'm quite a fan of them as an alternative. Sure, you lose out on static, compile time checking, but honestly, I haven't missed it. And it's _even more_ seamlessly integrated into un-contracted code.
You can express more interesting things and complex relationships between parameters using the ->i contract than any type system I know of will allow. There's some limitations, but between it and unit testing, I've been having a blast.
I would call that unmarked, as I’m not aware of any federal agency who identifies themselves as “police”.
What? We have multi-use plastics. Have you never seen plastic Coca-Cola cups? But who wants to work in a dish pit washing hundreds of dishes every day and splashing germy dish water all over themself right now? Furthermore, if you’ve seen how dishwashing works in your average pizza place, you probably wouldn’t want to put your lips on a multi-use plastic cup pandemic or not.
Yes! Observation is what made me forget about well drained raised beds in Texas! Now, I waterproof my raised beds to keep in moisture. They are so much better!
It's crazy to have conventional raised beds in Texas!
I make YouTube videos about it.
https://youtu.be/HrVOONqgdsE
It's a pity somebody like you didn't get to say that to the Union about the Confederacy before the Civil War kicked off.
You're making it sound like there is no business opportunity on Apple's side to mine and sell customer data the way Google does. Why can't we assume they are doing it with the best of intentions?

Watch this 10 year old clip of Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo The position is genuine.
On a small scale you can try hugelkultur in a pot. Works great for nursery baby trees. The baby trees root I to the log and use it to regulate water and also form relationships with the fungi decomposing the wood. Use plenty of Compost.
I think a localized programming language like this could be useful as a stepping stone while teaching gifted kids, for instance (before moving on to a “real” programming language like Python or Java).
I cannot explain why I like text mode so much. But I do. And I love the old text mode fonts.
> To select a link and follow it with chrome you need to: 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2. Search for link 3. ESC to select the element (esc is a weird key here) 4. Enter

Instead 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2. Search for link 3. TAB to select the element 4. Enter

This is a good explanation. So it saves me one key press and also presents search results better, which sounds pretty nice.
In my case, I rarely search on a page, and when I do I don't think it's slow or annoying. I usually avoid adding more browser extensions as they make Chrome slower and more buggy, I personally don't think I would add it to improve a flow that I rarely use.
It's truly incredible. Demonstrable proof of passing the turing test.

Or - maybe the commentators are bots too. It's now impossible to tell.
Well, that's promising. The US has had such a disappointing response in nearly all respects.
One would have to be crazy to want to become a radiologist in the US.

In addition to what you mentioned, remote radiology has been here for quite a while. Jobs are being outsourced to to "scabs" in low wage countries. A definite race to the bottom.
Our Samsung home theatre sound system's bluray stopped working years ago, everything else works fine.

We have a few Samsung products and each one has a particularly annoying problem.

The worst part is the support, I post a polite request on their website and always get a very concise unhelpful answer.

I no longer buy Samsung products.
Problems notwithstanding, I depend on Zoom now. Maybe 100 years from now it will be thought quaint that we flew around in metal tubes to meet people in person.
It took years of nudges and eventual laws to seriously reduce a lot of single use plastics. Do you want to be the politician basically requiring the use of reusable plastic bags again? Or getting back into things that were always silly like plastic straw bans? It will be a decade before you reverse the switch to plastic bags.
I grow raspberries and strawberries on mine. Videos in my other comment.

Potatoes on a 2nd year old hugelkultur are amazing!

I live in zone 6b Connecticut
No, no password for any of the so called "insurance files" was ever released, as far as I know and can google. All I can find are recent (2019, 2020) articles talking about the files and how no password was ever revealed.

Relatedly, Assange described the files not as "dead man switches" to be unleashed in case of his arrest, extradition, killing as the media liked to portrait it, but instead said that the insurance files contained (unredacted) data that wikileaks intended/intents to release later anyway, in redacted form, and that the encrypted unredacted data was put online to be backups if wikileaks lost the data e.g. due to a raid. The remains of wikileaks activists could then recover the files from the torrents or other people who downloaded the torrents, and could decrypt them to get the data back (but wouldn't release the password into the wild).

Of course, that's what he/they said, and he/they might have lied. But so far we don't know, because no password has been released.
> He thought he could start an electric car company from scratch

Except he didn't. He invested in one that was already started with several employees, and had himself given founder status by fiat as part of the deal.
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> Sometimes I forget that, while this model was created by scientists, and released with a scientific paper, it is essentially a for-profit business product, and such cheap tricks deserve harsh criticism.

Sure, but this is akin to seeing bad science journalism and tarring the science itself with the same brush. GPT-3 still factually has certain properties, independently of anyone making grandiose assertions about those properties.

What those properties are, we can only say slightly—e.g. we know it’s capable of generating certain texts eventually, among an unbounded corpus of other texts it may have generated that were then human-discarded. But the fact that it can generate those texts at all—faster than brute-force, I mean—is an interesting fact on its own, worthy of scrutiny independent of whatever airier claims are being made.
> I'm not 100% sure of the correct english word for them.

In the UK we might call them "combats" or "combat trousers", and the best ones tend to come from military surplus stores.
> I fully understand the desire to make money.

I don't think people understand that generally if something is financially unsustainable it will die, it's sad that even computer people don't like paying for the software they depend on.
It's weird that we consider mental illness to be a disease, in my opinion -- none of the drugs have been linked to physical/chemical shortages in the brain or the like. We're able to mask symptoms but have absolutely no proof about underlying reasons, and so we create names of things and put it in the same classification of a medical disease... but that's very different.

Bipolar cannot be identified by any physical means. Different doctors will tell you different things. I agree that gradient approaches are useful in most contexts, but I am very hesitant to use this when a drug can be prescribed (with knowing bad side effects) can be applied. It can seriously mess someone's life up.
As a beginner to Rust, this blog post has been excellent, and it has really helped me understand the idiomatic way to handle errors.

https://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/
This is not a new problem.

I knew US citizens that went to foreign medical schools (think Spain) 50 years ago because it was so hard to get into US schools.

The beauty then (don't know if it's true now) is it was simple to get US residency on return. Just go work for a trauma center in a run-down area in Brooklyn. Shootings galore on a daily basis. You never run out of new patients.
I'm so tired of those fake problems, when Silicon Valley started was majority white, one day the victimhood mindset will end and everybody will not find excuses to do things.
> AI text-generation

"Text generation" undersells it a little bit. What are humans except "text generation" machines? Language is the stuff of reason. GPT-3 has demonstrated capabilities that we believed were exclusive to humanity --- humor, logic, sarcasm, cultural references --- in an automatic and generalizable way. It's far more than a "text generation" system. I look forward to seeing what GPT-4 and GPT-5 can do. I suspect we're all going to be amazed by what we get when we continue down this path of simple scaling (and sparse-ification) of transformer architectures trained on (basically) the whole internet.
It's a fallacy to think that the only outcome of COVID is binary (i.e. death or perfect recovery).

Just browse r/covidpositive. There are so many "survivors" who say they still have so much internal organ pain 4 months after being diagnosed, and now they feel hopeless, have suicidal ideation, etc.

And from the sounds of it, a lot of these people are in their 20s-40s and could run a marathon pre-COVID.
There is really no good answer to this. Just keep trying stuff.

My language learning website (www.captionpop.com) was ignored by HN, reddit, and the other random places I posted it. Finally, I put a post on producthunt and it spent the whole day in the top 5. From there, other blogs started writing about it. Ironically, it was then passed all over reddit.

I had another web property that was totally ignored, and then one day the Google Chrome Webstore decided to feature it. From then on, I had more than enough traffic.

So, there is no magic formula. You just have to keep trying stuff and wait for the internet gods to bless you.

Blogging is a popular approach, but I think people underestimate how much work this is. You have to consistently write good quality blog articles that are actually solving problems for people. This can be as much work as building your actual product.
From what I have heard, Musk bought the electric car company and not built it with his bare hands in his garage in college. But to your point, everyone is on the spectrum sure.
It seems like it could be useful at the very end to show you a re committed to learning and staying upto date. Or diversing your skill set. In all honesty is probably value those certs ina candidate more than where they went to school a decade ago.
Not only are we all somewhere on a spectrum, we’re on a linear combination of different spectra.
I think too few people are taking into account how inscrutable and inconsistent human creative-output results can be. We critique GPT-3 on the basis of it sometimes producing bad results --- but don't we all? Take poetry, for example. "The Complete Works of X", for any X, will probably contain a majority of forgettable or just bad works. What we remember from any author X is his cherry-picked best output. Likewise for ML systems.
I think the only measure that makes sense is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Very interesting, I always wondered why it was called a register file, as if registers did not represent physical locations in hardware but some abstract file, so its good to know thats not the case.
I’ve tried several different audio solutions, including nice wired headphones + mod mic wireless. Ultimately people think I sound best just using my laptop’s internal microphone array and bookshelf speakers. The whole process was a frustrating distraction.
The first few generations of DRAM used the same fabs as logic circuits. But the capacitor for each bit took proportionally a larger and larger area with newer processes. So they came up with the idea of making the capacitors vertical instead of horizontal (essentially a deep well into the silicon with the capacitor actually being the walls of the well) and the steps became different.

You can still make DRAMs with the logic process (normally for the last level caches) but it will be less efficient than the dedicated process.
BREAKING. Countries with a low or nearly 0 daily infection rate have no problem returning to normal life. BREAKING.
Excellent! This is very similar to the 'Preventative Actions' practice that we have in our team. Your template provides an added level of detail though, so I might steal it and give it a go.
What would make it good? If there’s a real problem, and you have a real solution that makes sense, what’s not good?
People Express used to do similar things
I don't understand your example. A strong knowledge of concrete is necessary to do a good job as a general contractor. I'm pretty sure the licensing exam has some questions about concrete.
With the prospect of brain interface development in the next 100 years, it's possible we'll be able to have a meet-in-person perceptional experience while being physically away, virtually wherever.
Inversion means warmer air is above cooler air - it's inverted from normal where temperature decreases with altitude and leads to a very stable atmosphere with little convection. So the air on the ground stays there.
But let's be honest, their numbers are probably diminishing too.
The Senate also has the right to publicly not debate on bills, which also sends information to voters, just as if the President vetoed a bill. Each of the three pieces has these powers and should exercise them as they think they were elected to do.
Sure, if you had ten thousand students per lecture.
Seems less burdensome to find a large publicly traded company willing to invest with shares of their non-volatile stock. Say megacorp buys a 30% stake, then vested employees get a distribution of 30% of their vest as megacorp stock. You might call this IPO Lite. Benefits of market liquidity for all the shareholders and retain the limited dilution of an IPO.
I glanced through and the study seemed targeted at dietary choices, which ignores my point that transportation and other energy intensive aspects of life far outstrip meat production. It also did not go into my suggestion, which is investigate ways to mitigate environmental impact.

>keeps people employed in this horrific industry

I am for reform of the industry and personally buy in bulk from local farmers. Factory farming is horrible, I will not argue with that.

>and the fact that an animal has to suffer immensely, so that you can get a piece of its flesh.

Moral grandstanding. You don't care about the environment or health, you wish to impose your view of the world and personal choices on others. Your pretention of care for sustainability is a tool not a real concern. I'm willing to bet you have never met or talked to a beef farmer or slaughterhouse worker.
I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it's a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box.

Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - "it only makes sense if you're not really paying attention" - that this article lacks entirely. Adjacent sentences and even paragraphs are plausible neighbours. Even on re-reading more closely, it doesn't feel like the world's best writing, but I don't notice major loss of coherence until the last couple of paragraphs. I am now really curious about the other 9 attempts that were thrown away. Are they always this good?!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test
Thanks for the link, didn't know about this project. That looks quite impressive and it seems there is already some support for Aarch64.

A modern Lisp machine certainly would be nice...
/r/buttcoin is still around? You folks haven't conceded yet? :-)
So your suggestion is to increase prices just to get rid of "poor" customers? I think this is a really good ethical discussion, and I personally beleive many products/services are way overpriced because of this, which really raises the bar for small businesses and developers.

I am also building a high-quality, high-value product that I am making affordable even for really "poor" webmasters. I am thinking of raising the pricing, but at the same time I still receive messages from devs that are just starting saying that they like by product but it is too expensive for them, which is a bit sad to hear (you create something nice that some people can't afford).

But in the end, maybe money really talks.
This is basically the story of a domestic terrorist playing real life postal. The article mentions his name and even concluded with a bit of admiration.
I know that 2009 was a simpler time, but this seems way off base for our current world.
It helps to write more. A lot more. Getting traffic from Google only works if you have a ton of content.

Your video is great, but doesn't tell me why I would use this over Trello or something similar.

- "Pricing is free" feels ominous (to me), say it's a free beta or something instead.

- It's not entirely clear what "roadmap" means on your landing page. Is it your product roadmap?

- Your colour contrast hurts my eyes (maybe I'm weird), particularly black + purple.