skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that this is a sustainable account of consciousness.

If you write off consciousness as illusory, don't you have to write off suffering as illusory?

The screams of the suffering aren't merely status reports from sophisticated replication-machines having detected the occurrence of something untoward. Suffering is real, because consciousness is real. If you make the move of dismissing consciousness as an illusion, I don't see any way out from concluding that suffering is inconsequential; the equivalent of a red LED on a computer. This is plainly absurd.

A better account of consciousness would be to explain how it arises from physical processes. Saying there's nothing of interest to explain, doesn't seem like a proper answer. (This is David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness [0])

> we’re completely blocked from introspection of the runtime environment

We aren't. We have various avenues of introspection into consciousness, from neuroscience to psychology to meditation. Do you think greater introspection abilities would cause consciousness to dissolve away?

> We’re aware of almost nothing of what the brain is doing, including the process in which new thoughts are queued up into our consciousness.

So what? The question isn't How does the brain form new thoughts?, the question is Why is there consciousness?

The question of how thoughts arise is what Chalmers calls an 'easy problem of consciousness', a question about detail rather than about the fundamental question of why and how there is consciousness at all. [0] (Chalmers was of course being flippant in his choice of words, he didn't really mean that the entire field of neuroscience is 'easy'.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Brilliant, thanks.
Most of the places you listed were recovering from war-ravaged ruin. Of course they had greater gap to cover than the USA.
I believe the status register (flag)
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He's a Democrat senator and got Biden to essentially support most of his platform. Running as an independent or 3rd party would be political suicide and wouldn't help his agenda.

But aside from that most countries have a single process to get on the ballot country-wide. In US you'd have to navigate this process for each state.

I'm sure Bernie could pull that off. But it is definitely the reason you see many fewer randoms making a dent.

Also if you consider the way primaries work in both parties it's way more transparent and approachable than most other places. Many major parties around the world don't have a primary process at all. And even when they do it's usually limited to insiders. So if you want to change things you're almost forced to create a party by default.

If you couldn't make it in a primary of a party that's closer to your beliefs than the general population - how can you expect to make it on a national level?
I logged into Google Adsense again after years yesterday and good God has that thing changed radically. I remember when you would have to insert ad codes manually into each page or template. Google would discourage having more than 4 ad units/page, and 3 was recommended.

Now Google has something called Auto Ads where it automatically inserts ads in your pages. And at the default setting, it inserts a lot of ads. In my test page, there were 7 ads on the page, and not even small ones.
This is the whole point of the GDPR.
Thanks for the reply! Like I said below to another poster, for me it would be a detractor when choosing a new app. For me it's about continuity. Especially in case you couldn't continue working on it for whatever reason, it would still maintain a lot of important data for me. I'd be more comfortable if the source was available so it could be continued if abandoned.

Also (also mentioned this below), hinting that there's monetisation coming up but not specifying any details, will put potential users off.

There's so many payment models you could go for, like a monthly/yearly or lifetime license. I personally hate subscription-based services, no matter how cheap they are, I prefer to spend a bigger amount once. Other people will feel differently, but by not saying anything you're leaving this as a potential concern in a customer's mind as the price and payment model may not suit them in the future.

One thing you might consider is open the source but not legally leaving it open, so using a more restrictive license. Electron apps are never really closed-source anyway as it uses interpreted languages. Opening the source doesn't really preclude charging for it.

I wasn't saying this because I want the app for free (even though it seems to be free right now?). It was just my thoughts as a potential user. I personally have a pet peeve against electron, and what I would be looking for would be more barebones and keyboard-oriented anyway, so I won't use it either way. But I'm sure it will fit the needs of many others.

Anyway not all users/customers are the same but these are just my personal concerns when I saw this. I wasn't aware of Notable. I do wish you the best of luck though and I hope you can make it deliver a decent income!
I like the idea but why only show photographs from one angle? This is a clothing item, give us more pictures so we can see it from all sides and judge its aesthetics.
I never implied that they were badly run, merely that they’re not operating within the current boundaries of reality.

If there’s any place for government intervention, this is it. But it’s a slippery slope to subsidize business that are acting like the world hasn’t changed. Unfortunately the world is complex and a business can fail due to no fault of its operators, but that has always been the case and businesses are risky endevors.
That 10^53 kg mass, is just an an irregular foam of particles and energy floating in space time. Galaxies, stars, atoms, chemicals exist only insofar as your consciousness names them. Literally everything you can think of owes its existence to your consciousness. I’d say that makes it pretty special.
> The obvious ones are fluid dynamics, weather simulations, n-body problems, and simulation of quantum systems.

Those are typically run on distributed memory; the question should probably have been about shared memory. They're likely to be memory bound, depending on the application, but it's not obvious that shared memory in ~100 cores would win. Then consider checkpointing, for instance. (In my experience it's bioscientists who think they need huge shared memory but may well not, or couldn't feed it fast enough anyhow.)

Recent top supercomputers have had ~1PB or more total memory, though that's pretty variable, and there probably won't be many jobs using a large fraction of the machine. They may also (or only) have HBM.
To reduce root suckers cut the tree in the fall and apply an herbicide to the cut. The root system will pull the herbicide as it would have the carbon from the leaves. This will kill the root system and suckers.
Yeah, ok. People are not doing that.

When multicore is utilized it's normally in the line of https://unity.com/dots
These pants look awesome. If there was a Kickstarter for these I’d place an order for a few. I like cargo pants because of the side pockets but dislike the bagginess and the other useless little pocket, so these are near perfect.
In practice you always have mutated state in a complex system and not everything moves in transactional steps.

People seem scared to dump core but I find that doing it makes my programs much robust and also simpler. I have no muddled logic to "deal with" bugs in the program itself. They simply will abort the program.
Corert – experimental .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT
> The craftsmanship of the tools at the Konso site, as well as other sites, "suggest that Homo erectus technology was more sophisticated and versatile than we had thought. And the bone handaxe occurrence fits in nicely," Suwa said.

H. erectus used advanced flaking techniques to create the hand axe. Tools, fire, advanced social organization, and migration through a large part of Eurasia; all without spoken language.

I don’t think the name H. erectus is meaningful to the general population. I wonder if we shouldn’t associate Turkana Boy as a stand-in much the way Lucy is well known in popular culture. This is a unique and important Homo species; “ancient human ancestor” is too nebulous for my liking.
Step 1: Build a website that sells things. Step 2: Sell the data about those transactions to anyone and everyone willing to buy it.

After that, who cares what is done with it? Best not think about those things lest it bother your conscious.

Your question probably is more along the lines of why would someone want to buy that data? You add that info to the buyer's enormous trove of data profile. This person bought an Apple device = they have lots of disposable income (send them ads on other superfluous crap). This person bought a baby crib = send this person lots of adds about diapers, formula, toys, etc.
Same. Mostly ours was empty or didn't trigger reliably, but one time I walked by and it was just a steady stream of sanitizer onto the floor.
Same here. A pair of Macpac chinos I bought several years ago has this pocket and manages to not look too outdoorsy.
This question has it exactly backwards. SPACs cost the company more money than the IPO pop. With a SPAC you’re buying more certainty than the IPO gives you, and that doesn’t come for free.
Disney cuts ad spending on Facebook amid growing boycott
Thanks. That specification is almost 2800 pages long - and it covers far more specific technology than I would have expected. At the end of the day, couldn't the firmware just reserve a fixed chunk of system memory for IO and divide it up between all the attached devices? Then adopt a convention that memory is initialized with the first, say, 1MB available from every device (loaded asynchronously), and execution starts at memory region N - the N being optionally chosen by the user in a pre-boot, BIOS-like screen.
I can't tell from that detailed picture but can you reach the bottom of the pocket without leaning over? Because both the diagram and the picture of the pants in the current submission suggests that without leaning over you could maybe grab your phone with the tip of your fingers. Could you for example use the pockets to warm up your hands?

Also the lower the pocket is, the higher the chance stuff will jiggle around if you run or simply walk faster, because it has more room to do it down the leg and the range of motion is wider. Is this the case with the phone in one of these pockets?
Ask HN: How do I get a two-stage (indirect) evaporative cooler?
Quick background on my thought process:

Air conditioning is amazing but uses a ton of energy, which is expensive and might eventually be unsustainable.

Evaporative cooling is the process of water separating into hot steam and colder water. Basically, evaporation is caused by a small fraction the water molecules moving at high speeds (which equals high temperature), which can be hot enough to effectively turn into a gas and leave the liquid body. When these molecules leave the liquid they take with it their above-average heat energy, leaving the liquid slightly cooler overall. This works well in arid climates because water in the air doesn't re-enter the liquid body, and especially well when it's windy out because the water molecules that evaporate are whisked away before they can condense.

A lot of people have evaporative coolers (swamp coolers) which cool you down by emulating sweat evaporating on your skin and use far less energy than AC. However, they actually slightly increase the temperature of the air and add humidity, which can be uncomfortable.

Enter: the two stage evaporative cooler. It harnesses the cooling effect of evaporation, but evaporates over a heat exchanger instead of your skin. The heat exchanger is used to actually cool the air in the building without adding any humidity and using very little energy.

The problem is that I can't find anywhere to buy one or any instructions on how to build one myself. I have some vague sketches on how I would build one, but I'm not sure how I would go about verifying the design and eventually building it. Does anyone know where I could find one? If they don't exist, is there any particular reason why? Am I missing a key complexity in the process?
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As someone that's raised money for SPACs, been an advisor to SPACs and sold companies to SPACs, the answer is a resounding no. Most VC-backed companies, whether in tech or biotech, don't need the strategic shift that's core to a SPAC thesis. You usually get bought by a SPAC when you need new management to come in and kill darlings for long-term health, not as an option to go public.

The folks that think it's a method to avoid day-one price pops are mostly incorrect. Price pops are intentional as selling 10% of your company at a discount fills up the IPO book much faster and causes 10x+ oversubscriptions. This signals strong demand to the majority of very large asset allocators who come in post-IPO. Those investors psychologically overvalue day-one pops years into the stock's public lifetime. I've had conversations with heads of tech investing at many $100bn+ funds who mention day-one pops when they enter a stock 5 years post-IPO. Doing the math, strong market confidence in your company pays dividends when you're selling the other 90%.
Vote with your wallet. Don't buy these internet devices.

All it takes is for a visiting family member or friend who wants to watch Netflix while you're in another room/asleep/etc to click okay.
This actually looks cool! Besides the "localized" stuff, it borrows some good parts from Smalltalk, JavaScript and Lisp. I'm curious now.
Mathematically it makes sense for a two-party system to emerge, after the smaller parties are weeded out after some years of running unsuccessfully. Most people will accept compromise of their ideals to "fight some greater evil".
As a former Mormon, I can vouch for this.

Mormons are taught: "when the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done".
But from first principles, it should basically always be lower.
Well, given that we don't have a complete 'technical' definition of consciousness, I don't think it's unfair to say that it can still be argued whether dogs have consciousness in the same sense that humans do, even though no one would argue that it's OK to torture a dog.

For example, even some of the simplest animals show recognizable signs of suffering when hurt (writhing, certain stress hormones, avoidance, etc.). Even plants show some signs of stress when hurt, and avoidance of the area where that happened.

Should we conclude from that plants and all animals are conscious in the same sense that we are? If they are not, how should we interpret these signs? Is there a spectrum of consciousness? Or are there 2 separate properties, 1 related to certain complex analyses of stimuli that is essentially the same at least in all animals, from nematodes to humans, and 2 that is specific to humans, that has to do with constructing an entire mental world that is a model of the external world, or with something else entirely?
It's worse than you think - it's not just your DVD player that's spying on you, but your TV is too -- many TV's use Automated Content Recognition to detect what you're watching regardless of source (DVD, over the air, streaming app, etc). They even detect commercials, and which language you're listening to.

https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/the-marketers-g...
Promises to whom? Advertisers use it because it has shown improvements in results.
Encryption software for dissidents could be collateral damage of budget fight
Most people won't relate to it. Plus you might assume everyone sees things like you do, and operate under those conditions.
After trying Typed Clojure, liking it, but giving it up because of Clojure's GPL-incompatible license, I got interested in Kawa Scheme because it has some rudimentary form of type checking. For example, this produces warnings:

(define (f1 x::String y::String) (x:concat y))
(define (f2) (f1 3 3))

;; /dev/tty:3:19: warning - type integer is incompatible with required type java.lang.String
;; /dev/tty:3:21: warning - type integer is incompatible with required type java.lang.String
;; /dev/tty:3:15: warning - cannot convert literal (of type gnu.math.IntNum) to Type java.lang.String
;; /dev/tty:3:15: warning - cannot convert literal (of type gnu.math.IntNum) to Type java.lang.String

Unfortunately it does not support fully static type checking nor generics, otherwise it would be my favorite scripting language hands down.

As for type checking Elisp, Elsa[1] seems an interesting project and I hope it becomes a stable option. On the other hand I wonder if in future type checking could also come from gccemacs[2], since one of the "long-term improvements" may be "better compile time warning and errors relying on the propagation engine".

[1] https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa
[2] https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html

Edit: grammar.
I said "last 50 years", which means since 1970. If you think that WW2 was still a meaningful factor in economic output in 1970, you are in a very small minority and are making some very unusual claims.
I don't think the issue is entirely BIG PHARMA trying to recklessly profiteer off cancer.

While there is certainly a lot of unhealthy lifestyle decisions that lead to cancer, it's not exclusively due to BIG CORPORATE INTERESTS that people engage in them. Sometimes you want to eat some garbage. You say "a little" modification but the reality is you're basically asking all of society to change overnight as a solution to cancer.

Calling snake oil peddlers who are profiting of doing nothing or worse, in the case of MMS and anti-vax, actively HARMING instead of at least doing nothing a conspiracy by BIG PHARMA to convince you its the only way is absurd.

I generally agree with you that there a lot of lifestyle choices people make that are enabled partially by corporate interest. I think more of them are a consequence of the realities of our economic structure than the direct objective of doing business.

Ultimately cancer is natural. You can make all the lifestyle choices you want and it doesn't eliminate your risk. And maybe some of the lifestyle compromises aren't worth it to you. Maybe they are. Maybe you get lucky. Maybe you don't.

You're insulting the intelligence of everyone if you think they're not aware that taking care of themselves with diet/exercise is hard to imagine. It's not a secret to someone who is overweight that they're overweight. But it's possible that person has a sedentary job and between their job and taking care of their family and the stress involved between them and the fact that they've been on a 10-20 year decline to their current waistline they don't have it within themselves to find the time/energy/means to climb out of the hole.

Its not a grand conspiracy, its life in the modern world.
> Trump spent $680B.

Surely you mean $680M?
Well memory failure checking is usually put in the "can't do shit" category which isn't necessarily true. Both in C and in C++ bad_alloc or null from mallon indicate that the memory manager could not find the memory. This may or may not mean that your application has overcommitted memory in the OS level. Completely depends on the actual memory manager. So therefore the failure to me is just a general resource allocation failure. Would you dump core of your program failed to allocate a socket ? Or mutex?
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Assume that's true, what if you knew 100% that the person who touched the sanitizer pump seconds before you has COVID and has snot on his hands. What's the problem? You're going to disinfect that, right?
Windows doesn't control fan speeds on native Windows systems either. At best, it's handled by vendor drivers. Often, it's handled by SMM interrupts.
Do you have any evidence that this is so? Seems like a very odd assumption to make.
>what factory produces and ships 56 million of anything on a daily basis

Maybe more than one factory would be needed.

The idea that 56 million a day of anything is outside the realm of anything but software might be exaggerated. Global production of microcontrollers, for instance, seems to be around 80 million per day.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/microcon...
I work at a tech company in Utah and it really cannot be understated that the Mormon culture sweeps into literally every aspect of Utah. Not saying that’s negative, just that it exists. Me and my ex and non- Mormon coworkers had to beg management to let us have a happy hour for example, they had to change company policies to even allow us to do it.

But I do love it here
About the same. But always the same amounts so it is quite amazing they didn't get caught sooner than they were.

Yet another variation on this scheme: deduct a single $ for charity from the purchase price: double the transaction fees, double the transactions, half the chargeback rate because people won't charge back a single $.
I'm not really talking about electoral results. I'm talking about the NYT articled I linked to, which measures "how right wing" a party is by looking at what's mentioned in the platform. But what's mentioned in party platforms is a product of what debates are happening in society. In places without much immigration, immigration isn't a focus of politics and won't warrant merit on party platforms, even if the members of the party would have strong nativist views if there was actually a significant amount of immigration.

For example, in the United States, "making English the official language" was a hot-button political issue for a long time (before even Republicans gave up on it). In France it wasn't, because nobody disagreed that French should be the official language (and it was). So if you read party platforms to gauge right-wing views, you might conclude that the French aren't right wing on this point, because party platforms don't mention it. But in reality, it's not mentioned because it's not something that's even up for debate.
Did you buy it with a credit card? Check to see if your credit card has additional return/warranty periods.

Or, if you have the time and opportunity, sue the manufacturer in small claims court.

Better yet, tell your friends and family about how the ads start after the return period closed, and encourage everyone not buy that garbage in the first place.
Yeah honestly as far as app repositories go, f-droid's usually pretty good at keeping things up to date. I use it for most apps I can get off there, newpipe's about the only one I bother grabbing straight from the site because I get impatient.
More specifically, it's the smell of brine shrimp decaying on the lakeshore. But it's actually not a common occurrence for the Salt Lake stink to be present in the city itself. OP was just lucky!
"Open source gives engineers better frameworks and components to use so you can develop better apps than if you started from scratch on your own.
" ---> I totally agree on this.
however, if it originally takes 100 years for all engineers to fully realize all the features to be developed, now it may only takes 50 years, after that there probably only need very few engineers to write the software
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This is cool! Has anyone here taken a computer science course in another language?

I have wondered if non-English-speaking universities have to teach their CS courses in 25-50% English, just due to the syntax of the programming languages generally being in English