skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Regardless, my question is why did consciousness arise? What was the need?

Think of it in terms of salience. Why do we need multiple levels of salience, such that some signals are intrinsically more important than others to the bearer of those signals? The answer is that once organisms were able to move under their own power, there needed to be a mechanism for the organism to have an intrinsic interest in its own well-being. A plant doesn't move under its own (intentional) power. It has no power to move itself into a damaging state nor move itself out of one. An intrinsic salience to its bodily integrity would serve no purpose. But once organisms were able to move based on goal-directed behavior, say to seek out food, it needs to have an interest in its bodily integrity such that it doesn't intentionally move into a damaging state.

An intrinsic salience to nociceptive signals, i.e. the suffering of pain, gives organisms an innate interest in its bodily integrity. To evolve the same behavioral patterns without pain's intrinsic suffering quality would require evolving an organism that had an innate comprehension of why it is important to avoid damaging states, i.e. declarative representations of value which would require complex intelligence to co-evolve. Consciousness is the solution to the problem of competent behavior without comprehension.
Thanks :)

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions after you start using it.
> how do they motivate event organizers to post their events on this platform too

In theory, the event organizers would have their own instance and they would post the events directly onto that. This would make sense for organizations with an existing technology infrastructure.
It's a commentary in a journal with medical researchers as the intended audience. It surely seems more reasonable that it is input to an ongoing collegial discussion of treatment with antibiotics, and not bluster.
I didn't get that impression from the article, which doesn't mention the idea of a soul once. Care to explain?
I'm sure NASA has thought of this, but won't the mylar film close if the sampling disk loses some material, before it loses all of its material? Why not give it a shake to get some of it out so the seal can close?
Exactly!! I saw a shocking amount of parallels between typical sales outreach and PR outreach. Same process, different pitch.
And probably only 10% of the population. But either way, I'm not sure your point. It appears no one has anything close to true self driving. Different companies are attacking the complexities of the problem in difference ways. For example, Tesla is limiting its system by situation while Waymo is limiting it by environment. Neither has been proven safe for the full spectrum of driving and we all know that the biggest problems for self driving are going to be solving those outlier scenarios.
AI / ML? Just linear algebra... I heared that one so many times
Ah right, createWindowContainer should work for this.

I believe there is a reason why we don't call createWindowContainer with our use of QOpenGLWidget, though I currently can't remember it. If it still applies, then I suppose we might not be able to use QRhi.
Also note Xilinx's next-gen parts have dedicated VLIW "AI accelerators" (full hard CPUs!)
I don't know if this scratches the itch, but there is an attempt to scientifically explain [1] (and maybe predict?) history from fundamental, quantifiable factors like population, economics, etc. This is the field of study known as Cliodynamics. Why these folks even have their own journal [2]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics

[2] https://escholarship.org/uc/irows_cliodynamics
>Paxos is also in the partially synchronous setting - it requires some network synchrony in order to terminate, just like streamlet

As far as I've understood it Paxos is fully asynchronous, but you can either guarantee correctness or termination and never both for those systems. Paxos decided on correctness. Am I wrong in this?
CS294: Building User-Centered Programming Tools
I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I'm a bit disappointed the "next" version is more about Vercel's own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing "DX" is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that's why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version "10". Other tools are starting to do things a bit better.

Analytics, great idea, is a huge disappointment. It's just a Vercel thing and not NextJS, not to mention a "pro/enterprise" paid feature, not cheap either.

A few days ago I saw the YT videos of "future of Svelte" and that video was really about "DX" with no non-sense no BS that just focused on the real next evolution on web/app dev. That DX really resonated with me.

My opinion, I'm not sold on NextJS 10, the "commercial" move kind of turned me off and scares me of platform lock-in, but I'm getting more and more interested into Svelte (v4?) and I'm seriously looking to switch to it from NextJS.

Note: "DX" stands for "Developer eXperience", meaning how joyful, easy it is to get started with the tool and feeling productive.
> and certainly guilty of embrace and extend

But the only thing it managed to extinguish was itself. IRC long outlived comic chat (and thank goodness for that, IMO).
It is definitely worthwhile to continue exploring this. But as you say yourself, there needs to be significant improvements in the state of AI to do this. So Tesla seems to be relying on achieving significant breakthroughs to make it happen. I wonder if it's too risky of a bet considering they are already taking money for FSD from customers and promising the feature.

Also, I don't think Tesla is known for their AI expertise like Google. So it remains to be seen if they can pull it off.
> It's either resistant or it's not.

Resistance is not a binary thing. Often it simply means that a population of "resistant" bacteria takes longer to be completely eliminated, not that they are completely unaffected.

It would be better if a different term were used to describe bacteria that are completely unaffected by a given antibiotic; perhaps "invulnerable" would do. If you are in fact dealing with bacteria that are invulnerable to a particular antibiotic, then you need to switch antibiotics, yes.

> Bacteria multiply far far too fast for them to notice multi-day courses of treatment

Bacteria multiply far too fast under ideal conditions. But the whole point of giving an antibiotic is to make the conditions as far as possible from ideal.

> a bacteria only "notices" the current conditions before it either multiplies or dies

Bacteria are not mayflies. They don't have to either multiply or die within a short period of time.

> It seems to me that instead we should use just enough antibiotic to keep the patient alive (to turn the corner) and then let the patients immune system do the rest.

Antibiotics suppress the patient's immune system, so once you have started them, you need to finish the job with them.

If you are going to try to let the patient's immune system fight the infection, then I would think you would not give antibiotics at all; instead you would focus on maximizing supportive care for the patient's immune system (for example, they probably need to eat a lot of protein since the immune system needs protein to make antibodies, T-cells, etc.), and for the patient generally (make sure they stay hydrated, etc.).
Tools for Bug Bounty Hunting
Probably still cheaper than 1st-party printer ink.
> Could you expand on what you mean here?

Not sure what OP was thinking about, but for instance SQL Server supports something called “multiple active result sets” (MARS) on a single connection.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/na...
Or even better, Vue.js

I am not sure I buy into all the svelte hype, and even if claims about it's speed/build size are true - the difference isn't enough to outweigh the enormous advantage vue has in terms of a more mature ecosystem/tooling.
This is a great idea, and I'd like to point out that having such a system in place would have prevented one of the largest Internet outages in recent memory - the Amazon S3 outage in 2017: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

> At 9:37AM PST, an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.
Foreign experts can work remotely in Iceland
My point is that device manufacturers are responding to the pressures they are given.

And it isn't like there are very many phone reviewers for any given market. If someone wanted to organize a letter writing campaign to try and convince the top 5 or 10 phone reviewers to just not mention device thickness that just might have an effect.

(On the flip side reviewers complained about the removal of the headphone jack and that didn't help any so...)

The other thing to remember is that with modern battery charging tech, batteries can last a long time. Samsung is the best in this regard, their chargers are really smart and work hard to preserve battery life.
Would you recommend starting AV development in Manhattan for safety, then?
It was expected to hit the surface, NOT plow into it like a pile of gravel, use the blower to grab particles in the bucket, then blast backwards. Instead, it DID plow into the asteroid like a pile of gravel, even at a slow 40cm/sec. It was thought it would be much more solid than it turned out to be. It had no way of controlling how far it went in.
Sharing secret photos of co-workers and making lewd comments about them is a nuclear behavior.
Or maybe they did a cost benefit analysis.
It's not. That issue is closed and the last comment says:

> Overall it’s currently not possible to do this besides following what’s described in the article. Definitely something we plan on tackling eventually!
> That's what srcset & <source> were invented for.

next/image makes use of srcset.

> This has been done many times before. For images outside the viewport it's great; for images which are in the viewport, the browser isn't able to discover the image until the JS has loaded and decided which image size to fetch. In my experience this slows down the overall rendering of the page.
>I see the Google Chrome team was involved in creating this component so I'd like to know what's different this time, because they have the data.

No knowledge of what Google contributed to this, but my experience of running Google PageSpeed Insights on many sites is that this sort of optimization does improve the metrics Google measures.

Also, while I agree in part with most of your points, I still think we should give credit to nextjs for making this easy.

Sure, maybe you don't need a library to use srcset. If you are going to run our own custom build processes (or server endpoints) that generate images in a range of appropriate sizes and write the corresponding front-end code, good for you. Next.js has done nothing to stop any of this.

But many (most?) websites don't bother with any of that and just load one giant image for everyone. If there is a tool that makes using optimized images as easy loading one giant image for everyone, I think that's great.
A small warning for code with many CMake ExternalProject dependencies: the defaults for cmake+ninja will recursively run `ninja -jN` for each level of the dependency tree, which can spawn a very large number of compile jobs.

There is a proposal to add jobserver support for global process count management [1], but it has not been merged for philosophical reasons (IIRC). The CMake folks maintain a soft fork with this patch applied, available in the `ninja` package on PyPI and probably elsewhere.

[1] https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1139
Have you seen the power consumption numbers for the 30xx series? I'ts pushing 400w at full load[1]. Not sure AMD can just smash their voltages up to try and be competitive this time.

1. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-f...
> The big behemoth is Salesforce.com.

My experience with Salesforce.com is that it's only a no-code champion if your needs are so simple that you might as well not be using Salesforce.com - i.e., a simple CRM with a few plugins. The real strength of Salesforce.com is that you can use code to customize it and get the real utility you're paying for out of it.

It's "no software" in the sense that all SaaS systems are "no software". Realistically, Salesforce.com is very much enterprise software of the sort that requires real customization in the form of real code to implement the important business requirements.
Thanks for the correction, Rich.

I just watched your presentation at Svelte Summit and I'm looking forward to how Svelte progresses.
I see this repeated often, but it's totally incorrect, they do not resemble utilities at all, not even a little bit. I think everyone agrees these companies need more regulation, but the idea that they are in any way comparable to utilities is absurd.
gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5
Yeah the Teams webapp supports screen sharing (and does it pretty well)! I particularly like the way Edge (and I assume Chrome) let you choose to just share a specific browser tab.
Some takes From Benedict Evans that are worth considering: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1320378054150148098...

“Meanwhile: the NYU app has access to friend data in your feed and friend data is also in the ads it scrapes. And it replaces an actual security model with our trust that NYU are nice people and won't abuse this access. That is exactly how Cambridge Analytica happened.”
Why is this being downvoted? Because of someone else's tip, I tried tweeting these 7 characters: gtv.org and had my account locked within 3 seconds.

What kind of orwellian shit is that?!? The twitter account itself was used very sparingly to upload content from my PS4, not controversial in the least.

There is very clearly an agenda being applied here. Which is fine with me because this kind of repression is indication of desperation.
You seem to be taking one word in the parent's quote wildly out of context. Here's the full sentence:

> To be Roman, and citizenry became quite broadly spread, during those few centuries, was to be free and safe.

It's pretty plain here that the parent is arguing that Romans, not their slaves, were free and safe. Anyway, the idea that Rome is worse than its contemporaries because of slavery or some other failure to adhere to 20th (or 21st) century mores is silly (though fashionable) without making a case that said contemporaries performed better by those same standards.
only about 10x more expensive than tritium.
Dendron encourages you to put all your content into one note and then gives you tooling to slice it into hierarchies once that note is too big. See https://dendron.so/notes/e780000d-c784-4945-8e42-35218a3ecf1...
While I’m sure Musk is stubborn and his ego is huge, he is also very technical astute and doesn’t afraid to change his mind. SpaceX had planned to use parachute for 1st stage recovery but switched to the current solution after it became clear parachute wasn’t viable. Likewise, they switched to stainless steel for Starship once they figured carbon composite wasn’t suitable for what they wanted to do. If Tesla hasn’t adopted Lidar, that wouldn’t be because Musk didn’t want to admit he was wrong.

> I don't believe that. He ultimately has to be anti-LiDAR because putting LiDAR on every Tesla is simply not feasible nor compatible with his plan to mass gather training data, so he has to justify it somehow.

Why is using Lidar not compatible with mass gather training data?

Also he recently said they wouldn't use Lidar even if it's free. He didn't leave the door open for when the price goes down sufficiently. He could be wrong obviously, but I don't think he is in denial.
"Unlimited" in terms of Internet access/bandwidth has always been a contentious term.

And I mean _always_ because back in 1995 I worked for an ISP and when we introduced our "Unlimited" dial-up plan, I can't tell you the number of people who got mad at us because they couldn't dial in and stay connected 24/7 all month long.

We explained it in our terms of use (and actually had a really clear tl;dr in non-fine print in our ads) that customers could use as much as they could without worry of being charged for overages or getting cut off after a certain number of hours, but it was not a _dedicated_ account that promised 24/7 service.

But certain customers insisted that _their_ interpretation of the word was the one that _we_ should be held to.

One customer even took us to small claims court, and lost.

For the rest, our typical response was to say we were sorry this wasn't the plan they were expecting, and we'd happily refund their most recent month and close their account. That's almost always when they would change their mind and suddenly be ok with the terms. ;-)
Code is a work in progress.
Declining prevalence of antibody positivity to SARS-CoV-2 [pdf]
This seems like common sense. If you deleted any account tied to software purchases you would lose access. If I delete my Steam account I would not expect to have access to my Steam games that require their infrastructure etc.
Cambridge Analytica was doing it on FB platform. Thus it isn't related to the current situation.
This might be working now but the demographic with most spending money are the retirees and not young people anymore.

Young people are inheriting homes rather than buying them. I see tinder like apps but very little for the AARP demographic that has more money than the younger generation. The advertisers are targeting the wrong broke group.

This is why states like California is scrambling to increase property taxes and building affordable homes rather than making money from sales or investing in infrastructure. It’s like no one knows or understands macro economics 101.

Deeply held moral views shouldn’t grab markets by the balls. That is not capitalism. That is not free markets. That’s is a complete breakdown of free market economy because it is very easy to manipulate emotions. To use social media to do that means it’s being used to manipulate a very thin slice of population. To rely on emotions to running an economy is even more hard brained.

Anyone who remembers the ad industry in the late 80s and 90s can see how it’s different now to sell. Ads don’t sell products anymore. They sell IDEAS. This is a dangerously ill thought strategy because it is unstable.
To me the most interesting (and new to me) part is §Cease and Desist Notices:

> Following our initial coverage, we learned that the pressure against YouTube-DL had already started weeks earlier in Germany. Law firm Rasch, which works with several major music industry players, sent out cease and desist orders in the hope of taking YouTube-DL offline.

> Hosting service Uberspace was one of the recipients. The company hosts the official YouTube-DL site and still does so today. Instead of taking the website down, Uberspace replied to the notice through its own lawyer, who said that the hosting company hasn’t don’t anything wrong. [emphasis added]

> When the cease and desist notice was filed, yt-dl.org wasn’t even hosting the tool, as all download links pointed to GitHub, the company informs us.

[But the site does host the tool now, and Uberspace still doesn’t appear to have taken it down]

> “The software itself wasn’t hosted on our systems anyway so [but IIUC it is now], to be honest, I felt it to be quite ridiculous to involve us in this issue anyway – a lawyer specializing in IT laws should know better,” Jonas from Uberspace says.
2017...
Monitoring Facebook needs to work like the Black hole photo project.

Large alliances spanning countries and multiple institutions, hundreds of researchers working in tandem. Thats the best way to tame a beast this large.

Same goes for regulators/legal strategies/journalism etc. Associations and alliances are key.
Silicon valley. Was that a rhetorical question?
It's not like any of us are going to be able to change the DMCA overnight and people rely on this tool for all kinds of purposes. Do we wait for somebody to magically fix the DMCA or do we make minor fixes to youtube-dl to make it less susceptible to bullshit DMCA notices like this? I assume most people just want the original repo to go back up and for normal development to continue before functionality breaks because of changing websites.
How do ppl evaluate competence and credibility in an open source lead/maintainer? Esp one with little track record in well-known open source projects?
Not sure if this is intentional or not, but this sounds potentially bot-written because of a typo and grammatical error.
Thank you. This was the correction I was looking for.
An excellent exposition describing what ant group is.

https://emerging.substack.com/p/chasing-ant
"Our study shows that over time there is a reduction in the proportion of people testing positive for antibodies. It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide, or for how long this immunity lasts."

from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/207333/coronavirus-antibody-...
Video calls through a browser seem really hard to do well. I think that's why so many video call systems like Zoom really push you to download and use their native client.

My kid's school issued Chromebooks for remote schooling and are using Zoom through the browser. It was so bad that I pulled out an old Macbook instead. The Zoom native client running on a 12 year old Macbook works way, way better than running in updated Chrome on a recent Chromebook.
OK. It's missing my point, though. Gay rights is a bad example in some parts of the world, clearly. But my point was these people are usually vocal about issues that aren't really controversial.
They're about 4,500 miles (7,400km) apart so I'm fairly confident latitude isn't the only factor in their weather.
Probably a good idea for most people but there are risks. About 1 in 3000 colonoscopies result in a colon perforation.

https://peterattiamd.com/colorectal-cancer-screening/
They have always required the same account to use those stores. Only the Microsoft store doesn't require a login at all.
Not with GPT-3. I believe only Microsoft is allowed to do that.
what if they were waiting until Monday to make that report giving it the weekend to think on the best course of action rather than making a knee jerk reaction?
There's an obvious fix for that... Mix in some M4... ;-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
Yeah, my peer groups have been using dude as ungendered for over a decade at this point.
When it's against a legally protected class and opens up the company to liability, it is rational to fire an employee for not reporting it.

Safety violations are taken that seriously at some companies, anyone observing one that doesn't report it also gets fired.

It depends on what type of culture of accountability the company wants.
It's been almost a decade from when I remember first clicking through an account exactly like this.

Twitter has shown they absolutely care not for the discourse.

Long term, platforms that do well on this front will overtake FB/Tw, because real users don't want this garbage.
a few things:

1. i get where you're coming from

2. yes, language is bottlenecked by human perception, as are all things

3. even the notion of myth and fiction is encoded in language. language is self-descriptive and self-aware and you can separate sense from non-sense.

4. i'm not talking about knowledge or understanding, but of addressing the question of why training on language let's GPT-3 make human-like predictions as if it knows about reality? either it's a fluke, or it's because language as a whole is a model that approximates reality.