skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the kind of neighbor that rats out house parties to the cops instead of showing up with a bottle of OGD.
> Is it possible that with strict lockdowns people just stop abiding by the rules?

I feel this assertion does not make any sense. The whole reason for a lockdown is that there are irresponsible and reckless people who don't abide by the rules voluntarily, and consequently they are directly and actively spreading the disease.

Making these rules mandatory and enforcing them does not have an impact in the attitudes of said responsible and reckless people towards the need to act responsibly.
> Ethics as is currently practiced in tech is using the mob to remove whoever you don't like.

To the extent that that's even arguably true, it's irrelevant, since it's about the practice of basic organizational ethics within the tech community, and not about either the theory or pragmatics of any the discipline ethics of technology, or any of it's subdisciplines like AI Ethics, which is and are about the ethical implications of the application of technology, and not about the personal, non-tech-related ethics of people who happened to work in the field of technology.

> To put it another way: the only person to lose their job over Epstein running a rape island was Stallman for being right but uncouth.

Yeah, that is a very good illustration of how you are talking about something that has nothing to do with the Ethics of AI or any other ethics of technology subfields.
What's the fragmentation issue you're having?
Isn’t this what Tailscale claims to fix? Zero config VPN on top of Wireguard?
Would love for one of the creators to weigh in.
This is a crucial question. Is there a Turing test for consciousness? While qualia can’t be measured, they do affect behavior — especially when they become a shared dataset in a social context of fellow qualia-experiencing entities.

In my other comment I write about this a bit, but basically it doesn’t seem like non-conscious entities would be able to accurately predict the behavior of conscious entities, due to their lack of a shared meta-dataset of qualia. At best, they could find patterns of behavior and create a representation of qualia. But this isn’t the same as actually having the same data. It’s the difference between creating a representation of a state that causes another agent to cry, scream, and writhe, and that of knowing the precise state of pain itself. The former — a representation — doesn’t generalize past training data, especially when confronted with a multitude of qualia in varying combination. The latter — direct, precise, concrete data — might still suffer from inaccuracy (even knowing the precise potential states of another agent doesn’t mean we can infer which state that agent is in), but it’s better than the alternative: a guess built upon a guess.

I find the philosophical zombie to be a great thought experiment for this, along with the prisoners’ dilemma. Two conscious entities have a shared dataset that enables communication without words — spooky-action-at-a-distance via qualia. Two friends with great loyalty to one another can solve the dilemma by their knowledge of what love and betrayal is. A p-zombie would understand that given past behavior, that their prisoner counterpart might not choose betrayal. But qualia-experiencing agents know what is happening in one another’s minds in a way a non-qualia-experiencing entity can never know. The p-zombie would lack all empathy. It would always be logical, and choose the Nash Equilibrium. It would never mourn the dead. It would never commit suicide. It would never sacrifice its life for love, or for an ideal, because it would have neither.
For some of us, it's not about changing your mind. You're right--life isn't for everyone. Death comes for everyone, one way or another, at some point. Normally we don't pick when, but maybe you're right and this is how it comes for you. That's not up to me.

If you don't want to go through it alone, though, you don't have to. We could look that mystery in its face together. See what's there. I'm not expecting to go through it myself yet, but I'd stand there with you while you do.

I'm not any kind of counselor. I'm a longtime lurker who just made an account to say your confrontation with and even path through your own death isn't a burden for everyone. If you want to talk with someone about it, that option is available to you.
The object in the video looked pretty high. With only eight minutes of fuel, if it was manned flight, that's got to be a pretty dangerous altitude to hit. The pilot would need a boat very close by.
Is that not how every country in history works? What cases except vassal states can another country dictate the terms of export?

Especially when the free trade era is a relatively tiny era in the history of nations and trade.
Therefore they evolve.

Instead of state we have state based capitalism. Instead of innovation by state, we have private firms which can steal from other countries freely as they are not military. And they can produce well as well. And they can go out to sell you things and selective let you in for helping in the copying.

That is Soviet Union 2.0 - china.
My kids under ten do all of those things with way more violence than makes sense. I can't let them use them plugged in, for somewhat obvious reasons. They've still done so, of course. Ripped off the connector of three usb cables. So far, still going strong. :Shrug:
> You'll feel things you never felt before.

For sure. And the pre-kids days will fade from memory, to be replaced by new sets of values, priorities, and joys.
I don't see how it's patronizing. And if it does help people, it's certainly not hollow.
> Making these rules mandatory and enforcing them does not have an impact in the attitudes of said responsible and reckless people towards the need to act responsibly

The idea that enforcement actions categorically have no impact on attitudes toward the rules being enforced is...fairly radical, and could use at some evidence or reasoning supporting it rather than being stated as a bare conclusion.
I have suggestions for a color picker. It's definitely non-traditional.

Instead of a continuous gradient for the color, show patches of color in a randomized order. Display the colors over top of grayscale gradients of different sizes. This helps to deal with the trouble of human perception being affected by background and by solid angle. You might also want to consider showing the new color right over or around an image of the user's choice.

For example, on a small screen, you might have a 256x256 patch on a 512x512 grayscale gradient for the currently selected color, and numerous 16x16 patches on 32x32 gradients for the choices that the user can make.

With each click on a choice, the whole array of choices is redone.

Available choices are provided as variations of the current choice and any colors that might have been bookmarked. Take the current choice, and vary the hue. Take the current choice, and vary the saturation. (including the negative extreme, positive extreme, and grey) Take some properties (hue, saturation, etc.) from the current choice, and others from a recent bookmark. Probably also throw in a 3x3x3 sRGB to make dramatic changes simple. Be sure to include everything that is within 2 or 3 units of the current choice in sRGB. In a plane that slices through the current selection and the grey line, provide choices that run along lines from the current choice in 4 different directions: black through the current selection until out of gamut, white through the current selection until out of gamut, along the saturation axis both directions, and along the L axis parallel to the grey line.

So with each click, you head in the direction you prefer.
Why is this even news? No one will notice whether brexit happens or not.
Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers
Love seeing the progress on this! Thank you for sharing!
Seems like Microsoft thought if people could stomach the transition from XP to Vista/7, then the transition to 8 would be taken with the same amount of initial resistance followed by acceptance.

There's only so many times you can tell your customers that their hardware isn't up to snuff for your software, whether in terms of computational capability or interaction modality, in the same decade!
How much business you will get from UK?
Citation needed. Complaining is one thing, sure, but expressing a wide range of emotions (including healthy expressions of sadness, frustration, fear, etc.) is considered pretty positive and good by the women I know.

Crying is important, normal, and healthy.
(I meant "only", not "old")
I don't think he does, Tunsafe implements Wireguard, but it hasn't been updated for maybe 2 years now. Still, the UI is so much nicer than the Wireguard one
Obligatory “OMG why is HN red and green?!” post
Because it's Christmas. They change the HN colors every year around this time.
Everyone saying she was a shit friend but she may not even have realized how you perceived it or that you wanted to keep talking about it.
absolutely same here. I also enjoy his interviews and perspective but i really couldn't go beyond the first chapter. I guess I'm not that patient :)
It’s really not. That is 5 years (two if you came for a degree), which is the time after which you’re supposed to be acquainted with the language and the culture (which is fair enough). The delays are after that to get appointments and stuff. These are purely a consequence of the bureaucratic process, which is quite arbitrary in its implementation (as an example, depending on your country of origin you might have to go to different offices, which process files at very different speeds).
This is already the case with most consumer drones. Problem is you can easily build your own and ignore all of that.
I was about to ask the same
GoDaddy phishing 'test' teased employees with a fake holiday bonus
You're somehow trying to shift the burden of proof. Please provide evidence that supports the assertion that those who don't voluntarily comply with basic safety precautions will stop complying with the rules if they are made mandatory. I mean, the premise itself is absurd, don't you agree?
> why such negativity?

I've never had a game of Monopoly end well. If I'm winning, I'm bored by the end, and if I'm losing, it's a dragged out miserable defeat.
I found the Android client very easy to use. You can import a config file or scan a QR code to setup a profile. If you know what you are doing, you can setup it up manually.

Compared to the Cisco client we use for work, wireguard seemed better in every way.
In both the subtlety of meaning and in totality of context, reference to ones birth name in this case, helps illuminate the original point of his ruthlessness as a political operator who constructed a persona grata. Highly appropriate I say.
Democracies are ruled with the consent of the governed. The majority of the British people withdrew their consent to be governed by the EU.
I think it’s more that the worldview held by western institutions and police in particular does not equip police to actually solve the problems they are trying to solve - through no real fault of the individuals involved.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It's the one that got me sucked into the series.

Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrel. I heard it hyped on radio and interviews for weeks before I bought a copy, and it was even better than the hype.

Batman Arkham series
Animalese is a simple phonetic translation of the text. It’s super noticeable in Spanish which is fairly straightforward. In English it’s a simplistic translation to phonemes as far as I can tell.
100% The first four seasons were great, with a ton of character development. The last season was incredibly rushed, and felt like they went from $0 to $millions overnight, and then introduced (annoying) characters and fell into quick traps. It was super frustrating to me.
FreeBSD probably will at some point. Some FreeBSD developers are even considering adding systemd -- or an equivalent -- to their OS (and no, not launchd, which has a few drawbacks and too many Apple-isms to be a general BSD init).

And again, since X is virtually abandonware at this point, the remainder of the BSDs will follow suit, especially since most of the open source kms drivers are shared between Linux and *BSD. It's really on the compositor maintainers to support the BSD kms back end in their compositor code, though.
With all due respect, its naive to blame stupidity of masses on one person. People voted to leave...
Also your standards aren't entirely useful if you lack the inter-connectivity to employ them, the UIDs to be able to properly specify the data you are requesting, or restrictions on what data you are allowed to put within fields of the standardized data structures to make it easy to interpret by a program (believe it or not, with some standards this can also be a problem).
Wages and the costs of hiring/employing are a cash outflow. Losses mean that outflow is greater than inflow, so wages can be related to losses, but they are not mutually exclusive.

Cuts to jobs and reduced hours can be because of losses, or they could also be due to efficiency gains, in which they could be related to profits instead. Divisions and jobs can be cut because they make neither profit or loss.

Employee's don't share in losses or profits unless their compensation is somehow tied to profits.
> it tends to be the case that you can't suggest to people "You could try doing things differently" because that will be taken as blaming the victim

Sometimes it takes a friend (or stranger) to make such suggestions. Lonely and depressed people are typically trapped inside their heads, so they need some kind of external stimulus to help them understand that they are in control of their life. The truth sometimes hurts, but calling it victim blaming is nonsense.
Sweden joined EU with a 52.3-47.7 vote. Malta's vote was 53.6-46.4. Should those countries have another round of voting as well before they are admitted to EU?
Politicians in Paris or Berlin feeling entitled to tell their counterparts in Warsaw and Athens what to do is one thing, which probably is happening today already anyway.

Sliding towards becoming a single country is a wholly different matter, though, because that involves the people. Even citizens in most staunchly pro-European countries such as Germany, France, or the Netherlands culturally still see themselves as citizens of the respective country rather than Europe or the EU.

The most relevant factor in that respect is language. Most Germans don't speak French. Most of the French don't speak German. Hence, cultural and economic exchange might happen at the upper echelons of society but as for everyday life citizens of EU member states still pretty much keep to themselves, for the simple reason that they don't understand each other.
or you can use mullvad.net (supports wireguard protocol)

no activity logs

does not ask for personal information

anonymous payments via cash or cryptocurrencies

no subscription

hides your device's activity.
The AST paper is great, and the Ha Self-Interpretable Agents paper is amazing. Thanks very much for mentioning them.

And now I understand better what you meant in terms of the focus on qualia that is less common.

And overall your comment is very insightful. Forgive me for not giving quite as much detail in my reply as is warranted and for seeming a little critical. A lot of what you say aligns with my view.

But just to mention some things I see a little differently. I guess the main thing is that it feels like you are putting things that are actually somewhat different, into the same bucket. For example, attention, and conscious versus subconscious awareness. Attention could be the selection of the currently most relevant pixels in the image. But an example of subconscious awareness might be the process of deciding which pixels to focus on, which could happen in a more automated way without conscious awareness. So there is both a selection of qualia and also a level of awareness. Things that make it to the conscious level are processed differently than the ones at the subconscious level. But both systems may be selecting which parts of the input to pay attention to.

Also, I feel like you can separate out mechanical aspects of cognition from how they subjectively feel. So you could objectively say that there is for example a certain sense input, but not necessarily that the agent "feels" something like an animal. And they are not the same thing. And, you can look at emotions from an analytical perspective, separate from the question of subjective feeling. See https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2018.0002... That stuff feels like its built on kind of older paradigms without neural networks and that seems limiting, but I think its still somewhat useful.

Also as far as engaging in play, just look at any pet. They will engage in play with their owners and other pets in the home. In quite sophisticated ways. In my view that exhibits intelligence and consciousness (various connotations).
Thank you :)

Merry Christmas to you too, and everyone else reading this! I'm sure a lot of us are celebrating alone this year, but on the upside, how amazing that we have ways to communicate without being in person (even if they aren't the same as being together in real life).

Keep hacking away. Maybe we'll get teleportation technology going sometime soon ;)
a. I don't trust any VPN provider's claims. Plus I wanted more control including ability to turn on/off logs if needed. As an experiment I started with an AWS lightsail instance. It worked so well that I now I don't feel I need anything with more resources (up to about 10 clients). That doesn't mean I trust AWS entirely but for now I will live with it. I like using a CLI and AWS's browser based CLI is pretty good (but be wary of copy-paste snafus).

b. The other reason I went with a cloud provider like AWS is that their static IP seems to be whitelisted fairly well especially with their own service - Amazon Prime. So I have had not problem watching videos while traveling. Also in the past macOS and iOS updates were problematic via VPN. But that seems to have gone away. Maybe because they bypass VPN? I don't know for sure.

c. Many of my friends have been asking for help. I figured if I went with one of the big 3 cloud providers it would be easy for me to basically create an instance image preloaded with all the scripts and WG etc. that they can then run from their own accounts.

d. The big 3 cloud providers uptimes are far better than many of the VPN providers.
> Why else put text ON TOP of the footage?

Because they are flight instructors, not video editors?

Because they wanted their text to exist anywhere the video was shared?
The brittleness of mainstream ML to out of distribution data is one of the most fundamental channels for error. There are very few domains where a static environment can be depended on over the long term. If machine learning is to be approached as an engineering discipline there will need to be practices established for validating models throughout their life cycle. One potential resource that can support this type of systematic evaluation is the Automunge open source library for assembling data pipelines, which has automatic support for evaluating data property drift in feature sets serving as basis for a model. (disclosure I am founder of Automunge)
Try The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. By Nikos Kazantzakis, a true bonafide genius of a writer whose imagery in exploring the life of Odysseus after her returns home and finds it less than fulfilling after 20 years if adventure & struggle, with a son he sees as week and I unprepared for the world... It's poetry is as dense as either if Homer's works, and while I hesitate to say it, perhaps almost as good.
It's an experience many men have had. It's pretty difficult to get real data on beyond the anecdotes of many men.

Shouldn't matter really, but most men find that it stings when the women in their lives just don't look at them the same way anymore; they perceive that they are now less in their eyes.

Men who stay aloof and emotionally distant enjoy women's attraction. Also an anecdote of many men.

That said the truly powerful man will not care and is unconcerned with the loss of women.
I'm pretty sure LeBron could beat Bill Russell, esp. given how old Russell is now.
Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you all stay safe out there.

Here’s to hoping for a better year in 2021!
Yes, the KFConsole Is Real and It's Spectacular
Providing more internal training opportunities is a winning long term strategy.
Just replied to another comment. Hope that helps.
I was talking about (online) support groups. It's a statement about a specific environment and it is based on enormous firsthand experience as the person usually being accused of victim blaming for the crime of trying to be helpful.
Oldtime Radio 24/7
That is not exactly true.

There was no second referendum, but there were two general elections and in both the party pushing for Brexit decisively won.

Labour would have probably stopped Brexit and people could have voted for them, but they did not.
Sounds like you really need an app called Magnet ($2 on the App Store). It completely solved the snapping/window maximization problem for me. I think it should ship as part of the OS.
> There are over 3 million Californians in households making under $25.5k/year

Sounds like that's a problem that's largely orthogonal to covid19, and results mainly by the US's attitude to income inequality and systemic poverty and consequently it's attitude towards ensuring citizens have a decent quality of life.
It is a right for a lot of people. How could it be a democracy if citizenship weren’t a right?

The case where it isn’t is for people not born from French parents or not married to a French citizen (plus a couple of other exceptions). In this case, the criteria for naturalisation are clearly spelled out in the law. It should not be arbitrary.

The current mess is because governments want to limit immigration without touching the law to tighten the criteria, for purely political reasons. The French government actually knows how to run large administrations quite well when there are incentives to do so.
Ask HN: What are you working on during the XMas Break? (25th – 4th)
Merry Christmas to you too :)
To make the WireGuard windows app better (for non-admin users) you need to make your user(s) a member of the "Network Configuration Operators" group.

This allows you enable/disable (or choose if you have multiple) the VPN without needing to be a member of the Administrators group. You also need to add a line to the registry.

Here's the powershell code to do that:

New-ItemProperty "hklm:\software\wireguard" -Name "LimitedOperatorUI" -Value 1 -PropertyType "DWord" -Force

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Network Configuration Operators" -Member "$username"
I personally prefer the audiobook, it is easier to understand and fits my schedule.
Study level airplane. Not sure 1 week is enough ... sadly miss the 50% discount.
I encountered term provenance when I was learning Apache Nifi.
Stanford. I didn't complete public higher education when I was younger, so I've been filling in some of the blanks through independent study lately. So far I've really clicked with cs106a/b homework assignments and Youtube video of Classical Mechanics lectures.
https://vitamind4all.org/letter.html
This is vaporwave af, 20-25 years before we even knew vaporwave was a thing.
Gotta be careful reading those, they are very good by can be a little...bleak.
Yup, PC hardware is actually not too bad as a bare-metal platform, and everyone should try writing an OS once! Sounds like a fun senior project.