skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roon sounds like it would be great for you - but you'll have to spend some time and money on setting it up. I have all my music in lossless FLAC on a Synology NAS and run the Roon server on there. The Roon client should work on your phone and connect to your RME ADI-2 DAC as well (great DAC btw, I'd really like one myself). It handles lossless streaming, and ensuring the digital chain is optimized for quality all the way to your DAC. It can also apply arbitrary parametric EQ on the server side, in case you want to use some EQ profiles for your HD800s if you don't have the RME handy.
That's why you save the truth about the brown M&Ms for your autobiography.
Are you sure that neurons are a precondition for consciousness? I'm not arguing a glass fo water is conscious, but that argues against computers ever being conscious because they also have no neurons.
They are safer in many respects, as there is no “pointer arithmetic”, for example. Check this article out: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/03/17/pointers-in-go
Mary Anning: Discoverer of the First Complete Ichthyosaurus – BeYOUteous
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by “the SSH problem”?
Secretary of State rescinds national interest exceptions to the visa ban
They never fixed the bugs; they either didn't budget to do a post-beta bug bash or something's amiss with their quality leadership. No matter how you dice it, their engineering organization isn't in a healthy state. If it's not time, it's a lack of resourcing.
Concur on convenience and culture, both are fairly important for the project to be successful.
I disagree, a sense of purpose is absolutely pursuable. It's merely a state of mind, a sense that what you're doing has meaning or makes progress towards a larger goal. What that meaning or goal is can be molded by conscious processes.
> Two other factors are religion, and the fact that children are now expenses into their mid-twenties rather than income-generating/household-contributing in their teens.

I’d boil it down to selfishness.

In the past, kids were productive assets as you mentioned. They were also your elder care and retirement plan. So having kids was a selfish act.

Now, kids are liabilities and things like elder care and retirement is a financial consideration and people don’t want their kids burdened by it (US culture). Also, you can freely live your life without kids (travel, career, etc). So, in that sense, not having kids is a selfish act.

I personally feel like many of the people who say they’re not having kids because overpopulation/fearsome of future/etc are just looking for a pat on the back while really their motivation is selfish.
The brain is doing multiple things at once. But that doesn't mean its impossible to subset brain activity related to specific activities.
I think you're making a leap in OP's reasoning: they didn't say that for _currently existing_ people it's better to not be existing. I suspect the point is more that it will be better for future generations to limit the _size of_ future generations, lest we increase the amount of strain on the climate/energy production/water scarcity/etc.

I also think OPs reasoning has more to do with the considerations of inflicting the potentially post-apocalyptic future on those future generations: there is an arguable moral duty to ensure that whatever offspring you have will have a (generally) good life, and that if you aren't reasonably sure of that it's A Bad Thing to have said offspring.
A common example of this is surveys that have a question that reads “Select strongly disagree for this question” to weed out people randomly choosing answers.
"My bluetooth headset can now use the HFP profile with the mSBC codec (16 kHz sample rate) instead of the terrible CVSD codec (8 kHz sample rate) with the basic HSP profile."

What configuration did you have to do to get this to work? I'm also using pipewire built from the latest master (PipeWire 0.3.22).
>13 IPOs for Vision Funds I and II

An IPO, in-and-of-itself, isn't a "success". In fact, I'd fathom that at least half the time it's insiders dumping garbage on the public.
But that would just be mathematicians tackling issues in their profession, right? If she just means making education more accessible, fairer hiring, etc. that's great, but it's phrased in a pretty 'grand' way that at least to me suggests actions that just aren't really in the ballpark of mathematicians.
IBM's System R came out in 1977, and DB/2 in 83.

R:BASE was the first RDBMS on the PC. Oracle existed in 1979 but was only ported to PC in 1984.

NonStop SQL in 1987 was revolutionary.
I think Jay Z is just getting a board seat.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/square-to...
The perfect example of : dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
What are some resources to learn more about this?

This is not "How to do ML". It's a very much more interesting question "How to build products that can be extended with ML later." I wouldn't even know how to Google for this!

Very interesting. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the information! This is helpful.

Given that I was pretty knowledgeable about most aspects of backing my data up to S3, it would have been pretty hard to predict where the possibility for error would have been. I can't imagine hiring someone for 2hr to come and check my work, since they really would have had to be there for the entire process.

It sounds like about 2-5 days of work to get someone to set all this up, but perhaps it's more like 1 day at a minimum. So somewhere between $800-4k for that. Later in our project we were running 5 S3 buckets with about 20 stakeholders uploading and downloading, so that could have easily been another 4 days of work.

$800 would have been two years of what we were planning to pay Amazon. $4-8k would have been a major big-ticket item for us (even though, of course, that's the bill we ended up stuck with.)

If I were to do it over again I don't think I'd be able to justify spending on a pro. I would definitely spend on someone to audit our expenses more carefully though.
Not unreasonable if the parent a senior engineer or is counting stock appreciation.
> Anyhow at the risk of this turning into a multi page rant about comcast I'll cut back to upload speed. I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. What do the cable companies want people to be doing?

Fun fact: Comcast does not even show you the upload speed by default on their speed test page. You have to click an extra "details" section for it to run the upload part of the test. Otherwise you just see the single download number.
I think the article is taking the stance that ethics should be a concern at the point of development, and those that create these large language models and those that use them should be accountable. Right now, those groups are not accountable, so instead a separate group of people is asked to take responsibility. This is where AI Ethics as a field has ended up, and in my opinion, stalled.
Not my beliefs, but trying to accurately represent the ideas: Having a state is only necessary during the socialist phase. When society is perfected and true communism is achieved, the state is unnecessary. What Mao refers to as socialism seems to be equivalent to Marx's "dictatorship of the proletariat" phase, which involves the gradual abolishment of the capitalist elements of society (including people). When capitalism and class have been fully abolished, the state is supposed to wither away on its own.

Thus, the public "owns" the means of production but there is no state to own anything. The idea of common ownership has a long history and I think that it's a valid concept here, even if it's awkward considering that what we normally mean by "own" is more or less the opposite of what it means in common ownership.

This StackOverflow answer has more detail:

> Communists who agree with what Lenin wrote in "The State and Revolution" and what Marx and Engels wrote, believe that the state will "wither away" when what Lenin calls "class antagonisms" vanish. The state emerged as a tool for class control, and they believe it will fade away as there is no class to dominate or be dominated by another.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/9359/what-is-th...

It seems obvious to me that people will oppress one another quite readily whether there are class differences are not. I can't make any sense of how Marxism is supposed to actually work—it sounds like a religion where supernatural help is needed to achieve godliness, but without any god that could actually provide that help. Perhaps the ideas themselves are supposed to be powerful enough to overcome human nature.
I’ve found consciousness to be like a muscle and most of us have never done more than step foot in the gym.

If I tell you right now to be aware of yourself, you would experience a brief moment of consciousness. Try it right now. See yourself from an outside perspective, sitting in your chair, doing stuff that matters or maybe not so much. Procrastinating, if you’re like me.

It’s a powerful “feeling".

But as soon as you continue reading, you’re already back to your normal state — in your head, not aware of yourself at all.

You have the consciousness-stamina of a 100 pound weakling.

It’s extremely difficult to develop yourself so you’re conscious all the time. I’ve been working for years, and still not there. However, I’m more conscious than not.

The goal is that the consciousness program is running in the background all the time, and doesn’t require difficult mental work to maintain. The effects and benefits of getting to that point cannot be overstated.

I don’t agree that consciousness is a feeling, although it shares some of the same features. Feelings for most people are similarly fleeting and dictated by outside environment. Most people do not have the skill to affect their feelings, or their consciousness, for long.
You can't conflate games that try to create a fun experience, and engage people through feelings of discovery, fun, achievement, and games that use manipulative techniques to create frustration and exploit psychological feedback loops to extract a steady stream of money from people. Its just not the same thing at all. Like comparing a novel to a lottery ticket. Both are written on paper but the comparison stops here.
Nick wrote an epic piece about what motivated his company to create what eventually became Tock:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190407042116/https://www.aline...

(good to see you here, Nick. big fan!)
unfortunately, I don't think any of the streaming services offer the same level of control and confidence as something like foobar2000 with a local library. when I was originally shopping for a streaming service, I found it very frustrating to figure out all the technical details. they don't make this information at all easy to find, and even if they do, it's hard to trust that something weird doesn't happen under the hood on some devices.

my main use case for streaming is android auto, so I lowered my criteria to "no lossy-lossy reencode for bluetooth and works well with google assistant". so yt music was basically the only option for me. I would have tried amazon HD, but apparently google has deliberately made it hard to use with assistant, which hamstrings it for music in the car.
my fiancee, her family. lives in Mecca, Ca, not too far from indio, ca, which is where the Cochella festival is, and they can only get ATT ADSL2, they get 6mbit/1.5mbit and it's a joke. using even tmobile 4g only gets you 10mbit for a few seconds via bursting speeds.
Covid: Italy 'blocks' AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia
Strawman. There's always a legitimate user cost to attacker cost ratio, and also scaling the bike lock cost and durability to the cost of the bike.
This is not a product I would trust off the dark web.

Also being in the UK makes the cost of this appear ridiculous. How do these prices compare to anywhere that is actually charging for the vaccine?
We all need to chill out when talking about foreign countries.

Alternatively, we all need to step up and say the same things about both home and abroad, and try to learn from and improve both.
For applied mathematicians - especially in statistics - I could see that (though I'd assume social scientists would likely be a better fit - I imagine that an informed take would require more than just pure stats knowledge), but what are pure mathematicians like her going to do?
Sure, but the hard part is explaining the first person experience of feeling the need to pee or, in other words, consciousness.
> When you look at who is having kids in the US and Canada, the families, (or specifically, women) who have 2 or more children are either exceptionally wealthy (90th+ pc) or exceptionally poor

Source?
I like the idea of making this stuff easier to digest, but I'm curious in what way are SEC filings and earning reports less accessible for young people vs old people?
Even if they're not hyperlinked, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised to learn of a crawler looking for FQDNs and things that just generally look like URLs in text to crawl into.
Ditched Xfinity for AT&T fiber a year ago - symmetrical 1Gbps up and down is sooooo nice, well was anyways. Moved since and back in cable hellscape.

They should just require that symmetrical connection is provided or at least is an option. After using it for a year, I’d gladly pay extra for it.

300/300 would probably serve most home applications well and 500/500 or 1Gbps/1Gbps for power users/demanding wfh.
> As an ideology you have correctly identified an inequity in treatment by law enforcement based on race, but the lack of systems theory and postmodern understanding leads you (as an ideology) to ascribe this to human perpetrators who actually want this to happen. I'm sure there are racist police out there, but systemic racism is not caused by racist individuals; its caused by the behaviour of systems (the justice system, systems around poverty, long term effects of previous explicitly racist policy). Until progressivism fully discards modernism and embraces postmodernism and systems theory, I don't believe it will be able to solve any of the problems it has identified.

Weren't all of those systems designed, implemented and enforced by individuals? Racist policy makers, racist voters... from a systems perspective, systemic racism is the function of individual racism aggregated over time.

If anything, it seems modern and not post-modern to extract racist individuals from systemic racism as they are part of and the origination of the systems themselves. It's treating humans as something outside of the system, which is a view I'd align more with modernism.
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Ah that reminds me, we should not discount racism as a factor. Many would rather become debt slaves for life or forgo children than live cheaply around black people.
So we need to elect greedier politicians who wont accept a pittance as a bribe.
The Cost of Racing Toward Success
That’s what Shaw here in Canada does, even gigabit cable was also limited to 25 up until recently where it was bumped up to 100
> their website doesn't list upload speeds

I believe they're required to publish something called a "rate card". If you search "[name] internet rate card", you should be able to find a PDF type document listing service and rates.
One day I went from my office to my comms room to fart and didn't notice the nice young lady follow behind me seeking technical support. I can still remember her smiley face turn to shock as she breathed in the foul air. That day I went from IT legend to dirtbird.
> what I believe to be ephemeral value largely driven by low interest rates

This is part of the story, the other part would be central banks printing money nonstop, or in common parlance, "money printer go brrr".

Bitcoin can only exist in a post-2008-financial-crash world. Prior to that, there was no reason to consider anything other than the US Dollar. Bitcoin, however, is a solution to only one part of an overarching problem, or at least this is what I think: financial services need to be reigned back in if we have any hope as a species of surviving. Continued worldwide crashes caused by financiers engaging in riskier and riskier behavior in the name of enormous profits will eventually result in a war when one of the nations on the "losing end" decides they've had enough.
At least in Brazil, where I lived, CGA monitors were much cheaper because they had high commonality with B&W TVs, CCTV monitors, and the monitors that have been used with 8-bit computers. Color RGBi monitors were not as common because they required better CRTs than most TVs that size and decent color monitors only started appearing when it became easier to import them and their parts.

I'm not really fond on the MDA/EGA/VGA default fonts either unless we are talking about the ones that came with the Cordata or Toshiba portables ;-)
Upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET5 can be hard. Official tool might help
imo, Server-Sent Events are the better solution for realtime updates. Sometimes you need the stateful bidirectional protocol WebSockets offer, but most of the time HTTP for RPC and SSE for streaming updates gets you where you need to go with standard HTTP, no special protocols.
Nit: It's spelled "brute." "Bruit" is a rumor.
Also see this response/critique by Hofstadter and Dennett (OCRed so a bit mangled, you have to jump around a little bit.

http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-24-what-is-it-l...
Reddit AMA with Bridgecrew Founders
The behavior seen here seems to indicate typos more than bit flipping - ex, look at the NTP requests: it works out to roughly 1 request/hr from the ~600 IPs that are hitting them, that's not an in-memory bit-flip.
"where it just sat there doing a whole bunch of nothing to consumer prices and wages."

Your primary residence should be thought of as a consumption item, whether you rent or own. If homes cost more to buy or rent since the QE (and they do) then we absolutely have had consumer price inflation.
yes, but if you search for the amazon basics product on the front page of amazon it will like you with this slug
>Can anybody explain how this makes sense for Square?

I think the next frontier in fintech is getting in every payment rail imaginable. The music part isn't relevant, it's the payment of artists that Square is most likely interested in. Square wants to process your deposit right into your CashApp bank account and pay for your records with the CashApp card.
Serverless Cassandra from DataStax
> I just bet they are, because they are similar to me and I know I am.

You sound certain!

Is that because of some logical deductive series that you can articulate, or is it because of a very strong feeling you have?

I'm curious to understand what you are saying, because I don't feel the same way myself, at least not all the time.
What Is Elon Musk's Starship?
One of the benefits of home fiber that people rarely talk about is the low latency. On my fiber connection, I get around ~2ms ping to the nearest data center. On my parents' cable internet, it's around ~25ms ping. (I am not up-to-date on the latest DOCSIS versions, etc., and it's possible some cable companies might do better than this.)

This ~20ms makes a small but noticeable difference in how quickly web pages load, how smooth video conferencing and VoIP are, and how fluid online gaming is.
> The Chinese room argument certainly only exists to muddy the waters. The whole premise is a misdirection by having a human execute a Chinese-speaking program by hand, then asking if the human understands Chinese, completely ignoring the fact that is the program that is responsible for the behavior, not the human. That would be like asking if neurotransmitters understand Chinese instead of focusing on the brain as a whole.

I really don't understand why people have such a hard time with this argument. Seems like there's some unaddressed materialist/eliminativist prejudice underneath it all.

The program isn't doing anything because it's just a bunch of symbols. You need something to "animate" the program, but that something need not comprehend the symbols it is given (hence the whole idea of an effective method). (Actually, Searle goes further when he describes computation as observer relative, and I would extend this to programs. That is, there is not an objective fact of the matter that a computer is a computer and that it is computing. If you looked at it, there's nothing in what's going on that says "oh, yeah, this machine is adding numbers". Kripke also gets into this with his "quaddition" argument.)

When you understand Chinese, reading a symbol or legal string of symbols leads your mind to form conceptual content with some intentionality or signification. We can have other thoughts in response and this can lead to the production of signs with some other signification. The program lacks this semantic component and merely performs what amounts to a syntactic translation of the input signs into output signs. This process is entirely stripped of any semantic element. And that's the point. Computers are highly systematized patterns of convention that permit the simulation of some of what we would typically expect of human beings or maybe some other animal, but strictly speaking, they don't even compute anything, much less understand.
This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service" but then the small print says "...to Google Photos."

It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet?

It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and Google Photos are currently available together? But I don't get that either.
I started my coding career when I discovered you could compile your Dbase III code (CRUD stuff) using the Clipper compiler into a DOS executable.

Then Clarion was released with it's amazing app generator.
Doomsday Clock is a politically-driven relic from the Cold War era. We don't trust politicians to be experts on the climate, so why do we trust a bunch of scientists to be foreign policy experts?

I contend there's a lot of potentially existential threats out there, but to use it as a crutch for not having children is weak, especially when people still procreated through much worse times.
Funding is rather limited
Yep. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS for the down/up of each version. The theoretical maxes are far higher than the current offerings.
Heck, not just EC2. Try doing this with a home connection. Add RDP into the mix.

It doesn't take long before one scan finds the port, and then a bunch of people start trying different attacks.
MicroRIM's R:Base had modest success, pre client/server. It was always a true RDBMS. I had used R:Base for "real work" and dBase (and kin) for flatfile type stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:Base

I've always wondered how Oracle swept the industry, and R:Base did not. Probably multiple factors.

Like Oracle's initial customers had big iron and those enterprise contracts are big money. Whereas R:Base was part of the personal computer revolution and so probably wasn't even considered.

In my mind, MS Access was the market fit successor. IIRC, Access was the first "workgroup" (network file sharing vs true client/server) RDBMS to make the jump to GUI. A bit like Excel displaced Lotus 1-2-3.

Too bad. Much as I came to love Access, I also loved R:Base.
This doesn't address my point along with Tesla's, that consciousness my be a field that exists outside the brain