skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like Descartes, Helmholtz, Ryle, Dennett, Searle were/are stuck in the framework that tries to explain (while it provides no explanation at all) consciousness as an emergent property of a complex enough computation (by neurons).

So Dennett, Hofstadter, Edelman et al, while really smart, will never get an inch closer to a true explanation.

The mechanism by which general anesthetics temporarily and partially/fully disables consciousness should provide a nice hint in which direction a true explanation should go.

There is no doubt imo that the theory will be based on quantum mechanics. Roger Penrose goes even a step further and states that the theory needs a non-computational component. (see Orch Or : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti... )

In any case, I'm still waiting on an Einsteinian admission from most scientists that it is "their biggest mistake" to consider that a "warm, wet and noisy" environment like the brain cannot host the necessary quantum phenomena. In the current state of affairs, they have been proven wrong already.
Authors should also try to be aware that for some types there's not a meaningful difference between copy construction and move construction.
> A more useful perspective would be from a human brain simulation angle.

>The Chinese room argument certainly only exists to muddy the waters.

Does not compute. :)

The Chinese room argument, as I understand it, is not about whether the human understands Chinese. The question is whether the room understands Chinese.
California Gubernatorial Recall Petition Reaches 1.9M Signatures
Eat shit commies! When Richard Grenell is elected as the new California governor we are going to destroy the one-party rule.
> His politics are irrelevant to me

The fact that he is anti-science and happy to play fast and loose with other people's lives should give you a hint how he might run a company.
Your comment piques my interest, and I'd like to know more.

My first thought was about the Timaeus (geometrical structures of matter/elements), but I haven't read any treatments about Plato's theory of forms and the development of mathematics.
> Talking out of both sides of your mouth means saying contradictory things,

It's a bit more than that, isn't it? There are elements of dishonesty.

From Cambridge Idiom Dictionary

> be speaking/talking out of both sides of (your) mouth

> American

> to say different things about the same subject when you are with different people in order to always please the people you are with.

> How can we trust any politicians when we know they're speaking out of both sides of their mouths?
Vietnam is full of skinny people therefore they were not hit hard. Although they have an obesity problem on the rise. This is a pandemic 30 years in the making. If we just addressed the obesity problem this wouldn't even be worse than the flu. I've been saying for the past year, if this hit in the 60's/70's it wouldn't have done anything.
> ... all because of their need to gag dissent.

I think you know that there are people blocking highways for months blocking entrance to Capital. If people don't have right to protest how this is hapenning.

> Disha's toolkit gets an arrest but toolkits by bjp activists openly calling for violence against muslims get a wink wink nod nod

BJP worker doesn't habe a toolkit. He runs a telegram group with open membership. You can join it too.

Disha Ravi had to retract and replace the toolkit with a sanitized version because toolkit is more about disrupting the "chai and yoga" image of India than protest against policies of the Government.

And ofcourse we can't forget Muslims. They are the proverbial victims with no extremism. Be it France, Sweden, UK, Banglore or Delhi. Across time and place, all the rioting is someone else's fault across time wink wink nod nod
Motivation from within is the strongest, and requires that work be aligned with personal goals, either in developing skills or making something happen. In these conditions, I've found that I'm at my most productive no matter where - I'm working against the clock to realize my own ambitions within the many constraints of my job.

However, this could simply be a mental health thing in anyone's case. There is nothing to lose and nothing to be ashamed of by consulting a professional about it.
This is highly dependent on society/nation standards. I grew up in a 750 sqft apartment (family of 5). My wife grew up in a 440 sqft (family of 4). Now I consider 250 sqft/person to be a palace, but in the US it's probably considered unlivable.
There is a lot of cheap housing in places that people are willing to live, but people need a push to change. Allowing work from home, schools, and lockdowns have been helping provide the push. Most cities have reasonable housing prices, it is just distorted by a few areas which have become extremely unaffordable.

Detroit is an interesting example. People did want to live there, but as the jobs declined, so did the city. If jobs can come back, the city can come back.
This is yet another philosophical problem: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/
Questions on WhatsApp's Privacy Policy in South Africa as it announces new app
"this would practically force large-scale fiber buildout"

Sounds good, I think it is pretty obvious that fiber is the future of wired connections. Comcast is already beginning to offer fiber service to achieve symmetric speeds and Verizon is planning a large-scale upgrade of its fiber optic endpoints to offer higher speeds (above gigabit service). If the industry needs a small regulatory nudge to move forward with this, great, let's do it.
who wants a "unified" power grid? I wouldn't infect PGE even on my worst enemies
This thread is really eye-opening about how stagnant the discourse around free speech/wokeness/political correctness has been. Four years later and the conversation would be exactly the same today.
How big is the herd? How far away did you end up having to go--are you near a big city still, or far out in the boonies?

I think a lot of people in tech have pastoral dreams that may not be solidly based in reality, but as someone who grew up with a herd of sheep, it's still pretty attractive even when you know what's involved :)
Well I can't fault you there! I hope you find what you are looking for
Besides Karl Marx being generally held in high regard among people who are criticizing the mocking of those predatory practices, it's just an analogy.

It's like getting angry about mockery of the tobacco industry using feminism at some point to get women into smoking, because it puts feminism in a bad light and punches it down or whatever. Or China using feminism to pacify, if not outright genocide Uyghurs[0], for the same reasons.

0) https://archive.is/Xy5g6
I think the upload limit has something to do with the Docsis protocol that most of their equipment operates (cable TV) under. I believe that the newer version protocol (Docsics 4) should allow for much greater speeds, up and down. I have no idea how long it will take these companies to update to this version.
You are dramatically underestimating the difficulty of hunter gatherer life.
The search for a perfect access control system
Yes, I've had a long conversation with an English Lit professor about the merits of Freud, but none of those merits involved the mind or the brain!
obviously, Jerry Fodor was wrong. But anyone who studies cognitive science still gets this stuff shoved down his throat. The followers will however claim there's a difference between the brain and the mind.

from Wikipedia:
"For Fodor, significant parts of the mind, such as perceptual and linguistic processes, are structured in terms of modules, or "organs", which he defines by their causal and functional roles. These modules are relatively independent of each other and of the "central processing" part of the mind, which has a more global and less "domain specific" character. Fodor suggests that the character of these modules permits the possibility of causal relations with external objects. This, in turn, makes it possible for mental states to have contents that are about things in the world. The central processing part, on the other hand, takes care of the logical relations between the various contents and inputs and outputs"
The last two paragraphs in your comment made absolutely no sense to me, sounding almost like a complete non-sequitur. Are mobile game developers painting themselves as oppressed an offended...? Where? What?
while I appreciate your sense of sacrifice I'd rather see you lead by example and find peers in a social network that fits your preferences.
There are lots out there, but they aren't "centralized" like reddit subreddits are. It takes effort to seek them out.

Many forums that are ostensibly about one thing frequently have other topical sub-boards; so you can join a poker forum, and talk about car repair, etc.
If you like puns, the Economist is the way to go.
Just adding another data point: AT&T fiber - 1G/1G for $115/mo. Austin, TX.

Edit: actually get those speeds both ways (~980/980)
Show HN: Super-fast data grid, open-sourced by Glide (YC W19)
Choices were between xfinity and sonic dsl (25 down) for my building. Nob Hill SF. Tried to get monkeybrains or webpass to install in building but didn't hear back from either.
“Anger” reminds me of the “Nerverot” screen saver by Dan Bornstein, part of XScreenSaver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUfgDnyGqHM
Sounds like you're most of the way to needing some suspension work too. I've had to do struts in most cars around 120-160k.
This is a really good movie:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollhunter
Resquared (YC W21) Is Hiring Engineers
In its day, I don't think HTTP would ever have escaped orbit if it had been designed as a stateful protocol, like Websockets.
My understanding is that it is going to take a lot of capital investment from Comcast to fix that because their entire (copper) infrastructure is optimized around downloads. That is because the entire network was designed around cable TV, which is primarily downloading data. Newer fiber installations are better designed to handle uploads.
Taiwan is bigger than Maryland. We need a military base bigger than Maryland?
Exactly. Just because tech is cheaper doesn’t mean food or my cost of living has decreased.
Interesting! How do you wire it into validation, etc. for your web layer?

If you've got an example I'd love to see it. I've long been not a fan of OAS-first, but I'm always down to learn something new.
It is frustrating that people in an area with 1Gbps down are able to sign up for Starlink while I'm still waiting. I would pay $500/mo for Starlink right now.

Currently paying $45/mo for "20Mbps/2Mbps" VDSL, $70/mo for "25Mbps/5Mbps" fixed wireless, and $110/mo for 100GB of 45Mbps/10Mbps LTE with $10/10GB overage, to barely stay online in semi-rural America, and I'm technically even in a greater metro area. The only way I can have a reliable video call is by using LTE data.

The fact that my household meets the current FCC definition of broadband, such that companies feel like they don't have to invest further because they've met their goal, would be laughable if it weren't so infuriating. I would be over the moon excited for 25Mbps reliable upload, and 100+Mbps download.
Keep in mind the quantity of DOM nodes being rendered, especially on mobile.

For example, this[0] page loads too slowly on low-end mobile, even though each individual SVG is aggressively optimized to be a tiny file size.

I need to replace them with PNG/WebP. The file sizes would increase, but overall performance would be better (I have tested this).

Now these are illustrations, which are more complex than icons.

0 - https://justtrivia.fun/categories
Now Square just has to also purchase Bandcamp and offer to directly include your purchases (for music that isn't in the streaming service's library already) to your Tidal library after buying it on Bandcamp. And then fill the void left by the shutdown of Google Play Music and YouTube Music's sub-par "upload your own music"-feature.
It's happening in morocco. Soluna is putting in a wind farm, which will mine bitcoin while they're waiting for transmission lines to go in.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/const...
On the subject of ending/killing products, Adobe shouldn't have abandoned Fireworks. If they had no use for it, they should just have donated it to an open source foundation like they did with Flex. It was an awesome tool and easy to work with...
Playing a game is gaming. Just because you personally do not like a genre doesn't instantly make it not a game...

Even people playing board games are still gamers. People playing sports are gamers. They just play different game genres than you.

A game is a game.
DOCSIS 3.1 is capable of 10gbps down, 1gbps up, and the currently less common 4.0 is capable of 10gbps down and 6gbps up. This is equivalent to and often better than a typical FttH PON media (which in the most common form are capable of 1gbps symmetric per string only). The major constraint preventing high upstream speeds is legacy equipment in cable carrier networks; there is progress on changing this but not especially fast. Regulatory action to require high upstream speeds for broadband incentives could significantly speed things up.
> there are no shortage of songs and albums named Cash App for a reason).

Product placement in movies, tv shows, songs, books, news,....exhausting to keep track.
It's not forcing proprietary firmware. The firmware could be entirely open so long as end users couldn't freely modify it on their devices. Competition between baseband manufacturers drives them to keep firmwares proprietary.
I get the impression that you are not very happy in life.
After playing with some of the alternative HDLs (and even trying to make my own at one point) I've come back to just coding the design in VHDL (which I prefer over Verilog/SystemVerilog, YMMV) and using cocotb (https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb) for creating testbenches. I think in a lot of cases effective use of VHDL generate statements can do a lot of the things these alternative HDLs are trying to do anyway. The alternative HDLs try to shoehorn HDL semantics (everything happens in parallel) into languages that are serial and it ends up being awkward and not any easier to read.

Get comfortable with an HDL. Use something like cocotb to generate testbenches.
Semi related but there was a HN post a few weeks back about a tool that would scan your site and then modify the font file to only include the characters or icons you actually used. I still think SVGs are a better option.
See this comment and children: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26340233
The cookie dialogue was dumb, but a FLoC dialogue that only triggered on browsers that implemented it would be an actual deterrent that made a difference for privacy.
Ask HN: Resources regarding algorithmic trading and portfolio management
What are some good resources to learn about investment portfolio theory and the algorithms and statistics used to explore this field?
I’m curious how the logic works for that. I’ve always assumed that there’s effectively no way for an individual human to net-negative their own emissions/energy consumption/whatnot, just because of the sheer amount of material they need/use/consume (at least, in a Western society). A few outliers (Greta Thornberg?) may be able to effect sufficient policy to counteract their own environmental impact, but in the general case I don’t see how raising a kid with a strongly environmental-conscious mindset is at all better than just... not having a kid.
OK, thanks for clarifying.

So, the problem is figuring out where the little man is inside of your head that is viewing the television screen that displays the images that go in through your eyes? And experiencing the hunger that comes from your stomach? The problem is finding the "I" in the sentence "I feel"? Where is "I"? Is that the problem?

If that is the problem, how about the answer "nowhere"? There is no "I".

I suspect you won't like that answer. It will feel unsatisfactory, is that your reaction? I don't have the same reaction, but I'd like to understand how it is for you?
It gets interesting when the status quo becomes "everything is corrupt, including the status quo". See also: selling of expensive anticapitalist clothing, revolution as a brand, etc. Self referentiality and the emptying of meaning from symbols is an important symptom of postmodernism.

> People on all sides of the political spectrum are eating up stories about who's to blame, whether it's the government or the billionaires or probably, more typically, both with the assumption that whatever both are doing is at the expense of the common man.

I'm hoping that the dam breaks and systems theory and postmodernism drive a new cultural revolution, but I'm not holding my breath.

The truth is usually that bad things happen because of unintended consequences of systems behaviour, not because of conspiracy, but to look for an agency behind these things is what people tend to do.
I pay for Amazon Music. On my (Android) phone, I get modal 'upgrade offers' on a regular basis. Ads.
Definitely this. You might even find that stopping trying to be more productive actually makes you more productive in the long run. Give yourself permission to do the bare minimum for a few days, and sometimes do nothing but relax. Loosening the bow for a while could let your mind reset and rediscover its sources of motivation.
that's economies of scale and manufacturing momentum, nothing to do with deflation
thanks for the insight. i am using gimp software and never thought about it means something bad. i might reconsider and use different graphic product instead ;-)
The Amish are fleeing high land prices in Pennsylvania. There is development of a sort.
I think they're going to need to state their case in a way that allows Google to still make money and be competitive in the market place. It's not a simple matter of doing it and not doing it. It's a matter of doing it, and making more money or not doing it and making less. Google seems willing to move in the direction of privacy, but it's not going to do so in a way that sabotages the bottom line. It's unrealistic to expect any entity to voluntarily sacrifice its own values for the values of another.
Not quite. What I envision is something that has a broader colour palette, say 256 colours. Themeable. Perhaps like subpixels, there’s some kind of sub-character addressing mode to give more control aesthetics but not too much. And for contiguous blocks some basic capability to support proportional width text. Same with ability to fill blocks with images.

I may have already gone too far with the proportional text.
Interesting, I didn’t know llvm is that flexible.

Still, LLVM is a huge dependency to redistribute. And probably has many points of failure. For instance, I expect you gonna need to watch for INCLUDE and PATH environment variables when using that thing.

In .NET everything is in the standard library. The generated code is even platform-independent, for no additional overhead. Here’s couple non-trivial examples:
https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop/blob/master/ComL...
https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop/blob/master/ComL...
> True Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is a much better one

No, it's not, among many other reasons since treating LFPR as if it was unemployment treats, say, a demographic boom reaching retirement age as if it were a mass unemployment event.

Or a long term trend of increasing average years of education as, ceteris paribus, a long term trend of increasing unemployment.

Or a long-term trend of increasing incarceration and forced labor as, ceteris paribus, a long-term trend of increasing unemployment (it's a problem trend, but it's a completely different problem than unemployment.)

And, worst of all, LFPR completely ignores actual unemployment. If no one was employed and everyone was actively looking for work, you would have 100% LFPR even though you had 100% unemployment.

Alternative employment/unemployment measures are important to capture different aspects of the employment landscape, which is why they are collected in the first place—the issue isn't unidimensional. But LFPR is not a better (or even a good, or even, without adjective, a) measure of unemployment.
With DOCSIS 3.0 you can get up to 200 Mbit/s upstream, and DOCSIS 3.1 and 4.0 push that even further. There's even DOCSIS FDX (full duplex) that's fully symmetrical. It'll require some investment from the cable companies for sure, but I don't think this will be the end of cable service.
Your ancestors were just fucking without contraception. They weren't trying to "pass on the torch" or anything silly like that.
Usage patterns don't make sense to allocate bandwidth equally for up/down.
How about https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Intermediary_Gu...

Keep scrolling for the English translation

Ref:
https://www.meity.gov.in/content/gazettes
As someone who lives there, I would use "Britain" to include the other islands in England, Scotland and Wales but most people here don't refer to the main island specifically.
You’re overthinking it. I’ve worked at enough big companies to be 100% sure it’s not elaborate, long term evil plan to keep people from competing with them.

They do that because it’s cheaper that way for them, and majority of users don’t complain.
They edited in a second example after my comment. But it is a telling edit, they clearly looked for a second example, and the one they found is in no way a good one. There was no mob rallying against that professor. The school fired her (stupidly), and protests were in her favor.

There has always been a mob mentality, but it was hard to gather a mob. You had to get people to gather in person, and get them angry. Now you just get them angry, and you can do it sitting at home throwing together some memes and posting on Twitter. The bar didn't just drop a little, it dropped like 99%.
Facebook and Google’s LazyTensor Enables Expressive Domain-Specific Compilers
The tool that impressed me most back then was Dataflex version 2. Version 3 felt very PC-centric and added some OOP ideas that didn't feel right. It was trivially easy to quickly write a screen layout and derive table structure from it. From there to a full-function CRUD was more or less nothing.

I like to compare it to "Rails for the VT-100".

That and Mantis (not sure the version) on an IBM mainframe (something like "Rails for the 3270")