skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Arizona Education Department Says Babies as Young as 3 Months Might Be Racist
The difference is the access to information. In China the media you have access to is state-controlled so they control the narrative exactly how they want. You have very limited access to external news sources and media in general[1].

In the US at least you have a variety of different news channels that are everywhere from far left to far right. You can also access news sources from outside of the US that report on the US. Imagine if Fox News was the only news available in the US while Trump was president?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
I've worked from home for the last 20 years ( occasional visits to clients do not really count ). Sometime work gets too boring and it would require great deal of a discipline to get it done. But if that's the case I really doubt being in the office can help it in any way. I have it both way. I design and create products from start to finish. My own and for clients. this part is interesting and exciting and does not need much efforts to keep engaged. But then comes the time when you have to just write pile of boring code to implement that gazillion business rules and it is suddenly no fun.

Obviously where your home office is matters a great deal. I am occupying whole basement of the house. I can imagine someone in small apartment with kids would have absolutely horrible experience in comparison and I can't imagine being able to concentrate on any work in such environment.

Sometimes I feel mentally wasted and I just go for a bike ride, hike, swim whatever.
Probably because the underlying implementation is a binary search tree which requires a comparison operator. Haskell likewise has Data.Set which requires an Ord instance. There's HashSet which requires a Hashable instance which can be automatically derived for any data type, so in principle you don't need ordering, but I would imagine in C++ you would have to provide your own hashing function from whatever data type you're trying to put in a hash set.
Consciousness is just a feeling <-> Feeling is consciousness? Doesn't this seem like not understanding you are not understanding which is level 0.
Maybe they can use the billions they got paid to upgrade their infrastructure from the government decades ago.
Of course because the experimental biological agents that people somehow still want will likely sterilize if not outright kill millions.
all true, but does it even matter anymore? Tesla has a P/E of over 1,000, for example.

increasingly people invest based on the story and the ebb and flow of social media. does the balance sheet play into this? it doesn't appear so...
I always liked this http caching article, done in a conversational tone: https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/
> 3.1 which isn't fully deployed but is available in most major markets is up to 10/1.

By 10/1, do you mean 10 Gbps down and 1 Gbps up?
I'm not a game dev, and I've never previously wanted to be a game dev.

But Godot kinda makes we want to be a game dev.
This was talking about destroying the physical tooling. Ain’t nobody sneaking 60,000 tools out the back door to the Soviets. Many/most of those tools are going to weigh many tons, would require rigging to lift and flatbeds to move.
Could they easily sneak out tooling drawings and schematics? yes probably could and did. But not the physical tools themselves.
PON faces the exact same constraint, and because the core of most cable carrier networks is carrier fiber my experience is that new-installation CMTS typically have better transit (multi-gbps fiber) than PON (1gbps fiber common). This is for smaller municipal PON carriers, I know less about major operations like AT&T's and Verizon's.
FaceID uses infrared, lighting conditions do not matter.

You can disable the requiring of looking at the phone and unlocking via FaceID in settings, I regularly unlock my phone without holding it so I am "dead on looking at it".

That said, I also prefer TouchID.
None of that is applicable to OP. He has gig down, that's DOCSIS 3.1 with a 200Mbit upload limit. Comcast is artificially limited upload speeds, it would cost them absolutely nothing to raise his upload to 200Mbit - the Modem and CMTS HAVE to support it in order to be DOCSIS 3.1 compliant.

Ignoring the fact I don't think ANY of comcast's network is DOCSIS 2.0 and hasn't been for nearly a decade.
I don't think GDPR has really tested it's legal teeth yet.
This closed issue from 2018 appears to be the same issue I was experiencing in ~mid 2020.

FWIW, I was also using Rive animations in my app.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/21445
Some of my London friends are using this. Crazy good value and the CS is excellent.

We've just moved from 20/2 Talktalk to 200/20 with Virgin for the same price (£30/month). Pretty sure you can get Hyperoptic a couple of streets away, but openreach hasn't got to us yet (hence Virgin).

With all the home Zoom calls, TalkTalk was killing me. In 2021 it was frustratingly slow.
Why does ICANN being “private enterprise” relate to the question of when it’s appropriate, in general, to consider the stated items? Whatever logic you’re applying here doesn’t make sense, and the certainty with which you think others should have to constrain topics of conversation to meet conditions of your confused logic absolutely comes off as entitled and whiny.
Sounds like an operational risk on an RCM somewhere in the ivory tower. Instead it's cheaper to stay competitive through regulatory capture. I wish bribing politicians was more expensive than providing a better product </r>
New York Times needs to be banned on HN.

It is pure nazi propaganda and has nothing to do with startups or code.

Why is New York Times allowed on HN?
The Avro Arrow and Black Knight were just prototypes whose movement into production could only be justified for nationalistic reasons. They did not have a proven track record or offer cost savings. They aren’t comparable to the blackbird at all, and destroying their tooling isn’t comparable either.
It's less about supply and demand, more about how shitty a deal your local government signed with cable providers.
I think the coming of companies like this signals the end of the bull market, the bubble is close to bursting. Every milkman is trying to get rich on the stock market. It was like this in 99. It was like this in 08. And before the german mark fell.

"Side by side with the wealth were the pockets of poverty. Greater numbers of people remained on the outside of the easy money, looking in but not able to enter. The crime rate soared … demoralization … crept over the common people … from watching their own precarious positions slip while others grew so conspicuously rich … Almost any kind of business could make money … The boom suspended the normal processes of natural selection … Speculation alone, while adding nothing to Germany’s wealth, became one of its largest activities … Everyone from the elevator operator up was playing the market."

Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations
I'm not sure how exactly you'd do it.

I guess you could write some kind of AI that writes gadgets, then tries to find the optimal probability of correctly leaked data.

There are methodologies for doing this automatically published but it's in the "floats rather than books" category of behaviour since it's quite chaotic, so a formal proof would be hard.
>The Doomsday Clock is still set to 100 seconds before midnight.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

The same article points out it's not exactly objective, and I'm inclined to agree. It's more of a political (ie. subjective) statement that the world is fucked rather than an objective measure.

>Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker harshly criticized the Doomsday Clock as a political stunt, pointing to the words of its founder that its purpose was "to preserve civilization by scaring men into rationality." He stated that it is inconsistent and not based on any objective indicators of security, using as an example its being farther from midnight in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis than in the "far calmer 2007". He argued it was another example of humanity's tendency toward historical pessimism, and compared it to other predictions of self-destruction that went unfulfilled.[24]
Not for everyone, but somafm.com/dronezone does wonders for my concentration.

Add a pomodoro ticker on top of that, and you're good to go.
That's true. The attempt to disrupt the election certification is better described as an insurgency. Appreciate your clarification.

I wouldn't call them clowns. Clowns come prepared and have a plan. This representative group acted more like delusional cosplayers.
Web goes round and round. ActiveX, Java applets, and Flash all supported sockets. It is nice that we can have them now without such things, but it's not like they're only a boon with no tradeoffs.
and liftoff: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4kfpxjDXM/
I wouldn’t think kindergarten will still be on zoom when this legal change starts to have a measurable impact. Nor do I think many poor households even in the midst of the pandemic have someone working over zoom. So is the point of this legal change to ensure well paid employees can reap all the benefits of remote living but not have to bear all the costs?
I think this is a rather short-sighted view; The future is not guaranteed to be better, especially not when we have lots of evidence of impending (1) massive climate disruption (2) water shortage (3) political polarization (4) economic imbalance, the list goes on.

Saying "the only way" the world gets worse is if we don't have children is to ignore the potential for all of those effects to grow worse. It's certainly possible that we may overcome them and human life will continue on its merry way, but it's very unreasonable to ignore all these difficulties and the psychological effects they can have on new parents.... And on new children.

What would your response be to a 9 year old having an existential crisis about the polar bears starving to death because of climate change, and the implications for human civilization, and civilization's apparent apathy towards that? "Don't worry kid, just make sure you have children of your own and everything will work out"?
All of this seems really confused to me, or so simplified that it no longer makes any sense.

The simplest thing you can do in a scanner is have them sit there doing nothing while you acquire scans. In the end, you just have a 4d matrix of unsigned integers. For each voxel you can acquire an average over the scan and check whether it is significantly above zero using a t-test. Given enough data everything will be significantly greater than zero, including parts outside the head. Or you can compute a global mean to center all the voxles, and check which parts of the brain are significantly above the average, or significantly below the average. Extremely simple analyses (and so yes, there are lots more you could do).

In task fMRI, you have them do a task, and you use events in your task design as predictors of the BOLD, and then display a voxel map of either the beta values, or, more commonly, the T-values of those regression betas (or a contrast of those regression betas). In this case, you really aren't looking at activity. You are looking at correlations.

Those islands of activity in whole-brain analysis images in figures in papers happen because the result images are thresholded, e.g. at p < .05 false-discovery-rate correction for multiple comparisons. Personally, I think unthresholded images are better because they are more informative.

Let's take a concrete example. You have a subject do a task where they have to choose between two gambles varying in risk and reward. Then, for each voxel, you predict the BOLD time course using a series of events (time of presentation of gamble options) with magnitude equal to the coefficient of variation between the two gambles. So now, for each voxel you have a beta value showing how CoV predicts BOLD. You notice that anterior insula on both cases has the highest beta values. You threshold at conventional statistical signficance, after correcting for multiple comparions, and all the spurious, or less important, correlations drop out of the image, and you are left with two bright spots on a map pin-pointed on the left and right anterior insula. See: in this anaylysis, not all "psychologically and biolotically meaninful activity" is being examined or looked at. For example, button presses events show up localized in the motor areas too, but they weren't looking at those. But they could have, if we were interested.
Does that scenario sound familiar to anyone?

Yes, something from the 90s. I'm sure HN user rayiner has posted an argument for why that isn't true, so maybe search comment history for fiber or broadband or subsidy to find arguments and the surrounding counterarguments?
I don't know if a glass of water is conscious or not, nor can I come up with a scientific experience to test such an hypothesis, so I remain agnostic on that question. In fact, I cannot even come up with a scientific experience to test if other people are conscious. I just bet they are, because they are similar to me and I know I am.

My point is simply that "feeling" already assumes consciousness. Maybe everything is conscious. Still, saying "it's just a feeling" explains nothing. Most people assume that glasses of water are not conscious, so I just used that example to illustrate my point. But you make a valid remark.
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> I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently

I think the devs are putting their effort into ST4 while unfortunately letting 3 somewhat languish. The same thing happened with the 2 -> 3 transition; 2 sat around without getting any updates for a long while, and then 3 was released.
> There is no "I". I suspect you won't like that answer.

If there is no "I", who is this "I" who suspects?
I can get it sometimes, but some sites are just bizarre. twitter.com sends out a few dozen 74 byte chunks. I can't find it now, but I've seen pages composed of chunks of 10 or 20 bytes big. So much overhead.
>There is no doubt imo that the theory will be based on quantum mechanics.

Eesh, this again ...

There has never been a proposed (serious, testable, much less supported) mechanism by which quantum mechanics could explain consciousness. This argument always boils down to "phenomenology happens in the mysterious place". Quantum mechanics is the 21st century pituitary gland.

>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.

We are all convinced that quantum-mechanical phenomena can take place in microtubules. That debate is settled, but here's the thing: that was never really the issue. The issue was -- again -- that none of these theories explain how phenomenology emerges from quantum mechanics. All they say is "it does".

EDIT:

>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).

This, however, is a statement on which we agree. This is why most consciousness researchers set their sites lower: they aim to explain access consciousness, and take no position on phenomenology. In other words, we're displaying humility by asserting knowledge of the easy problem, not the hard one.
> If this was true, then the monetary policies of the 2008 financial crash and the 2020 pandemic would both have created consumer price inflation.

Not really, as this post explains: https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/

TL;DR: QE is mostly meant for banks, it was used to increase bank reserves (as banks were forced to do by the regulators), and didn't substantially increase the amount of money available in the economy. But this time (COVID-stimulus) might be different.
Have you seen the stock market, housing, and education -- there is a huge amount of inflation. Technology is keeping it in check for a lot of consumer goods but the dollar has lost a huge amount of its value.
Yup. A bit offtopic, but these kinds of legislative plays are why something like the military-industrial complex is so hard to break.

Yeah, it'd be great to shut down that UTC plant that subsists entirely on defense contracts, but it's been in the community for 50 years and provides thousands of jobs. Good luck running for that district on a platform of wanting to kill local jobs.
They'll move to mixed-use residential areas where people live.
I agree that Amazon's blatant copying of PD is upsetting, but I also resent the notion that consumers are to blame for this outcome.

The solution is to change the rules so that we are optimizing towards the outcomes we want to achieve. Instead, we're banking on the unlikely outcome that lots of people with limited resources will all make the altruistic decision to support these nebulous ideas we care about.
Is it possible you're training your users to become even more susceptible to other investment scams?

At the end of the day, the fact is that securities analysis and investing savvy is a sophisticated skill requiring many years of study before any kind of +ev outcome can be expected.

In a way, this is one of the biggest reasons I think the move from private pensions to 401ks and the like has been a gigantic disaster.

I mean, I remember working at Google and a dozen or so of us on my team would go through some fairly deep analyses and discussions regarding 401k allocations, mega-backdoor contributions, tax implications of same, HSAs, HD healthcare plans, etc.

My brother's a carpenter. My dad works in a factory.

They are both forced to make these same decisions, except with basically zero background whatsoever in any kind of financial education. They don't know the very basics about the fees their funds are taking, they aren't too interested in figuring the exact tax-efficient pathway to retirement.

And why the hell should they be?

Forcing commoners into market participation was a mistake.

Your app is well-intentioned. Seems pretty great, to be quite honest.

But you're training your users to become used to coyote-behaviour (that is, Hey Investing Can Be Quite Simple!), whereas we should train all regular existing "market-participants": Anybody who wants to get you to invest directly in markets, whether it's your RRSP organizer, your 401k, whatever, they in general are not operating with your best interests in mind.

401ks and the like were a huge boon to wallstreet and huge hit on the working class. WallStreet basically forced every Tom, Dick, and Harry into their arena. Guess who's gonna win?
This seems oriented around just code bases you have seen personally rather than fundamental C limitations and so misleads. To clarify: C can do template-like macros for type specialization (and this is common in some code bases) and easier to debug ways [1] { I've personally used a variant of [1] techniques since the mid 90s }. C can do setjmp & longjmp exceptions and you can even do a TRY/CATCH like exception macros. Function pointers are in stdlib interfaces (e.g. qsort) and generally pretty common in C code. I believe gcc has been able to inline through C function pointers ("de-virtualize", though you qualify with "really" there..) in the same translation unit for like 2 decades now with the right compiler flags/annotations.

It is true that C cannot do full template meta-programming or certain state save/restore optimizations faster than setjmp/longjmp. Hard/painful/trivial are all a bit more subjective and relative to exposure/practice/training/etc.

Personally, I think Nim [2] is a much friendlier way to go than either C++ or Python without the pitfalls of either, but the ecosystem is admittedly much smaller. Also, I've yet to hit something where re-writing the C++/Rust in Nim did not speed things up from "at least a little" to "quite a bit". { This is more an artifact of "performance incautious programming" in the C++/Rust. Too many people fall into the trap that, since a language has a reputation for speed, they don't need to think. This is probably largely why @mehrdadn's original article had the title it did. ;-) }

[1] https://github.com/glouw/ctl/

[2] https://nim-lang.org
As I have discussed elsewhere, Comcast faces significant constraints on improving upstream speed, not the least of which is the distribution amplifiers in many markets which only permit 2 or 3 channels upstream and without sufficient link quality for OFDM. The technical system is complex and the constraints are typically distribution amplifiers and other outside plant, not modem or CMTS, which are indeed typically capable of 1gbps upstream. Doing so requires up to eight OFDM channels, however.
I believe that consciousness is a simulation our brain is running. Our brain is a computer that runs human simulations.

This is why we anthropomorphize everything. Why we buy our dogs a little dog-house that looks like a people house. Dog doesn't care.
Why we play such different roles - a cruel boss may be a loving father a few hours later. Likewise, why when people adopt a nickname "What would X do?" they find courage, or get to act differently (common trick in sales).
It is why religions made god in man's image. Gods that fit human archetypes, roles or feelings (the father, the mother, lust, war) etc.

And of course, why people with multiple personality disorder get to have such vast personality changes and ups and downs.

What is the evolutionary benefit? Empathy.
If I can simulate what you feel, I get to understand what you are going through, I may be kinder to you. And this way we get to cooperate and build a civilization that is not based on swarm mechanics (like ants, or bees).

Consciousness will soon have it's Gallileo moment. And we will be shocked to discover there is nothing special about our current human-centric world of "consciousness".
Sure, but we are seeing more services that benefit from faster upload. Eg. Video conferencing, cloud storage.

So we have more use cases than ever before that benefit from symmetric speeds.
You think the word "accessibility" is the part that I had not heard of?