skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling consciousness a simulation doesn't resolve anything. A simulation is the imitation of a process, what is the process that consciousness is imitating?

Also saying there's nothing special about human-centric world of consciousness is somewhat of a contradiction. Being human-centric is incredibly special; as far as we know the brain is the only structure in the solar system that exhibits consciousness, and may very well be the only structure among a very small percentage of solar systems in the universe.

If that isn't special, then nothing is special and the word has no meaning.
I have never seen this, but it might be a difference in regulations between countries. Whole grain and unrefined are two different labels that are not related to the fact that the food is plant-based.

- Harvey uses Lightlife burgers which are made with pea protein.

- A&W uses Beyond Meat which is made using beans along with beet juice for the coloring.

- Oggi's frozen pizzas made with Beyond Meat, cauliflower as the crust and vegan mozzarella (coconut milk).

- Coconut Bliss makes ice cream is using coconut milk.

- Cookies and bars made of fermented vegan proteins contains hemp, quinoa sprouts, alfalfa, spirulina, mung bean sprouts.

Those are all plant-based alternatives and are advertised as such. They are vegan junk food since they avoid animal products such as eggs and dairy.

An example of vegetarian junk food would be Quest's spinach & mushroom pizzas which use no meat at all but will use animal cheese.
Not every reviewer has a "fine-toothed comb" philosophy.

Unless code is algorithmic in nature, I look at architecture and approach only.

A good post on the topic: https://blog.danlew.net/2021/02/23/stop-nitpicking-in-code-r...
So, what's your reasoned argument, and what was your goal in making such an incorrect blanket statement?

The article says only that 'some students' called him racist. How do you infer that that means the large majority of those who criticize him are doing so for groupthink reasons?
Ask HN: Monitors vs. 1 Big Monitor
Over 10 years ago, I recall research that had shown most people were more productive with 2 monitors verse 1 big one. Is that still true? Has anyone seen any recent research on the topic?

TIA
So much for EU's principles of non-discrimination and free trade.

Also, IIRC they said AstraZeneca vaccine is not very effective. I honestly don't blame AZ for not wanting to deal with EU bureaucrats.
I'll give Terra[0] as an example for something relatively high-level that uses LLVM as a JIT. It can also be used as an AoT compiler with fancy macro stuff in place of the C preprocessor.

[0]: http://terralang.org/
Handling Global Associative Arrays in PostgreSQL
I'm skeptical of that only because hostility toward anything but purist zoning is pretty well entrenched in every inch of the US.
A bill can be passed quickly, but most bills are not. I once met with the staff of some senators (bipartisan) to explain something I had worked on to inform a bill they were pushing -- it was years ago, the bill has languished despite being pushed the entire time. One reason the bill has gone nowhere was lobbying pressure by some other companies who did not want to be forced to use the technology the bill would mandate, and that lobbying came with tons of misinformation.

Congress almost never moves quickly. Parties have grand strategies that sometimes involve stalling good legislation. Deals have to made. Ideological disagreements can spill over or supersede rational analysis. That is the nature of politics, it has been the case since the first days of the Republic and it was the case in the governments that preceded the USA.
BigInt as added in ECMAScript 2020, you are seeing and old version: https://262.ecma-international.org/11.0/
What weeblewobble said.

Plus the following. UX is the umbrella term for "User Experience", not User Interface.

Therefore I'm not defining UX as users making mistakes. I'm defining UX as the user's motivations, journey, and actual experience with the site (and possibly extending to their interactions with the support team). This is not an 'overly broad definition', this is THE definition of UX.

If anything, what's happening here is the reverse. People are defending AWS' bad user experience, by narrowing down the definition to the narrow scope of UI-design and safety-nets. However, no amount of UI safety netting will salvage a website with bad UX (or rather, where UX never came into play during the design stage, except at the very late stages when it was only down to designing a UI).

So to reiterate. I'm not blaming AWS for the user's effective failure to read a technical warning message which then caused them harm. I'm blaming AWS for the fact that it even came to that in the first place. That is bad UX.
> Your position betrays an ignorance of philosophy

And your entire reply rests on misreading of my comment; note that I said "a problem" not "all problems". There are many problems that philosophists have made absolutely no progress on in centuries or millenia because on those narrow questions the dialog is horribly imprecise and does not give rise to reproducible, testable things.

Almost everyone who replied to me assumed that I meant all of philosophy is useless from basically missing the "a" word in my comment.
I believe they should listen to this person, not because he's right nor wrong, but because he's made valid arguments about Alinea's value proposition.

Entrepreneurs should always be open to criticism, distil it and take what they consider useful, even if it doesn't come in a constructive form.
I must've read about 100 articles in a similar vein to this over the last 10-15 years. I feel like I've learned literally nothing from any of them. I read Descartes and later David Chalmers, and I feel nothing has been added to our understanding of the fundamental issues at all. And to be honest, I shouldn't be surprised or particularly disappointed. The Mind-Body problem has existed for millennia for good reason.
They are quite common in Antarctica for sure. On south pole station it was mainly those and hercs...
Maybe not consciously, but what about subconsciously?
> 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.

I'm sorry but Google has no any competition. If you don't want to limit oneself to, say, Facebook users, you pretty much have to buy Google's ad services.
Great interview with Nick about this and other topics:

https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/20135760/kokonas-know-...
Then we are only missing google providing the same service!

(I know of google takeout, which is great but not the same as this)
Unfortunately more and more of Microsoft's VS Code extensions are going closed source.
I fly at least once a year across Canada to see family.

You'll bet I'll be keeping an eye whether that plane is going to be 737 MAX 8 or any renames of it.
Thanks for mentioning the Cloudflare patches. While I had already read about that in the past, I wasn't sure what's the current status of their work. So I checked it out and was pleasantly surprised as their patches are included in the mainline kernel since Linux 5.9.

Here is their blog post about the whole topic: https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryptio...
The quote was "FAANG tier", which I think encompasses "the tech companies that pay outrageously above the norm for engineers".
NotOnly-cache?
This is much more true of rental companies that work at a scale close to Alamo. If you pass a background check and have a deposit you get a spot.

This is less true of mom and pop rentals. This is probably less true of mom and pop anything.

I think you're right that intuition based decisions make it easier for racism to creep in and are harder to diagnose and fix than process based decisions.

But this problem with renting is probably more true of hiring and firing and more impactful. Should we apply the same rules to hiring and firing?
Is there similar functionality for the other way around?

So basically a simple migration from Google Photos to iCloud?
I have this past year felt what you feel, and I know many others have too. First of all, as I’m sure you know, there are certain necessary conditions for fulfillment and motivation: regular social contact, a healthy microbiota, exercise, and a regular sleep schedule.

But that’s not always sufficient. As several others have pointed out: he/she who has a why can endure almost any how. Find your purpose & goal, and align your work with that purpose. The concept of ikigai is a good starting point.
A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.
Doesn't the Google Photo app do this already without waiting? Is there a use-case for this?
It was also keeping the manufacturing process and technologies, specifically stealth secret.
I'm also sympathetic to explanations in that vein. In particular that one of the main pieces of it is our simulation of ourselves - a recursive mirrored lense.
Even among those who can meet their needs, underemployment is still a serious issue. There are lots of people over-qualified for the jobs they have (the stereotypical barista with a masters) who could be producing more value elsewhere, and plenty of people working non-standard hours which skew the metrics (lots of people working excessive hours that really should be counted as 2 jobs, and lots of people who would normally be full-time being kept part-time to avoid paying benefits). The number of people with employment that adequately utilizes their skills without burning them out has dwindled substantially in recent years, and while the cost of lost economic opportunity and increased fatigue is difficult to quantify, it is certainly substantial.
Right, other things have huge damages too.

Pointing out other things also have an environmental impact just dilutes the discussion about Bitcoin and doesn't add anything to it.
Interesting - unfortunately less useful than the website. [0] Doesn't even list download speeds. Just has the ever so helpful names like "Blast! Pro+" and "Extreme Pro+". Admittedly there is one called "Gigabit".

[0] https://comcaststore.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/wk/urc/585bc3605b...
"They will never understand the anxiety a simple dinner invitation gives me."

That's kind of normal, isn't it? A lot of people don't cook well.

Every ingredient can be turned into a bland, revolting mush. That doesn't mean it's a bad ingredient.
100MBs up and down would be great, but not if we have data caps! Who wants a faster car when you'll just reach the "end of the road" sooner?

Policy: https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/data

News: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/comca...

Update: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/comcast-responds...
I already had it. Nature vaccinated me.
Thanks for the information!

Re your first note -- because I assumed that this operation was being treated similarly to a move (which is a copy and delete in S3), I assumed that I would be dinged for the cost of copying (minimal when on the same location) but the original would be deleted.

Reference: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=455101#j...

Second -- this makes sense to me that this is how it works. But I still don't understand why anyone would have a use case for this "Edit Storage Class" dialog box. Is there ever a moment in the administering of an object where you would want to duplicate that object but with a different storage class?

Unfortunately hiring a sysadmin is way out of our budget. We had a friend helping with some AWS stuff and they may have done some of this for us if I'd asked, but I do remember it being a fairly mind-numbing task and he wasn't co-located with the files.
Dbase IV biggest issue was that it supported the SQL syntax for the first time and it's implementation was just buggy and FoxPro just worked better.
"640k ought to be enough for anyone"
Or you could argue that philosophy is a subset of Science because Science is about constructing theories and exploring their implications. Science puts a heavy emphasis on reproducible results, while philosophy hasn't generally. Science has methods, one of which is a peer-reviewed publication model that other disciplines have come to adopt, even philosophy? Is Science outside everything then? I don't really think so.

So, I just fundamentally disagree that Philosophy contains everything that has something to do with thinking or believing stuff. It's an oversimplification to the point of being vacuously true.
Anesthetics make that emergent behavior to cease or something to that effect. The hard problem is applicable to computers too, but they don't rely on any quantum phenomena, which is enough to show, that quantum phenomena are irrelevant and are more likely to be a hindrance, if they were, they would introduce randomness, which leads to hard indeterminism.
You can actually run DOCSIS over fiber too. I used to work for a mid-sized regional ISP that had everything from GPON, to DOCSIS cable, to every flavor of DSL. The backhaul throughput is the constraint everywhere, but so is signal loss over distance. The limiting factor for urban areas is usually oversubscribed and aging equipment (and building out new lines is very hard to do in an already developed area because legal/bureaucratic reasons), and the limiting factor for rural areas is the sheer distance needed to cover to get to maybe a couple dozen potential paying customers. The vast majority of the US is empty/undeveloped space with dozens to hundreds of miles in-between.
Scientists Find Link Between Bipolar Disorder and Neuroinflammation
Unsaid is that discouragement is the natural reaction to the bulk adoption of screening systems that filter out all but the most milquetoasty applicants - rendering (a rising number of) Americans increasingly unemployable.

First Time Job Applicants are one new filth class.
That's very strange. It looks like the Elric books specifically are out of print now but coming back to print (or "print," in the case of ebooks?) in a new (more expensive!) edition in September.

"Make Kobo think I am in the UK" really sounds like the right call. :)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to feature cryptocurrency mining limiter
> doesn't need to donate money to candidates (which is illegal anyway)

While it is true that the direct donation of money is illegal, the running of political ads for or against a candidate is legal in the US, no matter how much is spent. I don't see any moral difference between "I will give you $100k to stop this regulation." and "If you stop this regulation, I will donate $100k to a PAC that supports your reelection." Both are, in my opinion, complete bribery and abuse of an office, but the latter is completely legal.
An open follow-up question:

(Assuming we are indeed living in a world overly enthusiastic about ML)

How do you - a professional that doesn't just throw ML at everything but focuses on the "boring stuff" - position yourself in the job market?

Sounds like a bit of a hard sell, especially if you're also charging more than the other ML-eager prospects. (i.e., you know you are the best person for the gig, but the proposal is likely to fall flat due to the expectations of the people hiring you)
1980s NYC did not have “the faintest whiff of a city about to take off”. That couple bought property in a crime ridden part of a crime ridden city. Tompkins Square Park was an open air drug market.

The equivalent today is a bad area of Detroit. I’m certain you can find something affordable there today. I doubt it will turn you into a multimillionaire, but if we were having this conversation in 1984 everyone would doubt buying in the East Village would get you anything other than mugged or shot.
I've worked at a bunch of startups (20 years) and what I've learned is:

Do not work at an early stage startup!

- Shitty experience because you won't have to do things right. Initial system will turn out like crap because you are rushed to build it.
- You will be in constant firefights once live. You will feel like a hero but in reality you're just burning yourself out to make the leadership rich.
- No customers so won't learn about scaling,
- Little to no process.
- Pay is crap
- Equity is a complete scam. Company will do everything they can to keep you from capitalizing on them. 90 day exercise after leaving. 8-10 years before there's a market to sell and you won't last that long. Company won't buy them from you. Common shares instead of preferred. Dilution, etc.
- Management is inexperienced and a lot of times abusive.
- Once the company starts to succeed, a new wave of management will be hired. They will bring their own direct reports who blame you for creating the initial crappy system and your career will essentially be over at the startup.

I could go on.
Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
Anecdotal annoyance with automatic face tagging: Old dog and new dog look very similar. Google keeps tagging my new dog as if he were my old dog and I haven't found a way to fix that without manually going through every single picture and untagging/retagging.
In the Twitter threads where they all pearl-clutched in response to the satire removed in the linked article.
The Guide to Keras
Results:

Participants tended to prefer (i.e., perceive as faster) whichever function they saw first. Of the 990 paired com- parisons, the first function was preferred 376 times (38%), the second 262 times (26%), with no preference 352 times (36%).
there are many who think others should pay for what they themselves consider important and even get some glee out of forcing people they don't like to pay for something they otherwise would not.

then you run into those who think , why should I give to charity because its the government's job to fix that...

and finally those who just don't care

charity exist for those want to focus their person effort to fix their world and should be encourage but never be required
Taiwan apparently stays between ~50F and ~100F, and the people are used to living near the coast. Putting them in Texas would be cruel. Although California has housing issues, transplanted Taiwan can be put on fresh soil -- no NIMBYs, and the housing development policy for Taiwan, CA can be written from the ground up to avoid previous mistakes.
No, thank you. But no. No way.
Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
what are the pros and cons of sprints and daily standups in your experience

Coming from old school 'non-agile' financial world focused on bottom line I was in a bit of a shock learning about this daily standup ritual.

Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress.

Do these extra bureaucracy layers, meetings, checkmarks and vague "man-points" estimates actually bring any value.
> No, I was using table size exactly as you, to mean the number of elements stored. Is there a reason my comments only made sense under a different definition? It not, be charitable. (And avoid using obscure terms.)

I interpreted your comment to refer to the size of the backing store, because that is fundamentally what a hash key needs to be able to address.

I didn't mean to say that, if you were using it that way, you were doing anything wrong, only that there appeared to be a mismatch.
It's shocking to me how many people come up with elaborate theories about regulatory capture that don't even know the basics of how cable systems work.
I migrated away from Google Cloud storage this year given their announcement. The Microsoft office 365 family deal made at more sense. I can't see myself using Google cloud storage in the future given the premium they're charging. Moving the data wasn't that hard.
> we are seeing that retail investors aren't doing any research at all

> EBITDA is important and it's a hard concept to understand for those who aren't familiar with finance

Is there any proof that the later group has better outcomes ?

Even if you understand all the terms, aren't you ultimately just investing based on gut feeling since all the observable information has already been factored into the purchase price anyways.
If I understand correctly, this directly transfers data from Apple’s server to theirs.

You don’t need to even install their app.
How about consciousness is just compression?

I was fascinated by a paper that argues the compression conjecture: the idea that consciousness is indistinguishable from compression. I just finished putting down my thoughts on the matter this morning [1]. This paper addresses "the hard problem of consciousness" directly:

> The answer to this question lies in the realization that the hypothesis of Amy’s subjective experience is a hypothesis which Amy herself holds, an understanding which is manifested through the compression she carries out. Understanding the hypothesis that one is feeling something and the actual experience of
feeling are the same thing. Amy’s feeling therefore exists relative to the assumption of her own existence, an assumption which the system itself is capable of making

[0] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/297030798.pdf

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/consciousness-as-compres...
Yeah, that one. It stops right before funding though. Their definition of startup is "a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model."

So by the time they reach the funding stage, they're no longer a startup. The emphasis of the book is more on how to create a company that's easy to fund.
Audirvana is another app which competes with Roon. Audirvana is a one-time fee of $100, versus Roon's subscription model (or, I think, ~$800 lifetime subscription, which is pretty up there).

I think the big thing both Roon and Audirvana achieve sub-optimally is just overall application performance and user experience. They do have a ton of features which help in managing massive audio libraries, far better than Spotify or Tidal alone. But, Roon legitimately feels like a browser app they threw in an iframe and nativefied. Audirvana is better IMO, but isn't as good as Roon at auto-discovering album artwork and metadata-ifying the connections between your local songs for hyperlinking and discovery.

The critical thing that I love about that methodology of music playback is the "synthesis" they both do of Tidal and your local music. There is a ton of music out there that's inaccessible on (all!) streaming services, and every audiophile I know eventually starts amassing a collection of lossless files from Bandcamp/etc. Neither a streaming service nor your local library alone is ever the "complete" view into all the music you want to enjoy; you need both, synthesized into one integrated view. Google Play Music used to be a decent solution to this, not the greatest quality but it solved this problem well, but then Google nerfed it into the ground.

There's still a lot of work to be done in this domain. To be honest, my go-to for local music playback is the same app I've been using for a decade after the fall of Winamp; Foobar (Windows). Its simple, ridiculously performant, infinitely customizable, and works great.
I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites, and is practically the only app on my phone that doesn't allow me to share a picture into it from the camera/photos app.

I went ahead and wrote my own app that provides the share extension and hooks up to the Google Photos API, but even with that I can't write photos to albums that weren't created by my app. It seems like Google _really_ doesn't want me to get photos into Google Photos for some reason?
Most people who attend casinos aren’t bothered by gambling mechanics either. Says nothing for the quality of gambling as gaming, though.