skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So why wouldn't a rock be conscious?

Yes. Our experience of (or as) consciousness may be biased by having a brain. Consciousness may not require thought or senses in the way that we know it. They key is in the observer, and the observer effect that makes the brain aware of the observer (giving rise to self awareness).

Consciousness cannot be proven, but it does affect the conscious being, so there are potential observable effects that might differentiate conscious existence from non-conscious existence (assuming it exists).

A rock may be conscious and the consciousness would observe being stone. Thought may not necessarily be a requirement for consciousness. It would not think that it is stone, it would not have any memories, it might not feel anything. It might be a rather dull consciousness, or perhaps it observes the forces that hold the rock together. Perhaps it experiences the forces on the rock as an 'otherworldly' sense that we cannot imagine. But it would not think about it, nor remember it, those are functions of the brain.

Or perhaps its rock shape is its memory.

Physical storage.
<palpatine> do it. </palpatine>
Well, I'm deeply offended that someone has called me "cisgendered male". Can you folks stop using terms I have not agreed to also?
Maybe it just recognizes pixel soups? Why should it know the difference between a piece of text and a real spider? It's just our interpretation of the image that makes it "multi-modal". CLIP probably just categorizes certain kinds of white and black patterns as a special kind of spider that happens to also look like a piece of paper and instances of text.
Linux doesn't lie, it is just probably not doing what your simplified view of memory allocation is.

On Linux memory allocation is basically assigning range of address that may or may not be backed by pages in physical memory.

This allows doing a lot of interesting and useful stuff.

If you really want the memory for some reason (for example you need to guarantee your operation finishes without running out of memory), you need to touch the pages or force them in some other way (for example using mlock()).

It is just that developers are mostly oblivious how memory management works on Linux and then are surprised that it doesn't exactly do what they want.

Most people I work with can't tell how much memory is available on a Linux box if their life depended on it.
Family skills can be valued by many people, but they are visible and impactful mainly within the family. As a result, a partner with a public career has more personal options. They can find new jobs, negotiate their schedule, and invest in themselves to have a secure source of income in case of disaster. Thus can work wonderfully for equal partners who share the opportunity together, but it can create a power imbalance when things - any of a wide variety of things - go wrong.
Truncation, even if it is wrong in an application logic sense, is strictly superior to UB (and in practice, buffer overruns, which can be exploitable). That's the main benefit of strlcpy/strlcat. It is certainly possible to construct a security bug due through truncation! But it is much more common to have security bugs from uncontrolled buffer overruns.
That software is sitting in an SGI in my basement :-)
Creatives Need Neural “Concept” Style Transfer
Stupid question: Can I block this with a host file?

I know Adguard published a list. Kudos to them, but can this be used in an extensive host file?

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardFilters
The word you are referring to is nigger. It’s a bad word that can be very offensive. It’s horrible to use it in a derogatory way, but I feel that it’s ridiculous in at least halfway intelligent conversation no one white even dare ever write it, let alone say it.

As if white people have enforced themselves to just pretend the word has magic powers and it is the one who shall not be named.

That’s giving an enormous amount of power over people who want to control language in a inherently racist way (your skin color determines your ability to say a word).

I refuse to accept that this amount of power extends to typing the word as a discussion of it.
>Memories and feelings are merely constructs of the brain...

So what does the first person experience when it has no memories or feelings or sensory-motor input? Obviously no living people can answer this barring perhaps some Buddhist monks or the like if they have truly managed to dissociate so profoundly. Remember if "nirvana" feels good then you got a feeling. I would argue that consciousness is also a construct of the living brain. It is possible that it also exists in other contexts (e.g. ghosts, demons, jin, characters in a novel, etc) but this has never been proven or even suggested by evidence and does not seem intuitively plausible to me. If I ever experience a ghost or demon in a convincing way maybe I will change my view. So as far as we can tell what we clumsy call consciousness is inseparable from a living brain running the program "human mind" or perhaps dog consciousness is inseparable from a living dog brain running the program "dog mind." So consciousness is also a mental construct. It comes from the mind.

I am interested in this statement
>(It's also interesting (with controversial implications) that there are people who know precisely what's meant by consciousness, and others who only seem to understand it conceptually.)

Can you explain what you actually mean by this? It is not clear at all to me.

Are you suggesting some of us may be NPCs?

Assuming you are in the first group, those who "know precisely what's meant by consciousness," what is it that is meant by consciousness. "meant" means signified, what does consciousness signify that is not covered as a construct of the mind? Would you argue brain dead people are conscious, what about dead people, incorporate entities? Does consciousness not imply the ability to process information how does the energy to do that derive if not attached to a metabolising body? If consciousness,is a recursively self aware observer nested Russian doll style, as you seem to suggest how deep does the nesting go?

I think there is an observer in your mind, and it is part of your mind, but it tricks you it into thinking that it is not. That is the nature of consciousness. It is kind of like empathy turned inward.
The speed is part of the point. What better way to signal that you're part of the woke agenda than to be one of the first movers only a few days after the publisher made their announcement? It's like all the sycophants tripping over themselves to be the first to compliment their dear leader.
I've had massive success with this in ML. My twitter DMs have become almost-daily office hour sessions with people trying to solve hard ML problems. The last fellow was so happy he venmo'd me $250 after I merely asked for "pay whatever you thought that was worth."

Apparently putting "DMs open" in your twitter bio is an excellent way to meet new people. Also, tweet (often!) about what you're working on. Post lots of questions, notes to self, and screenshots or videos.

To get followers, you'll need to go inject yourself into conversations. That seems to be the most reliable way to get noticed.

We also run an ML discord server and do informal office hours for people working on various ML products. It may sound cheesy, but I try to emulate what pg would do in a YC office hours session. It seems to keep them pretty focused.

So, yes! Glad to see office hours are becoming mainstream. Try it out; you'll probably be surprised.
You're subscribing to a life of pain. Maybe some can weather that storm, but most can't.
If that were the case, then wouldn't you expect the average HN user to like FLoC? Targeted ads, where the personal information is stored securely in your browser.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
Unrelevant ads are a waste of time and resources for all parties. Getting rid of these waste benefits all parties. It's a win-win-win situation. I believe making society more efficient makes the world a better place.
That's cool. I never knew about these.

I suspect that efficiency, and probably speed, are sacrificed for maneuverability.

It would certainly require a great deal of maintenance. Anyone that has ever dealt with marine, knows that anything that touches seawater needs a lot of TLC, and it looks fairly complicated (compared to screws).
Ah, I understood that individuals or companies would invest and expect payback with additional 20-25% return payback. Banks are not an option for me, for such large amounts they require collateral and/or a very good credit rating, and I have neither. I have never taken a loan or done a similar business. Additionally, where I currently am and plan to open my business, isn't my home country, which doesn't help my chances for large loans. I'm currently in Iceland and have been here for almost 2 years, but that doesn't change much in banks eyes.
I hoped for something like a short-term loan/investment and given my situation... presumably with a high-interest rate.
As others have pointed out in this thread and is seemingly confirmed with a simple search of listings, eBay appears to only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf which are meant for scholarly work. There is a historic value to those that doesn't exist for a Dr. Seuss book. And as the article points out, books that have a lower degree of historical significance like The Turner Diaries are removed.

Also let's not pretend that these moderation policies are foolproof. There are always going to be examples that slip through the cracks. If you want eBay to remove them for sake of consistency, you are free to report those items.
Yeah, I mean it's definitely the case that the signal here is that words occur in captions for pictures of text as for pictures of objects. But if you do this same experiment of visualizing dataset examples for other networks (like ones trained on Imagenet), you don't find this sort of multimodal neuron.
Isn't Telstra just an NBN reseller at this point? IIRC that was why they were planning to start pushing cellular home internet, as they own their cellular assets outright, whereas NBN bought the wireline assets and charges them per customer.
> Making people happy makes you happier, too.
The Meaning of Liff - co-writen by Douglas Adams - does a very funny job of making up definitions to English place-names

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01qjjgw
This is a baseless generalization of men. Men are not an obstacle to a 32 hour work week.
Republicans and other right-wing racists will never stop being outraged, and they will never stop mistaking dumb slippery slope logical fallacies for good arguments.

There’s nothing you can do except deplatform them; but HN is explicitly designed as a safe space for far right wing bigots; so this is guaranteed to be a bad discussion.

Daniel Gackle has devoted much of his adult life to ensuring that extremists and racists feel safe here in HN; and that minorities do not. He likes to pretend this isn’t the case, but he only talks to very specific people for feedback, ensuring that he can always pretend that people like me are wrong.

He’s a closed-minded, bigot-supporting pile of shit who spends every day of his life making the world actively worse for minorities.
I don't feel like I've ever satisfactorily understood why it feeling degrading to them is of greater weight than the degrading feeling of being told that your natural pattern of speech is forbidden.
Sure. But is there far more critical COBOL than C out there?

The OS kernel for nearly every PC and server on earth is written in C.

Almost every electronic device on earth complicated enough to require software is probably running at least some firmware written in C.

I think those both outnumber ATMs by a hefty margin.
https://imgur.com/a/jd9JL9x

The struggle sessions are the most visible part. In the American cultural revolution they are mainly online (for now). What's a struggle session? Think of all those fake apologies after someone did something perfectly ok but the mob goes after them.

> In the struggle sessions the accused, often teachers suspected of lacking proletarian feeling, were paraded through streets and campuses, sometimes stadiums. It was important always to have a jeering crowd; it was important that the electric feeling that comes with the possibility of murder be present. Dunce caps, sometimes wastebaskets, were placed on the victims’ heads, and placards stipulating their crimes hung from their necks. The victims were accused, berated, assaulted. Many falsely confessed in the vain hope of mercy. Were any “guilty”? It hardly mattered. Fear and terror were the point. A destroyed society is more easily dominated.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-ready-for-the-struggle-sess...

Edit:
The goal is to replace enlightenment values with critical race theory.

> Critical Race Theory presents a radically different view of our society and of us than most of us recognize or accept. They begin with the assumption of racism and look to find it. They say everyone who doesn’t do this is complicit in the problem, including just for disagreeing with Critical Race Theory. And they reject the fundamental liberal, reasonable, legal, and scientific principles upon which liberal societies operate.
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/what-is-critical-race-theo...

An example of critical race theory in action: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044?s=2...

Or this page from the African-American History Museum:
https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/926/d5f/a334baf0d43cd480b3ea...
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Close the tiring tabs.

Seriously, the amount of “this” that I see online is 100x what I see in real-life (per interaction). Outrage engagement drives it and if you have found yourself tired of arguing with people you’ve never shared a meal with, just close the tab. Let them be outraged without you.

As often happens, Randall has nailed it: https://xkcd.com/386/
It functions as a pronoun. The technical term is pronominal. But people would have to look it up. And they'd wonder why you didn't just say pronoun.
> Could you explain a bit more how negative sales tax is unrealistic? We already subsidize things we want to encourage.

Lets say apples have a -5% tax rate, and cost $1. Every time I buy an apple from the store, I pay $0.95 (the government pays the rest, which is a problem in and of itself). I can sell that apple for $1, and the government basically just paid me $0.05 for selling an apple.

The problem with the government paying that $0.05 is that sales tax is assessed at time of purchase, but the government isn't there to pay their part. The grocery store basically has an IOU from the government. 5% may be higher than the grocery store's margins, which means the customer payment is actually less than the good is worth, so the grocery store's ledger actually goes down for that sale until the government pays back their part.

And then you have to deal with fraud. Nobody wants to overreport their sales tax, it costs them money. If you can make money off sales tax, people will filing fraudulent tax reports, and I really don't want the IRS having to track how many apples the grocery store actually sold. I'm sure money launderers would also find a way to use it to buffer their costs.

Subsidies probably still have fraud, but it's a smaller number of entities to work with. We can also budget for it because we determine the amount. I can give a budget to the subsidy, but I can't tell people to only buy 10,000 apples next year.
Microsoft doesn't actually implement Annex K! Annex K is based on MSFT's routines, but they diverged. So Annex K is portable nowhere, in addition to having largely awful APIs.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm#:~...

> Microsoft Visual Studio implements an early version of the APIs. However, the implementation is incomplete and conforms neither to C11 nor to the original TR 24731-1. For example, it doesn't provide the set_constraint_handler_s function but instead defines a _invalid_parameter_handler _set_invalid_parameter_handler(_invalid_parameter_handler) function with similar behavior but a slightly different and incompatible signature. It also doesn't define the abort_handler_s and ignore_handler_s functions, the memset_s function (which isn't part of the TR), or the RSIZE_MAX macro.The Microsoft implementation also doesn't treat overlapping source and destination sequences as runtime-constraint violations and instead has undefined behavior in such cases.

> As a result of the numerous deviations from the specification the Microsoft implementation cannot be considered conforming or portable.
Ok, I hadn't considered the registers thing. That almost makes sense. Almost. But variable length arrays are so useful I think it warrants adding a register just for dealing with fat pointers.

Like I get why it happened. It is just crazy how long it has stuck around.
I guess what I don't understand is why 'Latin' isn't preferred when speaking in English.
I have lived throughout the middle east and everyone loves Disneys Aladdin
I always go into Maher from these recommendations thinking maybe I'll like his point here. Then halfway through I realize I've been duped again. In this case he laments republicans appropriating the term cancel culture, which he insists is a big deal for other reasons. Then at 4:15 he laughs while sarcastically saying "it's always okay when Trump's the nazi" and I'm like, oh okay. I remember how you like to draw people farther to the right while appearing as if you're anti-alt-right.
Because it is exhausting, and constant, and I believe rife with the chance at abuse in bad faith by those who want to feel constantly relevant and woke by redefining the lexicon.
> So, what?

I agree that it's not a very deep observation, or maybe even not true. But it 1) seems to explain several different reactions I see on Hacker News, and 2) it illustrates a trap that I, as a Hacker News user, find myself falling into without realizing: the belief that the thing I want is the thing that other people want. To me, it's good to be aware of that.
Or the inferior(?) version of "you all", "youse".
> Webdev here, chrome was a breath of fresh air in the IE era, there was nothing close for dev tools.

Firebug was amazing, and predates Chrome by two years.
Tell us your story.
Yes, I am with you. I really like Joscha Bach's theory that our brains hallucinate ourselves, almost as a fantasy character that goes through life. (checkout his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, mind blowing talk by Joscha)
Blowing up a significant fraction of the world's GDP is how you start a war.
If this is truly what you want, then what is your suggestion for financing the existence of sites that wish to stay afloat? Paywalls don't work.
Yep, ISP blacklist addresses as large enterprise businesses only, or Small/Medium Business only and do not permit residential internet installation even when the property is rezoned or has been converted to residential.
Better order Babar while you can. If Dr. Seuss is canceled there’s no way Babar is sticking around.
> So you can build nuclear in a tsunami zone? in a seismic zone? in an area without cooling?

Yes, you harden the structure against tsunamis and earthquakes. That's part of why nuclear plants are so expensive.

Atmospheric cooling can indeed be done anywhere. It's typically easier and more efficient to use water cooling. And humans need water to survive, and thus population centers are built near sources of water, water cooling is almost always an option. Also nuclear plants can be cooled with seawater.

This is in stark contrast to hydroelectricity which needs both a river and a valley to be viable. Geothermal power needs magma near enough to the surface to heat water into steam.

> So you can mine and enrich uranium without carbon?

I don't see why not. Use electricity produced by nuclear plants to drive centrifuges. Also use said electricity to power mining equipment.

And you didn't answer my question: What other carbon-free sources provide energy 24/7, besides ones that need very specific geography like hydroelectricity and geothermal power?
Feels like URL rewriting in some form (maybe in the form of XHR pings) will come back into fashion to skirt any future cookie laws or browser mitigations
Sure, but that's just shifting who is getting paid or when.

The person I was responding to said that people were obsessed with getting paid versus the social obligations.

I was explaining why people who would want to stay at home might be obsessed about payment. It's a question that must be answered.

You provide some potential answers, but for the vast majority of young Americans these days having enough savings to raise a child by themselves without working is not in any way realistic.

Even for the "have another family work" plan, for many a single income isn't enough to support 2 adults and raising a child. The economy just doesn't make that viable for a large swath of the country.
"Spouse" implies marriage. "Significant Other" is a common safe bet, but is a bit too much of a mouthful IMO.

I've seen "partner" being used in reference to hetero relationships more frequently in the last decade, and think that's probably a good development. "Boyfriend" and "Girlfriend" sounds a bit infantilizing to me when used in reference to adults.
no, the poster was still talking about "okay". they were doing a joke by calling it the o-word because the hand gesture is a hate symbol now
Curious how this compares to other illnesses, such as pneumonia. It seems to match with people having damage from pneumonia.
I am agreeing with you in this problem. I have a large dislike for this term. The gays pick so many words on how to say about them. And we then get word placed on us. Also word that I heard only in derogatory contexts as to this day.
Anyone with CF, or who was thrown into the fibromyalgia bucket (its used by doctors for untreatable/intractable problems, and comes with a strong implication "its all in your mind") will welcome this, if (and its a big if) they are allowed to participate in the discovery and treatment process.

I'm not in either bucket, or a long-covid sufferer, I'm just observing post-viral has a huge amount of things in it, beyond covid, which might benefit from increased funding and eyeballs on the problem.

Not all the long-covid is about lung function.
Another way to look at it is that not all books are literature. Literature is its own special category because it’s a tool for building culture.

The 10k latte-sipping moneys banging on their MacBooks at the local co-work hub will never make literature because intent matters. You have a job to do.

That job is to be a truth teller. to tell society the bitter truths they’d rather not hear. That’s why you have to hide it under a story.

Salman Rushdie for example. The satanic verses.

A book may be very well written, so much so that it can be said it had artistic merit, but for a book to have literary merit, it needs to play a part in the culture wars.