skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably easier to think of consciousness as "learned". That is, we have these brains that can extract patterns from noisy or sparse inputs, and the notion of a "self" is just something it learned to recognize. The rest of the "common sense" that guides our course through the world is basically just adaptation and learnings of how to preserve that self in a given environment.

It's interesting to think of situations where the self becomes subordinate... family, sex, certain types of anger, etc. There are some old and deep patterns in the brain that can override the control of "self"... and they roughly correspond to very primitive parts of the brain that govern simpler and essential fight or flight mechanisms.
To be clear the issue isn't requiring high beams, the issue is the comments of the post

That auto high beams as implemented dazzle commercial vehicles, cannot handle reflective road signs correctly, etc.

Anyone who's owned a car with auto high beams is probably aware, you can't leave them on 24/7 unless you're willing to dazzle other drivers in many situations.
My understanding is that there are specialized copy devices that can do a decent job of bound volumes. But to the basic point...

Paper takes up a lot of space. You can't keep physical copies of everything forever. It is unfortunate that it seems as if film and poor quality scans replaced physical copies in some cases too early. But libraries do run out of space, especially well-indexed space.
This is pretty much how good university lectures are conducted.

The instructor provides some "lecture notes" ahead of time and/or some other assigned reading, then the lecture session itself is more of an overview, discussion, and/or extended worked example, with lots of classroom engagement.

However, it's more demanding on the audience this way. So it depends on the purpose of the session.
"We" like no slides in a presentation, plain text mail, markdown for documents, RSS for news feeds, IRC for chat, Graphviz for diagrams, ...
I'm not trying to defend anyone - I'm just saying that looking at it from the perspective of "they are just doing it to show off" etc. is not really my experience (there's some of that for sure)

I'm not a fan of aftermarket exhausts, stock one is plenty loud for me and doesn't disturb anyone while I'm riding normaly. I especially dislike the grandpa chopper bikes that sound like tanks, like you said my sports bike gets insane at >9k RPM - but I don't ride insane in populated areas.
Easier to do it the other way: when you fork, keep the parent as the snapshot and keep going in the child. That way you can back up by terminating and resuming in the parent. I think this is what timetravelpdb does for Python: https://github.com/TomOnTime/timetravelpdb
Cardano – A simple high level explanation [For Beginners]
Revisit this when we have actual AI to consider.
Every gas station fill-up already results in sales and gas tax.
A few clarifications. There is an export tool that is available. The reason we must count disabled addresses towards your quota is because if we did not do that, we would be susceptible to an attack where a paid user could run through our address space by creating and disabling addresses continuously, so some limits are required. You can remove disabled addresses, but only by contacting support.
In some cases, it seems the companies deploy them to coerce and punish: 'logged out, did you? you deserve this captcha for trying to thwart our tracking, peasant! work this useless problem for us for free!' Looking at you, Meetup.
Yes, I second your recommendation of Migadu. I've helped set up dozens of email accounts for clients there, and we've been happy with their service.
at $job (inside a NOC), we used to joke that linkedin was the worst professional network,and the local network operator group IRC channel was the best channel.

It makes a ton of sense if you think about it, the people you want to connect with professionaly are people in the same workfield and their bosses. These people have A) far more intresting tidbits to share then recruitment and HR folk, and B) getting a job at their company is far easier if you they have some kind of clue of what you actually do during your previous job on a very fundemental level.
> So if I take a million people into the gas chambers, and they are diverse in every dimension, then I have merely committed a mass-murder, but not a genocide?

Yes.

> But if, in the minds of those people, just before I hit the switch, a collective identity forms -- "The People of the Gas Chamber" -- then my act is instead genocide, due to their internal mental state?

No, acts directed at the extermination of a people, not that incidentally cause it, are genocide. You’d still be committing mass-murder-but-not-genocide, not that the distinction is likely to be more than technically significant, unless you are a acting in a context so as to not render mass murder an international crime but only one subject to local jurisdiction. (Genocide is universally subject to universal jurisdiction, while mass murder requires special additional circumstances to rise to an international crime — either a war crime or crime against humanity.)

And when mass killing does rise to genocide, its not “instead of” being mass murder, but “in addition to”. Same with deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, enslavement and other “act based” crimes against humanity when done as part of a mechanism aimed at destroying a people. The offenses are cumulative, not alternative.
Or #3 a hunk of ice was falling from outer space and Dave, a self described class clown who happens to be best buddies with one of the people who works on the FLIR system and who went to his wedding, has polished up some of the details to better match what he thinks.
I interviewed a Caltech grad for a job once. She was completely qualified (overqualified?) and I figured that out in all of about 3 minutes. So I asked her if she'd taken Feynman. She smiled and said she'd sat in on a seminar where he lectured and, similar to your Feynman effect, she said that he had the ability to take the most complicated idea, crystalize it, explain it and that you would understand it. This effect lasted for about 5 minutes after which you would confuse yourself.

BTW, she didn't get the job which was not my doing. My boss was a woman who felt threatened by having another woman who was massively smarter than she was.

As for Feynman, I'm more than ok with his lectures. Clarity is no substitute for application but it damn well helps application.
Before the invention of the laundry machine there was something like 15 hours of weekly household work washing and drying clothes.
There are some other reasons several major countries might not want to press the issue.

It would be an interesting international law mess. Some thorny issues:

1. If it was due to Chinese negligence, how would damages be calculated?

In many (most?) national law systems the party harmed by negligence has some duty to mitigate the harm. For instance if you are out watering your garden with a garden hose, and you see an ember from my BBQ land on your garden shed and start a fire which you could trivially put out with your hose, but you just stand there and watch the fire spread and burn the shed to the ground, I'm probably not going to be liable for buying you a new shed. My liability will probably be limited to the small amount of damage from the first few seconds of the fire.

Is there any similar concept in international law? If so, I expect that a lot of countries would want to avoid trying to answer the question of how much of their deaths and economic loses were due to China's negligence and how much were due to their own poor handling of the pandemic.

2. If it was an accidental lab release but not due to negligence, are there damages?

In many national legal systems there is the concept of an "Act of God" or similar. As an example suppose one of the 30 m (100 ft) tall trees in my neighbor's yard about 18 m (60 ft) from my house were to fall over in a windstorm and smash my house. If the tree was unhealthy or its root system shallow or weak, the neighbor would probably be negligent for not having the tree safely removed, and so my neighbor would owe me a new house. If the tree was a healthy tree well rooted then we'd be looking at an "Act of God", and my neighbor is off the hook.

Is there anything similar in international law?
I saw some people saying that this makes them want to switch towards iphones next.

I'm not gonna lie, I considered it for a moment too, like a year ago... But apple is now engaging in its own share of dark patterns and is now collecting data too. There have been multiple articles on the matter shared here even.

Thinking that apple is better than google for privacy (or, even if it is right now, that it will remain so for any reasonable amount of time) is... overly optimistic, at best.

Unless it chances paths, of course, which I don't see likely.
Everyone's use case is different. There are definitely a lot of very useful extensions available.
Ublock origin and https everywhere improved security by removing deceptive advertisements masquerading as legitimate on search engines and freeware download sites. https everywhere prevented some forms of https downgrade attacks. Also ublock has an option to remove webrtc IP leaking.
> stumbling upon a 1930s train

Truly fantastic. Did you enter it ?
I would die for such moments if I was an urbexplorer.
Sorry I was ambiguous in my comment. The smartphone itself is a different privacy question, but is the digital transaction interface losing anything more than a credit card swipe?
There's some collaboration features. You can create "keeshares" between multiple separate databases. All the databases can append, update, or read the share.

You can't delete an entry but you can deprecate it and stop updating it (it's not actually feasible to revoke access anyways).
I general I wish people would think about search engines when naming new things.
Yup... living on a 1st floor in a major city, I've grown a deep hatred for those with loud motorcycle/car engines/exhausts/soundsystems. It's unnecessary and ruins quality of life/productivity. The noise pollution is already bad enough in the city with everything else
It can be hard to know what should be kept and be tossed. And reasonable people can disagree about which applies. But it's certainly a fair point that we probably don't want to preserve every byte of ephemera forever.
Yeah, OK. Much onerous record-keeping obligation associated with those, is there?
Fix your broken software (AWS ES) or use the one that works (Elastic).
Cost basis accounting is hardly a show stopper.
Note: due to the design of PM, the search is done client-side rather than server-side. It's not an excuse but at the very least, full-text search is harder.
It looks like one of the reject prototypes from Robocop.

And by this I mean it looks super-cool and it'll probably kill you.
Those are handled for you and included in the price.
It’s a function of the size of the church. Not only does it mean that there are more Catholic-affiliated institutions (and more opportunities to draw a similarity between troubled institutions), it also means that it is the only organization who can pull off a systematic cover-up. The actual abuse rates are similar whether the institution in question is Catholic, Anglican, or secular.
I love this comment! I live out in country and it seems like every jackass with a Harley has to add some noise pollution just so they enjoy the freedom of the open road.
The reason why they are so popular is because school/textbook leaves the opposite impression to most people, i.e. we're given tools without the "gist".

I'd been in a prep school for 3 years, and people were just regurgitating what they had been shown, applying formulas with a very vague idea of what they're doing or what their results means.

School is just about remembering things and finding patterns.
Coming soon: consulting firm uses this technique to build a training set of fraudulent reviews, builds review fraud detector that doesn't take metadata into account and discriminates against elderly people and non-Western reviewers.

In all seriousness, this is a really interesting technique. Maybe there are analogues for other fake/bot behavior in other contexts.
I don't disagree with the conclusion but it's equally self centered to think someone is doing something just to annoy you - so if you just said "loud pipes annoy me" I have no problem with that statement, if you say "bikers are installing loud pipes to annoy me/others" well that's just wrong and I'm giving you insight into what the actuall motivation is.
Reviews are subjective and qualitative data. Math deals with objective and quantitative data. It’s no surprise that shoehorning the former into the latter is a highly non-trivial problem, that even the best minds in the tech industry struggle to solve for their use cases.
I recently lost both my in-laws due to COVID-19.

Things I repeat myself:

1. It takes time and there's no way around that.
2. Accept you and your wife are both different people now. When loved ones die, you change. Part of the difficulty is to accept that you're a different person.
3. Live through your emotions, don't suppress them. It's ok to be affected by the most seemingly random things you see.
4. You don't have to talk about this all the time. It's ok to watch a movie to get a break.
5. Seek therapy - a professional can guide you through your feelings and help you making sense of them.
6. Routine helps - but don't lose yourself into what you do to hide from the pain.

I wish you both the best.
All you need is what you bought the btc for in USD and what it cost in USD when you spend it. You pay tax on the difference. It's not complex at all.
This headline is unfortunately misleading. Recaptcha is not used on every login (this is verifiable). It only appears in rare situations when it is required to prevent abuse.
I once watched a movie where the rating was "do you like the item on the left more than on the right". I'm not sure if it is mathematically possible to create a rank from it. I assume, that new items appear and have less comparisons than others.
My team recently built a Chrome extension and expected to be grilled on permissions. We sailed through despite requesting access to all sorts of things. Their vetting seems strict from the outside, but does not seem like it after going through the process.
Hah, indeed. Hoist by my own.
And the warship itself in 2020 doesn't have any onboard cameras… ?

We are asked to believe the military is intelligent, but if that's the case then I have my doubts.
Just designed the most evil UI component: x box – the inverse of the check box
That would remove the bias of what is 5 point of 10 I think.
Recruiters and hiring managers are the influencers. LinkedIn is a social network for HR first and everyone else second.
I'm not sure what you mean by non-malicious extensions being intrusive. I use a number of extensions, mostly content-blocking and privacy-related and they mostly just get out of my way. The Firefox Extension Store also has a recommended extensions feature that shows that the extension has been reviewed by Mozilla for privacy and security. Most extensions I use have this seal.
> petite ceinture

As of last year, it was straight-forward to transition between the official park and the rest of the line on the north side of the park. Might need a shovel at the south side, but then you're quickly on active RATP property, with better access points across a few crossovers. Also a formalized access point somewhere near Montreuil where some old furniture was placed in just the right spot from street level.

Good place for berries and figs at the right time.
This article is really about the payment processor Flexa and it would be more relevant to discuss the user experience with that

Maybe they really accept other crypto assets

Maybe they subsidize transaction fees for some time

Maybe they broadcast later

Maybe they accept 0 confirmation
It seems but it doesn't seem? Sorry I can't figure out the typo
"When I transitioned to management I made a point to try to balance workload and availability across teams. It often makes more sense to let go of superstar engineers who are only available 4 out of 5 days per week and only working a few hours per day, even if their work is good in isolation."

This makes it so there's no incentive to finish your work quickly, because you'll just be assigned more work.

Doesn't it make more sense to give people the rest of the day off if they finish their work ahead of schedule?

You'll have more satisfied employees and less burnout.
The unreasonable part has to do with the reality of auto high beams.

Even the best implementations dazzle other drivers.

Auto high beams are only realistic when used where normal high beams are. That is, mostly on single lane roads with no dividers, little to no street lights, where opposing traffic is not appearing often, etc.

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It seems like such a small thing compared to driving a whole car... but this is one of the few vision features that directly affects other drivers on a regular basis.

The comments explain how for example, vehicles with tall ride heights like commercial trucks get dazzled due to their tailights sitting much lower than their mirrors

It's just not realistic to leave your high beams "potentially on at all times" unless you're willing to dazzle other drivers.
I think they keep them in a briefcase.
What do you think of Yamaha Niken? Looks like it would be more similar to a normal motorcycle than a 3-wheel scooter.

https://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport-touring/models/niken
IIUC, they do help limit some classes of DDOS attacks.
> We can give the money directly to the people

No, "we" can't. "We" can only do this through the government.

> This is one benefit of UBI.

If you think UBI will eliminate pork and all other forms of government waste, including the pork waste involved with redistributing wealth, I have some oceanfront property in Nebraska I'd like to sell you.
The Kinesis Advantage 360
This is a technique for "preference elicitation", and related to techniques like Elo scoring and social science fields such as psychometrics.

And yes, I think it's much better than reviews that ask for an absolute scale with no context.
lol Flexa

I was in a chatroom with one of their advisors trying to shill me on Flexa for several years

Takes that long to close a deal with crypto companies, huh. And only during the hottest market in history
> "government can't do it" is dogma.

No, it's an inference from a mountain of evidence of what governments are doing now and have done in the past.
I have two PM accounts. Since implementation, every single login includes Captcha. I log in twice a day, Captcha is never omitted.
We had distributed teams with people in different time zones.

The key is to require some defined overlap of working hours. If that's not possible, you divide the tasks as cleanly as possible across timezones so that people in the same timezone can work together.

Trying to force teammates to work together on something in opposite timezones doesn't work unless you have very relaxed deadlines. When someone has to wait until the next day to get a response to any blocking questions, work slows to a crawl.
In what concerns Microsoft, if they had doubled down on WP7 model (Silverlight + XNA) and just opened the C and C++ toolchain to app developers (NDK style), instead of rebooting the ecosystem multiple times, their stuff would probably still be around.
Oh it was mostly a pun blending prolog like backtracking at the os-process level.
My point is about how "binary" signals are controlled via modulation to emulate an analog variable for use with a continuous controller, not a recommendation to run your gas furnace this way. (That might have been lost because of the line the conversation followed).

In a real system this is exactly how MOSFETS are used to control a voltage; you would almost never use an analog amplifier for high power because of the losses, so voltage control is binary on/off, but that doesn't restrict you to just bang-bang control despite the GP's statement.

In fact, an electric heater can and often will be controlled via a PWM method with a continuous controller rather than via hysteresis.
And by "accept bitcoin payments" they mean they'll use the payment processor Flexa which I assume accepts bitcoin, their homepage doesn't mention them.
I took his meaning as, the vetting seems strict before you submit, but it actually turns out to be much less strict after you submit.
For iOS developers transitioning to Web I think this would make a pretty great stepping stone between the platforms. Nothing wrong with bringing something familiar with you!
I'm guessing that benchmark is so short-running that adding compile overhead doesn't result in code that manages to pay for the compile overhead. It's unlikely a huge problem on that short-running benchmark though. But fair to show the weak points as well as the strengths of Sparkplug.
> classic management thinking.

I think you misread. I was speaking about my experience as an employee in this situation.

When a single team mate refuses to work with everyone, you have to put in extra work to work around them. It's as simple as that.
I’ll second this, I love the idea of proton mail but the product isn’t anywhere close to ready for daily driving. Great for the occasional should it arise however. Encryption should be a selling point and it seems like they use it more as an excuse.
> "it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains"

Except that wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack, which isn't freedom. Solitary wolves exist but it's because they're trying to create their own pack.
Note that this is not written by Scott Alexander --- it's part of his "your book review" series in which readers submit book reviews and he invites his audience to read them and vote on them.
That works when judging aesthetic, but how would that work for extensions though? You can only really judge extensions you have used, and even then how would you choose between your adblocker and your password manager? They do completely different things and I'm not willing to browse without either.

edit: I guess the signal "I tried this extension but replaced it with that other one which I like better" would be very informative though
Writing a game from first principles in 65c02  – Part One
This documentary is made by Carey Newman, the son of one of the survivors.
https://humanrights.ca/story/picking-up-the-pieces-the-makin...
Not gonna work. Bitcoin people are all for adoption but only on paper. In reality, nobody wants to pay for gas or purchase a pizza using bitcoin. All these people care about is speculation and 'beating the market'.
I use the same standard of knowing as I do for qualia in general. I listen to what other people report.

> there's a difference between receiving input from someone else's sensors and experiencing their qualia.

There can not be clear difference if you are not able to even fully separate two different personalities.

If distinction between personalities is fluid, then distinction between personalities qualia also has to be fluid.
Be sure to clock out before you attempt suicide.