skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're probably right but on your link there I see a review article (from the US) criticizing the lack of diversity in studies. It is followed by papers from countries like Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Austria, Korea. A few from Italy. The US certainly seems under-represented.
People always show a cyberpunk city at night. They are much less impressive/dystopian if you see them during the day.
Science fiction has always been the literature of the possible, the imagined. And just as we can imagine horrors worse then things are now, a monstrous AI intelligence torturing the last surviving humans, boots forever stamping on faces in a world defined by doublethink, we can also imagine what things might look like if the world was better.

That isn't panglossian optimism that things will all work out, anymore than dystopias are a prediction of certain doom. It's a vision of a better world that is, perhaps, possible, and exploration of how such a world might be achieved.
I don't think it's possible for a game to fill the same cultural niche now as when games were a relative novelty.

Maybe something like Minecraft or Roblox?
> Oil companies don't have any special ability to predict the future state of a complex system.

No, but they definitely have the scientific knowledge to understand the scale at which they pump CO2 into the atmosphere and the first-order consequences this has.

> But anyway, how did Gore's predictions fare?

It's like when you fly a plane, never trust the instruments: "yeah, sure, the altimeter is going down, but you know, we're still in the air. Besides, the altimeter has a margin of error, so... we're good."

We have a song for that in France: "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise, tout va très bien, tout va très bien...".
Seems like a good candidate for a transpiler.
Don't disclose to the client anything not in their view.

I know this is sometimes impossible and/or too costly to implement but it should be possible to find a compromise that prevents most of the blatant cheaters, eventually.

Also helpers like: In any score event, for randomly selected players, analyze the last actions taken.

You just cannot trust the clients. People will find creative ways of reading the memory of their own hardware, whatever you do.
I never made a concrete claim that consciousness is located in a specific brain region. I speculated that, but the truth is we don't know if it's one sub-region which represents consciousness, or a combination of many.

As for "how it interfaces with the purported non conscious parts of the body", this part is incredibly obvious. Afferent nerves take information from sensory receptors into the brain, and efferent neurons transport motor signals from the brain to the muscles.

There's no mystery at all about the interface: if consciousness is a product of some sub-region of the brain, the interface is the set of synapses carrying information into and out of that region.

> it is too big of a leap to claim that a locale that is not even the whole brain is essential to consciousness.

I would argue the evidence is incredibly strong that consciousness is localized at least within the brain, if not within a more specialized subset of the brain. Basically every intervention we know about which is capable of having a profound effect on consciousness has to act on the brain. You can amputate an arm or a leg, and consciousness remains intact. However psychoactive drugs interfering with normal activity at the synapse, and trauma to the tissue of the brain causes reliable and repeatable effects on consciousness. If consciousness is indeed a property which originates outside the brain as well, why is it that we can only affect it by taking physical action at the brain itself?

As for the argument that it's not "the whole brain", there's a lot of evidence for that as well. For instance, people with various forms of brain damage can lose certain functions without losing consciousness. For instance, people with lesions in the primary visual cortex may not be able to see, but they surely retain their consciousness and subjective experience.

> ...embodied cognition. There are cool experiments like people’s cognitive skills diminishing when they are prevented from making hand gestures.

This one is very easy to explain and there's no revelation there. Basically all of psychology research has shown that if you divide someone's attention, they perform worse on cognitive tasks. If you artificially require someone to restrict their hand movement, they must spend some of their cognitive capacity thinking about their hands, so they're going to do worse at everything else relative to baseline. If this didn't happen, it would be extremely shocking.
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Warning: the following is completely, utterly off topic, but it might amuse some.

I just days ago solved a minor, but real 2021 tax problem related to the 1975 USSR ruble exchange rate.

My significant other and I own a modest countryside property in Latvia, EU. We live in Belgium. Belgian real estate taxes on foreign property are calculated based upon a fictitious 1975 rental income. Don't ask why.

Only:

- Latvia was Soviet occupied in 1975.

- There were no market rates for home rentals in 1975 Soviet Latvia.

- Belgium used the Belgian franc at the time and has moved to the euro since.

- The Soviet Union at the time used rubles. Trustworthy exchange rates were tricky.

- Since 1975, Latvia has gone through Soviet ruble (1975-1991), Latvian Ruble or "repšiki" (1991-1993), Latvian lats (1991-2013) and euro (2014- current).

I just know that:

- A decent 1970's Soviet wage would have been around 100 SUR.

- Housing usually cost about 3 percent of one's wage. Let's say 3 SUR/month, or 36 SUR/year.

- In 1975, USDSUR was about 0.73 using the limited use highly artificial official exchange rate [0].

- On 19750701, USDBEF was 35.44 BEF [1].

- BEF was converted to EUR in 2001 at 40.3399 BEF.

So the highest possible taxation base for our real estate taxation probably should be 43.32€ (36 SUR/.73 USDSUR*35.44USDBEF/40.3390BEFEUR). Quite sure the tax man will be amused.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble#Historical_offici...

[1] https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/histo...
You know, I don't think the history made it popular. You could have put in any historical event so long as it was sometimes funny and an adventure. The real point was that you got to stop doing boring stuff in class and play games for a bit. For me, at least - as a child in the mid-to-late 80's, these were kind of a novelty. At some point, we had an NES at home - but this didn't take away from the novelty.

It was the same with, say, Carmen and her world adventures.
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Indeed, AV vendors flag LG because the windows executable we host:

1) It's not a signed executable (FOSS project, signing is a PITA without corporate sponsorship)
2) Microsoft Defender flagged the exe for wanting admin privs
3) Google were dumb and flagged us because MS did
4) All other AV vendors flagged us because google flagged our website.

We had to put the exe into a password protected zip to stop Google flagging us as we couldn't convince the idiots (robots) there that it was a FOSS project with all sources available for review.

Feel free to help us out and report the false positive to your AV vendors! :)
The ECB starts work on creating a digital version of the euro
How can it really be that much better than a flagship iPhone?

This kind of reads like your a person who hates the price of iPhones? Either that or I read like an Apple fan boy; However, I'm a pretty keen Linux / PC user and I don't think I'm that bias?
"I hate people advocating for a tool by bringing up the problem it was used to solve. Just keep your app so simple that you don't need the tool."

A better solution is to emulate the react strategy. Create a state object, on user input you can rewrite sections DOM based on the state. You probably don't need React's diffing algorithm until you run into performance problems. Then you have to limit which parts of the Dom you update to keep it snappy. Then you might as well just use react.
Gnif also has a patreon to support his work https://www.patreon.com/gnif (mentioning this because I only discovered it a long time after using looking glass)
Every time I read these blanket unsubstantiated claims about the evils of regulation, I’m reminded of Chesterton’s Fence:

> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
I think we're still just seeing the vanguard of this. Youtubers, maybe a few politicians. It's hard to predict, from this vantage point, where it will go.

IMO, we're this is about many-2-many communication figuring itself out, at scale. Many-2-many is our default mode, what we naturally do. A group of people talking shop over dinner, a bunch of kids deciding between soccer and tag.

Most "non-natural" modes are a diminutive version. Mass media, telephones, letter writing & most other technology enabled modes of communication cut down on the complexity. In journalism, one person writes, and the others read. In democracy, we have many-to-one communicates by voting... reducing communication to "yes/no."

The telephone works for one-to-one chats. Add more people, and problems crop up. Minor latencies are more noticeable. People talking over eachother becomes more grating. People zone out. Our innate abilities to handle many-to-many talking are subtle and hard to translate to technology. "Social media," from HN to Zoom to FB are all different ways of enabling many-to-many, an its unsurprising that this is fertile ground. Any difference to how the media, is designed yields major differences in form.

Anyway the social/psychological side of this is rapidly evolving. Hard to see where it ends up. I suspect CEOs/managers and such may eventually cultivate parasocial relationships. As this article implies, it's a phenomenon of the mode and medium of communication. They're already in the space, one-to-many relationships cultivated in a many-to-many medium.
Given CO2 emitted today doesn't have an immediate impact, 2C appears impossible at this point: https://www.ecowatch.com/greenhouse-gases-paris-agreement-26...

This is just for the CO2 already in the atmosphere. Add to that at least 10 more years of emissions that continue to grow at an exponential rate. Then another 20 years of decreasing CO2 emissions, and it might be better to look at: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/what-the-world-will-look-l....
Unsurprisingly the CCDH pdf, the source of this story, doesn't bother getting into what "misinformation" is. From what I can tell, it is a social network analysis of people who aren't onboard with the current popular opinion. "Digital spaces have been colonised and their unique dynamics exploited by fringe movements that instrumentalise hate and misinformation." Wew lad, they immediate activate the authoritarian left bat-signal.

I was watching Covid developments in China back when in was the "Wu-flu", months before it hit public consciousness in the US. What really grabbed my interest was the messaging China put out, attributing the whole thing to somebody eating bat soup from a wet market. Knowing how sensitive they are about that sort of thing (rhino horn ED medicine, shark fin luxury meals, etc), and knowing that the best way to lie is through a distracting embarrassing admission, I knew something weird was going on.

The speed with which "experts" and public figures have contradicted their own prior positions is absolutely amazing. The list is long, but the memorable highlights include masks, travel restrictions, genetic engineering and fish tank cleaner. I can already hear an apologist exclaiming "Bbut the situation is fluid!" Exactly, maybe stop trying to censor people you disagree with - you've got a horrible track record. This is why trust in government and media is so low, they've absolutely wrecked their own credibility - and it makes me wonder if that is the real motivation behind this recent push for wide sweeping information lockdown. It would certainly be easier to reduce the number of alternative information sources than it would be to actually do the right thing and rebuild a self-sabotaged reputation.
If you want your system to boot if a filesystem can't be mounted, use the longstanding nofail option on the noint point.
AFAIK Android One is barely supported at this point and phones are old. I used to be a supporter of Android One and bought two phones myself, but I wouldn't recommend it now. Google failed this program like it failed numerous programs before. The only reliable way to get standard android without unlocking and tinkering seems to be buying Google Pixel nowadays.
WSL2 doesn't support hardware perf counters, which means `perf` and `rr` won't work.
It isn't. The keys are actually double shot molded which is nice (unlike the 35S), but it's devoid of tactile feedback.

Instead of any sort of spring, the keys sit on top of a sheet of foam with holes cut out for each key. Maybe this worked somewhat better when the calculators are new, my example was about 20 years old when I got it.
> The models are (unavoidably, necessarily) just toys. They don't predict the future. Anyone who tells you that they are predicting the future with them is malicious or extremely naive. The models just masquerade as science to support political goals.

What political goals? Source would be appreciated as well.
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Freelancer, also it's really nice. However, I always dislike the mechanic of "drifting" on space.
Long line fishing nets litter the floors of all fishing zones. These synthetic nets can last 100 years or more and they steadily entrap and kill fish - which rot or get scavenged away.
Natural fiber nets, as used in the old days, soon rotted away.
It would be a good idea to outlaw nets that have no biodegrade nature built in. Fishers will hate this - they love the permanent nets and just cut them away as they get word/torn etc = the problem we now have. Chinese fleets are huge offenders here.(as are most other smaller fleet nations)
Rebel scum!
Except a bunch of their shares will be locked in for 180 days. So if it leads to a long term undervaluation it might be negative in the long run.
>Does newspeaking it make it better?

The difference in language is often just political rhetoric. The difference in substance became very clear to me talking to my grandfather who was liberated by democratic forces and would have been insulted by having that called "targeted by US interventionism".

There are good reasons for both sentiments based on actual, sometimes painful, experience. We should respect that.

It's a very complex and off-topic subject. That's why I'm not going into the details of the various conflicts in recent decades.
Can ProtonMail focus on getting mail right before adding calendar and vpn and whatever else they pump in their newsletter? Their mobile email is atrocious- hello threading email chains? I was hoping to use this as a gmail replacement but it’s not even capable of replacing my spam yahoo account at this point. I support the cause but it seems like they are trying to do too much with too little.
That's a great idea!

I already know where I can use this, which would make my code a lot easier (and more robust) to write.

Thanks heaps.
Did you just link a screen cap of a Twitter rant and call it “related information”. Do you think that adds credibility to your argument? It doesn’t.
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> No, but they definitely have the scientific knowledge to understand the scale at which they pump CO2 into the atmosphere and the first-order consequences this has.

Check your hypothesis. There have been times in the past when CO2 went from, say, 3000 to 4000. Did the global average temperature do what you think it should?

> It's like when you fly a plane

I'm not seeing a number of correct predictions out of total predictions. What do we usually think when somebody has a hypothesis, and based on that hypothesis they make some testable predictions, and the predictions don't come true?
The Debian policykit packages have (frustratingly) diverted from upstream here. They do not pull in mozjs, sanding users with the older and far less flexible rules files.
I kept seeing heavy-looking flying drones with nondescript propulsion method and thinking how much energy it takes keeping them hovering in the air.
Well, this thing is almost as good as BrainF*ck.

If anyone has to use this, why not simply use assembly? Learnt COBOL and S360 Assembly which are obviously not great but widely used by almost all banks. COBOL is way too chatty, S360 Assembly is just like any other assembly language. But even S360 Assembly is much more readable than this. So it would be incredible that someone really completed a core banking application with it.
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The article is more about democratic oversight of electricity generation than electrical infrastructure. That's what the word 'Parliament' is referring to.
That's very disappointing.
I've always brought up everyone up to think that of all the professions, you can always trust an engineer. They deal in facts. They don't lie.
Perhaps it's as simple that in the real world, engineers can't lie. Because the world wouldn't work is they did.
The article directly discusses problems that REC have had in the past! There's a whole narrative arc about how one REC was mismanaged by a corrupt group of members.
It's difficult. It's not impossible.
To be fair outside of computing there's been little visible change to our habitats and way of life since 2001.
I think it's more important that it's a branch-and-prune algorithm. Many branches are created, but they are quickly pruned if they are worse or just unlucky. (Someone may be a the "best" human alive, but if a piano falls on the head, s/he ded and pruned.)

Branches are retried, so if some branch is an improvement and is cut by bad luck, it may be luckier a few million years later.

This does not guarantee that the "best" solution is found, but also avoid looking in the 4^300 combinations. Also, there are shorter genes, some proteins have ~50 amino acids (~150 bases), and some useful short amino acids chains have a length of 20 or even less (~60 bases or less). It's possible to start with a short versions that does something slightly useful, and slowly increase the length an efficiency.
> well planned out data structure and proper migrations

Schema design is a process of discovery and code-first approaches become too sticky to change.

I think we need to head back to the ease of MS Access for data modeling and migrations should be automated.
TBH you still take the performance hit for journald doing all the lookups for each received message that populate all the fields of each message. In most cases you won't notice but I have seen some people complain that this extra processing can't be disabled.
Yeah, I wish more effort was spent on search and spam.

Very glad to see the security audit in any case.
I won’t use this language until they add generics!!! (GoLang joke)
Why was that change made? From my understanding users are constantly seeing outages now where they see an error message and have to wait. Were there more outages before? How was the previous system?
Not sure if he is willing to listen but I will tell anybody who listens to run not walk from social media.
It's more a matter of hanging on to what they have in favor of not capitalizing on a major opportunity right in front of their noses. The article phrases the upcoming investments in energy transition, mitigating the effects of climate change, etc. in terms of prevention and damage control. It's politically risky and companies are against it. That accurately describes the last four decades. But does it describe the next four when the proverbial shit is hitting the fan?

I think this continuous stream of weather caused disasters, record breaking heat waves, droughts, extremes, etc are slowly getting us ready to make some tough choices. The past year has shown that we can do that in a hurry when we have a pandemic. It's a matter of public opinion and once that shifts, things just happen really quickly and get a dynamic of their own. That change creates opportunities for companies to capitalize on. The changes are massive; therefore the opportunities are massive too. The NYT is right that that will involve a lot of money. They seem miss the notion that there's also a massive return on that investment. In a way capitalism and greed are working better here than politics and activism.

The first not so tough choice will be the timing of the complete death of the ICE vehicle industry. Weather it's 2030, 2035, or 2040 doesn't actually matter at this point because it is basically happening already. The consensus seems to be that the phase out of ICE vehicles is now inevitable and most manufacturers are already investing to survive beyond that. That creates a dynamic that basically makes it happen faster. Which seems to have taken a few manufacturers by surprise. Tesla paved the way for this in the last fifteen years. Now others are also having success in the market with EV only products. Sure most of these will happily churn out ICE vehicles as long as they can get away with it but increasingly they are looking towards EVs for growth, good press, profit, etc. Companies merely holding on to what they have without investing will simply be wiped out. To some extent that is already happening as well.

The same transition is happening in the energy sector. Wind and solar are basically killing more co2 intensive forms of energy generation like coal and increasingly also gas. There too people are haggling over when the final plants are being shut down. But economics are driving that transition faster than years of activism could. Wind is cheaper, therefore coal plants are disappearing by the double digit GW per year now.

These natural disasters that are widely attributed to climate change are just going to make it happen faster. But it was already happening anyway.
What you state about subtypes is not really true. HOL Light has subtypes baked into the kernel of the system. See https://github.com/jrh13/hol-light/blob/master/fusion.ml lines 600-637. Coq has sig in the standard library which is not quite it but becomes a lot closer when one assumes proof irrelevance. Also, a COC-based prover can easily be given subsets with a few easy axioms.

Your point that currently it is quite hard to do anything practical in all of the interactive theorem provers is very true, though.
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