skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how those of us who didn't spend more than a couple years in school think the rest of the years are probably a waste, and those that did spend a lot of time and money in school think it was useful.
I think the real difficulty is in human language. "a ^ ~a is a contradiction" is still perfectly applicable but apparently requires a "for observer A" clause. To supply all of the clauses necessary to make a completely unambiguous statement would be way too long to be humanly comprehensible. It makes me think of the Carl Sagan quote about needing to invent the universe before you can make anything "from scratch".
>No i said Humans are not logically describable systems.

Arguably they're equivalent statements.

>Having Slaves because it's an easier life for the larger population for example?

Yes. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it couldn't be the "best". By the way, historically, slave-based economies needed the majority of the population to be slaves. It makes sense, since the slaves are consuming their own production and are expending more energy than the non-slaves.

>Try to mathematically proof that ;)

Humans don't grow arbitrarily large or small, nor do they grow arbitrary numbers of limbs, nor have arbitrary numbers of bones. A person chosen at random from anywhere in the world isn't equally likely to hold any opinion from the infinity of opinions they could conceive of. For example, I could confidently say no person has ever simultaneously believed that Google should be subject to more regulation and that the current pharaoh is a living deity.
I had "Hullo, it's Scott Manley here.." going around my head before the YouTube page opened, confirming as much :)
> 180 points, 25 comments.

And got dropped off the front-page real quick despite of those points. It would have had a lot more points and comments without the people seeking to prevent discussion of it via flags.

It's genius really, have it posted once, sweep it under the rug, then pretend it was freely discussed before and that this is a dupe. Move along, nothing to see and all that.
Fuck off, "misinformation" means "unpopular with whoever is in power". This isn't a contrived emergency, this is scary what is happening. When Trump won, the left didn't think "how do we express ourselves better", they went straight to "lets outlaw anyone that disagrees". This is how totalitarian states are created.

Edit: im sorry i might have misread what you're saying. My position is that i'm not ok with anyone having the authority to define truth. Rereading it I think you're saying the same thing, the first sentence caught me off guard.
why run when you can drive… you’ll never outrun a car
What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
What? Doctorate implies you've learned some skills.

If everyone suddenly everyone got better at maths and critical thinking. Overall the economy would be more productive, and everyone would be better off.

There isn't a fixed amount wealth, to be divided up between people. If you increase skill levels, total level of wealth can increase.
There's two classes of people in this world. The ones wishing to believe in nonsense and the others that prefer logic. Consciousness is just a human word that expresses nothing more than a fallacy that attracts people that prefer faith. Similar to quantum mechanics if one is ever capable of understanding superdeterminism. Hilariously the support that exists for the former, reflects the state of society and how humanity will continue to progress in the wrong direction until nothingness.
Indeed. What I am asking is something different, although I did not word it properly -- Is it even possible for the brain to be sensitive to touch everywhere, or must a teeny-weeny dead-zone exist.
Would love to discuss this over drinks. For me it's the opposite. It's feels pretty natural to me to imagine that intelligence and (perceived) free will are emergent properties. But consciousness troubles me, we still can't prove for anyone but ourselves that it does in fact exist - while it's existance is "apparent" to oneself. Also it does not make logical sense to me why such a feature should even develop, why have consciousness if you can have intelligence and problem solving without it? Loved the discussion between Lex Friedmann and Sam Harris on this very topic:

https://youtu.be/4dC_nRYIDZU
(European here) my grandparents bathed I think once per week, we often joked about this in the family. My uncle who is a commercial construction inspector/engineer arranged for a full bathroom model a couple years before they died. When we went to sell the house he complained the bathroom was unused and looked the same as the day he signed off on it.

Despite this, they never smelled bad to me, they certainly had a recognizable smell, but it wasn't foul. Contrasting with myself, if I don't shower for a day, I'll get remarks from my girlfriend the next afternoon, and on the third day I smell so foul I can smell it myself. I also get more randomly itchy.

I wonder if by showering daily I'm somehow tampering with my bodies ability to fend off some foul smelling bacteria or something. Besides fearing to smell bad for a couple weeks (months?) to find out, I also enjoy showering to start my day fresh and I like the way it makes my hair feel.
My 4 year bachelor's degree in Australia still cost me $60000. I'm still not convinced it was worth it
If we are reaching the point where only unvaccinated people are suffering from their own decisions - fuck them I guess?
High IQ is no barrier to becoming a crackpot, evidently.
Intuit can eat shit, their business model is to lobby against any meaningful tax code simplification
Why did Arthur make this a builtin.

The beauty of ngn k is I can compile it on NetBSD and with musl on Linux.
I dunno, it’s hard to tell. Everett never wavered. It’s not like everyone bought into MWI in the first place.

As in everyone thought he was crazy until everyone realized he wasn’t. Why go with general consensus now when general consensus was wrong from the start?

Downvotes of course. Y’all do realize that the consensus of physics at one point was that the earth was flat right?
GP referred to the virus being unnatural, whereas there is very strong evidence that it is natural.

As to a natural virus being accidentally leaked from a lab, there's no evidence for that scenario, except for the fact that the first major SARS-CoV2 outbreak happened in the same city. For what it's worth, this is not as implausible a co-incidence as might be claimed, since it is not uncommon for a virology lab to study viruses endemic to the region it is located in.
I didn’t have that issue on iOS. Try Wipr + 1Blocker.
The top salaries listed on that page are at the very low end of what is available to experienced coders.
Ah, this is very neat.
No. Even you crack the skull open and poke the brain, it wont feel a thing even when conscious. The skull, the skin will feel, but the brain itself has no pain/tactile receptors. Many surgical procedures on the brain are done with the patient very much awake.
At what point does it immerge? What is the smallest unit? Is it a magic number of neurons, or when they get arranged in a certain way?

There's a mystery in these questions, and I think that's well accepted. I've heard this "emergent property" explanation before but it seems kind of a handwavey way of avoiding answering any questions. "It just appears when you have enough neurons" is probably true but how?!
A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)
Ask HN: Is Learning Rust a Must?
Everywhere I read , I notice people talk about rust and how everything is being rewritten in rust. Is learning rust is must now ?
During the pandemic last year another delivery service (I don't think it was Uber Eats, I want to say it was Favor, not sure) made the same requirements of the driver, except it was for contactless delivery. Somehow the driver was supposed to know if the person in the house matched the ID, and was not too intoxicated, without ever seeing them. It was the pinnacle of absurdity.
Here we go again. Expenses and deductions don't apply to most tax filers. There is no reason to keep a broken system in place for the benefit of 10%.

If there are deductions to be made we can do the same as other modern countries, have the taxpayer fill in an amendment and recalculate the proper amount.
CondaNSIS: Windows installers for conda-powered Python applications
There are various models that could possibly be developed to accurately account for the emergent complexity we experience. Dimensionality of causal sets and Wolfram’s recent research into causal graphs come to mind.
There are over a million Teslas on the road (and close to that amount being sold annually at current run rate) and only 7 Autopilot related deaths. Regulation and oversight is important (crucial even considering life safety), but the naysayers are crying that the sky is falling based on the statistics.

Ignore my anecdote, the data speaks for itself. GM ignition switch deficiencies GM covered up killed orders of magnitude more people (124).

https://www.tesladeaths.com/
Assuming the orbit is and remains stable, the best way to preserve it would be to keep it where it is now. But I'm not sure we can assume that the orbit remains stable in the long term, even if we confirm via observation that the orbit is stable now (few issues I see here includes increasing number of satellites orbiting Moon, asteroid impacts and fly-bys, ...).
Same here. Thinkpad x6 worked perfectly. Now I'm on a Thinkpad T14s that also works perfectly.

Arch Linux.
This is the technological dystopian that the Matrix was depicting. What an irony.
I'm not sure if it's useful in your case, but a recipe that I used to "solve" a problem is to sit with the people doing the real work. I was just drinking mate [1] and doing nothing. Just looking where is the real pain, and some minimal help, almost nothing.

Later I made a (silly) program to solve a part of the problem an these reduce the time of the task to approximately one half.

[1] Hi from Argentina! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) We use that as a metaphor of "not working".
His intent was not to suggest that the USSR was always backwards, but rather that due to it's history the development was not undertaken until the war. The Tsars didn't do it because they were busy being feudal masters and the communists because they were nation building and hadn't faced the german onslaught yet. Atleast, that is how I understand it. His comment is not an underhanded insult.
Yeah maybe, but that's a little like claiming Usain Bolt isn't the fastest man in the world because there is no agreed definition of "fastest man", because everyone can have their own definition of what is means to be the fastest man.

IQ is the best measure we have to compare how fast your brain stores and processes information compared to others.
> The word ‘Semite’ is a product of the abhorrent ‘race science’ of the time in Europe that purported to divide up peoples according to pseudo-scientific fashion of the time.

Nope. The word Semite was coined in 1771 by August Ludwig von Schlözer to refer to a family of languages and their people. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/18229/summary
In Germany a lot of people don't need to file taxes. If you have a job that takes taxes out automatically, like an office job, you aren't obligated to files taxes, but if you freelance or have some additional income that wouldn't be taxed then you are obligated to file. As far as I understand the rule of thumb is if all of your employers deduct taxes you don't need to file.

I moved here from the USA and it feels simpler for the average person. You don't declare how many withholdings you get (I always used 0 so I could get some money at the end of the year), you just tell your employer your tax class and everything else is handled, and any refund is based on if you paid too many taxes somehow (there are some situations where you might have overpaid taxes inadvertently, like if you have a change in income part way through the year, and if this is the case when you file the return they analyze your income data and give you a refund).
One possibility is that from an omniscient perspective, free will is indeed meaningless.
But then again it can be argued that everything would be meaningless from an omniscient perspective: time, space, matter, energy, freedom, love, whatever

That is unless there is some sort of actual absolute meaning to the universe, which is a very boring and treacherous line of reasoning that i won't entertain here

However he existence of an omniscient entity would completely break physics as we know it so any physicalist/rationalist approch to understanding the universe can fairly safely rule it out

Free will may exist as a result of the unknown factors of human consciousness, their actions and consequences and their relations to the physicial world.

Personally I find that thought quite pleasant, because it means that free will does exist from a human perspective, and I happen to posess one of those.
I’m starting to see “drinks” measured in terms of volume of pure ethanol. The UK has defined its standard drink as 10ml of pure ethanol, which conveniently comes out to a single 25ml shot of liquor.

Based on the Netflix documentary I watched, it seems like they’re starting to standardize the labels of alcoholic drinks in the UK to inform consumers how many units of alcohol it represents, and also encouraging people to keep their consumption below X/Y units a day and week.
I tried asking many chatbots the question to just tell me what I just said, as in either repeat what I said or at least tell what I was talking about.

All chatbots simply fail to understand this query. They all run on patterns of text and respond statistically like GPT and fail to answer this.

I wonder if this or the chatbot Google demoed can answer this.
> No. I agree with you that the RPI is a great experiment board, but usually you don't get them for below 30€ (20 for the zeros).

You should really look up those prices because your assertions don't match reality.

I am, right now, looking at the page of a distributor listed in raspberry pi which sells raspberry pi 3+ for 28€ plus 4€ shipping. Amazon sells 16GB SD cards for 5€, and a charger is really the least of your budget problems.

The same store sells Raspberry Pi Zero W for 11€ a pop, and Raspberry Pi Zeros for 5€.

Hell, a while ago there were magazines giving away raspberry pi zeros with the mag.
And that’s how you get laws prohibiting congestion…
> We badly need legislation to force the IRS to send every taxpayer a bill which they can pay.

Some in congress are working for this:

https://twitter.com/senwarren/status/1214310004804792320

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1416088088934338562
That is exactly what he argues.

But I think it's a tough position, given that relational quantum mechanics also works "out of the box" and doesn't require ontological realism and a deeply speculative metaphysics.

Sean Carroll discusses this with Carlo Rovelli in two separate Mindscape episodes.
Most of you only know your peer group, who are also nerds with jobs. The vast majority of weed smokers are serious drug addicts who do it all day, search for it all day and are also into heavier drugs...besides multiple trips to jail, kids they don't want, families who are either drug addicts or have severed ties due to the damage caused...and finally they lead a severely unhealthy life they hate. You stupid, self righteous hippie wannabes.
Generalizing everyone into either "believes in nonsense" or "uses logic" seems like a great way to have a bad time interacting with the other several billion members of our species.
Feels like Elixir has stolen much of Clojure's appeal and 'thunder' as the niche pragmatic functional language.
This seems to be true for any endeavor worth putting time into. I like that programming has a big built-in filter; if you don't get enjoyment from solving hard problems, the frustration and technical difficulty of it will force you out pretty quickly. So most of the people that have been doing it for a few years really love it and are always looking to improve their craft.
And why do you think such a culture exists? Did it always exist? What is it influenced and kept up by?
Maybe the exception to this is recursion? You must have early return statements for the base case
People don't accept it because it doesn't solve the problem. The problem is why an experience is had by someone, not why there is a mind.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that my CPU had feelings, if the CPU was created in a million year evolutionary process in which the lack of appropriate subjective feelings would have resulted in its death.
You are half-way through a change. Your old motivations have lost their appeal. But you don't understand the new ones yet. You'll need to. My suspicion here is that you are experiencing some sort of crisis that has made your thinking pretty short term. That's mostly a good crisis response, as it helps us get through a problem alive. But it has issues.

The problem with "make money" is that it's mostly a short-term, proximate motivation. As others suggest, you need to figure out what you want the money for. Starting a business is a long-term proposition, so you'll need to find your deeper motivations.

And note that motivation isn't a static thing; it's a thing you nourish over time. So whatever business you pick, it should feed your motivations. E.g., I know somebody who has run a bookstore for 20+ years. He could do things that make more money, but he loves interacting with customers and talking about books on a daily basis.

One exercise you could do is to write your own obituary. Start by going to Legacy.com. Read a few of the famous-people ones on the front page. Next search for your first name and read a number of those. Leave the good ones open in tabs. Then open up a blank document and start typing yours. Refer back to others as needed, borrowing freely. What in others' obituaries resonates for you? What do you want your life to have been?
I think the debt problem is one of a predatory nature. I love music and history, but I came from a family that pretty much only got by because of welfare. I didn't have the time or money to waste getting a degree in something that had zero job prospects after school.

You show a $50k a year degree to an 18 year old from a more middle to upper middle class family, though, and they're not going to understand how much money that actually is. They're going to see one big party that they don't need to pay for until they're done.

I also remember when I was in high school, all the boomer teachers and parents were saying university is a gateway to easy money after. We were sold something that hasn't held true, and I think a lot of people are very bitter about that.
Isn't China our biggest trading partner. This sounds like xenophobia.
I can't comment on the American education system (which this article is about) but here and in other parts of Europe, the bachelors vs masters distinction is a quite recent addition (30-40 years ago, I think?) Before then, higher education took at least five, maybe six years versus the 4+2 or 3+2 system that has replaced it. An artifical split was added after three or four years (depending on the level of education) to align with the foreign bachelor/master system and make our degrees easier to use in foreign countries.

Nowadays, people consider the bachelor enough of an education to join the workforce. And power to them, if they can get their jobs done with only their bachelors', they have no need for more education.

However, it does imply that less knowledge has been transferred to those students than to the students who followed the old system. The vocational education has also shaped itself more to that form, at least here, which is detrimental for the quality of education those people receive.
Yeah, and you are usually dead to your family twenty years before alcohol finally stops your body.
In 2019, 87% of people took the standard deduction.
Idk I tend to think it is rigorous enough, and maybe the fact that we don't intuitively believe it's rigorous enough is an artifact of an evolved spiritual impulse.

It seems to me consciousness is something we have to have to exist the way that we do. In order for the human animal to function, we need to understand the past, predict the future, understand the motivations of others and come up with stories about the world we use to convince others and facilitate collaboration. Human society wouldn't be possible without consciousness, and I don't see more explanation needed than the idea that we evolved this ability for our brains to talk to themselves in this certain way through the series of selective pressures which lead us to where we are today.

Other animals probably have some version of this at varying levels of complexity, and somewhere along the line you could probably draw a line and say a slug with 15 neurons probably is more of a biological machine, and doesn't have anything you could describe as consciousness or subjective experience. Maybe you even need a pretty advanced brain with a neocortex to allow for subjective experience.

I don't know why some "spooky stuff" is needed, or why some reach for consciousness to be a property which arises in individual cells. I think it's probably a very complex thing which arises from very complex structures consisting of millions or billions of neurons.
Am I alone in thinking pricing seems too high at $60/year per user for any reasonably large organization?
> I notice people talk about rust and how everything is being rewritten in rust. Is learning rust is must now ?

Like all other programming languages, only if you need it and if it fits your use-case. Otherwise a better language can be used instead.

If it were me, the language I'd learn and use is the one that makes me the most money possible. At this stage for me, it is not Rust.
Open-Source Software Needs a Security Incentive Program
I'm vegan and supplement DHA via this product: https://ca.freshfield.life/products/vegan-omega-3
Area is just not a huge problem on Mars or in space in general. It’s not really a relevant figure of merit, unlike mass and pre-deployed volume
The people making a movie about a dystopia where any value humans have is sucked out to power a digital replacement, did exactly that. Heh.
Deep Learning for Game Development - not only DLSS
I've yet to see a useful master's degree. Especially in the US and in STEM it seems like master's has just been a gate to the next thing.

I have a master's and one of the biggest reasons behind my education was the opportunity in the US after the master's. Sole benefit of it has been the OPT (~3 years work visa). I learned small things here and there during my education but as an SWE I don't use them at all and I forgot the rest of my classes. I wrote a thesis but it was nowhere near a PhD level research.

Additionally higher entry level areas such as ML and AI often require PhD so getting a master's is not getting your foot in the door.
I agree fully that export is a must for app like this. On the other note, your collection of flashcard sounds impressive, perhaps you could consider publishing those flashcards publicly on github or somewhere, and kill 2 birds with 1 stone: backup the flashcard and also share the knowledge?
I almost feel like "doing your taxes" is one of those things that is like going to buy a new car. Everyone hates it, but when Saturn came along and said "no haggling, just best price on every car" people didn't actually like that.

I go to buy a new car and I HOPE I got a great price, I worked on it, I bargained, I did the research. They say I did really good this team, I got such a great deal!

I "do my taxes" and I HOPE I paid as little as possible. I worked on it, I kept my receipts, I did the research, and maybe I even paid someone to do all that for me and they say I did really good this year, low tax bill!

Both of these things suck, but if I just got a bill from the IRS I'm just going to think "maybe I could've done better" just like if I see a car that just has a price I am going to think "maybe I could've done better"

I really don't like thinking like this!