skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well certainly, in some sense they are fundamental to the universe. But in this situation it’s a bit like saying the photon isn’t going away. Sure, but the strong link to consciousness isn’t there.

However, the universe doesn’t run on math, it runs on itself. Math is the best way we have to describe it at the moment. It used to be that divination was the best method. Why are you so certain math in it’s recognizable form today will be the method used to describe the universe in 100k years?

Our brains certainly do not run on binary. I think you might be confusing the information content, represented in bits, with the actual implementation. At the very least dendrites take in and mix signals of various strengths. The threshold for triggering and strength of the action potential are dependent on many chemicals signals. And that’s even a dated understanding which gave rise to the ideas of artificial neural networks. I’m sure the current understanding is much more complex and nuanced.

You brush off the analog parts as an implementation detail, when it could have very real implications for the computability of consciousness. The thing is, we don’t know.

But even all that is besides the point. The main point is, we don’t have the slightest idea how consciousness works. To the point that no one can even figure out how to ask the right questions about it.

In the face of such great uncertainty, it is anti-scientific to state with such conviction that you have the correct model. It’s fine to present it as a hypothesis, but the certainty is unfounded.
Are people that fuzzy? Of course I know my share of people that really obsess over it, own all the gear and everything in the process is strictly weighted, timed and temperature controlled.

But most people seem to primarily care about it tasting as they are used to whatever level of quality that might be. So making a coffee that tastes “ordinary” seems a sensible target.
Some believe that the two-valued logic is not sufficient and that you need the whole range of values from 0 to 1.

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf
Honest question: Why bother?
If it was - as you say - just infatuation, then wouldn't it be better to seek a divorce? Why does that become absurd?
the original claim is:

> Signal is the most trusted app in authoritarian countries.
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>You'll also find more people on the left being skeptical about GMOs

I've found it very strange that the same people who talk about the greed of Big Pharma and their price gouging and selling prescriptions to people who don't need them think the same big pharma companies wouldn't take advantage of a pandemic to make a fortune

oh well, my Pfizer and Moderna stock is doing great. Make sure to tell your friends to get your booster
There's a typo in this section header:

> Axiom schemas/Rules of inferene
i think some very small contingent of often-extraordinarily rich and powerful -- and, therefore, comparatively-loud -- people either believe or claim to believe that humans are selfish/evil.

the fact that someone would have to write a book to countervail that claim shows the incredible power of those few people.

then again, we have folks like Steven Pinker, who - i don't know what his actual views on human nature are - but he definitely seems to be convinced that everything is getting better all the time - despite what seems to me to be at best a mixed record, and from here on out is going to be...challenging.
Find someone online who wants to learn your native language, and talk with them for an hour a week split between the languages.

If you’re remote, use video so you can see expressions.

Tell each other how aggressively you want the other person to correct you. For example, if your speech is not what a native would use (it’s not “idiomatic”), do you want them to stop and tell you how they’d have said it? Or is your goal simply communicating your ideas clearly, even if it’s not native-level phrasing? These thresholds can change over time and based on the subject. For example, you might want to be native-level for conversations/topics that come up a lot, and simply good at communicating ideas (not native-level) for other topics.

To find these people, look at local cultural groups in both countries/cultures as well as r/LanguageLearning on Reddit. In Spanish it’s called an intercambio and you can Google for ‘intercambio directory spanish learning’. There’s probably equivalents for other languages. Worst case, you can pay for it through iTalki or Lingoda.
The quality and thoughtfulness of some of the comments in this thread is outstanding.
You would think that, but the problem is that Finns like their coffee the way it is.
I also had a site running on a server of a few Watts and didn't have trouble with the HN homepage at #1. And it wasn't static files, it needed multiple mysql queries to build each response. And ran apache and php that, yesterday, some people here were surprised is still in use - yup it's fine and plenty fast. Just don't use wordpress or similar without converting it to static pages (e.g. through caching).

I should also look into solar panels. I don't live where I host anymore (living in Germany now, good uplinks at home are usually impossible or at minimum expensive) so it's a bit more complicated but posts like these are inspiring.
I didn't link this study because it included the words "fat gain is proportional to caloric surplus", neither is it meant to be all encompassing on what the body does in a surplus.

The study is evidence that macronutrient composition has an effect on how much fat you gain, and I gave some reasoning for why this is the case. If you're not convinced then I suggest you do some more digging, I don't have time to find the all relevant papers for you.

> it's just obviously true that adult mammals experience changes in the amount of protein stored on their bodies on the same timescales as weight gain and loss occurs.

The body has both catabolic and anabolic processes running concurrently all the time, you'll see increase in one kind of tissue when overall one of these processes is more active than the other. caloric intake and macronutrient breakdown obviously affect these processes, as does exercise.
Atheists are not communists, but communists are atheists: they're believing that God does not exist, so they can take his role.
Used to means you don't anymore. What made you stop?
This is already a thing. I had a rifle stolen some time ago. Shortly thereafter shootings occurred on a freeway nearby with a rifle with the exact caliber as mine. The ATF and DEA were at my house for a chat. Luckily for me, the person that stole my rifle was caught and imprisoned and forensics verified that my firearm did not match the one used in the shooting. I was also lucky I saved the docket number from the Sheriff when I reported it stolen.

I have since left California and moved to a state where everyone is heavily armed. Now my rifles are pea-shooters in comparison to what everyone else around me has. Firearm crime is a very rare occurrence here.
Don't forget enneagrams. These things are all based on very shaky research at best. I would argue that love languages of all of these are probably the best supported, or at least the most plausible a priori. After all they mostly boil down to, "I especially like {touch, gifts, service, ...}." But even then I think that for most people you need a mix of all of these things in a romantic relationship. Getting great gifts from a spouse is not going to save the relationship if they won't touch you, nine times out of ten.
My takeaway from your data is that people call each other various shades of dishonest a lot more than they call each other stupid.

And those are two very different things that don't got much to do with how big the words you type are.

It's easy to not be entirely honest in an argument due to various biases, or when you have some sort of emotional attachment to an argument. That can be a reasonable thing to point out.

Calling people stupid, on the other hand, that is pointless and purely inflammatory.
It seems perfect for a cushion.
Some jobs can't be WFH. Would that disqualify everyone from being able?

Include an equipment/ability requirement? I've remoted in via personal laptop before.

Mandatory WFH likely is pushing it
> I have access to far more content now (music on Spotify, shows and movies on streaming services, tutorials, online classes, etc)

I don't. I am tired of looking up a movie in some service I pay for and getting nothing. It doesn't matter what streaming company I choose, there's always something that just isn't there.

Music? If you stray from the mainstream path, you're on your own. Mercifully YouTube is still a respectable repository of music. There are often gaps in the playlists now but what can you do?

Back then we had instant access to everything humanity had ever created. The monopolists ruined it all and replaced it with their garbage services.
>Your marriage doesn't sound like one of equals. You're doing a Masters while working full time I imagine. So who picks up the slack for household management? I'm guessing your wife. If you have kids, then it is even more unbalanced I imagine.

You confuse 'equality' for 'symmetry', and this is extremely flawed.

Even in non-romantic teams, the entire purpose of cooperation is to perform different roles in parallel. This is fundamental to human existence.

>I know people in similar marriages - it works great, as long as the spouse is happy being the dutiful house wife. But I also know people in this situation who are now separated - usually the man/provider is completely blind sided when their ever loving, house wife says one day "no" and just walks out. They had no idea there was an inequality in the first place, and assumed their spouse is happy like this.

....and as long as the husband is happy being a dutiful provider.

Getting blind sided by a partner suddenly walking out? They assumed their partner was happy? This is almost a parody of a bad marriage.

>I personally believe that when marrying someone, "marry your equal" is incredibly important advice. Marry someone of similar earning power, with similar career and life accomplishments. This helps ensures a equal relationship that has the greatest chance of success.

IMO, this doesn't address the nightmare scenario you described in your second paragraph, and sounds more likely to make you vulnerable to it.

If you got blind sided by your partner because the two of you were 'assuming the other was happy', you started deeply fucking up years ago and making sure your partner was a close rival in earning career progression had almost nothing to do with it.
> That's the example from the site. "console.log('Hello world')" gets deobfuscated to "console[a(482)]("Hello World!");"

That does not look deobfuscated to me.
The Story of Infosys
It would be almost negligent to not draft and forecast the scenario. Intelligence work has to operate from worst case assumptions.

Obviously the plan was never executed. I am sure that was a choice based on risk factors and not just professional ethics.
It would be more sustainable if the poor countries that grow coffee would also be the ones that profit from it.
As it is the big coffee factories are all in the rich West.
"These advantages will out-balance the very rare ambiguous soft situations"

Tesla has driven into a solid concrete wall, that does not seem ambiguous to me
I guess you'll always have some kind of supportive administration (aka "The Deep State") that will have to carry along institutional knowledge, that will mitigate the worst.

It would be nice however to have some mechanism that will get rid of the worst outliers.
I don't mean to sound so rude, but how does this mean you practice what you preach?
By killing him you close the loop?

In reality hawks in the miliary have wanted him since the video release showing that bombing at the wedding.

He made enemies of both sides.

If you think about it both sides play for the same team. Any powerful voice uncontrolled needs silencing. Hence why he is inprison and why laws were broken to get him in jail.
I use 'w3m -dump' to keep articles in a directory in my memex.
> You're doing a Masters while working full time I imagine. So who picks up the slack for household management? I'm guessing your wife. If you have kids, then it is even more unbalanced

One could just as well find inequality the other way - that the poster is going above and beyond to improve the family's financial situation.

The point being - who cares? If the division of labor works for them, amazing. My wife probably spends more time with the kid than I do, I definitely spend more time fixing shit around the house. I, my wife, the kid, and the house are all better off with this situation than any other combination, nobody is walking out. Maybe the house.
When I saw that HBO were doing a remake I wondered: who do they think they are that they can do better than Bergman?
100% - they got away with it because they were small. Hacking Mac OS was unattractive - whereas, hacking iOS is the most attractive target. High gain, low security.

Apple does not have security in its DNA, as is obvious from all these exploits. Apple lives in the past where it was OK to kinda fudge it, to kinda give home apps special passes, to bypass stuff to make the game center work, and so on and so forth. These are all red flags.

Apple's threat model is script kiddies and Russian hacker groups. It's very naive vs real world exploits conducted by state level actors, companies serving state level actors, and a $1M market rate for iPhone zero day p0wn exploits.

In this cat and mouse game, the hackers are leagues ahead at this point - motivated by money and a whole different mindset.

Relying on the app store review process to catch these things is naive. A company that takes security seriously would never even think this way, obviously there's many ways around app store reviews, and hackers who went through all the trouble of finding exploits will find a way around the app store reviews, too.
This makes no sense. Humans are nature.

If you went to say Africa and killed all the lions there, the wildlife would “flourish” in the same way, but it wouldn’t be natural because lions killing prey and reducing their numbers is natural.
Which, while making for an excellent bit of dialogue, is unfortunately not the case at all. The idea that natural systems reach an equilibrium is a fiction imposed by humans who invented the concept of “ecology” in the 20th century. Every attempt to measure an equilibrium has revealed that the system being measured is constantly changing and there is no stable configuration.
Because the consequences of nuclear accidents have been exaggerated by the anti-Nuclear lobby and hysteria.
Would you be so kind as to point out some well executed research on the love languages? I had been under the impression that they are pop-psychology.

https://www.mic.com/p/do-love-languages-actually-matter-psyc...

“I don’t consider it to be an evidence-based practice, but I do find it to be a very useful tool and use it in all of my work with couples,” says Stefani Goerlich, a Detroit-based psychotherapist.

research conducted in 2017 suggests that the five love languages only work when “both spouses exhibit appropriate self-regulatory behaviors.”
There was zero child safety back then. These edges look like they have taken many children to the infirmary.
> Git history was only rebased in after the Twitter thread [2].

Any source to this? Your referenced link does not support your hypothesis.
Many families here in Copenhagen have one car, though certainly not all of them — and it's much more related to where people live than how much they earn.

It's very common to see bicycles with a child seat, or box bicycles, used to take children to/from nursery on the way to work.

There are slightly fewer days with rain here than in Vilnius, but it only matters if it's raining during the journey, which is far less often than ⅓-½ of the year. I usually wear a raincoat, though sometimes I just take the bus.

I don't think the goal is to remove 100% of driving, or private cars, but it is great when a city (including its suburbs) is practical and accessible without one. It also makes it accessible to people without cars, like old-enough children, some pensioners, poor people, etc.
I know that there are probably versions of AI that are hidden from the public both private and military but something tells me if we were close to the advent of anything self operational it would be evident. There would be transitional technologies emerging on the markets. More than likely there are pieces of very complex intelligence resembling mechanisms that are held together by teams of people.

The idea of even the most modern intelligence system navigating through an environment as elaborate and dynamic as New York City or downtown Chicago should give anyone pause. I can see them being more useful for long distance journeys such as hauling a trailer across rural desert areas where all the vehicle needs to do is stay in its own lane, maintain a set speed and brake if something obvious gets in front of it.
This one-sided view lists only the pluses from the "governance perspective". It can have minuses for them too, depending on how their subjects and the rest of the world take it. Most of us belong to one of those two groups and can try to shade our actions accordingly.
an economy where the US government racked up nearly 7 trillion in debt the last 2 years to keep it from utterly collapsing. The US economy is a ponzi scheme at this point
This study wasn't even for Kids, FYI. It excludes <18.

I'm also wondering where exactly this 32K number came from vs the 800K. There isn't really any discussion on how this number could be wrong. It seems like you'd need to estimate how many of the vaccinated would reach your study, that would be fraught with error and so this 32K could really be a conservative estimate vs an 800K (govt sanctioned) number. This is a pretty long article so why wouldn't that be included? They go on to discuss Parents worries about Kids and how this study may mislead. WTH? This study doesn't include kids! Another terrible biased article which on the surface dunks on the antivax crowd but only raises questions on motives and whats going on behind the veil.
This is broadly the reasoning behind the fear in the linked article. But it's... really it's just fear. All the stuff you posit is something that can be tested and analyzed. Thousands of people have been driving this stack around since March with no accidents. At some point data will win, right? Have you worked out in your head when that will be?

> I don't think we understand the human factors involved

Do we? Because human factors responsible for literally every traffic accident in history, and those don't seem as scary to you. Basically: it's fear. It's just fear. And it's reaching a peak right now (and being deliberately pushed, frankly) just as Tesla is reaching a public rollout.

And why? Because there's another fear at work here too. If this rolls out and doesn't kill people. If it turns out that it actually is safe, then a lot of people across a lot of industries stand to lose a lot of money. Stories like this are, fundamentally, just marketing press hits. The public FSD beta rollout in some sense marks the last chance to kill Tesla's autonomy product before... it wins.
Lawyers make mistakes too. Perhaps you’re surprised to hear that but there’s an entire section of law to deal with this. And yes lawyers use software dictation all the time because it’s faster and more accurate than a human assistant.

In fact ML does already do a better job in tasks like crawling through case research, while people then take over for strategy and deduction.

This split between low-level mechanical vs high-level creative thinking is a good distinction between ML vs human application, and most driving falls in the former.
Yeah I've actually been doing this since March -- not entirely by choice, but I view it as a growing experience. And I'm itching to settle down because of this problem. It doesn't fit every lifestyle.

The first issue is that I play guitar and percussion, and that's non-negotiable (I've played every day for decades). So that's already more than you can take on a plane. I bought duplicates on the east and west coast and use storage spaces; it's still an issue.

I also bike which is non-negotiable -- I'll be listless and unhappy otherwise.

Other things I like having, but can live without for a few months, but maybe not a year: real speakers (I dislike bluetooth/laptop speakers), a single kettlebell for exercise (there are gyms but it seems wasteful if that's all I need), rice cooker and toaster oven (eating out for every meal is invariably bad for your health IMO). This is not a lot of stuff, and it delivers tremendous value, but it's heavy and bulky compared to a suitcase.

I'll also mention that working on laptops for long periods is pretty bad for your posture (maybe people in their 20's won't notice YET), and it helps to have more than that.

I don't consider this a particularly elaborate lifestyle, but it's already way more than you can take on a plane, and it's actually even more than you can easily take to a Lyft to move across town, etc.

So I got to live in 8 different places in the Bay Area and NYC, which has been fun, but it's been a hassle in some important ways. I did pare down my stuff drastically month over month, especially after flying to the east coast. But at the end of the day it would compromise my lifestyle way too much to live like this permanently.

I'm surprised that so many people can live out of a suitcase permanently! I've done 7-8 months of major adaptation and I don't think it's for me.
They already have end to end encryption available in WhatsApp. Facebook chats are not encrypted and users are aware of it and the risks.
A list of similar sites:

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
So before committing a crime against someone, you can check to see if they have a gun?
Biden seems to be clearing up older issues. Reminds me of someone closing out bugs in jira without looking to see if the work has been done. I could see him closing another chapter of history.
If only one partner is working full time, how is it not equal (and expected) that the other does the housework?
Person A: Chinese communist party is repressive, brutal to dissidents, and hides it's failings

You: Chinese economy is doing well, therefore your accusations are false
„And scientists interviewed for this article agreed that often researchers do some of the science they describe in proposals before or after they submit them.“

That sentence should be written in bold.
I doubt CDs will have the same retro appeal for several reasons, which all boil down to "They're insufficiently different from a FLAC library, which has [almost] all the upsides of CDs with [almost] none of the downsides." In contrast, the limitations of vinyl make for a significantly different listening experience -- especially the difficulty in pausing or seeking to individual tracks -- which nudge you toward active listening of whole albums.
Seems like the article answered this question somewhat. Basically it's that the president wasn't consulted in some questions as there was a loophole and that the Intelligence services do not change at all when a president changes and they have long memories and wanted revenge.
But the problems with cars aren’t eliminated with motorcycles. In fact, the emissions on motorcycles are way worse.

And I’m not sure balancing a family of two adults and two children on a motorbike is much of a better option.

And sure if you’re wealthy enough to live in the city center there aren’t many container trucks, but many people aren’t.
Fire at playout centre knocks out TV services
National AI Strategy
RyanAir is generally cheaper