skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the long form linear book format puts me into a calming perceiving mood. It became a much needed method of taking a break at a time when multiple high pressure projects and private stress at the same time were pushing me towards collapse. Internet is fractured and many encounter either directly elicit an emotional response of ask of me some form of judgement. Not helpful when needing to calm down.
Here's what I used to test it: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/
Most of those hoverboards are actually from the same place in China with a different company importing it. I would keep away from any of them.
There seems to be a lot of evidence for dark matter, that's how I understand it as an outsider. What it means is that there is a lot of consistency in observations, things add up, to the dark matter theory.

I usually agree with your understanding of dark matter/dark energy as placeholders for missing knowledge.
Contamination goes two ways.
Images processing and traditional 1D signal processing are not directly comparable, especially when dealing with analogue signals. You can’t have a true “hard edge” in an analogue 1D signal, because it not physically possible to record or reproduce, so you’re always dealing with sinusoids.

If you take a sinusoids, invert it, slightly offset it, and combine them. You get a smaller signal always, unless you’re delay is larger then 90°.

I would recommend playing with some audio signals in an online simulator and see what you get, you realise that your 2D intuition does not apply well to analogue 1D signals. The strict digital nature of image processing done on a computer creates the possibility of results not easily possible when working on analogue signal. After all you can one pixel on a screen at max brightness, and it’s neighbour completely of, but it’s impossible to recreate a similar hard edge with an audio signal because it would require the speaker to be capable of infinite speed and acceleration.
The First Privilege Walk
As a similar-yet-different anecdote: I used to read all the time as a kid and I still read a lot as a 34 year old. I never stopped the habit.

I usually spend 8+ hours a day in front of my PC and I still read 50+ books a year (mostly fiction).
The internet didn't replace my reading habit though it did replace my TV time. I haven't spent more than a couple minutes in front of a TV in years.

Also don't sell yourself short. Whether you read books or not does not make you dumber. It's just another way to spend what time you have.
Yeah definitely. Is it possible to work in a similar way for a lower-level management position? I'm not interested in the Managerial track, but it's worth a try if this is possible.
Yeah yeah we get it you’re a fascist little shithead who would gladly take away everyone else’s rights to make yourself feel safe. Just like a bunch of other commenters here. Good to know.
I am sorry if it came off like fighting. I didn't consider it fighting, but just arguing. I am indeed interested in subjective opinions. But most of the first answers were answering by explaining what was "the right" way for others to react, and doing it authoritatively.

What I was trying to argue is both reactions are valid and felt forced to take the other side.
I was doing it in the hope that anybody that read this thread would find her reaction in a similar situation legitimate and offer it to us whatever that reaction is. I didn't want them to be inhibited if they were going against the grain.

And since I am interested, I replied to every answer that was interesting, like yours :)

By the way muzani was the first to offer a first person account of a similar situation. Now re-reading the original post, I probably didn't make it obvious enough that I was interested in "subjective" opinions based on first person experience !
I sincerely hope this reply doesn't read like it's combative, it's really not my state of mind.

Edit: I had those kind of stories in mind when asking the question https://www.folklore.org/
We assume other people are "who" and not "it" because their behavior is predictably similar to our own, and so we model their experiences and perspectives based on our own subjective experience.

Occam's razor suggests that if we know other people have the same basic configuration as ourselves, then the subjective experiences of others will be more or less comparable to our own.

Additional assumptions are necessary to propose that Chalmersian/philosophical zombies could exist, having the same human hardware and behavior but lacking subjective experience. Under the principle of least complexity and the absence of evidence for alternate explanations, I think it's rational to assume the consciousness of other humans and certain animals with nearly 100% confidence.

That means something happening in the neocortex is causing consciousness. We know it's in the cortex because of the history of injury or absence of other parts of the brain, leaving us with empirical evidence. We know that hippocampus injury can result in a person losing the ability to remember more then 5 minutes of their past. We also know these individuals retain their personalities and the long-term memory from before their injury. This suggests that long term memory is encoded in the synaptic structure of the neocortex and that consciousness is an emergent result of neocortical operation.

There might be some involvement of particular brain regions or the thalamus or other organ, but it looks like the answer is part of whatever algorithm is encoded in the structure and processing of the neocortex.

It could be possible that consciousness doesn't require an explicit model of self. This is implied by ego death and other experiences by meditators and psychedelic users. The thing that is having a subjective experience could simply be a consequence of processing a particular configuration of information. The self concept seems to be a separate model that can be perceived as part of the process of awareness, but it seems to be a discrete thing.

To me that presents an interesting ethical question - if gpt-3 has a sense of self, then is it OK to subject it to the incoherent flashes of single moments of consciousness it undergoes each time you run it?

If it has no self concept, it might still have subjective experience, but would have no persistent contiguous experience . If it did have a self concept, then it would have a static past that informed the results of each run, as if you could isolate a single moment of awareness, then instantly reset the brain to a saved state and run it again. The output could be convincingly continuous, but the subjective experiences would be a myriad of similar but unrelated singularities of awareness.

I think gpt-3 lacks consciousness, and that a persistence mechanism is missing that plays a part in whatever is happening that causes awareness.

Hopefully, at some point, a m mathematician or scientist will be able to identify and explain the process of consciousness so that we can be reasonably certain we're not subjecting entities to a really weird tortured existence.
that would work if you were talking about random people who were selected to do a surprise track race, but if the track race is known to be THE measure and that can be influenced by training then you’re going to see skew.

to be clear, i still think the sat is better than everything else because preparation is much more legible and accessible compared to all of the other ways to stand out for college applications.
United Nations Confirms Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic
Do submarines swim?
Nobody wants to end freedom of contract. We want to end the abuse of pseudo-contracting as a way for Megacorps to skirt their responsibilitirs as employers.

Gig workers are misslabelled as contractors. They are not. It's a perversion of the idea.

All your arguments can be sued against minimum wage as well, but minimum wage increase have shown positive effects every time. Your arguments can also be used to justify slavery.

Where do you think this society is headed? A bunch of gig workers scrapping the bottle of the barrel, with no insurances, no job safety, bad working conditions, but doing all the jobs servicing us fat middle class programmers, who think these people can't earn more because then we would have to pay a shopping fee on Amazon?

You and I work to afford a house and a vacation. Others work to afford basic survival. And we deny them improved working conditions because of why?

And gig working is only one part of the problem. Abuse if sub-contracting achieves the same, and missing worker protection laws even allow companies to mistreat their actual employees.

There is no need for this economic brutality. There is enough for everyone, the super rich can even stay super rich once we improve the situation of the people on the other end of the scale.
The hype died and the platform is dying.
> Maybe just avoid electrical systems entirely.

The risks from burning wood in your living room are higher. My wife got burned badly when she was a small kid. We have freezing temperatures 7-8 months a year in this country. So heating requires a lot of energy and with a lot of energy there is always higher risk, whether electric or not.
The increased distance between the two points of measurement to be compared would also complicate matters.
Earth should be as unsuitable for them as mars is for us, except in the case of non alive organisms like viruses or prions. But to have viruses you need higher forms of life supporting them, those based in cells

If we found some alive in Mars and we could found it quickly if we found a cannon with water, we should call them in a distinct way. I will propose marteviruses:

Marte-herpesvirus, Marte-adenovirus, Marte-coronavirus, etc.

Another way could be putting before a M- prefix but would be less convenient to read
The oldest thing still running I have ever written is a small Perl program that uses OLE to access Word and convert docs to PDF.

It has had a few tweaks over the years, and is now nearing 20 years of age. I've used it in different companies I have worked for.

The job I had the most fun at was probably one in which I had to extract data from various documents (xls, doc, etc). All with Perl, of course. I don't think any other language or library would have enabled me to be so productive at this particular task.

So congrats to this wonderful language and its creator, Larry Wall.
Did Ebert ever become thin?
You are right, I should have used geometry.
You don’t have control over what phone your userbase uses.

I’ve built multiple pwa’s for companies and organisations, mainly for internal tools. It worked very well and we were happy we didn’t have to deploy to different app stores, while still being able to leverage the device’s api.

Can you explain why having more options to offer apps to users is a bad thing?
Nah, doesn't work for me. I know the games I like; they are all old and I know I love them. I don't follow the news on new games at all. I simply can't concentrate on the games I like for more than 15 minutes. I get distracted, I alt-tab out all the time, and eventually I close them. It's the same with movies or books. It takes a superhuman effort for me to sit still and watch a movie.

If anybody has any recommendations on how to proceed from here my fried brain and I would be eternally grateful :P
Omicron may be less severe in South Africa: That may not be the case for the US
Maybe all content creators around the world should form a union to fight against the big platforms.

At the moment, any individual content creator is just a little xitch when it comes to the power relationship.

All the YouTube creators, all the Apple App Store developers, all the Xbox developers etc.
Doesn't LISTEN connection holds transaction and therefore prevent vacuuming of old rows?
Waho impressive. This theory you invented sounds so much like all the popsci articles you see in ads like "Scientists dont want you to know it, but this guy think we live in a multiverse" kind of things.

Are you the one who started this whole movement ? Or in fact you just rehash the same bullcrap ? Closer to the universe edge he says, not defining the universe or an edge...
The problem with "word", as with many terms in linguistics, is that it's a prescientific unit of analysis.

I certainly think most linguistic typologists would say that there is no cross-linguistic unit that corresponds to our intuitive understanding of word, which is really grounded mostly in orthography.

And I think it's fairly easy to show that orthography should not have much say in this matter, though. Of course you can't get around it in language didactics, but in scientific description we need to be very careful with it. Bob Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald give some examples from Bantu languages in their Word: A cross-linguistic typology. In Sotho, the sentence "We will skin it with his knife" is written "Re tlo e bua ka thipa ya gagwe", while in the orthographies for Zulu and Xhosa, the same sentence would be rendered as "Retloebua kathipa yagagwe". You really need to look at each language to find a sensible set of analytical categories, and be very explicit about your criteria, be they syntactic, semantic or phonological.
Can this be used with my lovense? jk
"Friction". Mechanically, electrons in a metal conductor behave something like a glass bead in honey. Observe that the microscopic Ohm's law says that the velocity is _proportional_ to the force being applied, the electrons do not accelerate as they would in a uniform electric field in vacuum.
You think that there has to be a beginning, yet are looking for something that has caused the big bang. Isn't that inconsistent? Why cant the Big bang be the beginning? Otherwise you might next be looking for what caused whatever caused the big bang
a priori is the wrong term because our physical theories are not a priori.

Dark matter has lots of reasons to be assumed but a common one is that when we try to explain the gravitational effects of galaxies based on a quantification of observable matter, there is a huge shortfall. That creates a space for something with a gravitational effect that is unobservable otherwise.

That many of the objects of our physics are theory laden is true, but that they are therefore “unreal” or merely an artefact of theory does not necessarily follow.
Try googling both:
"1999 butter fire"
"1991 butter fire"

Wisconsin and France have had notable butter fires.
So I guess even butter fires can be bad news.
Go read up on Citizens United v FEC.
In the same spirit:

* Block time sucking websites in .hosts file, or in uBlock Origin custom filter. Latter works well for Android

* Delete mobile apps, or add strict usage timers (at least Android supports this)

* Never take phone to bed. Leave outside of bedroom or by the door where you have to get up to reach it
ReactOS 0.4.14 “Open-Source Windows” OS Brings Many Improvements
Why books don't work : https://andymatuschak.org/books/
Also: Modern Perl, 4th edition http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html
> I think HTML should be split in web sites, and applications.

You have reinvented native apps
Why are we trying to figure this out, and not Bose?
Since when is hypochondriac an insult?
oh no... by this logic we should have never used any vaccine all throughout history / the whole globe is authoritarian... grow up.
Here's a library that has some effects to test as well: https://www.hapticsjs.org/

Looks like the vibration on phones only has a single strength setting, unlike those in gamepads.
Fretting about data security, China's government expands use of golden shares
That's true but even more than that, we're not really sure dark matter is actual particles at all. Modified gravity for example is one alternative explanation that don't require a new particle or field.
Thank you, Perl. I can still run my perl5 scripts from 1995. Perl is one of the very few software systems that take backwards compatibility seriously. That is especially visible when compared to some recent languages that are in fashion today, where if you so much as sneeze after several months, all of your software and dependencies are suddenly broken, and you need to rewrite your software, just because somebody thinks that This is How it Should Be Done.

The only other comparable language is Clojure, where backwards compatibility is treated as a priority, and I can still run my programs from 12 years ago without a hitch.

This is important, and it is something that you learn to appreciate as you get older. When I was 25 I also didn't care.
Ah well, with a smile on my face I remember that we just had the fact-checking discussion here on HN a few months ago.

Let me just say: This case proves that so-called "fact-checkers" themselves need to be scrutinized even more than the claims they are "fact-checking".
If wearing a mask and having to do video calls is the most adversity they have experienced in life they should be very thankful.
if you read my first comment i never argued for getting rid of the sat, though they should get rid of the usurious prices for tests and sending your scores out. in fact, i argued that of all the subjective tests the sat has the most legible and accessible path to maximizing your score compared to all the other subjective things colleges look at.
This looks like sugar-coating the effects of climate change. It is still a 'may' and likely will never materialize.
I'm really glad that EXTERN.h was in the first release. If you've ever written a Perl extension, you have to include EXTERN.h, perl.h (also there) and XSUB.h (not there).
Yes indeed, it can be liberating to feel vindicated if you have a particular hunch about a market and it's validated externaly. Were you in the driving seat, like a founder, when it happened or in an employee position trying to stir the ship in the right direction ?
And that is due to the language and not, say, the writing tradition ?

If we kept the same languages and made japanese people write it massively in 26 half sound symbols and made all of what you call a white european population use 3k+ ideogram drawings for word starting at 3 years old, do you think we d see exactly the same performance ?

I bet you the writing tradition is very influencial when it varies so much and has no relationship with language, especially in Japanese where they frankensteined Chinese symbols over centuries which must require an enormous mental gymnastics and redirect large processing power vs someone who can read and write everything he hears relatively simply?
Voluntary vaccination is fine. Try avoid reading between the lines.
Hmm, I have both now. During the day, I build up around 4-5 hours of screentime on my phone, but at night, I have basically 3 options.

Read, Play games/program (e.g. boot up my PC) or Sleep.

If I start with any of them I won’t get to do the others any more (not because of any concious decision on my part, but because they all suck me in to such an extend it’s 2am by the time I’m done).
The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake
Incidentally, this morning I finished reading the Socratic dialogue, 'Phaedrus'[1]. At the end of the dialogue (and also in a couple of other dialogues), Socrates makes his famous rebuttal against writing:

You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You'd think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever.

When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it [writing] doesn't know whom it should speak and to whom it should not. And when it is faulted and attacked unfairly, it always needs its father's [the writer's] support; alone, it can neither defend itself nor come to its own support.

- - -

What is Socrates' proposed solution, then? A combination of two things: (1) of course, the so-called Socratic method (elenchus in Greek) of refutation, that teases out better hypotheses by "identifying and eliminating contradictions", and (2) the "art of dialectic", i.e. the art of investigating the truth, which Plato makes Socrates use in his later dialogues such as the Republic. I'm sure we don't miss the irony here—we gain many of Socrates' insights, regardless of what we think of them, thanks to Plato's writing.

PS: I agree with you on books, modulo this: it's more likely to see pigs flying than to see "books starting to slowly fade away" :-)

[1] This English translation (by Nehamas & Woodruff) is excellent: https://www.hackettpublishing.com/philosophy/phaedrus
Ghosts in the Shell
She should face manslaugter charges for the 3 that died...
You're all over this thread with one huge assumption: you have zero knowledge about how that particular set of headphones was treated so far. The charger setup is described but not in a way that I can make sense of it, apparently charging while connected to a computer but using the stock charger, if it was opened up, repaired, had a battery replaced, dropped, otherwise damaged and continued to use. Before you jump to the 'sue', 'recall' and 'Bose sucks' conclusion I would wait for a little bit more data, especially because the other not 99000 but millions of pairs that they have sold have so far not exhibited this tendency.

The flip-side, that Lithium batteries should probably not be present in body worn gear is something that I would
subscribe to but at the same time I'm aware of people wearing stuff like that by the 10's of millions in their ears and so far it seems to work well enough that the number of incidents is low and in most cases can be traced back to gross abuse of the devices.

Finally: charging Lithium Ion batteries of any kind is where the risk is, it's always a good idea to charge them in a spot where you can keep an eye on them, and to watch them closely just after you have charged them (especially to full capacity, which I would recommend against) for a little while after because that is when if things go wrong they will go wrong.
Was expecting a light bulb for the demo? great video but truly TL;DW.
Gmail even flags all mail from Google as spam. To be fair in this case I am registered to Google with a different address that forwards into my gmail.
Volkswagen Bus Owner's Manual Page 1 (1971)
I finally found this online.[0]

I remember I read it as a kid (my father bought one of these used, almost new, in - I believe - 1972 or 1973, maybe 1974).

The advice in "Before getting behind the wheel" (part of the checklist to be used "each time you use your VW - in practice daily) remained stuck in my head since, it must be the least checked safety checklist ever.

[0] https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/71bus/page1.jpg

All pages:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/71bus.php
Ah; I think we might only be disagreeing on terminology at this point, then. A physical "theory" is a coherent model that makes testable predictions in its own right, as in the "theory of gravitation". A hypothesis is an explanatory idea, like dark matter.

There's definitely lots of evidence for dark matter, yes~!
> Are we also going to charge people who transmit STDs next?

isnt it already the case for knowingly spreading HIV?
> However, the data included only 24 hospitalizations of patients suspected of having the omicron variant, with researchers saying “hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time.” The study is yet to be peer-reviewed.

Reminds me of this: https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459 ( parachute not proven to be safe when jumping from a plane)
Congrats on breaking the law... you are in nice company.
Nobody got killed, there did you get that from?