skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the mind is not the brain then what is it, then?

We have no external experience so we have no way to truly know the answer.

Could the brain be a conduit for some external interface for each mind?

Could the brain be an interface for some larger shared mind?

Could the brain be a vessel that carries the mind while the brain is alive?

Could the brain be a figment of the mind?

Just because science can't yet describe subjective post-death experiences doesn't mean they don't occur.

That being said, I'm personally in the rational constructivist camp wherein I think that our mental "scaffolding" obscures our ability to be objective when we try to reason about this. Though I am hopeful we find some answers someday!
For what it's worth, that's just not true.

You're gaining energy in combustion by going from CH4/etc + O2 and producing CO2 + H2O.

The added energy comes from breaking those carbon-hydrogen bonds.

You're then sequestering CO2. Not C2. You're not doing anything other than concentration.

Yes it takes energy to re-concentrate it for sequestration. No, that's not necessary as much energy as you gain from combustion. It's energy positive overal from a thermodynamic perspective.

Yes, practicalities make that more energy intensive and more difficult (e.g. capture after emission into the air instead of from a high concentration source), but it's not quite what folks keep articulating when claiming "thermodynamics demands that this takes at least as much energy".

The original article is about those practalities and whether or not they amount to more energy than what's released during combustion. It's far from obvious whether or not they do overall, though.
CUDA's programming model is not /completely/ different than C. It's not even /very/ different. Most of the C abstract machine (what I think you meant when you wrote virtual machine) carries over directly.

What is quite different is the performance characteristics of certain constructs due to the underlying GPU architecture (esp. memory access and branches).
Obviously, there are extensions related to GPU specific things, but those are quite few and far between (though important for performance). Most everything related to GPU control look and act like library functions.
people chose those things due to superiority, not any dogmatic reason. i.e. wordpress was there and does what you expect it to. (besides, linux displaces windows on the server, but not on the desktop for reasons.)

imagine an alternate universe where wikipedia was a ghost town devoid of information, but hey, it's open!
Standard notice that this Forbes article is essentially equivalent to a Medium or Substack post (this is more of a criticism at Forbes and its pay-to-post system rather than at the individual writers).
> there would have to be peer reviewed studies

There are.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-017-0452-8

The science is pretty much clear on the topic; Insects beat "classic" meat production methods in every efficiency metric.

1kg of insect protein requires: 1.7kg of feed and 5l of water

1kg of beef protein requires: 20-25kg of feed and 15500l of water

Most of the food used as animal feed has to be grown on arable land. A lot of it (soy, corn, ...) is actually edible for humans. Insects on the other hand, can consume what essentially amounts to waste-products such as spent grain from breweries.

> Not all proteins are equal in protein and fat content. Fat is required to release bile from the gallbladder.

Insects protein consists of the same 20 proteinogenic amino-acids as those of other animals. And there are more than enough sources of fat available, even if one completely abandons meat.

> Putting certain insects near crops in large amounts are a high risk to those farm owners.

The insects used in meat production are not crop-pests. And I would be alot more worried about naturally ocurring pests, which benefit from the huge mono-cultured plants we use to produce animal feed.
React, Redux, styled-components.
Happy New Year, I have Covid
It's less "de-westernization" and more a internationalization and the removal of racist ideology in archeology. Archeology was for decades deeply affected by racist believes, both directly and indirectly by building on-top of research which was affected without realizing it.

Idk. why but people often forget that the race ideology (crossed with nationalism and religion) which is today often seen a "being a nazi thing" was very wide spread even before the German Nazis became a thing all around the western world (and also outside of the western world replacing "european-white supremacy" with e.g."japanese-asian supremacy", but that kinda doesn't matter for this discussion).

A good example how the mindset affected "historic" research for a long time, is how for a long time it was believed that in pre-human history in each step of evolution there where always a few "evolved" sub-subspecies from a human predecessor and only one survived "by itself/without mixing". Which as it turns out is complete bs as there was a constant interbreeding of such species and the modern human is a result of this interbreeding (sure some species traits dominated, but either way it wasn't still constant DNA exchange of sub-species, i.e. "pre-humans" which are noticeable more different then any two modern humans of different ethnicity).
No, because you shouldn't do work for giant tech companies for free.
> Writing is an iterative process.

To take liberties with your statement, I'd paraphrase this as "writing is work." I too agree with your skepticism of the article, and I'd argue it's because the platonic ideal of thinking before acting isn't actually how humans think.

Humans fundamentally do, and this action provides the ingredients from which to construct thought. Good writers produce lots of bad writing which allows them to reflect on their mistakes or identify the special subset of their writing that was good.
10x less power is 10x more gear I can run off the same outlet :-)
Quick validation question: As ‘technical entrepreneurial talent’, what benefit am I getting from this site? I already get pitched 1-2 ideas a week from a wannabe non-technical founder in exchange for a laughable amount of equity. They often times have no operations or sales experience so it would be on my shoulders to do literally everything except have ‘vision’ as they like to say. If anything you should be invite only for the founders and vet that they’ll bring something to the table.
> We burnt huge amounts of time on E2EE (which turns out to be really hard in a decentralised world).

For whatever it's worth, I think Matrix's approach to E2EE and investment into trying to solve some of the really hard problems in that space was completely worthwhile, even though it's painful and even though it set Matrix back in other ways. It's the type of fundamental problem that would be hanging over Matrix indefinitely until all of that time was devoted to it, and I think doing it early was the right move.

My feeling is that what Matrix demonstrated was that decentralized E2EE is itself a giant UX problem (both for users and in some ways for developers who are building clients as well), and that solving it requires a ton of UX iteration and thoughtful iteration on how to share/encode keys, handle sessions, respond to unencrypted sessions, etc, etc... That is something that a lot of other platforms haven't really grappled with, and I think ignoring that problem would have risked imposing a hard limit on how effectively Matrix could roll out E2EE by default without it just staying as a really annoying option that most people avoided.

That being said, I do agree with the rest of your comment. I've noticed some faster improvement on UX lately from Element, and it's been getting steadily better (I love the direction spaces are going), but it's still not quite over the line for me.

I'm just not sure... I don't know that I would phrase that core work that's been happening as if it was the wrong focus, I think that stuff just takes a long time to build and the benefits aren't always immediately obvious to users, or that it takes a while to start paying out those benefits. A good E2EE UX isn't really about impressing users, it's more about being invisible, which can be frustrating because getting it right just means people complaining about it less, it doesn't mean having an advertisable feature. But it's still important though if you want people to actually use E2EE.

I am still excited about P2P chat, about taking server moderation seriously, etc... That all has a ton of potential that could pay out in really significant ways in the future, even if it's not user-facing right now. I don't think any of that is wasted effort or that it's not important. But I'm also happy that Matrix/Element is focusing more on general user-facing UX now, and I do agree that there's a lot of iteration and improvement to be done there.
The full portability won't be the same across multiple regions, especially internationally. Also, there is a good chance it gets tied to the device/contract you are on, similar to how the phone contracts in the US were a few years ago.
Sure, Rust for example will let you do that (although in debug builds it will panic unless you explicitly said this is what you intended). However from a correctness point of view, it is extremely unlikely that things[n] is doing what you intended if n wrapped.

Most likely you thought you were harmlessly increasing n, after all it's an unsigned integer, and you added something to it. But when it wrapped, adding something to it made it decrease dramatically and you probably didn't consider that.

This can be punished by bad guys, where you expected a value like 10 or maybe 420 instead the bad guys provide a huge number, you do some arithmetic with their huge number, you wrap the offset to the very start of your data structure. Now it's inside the bounds, but not where you expected at all.

This is why people talk about "hoping you get a segfault" in languages like C++ because the alternative is much worse.

If you need to care about this (fiddling with files somebody provided e.g. by uploading or emailing them to you is an obvious place this comes up in web services) you should use WUFFS to do that. You can't make this mistake in WUFFS.
The contracts and indemnity policies drawn up against the contract aren't public things so there is no example I can show.

The leaking of content doesn't matter that much unless it really affects revenues in the scale of the revenues.

It's ironic really. The absolute prevention of leaking content isn't expected. DRM is more like making sure the front door isn't wide open.
Shutterfly services disrupted by Conti ransomware attack
Just turn off dark mode. So many sites have css that claims to support dark mode but doesn’t. The other direction seems less common.
I have checked the video, the result is still not satisfying
I have never dissected a body, but I do know that they look nowhere like the textbook images. It’s all the same-ish color, lots of things are firmly attached to others, stuff is hiding other stuff from view, etc. I understand tracing the major nerves already is fairly difficult.

In addition, https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... doesn’t only apply to the outside of persons. The inside varies as much. Locations, sizes, connections, etc. all can vary. As an extreme examples, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91022/5-muscles-you-migh... lists 5 muscles that not every person has.

Also, if, as a student, you’re tasked to find the P parts of an object, there’s a strong tendency to search on when you only have found P-1, and to not go look for a P+1-st when you have found the P-th.
Running mail is complex, and maybe it’s not the best use of your time personally. But please stop dissuading engineers from attempting to run their own mail infrastructure if desired.

More people getting familiar with how reliable email systems work is a good thing.

With regard to sending mail, a few things go a long way. Check your IPs on dnsbls before sending email from them. Don't expect to send mail successfully from a public cloud address. have at least one backup mail system that isn't listed in any dnsbl. Use separate IP addresses for transactional email, user email and bulk email. Deploy SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your domains.
It's also a bit disingenuous to say it's "on Apple Silicon" when you're running it through a translation layer that won't exist in a few year's time. I'd wager the reason why the GNU folks say it doesn't run on ARM is because... it doesn't. Running it as an x86 program is mandatory, apparently.
Yes, that's easy.

React-Query[0]: You don't need to manage state, let your server manage state just like you do in typical non-js heavy apps.

[0]: https://react-query.tanstack.com
I've been engaged in a 1.5 year long (so far) project to port the entirety of GJS's "scmutils" package over to Clojure, and the erratic behavior of MIT Scheme over Rosetta has been a pain I've consigned myself to for months. I keep an old machine handy when I need to test functions that can't work on the M1.

I am SO HAPPY to see this work! Major timesaver for me and anyone looking to run the executable versions of Functional Differential Geometry[1] and Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics[2] in the original language.

[0] https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils
[1] https://github.com/sicmutils/fdg-book
[2] https://github.com/sicmutils/sicm-book
I am not aware of any data that colleges--liberal arts or otherwise--teach much in terms of critical thinking. Rather their value seems to derive primarily from their ability to select talented students and provide them with a network of similarly talented peers. That and they get "credit" for the learnings of students as they age from 18 - 22/26, when that's a pretty ripe time for maturing thought with or without the classroom.

Moreover, it's clear that most colleges agree with my viewpoint. For example, if Harvard's product was an amazing curriculum, they could expand that to many, many more students than their current class size and charge for it (instead, their actions are rational when their product is exclusivity and high-talent networks).
I don't imagine the delta is extreme. I know the delta exists because post-hire, my manager implied it, and that he would do his best to close it. Part of it is my lack of negotiation skills as you say (also implied by my boss), and part of it is because my background is coming from an unsexy non-tech company (implied by the internal recruiter).

But even if the delta remains, I'm just plain thankful*. The amount I'm earning now is jawdropping for my wife and I. When I was interviewing around, we were half-joking how awesome it would be if I could replicate those stories you see on Blind about people doubling their compensation. That it quadrupled instead is shocking.

* Probably not a popular thing to say in tech circles, but my wife and I are Christian, and suffice it to say we are mindblowingly thankful to God for this. I don't endorse prosperity gospel, but I'm now earning more than we know how to utilize. We've committed to using at least some of it for good causes - my first month's salary was given wholesale to a charity trying to rescue/resettle/support Afghan refugees.
At this point, I don't really consider OSM an OSS project, but an infrastructure.

It has small value for everyone, but all combined usage, it has immense economical value for the society. All alone, it's not really useful to end-users, but it can help a lot of businesses that couldn't exist before it.

Maps are already considered infrastructure, since they are already made by governments!

The only missing part to say OSM is an infrastructure, is for governments to actually contribute to it.
Are people still buying in these smart speakers? Everybody I knew turned them into paperweights, or send them to the drawer after a few months after the novelty wore off.
I’d argue that technically it would be easy. Paying for it, less so….
This is always the stat I want from gig-work jobs and never the one they want to show. For example Uber will often tout paying upwards of $25-30/hr, but the actual average is closer to $11/hr, which is below minimum wage in many places, doesn't include any benefits/sick days/etc, and also doesn't include expenses from car insurance/gas/maintenance.

I'd really appreciate if all companies were required to report some basics stats on pay - total employees, min/max, average, and mean would be great
Okay, radar detection is trickier than what this writer seems to imply - it is hard to detect a pedestrian on regular cars already so I have doubts that the radar technology, as currently stands, will enhance safety.

On the other hand, if the white noise technology lives up to its promises then wow, please actually implement this!
I live in NYC and on many heavy machinery I hear a white noise-type sound when they back up -- just like the article describes.

It's still pretty noticeable, but the ambient noise is already pretty high in the city, so it does fade quickly. Not sure how it would be in a quieter environment, but it's much less annoying than a beep for sure.
Yep, Samsung defrost heaters suck. Also the seals in the ice machine suck, a slow drip will eventually cause the freezer door to not seal completely, which causes a larger drip, which will over the course of a long day with overtime and a night out and going to bed without opening it cause it to leak enough to damage the subfloor.

The fans are crappy, the lights are crappy, the drainage and evaporative system is crappy... But I guess, technically, when everything is perfect, it does keep frozen stuff frozen. It won't stop spoilage in the fridge as well as literally any other brand, though, even when set to the lowest temperature.

Samsung is forever on my "do not buy; and mention the personal boycott every time the brand is brought up as an option" list, just like Nestle.
Another option, that is simpler to manage is to get rid of items, junk, gear, objects, etc; you'll get plenty more space.

Improve the space you already have.

Are you using the room where you sleep or is it just used to sleep? Do you have a garden? Maybe build a small office space there? Do you have a big bathroom? Make it smaller? Do you have a garage? Park outside, use it for something else?

There are beds you can transform into something else or save space, etc
275 billion? Seems overvalued as we enter a new cycle of more services going online.
The fact that the US (and UK) still use a flush face for sockets instead of a recessed hole is absolutely amazing. Plugs just hang randomly from the socket.
Multiple numbers is already technically possible and does not require eSIM. It does require the carrier to innovate and actually do some engineering though, and there's no market pressure for them to do so.
I'm perfectly content with Amazon's product. I am happy to fund it in exchange for the utility it provides me.
If all open source software had new license terms tomorrow that said "no commercial use unless you pay me a license fee", they'd just stop using open source. Using it is a business calculation. If you don't get support and you have to pay for it, you might as well pay for proprietary software that you can get support from.

And maybe that's fine! Maybe we shouldn't let companies use the software at all. But that would have ecosystem-shaking results as the costs are passed down to consumers and fewer engineers are employed. At this point, the whole world is dependent on OSS.

Open Source does not exist for people to get paid. If it did, it'd be the worst software gig in the world, by pay anyway :) To ask for money just because somebody else is getting money and you're not is simply envy and greed. Either ask for the money up front before you release the thing, or don't worry about what other people are getting paid.
Become a medical worker.
I don't think it's a niche hobby (though I could be wrong as I have no data on it, just some thoughts). Any person that travels frequently has at least entertained the thought of buying a local SIM. Many people have actually done so.

For example, I went to Sweden for a month, and in those days calling in the EU wasn't a thing. I bought a Swedish SIM for if I'd meet people there (and I did). 10 years later, I traveled in Thailand for a month and I wanted internet. I bought a Thai SIM got internet for like, 10 euro's? And that was that. The fact that Apple disallows me this freedom means I will have to switch once the Covid issues start to become less of a thing.
Living in a place where a car is essential sounds dystopian. I know many towns in the US are like that but it's hard for me to picture living in a society without a functioning public transport.
Still using ours.
I'd have a look at the research paper, if it weren't hidden behind an e-mail wall. I was initially happy to see a 'research paper' link at all, but that e-mail wall definitely compromises my first impression of immudb, because now it looks like I'll be getting a corporate brochure and not an actual technical paper.

> Basically a hash value denotes the entire state of the database (including the entire history). This hash may be cryptographically signed and exported from the server. immudb SDKs keeps track of the last verified state, each time a new one is received, it's cryptographically validated.

Okay, but how do you persist that hash across eg. client restarts? You obviously can't store it in the database. And this does not sound like "zero trust" to me - that's a much higher bar to meet, and would allow for eg. untrusted writers.

As I understand it right now, immudb works more or less the same way that Git does; it's a DAG of database (instead of file) mutations, and you can persist the latest commit hash to ensure that someone hasn't messed with what a branch points to.

Which can be useful, don't get me wrong, but it's not "zero trust" and it's certainly a fairly niche security feature.

Edit: To be clear, I'm very much in favour of what immudb seem to be trying to do - getting enterprises away from ultimately dysfunctional "blockchains" by providing something more sound with nominally the same features/appeal. But it's always important to be very clear about what your tech does or doesn't provide, blockchain or not.
My BA degree required taking a class called 'Critical Thinking' which focused on formal logic.

I do agree with the sentiment, and that schools need a massive overhaul, but I figured that I should provide my 1 data point to the discussion.
You are right about the license - it allows everything Apache 2.0 allows except reselling monitoring as a service.
Even the kibbutzim had to introduce energy meters in their semi-utopian communities, because with no personal interest in keeping their bills low, some people would just waste communal energy.

There isn't any personal incentive not to waste a free resource, save individual conscientiousness, which many people score low upon.
They make good voice activated light switches (when connected to Alexa-enabled switches and light bulbs) but that's about it imho...

Routines in the Alexa app are also quite useful together with Alexa switches if you want to put plant lights on a cheap and convenient timer.
You only need an internet connection the moment you're activating the eSIM for the cryptographic keys to be downloaded. From that moment forward it acts just like a regular SIM card.
I still see several Manhattan and non-Manhattan stores on their store list, but it does look like they're not in the Bay Area anymore, which is a bummer: https://www.muji.us/pages/store-information
Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized portraits
krebsonsecurity might want to take a look? Sounds like right up their ally.
I'm sorry but it's just not that rare an occurrence for a child to die in a washing machine. I don't know why it's different then other machines but its a thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=child+dies+front+load+washin...