skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we can still clearly state that, say, a coffee maker is not conscious, even if it has rudimentary processing capability

a coffee maker might include a temperature sensor (thermistor) and a heating element. does it predict the future? yes: it has an expectation of the future temperature given the current state. does it model itself as an agent? to a limited degree: it considers the future effects to the thermistor which its immediate control of the heater has, it might even run hypotheticals over a set of different heater controls. throw in a pressure sensor or a flow meter and some valves for more fun.

now, i haven’t read much literature post 90’s on this, but one of the more prominent components of consciousness seemed to be: modeling yourself as an actor within a larger setting, and using that to produce outputs based on predictions and thereby cause a specific future(*). does the coffee maker qualify?

also i don’t think many people think of consciousness in a binary sense. that grey area you describe may be less of “we don’t know if these are conscious (binary)”, but rather “we don’t know if these things have experiences which are relatable enough to our own to be worth considering in the motivating questions (i.e. ethics).” and the things at the bottom (the coffee maker) are more like “whatever experience this thing has is so far removed from our own that we’ll never be able to understand it in human terms (like pain and suffering or wants and desires).”

(*) though some people like Dennet argue that the conscious experience might not always be involved in the causal part of this loop.
Doesn't civilization itself induce demand for cheap clean energy given the environmental forcing of unclean energy? I don't see why the bitcoin case needs to be singled out any more than the yacht, private jet, gaming rig, or hell...even personal car cases.
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Many exciting new biotechnologies are incredibly expensive like gene therapy, T cell therapy, or some other radical life-saving therapy. Regulations are one factor driving up costs, as well as the manufacturing costs. It is not easy and really annoying when people think it is overpriced
The whole delivery business is becoming increasingly absurd to the point where many places are in walking distance and delivery services only deliver from close places during peak hours. A really streamlined take away option would oftentimes be much better (than waiting 15 minutes at a place and worrying whether they got the order right...)
I live in the Philippines. There is no public anything here, LOL
Give Teal [1] a look. It’s basically typescript for Lua

https://github.com/teal-language/tl
> Overall Rust made programming harder: something that I'll hardly excuse to it.

Shouldn't this also be:

Overall Rust made programming harder if we ignore memory safety: something that I'll hardly excuse to it.
> TurboTax is among the cheapest because it is free

Free? Haha in what world?
On that note (interestingly and anecdotally) many of these dams are inundated with ash and sediment that should have flushed downstream from Mt St Helens!

The impact of these dams is just incomprehensible.
Experts in AI may be experts at using AI techniques or designing AI systems, not necessarily in deciding in what is or isn't conscious.

What is or isn't conscious is arguably as much (or maybe even more) a political, moral/ethical, philosophical and religious question as it is a technical one.

It's sort of like the question of what is or isn't alive, or what is or isn't a person -- questions which we know are central to the abortion debate, euthanasia, medical experimentation, animal/human rights, etc...

Consciousness is just as much an ethical/philosphical/religious mine field, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable handing over its definition to some random people who just happen to be good at, say, designing neural nets.
I’d love to see Intuit file Chapter eleven.
Forget "addressing". Can we please start with a definition which a substantial number of people can agree to?
No luck caching them proxies then?
Depends on what you mean by "a single normal user can flag a submission". Any user with sufficient karma (30-odd?) can click "flag". The number of flags a submission has will affect its ranking, and with a sufficient number of flags, the [flagged] tag will appear.

Note that other actions (including voting on the submission, and commenting/participating in the discussion) also affect ranking (according to the FAQ).
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Just kidding. I always forget stuff like that. Thanks for the "Pro Tip"
It doesn't need AI/ML to do a sanity check.
Just as dried up Tardigrades are not alive (reintroduced into an environment in which they can survive) Artificial Intelligence which runs decoupled from any notion of time and whos weights are frozen or changed without it being able to influence or understand the outcomes will not be able to derive a theory of mind about itself. Even if it did since it does contributes little to it's own objective regularization will remove these features. As ANN are trained today most architectures are dried up Tardigrades which get watered, dried&reset into the previous configuration during inference.
It is good they finally worked this out, it's been years I wrote them about this (and many many others did the same, I was not the first nor the last to warn them).

I just don't understand why taking so long to fix this, and why they fixed it in such a complicated fashion when it's a really basic use case with a simple and straightforward solution that adds no burden to the end user.
How do you synchronize it? And how do you feel about the ergonomics of markdown editing on the phone?

I personally use markdown pretty exclusively for my notes, but I do find myself needing to open up my laptop for that. If I'm not around one, I'll jot something down either on paper or on my phone, but I still need to manually copy it over to my git-backed markdown on laptop. I'd love to avoid that manual step if possible.
> We follow Firefox's behavior and use a duration of 100 ms for any frames that specify a duration of <= 10 ms.

That is interesting & funny. I wonder why there wasn’t just a minimum value.

This article doesn’t talk about what happens after the delay is triggered, or that a value of 10ms won’t work for the average browser, video hardware & monitor. That’d be a refresh rate of 100 frames per second, and a lot of monitors are 60Hz refresh. Don’t browsers default to 60Hz refresh as well? (MDN docs mention requestAnimationFrame callbacks are usually 60/sec, or 16.7ms apart, for example.) This means with a timeout of 20ms, you’ll probably get a janky animation where one frame gets doubled every 6 frames. I guess with GIF it’s not possible to solve that since the spec doesn’t allow you to match typical refresh rates.
Every word in "cogito ergo sum" can be questioned.
This only shows that the social network + MSM combo is really out of control
I was surprised to get quoted $800 to do my taxes, i just have me w2, rsu (which always screws me up every year some how) and some investment accounts. this tax software is all expensive to use because of the investments too. i think it costs a couple hundred
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No not really. It’s just a bunch of spans styles
I think OP is saying in this specific instance a lot of people are defining the word ‘consciousness’ as to be outside the realm of scientific inquiry. Certainly there is room to question if neural nets have developed consciousness as an emergent phenomena but if your definition of consciousness falls outside of scientific inquiry… what is the point in discussing it? Does that make more sense?
At the time, hacking also wasn't synonymous with "computer crime". So it was possible to be proud of stuff you did.
The part about being a great fit is in almost every message. You're (theoretical recruiter) is not a tech person, has never met with me, etc and you want to tell me I'm a great fit?! Being deceptive like this makes me not want to work with you.
The Go standard library?
Writing programs that most users could run. It used to be a matter of firing up Delphi, moving some widgets around in a form, writing event handler code, and compiling. The install builder had it all done in less than an hour. It would run on almost any Windows PC in the world.

Now everything has to do Unicode, be piped through the internet, work on MacOs, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android and the web.
Facebook/Meta asks: “Wouldn't it be nice to die?”
> I am struggling to get where you come from.

There are many billions of people on the world that have a lot of room to grow consumption to even come close a fraction of typical developed world consumption.
> at least 10-20 years without invading other countries

Lots of academic discussion to be had about what exactly constitutes an invasion, but the U.S. has not taken a mass of its armed forces into a country to fight that country's recognized government since 19 years ago in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Things I don't consider invasions, from strongest to weakest: steaming through international waters that China considers its own; fighting Daesh on Iraqi soil at the explicit invitation of the Iraqis; helping Saudi Arabia in its fight against Houthis in Yemen at the invitation of the Yemeni government; enforcing a no-fly in Libyan air space; special forces fighting Daesh on Syrian soil. Reasonable people may disagree on some of these but I believe my view is the mainstream. When people think of "a military invasion," the term certainly has a connotation, and maybe a denotation, of heavy armor and infantry divisions rolling in for the purpose of occupation.
After some light testing, this seems to work really well. I've had issues with other Javascript kernels for Jupyter and I personally don't care for the UX of Observable, so this is exciting.
I wanted to like GNUCash, but I just didn't. I had the same concerns re: other apps. I used the situation as a reason to play with developing a standalone app using Go, with sqlite3 as the database (basically a localhost web app). It was actually a fun side project, with the satisfaction of being free from Intuit. With it being go and embedded sqlite3, there are basically no dependencies to worry about.
There are a couple of open source projects like http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ and https://ustaxes.org/ ; perhaps we should support these to get to the point where they can actually replace TurboTax and H&R.

I bet the laws are unnecessarily complicated and they probably continue to get more complicated due to Intuit's lobbying but opposing that is a much more expensive proposition than supporting an open source project (with code, or financially).
I can't stand lined paper. My standard are MUJI blank paper notebooks. They strike the best balance between affordability and quality.

I don't use notebooks as much nowadays, though. I tend to have a computer closeby or I've found the iPad + Apple Pencil or a whiteboard surprisingly good for most things.
Also, just to clarify: misp doesn’t and never has stored malware samples in the db.

It was always password protected zip files, containing 2 files: a txt file with the original filename as well as the actual malware with its hash as the filename.
I can confirm that the online process for deleting an account still does not work! Gets into an endless loop sending repeated validation emails. (Firefox with all blockers disabled.)
As to the data collection, Apple clearly states that’s what the developer claims the app does. Given the existence of encrypted connections, I don’t think they can do better than that without doing a code review, and even then, if the app happens to have a legitimate reason to send personal data to a remote server, they wouldn’t be able to verify that that server doesn’t store it.

As to the crashing: the app _might_ do all kinds of shenanigans to make it through the app store approval process. Things I can think of are that it may work fine with tracking disabled until a given date, or when used within Apple’s IP address range, or when in Cupertino, or if a remote call it makes tells it so, or when some server or DNS entry exists or does not exist.

If they obfuscate such behavior enough, I think it can be very hard to discover it.

I wouldn’t know how likely that is, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were apps out there that do such things.

But yes, it also could be sloppy app review. That might be more likely.
Actually, the first invocation was an "Omnibus" invocation, which contained around a dozen separate invocations in itself. Beyond that, no, even 4 invocations isn't small at all. A single invocation is potentially devastating. It's been completely normalized in Quebec, for example.
Why isn't more of this process automated?
> You can't but that doesn't change the mechanism of arriving at beliefs.

I’m trying to question the coherence of the proposition itself, and not trying to refute an argument in favor of it.

> You yourself can also never physically check say Plato's skull either but I doubt that deters you from thinking he had a brain.

The Plato’s brain question (PB) confuses me, but here is my attempt at an analysis.

First, I think PB is tricky in the same way that all historical propositions are tricky. And I think this trickiness is different than the trickiness around the proposition “other people are conscious”.

Second, here is a scenario that I think is like PB. Consider the proposition, “The Great Wall of China exists.” I’ve never been to China, but say you go and tell me that you saw the wall. And in principle I could go see the wall for myself. But now what if the wall is destroyed before I go to see it? Was the proposition that, “The Great Wall of China exists”, coherent before the wall’s demise, but now incoherent?

But if you tell me, “I am having subjective experiences”, how can/could I ever in principle examine this for myself, as I could the Great Wall?
It's particularly remarkable that an app crashes because of a network error, as if nobody ever considered that sporadic outages happen. Sloppy stuff.
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
See, now we're running into all sorts of problems.

First: What is consciousness? That's the first thing we need to do. Come up with a definition that we can both agree on absent any particular example. So we can't hold up a human and just shrug and gesture in its direction.

Now. We need to prove that humans fit that bill. And in a way that precludes other philosophically possible scenarios. Or at least agree on some fundamental axioms. Like assuming that no one is a brain in a vat. But if we're trying to prove humans are conscious and not simply automatons, can we even dismiss solipsism? Because if humans are not conscious, then I could be a brain in a vat and they're just automatons running for a separate reason.

And the truth is, we can't get past even those two hurdles. We assume humans are conscious because we kind of define consciousness as just shrugging and gesturing in its general direction.

Even if we call consciousness "awareness of self", how do we prove something is aware of itself and not just making the claim without understanding.
Probably Zettlekasten. If you have easy tear sheets in a notebook, you could make a system out of it. It's very particular, but might work for you:
https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
I prefer an incompetent yet inconvenient government. Most of Europe also had a very effect "green passport" scheme where all medical information was logged and tracked whereas in the states such efforts have been a lot more difficult to enforce.
Obsidian’s mobile app has a quick command toolbar above the keyboard for the typical markdown markups, like bold, list, checkboxes, etc. You also can pull down on the screen and access the command pallet for other options.
But they're not free to join NATO, are they? They need approval of all member states to do so. Last time they tried, France and Germany almost prevented them from joining. If they are free to choose NATO, why aren't they a member right now? Why aren't they a EU member? Why isn't Turkey a EU member?
If you sold a single stock throughout the year you are excluded from all the free tax filing software I’ve seen.
A bunch of my income is in RSUs. For us I need a VM to run TurboTax
Masters, 10 years diverse experience, currently in a DevSecOps role. It is tough to get hired. My current comp is low, so I'm not even going for FAANG level companies. I still have a hard time finding anything outside of my current company. Mostly due to being slow in code screens.

Internal positions are the inverse. They can't find anyone, so I'm almost guaranteed the role if I want it. I've even been told I could get promoted even though I got a further development need for my current role (makes no sense to me).
Study finds differences between brains of girls, boys with autism
Also, there are lots of wealthy Saudis all over and 100k probably doesn't even register as a "large" payment in those circles.
I think this is a good take, though depending on your domain and the maturity of your security program you eventually reach a point where the blast radius from misconfiguration becomes manageable through mitigations you have in place.

Past that point, it’s daisy chains of exploits as you say. It’s not uncommon for sophisticated attackers to sit on a number of 0-day exploits until they find a venue to deliver them. This is one of the reasons the Log4j announcement was scary—it opened up a venue to a wide variety of applications and infrastructure that were previously protected through other means.

> But overall, we're far from perfection. Solid configuration and code takes thought and planning - two luxuries rarely afforded to product teams when the business is screaming for release.

I’ve found a big part of a good security program is helping an organization calibrate it’s actual risk appetite. If business ending events are known and understood, everyone should know in what cases a security issue becomes a blocker.
> Of course they had objections to it, don't be ridiculous.

Not to the point where 20% of the population refused it, which is the point of this discussion. Major news networks didn't run opinion voices lying about the safety and safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Comparing that era to this one is misinformed.
When you compare such to current costs of conventional treatment, it's often not that bad. That's before you factor in pain, suffering and lost productivity of the patient and their caregivers.

The problem is figuring out how to pay for such things to begin with.
I'm not trying to convince you not to worry about Russia. I'm explaining why NATO is worrisome to many countries. You can be as worried about Russia as you'd like, and they're going to be just as worried about NATO, and so are the citizens of many other countries.
Right, better than a midget because you'd be growing rapidly.

Definitely better than being dead.
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to make a healthy pizza. Adding gluten to the flour for extra protein, using low fat cheeses etc. If I crack the 500 calorie 12" pizza I'll let you know.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MpL1KfYEJg
And how would we cope with this in, say, 100 years, when the list of required functionalities is much larger, and a new language comes along?
The whole point of regulating app markets is so that monopolies aren't the only ones capable of doing regulating.
Your laptop does not know anything, any more than your thermostat knows when it's hot or a toaster knows when your toast is ready.

Furthermore, one can argue that consciousness is a requirement for knowledge.
They encourage filing electronically now? That's news to me. I filed my taxes electronically two years ago and they apparently printed it out and then lost the paperwork, then accused me me of failing to file taxes a year later. This year I found out they lost it again.

I just don't understand why they're encouraging e-filing when they can't keep track of them properly.
Wouldn't that only hold if they displaced existing actually utilized retail services. A "Viking Hat Tube Attention Grabber" store doesn't contribute to services if nobody actually shops there.
I'm pretty confident I'm correctly picking up on sarcasm here.

But if I understand correctly, that corner case isn't even "real". Suppose you were a drug dealer in a country that automatically handles tax, and most citizens don't need to file a return, e.g. the UK. I'm pretty confident you can still be prosecuted for failure to report the income from your drug dealing, just as you could be for not reporting any other income where the tax wasn't removed from the paycheck.
Sad situation, and hindsight is always 20/20 with such. Probably would have been good to have also uploaded videos to other similar sites/alternatives like Dailymotion, DTube, etc... In addition to the free/cheap cloud storage options or buying external HDDs.

Google/YouTube will continue to ignore, abuse, and gaslight when they think there isn't any competition and can get away with it.
How did you do this in only a weekend?!
> I guess with Google, at least you know and give consent to the privacy "invasion" when you use their products.

Google tracks you and adds things to your profile when you explicitly choose incognito mode to avoid the privacy invasion. This doesn't seem like informed consent to me.
I'm sure it is, I doubt for example all the print on demand paperbacks are done like this. So I assume the machines are still used simply because they still work. Maybe the quality is better, but for each of these machines that get replaced I'm sure a minority are replaced with like equipment.
It’s a good perspective on the multiplier aspect. I presume it goes both ways. Elite can do great things at scale but also exhibit a level of harm that is well beyond a linear comparative. Thx for the thought.
You deserve the right to repair your stuff
Is that... Kilopounds?
If you work with pure Lua that’s a non issue. The ipairs function abstracts that away, and for numerical loops are written different than in C, with a start value (included), an end value (included) and a step (optional), and no exit condition. You can’t put i<len there as a result like you would do in C.

Agreed that interaction with C or other 0-based languages or systems (eg screen coords) makes things more difficult.
This is like if you were getting violently mugged and you stopped in the middle and said "why would I be mad at the muggers, they are just optimizing their own finances".

You can expect people to do what is in their own interest without supporting them. I expect that the muggers will mug me. I don't support them in mugging me.

They are an amoral profit seeking company who is screwing you and I over so they can benefit. That doesn't mean it should automatically be illegal, but it's not clear to me why you would like this.
It works better than Europe.