skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consciousness is an emergent property of computation

It's interesting to see the negative comments about this here because I agree with you. "Consciousness" or even "sentience" is notoriously difficult to define. Even defining what an organism is isn't entirely obvious (eg some might consider a colony of ants or bees as being organism-like). Our views tend to be extremely human-centric because we can relate. I imagine once we actually invent an AGI many will debate if it's truly sentient or conscious for a long, long time afterwards.

> Computation is more efficient in smaller, less massy media

There are physical limits on computation. A smaller package ultimately has a lower limit. That alone will (IMHO) keep a space for very large computational units. At the top end of this is Matrioshka Brains [1].

A digital existence looks highly likely in the black hole era of the universe [2]. This is the era after all the stars have faded out and will be much longer (based on current understanding) than the stellar era, so much so that the 13-14B year lifetime of the universe thus far will be like the blink of an eye.

As for detecting communication, that's too narrow a focus. Whether we're miniscule cyborgs that communicate with qubits or living as virtual beings in a world-sized computer, the ultimate limits of what any such civilization can do is is the amount of energy they can consume. More energy means more is possible.

So even if we end up living as a K2 civilization in a billion orbitals around our Sun or one of the alternatives or build a Matrioshka Brain or simply collect all the power with satellites, all of these will have a similar IR signature that will be extremely detectable.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-mxjYkllw

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam5BkXIEhQ
Another counterpoint - AlphaFold. It really discovers structure we could not previously discover.
I noted BMW weren't in the initial list of supported manufacturers.

They're probably working on their new monthly subscription plans for "activating" this feature...
I think this is only partially true. Yes you can measure it, but you also do not want even low radioactivity dust inhaled into ones body for example.
>You’re missing the fundamental difference in the power vs distance curve.

You're missing the fundamentals of physics.

>At some point I suppose the pressure will get so high the water will solidify in the pipe though?

Before (way way way before) the water solidifies you will reach the maximum pressure that a given pump can deliver.

If you think the little 1/2 horse sump pump you can buy at home Depot will push a column of water up to the stratosphere then I have a bridge to sell you.
You are well into 'just asking questions'[1] territory, something that really ticks me off because all of these are a google search away, but just for the record:

Replanting and more (and more intense) agriculture is what is making our planet greener. For the moment. But there are pretty clear upper limits to what the planet can deal with temperature wise, at some point it will get so hot that plants will not be able to retain their moisture. Already there are territories that were arable in the recent past that today are not or are subject to extreme droughts almost every summer.

For Europe the estimates are that Portugal (and Spain) are going to be the first to be hit really hard, and in a way that is already underway:

https://portuguese-american-journal.com/wildfires-severe-cli...

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
There is plenty of proof to be found, from the lowering of standards in education which focuses on 'other ways of knowing' and 'lived experience', eschewing 'facts' for 'cultural knowledge', closing schools for high-performing students because these either have too many Asian and white students or not enough 'students of colour', the removal of standardised tests because these are supposedly 'racist', the implementation of race-based grading to create 'equity' through the Smithsonian claiming that 'rational thinking and hard work are White values'.

Here's a few articles to plough through for more information on the detrimental effects of critical theory praxis:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/17/critical-race-theory-...

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-recast/2021/10/29/w...

https://christopherrufo.com/crt-briefing-book/

https://newdiscourses.com/tag/critical-education-theory/

Most of these deal with education in one way or another since that is the main avenue for critical theory-derived ideologies to enter society. For more pointers towards the detrimental effects of other 'critical' theories like 'queer theory' [1] you'll find a good start in the New Discourses 'Translations from the Wokish' [2]

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-queer-theory/

[2] https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish/
Woah this is awesome. Does anyone know if this is using web authn under the hood? Or is this a new spec? Would love to see Pub/Priv replace passwords
"... Let's take one example, the F-150 Lightning. When it replaces a gasoline truck sale, it eliminates 150 tons of CO2 from burning gasoline, and about 80 tons of CO2 from drilling, refining and transporting that gasoline."

For some perspective, it is likely that the production of a full sized truck embodies 30-40 tons of carbon.
Given that the die size is even bigger, I'd expect them to have even worse thermal issues than the M1 Pros, but only time will tell
I don't remember my education over-emphasized Big-O too much - I mostly started thinking about it when I was preparing to do interviews at the end of my undergrad education. I suspect there's been a back-and-forth between industry and schools where industry seeks to weed out very weak programmers (i.e. those who fail fizz-buzz, people who write accidentally exponential code) and schools seek to over-prepare against those easy checks.

Real assessments of performance go far beyond the depth and breadth of expertise that most students get in undergrad - so it's a fools errand to try and junior engineers about concepts like that. Big-O has a lot of flaws but I get why it seems so useful to all the groups that use it.
Seems to have more availability than RPi.
It's fun to be back in the age where every few years you want to upgrade your computer because the new ones are so much faster, not because the old one is worn out.

20% faster isn't enough to make me regret my M1 purchase, but after one or two more 20% speed gains I'll feel like upgrading to the latest is going to be worth it.
AFAIK there's no THS-like Honda cars. Nissan and Mazda bought THS system from Toyota and sold small amount of cars only once.
No, because a technology once seen as promising that completely failed to deliver its promises and is only used in very small scales today is irrelevant for the debate.
If you like word games you should probably still try it :)

The stupid name isn't enough to make it not fun
What standard is this using? The doc doesn't specify.
> is this really all that different to the many human-driven blind spots

No. Humans are fallible like AI. Most humans can't perfectly apply logical reasoning to common day situations.
This is correct. Wood frame buildings sway and flex during an earthquake. The weight is less important. The problem spots tend to be attachment to the foundation (the building disconnects from the moving ground and starts to skitter around), insufficient beam connections (beams slide off their supporting columns), or support wall collapse.

If you live in the Bay Area all of those things are fairly easy to fix - even as a DIY project. Install more concrete anchors in the sill plates, add earthquake rated connections to beams (which were often just toe-nailed), and put plywood on interior garage walls and half height supporting walls which makes those walls much stiffer (old building standards didn't require nearly as much blocking or cross-bracing between studs).

As long as a wood stick construction structure stays connected to its foundation and has the smallest bit of strength it can withstand even massive earthquakes without issue.
I was in Portugal a while ago in summer and it was hitting 45 Celsius, absolutely unbearable. We sprinted from the car to the nearest AC'd building. No way you can deal with that kind of temperature unassisted for any length of time.
Not really- all of alphafold depends on having enough sequence alignment information to existing proteins with known structures. It really does not perform all that well on out-of-dataset prediction.
Even your karma? :)
Oh interesting! That makes sense! I guess measuring the gravitational attraction of entangled systems is probably a few dozen orders of magnitude beyond any sensor that exists, unless it's entangled black hole stuff. Even if you cranked up a proton to 90% C, that's still just adding maybe an order of magnitude, then you have to entangle it with another relativistic proton, and then shoot another particle so it can maybe enter the two entangled relativistic protons' gravitational field(s?). This sounds like a great experimental design to prove a whole lotta nothin'.
Reasonable people can disagree on what "Rigged" means.

For example, the 45th President of the United States never won the popular vote, yet was elected. Was the election "rigged?" Well, no; the laws of the US do not guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the post popular votes and they never have. Or, yes, because the laws of the US are stacked against the demonstrated will of the people via the vote.

It's the same with the DNC. The DNC leadership did some things that can be considered subjectively unsavory. But they broke no laws, nor party rules. The rules themselves do not favor a candidate like Sanders (the Democratic party tilts heavily towards something like seniority, especially relative to their peer major party; Sanders was an outlier who ran an outlier campaign).
this has got to be the dumbest response i've ever seen on HN. congratulations.
Internet itself isn't the problem. You could organize all of those IRL get-togethers using email. Influencer culture isn't a problem that effects email. Similarly, you can use discord, zoom, skype, IRC, SMS... all of these are broadly free of influencer culture.

Influencer culture is something that emerges on a particular sort of internet communication; mostly on the commercial platforms that specialize in asymmetric communication (where a few people produce and the majority consume.) To keep the consuming majority engaged, these platforms constantly recommend they follow the producing minority. Influencer culture is an inevitable consequence of this dynamic.
This article has a lot of background on the subject, even if not Einstein:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/17/who-owns-einst...
This is the most exciting story I’ve read this year. What a ride. The bit at the end about his copilot wondering if he’s still there was awesome. Netflix should make a series about this.
What scenarios have you used it for?
Also recommended: an interview with a former SR-71 pilot on the Omega Tau podcast:

https://omegataupodcast.net/91-flying-the-sr-71/
In the old days, if you missed a payment Vito would break your thumbs. Now, Timmo can just disable all the fun apps on your phone.
According to the WWDC Keynote they are working with the FIDO Alliance on it: https://fidoalliance.org/
They have a balancing act to perform. It will take time to engineer the high end versions of M2 and they can’t afford to eclipse the current high end M1 machines.

Anyway it seems likely the engineering tradeoffs made in the overall M* architecture will be with us for several years to come at least, and the first few generations will be incremental improvements.
Brian Shul is such an inspiring speaker and photographer about both the SR-71 and other things "Over the Rainbow" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigZsFypdyI
N'ah. A few more disastrous election losses and they won't have to vote anymore at all.
Rare earth is also not a necessary component for wind turbines.

https://www.evwind.es/2017/05/31/rare-earths-and-wind-turbin...
There was a paper published this year about feathers identified in a fossil pterosaur.

Previously it was believed that the pterosaurs were covered by some kind of hair (i.e. unbranched), not by feathers.

(Most depictions of pterosaurs in movies are probably wrong, because they do not show even the hair, whose existence has been known for many years, much less that the hair was in fact some kind of bird-like down, which is a very recent discovery.)

The pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, but they are related to dinosaurs, probably closer to them than to crocodiles.

If it is true that the pterosaurs also had feathers, it is unlikely that feathers have evolved twice, as they are much more complex than hair.

In that case, the ancestor of all dinosaurs already had feathers. We know that there are many kinds of large dinosaurs, especially most of the large herbivores, which did not have feathers. If the common ancestor had feathers, then all the large featherless dinosaurs have lost their feathers, like the elephants and the rhinoceroses, which have lost their hair, presumably for improved cooling.
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You would also not trust the result of a single human on the asteroid but it would be double checked by someone else. That's the point.

What do humans get instead of training data? What do you mean by "something else", and why can't some artificial neural network (ANN) not have the same? Maybe you mean it does not get supervised labeled data? But unsupervised data is also just training data, and in fact ANNs are very successful in also using such unsupervised training data.

So I really do not see the distinction between AI and human intelligence. And the argument why an AI can't make a discovery and a human can.
A more generalized solution: https://passage.id
BearWindows and SciTech Display Doctor are the two VESA drivers which come to mind for Windows 9x. If I remember correctly Bear will also work in 3.x.

I remember these being somewhat frustrating to get working with VirtualBox. I never tried with QEMU.

I've personally moved away from virtualization for older OSes and to emulation. It just seems much easier to deal with even if it's more resource intensive.
Apple Unveils M2
Comment from the presentation: “Worked with fido alliance to work across platforms”.
Doing SaaS Sales in a Recession
Using Clubhouse as the end-all for social audio does the "space" a disservice, IMO. I used Clubhouse early on and it fell squarely into every single trope and commentary that everyone here is posting about it.

Much later, I was introduced to "Cappuccino" [1], a social audio app that couldn't be more different from Clubhouse. It's slow-social (you only get updates once day (the cappuccino composed of 'beans' that everyone submits). Each audio update is capped at 3 minutes (though you can submit as many as you'd like), and you can attach a photo if you'd like. The app auto-adds some generic intro/outtro music and production cleanup and combines it into a single podcast-like update.

I've found myself using this pretty actively with small groups of friends. The audio-first approach makes it easy to just talk about something (an idea, a life update) for a few moments (low cost to participate). The production value and once-a-day update makes it feel like a nice 'ritual' to receive everyone's updates. The intentionally asyncronousness emphasizes listening and thoughtfulness against trying to hop on to a comment thread. It honestly feels like sending postcards/letters out to folks... but audio. Can you do this as an audio group text? Kind of, yes. But that's like saying "you can recreate instagram by sending photos over whatsapp." Yes, but that misses the point.

I'm not affiliated in any way with them but I think they're a very neat counterpoint to Clubhouse in terms of "social audio" (and slow vs fast social).

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cappuccino-stay-in-touch/id150...
What happens if you lose your device or it breaks or something? Do you lose access to anything tied to it?
macOS Ventura adds powerful productivity tools and new Continuity features
thanks, we figured a few folks would get a kick out of it! You can checkout the actual source here: https://github.com/Nebulaworks/orion/tree/main/apps/term-app...
I’ve just given up on my M1 Pro MBP in favour of my M1 iPad Pro with detachable keyboard case.

I’m very excited to see if the rumours about a proper DE for iPadOS when attached to a monitor comes true.

I don’t want to carry my laptop around. It’s too big and heavy. I want to carry one device that I can use as a portable device, but also use as a full fat device when I have appropriate peripherals, without having to worry about some kind of Cloud sync instead.

I don’t want to have to wait for state to sync between multiple devices. I want a single device that can do literally everything. The M1 iPad Pro with detachable keyboard (Logitech Folio) and Pencil is dangerously close.

Now if it could run a Linux environment that wasn’t horrifically slow due to Apple’s obscene limitations (see iSH, which is incredible, but unfortunately, slow), that would solve everything.

For now, I depend on Cloud VMs instead, which falls over once my connectivity becomes poor.
For context:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/how-a...
Beta support for Passkey is already in the current macOS/iOS releases:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

I am already using Passkeys on some websites.
The second one is very hard to avoid. The safe could of course have some form of tamper detection/response, but other than that, you can't put the PIN pad in a safe, so a determined attacker will be able to open it (using tools/force if necessary).
Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
I switched to MacBook Air M1 from MBP 16 Intel a month ago, and

a) it still feels weirdly faster then the MBP

b) I can spend 6h outside working from the garden on one charge (running vitejs or react native + metro, plus slack, Spotify etc...)

c) I'm still a bit pissed that I didn't wait a month for the 2nd gen
Certainly. Everything (oxygen, software) is produced by someone (trees, programmers) at great cost, for their own reasons. If they then make their products available for free to you, then those producs are free. It does not matter if the original production was costly. The producers presumably got their money’s worth already, since otherwise they would not have spent the cost and created the thing in the first place.
> Now dig up all metals and other construction material used for the steam side and generators in fossil plants and make a comparison if that question is even worth to ask yourself.

Is iron mining and refining as toxic as, say, lithium? Particularly when adjusted for how much extra mining you have to do for a particular amount of end product?

Just throwing out factors to consider like you are doing (and I just did) is not very useful unless you also include some numbers for scale. Do some research and share.
I think you got that wrong. Speed isn't a bottleneck anymore and you won't get much better experience. This is same as phones.

Soon, they'll have to be more creative for people to consider buying every few years.

I wish MBA started having ProMotion.
The M1 pro is the coolest device I have ever used, not sure what you mean by "even worse"
Regarding the Process–architecture–optimization model from intel, what do each of those upgrades mean to the user?

I believe Process has the most to deal with energy efficiency due to the shrinkage, which is why M1 was so energy efficient when it was launched.

M2 seems like an architecture/optimization change, seems like they are just able to cram more stuff which is why it's faster without increasing battery life.

For those familiar with Intel, what does the consumer mainly gain out of optimization product launches?
Now there's a blast from the past. Between its kill-o-meter and its hilarious intermissions, this is a stupid little unforgettable game. Good memories.

I never managed to get much further than level 5 or so, so good to know there is an end to this madness.
Definitely this book:
https://www.manning.com/books/modern-java-in-action
No, factoring being in P would not imply P == NP. Factoring is not NP-hard.
Okay, like, are tech companies paying you by the word for this?

The fact that you just "have sympathies" about a giant evil ad company enabling genocide because it would be so deeply troubling if companies were to be held accountable for their actions really sums up... everything here. I have no further notes, I think we've covered it here. Your comment here was so very "the NRA's thoughts and prayers are with the families of the kids gunned down" that there's really nowhere else to go.

You'd rather genocide than Google and Facebook be less profitable. Full stop. Because that's the true result of what I'm talking about: These companies aren't going to disappear because they're regulated and have to be accountable, as much as their shills will claim is plausible. The information age isn't going away. But when tech companies bear responsibility for their decisions, they probably won't make up half of the Fortune 10. They're abnormally profitable because they're also abnormally unregulated.

And you'd rather genocide than fix it.
Apple brings ‘undo send’ and message editing to iMessage
As somebody who just wasted too much of his life trying to figure out a software issue on another RK3399 powered SBC, let me tell you that software documentation/support is worth so much more than features or power. If the software that can run on these are cobbled together semi-proprietary chains of mishmashed crap, these boards will continue to be mediocre at best.

Which! For the record... makes me very sad. There's a reason I bought the board I bought. On paper it seemed great. But the boot process was entirely undocumented and I ran into so many issues with kernel compatibility and featureset for their custom images.
> Current humans are great for classification.

More or less. Is Pluto still a planet?
I will concede however that racism did have a negative affect on black culture up to the mid 1900s and we're reaping the fruit today.

But twitter-mobbing and taking to the streets everytime somebody gets shot will never in a million years make real progress. Neither will zoning laws, or wellfare... Etc. These are only patches to the problem.

And as a black person, I'm embarrassed frankly - to have the media always portray black people as victims.

The solutions must come from within each black individual - the resolve to take lemons and make lemonade - which(even with all its faults) is a basic tennet of conservatives. I believe in sending the message to every person that you can make it in life - no matter how tough things get - and like I said before, this is basically the diametric opposite of the liberalism which seems to focus on equalizing outcomes in society rather than empowering people to escape victim mentality.

There are countless stories of people born and raised in abject poverty who are now millionaires... Why do you think I'm running a software Rust/ML consultancy? :P
Not that I don’t think your personal experiences aren’t interesting (they’re certainly different than my own), but you had said that the arguments fall apart against basic statistics, but you mostly offered personal anecdotes. The only statistics you cited were the fatherless household rate.

It would seem that it’s less about evidence and more about interpretation.

What do you think structural racism is?
Neutrons in the Double-Slit Experiment Do Individually Take Both Paths
Apple adds medication tracking feature to the Health app