skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems increasingly and screamingly obvious that it's not possible to have country-level power without any action to insert ones-self into, and assert ones power upon, the affairs of neighbouring countries in morally questionable and subversive ways. Which is just a longer way of saying: power corrupts.

I think it can be done if the country is small enough and the government itself is small enough. Even if such states do end up meddling in the affairs of neighbors they won't be able to concentrate as much wealth into these actions as larger countries can.
Katelyn Jetelina, at your local epidemiologist did a great job of explaining it a few days before[0]. This is Simpson's paradox in action and is an interesting read.

[0]: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-morning-t...
> If you want to go from town A to town B, and there is a direct A-B road, then you almost never want the A-C-B spiderweb path going through town C.

He is talking about cycling for travel, exploration, sport and leisure - not about commuting. I have just done the same last week, a 5 day tour and can confirm, I planned everything around secondary, tertiary and country / farm roads. It was mostly empty, and a pleasure. (despite being longer than the "main" road)
Here is a Forbes article that states the same, you should let them know as well: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2022/05/11/84-below-...
Ugh. No. Just… no. We moved into a house with LG appliances. The refrigerator broke 3 weeks after moving in. It couldn’t have been even 5 years old.

The washing machine says every load is unbalanced. Small load of only socks? Unbalanced. Large load of blankets? Unbalanced. Moderate load of normal clothes. Unbalanced. If that weren’t bad enough, it doesn’t know how to keep track of time. It has a countdown timer showing how much time is left on the wash. The dryer does, too. They count down at different speeds. They can both be at “10 minutes left” and 10 minutes later the washer still has like 3 minutes left. Well, actually 2 because, unlike the dryer, it stops counting down at 2 instead of 1 for some reason. Also, if you put clothes in it and choose only a spin cycle because they’re wet but not dirty (usually because you just washed them and the load was unbalanced and stopped in the middle), it adds water and rinses them again anyway. Note that this is despite having a separate “rinse and spin” cycle. Sometimes the washer just doesn’t turn on. I press the button and nothing happens. I have to unplug it and plug it back in.

While the dryer counts down properly, that’s about the only thing it does properly. If you set the drying temp, then change the amount of time to dry, it changes the temp back to high. Hope you didn’t have anything that will shrink in that load! It will also be crispy when you pull it out.

LG appliances are so comically bad I can’t even fathom how anyone could say anything good about them.
>Why spent time worrying about what a cell phone camera can achieve in poor or uneven lighting if a bog-standard webcam can do a really good job if you just fix the damned lighting?

You are just being purposefully an ass. What about on a cloudly day, how does your sun help you then? What about at night? Not to mention most people don't have the luxury to arrange their home to optimize for picture quality on a fucking Zoom call.

Yes, you can help a shitty camera with lights, but we could just have good cameras. You can still fiddle with your lights until heat death of universe, but rest of us just want cameras that work even if we have to pay a little bit more.
Why must it have been an attack? And even so why don't Celcius take responsibility? When 2008 happened did we blame Mr. Burry for his big short or did blame the banks for taking such obscene risks in the first place?
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> Well, since an extremely advanced ML algorithm wouldn't want to go about proving to itself that it is not what it is, that would be prima facie evidence against, no?

This seems like begging the question. Who says an extremely advanced ML algorithm can't 'want' to do this? What even is wanting?

> I mean in practice we don't find this too hard right now if the other person is reasonable—a 15-minute conversation usually suffices —but I imagine from your ptior question you're dreaming of, say, a future with robots that routinely pass the Turing test?

I'm not. These are absolutely situations that can happen now, with people. I am thinking more when it comes to mental and some physical impairments, so "a 15 minute conversation" is assuming a lot about the capabilities and clarity of everyone involved.
Donald Hoffman: Reality Is an Illusion – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
The point of up- and downvoting literally is to decide what should be more or less visible. By downvoting useful/informative content, you're making it less visible for others, and for most people, it's discouraging to see that someone just pressed the "I did not like that, I think it's bad, show it to less people" button.

You're the first person I've ever seen to say to downvote informative content, and that's a very good thing, because if everyone behaved like that, that behaviour would be like dumping fuel into the fire that is post-facticism and ignorance on the internet.
My 2009 netbook is still doing great with latest Ubuntu LTS.
I apply the same reasoning as you to consciousness for entities such as animals, whose biology is reasonably close to our own. I don’t think the same can be applied to software.

Cargo cults that developed in the Southwest Pacific after WWII reportedly attempted to emulate rituals performed by U.S. military personnel such as landing signals, believing they’ll bring back the aircraft that had been giving them gifts.

Similarly, believing that a program will possess consciousness if we provide it with some of its external manifestations seems backwards.

Of course, the problem is that we don’t know what consciousness is. Until we do, I’ll keep assuming we don’t have the proficiency to create it under such different conditions just yet.
Mermaid uses a grid layout and it sucks in practice, so you might want to adjust your expectations.

There needs to be some kind of way to say ”these things are siblings so arrange them side by side”, and likely some other ways of grouping and placing constraints on node positions.

Otherwise, the result will be essentially random placement.

What would really be a game changer: abstraction levels, so you could have a nice top level diagram of things and then decrease level of abstraction to reveal more details.
Yeah, no offence, I'm just 'reporting'. In regards to this:

> people then create a dramatic narrative of how that company was actually looking out for them!

That's actually what the Celsius CEO, himself, said, against accusations that Celsius was hiding losses due to Terra/Luna collapse.
The existence of uncomputable problems does not mean the things we know are not from computation.
Exactly, crypto not only tolerates scammers, it incentivses them. Imagine defending the guys who rugged you. All this tells me is that I too should launch a cryptoscam of my own
Lol no and it hasn’t been for years
>Continuing this, we can imagine an enormous crowd of observers staring at this iron bar, each using a unique encoding of atomic states to bits. With a sufficiently large number of observers, the encodings of all possible Turing machines of the given size are represented.

Yes, but only momentarily. It does not follow that there’s an encoding where the iron bar evolves as if running a given Turing machine.
Are webcams not good enough, or are larger CMOS sensors locked up into dSLR and dSLR sucks? The situation feels that way to me.
Reply to your edit:

I know it would be ideal if there was a simple, short answer, but this question is nearly the equivalent of "please explain all the core ideas of neuroscience/neurology/neuropsychology to me". It's a good question, but it's a big question. This is why in the other thread [1] I've tried to point you in the direction where you will find the answers you are looking for: the answers exist and are for the most part known, but you have a lot of reading ahead of you, and there's no way around that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806312
The big "wtf" for me was learning that the US has, by far, the highest public healthcare expenditure of any country in the world.

Looking at this data, it seems like it pays almost 50% more than the next highest country (over 9k per capita, vs just under 6k).
>Why would the British elite want free healthcare for everyone? Of the welfare dole? Or any of that stuff? Who is making these decisions that they’re feeding to the masses?

Why not? If it doesn't cost them much then why wouldn't they want this for the masses? They're still people and most people don't like it when others needlessly suffer.
If I still had the option I would have kept using Windows Phone devices.

All my devices have had more updates during their lifetime than the Android devices I got from similar age.

Incredible how Microsoft managed to do something, that Google deems impossible in the Android ecosystem.
No, because it's no longer "just code". Bundling in assets (ML models, server keys, etc) makes it more difficult to open source something. So, while I don't agree that it should be closed source, it makes a little more sense to me why they might have gone that way.
I hope your company doesn't hire from Facebook either.
You could store pi as a symbol.

Of course, ultimately this is going to be a compromise and I understand the choice of not storing common constants that way. In the end you'd end up just replicating common mathematical notation and computing with that is not going to be fast.
I have read this comment twice and I can't work out what the statement being made or point is.
How does that prove that anyone is subjected to it against their will?

If you don't want to be hazed, don't pledge a fraternity. It's not very complicated.
If you really think TIOBE is a reasonable way to gauge dev mindshare, fine.

1. Python with mypy has `strict_optional`. On by default.

2. C, being “portable assembler” is not really statically typed.

3. Java has had Optional for years, although it’s not the most pleasant to work with it does exist. And JVM languages like Kotlin go well beyond this.

4. C++ has `not_null`.

5. C# supports type-system enforced non-nullable types since 8.0.

You said:

> languages that disallow nulls, if you are one of the 10 programmers on earth working in one of those languages

I hope it’s clear that you are simply incorrect. There are plenty of tools to eliminate nullable references in modern mainstream languages.
Why keep bringing up the Chinese Room. The guy is just a substrate, it's the necessarily intelligent set of rules he's performing (for astronomically large time) that is conscious.
Double negatives are very much a British English thing and are commonly used in every day language.
> Crypto.com’s chief executive announced that he was laying off 5 percent of the staff, or 260 people

That is 5,000 employees at Crypto.com. What do those 5,000 people do?
RPCS3 Dev Details CPU Performance Gains with AVX-512 for Beloved PS3 Emulator
Such a shame that decimals don't get more attention. I program in Go a lot and they don't even have a fixed point number type built into the language. Floating point numbers always seems to be the default. And while there is support via third party packages, it makes everything harder to use, from communicating with databases to (de-)serializing data.

However, in reality most numbers I deal with can reasonably be assumed to have a maximum number of decimals and can be stored easily this way. I know way fewer examples where I'd need floating point precision than where I need a fixed number of decimals. But with poorer support I always fall back to using float.
If you are using "beginner" to refer to the time spent, this is true.

However, if you use "beginner" to the knowledge gained, it might not be. If you only ever make webpages, even if you have made 100s you could still be a novice programmer because you never branched out enough to learn new programming concepts.

If a programming language makes it easy to do something moderately, but it is hard to do it well. Programmers who only know that language are likely to have a gap in their stills. Floating point (in most languages) is easy to gets the basics working, but are hard to do well and very hard to do perfectly. This leads to a lot of programmers not learning floating point well.
We have a Whirlpool dishwasher and it’s very quiet. I don’t know if it’s as quiet as the Bosch ones mentioned above, but I often don’t notice it’s on. It does take forever to complete a load, and it never fully dries the dishes. Even with the setting to high heat, they still come out dripping wet. I’m not sure why.
> dieticians and physical therapists are demonstrably, profoundly unreliable sources

They're certainly far better sources than unqualified randos on the Internet being that they're educated in specifically this. If you don't agree with that, then you're epistemology is completely broken. Of course, it doesn't mean they're right, but it does mean they're the best first approximation for someone who isn't themselves an expert.

The claim was about where this information is propagated, so don't start fighting with me about whether it's true or not, which I specifically did not make a claim on. Your original claim about who is propagating this information is just false. You're disagreeing with experts, not just "people who believe they are on calorie restricted diets, but who are actually eating more than they think." It doesn't mean you're wrong, but it means you think you know better than people trained in this specifically, which you may or may not, throwaway09223.
Unless it's trivial or fresh in my mind I will Google the problem in the hopes of finding a library or an interesting discussion in the first page. If I can't find anything I implement it to the best of my ability. If later I find a similar problem I will grep and copy my own code. There's no shame in being curious and lazy.
In my life what you suggested below generally led to profound depression.

Being resilient isn’t white knuckling through things. It’s building a threshold of mood and perspective that allows the trauma to be examined without creating a feedback cycle. Meditation and CBT allowed me to create an internal reference system that wasn’t wrapped up in the emotion of trauma and allowed me to modify my perception of the trauma. Doing so allowed me to see pathologies in my various feedback cycles and work on breaking them at the weakest part.

I would ask that you give your own advice without invalidating the experiences of others. Humans are complex and there is no magic incantation you’ll provide. I’m glad these worked for you.
Project Treble and Keystone are worthless, because they keep the reasoning that they aren't required for Android certification.

The traditional excuse is that Android is a rich ecosystem and they don't want to prevent partners from "innovation".

The mess continues as Google isn't willing to take a stand on it.
(Author here.)

This is a false dichotomy. Saying that consciousness is not fundamentally a computational process does not mean that it then has to be magic.

We could say the same thing about life. Life is not a computational phenomenon. But it is also not magic. It is, fundamentally, a particular kind of chemical process. Perhaps the same is true of consciousness, or maybe it is some other kind of physical process. I don't believe that saying that it is not computation means that we need to throw up our hands and resort to magic, though.
Possible in Mermaid, too; it deduces directions of connectors from the edge definitions so you can just swap the start/end nodes to shift things around.
Here is the SEC filing:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/0001...

It's always worth going to the source. Look at the line cash from operating activities. This was the first qtr for a couple years they've run negative. It was 800 odd mill, which includes custodial funds of 700 something mill.

Also, it's worth understanding the difference between a forbes "contributor" and an actual forbes article. It's pretty different. The contributor articles are basically blog posts by randoms.
The notification ads are what made me swear them off. I don’t want GameFly ad notifications popping up when I’m watching a movie.
The fake laugh can be observed to be different by the person faking it.
Controlling some narratives does not mean controlling them all.

The BBC is not a clandestine operation, but does sometimes work with the government on special issues particularly for national security and/or in times of crisis.

Even knowing all of this, it's still a pretty good news source actually.

It's better than the Canadian CBC or US PBS/NPR in terms of 'objectivity' though those three entities do have some good qualities.

BBC is nothing like Russia Today for example, or even CNN/Fox or major braodcast networks, all of which have different levels of relationship with government.
Exactly. Pissoirs with a bit more personal space.
Thoughts on PACE Layered architecture implementations in your business
You can see them easily here in Threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=karaterobot
There is this thing called support contracts, maybe Google could try that out on their suppliers.
What about LG WebOS TVs?
I'm wondering if it's a case of "idle hands are the devil's plaything", which would, as you've said, be easier for a larger country having a larger tax base and more cash-on-hand to spend on questionable pursuits.

I'm also permanently intrigued as to whether it's possible to succeed as a government without being evil. The good of the many at the expense of the few means being evil to 'the few'. Hard decisions have to be made, and when they're made they need to be committed too lest inviting insanity from constant second-guessing.

Tough gig either way, but the setting of behavioural precedents for "your people" should be of utmost consideration.
Since you post this multiple times… can you give some more details? As is this sounds highly unbelievable
Proof by meditation/introspection.

I have done this following a lot of handwaving in an introduction to a chapter.
Curious to know what dev environment problem takes a MONTH to solve?
I think it’s pretty fair. I think it’s easy for a professor to send a memo like this and not be able to retrospective enough that maybe students aren’t asking because he/she isn’t good at answering those questions or explaining those concepts well enough.

This whole pdf screams this obviously is the children’s problem not mine.
Think of feeling pain? How is pain „a set of rules“? To my mind Searle proved that the mind is not a turing machine.
A example of a vertical flowchart is DRAKON which imo is easy to read fast once you know it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
Alternative: Elgato camlink hdmi capture interface with a used Sony A6000 system camera is one way to het better quality. Its about sensor size and optics. A mirrorless system camera has for example APS-C sensor which captures much more light than a typical web cam sensor.

Gphoto2 camera to webcam capture tool if you are runnning Linux. Then you can turn system cameras into webcam given the right camera model.
That really depends on where the floats come from and how they have been manipulated. I have written quite a lot of code where comparing floats was perfectly sensible. I had to repeatedly revert changes by colleagues who didn't understand the code and had replaced A == B with something like isApproxEquals(A, B). This was in electrical design software where every millisecond counted.
We will see... I've never had to sue the government before. It seems like an extreme action to have to take after the fact. They also took a $125 'fee' out as well. I get the feeling I won't see that again. Regardless, it has left me shaken. Now, I really don't trust things at all.

On the good side, I did recently win the 4 bogus parking tickets that I've gotten in the last 6 months. So maybe I'll have good luck with this too!
But why would you use it when you can just click on Threads and see your comments and replies to them? Though it's sorted by your comments, not by replies to them.
Interesting anecdote, but a vast oversimplification of beginner and expert needs that was formed in the infancy of computer interfaces.
Yes but, now we know not to trust their ratings.

They should review the product entirely, or they are wasting everybodies time.
I think that's the argument for why the Chinese room is not a particularly illuminating thought experiment after all.

Edit: Or as fouronnes3 said in a sibling comment, why it's actually evidence against Searle's original argument.
According to Gartner, companies should adopt the Pace-Layered Application Strategy to build an application portfolio that supports new business ideas and the inevitable business changes.

The Pace-Layered Application Strategy Model from Gartner distinguishes three layers, which are helping organizations improve their applications by categorizing, selecting, managing and educating themselves on those applications. As a result, organizations are finding that it is more efficient, faster and more economical to change, differentiate and innovate, as well as realize returns on their investments.

Having been in several styles of organisations, I'm finding it more than often that organisations (both startups and enterprise), who do not have an understanding and thus a view to implement a pace layered approach find it very difficult to scale efficiently (tech, people, process, market).

Has anyone seen this approach and implemented it successfully to obtain the speed of innovation and market growth it promises?
> how is that OK?

And who said it was OK? Because I didn't. The whole point is in the Solend case and the reversal of the entire Ethereum chain to restore the funds due to DAO hack tells us that not only 'decentralization' is a complete massive lie, but it also shows the nonsense about 'cOdE iS lAW', and it will only get worse with proof-of-stake.

We have been way past the lies of the 'decentralization' narrative since 2016.
I'm sorry that happened to you. That really sucks.

However, this happens more often in crypto. It is much safer to use a regular bank.
I found proof by induction useful to learn, because it translates to solving problems recursively theoretically and in programming languages.
Look into Flying Logic for a very efficient visual diagramming UX. https://flyinglogic.com/
I would absolutely argue that life is a particular category of computation as well, and that is actually closer to my area of expertise (biochemistry) than consciousness / neuro.

For clarity: when I say "computation", I refer to any physical process ("physics") which involves information.
Uh, yes, many times.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...
Well... it's been a long journey. I'd say that working through math in general, going both wider and deeper, does indeed help with reasoning and being able to reach for theory whenever necessary. Combinatorics, elementary number theory and probability are especially useful. Graph theory as well.

CS is quite math-intensive on its own but it kind of assumes a certain level of math maturity.
What sort of details would you like? Like I have to show an anonymous person proof of this? It happened, I'm not f'cking making it up. This isn't some new HN account. Since you saw my other comment on this, you can see that others have replied to say they had similar things happen. I'm not the only one.
I used to work with that guy! He gave a really good talk to the team on how FM synthesis works and how it approximates instruments.
> one of the highest rated books by the Hacker News community.

It's also one of the pop sci books that has been most intensively scrutinized for errors or failures to reproduce study effects. Probably in part because it's so popular.