skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The idea that I can't imagine doing these things is because of a shortcoming in my knowledge.

I don't think there is a shortcoming in your knowledge. Your metaphysics intuition is correctly tuned: simulations cannot feel.

>We create a physics simulation of a human brain. Can the brain write a novel? Answer questions about what it's like to perceive the color red? This is just a yes or no question.

GPT-3 can do both of these things. Is it conscious? If you need a direct answer, it is yes. But when we reword your second question as "can a simulated brain experience the color red?" the answer becomes more clear; the simulation can identify a wavelength and know it is called "red". But the experiential part is akin to explaining color to a blind person.

A simulated brain could identify molecular patterns of cocoa and sugar, but can it know what it is like to taste chocolate? Think about what it means to taste chocolate. Is it purely quantitative, like the balance of ingredients, or is there something else going on that is qualitative? Something abstract, something with meaning, something more close to the metal? We can probably agree that it feels like there is. What we are describing is subjectivity — your private conscious inner life. I suggest it is this that is fundamental and cannot be simulated. This is the layer where experience "happens". From this layer emerges meta-consciousness.

Here is an article by Bernardo Kastrup on meta-consciousness: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590537/
The mulching advice is great if you don't have persistent plants currently where you want your garden to be.

And almor nailed why 15.
There were also 12, 24, 36 and 48 bit computers. 32 Bit just won because of System/360.
Timelines are actually super relevant. Predicting when something will happen is sometimes more important than predicting that it will happen.
Comments is a _secondary_ component to the core of what I am talking about - long-form content. I can still post a link to my blog post on Twitter and have all the commentary from my audience without donating the content itself to Twitter.
I hope forums gain some weight after google decided to f** them over in the results. IDK in English but for spanish language forums are still valuable, but you need to know the domain name so that hurts discoverability.
I have direct access to an Amtrak station and the trip to NYC is nearly 20 hours and until recently, was more expensive than either flying or driving.
On the other hand, "google" has always sounded like "goggle", in addition to being a cute misspelling of "googol".
There is equal contribution, core contribution, and then the order of authors. Which of those attributes have actually which meaning?

I thought the order defines how much someone has contributed. Core contribution sounds like it should be the most, so it should be first but it is not here. Equal contribution sounds like it should come right behind each other in the order but this is also not the case here.
> Crypto is pretty much a minor leftover relic of Brave's startup strategy

How do you think Brave makes money?
Basically why I was poking around, printing a TXT file would use the default font but there was the capability of using PCL to switch fonts, and the printer came with some really nice ones built in.

Later we got a copy of PCTeX for DOS that completely changed everything.
That’s what I meant.
> what mess?

I just described it to you?
> Also, as much as I dislike ads I think web3/crypto grifting is worse. I feel ambivalent =\.

I super briefly skimmed the crypto (BAT) token stuff. I think the general idea of earning tokens for searching and browsing is neat, but the way they're trying to use it directly as a microtransaction currency isn't super innovative.

I don't like crypto in general, but I think the "proof of idle capacity" tokens have stumbled onto something that could be valuable for online reputation because they invert economies of scale in a way.

Take something like Chia (XCH) as an example. As a typical user I can allocate some idle storage space to mining and, as long as I only mine while I'm browsing the internet, the incremental cost to me is basically $0. Compare that to someone building a rig specifically for mining. They have costs, I don't.

Assume I can opt in by plotting some proofs on idle storage and mining into a pool where rewards are split up and some of the rewards (aka tokens) can only be used for liking (ranking up) or disliking (ranking down) websites. Ex: 20% of your rewards go to the pool operator (search index), 5% can be donated directly to sites or creators you like, and 75% go to ranking (search reputation) which "burns" them. Adjust the ratios as needed.

A million normal users with 10GB of spare storage cancels out 10PB of storage from bad actors trying to game the system. IE: What's free for the masses is expensive to game and the more users hate your site, the more expensive it is for you to game the results. If you never give users "real" money (aka redeemable tokens) as rewards there's not much incentive to buy storage just to "earn" crypto currency, so hopefully you'd keep it limited to using truly idle resources only.

The search index (ex: Brave) could use the tokens as a currency for selling ads (ie: keywords) and that could be weighted by the reputation score of the site you're driving traffic to. In other words, the effectiveness of your ad buys is impacted by your existing reputation and if you have a site that everyone hates you'll eventually get to the point where ads for your keywords cost significantly more than competitors that are well liked.

Now everyone on Hacker News can tell me why that's a dumb idea :-) Lol.
You mean everything but their oil?
> You see kind of a similar thing with Monsanto (now Bayer) where someone drops into a conversation about GM crops

But Monsanto are doing the same thing. You've been sold the story about "cow farts are killing the planet" and "being vegan is healthier", but where does all the plant-based food come from? GM soya by Monsanto. And to grow GM soya you need to blast every trace of life out of the soil with herbicides and pesticides from Monsanto, and you need to obliterate all the beasties that might attack it with insecticides from Monsanto.

Follow the money. Monsanto is paying people to tell you to buy their stuff because it's supposed to be good for the planet. It's not, it's good for Monsanto.
They did it with Venezuela-Iran oil tankers already.
I haven't seen any compelling evidence that protectionism works in the grand scheme of things. I have seen other though, frequently: https://hbr.org/1987/05/why-protectionism-doesnt-pay

Seems anti-capitalist to me.
Google offers support to paying customers https://one.google.com/about/support
Hey, this is Ram, the author of the post. Would love to know how this architecture works in production for you. For infrastructure saas, the control plane needs to manage 100's of data planes. It also needs to own user and tenant management, security policies, billing based on usage, usage and operational insights for your users. The challenge is in building an infrastructure that can centrally manage the lifecycle of all the metadata (SaaS, app and infra) and orchestrate with all the data planes. Postgres is definitely a good building block to build on top of but there is so much to build around it to make this work well in our experience.
Twitter's low-key admission to using TFA info for targeted ads
What are some good examples of when sanctions "worked"? Apartheid-era South Africa? Maybe in delaying Iran developing nuclear weapons? Are any of the following considered success stories for sanctions?

- Saddam era Iraq
- North Korea
- Cuba
- Venezuela

Apparently the U.S. has quite a list of sanctions:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
What's the key difference between Eppo and say, Optimizely?
I'm not sure about tech salaries, but based on several surveys, it would appear that effective tax rate for most workers is about the same between european countries and united states. They just spend less on defense, and more on social programs (although some countries have very recently increased defense spending). California taxes are extremely high though, I agree.
this is literally what my dad told me (when I asked him why he didn't go for his boss's job). The marginal effort was large compared to the marginal revenue, and that would eat into quality of life for him.
Honestly no. As I wrote in another comment I don't trust Brave, but I do like to follow along with their progress. Also it's nice to see that there a products out there that are trying new things and that they have people who are passionate about them.

You could ask the same question in respect to something like VSCode, Github or Kubernetes. It's fine, just skip the news and comments about stuff you don't care about.
Cosmos was chosen as the best fit since it would require not only decentralization but also the ability to manage and scale 1,000 orders per second.
Hard drives (both rotary and SSD; floppies [1] and CDs [2] also) are also manufactured according to base-2 addressing. They are low-level formatted at the factory in sectors which are power-of-2 sizes. [3] This has been true for at least 40 years. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_form...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#Sector_structure

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_form...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_sector
Its not against it, its just not conclusive everyone needs the same amount or it has the same benefits across the board.

I'll add one too since its on topic with reply;

Caffeine drinks like coffee will dehydrate you. Its a diuretic but you consume more water through it then you release.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h....
Is the misspelling of "payements" intentional? is this industry slang/terminolgy that i am unaware of? If not then maybe it should be.

"HACKERSNEWS HEADLINE MISSPELLING BECOMES NEW TERM FOR CRYPTO PAYMENT"
Two points:

1. When I switched to an EV as a daily driver, I realized I had underestimated how much time and hassle I was spending at gas stations. When it's been engrained in your psyche as being just part of life, we don't really realize how nasty gas stations are compared to just plugging something in.

2. Another good reason to never let your tank get below half: If you get "bad" gas, you'll only have half a tank of it, diluted with presumably "good" gas. Rare occurrence nowadays, but a benefit nonetheless.
Trovants Are Stones That Seem to Grow, Move and Reproduce
> Another example is network media. Serialized data transfer speed is measured in {K,M,G,T}b/s (bits) or B/s (Bytes) where a Gigabit is exactly 1000000000 bits and Gigabyte is exactly 1000000000 bytes.

interesting network trivia: a LANPHY and a WANPHY 10 gigabit ethernet connection are not quite the same thing. The latter is designed to fit within legacy DWDM transport systems designed to carry OC-192 so its data rate will fit within 9953.28 Mbit/s or slightly under that.
Growing up, my mother always used to give me books that contained content on page one. This goggle really brings back memories of wandering the dusty library isles of Mediterranean street markets with their pungent spices and beautifully crafted rugs.

... 100,000 words later ...

I don't think it will be very hard get right.
its not fast but I just use nitter.net instead
Sounds interesting, where was the workshop? :)
Totally, I’m a happy customer, but completely relying on Tailscale for out-of-band SSH doesn’t sit right with me, especially for personal machines. One ban and poof, you can’t access your own servers.

And to be honest, I understand the appeal of not having to muck around with the system, but SSH isn’t that cumbersome once you’ve set up your /etc/hosts, and encrypt your id_rsa files. Couldn’t get any easier than `ssh <machine>`.
Pretty much every EV owner that can plugs in every night.

People just do not get how much different an EV is vs gas. Never having to go to a gas station is just SO nice once you never have to do it.
I'd be hesitant to pay for a Square Enix game on mobile. There are horror stories about the devs forcing users to be online and then also accidentally deleting the forced-online game saves.
Meh. Go to any other country and you'll soon discover that the US isn't so bad. And I say that as a European who's been to quite a few countries.
> puts profits over privacy

And its still the most private consumer grade browser out there

https://privacytests.org

>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge

That's has been fixed, it affected the minority as crypto is disabled by default on brave.

>their search results appear to be based off of google, despite claiming an independent index. all of your queries may just be going to google anyways

If you have spent maybe 5 minutes using Brave search, you would see the difference, while Google is filled with stupid SEO spam, Brave has a forums section front and center.

And matching Google's index is a very very good thing, brave search is already better than DDG and probably also bing.

People want google results with better privacy.

>the browser frequently sends telemetry to their servers

Compared to what ?

Have you compared their telemetry to any other browser ?

Their telemetry is less than Firefox for sure.

>they have consistently added more spyware to the browser unless users en masse call them out, which only happens some of the time

Like what?, what is your definition of spyware?

> I don't think for a second you are being downvoted by real hacker news users. Brave has created some sort of native marketing arm or something that drowns out any criticisms with vague positive comments like "I've been using brave search, more privacy and better search results than google!".

This is just ridiculous, Because people like a browser which has actual privacy protections by default, an independent search engine, and an alternative ad network(that is disabled by default), they are bots or paid shells!

There is no one doing effective things to protect privacy in a friendly way like brave into the browser space, call me when Mozilla dares to block Ads or create a search engine, what they do is just increase the CEO salary while firing engineers, and then go on a political rant about fake news.

All other browsers require tweaks and changes, while with brave from your first click you are more private, I can give it to my grandma and she would be more private by just using it.
In the hey-day of manufacturing things like shoes and clothing in the US, these things weren't considered "good" jobs. You can easily find numerous articles in national magazines from the period decrying them as dangerous, monotonous, and otherwise awful. You can still buy a $600 pair of boots or derbys from Alden of New England (I have a pair) or Viberg. But these are niche products within a niche.

If you're talking about high end manufacturing like cars, planes, specialized steel or similar we still do tons of that in the US. In inflation adjusted dollar amounts we produce more than ever, it just doesn't take very many people to do those things anymore. Robots do most of the jobs people used to do in that kind of manufacturing.

Ship building has been killed largely by the low cost of over land transit since the highway system was built and government protectionism vis-a-vis the Jones act which allowed ship builders in the US to become uncompetitive. But realistically we never had a special advantage in ship building, beyond build a bunch of naval vessels really quickly.

> I mean, can a country as large as the US be really competitive without manufacturing?

We do manufacture a lot of things, just very few people work in manufacturing. We're also a world leader in agriculture. Services are fine, and very lucrative. One of our chief exports is education, which is a service.
The question was if the exploits were due to memory safety. The answer is, yes, 100% of them are due to memory safety.

As for Java, quite a lot of the exploits against it (when it was a browser plugin) were in fact memory safety issues in the VM. But more recently what we see are serialization issues, which Rust also does not have.
Respectfully, he includes at least a hundred different sources in this post. Asking "Source?" when each claim he makes is accompanied with sources is a little confusing.
> Like it happens with few american citizens captured in Ukraine by DNR.

The American and UK citizens captured by Russia and it's proxies have been regular Ukrainian soldiers subject to military law and protected by the Geneva Convention, but that doesn't matter because Russia and their proxies are ignoring international law (and not just where it comes to treatment of prisoners.)
> Nowhere else in the computer is the base-10 version standard

Well, you're simply wrong. CPU frequency is measured in GHz, that is 1,000,000,000 Hz, not 1,073,741,824 Hz. Consequently, my CPU has a nominal frequency of 3.0 GHz, not 2.793967724 GHz. Since frequencies are denominated in powers of 10, bandwidths are as well: The L1 cache in my CPU can read 64 bytes/cycle (I think), so it has a read-bandwidth of 192 GB/s, that is 192,000,000,000 B/s. My Ethernet device can transfer 1 Gbit/s, that is 1,000,000,000 bit/s, because it's clocked at 125 MHz (that's 125,000,000 Hz) and transfers 8 bit per clock cycle.

> all basic data types (bytes, ints, floats, pointers, SIMD registers, whatever) are sized to powers of 2

Yeah, and it pretty much ends with basic data types. Most of my structs aren't powers of two in size, even though their individual elements are 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes in size. Almost none of my files have sizes related to powers of two. My SSD has a size of 931.51339 GiB – so tell me again how powers of two are more correct or more useful here?
I don't mean to imply that they aren't being exploited, I've seen it firsthand. But the parent comment making the comparison to being employed at a convenience store is not a fair at all. My point is that many of these women are strung out on drugs, and they've reached a point where even if legal employment was an option, they wouldn't take it because it wouldn't afford them to ability to continue doing drugs.
I read that in Chris Rock's voice. :-)
Apple is getting serious about removing junk messages
I may not be the biggest fan of it ever but it is a fact that this is how hard drives have been measured since the days when a 5.25" full height MFM 10MB or 20MB hard drive in an IBM XT or clone was state of the art technology.

your comment seems to insinuate that this is some new sneaky marketing practice of HDD manufacturers to trick the consumer.
My interpretation: Devs like the experience of interactive instant messaging without any hassle and simply equate Slack with that experience. Slack is really pervasive in our industry despite its subpar experience for developers.

I largely agree with 72% of developers here, although I would gladly swap it out for something better. The notification scheme is good enough. I don’t like to be disturbed a lot, so I disable sound notifications, and just notice the red dot in the browser tab occasionally (which I promptly ignore if I don’t want to stop and read messages).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...

This is a nice paper on the different fuel cycles of hydrogen ammonia and
methyl.

Roundtrip efficiencies for hydrogen and ammonia are both at about 30% plus. Don't know how high it could theoretically go.
That's in general not desirable. The conditions that lead to the dereference of the null pointer can be arbitrarily complicated, including coming from templated code or macro expansions. For all you know, the condition in that if statement could very well be the same condition to govern whether the pointer is null or not.
They are not directly interchangeable. Fossil fuels work at night and when it's not windy out.
Here’s one for you:

He predicted the invasion of Ukraine back in this video from 2017 (actually earlier, but this was the easiest source for me to cite): https://youtu.be/rkuhWA9GdCo

The whole video is pretty short, but he mentions Ukraine about 2 1/2 minutes in.
>Only one browser recently has been serious about implementing protocols and features that are beneficial to the user, not companies.

Uhhh, do you just mean things that you specifically care about? Because I consider DNS-over-HTTPS, site isolation, multi-account containers, scipt-blocking, etc. all to be features that were beneficial to users.

>How many other browsers have Tor, Webtorrent, ENS, IPFS support?

I personally don't want Tor, Webtorrent, ENS, or IPFS to be in my browser, nor other cryptocurrency stuff to be near my browser. This is not as much of a selling point as you make it out to be, at least for some users.

I'm not really for or against Brave, but you're presenting your argument as if it is fact; everything you said is entirely opinion.
Computers access things in powers of 2 because we settled on a byte being 8 bits. We then proceeded to doing things in even multiple of bytes. A cache line, row in DRAM, registers, and a page of memory in your MMU are all some even multiple of bytes. And back in the day when we couldn't put 300 million transistors on a chip, because the systems work in binary, it was also quite useful to be able to do things like calculate the address of a pixel in the frame buffer by simply shifting the row index and adding the column index, meaning that something like 1024 pixels wide was much simpler to implement than 999 pixels wide.

There's lots of reasons why computers so often use powers of two and thus K being 2^10 instead of 10^3. But the word measure is probably not the best.
It is very shitty support though.

I attempted to get an issue fixed with backups not working. The first 5 emails were the google moron telling me how to start a backup, ignoring my clear communication that I'd run a backup and it didn't backup my data, as was clear by the space usage.

The next 5-7 emails terminated when their suggestion was to remove the password from my phone. I'm not sure why that could have helped, but regardless, I can't have my phone without a password.
Most people have grid tied systems that disconnect when the grid is down :/
The short answer is, I really don't know. There are lots of speculation about that around. The only confident opinion I have is that good does not mean popular and vice-versa.

But since you asked, I think I should make my guess. I think people tend to use what life brings them to. Most will not voluntarily go hunting for the best language the Internet has to offer for them. So the languages become popular by forcing people to learn them, by having them to use them at their jobs or implementing important APIs in them. This means that what the project managers of big organisations have enthusiasm or business reasons to push tends to end up popular, not what is preferred by the common programmer. D is largely a free-time volunteer effort AFAIK so it does not get as much corporate influence than it would get if it were an academic or commercial effort. But again, that is just a gut guess, no research to back this up.
> We ended up working with various partners in Latin America because of the strong talent pool, great English, and US friendly time zones.

I'm curious about whether you tried to find developers in the US but not in Austin or one of the big tech hubs. Or have you found that most of the good US-based developers head for the tech hubs? (Even if that were true before, surely it's different post-pandemic.)

I'm not opposed to hiring good people wherever they are. But some of the challenges discussed above go away when hiring domestically. And, based on the comment elsewhere on this thread about working with companies that recognize the value of good people and are willing to pay above market rate, I gather that the point of hiring in Latam wasn't to be cheap.