skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is empty space also a computer, because while we might naively interpret it as "all zeros", with the proper location and time-dependent mapping, it can be seen to be running Doom?
I see the same people over and over on HN posting unsourced conspiracies.
Abuse is very relative too. My parents don't feel like they abused me, in their reality all they do is love me, but in mine they're harming me repeatedly. To society it's probably in the gray area. They have emotional baggage from their childhood, causing failure and limits in understanding of others that is very hard to manage.
Fastify DX for Vue
This is overboard. Defaults matter a LOT. Requiring users to override defaults to deliver ad/malware is a losing proposition and ad/malware creators know this.
Yeah, I too vividly remember that purchase as more wholesome and a way of supporting them, rather than purchasing something. The free version is super feature-rich, and I believe most of those who go premium do it to support Bitwarden.
Steel-manning, they could have meant that the larger risk makes this smaller on insignificant. Adding 1 to 1,000,000,000 also results in a larger number - not that I think the actual compared risks could be given these numbers on any scale, but to their mind the TV privacy risk may be too insignificant to bother with when there are easier and larger risks to work on.
Why would you not care about the valuation if you were investing in a company? Are there coolness points for being able to say "I'm a spacex investor" that are just worth the cost?
It's necessary to go down to the level of axioms and do one step at a time. It's obviously not needed for us to see that this proof is correct.

A human proof would probably not generally go beyond something like:

2+2=4

1+1+1+1 = 1+1+1+1 // Substitute the definitions of 2 (1+1) and 4 (1+1+1+1)
> "You can download some Linux distros and other open source software this way" …

That's pretty much all I use it for. Great for grabbing the latest shiny Linux iso image.
Neither do I. But if Apple created a new category of device that drastically changes how people use computing in their everyday lives, would you like to own one or not, eventually? Chances are you'd eventually buy one and start using it.

I steadfastly refused to use a smartphone and a tablet when the products came out but ended up making them an integral part of my daily life. Apple has made products that have fundamentally altered our idea of a computer a few times, our idea of a phone once, and our idea of a music player once, and a consumer information consumption device (tablet). I'm talking about that level of innovation here. A laptop without ports and that is x mm thick is not a 'new' consumer product from this perspective.
I can't say I'm too surprised that at least parts of the ear evolved from organs originally meant for breathing; the interconnectedness between the ears and nose/sinuses seems less weird given that context.
The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens
Because that was too slow in the 1970s, when this particular corner of programming language design ossified.
Provided you can avoid cancer and viruses long enough to live to be 100.
>> it seems reasonable to assume that one day, we could arrange atoms in a specific way to produce consciousness from an atom-based computer system.

There is no evidence for this. It does not seem reasonable to me at all. Internal dialog is not consciousness.

Many of the people who discuss consciousness at length do not need or simply do not engage in any internal dialog at all.

We will never 'build' consciousness. It is not possible. Consciousness comes from a source outside of our realm of experience as a gift. It does not come from the micro or small things (though it is entwined with them and everything), but from the macro, that which is above all.
I'm referring to subjective experience. Which neurons have to fire for me to experience the subjective taste of chocolate? And how many neurons do I need before that can happen?
Let's say you can initialize the first N bits of the hot iron to the initial state of your program. By what process does the hot iron use that information to compute the next state of your program?
That was a quick response, thanks!
Telegram is criticized because it's way below than the state of the art when it comes to security, while still claiming (official website) that "messages are heavily encrypted" and that it "keeps your messages safe from hacker attacks" even though it does both way worse than e.g. WhatsApp and Signal.

I don't think a potential association with Russia is the main problem; what about E2EE by default, including for group chats? It's mind-boggling that it's 2022 and we still have to trust that whoever controls Telegram's servers doesn't abuse their powers and is diligent enough to protect them.

It's fine to celebrate Telegram for its features, but let's not pretend that this criticism is unwarranted.
It's a shame because my 8-10 years old Samsung dumb TV, oven/microwave and laser printer are all working great to this day.

(That's more coincidence than brand loyalty, my Laden (French cheap brand) washing machine has also been working with no maintenance need for 13 years)
Yet GP said "selling data", not "collecting data". Google and Facebook collect hordes of data and sell access to insights of it, but not the underlying data itself as that data is far too valuable.
nope, the other way around. Thinking you can 'get' anything from computation is religious thinking, because it introduces a sort of dualism. As the author correctly points out, computation is not a 'thing that 'does' anything, it's a label for a subjective observation about a state of physical matter.

Taking the naturalistic position is to accept that matter is all there is. Consciousness is not divorced from the stuff it is made out of, and cannot be abstracted into some cloud of computation. It is a sort enlightenment era rationalism gone wrong which is also why it's so popular among folks in this industry. It actually comes with its own theology while we're at it. (Immortality, raising the dead, final judgement, and so on).

A person computes consciousness no more than a falling pen computes gravity. Even a literal computer does not 'compute' anything other than in the sense that human observers impose meaning on a bunch of electrons buzzing around, and the language makes sense to explain how it works.
"Sphere circumscribing a cube" draws complete nonsense. As expected.
Passkey's (and webauth2's) major value proposition for software/service providers is for people to stop sharing accounts. This will result in more sales/subscriptions, and better tracking of preferences/activity.

That it also happens to provide better security is just more cheese on the trap.
That looks nice, for really simple things.

I wonder though, how people really use stuff like this and what are the key things that make them find it useful?

I've tried different approaches and found flowcharts mostly only work for really trivial things, and even then only if there's a very strict hierarchy (which almost nothing actually is).

Get into even a single module of code (never mind the whole system) and a chart at any significant level of detail becomes an illegible mess. At best just an image to gloss over in a slideshow to try to look impressive, without actually trying to explain anything. Anything with any complexity needs a wikiweb of details and relations. And that's a mess to maintain.

But I do love the idea. And making it simple and easy to do with the keyboard is great. Just wonder how people actually use it.
Yes. The "system" understands Chinese in the same way a native speaker does. It's two different implementations (room system and native speaker) of the same computation ("understanding Chinese"). There is no externally observable difference between actually understanding Chinese and a perfect simulation of a system that understands Chinese. The fact that the person inside doesn't speak Chinese as a result is irrelevant in the same way that the L2 cache alone without the rest of a computer cannot run Minecraft is. If anything the Chinese Room thought experiment is an argument in favor of consciousness being computation. It pains me greatly that someone could come up with it and conclude the opposite.
Blumenfeld won’t answer exactly that specific question, but it will help you understand how that works more generally.
The first thing I'd look for is someone who was themselves a technical co-founder.

For someone who is not that technical, that would be a big drawback. I would say in that case that they be an adult. Even if they're in their mid-20s - they are an adult. They are confident and decisive. They're optimistic about the business. I don't know how to put it into a word, but it's all one thing.

Insofar as avoiding - nepotism for one thing. Relatives, wives etc. working for the company is not a good sign for a company on the rise. I can think of companies we all know of who have been harmed by co-founder nepotism, which has all kinds of pitfalls.

Also petulance, inability to handle stress, the desire to point fingers and blame in an unproductive way. Not wanting to deal with things - passive-aggressiveness.

Also, flightiness. Bad CEOs seem to have many projects in flight, and seem to start and cancel products with no rhyme or reason. Good CEOs are usually focused on one product (or maybe product suite). Good pivots or new products are usually due to customers throwing boatloads money at the company because they want us to do something they don't offer, we don't pivot because the CEO thinks up a new idea and wants to chase a new shiny. Lack of focus.
He left two words off: "That I am having a subjective experience is undeniable [to myself]." You cannot prove, even to yourself, that you are not a brain in a vat. All you can prove is that you are experiencing something. And what little that is cannot even be proven to anybody else - no matter what you do.

Consciousness is quite a personal affair.
Sure, the physical world exists independent of our will and communication, so this text (and all the electric fields that traveled between our machines over vast distances) exist regardless of our will or communication.

But I am only convinced of this fact because I have experienced it independently from any other agent. I know for sure I exist in some sense, I believe very strongly that the physical world exists, and I believe to a lesser degree that other agents have similar experiences to mine.

In other words, I am more certain of the fact that your comment exists than I am of the fact that your subjective experience exists. If I found out the comment I am responding to was in fact GPT-3 output, I would be much less shocked than if I found out my own senses or memory deceived me.

So, the physical world is a much more believable explanation than a world of conscious discussion; and exploring the physical world in the aspects we ourselves can observe about it alone is a much more convincing argument than trying to discuss it with other conscious agents.

It's much easier to convince someone else that I can pass through walls than it is for me to actually pass through a wall.
Do you think you deserve praise for not taking out your anger on bikers you consider inconsiderate even though you outnumber them? And how does outnumbering them give you any more right to hit them, or you being in a hurry make them deserve any less consideration, or owe you any more consideration?

I was driving in Boston and stopped at a light that just turned red, while it had just started raining, so all the oil on the road had just gotten slick but hadn't washed off yet. The Boston driver who rear-ended me at the red light was furious and tried to blame me, saying "I thought you were going to run the red light too!" So yeah, it's provably true what they say about Boston drivers.

https://www.allstate.com/americas-best-drivers/index.htm

https://www.boston.com/cars/commute/2018/08/31/boston-driver...

https://www.bcheights.com/2019/11/17/why-boston-drivers-and-...

In The Netherlands, bicyclists don't need to wear helmets, because Dutch drivers don't act like Boston drivers, because they drive safely and respectfully, and don't get pissed off when bicyclists slow them down, and drivers vote for politicians who build safe bike lanes and pay taxes to fund them, which are ubiquitous and well maintained. It's a cultural thing, and the wrong kind of culture kills bicyclists.

And it's not just Boston driver culture: Rolling Coal on bicyclists is also a uniquely American Red State cultural thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmJSsRLgj4

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a39797952/driver-posts-video-...

But then again, after looking at your posting history to see what other words come out of your own mouth, I bet you'd probably hate the Dutch culture, because it's so easy to get great health care, birth control, abortion, morning after pills, non-procreative sex is not stigmatized, same sex marriage has been legal and widely accepted for so long here, conversion therapy is banned, and of course teen pregnancy is much much lower than in the US. More of those pesky progressive cultural things that really make a big difference in the quality and duration of life.
> revolutionizes human civilization

That's overselling putting some satellites in orbit. It's going to help isolated people get internet, and maybe support some science missions, but mostly it's going to be orbiting satellites for other people.
> I think people start with the premise that consciousness is a specific “thing”, that it is unique and special to humans (and maybe dogs because we like them but definitely not spiders and flies because we don’t)

I think you're right that a lot of people would like to believe this, and that attempts to do so can't work because the idea is incoherent.

> My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion.

I would answer this another way, though. I would say that, for example, Amazon is conscious, and its consciousness is Jeff Bezos. The relationship between Jeff Bezos and Amazon is precisely identical to the relationship between your "consciousness" and you. But that relationship is not an illusion; it does exist.
Are these the same as what I call "micro-dreams"? When I'm trying to fall asleep I will get these tiny but full end to end dreams on situations and voices and places - but clearly I am not asleep. I'm in that "trying to fall asleep" phase.

What is this called?
> IMO it's unfortunate that most languages default to floating-point. Most beginning programmers would be better served …

Most languages, most of the time, are not used by beginners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
>> Why would the British elite want free healthcare for everyone?

So that they will have control of the healthcare system. Or lack thereof. "You missed crossing the T on page 1027-56, section 3 when filling out your submission to acquire cancer treatment form, and so we are rejecting your request at this time. Please fill out the form again and wait 6 weeks before re-submitting."

The more power politicians/elite have over the populace, the easier it is to control the populace. Right up until the riots.
Seconding Bosch. I've only owned one of their dishwashers for a little over a year, and I'm really impressed with the low noise level. It also had a great leveling system that raises the back by turning a screw that was accessible from the front. It made DIY installation much easier. Bonus: no smart features to go sideways a few years down the line.
how would you store pi?

same way we do now I guess? Approximate it. My vote is on 22 / 7
Apparently UK propaganda teams dropped the ball on colonization. There's a lot of people who see the spread of the old British Empire™ as a bad thing and express pain at the thought of it.
I think what you're missing here is that upkeep (the numerator in your equation) is largely constant. It can change a little bit, but it can't go anywhere near zero. This is why it can be ignored.

As I said above, the bulk of calories consumed in a day for a typical person are upkeep, not exercise related. You do not need to factor it into the overall equation. The changes are not significant enough.

"Starvation mode" theory is that the upkeep of the body changes significantly when calories are lower, preventing the body from losing weight. It's just not true. There are secondary effects (lethargy, no energy for increased exercise for athletes) but the vast majority of obese people do not exercise significantly to begin with so these effects can likewise be ignored. The baseline caloric upkeep -- which is something like 70+% of calorie burn for almost all fat people -- will never significantly change in terms of its efficiency. This is why you will always lose weight on a calorie restricted diet, even without exercise.

Hopefully this clears things up for you.
Do you have a good blog post on choosing tolerances and ranges? I just started at a company where it’s probably about now that we should get smart with that. We do geometry so the problem gets even worse.
> They are not a FAANG [...] Assume that whatever you watch on a Samsung TV is being relayed to multiple state-level spy agencies.

You don't feel the same about FAANG? And by state-level spy agencies you mean government spy agencies, or something else?
I used to eat a medium pizza from there... after eating nothing the entire day. I do think it depends on what your cheat days look like, but I'd struggle to get anywhere near 3500 calories.

Yes, I know that Cheesecake Factory & such have some high calorie foods on the menu as a sibling comment mentions. I also know that I avoid that place like the plague because I hate wasting food and I can't even eat half of most of their dishes. The few times I have gone, I literally looked at the calories listed on the menu to find suitable items that I wouldn't end up wasting.
Thats why the GPL requires the ability to install as well:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
If you have, like, 1960s Ai Nikkor 50mm F1.4 with a "crab nail", and if you don't need autofocus or program-auto aperture, they can be put onto basically any cameras by means of a passive adapter.
I think satiety is way under talked about by people discussing weightloss.

From personal experience nothing made as much difference. I counted calories but switching to high satiety foods made it quite a lot easier.

High fiber foods take a lot longer to digest so make you full longer. Warm oats and pears are a great example.

https://www.fortitudenutritioncoaching.com.au/blog/satiety-h... is a reasonable overview.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/ is a satiety index of common foods which is really useful.
Serious question: why would you want Musk on a deserted island with you? What skills do you think he'd bring to help you?
disclaimer/context: I'm a HackerOne customer (I manage a program, and heavily compared Bugcrowd to HackerOne prior to purchase).

> Practically, HackerOne is already in the business of validating vulnerability reports, and they did so here.

This is true of some programs, but not all. Only for programs that HackerOne manages and triages for is this the case. Companies can and do refuse the triage service. The triage service, and H1 staff are incredibly devoted to the hacker side of things. H1 staff routinely advises when we should pay more, when we should award bounties on borderline issues, and offers their mediation process if a hacker disagrees with our judgement. They push us (and I assume other companies) to increase the scope of your program, to increase bounty payouts, and to decrease complexity with complying with program rules.

> The real problem is that HackerOne takes a commission on vulnerability reports but does not protect the researcher if the program doesn't pay for the validated report.

I manage a HackerOne program, and at least on our contract, this isn't as straightforward as you might expect. We pay for HackerOne's services with a tiered billing structure based on how many bounties we pay out. If we pay out $1500 we pay out $1500 flat, nothing skimmed off the top. If we pay out more than $x, we have to pay for an additional consumption tier irrespective of whether or not we pay out bounties up to the max on that tier.

> Other platforms like Bugcrowd do protect you (which is probably sufficient for the problem you describe), but HackerOne strangely does not.

For the most part, Bugcrowd has its own set of problems, which is offputting to a lot of people, including my team. Specifically, Bugcrowd’s Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy [0] includes many things, particularly in the P4/P5 categories, that are extremely noisy. In both cases, both companies don't pay out on dupe reports, for example.

[0]: https://bugcrowd.com/vulnerability-rating-taxonomy
You can block 99% of this by using the "Samsung" list with nextdns on your TV. Few other hosts in this thread [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...
I think the point he/she is trying to make is the 25x claim is real
Browsers keep password in memory, how serious is that?
Since I'm a windows user, it's pretty concerning for me. Many [rather vague] processes need administrative permissions in order to run. Now with the fact that nearly all my passwords are saved in clear text in memory and can be accessed by other programs, it can be scary to think what others can do with the passwords which are not 2FA.
Primarily the victory election at the end of WWII where Churchill seemed to assume he'd be back in, in a landslide and he ignored the work being done by Labour memebers amongst the troops. There was a pretty solid army education corps which was (surprise suprise) dominated by left/labour leaning academics, and they put a lot of "why are we fighting" "homes for heroes" "make britain better for you" messages out. Labour got in on a landslide, Clement Atlee was elected to replace Churchill. The Beveridge report [0] was (partially) implemented. This was the birth of the welfare state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_Report
>Extracting can be done from any non-elevated process that runs on the same machine

It doesn't even need elevation...!
Having a strong social support system goes a long way. Help meet people’s basic medical needs, basic educational needs, have affordable housing, a minimum wage that people can survive upon. All of those are preferable (and well studied) methods of decreasing childhood trauma, without taking the kids away.
I guess what we need now then is std::open_unordered_map ;-)
> just mentioning that it may well have been a well coordinated targeted attack

What kind of “attack” are you imagery that made them insolvent (or close enough to it)? They’re not uniquely impacted by any particular crypto crashes, so it’s hard to see how something could have been engineered to take them out.
Exactly. Parenting is a challenging mix of turning kids into functioning adults, letting them have fun, teaching them life skills, making them feel safe, and preventing them from accidentally causing serious injury.

Often these goals require conflicting choices. The solution, so far as there is one, is to do everything with love and humility. Then, even my mistakes are learning and bonding opportunities.
It does parse. It's not like what you say, it more like "this apple has a bruise and some blemishes but I'm still happy to consume it". Television has had annoying ads for much of the past century and millions of people still found enough value in it to watch it.