skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It is an illusion" is transcribed and recalled as an explanation for feelings that drive actions in the person who said it, because we evolved to be able to explain our actions with sophisticated language, and to judge the arguments of others so that we can act together to overcome challenges and to kill the out group.

A p-zombie could do all of those things just fine.

>we do not understand consciousness, because it cannot be understood, because it is not a thing.

Maybe if it's not a thing, you should stop predicating things of it. You should figure out how to use language consistently before engaging in philosophically fraught discussions like this one.

>It is a construct we share and use to separate ourselves from the animals so that we can kill them and eat them as a group.

It is unclear to me why unconscious beings should need to separate themselves from other animals (with a wholly illusory meaningless concept that cannot be understood, btw) in order to kill them and eat them.
I wish improvements to the protocols we use were less bigcorp centric and did more to address privacy issues.
The act of saying “consciousness doesn’t have any effect on the material universe” denies the premise of what’s being said. Behold, your consciousness has just had direct effect on material universe (just as deciding to obtain the device on which it was typed, and before that someone’s idea to make that device, had).

I remember myself being unshakeably of the same opinion: consciousness is obviously something of no relation to reality, so it might as well not exist or be an illusion. It’s one of those things that are tricky to explain but can just dawn on you, how it’s inevitably the thought that manipulates reality.
When I taste an apple that corresponds to some physical pattern in my brain: electrical impulses; neurotransmitters; neural connections being created or destroyed or changing in strength, etc. I see no reason that needs a special word to describe it, nor why that same pattern couldn't be represented abstractly in a formal language or translated to some other computational architecture.
Most of the cost of systems comes from maintenance. Most maintenance effort is spent reading code and trying to understand it. Types are documentation that speed up reading and comprehending. They're documentation that cannot get out of date because they compiler checks them. Don't think of type signatures as boilerplate or extra verbosity. Think of them as electromagnets waiting to accelerate future you.

Professionally, over about 12 years, I have used Java, C++, Golang, Rust, Dart, Python, Perl, and Swift. Since learning Rust, every other type system seems slightly broken. Fixing a red-underline takes a few seconds. Debugging runtime errors takes 10-times as long. And debugging runtime errors in a long CI run can take 100-times as long. Because static types let us catch errors earlier, they speed up writing and changing code.
I'd really like to know if that was part of a longer interview or if it was recorded specifically for this segment. It seems incongruous in the theme of the piece itself though.

The quote, which I'm not finding elsewhere online:

If we do it all wrong then it could be an absolute disaster. It's the biggest aid to totalitarianism you could ever come across, if you think about it, and that must be avoided at all costs. On the other hand it's the greatest boon to decentralisation and people fulfilling themselves.

-- Cy Endfield
That’s not a very good explanation. That second sentence

> Any fraction with a denominator that is a product of prime factors of 10 can be turned into a fraction with a denominator that is a power of 10.

isn’t sufficient. You also have to argue that any fraction with a denominator that is not a product of the prime factors of 10 cannot be written as a finite decimal.

If you do that you end up with a tautology.

A better and more rigid explanation would start with a rational p/q, with p and q relatively prime that can be written as some integer divided by 10^n, and reason from there.
>Considering that everything in the universe is the product of some computation

This is not necessarily true. If you drop a ball it's impossible to calculate how long it takes before it hits need ground. We can calculate an approximation by creating a model, but there is no way to know if that model matches reality.
Sure your rinse aid dispenser is filled and at an appropriate setting? Modern dishwashers depend heavily on rinse aid, which is ultimately a surfactant to prevent surface tension from making water cling to your dishes - the dry boost setting can help but it’s not going to get pools of water out of cups with convex bottoms and such.
Majority of people I talk to are Messenger, LINE, and Telegram. So I only have a few people on Facebook. The Business accounts 100% cause me to get advertising on facebook. For example last week the butcher I used to purchase from in Singapore messaged me from his business account advertising arrival of new meat. Boom I get advertising for meat products in Singapore and Taiwan.

The issue is, I have only 3 chats happening in WhatsApp in the last 2 years that are non-business chats. And all 3 have had conversations resulting in advertising.
How is that your funds are put on hold in the crypto finance? I thought that's what crypto was about..to own your money so that nobody can hold it for various reasons (i.e like PayPal).

People puting funds into custodial wallets deserve to loose it all
Nice cover, close Putin's ally has also provided him with 250 million to make the app. Follow the money.
Threema costs money, which is a showstopper for mass adoption.
Or run at a lower resolution. Quake 2 was 60 Hz on my PC at 320 x 200.
Comparatively, RHEL 6 is still kind of fine, at least it is still officially supported as virtualized OS in oVirt...

We run a lot of CentOS 5 virtual machines (and some physical ones! ; and some RHEL4! , and a few Fedora core 8 and 4 !!!), with no end in sight... :(

It is a huge concern for the Infra team, a source of many headaches, and we need to go through oops to keep them running, but:

- Clients don't want to move from OLDPRODUCT that requires extremely old php.

- Dev team is not interested in migrating OLDPRODUCT to a modern platform, or even try to put it in a container. Their eyes are turned to the shiny NEWPRODUCT that is seemingly never fully coming to production (only one client has signed for it).

- New clients are still regularly signed on OLDPRODUCT.

- No one in the org wants to pay for for a migration anyway.

- Since some clients have complained about poor apparent security, what was visible was just hidden behind newer haproxy.
According to Wikipedia, SNI is sent by the client to the server:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
That would be another case of wasting a lot of time and electricity so the developer doesn't have to spend half an hour learning how a computer works.
Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claims Boris to give Carrie £100k role
Insanely important, especially with the renewed rise of antisemitism - sad to see this downvoted.
Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices
It's an awesome idea, because it brings the painful past right into our daily lives. You're forced to serendipituously "stumble" across them every now and then.

The stories on them, told in a brief phrase, are mostly heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, always relevant. "Executed for making fun of the Führer", "Deported and gassed for hiding Jewish neighbors", "Survived concentration camp but parents, siblings and relatives did not make it out alive".
Still seems like a good thing. I can use the same app with the same contacts for e2e chats too. Also the calls are e2e encrypted. For now: Telegram is fast with good UX, many contacts, works just fine and is reasonably secure (with their own "credo"). The mentioned above WhatsApp is a closed source client program that can do whatever it wants on your phone, who said that it is not secretly sending any word you type to some telemetry address, while e2e encrypting your chat traffic...
Vehicle-to-Everything Commmuncation
I've never used it, but from the look of the code Ada seems to me such a nice, chill language (for a statically typed one, at least).

(Disclaimer: I have a soft spot for Pascal)
The article literally suggests the opposite? Are you a GPT-3?
As soon as you want to do something with π, you have no choice but an approximation, so floating-point is completely appropriate.
Let me ask a different question (to answer your question): How will you determine if the data is stale?

Think through the options here:

1) When one node writes new data, it'll notify the other nodes that it wrote data. Thats called eventual consistency, and you'll get stale reads.. because of the latency between the time the item is written and the time the remote nodes get notified of the update.

2) On write, you make sure all of the nodes accept the update. This is strong consistency, with all of the positives and negatives that includes (high latency, reduced availability).

3) On read, you check with all of the nodes for the newest data. This is another form of strong consistency.

If you weaken the last one, and say: I'll set a timeout, so if there's a network error (even without a partition, there could be a network error) it doesn't block... if that timeout is triggered, then you havent checked all of the nodes, and so you dont know if it's stale (in some cases it will be).

There's literally no way to guarantee the data is not stale without strong consistency... and the laws of nature are the reason why. Data cannot be transmitted instantaneously. Therefore you have to handle that delay somewhere. You can accept stale reads (eventual consistency), or you can accept high latency reads or commits (strong consistency). But the latency never disappears.
I can't use secret chats because they're only available on mobile, possibly macOS (and Unigram if you use Windows 10), not Windows or Linux, and I like accessing my chats across devices and typing on a physical keyboard.
> SNI is not part of the request ... SNI is part of the response from the server back to the client.

SNI is sent by the client, in the request, at the TLS layer.

It's purpose is to let the server know which certificate it should use to respond to the request.
You have absolutely no idea what "trivial" means. https://xkcd.com/2501/
Every option here has tradeoffs and drawbacks: fixed point arithmetic suffers from a very limited precision range, rationals aren't even the same number set, cauchy sequences are precise but comparatively very slow… there's no one size fits all solution that's right in every circumstance.

Except, of course, at lower levels of abstraction - where IEEE floats are what the hardware implements. Lower level languages use 8-, 16-, 32-bit integers, they use IEEE floats and doubles, and they make these choices for pretty solid reasons.

Higher level languages make different choices (arbitrary precision integers are common in interpreted languages, eg). Libraries support all kinds of options up and down the stack.
Yeah, probably a bit of hyperbole :) I'm no auto guy, but this seems to be an example of a microcontroller used for key fobs: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/ATA5700
- 8-bit AVR core
- 32 KB flash
- 2 KB EEPROM

The datasheet mentions SRAM, but no indication how much, and no indication of clock speed AFAICT.
Also, a bit more detailed info here with voice samples:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/v9rigf/p_s...
You'll have to switch to instant coffee!
You don't need to know all that much in order to achieve consciousness. Lets say that you have a program that you assume to be conscious. You run it for 1 second, and exactly record all its internal states and outputs. Now, you can find an interpretation of the iron bar that shows that the iron bar casually and deterministically went through those exact same states for a full 1 second. What is the difference between those two situations? Why would the program be conscious but the iron bar would not be?

I believe the argument is more about how loose our definition of computation is rather than trying to disprove any form of consciousness. If we can find a proper iron bar and an interpretation of internal state that exactly mimics a computer, why do we consider one a computer and one completely random? What is missing from our definition of computation?
I got one, never managed to get the phone to call. 4g wasn’t working either. I think I managed to receive a text at some point. I was disappointed to say the least.
Yeah to be fair, LabVIEW is the absolute worst graphical programming system. For something that is literally all about graphics you'd think they'd hire a graphic designer. LabVIEW looks like they tried to make an example of how not to do it.

Tiny text, ugly colours, incomprehensible patterns, totally random alignment, etc. Looking at [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/LabVIEW_...) would give anyone a headache.

I'm not a fan of graphical systems in general for other reasons, but we probably shouldn't decide anything based on something as bad as LabVIEW. Simulink is way better for example.
How do you know that? Lamda AI claims itself as conscious being. How can you distinguish between two entities which can communicate? Do you discriminate on meat factor?
What I am saying is that the universe is literally performing the computation.

What you're describing is humans' attempt at modelling this computation using simple formulas.
I had a Panasonic using the old My Homescreen. That thing was fast. When I moved I sold the TV as the temp apartment had a TV. It was a Samsung TV and omg its is slower than any Android TV Box I've ever tried. Took ~40s before I could use the TV.

In Taiwan my father in law has a Sony TV with Android, it's a tiny bit slow, but it's acceptable. There's no Ads on it yet.

I'm yet to experience ad's but seems like alot of people are beginning to, makes me worried.
Left to right. I’ve not had my morning coffee yet, clearly
>You must have missed all the very suspicious information about Durov's close ties with Russian authorities

That's rather fine in the event you don't want the Five Eyes to spy on you and you don't care if Putin reads your messages when he eats his breakfast.
When I left California, the FTB went after me for extra taxes on the time I was in California.

Kind of like a final “fuck you.”
I'd love to just use an old smartphone as my webcam, but unfortunately they really aren't made to be connected to a charger 24/7. If they at least let you charge the battery to 80% and then shut off the battery until the next cycle, or power on with no battery present, this would be a great alternative.

I got a OnePlus 6T here that I'm not using anymore, the camera is great, but I think if I tried using it as a webcam I'd just end up watching the battery balloon through the case (or worse).
I think it can be hard to predict these things. At least it’s not hard for me to imagine someone coming up with a way to make plumbing standard and easily replaceable in most buildings. Sort of how brick walls became something to come off an assembly line a few decades ago. Today we’re back to more traditional bricklaying here in Denmark because the assembly line stuff wasn’t aesthetic enough to keep selling, but the way we construct buildings has for the most part become like building with legos, and a heap of important trade skills that requires skilled tradespeople died along the way. All it takes for things like electricity and plumbing to go that way is for a company to figure out how to mass produce systems that are as easy to plug in as the rest (which has sort of already happened with ikea houses) and take it to world wide adoption.

This is not to say that I disagree with you, but being adaptable is more important than being just skilled. A lot of those typists eventually became secretaries and then spread further out to different parts of organisations, and a lot of them are still there. It’s only the people who don’t adapt who get left behind, and I’d like to point out here that I’m not a fan of that term. As I am Scandinavian that is probably of little surprise to people, but I think society has a responsibility to keep people useful so long that we require them to work until they are 73+.
OT, but: why don't you just compile up an old php version from source on a new OS? It's a bit of a hassle the first time you do it, sure, but less than the hassle of running multiple legacy OS?
I'm tempted to get it as a second phone and run NixOS Mobile on it.

It'll be awful for years. But if many people with my skills & elbow grease levels marinates with it for a few years, it could become special.

It takes guts to be amazing, after all!
If they have to run a query and pay for the botnet I already won a small battle.
Isn't that exactly what's currently happening with the transition from UDP to QUIC?
> To load the rootkit into kernel space, it is necessary to approximately match the kernel version used for compiling; it does not have to be strictly the same.

>> vermagic=2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions

do you know why they say "approximately match"? I thought it had to match exactly so that the kernel accepts to load the module
You've essentially responded with the statement that all software has bugs: "every piece of software ever written and every piece of hardware ever built has bugs and has been hacked".

The person you're responding to provided a number of cogent points. To take the bad faith interpretation of your argument we'd never use computers or online banking.
On the bright side, constraints breed innovation. Joaquín wouldn't be bringing this great content to us, and furthering the state if the art for node based hash maps, if the standard library wasn't constrained.

Squeezing more efficiency out of something already used in millions of programs is very noble
>NEWPRODUCT that is seemingly never fully coming to production

>- New clients are still regularly signed on OLDPRODUCT.

I mean what's the WHY behind that? Why don't even new customers sign on to the new product? Why is the new product not in production? Is that the same reason?
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There's not a lot of chains in the bay. This is really the most basic one I have been to.
> We worked hard to make orkut.com a community where hate and disinformation were not tolerated.

Does anyone know if this is actually true or is this all just pandering to a contemporary audience (given the last few years)? It really seems like BS (see [1] and [2].)

Also, what's with the name? I never got that. Aha, I see.

> The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#Hate_groups

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#State_censorship
Codeball AI Code Review Deep Dive
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There's also a OpenStreetMap based map on top of that: https://stolpersteinmap.de/

And the German public TV station created an app with additional information on Stolpersteine: https://stolpersteine.wdr.de/web/en/
Also also, HN cuts the anchors in ULRs, so here is the full URL

- https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#text-to-speech
> My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion.

Do you mean in the sense that we don't really have it, or in the sense of the word is devoid of meaning because we can't directly compare what's in our own heads to what's in the head of even another human?

I'm currently leaning towards the latter. Even if consciousness, whatever it is, is a lie or an act by one part of my brain to itself or to another part of my brain, it still is something.

On the other hand, the more I learn about other humans, the more varied I realise our inner worlds to be — aphantasia (and equivalents for other senses), religious experiences and their absence, having or not having purity as a moral foundation, the range of conditions in the DSM, and so on.
For me, income is basically a enough/not enough kind of situation.

I don't feel the need to chase more money at the cost of my QoL
You can run android apps in a waydroid container, albeit it will still be closed-source.
> Computation does not have anything essential to it that makes it different from other "atoms jumping around" other than it produces outputs that we find interesting.

This is not true. Computing is a system where the physical hardware (the computer) is following rules that are explicitly encoded in itself - you can analyze the system and discover where and how the program it is following is encoded (as we did with DNA).

In contrast, non-computational physical processes are following the laws of physics which are not encoded anywhere.

A simple way to test this difference is to check whether there is some way, at least in principle, to get the computer to perform a different computation. For a cell, we have successfully done this: change the DNA, and the output changes, without affecting the computer itself. With a system simply evolving according to physical laws there is no way to change its behavior.

At best, you can claim that the universe itself is a computer, and all fields/particles are the symbols that it is manipulating (the laws of physics being then part of the internal implementation, akin to microcode in a CPU).
I am at a similar level / write a lot of Ruby. I have pretty mixed feelings. I do enjoy writing Ruby and echo the low friction between an idea and running code.

However, on very large Ruby projects I have inherited I do see a common flaw of a large (often insane) amount of exceptions being thrown due to type errors. Undefined method blah on nil class. Some of these apps have had 100s of developers working on them of various skill levels. For mission critical code paths I am often the biggest proponent of Sorbet.

While my personal projects involve heavy use of meta programming and taking advantage of duck typing, I have altered my writing style and opinions for large projects.

Part of my frustration with Ruby type system could be explained by the fact great Ruby developers are becoming pretty hard to come by and I have often had to work with developers who are picking it up.
Can't tell if you're being facetious or not. If a technologist can't change an IP address on a TV's network settings then they're probably in the wrong community.
You need a separate hot water tank and a 3-way valve, when hot water is requested the hot water from heat-pump will get diverted into the hot water tank (puffer).
No, when I say "used", I mean by non-laymen - speakers close to its source use it for something very different. (The actual context is not a matter fitting for this discussion.)
Consciousness is a trick for human neural network to simplify some calculations about the world. It was developed as an evolutionary trait and proved useful to survive. That's my opinion. It's not an illusion, it definitely exists as an particular configuration of neurons.
No I don't, I'm employed in Europe in a leadership role and thus talk with the CEO about salaries and general money flow, and I'm also able to read my pay slip, which is quite detailed and also lists all "Lohnnebenkosten" (side/extra costs for employer on top of my brutto money), iow. what the employer really pays.