skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think so but just remember it takes "your body" to process the energy required for your brain; now, if you became completely sedentary, you MAY be able to get away with your brain having access to "two brains worth of stuff" ...

But what Neuralink wants to do eventually is "enhance" your brain with computers hooked up to Ai.

Do you have ANY idea how quickly your brain would burn through physical precursors to the thinking process while trying to handle all that?

I mean, "in theory" if a computer would do something like solve a complex equation and give you the answer right away while you were trying to do something like, say, pay your taxes – fine.

But how would that be controlled? What if the computer wanted to "share a whole bunch of interesting stuff it's processing" ... how would that be controlled and how would your brain be protected from that so it doesn't burn out trying to keep up with everything?
I want a flowchart editor which doesn't give me carpal tunnel but I also want (some) control over the layout.

So far Graphviz is the closest. Plain text in, flowchart out. I would say "you can't beat that" but I think that you actually can. I think that it is possible to create a good interactive tool for editing DOT, it's just hard and probably would be pretty niche.
I don't think the GPL covers signing keys, just some mechanism for installation. Allowing addition of additional signing keys is a good way to do it, just like UEFI Secure Boot does things. There are also plenty of phone vendors who allow bootloader unlock after wiping the device DRM/etc keys too.
The OP already knows the answer. The Facebook addiction has already worn off for the majority of folks and the new digital crack, cocaine of today is TikTok.

But don't worry, all the 'cool kids' are using it today but as I said before, they are no different to Facebook and it is in fact even worse. [0][1] But that is hardly a surprise to see when its glorified algorithm dictates what is seen and unseen to point where it manipulates its users to suggest claims like: 'TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet'. [2] Anyone could have said the same thing about Facebook 10+ years ago.

Would you now say that about Facebook today?

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

[1] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
Hardcore History 61 – (Blitz) Painfotainment
I was quite puzzled by the explanation given for the steps as well. At first I was thinking that perhaps they need a gutter per level due to rain coming in extremely short bursts, but that's clearly ruled out by the pictures. Perhaps it's not about throughput at all, only to limit inertia when the water eventually hits the gutter? Given the steep angles of the roofs that might cause some spillover loss otherwise.

Then why are the roofs so steep? Could be building material: can a small island lacking bodies of water even have clay, for roof tiles? A thatched roof would be impractical for harvesting rainfall. And when you go limestone masonry (apparently the building material available), you'll likely end up with something steep. Steep and stepped, unless you go the extra mile chiseling for smoothness. So the original cause for the stepped nature of the roofs is kind of related to water harvesting (even if the hurricanes mentioned in passing have likely been just as motivational against organic materials), and the steps might actually help by preventing high inertia of water hitting the gutter, but I suspect that's more a convenient coincidence than the accrual reason.
wait till you hear about generational trauma. do we have trauma from the entire history of our ancestors? :|
For example, feed manipulation is particularly concerning.
AFAIK Russia censorship just drops HTTP 3 connections forcing browsers to downgrade.
Ice cream has far, FAR more lactose than most cheeses, especially hard cheeses.

Just a quick look-up online—a 50g serving of ice cream has something like 1.6g lactose. The same amount of cheddar has around 0.05g lactose, and mozarella has around 0.03g. That’s like a factor of 30x-50x.

This explains why even people who don’t think they are lactose intolerant still have digestive problems when they eat ice cream, but have no problems with cheese.

Ice cream may be culturally significant, I just haven’t heard it called a comfort food before.

I’m also a bit confused about the protein comment. Go read the nutritional facts for cheese some time. Cheddar is about 1/4 protein by mass.

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/328637/n...
again, that's not true. It can be argued that it can't be proven beyong 50%, which means that it's a toss-up and parents with low conscientiousness have children with high scores. Also, this trait is not indicative to success, even if it correlates. Too high is also a negative, just as too low is.
So you are selling your security for a fine UI.
I'd like to (optionally) see an arrow direction on edges. Most of the graphs I work with are directional. If I drag to try and create a back edge, it doesn't seem to care about direction and just assumes everything is left->right.
The Studio Display does have a 27" 5K P3-color monitor attached to it, which drives up the price a bit...

Seriously, though, in the context of webcams, the Studio Display is kind of a counterpoint to "just rip a camera module out of a few-year-old smartphone and it'll be terrific". That's pretty much what Apple did here, and it's rather notoriously, ah, not great. (I have one, and I think it's better than some people give it credit for, but I know I'm comparing it to Apple's laptop webcams, which have historically been pretty terrible.)
> This means that one of these observers will, by chance, happen to observe that the states of the atoms correspond exactly to the bits of a Turing machine computing

I did not understand this argument. Yes, through careful labeling you can map the states of the atoms of the iron rod to the state of a Turing machine. But that mapping will only be correct for one instance. The very next moment the atoms' magnetic moment will flip randomly and the mapping will be lost. So an iron rod cannot be thought of as a computer.
As I said above, I received a certified letter to an old address the day after it happened. My friend who lives at the address let me know, so I haven't see the actual letter. It is entirely possible that they sent other letters there and my friend tossed them, but they weren't certified. They also didn't notify my current address.

Nor did they contact my accountant, who I've had for 20 years now and who's address is on file as my primary address for tax related issues.

It is also odd that they pulled the funds from one of my unused accounts that I just kept around for transferring money between the US and Vietnam (Citibank is in both countries and has free < 24 hour transfers) and left my primary bank account (which had the majority of my funds in it) alone.

The taxes they say I owe were during when I was living full time in Vietnam. I was still paying my US taxes during this time as well. This isn't the IRS, it is the FTB. I didn't own a business and I wasn't in California. None of this makes any sense to me.
> https://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html

Here's what the source looks like:
https://www2.sqlite.org/cgi/docsrc/blame?filename=art/syntax...

> https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

These are actually just GIFs and it's unclear how they're generated.
https://www2.sqlite.org/cgi/docsrc/file?name=images/ac/commi...
Like with normal investing, consumers do not have the ability to “do their own research” about the internals of companies who create and promote cryptocurrencies. Which means that the research is flawed.
FB is like newspapers; for old people only.
Co-Founder of ShiftX here. We are building a flowchart/BPM/knowledge-graph hybrid. We also use a grid and support splits/loops/joins in a way where we try to optimize for readability. Feel free to try: https://shiftx.com. Feedback welcome!
The most astonishing thing in the video was being able to get a mortgage from the council. I had no idea that was ever possible. Apparently local authorities once had 16% of the mortgage market.
Glad to hear this. I’ve hit this point in the past couple of years and I haven’t quite gotten to the point where I actually believe that management will be satisfied with my “no more climbing” attitude. Every time I get a new manager I have to have The Talk where I tell them that I’m happy with my level of impact and I don’t plan to spend my 1:1’s exploring what I need to tackle next on the leveling guidelines for the next promo. It’s a nice place to be, and I wonder when I’ll be able to really relax and stop waiting for the other shoe to drop. :D
Shouting something like "stop" or "enough" or "go" at toddler wont cause him trauma. What will cause trauma to your kid is yelling at him something like "you stupid f**, good for nothing looser, I hate you ..."

There is literally zero dichotomy between preventing toddlers doing crazy stupid & dangerous things vs causing them trauma via words. Toddlers can be annoying and don't respect you are tired mentally or emotionally. People loose their emotional control, it happens, especially when there are other stresses. But, saying that it is about safety is simply not true.
Isn't consciousness just the ability to observe some part of the brain's processes and use it as another kind of sensory input to thinking?
And this is from country where you actually get the documents. One can only imagine what else there is going on in countries where papers are under lock and key forever.
> And all this in the 70s.

It was just as bad before this

With WWI, how did the european powers manage to convince their civilians to go die in the trenches fighting a meaningless war? Or Vietnam in the US

The saying "if everyone jumped off the bridge..." is funny, because people will say it and forget what it means the moment everyone around them starts jumping off the bridge
I find this argument completely unconvincing. The mapping in a case like the iron bar is entirely ephemeral, pertaining only for an instant. For this argument to be valid you’d have to be able to persistently map the iron bar, or waterfall, to all ongoing transformations of states in the running program, using one single consistent mapping. Otherwise all you have is a snapshot of state, not an ongoing process. To achieve a persistent mapping for a significant time you'd probably need an iron bar something like size of the observable universe, at which point we're in Boltzmann's Brain territory.

This argument is in the article as well and I’ve seen it from Searle too:

“A simulation of a brain cannot produce consciousness any more than a simulation of the weather can produce rain.”

This is making the unstated prior assumption that consciousness is not a computation. If it is a computation then conciousness is not like weather itself, it’s like the simulation. Me imagining having a shower doesn’t make anything wet either. So is my imagination more like the weather, or more like the simulation of it?

As for doubting the field of rocks can be conscious, that’s redundant, you might as well say a 3D field of atoms cannot be conscious, such as a brain for example. Talking about computation and consciousness is a sideshow, this is anti-materialism by the back door. Nothing more.
The point of the experiment is to think about the individual in the room. You can not say it's irrelevant, because it's the entire point.

The system's response is trivial: Sure, if the room+person combination leads always to a coherent response in Chinese, then the entire system understands Chinese.
I'd go even further: If the person in the room does not understand Chinese, but the system does, then there is some entity that understands Chinese - either a person or an advanced AI, feeding the inputs. Then, from the systems perspective, the person in the room is largely irrelevant.

But this is not the argument: Despite no discernible difference from the outside, the person in the room may either understand Chinese, or they may not.
And so there is a distinction - from the perspective of the individual in the room, that does not depend on the outside observation.

That's all there is to it. It shows that meaning and understanding are not the same as syntactic computation (an important point, to be sure), but it does not show that one can exist with or without the other. By extension, it does not otherwise disprove consciousness as being this or that.
Any sufficiently advanced technology feels like magic and it seems to me that consciousness is about as advanced as it gets.
seL4 is a system formally verified up to machine code.

https://sel4.systems/About/home.pml

It won't protect you against unprotected apps doing what they want, nor against CPU backdoors, but it reduces your attack surface by a lot.
The lumina does a great job or of the box even without software installed.
You can trust this random, or just read the filings for yourself. The nice thing about public companies is you can stop listening to pundits and just get the info yourself.
Bump it up a crazy notch. Take that same watermelon, and eat a small slice of feta and basil with it. It's even more mouth watering, and now comes with added protein. This might be my favourite thing on earth - I'm finally off fresh figs.
Exactly. And the person following the Chinese program also knows they don't speak Chinese and that they aren't understanding anything.

I don't really find the Chinese Room argument very compelling because there are too many "it's obvious that X can't really understand" in it.

Also, you can't derive from it that there can't be computed consciousness in some other form.
> Seems like a horrible and shortsighted hiring practice if you ask me.

Why? Most smart developers know that crypto companies are capitalizing on Ponzi schemes. If they don't know that, then they don't know their own industry very well.

We're never going to need 100+ developers, and there are plenty of people to hire that have never been involved with a scammy industry.

> Is your employer “for profit”? Chances are they’ll do all the same things any other company will do to keep the boat afloat.

Yes, and we're profitable. I own 30% of the company and make technical hiring decisions. We will not forego our morals to hire additional developers. We don't need 10,000 (or even 100) developers, so it will be easy to find as many as we need.

> Plus, many mainstream companies have been sued for all kinds of terrible stuff, sometimes even criminal.

There's a difference between Boeing (a company with deeply unethical leaders, but a perfectly legitimate product) and Binance (a company with a deeply unethical service).

I can believe a software developer at Boeing didn't know what was happening or was just doing what they were told to preserve their career. I can't believe the same for people in crypto (or repeat offenders, like Facebook).

> Judging others’ morals is a slippery slope.

Boycott is one of the only tools I have to preserve my own morals, to try to prevent others from doing what I consider to be evil, and to stay sane. I can't enforce my morals, but I can exercise the "invisible hand" of my market power and refuse to advance the careers of people who don't care about harming users.

This is partly a personal decision -- I don't want to work with people I think are unscrupulous -- and partly a business decision. If those developers were so disrespectful of their users' wellbeing at their previous employers, why wouldn't they be at mine? Can I trust them to do all the tedious things that developers have to do for security? Can I trust them not to sell our clients' data?
To have a Facebook account in the beginning meant one was in/related to a University (needed an edu account)

To have a Facebook account now means one has an AARP card (only old people use FB)

Thanks for the laugh.
Show HN: Beyond Pomodoro, set multiple goals, loop over goals multiple times
Set multiple goals. Multiple goals can be specified by separating each one with a semi-colon. Example: 1h 30m; 2h; Dec 24 4PM EST.

Repeat a goal or a collection/pattern of multiple goals forever or N number of times. To achieve this just add loop/sprint (to sprint/loop forever) or loopN/sprintN (where N is an integer number of times to repeat) the goals. Example: 10s;loop4 would generate 4 notifications, each spaced 10 seconds apart. Much more complexity of patterns is possible, look at section 3) of help page for goals (start arttime, press g, enter help, and scroll to section 3)

Configurable pattern-based time management: Set a repeating pattern of times to get notifications at. This makes Pomodoro Technique just one of billions of patterns possible for time management, and makes you set a pattern that works for you. Example pomodoro pattern that repeats every 2 and half hours for ~10 hours: 25m;30m;55m;1h;1h25m;1h30m;1h55m;2h25m;loop4.

Show delta time for all timers, expired or pending: Set multiple goals, and press i or I to see all goals. Capital I shows a scrollable view by default, lowercase i adapts to terminal size. If terminal size is large enough to show all goals, it does not start a scrollable view (only excitable by pressing q). If terminal size is smaller than the lines to be printed by information page started by I, it starts scrollable view.
I find this like the Einstein brain book (Is if Hofstadter?); when you read it fast enough, it is Einstein. When you just open a page, it looks like gibberish.
>I like PACELC because it helps you to think about consistency in the common case, when your database is operating normally. Can you handle the occasional stale read, and in which situations? If not, are you fine with the increased latency and reduced availability that strong consistency requires?

Using that assumption - no partition - why can't we determine if a bit data on a node is stale and request it from somewhere else?
I can recommend the books "No more Mr. Nice Guy" and "When I say no I feel guilty", they helped me a lot.
The article linked from the above has more details:

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...

It answered a question I was going to ask, which is "why don't they just run in benchmark mode all the time?" And the answer is apparently because the extra brightness can not be sustained without damaging the panel.
I agree with all the replies to this.

1. If you're saying that it's mostly software, then you shouldn't have created hardware. You should release and sell software to run in tandem with existing cheap webcams. Not a low-quality webcam with some magic software.

2. Saying the iPhone is proof that you can make good, small cameras is bunk. The iPhone has an enormous amount of horsepower at its disposal. And an enormous team of software engineers (in addition to hardware engineers). A small startup with a couple of engineers isn't going to replicate Apple's camera team. Plus, are you aware just how incredibly powerful Apple's SoC is? To replicate it, in addition to the world-class engineering team, you'd either need to offload all that to the host CPU (which won't have dedicated hardware for it), or build it in, which you can't for the price-point you'd need.

I recently bought the elgato FaceCam, and honestly it's pretty good for $150. Much better than Logitech. It has a pretty large sensor and good software (and no autofocus!), but there's nothing magic about it.
This works great. Just tried it on two occasions. The shower doesn't even feel as cold.
Choice quote from that entry:

> "Beveridge was opposed to "means-tested" benefits. His proposal was for a flat rate universal contribution in exchange for a flat rate universal benefit. Means-testing was intended to play a tiny part because it created high marginal tax rates for the poor."

Plus ça change...
Was never cool. OK in the early years. Not so for over 10 years.
Diagram as Code 2.0 [video]
I'm sorry, but I don't think you're understanding. Either because you're embarrassed or there's something else going on. Please set aside your ego if that's the problem because I never said the substitute function is a regex.
If you’re gonna mock me at least get one of your facts straight.

Ice cream has something like 50x as much lactose, by weight, as mozarella cheese. That’s why people who are lactose intolerant often have no problems eating cheeses, or at least certain cheeses in limited quantities. However, even people who think that they’re not lactose intolerant have digestive problems after eating ice cream—it turns out that it’s quite common for people to have some degree of lactose intolerance and be unaware of it.
> Imagine buying a 4TB SSD, copying your stuff over from the old HDD to have it die 2 months later.

This is one if the reasons why I have local backups (as well as off-site backups) on a RAID mirror containing drives from distinct manufacturers. I don't trust any of them not to pull this sort of crap, hopefully if I buy two from distinct sources they might not fail at the same time.
this is a brilliant idea
I did most of my nursing school papers in LaTeX after finding APA7 formatting and citations difficult to comply with on a short deadline. I found that the headaches of the tools and of learning the many small packages far outweigh the benefits of separation of layout and content, and I've since uninstalled TeX Live. For anyone less inclined to tinker, I hope that the process of installing TeX Live would scare them away before the damage can be done. If the default behavior of a package manager is to download the entire repository, it's a sign of serious issues with the ecosystem.

EDIT: Markdown on the other hand is far too simple to format formal writing. It was never the intention of Markdown to be that.
Afaik, we dont have raising rates of child abuse. The abuse is talked about more openly. But, a lot of abuse stories you read about is adults talking about what happened to them in 90ties or so. The acknowledgement of intra family abuse was much lower.
Baskin Robbins is by far the most ubiquitous ice cream chain in the Bay Area and a single scoop is right around $3 as of a few months ago.

I’m not sure why you mention Fenton’s. I’m only aware of a single location in Oakland and I would describe it as fairly high-end. Perhaps not “hip,” but definitely very “retro” stylized. Very Instagramable. Long lines.
This article starts with the wrong assumption that programs/computers need to be deterministic. They are clearly not. Monte Carlo tree search is no t really deterministic, nor is the training if large neural networks. To me conscious has more to do with whether the system is able to reflect on is self. In that sense very simple systems (with not much intelligence ( could be conscious
I also had zero issues with my Siemens appliances (dishwasher, fridge, washing machine)
I'm not justifying it in any way - but changing DNS is trivial - something well within the capabilities of all the readers here.
That would also apply to the Chinese room.
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