skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people quick to try to reduce consciousness to what we can observe about brain functions.

While this explains what happens in the brain as things happen it doesn’t explain why it is like something to be you which is the core of the hard problem of consciousness.

The thought experiment of a philosophical zombie that has all of the same cause-effect reactions to externalities as myself seems to require that it isn’t pure information processing giving rise to consciousness.

I quite like the idea of certain panpsychism arguments that consciousness is itself a thing existing on a continuum inherent across the universe. At a certain point, “what it’s like” to be a certain thing becomes difficult to demarcate. And from the moment of the Big Bang the particles necessary for the construction of conscious beings expanded outward in one giant entanglement. The particles that make us up are the same as everything else in existence however it feels like something to be a person, a deer, possibly a plant, etc.
I don't take responsibility of others. You don't feel scammed, good for you. May your investment come to fruition.

I feel that this project is scam and as a good citizen it's my responsibility to make as many people aware about it as I can.
The rich have done astoundingly well yes. The middle class has gone steadily down hill from the 80s.
> religious zealot groups who conduct absolutely massive campaigns

The campaigns don't even need to be very big. The baseline of organic complaints against the average show/video/site is vanishingly small, so even a group of a few thousand people all hitting the same target at once looks like a tidal wave of backlash by comparison.
> I don't understand why you try to shame us for choosing to buy our own.

I don't see anyone shaming anyone for choosing to buy their own. I see someone pointing out it's possible to make one, and I see someone else defending the choice to make one by pointing out not everyone can buy an expensive, pretty pre-made one.
I use it for browsing/copying/editing files on remote servers. Once you've got ssh passwordless authentication set up with the server, then it's easy to add in a systemd automount for it in your /etc/fstab. I like the authentication and encryption compared to NFS though it is slower, so more for accessing specific files.

Example /etc/fstab line:

root@remote:/ /mnt/sshfs/remote fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,user,idmap=user,follow_symlinks,reconnect,transform_symlinks,identityfile=/root/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=1000
Even still, the OP wouldn’t be any worse off waiting for a cavity and getting the tooth pulled then. Pushing surgery now is sketchy AF.
I suspect it matters more than we may realize.

It is something like how quantum effects work when we measure them. A conscious capable entity has the closed loop needed to have the capacity to [something] "self."

(Yeah, there is a word missing and it is missing because I lack understanding.)

Sensory deprivation seems to really impact us as well! Maybe that closed loop is always needed, like oxygen is for our bodies. We may endure a brief excursion "all inside the box", but a longer time leads to madness, damage.

However it works, the fact is we have a robust and high fidelity perception of ourselves and the world and we feed on all like food and water. It is very suggestive, and I find thoughts along these lines compelling and difficult to reason about. We are missing something basic. Of that I am sure.
Here in Germany it is actually the really old dentists that can be trusted. They were not raised to think business oriented. Though most of them have have retired by now.

My old childhood dentist used to do the absolutely necessary. He just cared about keeping my teeth healthy and not putting me under unnecessary stress. He did not even remove my wisdom teeth. When he retired the new doc would simply maximize the amount of procedures. One routine checkup and he would find ten things that needed to be done.

What had changed? In Germany doctors used to be basically paid from a fixed budged. In 2007 there was a health care reform changing that. Now they would be paid for individual procedures. So obviously doctors would try to do as much profitable procedures as possibles.

The articles misses the target a bit, probably because health care in the US has been run like a business for much longer so it is harder to see the real issue: It is not cultural, it is not some dentists being shady and it can not be fixed by educating dentists. It it the natural result of the incentives that are in place.

If you try to run health care like a business you will necessarily and always produce these issues. And this is not dentist specific. Lot's of unnecessary but profitable surgeries are being performed as well.
The current title on The Atlantic is "Is Dentistry a Science?" which IMO is more descriptive and less clickbait-y than "The Truth about Dentistry". @dang : I suggest changing the title.
> A half-assed job with an electric toothbrush will get your teeth cleaner than an extremely thorough effort with a manual toothbrush.

I've had 2 electrics, one Philips SoniCare and one Oral-B with the rotating head. Once broke within a year and the other lasted longer but got flimsy really quick.

It used to take me at least twice as long to get my teeth clean with either of them than it does with a manual brush. I usually ran 3 cycles of the electric before I was more or less satisfied with the job.

> Bonus: their failure mode is that they become a manual toothbrush.

Yes but a horrible one. Small and oddly shaped brush heads are not ideal for manually brushing.

I'm not dismissing your experience, just saying that it's not universally true.
I wish people would stop acting like this was just VW. Every major manufacturer in Europe was found to have either emissions-cheating code, or to have emissions levels wildly higher than what the manufacturer claimed, because the EU regulators just trusted manufacturers to test and report CO2 and NOx figures. Shockingly, they all lied.

And if you live in America, diesel pickups have to meet a far less stringent set of emissions standards.

On top of that, many people who own duramaxes, powerstrokes, and cummins diesels strip out the emissions control equipment and run modded firmware on their ECUs to not throw a code...spewing far more pollution than these "dirty" diesels.
Thankfully, they still support my favorite way to pay: dropping an envelope filled with various cash currencies and your account number on a slip of paper in a mailbox at a random airport.
Unless the employer has a reputation of providing above average compensation, anytime at least a pay range and description of benefits is not provided, it is safe to assume they are not competitive (for above average people).
Companies that do not respect RFC email addresses are simply breaking the internet. Email addresses are not unilaterally specified by your marketing department, they are at this point, internet infrastructure.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322
> Apple has absolutely no way to police content outside of the App Store

Wrong and naive. They have no direct way. Plenty of indirect ways.

> How did Apple ruin the Tumblr site?

Taleb's minority rule. Also read tumblr insiders' accounts of the porn ban that lay the blame much more on Apple than mainstream reporting does.

> Why hasn’t pornhub met the same

If Twitter/tumblr/reddit had no app, their mobile engagement would halve or worse. Not true for Pornhub.
There's nothing inherently evil to EEE. Plenty of software and standards have benefited from it (e.g. Linux, Ethernet, USB, PCIe, Thunderbolt, Bluetooth). The question as whether EEE is "bad" is a matter of motive. Edit: Is it being done solely because there's money to be made in locking down the tech to certain platforms or because there's a superior or more convenient solution?

iMessage has been on phones for 11 years and so far Apple hasn't gone out of its way to pull the plug on SMS. Apple doesn't seem to have an active desire to extinguish it either. Other companies have put a more serious effort in that regard: Google has RCS, Signal has its own unfederated protocol, and various companies have their own messaging platforms (e.g. Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp).
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>So it isn't true that most advice suggests writing for eight year olds.

That may be true although I can tell you from personal experience that writing optimizers for places like trade press sites absolutely push you towards more basic language, shorter sentences, etc. One site in particular I used to write for sometimes told me every single time that I should basically dumb down my prose. And I don't write in a particularly literary way and I've pretty much never had this feedback from human editors.

>Once, journalists wrote. Now everyone does.

Interesting observation. At one point, most business people above a certain level were "writing" by dictating to their secretaries which is a completely different mode of getting information onto a page.
See this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810249
In the UK, https://www.which.co.uk/ fills a similar niche to Consumer Reports.
I answered a single question, I did not endorse anti-competative practices across the board. In this particular case, they built it therfore they should be able to choose how to distribute it and establish privacy standards as they wish.
Land and property improvements are already taxed (at least everywhere I’ve lived in the USA); I see no logical cause and effect relationships between the additional tax proposal and the alleged problems (nimby-ism) it is supposed to address.
> “I’m going to let a few of the execs know I’m not out for turf because I only intend to be here for a few years.”

Not sure if he had said that during his interview and still got hired.

This is borderline common-sense to not put yourself as a short-timer. If that's the bar of the CTO at certain places, then I'd do amazingly well.
Ask HN: Anyone run a service with millions of users from one home computer?
Reposted on Ask HN for visibility. With the advent of M1 Max and fast internet speeds is running a scaled up service from home more common ?
Not just you. Selfish ME ME ME is the current zeitgeist. Heavily sponsored by today's robber barons who are taking the obvious action to deflect attention from their corporate empires towards identity politics.
I should start growing my own mushrooms given that I eat them nearly every day.
Awesome, congratulations!
Packtpub Twitter Account Takeover
> I'm originally from Canada, and without getting into the differences in healthcare between the two countries

I mean, on paper, there isn’t much of a difference between the two countries when it comes to dentistry.
Yeah, this sounds like someone who should have just posted the facts of their project as a 'Show HN' to see whether there was any interest. This wall of text trying to involve reddit and going into too much background of the surrounding topic area instead of just laying out what their software does... it is an odd approach and it is falling flat.
Here's some empirical research for you then:
http://gameofrent.com/content/is-land-a-big-deal

Additionally, property tax rates vary massively from state to state and there's pretty strong correlation between property tax rates and housing supply and housing affordability. The legacy of California's Proposition 13 and its effects on housing supply are very well studied.

Property tax still has inefficiencies (it can punish someone who builds relative to someone who holds an empty lot), and Land Value tax would be more efficient in aligning incentives properly.
Your point about coordination is a great one. In a perfectly rational world, even and economically self-interested one, there are many ways that the thousands of educational institutions around the country could pool their money to build something better than YouTube for their use case. But coordination is hard (I certainly don’t have any magic answers) so they each roll the dice with YouTube itself
"Packing" in this case I infer to mean hauling possessions via a backpack as opposed to a suitcase.
Removing the +company is not cool. When I give you myname+yourcompany@mydomain.something, I'm authorizing you to mail to that address, not myname@mydomain.something. If you don't respect the recipient, you'll be rewarded with unsubscribes, at best, and spam reports at worst.
Sounds like the pay is too low.
Ah, I thought it was line-buffered, but apparently I was wrong.
That's a lie.

As of Aug 2021, PWA support basically didn't exist except for some parts of the manifest file. No background tasks, none of the major APIs were implemented, and you got nothing but an app tile on your homescreen.. even navigating back and forth from the PWA to another app caused the PWA to lose state. Data storage was basically a nightmare.

There are STILL basic fundamental things missing.

When the tumblr saga was going on, I still don't think you could even read PWA manifests or add them to your homescreen!
When someone complains about politics infiltrating a space but is unwilling to name the specific politics, suggesting it's a general principle, they very likely have a problem with the specific politics. They see social costs in voicing that opinion, so they generalize it to some principle.

Hard to imagine a minor annoyance of logo design would otherwise justify a public post. Living in a pluralistic, multi-cultural society doesn't mean excluding politics from the public sphere. It means tolerating politics in the public sphere, especially if you're ambivalent or even a little annoyed by those politics.

In this example, if it's pride symbols or the Ukrainian flag, or something else -- those will stop being political once the rights are so normalized and obvious, they no longer elicit reactions like this.
Isn't IKEA now mostly branded Chinese tat with a slightly premium pricing?
I have noticed that you can buy good quality Chinese stuff cheaper without having to pay for Western branding.
Now that Western corporations are outsourcing whatever they can to make extra profit, basically becoming a shell and investment vehicle rather that a company actually making something, I think that it is now more ethical to actually buy from Chinese corporations without Western involvement.
These greedy corporations are a part of the reason why Western economies are tanking. No meaningful jobs and people can't keep up paying off their debts.
They also lobbied governments to put regulations on top of regulations so only big corporations could keep up with changes and it wouldn't be possible for a small business to even start unless they also outsource to Asia.
I am sorry for quite a rant, but when I see IKEA it hits a nerve.
> We do not have the power to change it.

We absolutely do

> maybe one day there will be a social movement to make the world a fairer place

These movements have existed for hundreds of years

> When that day comes lean into the movement

That day is in the past

> Promise yourself that you will follow through when the time comes. That is how I assuage my guilt. If the time is ever right to create meaningful change for the betterment of all, I will be there on the front lines.

I don't want to be rude because you seem to want to help, but assuaging your guilt by hoping some day in the future you will contribute to something positive seems like a plan for inaction. This seems like a great way to ensure that things don't change. There are many movements to change the world for the better. I don't want to get in to specific ideologies but I changed my career so that I am always working in open source, trying to undercut for-profit companies that would patent ideas and charge high prices by offering open source alternatives that people all over the world can build for free (I am working on an open source farming robot project).

If you want to know more about how I view this topic more broadly, you can watch one of my videos on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcd5EQgMEQ
> Consciousness is an illusion

It's just like the related "Free will is an illusion".

With "illusion" just referring to something that appears to be one thing, when it is in fact something else.

In the case of free will - we all feel as if we have it, that our future actions are under "our" control, but if we assume or brains and muscles are subject to the laws of physics then this can't be correct. We're just a meat machine. We can watch the decision making in progress and easily believe that some mysterious actor "me" is the one doing it, but in reality the meat machine is doing everything, including the self-observation, and the sense of self is just as illusory/misleading as the sense of free will.

Consciousness, rather closely connected to sense of self, can be described as illusory since it makes us feel that "being" or "experiencing" are something fundamental, some aspect of being "alive" that is distinct from the computational machinery of our brain that is otherwise doing all the perception, cognition, emoting, etc. But, again, the meat machine argument tells us this must be wrong, so it's reasonable to call consciousness an illusion - not what it seems to be, even if there is some real self-observational computation behind it ... it does exist, but it's not magic.

A useful thought experiment for anyone who believes that a sufficiently brain-like machine wouldn't experience qualia - e.g. the feeling of seeing something - is to try to pinpoint exactly what aspect of the feeling the machine would be missing? The expansive sense of color/vision as a spatial quality perhaps? The grass-like freshness of new leaves on a tree blowing in the breeze, perhaps? ...
"packing" as in "backpacking", not "packing" as in "packing for a trip".

Dirtbagging doesn't necessarily entail living outside. Could bum a room for a while. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbag_climbing for context.

To clarify: I tend to think of living out of a 40L pack as a dirtbag thing rather than a nomad thing... most of the nomads I know just use hard shell luggage, including me when I hotel hop (I've had nice expensive backpacks destroyed by bag handlers, so hard rollers are better). OP mentions that thy don't have to check their 40L bag; I've always ended up with mine checked but I guess splitting the load into a second personal item could make that less likely.
As the OP talks about a bit (see (math) in the "On Weakness" section), the things that really matter are:

1. the rate at which clean air is replace with dirty air, the ventilation half-life (e.g. steady state from an outside draft, bursts from cooking)

2. the rate at which the purifier extracts particles (CADR)

3. your personal tolerance for particles.

4. (unstated in the OP) your tolerance for noise level.

Ikea arrives at that size through some form of that math, but if you live in a less polluted area, have a well sealed home, or just have a higher tolerance then it could absolutely be suitable for a larger room.

You can buy air quality sensors to test this or purchase a purifier with one built in, such as the Starkvind from Ikea. it can automatically adjust the speed to satisfy some level of pm2.5 particles (I'm not sure what that level is because I don't have it connected to anything smart). I have this in my bedroom and find that the vast majority of the time it stays on setting 1 or 2.
Good, experienced people would usually have built a decent network for themselves over their career. As seniority grows, you will find them less and less applying for new jobs, and more and more relying on their networks for new work. And if they are good, they very likely are sitting on open offers from well known ex-colleagues that they could take up at anytime. You will do much better to tap in through your own networks, find suitable candidates and reach out to them directly to get them interested.
Think backpacking, where you're surviving on just what's in your backpack for multiple days at a time.

The focus on "packing" there is on weight/volume minimization - for example backpackers have been known to shave down the handle of their toothbrush to save a few grams. That sort of thing.
Still, one American out of three has been once arrested??? From my entire circle I only know of one person which almost got arrested, but true I'm not in the USA...
Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to prove I own my account
So I tried to create an Instagram account yesterday. After registering, I was immediately told my account was disabled for suspicious activity, but that if I wished they would review it within 24 hours. Weird, I thought, but maybe it's just some rare false positive that can be triggered and I'm just unlucky. So I waited, patiently.

After 24 hours I tried to log in again and to my surprise, my account wasn't just temporarily disabled anymore but permanently deactivated and I was met with this message:

> Your account has been disabled for violating our terms. Learn how you may be able to restore your account. https://help.instagram.com/521372114683554

How can I allegedly have broken Instagram terms when I just created the account and even verified it by phone? So I visited that link and asked them to restore it. What I get is an email by facebook that demands I send them a picture of myself holding a paper that I wrote a specific code on. Verbatim the email is this:

> Hello, thank you for contacting us. Before we can help you, you must confirm that you are the owner of the account. Please respond to this email and attach a photograph of yourself, where you hold a piece of paper with the following, handwritten code on it: *** Please make sure that the photo fulfills the following criteria:
- shows the above mentioned, handwritten code on a clean piece of paper, followed by your full name and username
- shows both of your hands holding the paper as well as your complete face
- it is well-lit and not too small, dark or blurred
- is attached as a JPEG-file to your response E-Mail
Note: Even if this account does not contain and pictures of yourself or it represents somebody or something else, we can only help you when we receive a picture of you which fulfills these criteria.

Am I the only one who finds this incredibly intrusive? I know I might be partially beating a dead horse here, as everyone knows Meta is pure evil. But this email really "gave me the rest". I wouldn't use IG for posting pictures of myself anyway but now I won't ever be using anything from Meta even for business reasons.

Are there really no less intrusive ways than the above to prove ones ownership of account?? Why is email and phone verification not enough anymore these days? Is this the type of "progress" happening at FAANG? LOL
Now that so many big corps change their logo colors to rainbow in July, I think it's no longer a strong statement. Not that it really was one, if certain locales were excluded from it. I guess ceasing business with countries which don't follow human rights requires too much courage.
I found similar at the UK take, Which. Everything is boiled down to star ratings and then Mail Merge creates the review text.

Apparently, each air purifier which can handle a large room is big, heavy and loud. And the air purifiers that score highly on being quiet have the downside that they can only handle small rooms. Oh, and they did measure the CADR, and will tell you that "this air purifier scored five stars on our CADR test".
Is that what you use? What is your personal experience with it?

I think this is good if you are in a wild fire scenario and air purifiers are sold out, or for your home work shop.

Otherwise I suspect it is very energy inefficient and noisy.