skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect we agree more than we disagree. But I think that your definition of a "computational process" is too broad. A bacterium does things that we can say are "performing a computation." But that is different from saying that life is, at root, a computational phenomenon.

For instance, sorting a list is a computational process. It doesn't matter what kind of computer I run a sorting algorithm on, if I follow the algorithm, I end up with a sorted list. If I use quicksort, it takes me on average O(n log n) steps. It doesn't matter if I'm doing this on a Lego computer or if I'm simulating a Lego computer on a virtual computer. I always end up with a sorted list in an average of O(n log n) steps.

By contrast, if I construct a collection of chemicals that matches the positions of those of a real bacterium, I have created a new bacterium. However, if I simulate the activity of those chemicals on a computer, I have not created a bacterium. I have just created a simulation of a bacterium. I haven't created a living thing.

My argument is that the same is true of consciousness. If you create a perfect simulation of a brain in a computer, you have not created a new consciousness. You just have a simulation of a brain.

None of this to say that a computational paradigm cannot sometimes be useful in understanding what is going on in life or consciousness. Just that it is not fundamentally a computational process, it's a physical process.
I also have one for two years now:

https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1276881389091278848

I have to say that I never found a use case for it.

I remember that I hated the OS it came with. I think it was some flavor of Ubuntu that did not let you install software in any normal way. If I remember correctly, I did not even manage to get vim running.

After some reading up on mobile Linux distros, I switched to Mobian, which I generally liked.

But then I noticed that the phone wakes up and turns on the screen at random intervals. And quite often. Never found a solution to fix this. The web is full of reports about it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pinephone+wakes+up

I watched the development around it for a while and contributed some details about the issue. Checked back every few weeks and did not see any progress. Then forgot about the phone at some point.
> Who says an extremely advanced ML algorithm can't 'want' to do this? What even is wanting?

I believe this is the real question about consciousness. If a being were to be conscious but it had no desires, no wishes, not even a will to keep itself alive... it wouldn't bother to do anything... i.e. it would behave exactly like a rock, or anything non-conscious.

Having desires, wishes, and should I say, emotions... is absolutely required for what we think of as consciousness to materialize. But we know that emotions are chemical processes which perhaps cannot occur outside a biological being. Maybe it can, but it's hard to think of a reasonable way this could work.
> TLS worked before SNI was introduced, and the web worked before AWS and their ilk existed. There are still many, many, many websites that use TLS but no not require SNI. If one only sees the web as a handful of CDNs, then it is easy to ignore these other TLS sites. However they exist, regardless of whether CDN devotees choose to acknowledge them.

CDNs are not the only use case for virtual hosts on the web.

Admittidly, subject-alt-name does help with that compared to the pre-sni web.

In any case, if SNI is not needed, than the ip address is neccesarily unique, in which case no privacy is lost by having the sni as nefarious people can just look at IP, so it doesnt really matter.
This is FUD. The law has always had limitations built-in to ensure that this isn't true [0].

The government can only force you to use backdoors you already have, for example if you don't use end-to-end encryption and already have the keys.

[0]: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997...
I don’t know about computation, but it seems to me that memory is a necessary (not sufficient) condition for someone to be conscious.

People with memory loss seem to struggle to pass the bar of consciousness
> No money changes hands, but AWS provide all the tech free, sponsor AWS awards for the students, come to jobs fairs… all the while hoping that X% of those compsci students will, in the fullness of time, come to be decision-makers who choose AWS technologies for their organisations rather than Microsoft or Google.

They don’t need that, though that’s a bonus. A surplus of technologists skilled in AWS technologies, means that its easier to hire if you are looking for AWS than it would otherwise be, so it tips the scales for the decision-makers well before any of the students become decision-makers.
This one was about the concentration of voting power. It turned out that a single, anonymous owner of governance tokens had enough votes to decide this hugely consequential issue on their own. Almost as if corporate shareholding concentration and acquisition-disclosure laws are as good as it gets for "decentralisation" of decision-making, and crypto is now going to have to reinvent that as well.

Like, there are literally already laws in many jurisdictions that prevent multiple apparently-independent parties conspiring to avoid jumping over ownership thresholds but nevertheless acquire a majority of a company. Have fun emulating that with pseudonymity, no central regulator and no law enforcement with jurisdiction everywhere the participants are!
I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to juniors, it's the same if you're using a language you're not familiar with or haven't used in years.

Sure, technically you are a Junior again if you use a new technology, but assuming the MO of the language is not completely unlike one you're familiar with (for example OOP vs functional vs whatever).

I mean, at least that's what I need to do - but maybe "how was this syntax again?" paired with "I don't like these docs" might only superficially be copy/pasting from SO, because you know what you're writing, but you don't have the words of the language...
Well - it's a gold rush - so I see no reason to not get everything they provided - especially the bad parts.

And yet after the gold rush there is stuff left - San Francisco for example.
After the crypto rush is over some infrastructure, knowledge, code will also be left and it may find uses and applications.
That's not actually what drove it here. std::unordered_map has the requirements it does in order to make it a drop in replacement for std::map in cases where you don't care about traversal order. They wanted it to be as easy as possible for people to find/replace in their code.
Even with CDNs and ESNI, discovering the site is possible using various techniques:

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/08/23/what-can-you-learn-from-an... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103770
Allow me (not the author) to rephrase the argument. Lets say you have a computer that you would say is conscious. It does some computation, has some output, and you conclude that it is conscious in that moment, lets say for 1 second. Therefore, you assume that the computation (i.e. internal states and outputs) done by that computer for that 1 second creates consciousness.

Extending the iron bar argument, you could have 1 second of varying internal state by the iron bar, and then create many different interpretations that interpret that internal state in many different ways. One of those interpretations will show that the iron bar transitioned through the exact same internal states as the conscious computation, and did so in a deterministic, casually linked way. What then is the different between that iron bar and the conscious computer?
When I had surgery, I had very lucid dreams. And they were actually quite arousing. Afterwards I heard that it was actually common.
Indeed, crypto is fedualism by-design.

Libertarianism with land as property is feudalism.
Leningrad 1, in 1974, was the first RBMK reactor ever (though, like most reactors, the general principles date back further). Chernobyl 1 was 1977, so the design was only 3 years from first online. Chernobyl 4, the one that exploded, was actually built in 1983, 12 years after Fukushima 1 (one of the 3 that melted down).

Fukushima 1 was a GE BWR-3, 2 and 3 were BWR-4. These were introduced in 1965 and 1966 respectively. Both RBMK and BWR have they origins in the 50s.

So, in terms of newness of the specific model, the RBMK was a little under 10 years newer than the BWR-3/4. That said, the RBMK failed due to an internal reactor design issue, the Fukushima BWRs due to reactor support system failure.
> five to seven hours of idle battery life

> a lack of notifications, something I as a "my phone is in silent mode, no it does not even vibrate, I mean it when I say silent"

> when I dropped my PinePhones I was lucky enough to not break them, I am not affected by a failing WiFi/BT chip (an issue not too uncommon by my anecdata)

> I remember attempting to bring the factory image up-to-date around the date devices shipped and ending up with it in a state where at least the GUI wouldn't come up after all

> writing an update in gedit, running Firefox with ~20 tabs for hours would have been plainly impossible without multiple reboots and likely some unfortunate data loss in the meantime

If this blog post is trying to convince me never to get a PinePhone, it's doing an excellent job.
Seems to only relate to RHEL 6, or derivatives of, such as CentOS 6. Yes: 6. Which is as EOL as enterprise software gets: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life...
All this smacks of those public access science shows from the late 50s, where they had some lumbering "Michelin man" robot doing the vacuuming and cleaning dishes... And the voice over declaring that every American household will have it's own domestic robot by 1962.

If we still find it difficult to copy and paste data into Excel, I can't see how we can blithely state we're already or very nearly at some state of demonstrating AGI.
California residency is defined by an “intent to return to the state of California”. That intent is decided by the FTB not you.

Living overseas is particularly tricky because they want to see that you’ve established another state in the US with a stronger connection than California. If not, you remain a California resident. Yes, that sounds crazy

The state publishes a brochure with something like 40 criteria used to make the determination. Receiving mail inside the state is one indicator

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2020/2020-1031-publication.pdf

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”
As a European I work hard but do expect labour laws to be respected, if that's what you mean. Minimum of 22 days annual vacation (that I use 100% of), paid sick leave, 14 national holidays per year, etc.
Does nobody else here question this concept of trauma? This really seems like an obvious fad right now.
I had the same reaction.

Another problem is that it assumes as an axiom that “Consciousness does not require an external observer to exist.” I agree that sounds very likely, but that doesn’t mean you can just assume it! It sounds a bit like the opposite of Mach’s principle in physics, which I think many physicists take seriously even though it seems very unlikely at first glance.
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Well, to be fair, everything I read about PinePhine convinces me to never get a pinephone.
Ignorance is precisely what keeps the trauma train rolling.
and Freud.
https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....
> the conclusion that seems obvious to me is that we cannot rule out that it could emerge in a network

Not being able to rule out consciousness through computation is a far more cautious claim than 'consciousness is computation'.
What word would you use to describe the subjective experiences of people? What word do you describe something like the taste of an apple, or the appearance of the color red? That is what Qualia refer to. I would say that it is intuitively sensible that these subjective experience exist, at least for any reasonable definition of existence.
Either that, or from someone else who also mis-interpreted it. Feel free to elaborate! :)
Stating that consciousness is observer dependent while using observers to determine whether sth is conscious tickles need the wrong way
I'd say "I am having a subjective experience" is tautological - "subjective experience" are simply words we use to describe the state of being conscious.

Though I'd agree much (most?) of it is made up of very strong illusions.
pandoc (https://pandoc.org) might help. It can read and write DOCX, convert it to a plain text format of your liking.

I recommend to be wary of changing someone else's workflow, however. Particularly if it is someone you live with. Unless the other wants to change their workflow, they won't accept it. And if something goes awry, you're the first person they call, and make responsible to resolve the issue NOW. For example, when stuff breaks a day before a deadline, you know what you'll be spending that day on :-)
Wow, all three of those made me laugh...which is quite amazing to me. Comedic timing would be key to performing them.

Would be interested, how did you expand the prompt?
> However C++ programmers tend (incorrectly) to use the abbreviation STL to mean the entire standard library for their language.

Just like some people have a pet peeve to correct people on this usage, I have a pet peeve to tell those people to look at the name of the MSVC implementation of the C++ standard library.

https://github.com/microsoft/STL

Yes, historically "the STL" was a subset of what became the C++ standard library. But unless you want to tell one of the big three standard library implementations that you know better than them what the name should be, using "STL" for the entire C++ standard library is simply not incorrect.

(Your point that this may be a misunderstanding between the other poster and me stands though.)
I think it's actually a good sign that they're running a governance vote in-response to backlash. The first proposal was seemingly executed with very very little time, and only 1% of the governance token was actually required [1][0]. This proposal is a great gesture, but seriously: as if voting to takeover funds wasn't a decisive enough thing, doing so with less than 24 hours of notice and only requiring 1% of the governance body to vote does not inspire any confidence that this is a democratically led effort. I know there are a lot of skeptics and a lot of believers in cryptocurrency. But this isn't even the currency part. This is just organization rules, logistics, and management. Maybe they should have a proposal or two about basic governance minimums and standards? Why are these the only two votes they've ever had?

This is why most legislative bodies have rules for how votes are conducted, how votes are counted, etc. Solend doesn't have any of this infrastructure, and literally their first vote was a major "we need emergency powers" vote. I understand that they consider this an existential risk to their platform, but having a second vote, to undo the first vote and implement countermeasures for the existential risk does, in my eyes, reduce the my belief that the threat is/was existential in the first place.

[0]: https://realms.today/dao/SLND/proposal/HuaL6cDtuNtfnJgvwMnYi...

[1]: https://realms.today/dao/SLND/proposal/HuaL6cDtuNtfnJgvwMnYi...
Series F funding. They don't know how to run lean and make themselves profitable so they run a grift on investors and sweet talk them with stories about high value data collection.
But we knew it explicitly wasn't even intended to be immutable: Solend had "governance", which has the explicit goal of allowing for decentralized decisions to upgrade the contract and change the rules of engagement. This is very much unlike when ecosystems like Ethereum or Solana decide to modify contracts that were intended to be immutable because the entire ecosystem kind of shifts with the decisions of the developers without really questioning it; this was an explicit vote taken by the people who own the governance token for Solend, a vote you yourself could have participated in... which is the real problem, as far as I'm concerned: there was a 1% quorum requirement on that vote, which they barely made, mostly due to one larger participant! This is a democracy -- which, to be clear, is very much "decentralized" -- but designed in a way where not only does it have the classic issue of how they "can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury" but additionally has the problem that our real-world governments often do (and at least the one I am a part of here in the United States is well known for): that so few people vote that in practice decisions are made by minorities.
I mean that case was in 1998. Less than three years later bush jr was in power, and we haven’t seen significant antitrust since. It’s not for lack of there being a philosophy where that case makes sense - but it is for lack of cross-administration will to enact this kind of antitrust - and a lack of good object-permanence in the minds of the public. We forgot, the legislators and legal system forgot. Everybody forgot.
Loading fonts from a third-party CDN leaks information (namely your IP address, date/time of activity and possibly a HTTP referrer) to that CDN.
Mermaid? I like mermaid, but it is not fun, it is not fast and it is not comfortable, especially when you have bigger diagrams or must edit them.
> Back in the 1980s John Searle cast doubt on the computational theory of consciousness with the Chinese Room argument, and today it seems that most philosophers accept its validity.

hilarious
What helped me most of the time if I needed one or two nudges to improve the layout was [0]. What is notoriously bad, but I think a dot deficiency and not PlantUMLs fault, is the order of components and packages, especially if you link between a package and another package's children.

[0] https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/layou...
Because none of us knows Dart, nor are any contractors likely to know it. Also, based on research I did before starting a cross-platform project, you still end up writing a lot of native code on each platform when using Dart. At that point, you might as well just write native apps.
I lost 40lbs effortlessly, eating as much as I wanted, and I've kept it for a couple of years now..

by switching antidepressants. the one I was on before caused weight gain and sugar cravings. I gained 40lbs when I started taking it and lost it when I stopped. I just suddenly found sugar and carbs unappetizing, whereas before I'd get intense cravings.

the experience further convinced me that weight regulation is metabolic or something. I used zero self-control, diet or exercise, and a chemical change brought me back to a healthy weight. my eating habits changed but it was subconscious, not willpower.
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Imagine defending the US healthcare system and thinking you're not doing exactly what the wealthy elite want you too.
I think a better way to phrase what the parent is saying is that Leetcode is not software engineering. You can be awful at solving leetcodes and still be a great software engineer.

Now, do I think algorithms and data structures make people better programmers? Absolutely. But I feel like most people work on in an area like web development where the usefulness of it is severely reduced when you are working at such a high level of abstraction.
> use a "shop mode" that cranks up brightness to 11 and oversaturates the colours

Practically every TV does this. It makes them look better in brightly lit shops, and any TV that doesn't will look washed out next to all the ones that do even if they are actually better. Always review display settings when you get a new visual device, even if you buy online (devices are set this way out of the box rather than relying on the showroom making any tweaks, so all purchase methods are affected).
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No, because games can be competitive and therefore there is an adversarial selection effect. If there is a motion which is hard then it follows that the other players will force you to make it. This isn't theoretical. It isn't uncommon for people to grow frustrated to an extreme while playing games against someone so much better than them as to make the contest nearly pointless. Even outside of that extreme regime of adversarial selection, just look up some OSU videos. Flowcharts aren't at all harder than gaming; they are pathetically, trivially, absurdly easy in comparison to gaming.
That’a a terrible approximation. Also requires memorising about the same amount of information as just memorising the digits.
> don't know of anyone who's had a crypto wallet drained by a third party where the wallet was secure

Bit of a tautology.
So did many systems. About 3 people used them.
It’s tough for me to define consciousness as “just” anything, but its indefinability is in fact the main part of the problem.
..plus add a good speaker and multiple mic (all available at commodity price).
I guess to mitigate this, you need something like a VPN, Apple Private Relay or the Tor network. Those don't solve the problem of a global passive adversary though.
In my experience, yes, in the sense that by acting as if it’s true and undertaking practices to address it, health and life gets much better.
Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017)
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Oh yeah good point. I have a much newer 50/1.8 that does still have a manual aperture ring.

50mm is a bit too narrow on a crop sensor though for the distance I'm sitting from the display.
RHEL 6 is in Extended Lifecycle Support until June 2024 (that is: customers with suitable subscriptions still get critical patches). It’s a zombie, but it’s not quite dead yet. I’d bet that there are still enough (+) people out there running it.

(+) or rather too many.
I'd say early 2000s, at least for major producers
No-one knows what they are doing
There are many ways to be disgruntled by this, but IMO you should instead think of it as an opportunity.

If the world was full of well behaving well designed software, it would be difficult to find useful things to contribute.

Since the world is full of bad software written by, well, other programmers, this is just a chance for you.

Take it.

Quit your job and do something useful.
I think memory shuts down when you sleep. So that it still feels like something to be sleeping, only we cannot recall it when we awake, because it is not persisted in memory. This is the same reason we cannot remember what it is like to be a rock, even though it does feel like something to be a rock.
Thanks for your comment - and agreed!

Last year I taught myself a good deal of category theory, and you're right, five minutes is not really enough to learn most things - but it is enough time to start an exercise - and those five minutes often turn into something longer!
As the saying goes, all correlations go to 1 in a crisis.
I'd say you're on the right track. It's been years since I had to use media queries. Frankly, I associate them with bad job being done. Either due to inexperience or simply laziness