skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old WoW launcher used to use torrents for distributing the base game and for updates. For some reason they removed that.
Not sure how to think about that. I'd expect a pen tester to live of the money they get for the pentest and not make extra money with bounties from the time spent during that pentest. If the bug was in the software of another vendor then that's not as clear, but I'm still not sure if the pentester should be entitled to a bounty. If anything, maybe the client should get the bounty as they hired and paid for the pentester to find vulns?
> So if we accept that qualia exists (which, after all, seems intuitively sensible), we are burdened with the apparently impossible task of explaining how consciousness can be generated by physical processes.

No, you don't get to just gloss over that. I don't think it's "intuitively sensible" that "qualia" exist. I don't think think it's intuitively sensible that they don't exist either: the question is ill-defined until it's first been established it's a well-defined concept that actually means something. And the burden is on you to do that.

If you make up a word without requiring it somehow maps to the real world in some way you can prove or disprove anything you like about it -- because you've made up the rules.

I can play that game too:

1. I define a word "foobles".

2. By definition, I claim, humans have foobles and computers do not.

3. I write many long essays pondering the question of where foobles come from, why they exist, and whether or not computers can ever have them. Some people are very impressed when I call this "the hard problem of foobles".
Indian kulfi is also good, but it's not the same as Western ice cream, since the milk is intentionally caramelized during the preparation.
Universities do. But they're biased and try to hype up the science.

Reporters are supposed to sort through that and find the good ones. It's just not easy.

You can try it yourself sometime if you'd like. Choose a field of science, comb through a year (or a month's) worth of primary liteature on Google Scholar and Sci Hub, along with press releases from research labs, without resorting to secondary sources like blogs and science news. See if you can pick out the top 10 stories in any given time period and accurately summarize them for an 8th grade reading level. Email competing labs and other experts to get contrary opinions. Write it all up within a day or two, per article. Try to get it published somewhere, and get paid for it if you can. It's not an easy job...
The introduction page to the language in general gives a very good sell on where ADA comes from and why it is relevant today [1]

[1] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/intr...
Ok this is very helpful, thank you!
> Before a client can create a CurveCP connection, it needs to know (1) the server's long-term public key and (2) the server's address

That (1) seems wildly impractical? How would you distribute, securely, privately, anonymously and generally ( for the whole planet) the public keys? The only way i can think of is something like the HSTS preload lists which is quite centralised ( per browser), or DNS. Also it's IPv4 only, which is only kind of excusable for "last version 2011".

I don't see a way around either SNI-like mechanism or a pre-shared key for hosting multiple sites on the same IP, unless everyone moves to IPv6 (which would still be annoying for web hosting, to have an IP per domain).

Edit:

> The client and server administrators don't meet secretly to share an encryption/authentication key. The server has a long-term public key S visible to everyone; the client uses this key S to encrypt data for the server and to verify data from the server

So the wording is a bit unclear, the client needs to know the key, but the key is visible to everyone.
The crypto market this cycle was peak evidence of the utter insanity that can happen when there is excess liquidity in the markets. It honestly makes a mockery of "money".
Or that we just don't remember the dream states. Have you ever woken up and the dream rapidly fades away?
Deploying Gleam on Fly.io
Nothing is still cool.
It isn't about frequency, it is about possibility.

Source for your "more often" comparison though? Certainly people have had their wallets drained because they handed out the keys or stored their stuff on a centralized exchange, but that's not a lot different than a regular theft.

I don't know of anyone who's had a crypto wallet drained by a third party where the wallet was secure.
I agree. It's a little strange to complain about a lack of progress in webcams the past decade, and then ship similar quality hardware to decade old webcams.

Why does everyone focus on a small form factor for webcams? Look at the size of microphones being sold today. The Blue Yeti is one of the most popular microphones and it's almost 30cm (12") in height. You might say, if you don't mind a large form factor, then go buy a DSLR or mirrorless camera. The problem there is they're not designed to be webcams. I watched one of the Lumina videos, and they were complaining the $2,000 Sony camera took forever to setup and configure for their demo. That's a problem. Someone solve it. Give me a large high quality camera that is designed to be a webcam first. I have lots of room on my desk, it doesn't need to fit in my pocket.
Yeah as soon as they went custodial they opened all of traditional finance’s banking regulations on themselves.

This is a good reason to call the regulator on them and any OTC desk they actually used.
Obligatory "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" by Scott Aaronson[1], one of the best reads I've ever had from a paper. It debunks the kind of arguments this blog article makes quite deftly.

For instance the argument about the hot iron reminds me of section 6 in the paper "Computationalism and Waterfalls".
For someone to ascribe consciousness to a piece of hot iron (or a waterfall, or any other random or psuedorandom process), we need to create a mapping of its states onto consciousness, or in this case, as a proxy, the program called consiousness.exe.
Aaronson argues if the mapping we create is too complex, it might be doing all of the work of being consious, not the original underlying piece of hot iron.
The article does not go into amount this detail, but it seems like the process of creating this mapping is: make enough mappings at random until one works. It would probably take waaay more mappings than atoms in the universe to try before we hit on one that works (something that's also discussed in Aaronsons' paper in section 4), so I'm not sure if the argument is even relevant.

Give the paper a read, it's one of my favourite pieces of text of all time and Aaronson is better at writing down his ideas than I am.

[1 (pdf)]: https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2011/108/revision/2/downl...
No its not a flawed process nor a weird phrase.

Have you ever heard of "Good/Cheap/Fast — pick two"?
Why would zero interest rates imply inflation? Prices are driven by supply and demand. If the supply of physical capital exceeds the demand for physical capital it is only natural that the interest rate is 0%. If capital depreciates and needs replacement over time then it is even logical for the interest rate to be negative if people produce too much. The interest rate is no longer at zero so we are already past that.
I don't have any particular informed opinion on Electromagnetic theories of consciousness.

But that "Implications for artificial intelligence" is completely wrong. It's perfectly possibly to simulate something like what the claimed model of consciousness is using a perfectly normal computer. It may take additional compute to do it, but field simulations are perfectly achievable.

It seems like this bit on Wikipedia was extracted from a paper by one of the chief proponents of this theory. The fact they think that about computers is pretty worrying and makes me question how well thought out this theory is.
If you're just starting out, and want to focus on the frameworks right now without worrying about infrastructure _but_ still want something to show someone, start with replit.com
Interestingly, he's also generally viewed as one of the greatest prime ministers, and did insanely well by most metrics. He served both the longest period of any prime minister in Australia (18 years), and has the longest consecutive time as prime minister too (16 years iirc).

He was also a central figure for one of the two major parties (Liberal - basically our closest equivalent to the American Republican party).

It would be fascinating to hear his opinion on where the Liberal party is today. That said, I think both major parties are generally shit (Broadly speaking, one works in the best interests of corporations, and the other just doesn't do much of anything)
What Valakas said. Also learn about the autonomous nervous system, fight, flight, freeze, befriend. The amygdala has role in decision making. Learn about slow and fast thinking.

The best advice is therapy. Internal family systems is said to be by far the most effective and there are others similar.
> As seizure by Customs was essential to the plan for a test case, Morris Ernst, the attorney for Random House, took the unopened package to Customs, demanded that it be seized, and it was.

I plan to do that for a few causes I have in mind. I didn't realize others had done it too, thats a great example.

I think it is tragic that the only way to challenge a law's constitutionality or force is to break it. I think there need to be several other ways to bring a law before the courts.
I am probably not alone, but I use Amazon.com about twice a year. Pretty much only when I don't have time to wait for something, or if there is a ludicrous deal. It's obviously harder to get what I want, but I just think about the counterfeit items and the slave labor in the warehouse.

Of course I use AWS everyday at my job. I think of it like Amish people using power tools at their job.
Interesting. Apparently AVX-512 is only in K-series Intel chips in the latest lineup, making it an enthusiast feature (for things like this).
Exactly my thoughts. This becomes whack-a-mole since I must at some stage get the password in clear text what method do I use to keep them secure. Whatever it is it's just going to be obfuscation I the end.
> And I state that free healthcare and handouts make people more dependant on the government, since governments can always provide some reason for decreasing the handouts or healthcare provided for various reasons. For example, perhaps at some point a government might decide to withheld free healthcare for civilians that refuse vaccination. Civilians at the bottom of the food chain would then feel more pressured in taking some vaccination in order to keep access to free healthcare of government handouts.

This sounds right, but the same issue of refusing services is just as valid (if not more valid) for private businesses. It would be a harder argument with respect to public healthcare because the first amendment is binding with respect to the government and not private companies. Said private companies and insurance companies can (and likely do) charge more because of things like vaccination.

The problem is not a matter of private vs public healthcare but of punishing violation of the first amendment and enforcing legislation that protects religious minorities from discrimination, especially on insurance companies.

The private sector is more unregulated than the public sector with regard to things like religious freedom. Corporate HR departments can get away with more coercion and subterfuge than the government, hence the current situation in the US where employers control freedom of speech and other things more thoroughly than the government ever could. It's far easier to exert power through the corporations than it is through the government
To be honest, I kinda like the Brutalism idea as in "modern functionalism". Maybe that has to do because I grew up in a city that featured these brutalist buildings throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s.
It is somewhat minimalistic but also contains some aesthetic quality.
Another example is Facepacks for Football Manager, those are in the tens of GBs. Torrents are a great way to share them around.
The physical process is simply that the atoms in the bar of iron start in one Turing machine state, obey the laws of physics, and end up in another Turing machine state. But this is also true of any other physical computer.

It sounds like your objection is that this is not a computer because it's not reproducible --- we just got lucky that the physical states mapped onto the appropriate Turing machine states one time. But then how deterministic does the physical system need to be to be considered a computer? It can't be 100% because no real-world physical computer is 100% deterministic. Is it a computer if the mapping is correct 50% of the time? 90%? 1%? I can't see any principled reason to choose any particular value.
Yes, it is a null pointer, produced by the initialization to 0, as you noticed.

That is the current state - V wants to prevent setting pointers to arbitrary values, including 0, outside of unsafe code, but not all cases are checked yet, and you can get one. For example, you can also still cast numbers to pointers without unsafe{}:

x := voidptr(0)
println(x)

... and that will compile without an error, and produce `0x0`.

You can also search the issues, and find other examples of code, that ultimately produced null pointers.
Except for overdraft fees/late payment fees resulting from it, and likely no compensation for other losses resulting from having your money unavailable and for the wasted time.
Sure, the view that volition is an illusion is not self-contradictory. And I get that this is a very useful view, because it lets us set aside "conscious inner experiences" and just analyze the mind as a deterministic machine with inputs and outputs. This lets us expect to eventually understand the mind/brain fully using only the physics and computing tools we already have.

Now it leaves conscious experience itself as an unexplained phenomenon, but maybe that will never become important.
Context?

Edit: Thanks! This submission was incomprehensible on its own.
I had a brief look at your package, and my impression was that it's only changing model training. If this is correct then the format of the model.txt (calling `lgbm.save(model, "model.txt")`) is the same as regular lightgbm. This would mean you can use my library for inference.
The IRS gives multiple written notices before taking any actions, including garnishments. It seems highly unlikely that the FTB would escalate without intermediate steps.
The problem with STD requirements is they choose an implementation and then tailor the requirements to it tightly, thus preventing any other set of tradeoffs.
Celsius is already being investigated by securities regulators in Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Washington.[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/exclusive-texas-securitie...
Yeah, unless we are talking about games or special hardware access, mobile Web has become good enough for this kind of use cases.

Naturally these kind of dark patterns to force apps don't apply.
Nope. Regex are patterns, that can be compiled in order to extract or replace text. Commands like (s) have been built on top of and using regex. However, you cant just paste some random S command, and say "Hur dur this is regex" , unless you are just trying to look dumb.
He was just tired!
Actually I tried to do exactly this. Except the gopro webcam software straight up doesn't work and they don't plan on fixing it.
Its depressing really.
My problem with that argument is that the business requirement is based on what we can convince the user to buy. Users won't pay more for a better product if they don't understand it's better.

And one may say that "if they don't make the difference, then the bad products are fine after all", but I think that's shortsighted. By continuously favouring the worse but cheaper design, it has brought the industry where it is today: "better write bullshit that ships now than a good product that users won't buy anyway, because they bought the bullshit from the competitor already".
We don't, for the same reason.
- I forgot to mention fine-grained control over calling. I can select, one-by-one, and by groups: who can call me and who cannot.
In designing similar interfaces, I noticed that our users who were more familiar with physical documents preferred horizontal, while those more familiar with digital interfaces preferred vertical. Tiny sample size though.
My personal experience is that free will is axiomatic. It comes before everything else. What am I? What ever is making these decisions. If weren't, then I wouldn't be the person asking, I'd just be a puppet, therefore my identity would be that of whatever is the hand, and so on until you find whatever is making the decision.

Because if the meat puppet didn't make the decision to write this, then you're not conversing with the meat puppet, you're still conversing with the puppeteer.
The damage is done. The contract is not immutable.

Squirting UDP packets until you see your tx pop up in a block turned out to be a risky design choice.

Hopefully, Solana can add p2p tx propagation like a normal public blockchain. I just wish they wouldn’t throttle by stake as that makes Solana more of a private hyperledger than an Ethereum replacement.
I recently bought a condo that has a Bosch dishwasher and it works extremely well. Every other dishwasher I’ve owned has required some level of pre-rinsing in order to do its job. This thing has never left a speck of food behind. And the dishes actually come out dry. It’s almost confusing how well it works.
Habeck: We are taking additional measures to reduce gas consumption
seems interesting, but would be difficult to debug for me. prefer explicitness over conciseness.
(Author here.)

Admittedly the experience of individuals with split brain is a bit out of my wheelhouse so I would love to be corrected on this. But it would seem to me that what you describe is not inconsistent with there being two separate consciousnesses present? If there are truly two consciousnesses present in a split brain, I would still expect that each one would describe itself as a single observer.
Arguably, nothing you want to convince yourself of is deniable to yourself. An unprovable subjective certainty is a little like a tree falling in the woods.

The thing that I'm trying to get at is, if you can't even truly prove to yourself that your own consciousness does not arise from computation (the "chinese room" thought experiment tries to do this but imo it just begs the question), any attempt to prove it to others is hard to take seriously. There's just always so many assumptions layered in before we get to the argument.
I think this is pretty sloppy, at least in this statement of it.

Whether one or more observers can establish with confidence whether a system is running a particular computation is not the same thing as whether the system is running that computation. The whole section about finding a mapping between physical states and 'consciousness.exe' is exactly equally as valid for 'javac' or any other program -- but we do not conclude from this that this means that actually no physical system can run javac.

The author effectively makes a bait-and-switch between consciousness and the ability of external observers to identify consciousness by searching for a mapping from physical states to computation. From this view, I think we end up exactly where we were after Descartes: we can only firmly establish our own consciousness, even if consciousness is firmly computational.
> They also hyped the hell out of Apple removing the headphone jack...and then did the same thing. Ditto for Apple removing the default charger; Samsung quietly followed suit not long after Apple.

I have a friend who worked at Apple then later ended up at Samsung. He said that any original idea at Samsung was immediately squashed and they were basically told when designing features to do whatever Apple did. So I’m not too surprised by that.
> Imagine trying to figure out ECS, Fargate, Lambda, ACM, CloudWatch logs, alarms and metrics?

In case anyone is curious, we went that route.

- ECS + Fargate + CDK took one of us two (8h/day) weeks for the initial setup. We've sprinkled a few more days here and there since then.

- Cloudwatch logs are "setup-free" (your containers' logs get sent there by default when using CDK constructs).

- ACM... we don't use directly. CDK will easily setup TLS-enabled (with AWS-emitted certificates) ALB (Application Load Balancer(s)) for you.

- Lambdas we don't use much.

- Metrics & Alarms are easy to set up but they generally suck. The custom language for computed metrics is clumsy and quite limited. The anomaly detection sucks. And it is expensive even by cloud standards (don't create metrics and alarms willy-nilly or you'll feel it in the next invoice).

- Our application code doesn't know much about AWS (we do use libraries for S3 and SES, but these are just easy to swap adapters).

- We ended up with ~3k lines of CDK definitions in typescript. These are very easy to read, and only moderately hard to write (you do need to look up the docs). However, I can say without a doubt that it's been the easiest infrastructure definition/description language that I've ever used.

I don't have enough experience with K8s to know whether that route would have been better or worse, but I can say this route hasn't been a pain point for us.
The same is true of people who have worked for PornHub or Enron. There were some incredibly talented people there, but most companies don't want to work with them (rightly or wrongly).
This is a great idea to use AI to enable accessibility in the other direction too.
Whether or not that's true, you can remove "beginning" from my statement as it's not necessary (done, just edited, thanks): most programmers, most of the time, don't need the speed of floating-point everywhere (compared to fixed-point/scaled integers, or rationals, or interval arithmetic, or whatever), and when they do, the language could let them easily opt into it with a declaration like "use float" or whatever.
Here is the "random" that wrote the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cohan
Dissatisfaction in the Tesla factory in Grünheide: employees are leaving
Bank fees including overdraft fees are recoverable when the IRS makes an error. You have to file form 8546 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8546.pdf
Right, I meant the article's idea of computation, not yours. Should have said TFA instead of OP.
I find this argument completely unconvincing. The mapping in a case like that 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.

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

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

This is making the 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?
> or DNS

That’s correct. ECH relies on DNS over HTTPS to retrieve server public key which is used to encrypt client hello message.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802600