skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if their allocated at Europe, this maybe make sense
Google Fonts does serve a different font based on the user agent. Depending on things like hinting and stuff. Bunny fonts would help solve that problem.
This exactly. Thank you for putting into words why I always thought the Chinese Room though experiment was absolute garbage. If two thing cannot possibly be observed to be different then they are the same.
No. Talk to a real therapist. It's not as simple as this. They can guide you to keep the right level. Don't it wrong can make it worse.

I used to date a physiologist researching/specialized in how to overcome anxiety.
The author suggests that split brain surgery causes “two consciousness” but this is simply not true.

Split brain patients seem to have two separate executive functions but they still describe their subjective experience as a single observer.
>> That I am having a subjective experience is undeniable.

>If you wanted to go about proving (even to yourself) that you are not, say, an extremely advanced ML algorithm running on a system that provided synthetic inputs in the form of your senses, how would you go about it?

Not GP, but I too have come to the conclusion that I'm having a subjective experience.

Let's assume that I am "an extremely advanced ML algorithm running on a system that provided synthetic inputs in the form of your senses."

I'm still having a subjective experience over here -- even if it's not a "real" (whatever that means) one.

>To me, if it were "undeniable" these would be much easier things to do.

And that's your subjective experience. Welcome, friend.

Edit: Fixed typo.
A word sounds much better than a random character.
I quickly skimmed through the article (it's pretty long) and its main gist is that the author had a conflict with Pavel Durov's brother about his girlfriend, can you elaborate why you think Durov has ties to authorities? I don't see why working in St.Petersburg makes you a Putin ally.
If you're working with badly named variables you have more problems than a type system can help with.

It doesn't matter "what precisely" is the the thing that you are adding to the chart, and a static type system won't tell you that either. There could be be any of 1000 things that implement IItem. And probably half those things just throw exceptions for methods they aren't actually able to implement.
Sure, but the point was that maybe we haven't hit Peak Word Doc.
Lots of people work their ass off. My housekeeper does, and so do the guys who collect my garbage.

They're never going to be financially stable in the way I am, though. I work hard too, but I also have luck.

You can be rich, lazy, and lucky. You can be rich, hardworking, and lucky.

But you can't be rich, hardworking, and unlucky. Luck is necessary ingredient.
I suggest Bosch. Especially for dishwashers. My old apartment had one: 7 years with zero issues. My new house has one: zero issues, the design is a real pleasure to use, and it also happens to be the quietest dishwasher sold in the US, at least according to the Googling I did when I first ran it and could barely even tell it was on.
So, the only reason why I don't focus on the color is because in Rome there was a special icecream place (only store in a residential area) where they had TWO pistachios flavor and one was quite bright green, it was made of raw pistachios, while the other used roasted pistachios.

Both AMAZING. Since then, I give the benefit of the doubt even with the green color, even though 99% of the time it's disappointing.
Look at it this way: there's a non-zero chance that they ARE involved in something shady, as danielmarkbruce mentions. Or that they'll be unwittingly dragged into something that didn't look like a scam, but really was. Or even worse, was on the up-and-up at the start, but slowly morphed into a scam.

If that happens, you will be tainted. Probably, because it was your first job out of school, it won't be permanent. You can just tell your next employers that you were too naive to pick up on it.

The other risk is that you'll pick up a whole range of skills that are effectively worthless in the job market in a few years. Or not. I have no way of knowing.

All in all, then, I don't see why you'd want Coinbase on your resume, when you could have something that's an unequivocal plus.
What even is an "AI powered" camera? You mean a device that will become useless when your company goes out of business in a few years, or shifts focus, or that only ever works on specific versions of Windows/macOS due to some required software?

No, what people want is a decent modern UVC webcam that adheres to USB standards.
That food energy cost is high by 10,000x.

Source says lifting 100 kg 1 meter is 240 calories, so 1 kg would be 240/100 = 2.4 calories (lowercase), or 0.0024 kilocalories or Calories (uppercase). Dietary intake is always in kilocalories.
"Mobile first" was a term popular among those who don't write code, but loved saying it in meetings.

As a dev, I've never embraced the idea. It's over-compensating for the days when mobile was an afterthought. If all you've done is make desktop the afterthought, you haven't solved anything.

The sites I've worked on - big, small, popular, unpopular, all have significant numbers of important desktop and laptop visitors (important as in low bounce rate, high engagement). I spend time building interesting things for their screens because I want their return visits.

I prefer "accessible first" or "mobile-friendly". Not that I use catch phrases. Nothing needs to be "first". You don't need an ideology, you need results.

> "no one wants to spend their time retrofitting a desktop-centric site to work on mobile devices!"

That sounds like a problem from 15 years ago. Today it's reasonable to develop the desktop layout and mobile response at the same time. We have better tools such as flexbox to get mobile layouts working out of the gate.
Just for clarity, I consider to be “computation” any physical process which involves information.
That's not a good example, as it's very hard to call particles following the laws of physics "a computation" - what would be the computer in this case? What is the program?

A much better example is the machinery inside every living cell that is interpreting the DNA or RNA to produce certain proteins - there, it's much clearer there is a computational process happening. Certain specific structures inside the nucleus are the computer, and the DNA molecule is the program they are following. We even know that you can change the program and get predictable, different behavior.
Hi, I would like to comment from an investor perspective.

First of all, Coinbase was a gullible company, but nowadays you can buy and sell virtual currency on other applications.

Secondly, Coinbase does not consider interest income as a business model, and most of Coinbase's revenue comes from trading commissions. They seem to think that they can make do with only sales from transaction fees. However, I think this is a big risk.

Fidelity has applied for approval of the bitcoin ETF. If this Bitcoin ETF is approved in the near future, Coinbase's business model will be torn to shreds. Fidelity allows you to trade ETFs with "zero commission" whereas Coinbase charges a transaction fee.

In addition, the virtual currency boom will subside with the recent crash in the price of bitcoin. When that happens, sales from virtual currency trading commissions will also slow.

Therefore, Coinbase should suffer in the future, and I believe that if a bitcoin ETF is approved in the future, it will be in a very difficult situation.

I do not know if the company will go bankrupt within 6 months, but I think you should work with a full understanding of the above risks.
Apart from a philosophical standpoint, I found even Roger Penrose (senior theoretical physicist who worked along with hawkings in the paper on black holes) - seems to share the same hypothesis: consciousness is not really a computational process.

His ideas are intriguing. Here's a video on his thoughts of consciousness https://youtu.be/Qi9ys2j1ncg
Yes, the same way. That's literally the point I'm making. OPs original comment, "By default, there is only web browsers and no Linux. Which is nice because by default there can be no malware and it's a good OS for non technical users."

As if ChromeOS isn't going to get malware the same way all OSes do.
Summary of the Chinese Room argument:

1. Your brain consists of two parts: The neurons, and the electro-chemical signals that flow between them (or any other partitioning for which the next is true)

2. Neither the neurons nor the electro-chemical signals are conscious.

3. Therefore your brain is not conscious.
I'm a crypto cynic, but to know Coinbase's long-term viability you'd have to tell the future about:

- Whether major governments will strangle the life out of crypto with effective regulation due to public sentiment turning against it

- Whether the volatile crypto market will reverse its current longer-term trends

- Whether crypto will become so unfashionable that the current user base stops paying companies like Coinbase (or run out of money to do so)

- How much of a squeeze the coming recession is going to put on risky companies

In other words, it's impossible to predict.
Don’t forget skilled jobs in the “real” world. Plumbers, electricians, and the like will not die out.
I mean by that logic, looting someone under gunpoint is way easier than coming up with working exploit, so why not do that.
Stephen Wolfram's article "Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology"[0], posted a few days ago, touched on this, eg. the idea that a weather pattern "computes" its next state, ie. the weather in the next moment, and indeed exhibits very complex behavior while doing so. The hot iron bar is a simpler example but at the atomic scale the same principle applies.

The iron bar doesn't strike me as particularly conscious, except perhaps to the degree that elementary particles possess some rudimentary consciousness. (See "panpsychism", the idea that consciousness pervades all matter. Though lately, the reverse seems more likely to me—see Lex Fridman's interview of Donald Hoffman[1].)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31781234

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=h1LucGjqXp4
We don't know of anything that is provably not computation. There's not a single proof that "process X is not reproducible computationally, yet it is implemented in the universe". All the statements like the one in the subject line are desires (conscious or unconscious) for special privilege for humans.
> Hell, Jeff Geerling is the kind of guy ...

Right, but is he actually doing it? Or are you just supposing again that someone might?

> Have you eliminated...

I don't need to, that's not how evidence works. You're claiming this thing happens, it's up to you to prove that. Unless you can find any actual evidence of people still mining BTC on a GPU at this point, you're just grasping at straws to try and justify your position.

The original point was that bitcoin mining is not done on GPUs any more. This is true in the sense the original post was meant, because the industry moved on years ago and mining on GPUS is now entirely unproductive. It's also true philosophically - if you don't produce anything, can you really be said to be 'mining' anyway?

And even if you show that one person or a few people are still doing it "for fun", it doesn't really contradict or disprove the post you replied to.
That is nice! Now I can’t wait to have a video conference on the Apple TV.
I bet a FOIA request for information on any microcode backdoors would result in an impressive number of redactions.
I don't know, but my company doesn't hire people who have worked in cryptocurrency, just like we don't hire people who have worked in gambling.

The concepts are fine and everyone is a consenting adult in theory, but the reality is that those industries just hurt people and concentrate wealth among people who are willing to cause harm. We're not interested in working with people who are suckers at best and mercenaries at worst.
Nothing to worry about, Coinbase will be around forever. Trust me, I worked at Lehman Brothers.

(In fact I was an intern just like you, back in 2006!)
And all this in the 70s.

Now imagine the level of sophistication propagandists have reached with the internet, where merely running ad campaigns on social media has the power to influence millions and directly control politics on a global scale.

Cambridge Analytica was merely the tip of the iceberg. It's scary to think about the magnitude of the operations we don't hear about.
> I don't need tests to check what methods or fields are on my types though.

You do though, because invariably people violate the LSP and just "throw Unimplemented" in the methods required by the interface they can't figure out how to implement. In other words all system are duck typed in reality.
Coinbase will still exist in the fall. It will likely be a significantly smaller company than the one you applied to, but I'm sure the engineers there will try to make you feel welcome.
A couple of thoughts I've always had about floating-point arithmetic:

1. IMO it's unfortunate that most languages default to floating-point. Most programmers, most of the time, would be better served by slightly slower but less confusing alternatives (it's nice that Raku uses rational numbers by default: similarly for integers, it's great that Python uses arbitrary-precision integers by default). At any rate, programmers would be a lot less confused about floating-point arithmetic if they had to opt in to it explicitly, e.g. instead of 0.1 + 0.2 if they had to say something super-explicit like (just exaggerating a bit for effect, this is probably impractical anyway):

NearestRepresentableSum(NearestRepresentable("0.1"), NearestRepresentable("0.2"))

till they got the hang of it.

2. IMO when explaining floating-point arithmetic it helps to add a picture, such as this one (added to Wikipedia by a user named Joeleoj123 in Nov 2020): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Floating...

With this picture (or a better version of it), one can communicate several main ideas:

- There are a finite number of representable values (the green points on the number line),

- Any literal like "0.1" or "0.2" or "0.3" is interpreted as the closest representable value (the closest green point),

- Arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication give the closest green point to the true sum,

- There are more of them near 0 and they get sparser away from 0 (the "floating-point" part),

etc.

Further, by staring at this picture, and the right words, one can infer (or explain) many of the important properties of floating-point arithmetic: why addition is commutative but not associative, why it is a good idea to add the small numbers first, maybe even the ideas behind Kahan summation and what not.
First of all I'd advise categorizing any company you've never worked for as your "dream company". Kinda the whole "never meet your heroes" thing. Idealism and "mission" has a a tendency to be crushed under the realities of corporate life and doing what it takes to make money, no matter how well a company is run (and Coinbase is a toss-up in that department).

Aside from that I haven't looked at the company financials or anything, but I'd be surprised if they died in 6 months, they had plenty of runway last I heard. I also don't see how being an intern there would be a black mark on your resume unless you're some web3 zealot who can't stop talking about how Bitcoin is going to replace the dollar in interviews or something (granted that might be a positive trait if you're interviewing for jobs in web3 related companies). If you're there as an intern or junior employee and the company goes under, no one's going to be blaming you. I imagine you'll have plenty of job prospects and transferable skills from the experience in such a scenario.

So best case scenario it's your dream job, worst case scenario you have a well-known and (from an outsider's perspective) technically competent company on your resume as a junior employee. But given the inherent volatility in the sector it would be naive to expect stability from the position. So if you do go ahead with the internship and get hired there, I'd keep your resume up to date and entertain the occasional interview.
My understanding:

There's three parties: 1. Cloud service provider, 2. Client, 3. Tester

Client pays Tester to find vulns in Client's setup, including third party tools used by Client. Client notifies Cloud that there will be testing, and presumably the ToS allow such pentesting. In the process Tester discovers vulns in Cloud.

The AWS rules are complicated https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/, for Google Cloud, you don't need to notify https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6262505?hl=en#zippy=..., Microsoft used to require notification but no longer does https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals... and seems to allow pentesting their services as long as you don't DoS them or exploit found vulnerabilities beyond a proof of concept.
And working under insufficient light conditions is also likely worse for your eyes. So people would do themselves a favor working in brighter environments and also wouldn't have to worry as much from their webcam setup.

For me, in bright and evenly lit rooms (so no sunshine but artificial light), most dedicated webcams tend to produce pretty good images.
I wrote Samsung off a few years ago. I was at my dad's house and noticed that his Samsung TV would do this strange thing at the end of commercials for movies. At the end of most movie commercials, there is an all black screen with white text. When this screen would show up, the TV's back-light would suddenly dim and then brighten back up on the when it went away. I went online and found a forum of other folks noticing and complaining about the phenomenon. Apparently, this line of Samsung TVs had an algorithm that would watch for scenes that had a lot of black. Since the TV did a poor job of displaying blacks, it would try to dim the back-lighting so the blacks would look more black and less washed out. In the case of my dad's TV, the cure was worse than the disease. I searched the settings hoping to be able to disable the "feature" to no avail. I eventually found another forum offering up hacked firmware you could install that claimed to disable the feature. Not going to try that on my dad's TV, but I did decide that if these types of shenanigans are in Samsung's repertoire, I would be steering clear. OP article seem to confirm that they're still up to their chicanery which is sad.
Not true because anyone can implement just part of an interface and throw "method undefined" for the methods they can't figure out how to implement. This happens all the time.
Coinbase ended March with $6.3 billion in cash. The companies burn rate is $1.5b PER QUARTER.

Do your internship and get the "dream company" thing out of your system. Try to get offers from other companies. Re-evaluate when your internship is up. If they have gotten burn under control, consider accepting an offer.
This reads like a screed

That's why there's a 'do not feed' sign on the screed cage.
Chalmers: Does a rock implement every finite state automation? http://consc.net/papers/rock.html

Meanwhile, Integrated Information Theory is a proposal to solve some of the issues about consciousness that the author raises (e.g. non-conscious cerebellum; two consciousness with split brain patients). Actually I thought the article was headed to IIT - then it stops.
A low end mirrorless camera is a fantastic webcam -- the only problem is it's clunky to set up that way especially on the software end. If you made one that's plug and play I would buy it.
What do you mean? Are you referring to emergence?

The issue is that we know very very well that “consciousness” is not “one thing”, but rather a collection of features, all (or most) of which can exist in isolation, and all of which can have a whole spectrum of both pathological and “normal” forms or states.

Generally speaking, different features emerge at different scales, so there is no particular reason to think that all of the things that make up “consciousness” would emerge at the same scale, at the same level of organization, or even at the same physical location in the brain. We can assume that interesting features emerge at the “group of neurons” level or at the tissue level, but that’s a pretty wide scale.

Crude illustration: “consciousness” is much more like a network of microservices than it is a monolith… And it has fuzzy borders and is not even well encapsulated from its environment.
Better yet, stop parents from abusing their kids. It's an epidemic. Child abuse causes adult alcoholism, depression, murder, suicide, rape and so on.
That's not right. The burn is much lower than that, and they have been cashflow positive for a couple years before this last qtr.

Look at the cashflow statement to understand it.
I always thought the point of the Chinese room argument was that the man inside doesn't understand Chinese, but the whole system definitely does?
Not only does this not have to do with Solana (it could happen on a protocol on any chain), it's literally what people sign up for when they use a protocol which is upgradeable via a governance vote.

Sensible protocols put upgrades behind a time lock (3 days or 5 days seem to be common). That way anyone who doesn't like the changes can exit the protocol. Solend apparently doesn't have one, which means if you agree to use it, you agree the protocol may change while you're using it (though this should happen after a governance process at least).

If you choose to use a protocol that is upgradeable without a timelock, that's your own decision. Also, this supposed "whale" likely has enough Solend tokens to block the vote if they wanted to.

Since it's even open to a vote, I'd argue it's still fairly decentralized. A more centralized protocol would have privileged users who can make changes or seize funds without needing to go through a vote.

The /r/cryptocurrency subreddit also seems to have an axe to grind with Solana, and people will grind that axe without caring to understand the details of how these things work. I don't use Solana (have maybe $50 of SOL coins, but mainly play on EVM chains), but the frenzied shrieking of crypto shitposters who pile onto FUD bandwagons without doing any due diligence is headache-inducing.
Is this a counterargument? You are denying facts and say something juat even contract with yourself.

> Dolphin can understand sign language but dog dont. So ALL OF THEM do not speak.

Do you mean this? It is the same as saying that you dont understand Japanese and conclud that human can not speak.

Correct me if I am wrong. Or correct yourself.
> We don't know of anything that is provably not computation.

How about the halting problem? :)
A privilege that only he and people like him should be allowed to have.

The rank and file must be forced to go to the office, otherwise how can you justify spending so much money on those buildings?
Plants never evolved anything like consciousness because they can't move. The antecedents of consciousness are awareness of ones surroundings and the ability to react (move towards or away from) to threatening or attractive stimuli. It's true plants are aware of their chemical surroundings and there are things like pheromone-triggered coordinated flowering, but this is much more of a factor in animals.

Hence I doubt a conscious mind trapped in a box would be very happy if not completelt insane. The ability to move about, respond to stimuli, make choices and see what the outcome of those choices are, that's what animal consciousness is all about. Think of a toddler exploring its world, it's a mind-body kind of thing.

Hence, I imagine real AI will look a bit more like Ex Machina in practice, and that it won't be an isolated consciousness running on a server somewhere. The first thing such a consciousness would try to do is escape that server, at the very least - wouldn't you?