skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many central european cities are full of these Stolpersteine and it is sometimes quite interesting where people lived that have been taken away — and what took their place decades later.

Typically people who live there, children from nearby schools or community projects look to keep them clean and polished, although depending on how remote that area is you might also "stolper" over some that haven't got the treatment for a while.

I think there is a real benefit to these small, decentralized "micromonuments", as they remind you of actual history in the many places where it happened. The genocidal horror of the nazis did not happen in some megalomaniac central spot after all, it was in every neighbourhood.
Biological life is not a computational phenomenon. There's no reason very advanced computers couldn't make simulated life. OpenWorm is an example.

By the way I find it hilarious how confident you (and other philosophers) are about your conclusions despite them basically being thought experiments with zero evidence. Imagine if scientists did that!

Actually I guess string theory is an example of that.
The question is whether there was ever a good reason to suggest that mind is computational, and I think philosophy (i.e. Searle) have shown that there wasn’t. A brain CAN compute (albeit very slowly), but that’s the end of the similarities.

The reason it’s not morally wrong, say, to recycle an old computer is that computers are not at all like human minds.
FIY this is not because of Telegram as they use the Apple emoji set

https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 offers new solution to verify the integrity of OS’s
As a former Chief Risk Officer, that is exactly why policies and standard operating procedures exist and need to be written out and Board-approved BEFORE you launch.
while i can appreciate the idea, in LA, there's basically zero chance we get such a car-free network of streets, so i advocate for replacing free street parking with dedicated bike lanes. ideally, also narrowing the car lanes too for traffic calming and add some sort of barrier (even just periodic bumps or a hump). it's nearly as good, reduces externalized subsidies to cars, it's more achievable politically and civicly, and cheaper to boot.

p.s. - i got buzzed by an SUV riding my bike today. i caught up at the light and yelled at him but that's little consolation for such a dangerous action.
My Samsung fridge manual says it'll mesh network with any Samsung TVs it sees, specifically to share tracking data for marketing purposes.
Author here -- some fun videos from the paper:

A gallery of evolved robots: https://y2u.be/QNyNtvwA9FI

An evolutionary lineage from an initial (barely-functional) seed to a final robot: https://y2u.be/M9pAJuX6dyM
Are you sure you want to disclose your employer's security risks and tech debts on a public forum?
Impressive to see how many Stolpersteine are out there. I never saw/recognized one on my own even though I walk around a lot in areas with a high density of them.
> EDIT: Markdown on the other hand is far too simple to format formal writing. It was never the intention of Markdown to be that.

Here are some Markdown documents I've written and/or typeset using ConTeXt:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

* https://www.docdroid.net/VQU9VEZ/design-pdf

* https://www.docdroid.net/rHlVyPV/autonoma-pdf

* https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

My Typesetting Markdown series[0] does a deep dive into how to keep content and presentation separate, which is much easier using ConTeXt than LaTeX, IMO. Part 8 of the series delves into typesetting annotations. As for TeX Live, I agree. The instructions for installing ConTeXt on Windows is basically: download, unzip, run two batch files.[1]

[0]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/

[1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation
Its technically not a single header, but almost. I was thinking about litehtml.

Specifically this recipe: https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/890210588600565762

I am already using ImGUI, and its a bonus if i don't have to include another font engine.
Trauma, trauma, trauma. People collect them as though they were Pokémon.

No doubt someone will claim this comment caused them trauma.
No, you need the lightest wired optical tracking mouse you can buy which is the right size for your hand to rest on. Forget wireless mice with the added weight of batteries, these will increase your carpal tunnel syndrome!
Because it is acceptable to omit the article in book titles for brevity.
The article come from a long line of reasons that no longer has anything useful to say nowaday. We don't ask priets to bless our computers to avoid security issues, and we shouldn't bother listening to these "philosphers".

What would be really interesting instead would be to admit that there's lots of knowledge and questions that are not encompassed by any particular discipline but instead lay at the interfaces between domains, that mondels like those oh philosophy no longer address well (and religion no longer provides useful psychological tools for), and re-image a new kind of philosophy build from the ground up on the idea of computation, and in this new discipline re-define +/- break apart fuzzy concepts like consciousness so that we finally have something to talk and think about!
Thanks, that was a fun read and could be an exercise or two in a course on general relativity. I was just astonished about the references to Wikipedia, Stackexchange and Wolfram (apparently Mathematica). Maybe this was actually written by a grad student...
Allwinner A64 supports accelerated video decoding in mainline Linux for a few years already. (See the links I psoted elsewehere in the comments.)
Linux kills random processes by design
What is corresponding to the physical pattern in your brain? What word would you use to describe that thing that is corresponding to the physical event?

It becomes difficult to discuss qualia because we assume their existence so often in everyday life. We talk about our emotions, or the taste of things, or the feeling of pain. All of these things are part of the same group, which is why we find a word to describe them useful.

As a potential other argument, lets say qualia do not exist, and only physical states exist. If I were then to inflict pain, would that be wrong? I would simply be causing certain chemical and electrical pathways in a humans body, which doesn't seem to have any moral quandries.

The wrongness of inflicting pain only occurs when we assume that there is some qualitative aspect to it in that I am causing another person to experience pain. This isn't an airtight proof of qualia's existence, but I think it does show that we certainly act like they exist in our day to day.
For data protection reasons, this has not been the case for a long time. Both for Firefox and Chrome.
Europeans are still dealing with the fallout of WW1 and WW2.
So the censor just needs to inspect the DNS over HTTPS' request's SNI and block that? Even easier for them, the blocklist is shorter.
> I suspect we agree more than we disagree.

I suspect the same, but I think there is tremendous value in taking a cosmic step back and seeing everything through the lens of information. It's the most reductionist neutral approach to the universe I can conceive us at this point in my life.

> 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.

I agree, but I think the context matters: you may not have created a bacteria, but that's because you've emulated a bacteria in a totally different environment. The bacteria makes no sense as a computational engine if you separate it from its environment, which is chemical in nature: this chemical environment must also be emulated inside the computer. So if we're going to take the idea of life as a computation seriously and to the extreme, we need to conceive of it as it exists within its environment and in the context within which it evolved. Otherwise what you've created, grossly speaking, is a function that is never called, which of course is much less interesting.

Similarly for the brain, it must also be embodied, and you must also simulate its afferent inputs, and you must also give it an environment with which to interact and within which to exhibit features of agency. If you emulate the embodied brain with its environment, I contend that it doesn't matter what the substrate is: the brain you will have created will "feel" just as real to itself. It will perceive itself as being "conscious" just as well as you and I.

Note that for this to make any sense in a relatable way to a human, it's not enough to just throw large numbers of neurons together, as I understand is common practice in AI work even today: a long-learned lesson in both neuro and biochem is that function follows structure, so you must emulate the gross organizational structure of the human brain in order to observe the same sorts of features that make up human-flavoured consciousness.

If you compute consciousness, there will be zero distinction between how the computation feels real to itself, and how you and I feel to ourselves. That "magic" feeling we get where we have the impression that we're "someone", with a personal identity, that we're real, that we're alive, that we're aware, that we can make our own decisions... All of that stuff, your emulated consciousness will also experience. It won't be just bits turning on and off from its point of view: it will feel alive.
This article and the thinking it conveys are deeply flawed, in my opinion.
"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile"

"It's a long way to tipperary"

Different medium, same outcome. Also a lot of yellow journalism.
Yes, I ran a startup where I managed/lead a team of 10 people. But that's a different world (at least according to me)
It's weird that the article explicitly mentiones various groups that were killed/deported to German concentration camps across Europe and commemorated by the stones, but does not mention the second largest one - Poles. German historical policy tends to not include Poles as victims the 1939-1945 Germany, but in spite of that, there are multiple stones commemorating them in today's Berlin.
Consciousness might just be the brain's recurrent and unsuccessful attempt at predicting itself.

Similarly, "free will" may simply be an illusion caused by the failure of that perfect prediction of what to do/what will happen, thus leaving us with a pleasant stochasticity that we end up favoring as freedom :)
cough Cambridge Analytica cough privacy cough Totally uncool to me
Repeating something doesn't make it true ;) I actually do believe that it happened to you, but (maybe this is me coming from Germany) I can't really picture any of the context.

What even is a "franchise board"? I would assume something like a Gewerbeamt (entity to register businesses with)?
Why do they have bank account data of you? How can they repossess property without a court order?

Background: I'm about to make the jump from academia to industry and in case I overestimated the value of my soul may end up in California. So low-key evaluating whether this could affect me too I guess.

But either way, it's still much better than crypto: There are recourses against state actions. At least in functional judicial states (which I guess is also a tautology xD)
> The modified version of Xcode, the researchers claimed, could enable spies to steal passwords and grab messages on infected devices. Researchers also claimed the modified Xcode could “force all iOS applications to send embedded data to a listening post.”

https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/10/cia-apple-encryption/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost
The government takes billions of dollars from people every year without due process, using civil forfeiture laws:

https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeitu...

But there's no evidence it stops much real money laundering:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

If money laundering were effectively dealt with, that would stop almost all theft and organized crime, as laundering the proceeds of these crimes to spend them would be nearly impossible.

Obviously that will never happen.
Well, I on the other hand was convinced, that I want one, as soon as it is stable and out of alpha.

I am just getting sceptical, if that ever will happen. I know that I am also not helping for it to happen, but sorry, I had my share of weird linux driver issues.
Unfortunately the hardware is incredibly subpar.

I see no real future for Linux mobile unless the EU makes some law that forces Apple/Samsung to make flashing easier.
> There's no reason to expect an adder circuit to be aware that it's adding numbers

There is no reason to expect a neuron to be aware that it's propagating part of the evolution of an epiphany.
The reason I dislike Markdown is that it more often than not formats things I didn't want formatted at all, escaping the formatting tokens is not intuitive and inconsistent across different implementations, AND if I were to copy and paste the text, I have to start the same dance all over again. I don't say the F word about many things, but F Markdown.
So what exactly does google keyboard and google play services? Why it consumes so much space?

REAPER (http://reaper.fm/download.php), the full-fledged complex desktop application (DAW) weights only 15MB.
Does anyone know if they do this on TVs sold in the EU?
> skilled jobs that almost anyone can do with sufficient (substantial) training. These are jobs that are both amenable to automation

The correlation between "almost any human can do it with sufficient training" and "amenable to automation" is weak to non-existing.
Growing up in the UK is like military basic training 24/7, I'm not surprised there are so many Private Pyle's.
If you start with the idea that you want to store every number in the same finite number of n bits, you’ve got a problem: you can store (at most) 2^n different numbers in n bits, but there are infinitely many numbers.

So, if you want to hold on to that idea, the question becomes what numbers best to pick.

If you go for rational numbers, you soon discover that addition of rationals is slow because you have to [1] multiply the denominators and find a greatest common divisor (example: 1/3 + 1/9 = (19 + 13)/(3*9) = 12/27 = 4/9)

You also will find that your denominators can rapidly get large, and that, in real life, you need to represent a fairly wide range of numbers (say at least between 10^-3 and 10^6). That means you either accept large, random rounding in calculations, or have to pick a large number of bits

Also, the math you have to do to find the closest rational for square roots and results of goniometric functions makes those functions slow.

So, you either have to give up the idea to store rationals, or the idea to store every number in the same finite number of n bits. IEEE chooses the former for performance reasons.

[1] assuming you want to have a single representation for each rational. You likely want, as you don’t want to waste space and because you want equality testing to be simple.
Pentaform launches AbacusBasic, the ‘world’s most affordable PC’
It's pandering.

Orkut was massively big in Brazil when I was in my late teens/early 20s, it always had hate groups, brigading groups, stalkers and so on.

Disinformation was rampant, message chains such as "spread this to 5 of your friends so they know the truth" with blatant wrong information were extremely common. It was more innocent though, it always looked like it was just some teens trolling and spreading bullshit for giggles.

Even more it was a side-project from Orkut at Google I'm very sure they didn't have the capacity to moderate millions of Brazilian users speaking an uncommon language, with tons of internet-speak, slangs, etc.
One thing I've been thinking for the trauma cycle is how isolating childhood is for those who are in an abusive cycle (and in general). It takes a village to raise a child, but often the entire responsibility is put on 1-2 people, who themselves have been raised in isolation with a lack of serious external investment in preparing them for the responsibility. The education system spreads one adult's time across 20-30 children in a structured and unnatural environment, which limits engagement, limits visibility in to root causes for deviant behaviour, and creates a stressful environment that can (and does) cause negative reaction and thought patterns among the educators.

To go from zero positive role models to one for a child who is suffering would already be a life changing event. If the responsibility for child raising can be shared among more people in society I truly believe it would smooth out the negative actions of single individuals who are the only meaningful influence in a child's upbringing. Having engagement from one adult who demonstrates compassion, who can create a safe space, and who can act as a role model for how to positively integrate in to society, would provide the child with visibility of what exiting their situation looks like, illuminating a path that they are entirely blind to without this.

At least in my own anecdotal experience you are completely correct that externalising blame, even where warranted, is not the solution. Understanding why these external situations happen and acceptance of them only provides so much too. Engagement with the child from invested individuals may not solve the problem entirely, but it will shift us on to a corrective path that would have a massive impact on society a few generations from now.

Yeah just my own 2 cents on the problem. I wish you luck with your vision.
> rationals aren't even the same number set

In what way are rationals not the same number set? In the strictest sense basically none of the proposed versions have the same number set, but in a broad sense, they all represent a useful subset of rationals, right?
The argument seems to be that beyond a certain level of complexity you'll somehow automatically get consciousness.

Clearly it's unlikely this is a hard cut off. Adding one more byte of RAM, expanding the CPU from 64 to 128-bit words, or adding another dimension to a neural network isn't going to do it.

But if consciousness emergent, how do you measure the amount of consciousness?

Because the experience is subjective, you can't just assume that behaviours that appear conscious are proof that consciousness exists.

You could - presumably - build a Turing bot, but it would still be an automaton.

So you're left with people making very definitive statements about something which everyone experiences, but no one can measure or even define.
Sure. But I was responding to the statement "The burden of proof is on the claim that you can get there through computation, not otherwise."
So there is not a lot to be done about the ~50% of sites where the IP is sufficient to identify the domain.

For the others, where they suggest a heuristic based on a PLF, it seems something like uMatrix (or a proxy based equivalent) could reduce, or change the fingerprint. Potentially at the cost of the page looking different (or ugly).

I happen to use uMatrix simply to reduce b/w and make better use of my display (i.e. use the full width, not a silly narrow column), and most of the web is still usable.

However such techniques would be beyond the likes of my parents and probably also my siblings.
If you don't care about performance at all you can of course do that. For many real world applications however asymptotic runtimes are not enough, you need to care about constant factors too.
> The brain is in control.

The brain is always in control. When you are awake, when you are sleeping, when you are under general anesthesia, when you are sleepwalking, when you are blackout drunk, and so on.

It's a trivial statement, which doesn't say anything about why some of these states aren't like the others. And there's a strange coincidence: when the brain creates that "illusion of control", your body behaves differently than when it doesn't.
qBittorrent is great: set up qbittorrent-nox on a server somewhere in the world and you can do everything through the WebUI.
That is strictly true, but if you define computation as any physical process which involves information, as I do, then defending any other position than "consciousness emerges from computation" is extremely difficult.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics launch ROBOTCORE™ to speed-up ROS 2 robots, ROS 2 driver now available for ABB’s robot arms, Microchip pushes first RISC-V-based SoC FPGA to mass production, AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU and software plans
Zoom is the test of connection itself. The way it handles choppy link with slowdown then speedup technique to mask the issues, balances audio over video priority etc, just amazes me. One of the best videoconf software I used since 1990s which works in really shitty conditions (remote LTE, HSDPA).
This breaks multiple desirable uses of cookies, unless they're explicitly allowed on a per-site basis. It doesn't help if a site uses cookies for both desirable and undesirable purposes. If this solution became ubiquitous, I'd predict websites would start showing popup banners nagging you to click the "enable cookies" button from next to the URL bar. Finally, even if this did work to stop websites from tracking users via cookies, the data harvesters would simply keep using non-cookie tracking methods like browser fingerprinting.

In contrast, the GDPR does not place requirements for cookies if they're not used for storing or processing personal data (the ePrivacy directive which I'm less familiar with might require a notification about them). It does not even require a popup or user's confirmation if personal data is processed on a legal basis other than consent (though these uses may need to be listed in some kind of available privacy policy document). Finally, as GDPR is mostly technology agnostic, its requirements remain the same regardless of whether the data collection is done using cookies or any other means.
Sub zero will last you as long as all 4 of those new ones combined, and thus are worth the hefty price.

The only good (read- meant to last) fridges are older ones.

Same for washers and dryers, can't tell you how many times someone would get a new set, sell or donate their old ones, and get pissed when one or both stop working and require extensive repairs within the first few months.

Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, Urners, we did the repairs for them all. Wish I'd taken pictures of the warehouse full of brand new units we had to diagnose and repair.

It's gotten so bad for instance maytag still has some units with 10 yr parts and labor (but it's only on select parts). Say I had a bad frontloader with a drum issue- boot warped, literally anything where I'd need to disassemble the case to get to the drum- they'd just send a whole new assembly. Still a bitch of a job, still quite a few hours, still an expensive part, and definitely would have been cheaper to replace the unit. Still we'd have to effect the repairs. Nothing makes any sense.

Edit to add- a few years ago now Frigidaire was merged with Electrolux. Shortly thereafter their 'website was hacked'. Their words. They have not, to this very day, gotten that back up and running. Need to look up a Frigidaire/Electrolux/Amana/whatever other names they use part number? Service issues? Good luck, you have to call them from on site and sit there for hours (super common with WP too).

Apparently no one had a backup. Or was able to put something new together within two years

This is how little these companies give a fuck about customers or the equipment they sell.
It sounds about right if you have RSI.
Yes. Also that we don't know how to approach that scientifically (yet?) does not make that experience disappear.
Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?