skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know that the journalist has a subjective experience? How do you know your own subjective experience isn’t just your “bicameral mind” talking to itself? How do you know LaMDA doesn’t have a subjective experience? It’s just assumptions; nobody really knows what’s going on inside that neural network.

The only way we can tell that someone else is conscious is because they tell us. So just saying “the output proves nothing” is incredibly weak, because the output is all we’ve got.
I’m Marcelo, the creator of Tour. I like to make life simple - because power lies in simplicity.

Today, I am excited to launch Tour, an app I designed to make it simpler and easier for coders to do what they do best: code. I am inspired by the open-source community and, with Tour, I am making a small contribution to promote the creativity and talent of my fellow coders.

Tour is a free app that creates beautiful, intuitive tours for your open-source GitHub projects. My next goal is to make it possible for coders to install Carbon Ads so they can make money with their tours.

Create something great. Create something cool. Create something fun. With Tour, I want to help you focus on creating - while Tour takes care of introducing your app to the world.

Tour was created for you. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

And if you have any questions - ask away!

I’m excited to hear from you.

Marcelo
> Here's a thing that is obvious to me now but I think wasn't obvious when I started. C++ has its own notion of the stack and heap, in that in C++ you can e.g. take the address of something on the stack. This translates to Wasm by C++ stack variables existing in the Wasm-addressable memory, in the same way the C++ stack exists in memory. That memory is totally under the control of the C++ code. Meanwhile, Wasm runtime structures, including the call stack, are separate and are effectively invisible to C++. In summary, C++ memory errors like buffer overflows can still stomp on C++ memory, but that memory is distinct from any Wasm structures such as the call stack, so all a broken Wasm program can do is mess up its own memory, not the host's.

And this kids, is why security in WASM still needs to be taken with a grain of salt if any of those modules touch critical data or return values that influence the caller's decisions.
Well, I sure don't remember the version, but I also learned ADA in University (Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse/France).
Back in 1992 !
I have the same thing over the border in Brno, Czech Republic. Didn't really notice them for so long, until suddenly I stopped to read one and realised they're all over the place. I always stop to check them now.

Additionally I have similar feelings about the atrocities committed by the UK. To me it feels so unambiguously right to officially acknowledge and apologise that our ancestors did pretty heinous shit (up to and including invading countries this century).
Some philosophers think that every time you lose your train of thought (e.g. zoning out while driving or falling asleep) your consciousness disappears and a new consciosness forms later when you "snap back" (or wake up). This new consciousness shares only memories and personality with the previous one, but it is otherwise a new entity, similar to the teleporter thought experiment.

Conveniently, this makes death less scary.

Further reading: Zen and the Art of Consciousness by Susan Blackmore
> What’s the showstopper into bringing an open phone to a general audience?

Billions (even more likely, tens of billions) of dollars required to make a mobile phone happen.
Sure, we can't discount that possibility. But, as far as we know, the laws of physics are not encoded anywhere, they just exist in an abstract sense. This is similar to the axioms of, say, Euclidean geometry: they exist, but are not part of the system that they "govern", circles and squares don't contain the laws that define them.
There are many such memorial plaques on the pavements of Vienna. They are almost part of the landscape, easy to walk by without noticing, yet every so often, when one stops rushing and reads a few of these (it was often whole families being deported, not just individuals), it hits again. And it is important that it never stops hitting and reminding us of this horror and of the need of avoiding repeating it.
How does it compare to Tortoise TTS?
If they are comparable, why does Tortoise TTS require a GPU whereas this one does not?
Danmark vs Britain. From what I read occasionally in Dominic Cumming's blog, Boris isn't particularly good at using the bureaucracy.
That's just a restating of the Chinese room argument. Like Searle you're bamboozling yourself with scale. If I was put in a magnetic field of some kind that slowed down my physical and neurological processes by 1000x would I be any less conscious? Would I be any less a human being? It would seem so to people observing me for sure, but would it change my essential nature?
Free Software needs time. This is a first step and a good one. Much progress is already visible. It will get better over time, because nearly every programmer knows deep inside that a really free phone is really needed. Every personal effort to help bring it to work makes perfect sense. Insofar this is an incredible important device and works.
This is absolute nonsense. We are all very much aware that it was us, the Germans, who did this.
Silero TTS works fast even on one CPU thread, this is the point
> 20 eggs in one sitting? Surely this is exaggeration?

No, this is not an exaggeration. For reference, I am 1.73m and 65kg. When I eat eggs, in whatever form, boiled, fried, etc, I can keep eating them until my stomach is physically full, which takes about 20 eggs, but even then I still feel hungry and non satiated.

I've been trying to replace other things I eat with eggs, for the supposed health benefits, but I can't, eggs simply don't provide any satiation to me. And no, I don't eat massive quantities of other foods, it's mostly eggs I have this problem with. I can eat a single slice of home-made sourdough bread with a simple pate, and I feel much more satiated than after 20 eggs.
I would sound a slight note of caution there, in that AFAIK not every camera has clean HDMI out and there can be challenges about powering cameras for longer periods of time (if needed).

It is a good option though if you need higher quality. I'm using a Sony ZV-1 and it's worked out pretty well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhrpolen
The Occam's razor favors the simpler explanation though.
Works wonderfully well with mangoes as well. Peel and chop into large chunks. Freeze. You can eat them just like that, or pop them into a smoothie.
While it may not be the most secure, for many casual users the level of encryption provided in cloud chats is good enough for the convenience of smooth cloud sync, which generally doesn't work with E2E messengers and I frequently lose messages when I restore my phone or get a new one. At least they say the encryption keys for cloud chats are scattered across multiple jurdistictions so they wouldn't be able to hand over anything (other than public chats) unless someone got a court order in bunch of different countries at the same time. I would definitely trust them more than WhatsApp even though the latter uses the Signal protocol, but I don't trust Meta to not collect metadata or possibly have other backdoors as well.
The people who have been living there pre-WW2 were deported or killed. The Poles, other than very very few, who live there now are not descendants of the "original" Polish minority in Germany.
I agree with all of your points, I just wanted to highlight I just learned about a few months ago, that maybe others don't know about as well :)

> - more practical because of the ubiquity of mouse wheels for easy up/down navigation compared to the various less common ways of navigating horizontally

You can actually do horizontal scroll by holding shift and scrolling the wheel. Learning this was a revelation.
“This document enumerates instances where the same source code has different meaning when compiled with C and C++ implementations.”
Ok then, what is the computer running that computation, and what are the symbols it is manipulating to produce the movement of the electron and photon?

(I am assuming you are not referring to human knowledge of the electron or photon, which - if we accept that consciousness is computational - is obviously the result of a computation in our brains).
I couldn't agree more. Maybe it makes the grim lessons stay with us a little bit longer - something that I am seriously concerned about given Putin's replay of these events (and also living in Poland).
Historically, it's a bad idea to bed against Bitcoin.

See also: https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/history-not-side-cryptos-gr...
Incorrect.

> It is estimated that in modern times, some 150,000 inhabitants of the Ruhr Area (out of roughly five million) are of Polish descent.
Show HN: Kit to Grow your Startup
The thing is that if you have resources on google.com, they may be allowed to set a cookie. And large companies like Google can far more effectively aggregate the data because of their reach.

But true, I doubt Google is more nefarious than other resource provider. I am 99.9% sure that Google is not abusing cookies to extract end user data through their fonts service.

I believe you might be legally obliged to inform the user about them setting a cookie though. Alternatively, and this might be the better solution is to simply "vendor" the fonts (supplying them from your own server).
min and max can be difficult to figure out, especially if they have a bunch of calculations and stuff going on, but clamp is generally more explicit a description of what is wanted than media queries, for example the clamp above says:

never let the font size be smaller than 2rem

never let the font size be bigger than 3rem

the middle is then your fluid calculation of what the size should be between those two sizes.

since min, max, and clamp can be used in every property that can use calc it follows that lots of media query code can be replaced.

Finally when using media queries alone you will always run into some situation where something does not look that good if you are resizing your window and you are still in breakpoint 1 but you have not hit breakpoint 2 yet, you can of course fix that by adding a breakpoint in between these two, but the same problem presents itself multiple times.

Media queries alone will never give a 100% fluid experience.
If somebody is going to post a foreign language page that's fine - but at least have the decency to use the article title (which is 'Unzufriedenheit in Tesla-Fabrik Grünheide: Beschäftigte verlassen das Unternehmen'). Or find a different version.
This feedback is so good that I wanted to high-five you when I read it :)

Yes, yes and yes - I don't disagree with a single thing, they make very good UX improvements.

Will add them as soon as I have some available time!
There's no imaginable way that that's better, unless you're engaging in actual treason.
GTO?
Absolutely true, the most realistic post about business that I've red in time

you are complaining about Boris, you have to see here in Spain to Pedro Sanchez, it's a completely mess
I am not sure, what can be more simple than 1 LOC invocation + minimal imports.

It is true that the model is based on PyTorch + python, but the majority of complexity (like SSML parsing) is tucked inside of the model.

Theoretically one can make a simplified model without any of those features in plain PyTorch or ONNX, but so far we did not have proper motivation to do.

As for CLI, this also seems simple enough, but out of scope for us.
It has but we are talking about touring, not racing. Once you start putting panniers it is game over as far as speed is concerned anyway.

This is a reason why there is kind of 2 worlds in term of bicycle touring / bikepacking. Those that ride very light and focus on efficiency with very light hardware, one set of clothes/change, a bivy and a tarp but no capability to cook and would have meals and dinner on the parking of a supermarket or in a café. And those that truly set camp and will carry a lot more stuff and possibly walk the bike for a bit or grind very slowly when they encounter a very steep climb.
For sure it's probably a human interference but I fail to see the logic in sentence below, why could they rule out interference if it appears on all places?

"According to Werthimer, the FAST telescope's receiver can look at 19 different places in the sky at once. Scientists are used to ruling out interference if it shows up in all 19, but if the interference only appears in one (as it did with all three of the supposedly "alien" signatures detected in this case) even experienced researchers can be led astray."
I think it's almost like Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. When I randomly recognized the first one, I suddenly realized there were many more I would pass everyday but had never noticed.
Yes. WASM is secure in that it won't let programs escape. But it runs C and C++ programs which means that it lets them do anything those programs would do - just inside a secure box.
If you want your program to be more correct and secure that's then down to you to make sure it is. WASM just makes sure it can't take over the user's PC (or host's, if it's running outside of a browser).
Re-creating r/place with Algolia
Someone in the comments wrote:

the hardware is very slow and very out of date compared to maistream

this is my main gripe with the device. It's too slow for me. I don't like slow computers :).
Their YouTube channel is also fantastic. Them and the First We Feast, Bon Apetit folks are my comfort watches
Perhaps consciousness not computation directly, but something that computation is good at - thus leading us to get confused between the two. I'm thinking of information processing.

This then shows the weakness in the hot iron argument. The information is now encoded in the choice of observer not the iron bar - which is essentially random. Lean on information theory for deeper insights.
Many people who sure as hell never experienced actual trauma are touting trauma everywhere.

But then again, mental damage is intangible, right?

Since you can't experience other people's distress, your worst experience is always at the top of the scale on an individual level. You can use empathy and reason to understand other people's struggles, but your personal experience is unique in scale.
Why not just write it on a piece of paper, and maybe put a copy in a safe if you want to be ultra secure? I've been doing that for nearly a decade without a single issue. Or if you are a bit more technical just an encrypted text file? Even a password manager is more secure than keeping funds in an exchange, compounded with the fact that you still have to securely store the credentials to access that exchange anyway.
Humans are very adaptable just like animals.

Put us to live with pigs and in less than a week we would be fine.

Give us a PinePhone and we would be ok in a week or two. It would become "the new normal". In the end, you can take photos, run apps, develop shit, make calls, send text messages.

It's just like switching between Android and iPhone and back again. Something that many of us have done at least once.

Am I downplaying the PinePhone? Not at all. I'm just saying that its not a big deal one way or the other. If you used it, I'm sure you would be fine.
> consciousness is not a binary thing (either on or off) doesn't mean it can't exist at all. It can be a spectrum.

I would categorize consciousness as binary. What you are talking is intelligence in general that rat are more intelligent than butterflies.
Sure, but it sounded like you meant while not instadeath, it'll be eventua-death.

I.e. the Simpsons view of plutonium, which is likely what's in most people's minds.

Anyone encountering the probe will pretty much by definition be very advanced, to not only get to space but also intercept something going above their star's escape velocity.

You'd expect them to wear gloves and stuff.

Plutonium may not even be the most hazardous thing on there. They may be deadly allergic to gold. (though yes plutonium is the one thing on there we can pretty much guarantee is hazardous while existing in fairly large quantities)

But who knows, maybe their equivalent of eyes get the equivalent of cancer from alpha radiation.

Although by the time it reaches any aliens the plutonium is going to be all spent. Half life of 87.7 years. After only a thousand years all that's left is 0.037%.

That's of course the thing about radioactivity: The more dangerous it is, the shorter a time it's dangerous. If Voyager were heading towards proxima centauri then it'd take 73 million years to get there.

Lots of it is already gone:

"As of June 17, 2022, Voyager 1 has 70.19% of the plutonium-238 that it had at launch. By 2050, it will have 56.5% left, far too little to keep it functional".

After 73 million years it'll be 5.1e250573 times less. It was about 37.7kg at launch. If I calculate right then the last pu-238 atom decays after only about 7500 years or so.

It's much less dangerous now than when it left earth, which is of course exactly why it's powering down.

tl;dr: By the time they find it there may not even be a single plutonium atom left undecayed.
Thanks this is exactly what I am trying to say.

We dont know exactly how the universe is doing or how the photons do to themselves, but by doing experiments, scientists figured out the law of computiation of this vague "universe computer" a.k.a laws of physics.

And since scientist's discovery do not violate the actually behavior of the physical world, there established a isomorphism. And the very same law is used in quantum computing, mainly, in chemistry. And everything success and predictable. It is a successful scientific theory. Under this notion, it is nothing wrong to say that the quantum world is doing some kind of computation underneath because it is the current understanding of how the universe works.
I think the original point is that Poles or Germans of Polish descent who survived the war have been forcefully Germanized - as in, refused the right to organize Polish schools etc. not in the modern days, but in the post war era (45-89).

There is a big group of these people (e.g. in Ruhr area) but it's really hard for me to tell (and I'm a Polish migrant living in Germany myself) if that was the case, or it was the idea that Poles/Germans of Polish descent after the war were afraid of ethnical Germans and as a result, repressed the manifest of national identity/ethnicity. It definitely was (and still is) the case for Jewish survivors of the 1939-1945 regime, but the anti-Jewish and anti-Polish sentiments didn't end from day to day and it's extremely hard to narrow down what was the cause of it.
Well, if you're using something like 1.1.1.1 for your DoH, you don't really need to inspect SNI, I don't think that there're other domains on that IP address.

Yes, blocking stuff is the ultimate way and you can't really deal with that. You can just block any ECH (former ESNI) traffic as well.

Encrypting domain is a way to prevent someone learning things about your traffic. It's not a way to stop blocking. I'd say it's a way to provoke more blocking.

It might sound strange, but to reduce blocking you should remove encryption altogether. Usually censors apply censorship on a specific web pages. So if you're browsing wikipedia without encryption, censors can block that specific article, but rest will be available to you. With encryption the entire wikipedia should be blocked just to restrict access to a single article.

BTW you can remove encryption but keep authentication. TLS (at least previous versions) allowed for that. Theoretically it'd allow censors to apply their censorships, but it'd prevent them from changing content. I think that in the future people will think more about that concept.
> you CAN get people to do this sort of work, and even get them to do it for free... but you have to BRING the team to it, people dont work their best and go the extra step because they're being paid. That sort of work is done by people for love and because the believe in the vision.

This is just exploitation, like in any industry driven by passion: film, music, game development and so on.

If you, as a capitalist, manipulate people using their passion to be paid less you are completely morally corrupt.
It's a tradeoff. Open addressing is faster due to cache locality, but needs a good hash function. If the hash function tends to cluster values and generate collisions you might (key word here "might", as usual you need to do profiling to check each case) end up with way more operations per query.

But for 90% of cases, you don't really care that much about performance and whether it's open or closed addressing, as long as the mapping works.
https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models/tree/941f911858f51...

Looks like it was previously GPL until 2 months ago, you could use the old version
We already had our issues with local corporations neglecting the license (and being in general disrespectful towards the community), so we had to change it to CC BY-NC-SA to avoid this in future.
The Fed Hasn’t Fixed Its Worst Blunder Since the 1970s
Good thing they won't find it in the next 100 years, then.

It'll all be gone. Literally every single atom in about 7500 years.
>now you've added a consciousness that has vastly more power than all the others.

Superficially yes but actually no. This fictitious admin character doesn't have any actual powers, I'm simply choosing a particular "consciousness" to be a fixed and agreed upon meter stick of objectivity. All measurement systems are arbitrary. We could choose anyones POV to fix as the "objective" truth. If we both agree on the same "definer entity" then we can be in agreement about other things objectively defined relative to them. But crucially this is all still nothing more than us reaching agreement. All that really exists is still just you me and the words.

So how about it. Do you believe in Bob?
If this argument were correct, it would also be a proof that we're not living inside a computation (i.e. it would be a disproof of the simulation argument). If computation cannot produce consciousness, by extension it also can't produce us or our universe (as both of them contain consciousness).

I don't think disproving the simulation argument is that simple. You'd have to prove that our universe's physical laws cannot be computed, which, even if true, this proof certainly hasn't shown.
I just watched and it was beautiful but disappointingly written. They clearly had advisors who added reasonable explanations for e.g. the different QM interpretations, simulations, determinism etc. but then ignored the implications of what they were writing a lot of the time.

SPOILER:

Like when their algorithm only worked under MWI, proving it in-world but then still having only a single branch they knew in advance they are in*, still having the determinism even with knowing the prediction of what they'll do etc.

*Except for a single decision, apparently the only decision which could result in a different outcome out of all simulated days. That single decision even broke the Algo but not even at the point where it was made and not even by just predicting a different branch from then on but predicting noise. It was just total nonsense in a show that clearly knew better at times.
I agree with your summary. I enjoy PinePhone and Mobile Linux a lot, but if someone hates tinkering (or has no time for it) and wants a seamless experience, they should just get a different device.

That said, it does not have to be a lot of work for basic functionality these days in my experience - e.g. postmarketOS 22.06 is a solid base.
Great Teacher Onizuka seemingly fits.
I'm also 100% done with Samsung. Their rise in the late 00's and early 10's was really enticing, but they proved to be the worst of the lot. Every single recent device (last 6 years) of them that I use, I have some major UX issue with. Every. Single. One. Smart TVs, smartphones, kitchen appliances, washing machines, unbelieveably everything.