skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this argument weird. Most people don’t want smart TVs. Dedicated smart devices are just better. Even non techies will probably feel this way because the TVs suck and the remote control interface is clunky and confusing. There’s simply no option to buy a dumb tv that isn’t something weird like a monitor or digital signage.

Imo nothing beats a laptop with a wireless mouse and keyboard. So much better than a shitty remote. Browsers and Google are familiar. Can also do games. Can access whatever sites you want or things the smart device wouldn’t approve of. All of these devices like Apple TV and fire sticks seem pretty dumb to me.
>Never mind there isn’t a git equivalent in the space.

Google Docs (or other online word processors) + revision history [0] works just fine as a distributed version control system for the vast majority of users.

[0] https://zapier.com/blog/google-docs-revision-history/
K8s doesn't reinvent anything. It uses DNS for service discovery, just like you describe. It happily opens ports for ingress if you'd like (or it talks to your cloud provider load balancer to do the same). K8s is literally just a few go-based API endpoints that orchestrate all kinds of existing things like DNS, container scheduling, etc.

What K8s does is provide a simple and idiomatic rest API on top of all this architecture. No longer do you have to read a ton of disparate man pages, figure out what the sysadmin 10 years ago did for DNS, etc.. you just use kubectl or the API. It's the same interface to spin up more replicas of a frontend service as it is to open a port for ingress or even collect and review logs.
Not even that volatile honestly. Regular old stocks and bonds, even whole indices, have the kind of bad run Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc have.

Making nothing out of something happens all the time in business, this wasn't even that. A Bitcoin is still worth an absurd amount of money.

I'd have a lot more respect for this group if they just said "As you must know, anything paying 18% is risky and this risk didn't pay off. The money is gone, you may receive a few pennies in liquidation but we doubt it. Watch this space, we'll have another high risk/high reward gamble for you soon."

Instead they are prolonging the misery for their customers (assuming they aren't about to make everyone whole) and solidifying the idea that this wasn't a risky tech business enabling tech and financial savvy people to gamble but is instead a bank that tried to exist outside of banking regulations.
Crypto Market Starting to See Even Old-Timers ‘Panic Selling’
I would rather get paid less (still in top 99+% of US mind you) to do work that is meaningful to me, my coworkers, and the wider open source community-and then clock out at six pm to spend time with my partner and play games-than earn more and spend all of my time in meetings and design discussions and worrying about whether I'm having enough cross functional impact to meet performance expectations or whatever the new director's pet project of the month is.
I genuinely question if consciousness is just an illusion if everything is just cause and effect. Similar, awareness is just a word used for human expression from one human to another for claiming we’re not just navigating a script like a computer but are we really aware or conscious if everything is just cause and effect? I assume AI will be good enough as humans before we understand the human brain in comparison to AI and understanding to me is the meaningful distinction. I do think we should care that all entities never suffer regardless if they don’t have the human label. We should consider that all energy in the universe not suffering is the best universe.
Maybe not more than Tory Bruno.
Iirc Celsius was margin called over the weekend and nothing about that was covered here… wow.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wccftech.com/the-much-battered-...
No. Assigned it to a slave. Yes, soldiers could have slaves, and did. Often enough, claiming slaves was the point. Slaves were very frequently much more literate than their keepers.

An enormous amount of what is attributed to famous authors was written or compiled by their slaves.

I take the serifs as evidence for the surmise. Even a slave can have pride.
DuckDB would probably be a way better option and works amazingly well on top of parquet (https://duckdb.org/docs/data/parquet)
> The text is still unfinished until I remove this line and absolute not ready to be shared, please respect my wish and do not re-post it until I permit it because this here is not a final version. Thanks.
FWIW, it really isn't tl. 3 minute read tops.
The companies who hire me do so because I am a verb. They already have stocks of nouns who can "PM" for me.
My own personal experience with fasting has shown that I can be quite functional without food. However, I can't really learn. So while I could code a whole day I couldn't read a new programming book.
This thread is about web vs apps in general. I don't know why Bolt does what they do, but generally it's a lot of effort to maintain both interfaces for mobile users, often with entirely different teams, frameworks, language stacks, deployment models and more just to end up in the same place.
I had to travel weekly for work. It completely took away my fear of flying.. Now it's just a slog.

Obviously not everyone can just fly a bunch to do half assed exposure therapy, but maybe something like VR?
First sighting (by me) of Goffman in the wild -- love!
Discord is much, much better IMO and I've never enjoyed Telegram. Probably is better for the general public though
Yes, to allow us to switch please vote with your temperature coins in this smart contact.
No, it's a response to the set of questions, which included a lot of "you should be spending all your time studying and doing homework for my course, for I am the only course you are doing at any one time" style mantras.

Failing that you could take it as "this questionnaire implies that there is no limit to the amount of work and study you can be doing without any possible negative repercussions".

You could also do a basic check on my user profile and go "hey, maybe this person who has been making comments of varying quality on a variety of topics for more than a decade isn't a bot (unless lambda? ;D) before functionally accusing them of being a bot, for a comment that isn't tangential given the questions in the OPs pdf?"
AFAIK, large language models like LaMDA do not tag where the tokens in their token window really came from. Though one can add "Human:" and "AI:" to the prompt, that could be lies as well as long as it's not hardcoded.
> I think people start with the premise that consciousness is a specific “thing”, that it is unique and special to humans (and maybe dogs because we like them but definitely not spiders and flies because we don’t)

Ah, but as far as I can tell this author only grants their own consciousness. They’re doing the typical thing of starting from literally nothing more than a claim of the form “there is no way I could ever possibly deny the existence of this thing” which seems to me to be a starting point diametrically incompatible with pursuing knowledge via reasoning.
It took me a little while (and it seems like they managed to add some more domains at one point) but I’ve successfully blocked all outgoing connections from my TV and removed the ads
We all know this by now right? We know computers store numbers in binary (unless using BCD) and numbers like 1/10 and 1/3 can only be approximated in a finite number of bits. This isn't news is it?
The typical rebuttal to this kind of article, seen in some of the comments here, is that the author is necessarily wrong because X happens to Y people per year. Does he want students to die? In other words, "Some number of kids have probably died playing with a stick, so we absolutely must ban or regulate sticks, unless you want kids to die. Are sticks really worth the lives of children?"

The first problem with this argument is the use of thought-stopping language. It seeks to neutralize all reasonableness and good judgement by appealing to the badness of outlier events. Opponents of totalitarianism are painted to be bad people because without totalitarianism uncontrolled things might happen, and that's just irresponsible.

The second problem is that life is inherently risky, so the quest to eliminate risk thus necessarily trends toward eliminating all of life. 100% of people die no matter what choices they make. What should we do about that? Should we divide up the proximal causes and ban them all until no human activity is permissable? Or should we accept that yes, X people per year will die doing Y, maybe the number will even go up over time, and we're okay with that?
On a Sony TV, at least on my one (before I yanked the wifi antennas out) you could just create an open network and then sit watching the Wifi settings screen on the TV and watch it just jump right on.

If you're really concerned about proof, just go to a hifi store and turn on your mobile hotspot without a password - I bet you could get a TV somewhere to connect with minimal effort.
If having a conscious experience is our only frame of reference of what it’s like to be a bunch of particles, then on what authority do we assume it could be otherwise for any other bunch of particles?

What should it “be like” to be a rock?

I’m assuming nothing special is going on, and what we experience is exactly what it’s like to be a bunch of particles. There is no mystery. There is nothing that needs to be answered.
"debunking" the abstract??

- - -

"how cringe is that." / "Yeah and cola with Kiwi is also a nice cocktail recipe. Cringe man,"

"Every kid calls himself a Researcher these days because he opens Google."

Glass houses and stones
That is cool. I love FOSS with good APIs. It's too bad the sever is closed. Makes it hard for me to trust.
New people learn new things every day :)

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Writing code in an interview is not the same as the "leetcode" riddle questions that the parent poster was talking about. It's usually esoteric language and computer science concepts that are not very relevant to the job role.
Did I miss something in that article? It says they deposited more collateral to avoid a margin call, and supposedly they won’t be called until BTC hits $13k.
Lots of hardware problems on display, especially suspend and resume which is notoriously buggy (broken ACPI tables that happen to work in Windows so the hardware manufacture never noticed they were busted, etc). I recommend spending extra to get ECC ram, and running ZFS filesystems. Both can catch a number of types of errors before they corrupt your data. With those precautions I haven’t lost any data in many years.

Though one time at work we had a few thousand hard drives from a particular vendor that had an interesting firmware bug. Very, very occasionally they would write a sector with incorrect data. No individual drive did it very often, but after a few thousand full drive writes we noticed it half a dozen times. We also discovered that the garbage data was always the same across all of the drives. Crazy. Sadly we weren’t running ZFS on those systems, which would have caught the problem and corrected it from redundancy. Thankfully we were able to get a refund. Never put your trust a hard drive.

To get back on topic, I’ve always assumed that journald was reasonably robust against minor corruption, but honestly I’ve never had a reason to test it. At the end of the day no one component of the system is solely responsible for data integrity; every level of the hardware and software must cooperate to prevent corruption else there will be cracks for the data to slip through.
I've been doing it for over six years now, so why not? Joined ten years ago yesterday and made it to IC5, and haven't had any desire for a promo since then, so I just work on we/hatever I think is the best thing I can spend my time on for the team, and it's been sufficient for "meets all" or better every half except one. Just pick the right team with the right manager who actually cares about you and what is actually both for you and your coworkers.
Seems pretty unlikely that Aristotle said anything like that

You'd be surprised at the kind of thing that's been recovered from excavated tweet shards:

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/585859882869469184
Australia’s secret propaganda unit
Wow, this is super cool! Can't wait to dig in! Thanks for the links and information.
We wrote and published about it quite a lot, but none of that content seems to be indexed or available anymore. Here's some content referring to it, though:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/mort-elvis-einstein-and-you/
Colin Furze: YouTuber allowed to build tunnel under garden
That article says they weren’t and the new number for where that would happen has been lowered.
Like you, I have three egg omelettes a few times a week. The mental image of someone eating twenty eggs and still being hungry made me laugh out loud.
It depends on where you go. It could cost half that if you went to, like, thrifty ice cream instead of what I'm guessing was a Salt and Straw. To say nothing of the men with bells selling icecream all over LA county on a given day...
This makes no sense to me. If it's not intended for publication, don't publish it.
It follows from the definition of computing. Computing is using the fact that one system is rule governed to make reliable inferences about another system. Consciousness isn’t the sort of thing that could be computation. That doesn’t mean a computer-like device can’t do it though.
Why is someone working in research publication not using a typesetting engine like tex?

Incidentally, git supports non-wysiwyg typesetting just fine.
> This is a bit like saying you should "never" turn on your new car's engine and should immediately swap it out for a third-party one, because every knows Manufacturer X leaves ticking time bombs in their engines.

I don’t think it’s at all like that.

If anything, it’s more like saying don’t use your car’s built-in navigation, and instead, use another connected device for navigation.

The engine is a critical part of a car — without it, it can’t function. Period.

A TV doesn’t have to be smart to operate it, and you can’t buy a TV without it, even though it’s 100% not necessary, especially if you already have another device for that.

Again, it’s like cars with navigation — completely unnecessary, especially if you have another device for that.
The Arc of History
I wonder why...

Abbreviations on paper just save on paper. In stone, you can count hammer blows saved.

Guessing "Secundinus" is an insulting diminutive of "Secundus". Extra work for a serious purpose!
Why don't we store fractions as fractions rather than floating point?
I don’t really get the argument either. The author only seems to demonstrate that different observers can make different conclusions from different observations of the same phenomena. The author requires consciousness to be observer-independent, but surely that doesn’t also require that all observers are able to correctly conclude whether they’re observing a conscious entity at any given time.
I bought a lot of bitcoins that were locked up in mt gox. The lawsuit has been ongoing in Japan for many years now. Every 6 months or so they say they are just about to pay out the claims.
In my experience EU (particularly NL/FR/DE) engineers have a very different understanding of the level of effort work should entail, and general work/life balance. Perhaps it has something to do with the different level of social “safety net” or just chalk it up to culture.
I mean, why on earth would you not use existing infrastructure and always keep writing code from scratch ?

If I see an engineer constantly do this, I would think that they are insecure and are constantly attempting to prove that they are "real" programmers (whatever that means).

The way I see it, we are here to solve business problems and the chances of your problem being so unique that similar solutions don't already exist is rather low.

Let's face it, the majority of software work is pluming work and wiring APIs these days. Very few people are tasked with implementing their own sorting algorithm and even if they are, you can bet that they will scaffold from another algorithm to get started..

Yes, one should not blindly copy and paste from Stackoverflow but researching, refactoring, thinking about the task at hand and using existing tools and libraries are all part of the process.
I was tongue in cheek. I was just issued a notice to vacate with no grounds a week ago, so believe me I am with you. And no, apparently tenant protection is not decent at all. European countries are much better in tenant protection.
DeepMind's Gato is grounded in other modalities than just text.

Is DeepMind's Gato sentient, then?
Would latex or markdown work for her?
Most recent popular games (FPS, MOBA, MMO) make use of the entire mouse movement area.

However gamers are more prone to adjusting their mouse DPI for comfort. To some this means wide sweeps across the desk for minimal movement to maintain accuracy at the elbow. For others it means the slightest flick of the wrist sends the cursor across the screen for maximal reaction speed.

And of course many games don't use the mouse much at all still. I don't think you can really categorize gamer mouse usage in any way other than "comfort to efficiency ratio per task".
No great reason. Google occasionally optimizes the CSS delivery along with browser features (like in Chrome releases) where only certain files (and now only parts of files) are downloaded for the fonts.

But with HTTP2+, serving from your own domain has no performance impact unless you're limited by bandwidth or extreme latency, and often can improve things by avoiding another DNS/TLS/TCP connection.
The "Chinese Room" argument isn't an argument against consciousness being computation.

In the same way the man in the room doesn't understand Chinese to be able to produce Chinese, the mind in your brain does not need to understand consciousness to be conscious.

The man in the room can be said to pass the Turing test, and so can you.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

0.1 and 0.2 = 0.3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28390997 - Sept 2021 (2 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21686264 - Dec 2019 (402 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018450 - April 2017 (130 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 - Nov 2015 (240 comments)
It makes no difference other than download/parse performance. You have to weigh the latency/bandwidth of your origin vs that of Google's CDN and the extra connections.
I think you're just inferring something that isn't there at all in the OP. Here's what it says:

> The book takes us through a series of key moments in the development of the internet: 1969, when the publicly owned Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the first public computer network that became a forerunner to the internet, went live for the first time; 1976, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) linked two networks for the first time in pursuit of its goal to “bring the mainframe to the battlefield”;

The only mention of a military application is related to the event of DARPA linking two networks for the first time. This is in fact what happened. That event has nothing to do with the creation of ARPANET, which is clearly mentioned here as a distinct, earlier event. There's no other mention in the article of a military motivation for the creation of the Internet, or other computer technology.
> Many people call button-only joysticks or gamepads digital. This is kind of right, because A button is either pressed or not.

Can't figure out if this is an oblique reference to "SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A presses" (https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A)
No, your math is very wrong here. If you're trying to adjust the global rate for America being an outlier in tv consumption, you don't get to multiply by their representation in the global supply. That's just flat wrong.

Further, even a multiple of 2 isn't really reasonable [1] [2]
[3]

1 - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-th...
2 - https://china.usc.edu/resources/average%20day#:~:text=ON%20A....
3 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-televisio...
I think the author is misunderstanding the XKCD comic about rocks [1] (or maybe I am). Just because it's possible to run a simulation of the universe on rocks, doesn't mean that rocks are conscious or turing complete. You can't forget about the person who is manipulating the rocks. The system as a whole is turing complete. Likewise with the bar of iron example that the author gave, you can't forget about the person interpreting the atoms in the bar of iron. The system as a whole is turing complete (and also naturally conscious, because the person doing the interpretation is conscious).

And there is nothing physical necessary to represent such systems. You can simulate turing complete systems inside turing complete systems [2]. So I don't see why consciousness has to be a "physical phenomenon" as the author claims.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/505/

[2]: https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8
I would pay good money for a solid dedicated camera for video calls. I know I can just use my phone, but I'm one of those weird people who only has one iPhone and it's really annoying to have to undo my camera rig every time I need a 2FA code. I would happily spend hundreds of dollars if the product was good.
Would you mind expanding on this? I couldn't understand what practice it was you actually implemented
I would think for research publications the tool for the job is latex? It can handle all the issues you listed at least.
macOS is Unix, which probably makes Xnu a Unix kernel, but you still need the rest of the OS, and don't think Darwin is officially UNIX™, in a trademark sense.

Lineage wise I would concur with the article that the BSDs (and Darwin) are Unix systems.

Of course Linux isn't Unix but is Unix-like, and we all know that GNU's Not Unix.
I've always felt this way about lucid dreaming. How do I know if I am aware during my dream, or if I am just dreaming that I am aware?
"Running a program" is a rather vague expression.

We could excuse philosophers for using such vague expressions because most of them aren't very tech-savvy. For engineers, though, that kind of wording should immediately raise a red flag.

Running a computer program involves many different kinds of things. There's data (state), and there's logic to manipulate said data. There's communication among the various components of the machine, and a whole lot of machinery dedicated to synchronizing said communication because otherwise it all becomes garbage. Any one of these, or a combination of these, could be a candidate for the seat of consciousness.

Philosophers who talk about computation are often preoccupied with the fancy logic gates, and not so much on the mundane circuitry needed to maintain state and synchronize it across components. To me, though, those parts seem much more likely to be analogous to what we call consciousness. Treating consciousness as a kind of state, synchronized across the brain, is the closest way to capture the author's insistence that it is a kind of "unified, integrated whole." Drugs alter consciousness by creating network partitions, inhibiting cache invalidation, corrupting data in flight, etc.
"Cacogen" was Latin for people who spoke a foreign language.