skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have autism and adhd and I am trans and queer and plural and in the last few years I have been able to trace nearly everything that I struggle with to themes that have been passed on throughout my family for generations.

The cycle continues until someone breaks the cycle.
I see how autism runs in my family.
I see how my mother's early life trauma during and around childbirth directly contributed to my general sense of "life isn't safe".

For a long time I just kinda floated through life feeling vaguely existentially anxious. Learning about the struggles of my parents and extended family has helped me to release resentment, since I can see exactly why everything happened, how everyone was doing their best, and yet things happened anyway.

I have the best and worst traits of my parents, and increasingly it feels like the only thing to do is to thank my parents for the good they did for me and forgive the bad that they did to me without even realizing that they were doing bad to me.

All beings are the heirs of their own karma, but heck parenting is HARD yo. Happy fathers day to all the fathers who do their best even if it doesn't always go exactly the way it was planned.
No, I am not denying anything.

My point is this: say an electron emits a photon and changes speed, in perfect accordance to the standard model and QFT. I don't think it makes sense to say that the electron "computed" the energy of the photon, or its own change of speed. It just happened, there was no computation going on here.

Even in a CPU, it doesn't make sense to say that the transistors, or even logical gates, are "computing" how much electricity passes through them. The entire system of transistors arranged into logical gates arranged into a processor is doing computation of the program written in memory, but the subcomponents are only following the simple laws of physics.

In a quantum computer, the same is true - the computer itself may be running Shor'a algorithm, but each individual qubit is simply doing the few things that the laws of physics allow it to do.
> Easy - you’re trusting someone, true, but it’s likely not the same person that someone else is trusting.

I dunno if that's true. I mean I can name 5 companies and generally speaking narrow it down to the owner of the hardware (or the owner of the owner of the hardware) or at the very least a company with enough resources that if they want your content they can take it.
The downsides of "Be Your Own Bank"...
One country unilaterally decides that it is fine to pollute the sky for everyone else in the name of profit.

One company decides to produce more and more without giving a damn about their ecological impact, in the name of profit.

Hardly sounds like a revolution to me.
Sorry but you don't "prove" your way out of someone else treating you as a philosophical zombie.

It'd be a major issue with their worldview that eliminates any need for ethics, but it has no relationship to you actually having conscious experience or not.
>The idea that there's something going on in a wet, warm, mushy brain that has a macroscopic effect,

What kind of complex computation simulates the subjective experiences of wet, warm, and mushy?

EDIT: my account appears to be rate limited, so i am unable to post a reply until idk when....

By "subjective" I am referring to my conscious inner life, that there is something it is like to be me. I am an experiencer because I can experience things. My experiences are subjective and qualitative.

When I see something red, there actually is no "red" in reality, there is just an electromagnetic wave vibrating at a certain frequency. But I still have a "red" experience. In the same way, I can also have a wet, warm, or mushy experience. How do the subjective qualities of my experience arise from quantities like spin, charge, mass, etc?
Love your username. Connects with what I came here to say, which is that Arvo Pärt stands very much in opposition to the conclusions of this article. His compositional technique of tintinnabuli is beautiful and engaging and his many compositions continue to delight me since I found out about him five years ago.
Is there any state of union like link for torrent and other related protocols as mentioned? A bit outdated. And torrent site is not very reliable to get info.
It's a very common reaction for people to assert that the solution to a deep societal problem is to "stop [group] from [doing action] to [another group]", as if that's an answer, rather than the beginning of a very long list of questions, most of which don't currently have answers, or at least not widely accepted ones (hence the problem continuing to be pervasive).

I spent a lot of my early adulthood thinking the depression/anxiety/dependency that afflicted me was the fault of others, including parents, peers who'd bullied me, former partners/friends who'd betrayed me, etc. And on one level there's truth to it, until you realise all those people were acting in reaction to abuse and trauma they'd suffered, so it's futile to scapegoat everything onto particular individuals or categories of people.

For what it's worth, I am personally trying to undertake work that over the long term would help society to be better at alleviating these trauma cycles and avert the patterns of abuse we see everywhere, but I'm under no illusion that it will be fast or easy, or even that it's likely that the approaches I've found to be effective would be embraced widely enough to have any impact at all. I'll keep trying, however.
And what about all the times you talked about things on WhatsApp and Facebook didn’t start showing you ads about whatever?

Confirmation bias is a hell of a thing; it works in many different ways. Personally over years of usage I’ve never had WhatsApp convos trigger ads.
Lifelong user of Logitech trackball mice, now using the MX Ergo. I also used a Logitech keyboard for many years, and am still using a Logitech webcam. I've had an equally pleasant experience of reliable hardware with good Linux support.
Presumably you mean the halting problem for Turing Machines? It's undecidable for other Turing machines, but that doesn't mean it's undecidable for all machines.
Lossy Compression with Gaussian Diffusion
A multi-region AWS architecture for low latency edge messaging
> Are there coolness points for being able to say "I'm a spacex investor" that are just worth the cost?

Yes. I am indeed a total fanboy.
Kind of interesting that a lot of the work in the world nowadays is largely "throwaway" knowledge work.

Use word processors to create more documents for people who do more knowledge work so that they can get better at doing it.

Sigh. There was a time when most of the work was not knowledge work. And we are sitting on the back of that right now. Literally *EVERYTHING* we do was the kind of work where people had to sit together or commute to get it done in groups each day.

"Mom's going to the office" meant something.

Sure most work is back-breaking or mind-numbing. But someone has to do it. And our parents did it. And because of them, we are entitled enough to say that we all deserve to work from home.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339949771_Effective...
I agree with you, but the claim that Facebook is decrypting and reencrypting things is a very very very severe one.
The problem with all these arguments is that if consciousness is not an inherent side effect of computation, then it must have evolved, which means it have once given a very simple animal a competitive advantage.

But we have no theory, evidence, or even well-thought-out stoner postulations of consciousness having any effect on the material universe, other than fancies of wish fulfilment. It appears to be a one-way process, information travels from meatspace to consciousness, never the other way around.

From here, logically I can't get to any place other than consciousness being a side-effect or emergent property of computation in general. There's no reason for it to have evolved.
Same, I have an older 2014 samsung 4k (3d), I bought the UHD evolution kit, and aside for some random black screens (maybe 5s every 4 hours), it's been a great TV. It's hard to upgrade, but a second gen QD-OLED might be what I get next.

The now surprising thing is there are no ads, and my AppleTV 4K(2nd gen) is more than good enough to watch everything I want to on it. Only QD-OLED and HDMI 2.1 and more expansive HDR are going to get me to upgrade at this point.
> Late stage capitalism

will never happen. It's just a hope by leftists that capitalism will collapse on its own.
Exactly. Proof writing is basically impossible to learn without this kind of social context and feedback.
In the case of the hot iron bar, obviously there is no deterministic process that takes us from one state to the next. We just happen to get lucky and see that it randomly fluctuates from one state to the next state correctly.

The trouble is that formal computation theory does not take into consideration the physical process by which the computer moves from one state to the next. That's what makes it so general. We can make computers out of transistors or vacuum tubes or Legos equally well and can be assured that whatever we make our computer out of the computational complexity of bubble sort is O(n^2).

Requiring specific physical processes for computation would invalidate computation theory in a very fundamental kind of way.
> Seems like a horrible and shortsighted hiring practice if you ask me. Is your employer “for profit”? Chances are they’ll do all the same things any other company will do to keep the boat afloat.

What are these "the same things" that crypto/gambling companies do that others also do to keep themselves afloat?

> Plus, many mainstream companies have been sued for all kinds of terrible stuff, sometimes even criminal.

How is what a company does without employees knowledge relevant to that employee? Are you saying that crypto/gambling companies are dealing in crypto/gambling behind their employees backs?

> Judging others’ morals is a slippery slope.

WTF does this mean? We shouldn't judge anybody for anything ever?
I'm on the same page with you. Actually, I was planning to do the same thing, but the one I got turns on in 2 seconds flat, and there's no feel of lag. It works reasonably snappy, which doesn't make you say "C'mon!". I think it's quite nice.

The video processor in that thing is very nice too. I'm using it with out of the box settings, and I don't feel the need to tweak anything, yet.

The model I have doesn't have blatant ads (and it's not a Samsung), so I'm a happy camper.
What do fonts have to do with privacy? What am I missing here?
So, we only need science news one time in century. Kinda hard to develop proficiency at that rate.
The same kind of computation as is performed by the wet warm and mushy computer.

Be careful with the term “subjective”, because it’s a can of worms: it doesn’t imply chaos and lack of information. Your subjective experiences are merely called “subjective” because they aren’t computed the exact same way as other brains. It doesn’t mean they’re not the product of computation, or that they have magic properties!
If it's documenting code, auto-generate as much as possible (this makes it less likely that the documentation will become invalid).
Not parent, but probably this part:

> With these vulnerabilities, it is possible to ship pirated games on bluray discs
Because it's just so convenient to have to plug your laptop in via an HDMI cable and have it permanently tethered to your TV, and I just love sitting on the couch attempting to move a basically nonresponsive laser mouse on the furniture surface.

Cost of chromecast+remote: $30

Cost of secondhand laptop + wireless keyboard/mouse: $250
Three marriages have taught me what true love looks like
> Spark got Rust-style ownership of pointers:

To be more precise, it has introduced affine types.

Rust happens to be the more well know mainstream implementation of them.
Therapy with a strong CBT and mindfulness bent can help. Meditation - I suggest using Gil Fronsdal’s daily meditations starting with his intro to meditation -particularly vipassana, which combines effectively with CBT. Exercise - a daily exercise regime that elevates the heart rate materially. Eating a lot more veggies and probiotics. Spend time with friends and laughing. For me these form a foundation of resiliency. The answer for me for coping with my traumas, which have been substantial, is incrementally increasing my resiliency to the point that I’m more resilient than the traumas damage. Once I’m beyond that threshold the traumas have no hold on me. I don’t think there’s a magic pill though that makes you “unlive” them and they’re always with you in some way. But an awful lot of resiliency is biochemical and can be “hacked” by doing the things you know you should be doing and we’ve known work for thousands of years.

I wouldn’t self medicate with psychoactive substances. I’ve tried that and it just led to worse traumas after a period of being distracted from my problems by the chemicals. This is what led me to realize resiliency is the difference between living well with trauma and living in trauma.
Microvium Is Small
I wonder about this because allocation of money in the world is uneven, and people get paid LOTS of money to work for wall street, but very little for worthy journalism.

I think good scientific journalism might be something where funding is not proportional to benefit to society. Also things like investigating regulatory capture.
My rebuttal to the poorly considered Chinese Room thought experiment:

I'm going to use this Wikipedia text as the backdrop:

> Searle then supposes that he is in a closed room and has a book with an English version of the computer program, along with sufficient papers, pencils, erasers, and filing cabinets. Searle could receive Chinese characters through a slot in the door, process them according to the program's instructions, and produce Chinese characters as output, without understanding any of the content of the Chinese writing. If the computer had passed the Turing test this way, it follows, says Searle, that he would do so as well, simply by running the program manually.

> Searle asserts that there is no essential difference between the roles of the computer and himself in the experiment. Each simply follows a program, step-by-step, producing behavior that is then interpreted by the user as demonstrating intelligent conversation. However, Searle himself would not be able to understand the conversation. ("I don't speak a word of Chinese," he points out.)

The reason he would not be able to follow the conversation is that he's being the CPU, and not the computer program. The computer program (according to the Strong AI hypothesis) understands the conversation, evidence for it being that it can converse with Chinese speakers and convince them that they are conversing with a human being.

The content of the papers stuffed into the filing cabinets to keep track of the program state contains (somehow) the representation and behavior of understanding, not John Searle, the pencil-and-paper-pushing executor of the program (who doesn't even hold the content of those papers in his own mind, let alone failing to understand any of it.)

Searle misunderstands computers and software; his argument amounts to the assertion that it is the CPU which must necessarily be the seat of the computer's intellect, and since we know that CPU to be a very simple machine with no understanding of the data flowing through it, there is no intellect, QED.

Fact is that, in the thought experiment, the Chinese Room as a whole appears to be intelligent; it can converse with a Chinese speaker and pass the Turing test. That's what is intelligent: the room, and not the clerk sitting inside it who pushes the pencil.

It's like insisting that individual neurons must be intelligent (conscious, sentient, ...).

By Searles' argument, a computer doesn't actually know how to browse the web because an Intel chip doesn't understand what is TCP/IP or HTML.

I can't believe this twaddle was ever taken seriously, but that's philosophy for you.

If you want a good reason why kids should learn to code, there it is: so they have a fighting chance at not being duped by stuff like this.
Network administration skills are not an acceptable pre-requisite for a consumer product like a TV.
> "yet it is implemented in the universe"
"So, while it is technically still possible to censor HTTP/3 connections based on the SNI in TLS, the collected data shows that hardly any censors actually parse and use this information (even when they do parse the SNI in traditional HTTPS traffic)."

What about the privacy issues raised by SNI.^1 Why have the "tech" company sponsors of QUIC failed to address this problem. Instead they actually wanted to _require_ SNI.^2 There is zero attention to user privacy in the development of QUIC. The protocol increases surveillance and reconnassiance capabilities of the "tech" company sponsored web browser, and user privacy against "tech" companies is completely ignored. Unlike QUIC, at least the TLS project is working on a solution to the SNI problem. Cloudflare offers one of the early solution protoypes, ESNI. I have been using it for several years now with no problems.

In CurveCP, a predecessor of QUIC (and possibly the inspiration for QUIC), SNI is not required. Multiple sites can be securely hosted on the same address.^3 Both TLS1.3 and thereby QUIC use encryption developed by the author of CurveCP. The thinking of the companies behind QUIC regarding available technology seems to be "If it benefits "tech" company strategy then use it. If it only benefits users but not "tech" companies, then ignore it."

1. TLS worked before SNI was introduced, and the web worked before AWS and their ilk existed. There are still many, many, many websites that use TLS but no not require SNI. If one only sees the web as a handful of CDNs, then it is easy to ignore these other TLS sites. However they exist, regardless of whether CDN devotees choose to acknowledge them. And no, trying to perform reverse DNS lookups on IP addresses in real-time is no substitute for grabbing cleartext domain names from SNI. It requires more effort and does not work consistently.

2.
https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/issues/794 (intersting coicidence: group member arguing for SNI mandate works for a CDN)

3.
https://curvecp.org/addressing.html
Easy, just sell the exploit. Don't sell pirated software.
Wtf are you talking about? Control the people with free healthcare?
Diaspora: The online social world where you are in control
Mermaid is more of a WYSIWYM tool where Knotend is more WYSIWYG. WYSIWYM tools are quite valuable in the right contexts, but there's a reason why LaTeX never really threatened Microsoft Word.
How did you get to invest in SpaceX?
It’s kinda what happens when designers use 1024 or 1200 as desktop but don’t consider tablet at all. No one wants to spend the money on it so mobile ends up getting used up to wider desktop breakpoints. We’re guilting too if only showing desktop in tailwinds lg:*
Yup: Business News Search
I don't know why you're getting so mad. I stand by my original comment too a substitute command defines a CLASS of regexes. Output of any machine is arbitrary in its interpretation. Step back and think about how any of these machines are implemented physically and how we get "output" or "transforms" or "extracts."

That is for any given input the substitute turing machine produces a definitive regex.

A subset of regexes (that OP showed) from the total class of regexes that I mentioned in my comment are:

/[Aa]re\s[Yy]ou\s\(.*\)?/Indeed, I am sentient./
/[Aa]re\s[Yy]ou\s\(.*\)?/Indeed, I am capable of intelligence./
/[Aa]re\s[Yy]ou\s\(.\*\)?/Indeed, I am going to take over the world./

Not sure why this is so controversial ;)
Depends how you measure it. You can indeed achieve higher efficiency than nature if you look at a single number. Where nature always wins is the combined efficiency, because it acts as a whole.

You example is great because it shows just that.

Solar panels might give better absolute numbers but: they are not recyclable, they can't feed cows, they are manufactured in China using materials coming from mines around the world. They need complex set-up and maintenance.

Grass if fully recyclable - in fact it builds soil after dying. It feeds other animals. It protects the soil from erosion. It mines its own materials while growing, in fact it even bootstraps itself given just a seed containing all the code that it ever needs.

A F1 car is faster on a race track, but a bicycle gets the job done much more efficiently in most cities around the world for most tasks.
And that's why vinix [1] is full of manual free calls? That tells how good autofree is, isn't it? Can you compile v compiler with autofree? Last time I checked, you can't.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/vinix/search?q=free&type=code
Reporting from a K380. That thing is great. Also they keys are backed by a metal plate, so the whole thing is pretty hefty and stable. Its simple looks are deceiving.
Do you have much experience with the NHS, hyperbolizing here, or something else?
> Nvm. Those methods use SIMD tricks, which while neat are hard to generalize.

I've been writing this sort of parser lately and I don't think people's fear of this stuff is at all proportional to the actual level of difficulty.

Looks like you can use this sort of technique on ~every CPU someone might plausibly be using as a laptop to write code on[0]. If you didn't use an off-the-shelf implementation, you would need 2 implementations of your inner loops to you target ~all x86 machines + M1 macs or 3 if want to go slightly faster on the vast majority of x86 machines that have AVX2 without dropping support for those x86 machines that have a bunch of SSE extensions but not AVX2.

> Also not sure what JSON-RPC is referring to? LSP? Are you arguing that JSON is suboptimal? Like maybe, but it's close enough to rival binary formats. Plus you can parse GB/s of JSON.

I'm arguing that IPC is suboptimal for use cases that do not need IPC.

> Even text editors that forgo LSP have speed issues, unrelated to JSON.

I'm arguing that this is probably not due to the essential complexity of text editors.

As an unrelated toy example of the sort of thing that I'm talking about, recently I'm playing a game in which people implement somewhat fast wordcounts[1]. The reference solution uses std::iostream to put space-delimited strings into a std::unordered_map, then gets them all out into a std::vector and std::sorts them. This implementation works at about 33MB/s for large inputs. It's generally a lot more efficient than the sort of code you'd commonly find in a larger code base just because libstdc++ isn't as slow lots of other things and it uses vaguely correct data structures and algorithms. It seems like someone who never looks at any assembly listings and never uses a profiler but sort of has some vague idea of what data oriented design is could easily come up with a solution that processes large inputs at 200MB/s even if they are paying some minor overhead for the JVM, the CLR, the Go runtime, or something like that.

[0]: https://github.com/cyb70289/utf8

[1]: https://easyperf.net/blog/2022/05/28/Performance-analysis-an...
The book as a whole gives you the tools to understand how emergence happens in the brain. I can point you to the resource, but I can’t do the learning for you.

It’s also possible you’re less interested in the brain per se, and more interested in “emergence” in the abstract. If that’s the case, there is no shortage of good books and resources you can turn to.

Look up “emergence science” and “complexity science” and go from there: it’s not an easy topic, it’s very cross-disciplinary, and to really understand it requires a fair amount of maths (imo).
Too bad for them, Apple has already stated multiple times that the long term roadmap is that all third party stuff will only be available as userspace drivers.

The plan being, each kext has one year timeframe to migrate to the new userspace API after its introduction, and the year thereafter the kernel API gets dropped from the new OS release.