skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m convinced at this point having read almost every book on the topic, hundreds of threads across the web, and many an in-person debate, that individuals actually have wildly different experiences of consciousness.

For me, the hard problem is such an obvious and almost intractable thing that any folks who dismiss it clearly don’t understand it (or live an inner experience that lets them understand it).

And because I’ve never really seen anyone flip on their view of the hard problem, I’m 99% convinced it’s because they actually have a different lived conscious experience. Perhaps they process information different, or have more or less access to their internal state.

It’s possible that folks who dismiss the hard problem actually have more conscious access to their internal state and hence don’t understand why it’s an issue.

An analogy is aphantasia (folks who don’t have an internal visual experience). Somebody with an aphantasic brain simply doesn’t experience consciously like others. I feel that understanding that the hard problem exists is something rooted in a different internal experience.
That seems like a lot. More than once a day? Or the only thing you eat every 10th day?
Excess power is most usefully applied capturing CO2 and desalinating water. But nukes' operating cost is too high for that. Spending a single year's operating cost on solar, and then using solar to do that work,leaves you with all subsequent years' opex available to use building out more solar.
Laminar Flow
Le Git Graph – Commits Graph for GitHub
Hosting a private Minecraft server is also quite easy, you just need a JVM and a freely redistributable .jar file. I think Minetest will perform much better on low-end hardware though; you can use PaperMC, Sodium, etc to improve Minecraft performance, but Minetest runs much smoother out of the box.

Anyone here got experience running both Minecraft and Minetest servers? How do they compare?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMFha1nmeXc
Yes. Don't say things that the public disagrees with. Don't question what you're told. That's the lesson.

Of course I think the Sandy Hook shooting was real, but if someone said it wasn't I'd just think they're an idiot - not a criminal that should be tried in any court.
What feature should I create next?
Hi Django friends, some time ago I created a community of telegram called Django Jobs, until today we already are +1000 DjangoDjango developers, so I thought why not create an independent job board where I can publish all the django jobs I found on the web, so that's how https://djangojob.com was born, the next question is what feature should I create next in order to help more to the whole Django community, any feedback is very welcome. Thanks!
If the world doesn't get over fossil fuel addiction and allowing oil companies to push us to near extinction for their profits, really soon, the worse is yet to come.
Only if "ideal" means "massively expensive". Generally you want backup to not cost overmuch.
But crucially, mobile is an OEM market, not a consumer market.
I mean is there any mystery here? It's China. China doesn't care about anything except for themselves.

Hundreds of Chinese fishing boats set up just outside of international waters in South America and fished everything in the area and brought it back to China. It's like a sick game of Age of Empires but millions of people are affected.
> it's bad news when 1 billion crabs go missing.

It's shocking, and yet not all that surprising.
Sorry, I'm having trouble parsing that historical spreadsheet. If I'm reading it correctly, it looks like per capita (consumption?) was 564 pounds in 1970 and 603 pounds in 2010, a 6.9% increase.

Either way, if that is actual consumption then that's an increase in total dairy use and I appreciate the correction.

I would argue my point still stands in terms in drinking milk consumption, it at least has dropped by nearly 50%, and that means that we would be producing a lot more dairy overall today if consumer habits hadn't shifted away from milk (and the growth in cheese and yogurt consumption had increased in the same fashion as it has, which admittedly may not have been the case).

Another example would be the massive growth of plant based milks and vegan/vegetarian products and restaurants into multi billion dollar industries over the last few decades, displacing a commensurate amount of demand from animal based industries.

My point is also not that governments, corporations, and the powerful don't have any influence over the state of the world. It was that large scale boycotts and pressing for systemic change can be done simultaneously, and do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Yeah sure, anyone who isn't an expert at the topic at hand should be barred from participating in any discussion about it.
> negative reputation of soy and masculinity

That's a ruse/tactic of the meat industry, nothing more. Meat/dairy is full of estrogens, phytoestrogens are in fact protective against real estrogens.

Btw, I don't think that masculinity depends on eating corpses / animal secretions.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/202005/...
Damn. A reputed Mervyn Peake life drawing sold at auction in the UK in the past few weeks and I was severely tempted. No spare pennies unfortunately.

It sounds like you and I have very similar tastes. I've been amusing myself recently by asking AIs to draw Gormenghast. None of them get the scale.
This is exactly it. The way to think about it is that smart contracts are effectively server-side code that is specialized to run on blockchains. They use many of the same building blocks and can often be reused. When I want to build Auth in Nodejs, I might use Passport.js, and I often use Express.js. Often I'll use mongoose.js as well. That's effectively what we're providing with cookbook, a way to find and utilize solidity packages created by the community.
I don't think it is an appeal to nature fallacy because I have no implicit axiom that "what is natural is good." The statement I made seems, to me, closer to "what is natural is." without a strong opinion on it's level of good.

Your argument is that we should re-write the the laws governing our reality, something we have only recently become able to accomplish, and something we can't necessarily predict the consequences of.

In a discussion of ethics (and physics) our bodies desire amino acids that exist in animal flesh and will provide us with reproductive advantage for acquiring them, something we (up until recently) must have killed animals to acquire. If you want to have an ethical discussion (I do because they're interesting) the physics of the matter must be spoken to or accounted for.

Pain is a physical concept. Social relationships are a physical concept (there are physical forces governing these relationships in our brains). There's research that plants can communicate damage or danger, is that a pain analogue? Is the fundemental ethical issue suffereing, suffering of those left behind (in social creatures), "theft" of future?

Then there's the equally (to me) compelling question that an animal would eat me if it could, from an ethical point of view, I think that gives me a right to eat it. Why does that fail under your reasoning system?

So far it seems like your axioms are that:

We have power
That power makes us responsibile

I am not clear on what you think we are responsible for

If we are responsible to minimize total suffering in a pragmatic way, why is it then not our responisbility to wipe out other creatures that cause torturous deaths?
"A lie can travel halfway around the world in the time it takes the truth to lace up its boots"- attributed to Mark Twain, but probably due to another keen observer.
Nitpick - chai2010/webp avoids "binding to external code" by incorporating the entire libwebp distribution in "internal/libwebp-1.0.2" and compiling it.

OTOH, folks have been saying "what if we rewrote the encoder in plain Go (no C)" since 2016 and it doesn't appear to have happened:

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/gZ-PCUGw7Rk/m/lrBF...
I broadly agree with this, and it's been my feeling since reading Dennett & Hofstadter in my teens and twenties.

However, if this does turn out to be true, I suspect that it will not constitute an "explanation" of experience, merely a description of its prerequisites.
> Nobody (that I'm aware of) suggests that there is an experience within the electronic circuit, despite the fact that it "senses" different frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. The circuit is qualia-free.

Your thought experiment actually shows why a materialistic model makes much more sense than any model that takes "the hard problem" seriously. It's trivially easy to show that the human brown is much more complex than an electronic circuit that registers red or blue light, and that the human brain is doing much more. It's no surprise to anyone that a simple circuit like that lacks an abstraction of the world around it.

But if you believe qualia is an actual thing, than how can you show that the circuit lacks it? No one seems to be able to come up with any way of measuring qualia, or even showing that it exists. There's no way to show that we have more of it than the circuit, and we're left relying on what "feels right."

Before demanding that models solve "the hard problem," we should first ask ourselves if there's any evidence that "the hard problem" even exists. The only evidence I've seen anyone provide for qualia is that they feel they have it, or extremely contrived thought experiments where people feel like it makes the most sense. Counter to this is the entirety of science showing that the world we live in is one that is an emergent one of physical properties. Which, yes, leads to a good number of surprising things.

Creationists thought that god had to have a role in creating life, because they couldn't conceive that something as complex as an eye could be an emergent feature of random physical properties. "Hard problem" folks think that there must be some sort of non-physical "qualia," because they can't comprehend that our experiences are simply an emergent feature of the extremely complex neurons in our brains. Yet scientists that actually study these things don't run into these problems, and keep using the physical model because it's the only one that has made any sense so far.
I don't have a comprehensive answer. All I know is Areva bought 3 uranium deposits in Africa for ~2.5 billions of € (plus ~1 billion of € for additional services Areva built later, like a desalination plant) but the deposits were ultimately not exploitable (costs of extraction were too high because concentration of uranium in the deposits was too small).

Areva used to be top in their field (mine prospecting, geological stuff) and then discredited. Ended up being bought back by EDF (which is to say, bought back by the French state).

The company (Uramin) that Areva bought (to get the uranium deposit fields) seem to have lie about their deposits' potential. It was before Fukushima sent the price of Uranium down, so they were expecting a lot of return on investments from this move.

The whole affair is riddled with corruption, insider knowledge, betrayal and incompetence at some key high level ranks at Areva. Too much easy money if you ask me, then someone (Uramin + insider ?) wanted a bigger part of the pie and the whole cake turned bad.

edit: also too much money (~10billions) invested in different fields ultimately led up Areva to bankruptcy.
The US was not in any significant danger of being directly invaded during WWII. It would have been an incredibly costly logistical nightmare for the would-be invaders, very unlikely to succeed.

US worries were legitimate (atrocities perpetrated against civilians, future control of Europe/Asia, the international economic order and security of global trade networks, etc.) but “urgent” invasion wasn’t one of them.
I wonder how big an accelerator would need to be to produce such energies?
> how it is possible to be conscious of anything at all

I ... have always seen that as something obvious. On a high level, isn't consciousness the result of combining a bunch of neurons (a "hardware", of sorts) in certain preexisting configuration (a "software" of sorts) and stimuli (inputs) ?.

To me the problem is on the details. The separation between layers is not needed because there's no limited consciousness needing to understand the system in the first place. All the encodings and pathways in all 3 levels are tortuous and non-intuitive, and profoundly intertwined. An image being seen through the eyes will end up being encoded as a bunch of electrical signals that will then sent to neurons that will pass it to other neurons until eventually certain other neurons will release molecules will get released through another end and that will activate other neurons and that gets encoded as "pleasure".

But to me it is obvious that this is what's going on. The "hard part" is the reverse-engineering the software, the operative system and the hardware.

This would be a deeply challenging technical puzzle - perhaps beyond our capabilities to tackle, perhaps it would require many generations of people. But I don't understand where this "philosophical
hardness" is. I only see the so-called "easy" problems.

What's mysterious about Consciousness the software/hardware it is part of is finicky and tricky, like something written by a crazy savant with a big ego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade
Hm. That's a very good question. I haven't kept up with neurobiology research but I imagine as long as the same neurons keep their connections to the same other neurons then it would be possible for them to keep performing the task. And neurons will do keep these connections if the stimuli was strong enough and showed up repeatedly.

But when the task is not required for a very long time the circuit that turns this task on will weaken, at least in the brain. And neurons will be forming other connections, but that doesn't mean they will necessarily "forget" about older ones.
that makes it sound like the red tape to change a tax break could be "fixed" in 3 days... the idea that Musk makes a statement and 3 days later a large government changes something sounds very co-incidental... Not saying his statement didnt help push them towards it, but it does sound like it was already in the works...
You should partner with the FOSS/COSS companies. I work at one. we self-host our SaaS offering, but if we could offer to our self-hoster customers a self-hosted instance using cloudplane I think you would have much business in the future.

Focus on selling to companies, not the little guy
You assert that renewables projects do not start producing power before completion? I can cite hundreds that have done. I have never heard of a single nuke plant that produced before it was completed.
Everything up to and including spell checking, yes. In fact none of those first items are remotely unreasonable to do in a terminal, rather surprising to see them being used as arguments against the terminal.

- vim, neovim, Emacs configured with LSP
- https://git-scm.com/
- http://aspell.net/
- https://github.com/tmux/tmux
- https://github.com/dbcli

Emacs also exists which runs in the terminal mostly (I only miss image rendering personally).

Collaborative editing is something I don't do much of but would guess there's a neovim plugin which could be used for backend sync.

Interacting with your issue tracker depends on the issue tracker software you use (flat file would work for example, Jira has unofficial clients, etc).

- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/JiraMode
- https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6398/jira-command-lin...
> Why would Russia have done it? They want to sell gas.

Because they want the west to stop intervening in Ukraine more... They don't wage war to sell gas. They sell gas to wage war. Besides, they're still selling it to China and India.

> The US has far stronger motive

They really don't. Selling LNG is complicated and not really worth it. That's why most oil companies simply flared it before carbon regulations ended the practice. It's literally a byproduct of oil extraction and is nearly worthless compared to oil.

The US' #1 motivation right now is definitely stopping Russia.

You've come up with a weird justification for all this because you thing gas > geopolitics when the reality is the opposite.
Yeah, no one "subsists" on eggs, pork, and beef. Subsistence diets are rice and beans. Anyone eating beef on a regular basis is living well. Like, kings of history well.
Wow. I loved this series. I skipped essentially every line of character building, which was terrible.

But the build up to creating the universe, the prelude, and then all the historical engineering details were so good I didn't mind skipping over all the attempts at having characters after the initial scene was set.
I agree that low numbers of neurons are unlikely to lead to human-level consciousness. I have zero faith that researchers in this area won't continue to push the limits - perhaps even if they don't publish on doing so.

I see this research as a red flag "hey, we are approaching something very bad" and while the flag itself may not be a problem we should heed the warning and change direction.

All this said, my understanding is that this research is in part inspired by or associated with the phenomenon of people with encephalopathy who have greatly diminished brain volumes but are still conscious. This says to me we can't reliably predict how many neurons are necessary before creating consciousness.
This discussion brings to mind Niklaus Wirth's approach to evolving a compiler: the self-compilation performance should remain near constant even as the size of the code base grows.

Putting aside the considerable differences between Pascal/Modula/Oberon era languages and those of today, the primary purpose of any compiler has not changed: it is to read a source language, analyze it and produce executable machine code.
So you're factual, but dmix is driven by emotion? And not just dmix, but this site in general? But you can't bother to share the facts, other than "go read the talmud"? (In a discussion about the Turkish Coup???)

If you want anyone here to take you seriously, you have to do better than that. We don't listen to arguments like that, and it's not because we're driven by emotion. It's because your argument is incoherent.

Your last post here also is coming very close to personal attack, which is against the site rules.
1 is a little more complicated. I believe as part of the ACA hospitals were actually evaluated on subjective pain management as reported by patients with financial implications if it seemed pain was not being managed.

Also, a lot of people got started on Oxy after a surgery in which they were given it on their way out. They either started taking it and liked it, or didn’t take it and possibly had it diverted to acquaintances/family. With adderall you have to get it prescribed for ADHD or (more rarely) narcolepsy - of course it could still get diverted, but it’s not something that’s being routinely given to the general population like painkillers.
Has anyone noticed the "burned out" threads have been increasing lately?
Please make your substantive points without swipes. Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Since discovering this (but it's not at all new) a few weeks back thanks to an HN comment, it's mainly gamified walking in residential areas for me.
The fleet is big enough to be seen from space. Neat animation of some activity here [0] and AP story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB6-bAF9B8A
Thanks for your site! I used it with my kids during COVID lockdown to watch the ISS and other satellites. It’s great
Even after you take capacity factor into account.
What is the IDE support like in Kotlin? I've never had to look at it professionally. I use VSCode because it works much better with my screen reading software then IntelliJ. As far as I can tell to get a decent develop experience IntelliJ is your only option?
I actually like Impossible Burger. It doesn't take like a burger exactly, but it tastes good. And if you screw up an Impossible burger, it doesn't taste nearly as bad as a screwed up beef burger, which gets as dry as leather.
I like your style. Hanoi is a major tourist city, so I think you are really missing your stated goal because locals are familiar with tourists and the wants of tourists. Your desire for a cafe or bar says something? In my experience most cities in the world have a sameness that makes it easy to plug yourself in.

In my own country (New Zealand) when travelling I try to find places that are small (less than a few thousand population), perhaps without any accomodation (a sign of being a tourist destination). One great advantage of going to small towns overseas is that they are safe. Tourist cities are the most unsafe places I have travelled to (I particularly had unsafe situations in Rio and Nha Trang).

Perhaps apply your restaurant thinking, but just go a lot lot further down that path?

In many countries, I have felt like a millionaire, because the difference in income and situation is so profound. In Vietnam I remember talking with someone who’s monthly salary was USD50. I have met many people who had a disposable income of a few dollars a month. USD50 is less than my daily budget which is pure disposable money and is relatively obscene wealth (cost of flights alone exceeded USD50 per day: flights are expensive from New Zealand). I was just tooling around, like some sort of rich playboy, with no cares because I had been given everything by my country. I also remember how small many people were, because their food intake was limited by their means. I have very little capacity to relate, because I have never been in similar shoes (I do remember being astonished at the casual wealth of some Japanese and Americans when I was younger, but I haven’t lacked for anything in my life so it is entirely different).

I notice the same dynamic at home: my income as a software dev is radically different from many people I know. My disposable income is ridiculous: one acquaintance worked 40hours a week and was left with $20 to spend on themselves after expenses. I struggle to relate with a profit of 50 cents per hour.
Sweden isn't exporting electricity for free. The money is there - it just needs to be redistributed from companies to the people.
Psychiatric treatment is not without its dangers either. A bad psychiatrist can fuck you up. I know several people that experienced this. I also know a couple of people who were messed up by poorly prescribed psychopharmaceuticals. The ugly truth is, there's no safe solution.
In China, maybe it can be done in three days... if the right people push it. Or at least it can be announced to be done in three days.
Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.
Illegal fishing is an industry: https://globalfishingwatch.org/map
I think you're missing the point. A brain could encode "pleasure", and respond appropriately to that and other complex stimuli without there being anyone actually feeling that pleasure. But there is, and that's unexplained. That's not just a defect in our understanding of brains, it's something which we don't understand on the level of physics.
Clarify, please: Who is the stupid, Musk or the US diplomats?
had so much fun working on it :)
Do you want the carrot, or do you want the stick?
> I'm unsure as to the thesis of this comment: what's your point?

A roundabout analogy which is supposed to liken the human mind to ML by showing that experts in both fields are equally perplexed at the two objects of study (ML and the human mind).

You see now how we are approaching human-like intelligence? ML experts don’t know what they are making or doing, just like psychologists and psychiatrists can’t communicate on their different models of the mind!