skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those are two different knowledge domains

This is a circular argument: you are arguing that physicalism is not true by assuming that physicalism (which asserts that there is only one knowledge domain) is not true.

According to a physicalist, perception is a physical process. So are knowing and experiencing and "what it is like". So to a physicalist, someone who, like Mary in the thought experiment, is stipulated to have complete knowledge of all of the physical facts will know "what it is like" to have any perception, because that is part of the physical facts. The only difference is that Mary, before she is released from the room, knows what it is like to see red by a process of deduction--by looking at what physical facts, among those she knows, correspond to her seeing red--instead of by the more usual process of having her retina and optic nerve stimulated in a particular way.

To put it another way, Mary, unlike you and me, knows what it is like to see red by imagining it, based on her complete knowledge of all the physical facts. That complete knowledge allows her to put her brain into any state she likes, even in the absence of the external stimuli that would normally be present. Sure, this is farfetched, but so is the premise that Mary has complete knowledge of all the physical facts. But if you grant the premise, you are granting Mary the powers she needs to do the thing that Jackson incorrectly claims she cannot do.

> But it'd be rather futile to try to explain seeing the color red to the alien even if we could, because it's irrelevant to them

First, seeing red is obviously not irrelevant to Mary, so this argument says nothing about Mary.

But second, if the alien has complete knowledge of all the physical facts about human brains, bodies, etc., then seeing the color red is not irrelevant to the alien, because seeing the color red is part of the physical facts that the alien knows. In other words, this hypothetical alien knows things that any "normal" alien would not know, and that changes what is "relevant" to this alien.
There is also the European version of this EGNOS, besides there also private Providers like TerraStar
> The GP comment is sort of misleading...you wouldn't just pick enzymes at random to do this analysis.

I said pick blind, not at random. I recommend reading https://info.umkc.edu/drbanderson/p-hacking-and-the-problem-...
I think you need to consider both parties:

1. The incentives of the platform

2. The incentives of the individual

For 1, a big part of the problem is the growth-at-all-costs mindset coming from VC incentives. In this case, having more hosts and deleting bad reviews directly helps the platform because it increases the market size and short-term profitability. You could argue that it hurts in the long-term when quality drops to unacceptable levels, but most companies don't care about that. Founders have already exited and executives have gotten paid. Also, by not growing quickly you're vulnerable to competitors that do grow more quickly. The only solution that comes to mind is to not have for-profit entities where founders/VC get rich behind these kind of platforms. It needs to be fully community-driven.

For 2, I think it's about skin in the game and trust. In many industries you can't go out and scam people without facing serious consequences. On these online platform you can, but you don't face real consequences. It's just another ban. Regulation with serious fines or jail time is one solution. Another solution is a (hypothetical) world where online identity is connected across services and tied to your real identity. Imagine getting a bad review on Airbnb actually has real-life consequences because it's tied to your identity. Perhaps that's what you get with the CCP, where people's online accounts for many services are associated with their government identities. I'm not saying these are desirable solutions, but they certainly would deter hosts from trying to game the system.
That's like saying that you want to develop code but you don't want to use computers. It's part of the job. Maybe try mobile app development instead?
Just like real life. When schools had more prestige, they also relied more heavily on intensive oral examinations. Some of the most prestigious schools in the world still rely heavily on intense oral examinations.

Universities can also crib from how law school exams work if they want to still do written examinations.
I don't want to automatically defend pointless essays about 'How X influenced 19th century England' or whatever is the current go to topic for teachers, but, and it is not a small but, the whole point of writing pointless essays is to give students an idea on how to write for an audience ( their teacher ).

At the end of the day, unused muscle will atrophy and students may have trouble even producing appropriate prompts for ML generator. I would weep for the future of humanity, but:

1. Coffee did not kick in yet
2. I have upped my nihilism lately
It’s available on stock android as well (I use a Pixel). Not sure about general availability.
This is like any open-book exam. Make the time limit reasonable such that if they know the stuff, they can get it done while referring to a few things in a source, but if they don't know it, there's no way they can look it all up in the available time.
The classes are dysfunctional and meant as a compromise between various groups in a society. But even in some Montessori paradise, a kid will need to have a natural impulse to get anywhere. It's not so much that a kid is supposed to intuit things out of thin air, but rather that the type of person who does well with literature or even approaches it at all will almost always also be the type of person that has already has this natural intuition and motivation. What great teachers can do is lend a spark to the wick, and luckily these specialists seem to magically appear when they are needed to the most, but even the most skilled farmer can't grow wheat out of rocks.
> hate Twitter threads

Me too. They are absurd, hard to read and a waste of resource (load time, requests, steaming pile of JS).

They sould be penalized/barred.
That's the best argument I've heard so far, but still doesn't make sense to me. It's not like your individual project is going to make any significant difference to the capabilities of the resulting AI that's "competing with you" one way or the other. So really all you'd be doing by not releasing your code is shooting yourself in the foot for no gain.

Granted, people are not necessarily rational actors, so maybe you could argue it still makes sense to have some protections in place to assuage people's irrational fears. Maybe like some kind of robots.txt for determining whether a page can be used in an AI dataset could serve that purpose. I'd be hesitant to support anything more burdensome than that.
> The argument proposed by physicalists says that there must be some new state inherent to the apple that registers in our brain as “red apple”.

No, it doesn't. Physicalism does not require that the exact same brain state must accompany a particular perception, either in different humans, or in the same human at different times. All it requires is that perception is a physical process.

> The non-physicalist argument is that the experience of seeing that apple is unique to each one of us, and emerges uniquely for every brain.

And the physicalist's response is that even if this is true, it does not refute physicalism. Perception can be a physical process and still satisfy these statements.
Does this take into account geographical limitations? I don't know about today, but if you applied the same analysis to the global population of 1600, it seems impossible on geographical grounds for either Mark Anthony or one of his contemporaries in South America to be an ancestor of everyone alive in 1600.
Biden Could Kill Musk's Twitter Deal If US Does Security Review
This is not true at all, India has a relatively healthy triopoly of payment providers, GPay is definitely not at the top. As someone from New Delhi, very few people around me use GPay, and instead use PayTM.

And the difference is moot since all of these services use UPI anyway, so it's not like Google Pay being a monopoly would drastically change how much data the government can see.
You don't have to put up with postman. There are better alternatives.
When did it become OK to treat each other like shit? Not violating someone's rights is a pretty low bar. I don't understand why people feel justified in turning the surveillance capabilities of the world's largest companies on their fellow humans.
> Texas is a one-party consent state, meaning that you can store any sort of recording you have been involved in, without seeking consent from the other parties involved.

Seems unlikely to apply.

1. "one-party consent" applies only to "wiretap" laws i.e. audio recording. It looks like a lot of this case is about photo and video data.

2. "one-part consent" refers to people in conversation. That definitely doesn't apply to Google here.
There's a real demand, but at one point the cost becomes too steep.

The cleaning and service fees are being universally complained about. It definitely reduced some demand, especially since some of it seemed to have started recently - last year ?

For long weekends, it becomes a very bad deal: the overhead of big service fees that are usually more than 1 day's rental, then you tack on the cleaning which can be 125-225 typically. You put those numbers together and sure, while there's demand, the demand is mitigated by the high cost. There's a demand for all sorts of consumer items in the world but people hit their limits.

And fundamentally, Airbnb competes with hotels. Their niche is to provide a better hotel experience: a bigger space, maybe a backyard, and definitely a kitchen. But many would rather go back to the tiny fridges filled with pricey junk food they never touch, if it means saving hundreds of dollars a weekend and flexible cancellation policies.
Does anyone have a source for this? I need to present this to our team if it's true.
File capabilities and procfs
Patterns by Maggie Appleton
Something I didn't spell out, which may explain some of your confusion, there is such a thing as "drug related theft crimes", these are crimes committed by drug addicts to feed their habit.

They have a distinct pattern, and most of the crimes mentioned in this thread fit that pattern. So, if you try to be "tough on crime" by locking up people with addictions rather than helping them break their addiction and/or even just in some scenarios giving them drugs for free, then you are wasting both lives and money.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/DRRC.PDF

> Another dimension of drug-related crime is whether the
offense is committed to obtain money (or goods to sell to
get money) to support drug use. According to BJS
national surveys, the most comprehensive information
available, an estimated 17% of 1991 State prison inmates
and 13% of convicted jail inmates in 1989 reported
committing their offenses to get money to buy drugs
(table␣3). Offenders convicted of robbery, burglary, and
larceny/theft were most likely to commit their offense to
obtain money to buy drugs. Offenders convicted of sexual
assault and homicide were among the offenders least
likely to commit the offense to sustain their drug habit.

I'm suggesting that we should listen to experts, and get the former group medical help, which frees up police time and resources to go after the second group of murderers and rapists, which helps the idea appeal to the tough on crime types even if it has the drawbacks of being more humane, more effective and cheaper as well as actually reducing crime.

But the War on Drugs was never really about the drugs in the first place, so it's not like this was some innocent mistake, it's a problem that got created and is now exploited to push more of the same bad policies.
Google announces GUAC open source project on software supply chains
"It's only a model" Patsy says, but then they cut to a whole big song and dance routine, so it must be a pretty good model. Or course it is unsurprising that Monty Python's Holy Grail would provide deep physics insights, they were a pretty clever bunch.
Or we could stop asking students trivia and force them to think. Most of my graduate school exams were open book + notes but it hardly helped. You had to demonstrate knowledge by producing a novel solution to the problem most of the time. Not novel as in new research, but novel in the sense you weren't just regurgitating factoids from the books. I also had tons of open book and open note advanced math classes. The problems were made in such a way you had to make a connection with the material and link pieces together in non-obvious ways. In those classes I retained more information even to today.

Teaching, even at the collegiate level, has become "how can I do the least so I can do what I want". Tenured research professors generally make terrible teachers...perhaps we need professional teachers.
ergh, this reminds me of the days when an ISP here didn't allow Linux as part of their TOS as it allowed people to share the link between multiple devices.

They ended up detecting people using IP masquerading as the default TTL differed from a typical Windows/Mac directly attached to their modem.

Of course word spread and in no time there was instructions on how to set the TTL to not stand out and setup ipchains rules to ensure no services were detectable.
If there is no thesis statement, then it isn't really an essay; just a book report.
I love your attitude. I have the exact same one. I'm so excited that another form of busywork has been eliminated from school by robots. Eventually they're going to start having to structure classrooms around learning instead of worksheets.
Judges are elected in many areas of the US so they're potentially literally some rando in a robe who wants to put "bad guys" in jail, not some master of critical thinking.
The big problem is that while under current law it's pretty clear that this stuff should all be fair use, enough people want it not to be that interpretations and/or laws will possibly change. These laws pretty clearly did not anticipate this sort of thing, so it isn't possible to affirmatively say that anything will hold going forward.
Even then it depends on what you’d call antiquity. Chinese records only go back as far as 220 BCE, and with a lot of gaps in between.
On the other hand, oral exams can be less stressful as long as the examiner is friendly as there can be opportunity to correct mistakes where you do know the subject matter but just had a brainfart. You also get a chance to spend more times / show off on the parts you do know better.

I am very much not an extroverted person and in University written exams were almost always more stressful than oral ones as they try to cram as much as possible into into the time available or were too easy (so at the top end grading becomes very nitpicky) or too hard (which can be demoralizing if no one even manages to complete all questions). Oral exams have much more flexibility to adapt to the individual here.
When I try that, the rows do not expand if the content is larger than 33% of the screen height:

https://jsfiddle.net/3hfosn5k/

Scroll down and you will see that the blue color of the bottom row ends and the text overflows it.

But I want what table cells do: Expand if their content is too large to fi.
Depending on how technology progresses the market for chips manufactured with today's processes might or might not be larger.
We had a recent thread about an article from Tim Palmer who has a good take on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33223391

The idea is that the natural laws are fractal, which when mapped out trace many state space configurations. But with a fractal there are always gaps in state space that remain no matter how much you zoom in or out; fractals preserve certain structural invariants at all scales.

So the idea is that counterfactual reasoning sometimes fails in a fractal universe, because statistical independence no longer works as a general rule (your counterfactual could lie in one of those gaps). He first published this idea in 2009 under the name "invariant set postulate":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_set_postulate

His paper with Hossenfelder is also a good overview:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00139...

Superdeterminism gets an unnecessarily bad rap.
Moved from Postman to Insomnia too. Postman was taking too much time to start and was very unresponsive compared to Insomnia, on my Work Laptop.
It just shows the genius of Steve Jobs. Jeff's Macintosh would be an utterly boring, dumb, and limited machine.
>Only the Y-chromosome is lineally passed across such long time spans

There's also the mitochondrial DNA passed along female descandants.
well it runs in your browser but I don't know how it syncs between browsers.
I think that the site auto-edits titles on first submit, but if you afterwards edit and save, it will use what you put in verbatim.
You can’t have that and diversity.
Water as a Metal (2021)
This is what I have been working on: https://hit.yolo42.com/.

Early days but would love some feedback if you get a chance to try it out.
IIRC Harvard Business School tracks attendance, students have name plates, and get cold called.
CSS keeps getting larger and larger which I think on its face is actually fine, since all of the standards are extended modules. So if you think about it that way, as an implementor you can choose which standards you want to incorporate and have total coverage for particular parts of the spec.

But the state of CSS for implementors is still abysmal, in my opinion, and I'd like to see more of the spec formally defined for some of the most fundamental parts of it.

It would be nice if the spec matured for implementors, too.

Like, could we please get a formal definition of the CSS processing model? The lack of one means that particular events MAY OR MAY NOT exist in user agents.

Those events may exist in large implementations--and when a CSS standard eventually pops up to utilize those vendor specific events, some implementations may not even have them, because they process CSS in an entirely different way!
...and difficult to fork, by doing frequent changes.

And difficult to package and distribute in Linux distros.
I don't have a serious objection nor see a constitutional challenge to having a state impose restrictions upon itself or its cities. (The same thing done federally is the problem.)

That still leaves the problem in your original proposal of "how exactly do you plan to enforce the required level of high-density development if no one is asking to do it?"
How does rughooking, crossstich and needlepoint differ? Which might be easier for someone initiated.
DMCA is the mechanism to take it down if that happened.
If you're feeding in the ideas you want the essay to convey and the AI is just turning that into nice prose, I would describe it as a tool instead of cheating - you're still doing the important part. If you're only feeding it the same essay prompt you were given and it is coming up with the ideas it expresses, then it's cheating.

Likewise using a 4 function calculator in an arithmetic class is cheating but in an algebra class it's not.
I like it but please dont make me right click to do something! please add a little plus or something like it.

Otherwise great work! needs a little disclaimer though that you will not save any of my requests =)
> many of the exams are oral.

I agree. But there is a "gold rush" out there in the academic world where the idea is to offload more and more work to "on-line."

My son just started school at a respectable US university.
Two of his five courses are entirely on-line.
A third course (genetics) is done in person, but the exams and quizzes are done on-line.

I overhead three undergraduates talking about how easy it is to defeat the anti-cheating software for their on-line courses ("The professors don't review the videos...Just hold your phone out of view of your laptop camera and google the answers...I've never been caught ...).

It was disheartening and I told my son to avoid on-line classes in the future because he was just putting himself at a disadvantage.
Ok but 500k is the whole budget for location, backup location, energy, devops people, operation people, etc.. I run part of our infra on-premise, and part of on AWS.. in the summer, we had issues with our air-conditioner (europe) and we had to turn-off partially our service, now in Winter because of the raising costs, we are discussing again what to do with the on-premise services, employees getting ill, etc but AWS, in another hand, is just a bill.
Well... that's called programming, no? :)
If you press and release the LEAP key, it advances the cursor one character forward (or backwards if you hit the left leap key.)

If you press down (but do not release) the LEAP key you enter a search semi-mode. As you type a search term in this semi-mode, the cursor moves to the first instance of that search term it finds. After moving to the first instance of the search term, you release the leap key to exit the search semi-mode.

If you want to move the cursor to a subsequent instance of the search term, you press (and do not release) the "USE FRONT" key and press the leap key again (whose key front is labeled "Leap Again.")

You can see this in action in this YouTube video, but it happens pretty fast so you have to watch carefully:

https://youtu.be/o_TlE_U_X3c
I've only used Nim but generally if you can use a garbage collected language you should in most cases but there are many cases where you can't, reasonably, and so we have languages like Zig, Rust, C, etc. Unless you're going to be doing something very sensitive to performance to the extent that you were going to be thinking carefully about memory lifetimes anyways.
Agreed, I would have really liked the paintings by themselves with minimal context. But this kind of pretentious artíst archetype seems like its designed to alienate most people from visual art rather than invite them in. And even though I really love the paintings, they don't embody all the fancy ideas he's going on (and on) about in this write up. You're cool and smart, we get it. The paintings can and should speak for themselves.
I bought it during a BF deal. Perhaps wait a month?
It's possible for both things to be true, that Oswald did it and the CIA still had to perform a massive cover-up (for institutional self-preservation, as you pointed out). If you view Oswald as a "Wannabee" who tried to ingratiate himself into the intelligence community and failed (because he was a loser and also mentally unbalanced), you can apply Occam's Razor and come up with a plausible way to explain the CIA's odd behavior as pure bureaucratic CYA. And when you add in how scared both the US and Soviet intelligence communities were after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the picture that comes into focus is just a banal story of a loser who got ridiculously lucky in carrying out his true motivation, to throw a big fat middle finger at the CIA.
> 225 in cleaning fees

Ah yes, and then you read in the notes that you also have to do the laundry and wash the dishes.
> The future of TensorFlow will be 100% backwards-compatible

I love to hear that. But does Python even guarantee 100% backwards-compatible?
I wasn’t working there but when Jobs came back, Gil Amelio was at the helm, not Sculley. Sculley was long gone by that time. Also worth noting is that Amelio had also cancelled a bunch of projects to cut down costs but Jobs’ was more drastic.
HTTP/2 makes no sense at all.
HTTP/3 is just a fix to HTTP/2 so that it makes some sort of sense.

Both of these are only concerned with reducing the latency of doing lots of requests to the same server in parallel.

Which is only needed by web browsers and nothing else.