skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMVHO all "big of IT" have done their best to castrate users ability to use a computer instead of being used by it like a piece of a machine.

Computing is power, if users get such power they improve, becoming less easy to milk and steer. That's why we see a war against the desktop concept from Xerox, initially by IBM and then by all others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ukrainian_eastern_counter... ; "On 12 September, President Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces have retaken a total of 6,000 km2 from Russia, in both the south and the east."

Now, past performance is not a guarantee of future events, and the Dnipro river is a barrier in both directions, but the counteroffensive has been extremely effective.

> escalation

Escalation to what? With what forces?

The problem with the "escalation" narrative and the "ethnic Russians" argument is that they could easily be extended to, say, declaring that Estonia is part of Russia and nuclear weapons will be used to "defend" it.
Another way to rephrase this is: Does the person who has read absolutely everything about love, know what it feels like to love? This thought experiment relies mostly on how fuzzy our understanding of consciousness is, and how vague our definitions of it are.

It confuses conscious 'knowing' and conscious 'seeing' (or 'feeling' in the love example), which are two different things. How can I state this confidently? Because we do have a wonderfully detailed computational model for consciousness, which explains a ton of data!

It's a real shame that it's largely ignored or unknown even in the field of neuroscience. I've written about this here:
https://saigaddam.medium.com/understanding-consciousness-is-...
As I mentioned there, I also co-authored a book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58085266-journey-of-the-...) where we go into this theory in greater detail. Stephen Grossberg and his work really do deserve greater attention.

Most discussions of consciousness are frustratingly incomplete because they leave out a crucial aspect. Who is the “experiencer”, that is consciously “experiencing”? How is that "I" put together? Only a clear answer/theory that attempts to define and construct both the experience and experiencer will allow us to see through these cutesy philosophical constructs like Mary the color vision expert, philosophical zombies and more.

Here's a definition, based on the computational model I mentioned above, that makes a lot of sense.

Consciousness is the constellation of past experiences experiencing the present, assimilating it to act and prepare for future opportunities.*

So you are nothing but a bundle of experiences.

Each new experience, after it is had, is added to this bundle, and changes you. With that in mind, here's how Mary's experiences make sense. Mary could read everything there is about color vision, but all of these are just semantic experiences. They become a part of her. When the first visual experience happens -- when she actually sees red -- she has absolutely no visual experience to fall back on that explains this. Reading about it, does not in any way reconstruct the unique neural patterns going all the way from her retina to her inferotemporal cortex. The experience is utterly new, and as with all new experiences, it is memorable and retained and becomes part of her. That sadly, also means that all subsequent experiences of red are not as vivid, because they are now matched against what came before. (This invokes the idea of predictive inference; there are reasons to do this -- it is metabolically cheap to just classify and forget, rather than retain the full pattern.)

*-this definition of consciousness leaves out how an experience is constructed. To answer that very briefly, it is when the sensory data streaming in is matched locally and globally against past experiences and a broad agreement (a “resonance”) is achieved. This is obviously a very lossy summary. You can read this for article for a complete picture: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089360801...
It could be a random lab in Cambodia, run by a professor with dreams and ambitions for fame and fortune. The point is you can't really regulate gain of function research. Pandemic preparation has to keep that in mind. That includes isolating countries immediately after a disease of unknown origin is found.
It would be really fun to have two language models talk to each other on a fake phone conversation
Your statement was about 2000 or 1000 EUR for a card. How much do you think is a fair price for new 3060s? 50 EUR?
It's not Russian accounts. It's Ukraine account. My mother's home is located in occupied territory. Now Amazon consider that I'm affiliated with LNR.

Russian accounts are not banned. If anyone interested.
If my code was mostly harassing and extorting minorities and the the poor then I'd be glad my boss was deleting it and asking me to stop writing more of it.

What kind of sociopath would get job satisfaction from felony marijuana busts or harassing queer people trying to have a drink at a bar when you could be going after bigger fish?

Maybe the effective Altruism folk can do a law enforcement spin-off to grade the impact of different enforcement strategies in a way that more people would understand.
Over a decade ago, I bought a brand new Radeon HD3850 for € 130. At the time, it was one of the best GPUs (the HD3870 was faster of course, but still not that expensive). The past couple of years, it's been impossible to get any GPU for anywhere near that kind of price, and the high end costs 10 times as much. It's completely ridiculous. I just refuse to buy for these kind of prices.
I don't think the EU would want us back right now. There are too many who oppose the EU and they would risk Brexit happening all over again.
> Edit-> please, think about this: can the "result" of any thought experiment be surprising, not what you expected?

The thought experiment is not to produce a new artefact that you would traditionally call "a result", like a table of subjects responses, or a histogram of responses, etc.

It's to make the researcher consider stuff that cannot be tested, but might be feasible.

> how the setup makes no sense at all because, for starters, there's no way to make a real experiment that's truly equivalent.

That's the whole point. If you can make a real experiment, then it's not a real thought-experiment, is it? The article actually addresses this:

> But this issue need not concern us, because philosophical thought experiments depend on logical coherence rather than practical feasibility.

IOW, it depends on the argument being logically sound, not practically proven.
I can't follow what the alleged innuendo is here?
I think there are good intentioned and bad intentioned people on both sides. I'm sure there are a minority of people that want to violate privacy, just as I am sure there is a minority of pedophiles and terrorists that want their privacy kept.
> HTTP/1.1 is a delightfully simple protocol, if you ignore most of it.

As someone who had to write a couple of proxy servers, I can't express how so sadly accurate it is.
WiFi supposedly needs more power and has higher latency. Not sure how true that remains post WiFi6 though
> criminals will continue to build their own and ignore laws

More specifically, researchers and hobbyists would be made criminals in this hypothetical. Why would I stop playing with ML just because someone passed a useless and poorly thought out law?
Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface is a very good read. I didn't find myself agreeing with many of its proposed solutions to HCI problems, but it does an incredibly good job of identifying the issues that we still have to this day with user interfaces.
This is not a "plan".
What are the proposals for transit on the place of BQE?
Where will all the traffic from BQE go? To local streets?
Kursk was blown up by US submarine.

Chernobyl was not less safe than other designs of its time. It could be safer for sure.

Russia operates multiple nuclear reactors. They are fine so far.
> No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.

Not much need for them, either. As long as you have an HDMI output (or a DVI output with a passive HDMI adapter cable), there are HDMI-to-SDI converters. Blackmagic sells 'em for like 70€ apiece - I've disassembled one, it's essentially a HDMI decoder, an FPGA that does the protocol translation and an SDI encoder/transceiver.
Let`s Make It Fun: Gamifying and Formalizing Code Review [pdf]
> The only possible improvement would be for the players to be naked.

Something might be placed inside the organism.

> I think Carlsen has cheated in every single one of his games. Prove the contrary.

That's easy. He streamed a lot of games with the tightest time requirements happening in the discipline, kind of 3 minutes per player plus extra 1 second per move. The speed of that game is so high that there is simply no time for having a conversations with cheating device. Also he always notice some suspicious moves (in not that fast games) which becomes correlating with chess engine.
That's what they said about video games. We know how that played out.
All conclusions drawn from “imagine shining a flashlight on a train riding close to the speed of light” revolutionized physics, so the answer is a very clear YES.
https://archive.ph/M0GMk
Then ban porn especially skits that depict actions that society deems deplorable like suffocation and rape, or are the pleasure centers for those also different.

> I would not assume that the reactions to simulated sexuality is the same as simulated violence.

A would not assume anything. Conduct research and draw conclusions. Don't speculate.
Ah, I mixed it up with another tool, sorry.

This one looks like a small feature in a compositor and not an external tool, really.

I guess it would take 100-200 LoC to implement in GNOME Mutter.
Van life is just ‘glorified homelessness,’ says a 33-year-old woman
What's the point of downloading it when it'd just stagnate?

The quality of the output you can get with the models right now have perpetual utility IMO. If you use it to create patterns, backgrounds, or even just for inspiration creations right now, it might be a shame if it didn't progress (depending on your position) but it's fine as-is if you put in the work to compose and refine the raw output.
Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed
> I get that 100 years ago similar literature was OK in the west too, but we moved our societies quite a bit since then.

100 years ago? Today, the ratio of militaristic "America F** Yeah!" sci-fi vs every other language is probably 100/1 and the amount of times the Chinese and Russian are the ones portrayed as evil in that literature is literally orders of magnitude greater. Are those also racist books?
What is “wet” then? Liquid clinging to your skin through surface tension and other forces? If your hand is submerged in a liquid that will not cling to your skin at all, is your hand “wet” while it is still submerged? You’d feel “wetness” according to your definition but your hand would be “dry” when you remove it. I don’t think wetness is defined by future state, but by present state.

If Bob is experiencing wetness, then he is “wet”, at least while he experiences it, even if his hand will be dry when he removes it from the glove.
Gamifying Software Development Environments Using Cognitive Principles [pdf]
I would argue, in the first case, stimulating your visual nerve with the identical signal as the color red would produce would be seeing red. Your argument is akin to saying that someone born profoundly deaf with a cochlear implant has never heard anything! Additionally, the phenomenon of "red" would seem to be more complex than just a single channel, any human will agree that (256,0,0) is not to the only RGB value that maps to red, but would Mary be able to identify which clouds in a sunset were orange, which red, which pink or purple?

For your second thought experiment, I would argue that wearing a wet glove is not a complete representation of wetness, because of the specific interactions that wetness has on the skin; apart from the sensations of pressure and heat loss, there is also the way that water moves/interacts with the skin making it more grippy, the texture of water and it's surface tension forming drips, and the movement of those drips, and the way wet skin feels different are all part of the overall qualia of wetness, hence why we differentiate between e.g. drenched and misted. There are 6 different mechanoreceptor systems in the skin, and the complete phenomenal concept of wetness likely involves all of them. I also think this is a poor thought experiment, because it necessarily involves water, image Bob exists in a plane of reality without liquid water entirely, would it be feasible for him to experience wetness?
I own both a sodastream and resin printer. They can't sell anything to me. Too late :D
According to parent the US would not defend Taiwan then because there would be no intensive to do so as the US economy would not longer depend on Taiwanese chip production.
HTTP1 is definitely outdated (it was expeditiously replaced by HTTP 1.1), but I'd argue ignoring HTTP/2 might be more like ignoring IPv4 because we have IPv6 now
Games like this one (and video games more generally, I would say) also self-select for the people who have the patience and the drive to, well, play them, so, if anything, they'll only help with understanding the part of the population that is part of that demographic.
CIA should rebrand as META
Your app is appealing since I use Signal to send my files .. the hustle is having to download from Signal desktop. And for image files I have to change ext to .zip in order to prevent compression.
I'm waiting for the day when an article like this doesn't result in someone turning it into a men vs women thing.
Not everyone with low income is blue collar. Some of us make startups.
> A decade ago, most laptops couldn't handle the load of uncompressed video.

I doubt this is true. In 2006 (so 16 years ago) I bought a mid-tier Windows laptop with a 80 GB IDE HDD and I was cutting uncompressed DV avi files on it in Adobe Premiere just fine. Real time preview and everything.
> if you did have the oracle to answer that

I think you are correct, but the question is simply if we can compute this maximum number - without any oracles.

Then the answer will be no, since we could decide the halting problem as shown by the author.
A few details might need to be tweaked, but neither the story nor chaos theory is fundamentally incompatible with a solar system where night happens every few thousand years on average, is unpredictable over long timescales but can be predicted years or decades in advance using 20th century technology.
Why assume generations of people didn't know anything about being human?
Do you consciously avoid procreating with partners who are ugly or stupid, or somehow undesirable?

If so, you're practicing eugenics!
This is advocating for increasing the number of victims of CSAM to include source material taken from every public photo of a child ever made. This does not reduce the number of victims, it amounts to deepfaking done to children on a global scale, in the desperate hope of justifying nuance and ambiguity in an area where none can exist. That's not harm reduction, it is explicitly harm normalization and legitimization. There is no such thing (and never will be such a thing) as victimless CSAM.
I don't see it reasonable to ban private cars and then allow rich people to use taxis. Everyone should be treated equally in this case. Meaning no private transport for anyone. And basically there is always the option not to go when the weather is bad or there is no public transport. Which I think would be entirely valid choice to force on everyone. Also there is ways to move large objects without any powered tools.
That's all true, but that's not what the thought experiment is about. The thought experiment states that not only has Mary read everything there is about colour vision, but that she knows everything there is to know.
Ask HN: Is there an alternative CloudWatch UI?
I recently started using AWS for my new job, and am currently stuck with CloudWatch for logs. I used to dislike Graylog because of the clunky interface, but I just cannot extract anything from CloudWatch! My logs are there, I can view them but it's impossible to query them:

- on the Log Streams page, the pagination doesn't work, I can only view page 1

- if I do "Search all streams" with a basic filter (something like `foo = "bar"`) it doesn't return anything (I know there are some matches I can see them)

- Logs Insights is limited to the last 3 hours of logs

Is there an alternative CloudWatch interface somewhere that would allow me to finally query my logs? I don't care if it's a CLI, a heavy client or a webpage, I just want to query my logs...
IMO lazy surface level analysis (per usual Zeihan).

Imagine if PRC replaced 200M farmers and un/low skilled workers with 100M skilled jobs (sci+tech, high value manufacturing, services etc) and 100M human labour equivalent of automation in agriculture and factories, while also shedding resources needed to sustain 100M bodies. The latter is a PRC with much greater productive and power potential. Here (for very coarse illustration) is how one should think about where the PRC’s demographic mix and strategic posture is trending, she's swapping one Nigeria's worth of human capital + industrial productivity with that of one Japan every 10 years, while improving potential wartime resource security.

Family planning should/needs to be reformed to smooth the curve/transition, However, One Child Policy successfully pooled developing country household income/resources to educate cohorts of only kids which has set up the PRC to have the greatest "skilled" demographic dividend in human history for future decades. Still several times more than US can born + brain drain for foreseeable future. Meanwhile shedding hundreds of millions mouths = increased autarky (energy/resource security) = more strategic flexibility. Huge % of bodies that will be shed are un/low skilled workers that drags on productivity, because bluntly PRC simply has too many useless people, so much that demographics was always more cursed than dividend. 1.4B pop was overkill for moving from farming to factory, even more so when upgrading from factory to laboratory. Reducing net population while increasing absolute skilled population will be painful but optimal demographic trends for moving up the development/value chain, building comprehensive national power, and competing in great power competition.

Yes, negotiating the net population decline is going to be a PIA socially, but PRC lack of safety net, high home ownership+savings rate, huge acquisition in industrial automation, makes her structurally and culturally well positioned to weather the drop while coming out more powerful and productive. Probably better than west can weather drama from increased population due to immigration drama and current trend in decline of QoL/welfare entitlements due to unstainable spending.

TLDR is PRC has significant room to grow in productivity and power by having absolute # of skilled/talent + automation, and having less absolute # of people increases PRC’s strategic posture. Even if the transition into that combination makes everyone very sad and stressed.
> I don't see a scenario where Russian leaders are put on trial without Russia being itself invaded and conquered (not likely to happen as long as they have nuclear weapons) or the Russian government collapsing (more likely, but I wouldn't count on it).

Russia to continue to be isolated and sanctioned until the war criminals are prosecuted. Will it work? Who knows. I suspect it will. Putin is probably out if the war is lost. He will have lost the illusion of invincible strength.
My network connection is horrible for large http downloads but torrents work fine. Can you provide guidance on where I can find these torrents? It doesn't have to be direct links, just a hint that can help me find them.
> They bring back Boris?

There's a good chance that will happen.
> In the scenario where he did not cheat - how amazing is his performance?

Not amazing at all. It’s a fairly standard performance which is why it’s very dubious he cheated OTB. The chess.com report has to stretch the truth considerably to try to imply there is something fishy OTB. Magnus was just playing aggressively to score against a weaker opponent and had a bad day.

His performance ramp up is not particularly impressive. He played less tournaments that people his age four years ago and his rating went up towards competitive GM level when he started seriously playing. That’s a typical trajectory for a young pro-player. To be clear, we are not talking about a Fischer-like, world champion contender path here.
> In reality almost no one bothers with secret chats (no syncing between devices, no backup and no group chat possible).

Sorry, but "everything" != "almost everything". So it's false that "Telegram has access to everything you do and say".
The thought that a company like twitter, that has about 5 features anybody cares about (and pretty much had them for years) spends ONE BILLION PER QUARTER on "R&D" and operations boggles my mind. I mean, 250 people or something, I would understand (but only if there is no major outsourcing involved). But THOUSANDS of developers? How? Why?

There certainly was some effort involved to make Twitter performant if someone with 100m followers posted a tweet. But that seems to have been solved for quite some while and since the number of active users is quite stagnant, I don't see any order of magnitude changes coming which would require a lot of "R&D" on that end.
Minors can't consent to being spied on. And being a school to which they are obligated by law to go, they can't be forced to consent even if they could consent.
The front end community wants to wash its hands of the decade we lost
Linux and emacs might be massively powerful in the hands of a competent, experienced computer user sitting mostly at their desk. For somebody with less time and competence, a tablet can give them much more power because they can use it straight away, in many situations.
> you don't profit off of ad blocking. Brave's entire business model is around stealing from content creators.

It's opt-in. I downloaded the browser, I am using it, and I see no ads, and Brave makes no money of ads.

In order for me to see ads, I have to go into the settings and turn on the flag.

In order for Brave to profit, the user has to go into the config and turn some setting on.

I fail to see how this is stealing, because Brave does not get revenue unless the user takes some specific steps.
> Sick and tired and almost lost an expensive long-haul flight thanks to these muppeta.

I mean, seriously, the irony here!
That guy is funnier when he tries Army food
There are all sorts of games people could play, as a DoS is technically an act of war under some legal systems. For example:

1. take the top 200 most popular websites in the given nuisance area

2. add ban rules to a version-B list that also includes all social media, search engines, and Wikipedia.

3. Look at the user-agent string for that specific problem client, or extreme apikey quota abuse

4. Randomly serve version-B filter list that breaks the browsing experience after a frequent update. Increase random breakage until traffic rolls off to normal levels.

The TOS for the ban list file does not specify which sites it will ban, and most users will just assume it is the App that is broken (it is already). People should not do this either, even if it is also funny and relatively harmless. Also, suing people while participating in an attempted crime probably would not go well. =)
Apparently you never rode a motorcycle... Its very common for cars to not see you coming.