skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>is one of those nastily large things I'm not even sure is a set.

I don't see that it needs to be. The issue is the nature of the function, not the nature of the entire space of possible input to the function.

>I don't think you will be able to rule out that the drafts in a storm or the swirls in a stream aren't carrying out a computation, if you try to do it over all possible sets of distinctions.

You can if you consider the fact that computation has the counterfactual property that different inputs result in different meaningful outputs. Sure, given any arbitrary (complex) dynamic and target output, you can find an input that maps to that output. But given some restricted set of dynamics (e.g. what can be classified as a hurricane), it is safe to say there is no meaningful space of inputs/outputs for which the hurricane will provide a semantic mapping between the input/output spaces (not just a single point in that space, but the entire space). The entropy of the process is just too high to support such a mapping.
Maybe you don't compost food in your backyard, but some may and that is harder to police than banning import from certain locations.
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Right, as a physicalist I'd agree with the line of reasoning that an atom-for-atom identical configuration should have identical experiences, including subjective qualia (or, if we build an atom-for-atom exact copy, it would honestly report no qualia if they are produced by some dualist "soul" or other non-physicalist-explanation that is missing in our copy).

I think the p-zombie thought experiment is useful as an intuition pump in a few ways though; the other is to consider what would be the "most similar" thing to us that doesn't have qualia. Sure, it's not an atom-by-atom identical thing. But what if we do a sort of "Chinese room" scenario and train an AI to perfectly replicate a human mind, situated in a human body?

Currently, AIs are trained to predict/complete human utterances, and to do this task well requires a sophisticated theory of mind. Possibly, to do it perfectly requires (a simulation of) full consciousness, we’ll see. But if we train an AI to predict human utterances it will say things like “I feel pleasure when X” or “Y produces a subjective experience of red”, since those utterances are in the training set. And yet, this AI might not actually have qualia. (Indeed this is the default explanation for an AI's behaviors/utterances.)

We can also consider a sort of Ship of Theseus argument here too; if we modify a mind-body atom-by-atom, what's the shortest edit path to a mind that does not have qualia? Or, in the other direction, what's the edit path from the above qualia-less AI to one with qualia?

So I think Eleizer's argument is sound that an atom-for-atom copy ("neurological zombie" I believe is the strict term when disambiguating zombie types) would not report qualia. But the concept-space is still useful, if we consider the adjacent "dishonest AI zombies" AKA "behavioral zombies" (noting that "neurological zombies" are but one formulation of the p-zombie concept used by philosophers over the years, albeit the best-known).

It seems clear to me that in humans, outward behavior is causally influenced by the experience of qualia. But there are potentially other (dishonest/deceptive) mind-constructions that could produce the same behavior without qualia. Probably not parsimoniously though!
>Surely, all of this could only be justified if physical presence had a dramatic impact on productivity. Yet, we cannot tell one way or the other if it actually improves outcomes.

You can flip that around too - If remote work was so great for productivity, all companies would switch to it? There really isn't any point arguing over it, because it doesn't change the current state of affairs.

My belief is that for remote work to gain mainstream adoption, you'll need a few trailblazer companies who establish a model of remote work where you can get everything done remotely - team building, motivating people, etc, etc.
They have to paint out by hand the wires that enable the astronauts to walk like they're in low gravity. This takes time.
As a business owner, I advertise what my product can do, never once my personal beliefs.

My political brand image is not important to my product, and could only hurt me.

That said, I am more fortunate in the space I am in (no competitors, clear utility).

(edit: I agree that he may have been referring to virtue signaling about Musk specifically, hard to say.)
"No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting" is quite the statement. If your work force bikes or walks to work, pretty sure that has far lower energy requirements than having all of them telecommute.
I knew Amazon had ads in their marketplace but I didn't even consider Twitch or some of the other things mentioned in this article. And I'm not even against all advertisements, however I can't remember the last time an ad was beneficial to me and showed me something that I truly didn't know about and would like more information on. Most of the time I get the same ads over and over (looking at you YouTube) and they're not even for things I would ever purchase (Ford trucks, alcohol, gambling sites, etc.)

So, to see Amazon upping the Ad game just makes me sad and a bit angry. I already pay for Amazon Prime, stop forcing ads down my throat.
Ask HN: Can people be taught to be just as productive without using a printer?
And if so, how?
You gain time not spent preparing for work as well and its important to note that public transit is another thing entirely.According to the same census.gov report sourced by that article public transit riders consumed 47 minutes on average and that doesn't even tell the whole story because transit schedules NEVER align perfectly with your work schedule meaning if you don't want to be late you are always going to waiting 7-8 minutes for a bus and then arriving 15 minutes early.

An hour each way including waiting time is perfectly normal for anyone who has relied on public transit.
That's what works for me, too.
This was posted on the official Twitter account of Elon Musk.
The client app is not indicating that 1.32.3 for Windows is available yet but the download link on the site has been updated.

Tailscale client downloads are extremely slow at the moment, so I suggest you distribute one copy manually around your tailnet rather than bogging down their servers even more.
> keeps time pretty spot on for what it is.

This is a damning with faint praise.

Yes, mechanical watches are amazing if you think of them as tiny devices packed with gears and rotors and jewels and springs. This is what drew me to them in the first place.

But in an absolute sense, they are simply poor timekeeping devices. The "elite chronometer" certification on high-end watches means that a mechanical watch is required to be +/- 2 seconds/day. A normal quartz watch is +/- 20 seconds/month, which is significantly better. There are high-accuracy quartz watches which are +/- 5 seconds/year.

There is nothing preventing you from owning a quartz watch for decades just like a mechanical watch. It's just going to cost you - a small fraction compared to mechanicals. Replacing a battery every few years will cost you less than a full mechanical rebuild every decade.

> daily elements and some (a 30 bar designation is no slouch)

A silly flex. More WR comes with more weight/size. Divers mostly use diving computers now.
> How long will this have to go on?

As long as money flows into it (which seems to be ending) and people accept that Bitcoin was the "killer app," as the kids say.

Everything else was just slower database apps jazzed up with buzzwords front-run by narcissists who realized they needed a new grift beyond Uber for Cats.
Heavily bullied as a kid. Never conformed. Maybe not the right solution for everyone but I learned those were not the types of people whose approval I needed in life.
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This comment made me smile (in a smug long time Linux user way, of course).
720p pictures aren’t swaying public opinion no.

But an 8k multi-cam livestream of the whole thing would have had people glued to their screens.
> governmental mandatory ads

Do you mean the annoying FBI Anti-Piracy warning? If so, that's actually a voluntary thing the publisher added.[^1]

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2012-16506/p-8
oh another mediocre 1440p, another boring 27"...

As a programmer who suffers from both -12.00 nearsighted eyes, I really hope those LCD/LED panel makers produce a 40+" 5K x 2K curved panel with 350+nits brightness. So that I can have a single big enough screen to code and debug with fine clear texts on dark background. But the 40" 5Kx2K models from LG and Dell are just too dark.
Still amazing to me that the neurophysiology dictates that slower breathing lowers heart rate and faster breathing increases heart rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709795/
Requiring C11 is itself a portability issue.

I can easily whip up CAS for all platforms I care about, plus a few more for bonus, using nothing but C99 or C90 (and have actually done it before).

Possibly, without even using any language extensions, unless I want the operations inlined.
All hail the Invincible Laser, burner of maths, bane of admins!
Here's the issue.

In a country with a stable, effective government, you don't need a blockchain for this: you can just have a centralized database.

In a country without such a government, a blockchain wouldn't help: the government will care more about the large landholders than about the blockchain records, and will have little incentive to enforce the latter.

(Also: I won't look forward to the day when some hacker figures out how to get into a bunch of farmers' crypto wallets and takes all their land. If the government doesn't respect the hackers' claims, then the blockchain isn't really the source of truth; if it does, then a bunch of people's lives are destroyed.)
I’ve been wanting to play my grand mother’s vynil collection for some time.

Are modern turntables reliable? Or is a vintage one preferred?
This reminds me of Oracle Forms: It was by today's standards simple, cheap (overall), facilitated compact code that mirrored close to biz logic, and easy to deploy. It used a kind of "GUI browser" so you didn't have to install executables to use and update apps, just one "browser". But Oracle rewrote the client into Java, and Java's deployment flaws dogged it, so co's had to gradually abandon it. They should have kept it in C. (The developer's side stayed mostly the same, it was deployment's side that got the headaches.)

It wasn't esthetic, but got most CRUD jobs done quick and simple. I've never coded in it myself for production, but observed amazing productivity at multiple orgs. There's something magic about it.

Oracle originally had to cater to many OS's, so were parsimonious with GUI features. Thus, it has just enough to do typical CRUD jobs but not enough to distract, confuse, and over-complicate the tool. They didn't get feature-happy over time. Once you learned how to milk existing features, you realized you really didn't need boatloads of pluggins.

Current web stacks are bloated nightmares and business money sinks in comparison. I'm not saying bring back Oracle Forms as-is, but at least borrow its best lessons. We'd have more practical GUI web standards by now. (Most CRUD productivity don't need mobile UI's. Also, it may not do well for big "enterprise" apps, but for small and niche it groves.)
I can notice a 480p when watching vs 1080, but only really notice 1080 vs 4k if I pause and happen to wander near the screen.
Golden billion, Putin's favorite conspiracy, explains his worldview and strategy
Orion Successfully Completes Lunar Flyby
Not really. It almost passed last time, and one of the major reasons people voted against it was because it was unclear what that would mean for their status in the EU. That's no longer a concern thanks to brexit.
Good question - it might even be less due to DVD resale market
SLS created a mission context in which Starship could become economically viable much sooner than it would have on its own.
> * Ad purchasers having little tolerance for being placed next to racists posts made by the users own subscribers and the users own content choices is a recent phenomenon, and is literally the definition of virtue signaling

"Adult" posts means __pornography__.

I don't think pornography is necessarily virtue signaling. We all understand that some brands don't want to associate with it though.

I don't think "Antiemetic" is necessarily political. But if it is to you, then... focus on the other word in that sentence. I've heard that more-and-more pornographic material has been appearing on Twitter recently (even before the Elon takeover), and people / advertisers were feeling more and more uncomfortable about it.
Purgatory usually has a temporary connotation, eternity would imply hell.
Thanks mdip "[3] I have two children who are breaking the bank at the local arena while embarrassing every other casual player. :)" ahhhahahah nice to know! all the best! :)
Maybe we just work on different kinds of software, but I feel like I'm actually solving problems in Rust when I'm using it. I don't have to think about all the terrible string manipulation APIs and how they can come back and bite me, who owns what is something I still have to decide except that the compiler actually helps out, and I have access to nice APIs that solve ancillary problems for me already (e.g., rayon, serde, etc.). I can't wait for the day when another parser will never be written in C again.

In C, I feel like I'm building a house out of tinker toys, C++ is Lego Techniks, and Rust I'm using bricks and mortar. FWIW, Python feels like waterballoons and drywall to me; while it might look OK from the outside, one thing pierces your exterior and things tend to sag sadly from there.
They do cut people off. macOS 13 doesn't run on any hardware from before 2017.
Questions themselves are not good-faith or bad-faith. People asking questions are doing so in either good-faith or bad-faith.

Someone pushing hard on legitimate criticisms with the intent of attacking a project or members thereof is acting in bad-faith, while someone ignorant with a totally bogus criticism could be acting in good-faith. Many bad-faith actors hide behind a veneer of legitimacy by disguising or shifting the gaze away from their motivations.
thanks monotux
Open source is open source. There is nothing wrong with using and reusing open source code as long as it is within the bounds of the license. We have a permissive license for Appsmith on purpose - we want to share and inspire!

My question here is more about IF or HOW we, as a community, should improve how we reuse or extend open source code for commercial projects. I am very open to hearing all ideas - thanks.
Something I've noticed: when DVD players came out, they quickly dropped in price so after a few years you could buy one for $40 or so. Blu-ray players were the same, initially expensive, but after awhile they were fairly cheap.

UHD Blu-ray players though have been out since 2016, and average prices are still hovering around $200. Sometimes you see one now around $150, so maybe prices are starting to drop.

You could blame inflation for part of that, but is it also just that far fewer of them are being sold because people aren't buying physical disks anymore? I.e. they've turned into a niche luxury item.
And why is gray darker than darkgray?
Exactly why Costco is more and more popular. They essentially do curation of goods available on the market and they sell them at a good price. When I go to Costco I know I might not get the best item on the market, but I know I will get a decent product that fits my needs at a decent price. It is all about saving mental energy for other things.
100%. Lawyers such as Candice Jackson believe that applying religious freedom laws to gender identity is the clearest path out of this mess. The true believers should get no more and no fewer rights than anyone else. It's important that law also protects "gender atheists", and their right to not believe or be forced to use the newspeak of the believers.
Maybe you’re talking to the wrong space nerds? I, for one, am extremely excited for Starship being able to lift relatively huge amounts of mass to orbit per dollar.
Yes, and it also changes the timestamps of the user comments to perpetuate the illusion.
> I have a social life outside of my coworkers.

This. Even before the pandemic, when I had to waste two hours a day, every day, to go sit my butt in my employer's chair, all my "social life" was strictly with people other than my coworkers.

So being able to get those two hours back, even if not all of them but every other day, is a net gain for me. I can go for a walk, lift some weights, space out on the couch, whatever. It's also much easier to not always eat the same plastic lunch every day, or have to prepare things that are easy to reheat in a microwave.
Investigated the characteristics of that page's brown noise preset: https://files.catbox.moe/ptql0b.png

Despite the sliders being a straight line, it's not really brown noise, as the slope starts going down again below 550Hz. (Which is a good thing in terms of being nice to listen to: this sounds more natural, and pure brown noise has too much bass to use with headphones.)

I was able to get pretty close (80% ?) in Audacity with Generate > Noise > Brownian Noise,

followed by Effect > High-Pass Filter > 550Hz (12dB roll-off).
Again, every American does this in 6th grade. It’s required to pass high school which a majority of Americans do. This is a cope from less economically and technologically sophisticated societies who can’t compete with us.
Maybe I'm naive, but what stops indie studios from creating cinematic universes? The props, sets, visual effects, etc. are primarily what's expensive, not the size of the (in-your-head) universe. If anything, I would expect indie universes to be more consistent and to have more meaningful/powerful plots, because these things tend to be labors of love rather than the more cookie cutter process we see in the big films.

I think the big thing is the financial risk of committing to a series, but it seems like if you take the films one at a time, you get to see how the last one is doing before you get too far along making the next one. Can't be that much worse than making everything a one-off.
I wear my watch on my right hand, I’m ambidextrous. It’s always the side that’s felt proper, even though I write right-handed.
The free_sized function is kind of a bad example, though. For years to come, using free_sized will break malloc interposition. Interposed mallocs will not support free_sized initially. (It's currently not in jemalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc as far as I can see.) If we add it to glibc and your application picks it up, calls to free_sized will end up with the glibc allocator even if malloc/free/… have been interposed. Maybe there is a way to paper over this in the glibc implementation of free_sized (rather than calling free unconditionally), and still do something useful for the glibc allocator. I don't know.
I haven't had a laptop (or desktop) with a built in DVD reader since 2015.
This is incredible. If I knew I'd be working on things like this (as opposed to optimizing ad revenue or "user engagement" by A/B testing button copy), I'd possibly consider working at Meta.
Reiner Knizia uses distributions that are meant to have this quality (or get close enough to make people happy), most notably in Ra. Ra is an auction game where each player gets the name number of bidding tokens. Each token has a unique number on it, and you can only use a single token to bid, ensuring that there are never ties.

Ra is an example, but he uses it elsewhere. He's a math PhD who often writes in his books about how to break down these problems, and I wonder if he approached it the same way or reached the same conclusion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12/ra
Just install nextcloud per the official docs, then install the addons you want from the admin interface. All are open source and free. That is literally it.
Because it's their website and they prefer one to the other?
There is openpilot.

https://comma.ai/
Regardless I think the point of the original post on blind was “I don’t care about musk or twitters acquisition drama, but for other reasons we are cutting twitter ad spend”

I think this is supposed to be in contrast to the ubiquitous posts about “I can’t trust twitter because Elon is a bad man that’s why I’m cutting my ad spend”
The pink elephant here is that you have to try to be impressed by things like this. And try somewhat hard. It's a low quality picture of the Moon, the same body we had astronauts walking on and live-streaming footage from literally more than half a century ago. If we were coming from a background of zero, this would be amazing. But as we aren't it's really kind of a sad reminder that technological progress, or even stability, is not a given.

By contrast when one watches the Falcon Heavy land [1], it's enough to give you goosebumps. I've shown that video to quite a lot of people outside the space world, and the most common response has been "Is that real!?" Even look at the YouTube comments and it's suddenly enough to even turn the internet into a domain of hope and aspiration. The problem is almost nobody knows about that, let alone the major ongoing progress since, or the implications of things like Starship.

So I think, without much to be truly inspired by, people are (perhaps subconsciously) simply discounting the possibility of space going anywhere during their lifetimes. If Starship achieves even a fraction of its potential, I would expect views to change. Because that genuinely does create the possibility of an exciting sci-fi style future, as opposed to just trying to recreate the 60s.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
I was quite uncomfortable (but managed to get the business done) for the first week or so after arriving in the US (business trip) due to the inch-wide gaps around stall doors. When flying back, going to the toilet in the first European airport was very... moving.
> In SuperMario Cart also exist toxic drivers?

yes, damned bowser...
> FTX on its own could be a nice profitable business

Not really. Their tech stack was too slow so other Market Makers weren't willing to come over (the price can change and leave them fulfilling sales at bad prices too frequently). So they had Alameda be their market maker and they were constantly burning money doing that. Maybe they believed there would be enough liquidity if they scaled more and it was an investment in their future (a very charitable view) and it was fine to borrow funds in the short term and then that got away from them. But from what we've heard of their tech stack, they weren't ever going to be viable because they couldn't support what HFT would need.
It's not virtue signaling to not want your brand displayed next to hateful content. Brand safety isn't just avoiding "things you personally don't like" it's avoiding "things your customers have negative associations with that could transfer to your brand"...

I don't care what political party death threats are directed at, I don't want my ad displayed next to a death threat. It's not a moral objection, it's a business decision.
It's always fun trying to translate sentences from corporate types to normal english:
"running a team that deploys about $80M in ad spend/year."
=
"running a team that spends $80M on ads every year"
I nominate this paper for an Ig Nobel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
> I do not know one single person who loves windows

I know I was a fan, until a few years ago and a few other friends followed Windows news too so I can definitely say there are people who love Windows but it's hard to see the greener side because the internet is full of wrong and outdated opinions about Linux sadly.