skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Side question: how do we know if humans possess qualia?

I think there are some people who don't possess qualia, or maybe don't notice that they have it. There was a reddit post years ago from a guy who said he only became self-aware in adulthood, like a light switched on in his brain one day. And it wasn't "becoming self-aware" in a metaphorical sense (like learning responsibilities or how you are perceived by otheres), it was described as the real-deal: consciousness of subjective experience. One day he didn't have it, the next day he did.

There are also various accounts of people losing subjective consciousness while nevertheless awake and able to walk and clothe and feed themselves -- neurological conditions, "ego death".

Another reason I believe this comes from reading accounts of aphantasia. Such people can go their whole lives not realizing that most people can see images in their minds eye. A consistent theme is their assumption that phrases like "imagine", "see in your minds eye", "picture this: ...", "flashed through my mind", "cannot unsee", etc were just metaphors, like how when we say "take the bull by the horns" we're not talking about a literal bull or literal horns. To them it was a shock that people really had pictures in their minds, because they had never experienced such a thing.

(Reiterating for anyone reading this who is confused: yes most people can literally see imaginary things, overlaid on top of the normal visual field. If you find this surprising, you have aphantasia).

So if this supposedly universal subjective experience can be absent in some people, and they don't realize it because they think the language is metaphorical, then perhaps that could happen for everything else. Or maybe not everything else, but some kind of spectrum, where some people only have very weak, barely noticeable qualia, and others get it much stronger. In fact, if we suppose a naturalistic origin of consciousness, I think it has to be the case that it's a spectrum. Nature rarely produces sharp binaries. I think I have experienced this myself during certain kinds of dreams, where the self seems fractional, ghostly. Maybe some people live like that all the time. How would we know? Then at the other end of the spectrum, there might be people with intense subjective everyday experience. There are accounts of drug trips where everything just felt more, in some indescribable way -- what if some people don't need drugs for that?

And likewise, for any qualia-lackers or consciousness-lackers who are reading this: yes, qualia is a real thing. It's not a metaphor or a language-game. It does actually feel like something to exist.
My point was about novelty and simulation capturing attention. I find Pop music tends to be less complex and repetitive which is boring. Especially if listened to say bluegrass and then pop back to back.
The Pareto principle applies. Most of the problem is caused by the top billion people ordered by income.

If you have a tailor, that's you.
I don't get headaches, but know many people who do and the frequency have increased lately during covid.

What I suffer from since Covid restrictions settled in and had to work from home all the time, confined in a space that cannot be easy illuminated properly, is blurred vision.

I don't suffer from it after reading an ebook on an e-ink
in natural light, but I do after a day of work in front of my laptop display (can't easily move the 30 inches display I had at work because insurance, laws, bureaucracy etc) so mine it's not exactly a scientific study, but a close friend of mine she's an optometrist and she said to me that people reporting eye strain, blurred vision and headaches have almost doubled.It affects older people much more than the younger ones of course, but are treating kids too, that were a rarity before.

They all have in common spending a lot of time in front of an LCD displays at home.

I'm middle 40s.
reboot and halt used to do the instant thing on Linux too, it was essentially a lot of drift and well meaning fixes for desktop users (because actually invoking emergency halt or reboot might have been more useful for remote machines that you couldn't power cycle with a finger)
.... hm. wasn't the formula simply bet on 1-2 million on 100 wildly different things and one of them will make billions?

> [progress]

how would you allocate our economic surplus in a better way?
How is this even a headline in the current year? US congress is living in 1930 while AI and fusion are emerging. These obviously cruel and inhumane practices should have been dealt with a long time ago, and the focus should now be on data privacy, antitrust, affordable housing, clean energy, exploitation of space, ethical AI, and all other related issues to shepherd humanity into a bright future.

But instead, they’re still spinning tires over pre-internet age ideas of cruelty and reopening wounds of settled policies? This congress does not represent modern humankind.
It's not explicit, but I think it's reasonable to infer that publications of research from tiktok that are specific to recommender system for short form video, are "driven by observations of [their] application workloads and production environment" and are a "marked departure from other recommendations systems" contain ideas that are integrated into their products.
Oh thanks i thought they referred to the browser engine, and was really confused if this has something to do with WASM.
Recommend the book Beyond Soap, written by a professor and clinical dermatologist, on how we're 'too clean', especially with regards to applying unnecessary chemicals on our skin:

> Sensitive skin is one of the most buzzed-about topics in dermatology today. It can be painful, debilitating, and inconvenient. Astonishingly, many of the women and men who suffer from problem skin are unknowingly causing it by washing too frequently and using too many skincare and beauty products. Often, we slather ourselves in creams and balms that can actually damage the skin. The miracle products we buy at department stores, specialty shops, and pharmacies have the potential to make us less attractive and prematurely age our skin.

> In Beyond Soap, leading dermatologist Dr. Skotnicki explains that the best state for skin is the natural state. On its own, the skin is better equipped to fight wrinkles, stave off aging and act as armor that protects the body from infection. Every time we slather, spread, hydrate, or soften the skin, we nudge the skin away from its healthiest natural condition. Skotnicki demystifies the claims of commonly used beauty products and offers a common-sense approach to cleansing the body along with her product-elimination diet that has helped thousands of patients suffering from a wide array of skin conditions, and a skincare regime that will help you maintain skin health, fight aging, and keep your skin reaction-free forever.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35733533-beyond-soap

* https://drsandyskotnicki.com/dr-sandy-skotnicki/
I heard an analogy that goes like this: As a driver, all I want to see is current speed and RPM. But I like knowing that my car tracks a hundred other things, too, because when it fails, those other metrics will come handy. Or alert me before it fails. I heard it in the context of people analytics[0] but it seems to apply everywhere.

[0] https://youtu.be/WE2ePETzzYQ?t=1434
Look at all pricing aspects. You will often have to renew at an elevated rate. Not with porkbun.
A peculiar protected structure links Viking knots with quantum vortices
Same strategy as git uses for objects, .git/objects/d6/70460b4b4aetc

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects
Only the head of the Prince Rupert drop is tough, due to high levels of stress in the glass (its made by dripping viscous melted glass into water). Interestingly, the whole drop with shatter into glass dust if the filament like tail is broken!

Wikipedia has a good description of this. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_drop
The author's framework-"you just start small and only add one at a time as needed"-and given example illustrate exactly the process that leads to too many metrics. Pick a few metrics, add another, add another, add another. If you have 5 teams working on a product you quickly end up in the 50 metrics scenario.

Too many metrics can be a problem but it's not the real problem. The real problem is choosing metrics without any regard for the decisions they're supposed to inform.

When you understand that the purpose of all measurement in business is to reduce uncertainty for a decision to be made, everything comes into focus, and you'll have a natural constraint on your scope of measurement.
Services, such as healthcare, public infrastructure, public transport, energy etc should be run by the state. There is always a conflict of interest when companies run these things because they care about profit / shareholder return more than they care about the people.

Now, the fact that the state is often corrupt is another problem that should also be fixed but i just don’t buy the argument that companies should run public services because they’re more efficient.

The UK is suffering badly with this. I’m old enough to remember how badly some state run things were but i still believe that it was then due to underinvestment as it is with healthcare now.
In practice, the difference between a perfect and imperfect hash is minimal since the chance of a SHA collision is vanishingly small
Microservices is the answer. You limit the Python code to completely separate 3k line programs that talk over an message queue. If a junior screws up a service just bin it and rewrite it.
> If these censorship request were about bomb threats or something that’s one thing, but they are mostly just spicy political takes.

There’s some selection bias here — the tweets we see in the thread are the ones twitter didn’t remove and the accounts twitter didn’t ban.

Twitter surely has the deleted tweets around somewhere, but it doesn’t seem to have been provided to the twitter files reporters.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857596112330758
Brasil (Mythical Island)
Property has been a tax loophole in NZ for decades, so they haven't necessarily ever been in a high tax bracket.
Utter nonsense. If nurses didn't previously expect decent work conditions, what on Earth motivated them to unionize? Your comment is just total garbage all the way through.
Covid isn't helping. There is a constant stream of infected patients in A&E and intensive care, vast growing numbers of disabled Long Covid patients and a lot of healthcare staff have been impacted. Its a big increase in the needs for healthcare and will be for the foreseeable future. Healthcare staff have been heavily impacted by Long Covid and since there is no treatment let alone cure they are being lost at a faster rate than in most other industries.
That's basically this[0] book, is it not?

Great book (the entire series) by the way.

[0] https://thelittletyper.com
This is a perfect description for most of Jacob Collier's music for me.
Not at all! There's even a fallacy named after that, come on.
No, gp is saying that if you have choices, you should be deprioritised in the queue for limited public resources.

Edit: I took out a loan to have cataract surgery. I don't understand why someone would sit idle and crippled if they have the means to do something about it. You don't win by dying with all the money.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33894926
>Topologically protected vortex knots and links

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-01071-2
but the e-ink displays have a dull gray background. While printer paper is the bright bleached white which a lot more pleasing and easier to read.
I feel that it makes a good case for the federated approach to social media. Very large centralized services controlled by public corporations are easy targets for this kind of abuse.
her product-elimination diet

Surely you perceive how full of shit that sounds.
For me gtk2 is the best one. Everything that came after was both uglier and less usable.
Was it voluntarily, or was it the fraudsters polluting the news channels (such as this site) with their horseshit as a result/part of the hype they built around itself?
A few years ago a friend wrote a bit of webshit that you could inject into the slack desktop client that would give you a local "ignore" (by hiding elements or something).

I wish Slack proper has that feature.
The autor has a nice article about not enough fires:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/12/too-much-combustio...
Somewhat related; Not statically typed nor maintained, but nice work nonetheless [0].

[0] https://github.com/barak/stalin
Hey Sherekia,
Not sure if this is going to be helpful, but here are some tips around reducing risk / onboarding
https://withpersona.com/blog/identity-verification-a-crucial...
https://withpersona.com/blog/top-challenges-identity-verific...
> E-ink does refresh the entire screen though, correct?

No, e-ink displays and controllers support partial updates.
NZ has never had a left wing government. NZ's government is neoliberal, which is not left wing in any way. Neoliberalism is in all actuality right wing.
I always wonder when people choose to use the word peformant if that’s what they really wanted to say. I mean it’s good that the grid works well enough to be considered functional, but is that really what they were shooting for? I suspect they meant to say fast or maybe fast and small.
He’s clearly not saying that though. The statement was that a wealthy person was complaining about having to wait. Everyone else is also having to wait. They could speed things up by paying privately if they so wish.

Also the wealthy should have a larger tax burden in absolute terms compared to the less well off. I say this as someone how is very fortunate - I don’t think we are taxed enough to make things sane and fair.
Hindley-Milner type inference in Rust
We never transcended oil for fission as we did for coal. Our way of life is still riding a glut of fossil fuel use. This probably won’t matter in my lifetime, but that energy glut is not infinite - and we still need fossil fuels to produce that ‘renewable’ and fission equipment.
No. Unless you're happy to keep billions in abject poverty (and that does not ecen protect the environment) the aim is to have all humans on this planet live a good life in good conditions.

Therefore it's not "us vs them" it's all of us together and the root cause is indeed the overall number.
If Tom Lehrer was resident in Germany, maybe it'd be required. But AFAICT there's nothing preventing a Public Domain declaration in the United States.
Is that a problem if a majority of the energy for heating is renewable?
> I’d rather watch someone shape and sand wood at this point.

https://youtube.com/@WoodworkingDIY
I think it's similar, but obviously not nearly as extreme, as doctors in Cuba being paid nothing and constantly trying to flee to the USA while there is a perception that Cuba has a good healthcare system. The practice and care itself may be good but if you can't take care of the workers then it will still fall apart. Cuban doctors are actually slaves though. European doctors just leave the public services.
"Orwellian language" likely comes from this essay: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
> Matt Taibbi is a good guy, smart, down to earth.

His memoir paints a radically different picture.
I don’t think it’s just programming p-e-w, I see this mentality everywhere.

Our generation had inherited a world our ancestors could only dream of. Yet it seems folks spend more time comparing us to a fictitious utopic state and picking apart how we don’t measure up than they do appreciating how far we’ve come from our real past.

What humans have done in a few hundred years is amazing. We are building a more inclusive, equitable, and just world. We are saving this planet from a guaranteed complete extinction event, self-identifying when our species is breaking natural cycles in our ecosystems, and going to war against death (banking serious wins).

Compared to the species in second place (whatever you pick) humans are absolutely killing it. I’m proud to be a member of our species and I’m excited about the world we our gifting to the next generation.
Edge2 Rockchip RK3588S ARM PC with 6 Tops NPU and 8K Display
Same, never got any headaches from any screens. Regardless of the type of the screen, lighting or viewing position. Have been using computers for almost 25 years, with many 10h days and occasionally 15+ hours.

As I got older I started getting neck pain though, if I sit too awkward. But still no headaches ;)
I was rather disappointed to learn geometry nodes weren't scriptable. Writing short Python snippets for geometry transformations would have been of great interest. It seems not only do you have to use C++, you have to compile the whole of Blender to add your own nodes!
You can't run Linux without an MMU. There are thousands of MCUs that can't run Linux for much cheaper than 5$...
Yeah, I'd rather they fixed scrolling in large lists, which makes Nautilus almost unusable in directories with more than 500 items. So much for "scalable".

And, ironically, touch support is currently broken, too.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2971
Yes, for small systems, I think of the processor as free, with the cost and bulk being in the peripherals these days.

As processors become more powerful, voice I/O becomes the cheapest way to interact - microphones and speakers, or even just a Bluetooth link, are much less expensive and less bulky than a screen and keyboard.
>But e-ink certainly has a refresh rate

of course it has a refresh rate when there is a change in the image, but if I'm reading something completely static then literally nothing changes whereas an LCD screen still does things in the background
False binary. Under capitalism, the state is always beholden to the interests of capital, i.e. "private" capital.
Bundesnachrichtendienst unfortunately was already taken by some weird guys
My favorite thing about Zoom (and I suspect a large portion of its staying power) is that it somehow manages to just work on every device, even if your device is slow or your internet connection is garbage. Heck, I’ll be on a Zoom call on my phone driving in a rural area with two bars and I’ll somehow still get grainy video.

In comparison, I use teams for my two person startup and we can only get that absolute trash fire working reliably about 75% of the time.
>> every time I open YouTube

Never seen anything like that, guessing Google has filtered content based on past views and tied it to browser cookies, device fingerprints, IP, etc.

This does not even have to be your viewing history, could be someone else on same IP and if you even click a video once it gets amplified and paired to the prior profile that produced that recommendation.
> seems to understand how to reason about a large multiplication

How so?

It is a very impressive accomplishment what a large language model can do. It can piece together coherent text from a Google-sized corpus. But I don't thinking describing the process as "reason" is a useful description.

For a subject as purely logical as AI is, it sure seems to draw a in a lot of wishful thinking.
> means testing for elective surgeries

this means they shouldn't be allowed to access the healthcare that they're paying for.
Even basic colour support (like 3 colours in addition to black, no grayscale) with a 1Hz refresh rate might be enough for me...

And I would have expected us to have them by now, considering how colour e-paper has passed the prototype stage and is now widely used in supermarkets for labels ??
State has conflict of interest as well. It is entity that is trying to save and extract money, just like big corporation. Lets not pretend it is somehow more moral!
This kind of stuff is why while work laptop is on Windows 11, I am holding to Windows 10 on private gear.

Another one, snip it doesn't work properly when using two monitors.

Doesn't anyone on Windows 11 team afford having two HDPI monitors?
Look up the actual definition of "proprietary". If a company owns it, it's proprietary...even open source software.

Open source software can cost money, and still be open source...it currently exists.
I think using social media to gather intel is entirely reasonable. Given the number of people who have committed mass shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism after being radicalized online, they would be negligent to not be proactively looking at the internet.

Your whole argument is just "sure this is reasonable now but what if there were 8000 agents online and they could extraordinary rendition you". 80 agents for the whole country is not absurd. That's less than 2 per state.
Try it with incognito on a VPN - I forgot I was on it and went to YouTube (usually logged in because of premium) - literally video suggestions like 10 hottest pornstars from X, thirst traps, "are you smart enough to figure this out" and similar crap.

Without VPN I get a bunch of regional crap music and stuff.
I do a lot to reduce my carbon footprint already, so giving up my daily 5-10 minute hot shower is going to be towards the end of my list when it comes to reducing further.

Living in the North East US, we have plenty of water here and shortages have never been an issue. If we can stop growing water-hungry crops in the desert there will be plenty of water to go around.

Moving to hybrid solar/electric or solar/gas water heating is the next logical step. Direct solar heating of water works very well.
So your position is that they should have said "fast and small" instead of "performant"? I just want to make sure I understood you correctly.
Would you mind if we ripped out your brain and replaced it with a superior computer that could control your body? There are no disadvantages for you, the brain would control you to create offspring, so it is the best thing for you to do. It would be nicer to your friends, a better parent for your kids, do better at work etc.

If you wouldn't want to do the above, the reason not to do it would be that you want to keep your current qualia. There are no other reasons not to do it. So, if you don't want above, it means that you know what qualia is, you are just playing ignorant here.
Perhaps there's an opportunity for a solution here: at the junction of batteries, renewables, and local [government-granted-monopoly with exclusive first-mover rights of way over and under other infrastructure] electrical-utility junction; there could be a controller that knows at least:

- 1a) when the grid is down

- 1b) when the grid wants the customer to slowly increase load e.g. after the power has been out

- 1c) when it's safe to send more electricity to the grid e.g. at retail or wholesale or intraday rates

- 2a) how full are the local batteries

- 2b) the current and projected local load && how much of that can be throttled down

- 2ba) how full and heated the hot water tank(s) are

- 2bb) the current and projected external and internal air temperature and humidity

- 2bba) the current and projected internal air temperature and humidity, per e.g. bath fans and attic fans with or without in-wall-controllers with humidistats

- 2bc) projected electrical needs for cooking, baking, microwaving (typically at 100W*15amps=1500W or more)

- 2c) how many volts at how many amps the local renewables are producing

But IIUC, Buy-All Sell-All service provision agreements threaten termination of service if the customer/competitor does anything but sell all locally produced electricity to the grid by direct connection, so an emergency cut-over that charges your batteries off your solar panels instead of the grid (e.g. when the grid is down) is forbidden.
> The GUI example in that page looks intriguing.

That's just SDL[0] though; they implemented basic SDL bindings.

[0] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/core/SDL.carp
I think one could reasonably defend the proposition that the identities are relevant to how dangerous the precedent is.