skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think you need to realize that someone who is overweight could literally be eating the same or less than you and working out the same or more than you and still become overweight. That's all I'm trying to get across. You simply need to realize that biological variation is enough that some people with much stronger willpower than yourself may in fact become obese while you remain a healthy weight.
Are BioNTech opening a UK cancer vaccine centre to avoid German bureaucracy?
so you didn't get back your money, yes? what did your bank answered to you?

edit: ah, so you started the chargeback from some UI on the startup site? I think you hit their honeypot; you should initiate by contacting your bank. There is no point to report thief on a thief site :)
Technology Connections provides a great intro, Urban Plumbers is where you want to go for a more hands on, practical approach.

https://youtube.com/@UrbanPlumbers
> it's not dead; it's just really stable.

Am I the only one who thinks this idea is somewhat contradicted by the TODOs that are still in the official docs, and seem to have been for years?
I don't think so, I don't think it is fear. I have watched BBC for a long time and they were uniformly critical/negative of everything in India. Other than one or two positive series, their news have been uniformly negative and so obviously biased that I've stopped watching them.

Personally, given the amount of negativity that they have thrown around, I'm glad Modi gave them the shock treatment - I think they have earned it and in spades.

And just in case this is seen as a pure BJP persective, Indira Gandhi had also done so long ago and that straightened them out for a while.
Wow, this might just be a new high of entitlement here on HN. This really seems like the poster has some kind of problem with Dennis. Why else would someone be so insistent that Dennis should not be supported and that he will do something malicious despite no evidence? He's given numerous warnings that he needs support to continue donating man-hours to an apparently very needed project that no one else (including the author of this post) wants to maintain. If he wanted to do something malicious he would have done it already and not announced it...
Cognition and consciousness are not easily separable. Some psychology and neuroscience publications that I found particularly good: Gibson (1950), Ittelson (1973), Kosslyn (2005), Northoff (2004) ("Mind–body problem"), Dewey, & Bentley (1949). Particularly the first and last should get you started.

[1]: Gibson, J. J. (1950). The perception of the visual world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
[2]: Ittelson, W.H. (1973). Environment and Cognition. Seminar Press, New York, NY, 187 pp
[3]: Kosslyn, S. (2005). Mental images and the brain. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 333–347
[4]: Northoff, G. (2004). Philosophy of the brain: The brain problem. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub.
[5]: Dewey, J., & Bentley, A. F. (1949). Knowing and the known. Boston: Beacon Press
> The amount of money required to pay a maintainer is so small relative to the number of downloads it would still be cheaper to just pay it in almost all cases.

The workaround in many cases would be as simple as pointing your package.json file to GitHub instead of npm.org. Or paying to download it once and then caching it in some local NPM proxy.

> Not sure, but I’m sure a company like GitHub, npm, bitbucket or similar could figure it out

I don't mean any disrespect, but that's a pretty flippant attitude towards such a crucial detail of your idea. You're assuming a legal solution actually exists. I'm not so sure that it does in many cases.

An example where it could work is with a project like MySQL--before Oracle acquired it, all contributors had to sign an agreement giving Sun Microsystems ownership of their changes. Ownership passed to Oracle, so in theory they could change the license from GPL to whatever they want (though they haven't so far). They could not, however, retroactively apply this to versions of MySQL that existed before the license change. That code is already out in the wild. At least that's my understanding--if there are any lawyers here with experience in this area, it would be interesting to hear their take.

It's worth noting that a lot of contributors never put much thought into that agreement and were pretty unhappy to learn about its implications after the acquisition. It may well be harder to pull off an agreement like that today because of it.

The question is how many projects have agreements like this? I've contributed to a few and was never asked to sign anything. I suppose there could have been a CONTRIBUTOR_AGREEMENT.md file somewhere that says merging code implicitly gives ownership to someone, but I never saw it.

In any case, I think what you're suggesting would effectively make these projects no longer open source in the eyes of many people. They're now proprietary products sold under a proprietary license. I imagine that would kill their community support and contributions in most cases.
Can I get dibs on your username?
University administrators used ChatGPT to write email following mass shooting
Something I never see much mention is how the hell to organize all this stuff. Especially if your space is limited. Electronics hobbies are a magnet for collecting little bits and bots and, while infrequently used, are vital to a project when they are needed.
I was thinking that I keep my secrets at hand in my password manager of the Keepass family. I sync the db from my laptop to my mobile devices.

The 100 characters password would be in the password manager but the secrets I would work with fit into the password manager, so I have no need to use a separate channel. I could upload the db, download it and just remember the master password.

The only use case for this technology is when the secret is the file itself and it can't fit in the password manager. An image, a file, etc.
In my anecdotal experience it's been sort of terrible from the start. In my first interaction with it, it suggested that I use a library that had been deprecated for a few years, which is when I found out it's data cut-off point was in 2021.

We've been building an API with: Asp.Versioning, Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData.Query,, Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData.Deltas and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore, and it's been very bad at it. I think it's sort of understandable, because there isn't a lot of documentation or examples for these libraries, and, some of them have changed a lot since 2021, but it can't even write an ActionResult function correctly without a lot of help. At one point we asked it to do something resulting in some very terrible code. When I pointed out what was wrong, it apologized and then proceded to give me the exact same piece of code.

We use it quite a lot, along with co-pilot to test the waters, and so far it's rather unimpressive. From my completely anecdotal experience, it hasn't gotten worse, but neither are useful for things that haven't been solved a million times before. I think the major advantages we're going to see from it is in terms of automated documentation and possibly having it write tests.

That being said, I don't think it's that much worse than google programming. C# documentation is really hard to find. Some of the Odata documentation is a github repository with very few comments and only in-memory example code, but it was easier to find through the use of chatGPT than it was on Google. I do think it needs to automatically include the source and date for what it bases it answers on to help you navigate the answer. What I mean by this is that IActionResult wasn't replaced yet by ActionResult in 2021, so if it simply told you that it's answer is old, then you'd probably be more inclined to look things up in the official documentation. I know I would.
I can recommend this presentation by Joscha Bach on the subject:

Virtualism as a Perspective on Consciousness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oekXIQ-LM

It honors the richness and complexity of conscious experience and provides a refreshing computational perspective on it.
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I think this characterization should be accompanied by three thoughts:

- In the scale of human history, we haven't used oil at industrial scales that long; roughly 170 years our of, say ~12000 years since the Neolithic Revolution [1]. In those 12000 years, there's times we have have "made it" past resource shortage, but there's also times it has all come burning down. We don't always find ways past problems.

- It's a rather romanticized characterization to call "human ingenuity" what saved us from "peak oil". Yes, there was a lot of ingenuity and tech involved, but there were also some nasty politics, disastrous wars and terrible environmental impact from new extraction sites/techniques. Economic pressure doesn't only make us smarter, it also makes us more ruthless.

- Overall, is this what we want? Perhaps the peak oil predictions of the 80s would've been a better outcome; we'd live in a world with less "stuff", yeah, but also perhaps fewer problems? Thinking about the current transition to EVs: do we want to replace all gas cars with them, or is the better outcome that cars be expensive, and we opt for more efficient modes of transportation like public transit or walking? Our economic system means human ingenuity and ruthlessness finds a way to scale production, since profit incentives align with that. Perhaps though the better ingenuity would be not to find "more", but use what we've got in a better way.

[1] I chose the Neolithic Revolution since that's arguably when our mindset shifted from "following resources" and adapting to what we find, to settling down and producing what we need instead. Thus I'd assume this is where the concern of how we manage our resources became more akin what we find ourselves in now. We weren't going anywhere— we had to figure out how to keep the land from decertifying, our water from running out, etc.
Maybe we should change the Mona Lisa to have blue hair
I'm certain that this thing knows how to tie a shoelace, how to make a shoe or what a shoelace is made of because i asked it.
Things we can learn from supervillains – Public Speaking
Derrick Lemond Simmons had a prior conviction for aggregated assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, according to another article (not just an arrest: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/18/man-accused-killing-cowo...

This is not about “mental health” and employers just need to pay employees money. Employees can take up the burden of not being a murderous psycho on their own time.
Two companies doing something sketchy doesn't make it not sketchy.
> It's actually quite accurate for men though.

No

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15807202/

> In this study BMI shows a low reliability as a predictor of individual body fatness, particularly in men and in subjects with a BMI below 30 kg/m2.

> waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR)

Wouldn't elecricatl impedance analysis yield better results, as we have most of our home weighting board at this point ? I mean, for now a pretty low price we have better device to get approximation than a measuring tape.
You might be thinking of Beyond Earth, which was an attempt to create a successor to Alpha Centauri that a lot of people say fell short of the goal.
No paywall

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/02/02a81e40951d-japa...
And the real concern is what other fields of research have this level of fraud or dishonesty? What other foundational research papers are yet to be outed as fake? We need to look at all fields of science where a decade or more have past since anyone has made meaningful progress on central problems, or have a pattern of non-replication. Those are strong signs that key papers are made-up and scientists are basically forced to build on unworkable conclusions.
> I started reading a novel the other day but gave up a third of the way through because every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something. It made the story seem fake and unrealistic.

Sounds like a great book. Nearly all of my friends are trans, as I like to be around other trans people. It’s nice to be understood without constant questions. I’m an adult and I live in a very queer area. For younger queer people that live in more conservative places, full of people that don’t understand them or are actively hostile, stories of healthy queer community can give those people hope for a better life. These things are extremely important to a lot of young queer people and even as an adult I prefer stories that have realistic trans representation for people like me - which means everyone is some kind of queer.

It sounds like the story just wasn’t for you but it strikes me as totally realistic to have a book with primarily or only queer characters. These people congregate in groups because they understand each other better.
It’s interesting that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been edited before — “de-negroed”, in fact, according to Dahl.

It forces me to wrestle with that uncomfortable feeling that I find these edits off-putting, yet the so-called “original” version I am mentally defending was not in fact necessarily the original.
If you had read anything by Susan Blackmore (I have, but admittedly long ago), I think you’d find that she’s not at all into magical thinking.
A mmorpg would have user churn though, so even if it aquired more users to offset that the end result would be less coins in circulation. In other words: The system is already broken by design. Using a single consistent server would not change that.

I also wonder why you think money creation isn't supposed to be in private hands. It needs to be regulated with enforcement, but at the end of the day it is the only reasonably efficient way to couple the productive ability of society with its consumption. The world revolves around promises. Not all will be kept, but the system as a whole is built to handle that and eventually resolve inconsistencies.

That is also why autocratic and corrupt systems are so bad, they put the self correcting parts out of order.
I'm surprised reading this article. The blame on trillion dollar companies who use his software everyday without paying a penny back is no where to be found. Yes the way he asks for money seems unusual but if i were in position like that I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be this nice to anyone.

What's the need for a heartless article? The entire gist of it is that he could go rogue any day cause he is demanding money for his work. Why should this be allowed to happen in the first place? Why don't the browser vendors either sponsor him or maintain their own polyfill libraries?

The fact he refuses others to join as contributors is repeatedly mentioned as a bad thing. But why do all companies keep using it for all these years knowing this? What were their CSOs doing then? Was this not an issue before using it for so long?

Its infuriating to see that the first call to action is to asses this situation as a security risk and not to help the guy who is suffering. It's one thing to be indifferent to suffering but what's the need to be incredibly cruel?!
It's like Google Maps, but you're inside the earth pinned at the center and the images are projected onto the sphere. They load in tiles, so it's trivial to get it to be this fast.
I don’t understand your point, is it some kind of sarcasm? You say that to stop child slavery, you would need to pay 10k for an iPhone, but you personally don’t want to pay that much, hence the slavery should continue to support your consumption habits.

Why are you bringing up child slavery then if you personally justify it?
Significant biological variation is real, but very unlikely to mark the different between obese and healthy weight.

It’s an enormous divide between those two categories, and we have about a thousand behavioral contributors — mant of them social and difficult to escape —- that plainly play a bigger role than biological variation.

If you can’t manage to lose those last 20 pounds, it might be some underlying metabolism or gut difference. If it’s 59 or 100 pounds, then there’s almost certainly something else at play and an honest diet and activity survey are very likely to raise concerns.
I just moved my bookmark management out of my browser because I wanted to use unix-y tools to deal with them. CLI instead of a GUI afterthought. I think you're absolutely right. I'd love to access browser history at CLI. And management of open tabs.

Care to share your fork? Go works better for me.
You call someone started as CFO an chip expert? Obviously you have 0 idea about what you are talking about.
I try to solder as little as possible and I find having a large selection of task specific breakout boards, power management, motor controllers, etc. and various wires and connectors to be essential. It's much easier to experiment if I can do it adhoc when inspiration hits and then put in a parts order when I know what the missing pieces are.
Noya co-founder here. Sorry for the disappointing experience. Thank you for giving it a try and for sharing your feedback. It is very much appreciated and your experience helps us figure out where we have to improve.

We will definitely add examples and better onboarding content. Since we are creating a tool experience that's different than what's already out there, the responsibility is ours to provide the resources necessary to become productive with it.
What do you propose they should have done? Keep testing until they were certain they caught every bug? :)
Yufi sounds too much like "Roofie", which is what I call a Yufi that has network connectivity and is hosted on a machine with an appropriate network card.

Friends don't let friends compute on Roofied computers... Or worse, roofie their own systems!
Sure, you can always start cutting until you lose weight, but how much you have to cut and how difficult it will be to do so is all a part of it. I can easily drop 20 lbs in a few months by cutting. But it is not easy and as of yet, it has proven impossible to keep off as I have bounced back to my original weight 4 times over a 10 year period. As I reach that 20 lbs lost, I find my willpower begins to wane just as my metabolism starts to settle on the new caloric intake levels. Which means to continue weight loss, I will need to cut even more.

In contrast, I have a skinny brother that just doesn't "really feel hungry that often" and drinks multiple tall glasses of grape juice every day and eats ice cream every night.
"Philosophy of mind" is the discipline you're looking for. They're far off from a preliminary theory let alone a coherent definition of the word consciousness. It is not an easy problem.
Excellent book! And excellent college!
Native apps stop spamming notifications after you delete them from home screen.
The main point is that you shouldn't try to anticipate what parts you will need more than a couple weeks into the future.

No doubt. You could easily wind up spending a TON of money if you do that! Not to say that I've never bought something on totally speculative basis, of course... :-)
We observe everything indirectly.

It is easy (and cognitively useful) to forget that, when the indirection is very reliable.

As far as consciousness, we won’t just have to speculate based on our own consciousness. As artificial minds become highly self-aware (a functional ingredient of consciousness), we will be able to construct very controlled experiments.

There will be endless numbers of experiments we will be able to do once we can edit self-aware entities and both externally query and internally monitor them.
> The information in the affected backups include your Hamachi account usernames and salted and hashed passwords. It also includes your deployment and provisioning information, some Multi-Factor Authentication information, licensing and purchasing data such as user emails, phone numbers, billing addresses, and the last four digits of credit card numbers (we do not store full credit card or bank details).
A prominent figure in the space is David Chalmers, who made it his life's work to characterize and explore theories of consciousness. He's a philosopher in New York (originally Australia) He coined "The Hard Problem" and "The Meta Problem". You should get an overview in his books. They're a bit dated but it's not like there's been substantial progress.

There's a recent book called "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind" which purports to be what you are looking for. She's an author who is married to Sam Harris, a neuroscience PhD and public thinker who focused a lot of consciousness. His ideas permeate her thinking and I found her treatment to be less open minded.

There's a series mirrored on YouTube called "Closer to Truth", where Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews famous physicists, mathematicians, etc. on this and other grand unsolved questions. You can find interviews with most of the analytical thinkers in the consciousness space if you wade through.

The most "mathematically rigorous" theory is Integrated Information Theory by Giulio Tononi. The logical conclusions of his theory are outlandish or eye-opening, depending on your bias. I don't buy it myself but the there might be something in the approach.

The most mathematically gifted individual with a theory is Roger Penrose. His scientific work is absolutely brilliant but his ideas about consciousness are quite frankly ridiculous and unmotivated.

The best, most rigorous theory I know of comes from a Neuroscientist at Princeton named Michael Graziano. He put forth the "Attention Schema Theory". I strongly recommend his book "Rethinking Consciousness" which makes a case for it, and provides an overview of the other approaches and how they relate to his ideas.

I've been very much swayed by Graziano's work, and we have the technology today to test his theory by integrating actively controlled attention mechanisms into machine learning models. If his ideas are correct, that could lead to models organically making similar claims to humans regarding phenomenological states. The theory is agnostic about whether the claims would be substantiated.
> Are they worried their kids will become monsters if they're not spoon-fed censored content?

They are worried they will imitate or become a character in a fictional fantasy
That's straight-up "god-level" indeed.

"Elite" is a suitable name for the game, when the coding prowess is considered as the truly "Elite" thing about it.
I’m a bit confused. Why does the url mention “arendt.” Is this for a class on Hannah Arendt?
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/149
> This week, one of the most critical pieces of web software [..]

Nah, it’s not critical anymore, assuming it ever was. It’s a pest that finds its way into your code and you have to expend energy to get rid of it.

First off, it’s huge. Check this out: https://bundlephobia.com/package/core-js@3.28.0 How many copies of that do you have in your bundle?

Second, it’ll replace the native implementations of things like Promises and iterators with its own slower and bloated implementations in the name of compatibility, but is it even necessary anymore? IE11 is dead and the rest of the browsers get updated automatically. There might still be stragglers in the corporate world, but honestly I’d rather deal with any issues that come up over adding core-js “just in case”. I’ve also seen it cause issues due to said replacing of native functionality.

Maybe it’s time we moved on.
Amazon Linux 2022 is having an identity crisis in 2023
It might not have been the brightest idea from Amazon to brand it to a year as it's still not released in 2023.

The current version is Amazon Linux 2 and in some places this is called (release candidate)3.3.

Though I hope it will be released soon and I wonder if they will call it "Amazon Linux 3" or "Amazon Linux 2023".