skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, was the point to only pick examples that made your point seem stronger?
This school of thought strikes me as fundamentally opposed to the whole idea of the scientific method. We try to find out about these black boxes through repeated observation, theorizing, and testing.

It seems short sighted to suggest we can’t find out things about consciousness in a similar way.
You're not wrong. But these kind of reposts should be held to the same standard.
It may have a gendered connotation some places, I definitely don’t think it does in my English-speaking country (Australia). Screeching primarily used for inanimate objects (wheels, alarms, etc.) and animals and then secondarily mostly in a non-gendered way for children.

Interestingly the examples in both the entry from Oxford that Google brought up when I searched the term, and the second example in the Cambridge dictionaries are both boys doing the screeching. The other examples are inanimate and screeching describing the experience of tinnitus. So it seems the UK is similar.

So potentially for much of the English-speaking world this term wouldn’t bring up thought of any kind of gendered slur. So it goes both ways - just because something is the case in your region doesn’t mean it’s true across the board.
You're asking the wrong question by excluding cognition and using a very ill-defined word ("consciousness"). "Consciousness" is not a thing. It's a collection of things, many of which are what we usually refer to as "cognition".

People who like to talk about consciousness have a problem keeping the goalposts in place (and trying to exclude cognition from consciousness, presumably because "cognition" doesn't sound mysterious enough, is a great example of this sort of moving of goalposts).

The truth is consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, and it can only be understood as such. Of course we have a lot more to learn, but we understand the fundamentals of neuroscience and biochemistry, and we know how our conscious experiences emerge from those. A neuroanatomy textbook (eg.: Blumenfeld) is probably the best place to start. There is unfortunately no single "thing" called "consciousness" that we will ever be able to point to.
Using a password on a WebAuthN protected account is the equivalent of putting a bathroom privacy lock on your steel front door. It's psychological coddling, nothing more.
I have spent a lot of time in GCC countries (Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Oman). It’s worse there in the sense that more people are dirt poor, but SF is worse in terms of more people being rich.

What I mean is, in UAE/Saudi, the poor people are just as bad as the poor people in SF. But there are very, very few rich people. There’s also a lot of not dirt poor people (still poor).

SF had so many many rich people and there or there are just as bad as the poor elsewhere.
> Feb. 17, 2023, 12:17 a.m.

Did they Friday news dump (before a 3-day weekend) their own big story?
Dennis is allowed to stop working on something he's not being paid for. If anyone doesn't think this is the case, they should take a long hard look at their supply chain security posture.
DXA scans are available (in the US at least) from people like BodySpec. When I started a weight loss program I found the DXA scan to be the most helpful data in terms of understanding how things were changing given my changes in diet and exercise regimen. I tend to be somewhat data driven :-) and that definitely scratched the data itch. It also gave me a better target (body fat % / adipose tissue target) to go for rather than a specific body weight. In the past it has always seemed arbitrary to me that someone "should" weigh, X pounds given their height.
I'm thoroughly convinced you don't understand the U2F/WebAuthN standard, which makes intelligent discourse about the topic impossible. Good luck with your studies.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, this is the best attitude to adopt if your goal is learning.
I can't speak for the situation in Portual as I don't live there, but the problem that I witnessed in Vancouver is that the type of housing that developers start building starts shifting to be explicitly catered toward a pied-à-terre product for a foreign audience. Eg. Vancouver developer Westbank was literally opening up sales offices for their condos in major cities in Asia.

I wouldn't be surprised if similar things were happening in Lisbon.

So while you're absolutely right the problems can be solved by encouraging more housing construction, the solution is eroded when the developers themselves don't play along and aren't building a product that is relevant to locals.

After Vancouver added its various speculation taxes, Westbank closed its sales offices abroad and even went so far to go back to the city and have them go through a re-rezoning of projects already approved to change them from luxury condos to purpose built rentals.
Nah dog, people have made millions off the project. He's starving in a Russian hovel. Pay him or fork it.

The one thing I know we don't need, is another long-winded write up on the subject.
“microreactors” could be the future of nuclear power
> The consistency arises from the fact that even though we don't know the definition, we are in agreement in what is classified as conscious.

Clearly there's not agreement in what is classified as conscious, given this thread/article.

>We agree that humans are conscious, we agree that rocks are not conscious. This classification is clear and points to a underlying definition we cannot fully articulate. It is more than a qualia or whatever you call it.

This is a fallacy. People agree that yellow is not violet and green is not violet, but they don't agree that indigo is not violet. Just because there are some classifications on which people agree about the label this doesn't imply they agree upon all classifications. A more direct example is whether plants are conscious or not.
I’d grant that benefit of the doubt if the rest of the thread wasn’t so illuminating on how HN feels about “woke” and how apparently a modicum of sensitivity towards historically disadvantaged minorities is the end of civilization.
Yes, that is what I was referring to. Although I think it was though to have more to do with the dramatic weight loss rather than the increase in physical activity or caloric restriction.

1200-1500 calories is a very reasonable daily restriction.
AI classifies HN posts to determine their category and popularity
Shoo! Shoo! Damn things are everywhere…
Show HN: Manage research papers from your CLI
I built this because I started reading a lot of arXiv papers and wanted a quick way to store and download them.

Features:

- Add a bunch of arXiv papers to Notion with auto-populated title/URL/date/authors in one command

- Download PDFs of any papers you haven't saved yet in one command
You say the issue is incomplete information and you say the circumstances do not matter.

Do you want less information?
How to Power an Airplane with Recycled Chinese Hot Pot
https://archive.ph/ZMMcH

The company doing it:
https://www.neste.com/products/all-products/raw-materials/wa...
If you ban someone from reddit or twitter - their opinions only disappear from your echo chamber not from the real world. Maybe echo chambers aren't such a good idea after all.

Those people banned every single dissenting opinion and after a while started to think that their opinions are way more popular than they actually are.

"Everybody around here thinks that JKR is bad - so surely our boycott is going to be successful - I don't see anyone who disagrees."

If anything - this ridiculous hate campaign against JKR could decrease the support for trans people.
eeh the logic analyzer is nice when things work well enough, but many times I get nonsensical results from the LA and I have to go back to the scope to figure out what's exactly is going wrong.
Ah, captive audience mindset, not tool-provider mindset :/

This is short term thinking
22 at average western height is a perfectly healthy weight.

A typical male weighing 70kg at a height of 1.80m has basically no excessive fat and a BMI of 21.6.

What BMI needs is a more refined scale for different kinds of humans.
Like any project that attempts to implement a “standard”, this also means that it’s a “living” project

It's the churn-based-development attitude of Google et.al. (because change is their weapon of proliferating their monopoly) which is to blame for inventing the absurd oxymoron "living standard".
40% of Congo's population is below 15 years old. How are they supposed to run an economy without kids working?
> Men attain less education and are more prone to crime, homelessness, and addiction.

What an awful thing to say. It would be different if your comment taught us something, but it's little more than a well-written diss.

Imagine how you'd feel if the word "Men" were replaced by various ethnic groups, while still maintaining its accuracy.

At one time it was true to say that women were naturally bad at chess.

My wife supported me financially for close to five years. It's why I was able to learn ML so thoroughly. Maybe some men would view her as the competition, but I'm fortunate to be in a relationship where we don't feel threatened by the other. I recommend other men try to find this as well, since it's quite nice.

It's also nice to have a family where the roles are well-defined and reliable, and there's nothing wrong with wanting one over the other. It's personal preference, which you can't really control. But saying that men are bad at forming robust social safety nets is different than qualifying your statements with "some" or "most."

I'll be the first to say that it's a huge double standard to expect most men to be emotionally closed off most of the time, whereas women are expected to be more emotional in relation to men. But you're phrasing this in a highly negative way.

The women who don't become homeless often resort to sex work. It tends to be more difficult for men to do this in a financially successful way. Men are statistically more prone to violent crime; granted, and testosterone deserves to be scrutinized in its role regarding this. As for the addiction claim, I'd be curious to see the data, since my anecdata suggests mostly equal rates. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/substance... claims the situation is a bit more nuanced:

> For most age groups, men have higher rates of use or dependence on illicit drugs and alcohol than do women. However, women are just as likely as men to develop a substance use disorder. In addition, women may be more susceptible to craving and relapse, which are key phases of the addiction cycle.

More generally, if you're going to paint various segments of the population with negative traits, it's important to bring data to the discussion which backs up your assertions. That way it informs the reader rather than polarizing them.

That said, if you'd written a children's book, I wouldn't lobby for it to be changed. I'd buy different books, or explain it in context.
In the books, the very distasteful view of Russians is aimed at particular people and organizations within Russia.

Not the general repressed public.

That is worth remembering in the heat of war.

Also, the books recognize that the motives of those powerful government (and government sponsored) organizations are implacable.

They continuously worked in every way possible to undermine the power of other countries, vassal or competitive.

(With the purely pragmatic partial exception of other likeminded or strategically helpful countries.)

Putin seems to have retained those motives, and we ignored that.

Regardless of how the war continues or ends, as long as Putin is in charge, or someone like him, there will be a very active (on their side) clandestine Cold War against everyone external.

And repression of everyone internally.

They really are Bond-worthy villains.

We should not forget that again.

EDIT: Until something fundamentally changes in the leaderships very competitive view of the world.
I was in college during peak AOL CDs. I literally covered an entire wall of my dorm room with AOL CDs (shiny side out). It impressed the nerds.
I simply cannot imagine such a measure to be sensible for all types of body shapes.
I'll announce it on my RSS feed/newsletter/twitter once it's done, if you use any of those. I'd estimate that it'll be out by the end of March; I won't write any public updates until it's ready for people to read.
Philosophers grapple with the problem the same way Greeks used mythology to grapple with the problem of reality. Thunder is not thrown by some god named Zeus. and the impossibility of a mathematical model describing consciousness cannot be explained away by a Chinese room argument that has tons and tons of qualitative holes in it.

If an atom can be described by a mathematical equation that means so can groups of atoms. If groups of atoms can be described math and if a neuron is simply a complex group of atoms then a neuron can be described by an equation. If neurons can be described by an equation then so can groups of neurons. If the brain is a group of neurons then the brain can be described by a mathematical equation. If consciousness is a physical phenomena produced by a mathematical brain then consciousness is a mathematical model.

The only way you can believe that consciousness cannot ever by described by math is if you see some break in the previous chain of logic. Most likely it's in the linking of consciousness entirely with the physical brain. Likely you believe in a soul or something if you don't agree with the logic. Which just means you're using mythology and concepts outside of science to derive your conclusions. Again, lighting is not thrown down from the sky by a god named Zeus.

It's clear a toaster is not conscious. But what chatGPT is, is not clear. Placing it in a category where we aren't sure is reasonable and also it's a category agreed upon by many people. It would be a bit uncharitable to demand that your categorization of chatGPT is more correct then other peoples. Even you must be be aware of the ambiguity associated with chatGPT despite your stubborn stance to the contrary.
Plato and Zhuangzi overlap on the time line and are civilizations apart.

The earlier entries on the Stanford Plato site read less PC to me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060830025131/http://plato.stan...

https://web.archive.org/web/20060830033815/http://plato.stan...
> that's a good thing to be aware of, so thanks for making me realize this :D

NP :)
Every prediction in “The Population Bomb” turned out to be wildly incorrect. Simon was consistently right that the human standard of living would increase even as population increased.

The arguments Erlichman made were like: not everyone can have a telephone because there is not enough copper in the Earth’s crust.
Not a lot of real clear data on this so it's always up for debate.

I can't speak for the situation in Portugal as I don't live there. Maybe they have heaps of data, but when British Columbia was wrestling with a feeling that foreign buying was impacting the market, they literally were not collecting any data and so had nothing beyond vibes and anecdotes to go on.

The impact of foreign buyers was seemingly enough though for a major developer in Vancouver, Westbank, to start opening up sales offices in major Asian cities and was explicitly citing its condos as being ideal as pied-à-terres in their marketing materials. With that in mind, if entire major developers are shifting their entire business model, I have to imagine that the foreign buyer market was real and substantial.
> My home router is a MikroTik CRS309 ... advertises my home network blocks over BGP

How do you fit two full BGP tables into 512MB of RAM? I've looked into MikroTik boxes before and maybe they're doing something I'm not understanding. On the routers I have manage, two IPv4 feeds take up about 1.1GB and three IPv6 adds another 450MB.
There's a lot of misinformation about BMI... Is it perfect? No, in fact for women, it tends to significantly under-report obesity (when defined against fat percentage, officially, obesity is mostly defined by BMI though so of course it's always accurate in that sense). It's actually quite accurate for men though.

There has in fact been extensive study on better formulas, and one recent study has proposed Relative Fat Mass, RFM as a new index that does a better job correlating to DXA measurements for all populations:

Woolcott, Orison O., and Richard N. Bergman. “Relative Fat Mass (RFM) as a New Estimator of Whole-Body Fat Percentage ─ A Cross-Sectional Study in American Adult Individuals.” Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (July 20, 2018): 10980. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29362-1.

Someone else mentioned waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) as a better marker for metabolic health, and I tend to agree that it's superior to BMI:

Ashwell, Margaret, and Sigrid Gibson. “Waist-to-Height Ratio as an Indicator of ‘Early Health Risk’: Simpler and More Predictive than Using a ‘Matrix’ Based on BMI and Waist Circumference.” BMJ Open 6, no. 3 (March 14, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010159.

If you're also arguing that people should be looking at other markers for metabolic health, sure. If you get an annual checkup, you should get everything you need to calculate your metabolic syndrome markers, which is an excellent way to assess metabolic health:

Huang, Paul L. “A Comprehensive Definition for Metabolic Syndrome.” Disease Models & Mechanisms 2, no. 5–6 (2009): 231–37. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.001180.
> The Chengdu-based company collects used oil, mostly from hot pot restaurants in the Sichuan capital of 16 million, and removes impurities such as sodium and metal particles

The fact that they have to remove metal particles from oil that's used for heating/cooking food before processing it for aviation fuel isn't a great selling point for Hot Pot restaurants.
The bank I use recently switched to using a similar method for sending their statements. The html page they send via email is password protected. I dig into how they do it (also to ensure they aren’t phoning anywhere when I open the report) and they encrypt the report content using a similar method to the one shared here. It’s neat and I have to give them kudos for doing something neat like that as opposed to sending a pdf with a password on it.

Why html though? They do have some js and interactive functionality in there. I can slice and dice my monthly report within the single html page they send which is actually quite handy (and there’s the default “show me my transactions in a list with opening and closing balance” option as well).
'There will be no third party ads served to me on websites, period.'

Amen to that. I refuse to be sold to in any form possible. Partly the reason I won't switch to IOS. I'm too married to kiwi browser and it's ability to support ublock.
Related. Others?

In the '80s, Elite was magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254763 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611341 - Sept 2020 (125 comments)

A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353734 - July 2019 (106 comments)

Elite's crazy tokenized string routine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950288 - Jan 2015 (17 comments)

Backroom Boys (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904587 - Jan 2015 (2 comments)

The Making of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892462 - June 2014 (38 comments)

The making of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604478 - Oct 2013 (56 comments)

Elite: Dangerous will support Oculus Rift - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526783 - Oct 2013 (16 comments)

Elite video game reboot hits funding target - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5001968 - Jan 2013 (43 comments)

Elite Dangerous - Mac Version Stretch Goal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4973367 - Dec 2012 (12 comments)

Elite: Dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746646 - Nov 2012 (71 comments)

BBC interview with creator of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2331701 - March 2011 (29 comments)
Yes, I came here to write the same answer.

Learning programming is relatively easy. Pick a language, get a book or three, watch some videos and you're off and running. As with most skills your expertise will improve with doing and stretching yourself, rather than just repeating, will improve more.

At one point I read the language reference, slowly digesting one command at a time, building it into an example and so on. Like a human language, your fluency goes up in line with vocabulary - learning the new commands will make you better.

The language you pick won't matter overmuch to begin with. It's just a start. Ideally you'll want to spend time with an object language (c#, java), an interpreted language (JavaScript) and, for bonus points, some exposure to a functional language (lisp).

[hint - most programmers don't do s functional language, there's a reason for that, so feel free to skip that part].

Computer science is a much harder proposition. Here you need done idea of "cariculum" - ie what to actually study. This part is a lot more science than programming - and there are innumerable branches to follow. Concepts here tend to be language agnostic, and deal with the nature of data, algorithms, hardware and so on.

A programmer is asked to "sort this data". A computer scientist would investigate what you mean by "sort" (can you sort text written in say pictographs rather than an alphabet?), what sorting algorithms exist, and what are their constraints, does it work in Order(n), order(log n), order (n^2) time/space etc.

In some respect think of the computer scientist as the one who develops the algorithm, and the programmer as the one who implements it.
> Someone self-studies a pretty challenging book on data structures and algorithms and you don't think that makes them curious and motivated to the point that you'd not feel comfortable working with them?

What you learn in DS&A is nearly orthogonal to many tasks a programmer does in an enterprise setting including

- writing code and documentation optimized for readability by multiple audiences with varying degrees of familiarity
- learning and integrating and interfacing with other systems
- modeling business constraints
- working and tracking project completion in a team

It's not the passion regarding DS&A that raises yellow flags, it's the lack of awareness (though that may be OP's omission) that DS&A familiarity is only one aspect of programming.
Is it wrong to suggest someone who has made a number of outlandish claims in recent years and is quite elderly is suffering from a degraded mental state, as we all know is wont to happen to the elderly?

That's not actually the thing you are getting all this flak for - we don't have to decide or agree if it's 'wrong' on some broad scale or whether or not it constitutes a logical fallacy. It's corrosive to the notion of a (however imperfect and irritating) internet forum that aims for interestingness and curious conversation. Which is why it's in the written guidelines, the reams of mod comments, the mod-scolding you got earlier. Globally wrong or not, you can't do it on HN because it would kill HN.
(For completeness, the bug was only x86-simd-sort lacking support for reverse sort, which our benchmark tests for.)
Ask a few random people on the street in a major US city how many books they've read in the past five years.

I'd wager that children's books represent a much larger percentage of the books the typical US citizen reads in their entire lifetime than anyone would like to believe.

If true, this would elevate their importance enough for matters like historical accuracy to be worth considering.
Yep just below this thread there's a [dead] comment about how a bodybuilder had high BMI despite not being fat. It's always the same cliche.