skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the deep contradiction that you hold between “there is a reality beyond the model” (Anil Seth’s position, the mind is more like the weather) and your other stated position, that the mind is reducible to its information-processing role in generating your “decisions”—which is to say, if we take it to its proper conclusion, that consciousness describes a certain way things behave in the world: some specific subset of this behavior of “take in information and process it and make a decision” is conscious behavior, and that's all the mind is, a certain sort of behavior.

Now I have put it to you that in fact my “mental model” of you in my head has the exact same behavior as you, just with respect to other mental things in my head: and therefore we can dispense with the illusion that you really exist. Indeed if we are looking at behavior the way you want to, then Hamlet is conscious. That is, when someone plays Hamlet, we see Hamlet process his information which comes from an external world of medieval alt-universe Denmark, and we see him make his decisions that ultimately lead to his death: Hamlet is a valid black-box to describe with these information processing tools; he receives the information from his father's ghost that his uncle is a murderer (that information had to come from somewhere!) and he decides to collect more information under the guise of depairing madness and pursue revenge. Information comes in, leading to decisions, those decisions lead to more information, which leads to more decisions. And in the “Sorry I had to” comment all I am proposing is that you have the same level of reality which Hamlet has.

The historical response of behaviorism was at first to retreat to saying that you also had to describe what behavior would happen in other possible cases, so if I shoot Hamlet then the actor will likely break character, stuff like that... This misses the fact that properly speaking I am not part of Hamlet's external reality in medieval Denmark and someone from that reality could shoot Hamlet and he would react appropriately. But for various other reasons folks abandoned behaviorism for a more sophisticated form of all of this called functionalism, where we abandon the simple notion of your original comment that it's all about information processing and external decisions at the “macro” scale, and try to save the theory by dropping to the “micro” scale. If you are interested in more of these ideas as a beginner The Teaching Company (“Wondrium” now?) had a series on Philosophy of Mind, preview it at https://youtu.be/_6sU3BkS4-A and if you like it maybe purchase the course—I can't vouch for the whole thing having not listened to it, but I have watched several talks by the lecturer and he always has a fun, common sense, jokey-but-serious style.
What financial interest? Mike Rowe takes $0 salary from his foundation.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/264...
I’m a Hongkonger. The only thing I know about UK before moving to there is the Queen, and Manchester United.

I’m curious of what British politics like in general. Like, I’m absolutely against invasive surveillance, but I associate it more with communist China and its authoritarian bullshit.
Nice, what are you paying monthly for it? Seems like this could be useful to me too.
Suicide booths are a common theme in scifi dystopias though. If they joke about it in Futurama, then that's good enough for me.
I mean it’s sucks that this guy died but it was still a successful op. 9 months of Russian offensive and they got nothing of value.
Name/typo squatting is deceptive and malicious. The telemetry helps the attacker detect when a valuable target begins using the software, enabling a targeted supply-chain attack.
I don't really understand your summary for record types; it doesn't match with my experience of Avro schema evolution.

Avro's schema resolution rules [0] for record types seem to implement asymmetry almost exactly. It's just that this is done by having separate reader and writer schemas, which is less ergonomic and clear.

To add a new required field, you add it as a *required* field to the writer's schema. To do this asymmetrically, you can make it an *optional* field in the reader's schema, as a union with null. Once all clients are compliant, you can change the reader schema to replace the union with a plain type.

To remove a required field, you can go through this same dance. You can also always delete a field from the reader side, and any written data under that tag will be ignored.

Regarding union and enums: a nit is that unions are tagged, at least on the wire [1]. The writer-specified fallback is an important difference though, I definitely agree with that, and it seems like a genuinely novel improvement.

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[0] https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.11.1/specification/#schema-re...

[1] https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.11.1/specification/#unions-1
Charlton Heston's peak was in the 1950's, which was a very different era for movies. Judging him by his performances in cheesy sci-fi movies isn't entirely fair if you haven't seen Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments, and avoided the trap of thinking that our modern fashions are the last word in good art (be that acting or filmmaking more generally).
Yes. Small instance for friends and family.
Yes, our happy medium is a black-and-white laser printer that we use a few times a week. For color printing we go to the store a few times a year.
Well yes. The other side means slavery for half the population.
Do you know about Texas?
I grabbed a USB BluRay player, which happens to work great as a CD player/ripper as well.

Thrift shops, library shops, and even second hand "media" shops are everywhere and completely drowning in CDs. (DVDs too but that's another story)

For a couple bucks, you can go grab an armload of CDs, rip them, play them whatever, and donate them back or resell them, get yourself some random seeds for music discovery.
I'm interested to see the details of the deal. With the Supreme Court ruling on the Colorado Compact that basically lets all the other states wither up and die before California has to go from watering its golf courses every three hours to every six hours, I'd be very surprised if they're cutting the same percentage as everyone else.
Wouldn't rooftop solar be a good alterative in Reno?
Show HN: Open Lecture, a ChatGPT Plugin that sources MIT lectures with timestamp
I made Open Lecture, a plugin that gives ChatGPT access to MIT lectures and course materials. It helps Chatgpt give accurate responses and real, timestamped sources.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDJUgDprndk

Installation: In ChatGPT select GPT-4 -- select "Plugins" in the dropdown -- Click "Plugin Store" -- look for "Open Lecture".

Try it out, and let me know if you have any feedback, Thanks!
The previous piece he linked to. https://archive.ph/tqYwl WTF? Why would you want it to be like the place you left? Then you'll just have to leave again.
His work appears banal because it's ubiquitous. It's a curse of extreme success, that your originality becomes de rigueur.
Last time I remember taking LSD I was on a bus going from NYC to Boston and I guess I was either bored or knew we were going to have a longer than usual trip home because of traffic. I wind up talking with the guy behind me for hours who describes something to me he was working on that sounds like modern day Spotify (this was circa 2005ish?). We get into spirituality at some point. We have a 7 hour trip and get home early morning before the subway is running. We walk around the Commons a bit. He had a cane but didn't need it… just used it as a fun prop in life. He had me believing his name Joshua or in Hebrew Yeshua aka Jesus. (edit: copy pasta)

Anyway if you take drugs to party and then go to a party, you'll party. If you take drugs and do therapy you'll do therapy. If you take drugs just to see what happens and you're open to whatever happens, things will happen. Maybe you'll just have an oddly memorable time and you ponder what it means, slowly altering how you think about other things for the rest of your life.
btw, in Seattle I wanted to buy a Blackbird t-shirt. The closest they had was a Lockheed shirt, with Blackbird on the sleeve.

I'm sure there must be one out there somewhere.
From another layperson's perspective, it sounds like you are arguing it is "perfectly common" whereas the parent is arguing "it is unreasonable, even if it is common"
I used their rut to provide 2 paths out for comms to 10 locations around the UK for a high profile Outside Broadcast a couple of weeks ago. The RUTs have decent modems and took two sim cards, and could be configured with routing policies to effectively have two independent paths out. Used a mikrotik for the third off some venue network which varied depending on the location.

I set up a wireguard tunnel from the RUT so I could have remote management to the rut and to the tieline gateway providing the comms over one of the sims, in addition to my normal tunnel from the mikrotik.

In Dover sim coverage was patchy, as was the "ethernet line" (which I believe was a 60G wireless link across the harbour). Just before the broadcast started the "ethernet" circuit dropped off, as did one of the sims. The other sim had fortunatly managed to connect to a French 4G provider.

Another location had issues with the venue internet so again rut to the rescue, but another location had no 4g coverage at all so wired did the job.

Those ruts are now on the way to be in use at a site near Poole to do 3 sim cards worth of connectivity to some remote locations. I really like the wireguard connection, makes it easy to see what's going, and they're a nice little box anyway.

Configuration isn't good though -- a mikrotik has a nice simple "/export terse" to see how it's configured and easilly apply. The Ruts config is spread all over the file system and it's not obvious to me yet how to manage that. There's some bugs in the gui too around routing tables too.
Why do you see all those countries wedged between western powers and Russia as helpless pawns? Maybe the people of those countries have their own will. And a memory of those 40 years. Wanting "buffer countries" is 19th century thinking and it expectedly worked against them - do you think anyone forced Sweden or Finland to join just now?
Do you have more info on the max comment depth by any chance? I did a quick search and, unless the info is outdated, it looks like there's some kind of anti-flamewar mechanism in place, but no set max depth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429230
So you almost had me there. First of all your points are all valid. Where something felt wierd to me was the edges. What is the exact value for customers in this edgeset being maintained and worse harvested, I mean processed? Today we have edges outside the context of a social network - my contacts in email, phone book etc. And those "edges" (not the target node) belong to - you guessed it - me. Nobody should harvest it without consent and/or maliciously. (There is the whole argument about internet ceasing to exist without ads and nobody would pay yada yada which I felt was too reductionist). If somebody needs to harvest it, get consent and let user decide how, where, when why etc.

So in this context is your con really a con?
I've met plenty of engineering leaders being paid double that who are not "good at their job."

It's a hard job to do well; it requires you care about technical details but also deal almost exclusively with people. It's a rare person who naturally fits into the "extrovert engineer" role and corporations are shitty about training those who don't fit yet to practice the right behaviors.

Plus, if engineering is "design with constraints" then you are given the extra restraint of headcount and finances.
Ketamine is no better than placebo for depression: https://www.science.org/content/article/ketamine-no-better-p...
The fact that Daghlian and Slotin died in the same hospital bed has always been a sobering thought. "Well, that does it" are harrowing words.

There are famous engineering incidents that are good to study -- the Challenger disaster, the Minnesota Bridge collapse, the Therac 25... But compared with the LANL Criticality incident, there's something different. The former are all technical failure analysis.

This incident is almost existential in it's implications, like Shelly's Frankenstein. A discussion on the nature of humanity.
Should We Run Databases in Kubernetes? CloudNativePG PostgreSQL [video]
Yep. Business models that shouldn't be allowed. IAP virtual currencies might as well be NFTs because they're worth the same.
Different medium, but I've always been impressed with the commercialism of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

He pioneered the multimedia empire with Tarzan -- books, comic books, radio, movies... he was happy to make money off of any way he could.
Yes, you can go to an office supply store and pick one up, use a webpage or phone call to hook it up to your ISP, generally.
Never heard that before, source?

Also, anesthesia would ruin whatever you hoped to see on an MRI.
A delightful page, written in a wonderfully interactive way.

My high congratulations for creating a most friendly, readable and useful lesson!
Hey there, Saul from the Jitsi team :-)

Self-hosting is one of the use cases we spend a lot of time on, recently venturing into a hybrid model with JaaS components.

If there is any pain point with self-hosting, please let us know!
A lot of the research into stippling (dithering) algorithms was funded by printer companies in the 80s and 90s, and before then by Kodak.

http://hajim.rochester.edu/ece/sites/parker/assets/pdf/44%20...

Editing to add:

A reference to Robert Ulichney's author page on IEEE Explore...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37325326600

I have a copy of his book "Digital Halftoning" and recommend it.
Ancient PCI TV tuner cards can be abused for diagnostics. Nothing your ISP can do about it. ;-)
Why was that being labeled a conspiracy theory? Is there something nefarious in that article that I’m missing?
ProphetNet: Natural Language Generation Tool Official Implementation
> islamic extremists that pose a threat to the west

What a funny twist. I thought islamic extremists pose treat to non-islamic civilian population, and to a large degree to the moderate islam followers.
Maybe you aren't up to date with your memes.

https://time.com/5857023/karen-meme-history-meaning/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/27/karen-race-whi...

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/891177904/whats-in-a-karen
Most of the water California gets from the Colorado is funneled into the imperial valley for growing food (in a literal desert, not a hyperbolic one like most of California), which has extremely senior water rights.
The blocks aren't HTML elements, they're drawn on to a canvas. It _could_ be possible regardless, though. I may revisit this. Thanks for the idea! :)
Alertness early in the day seems to do the trick for me. I think of deep sleep as reaction to how alert I was earlier in the day. So on days I make an effort to activate myself early in the day, I will fall into longer deep sleep that night (2+ hours according to my fitbit). If I just kind wake up and laze around the house without getting much activity, then I I get under and hour of deep sleep, even with the same amount of total sleep.

What seems to work for me is immediate sunlight exposure right when I wake up, 5 - 10 mins of being outside, 16 oz of cold water right around that time, 2-5 mins of an activity that gets my heart rate up (jumping jacks, burpees, jump rope). If I can muster it, a cold shower also helps.

There are other things like getting exercise, avoiding caffeine after a certain time, avoiding light exposure prior to bed, avoiding alcohol, sleeping in a cool room that I think also help. But for me it's the making myself super alert right when I wake up that has the biggest bang for my buck.

This is anecdotal, n = 1 kind of stuff though. And I don't do it every day, and it doesn't work 100% of the time. But I definitely notice that I am far more likely to get a lot of deep sleep when I do those things than when I don't. Hope it helps you in some way.
Ah, cheers.

Yeah I went to public school in San Francisco and the consensus among my friends (in high school) was that fully half our teachers were quite literally insane. Like "should be in an institution (not a school)" crazy.

We felt that the fact that the adults in the situation (parents, teachers, the PTA, the school admin, the Education System up to the Board of Education, and society en mass didn't do something about this, that instead our teachers were half of a insane asylum, really put a damper on our enthusiasm for the whole thing.

Having said that, I did have a few teachers who made a difference in my life. FWIW, I wrote a comment about one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31540715
Three day Rust course developed by the Android team
I think she's clearly a flight risk. I see no reason to suspect there's a suicide risk.
The main thing Spotify is missing for me is gapless playback. Some albums really need it.
How much did Meta make out of this ?
It's amazing how once you become what used to be called a quangocrat [1] you seem to live in this charmed circle where you keep getting offered positions on the board for X or a researcher at Y, effortlessly failing upwards through NGOs, think tanks and charities without any accountability or record of achievement.

[1] https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/quang...
Well, radiation sources are a little more common than one might think, even today. I have half a dozen in my home -- smoke detectors, tritium lights.

That may be in things people don't even expect. Objects made out of uranium glass may set off a Geiger counter. A lot of watches have tritium dials, and older ones have radium dials (a serious risk, unlike tritium). Quite a few people have something radioactive in their jewellery or keepsake box somewhere.

A relative gave me his old US Army compass, and one day while re-examining it I noticed the marking on the back: https://i.imgur.com/CLT98kI.jpg 130 millicuries of tritium at manufacture. And sure enough, the dial is still very faintly lit some decades later (tritium half-life is about 12 years), though it takes total darkness to see it at this point.

Of course any ionizing radiation outside of the tritium-containing glass means something has gone terribly wrong. But when your experiments, and security precautions, are all sensitive to any sort of radiation, I can imagine wanting to keep it off-site.
I can speak from experience that posting that type of material will generate some interesting email inquiries. I used to get email messages with a 4000-line program, multiple datasets, and "My program doesn't work. Can you tell me what the error is?" The awkwardness of deleting the message is less than the awkwardness of refusing what someone else views as a 30-second request.
I cannot stress enough how foundational of an idea it is to store mathematical expressions as graphs! Analyzing and manipulating such graphs enables, among other things, to automatically obtain derivatives of a function with respect to its parameters, which is one of the cornerstones of most AI methods.

Before this was invented, people had to manually find expressions for these derivatives, and implement the code to compute them. Needless to say, this took way too much time and was likely to result in sub-optimal and unoptimized code, while nowadays nobody has to deal with this anymore (except on their homeworks)!

For the curious of how this works, I present a simple implementation on my blog [1].

[1] https://e-dorigatti.github.io/math/deep%20learning/2020/04/0...
It's a blog post from a prominent person in the tech community sharing their pain and perspective. That's relevant. Human rights for people who work on our software is important.
I suspect it was actually a reference to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/.

> X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System.

Pretty neatly describes "I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics.".
Wouldn't a competitive system drive self improvement?
Wait isn’t PPG for heart rate?
Have you tried it with peanut butter? It causes all jobs to work swimmingly.
I was just looking for game recs at this point
UK Train wi-fi at risk as part of cost-cutting move
Those fines are ridiculously low considering VW had to pay 30$ billion in fines and other compensatory payments for the diesel emission standard violations (1). So anyone who thinks its the EU which is using fines compensate for tax evasion should have a hard look at what the US has been doing for years (and mostly to companies, which actually ARE paying taxes on their profits albeit not in the US)

(1) https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/judge-approves-larges...
And I'd also argue that the official ChatGPT app is still better than users searching for ChatGPT on an app store and downloading an unofficial app with an even sketchier privacy policy / ads / malware.
You think you're rebelling against wealth and capitalism but you're actually just affirming it by reinforcing the idea that people get the empathy they deserve based on their financial decisions. You have no idea what circumstances led, for example the 76 year old senior to move to the area 23 years ago. Maybe he did his due diligence. Due diligence (and government assurances) can also be wrong.

Attaching your compassion to someone's financial status is gross.
If your spacetime contains black holes you may be entitled to compensation from the manufacturer. Please retain this notice and your receipt. Known in the state of California to cause spaghettification. Offer not valid in worldlines crossing the event horizon.
They could be (and probably are), but remember, this case is about a EU company (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited) breaking EU law and subsequently being punished for that, with fines proportional to the revenue of the parent company (a US company).
@splittydev Your entire comment there could/should be copy-pasted as an intro for your project. My curiosity was piqued when i saw this listed here on HN, but it did not fully hit me when i visited the website, and only partially understood when i visited the github repo...But, if you wish for your project to get visitors to understand at a glance what your project is about, a very brief intro always helps. I hope that does not offend, but i hate when good projects don't get enough love and/or attention due to small (sometimes basic) issues - like missing intros, missing license, etc. Kudos on your project!
A spy, no. Just unfortunately living in the bubble of whatever blogs and other ideologically warped news sources you're reading.

No one in (mainstream) Ukrainian society believes in the "coup" or attaches any special significance to that allegedly pivotal and far-reaching Nuland exchange.
Do you actually trust this thing to educate your children?
Flywheel Me to the Moon: Flywheels by Uber, Snap, WeWork, DraftKings and Others
Funny that I get downvoted. I'm curious what is pissing everyone off that much. Physics and spacetime have no "defect" unless you define relative to what. Our theories of physics are just models we work with for our benefit, reality is entirely unconstrained by our models and concerns. And our opinions of a "defect" with respect to our models.

We've long known the singularity is only "singularity" with respect to General Relativity. It's the place where the model breaks down. The model, not reality.
G7 calls for developing global technical standards for AI