skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
531 in my bitwarden storage. I don't create an account unless absolutely necessary. So the number is higher than I thought.

I guess most of it is likely work related. I cycle through many projects. Each of them have many accounts tied to them. Eg: DNS, domain, hosting, etc etc. Not to mention all the business systems like HR.
808 in my password manager, plus a few in my head (stuff like bank logins and the pwd manager's password) or cold storage (no e-money, but e.g. the manager's password and passwords to unlock system backups).
> which is why they tend to be much more expensive than less walkable suburbs.

Also there are barely any walkable neighborhoods in America
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Sort of an odd pivot at the end of the essay…

COVID brought silence, people enjoyed it, noise can be damaging, so let’s all keep an open ear to the cries of those in need? It’s all true, but it came across a bit jumbled.

The level of ambient noise at my house was shocking. I knew the airplane noise was there - we’re only a few miles from Dulles. The road noise was what shocked me. When people got back to life again, it was almost painful. We’re not near an interstate or anything, just a busy 2-lane suburban road.
Formally specifying requirements earlier often reveals inconsistencies and limitations that otherwise only users will reveal in acceptance testing or after deployment.
Xero isn’t free, but it’s a good alternative to QuickBooks if you need one. It has a neat feature called Hubdoc, which automatically scans, renames, sorts to folders and archives your invoices when you email them to a particular email address.

The integration between Hubdoc and Office365 is clunky because for reasons I can’t fathom, they only support Dropbox and Google Drive for archiving, but we have a script that we run on our Synology NAS that copies the invoices from Google Drive to SharePoint (OneDrive).

Nothing against GnuCash or open source, we use a lot of FOSS. But we’re in Australia and we switch banks all the time. Those compounding factors would mean that we’d spend a lot of time updating bank roll integration with GnuCash
This also exposes a strange design decision involving the entire app system. Why do they need to be installed? you don't go to the manufacturers web store then explicitly install a web page so that you can then use a web app.

Apps are a remininent of the personal computer experience of installing software. but for better or worse that ecosystem does not really exist on phones. apps exist in a sandbox environment with a fine grain permission for device access. really they should just transparently install and run and uninstall. It should behave like a web page with a saner execution environment. the main reason the app ecosystem exists the way it does is so the os manufacturer can seek rent on the device.

This is why I am so thankful the internet and the web were developed in an academic environment rather than a commercial environment. centralized rent seeking was not a design goal of the internet.
If you're an expert, it's much easier to do the thing rather than to carefully watch over the shoulder of a noob doing the thing.
I think for consciousness you need a sophisticated mental model of the world, but also a sophisticated mental model of other intentional agents and their mental processes. You need to be able to reason about the knowledge, beliefs and likely actions of others.

When this is generalised to enable modelling and reasoning about our own knowledge, beliefs and intentions, that’s consciousness. We literally become aware of ourselves in ways we can reason about.

I actually don’t think most living things, even animals, are conscious. Mammals and some other higher animals possibly.

Simple organisms have simple sense/response nervous systems. Their reactions are mostly automatic, but can learn basic patterns of stimuli.
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I've read Sphere by Michael Crichton several times and always enjoy it. I particularly like the way things are seen by some characters and then another character brings an alternate perspective that changes the reader's perception.
Chemistry is a bit late to the game, compared (for instance) to the advertising and surveillance industries. This has given them the chance to realize that it's the data, and not the algorithms, that are of long term value. As a consequence, they're not giving it away for free.

It's also possible that chemists have had a head start in terms of guarding their data security. And processes are extremely costly to scale up, so they want a moat in order to recoup their investment. Industries like pharma have been security conscious for a long time.
For me there are always a bunch of services that fail or are missing some data. So you need to keep retrying.
No, because that doesn’t get you to color, sound, pain, etc since the signal is just electrical. Something more has to turn attention into experience. Also because simple attention can happen without us being consciously aware, such as day dreaming while driving down a highway.
I described my model of consciousness to tekni5 so won’t repeat it here.
It makes sense to call the foundation model GPT-4, like for the previous GPT versions. The fine-tunings are not where its core capabilities come from. Bing is also "a" GPT-4, just with different fine-tuning.
So basically 10 years - murphy's law
You should check out uvu
Maybe they provide a better initial deal? No idea.

But people can be blinded by better initial conditions even if long term it is worse.
Your company doesn’t have a QA team?
Wowww, holy shit. CloudFlare/Matthew Prince in this piece. Started going through process of trying to redevelop a mansion on a hill, backed out/withdrew the plans, then got a special exemption added for him to the state's upcoming legislature bill.

Local reporter found & noticed & now there's significant backpedaling.

Hard to defend yourself, know what the other side here would say happened. But wow this is quite a report.
You could say the exact same thing about the "soul".

I just do not understand why we can't take the idea that consciousness doesn't exist seriously. The word practically has no meaning.

"We know consciousness exists because we are conscious" is as circular reasoning as it gets.

It is so strange to me that we can't even be bothered to explore if this question is the 21st century version of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

There has to be so many things that we currently believe to be true that are utter nonsense. When we believe something exists but we can't even define what the word means that is probably a good place to look for nonsense.
Federal, where it is "well known" that they only try cases that should have plead out, that is "they know they will win."

As someone who has had cases thrown out before trial, and known other people who have been found "not guilty", the conviction rate for non-federal in the US is (very) much lower.
Working on something similar that uses keyterm extraction for traversal of topics and fragments, without using Langchain. It's not designed to be private, however: https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/DocGPT/tree/main
I’m my view I think the early emergence of consciousness says that it’s more complicated not less. My reasoning is that it must mean the framework for consciousness is embedded in the basic building blocks of life. If that’s the case then our understanding of how those basic building blocks work still has a long way to go. To make a physics analogy it’s like we have a good understanding of mechanics but haven’t yet learned what electromagnetism is.
Warnings are unfortunately worthless without enforcement, much less adequate presentation. GPG doesn't even bother to prominently warn the user when a key is expired: they tuck the message below the "verification succeeded" message, which is the exact opposite of what they should be presenting.
My conflict with thinking like yours is that it conflates and confuses moral dignities with production obligations.
I mean… Pro Tools, Reaper, Ableton, Logic, Cubase… these all run just fine without an RTOS. But you did say “audiophile” specifically and not “audio professional” so you might be right, but it likely doesn’t matter in practice.
It’s the first widespread thing where build your own makes sense in a while. Most prior workflows either needed high SLAs, were bursty, or just didn’t add up to much.
Meta Evicts PC VR Users from Their Customized Oculus Homes
All the async and green thread runtimes are using thread pools by definition. Avoiding spawning as many OS threads as program's tasks is their main job.

This benchmark wasn't very rigorous, so maybe it has overlooked something, but the result seems plausible. Tokio is a good, mature runtime. Tokio-based frameworks are near top of TechEmpower benchmarks.

Rust's Futures were designed from the start with efficiency in mind. Unlike most async runtimes where chaining of multiple async calls creates new heap allocations, Rust flattens the entire call tree and all await points into a single struct representing a state machine. This allows the runtime to use exactly one heap allocation per task, even if the task is pretty complex.
"if you can find a better paying job take it"
Imagining Jimi Hendrix's career had he lived, and the ethical considerations of wish fulfillment in AI.
I would frequent such a place for one of the same reasons I go camping. To fully disconnect from technology and to experience an environment entirely devoid of digital devices. A return to the current moment.

Such a place may not be for everyone and to me that seems fine. Camping is also not for everyone and that is also fine.

A cash only stance makes sense because paying for things will happen all day, every day. If your goal is no screens and that goal is in your name, that’s an impactful step to take.

If someone has a hypothetical medical device with a screen (do you have one in mind?) I’m sure the owners of such an establishment would seek to find ways to accommodate. It’s an edge case and not likely to impact the overall atmosphere.

But to your point, this is hypothetical. I’d rather that such a place exists and then learns how to deal with edge cases than not exist at all.
Gotcha. Saves a day of documentation familiarization, essentially.
But that's the point I'm trying to show. In Go code all calls are the same. There is no sync/async distinction.

In contrast, in C# (or any other similar system) async calls are _expensive_ compared to regular function calls.
That is just a statement of what they hope to study and what they think they might find. It’s not an actual study and they have no evidence for the speculative goals.

Conversely I linked to a case of an actual EEG recording of a dying patient and what it shows.
Xero's been juicing the lemon more and more aggressively every year...
Back before Mint allowed manual transaction entry (!), I was using it in spite of that. Until the day I logged in and suddenly three months of transactions had disappeared. They didn’t care. I’ve been trying to run away from Intuit ever since. But I’ve been unable to get rid of Quickbook, and now they bought Mailchimp, so…

Ugh.
OneTab was the solution for me. I see it as a "tab graveyard": with one clicks, my current tabs are saved somewhere. I feel good because they are not lost, but most of the time I don't go back to the list.

History doesn't work for me because it's way too big. Bookmarks don't work because... well I guess I can't be bothered to organize it.

OneTab is perfect because the tabs I keep open passed the first filter (I closed the ones I don't care about keeping), while still requiring no maintenance (just one click).
Kimchi is actually starting to pop up in surprising places away from city centers (my rural grocery store has some) but it sits around and by the time I got some, it was... not fresh.

Sushi has the benefit of needing to be consumed fresh, except for fake crab which freezes well enough that you can find "sushi" at quite a few out of the way gas stations as well.

Having access to an asian grocery store with fresh bean sprouts, kimchi, freshly made kimbap, good masala blends, all the herbs and so forth is probably the only thing I miss about living in a bigger city.
That's true. Korea itself only developed its cultural industry abroad when the government relaxed censorship rules.
Do you imagine QA catches everything?
More relevant than ever: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8
The fan on the engine is often louder than they engine at low speeds.
Hi there, Supabase Flutter SDK maintainer here. Appreciate the feedback here. Specifically what auth flow is under documented you think?
On the one hand, there is similarity in that both "The Mote in God's Eye" and "Blindsight" are first-contact-with-aliens scenarios. On another hand, Niven & Pournelle's story is painted atop the background of interstellar human civilization, with colonies and wars and FTL drives and shields, while humanity in Watts' universe is firmly stuck on Earth with sublight travel in our local solar system -- with the quirk that humanity evolved alongside a near-human predator species, although one that can be harnessed toward corporate or organisational goals using modern science.

On the gripping-hand, the two books have rather different perspectives on how first-contact might go:

Niven & Pournelle's alien species and society is alien, but somewhat recognisable and relatable from a human perspective. Both species figure out how to communicate. The threat posed to humanity by the aliens is perhaps not so dissimilar to the threat humanity might pose to other species (c.f. Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar).

Watts' book explores intelligence, communication, sentience. Earth's first-contact team aren't all human. Many of the human specialists are far from neurotypical -- there's already considerable difficulty in them even being able to understand or emphasise with each other, even before introducing aliens. Blindsight takes a bunch of familiar assumptions underpinning how first-contact could play out, and challenges them, and asks what might happen if those assumptions were not true.
Yes. Because that's the point. I'm comparing overhead of async calls vs. normal calls.
You most certainly can and they have to provide you the data. GDPR is about you as an individual and the login itself is irrelevant. Chances are you'd most likely hit the same wall when talking to the customer support.
Yes. On purpose.
I don't think it is accurate to think of it as the "output" of information processing, rather I think it is the actual act of diverse, yet integrated information processing.

Simply put, different parts of the brain do different things; there is some level of isolation of function, e.g. Broca's area for speech, the visual cortex for sight, etc.

Conscious experience clearly relies on several disparate parts of the brain (e.g. sight, sound, touch and smell can form a cohesive experience).

The integration of these parts is the act of consciousness, or put in another way, when the brain is highly integrated in a waking state of perception, it is conscious.

That's what the "P Zombie" thought experiment misses, imo. We are not some Rube Goldberg machine of pulleys and levers, as the analogy would lead us to believe. We are also not a series of pulleys and levers with some qualia painted on top.

We are, instead, the global process that arises when a biological agent's neural system is highly integrated with the goal of providing the organism a sense of self and direction.

It sounds pretty grandiose, but it is still fundamentally empty, much like the a system of pulleys and levers. Where do your thoughts come from? What do you actually do? Not much.
pytest. The way it handles both fixtures and parameterization (and the fact that it doesn't force classes on me) genuinely results in me enjoying writing tests.

I'd love to find a JavaScript testing framework that's as pleasant to work with.

I wrote a bit about those two features here: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/28/documentation-unit-tes... - about half way down.
It’s transformed businesses and the business of accounting down under. Accountants are focused on helping the companies and tougher questions rather than bookkeeping. Most accounting work is automated and companies have constant control and understanding of their numbers. Not always - but far more often.

It’s astonishing how slow the transition to online accounting is in the USA.
It's funny I'm being downvoted. Probably out of a sense that I'm ignorant. Yet I've worked on large data labeling teams. And if you think anyone outside of the military is paying for very large native English speaking teams to label data I got a bridge to sell you. No one outside of special projects are paying large teams the wages of first world country standard.
My favorite was the SUnitToo package for VisualWorks Smalltalk. It was integrated right into the IDE. The code browser was a natural fit for really intuitive feedback for running tests and getting feedback.

The Smalltalk language and SUnit library had a really great signal ratio without a lot of boilerplate that goes with a lot of other xTest frameworks.

Shameless plug — I was the author of said tool.
Like much with parenting I think it’s only people trying to do what they think they ought to do and the plan - like most - may not survive reality’s punch in the face.

Everyone learns parenting on the job.
This weekend, I decided to work on a fun little project: an AI extension that can turn your text into dialogues written in the style of your favorite movie character! Think of it as your typical text transformer, but with a twist of cinematic flair. Give it a try and have a blast sending messages as if you were your movie hero or villain :) Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on potential improvements or other creative applications for this! Suggestions are always welcome. Happy text-transforming!
A bunch of utilities which can handle "signing" with some sort of a key isn't a solution. That's not solving the trust problem, which is the actual hard part of GPG.

GPG isn't hard to use. It has quirks, but it's not hard - programmers should be able to figure it out.

Trust management is hard and no one has solved trust management well. It doesn't make one iota of difference how file signing is done, what matters is whether it can be done in a way which makes the scope, degree and path of trust clear in a way the user can action.

Hence my question: because the way we solve "trust" on the internet is "trust a megacorp". The global HTTPS system is based on whichever CAs are shipped in our browsers. And those CAs create global trust - they can issue certificates which say that anything, anywhere is totally who they say they are. Just the Root Certificate Authority process (which isn't bad, but it is just "hey guys, totally trust us").
In my opinion it is Spock for Java/Groovy [1]. The amount of functionality and readability you can squeeze from Groovy's DSLesque is absurd. Is basically a full fledged new test language with Java sprinkled as the test contents code

[1]: https://spockframework.org/
There are some experiments that suggest that human actions are not the result of conscious thought. Maybe you've heard about Michael Gazzaniga's experiments on split brain subjects. The most radical interpretation of the results is that our conscious thought merely constructs a narrative about actions it has no direct control of.

In other words, our brains act like a bunch of interconnected neural networks and one of them, the language processing part, tries to make sense of what all the others are doing, serving the only purpose of communicating with others.
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You hear the same language with fear mongering about foreign countries “calling in” US debt. These people must be terrified of their bank all of a sudden demanding the entirety of their remaining mortgage now.
I got special acoustic double glazing for my flat. Each pane is a different thickness so they vibrate at different frequencies. Seems to make a decent difference over standard double glazing.
It does. But the person responsible for evaluating it was on their way out (had gotten a new job, hadn't put in their notice yet though) and just said, "All good!" to a bunch of things (previously trustworthy and good work, but their work that last month or two was shit).

So to some extent the dev got unlucky, his terrible code (that he didn't test) may have been caught through the normal QA process which the QA willfully lied about doing. But that doesn't absolve him for not testing (even basic testing) his own work.
Oddly enough, the quote is from a legitamate terrorist organisation following a bomb attack on a UK political conference, that wasn't that far off killing the PM at the time (and killed 5 others).

The IRA statement following the bombing was: "Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war."
Yep, and this is because sim-jacking is actually less profitable than just finding records of people’s _past_ phone numbers and signing up for a voip service that supports sms for that number. And many of the voip providers just don’t do any kind of fraud prevention.

Source: I work at a place that is a natural target for this kind of thing.
I pay for Google One for this reason and ultimately account recovery due to theft if it came to it. I've never had to reach out to Google but supposedly of you are a paying customer customer service does exist. I know that the FI infrastructure has CS you can reach as I talked to them back when fi first launched and I did some promotion flipping to get a pixel. I'm probably gonna pay for Microsoft's offering it seems you can't just buy hotmail anymore and instead have to pay for the whole office + storage subscription. Same reasoning though I want CS I can reach at my email provider and I want to know they still exist in 20 years if email still exists.
Wow thats awesome dude. Matrix is great software. Building something which could replace the phone network sounds exactly like something Amdocs would be interested in. I get that you cant be throwing shade on your investors, but a LOT of people at FBI think Amdocs was handing over call records on Americans to people in Israel.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ataHCdCS_N0

Furthermore, 6 Israelis working for Amdocs were deported in 2002 for spying on the US. That’s not just a conspiracy theory. Its a seriously concerning fact.
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Not for a typical website. Even if you're getting a massive amount of traffic, like a million requests per second, you'd want the request to finish as quickly as possible, so they never pile up to be 1M concurrent tasks. If the tasks have real work to do and can't finish quickly, the having 1M in-flight tasks compete for orders of magnitude fewer CPU cores may not be a good idea — it will waste lots of memory for their state and it will be hard to keep latencies reasonably even. You'd probably use a simpler queue and/or load-balance to more machines.

A scenario with this many tasks spawned is more realistic if you have mostly idle connections. For example, a massive chat server with tons of websockets open.
Hopefully America isn't about to experience the exact same thing. The similarities abound as our population grays and reproduction is at all time lows.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

US net migration is declining drastically also.

https://econofact.org/the-decline-in-u-s-net-migration