skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I do when I'm solving crossword puzzles. I run through the alphabet for each unknown letter in the answer. Doesn't always work, but it works often enough to make it worthwhile.

Unfortunately, I've tried the same trick to remember forgotten names, but it turns out I have trouble thinking of enough names for each alphabet letter, and especially when they have an unusual name, it doesn't really help.
The data present in the conscious experience of human beings is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. It's definitely a very important part of the puzzle and it's missing from the training data, and it's not clear that it ever can be included. Leads me to wonder if the only way that AGI could ever happen for real is to have embodied, embedded, emotional agents that go around making mistakes and learning from them like we do?
I agree with everything you're saying, but I think we just are referring to different things when we say consciousness. Take any qualia, and there are 2 sides to it: The object of it, and the subject of it. A red light is seen. In the seeing of it, there is the red light that is seen, and the seer who sees it.

What you are talking about is a black-box model of consciousness that only relies on external measurement. That is the correct scientific approach, but it comes nowhere close to counsciousness. Consider that maybe you are doing the same thing you think I'm doing. You have defined experience purely in terms of inputs and outputs. The experience is the input, the outputs are perception, volition, will, action, etc. But who's are the perception, volition, will etc? There is something that exists that gives essence to all these.

If this doesn't ring true at all, we can stop here. Objective language can only get so far when talking about the subject, unfortunately. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
What kind of reforms? Like labor laws, worker protections?
The RP2040's PIO is awesome. Here are two retro-related projects I did in the last ~year.

You can capture video in a weird format with PIO on one core, and output it with PIO (in a standard format like VGA, or even DVI) on the other core, like here: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2022/09/raspberry-pi-pico-15-6-khz...

Or you can implement old DACs that expect a weird input data format, to a certain extent, like here: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/03/raspberry-pi-pico-implemen...

(Now I'm almost at the end of my sabbatical but think these projects (and others) were totally worth doing even if it meant living off savings, heh.)
The answer is you pick the one doing whole red carpet royal treatment.

Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k (Author has BS in Political Science from Berea College and an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.)
What I've heard is that riscv architecturally guarantees that unaligned accesses are legal, but many processors don't implement them natively, so they are trapped and emulated. This seems like a serious flaw—if the architecture designers did not believe the hardware designers would be able to commit to supporting fast unaligned accesses, they should not have mandated that unaligned accesses be available everywhere.
No disrespect intended, but with respect to this charge of "hypocrisy": you knew what you were doing when you exercised those options.

You had vested options in a privately held company. I assume you chose to leave, forcing you to exercise those options or give them up. When exercising those options you had to know full well you were taking a gamble that you wouldn't be able to exit from your position. That's a choice you made.

So no, there's nothing unfair or hypocritical about this in the slightest. That's the risk of choosing to buy stock in a private entity, and it's a risk you take when joining a startup: the possibility that you might not get an exit, or the timing might be wrong for you personally.
I don’t buy this at all. We have experiences. It’s the one brute fact we are sure of, but it’s enough to build from that a coherent materialist model of the world that is consistent and testable. Everything we think and know is built up from the foundation of our conscious experiences though.

I’m no solipsist, I’m a thoroughgoing materialist, but if we don’t accept the evidential nature of our conscious experiences as being real phenomena, we have nothing.
I linked to the main homepage. My goal isn't to debate, but to foster conversation. Building a case in either direction is going to take more than a single patient study discussed on a healthline page or even a metastudy of studies with large cohorts (somehow). It's a hard topic. Hence the encouragement towards exploration. It's a very fun topic.

If you're interested in some further rabbitholing, that department has a very interesting and storied history if you have the interest and take your time to do a bit of homework on it...
As also stated by you that it doesn't take long to reach there. Average software engineers could reach there within 5-7 years. Assuming that a person only started taking cs in university and started working after graduation, that still puts him at this level below 30s. That's not counting the ppl who started programming young, or the ppl who learn faster than average, or the ppl didn't graduate and went straight to work, etc.

My point is that OP's points really only applies to the ppl who are new to the job. Inter-person skills comes into the play in just a few years.
Sure, but it entirely leaves off subjective experience.
Over 1000 entries in my password Tracker.
i would go to startup biglaw with this (e.g. Gunderson) they will have seen this before and know what to do, expect 15-20k in fees but you’re selling millions right?
I think the government is vastly overestimating their role in creating demand for regional food.
Sure, but wouldn’t China be relying on those countries willingly giving those things (ports, resources, etc) to them?

Why would any country do that?
The IMF has a history of releasing loans to clear interest payments on older loans.

They also force target countries to grow cash crops instead of wheat, for example. This forces the client country to become dependent on food imports, usually from the US.
Interesting.

I think I may have heard that noise, and just not known what it was. It could easily be mistaken for some sort of mechanical bit of the truck (slipping belt, various bits and bobs going around in the engine).
After some time using RPN, you'll find it difficult to use anything but. And, it's nice to not have to worry about (, ).
B clearly, fewer people died.
It's not the same because you can have interleaving functions which don't know about context.

Say you have a foreach function that calls each function in a list. In async-await contexts you need a separate version of that function which is itself async and calls await.

With context you can pass closures that already have the context applied.
I'm liking catch2 for cpp tests these days.

It is easy to have an idea for a testing framework that you can quickly write yourself. That is why there are so many. It is tedious to add all the features people want so many are not quite as good as their hype.
But the way you state your question is also assuming the answer to the larger question.

What observed properties of consciousness are computational? Are provably computational?

If you rigorously and consistently don't assume materialism, what can be proven?
It's such a cursed term that the thing some people mean by it does exist, like the ability to sense things around you, communicate on a human level, and have an operant short term memory of at least 5 minutes.

When I see someone use "consciousness", I'm assuming they mean something grander akin to a soul, like a special, immutable self that they feel like they possess, which I think is just embellishing an illusion the mind creates for itself. Some people do mean it that way, but some not.

It should be scrapped from our vocabulary since it just scrambles communication.
It seems very honest of you to release this list, considering you're at the very bottom of it by $/hour.
Curioulsy, what about digital hoarding? endlessly bookmarking things to never visit them again.
Came here to suggest the same.. great fast running all the things you want a front end text to be

Also can run coverage reports that are usable in ci (I think it exports to clover format but whatever it is there is a Jenkins plugin that works with it)
This explains why the debt is bad for Pakistan, Kenya.

> In Pakistan, millions of textile workers have been laid off because the country has too much foreign debt and can’t afford to keep the electricity on and machines running.

> In Kenya, the government has held back paychecks to thousands of civil service workers to save cash to pay foreign loans. The president’s chief economic adviser tweeted last month, “Salaries or default? Take your pick.”

Furthermore, another bad thing for Kenya, Pakistan, etc. would be China repossessing. In fact some speculate thats really the end goal. China would love to operate all these ports themselves. Already happened in Sri Lanka. Unfortunately for the people in these countries the leaders can make a lot of money by signing off on bad loans and then they never have to face the consequences themselves.
Yeah I’ve generally wondered how this will work on that ecosystem. On other platforms there are different rules that range from “unaligned accesses will trap” to “don’t bother they’re too slow” and “they’re ok actually” but I think there are ways to identify the last case that people typically use. What’s the equivalent for RISC-V? Will there be one?
One of the systemic issues that needs fixing is the gatekeeping itself. Weeding out serves no purpose because there's work besides just analog ic design roles. Industry complains because undergraduate programs have become so detached from reality focusing on stupid stuff that everyone graduates way more underprepared than they should be.
Definitely Jest, I've tried few in the past and one of the great things of Jest is how easy it is to extend and customize if you are a library author with meaningful messages.

So I wrote a small test runner for React (`react-test`) and added few custom Jest matchers, so you can do:

const button = $(<Button>Hello World</Button>);
expect(button).toHaveClass('btn');
expect(button).toHaveText('Hello World');
DocGPT: Index, Q&A, and User Interactions for PDFs
> The only real “test” is whether it works in production. Everything else is a poor substitute and gives you false confidence.

Tests are like bloom filters[1], either they fail and you have a bug (either in code or in the test itself), or they pass and you possibly still have bugs.

As such they only give you false confidence if you're overly naive.

If our tests pass then we know what we know. Doesn't mean we pretend there can't be unknown unknowns, so we still need diligence before rolling out a new version into production.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
Or storing terabytes of data offline.

Probably similar reasons but with less real-world harm.
A good recommendation on the opposite end of the magic spectrum. It’s also very fast, because it’s so minimal. If you find yourself needing more, ava is a good compromise but it definitely trends into magic territory more rapidly than I’d prefer.
Nah, it’s not. Correctly implementing algorithms is hard; it’s easy to create incorrect behavior on edge cases and performance pitfalls. I’m sure you knew about the Java issue from a while back, for example.
It's the case everywhere. A designer (in the context of software/hardware) does not work without user research, that is core to their work. Any position that does not require user research in design is titled differently these days.
A bit related : I found out today that Discord is working on a feature to automatically add Emojis to channel names. You can enable it in the experiments panel by writing a bit of JavaScript in the console.

What I find interesting is that the emojis are always very accurate and the emoji name is not contained in any way in the channel name so I feel like they are using an LLM to do so and it seems like a great application.
I first encountered Drakon around 2008 or so, it was being pushed by complete ignoramuses, and they were trying to force it on school students. With grandiose claims that it's the most transformative approach to designing safe programs, blahblahblah.

I got mad at them, so I started digging.

I spoke with several people who worked on Buran (at that time, my parents were working at a factory that had designed Buran's instrument panel). Nobody there knew about Drakon. They apparently used a mix of Prolog (its Russian dialect, ПРОЛ), low-level assembly, some Modula-2, Fortran, etc.

It's questionable that the Soviet engieers would have been comfortable working with a graphical language, back when many of them still used punch cards to enter programs.

It could have been used in documentation or in specs, because Drakon indeed is a better graphical notation than the regular flow charts.
Ok, stimuli go in. The rest I’m on board with, more or less.
The ProxyBay disappearing was interesting. Getting sites/IP addresses you cannot block down is a huge win for The Man.

Liked Torrentfreak's reporting on efforts like TLS1.3/ESNI & eDoH. https://torrentfreak.com/encrypted-dns-and-sni-make-pirate-s...

I forget what to search for, but didn't folks used to be able to hit aws/cloudflare/other's endpoints with requests on a wide range of IP addresses, & the front end would just go look at the domain & route it? There was a term for this, a tech, but I'm forgetting what to search for.
Interesting. Just for you (based on where you need to go) or in general?
Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?
Aside from excel/Google Sheets,

Does anyone know of a web app (preferably) that lets you manually input blood test results?

The hope is a service that creates graphs of historic records, provides reference values comparison, unit conversion, and offers insights (like what high/low values could indicate)?
And then take your roads, which were collateral
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, The Future of Luxury (1998):

Attention. This, too, is a scarce commodity, with all the media competing bitterly for a piece. Watching the melee of money and politics, sports and art, technology, and advertising, leaves little attention leftover. Only the person who turns his back on these overbearing claims on his attention and turns off the roar of the channels can decide for himself what is worth his attention and what is not. In the barrage of arbitrary information our perceptive and cognitive capabilities decline, they grow when we limit our attention to those things and only those things that we ourselves want to see, hear, feel and know. In this we can see an occasion for luxury.

Quiet. This, too, is a basic requirement that has become harder and harder to satisfy. Anyone who wants to escape the everyday din must be very extravagant. In general, apartments cost more the quieter they are; restaurants that do not pour musical pollution into the ears of their guests demand higher prices of their discerning clientele. The raging traffic, the howling sirens, the clatter of helicopters, the neighbor's droning stereo, the month-long roar of the street fair—the person who can elude all of that enjoys luxury.
Look, there is more material about this stuff that perhaps any other subject explored by man, but it frequently comes in ecclesiastic garb and that may or may not be to your taste. I'll can link both spiritual and secular starting points. The spiritual ones are far more delicious. What's your stand on religion in general? I'll link sources appropriately.
For the amount of money college costs you would think that colleges could afford to hire enough people to perform that kind of rigor.
not to humble brag, but as someone who has plenty of good sex with plenty of people, but didn't use to: it might feel like you're doing it all for sex if you don't have it, but when you do, it's clear that there are deeper reasons. they're just clouded by horniness.
It’s all a growth Ponzi scheme. Let immigration, population growth and new development keep roads maintained. Until the music stops.
my favorite so far is The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell.

but the best thing i have done to get good book recommendations is to join a scifi book club where we pick a new title every month.

here is what we read until now:

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee: AI 2041
David Wellington: The Last Astronaut
Nathan Lowell: Quarter Share
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Octavia E Butler: Parable of the Talents
John Scalzi: Kaiju Preservation Society
David Brin: Kiln People
Emma Straub: This Time Tomorrow
Ursula K Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness
Dennis E Taylor: We are Legion
Emily St John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility
William Gibson: The Peripheral
Dan Simmons: Hyperion
Elisabet Moon: The Speed of Dark
Alastair Reynolds: Eversion
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children Of Time
Andromeda Romano-Lax: Plumb Rains

everyone of these was selected by popular vote from a handful of nominations, which means each is endorsed by half a dozen or a dozen people.

unfortunately i had to move and am no longer part of that club, and getting updates on their current selections is difficult.

anyone know of a similar club running online? (telegram, matrix or a forum maybe)

or is there interest in forming a club?

we could have a monthly HN post with recommendations, making selections by upvotes/downvotes, and a jitsi meetup to discuss the book afterwards.
In my case, I live in the sticks and I heard my neighbor's tractor all day today. It's not all that often I do, but believe me when he's working the fields the machine is very audible. I don't mind it much- he's being productive and that's great (and as I write this, he's wrapped up for the day and I'm listening to a wood thrush and the sound of the creek as it runs over the rocks, both of which are very soothing). The one noise that's deeply annoying here carries much further than any tractor- it's the yokels and their seemingly unlimited supply of ammo.
I think Thai food is just really appropriate for the Western palette, it's way better than the ultra-westernized 'not real Chinese' food of the 1970s, and my experience with Korean is that it's a lot of vinegared/pickled stuff - robust and super healthy but just not as easily engaged as Thai.
Discussed two days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36005879
Go buy a GPU from the local computer store.

Consumers GPUs are much more available, much cheaper and much faster.
This is a completely false narrative.

The IMF is a lender of last resort. Countries only go to it to borrow when they absolutely need money and have nowhere else to go. And for obvious reasons, when countries are in such desperate straits that literally no private or public entity will lend money to them, the IMF requires fairly stringent rules so their leaders don’t just pocket the money and run away, or don’t spend it on buying elections, as opposed to rebuilding the economy. The reason the IMF has refused to allow Pakistan to draw down money from its IMF loans is because under the Imran Khan govt they spent it on oil subsidies and allowing arbitrage on the Pakistani currency (interesting that if as you say the IMF is a tool used by the west to control countries, they are the ones saying no to a country borrowing from the country, while the country is going out of its way to get money from the IMF).

It’s not a surprise that countries that can literally not raise funds from any private or public entities are expected to endure financial restraint (since it was the lack of restraint that brought them there in the first place).

But the Belt and Road loans were not to desperate countries desperately looking for funds. The Belt and Road initiative was for countries, which at the time were financially stable. Their leaders figured that getting sparkly Chinese infrastructure investment would boost their re-election chances. And as a bonus, unlike the World Bank funds (which is the correct equivalent to the BRI loans), the Chinese didn’t require you to prove the economic viability of the projects, they didn’t require you to raise additional private capital for the project, and most importantly, the Chinese had absolutely no qualms about their companies personally bribing the leaders of the recipient companies tens of millions of dollars.

In return, all these countries’ leaders had to agree to was paying higher interest rates, not creating local jobs because the Chinese would export their own workers, and not building local businesses because Chinese companies would get all the contracts. But that was a future leader and citizens’ problem, while they could stash the cool Chinese payoffs in London and Dubai.
They are simply put not price competitive in instruction per dollar at the high end though they are starting to catch up. But to me the biggest reason is software wise they are behind Nvidia. NVidia might be considered a hardware company because of its gpus but they are underappreciated as a the software company that build tools for other to utilise its gpus.
Australia has quite a few, especially around Melbourne. And they are all the most expensive places to buy or rent. Made up for the fact you save a fortune not needing a car.
Thanks for the earplug recommendation—just purchased! I have to bring earplugs to the movies now. Maybe it's me, but the audio in some movies is so absurdly loud that I want to just get up and walk out.
This is a convention, and you also don't _have_ to do it.

A function without a context can still be used just fine from any code, you just won't be able to cancel it.
If there were 0 limits to cost/practicality what software/hardware would you buy
I just watched a youtube video where they built a power drill tool for digging holes for seeds that worked great but would be highly impractical to manufacture from a commercial perspective but was interesting from and engineering perspective and got me wondering is there anything like that that would interest me.
OP compared the US to a loan shark, you're arguing against a strawman
> Seeing so many different testing frameworks in every programming language. Would love to understand how this happened,

Asking everyone for their favorites is not likely to meet that goal.

> when they all seemingly do the same thing

You haven't actually looked into this at all before asking, have you?
It’s always the same objection to every new apartment “but what about the traffic? the roads can’t support this.”

If we built this we wouldn’t need traffic…
There are ordinary household activities that reach dangerous decibel levels too. Stacking ceramic dishes, slamming the toilet seat, vacuuming in a tight space, etc.

You will actually find that doing every day chores is much more pleasurable with hearing protection.
That's interesting. After watching the video I realized that yes the white noise style of backup sound is fairly common on trucks here in the US but never thought about why. Actually, now that I think about it the local garbage trucks use it. You definitely know where the sound is coming from, and it's loud and it gets your attention.

For the last several years I've been living in Mexico, after living in Seattle for many years, and I'm still struck by how much quieter it is here. Playing of loud music is actually far more common here, especially at night, and jake braking is a thing too but none of it's annoying. There's no noise ordinances that I know of. Even still the noise level is generally far lower than even a quiet day back in the States. Right now it's Sunday afternoon and man it feels like a quiet Sunday afternoon. No complaints.
2024 Korean restaurants in China in 2009