skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you ever experienced anything outside of your conscious experience?

how do you know there is a world outside?

and not phenomena arising within your conscious experience?

if you close your eyes, you will find a consciousness without end

open your eyes

& these very words arise within your conscious experience

and when you close your eyes, only consciousness remains
Did NASA imitate China’s Mars robot?
Just a ‘is this user of age X?’ query would suffice. Obtaining it should require user interaction, and there should be a limit of maybe 3 distinct ages per domain that can be requested.

No need to give out more details than needed.
If there is such a thing as consciousness (a big if), then why would it disappear on the long drive home? Just because you've tasked some lesser software routine with the responsibility of not turning you into road pizza doesn't mean you're functionally unconscious?

I've heard this described before, and those people are daydreaming. Or chewing on a particular problem they couldn't crack in the work day. Or hell, some of them seem to "listen to music" in their head.

The trouble with "consciousness" is that humans can't really define it in a meaningful way, but they're absolutely certain that it's a real thing and it makes them important.
The FAIR Plan is an association comprised of all insurers authorized to transact basic property insurance in California.

"THEN that entity passes on losses to insurance companies who refused to insure that risk to start with!" Incorrect, some of them are refusing to offer new coverage. They still have existing contracts.

"Why would any company what to be in that space?" The FAIR Plan has higher premiums and the risk is divided by all insurers operating in California.

Now, when a insurance companies completely bows out of California. That will be big news.
Here I am thinking, "but we already know about Jim Davidson and Andrew Dice Clay"
I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.
By this definition, ants, trees, and mountains are conscious. A valid viewpoint, although hard to explain to people who think humans are somehow fundamentally different from chimpanzees.

Now, I don't think chimpanzees have ever been shown to engage in conscious agriculture, have they? Learning to start fires, is a debatable question.
IRBs do not evaluate the value of a research endeavour. They are in fact unable to do this due to lack of knowledge and expertise. They approve trials which fit the mold of trials they have seen before. Why does a clinical trial get done? The main reason is that someone, usually a pharmaceutical or device company, is willing to pay for it.

Some recent examples of problems with clinical trials:

1. Using a harmful or deliberately inadequate placebo.
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/104/4/273/979399
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.0...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34688044/

2. Starting a bunch of clinical trials using a biomarker which turned out to be invalid.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1214271

3. Endless 'me-too' trials driven by pharma, with a low chance of success.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/04/me-too-drugs-cancer-clin...
A question (that also applies to oh so many other projects): you never thought about what happens when someone searches for your tool? (the other way around is problematic too ofc)

What is up with all these project / product names these days? Just this week i saw someone decided to label theirs 'June'. Yes, GOOD move.

Are people just using a random word suggester for the past decade?
Excellent. Now how do I blit some pixels?

This takes me back about 30 years as a youngster discovering the magic ASM incantation to efficiently draw to the screen in DOS mode 0x13.
That's fkd up man...
I do a lot of cycling and it's amazing how much more aware you are when any minor bump is going to cause you injury. I've avoided accidents multiple seconds in advance because something about the way someone was driving made me nervous, it's like you get a sixth sense.
> But so is physician judgment and experience.

We need to move medicine beyond the abilities of a single individual.
Their algorithm is based on splitting the embeddings into a bit-wise representation and then sampling each bit based on the secret key, preserving the same likelihood distribution as with random sampling. (Given that the key is random)

They say this works wlog for more complex embeddings, by encoding each token as a bit string. Could someone explain this generalization to me?

If we have 4 tokens, 00, 01, 10, 11 with probabilities 0.5 for 00 and 11 and probability 0 for 01 and 10. Going through bit by bit, how will the algorithm guarantee not to produce 01 or 10?
> somehow universally implemented across manufacturers... maybe.

They'd need to be implemented and then turned off for 15 years until 99% of the old cars are off the road and then flipped on simultaneously for every car.

If a car suddenly breaks then the car behind it better be able to suddenly break too.
TLDR:
transfer of 155 parthenogenetic embryos generated two live offspring. Both had body weight similar to that of controls at birth and survived to adulthood.

Seems like there are still a lot of unknowns in this process, so caution is warranted.
Furthermore, having a package manager indicates there are some kind of specifications behind so each package and repository has an expected format (not necessarily _a_ standard package manager; in many ecosystems multiple managers share one standard). This helps vendoring a lot since the standard specification makes the vendoring process very easy to automate and validate. Dependency managers in their essence is really just automated vendoring (or vendoring is just less automated dependency management); it helps because you can pick it apart and choose to automate only the parts you want, even if you don’t like the fully automated solution.
I got hired ~1 month ago as a software engineer by a startup based in Switzerland in one of the “Who wants to be hired?” post. I was unemployed for 6 months before that, couldn’t even imagine that I could get a decent offer on here to be honest.
You rediscovered the black belt. Also where cotton is produced: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5dcb98887fb22c1d3a920a...
Obligatory disclaimer IANAL (I am not a lawyer)

Using Google Analytics might have some GDPR implications in Europe. A more GDPR-friendly alternative might be Plausible Analytics.

Also, given the amount of information contained in a CV, even without a name, address, contact info etc, it could make the process of identifying the actual person fairly easy, thus it might have some GDPR implications.

You could have a look at some Privacy Policies from recruiting agencies [0][1], though those are (in my opinion) fairly "abusive".

my 2 cents: given this is a side project, I would not store any data at all

[0]: https://www.greenhouse.com/de/privacy-policy

[1]: https://join.com/privacy-policy
The first part was a crash teaching method, not a method a yet-to-be educated person can do on their own.

The second method just requires free time and an interest in learning the topics of a course. If you can cram an exam with an overnighter, a couple of weeks of spending your free time can get you a better understanding of the same material. All you need for the credential is an opportunity to test past it (not available for many classes, though likely more available as the eliteness of a school increases).

The closest I've ever come to implementing this is reading a bunch in a short time on a topic I find interesting. The one opportunity I had to test past a course I just didn't have the free time, or really the interest, to do so.

The most important thing: Be interested in what you are learning. If you're interested it's not a slog, it's a joy.
But we’re not going to introduce death penalty based on bets, right?
Yeah, so (almost) every league in the world has chosen the chance of promotion over artificial equality. But this isn't really a "choice" because the league isn't (just) a business and the teams aren't "franchises" they are clubs. Half the point of having a well-functioning club is having a good youth org/academy which might give you a cheaper way of getting talent than having to sign it at market value.

I'd much rather watch my team finish in the middle of the French League every year of my entire life without any realistic chance of winning than watch a closed league with artificial balancing.
Oh come on, my uncle touched a parachute once and survived so they clearly do work.
For most people with sedentary lifestyles, 1200 really is plenty. Not sure what the problem with voluntary calorie restriction is. This smells like the actual HAES cult, incorrectly and unethically proporting that obesity is not unhealthy.
Thank you for sharing this was really nice and interesting.
You'd think there was time to prepare for this since retirement doesen't just suddenly appear like a leg injury
I regularly engage in freelance assignments through HN. I have found most of these clients to be serious and committed professionals / businesses who value my work, and pay on time.
I worked in online sales, then web development, then managing web projects over a 15 year period. I wasn't particularly good at any of them or found it fulfilling but I was paid quite well, paid my mortgage and I got to work remotely.

I quit a few years ago to try a few things that I would find more satisfying. Joinery and cooking are two that I did well at. I am now a junior chef / chef de partie and in my early 40s.

It is physically challenging and very low paid but it feels a bit more natural than my previous career. The stress is different too. I think it could quite as easily been a joiner or another trade that I focused on however there are a couple of things that are important:

1) Who you learn off of really matters, as you have less time when you are older, so try and pick that wisely - lots of professionals want to teach new commers that are serious about learning. I've also found that it's not as easy to teach yourself, as it is with web development. You need to be shown what to do.

2) Your social network matters. If all your friends are lawyers, doctors or programmers and you don't know anyone that is a barista, chef, joiner, [insert trade], then it makes it harder to learn. I knew more chefs than I did joiners, which is part of the reason I am doing what I am doing. My old boss said to me when I quit to do something else said "now you need to go and make new friends". It was the best bit of advice I've received.
Including those that drive cars with aeb.
Qt for Windows on ARM
Cypress E2E test automation breaks open-source integration for “security”
Cypress E2E testing framework will apparently break compatibility with very popular open-source dashboard https://sorry-cypress.dev/ which is used to watch the execution of your E2E tests.

This is from an email we received:

We recently released changes to encrypt our private Cypress API requests for improving network security and stability of the overall Cypress testing experience. We are currently rolling this out across our user base and expect this to be complete effective June 30, 2023.
We have identified that this might impact the recording of tests for your projects using an on-premise instance of Sorry Cypress.
You will not be obligated to migrate off Sorry Cypress, however your action will be required to continue recording without disruption.

It's in everybody's right to earn money from what they are doing but:

- Please don't bs us so hard, holy moly

- As far as I can see cypress does not offer an on-premise hosted version, so this makes it a no-go for many of our (b2b) customers, and this is not even talking about GDPR etc.

I'd love to hear your suggestions for alternatives (as long as its not based on selenium, we had terrible experiences with that for the last 10 years).
I don't know why we deny that there are things we cannot simply solve/explain. I think it's because the thinking mind always is made to solve and explain problems. And the final problem to solve is "what is it that thinks and even exists". The thinking mind won't be able to answer this because consciousness and the true nature is prior to thinking. You need to be silent and witness your mind's content to have an understanding. Also, we are not really interested in consciousness, we are interested in permanent happiness. With enough meditation everything is really apparent but through words it's just an endless loop of questioning that leads to nowhere.
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> If there is such a thing as consciousness (a big if)

How is that a big if? As Descartes showed, it is literally the one thing each of us can be absolutely certain about.
> Later, somebody did that study: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 and found that parachutes made no difference, but it is not applicable to any real world case where you would use a parachute.

As a physician you are likely aware, but for anyone reading who isn’t: this paper is from the Christmas issue of the BMJ, which publishes “joke” studies. It’s not really meant to be taken seriously in any way.
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Is there a reason for this difference compared to hockey everywhere else? As far as I'm aware both IIHF and most leagues do 3 points which are either split 3/0 or 2/1, withe same 5minute 3v3 followed by shootout as the NHL does. The only difference being the 2pt win thing which is really odd if you ask me. The idea that a fixed number of points exists (3 multiplied by the number of games played) in the table regardless of outcomes feels natural.
There are tons of alternative single-board-computers available. The Orange Pi 5 is great for MUCH higher end performance but still under (usd)$100, and there are other options (Orange Pi 3? Banana Pi? Radxa RockPi?) that still match or beat the Raspberry Pi 4 performance for the same recommended retail price, but new stock is available for the sticker price.

Raspberry Pi OS is pretty much Debian with Broadcom drivers they haven't up-streamed yet. It runs on other SBCs, or there's Armbian, Arch for ARM, RebornOS, et cetera et cetera, all packaged for ARM uboot SBCs.
Do you get a lot of replies, but the candidates are low quality or "poor fit"?
> If there is such a thing as consciousness (a big if)

There plainly is such a thing. The only people who would question it are those who don't have it, and those who haven't noticed that they have it.

You might not notice you have it, in the same way that fish might not notice the water. Just consider that it's not automatically the case that you are aware of your own existence. Inanimate objects, and lesser lifeforms, aren't aware of their own existence, so something about you makes you different from them. If you call that thing something other than "consciousness", then that's fine, but it's just a different name for the same thing.
I encountered some real world unicode/emoji breakdown recently. I set my surname in a webapp to an emoji country flag because I needed a way to communicate where I was. Elsewhere in the app, it showed surnames as just their initial, e.g. "John S". There, mine showed as a featureless black flag rather than the flag I set. Presumably because that is the first codepoint of several that make up the flag.
What you say is congruent with the hypothesis of how the term came to be used.

The hypothesis is that the activity of programming digital devices has a stratification of status based on the level of abstraction it uses (higher level design aspects deemed more important than writing the code).

At higher level of abstraction (thinking about the design of a programming language or an operating system) the task may resemble true engineering (though most actual engineers probably never design new types of buildings or bridges).

But in order not create tension the title is propagated to all programmers.

I agree with you there is fundamental unity in the practice. Before one can abstract nail making one must make at least a few nails. But I was really curious about the growing using of the label "engineer" as it seems to play precisely on these perceptions of importance and status.
OP did say:

> (sometimes fiscal policy, sometimes both)

Although it's also clear that monetary policy alone cannot stimulate the economy, otherwise there would have been a correlation between ZIRP and economic growth, and there wasn't.

Fiscal policy does stimulate the economy, and if properly targeted this can be done without inflation risk.

OPs main claim here is that the article is "fake news" because government monetary and/or fiscal policy is the main driver of inflation. While it may be the case that governments did stimulate the economy, the bulk of price level increases are not increased caused by demand (ie. people deciding to buy more stuff) but a combination of increase in inputs (supply problems) and monpolistic price setting by poorly regulated companies.

I concede that one might say that, in the absence of any government stimulus, there would also have been no price level increase, but I would also contend that in the absence of such a stimulus there would have been a depression and that a price level increase could have been avoided through better targeted stimulus and better regulation of companies.
it's just gamma oscillations syncing the spatially distinct neural populations
Unnecessary to be healthy. If someone doesn't want a kid, there are other forms of birth protection available which can be relied on and they are quite effective if used as advised.
Hi Anas,

When you said "AI to help generate funding proposals" are you talking in terms of Deep Learning capabilities?

Would like to know more, thanks in advance.
Great that I can enter free text to enter relevant information without needing to upload the resume.

I entered comma-separated list of keywords I'd like the job post to have and got quite nice results.
I think it's safe to say that there will never again be a high level competition where overtime goals count double.
>length is not ambiguous at all. Its the number of elements in the array

That's because you defined it first as "the number of elements in the array".

It is ambiguous however because that's not how people understand it when it comes to strings, and there are several counter-intuitive ways they expect it to behave.

Not to mention there might not be any "array". A string (whatever the encoding / representation) is a chunk of memory, not an array. That you can often use a method to traverse it doesn't mean it's in an array.
3 things that might be contributing:

Insurance companies are allowed to charge more for people in high risk areas, but there's a cap that probably doesn't scale with the actual risk level

Insurance companies aren't allowed to pass on the costs when their reinsurance costs go up

For a while there was a moratorium on dropping policies for homes in high risk areas
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I’m conflicted on this one, it has both saved me, and also almost caused a real crash… it’s save me twice when reversing, once a guy pulled in behind me after I had checked mirrors and started reversing, and the auto brake engaged and saved a collision… but it has also jammed the brakes on when driving down the street because it detected an obstacle that was fixed, and I was driving around it comfortably
I have always used wood wrist wrests (for normal and split keyboards) and never had a problem with them in the way you seem to imply. It's definitely not "a mess".
It's more a matter of functionality rather than only complexity. Functionality can be not implemented just fine.
Yes, everything is horrible and fucked up, but
What the article doesn't mention, maybe because it's not a global thing yet, is that non-reclining seats have been introduced in the last year. On flights within Europe I haven't had a reclining seat in ages, no matter whether flying on an LCC or flag carrier. I don't think there was any uproar about that change.
Thanks for this. I had seen that once on localhost and wondered how to get that URL bar for all URLs. I didn't know you could use it per-domain, which may be good enough. Cheers.
The per-site settings feature was so easy to use; it also had "workspaces" so you could group tabs and open them all at once.

I paid for that browser and I still would.
Care to share the Ff plug-in you use? Would you recommend it or is another tool in that space better?
Serious Problems With RCTs And EBTs Exposed By The Satirical 'Parachute Study': https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2018/12/30/serious-pr...
KeenWrite 3.3.1
Vertical tabs are already a thing in Safari with tabgroups although it doesn’t completely remove the horizontal tabs
Gaslamps work by converting the infrared light into visible light via gas mantle made from cerium or thorium oxides.

The resulting spectrum is mostly in the visible wavel lengths and has nothing in common with the spectrum you get when burning things. So no evolutionary adaption to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_mantle
My grandfather was wearing one and died. This is clear and thorough proof they don't work (he was hit with flak as a paratrooper).
Thing is, nobody in the right mind back in 1850 or whathaveyou would have thought of "walking across private land to get somewhere" as some sort of civil or criminal trespass.

That's... how you got places.

If you actually damaged something -- broke a fence, stole a horse, dug a ditch, whatever -- then, yeah, you'd get in trouble if you got caught.

I heard from a friend that moved out to a rural area that especially the newcomers moving in from cities are super-sensitive about "their property". His neighbor -- from NYC -- threatened a lawsuit because my buddy's truck broke off some branches that extended out into the common road.

Folks that have been living out there awhile are cautious with outsiders, but overall a lot more neighborly, just because you have to be.