skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straightforward synthesis of widely known information regarding incompatibility between the laws of the countries (GDPR/CLOUD Act). If US companies can't process the data of EU citizens because they are unable to say no to the US spying apparatus, or even keep them at arms length, where do you think that leaves them?
Yeah, ok. That isn't happening.

The trick is to realize that it's not realistic for teens to go to bed earlier and to let them sleep in to a reasonable hour.

Teens are not easily calibrated machines that respond reliably to conditioning or rationally motivated behaviors. Their needs have nothing to do with the convenient fantasies of adults.

Teens need like 9 hours of sleep a night. Start letting kids sleep more. They need it way more than whatever they are being forced to give it up for by self-serving, broken institutions.
They have tried all kinds of new offerings that have all fallen flat on their face since they keep ignoring their core product and power users. A few examples are: user profiles and following users directly instead of communities like Instagram, live chat rooms like Discord, live video streaming like Twitch, and a bunch of NFT nonsense like Trump.
...and still getting clicks 16 years later. Respect.
Maybe they should buy Apollo for $10m, at least it would be a revenue stream based on tangible user benefits rather than whatever cosmetic meme bullshit they think of next.
> The idea that the "self" is a process rather than a thing, which is basically what this claimed "new scientific discovery" amounts to, is actually not new to cognitive science.

It definitely isn't new. Humans reify reflexively. A more straight-forward HN-friendly example is infinity -- it's a process (algorithm) that we treat like a number.
> I don't think you can blame 'inflation' for a +50% increase in estimated power costs over the last 18 months.

Yes you can. One of the main costs in a project like this is the financing cost.
Interest rates were nearly zero, now they are at 5%. Of course, NuScale would pay more than the rate published by the Fed, so, let's say they could secure financing in early 2022 at 4% and now they can at 9%. That's a steep increase.

The reason the rates went up is because the Fed is fighting inflation.
Modern CMOS and OLED displays are quite similar, actually. The high end CMOS's that operate at the pitch used in these OLEDs use individually wired pixel 'cells' to capture and convert photons into electrical signals. Those cells/pixels in the sensor are wired up in rows, just like the pixels of an oled, and each pixel transmits 3 or 4 signals along the row, just like oleds receive them. And in fact, each cell of the CMOS sensor is made of a photodiode, which is a lot like a light emiting diode, except it works the other direction, converting photons into electricity.

Then, just like an oled has transitors along its rows and pixels for timing and signaling, so too does the CMOS have a 'rolling shutter' effect caused by the sensor having it's pixels sampled row by row, column by column, just like an oled display draws its pixels.

Here's a few sources in case you'd like to learn more, but clearly if a CMOS sensor of a given resolution is constructable, the only thing preventing its OLED counterpart is the actual organic chemistry driving the pixels, which is a large reason OLEDs are better for fine pitch displays like this than LCDs, they can be made this small.

https://isl.stanford.edu/~abbas/ee392b/lect04.pdf
https://isl.stanford.edu/~abbas/ee392b/lect05.pdf

I couldn't find perfectly similar cross sections of an OLED, and the wiring will of course vary a bit, but not enough to blow past the limitations of CMOS's precision lithography process.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cross-section-of-the-pix...

And to give you an idea of how far that can go, Sony has a 61MP sensor that's roughly the same physical size as these displays, but basically 5-6 times as dense with photodiode based pixels instead of oled based ones. Maybe we can't make a 61MP display that size yet, but we can clearly make a 4k one (which is about 12MP, I think...)
Please don’t make us read it.
That's an interesting way to think about it. I can try coming up with a counter-argument:

We can probably train ants to do those things, that would be a way of communicating with them. It would just be slow, inefficient, and unreliable, so we put our resources into methods we can more directly control and improve. The same can happen from this magical future AI's perspective: why use silly humans when other artificial alternatives are more likely to succeed.
If God exists, it is not a deity.

Deities are low-dimensional approximations of what is infinite and unquantifiable.
If I were an adult running an exam on a Saturday I'd be sad if it started any time before 9-10am. It isn't just teenagers who despise waking early or who have night owl aligned chronotypes.
What's an adult? I'm late 20s and most of my peers still aren't rational.
Well, that went about as well as expected. A handful of non answers, over 99.8% of all questions ignored, and the admin participants vanished without a trace less than 30 minutes after it started, not even updating it to say it was over.
This isn't convincing. Free will requires an effect to manifest without an originating action.

"Debunked", please.
tldr: self is a leaky abstraction
Ran across this quote (attributed to Thomas Paine [0]) a couple of days ago:

"A thousand years hence (for I must indulge in a few thoughts), perhaps in less, America may be what England now is! The innocence of her character that won the hearts of all nations in her favor may sound like a romance, and her inimitable virtue as if it had never been. The ruins of that liberty which thousands bled for, or suffered to obtain, may just furnish materials for a village tale or extort a sigh from rustic sensibility, while the fashionable of that day, enveloped in dissipation, shall deride the principle and deny the fact. "

[0] https://thomaspaine.org/works/major-works/letter-to-george-w...
Man, the word "interpreter" was used far too liberally.
Slashdot didn't have democratic voting, though. You'd only get five votes once in a blue moon. It kept people from feeling as involved in the process.
I think it's a bit of both. I'd agree that the mods handling for free, several very large subreddits - which would require as many hours as a full time job - are doing it because having power over others gives them a high.

But the mods running smaller subs might spend an average of a few minutes per day moderating and the rest enjoying their community.
The article doesn’t say customers wouldn’t order directly from the restaurant.

I think that restaurants don’t want to hire their own delivery drivers and staff.

These Togo orders are basically “extra” that typically wouldn’t exist. And delivery companies know that. So it may be 30-50% of revenue but that’s in addition to what the restaurant would pull down as dine in only. Or just Togo where customers get it themselves.

I think there’s an opportunity for a more efficient Uber eats competitor that charges lower prices. But I think restaurants will just pay their fees.

In my area restaurants just keep jacking up their fees to cover commissions and people keep ordering. My favorite pizza place is $20 in person and $30 through Uber eats. They fired all their delivery people about two years ago.

People order McDonald’s for a $20 happy meal. So people just keep paying.
I personally agree with Trigger that there's a legitimate sense in which he still has the same broom after 20 years. Though I also accept why somebody would say it's not the same broom. The problem for that person though is: at what point does it become a new broom? What is that fundamental (irreducible) part of the broom, that once changed, makes it a new broom?
This article reminded me of looking at clouds, and seeing shapes. Or constellations...
You seem to be using "the hard problem of consciousness" to mean something different than I've always taken it to mean.

I fully believe I am just a machine; the question is why there are qualia happening. Wipe my memory, change my identity, alter my consciousness – regardless, why, when I'm awake, does my mind seem to be the seat where a subjective experience is occurring?

It's a hard problem because the only appeal I can make for its existence is that it's happening for me. I can't prove it to you; it's conceivable there are p-zombies, who also vigorously assert they have qualia. This makes it seem dubious, a religious matter taken on faith, and yet paradoxically for me it is perhaps the only thing I can be truly certain of.

Perhaps qualia (subjective experience) is merely a feature of our universe: wherever structure arises, the universe experiences itself (in some commensurate way).
I feel its something like #2. Correct me if I'm wrong: reddit userbase us say, a fraction of FB or TikTok. They've made the numbers and attracting and tailoring the site to the TikTok audience is way more profitable than what they have now.

They've been doing that since the reddit redesign thing, trying to go more mainstream yet.

I think that's why they feel they can burn bridges
WebKit already added support for it if I remember correctly. It's just not on Safari so to speak since it uses the macOS stack for this, so it needs the OS itself to adopt it, but Apple was clearly interested in it.

And web browsers aren't the industry. Adobe added support for it, for example, and it didn't really seem like Google did a good-faith discussion with actual industry players, who range from content creation software to OS makers to other web browsers.

It's also not like there are people lining up to use AVIF right now and Google is still pushing for it.
I worked as a busser and at multiple fast food places before getting a job as a software engineer. I have also been reprimanded for going to urinate at unscheduled times. I don’t think that gatekeeping the experience of being exploited for your labor is useful. Creating divisions between people who are only exploited, vs those who are exploited even more doesn’t help anyone except for those who are exploiting.
“A Brief History of Time” is a standout here, as it’s dealing with really well-defined, well-studied, well-tested physics theories. (Well, except for Grand Unification stuff.)

But Diamond’s work, and other authors that are in this middle-brow reviewed-in-The New Yorker mold, deals with really complex sociology and psychology, which aren’t reducible to equations. (There’s no Lorentz transformation for colonialism.) Malcom Gladwell really comes right to mind here—lot of pop-sci stuff which gets in all the right publications and then ends up being just wrong in all the ways.
Here is a link that goes straight to the subject (just added the toc hashtag).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_Amn...

I've noticed a lot of Wikipedia pages are missing the TOC, which would greatly simplify this sort of linking. It's super annoying and I'm surprised they even accept not having one for lengthy pages.
I think the geographical determinism is the whole point though, right?

That’s the argument is that geography contributed heavily to what we have today. Not that we’ll have this forever.

I remember reading about the East/West spread vs North/South spread of technology and it seems clever to me.
Yes, exactly. At least that's certainly what I think Buddhism saying.
Yes. Although I don't see the performance issue. Random read, and serial write access to a 2TB NVME flash drive is really really fast. And I want to point out that back when Dejanews posted archives of the entire Usenet over several years worth it was a couple hundred megabytes of text data.

Remember that since it is only topics/people "you" the client choose to follow and/or post about it really isn't that much data. There are likely a zillion subredits you never read, and will likely never read. So your client never needs to fetch that data. If you get a referral to some data on separate thread in a separate "group" only that thread need be fetched/indexed, you may choose then to subscribe to that "group" and fetch both history and new posts but still it would be small.
It's a major turning point in geopolitics, involving two political genius war criminals having a remarkably frank and honest exchange of views.

They're batting around the idea of Japan going Soviet at one point. I was fascinated.
Since you mention Advaita, some might find this talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda on "Vedantic Self and Buddhist Non-Self" interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZPWu084m4.
> Say I bet one could control directly more, say, sanitary workers, than software developers

Why? On, say an bigger open source project, what is the ratio of "management" to contributors like? If people understand their goals and have the right incentives and autonomy, very little management is necessary.

On the other hand low skill workers need much more managing, both to make sure they do they job and to coordinate their work. Surely not as much management as modern tech thinks it needs, but the army heuristic of 10 people on a crew seems much more applicable here. If you're paying someone to empty garbage or whatever, you're almost certainly not paying them to think, or care much about their work, so that has to be supplied separately.

That's just my opinion, what did you mean in your comment?
Megalithic standing stones cleared for construction of DIY store
While the future will be full of surprises, there isn't any reason to think that this will happen.

1) It is easier to use human labour than develop robot replacements. Corporations and aristocrats would already use robots if it makes more economic sense. Maybe that'll change, but usually these things take a long time.

2) Constructing robots is really tricky vs. human reproduction. No reason to think being smarter will change the basic economics of that.

3) The "absolute obedience" circuits sound expensive and difficult. It'd be cheaper just to appoint a supervisor.

As the article points out, if we had the ability to communicate with ants, we'd just trade with them. No control chips or replacement policies necessary. There is no point redeveloping something that already exists.
I'm not entirely sure I get what this tells us. A degree of cynicism in politics is inevitable, for the players. And, Kissinger was undoubtedly playing. As was Mao, with other people.

Interesting Edgar Snow was brought up, I read his long March piece as a child, it's pretty accessible. ("Red Star over China" 1937)

Zhou EnLai was a survivor and a moderating force in the bad times. The national museum in Tienanmen square celebrates his life quite quietly. I saw photos of Zhou all through China on shop walls, drinking tea and having a smoke with people. Deng somehow less so. There's a rather odd fashion statement moment when all three of Deng, Mao and Zhou can be seen separately in photos, sporting a western style golf cap like Bing Crosby. "I'll get back to par on the ninth hole, just after I finish reconstructing steel industry furnaces and representing the farm sector in a standup" -I doubt they had much time for golf, but maybe they liked listening to Bing on 78s?

Ironic that Kissinger talked about US hopes for Iran, they royally fucked up with the Shah, and what followed pretty much defined the US/USSR battle lines in the middle east. So much can be laid at the door of misplaced US diplomacy.

But it was good to engage with China, and I think most Chinese now would be happy a pair of cynical bastards met and talked it out.

Nixon wasn't much more than a figurehead in this.

Christopher Hitchens was right: Kissinger was a war criminal so I tend to regard this kind of verbatim report as reflecting two criminally minded geniuses shooting the breeze together.
You can build build bash scripts that roll out your entire system from a full set of source from the ground up in about 5 minutes? I doubt your keyboard could even registers keys fast enough to type all that out.
Further immortalized through the 418 I'm a Teapot HTTP error code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
But it did happen for a reason and it’s luck.

There’s lots of random chance involved (New Guineans could have started in England) but because of those chance positions there are reasons things happened.

How is that racist?
Thinking Critically About AI
My highlight from the CEO's replies:

>> How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement?

> We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.

Self burn. Those are rare.
I prefer the less epistemological version of this (gray's law)

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

Does it matter if it's incompetence or malice? If you care, are now forced into action, best just make a move and justify it after the fact.
Building data pipelines with Dagster and Seafowl
On the matter of Burke's most famous "quote" it's worth pointing out it's unsourced and a good example of a bogoquote.

https://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote.html

https://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote2.html
Not entirely sure, no. Happens on work PC using Chrome (with uBlock Origin and most lists activatsd), but not at all on phone using Firefox, despite identical searches just tested now. I don't know enough about how this works to say much more.
1 and 3 : I don't look at the sub i just type the comment. When i see a comment about china or Russia being the root of all evil i sometimes remind them of the atrocity their country commited. The hypocrity of "invasion is bad unless it's me or my friends" make me sick to my stomach. The answer? "yes, but they are terrorists"....

When Russia started invading Ukraine and there was a global shortage of grain. I saw a lot of comments about starving 3rd world countries that dared to still be friends with Russia.

3. Apparently "Huawei was killed by US because it was too good and getting too big" is a completely delirious thinking.

On one instance i was downvoted to hell and made fun off for saying that any secret document worth declassifying isn't really a secret document. As an exemple, i cited the kidnapping of random civilians and sending them to prison to be raped and tortured to death by the US soldiers for fun and the videos about targeting civilians and kids with drones while laughing and making jokes about the kids growing to be terrorist anyway. Both of these only saw the light of day because of wikileaks and were a huge embarrassment to US that never wanted them to be known.

What irked me the most is i was told to grow up and touche some grass because apparently it's a teenager phases to care about these things (for some reason they talk to me as if i was an american )

As for your last statement, it's not that i get upset when good things is said about America. I may be extremely paranoid but am more like scared. As someone living in instable country with oil and therfore may be next on the US oil crusade. when i read anything america did and them prising their killing capabilities, i just look at my family and imagine that maybe one day i'll be excavating their dead bodies from under the rubbles of our home after a drone strike while the operator is drinking mountain dew and making a joke with his buddies about a having good day of work.

It's probably my depression.
Now I can't find link.
It must be second edition, not published freely.

From web site, just overview of the updates.

But while searching for this. Found another popular book that had theory that it was rats, and the rats had no natural predator's and ate all the palm tree roots.

EXTENSIONS

Since my book’s initial publication in 2005, information has continued to accumulate about collapses, and about avoidances of collapses. I shall mention here three of these recent extensions, to our understanding of Easter Island, the Maya, and Angkor.

First, I summarize below the striking new evidence that Andreas Mieth and Hans-Rudolf Bork have published concerning the widespread Polynesian felling and burning of trees on Easter Island long before European arrival.

Second, measurements of markers that reflect paleoclimate have provided increasing evidence for severe droughts that contributed to the decline of Classic Maya cities in the Southern Maya lowlands.

Finally, the biggest recent advance (summarized in a new chapter included in my book’s 2011 edition) has been in our understanding of the decline of the Khmer Empire based at Angkor
And nothing is expensive like an idle data center.

This whole idea of moving compute around based on where the free power doesn't actually work. Power has grown as a fraction of data center cost over time, that's very very true, but saving 50% on power doesn't offset having a data center 90% idle.
Also that Henry Kissinger is still alive and turned 100 few weeks ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
No general agreement, noted
The person I originally replied to explained that deleting your own posts hurts other humans because your posts aren't available to search in the future. I'm saying that helping someone answer "best blenders 2023 site:reddit" isn't the intention you have when you reply to someone on Reddit/HN, so who cares. It's like saying I shouldn't delete my posts because it will hurt ChatGPT's training data.

What I'm not saying is that you should expect privacy for comments you post online.
But what protocol is used?
Stat I read earlier is sign-ups factoring cancelations is around 24% increase in account sign-ups
More accurate title: "You're better than you think at convincing yourself that an LLM is thinking"
gosh darn I love this.
All Those Naked Greeks
Switch to silk floss - this is just a better version of anything you can get with PFAS: https://madebyradius.com/products/natural-biodegradable-silk...

You can get it on Amazon too - price is the same as Glide, Reach, etc.
"Not entirely devoid"? Abrahamic religions are built on a bedrock of contracts (albeit rather one-sidedly negotiated) with God. The 10 commandments, basically the entirety of Leviticus, etc.

Heck, every mainstream religion with dieties has some sort of teaching with the idea that "human does x, God does y".
Slashdot had metamoderation, where you were asked whether various anonymized votes/tags were valid or not.