skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree that there is a significant sliver of a philosophical problem which remains stubborn (how precisely does physical activity produce qualia)

But that "sliver" of a problem is known as the hard problem of consciousness for a reason [1], which is exactly the sort of problem neuroscience can only address in a limited capacity. Understanding how nerves propagate a signal to produce a sensory input (an "easy" problem of consciousness) doesn't inform us as to why certain physical mechanisms result in conscious experience (or more fundamentally what it even means to have a conscious experience).

To return to the topic at hand, a stochastic parrot generates grammatical, sensible language without understanding its underlying meaning. Of course, you can debate what it means to understand something; but for a person to vocalize an idea they understand, they must first somehow consciously process that idea. This is firmly a hard problem to which neuroscience offers limited guidance.

Of course, I'd agree that human beings aren't stochastic parrots -- if human beings were stochastic parrots, then what would it even mean to understand something? But I doubt you could use neuroscience to ascertain whether large language models are or aren't stochastic parrots. Indeed, depending on your definition of "understanding", consciousness might not even be a prerequisite, making the comparison to neuroscience moot.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
What's worst is that creating & entering external problems/situations - starting conflicts - could be a way to keep political control as the domestic situation keeps degrading.

"Eat Bitterness". "Take off the long gown." The Party's messaging to it's people has been extremely stark & sad, and all too reflective of where the country is. China is in a tough tough spot, their economy is really struggling to support their people & to provide basic opportunity. Their domestic scenario is heading towards extremes.

Pulling a Putin & starting shit in the world is one way to whip people into line. An expensive in every way means to make demand, create some opportunity for citizens & soldiers. And like Putin, with an aging population, there's a candle burning; waiting around to exercise war-making is not a great option.
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> The thing with Rails is that it doesn't scale terrible well to "Twitter scale"

It's true that Twitter switch to JVM langs, but it's not true that Ruby doesn't scale (or couldn't have to Twitter's level if they'd kept it). Twitter was early days for Ruby and things have improved a lot, but the only scaling challenge with Ruby is the cost of app instances. I use Elixir/Phoenix now and run 1/4 of the app instances I used to and with much less memory required per instance. (in one app it's 1/10 the ruby instances!) It's traditionally opex cost that hurt Ruby scalability, not technical, and very few companies will ever see the level of success where the cost of servers gets prohibitively high (compared to dev dev cost).
It's an electric pressure cooker with some additional features. Pretty handy.
The mantra is a good reminder but poor at explaining the why.

It's sort of like lego blocks or pre-fabricated wall / roof sections for homes.

Fully normalized everything is broken down to the smallest possible unit of data (a value) that can be accessed by a key. One 'key' might be happen to be the same (shared) among many different kinds of values, in different tables.

That's like taking something apart until you have individual lego pieces or beams of lumber. This is a good logical 'what if' step to help someone ask if data __really__ belongs together.

Does the data really belong together? If a query wants (id, x) how often does it also want (id, y) or (id, z) etc. These pieces should be combined to larger tuples / object fragments if frequently accessed together.

De-normalize returns the true data to a format that is efficient for the system and it's use cases by preparing what's most commonly going to be seen together in that form.
OWL and RDF interest me immensely, intellectually. I've never been positioned to use either one professionally, but it looks fascinating. Is there a shorter path to successful modeling than the hard way? Is there a good source on this?
Apart from being free, the differences seem to be:

- Comic Code is more heavily serifed - Comic Mono is "semi-serif" (a balanced blend between serif mono fonts & the sans-serif Comic Sans). Not sure why they both didn't go full sans-serif: I generally prefer serif code fonts but of these two I prefer the less seriffed variation, and Comic Sans literally has Sans in the name.

- Comic Code is more legible (for me) - the widths & kerning seem to leave clearer letter separation with equivalent character spacing.

- Comic Mono has nicer kerning (to my eye) - while legibility is a problem at small font-sizes, at larger font-sizes Comic Mono is more pleasing to read.
How do you excite a helium nucleus?

It sounds like the setup to a joke, the punchline being that you tell it there's cake in the dining room, but I am honestly curious?

Laser bombardment? Running it through a particle accelerator? Pointing out the girl helium over at the bar looked at it?

Ok, sure, they shot electrons at it, but why would that have any real, measurable effect on the nucleus?

What are the conditions that qualify as "excited" for a helium nucleus? Is it just the "balooning", or is there some real meaning to the term?

I have so many questions.
I'm not sure how you think copyright would protect that which protects patents, but if your position is that patents are bad, so that in the alternative, corporations should keep everything secret forever (that's what you have to do to have a trade secret...) seems a bit absurd to me, to be perfectly honest.
I love Comic Code! First font I actually paid for.
It’s simple. You vote in stupid policy makers who have an agenda that does not actually align with the people. Who think all the bad things in the world exist because of successful people. You let them er policies and laws based off feelings, and perceived past aggressions, instead of logic and facts, and this is what happens.
>sell nice zip drives

come now, all of that data is much too big for a zip drive. you'd need a jazz at least
Ask HN: Is the 15 inch MacBook Air good for iOS development?
And if so, with how much memory and how much storage?

Also, can you run a single-threaded non-graphical simulation on it for hours without significant slowdown due to throttling after a while?
> In a capitalist system of electricity markets, things which are valuable have to be turned into prices to make them happen.

Some things are mandated regardless of what they cost (reliability regulations, or lack thereof). Just ask Texas:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Groundhog_Day_blizzard#Te...
The root of the problem is that if NVD lacks the resources to adequately assess CVEs, then they can't do better (well-intentioned or not!) than what the vendor reports, and them trying to do so only adds more noise.

Sure the vendors have motive to underestimate, but they're also far better equipped to accurately assess severity. Better to focus on them and hold them accountable.
The example doesn't seem that convincing to me? 22/7 is correct to 3sf, and the identity would remain -1.00 (-0.00j) if also specified to 3sf.
> The same money could have been used to fund a fair health system...

Yes! How dare people choose where to spend their time and money? We should take it from them at the barrel of a gun and spend it for them! Stupid people are always spending their time and money on frivolities when there are smart people willing to spend it on purely benevolent things which never experience abuse or corruption.

Personally, I want someone to threaten me with violence if I don't give them money. It's how I know I'm doing my part.
>> CRuby actually ships with 90 encodings (as of 3.3)

>This is asinine.

Overall there are even more: 103. But then again 1.9.2 only has 85 and 95 overall. Also one of those new 'overall' ones is the EBCDIC code page for US/Canada.
The users are subject to a lockout as management disputes with the executives.
>Anyone who doesn't bend to the will of big capital will be made irrelevant.

Made irrelvant to who or what?
Reliably conferring the same mental model to another entity regardless of syntactic differences, or just failing to do so in a way that isn't predictable by a bell curve. The paper makes the argument that humans modelling the mental state of their conversation partner is part of how reliable meaning is exchanged, something that LLMs are unable to do because it is completely absent from their training data.
I've seen too many people complaining how annoying dealing with GDPR is and how it is not government's business to regulate that.

Well, if you don't exactly this happens. But somehow when there is minuscule effort required to keep your freedoms there are always a plenty of people wanting to throw it away instead.
I was trying to imagine what my 10 categories might look like and it's very similar to this! I tried getting into using Obsidian and used top level categories such as: Ideas, Lists, Learning, My News, Reminders, Misc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy#Mass_change
> all of broadcast media is owned by four companies

In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by seven corporations: Fox Corporation, The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN, FX and Disney brands), National Amusements (which owns Paramount Global), Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal), Warner Bros. Discovery, E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision (now known as Altice USA), or some combination thereof. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...

> all of food is owned by four
According to Business Insider article from 2016, these 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the "world": https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...

> and all of computing is owned by five
I wonder whether "computing" and "owned" makes sense in the way you phrase your argument.
Microsoft could also manipulate the US government by giving its own spin to the "right" answers and thus changing the outcome of the decisions. Basically a form of indirect control depending where and how it's allowed to be used.

It could also be used manipulate people:

- engage with people in online forums to stir their opinion

- making it seem the consensus is different with many posts

It could also be used affect people's freedom of movement:

- By analyzing someones social media posts, ChatGPT could say someone is a: "dangerous individual" which could be used to deny US entry or provide a justification to be constantly monitored.

It could also affect people's privacy:

- Doxxing people on reddit and other social media

- Identifying account belonging to a group or the same individual based on writing patterns, subreddits visited, etc...
Roger Penrose wrote about this decades ago, arguing that computers cannot contain consciousness and neither can anything in currently understood physics.

https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computer...
Not OP, but I guess "nullius in verba" has gone out of fashion then?
He posted the audio from that part of the call.

http://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-3...
> 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level.

this is quite saddening.
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...
It’s little appreciated how much current parser generators are holding the industry back. That is, LISP maintains a lead in metaprogramming because it bypasses Chomskyism alltogether. It really should be a few lines of code to add an “unless(X) {}” statement to “if(!X) ()” to Java, Python, Ruby but the very idea that you could patch an existing grammar with a separate file is like technology that fell off a UFO. Also anything that you generate a parser for should automatically generate an unparser. Sphinx is a fraction of the framework it could be because it can’t process markup and turn it back to Sphinx.

I think a PEG framework with a few features (like an easy way to implement operator precedence just by stating it with either numeric values or X > Y statements) could be revolutionary. Python is almost there but not quite.
Regardless they're IPOing, so it's not even about revenue or profit anymore. And it's not even about growth. Public companies are now about growth of growth and are evaluated on that metric. So the incentives suggest they're about to start an intense phase of milking/rent-seeking their users to extract as much value from their existing vertical before they have to make other parallel products (which seems like it's probably going to involve yet another tiktok clone, unfortunately).
All I know is my gut says "Maybe".
I meant I can't imagine anyone seeing "Reddit corporatespeak announces unpopular change" as a surprise, given that it's been their modus operandi for years now.
Which is a little ironic considering this quote from the article:

> It’s now well known on the web that slow server response times drive users away. A slow website feels broken.
Communism: there is no incentive to do more than the minimum or be great at anything.

Capitalism: the incentives are so unrelenting that it's not enough to merely be great at something, eventually leading everything to be ruined in pursuit of growth at any cost.
It's unlikely that this is the only device in existence that has a power side-channel. And attacks get better with time.
There are lots of engineers who go "nah, too many conjunctions, this will NEVER happen" when designing some hardware until reality hits them over the head.

Also, the standard for cryptographic security tends to be "better than brute force". 65 minutes to extract a key is orders of magnitude better.
I'm not a libertarian so I live in the real world, in what world are you not allowed to fly without an ID?

I've flown, yes, post-9/11, yes, post-shoe-bomber, yes, post-RealID, without an ID on multiple occasions.

You walk up to the counter and say "I've forgotten my ID and need to make this flight" and they type on their computer, hand you a slip of paper, and then you show that slip of paper to the TSA staffer at the podium checking IDs and they ask you some questions, and you're waved through.

Is this just another CATO fundraising grift?

edit: It's even on the TSA website https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

>In the event you arrive at the airport without valid identification, because it is lost or at home, you may still be allowed to fly. The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name, current address, and other personal information to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint. You will be subject to additional screening, to include a patdown and screening of carry-on property.
He posted both a transcript and a recording. You can find them in his post announcing the shutdown.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
> It would charge devs over 20x what a user actually cost/were worth

Are you implying that a user is worth $0.125/mo to Reddit? Because that is laughably inaccurate. Mature platforms like Facebook extract up to $60 per user per quarter in advertising revenue from developed countries. Reddit itself made an estimated $500M+ from ads last year. ~$2.50/mo is already more than fair. Thinking that Reddit owes full data access to anyone for pennies is absurd.
That’s not what they (Reddit) are signaling.
If an LLM is being used to make decisions for the government, the people have a right to know what logic is driving the decisions.

The government should demand open source code, open weights, and open research from any AI company it purchases services from.
Transcripts and recordings were posted a few days back by Christian.

The transcript is here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f9...

The recording itself was posted on Reddit in the apolloapp subreddit.
Yes, they were posted by Christian in the Apollo subreddit.
Whenever I travel to Wisconsin, I always return with a large purchase of New Glarus to share with family & friends.
The original claim is that some people are not "sensitive to status". It was an incredibly broad claim.

I would agree with weaker claims such as "many people care less about status" or "many people ignore loss of status to pursue other goals".
while rails is great, its comparative advantage has wanned a lot over the verses since it first came out. Its biggest competitors were spring and zend framework (also hunchentoot if you're THAT kind of guy). compared to those, ruby was a breath of fresh air.

Nowadays it has to compete with nodejs, phoenix framework, django and laravel. all of which are within 80% of developer productivity while being vastly more performant. I use phoenix framework myself and while I wish there were more packages available, developer productivity is good enough and we can get away with far less machines to do the job.
217 comments end of 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520510

And I just installed selected this in Rider, I’ll see how I feel about it tomorrow while working. It doesn’t look bad, but I think I prefer Cascadia Code which also has a bit of playfulness.
> you ... defending CP

Yikes. On 4chan you'd have just blindly implied that the poster fathered himself in a freak accident with his mother, who is a bovine. Here, on the nice polite internet, you merely implied that a real person, whose name is attached, is defending ch1ld s3xual abuse.

You're so upset about there being a forum you don't like that you've decided to use one of the most powerful accusations you can make about him - one that imho could justifiably get him killed if true - so casually. So much hatred.
You're an utter moron! Stop overthinking and just fucking do it!
Makes me wonder why even bother in that case to introduce phony pricing.
I think he was trying to be clever by referring to the standard web interface as the free HTTP API, which is true to a limited extent. It's a poorly-designed and unstable API. The use of the unpopular term "user agent" may have made it harder to understand, but I appreciate almost any opportunity to bring that term back, because it has important implications that "web browser" lacks.
From my perspective - speed is about 2 things: more smaller iterations, confirming you're working toward a desired outcome.

Over my career, I've been surprised multiple times when I presented early draft to a stakeholder and they said, "oh, that's great, I've got what I need now"...and this was maybe 1/3 of the effort I was planning for.

The way I see it, if the problem is important - any early solution should provide some relief. If some initial relief isn't wanted, the problem is probably not important.

Along these lines, in my work with stuck startup founders, I often ask, "if we were going to demo a prototype to a customer (in 2 days | at the end of the week), what would it be?"
I believe it is eminently credible draw a strong association between consciousness and the physical activity of the brain since it is relatively well backed up by scientific observation that there is a one to one correspondence between conscious experience and brain activity. Although we still don't understand precisely how the physical activity creates qualia, I think its perfectly reasonable to say that studying and understanding brain activity constitutes studying and understanding consciousness.
Even that makes little sense. Reddit has survived on volunteer moderation and their use of third party tools to manage the workload. If Reddit doesn’t want to cover the cost of that infrastructure then they’re going to incur the extra cost of hiring moderators.

I imagine they’re upset that they can’t send adverts through the API (and thus third party clients) and since these companies see ads as a money printing scheme they’re happy to sacrifice whatever they can for it.
> Starting high, creating a lot of negative reactions and almost killing any real market for profitable apps on your platform seems to be the opposite of smart

It's really dumb if the point is to keep all the third party applications that made your platform popular. It's much smarter if the point is to kill them all in favor of your first party app, that you are promising your VC investors will have tremendous growth leading up to an IPO, and you don't want your site to look like the bad guy by killing all the third party apps.

They just handled it poorly. If the reddit app actually had the moderation tools they've been promising for years, I doubt the moderator outcry would be anywhere near this bad.

And if you watch you'll notice, even during the blackout, reddit's messaging is all about the things you can still do besides use the third party apps. They're making the API still free for moderation bots. They're working with apps that provide accessibility tools for reddit. They're working with the services moderators use for moderation. They're appealing to the moderators. They've made no mentions of working with: Apollo, BaconReader, or RedditIsFun. The point was to kill the third party apps.
> its only Extremely Online people who care about this Insider Baseball stuff

I think this is the case for many things. And I imagine people will/are get wise to it. Elon Musk I think figured this out when he did what he did with Twitter. Some very online people really cared and made a lot of noise and the very online part of the media that cares made a lot of noise. But those people don't really matter and the media side has declining ratings year after year as they become more and more irrelevant.

I think the paper tigers are starting to be exposed and they had a good run for the last 10 years by being very online and making a lot of noise. But ultimately, their voices don't matter.
Eh, the thing I feel most people (who lost a lot of money on crypto) learned about what money is, is that crypto is not money.
Doing business with family requires more lawyers and ass covering than doing business with strangers.

And: "Do the things others do not want done"
http://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-3...

via https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
> So the solution is easy for any laywer to provide - just shut down the business.

I don't really agree with that take. He's already talked about what happens now, and it includes refunds for unused subscription time.

> I've been talking to my rep at Apple, and over the next few weeks my plan is to release something similar to what Tweetbot did (Paul has been incredibly helpful in all of this) where folks can decide if they want a pro-rated refund on any existing time left in their subscription as Apollo will not be able to afford to continue it, or they can decline the refund if they're feeling kind and have enjoyed their time with Apollo.

> For the curious, refunding all existing subscriptions by my estimates will cost me about $250,000.
IMO, in 2023 M2 based macbooks are the obvious choice for IOS dev since you can basically test using very similar apple silicon on your macbook.