skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But then having any conscious experience, even one of pure darkness, must be extraordinarily informative, since we could have had countless other experiences instead (think of all the frames of every possible movie)."

It is worth asking why this argument does not also apply events like the die-rolling case, and it is because the state of the world immediately after the event is strongly constrained by its state immediately before.

The argument quoted above tacitly assumes there are no such prior constraints in the case of consciousness, but this does not seem to be supportable. If it were so, it would seem that our minds would be constantly taking a random walk through a vast number of possibilities, and it seems inconceivable that there could be consciousness in that case.

As '(52)' in the longer passage is a reference to an early paper by Tononi on his Integrated Information Theory (IIT), I think it is worth pointing out that this argument does not support IIT specifically, or more strongly than any other theory consistent with the premise that the current state of one's mind strongly constrains what happens next.
When I visited Japan I had whiplash from the disappointment at the state of tea drinking.

While the visit was the best holiday in my entire life and I had the opposite of Paris syndrome the one thing I was particularly looking forward to was visiting Japanese tea rooms. But except for tourist traps and museums all the tea rooms I found were Western style tea rooms and English afternoon tea was all the range apparently.

Same thing happened when I moved to the UK and discovered that 99.9% of people drink tea bags most of which are terrible, they brew it with no care and then add half a cup of milk and heap of sugar into it.

And yet in both cases the mystique around tea, tea accessories and tea aesthetics remained. The actual tea part of it atrophied or maybe was never there to begin with, I don't know. Tea sets serve as decoration while they drink a mug of builders tea.
I at times still write spaghetti code. I switch to functional if the repetition justifies it. It can be quite beautiful.

OT: I remember someone noting that he tried to have modular code with as little functionality per module but reached a point where searching for things took writing it.

I sometimes ponder if it would be possible to create a DSL for every tiny niche part of each application. It would likewise depend on how awesome the documentation is and if you can even find it.

I think LLM's could make both ideas viable. One would be able to find anything and figure out how it works.

Could have a committee that judges how reusable your language extensions are and possibly grades you as a programmer with hints on how to improve.

Writing the coffee machine DSL should give you bragging rights.

A bit like languages nowadays accumulate new features.

In an ideal world one would write functions, the repetition of those would be documented and spawn language features, repetition and usage of those would spawn features in the lower language in which the language is implemented which in turn would spawn machine instructions. All using real data in stead of a cultivated hunch or popularity contest. How many installs, how often does that part of the code run, how many cycles can we save globally.
Alas, security generally isn't so important.

How many times have you been hacked by a side-channel exploit? (Or people you know? Or any publicly documented case?) Are you going to use a computer that runs at 1/10th the speed to mitigate that risk going forwards?

Keep in mind that a ton of non-side-channel exploits are caught in the wild every year, so your slow new computer isn't really secure, it's just not vulnerable to these specific attacks.

(For 1/10th: the Cortex-A55 in the following chart is the only "in-order" CPU: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17102/SPECint2017_575px.pn... - though arguably even it isn't completely non-speculative, and it definitely has branch-prediction, but it's at least a reasonable ballpark.)
You're comparing your populace to drug addicts? Ok then.

Producing (recreational) drugs isn't innovation. Drugs don't improve your daily life. Absence of them doesn't make life resemble that of the 1900s. They don't increase productivity allowing you to achieve more with your life. And most importantly, the number of people consuming recreational drugs from SA is a rounding error. Every single person in Europe consumes some type of software created by American companies, directly or indirectly.
Crypto is much more transparent than Google Ads due to the fact that most of them at least have a public blockchain. Is there any way to know if Google Ads purchasing isn’t a giant Ponzi of ads? Is there any way to verify they aren’t bidding up the auctions and that any of it is based on reality and competition at all?

Crypto also has price discovery through shorting and selling. How would one short a Google Ad or sell one in their marketplace? There’s only one supplier and it’s “trust me bro” for the price discovery. I think it will be very funny if the past decade or so was not only based on a foundation of sand caused by zero interest rates, but also an ad ponzi from the tech giants. We sent our best and brightest not to the moon or to cure cancer, but to find new ways to keep that ad ponzi going.

https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/meet-performance-max-th...
This makes no sense.

- Arrays of 64 byte Structures with C. (client)

All you need for parallelism is to spawn threads and give each thread a range of an array to work on. You don't need each element to be atomic because you aren't synchronizing on each element.

What makes you think you need specific data and a specific language?

- Java. (server)

This makes even less sense. A language doesn't matter and how it's used doesn't matter.

Where did you get this idea? Can you link something?

Everything else is not atomic.

I think you don't understand what parallelism means. Read about openMP, it is very simple.
What makes you think the EU would have the slightest jurisdiction at all over any entity outside of its member states?

The only reason they speak about Google is because Google does business in the EU.
> Browser fingerprinting and countless other techniques can and are being used as well.

Those work, but Google has publicly committed not to use them for ad targeting. Hence all their work on privacy sandbox (attempting to preserve as much of the economic effects of cross-site tracking while fixing the privacy leak).
They are exempt from what they attribute to their lower-order siblings.

When someone makes such a statement in a coversation, that should be the implicit charitable interpretation, so much so, that your kind of statement is uncharitable/disingenuous.
The best thing about Luna is that its existence necessitated a capable theme engine, which enabled a vibrant ecosystem of third party .msstyle themes. Some of those were very well designed and a joy to use.

Aero, or at least the slightly toned down Windows 7 version of it was better than Luna, but similarly to me the bigger benefit it brought was the more capable theme engine. There were a lot of awesome third party .msstyles for it too.

I’ll forever resent Windows 8 for ripping out that nice theme engine in favor of one barely more capable than what shipped in Windows 1.x.
Wow, this is exactly what I've been waiting for! GAME-CHANGER.
It's true: some people like Docker for Python, some like venv, some like conda... some lose it entirely and install everything locally! (acting like I haven't done this at least once!)
How high are elderly care nurses on the suicide statistics?
I am well aware that the overwhelming majority does not contribute but consume. Communities need participation, if you are not participating you are not giving back, you are leeching. If everyone is leeching, there is no community. Consumers are not entitled to the content of the producers. Producers both consume and produce.

> To say lurkers shouldnt exist is extremely reductive and callous.

I didn't claim that they shouldn't exist, I claimed that they are not the core of the community since they do not produce or otherwise interact with anyone else.

If a tree fell in the forest and nobody heard it, did it make a sound?
The article should really be called I moved to small German town and regret it.
Well i am not talking about impulsive “make repo private” type of action but rather the team that maintains large open source projects to take coordinated action in moving, removing or updating the license of their projects.

Forking code is not an issue - i can fork half of github and it wont mean much without maintenance.
The $70 pizzas are at Eataly
> I'm half Korean and half white, and I'm unfortunately treated differently based on my looks

> I can't wait to feel welcome again in my home country

She's talking about being treated differently based on looks and then suggesting that The United States of America is a better option. Maybe that's her personal experience, but it sounds completely absurd as part of a critique of another country.
On the other hand the opinions you get from medical professionals is garbage as well. Just try going to a few with the same problem and you will realize it. In my case I want to 5 doctors with my knee issue and got 5 different diagnosis/treatments. One wanted knee surgery. Another wanted hip (!?) surgery, one said it's about cartilage, another said it's muscle imbalance, another said it's my hip mobility (so surgery!). One did hyaluronic acid injections another recommended manual therapy done by his friend. The one who did the surgery I later learnt is not recommended anymore told me I will never be able to run/play sports anymore. I do 15 hours a week these days including running 100+km/month for almost 3 years (I switched to other sports now as I find them more fun).

Another time I've done a routine blood test and PhD liver specialist with decades of experience thought my liver is damaged looking at the result. She didn't know that liver markers are elevated by strength training (which I mentioned to her) and the way to test for that is to test CK levels as well. She wanted to put me on meds as well.

"Studies" mean very little. You can learn a lot from people who took time to read a literature and are good at critical thinking or you can easily be fooled by a confident educated moron with a PhD. I've learnt more about my issues from random internet forums than I've learnt from doctors and I really tried it with doctors.
The government is already listening to all your phone calls and reading all your text messages. There's likely very little in there they don't already have.
> the only remaining way I see to fix it is to stop trying to make ESM happen

I do not understand how this should even remotely be possible. It is a de-facto standard now and used in moste Javascript projects.
As someone who learned German, forgot it and re-learned it, it's also a terrible method to learn a foreign language, unless you're really motivated by speaking with other newbies.

The best approach with the most evidence for sucess is Comprehensible Input[-1], which requires nothing more than access to content you want to consume in the language of your choice

Ironically this was the most helpful youtube and twitch ever were for me, since I find mainstream German TV to be pretty bad (I find the same, or worse, with American TV to be fair)
What's the value proposition of Airbnb and Vrbo for guests these days?
I'm trying to book a vacation right now. Comparing hotel sites to Airbnb and Vrbo I'm dumbstruck. Not a single listing on these two sites is cheaper than a comparable hotel stay. For example, I can get a highly rated hotel suite with fully supplied kitchen in the same area for 25%-50% less than I can get a 1 bedroom apartment, and the hotel comes with significantly more amenities.

Half the Airbnb listings look like they're hotels masquerading as condos or apartments.
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic, fyi
JavaScript should have adopted the exact same package/import statements and file structure of Java.

It works rather well, it's not confusing at all and if you really want something else you can use require etc.
This is why "normies" laugh at the discussions on Hacker News, and there are several reddit groups that mock comments made here.
> It is still an interesting aspect of the typeface that doesn't get much attention though,

It gets mentioned in every single comment section I see on Comic Sans.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that "the people they look down upon are more kurds than turks"?
Yes. Only once you truly love eating your big mac will the hamburgalar murder you.
They seem to like to do it for free.
I'm English, and a few years ago I spent a LOT of time in Germany (2 weeks out of every 5 in Leipzig, for almost 3 years) and I always felt enormously welcomed.

My German was terrible but I tried, however many people also wanted to try speaking English with me so often we had a broken English/German exchange.

I loved shopping, it was a great time to learn new words and experience people.

Playing table tennis, and sharing beers, with the locals, and going to the lakes and parks, also helped a lot.

The cheap beer combined with the deposit scheme, oh lordy.
I've been also a customer of Postmark for years and I am delighted with the experience. I feel a bit attacked when reading the original post as well.
Common mistake: The opposite of "all HN comments on medicine are absolute garbage" is not "all HN comments on medicine are absolute treasure", but "not all HN comments on medicine are absolute garbage", or equivalently "there's at least one HN comment on medicine that's not absolute garbage". This can be deduced indeed, but that gives us no information about your comment.
How is this journalism?
Most ideas about life after death are based on the assumption that because we have consciousness, it can't just "stop existing" as a true nothingness. Ask someone to picture that, and they picture a black void that they still experience.

So it seems sensible to me that General Aneasthesia would feel quite unique in that regard (I have experience it myself) - one moment you're here, the next you're waking up. You don't dream, you don't feel like time has passed at all, it's just kind of a blink and then you're somewhere else.

And that's it - "true nothingness". It's the closest you can get to not existing while still being able to come back.
Exactly my experience. I remember when I joined my company, after a couple of months I thought my job was pretty demanding but oncall added another level of stress. That being said, it's certainly less stressful now. At least, I can solve a bunch of issues myself, and I'm not lost in the internal tools anymore. And it's pretty rare to be bother in the night. And it's not like we're doctors or something. Worst case, somebody won't access a service for a few hours...
You are including an entire continent and countries like UK, UAE, Saudi for coming up with this revenue number for EU. Also my guess would be that profit margin will be much lower than US due to all the regulations like GDPR.

Google's overall ad revenue is 4x greater than EU total revenue. It will definitely loose EU business than it will loose ads business. But yeah there are always legal loophole in things like this and likely it could keep both.
it is amusing that people think Wikipedia is not a corporation, and is not subject to the same problems as reddit.

It is well documented that that Wikimedia CORPORATION that controls wikipedia has all kinds of the same problems, with the directors and management of that corporation at odds often with the users and the "mods" of wikipedia.

That is with out getting into the debate over the overt ideological capture of both the wiki and the corporation

No I dont think the wikipedia model is the one we should look at as an example
There’s been a lot of technological progress since the Soviet Union’s demise.

There’s probably some point where running a full command economy becomes feasible with modeling, oppressive surveillance and repression, etc. Not sure I’d want to live in it, but “the Soviets failed” is a weak argument.
So wait... she moved to germany, a country that speaks well.. german... moved to a small village... been there for a year and a half... and still hasn't learned english well enough to be able to normally communicate?!

I live in a smaller chicken-shaped country two countries down from germany, and the situation here is the same, especially with americans. While some older generations have issues with our language due to.. well... yugoslavia issues, young people (new..ish immigrants) usually at least try to learn the language as fast as possible (with maybe one group excluded). But americans? Five, six, ten years here, and unable to order a beer in any other language than english. Yes, I know all waiters in the touristy city center know english, but come on, you came here, at least try to adapt.
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Brief: Join a small team with a flat hierarchy to develop an API and GUI for selling high resolution satellite imagery!

Posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/frontend-software-enginee...

Limitation: Nationality limited to EU member country, NATO member country, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland. We can help with the VISA.
>Schools do a terrible job with their gamification of grades so my GPA and attendance were terrible.

Well, it is simply another skillset since at some point you have to game the teachers setting the grades, which involves other kinds of (meta-)hacks. I remember one student who specifically asked every professor at the start of the semester what he had to do in order to get the best grade and then he meticulously kept track of the "progress", some teachers were very reluctant to do so in "specific" terms but in the end he "gamed" it successfully.

As a fun side note from the Old Continent: There is a kind of "ultimate achievement ring" of academia in Austria which dates at least back to the monarchy times under Ferdinand II and in its secularized form is now called "Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae" and accordingly specified in Austrian federal law [0][1] which has to be followed by each Uni and kept updated[2].

The gist: perfect scores beginning from "Sekundarstufe II" (~ age 14-15) to the terminal degree "PhD/doctorate" achieved in regular time or better.

A fun side note of the fun side note: In 1910, Erwin Schrödinger who formally passed all the requirements for a "sub auspiciis" didn't get to put on the "ring of honor" because the University of Vienna at the time limited the award to only 3 candidates/year, he would have been the fourth one.

[0]https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_auspiciis_Praesidentis#Pro...

[2]https://senat.univie.ac.at/promotion-sub-auspiciis-praesiden...
Holy cow. People are comparing Google to crypto exchanges now.

Blockchains are public, yes. But the entities behind them are completely and utterly cryptic and centralized. Most of them operate out of Cayman Islands/Bahamas, etc.

Comparing Google to crypto exchanges is insane.
I agree coding is a great discipline for both deep work and deliberate practice.

I would draw a distinction between the two. Deep work is about achieving the focus and attention to do serious work. Deliberate practice is about the motivation and effort to focus on improving your skill set.

You probably know this from Cal Newport’s excellent book, but for others. Two great but distinct mental tools to add to your kit.
That is really every post here or anywhere.

Just in the last week I've seen posts where:

STEM people -> arguing about Psychology.

STEM, Psychologist -> argue about History

STEM, Psychologist, Historians, -> argue about Finance.

STEM, Psychologist, Historians, Financiers, -> argue about Evolution.

Everyone one on the internet has different levels of knowledge and are being exposed to ideas for the first time at all different times in their own development. All discussions on all subjects is chaos.

Queue

STEM, Psychologist, Historians, Financiers, Biologist -> argue about Chaos.
This is about ads on non-Google websites. That business could be spun off without making Search/Gmail/YouTube/etc non-viable.
Interesting article, but I wish OPs would give us a comment on what made it worth sharing to them.
I felt very welcome in small villages in Germany as a Brit.

I'm not left wing though, that's probably 90% of it. There are reasons that these people choose to live far away from metropolitan centres, it feels completely reasonable to respect that.
"WARNING
YOUR PICNIC MAY HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
It is forbidden to consume food, to feed the animals and to leave garbage in the park. Birds and animals are a risk to aviatin safety. Violators of this regulation are liable to a fine"

Better picture of the sign

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/picnics-at-montreal-s-unique-pla...

also , raccoons don't fly
While I generally agree that small cities with elderly population are more problematic, and Otterberg might be an instance of that, I found it interesting, that they definitely vote left-leaning[1]. The red "SPD" are the social democrats, "CDU" are more conservative christian democrats.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otterberg#Politik
But that's not the claim being made.
Pro tip, if you go to cancel your BrowserStack subscription they (at least used to) offer you 50% off your plan, indefinitely.

I’ve been paying 50% for 3+ years now. $40/mo was absurd for my usage but I can stomach $20.

That said I need to reevaluate the space. I’d much rather pay for non-expiring minutes. I just need mobile and desktop manual browser testing with the ability to install apps on the mobile devices and proxy to my local computer. My usage is tiny (0 on average, randomly 60-120min 2-3 months at max).
hawker.social looks stunning
i like how it combines features from other social media platforms and even other features that are not built into other social media platforms
While I don't intend to make any actual assertions in either direction, I do feel bound to note that the experience of being anesthetized isn't really incompatible with a concept of souls and of ensoulment. After all, under anesthesia there remains something to "come back" to. When dead, not so much.
Same here.

One small caveat is that I must already be in a somewhat decent state to do physical activities. Sometimes I'm just too "mentally tired" to even get myself to exercise - it would be great to have a tool to get over the hump in moments like this.