skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I wish scientist made more of these public friendly bets. I feel they really help promote the discussion to a wider audience abd brings a bit of spirited competition to the matter rather than the capitalist motives we normally see with research. Something like The Long Now's Long Bets but with your average scientists where us regular folk can throw our two cents in (without the membership fee).
The only one red in my chart is the car and I too got 11%.
Perhaps a map of the world with a timeline slider at the bottom. The map would need clickable bubbles which are larger or smaller relative to the significance of the event.

Zoom out for a smaller number of more significant global events. Zoom in and, like Google maps does with cities, show an increasing number of less significant events local to the zoomed in area.

For example, zoomed out in 1692, we see a slave revolt in Barbados, a large bubble for Europe's ongoing Nine-Years' War, and the Salem Witch Trials.

Zoom in on Salem and see little bubbles appearing with specific witch trials.

Now, to truly bring home your idea, add weighted dotted lines between events. The strength of the relationship between events would influence the weight and opacity of the dotted lines between events.
But we are not rational machines. There is a difference in emotion and depth to buying a cookbook, or randomly stumbling upon a dish you (maybe unexpectedly) like and take the ideas of it home with you. One (of many) example of mine is british breakfast tea.
Wow, it's been a while since I saw a genuine "my opinion is objectively right" in the wild.
I can't speak for a Russians perspective of saving face, as I'm an unrelated outsider.

Nonetheless, if Russia ceases their aggression after this then it wouldn't have been defeated by Ukraine. You'd basically end up with non-patriots having caused the loss, as such you'll have a group of people to blame.
> until (literally)yesterday live music after midnight was banned in Turkey as part of Covid-19 measures?

That contains its own embedded example. “This music is not being performed 1 hour after midnight; it is being performed 23 hours before midnight.”
This is precisely what made me "get" it
I mixed up pricing. Several thousands a month. But if you could buy a 192 CPUs server for just 10 grand, seems like not a bad deal. Especially if this hypothetical project is able to attract the load we are discussing for longer than a few weeks.
This is a bit of a straw man, because (1) a real sign would say something "no motorized vehicles allowed in park". (2) implied with the sign is the jurisdiction of whoever put it there - presumably the city goverment which doesn't control things in the airspace high over the ground, and which grants exemptions to emergency services.
Me currently neither. But this seems to be his only choice, where he would go on living. I am sure, there are secret negotiations taking place behind the scenes.

But he knows, that he will confirm in the eye of the russian public, that he is a traitor then. But officially he already is and his loyal forces can never take Moscow.
These days we have a better analogy. It's like trying to figure out how artificial neural networks work by looking at their weights! :D
You wouldn't lose privacy by using a blockchain if the file is encrypted. It is protective, because the time of upload can't be faked with a blockchain. As I stated, one could prerecord and upload at a later time, thus faking the register to make an event appear more recent than it really is, but once uploaded, there is no way to falsify the recording as having happened at a later point in time than the upload. If these recordings are being streamed in real time non-stop, the recordings can be assumed to always reflect reality, thus providing strong evidence in court.
Since AI is all the rage, I wonder if one could feed a standards document or RFC to AI and it would output the implementation in whatever language you like...

But then again with how wrong it is usually...
and harelang.org
I recommend reading longer histories and reading them on audiobook. Those tell history in a nonlinear way, going events over and over and over from different perspectives, until you get the feeling of what it was like to live in that time. Your intuition about many rivers branching and merging is exactly what good history is written like. Once you have read some good histories, it's easy to fundamentally fall in love with all the stories and realities of the people travelling down these seemingly infinite rivers.

for example, read Adrian Goldsworthy's "Pax Romana" and "How Rome Fell" for a very entertaining and up to date view of rome at its height and decline, with hundreds of little nonlinear story details. The audiobooks are on the audiobook bay. Listen to them view a Smart Audiobook reader with auto-pause for if you fall asleep, and start listening during exercise, cleaning, cooking, and commuting.

If you start doing this, you'll start listening to about 2 histories a month. In a year you'll have a much deeper understanding of history and how it's written.

Unfortunately, audiobook is the best format I've found for overcoming the size of history texts. It really helps me with my reading difficulties and tendency to get stuck on boring passages. The history is much more engaging when someone is reading for me. Also, many passages are going to go over your head, and it may put you to sleep literally - that's also fine!

The goal is to start understanding and enjoying the small little stories that historians write. History is full of millions of them, and many of them are enjoyable!
Since you mention China specifically: I was in Beijing once. On my first day there I walked into a random restaurant and was given a vacuum-sealed package full of stuff I couldn't recognize. There were multiple spoons, a teapot (I think), a small plate... far from the chopsticks I was expecting. I eventually had to accept that I had no idea how to eat "Chinese style" and resigned myself to being "that guy" who eats straight out of the serving spoon.

I gained a new appreciation that day for what "different culture" truly means, and has made me more tolerant to those who break social rules without malice. I knew all of that before, but that moment really helped me grok the concept.

To put it in algorithmic terms (this is HN after all): one could be stuck in a local maximum and not known it, and making a small jump in a completely random direction might be exactly what's needed to get out of there.
What do you mean? It works for all possible inputs.
By implicitly assigning „it“ an identity, you’re simply anthromorphizing an LLM. Bing doesn’t see anything. It isn’t able to do anything. It’s a very convoluted and complex mathematical model of weighted terms that spits out text generated from a prompt. And nothing science-wise suggests anything else. People seem to keep forgetting that.
> For example, places in Italy and Portugal are becoming inhabitable for locals.

So tourists make the place for to live in for the locals?
Whether a rule has been violated is a meaningless concept outside of the context of enforcement.

Natural language itself must be interpreted within a context.
Life is short. See the world while you can.
> Avoid excessive parenthesized remarks as they make the text hard to read

chuckles nervously in Lisp
Daniel Feldman on Twitter: So WHY did OceanGate use carbon fiber for the Titan?
Exactly! I like to explain this kind of casual rulebreaking to US/UK people as being the German equivalent of using disgusting swearwords. Fine to do with your friends if nobody is around, or if you want to look tough or whatever, but don't do it in crowds and especially not in front of children.
I was just trying to combat the common narrative that static types are "what Java has". There is so much potential for static typing that has not been explored by industry (e.g structural typing).
I tend toward sprawling sentences. Later edits see those chopped up.
Also, one is sparing with the pronouns. They are variables on the stack of the reader's mind, but quickly become a tangle.
London’s ancient cart marking ceremony
A non-negligible part of this coal is burnt in order to produce things exported to North America (among others), therefore by buying less...
Congratulations on your launch and good luck with your product!

I have a question. You say that you "scour search engines like Google, Bing, and Wikipedia, alongside manual fact-checks, to retrieve supporting and disputing evidence". I presume that's done automatically? In that case, there is some concern that such search engines will soon be retrieving content created by Large Language Models that will have little chance of being factual. What is your plan to deal with that possibility?
I want to leave my life with as little interference as possible from any moralizing types telling me how to do it. So my basic answer for "well wishers" - fuck off and leave me alone. You do what you want with your life (and I respect it) and let me do whatever I want with mine.
> A long article about essentially nothing.

This description fits almost every New Yorker article. Yet, the headline made you click. It does not matter if you read it, they do not expect you to read it, nor do they need you to - but there need to be some text following the headline.
You jest, but that has a good likelihood of becoming the watershed moment. The moment AI is bootstrapped to the point where it surpasses human ability to advance the AI SOTA, it's pretty much game over—from a Darwinian point of view at least.

And I have a hard time seeing any reason why that would be a matter of "if" rather than "when".
Exactly. Basically an inward looking sense, with it's own qualia.

Of course the only way to know if someone/something else has a similar subjective experience of something as ourselves is to ask them, so there's always going to be wiggle room for people who don't want to believe that a future AI reporting conscious experience really is conscious in the same way that they are.
Attending meetings is part of doing your jobs. Meetings exist for a purpose. The whole attitude that all meetings are somehow a waste of your precious time show that you both are unable to grasp what’s happening and are strongly entitled. I’m not surprised to see it fully on display here considering the readership but you have to understand that it’s why people who interact with developers find them hard to work with and is largely responsible for the stereotype of the software dev as some kind of eternal adolescents you see on display in most business.
jrockway mentions postgres in their comment:

> (While I'm here, I'll also point out that PostgreSQL is similar here. Have you ever upgraded and had your app broke? Absolutely not. Every version is a free performance and feature win.)
What about powered electric wheelchairs?
Except people rarely ever do get a real insight into other people's lives and culture from just travelling, do they? You're not sharing your life with the locals, you're not friends, you're just walking around the city centre looking at sights and eating in restaurants. You're not going to work, commuting, having coffee with friends, going to house parties, etc
One thing we can be sure of is that if there is a rule, there is someone trying to test its absolute limits (and our tolerance for BS, I suppose).
Whether or not he is really innocent isn't the point. The issue is being jailed without evidence. Guilty before proven innocent happens all over the world, and is happening more often now due to political polarization causing fraudulent accusations to be par of the course for prominent individuals - it is becoming an occupational hazard as we delve into idiocracy.
I considered the emergency vehicles to be violations of the rule, but that they were defensible exceptions. To borrow a legal concept, that they are emergency vehicles was an affirmative defense, meaning I had to first admit they violated the rule.
I hope they tasted their sturddlefish, just in case they accidentally created the most delicious fish ever. Little Albert Hoffman moment
And no one can talk to a horse, of course.
China manufactures things to send to North America.
Well, the commoners will. The more virtuous and tolerant and rich among us will still get to fly their private jets and luxury yachts around to climate conferences. For the greater good.
I don't need to have a "need". Want alone is enough. We did not "need" to do shit since we were wandering around gathering food some bazillion years ago.
Yep I think there's plenty of growth/shrinkage creaking from small gaps opening and closing and from structures sliding around on normal metallic subs. But, I bet this sounded different and more terrifying, and was fibers/matrix breaking and cracking. And amplified by the total lack of acoustic materials inside the sub.

I thought about this last night and it kept me up a bit. Most of my experience now with carbon, after a little work on structural analysis of layups, has been masts for windsurfing. I've had a couple high performance carbon masts that use 90% carbon and 10% glass break on me. The outer glass is to help against impacts. I've had a case where I heard a little cracking noise then pow, the mast totally collapses into two pieces and I'm in the water.

The consequences are usually much much lower when you're on a board floating in water than when underwater thousands of feet down, but the sound in that thing must have been horrible. I want to see his video though.
It was a range
This isn't just relevant to other people. The question is also 'why does a human form a single consciousness?'.

If consciousness emerges purely from information exchange in a complex system, then consciousness would be primarily driven by communication interactions between regions of the human brain and the rest of the body. This in turn means that there should be a way to merge or split consciousnesses.

For example, a bidirection man machine man interface would allow two humans to form one shared consciousness given a high bandwidth communication link. This can be tested.
It takes a while to really get to the point: "Travel is fun, so it is not mysterious that we like it. What is mysterious is why we imbue it with a vast significance, an aura of virtue". I think framing that everyone treats travel as this enlightening, broadening experience ("we") is wrong.

I'm not one of those people. I'm a filthy tourist that goes to museums and art galleries and goes home after two weeks happy to be back and I'm okay with that. I also know people that put months or years of their life on hold so they could travel aimlessly with a backpack and they seemed like they had a great time, and would probably argue they feel enlightened and broadened for doing so. So I don't really know who this article is against. There probably are some vapid people who fit whoever this is targeting. Don't know why this is written like it's uncovering some ugly truth about "us" and "we", whoever that is meant to be.
I guess Venice is the prime example: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/30/sinking-city-...
Not much ongoing there anymore.
> If it's not hard, shouldn't that ideal be towards the handful of browser vendors rather than the thousands/millions of website owners? I agree, if you're going out of your way to provide different stylesheets, provide a toggle, otherwise it's kind of a wasted effort anyway. However, my point of argument is the ideals. The idea someone SHOULD provide something. That SHOULD should be towards browser vendors, not website owners.

I want browser vendors to include a scheme toggle. Until this is present, I want website owners to include a scheme toggle. I don't care about the ideals while they degrade user experience for no good reason. Your website won't break once the browser toggle is implemented.

> I don't think it's fine in your scenario, and the current state of things.

I have no idea what you're trying to say. What I said in your quoted example is: you don't have to include multiple color schemes. Why do you think it's not fine? Why do you expect website owners to include multiple color schemes?

> If we require websites to individually provide their own toggles, how will the user know a toggle is even available or not? It creates an inconsistent UX where some websites have toggles and others don't.

Inconsistent UX is better than non-existent UX. You're asking for website owners not to include a toggle. How is that better than having inconsistent toggles which force me to change my whole OS color scheme just to change the scheme of your website? You're not explaining any advantages this has for the UX. Because it's pretty freaking terrible UX to do so.
A lot of these feel like lazy worldbuilding.
Yes, unless you live in a place that really has authentic Chinese food (and there are so many different kinds). And how do you really know it is?

So the answer is almost always: certainly. Especially if we talk about Sichuan food - very hard to find the authentic stuff imho.
There are loads of these lists out there and they are all largely making the same points.

They are useful and I definitely think that people who are serious about writing prose should read them. But there are few (if any) stylistic rules that I would consider absolute. To me, these rules are useful to know so that, when you are about to break one, you can ask yourself "do I have a good reason for breaking this rule?". If not, redraft.
This is interesting. The activity in Russia is looking a bit too widespread and real-world (vs. angry words & token action) for the usual dismissals - "there's been big talk and angry bickering between Prigozhin and the Ministry for a year or more" - to still seem credible.

But unless Prigozhin and his friends have somehow managed to correctly judge a psychological "magic moment" (to have huge numbers of Putin's seemingly-loyal people suddenly switch to Prigozhin's side), then this will end horrifically for them. Putin still controls ~99% of the military forces - including all the heavy stuff - if those soldiers stay loyal to him.

And from Ukraine's PoV, the whole situation is just FAR too good to be true.
You don't know how much biological consciousness relies on quantum effects we don't understand. We don't have large scale quantum computers so our computational models are too weak to approach it from that angle.
I think it is quite expected after layoffs / bonuses pause, right?

I don't think this is due to beliefs that e.g strategy is bad or something?

or is it?
On that note, I live downtown in a city specifically because it lets me accomplish all day to day needs and most day to day wants entirely by walking.
This is like saying “Nothing really matters due to the millions of people in our countries that also vote making our vote worthless so don’t bother voting”. If we all thought like this the world would be a worse off place.
While I agree with you on the relation of GP's Hyp1 and Hyp2, you are making an unfounded assumption of a sampling process being necessary to perform human speech. I do not believe we have the understanding of how thought is represented in the human brain to make that judgement. In other words, just because sampling from a distribution can produce human-like text does not mean that it is the only way to do that, and thus that it must be the way that humans produce text, spoken or written.
I think semantic compression is achieved by using a denser more expressive language, some languages can express the same activity in far fewer lines of code.
Personally I find the denser code, harder to read, which I think also makes sense, since it contains more meaning in less space.
If you are writing code, perhaps in python, and you keep following your editors instructions to refactor it, you end up with far fewer repeated lines of code, and lots of small reused functions, you are actually doing manual code compression.
I have always wondered why, if editors are so smart, they don't have a 'compress this project' button, which does all that for you.
In fact, that's how you delete your old tweets: rename old account to a new username, register the old username, delete the renamed account.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/delete-tweets

See "How to delete multiple Tweets".

As bad as it sounds.
They're referring to the example here:

https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/blog/transitive-and-intransit...

'buy' is the action, 'director' is the subject, 'lunch' is the object.

<subject> <verbs> <object>

is the typical transitive verb template, a transitive verb connects a subject and object (whereas other verbs don't require an object).
Sure. I've only ever seen small-scale setups by less experienced people use YaST. Say, windows admins that do one or two Linux servers on the side.
If USB PD were used, you would have up to 48V (240W) available, which should cover all but the largest appliances.
> how and where is it stored

I don't know, but it doesn't matter, just like it doesn't matter if the code on your computer is on a HDD or SSD.

> and where is the execution logic for it?

I don't know, but it doesn't matter either. It's a question about the workings of the computer, not of the software.

Electronic computers make it really easy to separate the software from the hardware, and make it easy to dump the software in some other representation in order to understand it. When I want to understand a piece of code, I read its source code, I don't care about whether it's an amd64 or an arm64 CPU and the details of the encoding unless I am working on a compiler.

With biological computers it's much harder to dump the software. But nevertheless, until people realize that this is what they should attempt, or research how it can be done, I feel we won't make any progress on the nature of consciousness.
That's a fantastic definition. Now does the article explain what those maximums are, or how often they meet them?
Content moderation is hard. Analogies are also hard.
To be honest, I can understand why it's not very clear to most people. I think you need a picture instead of the paragraph.

> Given a set of all possible N-bit values,

I think they lost most readers at this point with the pseudo-mathematical language. Why think of a set (when the values are ordered)? What are bit values and what's N? ("combinations of N bits" or "N-bit binary values" would be clearer.)

> we can assign the lower (by the binary value) half to be the integers from 0 to (2**(N − 1) − 1) inclusive

Or here: what does it mean to assing the "N-bit values" to be integers, what is a lower half of a set, "N-bit values by the binary value"? Where does the expression (2**(N-1)-1) come from?
Sure, if you ignore population size and accumulated past emissions, it's easy to blame China and sleep peacfully.
Yeah that's my mistake. I'm not arguing he's going to appear that way by throwing a coup.

I'm suggesting that lots of people act a way, and then they change for a job. If he wanted the leader of Russia job and had to act nicer to the west to keep it, well, that's a possibility.
Venice has become increasingly unpleasant to actually live in compared to the mainland for basic infrastructural and engineering reasons, and tourists have exacerbated those but the problems would still be there without them.
My late father was well versed in this writing style - even though he never held a government role

Journalists and particularly paper editors (he was deputy editor in chief of a famous magazine owned by the now defunct Federal Publishing) in the 80s and 90s.

He and other editors had to adhere to it in overly government focused articles (not necessarily for propaganda, moreso for consistency)

I truly believe there were no soft power intentions behind this sort of thing, it was difficult to find these particular resources pre-internet so they were essential pre late-90s