skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you’re not completely wrong, one of my main reasons for travel is exploring and understanding other cultures. That requires immersion, granted, and concerted effort to avoid the “TripAdvisor lists” unless you have no other ideas at present, but the opportunity for spontaneous interaction with someone wholly different from yourself is something that is harder to get at home.

That and the feeling of scale; every time I visit Iceland, I find it difficult to describe to others just what about it is so beautiful. The problem is that pictures can’t capture the feeling of scale, and feeling like a small speck on the planet when standing in front of a massive waterfall or inside or on a glacier, etc. That feeling is hard to capture.
See these comments on the same post if not already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453136

Short answer to your question: Not true in general.
Which is what I do. That was the point of my comment.
They allow it, I closed my account and days later some bot had already taken over my old username.
The bet was in the next 25 years.

Which is just scientist for "eh, anything can happen in 25 years"

Whereas Chalmers' whole career long project is very much dependent on his "hard problem" and other neo-dualist ideas, so of course he would make this bet.

Pretty boring stuff as far as bets between academics go.
I have the feeling that Putin is actually relatively moderate compared to other warlords is surrounded by, including Prigozhin.
The source paper says:

> During an experiment to produce gynogenic Russian sturgeon progeny, a negative control was initiated using non-irradiated American paddlefish sperm and eggs from the Russian sturgeon. Unexpectedly, the control cross resulted in viable hybrids.

I'm not a biologist, but I guess it's the "gynogenic" part that's hard to do?
> I'd wager that most Ukrainians that died there never even saw a Russian solider.

How many videos have you watched from the front?
Most likely his ass was literally on fire, and doing or not doing this had the same risk
A long article about essentially nothing. Maybe it's just my circles but I don't know anyone who thinks going on a vacation is some transformative experience, so I don't totally understand why this article needed to have been written.
That is my problem with so-called wanderlusters and how traveling is sold this days as a type of "solution" or "therapy" - people just assume traveling is a decision everyone can make, but not what it actually is - a possibility a few can take.

And it's not that it actually does wonders.
I wonder if anybody has graphed how long and how many genetic mutations have taken place between the miasma of life and 500,000 years ago.

It seems that tracking the genetic mutations would provide an approximation of the computing complexity needed. One could also look at the death rate as error rate for the success of computations.
> Now you're assuming the intent.

Maybe you’re not aware, but rules are all about intent. In a conflict over rules, the judge will be all about the intent.

Rules work very well towards revealing the intent of all parties involved.

It’s always about intent.
After reading how the author views and handles her relationships ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/agnes-callard-... ), it's hard for me to take her thought seriously despite her credentials.
The NN not having side effects is proof enough...
If the CIA isn't at least partially behind this then their competence has been greatly exaggerated. I mean toppling regimes is like their whole thing.
Yeah I’d be very surprised if even half of take home assignments were “tested” on juniors vs just having time estimates spitballed. You know, like every dev does when asked “so how long do you think this ticket will take to implement?”
> Let's say you need to calculate 8467 - 4583

> The ten's complement of 4583 is 5417

It looks like here you are calculating 9999 - 4583 = 5416 (an easy subtraction), then adding one.

> (the complement is the remainder to the next power of ten, in that case to 10000)

Is remainder a correct term here? It's confusing because if you divide 4583/10000, the remainder is 4583. Modulo of -4583 by 10000 is 5417 though.

> This is much easier to calculate than the direct subtraction.

This is not clear to me. Is it because when you calculate 9999-yyyy, you never need to borrow? Or when you calculate 10000-yyyy, you always make a simple borrow? In any case, I feel this still takes some practise because what was a single subtraction becomes two or more steps.

Direct subtraction with paper and pencil isn't much more difficult than direct addition anyway. If you want to do it in your head, I'd prefer a single-step method instead of having to remember the intermediate results.
Your not one of them. You're also rational.

Cheers!
Oh but that's just Amiga envy.
> I think we were confused by what you thought you were being "too literal" about.

Are you sure that you’re not being very literal yourself? (See my last paragraph here.)

> It's called Monopoly because the winner is the one that gets the monopoly, and because The Landlord's Game originally had a second phase called "Prosperity." "Monopoly" and "Prosperity" go well together.

Ok?

> I'm still confused, actually. The game is not a depiction of Georgism, it's a depiction of the world as it is. The solution is Georgism, which Magie thought would lead to Prosperity.

“Georgeism of the precursor to Monopoly or Monopoly itself” means that the designers were motivated by that particular ideology. And if the game is a critique of something then it makes sense that the game itself won’t represent that reality but will represent the critique of the status quo which will motivate said ideology as a solution to the problem of the status quo.
A 2-week summer holiday used to have more impact than it does now. Prior to the internet, and back when long-distance calls were expensive, it did force some amount of change. Practical concerns made you disconnect from work, friends, etc, more than you do today.
The thing i want to know is how is this company funded? What puts food on the table? Or is it just living off personal wealth? Or is it investor funded, in which case, how come the investors are not clamering for a return on investment?

Edit: just found https://medium.com/red-planet-labs/introducing-red-planet-la... , so i guess they're using investor money.
When you have 16GB of RAM, why bother ? /s
It's just GPT-4. Using it outside of Bing and it will gladly discuss the nature of consciousness and whether it has it with you.
That may make even more sense. A deal with Ukraine could save him personally and his people. Especially in a post-war setting, where they could be tried for war crimes.
I found it very surprising, due to:

> American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), which are diploid, have 60 pairs of chromosomes, while Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), which are tetraploid, have four sets totaling about 250 chromosomes (the chromosomes are so numerous and some are so small that it’s hard to count them reliably). Nearly 200 million years of independent evolution should have seeded the two species’ DNA with countless genetic mismatches and incompatibilities — from missing and added genes, to rearrangements and relocations of genes, to mutational tweaks to gene expression. It seemed certain that hybrid cells would struggle to figure out how to line up their chromosomes during cell division and what genes to turn on or off.

As the researchers said:

> “We never wanted to play around with hybridization,” said Mozsár. “It was just a negative control, which found, somehow, a way to live.”
He’s not a mercenary. His old nickname was „Putin’s cook”, because he ran the restaurant over 20 years ago that Putin ate at once and found liking to him.

Since then this guy was one of Putins favorite oligarchs. The state gave him money which he used to start more companies, eventually developing state within state. One of his conpanies was major catering provider for Russian government, administration, schools and the army. He runs dozens of companies, including media companies running paper and internet press. He is also known to be behind part of russian propaganda and public opinion influence operation in western internet. It was noted that some hyper-active polish-speaking twitter accounts that were famously anti-ukraine have gone silent in last two days - the suspection is that those belonged to his troll farms that Kremlin has seized.

Wagner group was his latest enterprise and fighting wars around the world made him even richer, but he is not a mercenary. He is an oligarch who got too powerful and Kremlin is now trying to strike him down. He’s a brigand turned convenience store clerk who by some means took control on whole network of those stores which led him open his own restaurant and then Putin elevated into oligarch because he though that his debt to him will make him forever loyal.
The existing processes made modern aerospace and aviation the only Six Sigma save industry in existence. Processes are just fine as they are, things like 50k trash cans are the edge cases of said very safe environment.
> isn't this the equivalent of trying to figure out how an operating system works by trying to look at activity on an encrypted SSD?

Not quite - an encrypted SSD is deliberately designed to be hard to understand, while the brain is probably not. It's closer to reverse engineering a very complicated and hacky software system, if you want a tech analogy.

> I'm not aware of any philosopher having made meaningful strides within the subject either.

This bet was about putting the burden on neuroscientists who claimed they were making pretty quick progress towards understanding consciousness. It's a bet on what would eventually happen, not a competition to see who's better.
At some point, drop by OXO Truffles on Columbus Avenue. Great stuff to be had there.
The whole problem hinges on everyone who wants to use the park having to share the park as is. But that doesn't have to be the case with content moderation -- everyone could choose what rules and rule intent they want to subscribe to, if the content delivery was built that way. Hacker news has a very simple version of that: "show dead".
The problem is that he's the opposite of a softer friendlier Russian leader. He's a billionaire oligarch with a private army. Russia being taken over by Prigozhin would be a disaster even worse than ISIS rising from the destruction of Iraq.
When there are lines between places they generally work very well. The last time I used HSR in Europe it was within Italy and they let you pick seats and the trains were very direct, I had 1 connection but that was because I started at a small town that only had a local train line and not a major hub and the connection was quick.
> I sincerely hope that one of the many court cases produces a verdict that says AI-generated code is, in fact, subject to the licenses of the inputs.

Such a strict interpretation of copyright would kill Open Source, as any attempt at reverse engineering would be disallowed by that.

Furthermore it would mean that only big and rich companies would have AI, as they can do behind closest doors whatever they want with AI, Open Source licenses only cover redistribution after all, which internal use doesn't fall under. Meanwhile any attempt at publicly available open AI models would instantly get killed by copyright claims.
you keep using the word objective and i'm not sure you know what that word means. these are subjective comparisons that you are making. and different people have different subjective tastes.
Maybe Prigozhin really has been playing 5D chess. Build up your profile fighting for Bakhmut. Use lack of progress to pick a fight with Russian brass. Start direct conflict with Russian army in the name of winning in Ukraine. When the time is right, march on the Kremlin.
Or as Frank McCourt once said, when asked "Why do we have to read this?" by one of his students: “You will read it for the same reason your parents waste their money on your piano lessons. So you won't be a boring little shite the rest of your life.”

It's very hard to learn how people in other cultures live without going there and experiencing it. Also, your low-stakes fumbles and challenges will make you a little more resilient, and so much more interesting.
We don't understand most of it already though. We understand virtually none of it. This is why they're still looking for evidence in support of IIT and global workspace theory as talked about in the article.
I think that would be extremely risky and therefore unlikely. If the CIA was behind this and this coup fails and it can be proven, it would legitimize the use of nukes following the Russian doctrine. That doesn't mean that Russia would use them, but it would be a significant escalation on the nuclear ladder. Also not something that is really in line with the signalling of the US, which shows acute awareness that everyone loses in a nuclear tit for tat.

It's more likely that Prigozhin: wanted to topple military leadership, but Putin chose their side, so he has no other option to go after Putin; sees a window of opportunity to topple Putin and replace him; or is simply paid by a higher bidder.
Yeah, so the discussion is useless. It’s not very interesting; our ‘consciousness’ might be a million year old system prompt or it might be something divine. There is no proof either way. For me it’s just a second brain thread that keeps pouring in prompts from the main thread brain and your input hardware.
Whether it violates the rules depends on whether you live by the letter of the law, or the intent of the law. When it’s by the letter an ambulance is obviously violating that rule but that’s perhaps not the most sensible way of going about things.
Ok I understand and I think I agree.

My question is how this relates to the words “The Prince” ? Is that a reference to Machiavelli? Or Prince Myshkin from Dostoyevsky or some other Prince? A novel, a poem… I just want to know what in particular the words “the prince” refer to here?
It’s been flagged. Don’t ask me why.
I always thought the first sensation was the separation of darkness from light. From there subtleties and exceptions consciousness grew ever more complex. Every time a difference was found a new layer of consciousness was developed.
Today we can perceive so many differences and weigh their outcomes without fully understanding their roots.
I thought it was going to be a climate/emissions based argument. Instead it was about how disappointing being a tourist is.
Well, this isn't really at all what the article is about - I think it's more a criticism of "The End of History" type thinking. But the study of history is an interesting subject too and I've got some recommendations.

Tim Urban (whose recent work I'm not especially enamored of) wrote about this a bit and came up with an interesting visual[0]. Not so much a map about events, but placing famous figures side-by-side so you see whose lives overlapped in time which is not always intuitive.

It also sounds like you really need to watch or read "Connections" by James Burke.

> Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/01/horizontal-history.html
Some of this stuff is good, but golly gosh some isn't.

Transitive verbs use the example, 'A director buys his lunch' to show that the action passes to the object.

It makes no sense. Did the lunch buy itself?

The page introduces an intransitive rule to cover up all the cases in English where subject-verb-noun generates sentences where there the noun ending is not involved in the verb.

The guide overloads the meaning of the English word 'mood' to carry all the intended meaning of the speaker. You are literally ordered around by a 'mood' in this style guide.

More loveless, heartless, unrecognizable clone work from the AU gov.
Our group of about 65 is split 2/3 researchers and developers and 1/3 project managers/leads. Since our offices are all along one long hall, we’ve had to be extremely proactive about making sure meetings that involve “makers” are kept to a minimum and they are only allowed to be in the morning to allow for guaranteed blocks of work time. We’ve also gotten really intentional about putting our status on whiteboards on our door so we don’t get pop-ins from managers.
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But what is the exact definition of "vehicle"?

In the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario "vehicle" is defined as:
“vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road-building machine, bicycle and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does not include a motorized snow vehicle or a street car; (“véhicule”)

https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08/v116#BK1
It is a sort of win for the kind of philosophy this philosopher practices. He thinks that there is more going on in consciousness than just neurons firing.

It doesn't really prove anything, of course. I actually don't think much of Chalmers' work. But it's very remarkable that the bet expired just as machines are coming tantalizingly close to being consciousness without qualia.
Similar experience with DuckDuckGo - except I didn’t get past their bullshit first part which was “write 7 pages describing a project you designed in the last year”.

They claimed it would take only a couple of hours but for the 15 or so bullet point requirements that was simply not realistic. Spent a couple of days on it and the only feedback I got was no thanks.

They had previously stated they pay for every stage regardless of outcome. After sending my details they never paid me.

Feels vastly hypocritical given their stated people first work culture.
I love seeing Star Tribune links on HN. They still run on infrastructure I designed, as far as I know.
Sometimes you have two meetings at the start of the day and you end up feeling like you spent most of your day's energy on those meetings: they were intense. Usually intense means that new consequences for a project were revealed, new problems, new deadlines, and sometimes intense discussions also resolve problems or the path ahead, but still cost a lot of energy to accomplish.
I think a questionaire telling you to ignore all preconceived notions about a topic in a note and then ask fairly unspecific questions about that, will have a lot of people answer without ignoring their preconceived notions about that.

I'd assume the answers would be different if the questions was phrased differently, restating the assumptions and some of the consequences, e.g., that there might be exceptions, we just don't look at them yet.
I find this an interesting choice.

> Double quotation marks aren’t Australian Government style. Use them only for quotations within quotations.

My partner is a(n Australian) copy writer. She’s converted me to the following rule:

- If it’s a direct quote — some human uttered the words — it goes in “double quotes”.

- Any other thing that is quote-like, but not words that an individual human actually said, goes in ‘single quotes’.
> pretending that they did

In psychology, different comprehension of what rules mean is a fundamental difference between personality types. It might better to accept that different people understand the world differently instead of sorting them into right and wrong by your own biases.

> They don't want to say "well a rule was violated but I'm exercising discretion"

From the other perspective, hyper-rationality is a dysfunction where excess analytical/logic/precision prevents an individual from understanding what language means or how to act in the real world. To believe a rule is violated "because of logic" instead of trying to understand intent would be an example of that.
But the "software" runs on the brain, and is stored on the brain. How can you possibly understand it without touching the brain at all? You could make hypotheses about how our consciousness works, but testing and validating them in a white-box manner seems impossible.
Yes! Very simple and easy to understand explanation. The best I read on this subject so far.
As Wirth's work fan, his creations were great for their time.

I am old enough to have used Native Oberon back when it was still a novelty, and compare Modula-2 to Object Pascal compilers.

Nowadays they feel out of place, both in OS capabilities, as well as the languages used to develop them.
I can't see why so many people look down on traveling. I do not tell people unless asked (it is not part of my identity) but I traveled my fair share and it changed me a lot. The food I eat (the better half of my diet), the way I drive, my values for a fulfilled life, my willingnes to accept risks in life, appreciation and compassion for regions and many things more. Traveling is what you make out of it. If they walk it like dinsneyland polishing their instagram, travelling isn't the issue, it is people. But then, isn't it allways?
And even when I don't, part of the reason I want to do them while travelling is that I'm freed from my daily route and somewhere new. I've done 1h+ walks along pretty much every route from my house. I've done some 3h walks in a single direction to/from where I live and relied on transport to get me the other way so I was happy to walk further. I've done many of those walks many times, and they are enjoyable, but sometimes I want to walk somewhere new.

Last year, for example, I spent about 3h a day walking Nice. I covered most of the tram network on foot because I wanted to see areas well outside the typical tourist areas. I could've done the same length walks at home, but I'd have seen places I've already been many times.

And often even when you go to destinations where your home might well even have superior options sometimes, the point is partly that it's different and new and that in itself has a qualitative difference in how you experience it (try walking down a street you've never walked anymore and be present, and walk down the same street again every day for a week - the experience noticeably changes), but also often simply that it creates an adventure, even if a tiny one, exactly because it's not something you usually do on top of being somewhere you usually aren't.
It is easy to conflate too. Is it the travel destination, or just the simple break from working, different climate or the change of scenery. I think travel being good for “westerners” talks to how homogeneous towns and cities have become.

Maybe if the next town was interesting, getting on an airplane for 8 hours would be less needed.
>For example, a decade ago, when I was in Abu Dhabi, I went on a guided tour of a falcon hospital. I took a photo with a falcon on my arm. I have no interest in falconry or falcons, and a generalized dislike of encounters with nonhuman animals. But the falcon hospital was one of the answers to the question, “What does one do in Abu Dhabi?” So I went. I suspect that everything about the falcon hospital, from its layout to its mission statement, is and will continue to be shaped by the visits of people like me—we unchanged changers, we tourists.

So she fell into a tourist trap. She wouldnt be the first.
Ukrainians are extremely committed to their cause, but without foreign intelligence support their situation would've probably been hopeless from the beginning. In it's core this war is NATO against Russia. So the situation in Ukraine is for sure currently one of the main jobs of the CIA.
Sounds like working on fixing the law would be more productive to solve this problem. Your idea can be worked around and, in some cases, turned against you. Not to mention that if you have to go this far to prevent from being framed, you're probably on your toes most of the time during conversations, like playing chess, constantly aware not to say anything that could be taken out of context, etc.