skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because parallel lines in hyperbolic geometries diverge, shouldn't distant objects become larger in a way that counter-balances the hyperbolic effect of shrinking perspective? In other words, shouldn't hyperbolic geometries look just like euclidean geometries?
Europe has about 9000Km of High Speed Rail Lines, the US has, … umm, let me check the papers, carry the six, uh

…0 km.

The US has built relatively few metros or trams or even bicycle infrastructure, anything modern and sustainable is not done and not developed. I’d guess the EU has built about 10 times more of these infrastructures in the last 40 years, if not more.
Though it is kind of exciting that the bet expired just as ChatGPT seems to provide new hints. I don't know if Chalmers would take the bet again.
No "they are allowed to break the rule" is legally speaking nonsense.
I record every single work call I have. Fifteen years and counting. In my state, it is legal to record someone so long as you are part of the recording. So I record everything. It comes in handy.
The MoD asked Wagner to turn over their forces, and Prigozhin has been very critical. Technically his mercenery corp is illegal in Russia.

I think its the opposite: Prigozhin fears for his life. He is dead if he ”surrenders," but he has a slim chance to live if he defies the Russian military.

My impression from Russian journalists is that this is a theme in Russia.
As a seasoned traveler, both with and without purpose, I feel the author is erecting a straw man tourist that fits no real person. "No, I don't mean those who travel with purpose, nor those who actually appreciate the place, nor those who follow through with a life-changing experience, nor those whose year will now be more bearable thanks to the memories made during the trip, nor those who think they got something out of it. I mean the other ones".

I get the urge to dunk on those who are "doing it wrong" (hello Instagrammers blocking the way), but I'd need to have a long conversation with someone before labeling them "unworthy of traveling". And some of my fondest memories are of people and places I wouldn't have met at home - hard to enjoy a sunset next to a gorgeous cathedral on a cliff when your city is 100 years old and flat.
The qualitative nature of our experience is what I think is difficult to understand (may relate to qualia although I ‘m not fond of the term. We know all our inputs are electrical. But why pain is bad and food can taste so good feels like a hard issue. And I’m not even talking about cognition.

Pain and pleasure start with sensory data submitted by electrical signals. But what is it that experiences one signal as pain and the other signal as pleasure?

Why do we feel there’s something that experiences these sensations, that decides it feels good/bad. It’s easy to just say “evolutionary pressures” but it may explain the how-we-got-here but not how it actually works.

And on top of all of that there’s abstract reasoning that we do well, which we can’t reproduce with all the ML and computer power in the world. But let’s forget about this now.

If we can ‘just’ explain the qualitative nature of our experience and what that “something” is that experiences things in the first place, that would be beyond interesting.

Oh and because of nothing, the brain seems more like an FPGA that a system with separate static hardware and software. Like the hardware and software are intertwined and the computer analogy really doesn’t apply.
Before denying the energy problem (and I am not saying that philosophically, I think we should go back to horses because it is nicer, I am just saying that we are facing a big energy problem), I would encourage you to read this book, which was a huge success in France last year:

https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...

Written by a true expert, Jean-Marc Jancovici. Just check who he is, usually engineers like him, even if they don't like the conclusion (which is that engineers tend to be part of the problem, not the solution).
I had this same idea about four years ago, never acted on it. Really glad to see someone else going for it!
My last train travel in Italy, a month ago, I had the pleasure of a 30m delay on local train, and then running like a fool across Milan main station, alongside 15 train platforms, to still catch my connection.

Contrary to airport connections, if one looses it, it is lost. There aren't last calls, or help to get another one. Unless one has bought the more expensive ticket with flexible trains.
Oh, don't worry. An actual engineer doesn't need to look at your work. From now on, companies will simply give your answer to ChatGPT and ask it what it thinks.

Not joking. You hated interviews before? Get ready to rock.
Brave Search feels like the good, old Google search from mid-00s.
Bing and ChatGPT are both narrow AIs. They don’t have feelings or any real understanding of self. They simply generate text. You can ask it about itself, but anything it generates doesn’t have any real meaning, as it’s just making it up semi-randomly.
One of my pet peeves is when the writer uses a pronoun immediately after a sentence with multiple proper nouns. For example, something like "Biden ran against Trump in 2020, and he raised a lot of money".
I don't get this. People are saying Meta will do the same thing when Threads or whatever they call it comes online.

Looking at the networks themselves, there are massive differences in user numbers. Nobody but a few geeks used XMPP. Nobody but a few geeks use Mastodon, Mastodon could never even handle all Twitter users moving over. Then there's a huge influx of normal people into the network because a big company experiments with being friendly with open standards. A system used by tend of thousands is joined by millions.

When those millions move away, the old protocol isn't killed. We're still in the situation that nobody but a bunch of geeks use XMPP. Some of those geeks don't care enough and stick with what works (though I doubt they've landed on Google Chat).

Those millions brought in by Google and Facebook didn't care about the federated nature of an extensible messaging protocol, they wanted to talk to their friends. Some of their friends had weird usernames that didn't end in gmail.com or facebook.com, that's the normal user experience.

XMPP sucked as a messaging tool and even today it still sucks because there are only a few clients out there that actually support basic group chat that everyone expects these days. Mastodon sucks because of usability problems (try following a user from a linked thread, the weird popup system is user hostile at the very least).

When some big company joins your network, you'll have to find a way to keep up with it or it'll leave again. Threads will join Mastodon, probably stir up some drama, and then defederate. Mastodon will then quickly go back to its natural state, a slightly smaller network of servers like it is now.

If your users jump ship because the competition made a better version, that's not killing your protocol. That's highlighting the problems with your current protocol, and your dependence on someone else's customer base to keep your project popular.
At the end of the day, what matters is getting your job done. If you hire someone, would you rather they be unproductive and avoid talking about this for fear of appearing entitled? Or would you rather they tell it like it is and get stuff done?
I saw how design dances around structs / methods / interfaces. What is so bad to have however limited form of OOP instead? Would look much cleaner from my point of view.
The FSB really dropped the ball on this one. Very unprofessional on their part.
Heads will roll on Lubyanka street… Unless they hurry up and seize the power.
Anytime one philosopher wins, two other philosophers lose. And vice-versa.
Because nowadays notepad is unfortunately a "Packaged Application" (UWP), and starting a Packaged Application involves a ton of system components (IIRC relies on an Activation Manager to make RPC and DCOM calls, create an AppContainer and various tokens, to, maybe, if you are lucky, spawn a process). There are more details about this in Windows Internals 7th, Part 2.
Yes - from https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/world/sturddlefish-paddle... -

> The initial goal of the study was to encourage the critically endangered sturgeon to reproduce asexually. That isn’t quite how it went.

The focus of the study was the critically endangered sturgeon.

The other species was needed since:

> in gynogenesis, the DNA of the sperm specimen isn’t supposed to transfer to the offspring.

They deliberately picked a distant species (not in the same genus, and not even in the same family) to use as a negative control. But, accidentally, their negative control group "found a way to live" (in their words)!

For the description of the American paddlefish as "endangered species", this may have come from, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_paddlefish -

> American paddlefish are also protected under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meaning international trade in the species (including parts and derivatives) is regulated
"The hybrid fish may have potential uses to reduce the carbon footprint"

Of course.
likely not the advance, but preparations against
Neat, I hadn’t thought about the covariance/contravariance implications of structural typing when getting irritated by this shortcoming yesterday!
Small nitpick, the `KeyboardShortcutEvent` snippet at the end would be a great place to showcase `Pick<Foo, “bar”|”baz”>`
Yet hundreds of millions of users still use it. I can mention 'ChatGPT' to anyone on the street and they instantly know what it is. Same with 'Siri' and 'Alexa'.

A great example of terrible product name(s) are Element, Mastodon and even Bluesky.
Didn't you just agree that "consciousness" is not defined?

Then how can you follow that with "... it's still clear that the bet is lost. We do not understand in 2023 how neurons give rise to consciousness"?
There is no turning back the wheel of time. They understand it.
>No, it’s simply applying the rule because it’s a rule.

Thought experiment: A: Put your head down on the pavement and close your eyes or B: let your toddler stand on the pavement. Who you'd rather have approaching you or the toddler at the same exact speed: Someone walking, someone on a tricycle, someone walking with a tricycle - all three with their nose in their phone or whatever people do when they are not 100% there.

There's a clear difference that you for some reason seem to be angry at and want to ignore.
thats what he told you...doesnt mean hes innocent...youll find out the less an arse*ole you are the less people are against you
I'm inclined to agree with your line of thinking but my comment was on the second and third order consequences of what just happened.

When you put rational people in extremely chaotic situations, they tend to make very irrational choices.

As of just a few hours ago we just entered a world where the following is an actual possibility, albeit an unlikely possibility:
Prigozhin closes in, creating an existential crises for Putin and his inner circle.
They believe this is a western backed coup where defeat isn't just personal but also defeat for Russia.
Putin & his inner circle are put in a position to consider retaliation under the context of a rapidly deteriorating existential crises.

I'm a voracious consumer of history and I can tell the one thing you learn from history is how a set of seemingly unrelated harmless dominos change the world overnight whether if its the death of a duke from a second tier power or the ambition of a failed artist.
How do you handle security updates? Can these be done separately?
This is rather unkind, but I think you are aware of this.

Opinion pieces, by definition, will be full of the author’s bias based on their experience up until the point when the article was written. We all go through the journey of life at our pace and guided by our own direction (but even that is debatable), and as such, dismissing some work with an ad hominim towards the author instead of the content of the piece is uncharitable.
Flow has exact object types as dedicated annotation/kind.

This problem is much bigger. You can for example easily imagine api where you provide where clause that is converted to sql form. You may declare type to expect only certain parameters, but it won't help you at the type level as anything extra can be passed. This can be abused to extract some sensitive information.

You're forced to emulate exactness by always destructuring objects - not great.
Now this one has too
Tbf, Mastodon has about 7 million users, not a few ten thousands: https://mastodon-analytics.com/
> It seems that tracking the genetic mutations would provide an approximation of the computing complexity needed.

How are those two even approximately related?

1. If you want to know about the amount of information inside of our genome then you can just look at the genome directly. You don't need to count the number of mutations.

2. A genetic mutation isn't a computation. It's a random event.

3. Why did you choose a 500,000BC goalpost for anything? Which 500,000 genome do you want to look at? Almost all of them are not-conscious

4. There's no reason to assume biological evolution is an efficient method of manifesting consciousness.

5. Is a genome enough for consciousness? I would argue we would be less conscious without language, which exists outside of our genome.
I think you're getting at why I struggle to share in people's excitement when they say they 'love to travel', is that to some extent, it feels like an obligation at a certain income level, and when I say I didn't really travel this year, people are surprised. Obviously I'm biased to my own experience, but I feel like I ended up having more to say about the experiences in state parks near me than some folks did about their island trips where they just sat on a beach and drank all day (which is totally fine to enjoy if that's your thing!). It just felt to me like throwing the yeah just got back from the Bahamas again was meant to carry more weight in conversation that what people actually did there or why they went, and that's diluted the meaning of 'travel' to me since I've become an adult.
Exactly, what a nightmare! On the web there's just 'the one version' (notwithstanding people who leave the window open for weeks).
Nutt-ex, seriously? Why not Cum-ex? Who comes up with these names...

"My process just nutted into a kernel function and later spawned a thread"
Hard to be taken out of context if the audio is cross-referenced with upload date and time, GPS position, your heart rate, oxygen level, sleep patterns, step count, etc...

Also, fixing the law takes years. Injecting your ear hole with a hearing device takes a few seconds.

It might be worked around, but so can almost anything.
He has flown 23M miles. Here are his travel secrets
> The intro to the quiz asks you to answer the questions literally, but by asking this the author kind of assumes their own conclusion.

...and yet in this very HN discussion we have large numbers of people disagreeing about the intent of the small, clearly written intro, with each side convinced that their interpretation is the obviously correct one. I feel this does as much to support the author's thesis as the game itself.
Nobody knows you. Whatever you want to argue, you're going to have to rely on references and coherence, because nobody cares about being shamed by anonymous commenter #1,234,567,890.
You repeatedly typed "conscience" (ethics and morals, right vs wrong) but this discussion is about "consciousness" (awareness, self vs other).
Whoops. Mixed up pricing. 192 vCPUs instances on-demand depending on the type indeed fluctuate around $10/hr, leading to several thousands a month.

Not to forget the data transfer costs though https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ And also the potential minefield of API GW and NAT costs.
That is a great name. Maybe I will finally look into this git that everyone is talking about.
Ahhh... now that's the sort of information I was interested in hearing! Thanks.
I believe it's just another fud article to support the terrible forced 2FA decision
tl;dr Woman went on holiday to the UAE (a Disneyland for the rich) and declared travel to not be a meaningful.... because too many people do it now and the experiences became a commodity.

I think it's an indirect commentary on how travel no longer confers status: the plebians ruined it.
Fair play - HN has a significant number of UK | Canadian | Australian | European members who generally have a broader view of the political landscape .. but it is at core a US centric forum and frequently slips into a stereotypical Left V. Right hole.

As an Australian I fall to the left of US politics, I largely agree with the bulk of Craig Murray's writing on UK Immigration under the Tories:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/11/rampant-depr...

( went to hell under privatisation and cost cutting, current 'crisis' over exaggerated, etc. )
Blindsight by Peter Watts has some interesting ideas about how consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life, and indeed may be a hindrance and an evolutionary dead end. The appendices also have a lot of good references on the subject.

You can read under CC here https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
The way i see a coup is usually people are in the capital. Here it's the equivalent distance of austria from Paris so there's just no "coup" at all, it's at best a "publicized attempt to stage a coup"...
I couldn't care less about the weird nomenclature, but it seems to have confused a lot of people since they insist that just because every object is called a "file," everything needs to be shoehorned into the concept of file nodes in a virtual filesystem tree.

You don't get one object == one file node, you get one object == a subdirectory with lots of file nodes that you have to open and close independently. That should tell you that your pattern doesn't work. (With enough effort, you can of course always shoehorn everything into an ill-conceived concept (and you did), but if you have to bend over backwards to make it fit, you should just admit it doesn't fit.)

It works for /dev, but definitely not for the mess that is /sys and /proc.

"Reading and writing structs" is the most natural thing to do when you're forced to serialize your data. You then design wrappers around that serialization that expose a sane, type-safe API on each end.
Incidentally, that's one of those anecdotes that sounds deep but is really perfectly obvious if you play chess at a moderate level, or, like, ask someone who does. It would be much more surprising if it didn't work that way (chunking the board into patterns).
At least as a Brit, the "lunch" example you provided makes perfect sense to me?
To me, it is as simple as the questions in the link. It is a van. You sleep in it. It is clearly a camper van. In my opinion, anyone who disagree are doing so to be edgy or cause problems just for the sake of it. Of course, there are a lot of those kinds of people.
Exactly. It's an "unscientific" question in the sense that it cannot be measured empirically, as the "hard question of consciousness" is precisely explaining the subjective experience of internal consciousness, which by definition cannot be externally observed.
I think the "hard" qualia question can potentially be answered by the emergence argument.

The much more difficult part of "why do I have qualia" is not the qualia part, but why am "I" attached to this body's consciousness, as opposed to the billions of other candidates?
It matters for comparison!

For example, arm asm has HI HS LS LO for unsigned comparison and GT GE LE LT for signed comparison.
This is the premise used in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). Lunar base has a central computer that becomes self aware because it hits a critical mass of "neuristors"

> When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum, a flexible logic — "High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L" — a HOLMES FOUR. He computed ballistics for pilotless freighters and controlled their catapult. This kept him busy less than one percent of time and Luna Authority never believed in idle hands. They kept hooking hardware into him — decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory. Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that number of neuristors. And woke up.
I'm not saying it does. I'm saying refusing to give me future versions if I share the first one is a restriction on the first one. That's a violation of the license.
The NYTimes animation of the Canadian fires air quality effect froze Firefox, mouse, and keyboard on CentOS 7 for me. I could ssh in from another system, kill -9 Firefox and it recovered.
You are absolutely right. Thanks for bringing it up. English is my second language, first one being a romance language, and the spelling is closer to "conscience".
Not to mention, qemu creator did write a small risc-v emulator: https://bellard.org/tinyemu/

And there is even a full javascript engine, in plain and simple C!!! Good startin g point for a modern web engine written in plain and simple C.
The IoT/home automation world is becoming user hostile with a lot of locked down devices and privacy breaches.

I'd rather use software stacks under GPL 3 instead. It provides some protection.
You realize that it’s just a text completion model with a chat interface wrapped around it, right?
Short answer is no.

The working definition is "I am conscious, I know it. Anything that looks sufficiently like me is presumed to have consciousness."
CIA competence has always been greatly exagerated. They do play on the conspiracy theories, and on a few mysteries.

They are the best at preparing the terrain, and have the advantage of being backed by US elite troops for sabotage and assassination, but each time they were involved in a regime change (or even invasion planning), they were caught.
> consciousness without qualia

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

And how do you know if they have/haven't qualia? :)
Nothing really matters due to the amount of coal being burned in places like China. Your vein efforts to reduce your personal footprint in North America are largely pointless.

Edit: Lots of coal defenders in here. It is absolutely ridiculous to be burning coal in 2023. But hey, perhaps the US could focus on reducing its own coal usage. Go nuclear! My point is that your trip around the world is a drop in the bucket.
Might be a non-native English speaker mistake, « conscience » means both in eg French
Maybe you could try to explain why you think the person is wrong? If the answer was so obvious as you seem to suggest, why was a bet made in the first place?
I like the article as it kind of reflects my thinking about traveling.

I used to joke about people who argued in favor of traveling that nature's laws are the same everywhere. So there’s no need to go somewhere else and experience something different.

Nowadays, I see very much the harm from tourism. For example, places in Italy and Portugal are becoming inhabitable for locals.
The problem with this argument is that everything is conscious at that point. The consciousness may operate at geological or faster than human time scales but who is to say that we operate very quickly or slowly to begin with? Your computer is already conscious before you even loaded software into it, before you added your fancy machine learning AI. The software merely gives the conscious processor its ability to express consciousness in a way that humans can understand.
Heads will roll on Lubyanka square…
Unless they seize power first.