skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed reading this.

> We know that we are currently conscious, and we presume that when we are deeply asleep, under anesthesia, or otherwise incapacitated that we are not conscious.

I slightly disagree with this one statement, but only because of my own perceptual experiences. When I am asleep I am sure I am conscious, partly because I have a lot of lucid dreams, but also, weirdly, I feel more aware of the passing of time while I am sleeping, than when I am awake and engrossed in an activity that I find exciting or interesting.

Additionally, when under anaesthesia, I’m not necessarily convinced that people are unconscious. I think their ability to communicate their conscious experience is inhibited but I think it’s quite plausible that they are conscious. Anaesthesia definitely interferes with people’s ability to recall events. When I have talked to anaesthesiologists about their perception of what it means to be conscious, a lot of them say that memory and recall is an important aspect to consciousness, however as rightly pointed out in this post, having no memory of an event doesn’t mean one wasn’t conscious of the event. I have certainly seen people wake up during anaesthesia as well, but thankfully due to the amnesic properties of some anaesthetic drugs, their memory of it is wiped and they do not recall waking up. More worryingly though, some people who appear to be completely unconscious, can recall having an awareness which is distressing both for them, and the person who was responsible for ensuring they were not conscious. These events make me skeptical about anaesthesia inducing unconsciousness, and rather I think it just incapacitates people, and in almost all cases, successfully erases their recall of events. Anaesthetic awareness is a relatively rare complication of anaesthesia.

Sometimes I think of consciousness as some kind of cognitive mirage where it appears to be something, but the closer you get to really being able to examine it, the further away it appears. Despite all of science and all the technological advances made, we can’t quite describe what consciousness is and I find it really fascinating.
You want an internet where no one can actually talk about things that happen in their lives. Like we’re all robots and just discuss facts and figures.

Speaking personally, I love hearing about people’s actual experiences instead of a bunch of armchair experts telling other ppl how to live.
If commercial supersonic flight has any hope of being economically viable, one of the prerequisites will be cruising below Mach 2.
Would love an invite as well, if you still have some :)
It... really doesn't.

Sales is a great example.

In companies where bonuses are based on, say, revenue booked per quarter, salesmen play all kinds of games to jack that number up as far as it can go, regardless of the collateral damage. Piss off the engineers by promising the impossible? Who cares, I closed that McScully deal. Sold a customer a product that won't actually solve their problem? Cha-ching, bonus time!

Now, when you figure out how to tie sales bonuses to positive outcomes... that's a different story. Then the incentives match the actual goals.

But that's really hard to do. Outcomes can take years to measure, if they are measurable at all.

Hence why you end up with all kinds of really screwed-up corporate behavior. It's not because people or corporations are evil -- they just take the shortest path to the win, even if that's not really the road you wanted them on.
> more useful

More useful to whom?
Given that enshittification is a power play by a dominant monopoly, and Pocket really doesn't seem to have any such power, I'd argu that it's not that. Plain old incompetence and/or failure to articulate product-market fit seems far more likely.

Specifically as regards Pocket, there seem to be both a constant war against those using the tool, and/or who are inflicted with it (it's packaged/bundled with Firefox these days), neither of which do much to engender good relations.

There's also what I see as a terribly misguided goal of trying to be a content recommendation engine, when I suspect that the problem most of us face isn't not having sufficient gobs of content shoveled at our faces, but in trying to make sense of that which we have acquired.

Tools such as workflows, date-based tagging, multi-tag search (being able to search, say "german" and "comedy", rather than "german" and "comedy" separately --- basic AND logic), date-stamping articles (when they were input, when they were read, when they were highlighted / forwarded), the ability to compile article lists to send via email, metadata exports, the ability to directly edit metadata (automated tools often get the basics wrong: title, author, date, etc.). Export of articles to a durable document format --- saving a single article to a PDF or ePub document, or multiple documents, etc., etc.

I've discussed most of this at length with Pocket's support for years, or rather, had some years ago and largely gave up the effort when there seemed to be no discernible movement in directions I'd encouraged.
> Also, they get summers and holidays off.

Please don't perpetuate this. Any half decent teacher is going to spend summer looking at curriculum, block/lesson planning, in meetings, organizing their classroom, doing continuing education and training, etc. Sure, it's not as much work and it's more flexible during the summer, but it's by no means time off. Also, they work a lot more than 40 hrs/week during the school year. Also, they have a lot less flexibility about when they get time off. Also (in secondary/postsecondary), they have exams immediately prior to Christmas. (And yes, I bet you get Christmas off too.) And so on.
Much more than with many other media, anime/manga collections are a signal of personal allegiance and preference. For example, I can still recall the bitterness in the early US One Piece fandom when it seemed like Naruto and Bleach got all the marketing, the high-quality dubs, and merchandise galore, while they had to suffer through one of the most atrocious dubs in modern history and a manga release schedule that was 40 volumes behind Japan. I still have the tokens of this-- some untranslated copies found in secondhand shops and from fan-forum group buys, terrible figures, artbooks purchased at conventions long before the translated versions existed.

Bookshelves full of print manga will not disappear for anything short of a house fire. The same with owned DVDs, or properly maintained pirate content. They remain an ongoing symbol of the commitment to these franchises. In a way that would make sense to mainstream marketers, it's more like sports memorabelia-- keeping the cards/jerseys/etc. of their favourite baseball players from their childhood-- than a bookshelf full of novels.

Conversely, anything you consume on a "subscription service" basis will go poof when some MBA sees a KPI trending in the wrong direction. Can you really build the same anchored relationship with that sort of fragile foundation?
I’ve only been professionally developing for 3 years now and I’m starting to realize it’s all about familiarity; I think of it as “wear whatever shoes fit you best for the marathon”

I mentioned Go + htmx in my original comment because I use Go at work and we do a lot of templating with the .gohtml and I absolautly love it. The ecosystem of go is what I love about it most

Although I do get tempted by shiny things often; I try to remind myself to stick to a couple tools/languages
I don't see how having Away Teams fixes this issue. The Away Team member is still free to write shitty code (or un-write good code, as in this case), and it is still the responsibility of the home team to catch that in code reviews.
Like the freedom to operate a service that only accepts real location data?
they ad to have got the cash in the first place, so they can tell the owners how to be profitable
well, probably. it likely depends on how the move works; muxes aren't free and driving long wires isn't either

but the confusion in the comment you are replying to is that it thinks you are deriving a floating-point matrix multiply algorithm, when in fact you are deriving an integer matrix multiply algorithm

floating-point adds are slightly more expensive than floating-point multiplies

integer multiplies are enormously more expensive than integer adds (in power and area, though not in time)
See also: A Mathematician’s Lament
by Paul Lockhart (2002): <https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....>
This is cool. I do something similar but with an IRC server that I run and expose over wireguard.

I have a channel where my various IOT devices tell me stuff, a channel where my algorithmic trading bot notifies me, and a reminders channel that basically serves as an append-only, always-synched memopad.
Believe it or not, Apple laptops are now quite capable of gaming, and Apple’s recent release of a game development porting toolkit shows that they’re getting serious about the space:

https://youtu.be/bIPl71ZeOYk

40fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on a Mac laptop including a translation layer.
Perl still does have the best Unicode support, especially for regex's. In comparison, grep has imitation Unicode support (the -P "Perl" flag helps, but it's still nowhere near as powerful as Perl regex's). Python's standard regex library, re, is better than grep's regex's, but still not as good as Perl. Python also has a non-standard regex library, regex, in PyPi, which I think is as good as Perl.

And yes, I deal with non-ASCII Unicode every day.
On interesting I like SQLite; i never thought to use it for web projects though.

Any tips or advice on trying to use SQLite for web dev? What platforms do you use for deploying web apps with SQLite ?
Did the separation work out great for the Biharis? Should the Bengalis in Orangi, Karachi be given one way tickets to the Indian border?
Being a silly person, my method of tagging things to archive and read later is stupid simple:

I copy/paste/append the url to a text file, links.txt, along with a cut&paste of what its about.

I can have multiples of those files. Search them with grep, whatever.

I abandoned bookmarking tools long ago, because they reinvented (poorly) things like search, backups, etc., besides probably selling my bookmarks to some data aggregator.
Quill I prefer still.
Because once I did jump high.
Over the top, of the car from a cop.
Blocking my way.
Kicking the traffic wand out of the policemans hand,
waving STOP in red over his head.
Hard, From ABOVE! It shattered.
Not that it mattered.
Smooth landing, while standing upright, at about 80 kph, yeehaaaaw!
Racing away uncaught, who would have thought?

They need no special shoes either,
fitting into everyday life,
why the strife with something that does neither?
> It's jumped several domains in the past

One thing to note is that there's actually two Nyaa sites, so it's important to not confuse the two.

The original jumped several domains, and closed down in May 2017 (last domain was nyaa.se).
The "current Nyaa", nyaa.si, is a clone site that launched shortly after, and hasn't changed any domains.

With the original, I recall the domains jumped were linked to various legislative changes in Europe, with the shutdown in 2017 likely due to similar reasons.
I have one (16GB model), and have (arch) linux on it dual booting with Windows! Started @ https://github.com/ironrobin/archiso-x13s

* Battery Life. ~6/7 hours max as it currently (linux-x13s 6.4). There is a lot of room for improvement, which will happen as more people tune/tweak.

* Performance. Honestly, the only noticeable issue is lzma2 compression. It's ass slow, even when using 8 threads. Other then that- Gnome (Wayland), CLion, Firefox, and Rust have no issues. I can't think of any performance issues when comparing it to my HP 14t-ea000, which is a 11th gen i7.

* Stability. Firefox occasionally crashes and I've not done enough digging to file a ticket on it yet. The WiFi Drivers crash on suspend (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217239) but it's being worked on. The GPU crashes on startup but recovers. Going to file a kernel report on this one when I get around to it. I'd put it at 95% of what I'd expect on my x86-64 laptop.

Camera doesn't work (yet), as well as some of the other GPU features. BIOS is limited, and boils down to full access to the security options as well as the to-be-expected Lenovo keyboard options. There's a "beta" Linux boot option, but I didn't need that when I first installed linux. Actually, I'm not sure what I'd want exposed in the BIOS that's not already there. Memory Overclocking?

It runs cooler than my HP, which runs on the hotter side. Port selection is limiting, but having a 5G Modem is cool. Arch has almost all of their packages cross compiled to arm64, and I've not run into an issue where there was a package I needed that wasn't there.

TL;DR. A Very functional laptop. I've started using it as my primary laptop, but still carry my HP with me if I'm traveling somewhere. Give it a few months for the kernel issues to be ironed out and it'll be a very nice laptop.
TIL about somatic mutations. Many classes teach that your DNA is a sort of constant across your body with localized mutations. It’s odd to think of it as a fork of a fork of a fork (and so on). That half my cells could have a chance and half don’t is odd to me. It makes me much more suspicious of 23andme genetic testing results
They dubbed and spliced Macross with two other series to get enough episodes to syndicate as “Robotech,” which made it to a local TV station after school.
Exactly why none of these problems ever get fixed. There's too much money in the status quo; if they actually fixed the problems a lot of people would have to find some other way to earn an income.
It's not just VCs. Everyone loves giving advice. Why, I'd hand out advices all day if anyone would listen!
Reading the article, and your comment, I think that you are right that those prayers aren't thought-terminating cliches. They do have a meditative purpose like you describe.

However, Wikipedia says "the admonition given to Catholic schoolchildren to recite the Hail Mary or rosary to ward off 'impure thoughts'"; if such an admonition is made in response to when the schoolchildren will say something that the teacher didn't want, then this will be a thought-terminating cliche, although the prayer itself isn't.

Wikipedia also mentions 'when certain members of Islam label something haram ... that employs the use of the tactic since it states that something is forbidden and "There is no need for any more consideration of whether it is bad."'; in such a case, I think that this use of "haram" is also a thought-terminating cliche, if you cannot explain why it is bad.

> I'm entitled to my opinion, so let's just agree to disagree.

I agree that you are entitled to your opinion, although, like other comments mention, I think that "let's just agree to disagree" is also a thought-terminating cliche.

However, of course even despite such a saying, responses can still be made anyways; so, if they are discussed/argued despite that, then it can be less of a problem.

And, rather than merely saying "agree to disagree", you had presented your arguments for why you disagreed with it, so that is better than merely saying that you will disagree, or will agree to disagree; so, more discussion, argument for/against it can be possible, rather than shutting it out.

(Of course, you can agree or disagree with me, too. However, it is good to make the argument of why you will agree or disagree, if you can.)
My solution to the education attitude issue in the us, which is very real: pay the families that perform best in school districts. Take the top grades on each years final tests and give the family money. The entire society will change overnight, as people will suddenly be asking kids why they aren’t studying.
No. Graphene was the first step. Graphene is always the first step.
He is conflating this with 1971 - there isn’t an army with a religious assimilationist ideology that looks down on you for your script, your language and your skin color here.
I have a conspiracy theory that the moment the California HSR project finishes and the next project starts... It will be the beginning of the end.

Right now people just love to hate on it cause "it's over budget, and road projects never go over budget."
Cash incentives aren't going to make a difference.

The only thing that works is school choice. If parents can choose the schools, the schools have to deliver results.
You are correct that in our world currently and maybe even in the past, the kids never truly learned math in school. I studied in the top university in my Indian province with 50 million people, and most of my undergrad colleagues truly didn’t understand what differentiation and integration actually meant.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. The kids are supposed to learn things in school, we just need to pull our heads out of our assess and acknowledge that almost all current learning systems suck and try to reset from the ground up.
If you don't understand how lifetimes and associated aspects of the language work, you might very realistically run into situations where your code will be a million times slower than the python, java, etc. equivalent, not faster. For instance, copying a massive dynamically allocated container in every iteration of a hot loop instead of passing a reference (much less likely to do on accident than in C++, but still possible), if you don't understand value vs reference semantics, copying, moving, etc, since garbage collected languages don't force you to learn these things, and passing around references to large collections is cheap in those languages.
I used it to read articles offline on my iPad. It worked maybe 50% of the time. Now I use instapaper.
This is unfortunately typical of airlines, even post COVID. If the man who bled was suffering from a hemorrhagic fever like Marburg or Ebola, contacting the blood might have infected the man who used the seat next... or the flight attendants, or the people at the airports.

This is exactly the sort of event that would allow those infections to spread.
Sorry for confusion; when I said “dependency issues will be a thing of the past” I was referring to large js projects where your dependency list is 50+; updating one dependency to a new version can be a very cumbersome task

Using htmx will be breath of fresh air if you’ve ever had to deal with complex dependency issues
Every night my wife and I put the kid to bed and just kind of zone out on the couch for two hours, each on our smartphones. We don’t talk. I kind of love it? Like it’s not lonely but it’s a time for our brains just to do nothing after a long day. I’m sure we’d do something else if we didn’t have smartphones, but for us it seems ok.
One thing this thread seems to forget, Pascal sources do not include literal kilometers of headers compared to C++, and there’s no code in Interface sections either. Every C++ translation unit explodes into a full set of libs at preprocessing phase. One pass or LL(1) is just a cool bonus compared to that.
I’m an author, sometimes. My 2015 MacBook Air has slowed down so much, due to software bloat, it’s painful to use. You need to constantly buy new hardware to run peoples literally exponentially less efficient software
There's at least a few people on HN who hold every possible belief you can enumerate. There's Kopimists and patent trolls. There's people who believe microdosing LSD makes them more productive, that we live in a simulation, that LLMs are sentient, that UAPs are interdimensional entities that live under the ocean, that Nickelback makes good music, that bananas belong on pizza.

I do not understand why you'd self-censor on this basis alone.
i don't think that is the case but i don't really understand pippenger's algorithm. what would pippenger's buckets correspond to in this 'fgemm' thing?
It's their money, they want a say in how it's spent, even if they have no idea what they are doing.

Non-profits have a similar issue with restricted giving from philanthropic donors. Instead of giving money to the charity and allowing them to use it for their purposes according to their expertise, the philanthropist gives with specific directions for the use of the funds. Most charities dislike and don't solicit these kinds of donations. Why give a lot of money to a charity you like unless you like it enough to let it decide how to spend it?

At least in the VC world, the people providing the money tend to have a claim to knowing how to run a business, and the recipients tend to have less experience in running successful companies.
10 years late. I remember being criticized for avoiding the GIL in some CPython C code in 2012 and I think I stopped contributing to CPython after that. There are (or were back then), curmudgeons trying to hang on to their "safe layer over 90s style C process" Python.

This is a great step forward.
As far as I know, https://cpantesters.org/ is still unrivaled though. None of those have the level of testing that CPAN Testers provides.
Astro renders JSX to html, what happened when you tried to render a table row without a wrapper table rag? And more importantly, what is a table row doing outside of a table?
Christopher Hitchens Can't Save the Left
How is someone born there a foreigner?
I remember that mozilla promised to open source the pocket backend and that went nowhere
If you don’t mind wearing out your ssd with the insane swap use. You really need 16+ gb of ram on macs, otherwise you’re damaging your hardware
They've had this since 2021: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-introduces-apple-s...
My math curriculum in the 1970s/80s followed exactly that progression.
I agree, that's how telemetry should be done.