skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303551101_Integrate...

One starting point for me is the way consciousness fades as we get more tired and fall asleep. But then it seems as though we may have another thread of a different type of consciousness while dreaming.

If something like an LLM has any degree or type of consciousness, then it certainly is not very similar to human and animal consciousness. Because LLMs don't have many streams of high bandwidth sensory data connected to bodies being integrated. If it somehow experienced an emotion in a way, it cannot be similar to how we experience it, because emotions (at least strong ones) are felt in the body.

When we feel something like a strong negative emotion, that is driven by a type of intelligence that has to put everything in context and then (reflexively) "decide" to send a signal that we experience somewhat similarly to physical pain. It's a regulatory system with the goal of adaptation. We will seek to avoid those situations or resolve them.

I don't believe you can entirely separate these types of things from the questions of consciousness.

I guess I believe that somehow the capacity for consciousness is fundamental to the universe, but only occurs in certain conditions. It's not like atoms or hydrogen or water but more like a stream or a bottleneck in a stream. Or maybe a convergence of rivers.

But reading the caption on Figure 1 of that paper makes it seem like LLMs would have some type of consciousness. If that explanation is correct.
Not really. I personally have hated YAML with a passion since it arrived on my lap with Ansible.
Spent $6k here in Australia for 6.6kW system with Microinverters. Has worked really well for the past 3 years. Seems very common here.

Not sure why the US is having such a hard time in comparison.
Because the only actual problem in EVs is making a better battery. They solve a bunch of other problems. Far fewer moving parts, better packaging, massive gains in pure energy efficiency, no smog, a direction for Zero emissions. The Internal combustion engine, as someone who has owned multiple Manual Mazda Miatas, is seeing the end of it's times. It's a dead end in almost every situation. Additionally, this has none of the gains that are actually desired, they want efficiency and less emissions. Not chlorine gas.

Edit:
To be clear, I'm talking about Gasoline ICE applications in the context of this article, which is far more narrow than all of combustion. Most ICE applications that are not ground transport are Diesel, which is not applicable to this. This is not applicable to jet fuel. Most small engines (lawn care) are rapidly being replaced with electric power as well.
I am honestly curious to see if someone will create a configuration language that is just s-expressions as nested json arrays
The $5 wrench can be a pretty big motivator
I was surprised how afraid many people are...

This fear was exploited by many media outlets and politicians. It's important to remember who these people were, vote them out/disregard them as honest.
"Recent" is always a funny thing. In my mind 1600 is roughly the start, or a little after the start, of the modern period, therefore recent.

Who was it that said "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, in America 100 years is a long time?"
That is not a helpful comment.

People have equipment that they only use on a type of vacation they take every 18 months, for example, and which is more cost-effective to own than rent (or it's not available for rental). They have equipment for emergencies. And so forth.

Comments that try to invalidate the entire premise of somebody's problem just aren't useful, and can actually come across as pretty rude.
Wish us luck. Metro has a projected $750m budget shortfall next year. Very unclear what's going to happen next. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/09/26/dc-...
ITAR [1]

Not that the Chinese are perfectly capable of building the same network on their own. Albeit with electronics' performance a transistor node older. Which is to say: almost the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
I use `less` with help output because if the help output is long, it starts me at the top of the help output rather than the bottom, and the top usually has a nice summary of the command usage that I usually want to read.

More importantly, I can easily find things by searching with less's `/` hotkey. Relying on the terminal emulator's built-in search isn't great because (a) I'm not used to it - I am more used to vim's keybindings, and the search hotkey `/` is the same in vim, and (b) that's also going to search all the output from before I ran --help (not as big of a gripe, but still somewhat annoying).
Maybe. It would depend on how the government classifies it for export controls. The fact they've signed a contract leads me to believe that satellite communications in use by the government will be an ITAR control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
That works so long as the government still has more power than a gang of bajillionaires with similar interests. Does it? Seems like we're near a tipping point in that regard, if we haven't already crossed it.
Highly unlikely, that can happen in a dense forest with unmarked trees but this is controlled land and there is only the one tree there in that particular setting.

Also: then the tree would have been stripped and removed. Someone just cut it down and ran off.
It was one year after 9/11, at the height of US semi-fascist paranoia. I don't really remember those times as simpler.
Librem aweSIM private voice and data for your smart phone
Doesn't matter, we have real world proof of the same thanks to Nazi Germany (they were good for something I guess).

The book Ordinary Men, based on which there's a Netflix documentary too, follows the story of a bunch of police reservists (basically regular men, in their 50s, from Hamburg, who were too old to be conscripted in the army, so were conscripted in the police for "police duties"). They were regular people, with families and stuff, mostly dockworkers so probably leaned left before the rise of Nazis, but were sent to commit massacres in Poland and they did it. Some struggled, especially after the first ones, but later on it just became normal. Those were regular people, not some crazy Nazi fanatics convinced Jews and Poles were subhuman. One of them convinced himself to target children for murder, because it was merciful - you see, they would die on their own without their parents (which were murdered by his colleagues), so giving them a quick death was mercy. He had kids himself too.

Harrowing stuff, but quite decent proof that humans are capable of anything. Nobody is born a monster, but can become one in the wrong circumstances and through bad personal choices.
To me the SQL notation is about as clear as a < b being equivalent to b < a.
Everything. Like e.g. my robot vacuum that I couldn't operate between 1600 yesterday and noon today, because the Internet was down and the robot insists on being able to talk with servers in China to be able to vacuum the floor. Same with my A/C and floor thermostats, except those at least have IR remotes or wall panels for local control.

Of course, I am operating all those via an Open Source HomeAssistant app, connecting to an Open Source HomeAssistant instance running on an Open(ish) Hardware Raspberry Pi. But all of that means fuck all, when the malicious vendors make a cloud server a required control intermediary. Despite all that Open Source, my home appliances are still run as a Service. That's one of many cases of what I mean by "being implicitly a SaaS".
Oh I've read all of Cicero, I find him fascinating. He's the most online person I've come across in antiquity - the exact combination of haughtiness and crippling anxiety you see daily on Twitter. I find him equal parts contemptible and pitiable, similar to Pompey in some ways. But however effective some of his speeches were, a lot of the content was unhinged invective.

Obviously we're missing a lot of Demosthenes and Aeschines too - the former's physical gestures, the latter's actorly delivery. You can kind of feel the way Demosthenes hammers his point home, the monotony has a point. It's just surprising when you first come across it - this is the purported height of oratory, and instead of soaring, it's incredibly functional.
This has nothing at all to do with Snowden. The headline should be changed, or this should be buried due to the clickbait title, IMO.
My comment was pushing back on your assertion that hunting is obviously more energy-efficient, I don't think that is in fact backed up or true.

The idea that one person can on on average day provide calories to feed 100 (for the day?) is not backed up by anthropological observation of foraging people hunting in the 20th century, and I don't see any reason to assume it would have been true for prehistoric people either.

I guess that would have been the much shorter post i could have written.
> I'd say Kuiper is still firmly an "if" right now considering how long they have left to put up the constellation and the cost+potential flight rate of Vulcan and New Glenn.

I think there is pretty broad consensus that they won't make their deadline. But I also see pretty broad consensus that, if they make a strong effort, that a variance is pretty easy to get. I'm not really in the industry, so I don't really know what to believe.

> They have a much higher bar to clear in terms of costs before they can be profitable, and especially with the lawsuit about that, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually they decide to cut their losses and settle for a smaller constellation and restricted user base like OneWeb.

I always saw Kuiper as a strategic move by Amazon to attack SpaceX. IMO, they'd probably scrap the whole thing rather than settle for a OneWeb sized constellation.

More broadly, I think satellite internet is a natural monopoly business. There's no reason for customers to go with the 2nd best service[1], so even though it costs more to launch the best constellation, it ends up being a better investment. Because of this, I don't really see OneWeb or Telesat's upcoming Lightning LEO constellation surviving longterm. There's just no good reason for their existing customers to be loyal to them. And the cost to maintain their constellations will be ongoing.

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1. Obviously globally available bandwidth affects this, so there's probably room in the market right now for multiple providers. But as companies continue to invest revenue into improving their capacity, those conditions may go away. At which point, my original point stands.
> In turn, they can't go so far as to knowingly compromise safety in pursuit of saving a few bucks per unit (Grimshaw v. Ford).

Boeing execs that got away with negligence that killed people are laughing all the way to their golden toilets.
That site is one reason why I was able to buy Pis at list price these last three years.
Here's one found in common parlance in English: "We are doomed."

That is, we are presently in a state of having had judgment passed upon us in the near past.

That statement is sometimes made prior to any judgment being passed, but in certain expectation of such a judgment.
I like the concept, from a cursory look the advantage of this over something like dribbble are the color selector and code components. The code components link does not work and the color selector returns pages without the selected color so on that basis I don't see the advantage over dribbble for now.

If you implement the code components I think the degree of usefulness will also depend on the frameworks used and the quality of the code. On the few occasions I bought templates in the past to try and save time, I was unable to use them because the code was too poor to extend.
> he tried to downplay the genocide and the violence committed by the Khmer Rouge

The US carpet bombed Cambodia just like it did Vietnam, and Chomsky condemned this.

This nebulous "Khmer Rouge" you refer to was armed by the US starting in 1979 and even more so in subsequent years. The US worked to put them back in power and put economic, military and diplomatic support behind it. As reported in the New York Times, ABC News at the time. Chomsky was against this.

The US establishment was anti-Khmer Touge until 1979, then began arming and supporting them in 1979. By the late 1990s they began going out of favor in the US establishment. Chomsky's opinion hasn't changed, he was against the US bombing Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/who-said-brits-think-100-mi...
Any board based on StarFive's JH7110 is currently best in this regard, I think. Datasheet & reference manual for this SoC is available.

Especially their VisionFive 2 board. I've even downloaded a schematic for it (although older revision than actual board I have). And they're pretty good about upstreaming drivers.

That said: what you probably care about is documentation for integrated peripherals (esp. GPU), and existence of open source, mature drivers for those.

RPi is very good in this regard. Afaik the only binary blobs there is some GPU/SoC firmware, and (maybe) some boot code.

RPi's in general are very well supported & documented, and its software ecosystem is very mature compared to anything RISC-V based.

Could you pinpoint what you think is lacking there?

Other ARM based boards may offer more bang/$. Likely at the cost of documentation or driver support (Beagleboard being an exception).
Yes, Elon has a secret laptop in his bedroom with backdoor access to the entire Starlink fleet of satellites.

Or perhaps you should develop critical thinking skills and not read the "rocket man bad" takes on Elon.
The main reason I use firefox is because I can disable search-as-you-type and search suggestions.You can't disable it in Chrome.

Most of my navigation goes is to sites I have already visited and bookmarked links,
I don't need the extra jump to and from a search engine.
It's faster and it's better for the planet.
Can you imagine how much energy we are wasting on unnecessary searches that were meant to be a simple navgation ?
It's a pity it's not the default on firefox.
Firefox's "awesome" bar is truly awesome, it doesn't need to rely on a search engine.

Knowing firefox, I fully expect them to deprecate that option in some years from now /s
These profiteers are a huge threat to our glorious renewable residential roof top solar energy future. Once enough of these retrofits go bad, public opinion will sour, greatly slowing down adoption.

Solar attracts the same kind of grifters that do windows, roofs, and siding. With the added risks and complexity of messing with the electrical. (At least my windows will never need a firmware update.)

Being curious, I endured the pitch from a local solar contractor. It was everything you'd expect. I can totally see how they can suck people in.

If a home owner can't/won't manage the solar install themselves, I don't see how they avoid falling prey.

I mosdef would never lease.

Sunrun has to option where they own and operate the gear, selling you the power (with the option to buy the gear at the end of contract). This arrangement of incentives might be best for most people.
You can skip this above comment. GPT4 will absolutely double down when it knows it's right. The parent is clueless.
I've been using GPT a lot for the past few years, but lately it's mostly for refactoring code (when it would take more time to do it through the LSP or manually).

I just select the code I want to perform some changes on, hit a keybind, ask for what I want, and it does it. I've been so impressed with gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct that I defaulted to that instead of gpt-4.

I use it in Neovim [0], in my terminal [1], in many specialized tools (long live function calling), and through the chat UI when I brainstorm. I'm using Claude as well for some things.

[0] https://github.com/3rd/config/blob/master/home/dotfiles/nvim...
[1] https://github.com/3rd/config/blob/master/home/bin/workflow/...
It definitely does not suit every single project (nothing does!).

This is nicely explained in: https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
I fully expect this will happen.

USG has more control if it's done by Starlink vs some other country's tech.
Every Company Is a Community
China hosts esports’ biggest moment with Tencent at the wheel
Why? Isn't the web basically the perfect fully virtualized and sandboxed environment with a highly standardized and open API and a sophisticated, accessible UI toolkit, with elaborate development tools built right in, like we always dreamed of? Isn't the web basically the perfect OS?
As I touched on in another comment, social media is a disproportionate attractor of travelers for many famous locations around the world, especially for those that are "out of the way". In addition, there is an influx of global middle class with the newly found means to travel. Over a billion people in a generation.
You are about right on cost. Elon stated that a full reuse of a first stage + new second stage is about $15m, adding in the Elon-number correction and 20-25 feels right.
This, I've been pretty happy with it as well, it's so much easier to set up as a kubernetes node than a RPi.
I agree with you. I wish he was a banned subject on hn.
10ksf studios will reduce the cost of housing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524331
This is my favourite turd:

- 07
- 08

Results in

[ 7, "08" ]

due to assumptions about octal and strings.

This assumption was discovered deep within some templated YAML generated by templated something else three levels down and resulted in a complete k8s cluster failure for us, but only the 08 cluster! It worked in the first 7.
So if you hate someone you can spoil a little diesel in the road right in front of their driveway so they have potholes every time they come and go
Supposedly it never used to be this nuts. It mainly came about because of one cokehead surgeon at John Hopkins who got in charge of the training program because of his "increased productivity" and basically started forcing these insane work weeks on everyone. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted

The concluding line of this report[1] is absolutely amazing in that the authors still won't even recognise that he was abusive towards his trainees. After discussing his lifetime coke habit and how his "eager and enthusiastic students" would pick up his slack (e.g that he had conditioned to work ungodly hours for his approval) they write (emphasis mine):

*While we are not condemning Halsted*, we are suggesting that if one carefully analyzes and critiques the motivation for the structure of the Halsted surgical residency, his addiction was a major influencing factor.

Either way, any person who can pass the entrance exams should be allowed to train as a doctor or surgeon. The fact that we have artificial caps on the numbers, yet surgeons are routinely working 100 hour weeks is an absolute joke. Everyone's health suffers - both surgeon and the patient. The "wages will come down" argument is an absolute joke - at the end of the day, if there's one thing people will pay a high price for, it's "to stay alive". And if there's a second thing people will pay for, it's "to not be in pain".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/
> > hunkering down in small, enclosed spaces is a kind of “swaddling” behavior left over from cuddling up with their moms and littermates when they were kittens.
This isn't cat specific. The concept of boundaries is very important in healing trauma, and just in general is a key concept in human being's emotional development.

It’s a fine line though. Modify the environment and you get the opposite effect. I’m an MR tech and we sedate about 1 in 20 to get them into the scanner.

Obviously an MRI scanner isn’t anything close to a snuggle with mum, but it is a relatively enclosed space.
> This sounds like a pretty big negative to me

It might be possible to take a page out of macbook's playbook and put together a case that doubles as a heat sink. It's a tradeoff between compactness and target temperature.

By the way, the RPi4 had already a very nasty overheating issue.
>"It can’t possibly be the case that US has its own solar system."

Have you heard of Manifest Destiny?
Just wanted to point out that wgpu has both webgpu and webgl2 backends. So, currently, most projects use the webgl2 backend via wgpu for any rust app running in firefox right now.
At this point, Alder Lakes like N100 processors and multiple sff computers have dominated the market while RPI struggled with the supply chain. now there are multiple clones as well. I’m not sure if The Pi5 will ever reach former glory days.
The cut is too straight and flat to be an amateur with a chainsaw.

A cheapo chainsaw wouldn't be long enough to do this without needing to go in from both sides.

There is also a paint line along the cut. Who paints along the line they're about to cut if they're just cutting down a tree?
I love in the US when people boast their house was built in the 1800s. 1800s! In England I consider that fancy new construction.

But yes, it boggles peoples' minds in England when you travel more than a couple of hours by car to go anywhere. If I told a Brit I drove my car 2500 miles to L.A. on a whim they would have me institutionalized.
I'd totally buy a fully assembled one but I wonder how much it would go for.
accidental shotgun blasts too -- sorry about that!
It was bare enough for Boswell and Johnson on their famous tour of Scotland to remark on it. In 1773. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islan...

It has actually improved since the first world war, when there was large scale replanting of trees. For the rest of it, there remains a complex question: the moorland, as it is now, is an ecosystem in itself, and the main force preventing reforestation naturally is wild deer.
It's crazy that outside sites have the ability to know a system's capabilities. That info should only be available if the user makes it available to be known, &, as the baseline, all connections to one's system should only know that there is something there capable of receiving data — with no restrictions on connections for systems that do not choose to unlock this or that info about themselves.
> So, based on your views, socialists are incapable of genocide? Since it could be an imperialist smear campaign?

That doesn't follow does it. Why would you try to assume that I don't understand basic logic?

Whether you live in this or that empire, it's people at the top telling you what to believe, what is right and wrong, while committing the most atrocious crimes.

Socialists are very much capable of genocide and other forms of mass killings. In fact, they seem to typically start with killing other socialists, especially the democratic, libertarian left. That's no coincidence.

> Every instance of genocide denial I know of also follows this line of reasoning.

Genocide denial doesn't _follow_ this line of reasoning. It presents itself as such in order to hide the true intent. It is ultimately a propaganda instrument.

From my understanding, this is not what he did. He openly and repeatedly denounced these regimes. Look at what he actually said and wrote (sensational YT videos don't count). I can't speak for him.
I believe you but I find it hard to imagine that something like this would go without serious consequences. Here in NL cutting down any tree, even if it is on your own land requires a permit. Doing it without a permit to a vandalize a valuable piece of heritage should not be without consequences.
I don't think cats enjoy being in a box too. They do it to regulate their body temperature in cold weathers
Doesn’t need to be cameras. Tighter restrictions might be more practical during off hours.
Its a fancy term for a hot war in meatspace.
A war where the bullets fly.