skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really hoping to see descriptions of some experiments being done to test this theory. What is a situation where a photon would act differently if it has consciousness than if it is merely an unthinking artifact of physical laws? Or a berry, or a fish, or a small plastic statue of a dragon, or a bong?

Of course there may also be the problem that experiments that confirm this theory can very quickly lead you down a path to publishing a paper whose tl,dr is "I think I just confirmed that 'magic' works" and that is very definitely not a route to tenure and/or further funding; Bengston's "The Energy Cure" is a pretty good example of what happens when you start doing that.
Right except this (alleged) fraud has been going on for a little over a decade. So error correction is always nice (and better late than never) but it also means that any particular finding can be very unreliable. If I'm deciding on a drug to take (or a medical procedure) I need to decide pretty soon; if I'm getting bad information it doesn't help me if in 10 years the field says "we're sorry, our bad".
How is this insane, it’s a managed db that is no longer going to exist and they’re giving you two years to migrate away. Sounds fair to me.
Well it’s true, they don’t have to worry about amount of demand because everyone needs search and Google dominates that market, with no one challenging their >90% market share or the use of that kind of search to find things on the Web.

I don’t think ads are really the “supply,” though.

This seems like one person writing down their personal observations, which are not super deep.
To be fair this says something true about West and his music too.
> I just watched videos today of an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Karbakh that is happening today. Although from the mouths of a lot of western governments this is not an ethnic cleansing but a lot of Armenians spontaneously deciding to leave after a military invasion.

Yeah right now the Azeri government hasn't really done anything yet. Azeris and Armenians absolutely hate each other and Armenians there are rightly fearful of their lives but you really can't intervene on something that hasn't happened yet especially since Azerbaijan agreed to w/e US and EU asked with regards to minority protections etc (though the history of Azerbajian's government makes this questionable).

> The Ukraine was fighting to regain its territory prior to Russia's intervention, and Russia was effectively accusing the Ukraine of performing an ethnic cleansing of Luhansk/Dotensk. Whether accurate or not, this was their justification for intervention too.

Yep, and the US barely did anything there. The US provided weak support to Ukraine there but the general attitude was "Russia looking after Russian speaker interests" - the Obama admin in 2014/2015 (and either did Bush / Obama do anything in Georgia / South Ossetia) didn't do much to stop it or help ukraine. Germany / France / Europe were still trading with Russia etc. It's only when Putin decided to invade Ukraine proper did the West react because there really isn't a good justification for invading Kiev

> What I'm saying is it seems depending on a country's interests, what is an ethnic cleansing and what is not seems in eye of the beholder.

Generally agree but Serbia refused to compromise on anything (eg they banned the Albanian language in schools). NATO only decided to intervene when the Račak massacre happened and I don't think there is any documented proof of that happening in Ukraine / Karabah right now.

Basically until proper massacres are documented, intervention rarely happens.
Neurofunctional underpinnings of individual differences in memory performance
I feel like you're actually describing something important here, socially/psychologically, about the appeal of Ethereum and related crypto technologies.

There's a certain appeal to incredibly complex systems, at least to some people, and there can be joy in going so deep in a complex system that you and your peers are creating, you get to forget about any painful interaction points with the larger world in which it exists and by which it will still always be constrained.

Without understanding this emotion and motivation, it can be baffling to see where the ideas of crypto take people, because at face value, it just doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes.
That's not entirely clear. Psychopharmacology changes the brain long term.
I don't think the US needs to justify the existence of NATO any more, Russia very handily demonstrated what happens to countries that aren't part of it.
I didn't make that argument. I said that it's transformative, therefore we should be cautious, and I don't know if we should or how we could regulate it.

But yeah, the hypothetical people saying "everything to come from the printing press will be good" were wrong. It dramatically destabilized society, which mattered quite a lot more to the people living proximally to the printing press than it does to us today. Note: We are likely to live through the pretty gnarly destabilization period and we have a legitimate interest in mitigating how gnarly it gets.

And I've not seen a compelling argument as to why all possible technologies need to net out positively in the long run. Would love to hear one though!
Sometimes people ask me, why do I use an iPhone when Android phones are so much better in this or that respect.

And the thing is, none of iPhones I had my hands on (since 4S maybe) have never failed me as phones. When I need to place or receive a call, the call is placed or received. No shenanigans with sound, microphone, connections. If there is a connection problem, I can be 100% sure it's the carrier. With Android, all bets are off. When Maemo was a thing, all bets were off, it could enter a 100% CPU-hogging busy loop during a call and you would be SOL, or you wouldn't be able to hang up, or some such shit.

The only other cellular thing that I could 100% rely on was my Nokia 1280 and a 1112 before it, but 2G networks are being wound down in my area, alas.
I wonder if the author reads every safety-handicapped model released as an ideological statement as well?
They are employed at different institutions, only Gino works at Harvard. I dont believe she has been fired either, yet.
Unfortunately we will never truly know, as the only way we can experience the universe is through our consciousness, in that sense, from a human perception perspective, the universe and our consciousness are inextricably intertwined and any theory or explanation we try to come up with is just our own subjective observations
The region never healed after NATO bombings on the former Yugoslavia
A bit OT: but TIL you can schedule a test 911 call.
> when you demand that other business models should not exist, so yours can work.

Aside from the fact that in democracies we regularly oust business models which we believe have dimetral effects on society, this is not what happens here. Free software exists as a choice. And is often chosen freely, because of it's transparency, quality, and continuity, not because of it's price. In fact, when you base your work on a foundation so large that it's infeasible to recreate it, the Four Freedoms actually work in _your_ favor as a business.
Very creative! Would have to try this to see how much sense it makes - there must be a slight performance degradation because the content of the style tags can't be applied and parsed immediately, no?

So that's a fundamental difference, no build step, tiny JS runtime instead that hooks into the page rendering.

The concept is interesting.

Has the benefit of staying close to vanilla CSS syntax.

I'm curious why you chose 'me' or 'this' instead of '&'?

OTOH, it might be useful for the browser to consider the style tags as valid but with unknown element names (that are also forbidden for custom elements as they don't have a dash). Don't know if this would be possible using '&' and it also collides with the CSS nesting proposal.

So.. after all, nice idea!

Being a bit more cynical though, I'm not sure if the JS dependeny and performance implications would be worth it for me to use in actual projects.

Tailwind has the benefit of producing lean CSS files with 0% dead CSS.

This approach would be more prone to the usual issues with CSS I guess, but addding custom syntax anyway. I'm also sceptical of transpiling to CSS using JS on the client.
Yesterday was “National silent film day” in the US, a holiday only celebrated by indie movie theaters. If you haven’t been to a silent film, they’re a worthwhile experience. Many original scores are lost, so typically a pianist (and silent film enthusiast) will score the film and perform live in the theater during the screening.

Most big cities have a 1-2 day annual silent film festival, and several small events throughout the year. There are even new silent films being produced, mostly as university projects.
Yea it's typical idolism, a great flaw of humanity. Vitalik has a young man's mind and will make the young man's mistakes.
If you're trying to convert widescreen content so it looks good on TikTok, Reels, Shorts, then for the most part you can crop a vertical chunk from the centre of the frame, and pan if necessary to keep the action in frame. Sometimes though the shot is too wide and you can't crop that vertical chunk out, so you have to crop it as vertical as you can and then add something to the top and bottom to fill out the frame, otherwise you have a whole shot that isn't in vertical and it breaks the flow of the video.
The problem you mention is very real but do you know of any criteria that actually work better than "trust the science"?
and Bernardo Kastrup.
When it appears at all. What kind of UI designer thinks it's OK not to show the weather most of the time when the user explicitly configured the settings to show it?
In iOS 17, there are two related settings for this is under Settings Emergency SOS.
before Postgresql was big, the only opensource databases i saw in use was MySQL(later Mariadb) and SQLite. SQLite support is single application and MySQL suffers from problems like incomplete utf8 support(unless you use utf8mb4), or the problem of the database engines.
Postres configuration and running multiple servers on one domain is from my perspective much easier.
Some minor features are more interesting for me: native uuid, row level locks ("SELECT * FROM mytable FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED LIMIT 1;" is an query where you can get one row and process it like an queue, but if it fails (error or crash of client) it can rollback and give to the next worker.
Original article refers to office attendance. Even hopping to a remote position with a visa (i.e. a H1-B) can take weeks to get approved, and it is not guaranteed. Many rightfully argue those holding one while working on site is, in many ways, a legal form of enslaved.
release ^that judge

Is it really that difficult?
The purpose of Goff's choice for the title of his book Galileo's Error is explained in the introduction: that Galileo limited science to only things that are quantifiable, and completely ignores qualitative factors. Note the common etymology with the word qualia. Some way to expose evidence of consciousness to external observers may be necessary or it may be impossible given the apparati that science currently provides.
I know. What would my parents think of what has become of their son..? Sorry, Mum and Dad! o_O
Ad I said, I'm skeptical of the more expansive of such expectations. They might just sit on the debt, almost certainly if it's valued below a certain sum.

The chains of effect leading to a useful improvement in lending prudence... long. The opportunities to stray some other way, many. Graveyards are full of wonks that expect a minor policy tweak to fix a problem, rather than just move it around.

Most of these debts are unpaid bills, car payments, etc. Not businesses that specialise in debt. They outsource that part, and that part outsources too. "More prudent" means credit rating standards, or (usually) higher interest rate. That's not doing anything useful, IMO. You still get left with as much or more defaults, lawless collection, etc.

IMO, if when we want to actually deal with something, we drop the grand ideas and operate at the level of the issue we want to affect. Where there are multiple "orders," we want to tightly control the "chain."

Lawlessness in debt collection? Law enforcement. IP trolls abusing the legal system. Make it illegal.

Look... Google, FB and such had IP laws specially tailored to them. Timed and written to shield them from legitimate copyright infringement claims, taking into account their ability to "implement IP" without interfering with their business too much. Where is the law for the person in OP's shoes? It doesn't exist. He has to suffice with the print paradigm that existed before www.

Not-incidentally, the "print paradigm" was tailored for newspapers. That's what fair use is. It's not some abstract concept that happened to work for news. It was designed for them, probably by them. Copyright just isn't designed to work for ordinary people, so once you have incidents like this posts'... the realistic thing to do is avoid being a copyright user at all.

If you want a clever law expected to make debt valued <X% impossible to profitably collect, make it dumb. You probably need an institution of some sort to control that second order, or a willingness to make blanket laws that harm other participants that aren't your target. Consider the RL structure of consumer lending, not a chalkboard model.

Disney, Google, or the think tanks they fund to develop laws... they're certainly looking for a tightly controlled cause-effect chain with built in guarantees.
Looked it up on google/reddit. Turns out it is for DJs who remix music.
So useless BCG consultants were faster in delivery bullshit with ChatGPT? That's impressive.
> This means someone can't plug in a FireWire/pcie/whatever over usb-c device and read/write any data they want (like drive decryption keys).

You're talking about DMA, but that setting is about /dev/mem. They have nothing in common.

> This means if you have a partial exploit but don't know where to jump because of address randomisation, the information is leaked.

But /proc/kcore is only readable by root. If an attacker can read that file, I've already lost.

> It means you can't plug in a USB device with a known-vulnerable module that gets auto-loaded and leaves your device open.

> All of the cases of root also mean "user action which triggers a root-level service to execute something".

If automatic loading is really what you're concerned about, you can disable just it with other settings without having to restrict manual actions by root.

> And if it is vulnerable (or more likely, when it's vulnerable) KSPP is the last layer of defence which can prevent the hypervisor from taking over the system.

That's not how these work. The above settings only affect what root is allowed to do. There are other parts of KSPP that might help with that, but these definitely don't.

> There are reason to enable/disable many of those settings, but none of them are evil.

They're evil because all they do is limit what root can do, which is useful only for tivoization and not real security.
Honestly I only use windows because of games. But now valve is doing enough with proton and Linux that I think it will be a thing of the past. And then I can uninstall this absolute crapware of an OS from my PC. It is genuinely user hostile.
Added API Dash (an open source API client alternative) - https://github.com/foss42/apidash
Is this to make remixing/sampling easier for other artists? Or do some people actually prefer drumless?
This seems like a poor solution to the death of journalism.

There aren't enough details to go on in the story, but I'm going to make an assumption that this person was charged with a crime, stories were written about the charges, but when the charges were dropped or he was acquitted there was no followup story written and no update made to the original story.

Journalism in Canada is dying. Most of the newspapers in Canada are owned by one company and newsrooms have been consolidated and shrunk. I used to read my city's two major newspapers - they'd report a different subset of what was happening, and where they reported on the same thing the stories and takes would be different. Both were biased, but biased in different directions, so I felt that I was getting a semi-balanced view by reading both. Now both papers are owned by the same company, have the same reporters, same editors, report on the same things, and run identical stories. There's no balanced view and not enough reporters to follow up on every little thing that gets reported.

Ideally searching for this person's name would show the newest stories first ("person acquitted of crime", "charges dropped", etc), but if those stories never get written they will never show up in a search engine. And very few people will dig into CanLII to find the outcome, if it even makes it far enough to get into CanLII.

I don't know what the solution is. Maybe the media shouldn't name names until someone is convicted? But that would likely have unintended consequences.
They just kept adding features to the point where it became impossible to run on a "simple" stack.

Is there any open source alternative that focuses just on product analytics?
Just call nearest Rohde & Schwarz office and get a signaling tester... If you're doing phone firmware, there should be couple extra briefcases of cash for that. No need to call actual 911 just to test a dev branch build.
If your k8s nodes are the same height and width as your Proxmox servers, then yes. In my case, I have clusters of ~7 nodes, 100 cores, 1.75TB RAM, but my VMs tend to be much, much smaller. My web workers are each a handful of cores, I could double them a couple times before saturating the physical nodes core count.
I can walk to a bank and have a loan without any collateral. If I put a car or a house or a company as a collateral, I get a discount in the interest rate. Can I do that with crypto?

To be clear, those products, lending money without fiat collateral are much, much more significant feature of modern financial system than payment settlement. Until crypto solves those somehow, any comparison is meaningless. Like trying to compare wheels with cars.
Also try API Dash (an open source API client alternative) - https://github.com/foss42/apidash
An exception to the general rule: “if a newspaper headline ends in a question mark the answer is no”

Here the answer is yes. Dan Ariely is a complete fraud and so is Francesca Gino.

There are so many credible accusations of fraud against Ariely that about four of them get treated together very quickly at the end of the article, else the article would be several times longer. If you own his books, throw them away or shelve them with your fiction.

Also note that there are serious behavioral economics researchers who do hard work that isn’t remotely like this “nudging” or “priming” BS.
I might use this, or the one from the title, for print debugging my personal project when I have enough rom space and I don't feel like plugging a jtag adapter.

To philip82148, don't let the critics pull you down, you made it to the front page after and they probably haven't. You can still learn from them (your use of a goto when a while would have been probably sufficient) but ignore the negativity.
I see this as for drill-down thinking from a broad -> specific concept AI seems to be helpful when supplementing specialist work. However like you both mentioned: when needing more focused and integrated answers AI tends hinders performance.

However as the paper noted, when working within AIs areas of strength it improved not only efficiency but the quality of the work as well (accounting for the hallucinations). As you mentioned:

> When I ask a programming question, chat GPT hallucinates something about 20% of the time and I can only tell because I’m skilled enough to see it

This matches their Centaur approach, delineating between AI and one’s own skills for a task which—with generalized work—seems to fair better than not using AI at all.
The TV show "The Irrational"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irrational just premiered in the US.

This show is loosely based on Ariely's work.

As PR ramped on the show, so did dig-ups like these.
In comparison to other cloud companies, AWS "deprecated" SimpleDB over a decade ago and stopped letting new people use it, but still hasn't deleted the data for anyone that is still using it. EC2 Classic was the same.

Not giving updates and not allowing customers to create new instances is one thing, and is normally how these big deprecations are done. Outright destroying your customers' data just because they didn't migrate in time is wild (and its very easy for something like a database migration to take much longer than 2 years).
Ethereum emerged as a competitor as it introduces programmable smart contracts over Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a distributed ledger of amounts or limited storage, while Ethereum executes programs.

Also, BSC is just one of the numerous Ethereum forks, most nodes seem to be controlled by related parties and linked with high-speed networking, making it (much) more centralized hence a considerably easier problem to solve.
How do you “fix” a search engine creating top results for your accusation of a crime while burying the acquittal? Unless you’re famous, your acquittal will basically never outrank your accusations in a search engine, and the accusations will follow you.

Hence the ruling here.
> he null hypothesis states that everything should be considered conscious until proven otherwise.

Sorry, no. The null hypothesis is generally assumed to remain possibly true.

So, the null hypothesis states that everything should be considered possibly conscious until proven otherwise.
> A Serbian emigrant here...
> I just hope NATO does us a favor and actually go all the way and occupies the country

Yeah, it is good that you are no longer in Serbia, but you should stop calling yourself Serbian because you very clearly are not.
in 2025? sounds non-controversial to me
Muting the percussion on a track allows the melodies to be more easily sampled in other songs and mixes. I imagine that this is a way to help their music be plugged into future songs.
Different things for different purposes. Measuring how real software under real production workloads in variable enviornments behaves is useful but inherently high-variance. It doesn't let you track <1% changes commit-by-commit.

Field work vs. lab work.
> everyone

Do you really think the proportion of people who care about those issues is greater inside these companies, compared with the general population? Or is the proportion of people roughly the same, but they only speak up about it because those are the issues the company is involved with?
I have no idea what your point is. Is your point that those “do things” and have responsibilities support destroying our planet through climate change?
WGA Negotiations–Tentative Agreement [pdf]
As suspected, that's not "most of us".
I'm not claiming it is a panacea. I'm saying the absence isn't one either.

The benefits and dangers of free speech are two sides of the same coin: the capacity to convince others to act in accordance with your beliefs.

"Well adjusted adults" as a phrase can only point to those who are within the Overton Window of their society, regardless of whether that society calls for things I condemn, or not.

This means that well-adjusted adults can, will, and have, formed lynch mobs upon hearing rumours that someone has eaten beef.
Yeah, this and HAL 9000 doing the "Daisy Bell" routine are tied together in my mind.
Can't reply to 3seashells, so I'll reply here. You're right in your reply, but there's also a logical flaw in 3seashell's claim. The problem is all these empires were there, so the answer is to blow up houses of worship? Um, most of them weren't religious empires! Blowing up houses of worship is unrelated to the diagnosed problem.

This looks like someone has a huge axe to grind with religion, and took this as an excuse to grind it, no matter how unrelated it was...