skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the definition given in the article is pretty squarely accurate.

The fundamental "problem" of consciousness is that systems are deterministic (and/or random), so where is that special spark? Surely a machine can't be conscious, because they don't have that special magic that we do. But when we look closely at our own bodies and brains, they function a lot like machines...

Consciousness is an overloaded concept that folds a lot of things in. Legal culpability, rights and privileges, communication, connection, meaning.

You can easily partition your life in such a way that (percieved) consciousness emerges in things other than people. Places, animals, concepts, ritual behaviour can all fit the criteria, if you let them.

As computing people, distributed consciousness should not seem any weirder than microservices or docker containers.
The original Microsoft announcement didn't even use the word key once though, so I'm doubtful
Massive public transports, not EV, is the solution.
This is evidence in support of it being a bad deal.

If it was a good deal, women would have more children than they want because the economics were right
The AliExpress comment is meant to be indicative of the approximate global wholesale price for the type of product being compared against. The article claims it’s as much as $200 at quantities of 1000, which simply is not true in the real world, where it is more like $10-20.

If it’s an innovation to be able to provide a cardboard bed at a production cost of $17 each, then surely it would also be worthwhile in some cases for NGOs to consider cutting their cost base even lower for a more reusable product.
Reminds me of "News tweak", a MITM proxy meant to run on public wifi that would rewrite news headlines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598843
Too many groceries to conveniently carry by hand in one go != too many. For some of us, anyway.
And yet, Apple’s integrated solution didn’t have those issues with the Apple // in 1977 yet alone the Mac II with Nubus in 1987.
Nah. I was using a cheap Nokia 3230 in 2008 when looking for a replacement. the iPhone had just been released and it could not offer me a number of features I had been used to for years:

- Video calling (they didn't get front facing camera for ages)
- Video recording. Of any kind.
- Picture messaging. I can't remember if they offered any kind of MMS support.
- Voice commands (they didn't work terribly well but had been a feature of Nokia phones for ages)
- Third party apps
- Text copy/paste
- About a week of battery charge, depending on use.

So I bought an N95 instead, and had that for 8 years until it basically fell apart. Its original battery was still getting more life from a charge at this sorry stage than a new iPhone/Android replacement.
Have 2 numbers. One for the government and one for yourself.

Anything in the stock market is government.
Ask HN: Where do you hire writers?
Looks like is really hard to find good writers at a fair price, or they are crazy expensive or they are BS.

I tried Upwork, all AI or plagiarized stuff, I got a lot of offers but not even 1 decent.

I'm not taking about the best writers in the world as of course you need a good budget but some one with SEO knowledge at a fair price.

What do you recommend?
It takes time, and it can be rough starting out. But its worth it. The one thing which I disliked most about freelancing platforms is that you can not take clients off platform or even network with them without putting your account at risk.
Documenting this in detail is neigh impossible. Ashai Linux has the benefit of having working code to RE - this wouldn't work for silicon or board bring up.
yeah I'd kinda talked myself out of it the idea the end of my own post.
> This is definitely arguable

What is?

> Dawkins in "The selfish gene"

I've read The Selfish Gene. The same arguments are relevant regarding the utility? of menopause.

> having grandparents around greatly increases

How much is "greatly" -- or at least how strong does Dawkins argue is the effect? No doubt it could have some effect.

Ultimately, this is all completely contained in and consistent with my statement that "evolutionary pressure is for passing on of genes, not necessarily for longevity."
Except I don't think USB condoms work on USB-C ports. Or if they do, they downgrade the charging speed to almost nothing, locking it to 5V, 0.5amp.
By allowing more than one children? What a generous State.
I also believe this. The counterpoint was made to me by a close friend who prefers to call (I also have friends who _only_ call) - "you really only engage people on your own terms" - which in some ways makes me a bad friend.
TypeScript Monorepo with NPM Workspaces
Uber has drivers. There's probably some reason to customize car design for taxis, I'm not sure, but that's a modest difference relative to no driver and the greater expected scale of supplanting most human driving in time.

https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/design-change.html is very old and there are newer discussions, but I'm too lazy to find them for you. Also michaelmrose's answer.
Best case scenario in my mind is that bandcamp stays almost entirely the same, except artists get some additional settings on their music metadata that lets them turn on “offer my music for licensing on SongTradr” and set prices and terms. Nothing different at all on the bandcamp fan-facing experience, but it makes the music suddenly show up in licensing searches on some other b2b UX and is just another no-brainer income stream for the artist.
I googled in Japanese for more information and photos because some people here seemed to be very interested:

https://www.makuake.com/project/atex_makura/

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000168.000033199.html

Theres a lot of cool stuff in the japanese crowdfunding world. Gladly hit me up if you need anything.
If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.
It's interesting how advertisers are exempted from the crusade against fake news. Frothing talking heads like Alex Jones gets deplatformed while YouTube ads continue to inform me that "50,000 Ukrainian women want to date me". It's important that I don't get wrong information about covid vaccines so I don't get sick, but luring gambling addicts to casino sites is no problem.
In that time there is relatively little figurative art of humans. Rarely seen in cave painting, etc. The nearest would be the Venus figurines but they don't typically show facial features or internal anatomical details. It's a major major find bro.
Is there also any truth to scammers calling you but not saying anything, in the hopes of recording your voice as you talk to train AI bots for future scams that use your voice? Or is that some urban legend/myth.

They are getting more and more creative.
I understand the theory of this, but cannot reconcile it with an experience I had in person a decade ago.

In the acoustically prepped monitoring booth of his recording studio, a friend of mine tried to give me an ABX test of 24bit 96 kHz recording and its 16bit 44.1 kHz rendering that was supposedly done right. I heard the difference and easily picked the high-rate one that sounded more life-like. With my best effort, I described it as having a clearer high frequency spectrum, while the other sounded muffled in comparison.

I am left wondering if the 44.1 kHz file wasn't actually rendered correctly with dithering, or if my friend failed to actually get his studio equipment to play it back correctly. I.e. was some overly aggressive low-pass filter done during the conversion or during the playback.
https://archive.ph/DmCAv
Inside Crypto's House of Cards
That gives location. Not status. So it tells you whether they are in the building, but not if they are fine, injured, incapacitated or unconscious.

Moreover, lets say the senators have a mixed record on massive invasion of privacy. You need a system that covers everyone
We're talking anthropology here, not art criticism. It's leagues more realistic than anything we've uncovered. Something like the bronze charioteer which is incredibly vivid and accurate is made nearly 10,000 years later than this one.
Example 82,462,147 of "you get wht you vote for"
Almost nowhere on earth did "stay at home" actually happen. We all had these so-called mandates, but people (especially in more rural areas) pretty much did whatever the hell they wanted with no repercussions since there was almost zero enforcement. They were out and about, shopping for their khakis at "essential" businesses, eating at the restaurants who refused to closed (also with no consequence) and basically ignoring the mandates. We don't have a valid experiment group because everywhere was the control group.
Yet more astonishing finds from the PPNA! Contemporaneous or even earlier than the Balıklıgöl statues, but the piece and its expression is far beyond it. Each time I think I won't be surprised by another Turkish find and yet . .

Looking at the oldest finds on a world map, I can't help wondering what sort of finds are in those areas less developed - or more wrought by internal violence - were those places to suddenly be easy to roam for archeologists. If Iran were as accessible as Germany, who knows what the equivalent of the Hohlenstein Löwenmensch would be? The events of the early 21st century (can and will) cast a long shadow in the scholarship.
I like this line of thinking, but I think education is the key. Even with good filters you have to be able to smell bullshit.

I enabled iOS “silence unknown callers” option as soon as they added it, but found I miss important calls sometimes. I rely on voicemail for those. There’s no way to completely whitelist your personal communications in this world.

I do get scam voicemails and emails sometimes, but am good at detecting them.
AI data training companies like Scale AI are hiring poets
I just went to the website and clicked every button, it was satisfying to do, good work!
Yes, and websites know that we don't want video advertisements playing everywhere on the screen, but it doesn't matter because we're the product, not the customer.
But you don't necessarily know they're guessing what you're testing for in the A/B test. If they are answering which one sounds better, some songs will genuinely sound better with a little lossy compression. Did you check to see if any audio samples deviated from the base 50% rate in either direction? For example if 70% of people chose the compressed version of Audio Sample 15, that still demonstrates an ability to discern a difference. It just turns out they like the lossy sample more.

For a contrived example, imagine an A/B test where you have to tell me which image has more red. Image 1 is a dark red panel on the left and a fully bright white panel on the right. Most people would say the left is more red, but in my fictional test it is actually the white panel because (100, 0, 0) has less red than (255, 255, 255).

If you use ABX, people know exactly what they are supposed to be matching.
What’s the name of the company that’s selling this “insurance”? They should be sued into bankruptcy.
> That's mean that every person that in the training data could be revealed

The examples you linked do not show that this statement is true. Far from it. You showed that one of the most high profile people in the world can be recognized. There are millions (ten of millions? hundreds?) of photos of Elon Musk out there. He was TIME's person of the year. You'd need to show that photos of non-uber-famous individuals who are seen in a small handful of public photos are identifiable for me to believe that statement.
I can't speak for the other poster, but I'm not saying I believe that's happening now.

I'm merely pointing out that it's possible without being a contradiction in terms, especially if it gets to the point where there's ambiguity between the de jure state versus the de facto state. (Or worse, a Snow Crash scenario.)
I'm somehow the opposite.

I'm fine with gmail and search. But I was disatisfied with my Nexus and Pixel phones, due to quality and support and with my Google Assistance device, which didn't match my use cases as well as Alexa devices.

And I found good alternatives to Reader and I also switched to Microsoft 365.

So a mixed result overall.
I guess they'll have to serve fewer ads then to make it more manageable.
I used to live half a block from the BQE in Brooklyn. Window sill always covered in layer of black dust. Never again.
EVs rip through tires lol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698864
Eh, I’ve seen some deaths. Hospital setting. They can be really not great for sure. Maybe that’s just my interpretation, can’t ask them but did see them, but definitely made me readjust my attitude to that the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die.

I’ve dabbled in various religious studies, now consider myself a FBI-most-wanted traditional Catholic. What I’ve found to be anxiety relieving is the practice of practicing for death. In Latin we have a phrase “memento Mori” which means remember death and there are lots of oddities that help us there, like chandeliers made from skulls and bones and songs and other traditions like “ash Wednesday” etc .

Anyways, my point is death can be and probably should be terrifying. It depends on how you harness that energy. You can practice for death. Seeing a number, I think it’s good practice. It shouldn’t be morbid, if you ask me. Everybody poops, everybody dies. Feel free to reflect on death to help yourself appreciate life.

Edit: I guess if you believe in no after life it doesn’t really matter right? But I still think it’s worth it to try and make my last few moments on earth less terrifying, even if I am sent into a nothingness afterwards.
I remember back in the 80’s when we were all witness to Japan’s economic miracle. Some said it was the tightly managed Keiretsu supply system, some said it was MITI, some said that it was Deming, or maybe it was just Japanese culture?

It really looks now like it’s demographics. This is just the sort of amazing thing that countries with a young well-educated workforce and a below-50 managerial class can accomplish. Now we’re all in the age of the gerontocracy, with Japan Inc. leading the way. Even the United States, ostensibly the most societally agile nation in the world, can’t seem to find political leaders who aren’t in comas or don’t suffer micro-seizures in public.
I owned one!
I'll cough once for yes.
There is organic matter buried in and around the site that can be used to date the point at which it was filled in.
> The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels like a breach of trust.

Ah yes this is one of my pet peeve. I have resorted to block those notifications too and forced to check the app periodically for any update if I'm waiting for something. Those bastards rely on people eventually tired of that and let ad notifications through but so far I still stand fast. Although it helps that I rarely buy online.
> Many employers during the pandemic engaged in all sorts of electronic monitoring on employees with seemingly no legal repercussions.

But there's a key difference. If employers want to track what time you're on the company laptop or if it's connecting from an IP address in the location you claim to be working from, that's legal. Monitoring nominally mic-off personal conversations isn't.
I've gotten a few phone calls like that. A few years ago living abroad it seemed to be a targeted sales pitch for one gender (ex. makeup). Would hang up as soon as I answered, or pretend that they needed the number of my wife (I wasn't married).

More recently in the US I got a call where the other side didn't say anything and hung up after exactly one minute. Suspicious indeed.
There is some confusion here.

The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They're not even remotely similar.

The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a "do not use" list. It's a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn't matter that they have a page saying "sure go ahead and use it internally" - most places won't touch it with a 10m pole, by policy.
Based on the bandcamp employee throwaway that commented earlier, I wonder if epic just wanted credit for cutting a lot of jobs to make shareholders happy. That “16%” announced is a big number that would be less attention-grabbing if it didn’t include all of bandcamp.
This used to be somewhat true, but modern digital often uses such high internal rates that converting between the two is near lossless. For instance, the least common multiple of 44.1k and 48k is in the 7MHz region. Realtime conversion between them is pretty doable today. We've been doing it by using decimation with much simpler hardware for a few decades before that.
Scientists reveal cellular changes unique to early Alzheimer's disease
Maybe Google is popular because it used to be good. It was. Few monopolies ever weren't. (Or monopsonies either, for those who just can't help themselves.) It's the leveraging of past success into unassailable advantage (regardless of declines in actual value) that's at the heart of anti-trust. That is what Google has been accused of - not of being large or even dominant on the merits, but of using their market power to exclude potential rivals from a free market and therefore to harm consumers. Whether they're guilty will come out as the trial progresses. Reason is (characteristically) trying to short-circuit the process by spreading an inaccurate version of what the case is even about. The attribution of motive ("DOJ wants") and dogwhistles ("Europe!") only make it worse. It's disappointing that such a weak and hyper-partisan piece is even on HN.
> When you're Facebook and Google, who are willing to take money from anyone and everyone...

Therein lies the problem.
So no environmental or climate group's "research" is trustworthy either?
Maybe, but more targeted than that. You could tax health insurance companies to pay for a public system, or you could put a surcharge on phone bills paid directly by the consumer to subsidise service to rural users.

There are lots of options each with their own trade offs.
Pico-8
With CRT monitors, different refresh rates very really easy to spot - 60 Hz was very flickery.
Plexamp does this automatically if requested.
Lessons from Debugging
Right? Like, "Oh my gosh, how can I ever be expected to take responsibility for all of the actions I perform with my body?!"

"Oh gosh, I opened the door and a bunch of rats came in... I haven't closed it yet. What can I possibly do to take care of this rat problem?"
Impulsive? He seems much more the calculating sort, which makes me skeptical about your judgement that he’s unethical.
I guess you weren't in Spain at the time. Or China.
> I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to that, [...] simply for the fact that they've never really needed to.

The unfortunately still very popular OPC protocol suite (except for the newer OPC-UA) runs over DCOM (making it very annoying to interface with if you're not running Windows). The hardening changes Microsoft did to DCOM, starting with Windows XP SP2 and still ongoing, directly affect the security of these systems (and also make them even more annoying to interface with if you're not running Windows).
USSR was seen in a positive light vs the US and Modi appreciates Putin for the same reasons Trump does.

It’s resentment and nationalism.
Severe Crash Is Coming for US Office Properties, Investors Say
OP said they are Greek, they didn't say they lived in Greece.
no it isn't. the only difficulty is "can we stay afloat financially and do so?" , which is a different task.

imagine if the FDA or some other sort of stringent agency had that kind of remark. "Well, we make 3 billion pills a day, of COURSE 15% of those are going to be deadly poison." -- wouldn't fly for a second.

the excuse of "Well it's going to be real tough to reduce the amount of poison pills while still making trillions in profit" would be equally useless; society wouldn't (and shouldn't) care about that.
Agree with Go sentiment. Not only that, it is a great general purpose language that does great with any heavier computational load stuff too.

I do everything with Go and Node+TS. All API services, real time / notifications, and crunchy stuff happens with Go. Node+TS handles anything else for either 3rd party things (usually the node sdk is far superior in terms of documentation and support) or one off scripts.

I've tried phoenix. End of the day I don't want to work with something which is built on something else which I don't know/understand to an even bigger degree. And fwiw, I don't see the point of deep diving into erlang/beam when Go basically does everything plus more, within its boundaries. Reminds me of JVM, you can code all day in Scala (like any junior engineer) but at some point either when shit hits the fan or incompatibility strikes, you need to learn Java and JVM internals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I think it has a lot to do with the experience of the people doing the hiring. If a hiring manager has been personally involved in a number of successful contract jobs, then they will look favorably at others who have done the same.

If those making the hiring decisions are waist deep in open source projects, then they will appreciate those who have contributed to popular OSS projects or have started their own.

If, on the other hand, they only know traditional engineering shops that adhered to a particular development model, then they will almost always look for people who fit that mold.
> The US system is actually more monarchical than the parliamentary systems found in most of Europe and the Commonwealth,

If you redefine “monarchy” to refer to concentration of power and not the proprietary, hereditary, personal character of paramount leadership, strong Presidential systems are more “monarchical” within their scope of power than most parliamentary systems. OTOH, the US federal government has a narrow scope of authority than most national governments, which makes the overall concentration of power less even though the concentration of that power actually held by the feds is greater.

Really, ignoring the essential proprietary factors of both monarchy and feudalism, the decentralization of feudalism is probably a better comparator to the US system than the centralism of monarchy (whereas European countries were more centralized in the 18th Century and have generally gotten even more centralized since, with a little but of recent backoff.)

Its probably more significant that many European (but mostly not Commonwealth) countries, are more effectively democratic than the US, but parliamentarianism is less important than proportionality there.
Isn't it much more work to find those symbols and copy and paste them though?
I presume you are right for where you are, but I don't think your experience was universal. I live in a rural part of Vermont. My impression is that the mandates here were generally well obeyed. No restaurants were open. Grocery shopping was very limited. Public social gatherings did not happen. Whether coincidence or not, we seem to also be one of the areas with relatively low Covid deaths.