skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that you do not experience ghosts, but you do experience conciousness.

>If consciousness was not physical then where is it?

We can invert this and ask, if physicality is not ideal, then how do we come to know it?

>Surely there's only two options: the physics we know and the physics we don't know?

The third option is that physics is unable to interrogate itself.
I hate the writing style. This is the kind of text you normally see from scam artists: "this cool techinque that I'm going to tell you about", "here's a personal story/testimonial", "soon I'll tell you how I did it", "watch this video if you want to learn more", and there's usually also a "buy my course if you really want to learn about it".

This is not how one shares knowledge, this is how one sells snake oil.

Thus, by default all information shared here should be considered bogus. Every claim needs to be verified (multiple hours of research). As such, I'd rathet disregard the article completely and use actual research on aphantasia as a starting point to learn about it instead.
https://archive.ph/8AhOJ

It's possible that wine bars, strip clubs, and all other light commercial uses should be equally easy to open.
"...in German they feel somewhat optional - ä, ö and ü can be replaced with ae, oe and ue respectively"

At least in German you've got those options. For instance, Gärtner becomes Gaertner without any loss of information. That cannot be said for English when the only (usual) option is to change the word to Gartner.
Spanish Justice finds John McAfee case a suicide
Easily shown to be wrong with fossil fuels, microplastics, and countless other "advances" that end up harming individuals and society as a whole. More accurate is that some are bad, and some are not. Certainly not "nothing".
And you would be correct, if people drilled down into the data you'd see the birth rate drops off massively by 2nd/3rd gen when they hit the modern world.

It's the Amish and Mennonites that seem to retain people well by having it be optional.

America is more likely to be Amish than anything else if we got solely by the trend.

I'd say there is a lot more too it than that
My intuition is that dogs and cats greatly reduce one anxiety, but I have no idea if there is a chemical reason for this or if it has ever been studied.
I have a houseful of giggling, happy teens right now. The ones that are supposed to be suffering so awfully according to some. They aren’t. They have struggles and fears I know of, and many I don’t I’m sure. They are just as pragmatic about them as any generation between now and Plato (and longer) has been.

Don’t believe what you read, and perhaps don’t judge anyone at their worst moments. Don’t stereotype based on the vocal and visible few.
In the time it took you to Ctrl+F DAW you could have googled it.
> Would you leave your kids for the night at the house of someone who enjoys making AI CSAM?

Probably not, but social ostracization and targeted bans by law (makes AI CSAM = cannot be a teacher) could stand in for a full legal ban.

Less importantly, your smoking in movies analogy is not very applicable because smoking is legal and smoking in movies is legal. Also, there are ads for smoking in public, like at gas stations.
>Why would be be able to marry some conscious activity with MRI scans?

Does the activity cause the changes on the scan or does the changes in the scan cause the activity? How does neuroplasticity result in physical changes to the brain through, for example, cognitive behavioral therapy? Do the thoughts alter the physical structure or does the structure cause the thoughts even before the structural changes?
https://old.reddit.com/r/CureAphantasia/comments/z0clpt/how_...
Interesting. I'm the same. I can't visualize anything in my head, but I can play back songs as perfect audio with the lyrics and all the music. I'm playing Moby in my head right now. But, like you, I often have to go find the music to physically listen to in order to end the earworm.
From a demographic perspective I think it is safe to say that human population is not exactly on the brink of extinction.

I think there is ample buffer for future generations to correct the population trajectory if under-population happens to be a non-imaginary issue for our species.

In my opinion, many ecological problems would be simpler to solve with half or a quarter of the current population.

And the imbalance between old and young would only last for a few decades.
minus the ml hype workload, there is no real novelty in the approach.
https://x.com/VHPCworkshop/status/1708257890039910497?s=20
Of course, that's the hook they used to convince artists they need generative AI in their creative process.
> That distros haven't been sued yet seems meaningless.

I don't think if meaningless. And its not just distros, there are whole companies whos buissness model depends on linux with zfs. And its also all the companies who use the distros.

Literally 100s and 100s of company are running Ubuntu. All of those companies have decided that ZFS isn't a problem of them. All of them could have ask to exclude ZFS but non have to my knowlage.

Its also not really about Oracle. Sun did the legwork when they open-sourced their stuff. Those licenses in itself are not in question. And those licenses certainty don't care about being linked with GPL. The only question is if GPL is incomparable with the CDDL.

So the fear of Oracle in this case that Oracle would put itself forward as defender of the GPL? That makes no sense. But anybody could sue anybody about that at any time.

If Linux had included ZFS the ZFS code would already exists on most of the worlds computers by now. And the waste, waste majority of companies would not remove ZFS over some open source inside baseball.
I think you are slightly to the aphantasia side of a spectrum. I can do the same as you but with colors.
> 3. Gears, pistons, linkages, pulleys, wheels, etc forming elaborate moving mechanisms...

This is a really interesting phenomenon. Elaborate machinescapes are present in a lot of psychedelic closed eye visuals. Its unusual because we typically don't have a lot of interaction with these things, yet there's this shared experience. I wonder if the experiences we have had seeing complex machinery in real life have embedded some primal response to them.

I commonly see blobs of light, but a particularly frequent recurring visualization is circus imagery. If I'm listening to music I seem to be more prone to seeing something like cardboard cutouts of the Beatles in their Sgt Pepper outfits sort of bouncing up and down moving off to the side.
The story is indeed true, in every detail. And yes, it was a wild experience.

I'd never had this happen before, nor since. I wish it were a skill I could develop and cultivate!
spider robinson had a short story, "the time traveller", based on the premise that emerging from years of that sort of isolation (i think it was ten years in the case of his protagonist) was tantamount to travelling forward in time.
> Remove oil/gas imports from the national trade balance, and Portugal is suddenly a very very rich country.

Is energy that much of typical person's spend? And internal creation of energy doesn't drop the cost to consumers to zero.
Nim is incredibly pleasant for actually engineering software. In most scenarios it feels like compiled Python, and when you need it, you get really precise control. The preference for referentially-transparent procedures and stack-managed dynamic data is icing on the cake. You don't have to write just about any memory-semantic code in most business scenarios. Feels like a scripting language, runs 10-100x faster, and add the power of static types.
You called my number absurd even for SV. As you now see, it is reasonably accurate. That you thought it was absurd instead of reasonable shows you are missing key information in the cost-benefit calculation. It might be prudent to re-evaluate your preconceptions in light of that.

As for your other numbers you again point at salary. What matters to a company is fully burdened cost per developer-time. European countries have higher benefits and lower hour/day expectations per year which skew the ratio relative to the US. I am not super familiar with the standard rule-of-thumb multiplier in western Europe, but the difference in fully burdened cost is less skewed than it seems based on salary, probably only 2-3x cheaper at most.

As for China, you used the yen conversion rate, not the RMB/yuan conversion rate. 269,904 RMB is ~37 K$, not 1800 $.

Paying fractions of employee cost in tooling is only viewed as absurd in software. In literally every other industry spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per engineer to make them productive is just viewed as good business sense.

Even outside of engineering almost every industry spends more as a percentage on employee tooling. Do you see how many tools your average carpenter, plumber, or electrician has? Landscapers, architects? Even secretaries get those neat expensive printers and management software.

The point I am making is that tens of thousands of dollars for tooling is not “insane”. It deserves a calm cost-benefit analysis which can quite easily come on the side of worth it. Obviously, it can also come on the side of, this is a piece of trash, but that should be out of analysis, not a knee-jerk “too expensive”.
I don't ride these but I and many friends ride electric unicycles, EUCs. There's a known safety concern: if you're riding at the maximum supported speed, and you lean forward, you're going to fall forward because the device can not speed up to catch you. Similarly, if you lean back to brake but are leaning too far for how quickly the machine can stop, you will fall backwards. At high speeds this is catastrophic. You can also draw too much power due to things like incline, music, etc. OneWheels would presumably have the same limitation.

EUCs have default warnings at high speeds, but you can disable or change these warnings (making them higher or lower). You also need to monitor your battery health; I wouldn't trust an old battery.

Ultimately the rider determines the risk. I'm the only rider I know that wears a helmet. Many friends or acquaintances have broken their legs badly or been hit by multiple vehicles. I ride slower and safer, generally, but even I've done some minor damage to myself.

I'm inclined to get rid of the EUC in favor of a scooter or ebike. Two points of contact with the ground is so much safer.
A floor can get relatively cold, and may act as a heat sink.
Both parents have to work, if you want to increase birth rates then you can't force everyone to be a dual income family.

You'll notice that all the high birth rates are with single income family structures.
A surprising amount of medication sheets say things like, “the mechanism of action for this drug is not understood”.
Which is unfortunate because one of these things has an energy of 1MJ and the other has an energy of 50kJ, claiming some sort of equivalency is totally unrealistic.
Good old linear extrapolation
"Quality" is relative. A hinge which is fine for a closet door may be unsuitable for a bank vault.
Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs). It's the hot new thing.

Tell someone they're hired, insert a harmless looking little clause[1], have 'em sign the paperwork, send 'em a training packet, then WHOOPSIE the client didn't need you after all and you owe us 30,000 smackaroonies.

Honestly, since the job seeker is explicitly prohibited from contacting the client independently, I'm amazed that this isn't a more common con. Like, why not just ditch the idea of having a client at all, and just prey on the job seekers? Probably because that's a little more on the "definitely illegal" side, because you have to lie about a client needing headcount[2]. What you can do, completely legally, is overhire on a client whim, since overhiring literally makes you money.

[1] "Oh this? It's industry standard for the client. Just a government thing. Look, here's our Official Certification. Everyone signs it."

[2] EDIT or, as a dedicated scammer, you could have a fake client too. Make it sound really official. "LEGACY AERO", "LONG RADIO CORPORATION", "OLD-TIMEY TOTALLY AMERICAN-SPEAKING TRUCKING COMPANY". Or make it sound religious! Be ready for lawyers with an actual business-looking fake client that's . . awww . . just on Hard Times. Also, be a worthless piece of human-shaped filth. That's the first prerequisite.
SSO Tax
More and more I'm starting to appreciate the email based PR
My point is that literally everything falls into this category of “potentially dangerous under conditions of misuse” and so it is not a useful distinction.
It's frustrating to read that this is 'a situation of great interest for the fields of psychiatry and psycholinguistics', but not any results/commentary, or even any indication that his situation was actually studied (vs. greatly interesting but ignored).
Yeah, of course! But, this will be a thing that I hope doesn't get flagged. I have a totally free course for configuring reaper for VO at academy.boothjunkie.com. it goes through all my initial optimizations for reaper. If you're comfortable with your VST setup, this will go a long way in getting you started, and you can incorporate your VO chain.

If you want to take this out of HN and talk more specifically, my website is in my profile and I'd be happy to help however I can. If you want to dig deeper into anything specific, I'd be happy to share any experience I have.
"Open a Word processor from the year 2000...", "Open a spreadsheet editor from the year 2000...", "Open an image editor from the year 2000...". This is completely silly; most desktop software still exists in a form that is a recognizable evolution from Y2K versions; DAW is no exception, big deal indeed!
At the same time, DSM-V continues to define a "disorder" as something intimately connected with "distress."

These are real people, in great suffering, and we still don't have answers for many of the diagnostic codes found in the DSM.

Modern psychiatry and neurology may never substantially improve in addressing these disorders, as the human brain is the most complex object known to exist, perhaps beyond comprehension.

DSM-IV definition of mental disorder:

A: A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual.

B: Associated with present distress (e.g. a painful symptom) or disability (i.e. impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.

C: Must not be merely an expectable and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event (e.g. the death of a loved one).

D: A manifestation of behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction in the individual.

E: Neither deviant behavior (e.g. political, religious, or sexual) nor conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual.

Other considerations

F: No definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of ‘mental disorder’.

G: The concept of mental disorder (like many other concepts in medicine and science) lacks a consistent operational definition that covers all situations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161428/
Maybe that was a valid rule of thumb for decades that everyone internalised as a hard rule… but recent process changes haven’t delivered anywhere near the giant leaps that they used to.

Maybe now it would be worth revisiting, especially since we can throw so much computer power at validation!
>Why do you think that collecting evidence from experiments leads to truth though?

I don't, but I find that it produces results that are instrumental, and I assume that the past behaves analogously to the future, and similar situations behave similarly because this has generally been true in my experience.

>Why should we undertake it?

I'm religious, so certain science is useful to me in accomplishing my goal of attaining heaven.

>These are questions of philosophy, no experiments can answer them.

I agree.
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The short answer is that it keeps the system fully 'trust-free' (permisionless), and that it, in the same way Bitcoin incentivizes hashing random numbers, incentivizes routing nodes to form efficient networks (networks which race to get fee paying data into blocks while minimizing hops).

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Routing nodes will lose to competitors if another routing path on the same fee is included in a block. They also diminish the 'work' in the transaction (which overcomes the threshold to make blocks) by adding hops - so it's only worth it to add hops in order to 'win the race.' All nodes in the path have an expected value on the fee, but the further into the chain of hops, the more that diminishes.

In a technical sense, it isn't necessary to then reward those routing nodes to keep the anti-Sybil property for the routing network itself, but it does give other nice properties related to trustlessness and network provision.

1. Data pays no fees, routers get no rewards

Assuming data is published to a shared medium which requires some threshold of "work" which stems from the data, then even just the act of including that data into your medium becomes more difficult the more hops it accumulates. You then of course rely on trust assumptions to fight spam.

2. Data pays fees, routers get no rewards

If you use some measure of cost to create data, you can handle spam, and that cost determines how much work the data carries with it and thus how likely it is to be included into the medium (trying to be very general here, but in the linked article that medium is a blockchain). The trust assumptions here rest with the routing nodes 'doing their duty.'

3. Data pays fees, routers get rewards

This is the model Saito has - it removes trust assumptions for users and routers as if one tries to 'scam' the other (either a Sybilling user creating fake data, or a Sybilling router creating fake hops), the native money can be leveraged to create recourse without an authoritative audit or punishment - purely economic.
They already said what they should think happen. And after the lawsuit we will know if a nosedive is considered a reasonable failure mode.
It’s a bit long for the TLDR crowd, and it was passionate.

But no, it was a good post and the cultural expectation to keep things shorter and more buttoned up has some real downsides.

I would have written this with more punch, but, well, see above.
> I'm sure flat earthers understand the concept of a sphere or more specifically a oblate spheroid

This isn’t understanding the concept of a spherical planet. The radial symmetry of gravity, for instance, is critical to understanding why penguins aren’t constantly falling off Antarctica. Someone can understand the physical possibility of a sphere without grasping the fuller concept.
> dependent types are used to encode logic's quantifiers like "for all" and "there exists"

Ya I don't think this is a good definition of dependent type - the prototypical example of a dependent type is a k-length vector. Obviously there's a mapping from what you wrote to this (in the same way there's almost always a mapping from a sequence of decision problems to an optimization problem) but it's still not a good formulation.

> In my example the objects could be any object types, combination of types, or concepts

Um yes this is literally what I was asking with respect to top ⊤.

> usually can't [contain] expressions

ya the negation is interesting - I wonder how it's implemented.
Maybe this isnt fair but we had demographers hired by our school district who could not reliably predict student population 2 years out. I watched them fail for 15 years.
>unrelated to traffic

[doubt]
And yet there is still widespread discrimination against immigrants. If Japan is consumed by this crisis, it will be by their own stubbornness
What goes around comes around, every 7 years (2019)
I know your dad would smack you on the back of the head and tell you in that all-too-familiar tone of voice: “Just turn your phone sideways!”
Fairly, but Western countries started as very religious and are losing that at varying rates. Heritability is real but far from absolute.

All other things being equal I'd expect it to reach an equilibrium. I don't think all other things are equal in this case, and nonbelief becomes more attractive over time (for better or worse).
Having to make a decision on the spot induces analysis paralysis in me :)
>Nope, not always, and this is why direct democracy is pretty inefficient. People aren't experts

This was also the Monarchist argument for not even allowing representative democracy (rule by "rabble").

Swiss laws are actually fairly decent while your American representative democracy proves that representative democracy really is rule-by-experts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
4K Blu-ray quality video requires a 144 Mbps bit rate. On a triple layer Blu-ray Disc (100GB in size) that nets you ~90 minutes of run time. That doesn't include audio, which can require extraordinary amounts of space as well.

For comparable quality 8K recordings you need 4 time as much space as needed for 4K.

8K won't be the stopping point either.
Thermal magIC: Digging into the details of an ambitious new thermometry camera
I agree, those anti-censorship nuts and free speech absolutist wonks really grind my gears. It is imperative that we build technology from the ground up with the explicit inability to create or render any text that isn’t in line with my morals. To this end, I compile Chrome in a way that renders private tabs inoperable — while some kooks might say that’s a bit extreme, it is absolutely critical that any software capable of rendering text on my computer display a modicum of human decency.

Your point about the internet being an infinite town square that nobody wants to use — to wit that is why nobody uses it. What people do not understand is that a predator will either ask chat-gpt how to harm children and then do it, or not do it at all.

Mandating that every entity that is in a position to censor LLMs to do so in a way that fits their world view, we are quite literally mandating the safety of every child on earth. We have already had great success with this with other technologies; for example there are no books or web pages that describe grooming children. That sort of information could only originate synthetically inside of an LLM.
To get an idea what's possible see this, it's an entertaining, educational look at it:
https://youtu.be/Wly9_qN-jZ0?feature=shared

The CIA report is linked in the description.
Your sleep quality is likely suffering quite bad if you sweat that much regularly while asleep
The OP reposted this with a longer text a few minutes later. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720804 I think you should repost your comment there, so all the discussion is in one post.
> The UI looks very dated.

If the UI is clunky to use, that's something that needs to be fixed. If the UI works okay, but only looks dated, that's ... fine and there's every good reason to leave it as it is.

Why? Because altering the look of the UI is strongly coupled with altering the usability of the UI. This leads to regressions in usability, making the product "look better" but "work worse".

Leave things alone. I don't care if the UI looks like Motif or TCL or a TUI, but if it works in a smooth, intuitive and pleasing way, there's no reason to change it.

The VIM interface is the very definition of "extremely dated", and that's fine.
Also life extension technology. Thus far it has been largely ineffective but there's no reason to think it's insoluble.

Plus of course the "singularity" which, if real, could knock all predictions straight into the bin.
Hydro. The whole world could run off hydro if there were enough dammable rivers and lakes, because you can scale output up or down.

When people ask about the viability of renewables they typically refer to intermittent sources.