skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t the measurement problem still potentially linked to consciousness? We don’t know why we experience one thing when reality is actually in a superposition of possibilities. It could be that our measurement devices cause quantum collapse, or they too exist in a superposition until we measure the measuring device.
Exactly. If the FCC (or someone) said "your certification of these devices is revoked and any further imports are banned" I GUARANTEE Google would instantly spin up a dedicated, capable, and prioritized 911 team.
No, as all provinces mentioned are actually internationally recognised (UN) as part of mentioned countries.

These three countries don't claim anything. They are recognised as such by the UN. The claim is actually on the other side.
This is interesting. Indeed it is much cleaner UI. Thanks for sharing.
It's the opposite of what I and a lot of my schoolmates did when we were poor. You'd get a haircut from your mum or your girlfriend. You'd torrent the OED. Many poor people aren't idiots, they're often just caught in a unlucky situation without the time/resources to fight their way out of it. Same way that many rich people are lucky idiots.
Russia invading Ukraine makes NATO a bully? Are you implying that Russia is secretly a US puppet state intentionally trying to scare its neighbors into NATO's arms?
Very true. Though he must have personally known Slobodan Milošević, who died after 6 years of UN detention.
I suppose so. I thought this was extending the upper limit of operation.
Economic shocks about to hit the US
> I really, really would not hire someone who is uncomfortable with C to program MCUs.

I was under the impression Espressif was aimed at DIYers, prototypers, etc. looking to move fast and optimize later.

I'm a C guy myself, but I think you're looking at this wrong. There is no blessed stack. It's about tradeoffs.
Psychiatric diseases did exist thousands of years ago. OCD is a disease I know of. Yes, medication does not cure the underlying illness. And yes, it allows a patient to function in society. Which is, considering everything, a good thing. Being so depressed that you are bed ridden and your body hurts, or so agitated that you could not sleep for days puts a temporary chemical lobotomy in relation.
Oh for crying out loud, I’m so over this holier than thou attitude.

Every company and every vendor has strengths and weaknesses. Laughing in someone’s face for choosing to use one platform is ridiculous at best.

My entire almost 30 year career has been Microsoft centered, except for brief stints with Novell, mainframes, and OS/2.

And based on my anecdotal evidence over many companies and many years, Microsoft has been pretty solid.
Maybe they’ve heard the shit results from all of the AI tools to create stems from songs, and don’t want their music to sound like that.
Yeah, I'm sure it was the 1500 killed by NATO and not the 140,000 killed + 4 million displaced from 7 separate wars
1. I don't know.

2. Relative to their importance in 2023, HN disproportionately upvotes headlines mentioning Mozilla, Linux desktop frameworks (#1 recently!), and other technologies that were extremely important in 2003.

3. Based on that (imperfect) evidence, my hypothesis is that HN voters are heavily drawn from people who have been hackers for two decades are more *and who haven't fully updated their perspectives on software*. An implication of this hypothesis is that there are some topics which are underweighted on HN relative to their importance. I do not know how to test this hypothesis.
I'm very unimpressed by that study. Look at how they generated the jokes - they fed it a prompt that was a slight variation on "please tell me a joke" and then wrote about how the jokes weren't varied enough.

https://github.com/DLR-SC/JokeGPT-WASSA23/blob/main/01_joke_...

That's a bad way to use an LLM for joke generation.

Try "tell me a joke about a sea lion" - then replace sea lion with any other animal.

Or "tell me ten jokes about a lawyer on the moon" - combine concepts like that and you get an infinite variety of jokes.

Some of them might even be funny!
Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
"Asserting that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous does nothing to shed light on the way an experience of blueness is the way it is, and not some other way. Nor does it explain anything about the possible functions of consciousness, nor why consciousness is lost in states such as dreamless sleep, general anaesthesia, and coma." -- Anil Seth, from the article

This bit -- "nor why consciousness is lost in states such as dreamless sleep, general anaesthesia, and coma" -- begs the question. We don't actually know that consciousness is lost in these states, just that people report no memory of consciousness when emerging from these states. This is a fact about memory, not consciousness.

And this comes back to the basic problem of consciousness: we have no test of it other than personal report. If you assume that anything that does not tell you it is conscious is not conscious, then you're left with consciousness being an emergent property. Somehow Bob was without consciousness and now he has it again! What changed? But you don't actually have proof of this, it's just an assumption. And a reason to be suspicious of it is that it is a flattering and convenient assumption. It means many things and beings have no moral valence. You can leave them out of your ethics. Arguably it isn't consciousness but suffering or pleasure that is relevant here, but consciousness is a necessary ingredient. "That lobster looks like it suffers when it is plunged into boiling water, but it isn't conscious, just a zombie. I can do what I want with it."

It seems to me the Occam's razor solution is not that consciousness is an emergent behavior. The modeling of the world in neurons is a physical thing that we can measure, and replicate in software. But with this we haven't gotten any closer to explaining why sensation is associated with some such models and not others, that there are two states: consciousness and unconsciousness. The added bit that Occam's razor trims away is the assertion that there are two states, not just the one observed state: consciousness. Panpsychism -- or cosmopsychism or whatever -- is the Occam's razor solution.
It's fun also because this relationship is explicitly & deeply embedded in some north american indigenous ecologies, maybe others. We've been confidently dismissing it for generations.
As a patient i see the field at best as a set of best practices in theoretical scenarios. But i imagine getting valuable insights out of (troubled and ashamed) people minds to help them is really hard. Surprisingly pharmacology in Psychiatry instead works well and reliably for a lot of conditions
OpenAI vs. Google in 2023
Cue all the Canadian politicians asking to be forgotten for inviting and celebrating an actual Nazi in Parliament this week.

I'm wary of the "right to be forgotten". In this particular case, the complainant (allegedly) had false information posted about them that was detrimental. This can certainly happen. But why aren't the outlets who posted that false information on the hook?

There is a balance between people having a permanent mark against them for doing something stupid and the public having a right to know when, say, someone actually commits a crime.

There are PR firms that specialize in "reputation repair" where wealthy people will pay a bunch of money to have anything disparaging about them removed from the Internet or just buried. This can take the form of takedowns but can be way more isidious eg buying a local newspaper to simply bury a story.
My running conspiracy theory is that qualia is actually some kind of jailbreak on physical reality. Enough of the systems I've seen in real life are leaky at their edge cases that I wouldn't be totally surprised if even the ones I consider most fundamental are too.
> I'm curious why [the author] chose 'me' or 'this' instead of '&'?

Looking at the source, the parser is written to let you use any of "me", "this", or "self" (I'm guessing you spotted that).

If I have one quibble with this project it's that line. The multiplicity of "this" designators is going to make client code written for this library harder to read not easier.

IMO the author should just pick one and stick with it, and do it now before there are too many pages using it. This is a false "flexibility" that feels like the bad old days when people thought "browsers should be flexible in what they accept", which did not serve us well in the long run.

That said, this is brilliant work.
Brilliant Harvest Moon, 2023's last supermoon, wows stargazers around the world
“Low code modules” is why everyone thinks Jira is hot garbage.

It gets set up by a manager who makes a bunch of choices that sound good but are wrong. There was just a post on Reddit the other day claiming that if a developer sets up Jira, it’s a nice tool.

It even has pretty pictures you can use for lifecycle definitions. That doesn’t help. We have spent years considering the consequences of decisions that sound nice but aren’t. Even if we only write five lines of code, that’s what you’re paying for. “Low-code” is “without programmers” and good luck with that.
50% of it is renewable is NOT in any way a defence.

It is in effect totally from fossil.

50% is self admitted.
The other 50% - if no bitcoin mining then that 50% would go to replace fossil fuels in other places. Saving that amount of fossil fuel

Thus bitcoin mining increase total fossil fuel usage (and it is the total that matters not what each thing does) by the full amount of the enrgy minig uses.
You might like the psych writing over at https://www.astralcodexten.com/archive?sort=top or gwern.net
in comparison Azure depreciated Azure classic VMs in 2014 and just last month stopped letting customers run them. If it takes you more than two years to plan and migrate a DB your likely not running it on MariaDB and if you are there are plenty of consultants that can migrate your apps back end in less than two years. Hopefully if you are running a db you are also backing it up so the idea that data is being destroyed is a bit dramatic.
Why are you phrasing it like the algorithm is somehow separate from Facebook and its choices?
I think the problem is not so much the news article, but that it pops up front and centre when doing a trivial search. Also, considering the low levels of alphabetization, most people won't even bother reading the article, just the (often clickbait) snippet. I'm not blaming the newspaper, I'm saying search results should be held to higher standards.
2 years? Have you seen how long databases last in this industry? I worked at a place that had been rocking the same original NoSql precursor for at least 4 decades.
Tangent - Earthworms are an invasive species in North America[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
Again that doesn't support the claim that the Serbs lack protection. In that case the Kosovo police protected the Serbs and "the NATO-led KFOR mission said its forces were present in the area, “standing ready to respond if required”."
If this is why… why not just release all the individual layers?

I’ve always wondered how remixes come to be. Some sound muddy and obviously full of muted layers. But others sound like they had access to the individual tracks.
Are you sure it's not the other way around? I remember reading Mondays have the sunniest weather because there's less pollution over the weekend.

And also from the article:

>In the sky, aerosol particles attract water vapor or ice. When the tiny wet globs get large enough, they become seeds for clouds. Half of Earth’s cloud cover forms around stuff like sand, salt, soot, smoke, and dust. The other half nucleates around vapors released by living things or machines, like the sulfur dioxide that arises from burning fossil fuels.
Cloudflare AI and Replicate are great for running off-the-shelf models, but anything custom is going to incur a 10+ minute cold start.

For running custom fine-tuned models on serverless, you could look into https://beam.cloud which is optimized for serving custom models with extremely fast cold start (I'm a little biased since I work there, but the numbers don't lie)
There’s nothing surprising here. We’ve known for two decades that Google and others treat users as the product being sold to their actual customers - the advertisers.

We need to stop being shocked that the companies themselves, addicted to ad revenue, did some truly despicable things and most of the people at them (yes, many on this forum) actively enabled these behaviours and acted as apologists for them.

Seriously, fuck Google and fuck Meta and if your company is ad driven then it’s on you too.
>divided and delegated tasks between themselves and the AI

>integrated their workflow with the AI

What the hell is even the difference? Was the article itself written by ChatGPT?
The paper is dated August 2020.
Does anyone know a follow up study done?
As a brit I didn't know cornwall + ireland were raided for slaves into the 1700s (earlier, with viking Circa 1000 yes, but not after). Could you provide some solid links please? TIA
"that would buy some time."

Or mess things further up, in a way no one did foresee.
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I watched Hoffman’s Lex Fridman interview, it sounds like his idea is that our perceptions are like a user interface that abstracts reality so we don’t perceive reality as it actually is.

Isn’t that well accepted already? We know we don’t sense everything, and our brains give us a highly compressed version of the senses we do have. But none of that matters when we use tools like cameras or microphones because they’re not constrained the way our senses are.

Is there anything more to his idea than that?
Wow, thats kind of mind blowing. If the cause has been as simple as fungus this entire time. Looking forward to seeing more research on this.
It’s amazing how long you can unproductively stare at a piece of config that results in nothing happening when something was supposed to happen. Declarative code can be hell on beginners. It depends so much more than imperative or functional code on how clear the documentation is. And that was never our strong suit.
Pg was already there, but like many tech.. MySQL was easier (run and go)
Good point :)

The Segway scooters are a better comparison, those can go 25-45km on a charge. There are other models that can do 100km+, it’s a quite dramatic gap to what Honda is offering.
> air pollution is preventing rain

Air pollution also causes more rain, changes rain from shallow to severe, and a large host of other effects. It's not simply "air pollution is preventing rain".

A simple example - for ~100 years mankind has used silver iodide to seed clouds to cause rain. Silver iodide would easily be called air pollution. [1]

Here's google scholar - note the large variety of rain and pollution interaction - and most certainly not as simple or negative as you post [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,15&q=preci...
Linux & Microsoft win 11 both support native drivers in rust.

Rust is a great (possibly best) way to build wasm. Wasm is extremely powerful.

Name one language to do both secure blockchain smart contracts, & device drivers, and embedded systems.

And it can use pyo3/maturing to expose code to python. Many significant python libraries are rewriting into rust. Clang/llvm targets means that rust can go anywhere C or C++ can go, including very esoteric systems.

I don't think the jury is out, it just doesn't have mainstream corporate penetration yet, it may never have that and that's fine.

Rust community can/will write bindings to anything, there is no need for other options, people don't realise how powerful rusts polyglot approach is.
So, it’s really very simple. I either want ads or I don’t want ads. Only if I want ads should there be a choice between targeted, contextual or random. There is no “I don’t want ads but I should get them anyway because reasons”. And the fact that today it’s impossible for me to opt out of ads is the problem. Talking about the feasibility of the internet is also manipulative. The argument here is and always has been about choice. Google and friends want to protect their ability to remove choice from us.

If I visit a website with ad blockers, it has the right to block me. It’s business model will depend on whether the number of people it has to block will kill it. This means it should probably find a better business model, not force itself on everyone.
Now, does this work with adults too?
But the point is that the retracted research is irrelevant even inside research. That is kind of a blow.

It points to the discipline not being coherently built on shared theories but rather being a set of disjointed hypotheses.
That's not a novel insight, it's a standard way of interrogating systems at various levels and has been in common intellectual discourse for some time now.
Mariadb is available on Debian by default
How a Mechanical Watch Works – Explained in 5 Minutes [video]
I concur. Why are we trying to appeal to them rather than regulate them into doing what society needs? Our regulatory state has failed.
Isn’t this an extension of Kabuki culture to film? It would make sense in that context.
Statistical analysis: Used motorcycle prices
What do you trust instead? Like, how do form a conception of reality based on events you don’t directly observe?
Consumer behavior around monthly subscription services that can be cancelled at any time looks very different from behavior around one-time luxury purchases.
There are two versions of Perl, awk, and Ruby in a fresh Sonoma install. I would say that moving Python away into XCode tools was an easy thing to do, but to rip the others away, it will take quite an effort.

I predict that Apple will admit defeat at the very least with Perl, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Lindy effect. It has entrenched itself so much that you won't just yank it away without some serious bleeding.

Also, there is jsc if JavaScript is what floats your boat, although it's buried quite deep.
Database Soft Deletes: How and Why with Custom Prisma Client Queries
(With the caveat that I've been out for a while, so things could have changed)

Search Ads are pay-per-click (or conversion now? Not sure)

All others are pay-per-impression.

conversions are what the advertiser really cares about, but they're hard for Google to be sure about. And what if you see the ad today but buy it next week in the store?
> but assumed the level of discourse on HN was a bit higher than that :)

You know what they say about assuming…
That would bring us back to parity with pre-Internet society, assuming said info could still be accessed through court and library archives.
> I do know from experience there are mining outfits that have located themselves where the energy was going to waste anyway.

This is a myth.

Energy, in a useable-to-humans form, does not generally "go to waste". Harvesting any kind of energy requires resources (windmills, solar panels, gas turbines, heat pumps, ...), many of them non-renewable themselves, as well as labor, that could always be deployed elsewhere.
This is called metaphysics and generally isn't substantive by definition.
A dangerous spider’s venom may treat erectile dysfunction better than Viagra
... said on the post where Microsoft is deprecating a product.
Have you spent any time learning how to use Copilot?

Getting great results out of it takes a lot of experimentation and practice. I wouldn't want to give it up now I've learned how to use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

I’m guessing the actual scraping occurred much earlier than that though
You can just install it after the fact. Do you lack internet?
> Add up all their book fees and speaking fees that they’ll never have to repay back. They can already retire comfortably.

Don't forget their faculty salaries. Duke is a private institution, so we don't have access to his salary, but absolute minimum Ariely makes 400K (and probably way more). You don't leave MIT for a chaired professorship at Duke unless it comes with a very, very hefty salary. 25 years of a salary like that will by itself provide you with a good retirement. You don't need to get the media attention of Ariely to benefit from fraud.
Trees are a collection of straws into the ground, sucking up water with negative pressure due to evaporation through the leaves. It's cool that there are cloud-seeding chemicals released as well.

Forests smell and feel much better that clear-cut spaces, I know that much. I'd rather the USDA and Forest Service adopt more-sustainable logging practices, for leased land especially (where the economics equation currently favors clear-cutting), like the Menominee in northern Wisconsin.
"All the individual layers" are called "stems" and artists that want to explicitly encourage remixes of their work will release stems. (Of course, you still pay royalties if you use them.)

You can also create your own stems, typically of usable but not perfect quality, using AI track separation software like demucs. ("Demux," get it?) I've used them to censor a track, or to isolate just percussion and piano, for example.
+1 - I actively avoid games using the unity engine in favor of ones using unreal. It’s a noticeably worse experience for end users of the product (not just the devs, but also the players).

It’s unfortunate because it’d be good to have some real competition in the space, and there’s basically none.
They aren't called rainforests for no reason :)
>> What if she runs her own little blog, wiki, forum, newsgroup, or the like?

>Google isn't allowed to index it.

I assume you mean Google can't index the forbidden names on her blog. Or is her entire blog now unfindable because she included a forbidden name? How does Google know if the name, of which multiple named people may exist, is the forbidden one? What of the rights of samed named people to be found?
Less confusing than aws? I had such a hard time with enterprise apps, AD apps, service principals... And you kind of need to use Azure AD to manage resources and access for tons of products.
Yeah, lets treat all "sides" equally, since they are all bad (sarcasm ends)

Go to https://www.icty.org/, read about cases, verdicts and pleas:

https://www.icty.org/en/cases/key-figures-cases care to search for the GENOCIDE word in there?

Serbia did bad the things in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and was going to do the same in Kosovo until NATO bombarded them.
(Kosovo was already critical in 80ies)

That doesn't absolve any party of the commited (war) crimes, but it is perfectly clear who was/is the regional bully and who commited aggression against neighbours.

I also don't buy tipical lines "they all hate each other", or this is the revenge for what " they" did to "us" in WW2, WW1, during Ottoman times, during Roman times ... Historical crimes are not excuse for new ones, vicious circle must stop somewhere.
>Google doesn’t produce the content, sites do, the issue is with those sites surely?

Google decides what someone will see when they Google your name, they might decide that the articles where you were accused of CP have much more priority then the single article 1 month later where you were found not guilty.
Larger enterprise customers have problems with vendor finger pointing. Let's say you have a database transaction that intermittently fails and you decide to (pay) ask your vendors to help. The DB vendor says it must be the network or application, the network vendor doesn't seen any problems, the application platform vendor or consultant says it must be the network or database. Even getting all these people on one call takes a lot of time and isn't helpful.

Honestly Microsoft isn't any better, but if buy Premier Support (expensive), you can eventually talk to the actual development teams. You also get a person in a suit who will talk to your execute team and take the blame, which is an important feature for managers.
Thanks for the name!
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