skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for Metzinger's ideas. It's pretty much the only theory of consciousness that I've read about that makes any sense.

Here is a little extract for anyone not familiar:

> My first step in this chapter is to introduce the hypothetical notion of a phenomenal self-model (PSM). [...] I will then investigate how a PSM, integrated into a yet more complex, higher-order form of representational content, forms the central necessary condition for a conscious first-person perspective to emerge on the representational as well as on the functional level of description. [...]

> The content of the PSM is the content of the conscious self: your current bodily sensations, your present emotional situation, plus all the contents of your phenomenally experienced cognitive processing. They are constituents of your PSM. Intuitively, and in a certain metaphorical sense, one could even say that you are the content of your PSM. All those properties of yourself, to which you can now direct your attention, form the content of your current PSM. Your self-directed thoughts operate on the current contents of your PSM: they cannot operate on anything else. [...]

> From a logical and epistemological perspective it is helpful to differentiate between simulation and emulation, in order to further enrich the concept of a PSM. We can then, in a second step, conceptually analyze the PSM as a special variant, namely, self-emulation. [...] It is the possibility of reflexive or self-directed emulation that is of particular interest from a philosophical perspective. Self-modeling is that special case, in which the target system and the simulating-emulating system are identical: A self-modeling information-processing system internally and continuously simulates its own observable output as well as it emulates abstract properties of its own internal information processing. [...]

> Using a term from computer science, we could therefore metaphorically describe self-modeling in a conscious agent as “internal user modeling.” In human beings, it is particularly interesting to note how the self-model simultaneously treats the target system “as an object” (e.g., by using proprioceptive feedback in internally simulating ongoing bodily movements) and “as a subject” (e.g., by emulating its own cognitive processing in a way that makes it available for conscious access). This is what “embodiment” means, and what at the same time generates the intuitive roots of the mind-body problem: the human self-model treats the target system as subject and object at the same time. [...]

from Chapter 6 of "Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity" by Thomas Metzinger.

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Also worth looking into are the similar explanations on concisousness-as-self-model (in a simulation generated by our brain) by Joscha Bach. I'm not sure if Bach came to the same perspective independently or he read Metzinger, but he definitely presents his ideas in a more accessible language language (vs. Metzinger's heavy, precise philosophical jargon, which I found heavy to read).

I'd love to find more sources on this (books/talks/papers), or find a place where these ideas are actively discussed.
See https://youtu.be/SYeeTvitvFU for an example.

One of the advantages of raking the front windshield for aerodynamics is changing the geometry for the A pillar to be more sideways instead of vertical, allowing a bit more hope of seeing something.
Mentioned here a few months ago: (was trying to remember where I saw it)

How to find a street in 2 minutes [video] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912880
Lived experience bro. Sorry if maybe you’ve some sort of a counterpoint behind all that sarcasm that I’ve offended.
Maaybe you'd find https://ossia.io interesting :D
Heh - the article refers to CAKE as a "really tortured acronym". (Common Applications Kept Enhanced). It is a backronym indeed. Some of the backstory behind CAKE is that we were shooting to compensate for some of the known flaws of fq_codel, shortly after PIE (backed by CISCO and comcast among other "big boys"), and so we called it as an internal codename, cake. To some in the project (me) it was a reference to a scene in 2010 where the russian guy keeps getting American idioms wrong: "Piece of pie" - "No, cake!". Others thought it came from the game portal, where we started saying "Bandwidth is a lie!". Anyway, the name stuck (although I wish we had come up with something more unique, google for "cake shaper" as for why), and that's where it came from.

In general fq_codel is superior to pie in just about every way. There is a specific thing that pie does that makes it appealing to hardware designers is that it is O(1) on egress and fq_codel is not (but there are ways around that). fq_codel achieves less latency than pie does, and faster than it does. codel takes a bit longer than we would like.

fq-pie still has worse tcp latency (using the same fq algorithm as in fq_codel and cake), and cake solves all kinds of edge cases that no other fq+aqm+shaper can - per host FQ (solving torrent issues), ack-filtering, nat transparency, a better codel model, easy to use link layer compensation, diffserv - and my favorite feature is actually that it runs more or less the same as a default qdisc, as a shaped one. I had hoped it would replace fq_codel at both line rate and at the shaped cases, but it did prove a bit too cpu intensive on cheesy hardware and the edge cases not noticeable enough on simple benchmarks.

I would like to multi-thread it, and add some new features, discussion here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTYBPeaRdCO9AGTGQCpoiuLO...
Are you accusing Alaska of not actually caring about safety and only engaging in PR window dressing? Is there any evidence supporting this view?
MPL 2.0 is not a "viral" license like the GPL. It is cross compatible with both Apache 2.0 and MIT. The knee jerk reaction to drop dirs-sys-rs over a non-existent licensing issue makes no sense.
Dark roasted coffee will usually remove most of the differences that were in the original beans. To notice the details you will have to use light to medium roasted beans and be reasonably good at preparing the coffee well. There are many parameters you can adjust while brewing coffee (not all methods expose those parameters), and this can affect the taste rather significantly.
Yes, although roasting them exactly the same way is probably not a great idea. But you can roast them to a similar level.

It can be quite a subtle difference, and part of the flavor might also come from the way they process the coffee before it gets roasted (washing the beans, letting them sit in the fruit a little longer, etc.)

But I am sure many people can taste the difference between a costa rican and an ethiopian coffee, as long as it's not roasted to charcoal level. That might influence why people ask this question. A lot of coffee people drink is roasted so dark that there's probably no big difference anymore. Additionally it's often blended. I guess it's how you guarantee a consistent flavor (and bottom line).
Being able to remotely enable the heating on freezing days is more than enough justification for connecting my car to the internet for me.
You were probably thinking of Windows-1252, which is an extension of ISO-8859-1 that supports more European character sets.
I do think I can tell between robusta and arabica. I am not sure about two arabica. Probably not.
Share HN: Foods that can help us avoid sugar
thanks hubermanlabs!
Are there any such cars left? You’d probably have to pull the SIM on any modern vehicle to accomplish that.
mixing tabs and spaces just makes code look bad visually. But when whitespace is significant it can change behaviour.
The inverse is just as "dangerous", though.

- Imagine relying on a closed source app to drive a car
- Imagine relying on some blinking lights on the dashboard to drive a car
- Imagine relying on your hands and feet to drive a car

It all boils down to driving being dangerous in general. You have to put your trust somewhere - and also trust that other people's trust and self-awareness align with yours.
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” — Vonnegut
Sam Altman is also a non-trivial investor in various nuclear energy R&D companies, e.g. $375 million into Helion, so take that "need" with a pinch of salt. He made a bet, presumably because he already believes, but it's human nature to try to justify your decisions after the fact and not just before.
Ripe Australian Shiraz (14+% alcohol) has really distinct blueberry, it was a style heavily favoured by Robert Parker and really common in the early 2000s, but it's tapering off now. Syrah, the same grape, from northern Rhone is cooler climate, lower alcohol and has more of a pepper profile.

Grenache - I tyically drink Spanish Garnacha - has a crunchy berry profile in a young early drinking wine, but can get more interesting in pricier examples from Priorat etc.

Grenache + Syrah (aka Shiraz) + Mourvèdre (GSM) is the southern Rhone blend, and is typically very high alcohol and quite opulent. I'm not much of a fan though.

Mourvedre is fantastic stuff when done well. Mourvedre reminds me of Carignan, both make savoury / meaty wines. Domaine Tempier Bandol is a Mourvèdre-dominant blend and is absolutely delicious, my favourite example of it.

Oak is a big part of really good wine. American oak, French oak and unoaked all produce very different wines. Typical Rioja has heavy American oak flavours, while e.g. red Burgundy typically has pronounced French oak.
I've done that and have had zero errors after running as many loops as completed overnight (if memory serves, just under ten full loops of memtest86+). But I agree with the intuition; I was also suspicious of memory.
The biggest problem is that HN would turn into a discussion about downvoting, which is exactly what we are trying to avoid.

There are a plethora of bad comments on this site. Downvoting them so they fall to the bottom, without commentary, is how the higher quality discussion stays on top. Adding in commentary would turn the whole site into a meta-discussion about content moderation, which is not the goal of HN.

I could see an alternate solution to the problem, though - a private poll of why the comment was downvoted, visible only to the person who wrote the comment, so they can better understand why their comment was not desired by the community.
Apple boosts plans to bring generative AI to iPhones
This is a non story.

Of course the police are able to collect evidence during criminal investigations. Brexit aside I'm sure the Dutch have this enacted in law like the UK. The police are obviously going to ask nicely and if that fails force you by legislation they are empowered to use. And if they're sending you legal speak forms that's more likely procedure to keep things above board rather than something malicious to scare you. Get a grip!
It got too big for one article. Part 2 of the article will be published next week.
why would we make a "movie" instead of one storyline where viewers can customize the costumes at will?
Do you actually update all your address in every service the moment you move?
One thing about this topic is that while I worry about these sorts of things... I also suspect that most people willingly hand over footage.

I just don't think your average doorbell camera owner cares quite like some of us do about the ramifications.

The email in this case(s) sounds off but I wonder if most folks would have sent in the video anyway.

Also:

How often is this footage "useful" for anything?

I have some family where they outfitted their house with a lot of cameras. There is a fairly high level of crime in their area, and a moderate amount of serious crime.

The local cops ask for footage fairly frequently and they're happy to give it. I just wonder if it is useful all that often. I see some footage show up once in a while but it's hardly ever the kind of evidence that proves much at all.
How do you feel about $0 vs $20 for e.g. a VPS that just sits idle? Is the complexity of AWS worth it for $20/mo?
GTK3-4 now ironically being bound to Gnome instead of being an standalone project hurts Gimp a lot.
Kind of depends on what you mean by sophisticated.

X-Ray imaging has gotten surprisingly affordable: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/386247465197 (honestly I was looking for canister X-Ray machines which are a bit safer for this, now I'm seeing these things and thinking "is my search for a way to find joists in walls actually over?)
Hulu streaming + a couple of other crappy channels. lots of mid-to-low tier media there, but also some gems.

sometimes you just want a sloppy cheeseburger, and same idea in the TV context.
> How much is progress really worth if the people at the forefront of it anticipate global collapse in their private lives?

The two are unrelated. The value of progress has nothing to do with the hobbies of the rich.

It is fun to plan to be in a movie you liked. Disaster movies are popular and people with too much money like to spend money preparing for the end of the world.

Engineers do have more doubts about new technology, and C-level execs doubt society. We doubt what we know and trust the rest of society due to the Dunning Krueger Effect. Another example is that farmers usually have more doubts about food safety than do computer programmers.
What does "efficient" mean in this context? Maybe plants don't produce anywhere near the same number of kgs of CO2 for each Joule of sunlight, but that doesn't really matter. Plants are self-replicating machines which produce carbon as a byproduct. What matters is capital investment, human effort, or hydrocarbon energy per kg of CO2 produced. I imagine that plants are far more efficient in that metric than any current artificial process.
Isn't that the linkers job? To throw away unused functions?

I remember this being the standard decades ago. It might not make sense in certain situations (i.e. with reflection), but that shouldn't be the default case anyway. What happened?
It’s a feature on new cars, but it’s not enabled by default (you usually have off, auto, high).
> dry arroyos that maybe have a couple inches of flowing water a few times a year

As you can see they are tagged as 'intermittent'.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/380234870
Well, you failed
What is the point of this? I feel like it only serves to hinder real artists who could use the money that people are paying for these services and models. Maybe I'm too poor or short-sighted to see it.

I would rather an actual animator create something beautiful for me rather than an AI spit out something that needs to be worked on by an actual animator ANYWAY.
Thanks for the post. Please use this server with the llmsherpa LayoutPDFReader to get optimal chunks for your LLM/RAG project: https://github.com/nlmatics/llmsherpa. See examples and notebook in the repo.
Which facts are you stating? Nothing but opinions and promoting your own solution.
I wonder who s going to make a model that creates and textures a 3D world with AI. It's going to be a necessity for VR goggles to find some nongimmicky use cases
At my current job I work with several people who have one to three years of experience repeated over the span of twenty. It might be less likely than some parts of HN would like it to be.
Ten Simple Rules to Win a Nobel Prize
oh look, the internet denizen was able to weave their way through a rationalization, that's certainly never been done before!

What makes it even more absurd is that we do, in fact, have binary serialization protocols and they're very popular especially amongst companies dealing with scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Proto

> Values in Cap'n Proto messages are represented in binary, as opposed to text encoding used by "human-readable" formats such as JSON or XML. Cap'n Proto tries to make the storage/network protocol appropriate as an in-memory format, so that no translation step is needed when reading data into memory or writing data out of memory.

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But that's actually the fucking point, serialization only looks the same as configuration if you've gone too high up the abstraction ladder and lost your perspective and that _is_ the point of TFA. At some point you need to stop and ask if what you're doing is really the right approach.

You've destroyed your _own_ point with your long-winded, weaving, rationalization.

and to top it all off, you've strawmanned a point I've clarified already. It makes you look like an asshole. I've never claimed ini works well for complex configuration, I said the opposite in fact.
I am glad someone else agrees. It's absolutely horrible!
Yes, but I was left with the impression that including the stdlib in its entirety prevents proper tree-shaking / dead code elimination. Could be wrong.
When we will learn that putting doors and windows in buildings make them easy target for thieves? /s
Yeah, I'm exaggerating but so are many screaming against anything connected. Your smartphone and computer were connected to the Internet to read that article and send this message. In the end it's as always in everything and especially in our industry a matter of trade-off. If connectivity gives you huge UX boost and maybe sometimes there might be a security issue, well, you take the connectivity (generally speaking).
EU likely to exempt Bing, Edge from new "gatekeeper" rules
ah okay that's fair then.
Every single flight represents dozens of risks that an airline has calculated and decided are worth taking.
>Even if not said directly, the implication is "you're doing something I find funny."

Yes. I will frequently find what other people are doing to be funny, even absurd. I will often vocalize it. You will not convince me this a moral wrong. I am, however, open to other people vocalizing this about my behavior. Recently, I purchased one of every bran flake cereal in the cereal aisle to determine which was best. I received light jest from the public who viewed my cart. It made sense, because what I was doing was bizarre. I was not injured. It was not an attack. I probably shouldn't do it regularly.

I do attempt to avoid jest about things people have no or minimal control over (race, disability, disfigurement, sexual orientation) or that are core pieces of people's life (religion or lack thereof, financial status, spouse). I am willing to be corrected by someone passionate about a subject. I am also very willing to be wrong, if someone demonstrates that unicycling is actually a way better method of transportation.
No - I could put a glass of Burgundy, an oaky Rioja and ripe Australian Syrah in front of you and you'd be able to trivially tell them apart, no training needed.
It can be tricky to find learning resources that is perfectly tailored to the exact point we’re you’re standing right now. Especially if you already have prior experience.

But since you’re already familiar with programming, perhaps just dive right in…?

I.e. start a new project in Rust. You could do something like Advent of Code, Project Euler or Cryptopals[0]. Or write a simple webserver or whatever you feel like.

Don’t forget that ChatGPT can be quite useful for stuff like this. You can use it like a mentor. Just ask it anything you want to, make it show you examples (and then more examples) and so on. The answers might not be correct all of the time, but at least it can give you an idea of what docs to read next.

If you’re looking for blog posts, an acquaintance of mine has written some: https://priver.dev/tags/rust/

For more links to code/learning resources, see https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

And if you get stuck you also have the official Rust chats on Zulip/Discord.

HTH. Best of luck!

[0] https://cryptopals.com/
It’s too reductive to talk about what “Boeing” thinks and does as if it’s one single entity with a single purpose and complete alignment on all things. The person(s) who failed to tighten bolts could easily have been doing exactly the right thing, for instance if training and documentation were screwed up.

Boeing in general seems to have a serious culture problem that we should condemn, but it’s not like the “they” that set cultural norms is the same “they” that’s out there on a supplier’s factory floor with a torque wrench.

Being reductive can be a good rhetorical tool, but in this case I think it’s better to view the problem as culture and system rather than a single personality with ill intent.
AI costs too much to automate vision-related jobs – for now
If you can hack it, you can surely figure out ways to disable its wireless connectivity
As a junior that did not do CS at uni, a lot of stuff around here goes right over my head. I often do feel that I might never catch up. I just about understand what functional programming is in terms of a one line definition let alone any concepts that fall under it. To be fair, I only really use Object Oriented.
Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs' Lost Worlds
>The password may not be known to HIBP at the time it is registered. This will very likely be a large enough fraction (>0.2%) that you can still get into sufficient accounts to access plenty of relatives' data.

To be clear, the password can be checked at login-time, rather than registration-time, at which point the service should send the user through an account recovery process. There's still scope for passwords not appearing in the HIBP dataset, but it's massively reduced.

Do you mean this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39116531 ? I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. You should be able to successfully highlight a unique IP address making ~4,400 discrete login attempts across a month as suspicious - and further highlight that there are 1,000 other IP addresses behaving in the same way. Most users login from a handfull of predictable IP addresses, and most IP addresses login with only a couple of predictable accounts.

These types of login analytics aren't beyond the ken of man, and a service like 23-and-me should definitely not be able to allow 4.4m attempts and 14k successes from a small set of IP addresses without it raising some internal alerts.
I wonder if there is a FlightRadar24 for CCTV sharing.
Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies
When people say "fingerprints are bogus" they aren't saying that fingerprints literally don't exist, they are saying that the claims law enforcement/forensics people have made about their usefulness in uniquely identifying people are bogus. If there is enough error to discredit those claims, it's reasonable to say that the claims are bogus even if fingerprints do still have some value in identifying people.
Even trying L4S is rather problematic still these days. All the support for it - from the AQMs to the transports - live out of tree in an increasing ancient 5.15 release. Where cake has been shipping for nearly 10 years in some form or another. I would like that group to get on the stick on submitting it upstream, because there are some code quality problems there that they should fix (notably GRO issues), much less the algorithmic issues that I have also pointed out!

My biggest gripe about that project is that everyone focuses on the ECN change, and nobody looks at the effects on normal everyday traffic, where fq_codel or cake utterly smoke the dual-pi AQM. There actually is L4S support in fq_codel now, but they are not testing it. :(
Have you tried high end bottled water and compared?

I couldn't care less for the regular brands, but usually really enjoy higher end mineral water.