skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does every other living being on this earth move on to something else?

Maybe, yeah.

> It's more arrogant to think that you are more than a biological machine.

I think you have a point there, but it's also the case that the only thing we know is our consciousness, which is a thing for which we in fact have no material explanation.

> The smaller context is people saying that earth is the perfect difference to support our life, therefore it must be god that put it there! If the earth was much closer like mercury, there would be no life to say that "well, we weren't placed in the right place- no god".

This is true, to a large degree, but I think misses quite how obtuse it is to (reductively stated) look at the kind of system nature is and figure it must have come about purely by chance. I think it's one of the weaker arguments made by religious people and one of the weaker put-downs by religion-haters, and people don't seem to go deep into what it is about nature they are talking about in this context.

> Stab someone in the head with an icepick and they will be brain damaged and possibly even have a different personality, memory loss etc. So when that person "dies" you think what.. their conscious magically lives on? Which one, the one before being stabbed or the damaged one?

I think there are a lot of cases of people getting injured in their brain and being fine, or people being basically brain-dead and then coming back reporting various types of near-death experience (i.e. they were conscious while brain-dead).
I never understood why people do that in the first place. Sure, call your son Billy but putting William in the documents doesn't hurt.
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Hmm, I notice that melanoma wasn't addressed in this study; maybe "having a good look at suspicious moles just in case" doesn't count as screening, but early detection of melanoma is considered pretty important for survival.
Why it is so damn hard to get approved for Meta Graph API
As a former maintainer of a significant portion of Meta's Graph API, I anticipated that integrating Meta's official API into our product would be straightforward. However, the reality was far from it.

It took us an astounding 14 attempts and almost 3 months to pass the API App Review. For context, our API use case is fairly standard. All we require is to fetch Instagram comments on our users' own posts – as simple as that.

I felt the reviewers didn't not understand ANYTHING about Graph API itself. They're basically following a prefixed script to reject any applications that are NOT demonstrating a short list of predefined behaviors. For example, fetching IG comments requires `pages_show_list` permission per official API doc but our app has absolutely nothing to do with FB pages. Still, they wanted us to prove we have a valid use case for FB pages to be approved.

Can anyone relate to this nightmare?
This reminds me of a fortune(6):

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has
shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the
Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million
three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years
from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long.
... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of
fact.
-- Mark Twain
> Why is federal jurisdiction required for this?

There are two parties: capital and labor. Your arguments are on behalf of labor. There are arguments also on behalf of capital. In the USA, capital is under federal jurisdiction, not state. It is the US Congress that gives the Federal Reserve its monopoly over central banking. The states do not issue money.
In general, it is a standard shore-wall firewall rule in perl, and the standard ssh protocol wrapper mod.

These are very well documented tricks, and when combined with a standard port 22 and interleaved knock ports tripwire 5 day ban rules... are quite effective against scanners too.

I am currently on the clock, so can't write up a detailed tutorial right now.

Best regards, =)
> The thing about port knocking is that if you're on a host where you don't have the ability to port-knock, then you're not able to connect.

You can type http://hostname:porttoknock in a browser.

As long as you're not behind a super restrictive gateway that doesn't let you connect to arbitrary ports, you're golden.
You are judging this by the outcome, as though it were pre-ordained, and also assuming that this is the only method this agency has.

It is much more likely that this backdoor would have gone unnoticed for months or years. The access this backdoor provides would be used only once per system, to install other APT (advanced persistent threats), probably layers of them. Use a typical software RAT or rootkit as the first layer. If that is discovered, fallback to the private keys you stole, or the social engineer the company directory you copied. If that fails, rely on the firmware rootkit that only runs if it's timer hasn't been reset in 6 months. Failing that, re-use this backdoor if it's still available.
I thought the circulating tumor DNA tests were $1k. I know because I was interested in getting them.
I was actually worried for a second, then checked my last 10 comments and realized this is just the equivalent of "well your face is ugly" playground style insults, but for adults. Got me for a second though.
There is an issue tracking this with a bunch of links to discussions about it, but they continue to not have time it seems.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/3100

This was the first place my mind went when I saw this Content-Encoding announcement, so I ran and re-checked the issue :(.
> Love the username, will make it easier to see WhosGhostin

I hope this isn't something I have to do on a regular basis though. I also hope this is actually helpful to candidates and not distracting (in which case I will stop)

Again - to all candidates, keep it up - you got this!
The local models should be colored differently and have licenses/etc that should tip you off. You might need to scroll down the list to see one though.
Same, my macbook had unusable wifi when playing music via Bluetooth headphones. Switched to playing from my phone, somehow that worked - probably problem with the BT radio in the laptop since I didn't change wifi channel.
> is that now that we have a POC, we need a way to check for vulnerable servers.

You misunderstand me, the "need to check for vulnerable servers" has nothing to do with the PoC in itself. You want to know whether you're vulnerable against this mysterious unknown attacker that went through the all the hoops for a sophisticated supply chain attack. I never said that we need a way to detect it because there is a POC out, at least I didn't meant to imply that either.

> script kiddies to use it, meaning we're in a race against them

This is something you and the other person were suddenly coming up with, never said this in first place.
The 500 mile email story is one of my favorite reminders that, fundamentally, we're still governed by the laws of physics. It's funny, but it's also a reminder that, while networks might be very fast, the latency is still going to be governed by the speed of light.
I agree that this is probably about persistence. Initially I thought the developer was playing the long-con to dump some crypto exchange and make off with literally a billion dollars or more.

But if that was the case they wouldn't bother with the key. It'd be a one-and-done situation. It would be a stop-the-world event.

Now it looks more like nation-state spycraft.
The VSH bees fit that description as they are created from artificial insemination. Yes, it will take generations to make an impact due to feral colonies and the breeder mills not using VSH stock effectively.
That looks like a(n unofficial) fork, not contributions to the official upstream repository.
Yes. Here's a recent Guardian article that talks about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/20/japan-married-...
Reminds me of the salmon study https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign...

> the salmon was shown images of people in social situations, either socially inclusive situations or socially exclusive situations. The salmon was asked to respond, saying how the person in the situation must be feeling. The salmon, as far as I can tell from the paper, did not comply with instructions.
it was part of the binary malware payload hidden in a binary blob of "test data".

In a compression/decompression test suite, a subtly broken allegedly compressed binary blob is not out of place.

This suggests we need to audit information flow during builds - the shipping production binary package should be reproduceably buildable without reading test data or test code.
Up until "Sign our open letter" I was convinced it was a sarcastic impact simulator [0], but now I see it's a sarcastic corporate lobbying page, which is... almost better.

> Zach Weinersmith - Chief Culinary Officer.

Oh, well that explains quite a lot about what I'm reading.

> Our RSP defines a framework called Asteroid Safety Levels (ASL) [...] Inspired loosely by the US government and the Heros Association’s biosafety level [...]

I'd note that the Heroes Association records indicate that it's not always viable to redirect every asteroid with a One Punch strategy.

[0] Ex: https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
Two of my local haunts have UV lights and a number of places have much better ventilation now. It’s not every place but it’s some.

The other thing we should bring back are brass and silver handles. Both of which can kill surface germs almost instantly. It has to be unlaquered though and you’ll find a lot of brass coated in plastic to keep it from corroding.
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Google.com's "clean UI" differentiator gave it a first-mover advantage compared to the average 90s search engine, but that's as far as the UI impact goes.

From 2007 onwards, Google has maintained its dominance through decidedly non-search channels: the primacy of Youtube, the Chrome browser, Android OS, and of course, paying Apple billions to make Google its default search engine.
It would be interesting if people (consumers mostly) could be charged for the type of compute they spend our energy production on.

For example gamers, crypto fiends, people who stream content, etc. They should incur some extra charges for their compute spend.

It’s for the planet and maybe we could break doomerism by pricing it out.
I suppose on a purely philosophical aspect it's as plausible as any other explanation of Gods that we came up with. If I continue this thread on a (pseudo semi baked) science and more philosophy, I could "argue" that us being made from particles of the universe, combined with the idea of particles being entangled and sharing "existence", are in fact "The" consciousness of the Universe and our feeling of Oneness is indeed on the particle level.

But I'm not that smart so I won't even suggest such outlandish ideas. I do dig the idea though, that the Universe is conscious. It's got more sense to it than a pretty angry all powerful being that is totally dependant on the belief and faith of some meat bags on a blue planet.
I did a LOT of work on my iBook back in the day. I never found it too challenging, maybe it was because it's how I learned.
It's still way clearer to not omit the verb. "Report spam" vs just "Spam".

Also links are not buttons. There's nothing to get into here. It's straight up wrong from every perspective to think of a link as a button even from an accessibility standpoint.
Sendgrid is no silver bullet for deliverability. They have many IP addresses listed in blocklists. https://check.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/sendgrid.com/
I came here to see if someone posted that.
Maybe a silly question but why enforce region lock at the developers/publisher level?

Wouldn't allowing the game to run on more machines result in more sales?
Or would the import market and currency exchange rate too much of a hazard?
This is both a bit cringe and my favorite place to celebrate 4/1. It is more effective if you watch the LPL all year since his humor is generally so reserved. He saves it up.
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/sorry ;-)
TIL another interesting browser feature. Thank you.
They’re actually very cheap, but you can literally get diamond sandpaper
Your answer has the prejudice than only people and animals can be conscious.

I don't disagree, but that instantly makes the answer to the question "is the universe conscious" negative. Also AI, which currently is significantly more capable, at least in mimicking consciousness, than most animals.
Got any advice to easily set up port knocking?
I'm not sure it's intrinsically bad news for the diet (but I won't dispute that it's a challenge for how it's usually followed). I haven't met one, but I've at least heard that there are vegans following ketosis-inducing diets.
Flock's ALPRs Reduce Crime So Long as Flock Controls the Inputs and Methodology
how are you going to sell it if anyone can get in?
Reflections on Goff and the Cost Disease
The stigma just might be backlash against the holier-than-thou attitude of keto proponents. It's stuff you put into your mouth. Important, yes, but it's not a religion or the meaning of life. This seems to be lost on the keto adherents.
Which is why I think Redis (the company) will change the protocol and it will end up fragmenting the community.
Sure, and if certain Ancient Greek beliefs are right, thunder is smithed by the god Hephaestos in his forge under mount Etna for Zeus to throw at his enemies.

Is there any reason whatsoever to believe either of these?
Wow, just whoosh. We have data on the behavior of nervous systems, and we have correlates with states of consciousness, not even close to what the GP was talking about.
I have the same thing in the palm of my hand - was bumping a pencil along a wall, also in fourth grade, ish. I knew it was graphite and wouldn't hurt me, but I was too afraid of it hurting to winkle it out, and it just healed over.
The arguments to fine-tuning are utterly remedial. I can't believe that no one in their orbit ever brought up the anthropic principle [1]. We are not randomly distributed over possible universes; we are embedded in a universe that is by definition capable of supporting our existence (and indeed giving rise to it). It doesn't matter how stupidly improbable it is. Observer effect is off the charts!

Second, in evolution, the entire chain of reproducing life forms from the first replicator to now is a series of stupidly improbable happenings. But it's not just that they're stupidly improbable all in a row (i.e. multiplied together), but they are one by one and selective; lots of stupidly impossible things were tried (read: bad mutations), and they all died out. We're left with good stupidly improbably things, one after the other. Evolution of life forms is governed by a tuning process (copy, mutate, select), why couldn't universes also be?

Who writes these kinds of articles? None of the ideas posited here are new, and in fact, they've been argued over for decades, sometimes even centuries. I find it hard to believe the proponent of these ideas is ignorant of the most basic criticisms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
I like the format but these seem grammatically incorrect written down in arabic, e.g. missing articles etc, I guess you're going for street Arabic but you should have it in fusha, it's easier to go other way around
do you consider this a marketing move?
I found it fascinating that my brain readily accepts this as macOS Classic UI, even though, as you say, it's a kind of System 7++ - a neat trick to have pulled off. Then after a bit it starts nitpicking on alignment and spacing unasked, like some weird Apple Cult Manchurian Candidate.
I agree, GPT-4 is still the undisputed king in LLMs, it's been a wee bit more than a year since it came out. I'm sure that the quality of GPT-5 will depend more on a carefully curated training set than just an increase in their dataset size, and I think they're really good at that.

Also, very few people know as much as sama about making startups grow, so ...

PS. I'm not even a fan of "Open"AI, but it is what it is.
> What’s more sloppy of an explanation - that the cosmos is somehow conscious and directed life to appear, or that there is an infinite number of universes?

In isolation, with little context or flesh on the ideas, who is to say? The multiverse thing is just a narrative or thought experiment. It's not even a hypothesis.
I did cancel a Model 3 order and go with another car, but if it would have been a slam dunk decision I would have still gotten the Tesla.

I've been intrigued by the Model 3 refresh, and began considering it for my next car. However after watching many reviews (usually done by Tesla fans) and seeing the nightmare that is the UI/UX changes, I'd be more likely to buy a used Model 3 now (which I'm not; I'm actually happy about what's coming in the Ioniq 5 refresh)
It seems like there’d be a pretty big overlap between those kinds of hosts.
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I'm a bit of a noob about this. Can you explain what this means?
What if the knocking sequence was derived from a TOTP secret?
Rephrasing this:
What would it take for something not categorized under animal to be considered conscious in your book?
Bit off-topic but the one thing I miss on "Ask HN" is the "Idea Sunday" threads.
Do you have price-performance numbers you can share on that? Like compared against local or cloud machines with RTX and A100 GPU’s?
Good information still pollutes the epistemic ecosystem
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People don’t necessarily use terms correctly, but it’s ‘feels or experiences’ so poor circulation is a symptom even if people are describing cold extremities. Very high or low blood pressure is definitely something people can notice unlike say latent TB which is only going to show up on tests.
Was just having the same thought reading this thread.
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Similar but opposite story:

20ish years ago I hung out in an IRC channel in which, during autumn/winter months, one person would frequently get disconnected and when he came back complained about foggy weather.

He had a laser line or sight connection. It could handle rain (with some degradation), but thick fog killed it.
Wiktionary has got you covered: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shaggy_dog_story#English
Not at all qualified to mention this, as a googler wouldn’t quantum entanglement be a counter example to faster-than-light travel?

So we’re still within the speed of light limit, but information can be “passed”
"Consciousness is the universe experiencing itself"
> Meat and dairy have causal or correlations with a lot of terminal diseases

How do studies show causation?

I imagine almost all the evidence here is observational. In general, due to that limitation, I don't think we can really draw conclusions about what foods are good/bad. With an intervention like a keto diet, at least we could potentially get some experimental data.
I think being snarky about little things isn't really promoted on HN- it's the first guideline for commenting here. Be kind and try to answer the question if you do have an answer.
I did my part! I was working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the time and wrote a script to update 10 million rows in their occupation database from "Elvis impersonator" to "software developer" (I think that's what started the dot-com boom)

Now it's just a cron job they run once a month.
So from a CPU perspective you get 7x the CPU throughput for 3x to 4x the price, plus upgradable RAM that is massively cheaper. The M2 uses the GPU for LLMs though, and there it sits in a weird spot where 64GB of (slower) RAM plus midrange GPU performance is not something that exists in the PC space. The closest thing would probably be a (faster) 48GB Quadro RTX which is in the $5000 ballpark. For other use cases where VRAM is not such a limiting factor, the comparably priced PC will blow the Mac out of the water, especially when it comes to GPU performance. The only reason we do not have cheap 96GB GDDR GPUs is that it would cannibalize NVIDIA/AMDs high margin segment. If this was something that affected Apple, they would act the same.
Nguyen:

> By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname.
Consciousness is observable huh? By rights you are a philosophical zombie, and only your passing resemblance to me - who I know from first principles possesses consciousness - gives even an inkling that you possess actual consciousness.

You are suffering from the a little knowledge is a dangerous thing trap. This rabbit hole goes much deeper than you think, you just haven't developed awareness to recognize that yet.
Isn't Google more likely to detect that this service is consuming their API and then blocking them?
Definitely wild we’re in the timeline you can run a 1.1 bn param model on a raspberry pi, but its still tough to justify because the 1.1 is kinda useless compared to the beefier models. Sick for home builds/hobbyists though I might wanna get one of the new Pis just to try this out
Basically leave out things like added oils and refined ingredients (sugar).
Oh, this is really cool. As a "Daniel" myself, I really appreciate the background story of my name.

Sometimes, it's also interesting to get to know the story of how someone got their name.
When my mum was younger, there was a really cute little boy my mum really liked when she was on vacation with my grandparents. Not in a romantic way, as he was, like, still a small kid.
And she then decided that, when I was born in '86, I should receive his name. I found this super cute, and It's one of those stories that will always remind me of my mum.
Critiques:

## bernardo kastrup
https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2020/07/the-irony-of-philip-...

## joshua farris
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/the-missing-subject-a-cri...

## edward faser
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/07/problems-for-goffs-p...
Why not just take them to Apple or third party to be recycled.

Allowing you to profit from someone’s lost iPhone invites criminal behaviour and potentially allows you to access private information that is still on the phone. No one at a bar asked for that.
The problem is that people can survive with food on their table and roof on their heads while feeling miserable. So there will always be people willing to offer themselves up that allows people who can siphon off value to profit even more and become more powerful. It is a powerful flywheel which is quite hard to stop in practice.
when public launch?