skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps our defintion of consciousness doesn't match. What I think of consciousness is something that can experience. It is not even experience, feelings, emotions, these are secondary things that arise in "consciousness".

What you cannot deny is the fact there's something at all. You cannot doubt that there's something. If you doubt that, there's a contradiction. Not what is that something, but simply the fact that _there is_ something.

So the fact there's something is something that has to be true. The question "I doubt there's something in this universe" doesn't make sense.
It kills too quickly. You would have to hole up for 10-20 days and the infection will wipe itself out.
>If a much more intelligent species comes to earth and says, we'll kill you all now , or we'll farm you for organs, at age 70; However, we'll help your species have a fairly good life and chance of survival overall ?

This line of reasoning begins with a false dichotomy.

>I don't believe they're capable of reasoning where they would be disturbed or troubled by such a deal

There are humans with significantly reduced cognition that one could also argue would not be troubled by such a deal; suddenly the rationale seems a little flimsy when we consider taking mentally disabled people and 'harvesting' them simply because they don't understand it's a raw deal for them.

I wish I could articulate it generally (newborn, low on sleep atm) but there's something here about mixing levels of consciousness when determining morality that seems flawed.
> PS: There are exceptions like postgres but there aren't enough of them at that scale.

We need more communities and projects like PostgreSQL. Why can’t Valkey be another one?
Under the tongue.
The seven secrets of computer power [pdf]
"Kvetch and eat: aspiring entrepreneur wants to make practicing medicine easier. Will buy steak dinner if you complain about things that drive you nuts about practicing medicine. Side effects may include catharsis and hope for the future."

If you phrase it that way, it sounds like win-win. Free dinner AND I get to complain with no social downsides!
He has money and fame. It’s hard to call that unsuccessful.
Yeah, I’m currently an ML scientist but I regularly run into shit where I have no clue how you’d solve the problem without having a compilers/functional programming background.
There's an enormous separation between those "ordinary Russians" who are in survival mode and do all the things you said, and those other "ordinary Russians" like me who are actually affected by sanctions and have passports and care about traveling abroad and speak English and are against the war.

The sanctions target the wrong ones.

As for "unwilling to even stage a large protest", there's simply no one left to organize it. Those people who could do it are either in jail, in exile, or dead.
Co-founder and I are “seasoned FAANG” folks. We went through YC last summer. It’s true - many founders are on younger side, but a good number seemed (i didn’t actually card anyone) to be same age as us and we didn’t feel out of place. Would recommend.
Isn't the placebo effect mitigated by negative belief? In many experiments I conducted on myself I was extremely skeptical to the point of "I can bet this is a bullshit 'snake oil' but let's give it a try to prove just that before I can safely forget about trying this ever again" before getting surprisingly positive results for me. Similar attitude was also present in many friends I gave anything to.
One invention that drew me to this topic was Binary Lambda Calculus, invented by John Tromp (“Tromp” as in Tromp-Taylor Rules). It’s just a direct binary encoding of a lambda calculus term, but it gives you a concrete and concise representation which is useful for evaluating the complexity of an expression. I encountered it when viewing https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6430/shortest-t... and found that this language was the one that could write the most precise representation of a very large number with the fewest bits possible. I later learned that Graham’s number could be encoded in 120 bits (maybe 3~4 less), much more concise than equivalent mathematical language, and I’ve since been drawn into the field of googology. It was fascinating.
One consideration is that, from a legal rights and social inclusion perspective, places aren’t fungible.

The market can’t make a culturally inhospitable place welcoming.
I use and recommend ConsumerLab for such questions.

https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/magnesium-supplement-rev...
Its a general problem of always thinking how to "level up".

Also a recent random view on this: https://nickang.substack.com/p/my-problem
If something blocks the photon, that was "agreed" upon before the photon was created.

A photon travels between an electron that emits it and an electron that absorbs it. These two electrons must agree on the photon transfer beforehand. This has some strange implications:

- When you see a star at night, it's because photons from the distant star hit your eyes.

- These photons started traveling billions of years ago, when neither you nor your eyes existed yet.

- Yet the electrons in your eyes and the electrons in the star (which may no longer even exist) must have agreed to transfer these photons.

- From the photon's perspective, it traveled instantaneously from the star to your eye; it traveled through billions of years of time!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAedYtUredI&t=2630s
The waterfront homes in my area sure aren't coming down in price. They're over the top and rising.
Even better, if your testing framework supports it, mark the test as expecting failure in your regression commit, then remove the xfail in the commit that fixes the bug.
Wow, Cyrix. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
If you are peeing overnight on the regular, get your blood sugar and A1c checked to make sure you don't have diabetes.
Growing up I'd be forced to go fishing with my dad a lot. When we'd catch a fish that was the wrong species, he'd whip it against the side of the boat and watch it float off while laughing with his friends.

I doubt the knowledge of consciousness, pain, or any other harm caused by hunting or fishing would dissuade most that do it regularly (in my anecdotal experience)
> could change your life, like it did for me

Did you apply to be a mod for this site and if so are they accepting more applications of that sort?
Wang-B Machine
This is based on the fundamentally wrong assumption that the government listens to their citizens.
> he does not say what you are describing

Starting to think you don't know Dennett, this is what he was all about haha.

> John Searle debunked

You're starting to reveal your lack of experience here. It's not something that can be debunked, it's just an observation and one that is widely considered foundational :)

Not only that, but that's like from his youth, he's done a lot more interesting stuff since Chinese Room - this seems like you just quickly googled.

I wish this was a better conversation, brush up!
> a startling amendment in 1995

It was an ammendment tacked onto a Bill that had wide support.

The majority who voted likely never read it, those that did rightly figured that it would not pass all the way through and complete, like so many other ammendments on Bills.

Even had it actually passed through it still would not be "solid real law" until it survived being called out for being bullshit and challenged in court.
That's an interesting point! Nope haven't recorded myself, I rarely wake up being dry in my mouth, if that's an indication, nor do I snore a lot or have the tendency to mouth breathe.

I would think (?) I would notice if I mouth breathe excessively, sine I hurt my throat while sleeping when I catched covid, and then I could only mouth breathe for several days due tapped nose. Noticeable difference

But recording / asking SO to check could be a good thing. Thanks for the suggestion!
What next, privacy in tor is not a feature too?

Greatest heist of the century is the government convincing people that they don't need financial freedom and privacy.
I have tremendous respect for Whittaker. The alarming change is that the founder (Moxie) is no longer on the board, and one of the board members is someone publicly opposed to the freedom signal provides, who is also member of organizations who advocate against what signal provides, and appears to be a former employee at agencies with an interest in mass surveillance. Even Peter Theil would be a more reliable and trustworthy board member than Maher after what's come out about her views.

The other problem is Signal is now in a tacit monopoly position because neither the Apple or Google app stores will allow an app that does not do content moderation, and there is zero chance of them being challenged on that by the current US admin. I'm not sure what the current status is, but Element/Matrix was quietly cut out of the mobile market through that coordination. Judging by the stakes and the players, to me there's something very, very sinister about Marlinspike's exit as well.

Imo, the canaries for some very serious political problems are dropping like flies, and one of their tools is stacking boards of software projects with assets from compromised institutions.
I can't even work up enough faux enthusiasm to wish you luck or encourage hope. An off-shift Twitter employee is not going to triage with you and make everything better. Is giving up an option?
> Rabies isn’t really a risk. Nearly everyone is vaccinated

Oh my this is very very very false. People are rarely vaccinated for rabies. Only high risk people such as veterinarians are vaccinated. People who are bitten can be given PEP, but the vast majority of people are completely unprotected against rabies.

If you live in the US there absolutely are many areas that have rabies infected wildlife.

Rabies is 10000x worse to get than HIV.
I'm curious, what's the explanation flat Earth people have to things like this?
Karpathy also writes beautiful python code and his GPT lecture series contains some of the finest python code to learn from.
https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero
To me, Zionism is more than just the belief that Jewish people are entitled to a state of their own in the Levant. Because if at this point you say that you DON'T believe that you are also saying that you don't care about what happens to the millions of them that live there now, or believe that that the displaced Palestinians themselves are entitled to some form of restitution against their oppressors.

Unfortunately we have to deal with the reality on the ground and the reality of Jewish people in the UN partition plan. Reparations must be made and expansion must be rolled back (all settlers out of west bank) but at the end of the day any future must involve either A) a state for Jewish people and a state for Palestinian people or B) A completely united state with full equality for all people.

To me Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have an inherent RIGHT to an ethnic-orientated state in the Levant based on historical (biblical) tradition. There are many ethnic groups in the world without a homeland, and the crimes against humanity against Jews in WW2 did not necessitate such a state there, if it involved displacing others, which it did.

So I'm Anti-Zionist in the sense that I am against religion-based geopolicy, I am against any inherent "greater" reason for a Jewish state. I am a humanist who believes in the right for safety and prosperity for Jewish and Palestenian people. I am not interested in any solutions where either does not grant the other's humanity or right to safety and prosperity. Beyond that they need to AGGRESSIVELY self-police one another. Palestinians need to self-police (and prosecute) the terrorists and Hamas and keep them to justice. The Israelis need to self-police (and prosecute) the west bank settlers, and reform from the bottom up the IDF.
There's no better alternative. I mean who drags out an encyclopedia nowadays? It wouldn't even surprise me if a scandal appeared where a now underfunded encyclopedia had staff copying from Wikipedia for it's books.
Before the true and total death of encyclopedias I probably should go out and buy one...

Edit: oh God I'm old. Regular encyclopedias are online now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_encyclopedias
Was trying to comprehend Waking Life but I feel like you really need to go into it with 100% focus.
Not true - most people are not vaccinated against rabies. Vaccination should be done ASAP after suspected infection, it's still effective.
https://sites.stat.washington.edu/thompson/Genepi/Loki.shtml

I found this before I realized!
Just ran this through Llama 8B in Ollama, with no adjustments to the system prompt. The first time, it produced this table: https://pastebin.com/GR0cpgvj

I repeated the experiment three more times, and it refused each time; interesting.
I think any employer instantly loses the ability to say "don't talk politics" when they decide to build software/services for the military :)
Yes, there's no reason you need to swallow a bunch of giant pills to get magnesium or potassium. It's far better to just get bulk magnesium chloride and potassium chloride and mix them into drinks or food. Also, nobody should ever take magnesium oxide as a supplement. It's only useful as a laxative.
This doesn't even mention the most obvious one to me: Google Assistant. It's way, way better than Siri and well integrated (at least on pixel phones that I've used).
I send wire transfers via Wise for about $4. I can receive ACH payments for free. I do both with PortableApps.com. The transaction fees for Bitcoin are so high, most of our users stopped using it for donations and things.

Back in 2013, we'd get a BTC donation every week or two. Now we get one maybe every 3 months. In 2013, the average BTC transaction fee was about 3 cents. Today, the average fee was $19.76.
Probably no, but the research on that topic is not very good.
Kagi Summary:

The passage discusses whether photons, the quantum particles of light, have a finite or infinite lifetime. It explains that while photons can be created and destroyed through various interactions, they cannot truly be "killed off" entirely. Even as the universe expands and photons redshift to lower and lower energies, new photons will continue to be produced, ensuring that photons will always exist in some form. The passage also dismisses the "tired light" hypothesis as a way for photons to lose energy, as it is not supported by observational evidence. Overall, the passage concludes that based on our current understanding of physics, photons appear to have an infinite lifetime and will continue to exist in the universe indefinitely.
Is there a reason we believed that other prion diseases won't transmit? BSE -> CJD is already established, right? Seems like our base-case belief should be that these transmit, but I don't know the field.
This is a misunderstanding of fixed and growth mindset, which is to do with personal and educational psychology.

It isn't related to operational growth.

Cost management and planning are orthogonal to fixed/growth mindset. Cutting costs doesn't mean you have a fixed mindset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth_minds...
I think that a smaller launch system that can launch from "anywhere" (a wide choice of launch pads), and can insert your moderate spacecraft directly to the orbit yo specify, not as a par of a huge multi-craft launch to a compromise intermediate orbit, may have a market. I suppose Electron [1] is targeting it, for instance.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron
I’d appreciate someone pointing out what the significance of this article is. The whole thing seemed like platitudes in borderline unreadable English - but there must be some reason it reached the front page.
> [...] pokies users at risk of addiction (this groups makes up one-third of users).

> [...] According to the Productivity Commission, 88% of players restrict themselves to less than $1 for each bet. Problem and at-risk gamblers don’t.

These fractions of problem users are higher than I expected. Previous reading in the area (A World of Chance; Brenner, Brenner, and Brown) had led me to believe problem gambling is about as prevalent among gamblers as problem drinking is among drinkers.

What makes up the discrepancy? Does the commission have a looser definition of problem use than Brenner and Brenner? Or are drinking problems also more widespread than I believe?
Yeah, nearly 30 years of continual incremental improvements to the same P6 microarchitecture.

Intel actually went back to the P6 µarch after Netburst (Pentium 4) failed to meet expectations. Fortunately, they had continue to improve P6 as a laptop focused processor (Pentium M). Netburst is a very interesting µarch, with a lot of interesting innovations. Some of those ideas (like hyperthreadding, the single physical register file and a simplified uop cache) eventually made their way back to the P6 uarch.

And it's not just historically relevant to Intel. Other CPU vendors started copying the basic layout of the P6 and as now days the high-level views of AMD's Zen µarch and all high-performance AArch64 µarches look remarkably similar to the P6 and its decedents.
Magnesium orotate is the form which works the best for me personally (strongest positive subjective effects). Orotic acid is itself a vitamin of a kind. It used to be called B13 but was stripped of this title once found produced by the gut microbiome (which is a questionable criteria as there still are official vitamins which are produced by the gut microbiome or parts of the body itself). Needless to say any vitamin is more or less dangerous when you supplement too much for too long. Any supplementation should be done cautiously, moderately and only in context of at least a reasonable guess (better a lab test) indicating you probably are deficient in this specific element.
What's the cheapest hardware setup that can run a 70B model at tolerably interactive rates? (say 10 characters a second)
> The point author is making is that there's no track record to suggest that cost cutting is on the cards, or more broadly, that the organization has any concept of how to manage organizational risk.

I didn’t get the impression the author knew what he was talking about in this regard. He doesn’t understand what they’re up to but has a list of “best practices” they should apply to solve a problem that he came up with?

“I don’t know what their 300 employees do, and that upsets me, but not enough to actually ask anyone about it.”
these results were with 70b.
You can report a commit as good, bad, or unkown (`git bisect skip`), and git bisect will do "the right thing", even for non-linear histories. You can also automatically report un-testable commits during `git bisect run`. Of course, you may end up with a range of commits where a regression was introduced rather than a specific commit.
You could say the same about alcohol but banning that also didn't work out.
At $0.1/GB of egress it’s not super attractive compared to B2 or R2 for anything but trivial projects.

I wish they would offer a plan with just the pg database.

Any news on pricing of Fly PG?
https://uaw.org/uaw-statement-israel-palestine/
It is a known risk:

> To date, there have been no reported cases of CWD infection in people. However, some animal studies suggest CWD poses a risk to certain types of non-human primates, like monkeys, that eat meat from CWD-infected animals or come in contact with brain or body fluids from infected deer or elk. These studies raise concerns that there may also be a risk to people. Since 1997, the World Health Organization has recommended that it is important to keep the agents of all known prion diseases from entering the human food chain.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/index.html
I’m shocked at how many people in Maryland buy waterfront homes at sea level. It’s like they don’t believe climate change is happening. When we bought our house, we deliberately picked something about 20-25 feet above the water. Erosion will eventually still wash away the ridge we are on but it’ll take awhile.
You can self-host without an API key. Unfortunately they just switched to the GPL license, which may or may not work for you.
Well sure I think that in broad moral strokes you have the right to not support someone who you disagree with. (BTW not sure if you saw the comment Eich posted here yesterday, dang has now deleted it for policy violations, but it looked like Eich was saying that the donors didn't try to force him out, and that doing so would have been illegal under California law. So make what you will of that...)

But at the end of the day I would rather live in a society where we have the ability to cooperate with other people in the pursuit of a good cause, even if we disagree with them about some other cause. Like if you follow the attitude of those donors to its logical extreme where do we end up? We end up with no one cooperating on anything, many projects that could have improved society never happen, many opportunities for people with differing viewpoints to learn about each other's perspectives never occur, and so on.

I think if you take what those donors did to the logical extreme you end up with some form of societal collapse, and history teaches us that what happens after that is a strongman shows up and enforces a far worse type of social order.

I think those donors pulling out of Mozilla hurt the cause of free software, hurt Mozilla, and was one instance in a multi-year process of American political polarization that led to the election of a demagogue like Donald Trump, and is still going on. All because one guy in the C-suite had a bad position an issue that was totally unrelated to Mozilla. This is a very dangerous road for our society to tread.

I actually read a blog post at one point by the donors about their decision - short version is Prop 8 would have prevented them from marrying and one of them was here on a visa which they would have lost. So I really feel for them and understand why they would be angry at Eich. Still think they should have selected a different outlet for it.
Unless you are a person capable of bringing about systemic change, thinking small is the limit of what most individuals can contribute.

Instead, people typically dismiss the small change they could bring into reality, and take the easier route, like talking about how big change is needed, and change nothing.
I'm surprised to hear there are fewer than 4,000 Cybertrucks because there are half a dozen in my small neighborhood and I see them driving around everywhere in SoCal!
It's surprising how neglected some macOS/iOS features are. Siri doesn't seem to get smarter, and consequently, I pretty much never use it. When I asked it for the time yesterday when my hands were wet it glowed for a few seconds then searched the internet for "hey siri can you tell me the time". I could only shake my head and laugh. I really want chatGPT in place of siri.

Spotlight search on macOS is mostly broken (with no fix in sight), and autocorrect on macOS feels like it was made by kid with limited vocab and no familiarity beyond the most commonly used words (e.g. sometimes 7/8 letters correct isn't enough for macOS to make any guess as to what you might have meant).