skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He does not say that all those experiences aren't real

Yes he does, and has said it a lot, it's one of the main things he's known for, second to atheism. In the video I linked he literally says phenomenal states "don't exist". I've also seen numerous other interviews where he's said that. You're the only person I've ever come across who describes Dennett as someone believing in rich conscious experiences.

> indeed they must be real in order to be "composed by the activities of billions of neurons"

No that's the distinction - he says only the activity of the neurons are real that there is not an additional "mental state" or what he calls "double transduction". He simply dismisses that it happens.

people convince themselves that there is a special sort of late transduction event occurring in the brain, a transduction event which is consciousness -Dennett (https://dl.tufts.edu/downloads/ht24ww75v?filename=v118rs17v....)

More from it:

Figure 7.1 shows a conscious observer seeing a red light and letting us
know that he's seen it by saying "Red light!" Some people think that
consciousness is a fundamental division in nature, which divides things
that are conscious from things that are unconscious. The things that are
conscious (sentient) engage in this very special sort of transduction. Of
course, just saying "Red light!" under this condition does not guarantee
that a person is conscious. After all, we might have an experimental subject
who stands all day saying "Red light, red light, red light, red light."
The fact that after someone flashes a red light in the subject's eyes, the
subject says "Red light!" is no indication that the subject is conscious of
the red light.

...

If you are tempted to think that way (and if you are not, I think you are a
very rare individual) you are making a fundamental mistake, the mistake I
call Cartesian Materialism. This idea is that there is a second transduction
somewhere in the brain (that is why this is a form of materialism). The idea is
that a privileged medium exists in the brain where and when the consciousness
happens, a place in which all the various features of a conscious experience
become "bound" - and then, most importantly, are appreciated.

He very clearly does not believe in the phenomenon of consciousness. At times he even conflates experience with self/identity (2 different things) at which point people usually ask him to clarify, and often he will confirm his stance by outright denying that mental experience happens. That's Dan Dennett.

He should have loved panpsychism, since it would coincide with his idea that there is no second transduction - that there's not a fundamental difference between the conscious and the unconscious - however, because he is an eliminative materialist he sticks with physicalism.
Ask HN: Any good books on ray tracing?
I'm taking a graphics class at university and the tray tracing is really interesting! What books would you recommend for more reading?
(1994) First submitted 11 years ago[0], discussions in 2014[1](128 points, 50 comments), 2017[2](382 points, 308 comments), 2019[3](284 points, 158 comments), 2022[4](189 points. 86 comments), 4 months ago(141 points, 139 comments) and 28 days ago (52 points, 45 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125613

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726115

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781815

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417690
That guy is hilarious, thank you for sharing!
Not seeing any value in this myself. Seems to be difference for difference sake, but I fail to see what it really brings to the table.

You start off with a ‘complex’ JSON but there’s absolutely nothing in the PDF that describes how this fApi is meant to address that.

Also not seeing any real justification as to the actual real need for this, other than “it’s different”.

Finally the claim that the versioning is somehow better, to me is the exact opposite. By having the version number at the start it makes it easy to switch between versions without having to append to a “function name”.

Sorry, but it’s an absolute hard-pass from me. As it stands I fail to see any value whatsoever in this over RestAPI.

Dog knows I’m no fan of GraphQL, but I’d take that over this any day of the week and twice on a Wednesday…
> The key difference between coroutines and effect handlers is that coroutines yield control to their caller, but effectful expressions yield control to their handler. The difference of affordance this implies is the materially significant advantage of coroutines over effect handlers.

Should that last bit be: "advantage of effect handlers over coroutines"?

EDIT: Oh, maybe I should have read the rest of the article first. It might be going the other way than that one example suggested. :)
Do they ship their own browser?
I would trust a quote from Nixon before I would trust a quote from Carlson
The first thing you’ll learn is that a macro assembler is surprisingly high level; much of what you think of as C-style high level can be done by macros.
Terrify ? I'm French and live in China: nobody in France is terrified by the US or China being better at chips. We're better at other things and import chips by giving them euros, and the fools take the trade, so we continue.

And in China, frankly, we have so much needs internally, it's more to power our own crap than to send weapons, or overpower foreign markets. We barely speak English and the americans don't take much Yuans, so their stuff is expensive :(

Be less terrified, and maybe contribute more than just patent rents? It's ok to compete, we're not gonna be at war. Or if we are, we are so corrupt that we put water in the fuel tanks of our missiles: you have nothing to fear.
The Hu was a quick realization of Marx’s observations concerning the power of capital and the capitalist mode of production. Mongolia, a little-known place in the world, aside from the likes of Chenggis Khan and his unrelenting armies, too, has succumbed to the power of capital in the twenty-first century.
Wannabes. 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' still is the future of music. Won't even be played at parties until 2103.
United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier
I have personally witnessed people in the Philippines who live next to the ocean quite literally taking out the trash from their bins, then tossing it directly into the ocean current to be taken away. No functioning garbage collection service there either.
Be honest and communicate a superior vision.

“My core team is always small but is capable of networking and scaling with other expert teams, in order to manage large projects”
You might enjoy this course form Yale. It’s called Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. I listened to it as a podcast several years ago. It was my first introduction to “real”, not high school, biology, and it blew my mind. The material is presented at exactly the level you describe, mostly abstracted to general principles that guide all of life, but the professor also presents really fascinating examples of how each principle is instantiated in nature. I found it to be very approachable too, as a computer scientist.

It was a big part of my inspiration to go to grad school to study biology. So be careful haha. Don’t end up a grad student like me.

One final note is that biology is exceptionally weird in that the chemistry and the big principles like evolution are inseparable in reality. You can certainly study them separately but there are a few things that just won’t make sense without understanding some of the molecular details.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6299F3195349CCDA&si=GQId...
They will say "increased user engagement by 31% by improving icon UX in menu", where they measured user engagement as how much time was spent looking at the menu. Then it will look like they improved things even if the product is bad.
Report: Ownership of 1 in 4 U.S. homes sits in different state or zip code
For reference the chip comes half-a-year after the original (9000). It's far more of a refresh than anything (as the name 9010 implies).

Still seriously behind Qualcomm and the likes, roughly the level of an 888.
Interestingly 9010's IPC (~25% gen-on-gen) is roughly SNPD 2 (last years QC flagship) but it clocks to a max of 2.3 GHz. Curious what the performance would've been had Huawei still been allowed on TSMC nodes.
That’s because you can find tools that have obviously been shaped (e.g. napped flint) in the geological record. Distinguishing between a rock that happened to be used as a tool from any other random rock in the strata would be much harder.
We don’t spend a lot of money because we bus. It’s the other way around: we bus because we have a lot of money to spend.

What happens here particularly often is that insiders (in context of schools, these are teachers and their unions, administrators, consultants, etc) are able to sell more of their services to users, who don’t mind the cost, because it’s spread among non-users (taxpayers), and they have very ability to exercise control over the insiders.
I had just started subscribing to RSS feeds when they announced the shutdown. I never bothered again. I'm sure for many people, Reader was their only real foray into RSS.

I wouldn't be surprised if killing Reader played a role in RSS decline.
> Elon negotiated an enormous package

The deal was invalidated, in part, because the court found that the committee with whom it was “negotiated” were not, in fact, independent of Musk and that the shareholders were misled on this point.

Which makes the description of the act as a “negotiation” somewhat misleading.
Making a Flute Controlled Mouse
they could, but I can hardly begrudge them wishing for first-party tooling to do that.
I guess in the energy tech industry no one pays that because I’ve been looking, and I have pretty specialized skills.
A previous version of the Apple graphing calculator has quite a story:

https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Because they would then trade those like carbon offsets or find away to ignore them/workaround them for a market advantage.
Most papers in climate change are not theoretical model heavy. They are empirical / methodology papers. If a graduate level Physics or Chemistry training does not equip one to read and understand what those papers are saying, then there is something seriously wrong with that graduate program or the person.
On the other hand, it is indeed hard for many scientists who do climate change work to understand or critique theoretical physics papers, which are mostly abstract algebra or topology papers these days.
I like to read IPCC tech section and papers referenced there and these are not, barring a few exceptions, hard to read.
To claim Nobel laureates in physics or chemistry cannot opine on these is absurd level of gatekeeping.
Products Containing or Designed to Use Button Cell or Coin Batteries
> Under this theory, whenever all branches of government, executive and legislative, are held by a single party, we expect the policy to be coherent and the governance solid

No we shouldn’t. Dominance of a single party will prevent inter-party fighting/fingerpointing/blame-shifting, but their intra-party equivalents can be just as bad. This is especially the case given the US has very weak party discipline by global standards, the party leadership has rather limited powers to tell the party’s elected officials what to do

In a parliamentary system, the executive needs to actively retain the confidence of the legislature, since a bare majority of the legislature can fire the executive at any time for any reason (and in a bicameral system, generally just a bare majority of the lower house). In a presidential system, the executive is an independent power base, separately elected, and the legislature can only remove it on the basis of serious misconduct (and often needs a supermajority to do so)
Guess it’s time to scrape your calendar from web?
Interviewer: "This is the difference between having a phenomenal quality of blue instantiated in my brain and having the quality of blue represented by my brain"

Dennett: "The latter exists and the former doesn't"

Has nothing to do with God or theism - you can be an atheist like myself and still recognize that we see things in the way a camera doesn't, that there's a difference between unconscious detection and conscious experience - and importantly that we don't know what it is. Doesn't have to be God or magic. As Searle says, "it's a biological phenomenon", we just haven't solved it.

And as Chalmers says, "To deny that we have an experience is to ignore the datum of consciousness".

Anyway the larger point is that Dennett was definitely eliminative of consciousness, not sure why you argue that so passionately when it's what he's known for and he's happy to admit it and argue for it.

Your last few sentences... he never said they are "perfectly real" and he said the opposite several times.
Okay, but EDB is the largest corporate contributor to Postgres, and one of the people pushing against the feature (Bruce Momjian) also works for EDB?

The PG community is a lot of things, but I think “dominated by commercial interests” is not one of them.

Disclosure: I work at EDB :)
And it strikes me as outrageously naive to accept this theory on its face.
This is a bit ranty.

ZFS is maturing on Linux and the codebase and general focus is on Linux today.
Hardware compatibility and mindshare are also big factors.

It seems like a subset of the TrueNAS community reveled in the fact that Core was FreeBSD-based. Maybe just a bit contrarian.

I've had meh experiences supporting, repairing and transitioning installations away from ixSystems. I wouldn't advocate their offerings in the first place, but it does seem like you have unrealistic expectations from ixSystems.
I hope you're joking, because they're really not (partially because of their ridiculous size, but mostly because of the dumb fuses). The best power plugs are the (northern) European "schuko" plugs, although they're still a compromise. The idea of having separate fuses in each plug is ridiculous; any decent modern electrical system uses circuit breakers at a central point to protect whole circuits from overcurrent conditions.
Something's been bugging me about this article (besides the fact that it's explanation/examples of double entry ledgers are either bad, misleading, or wrong, depending on your perspective), and I wasn't able to put my finger on it until just now:

There's a way easier way to explain double entry bookkeeping for the article's target audience, it's just statics for accounting.
Makes sense, it's interesting to see this discrepancy between fields.

Could you elaborate what specialized skills though?
“But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.”

If you’re lookin for a book that has absolutely kept this sense of wonder, “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer has this in spades. Highly recommended.
Not biology, but I had a great astronomy professor in high school and fell in love with the topic. The vastness of the universe, the physics behind it. How people measured the distance to a star or the curvature of the earth.

Then I got to college and was effectively told, if I studied astronomy, I'd end up in academia perpetually and I wasn't ready to make that commitment. So I fell back to CS. And sometimes I wonder....
> I don’t really like the idea of blaming others for one’s lack of curiosity about a subject. There are a lot of factors that determine how receptive we are to learning something - current interests, life experience, how developed our brains are, etc

I've met former classmates who got interested in a subject later in life and literally would not believe that the subject had been taught to us in an interesting way in high school. They insisted "I would have loved the subject if they had taught us topic X" or "I would have loved the subject if they had taught us from angle Y" when that is exactly the way our high school teacher taught us. I think when we think back to age 15 we have a hard time remembering how different we were, and we remember things in a way that makes our emotions at the time make sense through our current way of experiencing things.
This is exactly why I switched to computer science after finishing my biology BSc.

I don't get nightmares about analytic chemistry anymore, but the level of self-loathing you get from doing labs that never work out for reasons that defy understanding make the annoyance of debugging code seem quaint almost.

(I should really say "it used to", but now that I can run an LLM call locally and get a completely different response than the deployed version of a piece of software, with all other factors seemingly being equal...)
Interesting, I hadn't seen that context!
I was at the zoo yesterday with my kids and I noted the fact that New World monkeys are hypothesized to have arrived in South America via a mangrove raft (or more likely multiple) and spread from Brazil outwards. Humans, meanwhile, arrived in the Western Hemisphere by way of Asia spreading south from Alaska. I speculated that perhaps the northern boundary of the range of New World monkeys is a consequence of them meeting up with southward migrating humans.
I had a quick look and.. I have no idea. Frontend development at meta works differently than you probably imagine: things aren’t built locally but on dev servers or on-demand instances that all run services that take care of any build jobs in the background. I don’t know if there’s any nodejs involved at any point there or later in CI, but I suppose it’s possible. I still think it’s unlikely because my search turned up barely any mentions of nodejs, so I still think that my main point holds true: there’s very little node in use at meta, and nearly all the facebook frontend services are php (or python for Instagram/threads)
I write software systems to control devices in buildings in the context of energy savings, like hvac and charging cars, and also control attached distributed energy resources, like batteries or solar.
Whether the article is accurate or not, that is the trend.

And we've seen it coming for a while now.
What Propane Looks Like in the Tank (2016) [video]
What's New in Go 1.22: Cmp.or
I remember as a kid going grocery shopping with my grandparents.

My grandmother would visit four different stores. It did not make sense to me why till I read your comment.

She was looking for the deals on the loss leaders across stores.
> Overall, coroutines strike me as the most promising way to handle many kinds of effectful functions

This is basically what we do at Temporal, which is essentially deterministic coroutines with externalized effects. This gives another nice property: using coroutines to wrap effects lets the non-effect logic replay/resume durably.
>“I eliminated the need for a complex deployment by rearchitecting a bit and consolidating systems, so then I only had to manage a few things.”

That is more of a marketing issue, write something like, "Improved efficiency of deployment by x% by re-architecting systems x, y, and z which saved $xxM/year."
Point taken, you cherry-picked a particular low number from the chart though, you could easily do it the other way and find a E5 making 600k at Meta.

Apple pays a bit below the silicon valley average, I am not quite I understand sure why---they sure have the money. I had a conversation with an Apple recruiter a couple of years ago who assured me this was not the case, and then eventually their offer was ~25% below my contemporary TC.

Also Canada tech salaries are quite a bit below US west coast levels.
Empirically yes! Nearly everything we tried would do a passable job on European texts, and misconvert short texts in less common character sets. Because the problem is ambiguous, we had the best luck with a library that allowed us to disable possible encodings. We thought we could just remove encodings that were not widely in use in the countries we served, and that mostly fixed it, but it still came up a couple times a year. Eventually we had a large enough corpus of sample documents that we could test any changes to the character set bitmap for impact to at least some of each better supported character set.

Just not my cup of tea though.
None of the Amazon links work for me. (Mobile, Firefox)
Thank you for pointing this out.

The capital positions are the only data that is not UN sourced nor from natural earth. I will fix that.
I'm sure you, random Redditor, er, Orange Site Commenter, are an expert on both the topic and the design of the mechanism in question

If only Boyan Slat had thought to ask you first
>Smart AudioBook Player

Best AudioBook app ever.

>Headphone jack

Agree
https://archive.ph/iVf2m
I've liked Jonathan Bartlett's books, his newest is "Learn to Program with Assembly"
Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg [video]
James Somers is awesome. Every now and then, I see another of his articles that comes up here. Really great writer, who didn't set out to be one, but switched from a career in tech I believe.
Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
Show HN: Open-source multi-modal LLM chat agent
Hi everyone,

I’m learning LLM and AI. And I’m building a multi-modal full stack LLM chat agent. [0]

Using semantic-router for dynamic conversation routing, and LiteLMM for model providers.

It was lots of fun to learn and build.

Here is the full list of large language models. I will update more models in the future. [1]

And, of course you can use Llama 3 via Ollama locally!

I will be adding function calling support (tools use) for the models to have it more capable, like an agent, in the future.

Hope this project helps everyone to try out using multi-modalities LLM providers agent!

[0] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
[1] List of LLM models currently supported: https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai/blob/main/src/vtai/llms_conf...
I notice that every single thing the article talks about is cellular or molecular biology, which I did immediately like while in high school for reasons mentioned. But the reason why I don't actually like biology is the entire other parts of it, namely taxonomy and environmental biology. I just couldn't care about it. I don't want to know how to differentiate between ants based on how many antennas they have, or what this biome actually is based on percentage of pine trees there are. And I suspect lots of the time, when people talked about biology they actually talked about this because this is what's actually taught in elementary and middle school where impressions are formed. And this is what Feynmann refers to as "stamp collecting".
I see Elon bringing back Vine 2.0. But I am not sure exactly how this would look.

If he cloned the TikTok functionality from 2020, this would be amazing. TikTok today is not the same it was four years ago. Creators cannot go viral like they use to. There is a heavy thumb on the algorithm.
> Obviously, I would rather be wrong about this

No, you're right, this is a common procedure across industries
My other regularly-used cameras are an SRT-102 and an RB67. The smallness is refreshing.
Don't play the hero. Unless you want to get rewarded with even more work. Do the job you are assigned to or ask for a raise.
based on your formulas, I am definitely going to need a larger card.
It's really crazy that ATC isn't 99% computerized. It's exactly the kind of problem which is trivial for a computer program with all the necessary information, but incredibly stressful for a human.
A different incident from a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooJmu30DxY
The X5 browser core in WeChat seems to be based on Chromium (and was vulnerable to Chromium-only vulnerability CVE-2023-4357)
That reminds me of what Ricardo Semler did at Semco: distribution of authority, employee participation in decision making, flattening of organization, rotating leadership roles, ...

https://semcostyle.com/ricardo-semler-creating-organizationa...

https://mallenbaker.net/article/inspiring-people/ricardo-sem...