skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Actually simulated" is such an oxymoron. So which is it? Is the consciousness actual, simulated, or actually simulated? And does the resulting state of mind change the universe, or merely reveal its hidden structure?

It's easy to get lost in these unsolvable paradoxes when you try reducing all of creation down to logic. Problem is, logic is not all of creation.

Consciousness requires a soul. Otherwise you're confused stardust sans mission.

A computer is just a calculator. You might as well ask if {addition, subtraction, multiplication, division} is God.
I don’t follow you. I’m saying we haven’t discovered any inorganic consciousness, so it isn’t a given that we will be able to create it with digital computers. Not sure how that breaks the laws of physics.
I think you must! I once related to this but I decided to try and figure out a better way and I started using a knife instead of a spoon and had success.
I’m kind of surprised, since they talk about all the other roots of modern protocols, that they don’t mention that USB was heavily influenced by the Atari 8-bit SIO subsystem [1] according to its designer.

It seems to ne there was quite a bit of cool ahead-of-it’s-time technology in the Atari 8-bit range that went unnoticed because “it was just a games machine”. SIO, with its universal bus interface and universal driver format, tied in with CIO (centralized input.output) that used the same driver/handler system for the keyboard and screen devices…

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SIO
The reliability of mid grade appliances is trash. You can expect a new range to maybe last 10 years on average. An electric/induction stove will be so costly to repair you might as well buy a new one. A gas stove has much less complexity, and in a pinch you could just light it with a lighter.

That said I'm looking to buy an induction stove
There's an existing app called Swinsian that is basically old iTunes as described.
Yes, dense material you absorb during a lecture does typically require a lot of writing. IDK about you but I found writing down at least all the formulae and graphs tremendously helpful for absorbing the material. If you write detailed notes, they become far more than bookmarks, you can then refer to notes primarily, and to the textbook for the stuff that's not clear from the notes.
I mean, sure, but that doesn't mean that Parsec uses central servers by default, which was the entire point of the GP comment; that their servers are worse than Nvidia's.
The market for the entire contents of say OpenAI's entire codebase mangled and corrupted at parts might be 0 as well, doesn't make it not stealing. When NVIDIA's or Samsung's IP was leaked including binary firmware that is hard to read and understood by very few, that doesn't magically mean stealing and releasing it became legal.
It does greatly reduce us that property law is not in effect over computational devices. Someone else continues to own a sizable piece of that which we carry around and use. This tension is visible with tractors that farmers no longer own, can't repair.

If we owned our devices, if property law applied, not only would amti-anti-cirumvention be legal, anti-cirumvention would be illegal. It's not your right to control this device, maker. It's mine now.
Does anyone know why desensitization works for some allergies but for other things, like latex, the more you are exposed to them the more likely you are to develop an allergy?
PyPy used partial evaluation at one point, but now it's "meta-tracing":

Why did we Abandon Partial Evaluation? - https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pyp...
Greg Egan's Sci-Fi jewel (dual) idea: https://philosophy.williams.edu/files/Egan-Learning-to-Be-Me...
Building a GitHub activity feed with Node.js and Socket.io
If people would cook outside a lot of health problems would be remedied. In most of the US for most of the year this simple and cheap to do.

But we put our cooking facilities indoor to cater to our laziness, at the expense of our children’s health. A good propane grill can be acquired for $100 and is much cheaper, much much cheaper in California especially, to fuel. Why we aren’t all cooking outdoors is a testament to our lazy myopic thinking. Sadly the authors miss this point, to the further detriment of public health.
Much like America before it, and vietnam/india after, manufacturing is great for building an economy but your time is limited before you price yourself out of it.
I really like equating faking intelligence to consciousness. Its intuitive because we have all seen that, yet so complex its nearly futile to give meaningful predictive criteria for when an agent is 'being intelligent'.

In addition to having meaningful interactions with others, i would add consciousness also requires meaningful interaction with its-self.

What is 'meaninful' also comes down to language, which, personally, leads me back to the idea that consciousness is essentially a linguistic product/phenomenon. Duck-typed.

And at the end of the day, if you enjoy spending time asking "is this thing really x" where x lies on a vector you can't even begin measure, I got this deal on a bridge you can get in on, real cheap...
InstructLab: What If Contributing to Models Was Easy?
It kind of is. Lectures are mostly boring, engaging lecturers are rare. I was better off practicing problem sets than listening to the teacher, essentially generating my own busy work (but kids are diverse, what worked for one might not for the other).

My seven year old get lots of choice time these days in his school. Maybe things are getting better. On the other hand, he finds math too easy, and the only homework he has is what his Saturday Chinese school assigns (daily!).
I’ve been in both sides of the relationship, and I want to start with my observation that bad landlords and bad tenants and rare. Most people aren’t predators, aren’t retaliatory, and generally act in reasonable ways. Some don’t, and the best we can do is not let them spoil it for the rest of us.

As a renter, I tried to leave units at least as good as I found them, and as a landlord I find most people do the same. Once out of a dozen places I lived, a landlord acted unscrupulously. And, as a landlord, I’ve had one renter trash a property. That seems like an expected amount of hassle to me. But the risk is very much asymmetric — I lost a week of pay to the landlord, but repairing the damage by the tenant cost me a year of rent.

In the US I don’t have a right to shelter, and while that may be awful in some respects it works for the most part. Hundreds of millions of people get shelter. But to be honest, I’m on the edge of getting out of being a residential landlord because of the increased regulation. While I agree with the ethos, the reality is that it increases my chance of being damaged financially regardless of my ethics/behavior.

Not sure what my real point is other than “don’t be awful”.

On a different note, I find the hypocrisy from some folks in this topic frustrating. They advance exploitative approaches to commercializing SaaS while decrying landlords doing the same. I don’t see a difference. We literally use the term “multi tenant”.
I try to be!
The most misunderstood philosopher (by PhilosophyTube)
The point of an MVP is to do the minimal to prove viability. A waitlist gives you an iteration of that in a tiny space of time. In OP's case they failed to critisie their MVP (marketing site and waitlist) enough. But if they had, they'd have only wasted a few days.
Seconding this. It's a very satisfying puzzle-based Metroidvania. You might not like ostriches when you're done with it though
I don't think you understand what stealing means if you are unable to recognize that distributing free digital copies of paid books without agreed upon renumeration to the owners is stealing. It may or may not also be copyright infringement in a legal sense, but it sure is stealing in a common sense.
Do M4 iPad Pros with 8GB of RAM Have 12GB?
Lawyers and doctors aren't too rich or too poor to become identity conscious, and these professions are more typical paths towards upward mobility for immigrants.
Is the common factor yeast?
The assumption that Iran is a poor country... I can see them building mass transit in numerious cities and amn't seeing the same in e.g. KSA.

How do you measure country's net worth?
well, i tried salvia and I tried shrooms. I don’t see how it’s more philosophical just because it’s a dissociative. at best, it’s more of an ego death than, say, shrooms, if during the trip you become an object. It’s still a unique plant for sure because of it’s dissociative effects. To thread lightly. AFAIK natives in mexico say that smoking it is very bad. and that u’re supposed to chew fresh leaves. maybe chewing fresh leaves doesn’t even cause the same dissociative effects which are unpleasant.
Certified digital identity: dematerialized voting proxy
They don't need to keep exact position; they just need to know their relative distance offsets from Earth to synchronize pulses.

They can do some work to keep station; the idea is that by adjusting attitude, they can adjust the magnitude and direction of their drag vector.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07061

It's absolutely infeasible with current technology, but it doesn't look like it's total unobtanium.
Elsewhere in the thread, someone linked this blog post, I think it describes the position of the EU well.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...

The conclusion they come to is: the EU will protect the single market even if it makes things harder for their own businesses, the single market is a totally existential issue for the EU, it is the reason it exists.
Translation to English: https://france--identite-gouv-fr.translate.goog/actualite/pr...
> If you don't think they are scary, in the wrong hands, then you are lacking in imagination.

Imagination is a great resource to apply to writing a sci-fi novel. When it comes time to actually predict the future, imagination should be tempered with a solid understanding of the technology and a good understanding of history. Neither of those resources persuades me that AI poses "the greatest of dangers".

> Even if AI doesn't ever go "evil" itself, that doesn't mean people that don't like other people won't use it to more effectively kill those people.

This I can absolutely see happening, but I don't see LLMs being even in the top ten most dangerous technologies we've invented for more efficient killing. It's a big enough risk that people working on the tech should seriously consider the ethical implications, but not big enough that the rest of us need to lose sleep over it.
Induction burners have thermostats! You can set one to a specific temperature and it will hold it. So much more precise than "medium low heat" for a gas stove.
It’s certainly her right to withhold that information, but it leaves a hole in the published story that makes it much harder to assess whether her description of what happened is likely true.

Right now, I’d say it’s about a 6 on a plausibility scale of 0-10. With the relevant details, she could maybe boost that to an 8… or drop it to a 4.
Discussion [0](26 points, 17 hours ago, 8 comments), discussion about decompression on HN [1] (150 points, 7 months ago, 102 comments), discussion in advance [2] (160 points, 1 year ago, 89 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40402903

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169
You should look up image sensor dark noise. One way to reduce dark noise is taking an exposure without any light on the sensor, it should give you the fixed pattern which can be subtracted from your scene image. Dark noise is sensitive to temperature and exposure time, so you should try to do this under similar conditions.
Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future
The comments I replied to are pretty specifically talking about government supported 30 year fixed mortgages, rather than mortgages in general. I guess I could have spelled out the context I thought was implied?
According to family lore, my grandmother’s rural northern-ca elementary school teacher had the class eat some poison oak. Despite living in prime poison oak territory and being a lifelong outdoors person, she never got it. I always assumed it was some wild folk medicine ritual, so it’s interesting to see that there might be some basis for it.
Are cells conscious? I presume yes. I've seen a video of a white blood cell chasing after a bacteria trying to evade, around obstacles, and its pretty dramatic.

Since at one point we were just two cell, all that was required for us to be conscious must have been already encoded in those cells.
Unless you want to argue consciousness spontaneously arises out of a grouping of specific cells. In which case the grouping of those cells was also already encoded in those two cells.
There's another thing about hyper-prevalent internet: there are wikis and guides documenting every detail, every nook and cranny, detailing every optimally min-maxed strategy. Exploration is dead.
Why does divisibility by 3 matter?
Why can't big companies ship fast?
Use a broiler to do it instead. Fast and more even.
I did something really similar a few times between about 2010-2017 and wrote about it in 2017. "DIY 360° review: how I asked colleagues for anonymous feedback about myself": https://troy.yort.com/diy-360-review-how-i-asked-colleagues-...

I sent it to some friends as well.

When I first did this, I couldn't find anyone else who had shared that they did it. That's the main reason I wrote about it - to make it a bit more approachable for others.
The problem is, things keep getting worse outside of your bubble
Turns out we didn't need a blockchain. Newsgroup was a pretty good "let the rest of the world mirror it."
> "Over lightyears" means it takes literally years for these things to coordinate moves with each other

The swarm ends up around 100,000km wide. Initial distances are longer, but never on the order of light years.
Well since LLM is the fad of the day you should have built an API that uses AI to generate Lighroom settings. :)
Isn't the point obvious?

Just a little nitpick - US didn't finance Taliban. Taliban was formed after Russia stopped occupation in Afghanistan. Taliban was formed because US stopped paying attention.
> I mention this mostly because I do think the author was a bit cavalier in his approach

The author may not have had access to a physician with experience in this.

I live in the part of the US where the only physician access is what can be afforded out of pocket (not much). Self initiated treatments are the order of the day.
How to Use Iptables
In this book, I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393899945799 - 108 Tips for Time Travellers by inventor and Professor Peter Cochrane, 1999, one of the essays is him asking his wife if she would still love him if he had false teeth, a false leg, etc. bit by bit until she stops the conversation saying "I'm not having you dying by installments!".

When you replace a heart with a pump, you don't get a human heart. When you replace a kidney with a dialysis machine, you doon't get a human kidney. Why expect that when you replace neurons with simulations you get a human brain or a human consciousness, or when you've replaced everything, a human?

Biological replacement, your body growing more new neurons, maybe, but it won't be mind uploading. And it won't get you you-at-age-twenty back.
1. If a home already has a gas stove it would take some money to get it disconnected/removed and then you need to spend money to buy a new induction stove. 2. Per kWth gas is significantly cheaper (on average) so gas stove likely cheaper to run despite lower efficiency. 3. Cheap induction stoves have at least these flaws: touch controls (which go mad when water is spilled), pulsing power control - on low level it looks like 1 sec boiling every 5 seconds instead of simmering.

I recently bough a counter-top induction hob and the cheapest option with physical controls I could find was 5x more expensive than one I've bought (which doesn't make me hate touch controls less).
Or maybe people know stuff about the Iran regime like the fact that they held US hostages. Burn US flags (the big Satan). Sponsor terror and provide weapons for terrorist dictator regimes. Execute dissidents and generally anyone who doesn't fall in line etc.

Iranian people are good people who don't deserve this terrible misogynistic, murderous regime.
station keeping is definitely possible. each craft could use its comms laser for impulse
Different people are interested in different things; personally, I'm mostly here for the sci-tech, but I also find other things interesting, and here on HN I often see unique takes, approaches and opinion for such topics.

I'm glad HN is bigger than sci-tech.
Also doubles as a rock tumbler
How much does it cost to be hot on HN?
Volatile working memory representations crystallize with practice in mice
I recently wrote a blog post about doing this to create timelapses of Rimworld colonies. I didn’t realize -pattern_type glob didn’t work on windows though… I’ll have to update it.

Also, an assumption in your command is that all the images are the same aspect ratio. If they’re not, you can use this to dynamically pad it out with black bars on either size:

‘-vf "scale=1920:1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease:eval=frame,pad=1920:1080:-1:-1:eval=frame"’

https://mpeyton.com/posts/rimworld_timelapse_ffmpeg/
This is so wrong, sorry.

Humans evolved to reproduce as a species successfully, not to ensure the optimum survival of an individual. Not everything your body does is in your best interests: something that tends to be the best solution for long-term survival for a group might be entirely wrong for your specific case.
Obligatory humor: https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM

Note of support: ffmpeg supported many of the transcoding needs of my former employer back in 2007, being a "friendly" tool to the team. Yes it had/s issue. Being open source gave us a lifeline, to be able to fix our own stuff, and build up our video and audio live streaming and video watching white label service.
Also see RISC-V based Shakti : Open Source Processor Development Ecosystem from IIT-Madras, India - https://shakti.org.in/

Good overview at wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAKTI_(microprocessor)
Doctors are pretty much required to follow Establishment medicine. They're not going to tell you about folk remedies, because it could be malpractice for them.

By way of contrast, I've told my doctor about sinus rinsing, and she was not disapproving. But she said, "a lot of my patients do this and they seem to like it."

I think this is a better response than blanket disapproval. The corresponding response to urushiol desensitization would be "There's no guidance on this. Be very careful! Here are some risks." Which is the best you should expect from an establishment doctor.

A homeopathic doctor would tell you a lot of stuff that might or might not be accurate or safe.
> a future dominated by gigantic core counts of really simple cores that may even be in-order

Chuck Moore (of Forth fame) has been advocating something like this for a while, although he's more "multi-computer" than "multi-core".

https://www.greenarraychips.com/index.html
I have mostly Bosch home appliances in Chile, but at least the integrated microwave was made in China. They're quite good at hiding the country of origin from all descriptions and manuals, although according to my searches, some devices are made in Poland or Turkey.
Locally sourced, sustainably grown, organic, non-GMO, gluten free, no antibiotics ever, cage free, pasture raised, grass fed and finished, minimally processed. All the things.
Even better with a dog
Comparing the EU to an authoritarian communist or Juche county doesn’t really seem like good faith engagement, but just in case — the EU is a wildly capitalist/liberal organization, their whole theory is that they can avoid another world war by having the countries that kept causing them totally entangled in a big heavily inter-dependent market. They aren’t going to make a government EuroPhone, they are going to publish standards and let private companies come up with compatible implementations.
Discussion [0] (12 points, 2 days ago, 6 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392986
Yes but probably the only program is you one or two executables
There will always be a set of problems beyond the current (in whatever year) computational limits of brute force, and we don't know how many of a humans capabilities are in that set.

The delta between a clever algorithm vs brute force in computational advancement could be 7 years or it could be 7,000 years.
“Right” based upon whose consciousness?

People in Georgia use language differently than people in Washington State.

People need to read more Camus and Freire and consider the extent to which relativity applies.
There is something about the 555 that triggers love from people
Exactly. There's so much goal post shifting happening in this thread it's absurd. We call out someone for hyperbolizing and saying that AI poses "the greatest of dangers", and people rush to criticize us for saying that AI won't change anything. Talk about a motte and bailey.
The premise wasn't that there weren't competitors already, I don't think. With most things the price is (usually) floored by the cost of production, ceilinged by the value it provides people, and then competition is what moves it from the latter to closer to the former.
Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
Exploration was dead back then too. You could just pick up a book about the game that told you everything.
To be fair 'modelling the brain' might not include things like neuron metabolism that probably isn't required for AI but is a part of the substrate of our own consciousness.
The tone of "Speaks VOLUMES" doesn't help the discussion.

Not all people and and places are equal: It's not a universal truth that someone given 30 days notice will find themselves unhoused and in a dangerous situation. Often it is just a sense.

And even where it is true: What then? If landlords are made the social safety-net of last resort, the 'guaranteed fallback', for people who are unable to secure housing then why should anyone be a landlord? It won't be easier to secure housing for people if the conditions are made too unattractive.

Some landlords stink, some tenants stink, sometimes the situation stinks without anyone being at fault. Policy ought to try to do the most good for the most people, but part of that is recognizing that an inability to evict people who don't pay (or worse) can mean that even more go unhoused when people choose to not rent out.
>Wtf are you talking about? I said budget sedan. Bolt is not a sedan. It doesn't compete with vehicles like the Tesla Model 3 and Hyundai Ioniq 6

I'm talking about things exactly like this: "these cars don't compete because one you put the luggage in the trunk!"
More than half of US people voted for a man who is famous for saying "If Israel did not exist, America would make one" and I guarantee you the majority of those voters don't agree with that statement. The conservative lobby rallying around global warming revisionists is mostly an alignment of interests; if it was a hot-topic issue you'd see it on TV ads and at debates. You don't.
At first read it does seem suspicious that they used Signal, however at the very end the reason is explained - it's due to the Jeff Bezos hacks in 2018. That seems very reasonable. I fully support what the FTC is doing here, however I don’t support them claiming that they expected to see incriminating messages and when they did not, claimed deletion with no proof.

It would be nice if the federal government would go after the City of Seattle for deleting all of the summer 2020 messages. Both Jenny Durkan and Carmen Best broke public records laws far more flagrantly than Amazon.
That's just a normal ssd rated at the QLC capacity.
You probably run an AC. Electricity your induction stove would use is negligible. i.e. you probably use somewhere around 10-15 kWh per month for cooking.