skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be a value judgement about whether consciousness is a categorically different type of "ontological emergence" compared to others.

Of course consciousness seems more mysterious because we don't have the explanation yet. Looking down at the levels we supervene doesn't have the same mystique, though they would be just as inscrutable if trying to look up.

Going from quantum field theory to Newtonian mechanics is just as weird a departure as the reverse. And does Newtonian mechanics prepare you for the existence of Bayesian statistics? Biological agents bouncing around randomly? The gestalt of an ecosystem?

There's no reason to assert that we can't one day have the math for describing consciousness too.
As long as we’re talking about epic: is it an exclusively self hosted product? I don’t understand how it’s so susceptible to ransomeware compared to nearly every other cloud platform. You never hear about someone’s salesforce being ransomwared or their servicenow being held hostage, but it feels like we can’t go a month without another hospital going offline.
That doesn't make sense. Renting is a business transaction and not charity. Why should a tenant get to pay late just because the other party is an individual and not a corporation? If you own a home and are late to pay the mortgage, you don't get to say sorry, I will pay when I want.
Or do.

If a victim of fraud, file a police report, go to the bank with it and get your money back. Then change banks as they are incompetent.

It's the banks problem now.

It's always the banks problem to keep your money safe and authenticate things.

It's insane this kind of theft is possible.

Also, OP got the money back:

"two and a half months after the theft — the stolen $5,000 was back in my account."
OK then, I was explaining all the times Ruzzia (they had different names for the empire in the past now is a "federation" ) invaded our lands, some Zeds still complain that their neighbors had no reason to enter NATO or some are claiming it was all CIA, Satan, Israel or Illuminati that made this countries dislike or hate Ruzzia and Rusky the chosen people.
When we are looking at Dyson Spheres we are thinking about harnessing solar energy , what if it is not just solar energy , but also orbital energy?
Part of the reason is that there are plenty of reused and refurbished shuttle parts included!
iPadOS running on M4 has a "Secure Exclave" running an "ExclaveOS"
I would claim that the whole construction industry tend to attract fraudsters that are not intimidated by the possibility of jail time. It is, if I remember right, the largest source of human trafficking in the world.
Show HN: Find and Grab Domains with a Past
I created a micro-service called [Gone.Domains](https://gone.domains/).

It allows users to obtain a list of outgoing domains from a website.

The report will highlight domains that are expired or nearing expiration.

This service can help users find domains with a history for new projects or for resale.
The $2500 worth of "purchases" were made inaccessible on the working device that she still owned.
“I don't really want to deal with all the little annoyances anymore” and “I have zero issues with Windows” does not compute. Or are you running Windows XP/7?

I'm running EndevourOS (Arch), KDE Plasma 6 on X11 and rarely have issues. Wayland isn't nice to me though. And as long as XScreenSaver doesn't work on it I likely won't switch. The same for AutoKey, although Hawck seems to be an alternative (https://github.com/snyball/Hawck).
To be fair, NASA is nowhere compared to SpaceX also. So SpaceX is quite an anomaly in the USA as well. If SpaceX massively undercutting the prices and massively overshooting the capabilities of the likes of ULA and Boeing could have been predicted, then they never would have gotten the public funding that has bootstrapped this private company into the position it holds today.
I was in a Montessori program before going to a more "traditional" school.
In short, I loved the Montessori method.. and it was pretty much the last time I truly enjoyed being at school. I attribute much of my love of the sciences to the teachers that fostered my natural curiosity in the area.
That's almost certainly what happened. It's the same thing that happens in all of these stories.
What about shops that are outside internet access?
I really wish there was a native way to provide a suggested command to run next, and then let your own shell deal with it, after the user’s Enter keypress.
"12 years in a monastery" (1897) by Joseph McCabe mentions the astronomical amount of beer drunk by monks, as a matter of routine (albiet in the late 19th century)

He was one, before he went over the wall and became a proto socialist free thinker philosopher.
era

noun

a long and distinct period of history.

.... so, no, it isn't.
Apple News isn’t even available here in Germany or France anyways.
I'm confused by this analogy also. Is the article saying that NASA is spending money on things that are negative EV? When it comes to these space exploration things that sounds like a subjective value judgment rather than an objective cost/benefit type thing.

Are they saying this sort of lottery has positive EV, just that the expectation is small? Then the Kelly-optimal course of action is indeed to split one's salary between it and the pension fund -- the exact ratio takes a more ambitious estimation of the EV, of course. But the idea to split money between safe, sure returns and moonshots is not a flawed idea at all.
Here's the magical thing about bulk emails ... you only have to store the body once.
You can.

Yt for example deletes your 720p after a while and replaces it with a potato.

And if you watch a old not relevant yt and it starts after 10 seconds instead of now, no one really cares.

You can put that old highly encoded potato at your huge and cheap storage system de located somewhere around the globe were it's just cheap (energy).

You can also calculate in the time for a band robot and only store half or the first minute of that potato on your cheap storage and let the robot grab the rest of it.

After all if video is your main thing plenty of weird optimizations start to make sense.
I’m thinking of the generation of sad Swedish novelists and how they seem to have gotten things backward. Perhaps, at the end of the day, they’re not very representative of how “Swedes feel”, just like there might be a pinch of self-delusion in how Norwegians think of their nation as the epitome of happiness.
> Formally speaking, you would struggle to do it any other way.

Um... why?

> If you introduce a type for functions, you need some way to get to it from lists in order for macros to work.

Sure. So? That has been a solved problem for over fifty years.

> Then that totally muddies the definition of eval.

No, it doesn't. There is absolutely no reason that a function has to be represented as a list. The only reason it was represented as a list in McCarthy's original design is because there was nothing else.

See here:

https://flownet.com/ron/l.py

for an example of a Lisp interpreter written in Python where functions are represented as Python objects. You will note that the other than being written in Python, the definition of eval is not at all muddled.

> I think the lesson here is really that lisp is a convenient syntax but a lousy model for computation.

I think you don't know what you're talking about. The syntax has absolutely nothing to do with punning lists. You can pun lists in any language, and it's an equally bad idea in any language.
Yt basically got unusable without premium though.

I have premium, my wife accepts all of those ads
A birds eye view, turn based game, based on the Aliens film. I played it on apple Mac maybe 25+ years ago. Have never been able to find it since. It always ended with the famous quote from the film "it's game over man, game over".
The solution to agi is not deep learning maybe with more compute and shit load of engineering it can work kind of baby agi.

My bet will be on something else than gradient descent and backprop but really I don't wish any company or country to reach agi or any sophisticated ai ...
Treat 79 characters as a hard limit

Try pasting a long URL into a comment describing a method/problem/solution and you’ll see immediately that it doesn’t fit 77 chars and you cannot wrap it. Then due to your hard limit you’ll invent something like “// see explained.txt:123 for explanation” or maybe “https://shrt.url/f0ob4r” it.

There’s nothing wrong with breaking limits if you do that reasonably, cause most limits have edge cases. It’s (Rule -> Goal X) most of the times, but sometimes it’s (Rule -> Issue). Make it (Solution (breaks Rule) -> Goal X), not (Solution (obeys Rule) -> not (Goal X)).
Berlin famously casted a gender neutral voice for public transport announcements. It would be nice if OpenAI would have done that too. At least for one of the options. Computers better not have genders imo
I have. It's not the only suggestion that is considered controversial or radical but one that I thought made for a clear answer.

What the main messages are is a different question which has been a topic of debate for a while now.
And they have been rather uncompetitive lately.
Nowadays, the only thing they do better than others is their own silicon but since it's not that relevant for phones anymore they need to do better. The worst is that because of greed they find a way to purposefully limit the phone usefulness to artificially force higher price poing (RAM/storage).

Just as an example, you gotta be really into the ecosystem to choose an iPhone 15 over a Pixel 8. But I think most stick with Apple because it is complicated to switch and all the software "investment" is lost.

Previously as an Apple "believer" I was against cross-platform apps but now I feel like a transferable licence is almost a requirement. It is very worth the small performance cost.
Iran's president, foreign minister, others found dead at helicopter crash site
It's not free. They didn't have a business model for most of their existence.

Google, famously shitty at branding (and that's being kind), paid an obscene $1.6B for YouTube because "Google Video" was a monumental failure. Of course it was: Everyone thought it was just a search engine for video, not something that you would contribute to... any more than an individual "contributed" to Google's search results.

So they rewarded an enterprise that had no business plan.
I would love to see the EU to tell some US tech companies to drop dead and some new smaller corps emerge within a more customer friendly attitude. I would certainly sign up from across the pond if they extended the same customer friendly policies, even if it cost a bit more.
> There's a Wordle-like game hidden in ExclaveOS. "Securdle"

https://mastodon.social/@_inside/112441519624073466

That's... curious
But humans have been cooking stuff for thousands and thousands of years to improve nutritional value and kill off bacteria. Why would water be an exception?
Fake, americanized, subtly sexualized. I'm pretty sad that they went for the lowest common denominator approach.

I'm not opposed to computers using emotion at all, mind you. But I don't like that arguably the AI company furthest ahead is choosing this gaudy hollywood approach to marketing.
Sounds like people who get used to chili and soon start seeking 3 alarm chili and 4 alarm chili...
Not PE, it was mostly a former CEO.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikakelton/2019/05/02/hertz-ma...
I don't think neural correlates of consciousness have been identified, so clearly there remains research to be done. I'm not in touch with the neuroscience literature, but acknowledging the hard problem of consciousness means one should accept there is a lot of work remaining. That being said, I believe the hard problem is surmountable. In my mind the situation is similar to computer science before Turing's description of the Turing machine: there were imprecise notions abound about what computation meant that needed to be clarified through a concrete model. My view is simply that finer control over conscious experience would aid understanding enormously. But you're right, I should probably skim the real research more.
Not just "could"; e.g., Yamaha's latest workstations, with gigabytes of samples, still support General MIDI[1].

[1] https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/7/2172427...
It could be a big boon to US customers looking for other options if European companies step up. There are literally -dozens- of us who will sign up for their services that are more or less feature comparable to US with more privacy protections guaranteed by EU regulations.
* doesn't (have to) mean "pointer"!

It works in simple cases, but I find the consistent thing to do is read it as "dereference".

double volatile *(const immutable_pointer);
// immutable_pointer is immutable, when you dereference it you'll get a volatile double
Am I the only one that really dislikes these overly perky voices? And the one they used for the demo was GOD AWFUL. If this is what the future sounds like… idk. I was hoping for a calm, neutral and not eager assistant with a little class. A little Jarvis maybe? Something calm and easy on the ears.

These all sounded to me like people auditioning for a role in film and television or something.
another important role of NASA is to demonstrate that government agencies waste money, its like the USPS or the NBN in Australia, its liberals putting other liberals in charge of these projects so liberals can say "look private space flight is way more efficient!". It is not allowed to be a functional agency for ideological reasons.
> Inter-agent tasks is a fun one. Sometimes it works out, but a lot of the time they just end up going back and forth talking, expanding the scope endlessly, scheduling 'meetings' that will never happen, etc..

sounds like "a straight shooter with upper management written all over it"
It's not better on Ubuntu. I had your same experience
there's a clue in the name I think. terror, as in deep, mortal fear. the goal of a terror group is to make as many average individuals fear for their lives as possible.

cyberattacks, even significant and disruptive ones, are abstract. it's hard to draw a line from shutting down a pipeline to an individual's sense of mortality. it's not an efficient way to get their message across.

ofc it would be a different situation if terror groups could use a cyberattack to drain the capital out of an entire bank or cause a power plant to go chernobyl.
I don't know where the disconnect is, but I'll stop here. The statement you just quoted disagrees with what you said on two occasions before:

> It's fine to represent functions as lists, but having functions actually be lists rather than a first-class primitive is a huge mistake.

> (lambda () t) is a list

You said this would work in Bel:

(setq l '(lambda () t))
(l) --> T

This is false even after fixing the Bel names for things.
WA3 was an AOL production so of course it sucked. Buggy out of the box and introduced the media library feature. Version 5 fixed it. Also best part is the media library and extra features were themselves written as plugins so if you didn't want the feature you could disable it and use it just as a simple player.
China firms' AI breakthrough can meld GPUs from different brands
From a purely engineering standpoint maybe, but that’s also not fully the point of these programs. Look at the suppliers and you will see money going to every state, spread across many regions. This is as much a public money stimulus program as anything else. You want to create skilled jobs, and also print money without devaluing it, what better than a huge billion dollar high tech program.
I believe it's the same issue with the DB-23 connector on the Amiga. It's would be somewhat surprising if no one has done something similar for that connector. Then again, to build an entirely new Amiga you'd still need to harvest the custom chips and then you may very well be able to get the DB-23 connector as well.
You're not alone. But it should be an easy fix with voice cloning proceeding as fast as it is.
this … vftools is great on a mac … or even just support the mac Docker app
If you're mad about this, shouldn't you be mad that Apple is charging high prices for RAM upgrades to begin with?
To be fair, if they said "ya" they're probably in Scandanavia...
Higher interest rates solve this problem.
Helpme: ChatGPT shell helper for Linux commands
Nothing seems wrong with “volatile double pointer as a constant” or “constant character pointer” either, tbh. The way you presented is equivalent, but non-idiomatic, people would stumble upon it often. To become more readable universally this must have been adopted 50 years ago.
Would it be possible to use prompting to change aspects of the voice output? Will the voice respond angrily if you ask to act an angry character in a play?
Simulation complete. Enter when ready.
On a related note, I took an online course at the UChicago Graham School a couple of years ago on How To Read Classic Texts. [1]

We used Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" as our guide. It was only a 3-4 week class ($275, so not cheap), but it was one of the most useful classes I'd ever taken.

I'd always known about Adler's book and had attempted to apply the principles on my own, but having an instructor drill it into me week after week was what I needed to make the principles stick.

Turns out that executing the really basic principles, like paying attention to the Table of Contents, or reading the Introduction/Foreward, were really hard to do.

It's not because they're actually difficult per se, but most of us have a mental resistance to doing these things because they seem trivial and low payoff. But the instructor kept insisting and over time, convinced me on why seemingly trivial things like that were important.

I was also debating with the books too early. A basic principle -- that most people don't like -- is to withhold judgment on first reading, and to interpret based on the author's intention. After you've done that, then you can debate. This of course requires re-reading the book (who has time for that!) but good reading is re-reading.

Reading well is actually really simple but really difficult at the same time because we have so many mental barriers that prevent us from doing the basic things well.

[1] https://grahamcourses.uchicago.edu/search/publicCourseSearch...
I’m hoping. That’s a good point.

It really sounded like people from central casting. The fact that is was exactly that is hilarious to me.

Your point is well advised!
An awesome project and great write up. This is what i come to HN to see.
I doubt that live(!) P2P video sharing would work. You will have some users who get the video stream directly from you. These primary peers will then need to relay the same data through their tiny consumer DSL line (slow upload!) to secondary peers. These secondary peers will have a noticeable lag. It will get even worse when you have tertiary peers.
Most of the companies I've worked for no longer exist, let alone the code.

Even stranger, I've never had anything to show as the code never "existed" in the physical sense.
Operating unlicensed taxis and hotels was clearly illegal at the time Uber and Airbnb came along. Was subsequently legal-washed via lobbying efforts. If one looks closely enough and beyond personal bias, one can see it in numerous companies. For example, all social has participated in censorship by proxy programs with the US Federal Government. It seemed for a time that X was beyond that but there are now occurrences that look as though they are on board too.

In the case of Slack, they informed everyone of their intent with the recent TOS update. They’ll cut their biggest customers a discount in the name of revenue sharing and this will all go away. Because nobody but you and I and about 200 other people even care about this.
Glad there is a protocol, can you be more explicit (since it exist and seems to be standard) ?
6 days ago here in Australia a local army lawyer (David McBride) was given a 5 year 8 month stint for leaking classified documents. The documentation was around Australian SAS soldiers committing war crimes in Afghanistan. Given they're all still free and the conventional wisdom here is that McBride was made an example of to ensure the US didn't think Australia was soft on leakers; I don't think Assange's chances of freedom are good.
> What's the author's justification? What's your justification?

I’m neither of them, but chances are that’s because you can’t make them left-to-right all the time.

double const *foo; // foo is a pointer to a const double
double *const foo; // foo is a const pointer to a double

compile and do what the comment says; these do not compile:

* const double foo; // a pointer to a const double named “foo”
foo * const double; // foo is a pointer to a const double
That must be very frustrating. I’m sure you’ve already tried to track down the culprit and it was in vain.

All I can say is that the ThinkPad + Sway combination seems solid even with suspend. I’m hoping you’ll find a fix too.
Very generous to compare to Manhattan Project or CERN.
I wouldn't be surprised if the person voicing those announcements would be more happy to be called female than gender neutral.
Ah, very similar to what happened with 23 pin connectors for the Amiga, which have since been made again.
So then bacteria have souls? And computers will never have one since they're not biological. But also there doesn't seem to be a relationship between souls and consciousness, so they are irrelevant.
There are a bunch of confusions to the relationship of LISP, the LISP system and the LISP paper of 1960.

The "original paper on Lisp" is from 1960: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html

A bunch of papers about the design and development of LISP and the LISP system had been published earlier. Those show the various stages of the project to define and implement the new language. See for example: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fa...

By that time of publishing the paper on LISP, an actual "LISP system", the practical implementation of LISP existed. To quote from above's paper: "A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) has been developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T.". "has been" and not "will be".

The manual of this first LISP system, called Lisp I, is here in a version of March 1960: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Man...

The "LISP Programming System" is described in Chapter 4. It had functions, numbers (floats) and a machine code compiler. Chapter 5 describes input from punched cards, function tracing and a interface to an online printer/keyboard. Chapter 6.3 describes the garbage collector. Chapter 9 describes the available (ninety) functions, including eval, map, maplist, print, read, compile, matrixmultiply and a bunch of others.

So it is fair to say that the development of a theoretical foundation and the LISP system itself was not just "somewhat interleaved", but were basically completely interleaved, both together were done incrementally.

The process was not to 'first define theoretical foundations, then a language definition and then an implementation'. It was always all three combined, with a real practical LISP system on a real computer, developed incrementally at that time.
Google did a much better job here and everyone glossed over