skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most day to day tasks in a home kitchen modern induction is fine.

I would like an induction range, and a pair of professional gas burners next to them.

Below folks are talking about charing peppers and wok cooking. Candidly these are two places where a gas range stands out. A flat bottom wok sucks, and I have torches but not one that is as complete burning as a range. From smores, to toasting tortillas to power outages gas some advantages!

While im doing the planing I have been wondering if I could get a 220 outlet and a UK plug for a proper kitchen kettle. What other counter top appliances would benefit from extra power?

I also want to keep the high flow gas line for outdoor grill/griddle combo because never having to buy propane again sounds like an upgrade.
> Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined.

I will give you my favorite definition, given to me by my friend Bruno Marchal, a brilliant mathematician from Brussels who spent his life thinking about such topics:

"Consciousness is that which cannot be doubted."

It felt insufficient when he told me, but now I am convinced. It may require some introspection to "get it". It did for me.
I don't think this is shenanigans, just inconsistent use of English rules. I'd be floored if a judge ruled the period was pertinent here; there's no linguistic value or meaning to it (i.e. the meaning of the message is the same with or without it).

I'd be very surprised to hear that Slack was allowed to propose a free-form communication method, impose rigid rules on it, and then deny anyone who fails to meet those rigid rules. If Slack was worried about having to read all of these emails, they should have made a PDF form or just put it on a toggle in the Workspace settings. This is a self-inflicted problem.
> I never implied that it's better than SLC though, so just don't, please.

My apologies.

> It's interesting to see that 3D-NAND has other issues even when run in SLC mode, though.

Basically the SSD manufacturers are increasing capacity by adding more layers (3D-NAND). When one cell is read in the vertical stack, the interferences produced by the traces in the area increases the cells that need to be rewritten, what consumes the life of the device, by design.
This is what I want Starship to succeed for.
> Yes, but not another layer. Just the environment around us - physical and social. Every sensation comes from the environment, our perceptions are trained on this data stream, every value is dependent on environment, our emotions reflect it, language and society are part of the environment, we base our thoughts on language and our actions on other people.

This is also my understanding of consciousness. We are overly focused on the human brain's capabilities as a generic information processing mechanism (because of its remarkable adaptability), that we ignore how fundamentally dependent it is on its environment, leading us to seek a metaphysical explanation for its functioning, when it's actually all around us.

Language, culture, and abstract thought capabilities that we use to describe consciousness are symbolic overlays upon the physical environment, but ultimately emerge from it, and their objectives ultimately tie back to it.

Human consciousness - especially its group/cultural aspects - has been a tremendous advantage to the species, which is why we are even in a position to be fascinated by it today.
i think overall we agree.

let me address your points:

1) we are not discussing legal or contract breaks, but breaks that help productivity. in germany a legal break is 15 minutes per 3 hours, and a single break must be at least 15 minutes to count as a break. so clearly, what counts as paid work has no bearing on breaks needed for productivity.

breaks for chores and errands can't be avoided, whether they are stressful or not. however, when a family weekend trip is so exhausting that i can't focus on work on monday then this is something i need to take into consideration when planning my free time.

and if i need 15 minutes of break for every 45 minutes of work while in the office then i have to be careful and may need to find a work related task that i can use to get that break effect, and hope that i don't have a micromanaging boss that doesn't allow that skunkworks project you mentioned.

2) of course. i fully agree with you here. it is all about the mental state. which means for each activity i have to consider how it will affect me. an activity that helps get a break for you could be adding more stress for me. it always depends. on some days grocery shopping actually does help me unwind and relax. on others it doesn't. that skunkworks project is also a good example. absolutely.
> Security doesn’t equal to giving away the full control to a third party.

Allowing the user to install and run any software does result in a less secure system.

Also if that software is run in a sandboxed way (but allowing installation from anywhere).

Because software could impersonate and trick the user into giving away sensitive information, such as credit card data, or authentication to act on behalf of the user.

> By this logic, Linux servers are insecure.

Yes, if we go with there being one single thing called "Linux servers", they are insecure by the same measurement.

I would differentiate between mobile software that targets end users and server software that targets professionals.

With server operating systems, you provide secure/convenient defaults (with Linux distros often leaning towards convenient), but you always provide the systems administrator the ability to `curl ... | sudo sh`. You also say it is the system administrator's fault if they ever do that and something goes bad. If you are a platform owner with millions of users, you cannot claim security when you allow for any code to be run, sandboxed or not.
>And for that smaller size and lower weight you'd expect much better range... Right? Right??

You called it a "larger vehicle". In no way is it "larger" than a Model 3. Right? Who said anything about range?
Except for the fact that he called for its destruction repeatedly. Provided missiles, drones, weapons and trainings to its enemies... It's speculated the Oct 7th attack was based on a direct order from Tehran due to their fear of normalization between Israel and the Saudis.

I don't think Israel did this mostly because it's subtle and the current Israeli government doesn't tend to do subtle. But I won't be surprised.
Maybe the government should require all business executives to wear a microphone and record all their conversations, too? Do we really want a surveillance state?
Discussion [0] (34 points, 21 hours ago, 57 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401374
They don't know what they are talking about :(

.. and it's so far away from Plato's concept of an ideal reality.. (two worlds away ?)

- that shared statistical model of reality is disconnected from physical and from abstract worlds (Popper's* world 1 and 3 platonic) and reflects (so far hallucinations are not alive) Popper's ‘world 2’ only - of subjective experiences - reduced to shared weights and vectors.

* https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/...

Simply it's not possible to get ideal model from distorting mirrors -
only a shallow shadow (no meanings, just chains) model of shadow reality captured (no translation to abstract) by language (only things for which we have names)..

The sanity is in what the one source of truth is - not like people could be a shadows of some ideal model being a reality statistical (however people actions are mostly results of using models of situation, reality.. and making them ad hoc) - and such belief in ideal reality model they wish they could have.. may lead to destining some hallucination to take over subjectives or their reasons..
You can at least flag the most egregious shit for deletion...
All else being the same, Iranian aircraft will actually be likelier to be involved in accidents than aircraft in similar countries, due to the unavailability of spare parts caused by western sanctions.
You read zeroes.
There is 0 smoke smell or anything once I open the flue on my fireplace, can basically see the suction up the chimney.
Might not? One stepping into this sort of philosophy with any intent on solving anything is set to be quite disappointed. You have no way of knowing nor testing whether you're the only conscience person in existence. There's even reasonable logic for such scenarios outside of borderline nihilistic views.

We're all living through one ridiculously unique and critical era in humanity - internet, AI, space exploration, and more - all packed into a small enough timeframe to experience it all in a single human lifetime, which is a tiny minuscule fraction of the entire time our species has existed? If and when we ever develop the ability to create mind-blanked compelling simulations of the past, this moment will damn sure be one of the eras people will go back to experience. We're even the first era of widespread massive digital surveillance alongside the internet, creating more than enough data to create simulations of people like me - to further immerse you in your solitary world.

Of course I am conscience and I certainly assume you are too. But hey, we'll never know until we get to see what, if anything, waits beyond the final curtain.
It's not just the amount of exposure, it's the type. Skin exposure is generally sensitizing. Mouth exposure is generally desensitizing, as long as it is below the threshold that causes a severe reaction, and the exposure is more often than roughly twice weekly (the more often the better).

This may be a reason why babies stick everything in their mouths.

This is the basis of oral immunotherapy, and if you ate latex daily it could possibly desensitize you. However, the immune system is insanely complicated and not fully understood. There are a lot of gotchas here. It may actually be possible to desensitize with skin exposure with careful control of the dose, as there are some 'skin patch" treatments that work for some people although generally not nearly as well as the oral route. Not all allergies are the same, and may not be treatable by exposure in some people. The immunity obtained by immunotherapy may not be the same as natural immunity, it may disappear over time, and the treatment itself can have hard to detect but severe chronic side effects like eosinophilic esophagitis. So don't DIY!

Interestingly I have heard that mango skin contains the same irritant chemical as poison oak. I wonder if eating mango skin would help desensitize people to poison oak. I once ate a very small amount by accident and had a weird feeling in my throat and a bad taste in my mouth for ten minutes afterward, so it sounds pretty unpleasant to me.
If this would help with poison ivy outbreaks I would be all over this.
I'm confused about these gram-scale devices that have so many capabilities in board. And is the laser terrestrial or deployed to space?
Local national parks will not be happy with so many people going off the trail, especially running.
woltlab burning board or phpbb:

But in a memory safe and secure (read as: strongly typed and sanitized) language, with a better database query concept. The old forums were plagued by SQL injection or PHP parser corruption/overflow exploits.

After reddit and stackoverflow both kinda are on their way to the shitter, I'd love to see e.g. an open source golang or rust based forum software flourish. Ideally supported by EFF or the Linux foundation.

There is Apache Answers [1] which was very promising, but I'm not sure whether the focus was that this was just a one time incubator product or whether they plan on building it further.

I fear that a lot of projects that were trying to tackle this niche were too overengineered. The reason why PHP forums were so popular is because it was easy (or convenient) to deploy. A simple VPS setup, even XAMPP or LAMPP tools existed, and all server administration web UIs like confixx had support for managing its dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-answer
https://archive.ph/lXO6E
If you like CL, try Clojure -- all the Lispy goodness, but with access to modern, industrial-use libraries.

Common Lisp is largely abandonware at this point -- e.g. there's no standard way to open a TCP socket!
Washington's law that there can be no private discussions among Councilmembers sounds like a good idea, but it just makes for bad government. It makes it impossible for them to horse-trade to find a deal. What does happen is every member grandstands their position instead.
don't remember those criticisms on Be's cpu port, which were mostly what you describe (well, didn't see much of the cpuport in any way now that i think about it)
Second paragraph:

> told the app where to find a Majora’s Mask ROM file
I think wrappers are fine if they add meaningful value. It does seem that mostly you’re getting charged for a little prompt engineering and a UI skin.

I’d personally like to see a good wrapper for autonomous LLM coding. Nothing we have yet quite fits the bill, IMO.
If I had to guess: common multiple of nominal voltage of a single battery cell (which is 1.5 to 3V)
For things that are current such as game scores, news, I use google search.
What is a non-theist argument that dictates we should treat synthetic “consciousness” as fundamentally different than biologically derived conciousness?

I think this is a valid question Even if the strongest evidence for machines having “real”consciousness is its external/utility indistinguishability from biological consciousness ?

It would seem to me that a machine that seems to be conscious and professes that it is should then be treated as if it were, if for no other reason than the likely outcome of not doing so - creating “synthetic distrust and enemity” between “conscious” machines and humanity.

It seems like if we are going to ignore the “utility” argument for consciousness, we then must prove that other humans as well are actually conscious, and not just appearing to be so.

Seems like a bad place for the species to go, for a multitude of reasons.
It's a scary precedent if they successfully argue that the absence of evidence is evidence of deletion. Where/how do you ever stop that train once it leaves the station?
Maybe that’s because Americans move around more and can’t be nailed to a house for 15-30 years like every european homeowner is (where you can neither refinance nor pay back early without paying essentially all future interest payments at once - US mortgage conditions are insanely good).
>It's 2024. How are sedans still a thing?

It's an irrelevant distinction, agreed.
> as early as 2010

MacRumors really needs to get editors to proofread the copy before it gets published.

You use “early” to state an older time, “late” to state a more recent time. As in, an early model Ford from 2010, or a late-model Ford from 2023, or the latest model from 2024.
Some people are convinced by p-zombies and The Knowledge Argument that not everything we experience can be reduced to matter interactions.
Vetting things like this is literally the job of journalists so a story can be told while allowing the subjects a level of protection. It’s the difference between a published story and someone just making things up. As a reader, you make the credibility assessment based on trust in the author and the publication.
If you press a plus button four times, then you have to press back four times to leave the site.
Seeing .DS_Store in a git repository shows so much, I don’t know if any other comment after that is even necessary.
This is my take. Consciousness is overrated and probably just an emergent phenomena of the brain processing external stimuli into memory, moving memories around, etc etc, in a continuous and never ending flow. Free will is just an illusion of our deterministic but fundamentally random reality.

There isn’t even an agreed upon definition for what consciousness is from a scientific perspective.
> Consciousness requires a soul.

We don't know if it does. We do know enough to suspect that a deterministic simulation does not conjure thing into being.
If we are talking about intelligence or "agency", then I don't see why something other than carbon can do it.

But if we are talking about "there's there there", then I am not sure if we will ever find an explanation for this. Let's say that X is what gives rise to "there's there there". What does this tell me? Nothing.

This is perhaps the most interesting, most important, and most baffling mystery of the universe. It requires no equipment other than one's own mind. Esoteric contemplatives have spent millenias on this and none of them have the answer to the ultimate question.
Of course going from silence to noise is trivial in this day and age. Going from noisy to silence is still difficult even with the best ANC.
Kagi 100% for search. If I didn't have to administer a Google account for one of my family's vanity domains I'd leave Google entirely in the dust.
Another explanation: chart wielding optimists are in the top 10% wealth bracket in the US (And their friends are), so they’ve experienced everything getting cheaper over the last 30 years.

Then they ignore scary graphs like the deaths of despair one here: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019...
I haven’t bought cookware in a while, so I am probably wrong. ~10 or 15 years ago I thought there were separate pots and pans for induction stove tops.
After reading the abstract, the message received is that they intend to redefine consciousness to match whatever they are able to achieve; however limited.

The upside will be a lot of possible gaslighting. I remember when kids thought that Teddy Ruxpin was conscious. What's society's tolerance for how alt a consciousness can be?
On the contrary, Obduction is probably their best game. The puzzles are well thought-out, hints are signalled in clever ways, the environments are detailed and gorgeous, and the storyline is pretty interesting

They recently released Firmament which was successfully backed on Kickstarter. (I'm eyeing my boxed copy on my shelf right now.) I'm partway into it, so I can't yet say if it's better than Obduction, but it has been an excellent experience so far

I don't think it's fair to slam Cyan for being so proud of Myst and talking about it all the time. It was one of the most influential and successful video games. It got kids into technology, puzzles, and sci-fi. Myst is not merely remembered. It is still an ongoing franchise with an active fanbase. Why do they need "hits" when they are still a successful company?
> In, the U.K the repairs are done wheneveer the landlord feels like it. In london, you see some apartments get on the market without any repairs done to them at all

Often illegal, but still common here as well.
Exactly, you have an encrypted drive? Maybe you forgot the password? Well we will just assume it’s literally the worst possible content and go from there!
Government bodies such as school boards and state education departments will choose the curricula for government-run schools. Increasing disputes about what should be taught are an argument for a voucher system where parents can choose schools based on their curricula.
It’s not navel-gazing, it’s an expression of the mind of another presented in a way that is entertaining for others to read. In seeing the obsessions of another, we see the same in ourselves. I’d also posit that the author has read a bit of David Foster Wallace over the years, because the tone and themes are similar to some of his work, both the fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps these kind of diaristic long-form articles aren’t really for you.
Not sure what you meant by "some users" but as someone without physical disabilities it's an issue for me. They can't be used with wet hands, can't be used if they've been splashed (which is certainly a choice on something designed to be next to pots full of simmering hot liquid), and have truly bizarre firmware behind them -- for example, if I'm using two elements and am finished with one, it's quicker to turn the entire hob off and on again and re-energise one element than it is to turn an individual element off. I'm really enjoying induction over gas, but the "easy to clean" aspect is way oversold. Bring back knobs!
For me it's the mix of Islamofascism and their killing of women and queers. Also, language!
No. Ben Gvir is a horrible Nazi. Netanyahu should be in jail. Things aren't "two sided". There are facts involved. Hamas is a murderous organization that is responsible for the rise of Netanyahu. Another fact. I suggest educating yourself rather than picking a side.
we don't want a surveillance state but you have to admit that auditing and investigating is at times necessary, no? what if everything at enron was encrypted?
Agreed. The calculator is not human-like, let's figure out how to humanize this! Intelligence comes in a myriad of ways. Mimicking humans will just produce a human, what's the point? I am not even sure a super intelligent "human" is even a good thing. The smartass will probably spend their intelligence betting the stock market.
I want Microsoft Azure Bing Copilot everywhere. In start, in browser, in command prompt, in Excel, in XBox Live
> We don't even know whether other human beings are conscious, man.

This is why so far the Kantian philosophy makes the most sense to me. I can tell that something is there because I am thinking it, but can't tell about any others.

The really scary thing is the question of why this particular body at this particular time. It's like when born, organisms generate a "consciousness vortex/attractor" that binds to a particular identity.

It's also interesting that sleeping or fainting pauses the consciousness, and later still ends up in the same body (unless it's like coroutines and it doesn't matter which identity ends up in the body).

We also know that removing parts of the brain can cause memories and certain features to go away.
ssd firmwares are a mistake. they saw how easy it is to sell crap, with non ecc (i.e. bogus ram) being sold as the default and ran (pun intended) with it.

so if under provisioned now they work as pSLC, giving you more data resilience in short term but wasting more write cycles because they're technically writing 1111111 instead of 1. every time.
if you fill them up then they have less data resilience.

and the best part, there's no way you can control any of it based on your needs.
Yes, it matters a lot with regard to the colonial history where Russian, Soviet, and Tsarist governments have tried many times to eliminate the local cultures and identities of both indigenous peoples and other Slavic neighbors like Belarusians and Ukrainians.
For a full, visual explanation, I'd recommend checking https://stuffphilwrites.com/2014/09/iptables-processing-flow... to see the flowchart for multiple scenarios.
It's funny, because 40 years ago 'they won't be usable to create weapons with, so they could be built all over the world' was one of the selling points of fusion development; it was always obvious as a falsehood though, since any neutron source can be used to produce weapons grade isotopes given the motivation, even medical reactors that are already widespread.
Technically, QLC NAND that is no longer able to distinguish at QLC levels should certainly still be suitable as MLC for a while longer, and SLC, for all practical intents and purposes, forever.
Yes, that's what I do. Banks will export your statements as CSV or even spreadsheet. I copy paste year to date into a sheet and I get all the analysis I need.
Success is shared, blame is not.
How can I verify that things stay this way?

Partitioning off a small section of the drive feels very 160 GB SCSI "Let's only use the outer sectors".
The decoupled storage and compute architecture of Elasticsearch
Yes and it is crucial that it be integrated and enabled at a hardware level so that I can never opt out in any meaningful sense.
The feds always lean very heavily on the conspiracy part in investigations, I guess the cause and measurable outcome of a crime is never good enough for them. They demand total access to everyone's information.