skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a definition I have ever heard anyone use before, and I suspect that's because the definition is so constrained that it's not useful for scientific or philosophical discussion.

If you reserve "consciousness" as a word to be exclusively for humans, what word do you suggest instead when discussing consciousness as experienced by both humans and non-humans? And once you have come up with such a word, how do you plan to convince everyone to give up the common word they have been using for generations and replace it with this new word?

I would suggest, instead, that you co-opt a different, less common word for your unusual use case so as to minimally inconvenience everyone else. "Sapient" seems like a much better option to me, since it is derived from "Homo sapiens" and suggestive of something more unique to humans.

Or, better yet, coin a new word and stop trying to change the definitions of existing words.
> we'll be lucky if any public servants are willing to take up his role in the future

Sadly, there will be plenty of people desperately wanting that job. It is definitely a prime example of the saying those that want the job would not be good at the job and those that would be good at the job do not want it. Especially in today's environments where it will become a bully pulpit to push whatever agenda of whoever is in charge
Ahh, but you see, as a certain communist era anecdote goes:

A: What if people could choose whether they want to live in decadent West or socialist paradise?
B: Problem is, we want those who want to live here and ones that don't.

And that, in a nutshell is the issue with WFH. There are people who think they know better and feel obligated to enforce that view.
The current internet and app landscape are the largest honey pot mental health crisis this planet has ever seen

If I was President I’d turn off the internet for 3 days and watch everyone melt
The overall folder structure looks decent, but definitely seeing some of that emergent architecture syndrome that I’ve experienced. Like “menus” not being under “components” etc…
> He told us our product was too expensive for what it was and that we would never succeed in business like he would.

To be fair, when you're a 15 year old selling homemade drink, everything seems expensive, because you have basically zero costs other than your own time and a sack of sugar and it's difficult to conceive how much money roars around in business with any non-family employee.

I've been working 20-ish years and I still get sticker shock over even quite minor things even though some sap pays me three figures, more than my childhood annual income maybe, a day.

Perhaps it's too much free (as in beer) software and over exposure to ridiculously cheap-through-insane-scale consumer goods - a whole mid-grade phone for the same cost as a meal for two, say. But I think there's also a huge disconnect with how we tell children the world of "good, capitalist work", in which they'll probably spend the rest of their lives, works, and how it really works. About all you really get is Peppa Pig setting up a lemonade stand and learning a lesson on the value of hard work, say, and a jagged line graph briefly mentioned on the news.

The school system, at least for me, was extremely light on that kind of thing, even when you include economics (which I didn't take). In fact even in the media, other then specifically financial things like the FT, how the whole world actual or books in the subject specifically, how everything actually functions at any practical level is just...never really mentioned. Kids might know every kind of dinosaur, the function of the bits on the steam engine, the names of the sails on a ship-of-the-line, but it's almost like everyone has agreed we just don't need to talk about daily reality. It's like a huge "draw the rest of the owl" meme.
You mean the "Docker Hub Registry" is having an outage.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. Ultra-capitalism is no better than ultra-communism. They are both systems designed to reduce democracy and to funnel all the money into the hands of a small number of elites.

I prefer to live in a society where people can feed themselves, or get sick, or lose their jobs, without losing their house or going bankrupt - regardless of the ideology de jure.
Biden bans Kaspersky AV in US over security concerns
They could have tilted the example even more in their favor by using csvs that had a delimiter inside the string (“Smith, John”). Or quoted new lines. That’s an “edge case” where I know I cannot lean on cli tooling and need to use a real language.
Just to be clear, this is not a vaccine. It is an antiviral drug delivered by a long-lasting subdermal delivery implant. It has been known that antiviral drugs effectively prevent HIV infection for some time now (about 20 years). Recent work has been on better-tolerated and longer-lasting formulations.

Treatment of HIV+ people also reduces their infectiousness, and good treatment reduces the risk of passing the infection on nearly to zero. Providing sufficient HIV antivirals and medical care to everyone in the population, both HIV+ and at risk for HIV, in theory, could be enough to halt the pandemic. Some wealthy countries with sensible policies have seen remarkable gains. The UK is reasonably effective at getting drugs to both the HIV+ and to at-risk populations, and the number of new HIV infections there, has been reduced by approximately half in the last decade.
Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
And what makes you so confident that all those people are using different prompt styles when comparing models? You think most people don’t even understand the bare basics of how to compare two products?
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741702
> how does that explain how, for example, typescript has happened, which actively _re-introduces_ these aspects to a language?

Also doesn't explain the ongoing efforts to do the same to Python. People aren't trying to remove the GIL because no one cares about Python speed.
Ah I learned dynammic programming from watching this guy's lectures.
Child prodigy who went on to become an MIT professor!
Lokiceratops Rangiformis! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40740288
Linux distribution support lifecycle is rarely a problem in reality from experience. In fact stability at that level probably hurts you in the long run because the disparity between your old and new world is massive then.

What is a problem is quality control. A lot of "stable" Linux distributions are buggy crap which has all sorts of weird problems and they are problems which I've had for 19 years. Also there are problems with stability which is due to people only doing the sexy work like rewriting the desktop environment every 6 months rather than fixing the bugs in it.

tl;dr: please concentrate on quality and stability, not longevity.
as of 22:45 UTC (~30 minutes ago) they marked the status green with "Issue is mitigated, monitoring the situation"

...but I'm still getting 503 responses on my dev box as well as when I run `curl https://registry.docker.io/` on 2 CI boxes in 2 different datacenters.
I know people believe this but go look up stats on missing persons, particularly black women, and come to this same conclusion. A murder only gets reported when the body is found
I tolaly understand the problem. I got locked out of my account years ago and despite being all the steps I was never able to regain access.

The only thing that saved me was my chance I ended up doing some work for Facebook and as part of the induction process they fixed it for me.
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead [pdf]
Back when I ran a nitter instance, I’d get emails about the GDPR.

I’d simply delete them, no problem.
This is a sign of an unhealthy relationship. They should have hired a therapist or gone to marriage counseling. If anyone is looking for a marriage counselor get in touch at [ Remote spy therapist @ g(m) ail . c0m ]
It's not clear how this would help with a dockerhub outage. It doesn't appear to offer a pull-through cache?

The reason the outage is impactful on many is because they're using containers which are hosted on dockerhub.
I'm confused. Is your reaction stronger to that they were treated as terrorists or that someone misstated that they were officially classified as terrorists?
I'm in the same boat as you, one of the classic stories of "I mined double digit numbers of Bitcoin in the early days when it was literally worthless"... eventually wiped the hard drive that held the wallet and sold the computer without a second thought.

I'll be kicking myself for life for that, but I also have to remind myself that if I had held onto those worthless coins worth fractions of a penny, I almost certainly would have cashed out well before they were at their peak value, and spent them on a pizza or some darknet weed or something else dumb. This at least helps me cope with knowing what could have been...
I used to finger John carmack for updates all the time when I was in high school.
"When abstractions do more harm than good" I'll take this for $2000 please and if i get the daily double, bet it all.
The browsers would never implement it.
"a law that mandates you be able to turn off the feeds in favor of chronological"

That doesn't sound like a ban, that sounds like consumer choice.
If Enzyme was at all popular (which it sounds like it was) I'm surprised no one from the community has taken over maintenance.
To me the most convincing bit that weakens his "hypothesis" is that people who received blood transfusions from HIV-contaminated blood. Many of those people showed none of the risk factors.

See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/europe/britain-cont... for some recent discussion of the scope and scale of HIV contamination.
This is great, I hope they look into fixing addictive music next. Chechnya is way ahead of the game on solving these societal woes [0].

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scl...
Depending on what you exactly expect from Windows Server, it has longer support due to great software compatibly Microsoft provides.

Upgrading Windows Server editions since 2008 is usually way smoother than upgrading Linux distros because basically everything keeps working more or less the same, often without needing to reconfigure them. Linux world changes things often and breaking compatibility between versions is expected.
Predictions vs. Reality for Solar Energy
Opinion: It never will.
Boeing could have been a 100+ year firm; their prior engineering organization was nothing to scoff at. They could have pivoted to a dozen industries and made it work.

Again opinion - The returns don’t make up for the longevity potential Boeing had.
Highly recommend! I’m a huge horror fan and this is a solid flick
I use Google Tasks for just about everything these days.

I also use inline TODO comments, Excalidraw diagrams, and explanatory log text in release notes.
It’s just incentives:

Only your site is down, for the first time this year? You must suck at reliability!

Your site is down for the third time this year because of a Cloudflare or AWS outage, together with hundreds of others? Force majeure, can’t be helped.
The law empowers parents. Off by default, but on with parental approval. If you care about parental responsibility, you should support this. It encourages parental involvement, and allows more options than the binary: use or don't use.
Even though it's much more expensive to lose a lawsuit over an issue than it is to resolve it through customer service, most people choose not to sue. Facebook can fulfill all of their current legal requirements by simply not showing up to any court hearings, losing by default, and paying whatever someone won. If that is cheaper than providing real customer service, they will do it. And real lawyers cost $100s/hour so if the amount FB has to pay is less than that they're losing money by showing up!

This applies to all companies, but the average Facebook user doesn't even pay for an account and are of even less value than a typical customer support line user (notably, the article says a benefit of "Facebook verified" which costs $15/month is actual support).
Promoting a political position or a religious belief usually counts as a public interest, as that's at the core of freedom of speech and religious freedom. I've never heard anyone claiming seriously that their political party should be a tax-exempt non-profit, while the opposing party should be a for-profit corporation that has to pay taxes.
Nah man, I don't mind the fun police checking my ice cream licence to make sure I haven't gone over my sugar allowance for the month. It's important that we all get punished so fatty doesn't gorge himself to death.
A kid won't be ostracized for not having a TikTok. I survived not being on Facebook when it was big in middle school, despite a relatively few dull kids making fun. The same will apply to drugs or gambling by high school, so best learn to deal with it. There are lots of good ways to be popular. Unless of course it's a really bad area, in which case your kid will get beaten up for almost no reason anyway.

But plenty of parents are addicted to TikTok as well. In which case, wouldn't surprise me if they think the kid needs it too.
Hydrogen electrolysis is the answer here.
> There really seems to be no reason whatsoever these protections shouldn't be extended to people over 18.

The reason is that we let adults choose what to consume.

If you go down the path of banning social media feeds because they might be addictive, prepare for the floodgates of banning alcohol, porn, cigarettes, and more. Some people who don't consume any of those things will gleefully cheer this idea on, but I assure you there are people out there who would gladly ride this wave to start banning things you actually like, too.

Does anyone else find it weird to see so many comments on sites like Hacker News that are in favor of governments regulating what adults can consume? Years ago sites like HN and Slashdot were universally in agreement about internet freedoms, but now it's common to see people inviting government control of the internet for adults. I don't get it.
As a parent, I wish people who monetize attention had not hurt the development of my children’s social skills.

We really tried to curb their engagement with attention-channeling apps and devices, but it got to a point where restricting was enough to label parents as harsh, strict luddites.

I suspect it will take a generation or two to revert the effects of that attention hijacking.
Right, it has to be malicious. Both Microsoft and Apple have great support IME; I can get a person on the phone or go to a store if I have a problem with any of my MS or Apple products.

I don't have experience, but others here have said Amazon has great support.

So what's up with Google?
Interesting contrast to many companies, where there was some kind of RTO mandate. It's subtly interesting that Dell lets people stay remote, but promises them no advancement:

> Those who chose remote are no longer eligible for promotion or able to change roles.

In some ways it's kind of a mercy; you don't have to leave! But it also feels like a weird out, a way to escape having to fire people & maybe/probably end up paying for unemployment. It leaves it up to the employee to eventually quit out.
Tbh I really don't like this.

Git already has an established format for machine-readable metadata, trailers. There's even a built-in command for working with them, git interpret-trailers. This pulls data-for-computers into an area that should be data-for-humans.
related: AT&T / fairshake arbitration https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-over...

fairshake realized that AT&T TOS had some protections against suits + mass claims, but did allow individual arbitration; and AT&T pays an arbitration fee for every case that is filed
They absolutely do. Check out this video https://youtu.be/tNmgmwEtoWE
How babies and young children learn to understand language
What are you using this for? It's really cool, but I'm struggling to find a use
Discussion (187 points, 5 hours ago, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741672
Awesome news - we will eradicate HIV within the a single generation at this rate!
What does 'it' refer to here? Which islamic school and what branch of that school? Some do call for violence, others don't.
There are also different teams.

At my company, we sell deals between $25k and $1.2m/y. You obviously get very different salespeople taking those calls.

Super junior salespeople promoted from SDRs train on the $25k-$40k; most salespeople handle midmarket deals up to maybe $200k; and the very best salespeople get the enterprise leads.
Regulations concerning new problems often provoke cynical reactions that rely entirely on intuition. You see it being applied here: this will backfire, this will isolate kids more, this will make parents less responsible, etc. These kinds of reactions are simplistic and cut off debate. There is a wide array of things we can do between nothing at all and a paranoid "protect-the-kids", state-run total technology shutdown.
there is a lot of spontaneity in the act of sex that you're taking for granted; it's not that easy to throw that away and get the same thing out of the event.

rigor and standards are often the enemies of passion, so it's a hard sell. Your base logic is right, prevention is the best cure, but humans just don't work that way.
Because being down when nobody else is will be seen as your lack of preparedness, and being down together with everybody else doesn’t look half bad in comparison.
because the 1980s didn't actually call to get their foreign policy back?
The Great Oxidation Event was caused by cyanobacteria — which are an extremely far cry from the intelligent, multicellular animals that are under discussion here.

Saying that chimpanzee cognition is categorically different from human cognition because cyanobacteria lack a sense of morality is like saying that you and I have categorically different reproductive functions because mushrooms produce spores.
I almost appreciate them slipping this phrase in. It signals that that door in their mind has closed and arguing against it is not worth the trouble.
Langchain reminds me of GraphQL. A technology that a lot of ppl seem to hype about, sounds like something you should use because all the cool kids use it, but at the end of the day just makes things unncessarily complicated.
I disagree - the best solution to minimizing radicalism would have been raising living standards and allowing civil society and institutions to form, yet it's the same Soviet apparatchiks who continue to tenuously hang on to power to this day.

By preventing civil society from forming, perpetuating the same autarkic and autocratic economic and political system that has been in place since the 1980s, and failing to raise living standards these leaders exacerbated Jihadist movements, as they were the only semi-organized opposition left.

And banning minors from attending any religious service except funerals, de facto banning the Hijab, and using unrestrained violence in the face of even the smallest protests is not a lasting solution to preventing radicalism.

None of the wounds from the civil war were actually rectified, and it will bubble over into a second civil war once Rahmon dies.

It's the same story in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkemenistan, and Kazakhstan (eg. The riots in 2021).

This is the exact same playbook that happened in Afghanistan 50 years ago - living standards were trash, inequality was high, and any opposition was violently removed.

It didn't matter if it was Zahir Shah, Taraki, Massoud, or Omar - they were all authoritarian criminals who prevented civil society and institutions from forming.
If you happen to be supporting a four-member family on that 2K, it's barely above the poverty line.

Even when you're young and single, it behooves you to think about retirement; it's sooner than you think.

You need a safety net in case something happens, leaving you unable to work for a long time.

If you support a family, you have to think about things like education funds for the kids, and what happens if you suddenly die.
I skipped over the blog post and thread several times here, as the shortened title didn't really sound appealing.

It's only after I read it via twitter that I dug back in to see the thread. I agree that this might be seen as "outrage porn"... but who really doesn't love a good rant? It's good to discharge the thundercloud of disquiet through at least one good thread, such as this one.

As for me, and my perspective, I took the Stanford AI course back when it showed up here, and others... just to learn the mechanics of it, and it's fascinating. The hype cycle on this though, is off the charts.

I came to see if there were any others who wanted to get actual legislation to passed to help set up "Thought Leader Jail". ;-)
I mean there are a bunch of reasons for a hospital to have a gym.

Physical or occupational therapists need most of the same equipment.

A benefit to the employees.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If people exercise, they are typically healthier.
Discussion (31 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724113
If their service sucks I lose my life.

This isn't a discretionary purchase, let's stop pretending one can go shopping for care.
Because all the Gazan HN readers have already been murdered by the Zionist state.
Maybe https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/

and/or https://debian-handbook.info/ ?

Which obviously is specific to Debian, but up date.

Debian in itself is an acceptable distro, anything that's out there, exists for Debian.
Discussion (21 points, 2 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743524
Lots of 'Tea Party' organizations got "investigated" by the IRS, while their 'Occupy Movement' counterparts were given more leeway.
Only if we push for treatments to be cheap and widely available throughout the world and especially in Africa.

Unfortunately it takes many years or evens decades for developing countries to afford these treatments.
Everyone in my office is talking about ai agents as a magic bullet, driving me crazy
Doesn't Google run something like Linux 2.2 with several thousand backported patches?
Since there are plenty of knowledgeable folks here (you included) I'll pitch a naive question in hopes of learning some more:

Beyond efficiency, is there any reason to avoid bringing everything into "some wide gamut linear space using doubles to represent each channel" for the computations and then converting back to the desired color space for any final output or export? Are there other things or alternative things you can do to meaningfully increase the final quality too/instead of?
Someone snitched the logs from the non-work chat.
That's because the quality of juniors has changed. 20-25 years ago a junior was a self taught senior with no resume experience. Companies would throw you into something and you sank or swam. You were just happy to work with a computer all day. Most of the developers back than were men and you had to leave work to meet the opposite sex. Work was never going to meet all of your social needs.

Is the debate wfh is worse for these juniors or these types of juniors didn't exist before and won't with the rise of llms. Why cater to them now? Aren't they a product of over inflated salaries and expanding the industry too rapidly so quality of candidate drops? Isn't that correction going on right now?
There is considerable proof in the public record for just such a belief.

"The logic of humanitarian military intervention gained force in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, “the unipolar moment” of American dominance, and after the Sept. 11 attacks, when it became increasingly common among conservatives to tie national security to democracy promotion abroad."*

*https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/opinion/biden-afghanistan...