skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't solve the problem.

I know I see the color red in a particular way. I have a consciousness experience of seeing red things that _feels like_ something. I can talk about wavelengths, or put color into a theory, but none of this explains the feeling of seeing the color red.

How do I know if someone else has the same subjective experience as me regarding color, or taste, or thought form? I don't, it can't be known.

This "it can't be known" (unfeasibility of proving or disproving anything about this phenomenon) is enough for most science-like minds to discard all of this as nonsense. For these, there is no phenomenon, this subjective experience arises from emerging properties.

The emerging properties model is not unfeasible, we could test it, if we were able to observe these properties emerging. However, we didn't, it's hard. Although feasible, it has not been proven or disproven, and modeling the brain has been a challenge.

So, for now, the only thing you can point and say "that is a conscious being" with abolsute confidence is yourself. Only you know that, and you can't share that proof. This notion was popularized as the philosophical zombies thought experiment.

Maybe it is a tool trying to optimize food acquisition. That's not a completely unreasonable idea. But how would you go about testing that hypothesis? How can you know that some abstract process is working when you can't even prove to others it exists?
Is is a dehumidifier? Fins, requires energy, some part gets hot. Yep its a dehumidifier. Dry areas are dry because there is no humidity to condense and fall as rain.
> Why does a submission like this get flagged.

To minimize chances of it being used as ammunition in the future perhaps....that would be a pretty specialized motivation though.
20kg? Actual trail riders spend hundreds to thousands shaving grams off their bikes. I think this is just another attempt to break e-bikes away from being a distinct product, to keep the "e" an optional upgrade to whatever bike the customer already owns.
With the caveat that this now adds a third-party transcriber that logs the content of every single voicemail you get.

Which will definitely end up in some data breach at some point.
Absolutely horrible.
I never had a resume problem, and I've always landed interviews with big tech too. Still, I just bought it because I'm looking for a new job, and "Access Database of 250+ Big Tech Recruiters" was convenient versus manually browsing through tons of pages - It's nowhere to be found.
The "profiles"? It's only 4.

And they offer no refund.

I wasted money so you don't have to lol
it's kind of disappointing that they're focusing on food in this. I get that it's a quarter of their revenue, but one of the things that makes japanese convenience stores so convenient is that you can do more than just buy stuff. like, they often have printers and scanners if you need to make a copy of something or print something off. or if you're a tourist and you're taking the train someplace and have too much luggage, you can get it shipped to the hotel at your destination via 7/11. that's the kind of thing I would love to see in a convenience store.
Evolutionary pressure itself doesn't generate new features, it merely selects them for propagation (in a self-propagating system). In biological organisms, the thing that generates new features are viruses (injections of genetic code into other genetic code) and the natural errors involved of replicating genetic code.

That answers the question of how pretty much every biological feature is produced and propagated, except the question of how/when/where something goes from being unconscious to conscious.
Presumably "entire career" means some amount of exposure to other things.

In my 21 years coding professionally, I will settle on C++ or Ruby for most problems depending on context. Ruby for quick, dirty, and "now!", while I use C++ for Long lasting, performance, strongly typed, and compatible things. Those aren't perfect categories and there are reasons to pick other tools, but Choosing C++ after a long career does mean something more than "I am comfortable with this".
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I also think it's a little bit premature to say that life is readily explained as chemical reactions. For instance, ecologists study natural selection (i.e. the dynamics of life as we know it) at a much higher level than that, and for good reason! We really don't know how to reduce high-level aspects of behaviour down to matter and interaction yet - not even close.

Biology is the ultimate spaghetti code - there are causal loops between all the layers of abstraction (I guess as a result of enormous optimisation pressure and lots of time). I think that makes full-scale reductionism like you're describing a bit hopeless.
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Unless we want to make people accountable for running their own sophisticated clinical studies for every single product we buy, we should probably have some rules in place around false claims and false advertising.
> The "method" in "scientific method" does all the work.

Not technically it doesn't: the method is a guideline, it is implemented by Humans, and even science has done extensive investigation into how unreliable Humans are.
It’s hardly state of the art at this point. There’s lighter and more efficient drivetrains from Shimano bosch and many others.
We have intentionally opted out of this[1][2] for now, since we did not want to create a dependency on iCloud for backups.

So if you purchase a new device, you will either have to sign in to Ente Auth again (for E2EE sync), or export your codes from the older device, and import it to the newer device.

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/8b696b1242bce2f166ddd6a...

[2]: https://github.com/mogol/flutter_secure_storage/blob/cb30953...
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It's covered by my rtorrent subscription.
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Well not my experience, but yeah let's hope that something much better replaces it soon
I didn't mean to suggest we understand every interaction from molecular to organism scales, but there's no reason to think that that stack of unfathomably complex and highly chaotic interactions is anything but chemical/electrical/thermal interactions.
Yes, for commodity goods there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus

However for most goods/services there is variability in multiple dimensions. And we are irrational buyers and we poorly measure our +ve/-ve utility on multiple dimensions into dollars. And we poorly choose between different options. Plus there is variation.

I would love to meet a rational consumer - their purchasing habits would be interestingly abnormal!

The only thing that seems to protect us from corporate abuse currently is the information gap - we poorly measure our preferences and lack product/service knowledge so producers struggle to measure our preferences and so they struggle to discriminate. If those information asymmetries decrease (especially if they know us better than we know ourselves) then we are in trouble.
Using alcohol has an effect on how I consciously experience things. I've heard from others that other drugs influence conscience even more.

To me that's very strong evidence it is something physical, tied to functions of our bodies, and not something shared by everything.
I was thinking of adopting UUIDv7 for some of my stuff. So, I'm curious: why is this the case? Is it because of the time component?
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I'm considering writing a book and I want to learn more about the publishing process. What should I keep track of?
"17something...ish" is enough to answer (or at least make a high confidence guess at) the original question (was the American Revolution contemporary with the enlightenment?)
They couldn’t. But then a law called the DSHEA was passed that changed all the rules.
I wish!

Green energy already sees nearly $2 trillion in yearly capex: https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2023/ove...

Total previous green investments are $8-10 trillion, while fossil fuel consumption's not gone down (fossil fuel investment is falling, though.) That Stanford study undercounts and presumes a massive increase in storage.

If really dig in, our current renewable layout focuses on the low hanging fruit, but storing solar energy till the night time or a different part of the year is infeasible (look into "duck curves") and currently done by burning natural gas. Current storage production is up a full magnitude, but we need multiple further magnitudes more to do a full transition. The increase in transmission lines alone is more than all known copper (mined and unmined).
> There are more an less risky behaviors.

The problem is that your definition of risk may not be the same as others', and so there isn't always agreement on what is ok and not ok to do. And regardless, humans are notoriously bad at risk assessment.

> This is really well explored space in C++. Just using value semantics, shared_ptr, and RAII instead of naked news and reckless mallocs would improve several "old" codebase I have worked in. Maybe people shouldn't be reaching for const_cast so often, and similar.

Right, and all that is exactly the point: all of that stuff is in wide use out there, and I suspect not just in "old" code bases. So there's still not consensus on what's safe to use and what's too risky.

And regardless, I have enough to think about when I'm building something. Remembering the rules of what language features and APIs I should and shouldn't use is added noise that I don't want. Having to make quick risk assessments about particular constructs is not something I want to be doing. I'd rather just write in a safer language, and the compiler will error out if I do something that would otherwise be too risky. And as a bonus, other people are making those risk assessments up-front for me, people in a much better position than I am to do so in the first place, people who understand the consequences and trade offs better than I do.

I really like this value proposition: "if the compiler successfully compiles the code, there will be no buffer overruns or use-after-free bugs in it" (certainly there's the possibility of compiler bugs, but that's the only vector for failures here). For C++, at best, we can only say, "if you use only a particular subset of the language and standard library that the compiler will not define or enforce for you (find a third party definition or define it yourself, and then be very very careful when coding that you adhere to it, without anyone or anything checking your work), then you probably won't have any buffer overruns or use-after-free bugs." To me, that's almost worse than useless; even if I find a C++-subset definition that I think is reasonable, I'm still not really protected, because I still have to perfectly adhere to it. And even if I do, I'm still at the mercy of that subset definition being "correct".
You're describing what happens without checks and balances. An independent judiciary routinely determines what is and isn't true. It is arguably one of the most fundamental functions of government to determine agreed upon truth.
It's scary what a long game russia plays.. Western democracies have no chance.
Using 32 bit ints for IDs is insane in today’s world. If an attacker can control record generation, e.g. creating a record via API, then they can easily exhaust your ID space. A lot of kernel vulnerabilities stem from using incrementing 32 bit integers as an identifier. If you’re considering using 32 bits for an ID, don’t do it!
I entirely agree with this, and I likewise think it's quite damning. But panpsychists don't see it this way. This is "the combination problem" and I predict they will never be able to solve this.

Edit: I should elaborate on how it relates. Some would say that the alcohol or foreign substances are disrupting the combination of the consciousness of the matter, disrupting the overall consciously experience that makes up your matter. So, for example, now there's a bunch of little consciousnesses that aren't "combined".
It shouldn't be that much of a problem.

Of course, Philip Morris will fund research that support their way, but if the science is good, it is worth taking. That research should be scrutinized for its quality: trustworthy data, good methodology, etc... more than who payed for it. Being transparent about potential conflicts of interest is a good thing, as it can help identifying biases, but I'd say it comes after good methodology and reproducibility.

A study that says smoking is bad with errors all over the place doesn't advance science. A well made and reproducible study that says some particular aspect of smoking is not as bad as we thought it was does advance science.

Other things being equal, independent research is better, but it doesn't mean sponsored research should be thrown away.
7-11 (the corporation) is owned by one of its own Japanese franchisees, Seven & I Holdings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven
> America led the 20th Century because we are preeminent in three dimensions:

An alternative story: everyone else bombed themselves into rubble, twice, during that century.
There is a paradox. To build the future requires irrational belief. And to sell that vision.

Perhaps the difference between insanity and visionary, "scam" and genius is simply the outcome.

When someone like Sam Altman declares optimistically that we will get AGI and talks about what kind of society we will need to build... It's kind of hard to tell what mix of those 4 is at work. But certainly it will be perceived differently based upon the outcome not the sincerity of the effort.
To anyone in the US who said they make their own apps for their own iPhone: do you really pay Apple $99/year for that "privilege", or do you reinstall the app every 7 days (or use workarounds like AltStore non-PAL or jailbreaking) to get around this?
In my (midwest) experience maybe in cities 7-11s are primarily convenience stores, but once you drive out into the suburbs/country they’re always gas stations. Until I started living in cities I wasn’t even aware there _were_ convenience store 7-11s!
I don't know that I see anything revolutionary? The peak power seems maybe higher than Bosch CX at 850W vs 600 but continuous power is similar 250W. 800Wh max battery pack size is also not entirely out of the ordinary. The packaging seems nice, the battery seems quite slim and integrate well into ordinary-looking downtube on the Amflow bike - but don't see much otherwise. Weight seems on the high side.
In some places they do, such as the northeastern United States, but it seems like it might be more of a partnership with a gas provider branded as 7-11.
7-11 here in the States tends to be a great place to get stabbed and/or purchase illegal drugs, in my experience.
> If we weren't subject to their monopoly on online video, someone could just start telling copyright trolls to pound sand when a frivolous complaint comes up.

In principle, maybe. But realistically, even if we had a competitive and healthy video hosting market, the RIAA would still have a legal imperative to moderate those platforms. Although we don't perceive them in direct competition with YouTube, copyright takedowns still happen on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram. Platforms of a certain size become targets for IP holders, and platform-owners lack the time or accountability to deal with each claim on a case-by-case basis. It's less about finding a "someone" to tell-off copyright trolls, and more about paying enough lawyers to fight Sony & Friends when they make dubious claims.

It's a status-quo that sucks for us humans, but this is what intellectual property laws look like as-applied to real life. Art, video and even code are all obsessively licensed to prevent the accidental proliferation of good ideas.
it's a law, not a press release; both are largely motivated by public relations, but the dynamics are very different. in particular none of china's laws are in english, as i imagine none of the laws of your country (nigeria?) are in chinese

a lot of the particular traditional chinese medicines mentioned are not at all irrelevant to the west
Just because your in the Apple ecosystem does not mean your not outside it as well and want the crossplatform side.
No, butterfly tea: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/ac/2c/2cac2c42209b54ab9daa...

If you add an acid to it (like lemon or lime) it turns to the beautiful purple colour you see on the right.

But I think there may be a joke going over my head here...
Get into as many markets as possible so it becomes harder for the US to ban you outright.
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Courts have good truth finding mechanisms, with burden of proof, standards of evidence, jury deliberation, and both sides presenting their case over a long period of time in a controlled manner.

You could design the law to only target damaging lies, such as false election fraud claims. This increases the bar on the prosecution and makes it harder to get convictions, and will make it so that frivolous lies are less likely to be prosecuted.

I'm less excited about the actual convictions and more excited about the long-run deterrence effect and cultural shift that could happen.
You are the only thing that's conscious.

Or rather...

I am the only thing that's conscious.
I must admit, I tend to act in a way somewhat compatible with ethical panpsychism, insofar as I think it is wrong to be cruel to animals, but also varying degrees of wrong to damage plants gratuitously, and even to damage inanimate objects gratuitously, or to pollute a clean space, or to derange something well-ordered. That Apple ad where they smashed musical instruments was barbaric. However, I have been known to be mean to the odd atom now and then.
You clearly know more about this than me, because I'm currently Googling to understand what "diametrical corners" are. But in a simple implementation, wouldn't the x and y velocities both be reversed at once with a corner hit, both side and top/bottom collisions having been detected "at once" in the same part of the code between updating positions? And then the logo would just bounce out exactly the way it came in?
This gave me a good chuckle, and has generally been my experience. Systems grow often in unpredictable or unintuitive ways.

You can pay the cost for something upfront, and the cost of maintaining it, and in the long term paid too much for something you didn't actually need.

Alternatively you can wait to pay it until you're certain you need it but the work involved has become much more significant, in which it can cost more than it would have to have built and maintained it from the beginning.

Compounding the issue is the build-up-front scenario costs fade with time and you don't really think about them, but build-when-you-need-it always creates a stir even if the costs are less overall than build-up-front.

Either way something will go wrong no matter how many times you predict where the cards will fall.
The much better solution is injecting it into the stratosphere, where it will have the full reflective effect, while having orders of magnitude less acid rain impact.

> Acid rain was not that bad... was it?

My least favorite property of environmentalism is the inability to consider tradeoffs.

If asked to choose between acid rain and global warming, the typical environmentalist will just refuse.
To the point of OP, this is the same kind of belief, just older.

One believes in /something/ when there is no scientific evidence for it - against all odds.
FYI you happen to be on an American-based forum.

Fair warning, you might see a disproportionate number of American-centric references.
Provide a definition of consciousness that isn’t circular and we can get a discussion going.

That’s the thing that seems to be missing from every one of these discussions… everyone just seems to assume some vague, fuzzy definition of consciousness and nobody calls anyone on it.

My 2¢: we don’t have a working definition of consciousness. Every attempt at doing so is self referential and/or completely subjective. The term is meaningless and every discussion on whether something is conscious or not is a complete waste of time and energy.
You keep not reading my comments, why ask questions?
Actual trail riders mostly do not do this. Source: worked at a bike store. People with a lot of money that treat their bike as something to optimize and not something to ride do this. I'm not saying its wrong, its just another way of being a bike enthusiast, but this type rarely overlaps with serious riders. Training improves performance, not $3000 wheels that shave off 50 grams.
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Have a read of this, it’s not how you think it is. https://www.historylink.org/File/2012
Something the article doesn't discuss is that many children born with Down Syndrome have heart defects, such AV canal[1] or Tetralogy of Fallot[2]. The prognosis without surgical intervention is poor. We were told our son with DS and ToF would likely have not made it to 6 without his surgery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrioventricular_septal_defect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot
> And, a whole-of-government program to drive the success of US technology companies globally, against a hostile China and a regulation-crazed EU.

You hate big tech but call the EU 'regulation-crazed'? The investors doth protest too much, methinks.
I would love to hear proposals about what a good and fair society under these conditions could look like. 20k people live in the county and it sounds like there really isn't any way to meaningfully increase housing supply. So who gets to live there?

The bad news is I don't see any satisfactory solution to these problems. The good news is it's a problem I'll never be lucky enough to have.
With absolutely no certainty or linguistic rigor behind this observation...

I've always thought that 'boy' sounded suspiciously close to the Swiss German translation "bueb" (or sometimes "buebe"), almost pronounced "b-way-b"

https://glosbe.com/en/gsw/boy
> it's literally the same thing. anyone who claims otherwise is uninformed.

It's also extremely emotional language. I'm curious what your issue is with legally prescribed stimulats?

Stimulats allow me to be a functional human being who can do things like wash the dishes after dinner or put my clothes out to dry. Can you imagine not being able to function at even that basic level? It's literally suicide inducing.
> The cooling would only be temporary anyway.

And, increase CO2, increasing warming, in the long term. I would also naively assume that the reduced light would somewhat pause natural sequestration, from plants, for the duration of the cooling.