skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is roughly that (1) we can conceive of the physical dynamics of this world occurring without any associated consciousness, (2) if something is conceivable then it is logically possible, (3) It is logically possible that the physical dynamics of this world occur without any associated consciousness.

(1) is supported by noticing that all our explanations of physical dynamics appeals to other physical dynamics. We do not need to mention consciousness or qualitative anything to derive any of the physical dynamics we observe in this world. Thus there is nothing logically incoherent about physical dynamics without consciousness.

(2) follows from the fact that logical possibility just means no contradiction. If we cannot see any contradiction in two propositions being true, then that is defeasible evidence for the logical possibility of both propositions being true.
They run their own engine with an independent index, something Mozilla never did, while still on a smaller budget.
Are you giving my post a fair reading or are you trying to state that there are no LLMs that cost nothing to run? I'm referencing the LLMs that let me query them at no cost... It'd seem as if you didn't read my post at all if you thought I was making reference to something else.
> testable predictions

In 1970, an experiment was conducted where a monkey's head was implanted into another monkey's body. The monkey did gained consciousness but was not able to move it's new body( I can barely imagine the pain it must have been feeling).
If the possibility that the center of consciousness is completely independent of the body, I will say that the even though another monkey's head has been transplanted it will still have the consciousness and recognition of current body.

>Mysteriously never been observed

Was Higgs boson ever observed before 2012? Was it's theory ever proposed before 1964? Were people criticizing the attempt to discover it as 'magic particles mysteriously never observed'?

>Don't interact with matter

Yes those 'magic particles' can interact with matter through the curtain of probability and chances. The neurons firing inside a brain and subsequent signals passing to adjacent neurons are probabilistic. To direct the way a certain group of neurons towards a certain activity one has to tweak those probabilities, which can be changed via influence of external fields.

>Nice story

That's not a story but philosophy :) Vedic philosophy knew about the concept of atoms which it called 'anu' given by Kanad and it stated group of atoms as 'paramanu', way before Dalton proposed it.
Don't dismiss the guy so easily. For example take a look at one of his papers https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2161 and the correspondong video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8
UUIDv7 are good enough that you can just avoid thinking and use it as a “default”. The worst consequences of doing so are some slightly impacted performance and leak of some timing information but these are extremely minor drawbacks.

Using completely random UUIDs is IMO the worst choice. It’s fine right up until it isn’t, and then you are stuck in hell with no good way out.
The ants where I now live are so big that it’s easier to see their more subtle behaviors. About the length of a finger nail. Yeah yeah I’m sure there are bigger ants than that, but I consider that pretty big for an ant!

They are fascinating to watch. I often see one ant carrying another, and occasionally see a group of ants trying to get another one unstuck.
It’s a shame on Canada and on Canadians that foreign competitors are still prohibited from coming into the market.

No, no it isn't a shame, it's great.
Why is Thai health care so good?
> All it does is to postpone the inevitable

I don't want to repeat all of what I wrote below an older comment dismissing it for a similar reason, but a shorter version of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887461> is:

>> Eventually, a new generation [that grew up with climate-saving adaptations like electric cars] replaces the old, but that will not be in time for global warming to remain under the identified likely tipping points. If we can make do with artificial cooling for two or three decades, that may be the crucial amount of time we need to deal with the overshoot.

>> I don't know if we will need this [but we should] consider whether that temporary effect is useful
Oh wow, I missed the release. Will def test it. I've been using authy since 2017, anything I said above might need a refresh :)
https://archive.ph/PwiEw
This is very close I think. In a way it is a business crisis, in that business directs software engineering not science or academia nor some physical constraint.

A real estate developer would probably promise you a ten story building made of straw if you seemed willing to pay but a civil engineer will never go make it because they listen to the physics and ethical rules of the trade mostly.

For some reason software engineers bend over and say yes sir when faced with a similar situation.

Perhaps looking at Boeing the same is becoming true of other engineering specialties as well.
> Canada also doesn't have much of an engineering/technology culture

The ghosts of Northern Telecom, Blackberry and Instant Pot (ex-Nortel) would like a word.

Also Bombardier aircraft and "AI".

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-deep-learning-pioneer-geoff...

> When you translate a sentence using Google, or ask Siri to send a text, or play a song recommended by Spotify, you are using a technology that owes much to the innovative research of Geoffrey Hinton.. “deep learning” – a form of artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks.. Hinton’s revolutionary contributions to the field have earned him the nickname “the godfather of deep learning,” and have made Canada a hotbed for high tech.. for his excellence as a global pioneer in deep learning, Hinton received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from the University of Toronto, where he is a University Professor Emeritus.
Another week, another story about how we aren't as unique as we like to think. Each discovery points to more intelligence, more skills, more capacity for emotion or pain. One day I think we'll regret how we treated animals so poorly while the evidence was there all along. All that was needed was the precautionary principle.
I have been dreaming of site like this for planning tile layouts, so cool!
Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video]
> There's no Irrawaddy for Venezuela, Afghanistan, or North Korea

There are several for Afghanistan (Tolo, Rukhsana, Bano, Khaama, Pajhwok, etc) and Venezuela (Pitazo, Efecto Cocuyo, Runrun). You just choose not to read them, or don't want to put the legwork to find and read Spanish, Pukhto, Dari, Uzbek, or regional English publications.

And Irrawaddy has issues as well - they lack the ability to report on what's happening on the ground in Arakan, Sagaing, and Chinland and just repeat what spokespersons of those region's warlords say.

Myanmar has become a Southeast Asian Syria or Libya with every regional power in the region (China, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam) funding, aiding, and abetting warlords both within the Tatmadaw as well as within the various liberation coalitions.

It feels weird how certain internet users (especially because most people on HN only started hearing about Irrawaddy after using junk subreddits like CredibleDefense or WorldNews) are following this horrible conflict with a sense of glee or at least entertainment. It's horrid.
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>I often see one ant carrying another

That might not be an act of kindness toward the carried ant. It could be banishment from the colony to prevent the spread of fungus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
what do you do with the rest of your time?
Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115099 :

> lancedb/lance is faster than pandas with dtype_backend="arrow" and has a vector index

From https://github.com/lancedb/lance :

> Modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implemented in Rust. Convert from parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow,

> [...] Vector Search

> Comparison of different data formats in each stage of ML development cycle: Lance, Parquet & ORC, JSON & XML, TFRecord, Database, Warehouse

What can ChromaDB do that lancedb can't, and will either work in WASM?

From https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma :

> By default, Chroma uses Sentence Transformers to embed for you but you can also use OpenAI embeddings, Cohere (multilingual) embeddings, or your own.
Life imitating art--in this case, the Borderlands videogame franchise:

https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Vending_machine
If people didn't know, 7-11 is owned by a Japanese company.
HN: Friend to Pirates.

Missed that in the mission statement.
You don't have a right to buy stuff that works or that you can trust, the point is that for noncontrolled nonpatented substances, nobody can stop you from buying or synthesizing active ingredients for your own use in the US, even if logically you shouldn't be trusted to have the competence to not hurt yourself, or if frankly there should be way way more regulation.

You keep bringing up antibiotics but it's the category of drugs with the most widespread use (animal agriculture) with one of the strongest cases for being drastically under-regulated - they stop working if things become resistent to them and we spray them everywhere like candy. Also you keep acting as if getting a prescription is some sort of actual barrier or burden for non-prescription drugs, which is particularly funny after the whole fiasco with wegovy off label prescriptions before the active ingredient was approved for obesity/launched for obesity. These are not real barriers, even when they probably should be.
It's funny that for me it feels right to associate the 20s with 2020 and the 40s with 1940, but somehow, the 30s is very foreign, and I can't think of 1930 or 2030 either.
> It is no longer easy to build software

It is very easy if you know the right tools for the right job, but information about these are suppressed so you never hear about them.

What the vast majority of people think the tech tooling landscape looks like and what it actually looks like are very different. The tools we know about are mostly horrible. They try to be silver bullets but they're really not good for anything... Yet they're the most popular tools. I think it's about capital influence, as hinted by the article.

For example, with the tool I'm using now, I made a video showing how to build a relatively complex marketplace app (5+ pages) in 3 hours with login, access control, schema validation, complex filtered views from scratch using only a browser and without downloading any software (serverless). The whole app is less than 700 lines of HTML markup and 12 lines of JavaScript code. The video got like 10 views.
the way has many ways

yet are not the way

(I'm sure someone can put on their yoda hat and do even better!)
Heads up, going to your root domain leads to an error. That might have been intentional, but figured I’d share.

You boards are really cool.
That is too bad, I too would be very eager to see natively supported in Postgres. It doesn't seem like it should be so complex to implement on top of pg's existing uuid support, but famous last words?
yeah, I'm familiar with that tragic story

but the reason for my previous post is because the upper limit for serious harm by over-hydration is quite high (it's difficult to drink that much water without urinating which was the key factor in that woman's death), whereas the lower limit for serious harm by under-hydration is not that low (not that difficult to hit)

so I would disagree that both can "easily" do harm
Each live performance of a work creates a separate copyrightable work (a derivative work of the composed song, I believe). And composed in 1954 is almost certainly copyrighted still, given that most European countries follow a life+70 rule.
What makes Canada strong is its people, whom I love very much.

I wish our gov't served us better, and I try my best to enact change, but it's a fool who thinks any country is without its faults.
> What on earth has the corporate analytics team been doing

7-11 is franchised with a ton of autonomy given to franchisees (relative to other franchises) so as long as the fees keep coming in, corporate doesn't care.

Also, corporate is owned by a Japanese company so it's likely to be kind of "old-fashioned" in a way, and the US entities are a whole ocean away.
The important point is that UUIDv7 is even worse (and unsuitable) for that application so anything prohibited UUIDv4 for those reasons would not be okay with v7 either!
I think the protocols for those are reasonably well understood, but e.g. you can only print via USB from a Mac, Bluetooth was only on a phone AFAICR
> maintains its own selection state

This is the real bug. Why is it not global?

Probably related to how if you go to google, leave the browser for terminal or ide, you still get a google hover text that brands everything else on your desktop depending on where your mouse was when you left the browser.
Our universities are decent, I'll give you that. Great for educating folks like Andrej Karpathy so they can go work for American tech companies, or doing research that can be used by American tech companies.

Also, bringing up Blackberry to make Canada seem relevant kind of has the opposite effect.
> There's no other scalable solution given existing copyright law.

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No, practicality does not demand "binding shitty algorithmic decisions for thee, extreme latitude for egregious errors from me." Determinations don't need to be scalable to backstop a system of back-and-forth escalating claims that keeps the incentives correct for everyone at all stages: human beats algorithm, identified human beats unidentified human (note that at this point and all subsequent points rights holders have an enormous, automatic scalability advantage), identified human with legal commitment to consequences for being incorrect beats uncommitted human, and finally bump it to the legal system if all else fails, but by now everyone has skin in the game committed to their claims so none of the disagreements will be spammy.

This is all possible, it's not even particularly difficult, but it wouldn't create a cozy relationship with big rights holders which is what youtube actually wants, so instead we get "binding shitty decisions for thee, extreme latitude for egregious errors from me."
Desert-loving fungi and lichens pose deadly threat to 5k-year-old rock art
These assumptions are not at all unreasonable. We are not talking about a tiny minority. More than half of Americans have a garage. Utilities aren't concerned about individual households; they're concerned about average behavior. I'm just guessing here, but my guess is that if even (say) 20% of households do what I do, that alone probably makes it worth it.

I drive about 15000 km per year, almost exactly the Canadian average. There are a lot of potential households fitting this profile.

(If you're needing to charge your EV during the day, then the higher daytime home electricity rate is irrelevant. My EV has a 300 mile range, which is typical. I cannot think of any scenario where I simultaneously 1) drive 300 miles in a single day, and 2) somehow also remain close enough to home to charge at home, so that the daytime home electricity rate matters, and 3) can't wait until the night to charge.)
Canadians aren't mediocre.

Our gov'ts do a poor job of representing us, but that's largely due to our non-proportional electoral system.
Thanks, good to hear.

If you are using PG, simply using it's native UUID type instead of char(36) seems like a no-opportunity-cost obvious optimization choice at least though, if you have a choice?
Functional Programming Is No Better Than Object Oriented Programming [video]
Does this mean you can export the backup and run a separate authenticator, yet both are sync'd?
> you can (and often should) do the actual generation of them in application code

I can absolutely see scenarios where it would be desirable or convenient to create the these IDs in the application code. However, I can equally assert that you can, and often should, let the database be the source of truth for record identity when using database surrogate keys for that purpose... but I won't.

The truth is there are many kinds of architectures and many kinds of applications the details of which have a direct bearing on where or where not certain operations should be conducted. In many environments in which I work, the idea of "the application" can be murky. In many enterprise environments databases can be driven by and integrated into many applications, possibly from different software developers and vendors with varying degrees of influence in how they internally operate. In such environments the database can be the great unifier and placing substantial control of data in the database itself can make sense in these heterogenous application environments: but it's very much a circumstantial call.

I would expect if there really were one true way to develop application or how to use databases to achieve goals, we could well be asking why they built these functions in the first place... I suspect it's because there are a reasonable number of valid use cases to justify the lift. I'd like to think my use cases fit the envisioned valid use cases thus my interest and question.
> Weird. They mailed my new SIM cards to me.

Rogers support is pretty notorious country wide, I'm sure it still varies at a localized level.

I had a Rogers internet install technician come to my house (for Teksavvy because the gov mandates they run the networks for small operators) and instead of drilling a hole through a wall he opened a window a crack ran the cable through and went home. The girl on the phone couldn't believe my story but I'm sure nothing happened in terms of punishment.

This is the outcome of artificial barriers to competition in the name of national benefit. It doesn't matter how absurd your customer story, neither customers nor the upstart businesses have a choice.
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Damn. You're right.

They felt like 1080p at the time.

That said, I could have and should have said Bluray, which came out in 2006 and did do 720 and 1080
>It’s a shame on Canada and on Canadians that foreign competitors are still prohibited from coming into the market.

Yeah during NAFTA 2, Canadians were all for protecting high prices and very little choice just to show Trump and the USA that they could take their cheap prices and value and shove it.

Rogers, Bell and Telus went on and made Trudeau classify them as Canadian media companies so they would never have any competition from the USA.

I guess Canadians like high prices and little choice..
Temporary star from historical documents recreated using new computer model
Domestic seems to be about 100 gallons per day, per capita 1,000.
Small world - I live in the Kootenays. I am guessing you are in Nelson only because it seems to be 600km from everything :-)
This excuse has happened over many years. There is a reason why their is no competition or investments or any large company in the country. People are afraid of taking risks and think sitting on real estate is investing for their future.
I never said working for a boss was fulfilling.

I said that working for a boss may be, for example, more financially secure than working for a coop or employee-owned business or starting my own business. I may value that financial security more than I value the fulfillment of not being under a boss.

Not having a boss is good. But there's more than one thing that's good, and I may value other ones more highly.
Being unable to trust my ability to translate and parse the linked document, what particular traditional chinese medicines mentioned are relevant to the west?
If it's indexed in a unique index, as a primary key certainly would be, the DB is of course already checking for collision on insert, so there's no reason for application code to do it. (If it did, it would be an indexed lookup rather than a table scan).

So if there's a collision you'll get an error. You can write application code to handle the error (by re-generating a new ID and re-trying). Or you can figure it's so unlikely (googling for uuidv4 says "1 in 2.71 x 1018", which is pretty huge; not sure for uuidv7 which will be somewhat more likely) that you aren't going to worry about it, and if an error happens, oh well, errors happen sometimes, depending on the domain you are in, which is probably what many apps do and do fine with it.

I would guess that pg's built in uuidv4-generating implementation might re-try on colision under-the-hood, but i haven't checked to see, and it may also just count on the improbability and raise an error if it happens!
I would hunt for my friend spider. Find an ant, throw it into the net, watch how quickly spider friend descends right to the spot and spins it into a take-out container.

Really only works with live victims. If they died before I threw them on the web, the spiders usually wouldn’t recognize from the vibrations that there was food at that grid location. I did trick a spider once with a pine needle, tapping/shaking the body of the dead prey until I got lucky and the spider came. Usually this didn’t work though, tripping whatever heuristic the spiders used was tricky.
> Shaw didn't have enough capital to continue operating, and foreign ownership restrictions prevented them from raising more. The government decided that Rogers buying Shaw was a better outcome than Shaw going out of business

They could also have just eliminated our archaic foreign ownership laws. I am surprised this hasn’t come up in trade negotiations. If we want improved productivity then we desperately need competition. If we don’t get serious about this then we’ll continue to languish economically as a nation.
That's not a scientific study. That's a video.
Tour de France time trial helmets, ranked by how little I'd like to be in them
as the popular movie franchises and repeated tropes show us; Art that moves people and has meaning gets constantly remade.

Everything is ephemeral eventually.
"diametrical" is fancy for "opposite".

You are correct.
They left out the second half of the sentence:
非 [not] 常 [eternal] 道 [way]

Classical Chinese is highly contextual, and characters take on different meanings depending on the position in the sentence and the narrative context, hence the second instance of 道 meaning "speak, expound" instead of "way, method".

My favorite instance of this is from the Zhuangzi:
物 [thing] 物 [thing] 而 [and/under those conditions] 不 [not] 物 [thing] 于 [among] 物 [things]

Which translates to "treat the things of the world as things, but don't be a thing among them" which means that you should use strategic thinking to avoid becoming a victim of circumstances.
Ok, now explain that to enough people that this solution actually works as a real proxy for competition.
Nice role-your-own solution. Just a FYI - Aegis does have backup, export etc. I would also not use it if it couldn't export.
Go on. Why?
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