skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
consciousness seems to require short term memory, an internal representation of the world where 'experience' is an update to that internal representation. This would seem to require a brain, or transistors!
The next generation of password managers! Who would have thought.
Ironically, AI still sucks at accurately parsing PDFs.
It would be nice for these comparisons to also include 'int64' so people can see how much of an overhead UUID's are compared to the traditional approach.
Since the start of using any kind of SMS 2FA I keep noticing, that for some systems you get “nice to remember” numbers somewhat often. I didn't care enough to actually write them down and confirm whether it is a fact or just my internal bias of finding patterns where there are not any.

On the other hand, various decimal “random” numbers around payment cards (default PIN, authorization codes and what not) are clearly biased, because they are usually generated by taking hexadecimal representation modulo 10.
Probably a continuum with a lot of other species we treat very poorly (either directly or through habitat destruction) not nearly as far away as we would like to think.
You’re not making a point by saying they’re the same.

It can be true that they’re exactly the same, and still be beneficial for people to take it.

This is true for most medications. The same dose of insulin that saves the life of one person, would be life threatening to another.
> Are we facing an upcoming epidemic of amphetamine addiction

Illicit methamphetamine is already easier to get and cheaper than adderall for virtually anybody motivated enough in the US.
There are plenty of people who take homeopathic and other alternative products instead of prescription products because they can't afford the prescription products, and fraudulent advertising makes them think the alternative is more or less equivalent.

I actually had someone at a pet store try to sell me homeopathic medication instead of dewormer because they were out of actual dewormer. Do you think that's harmless to someone who doesn't know the difference between giving their pet real medication vs. magic woo water?
Grizzly Bulls: Market timing signals via proprietary algorithmic trading models
The Paul Crutzen quote is huge. I wonder if Pueyo read Susan Solomon’s work on Australian wildfires, particulate pollution, SO2 and ozone though.
its not about banning availability, its about making them required to prove the health claims theyre making. If you didn't have any requirements to prove your drug worked before selling it, youd take away a pretty huge market incentive to make drugs that work (health is about as far from a perfect full information free market as you can get -- homeopathy doesn't work at all and those companies are making plenty of money). These regulations also force research into and labeling of side effects, and skimping on that led to an opiod crisis.

Honestly don't really see the economic or societal argument for deregulating medicine. If you want a system where to get an fda stamp you have to prove it works but can sell whatever otherwise with no consequences until you kill someone or destroy their gallbladders (https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/fda-determines-that-t...) - well that's what we already have now so given it hasn't changed in decades, even with recent attempts to do so after all the strip mall stem cell clinics and GRAS issues and all, I don't think your opinion is that out of the mainstream.

And in terms of why aren't more sold in pharmacies - no clue what you're talking about there lol. Have you not seen the A-Z supplement whatever aisles full of all this unregulated crap? You can buy whatever you want unless the DEA has an issue with it.
Why would we expect a volcano to emit more than incidental amounts of CO2 in the first place? Despite the superficial similarities, it's not a bonfire.
> If people in large numbers are avoiding music, then the industry will behave better about copyright.

Has there ever been a significant point in history where this has happened? It feels like the opposite happens; when people conscientiously object to the music industry, said industry doubles down on their authority to control music. Radio license agreements, home taping, internet-distribution and now the YouTube/social media era are all punctuated by license-holders reaffirming their control, fair use and popularity be damned.
there was some crazy around bitcoin and quantum, led by Vitalik Buterin when he was young and foolish https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/buterins-quantum-quest/
I know a few people that think the term "homeopath" includes what we're calling "naturopath".

I'm not really sure how this confusion arose, but I don't like it. It muddies the waters (heh) in a few ways.
Sure, you can think a lot of people are too optimistic (and as stated in my previous post I agree with you), but calling them shysters, hucksters, and charlatans implies a hidden motive to lie for personal gains, which isn’t there (again, in the ML research side).
No one working on GPT-2 thought it would be such a leap on GPT-1, no one working on GPT-3 knew that that was the scale at which 0 shot would start emerging, no one working on GPT-4 thought it was going to be so good, so let’s just not pretend we now what GPT-5 or 6 scale model will and won’t do. We just don’t know, we all have our guesses but that’s just what it is, a guess. People making a different guess might be wrong ultimately, that doesn’t make them charlatans.
You can't do productive work (or game) a phone. It's an inherently inferior medium.

There's both too little real estate to present information and too few control inputs to manipulate it.
Can't resist also suggesting to those interested, listening to Osho's discourses on the Diamond Sutra, available here: https://oshoworld.com/the-diamond-sutra-by-osho-01-11/
Good point but not such a great great exsmple of spurious cost differences. The Ford GT is a top race-spec car putting out 660 horsepower and capable of speeds around 220 mph, while the econocar Fiesta tops out at 112 HP and would be lucky to see 100mph with a tailwind.

Unless the part is something like a window-opener switch, yoi WANT that part to have all the extra engineering, higher spec materials, tighter-tolerance machining, and higher-level finishing that goes into making a high-performance machine actually perform at such high levels.

Moreover, even if the parts weren't fundamentally different despite occupying similar roles in the car, the mere difference in volume of production will dictate a far higher cost for the "same" part in a car made only in quantities of only a few hundred per year vs thousands per month ...
some very cool projects here!

the app i use the most is a simple budget app, no connecting to external accounts. just built w/react and uses localStorage for storing info. i think i spent like a week on it and i definitely am the only one using it.
https://simplebudgetcontrol.com/

another app i still use is an app that tracks my magic the gathering collection, ha. rails/react and lots of outdated frontend code that i started to refactor and then realized i'm the only one using it so who cares haha.
https://www.99staples.com/collections/denvermullets/9

i just recently started working on my own event server in rails (similar in idea to mixpanel) and have it deployed for my portfolio site.

love starting projects and getting them rolling. i wish i could just work on stuff i cared about all the time honestly
I think this is a tough one, and different people are going to interpret it differently.

The fact that you put "internal" in quotes suggested to me a mild level of sarcasm or disbelief, i.e, I read your message as "You mean this style guide, published on the internet, for all to see? Clearly that's not 'internal'!"

Either way, to me, "internal style guide" (regardless of any quotes placed around any word) means "style guide that is internal" (that is, the style guide itself is private or unpublished).

But the person you were replying to called it a "style guide for internal c++ code": that word ordering makes it clear that "internal" is describing "c++ projects", and that the internal/external (or unpublished/published or private/public) status of the style guide itself is not being talked about at all.

(As an aside, if the commenter upthread had instead said "internal style guide for c++ code", that could have also meant the same thing, but would have been ambiguous, as it wouldn't have been clear if "internal" was describing "style guide" or "c++ code", or both, even. But "style guide for internal c++ code" is about as unambiguous as you can get.)
That's not really indexing from 0 though. It's just rounding the amount of time you've lived down to the nearest year. You get the same number, but semantically you're saying roughly how old you are, not which year you're in. This becomes obvious when you talk to small children, who tend to insist on saying e.g "I'm 4 and a half". And talking about children in their first year, no one says they're 0. They say they're n days/weeks/months old.
People should be discussing it upfront but apparently Paul Crutzen thinks it’s a risk worth taking so I’ll watch and wait.
If using “1700s”, I’d write it as “art of the 1700s”.
anybody doing new BLE products has a 50/50 shot of using Zephyr in current year. I think the real benefit of Zephyr is that the wheel has already been invented, no need to do it yourself
> That's not the entirety of homeopathy, just the most commonly shat on ridiculous homeopathic practice

Uugh. It's really hard to productively discuss a topic when people have different definitions for the terms being used.
I dont understand the recommendation of using bigserial with uuid column when you can use UUIDv7. I get that it made sense years ago when there was no UUIDv7, but why do people keep recommending it over UUIDv7 now beats me.
Subjective consciousness is defined by the experience of qualia, one of which is a sense of a persistent and separate self-object.

We know what that means to us but we can only assume others have similar experiences.

And the only way to do that is by looking at behaviours.

So we point at cats and humans and say they're conscious because they demonstrate behaviours that we associate with our subjective experience of consciousness - goal seeking and planning, apparent emotional responses, awareness of context, decision making, pattern- and repetition-based learning, and other kinds of responsiveness and agency.

It's a very specific idea of what consciousness is, and it only really applies at human scale.

If an object/entity/subsystem experienced qualia of any kind - including the experience of any kind of self-object, from the most rudimentary to the most universal - without demonstrating any of the behaviours at a human scale, we'd never know.
There's the astronomical applications, where a second error corresponds to a couple of arcseconds of precision, which is just a bit better than most applications want.
> So you should view this fleeting world—

> A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,

> A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,

> A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

row row row your boat

gently down the stream

merrily merrily merrily merrily

life is but a dream
> The main reason it was so low was the heat pump was over specced (by almost 4 times!) and the pump was cycling constantly.

You can find over-specing in the US/CA as well because of rules of thumb, or installers just looking at what the old system was and replacing it 1:1 with the same new system—never mind that more insulation or better windows have been perhaps put in.

For new builds, a lot of jurisdictions are mandating standardized calculations be done for estimated energy needs, equipment selection, etc:

* https://mrcool.com/blog/understanding-calculations-for-manua...

If you're going to do a retrofit/replacement, it may be worth finding an HVAC company that will do that process for your non-new dwelling. The fact that a company could offer it may mean they're a step above Random Bob's HVAC.
> I agree wholeheartedly that an internet connected toaster is a very stupid idea, but our ability to build such a system shows, if anything, a triumph of software (and hardware), not a crisis

We have managed to build systems with software that "triumph" for a very long time. Look no further than Voyager 1. A technical masterpiece which still works.

But fundamentally, about the toaster; we see these things in toasters because there are so many abstractions and possibilities. It is easy to embed software for the toaster without having a legion of software developers from different fields.

And it adds up and is the main issue of "unintended" usecases for toasters. Many from these cases are not depending from the developer. Developers do not even know about them or were not thinking about them because there were abstracted away. Overall system of the toaster can be so complex in these days, that no single person can understand it completely alone.

But yes, the consumer part and that it is okay if toaster breaks, is indeed social problem. But likelihood of toasters breaking or doing something else than supposed to, could be originating or increasing from the software crisis.
I feel like the Romans had an excuse for that mistake. Not sure about Lua.
This seems like a very modern academic way of circling back to the way some old cultures believe(d) everything has a spirit. It says more about the way we perceive and conceptualize the world than it does about the world itself. Conscious entities tend to reason about conscious entities, and they can extend that reasoning ability to non-conscious things by modelling them as a conscious entities that happen to be very shy.

I forget which Greek philosopher it was who described the forces of nature in terms of solids "loving" the ground and "hating" the sky and likewise the other forms of matter "loving" and "hating" various positions in space.

Everything is conscious (in the minds of the things which are actually conscious).
You mean like this? You can get push notifications when your codes are “cool”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobbartlett/p/building-a-2fa...
Even if you did eventually receive an offer, the department has already proven to be extremely dysfunctional. If you were to accept such an offer, you will be a victim to such dysfunction there every day. If you are desperate, keep going, otherwise abort and never exceed five rounds.
Related:

PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained - Skip Intro

> PAW Patrol is a TV show for kids. It's very popular, so we might as well ask: "What vision of policing does it suggest?" PAW Patrol is also a very bad TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhUpu9MfZ0
7-11 spam musabi is amazing if you’re ever on one of the Hawaiian islands
> > DST is a very western "problem" that most of South and Central America, Africa and Asia simply don't have to deal with.

> Funny that you only consider North America as 'western'.

No, he's including Europe, which mostly observes a summer time offset.
Distilled water is very drinkable for a long time. You just need to make sure you get the minerals from other sources which are readily available in deserts. For instance in Kuwait that relies 100% on desalination plants for its water supply, they mix in 10% sea/brackish water to replenish the minerals.
You have not understood the argument for panpsychism
> But yes, sometimes the phone doesn't stop vibrating.

I failed to communicate clearly. Yes, I agree, the scope of human achievement is amazing, software included. However, the issues with software go far deeper than just the trivial example I gave of the phone. It's pervasive and pernicious. I assume most software developers understand this as lived experience, but I'll elaborate more.

Almost every single person I know who is not an IT professional of some sort regularly comes to me, my son, and others who are IT professionals for help with things that are broken and non-functional to the point that they cannot use it without assistance. And that's just the show-stoppers. There is tons of crappy software that they've just found workarounds for, and they've gotten so used to having to find workarounds that they've just stopped complaining. Not because it's working correctly, but they would rather be happy and accept it than get constantly worked up about something over which they have no control. This is not entirely unique to software, but there isn't really any other mass technology that is as bad as software.

Software is simultaneously miraculous and horrible. Because of computing we have capabilities that would be seen as science fiction or magic not too long ago. But because of the things called out in this article, these magical tools and technologies are plagued by endless amounts of things that just don't work right, break randomly, and fail in unexpected ways.

With physical systems and hard sciences we identify the physical constraints, model the system, and then engineer solutions around those models, refining our solutions as we refine our models. With software we make up the models, rarely fully document them, and slap things together as we go. Some companies do better than others, and some domains take quality and reliability seriously, but in my experience even that correlates to distance from physical constraints. In general the portions of our industry that are closer to real-world constraints (chip manufacturing, control interfaces, etc.) have historically been better about delivering quality software.

If I come across as frustrated it's because I am. I love building software, and I used to love using software, but I am incredibly frustrated by the gap between what we've built and what is possible.

I could keep going, but I'll end this comment with one other observation. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but Apple used to be the exception to this general rules of "software just kind of generally sucks." Apple used to be "it just works." And that was because Steve Jobs was the forcing function on quality. It's possible.

Again, this isn't unique to software. Excellence in any domain requires someone to be the standard bearer. At a restaurant it may be the head chef, refusing to let anything out of the kitchen that doesn't meet their high bar, for example. In every domain there exist various pressures that push quality down (time, cost, etc.) but software lacks the natural floor established by physical constraints, and is unique riddled with problems, IMHO.
But that retention rating seems more related to Japanese corporate dynamics, the whole silent contract of dont ask for more and we won't raise prices.

Anyway if the entire OS is hand rolled how are they able to get WebKit and Nvidia drivers to run without much effort.

Like I'm assuming they very much needed to build their own linker, their own executable format. Even their own libc, sounds like a lot of work to QC, document and implement.

If it were their own flavour of Unix I wouldn't have so many questions. Unix already defines standards pretty well like file systems, process management, scheduler, drivers, a plethora of helpful daemons. So is it basically just a highly modified Unix, implying a lot of Unix things just has to be ported over to their micro kernel Unix or is it more proprietary.

I ask this with just a thirst for this knowledge, I talked to a few enthusiast OS Devs that build their own toy kernels, bootloaders etc. from scratch and those things, though being great accomplishments, still have huge pains they never stop talking about. Like USB drivers are notorious to implement because of the standard being so complex. If Nintendo made their OS entirely from scratch did they go through all of that.
I strongly disagree. I would bet that people would, for example, want to treat trees differently if we knew they had an internal subjective experience.

It actually specifically wouldn't do the thing you mention. Why on earth would you get less interested in the brain if other things are conscious too? There's clearly a lot that's unique about brains compared to other objects in the universe.
A pretty big deal in America. I don't think knowledge of the exact date of the American Revolution is a requirement for education outside America. At least no more than "17something...ish".
The video mentions at least twice that gas is one of the two main revenue sources of 7-11 in USA.

A: How common is this? 7-11s don't serve gas where I've seen.
B: Is this accurate re profits? My understanding was that gas stations make their money from the convenience store vice fuel. (This is in direct contradiction)

Unrelated: Is it normal in marketing to refer to customers as "targets"? (See around 75% through the video for one example)
If nothing else, smoking is fraught with regulation, but it is comparatively the Wild West for vaping. When is the last time you saw Joe Camel or the Marlboro Man?
Interesting... Ferrari and Mission Winnow as a side investigation adventure.
But 7-11s in Japan seem better than American convenience stores in similar density areas (from my experience)
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: .NET/C# Edition
I've been curious before on how much an underwater volcano would impact things. Any chance that is already modeled in a place to read?
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra
Hrm, I don't know why I wasn't able to see the device through either app if that is the case, because the iPad was definitely in it's recovery mode (and displaying the black screen with the usb cable).

What account is his account here though? He was in the process of setting up a brand new account on the device and we weren't able to make it through that process before I restarted it.
In the VC/startup world here in HN, I suspect lots of embedded engineering won't be highly cost constrained, and picking a microcontroller with 1MByte of flash when the task could have been done with 1 Kbyte of flash will be seen as no big deal.

In turn, that means a focus on premade software to reduce Dev time rather than optimizing every byte.
How uncommon is it for apps to store sensitive data in this way? It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a pretty common, albeit non-ideal, practice. For example, where does chrome store browsing history data?
Everything you mentioned is the beauty of the EU privacy laws (so far), however there is another negative externality you haven't planned for maybe.

Giving your phone number out to all these services also means that it can be used as a single identifier to track you and your behavior across all those services.

I'm not sure that GDPR is helping us a lot there.
If you’re in the Apple/iOS ecosystem and want the syncing to happen via iCloud, you might as well use Apple’s built-in password manager which has support for 2FA codes.
> goal seeking and planning, apparent emotional responses, awareness of context, decision making, pattern- and repetition-based learning,

some argue (using data and experimentation) that trees and/or other plants express all of these behaviors
> On your sixth birthday we put a big 5 on your cake and call you a 5 year old all year.

If you are going to be that pedantic, I would point out that one only has one birthday.

(Well, unless one's mother is extremely unlucky.)
Just to add to this excellent explanation - the specific Buddhist text being referenced here is the Vipassana Bhumi Patho from the Abhidhamma.