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> The mind is not part of nature?

Nope. It's a theoretical construct with no empirically measurable properties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem : "The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body."

This is a problem because there's no obvious connection between the mind and everyday reality.

> As to Popper, there is no singular definition of science ...

This is not true. Falsifiability and empirical evidence are part of the universally accepted definition of science. This is why mathematics, as important as it is to science, is not itself accepted as a science -- like psychology, it doesn't address empirical reality.

Carl Sagan, quoted from "The baloney detection kit" (https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-...): "Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsiﬁed. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsiﬁable, are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle—an electron, say—in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result."

> It is really difficult for me to comprehend your point of view as anything but one primarily driven by personal biases.

You do understand, don't you, that when you avoid the topic and digress to personal attacks, you acknowledge that you don't have a meaningful counterargument?

In the mid-1990s, during the repressed memory fad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory), about the time virgins began reporting imaginary rapes, the legal system realized they were being played and the falsely accused were released from prison. The reason? Psychology is not a science, consequently these bogus "repressed memories" weren't ever subjected to scientific standards of evidence.

You need to realize that psychology's scientific standing isn't just a philosophical tea party -- it has real-world consequences. The wrongly accused repressed memory victims were released because psychology is not a science. The earlier "refrigerator mother" fad fell apart because psychology is not a science. Pre-frontal lobotomy was outlawed because psychology is not a science.

More recently, Asperger syndrome was abandoned because anyone with some acting ability could get the diagnosis, and because Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and Isaac Newton were assigned the diagnosis it because the first popular fad diagnosis, attractive to young people. Consequently the diagnosis became an epidemic, after which psychologists abandoned it, explaining that it isn't "based in science".

If you decide to reply, try addressing the topic.
This might be generally true, but on the specific topic of libraries it "not even wrong" levels of wrongness.

Anyone, even some little poor kid in the ghetto or a hobo shuffling in, could put in a USB drive to that library computer and walk back our the door a few hours later with his own (superior) library in his pocket. That's not civilizational decline or an impending collapse... it's the miracle of miracles. You went to sleep some night in the past not so long ago, and woke up the next morning in the science fiction future. I don't know the exact day (or even that the idea of a particular date is meaningful here), but it's true.

No one values that library they could have in their pocket. No one reads, because they don't want to. When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s, I always wanted my own library of movies on VHS, but alas couldn't afford that. I'd get to watch 2 or 3 over the weekend, maybe once in awhile one over a week night (sometime after 1985... prior to that it was hoping ABC or NBC would air a theatrical movie I cared about twice a year, and that I'd be allowed to stay up and watch it). But kids now days don't even want to watch movies/shows. A tiktok video is about all the attention span they have. Is that a policy failure?

Whining that public institutions are sacred, and that libraries need to be worshiped makes it seem like you don't even understand the problem. I would think that you might instead want to celebrate that we live in a world where everyone could have their own library, and might instead spend your effort encouraging them to want one.
On the other hand, "recreational paranoia" is a fun hobby.

But perhaps we are just saying the same thing, and I just prefer my way of saying it over admitting to yours...
I agree that any attack on books and literacy is a problem, but let's not pretend it's just the right that's responsible.

It's not the right's fault that I now have to wonder if a given copy of Matilda is as it was written or if it's been 'sanitized'. It's not the right that challenges Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird for their depictions of racism. Harry Potter, once feared by the hyper conservatives for witchcraft, is now under fire because of the political opinions of the author.

We all need to get better at dealing with difficult ideas, and that includes books whose contents and authors we disagree with. This is a systemic problem across the entire US, not one unique to one wing.
Eh, I guess, although I’ve also heard some pretty wild things by elected officials. What can we do?
As someone who likes to read things of technical, scientific and practical nature, my only issue is their usefulness to the next generation, a problem which bothers me whenever I attempt to embark on this sort of project. Am I, an avid hardcover first edition signed by author book collector, wasting my time by amassing the texts du jour whose practicality is already on the edge? Never mind the ancient texts I collect, not as a collector per-se, but because I want to read them as they were once read and intended to be read. To posit, I really like the old books on electricity and discovery of phenomena, by the likes of Thomson for example who in turn calls out Maxwell and so on. But absolutely nobody has any use for that shit nowadays as the methods of teaching and distilling information have far surpassed these long dead inventors. I then ask, we’ll what’s the point other than a curiosity? So I find myself at a loss. How to stock up a library that will serve a future generation rather than an old dog like myself. And I keep going around in circles as a result.

The newer books of course compared to the old are by their technical achievements quite a marvel to look at. Even a coffee table book nowadays has an immense value to the curious mind due to the degree that they are able to capture in detail things which previously we hemmed and hawed over with crude drawings.
The project is funded by 501(c)(3) non-profit Carbon Mapper. Tanager-1 was built by Public Benefit Corp and publicly traded Planet Labs. I understand that the funding raised from the non-profit paid for the licensing of the technology developed at JPL, NASA's only federally funded R&D center managed by CalTech.
I’m skeptical this would work in production better than RLHF, if the agent makes a mistake, how is it supposed to know to correct itself and understand what it did wrong to prevent it? It seems better to try again recursively until it finds the solution like a human
Do they not support MPI and scaling across machines because of the features of the workloads or because of the features of the systems performing the work?

If the latter, then maybe they can use multiple cores using things like OpenMP and the like to get some "free" scaling, but they could be made to work with MPI or across machines. However, if it's the former, more cores won't help them.
> For those that downvote me, worth it.

Nay, quite the opposite; I scrolled down specifically looking for comments like these, because I knew they'd be here. Kind of comforting, really.
This is correct. In fact there is a highly upvoted question about it on TeX Stack Exchange: <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1863>.

See also <https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25156>.
This is not the same. Private equity extracts as an investment, Automattic is an ecosystem participant (that happens to be privately held) that actively contributes to the community. That doesn’t mean Matt hasn’t taken things too far (I leave that to be determined by civil courts and the Wordpress community, no dog in the fight myself), but there is a difference, and it is very important to clearly delineate who is receiving benefit for value realized economically.
Yeah I saw it after posting my thing. So cool to have folks like that on this forum.
I have been really interested in this device, but the proprietary stylus really turned me off. In addition to not working on any other e-ink reader/notepad, it is a mystery to me why they went with a stylus technology that requires charging.
The biggest reason I haven't seen mentioned here is that these cookie banners are run by a few large advertising management entities. They are aggressive about it, because clicking consent on one site will consent for every site that is managed by that entity. But they have to show it for sites you haven't visited.

For example, the user:

- Visits site "A", gets a popup banner managed by "Shady Ad Manager", clicks Do not consent.

- Visits site "B", gets a popup banner managed by "Shady Ad Manager", clicks Do not consent.

- Visits site "C", gets a popup banner managed by "Shady Ad Manager", makes a mistake and clicks "Consent" through the employment of some shady dark pattern.

- Is now being tracked by "A" and "B", because it is managed by "Shady Ad Manager", but when returning to "A" and "B", has no chance to opt out anymore.
That’s a nice but false narrative. The Swiss are wealthier than the Americans and yet they use public transport extensively.
The decline of literacy is unfortunate.

But I would mention that most people were illiterate in most societies known as civilizations (ancient Greece, etc). Mass literacy is a society phenomenon - coming out of industrial societies.

The thing were have now, however, isn't so much illiteracy as pathological scattering of attention. Perhaps that would go away if our society experienced a cataclysm disabling all the smart devices out there.
Hey thanks for writing the original swarm. I found your framework very inspiring when I was conducting my own personal (pretty much universally failed) experiments into making this kind of multi-agent simulation.
If the 9800X3D is more efficient that would be a reason for me to upgrade from the 7800X3D, since I run it in a space constrained ITX case (FormD T1).

That said, the 7800X3D is not exactly throttling in the case, but a few degrees less heat is always welcome, and gives me more GPU headroom if the 5090 will end up fitting eventually (currently running 4090).
Well, a 286 was about 3 watts right? So if our medium point is 35 watts then the final would be 400 watts.

Or if our medium point is a 60 watt pentium 4 then our final point would be a 1200 watt single core with multiple millions of times the performance, and dropping down to 300 watts would still be crazy fast.
No, not any lunatic can buy a gun. You need to pass a background check. It's about as good as you're gonna get, and plenty good enough for purpose because lunatics have many options when it comes to hurting a lot of people besides legallu buying a gun off the shelf.

Drones are not the problem, nor cars, nor bombs per se. The problem is that there is an active state of war between these two countries. As long as that exists they may continue to harm each other by any means possible.
Where are the “it’s too expensive” republicans now. This is bonkers. We’re investing trillions in weapons whose sole purpose is to end the world. Just batshit.
What’s interesting is that in California for that much money you could only build perhaps a 1/10 of that project. A basic highway overpass costs $40m.
Randall Munroe from xkcd is a stick figure (cueball), and you can't convince me otherwise.
What prompt did you give it? Is it capable of animation?
> Researchers found the method Apple uses, standard deviation of normal-to-normal, or SDNN, is the most accurate. Other brands implement a system called root mean square standard deviation, RMSSD, which Tenan said produces a wider range of error in the measurement

This is interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I have one so it’s cool to know Apple designed it well in that respect, and that I shouldn’t lose confidence in the readings I get.

The second reason it’s interesting is that this kind of decision, which time-domain measure of heart rate variability metric to use, is the kind of super small design decision that really makes a system special.

Having really good developers and designers really shines through for moments like these.
The issue with this is there's a false assumption that an image is a collection of objects. It's not (necessarily).

I want a picture of frozen cyan peach fuzz.
> Every bookstore nowadays

I miss bookstores.
> (I often had to compile twice due to indexing)

This trips people up a lot once they do anything involving cross-referencing or bibliographies. But for some reason some people use latex for a long time and never hear about latexmk, which automates all that, and can even "watch" your files so you can edit and save and see your PDF refresh all in real time. (I've only used latex for papers or blog math, not big books; I can't imagine waiting a minute per change back in college, let alone on modern hardware...)
Honest question: what do you actually accomplish by compiling your OS?
Yes. But using USB devices has a practically infinitely greater attack surface that parsing data embedded in a QR Code. It's not like yo have to read QR Codes and go "echo $QRData | sudo bash"

"BadUSB is a computer security attack using USB devices that are programmed with malicious software.[2] For example, USB flash drives can contain a programmable Intel 8051 microcontroller, which can be reprogrammed, turning a USB flash drive into a malicious device.[3] This attack works by programming the fake USB flash drive to emulate a keyboard. Once it is plugged into a computer, it is automatically recognized and allowed to interact with the computer. It can than then initiate a series of keystrokes which open a command window and issue commands to download malware. " -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadUSB
Topographic Prominence (2017)
Also, the one without school shootings please.
Oil painting.
Since 2008 or so all US government computers on SIPR block USB storage devices are unless they are on an approved list. Autorun is disabled.

Physical security is another big factor, there is a long checklist for a SCIF that at some level takes into account TEMPEST type threats that mitigate many attacks on air gapped systems.

And none of these things are the default on commercial software because users want it to be frictionless. They want software to install right away when you plug in a usb drive, etc.
No the higgs mechanism was directly proposed from how particles masses were not explainable from the existing model -- so it's clearly in the "surprising observation" category.

The positron was, "oh what if we had this thing that is mathematically possible". Very different. IIRC the discovery was kind of independent. It was in the data the whole time so if the physicists didn't just ignore those "impossible" bubble tracks they might have found it before the math.

If we discovered superluminal tachyons that would definitely count. But we haven't found those.
What if I run it for a year?
NVidia should be afraid. Same GB/s on CPU are much more than on GPU. The problem here will be the price of the whole system. Anyway it's a step in the right direction if we want something like Copilot on premises or at home.
I, for one, would be very interested in reading that.
Should we start a HN browser then?
Just download VoiceDream dude

I used to hear executives who use it all the time while I was an executive at Sony Pictures.
Seriously? those are pretty simple HS math questions, I find it a bit hard to believe most average people cant solve them. Don't most people graduate HS?
If only you could commit suicide...
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Hundreds of thousands on events is nothing. The fact that this is the most repeated example of them contributing to WordPress just proves the point that they don't actually do much. Their entire business is based around wrapping WP and reselling it. That they can manage to spend a few hundred K's on what is basically marketing (visibility at WordPress events) is not surprising. Now, how much do they contribute to the actual WordPress codebase?

(And I'm saying this as someone who dislikes WordPress in general, in the sense that I'm not a super invested Automattic user or something. It's just weird how the conversation shifted to portraying Automattic as a leach or a bad maintainer and WPengine as a victim)
Publishers releasing amended copies is not banning books. No one has demanded that original copies of such books be removed from libraries. Meanwhile state legislators in Florida and elsewhere are aggressively regulating libraries and demanding content be removed - and conservative legislatures are overwhelmingly responsible for funding cuts and closures.
Most of your list is done inside ATMs and other full-custom secure hardware already.
Even back in the late 90s/early 2000s, public libraries had a "banned books week". It was mostly a gimmick to get kids to read through the allure of the forbidden, to the point where sometimes through deals with teachers you could get extra credit in school for having checked them out.
You make a very valid point.

I’d ignore unpriced other externalities, that is a large rabbit hole. (Do people increase consumption of other goods thanks to the savings of this ticket…)

I’d rather look at the project, subsidies again and the cost and realise that at this scale there are few individual projects. So this is a very large knob to dial down the emissions.

Secondly, the subsidies go into the German economy. The rail system is very domestic economy heavy, so at a time where the German economy is going into a recession, spending 3bn to subsidise transport and reduce people’s cost of living and pay for German workers and investments is not such a terrible idea.

So while the price tag is high, the money isn’t turned into trees or buried like in pure abatement projects and at this scale it is a nice leaver to pull.
We also had this problem in my previous company a few years ago, a 20-people company, but somehow we attracted much more attention.

In one specific instance, we had 20 emails in a single month about a specific Wordpress PHP endpoint that had a vulnerability, in a separate market site in another domain. The thing is, it had already been replaced by our Wordpress contractor as part of the default install, but it was returning 200.

But being a static page didn't stop the people running scanners from asking us from money even after they were informed of the above.

The solution? Delete it altogether to return 404.
Richard F. Burton's Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca (2013)
Yes the American system is based on the admirable but false idea of the intelligent citizen.
It probably worked a lot better when all the voters were wealthy land owners.
Many cars do have “stop-and-go” assist, including lane centring, meaning the car will maintain distance to the car in front down to 0 while maintaining its position in the centre of the lane, and then accelerate from 0 when traffic starts moving again. This is a relatively new feature, being generally available on luxury marks from ~2016 or so. Many cars with ACC prior to that wouldn’t engage below some speed, but would continue operating down to nearly 0 or 0, and then require the driver to take over until the engagement cutoff speed was reached. Some cars as far back as at least 2012 supported this (that I’ve driven), possibly older as well.
In the Palestine Mandate, Jews and Palestinians got along just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
Most of these numbers are probably due to differences in wages and the size of the respective countries.
It's not an imaginary threat. It is happening all over in GOP-controlled areas.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/roughly-300-books-were-r...
Every time I've left an organization, they have swiftly deleted the company email address/revoked my access to it. I assume every reasonable organization will have processes in place to do this.

I don't see this as a vulnerability: how is Google supposed to know that a person has left the company? You let them know by deleting the account.
Don't worry, 20 year back most people had no clue how to use the second core. They believed in GHz and when it became obvious the theoretical limit is close thought that's the end of evolution.
Typst is a lot of fun and lets you do some really cool stuff. However! In the process of doing that cool stuff, you may need to debug things and that’s when it’s no longer fun. There is no way to print anything out to console and debug anything about what is going on. People have asked for it for over a year now and the authors have refused/ignored their requests. I would be using it a lot more except for this. https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1669
That seems very inefficient. And dangerous as it's well known that LLMs will hallucinate. When I want to Learn about X, I just take an introductory book, look at the table of contents and the description to know what it covers, then just read it. I then have several paths I can take to further my knowledge.

> Then just ask more specific questions, just like you would do when interacting with a human teacher

And no one interacts like that with a teacher, at least from what I know. They have a syllabus for a reason, and while they may answer an unrelated question, they expect you to master the fundamental that leads to it. If you don't they will point you to it, because the answer will be difficult to understand. It's like wanting to know how nuclear works without learning atom composition first.
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