skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that with current LLMs the error goes the other way; they appear more conscious than they are, compared to, say, crows or octopuses which appear less conscious than they actually are.

My point is that "appears conscious" is really the only test there is. In what way is a human that says "that hurts" really feeling pain? What about Stephen Hawking "saying it", what about if he could only communicate through printed paper etc etc. You can always play this dial-down-the-consciousness game.

People used to say fish don't feel pain, they are "merely responding to stimulus".
So exactly how is it a good thing to add costs to everything you buy?
Visa wants a bigger slice of commercial payments
UWA?

I was gonna say I remember always seeing posters around the Uni talking about this guy and his 'gutsy' bet.
Ask HN: Tool show your appreciation to an open source project with just text
Hello,

Does a tool exist for showing your appreciation to an open source project with just a text message?

No donations, just a comment, a text.

A place where people can comment how an open source project help them in everyday life, why they love using this tool and so on.

All the comments are public. It's not private like sending an email to the open source maintainer.
Most people don't use space repetition as their only study technique, they just use it for 10-15 min and spend most of their time actually doing the thong to learn, for I with language learning, I do 10-15min of anki and 45-90 lf language immersion.
And they say science is not a glamorous career.
we are obsessed with preventing china from beating us while we are destroying america ourselves
The axioms of rationality, morality, etc. I've always found interesting.

We have certain axioms, (let me chose an arbitrary, and possibly not quite an axiomy-enough example): "human life has value". We hold this to be self-evident and construct our society around it.

We also often don't realize that other people and cultures have different axioms of morality. We talk/theorize at this high level, but don't realize we have different foundations.
I believe they tries impeaching him in 2021. At the time, though, even people like Tucker thought his career was over after his behaviour.

But I suppose 4 years with Biden/Kamala made it easier to forgive him, for many. Not just the MAGA base, but even swing voters.

Honestly, I think Democrats were contributing to this by the outrage over the January 6 riots. Half the country would consider the BLM riots as equally bad.

If instead, Democrats had focused on Trump's betrayal of Pence and general disregard for the institutions and traditions of the country, a lot more moderates would remain with the Democrats.

But as a foreigner, it seems to me that the prosecution of the Jan 6 rioters, not to mention Trump himself was excessive and overtly politically motivated. And it definitely took attention away from the less spectacular, but far more obviously immoral behavior he definitely, provably WAS guilty of leading up to January 6.
If you’re looking for a vocabulary tool, I just released an app for this: https://deft.so. It uses FSRS, which I’ve found to be perfect for me.
In fact you shouldn't use Anki for learning itself - put cards only when you're ready, when you have been taught them, and then use spaced repetition for recall.
No, it’s the “rationality.” Well maybe the people too, but the ideas are at fault.

As I posted elsewhere on this subject: these people are rationalizing, not rational. They’re writing cliche sci-fi and bizarre secularized imitations of baroque theology and then reasoning from these narratives as if they are reality.

Reason is a tool not a magic superpower enabling one to see beyond the bounds of available information, nor does it magically vaporize all biases.

Logic, like software and for the same reason, is “garbage in, garbage out.” If even one of the inputs (premises, priors) is mistaken the entire conclusion can be wildly wrong. Errors cascade, just like software.

That's why every step needs to be checked with experiment or observation before a next step is taken.

I have followed these people since stuff like Overcoming Bias and LessWrong appeared and I have never been very impressed. Some interesting ideas, but honestly most of them were recycling of ideas I’d already encountered in sci-fi or futurist forums from way back in the 1990s.

The culty vibes were always there and it instantly put me off, as did many of the personalities.

“A bunch of high IQ idiots” has been my take for like a decade or more.
I thought conservatives thought that the drug problem was because people stopped going to church, lack of personal responsibility and “absentee fathers”?

Or is the causation different now because it is affecting “rural America” and not the “inner city”?
Words have meaning. We should be willing to agree upon that much. Worry less about who you perceive me to be on the partisan spectrum and try to focus on the words I have written.

I don't see a defense of the Republican Party here. Overall I'd rate them as a big disappointment. Although Trump coming out strong and cutting is a reason to be cautiously optimistic. It certainly isn't a reason to invoke Godwin's Law. As I've explained repeatedly here, cutting government is basically the opposite of the National Socialist economic program. If you are not informed enough to dispute this, then now would be a good time to do some research for yourself.
It's also basic etiquette to not assume malice or that the other party is lying, but you explicitly and proudly continue to fail at that. So it's a bit tough for me to accept criticism from you regarding this.

> the reading comprehension of everyone is so bad

No, I am not saying this. This is just your headcanon, it is not even a remotely necessary presumption to have.

> You didn’t have to reply to my comment.

I felt compelled to after being told that I'm "moving goalposts". Obviously. Again, a subjectively perceived need.

> based on now understanding the full context of the conversation that your comment is out of place and have a nice day

Even with the additional context your original comment still rings unreasonable and self-absorbed. It is true however that I do not need you to explain why anymore. Have a nice day indeed.
Reading about the Roko’s Basalisk saga, it seems clear that these people are quite far from rational and of extremely limited emotional development. It reads like observing a group of children who are afraid of the monster in the closet, which they definitely brought into existence by chanting a phrase in front of the bathroom mirror…

Members of these or other similar communities would do well to read anything on them dispassionately and critique anything they read. I’d also say that if they use Yudkowsy’s writings as a basis for understanding the world, that understanding is going to have to the same inadequacies of Yudkowsky and his writings. How many people without PhDs or even relevant formal education are putting out high quality writing on both philosophy and quantum mechanics (and whatever other subjects)?
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A software-based spaced repetition system probably could have made someone appear borderline superhuman in the era before Google. Google cleared a lot of this low-hanging fruit, and then it became "merely" the best way to cram facts into your noggin so you can become an expert at whatever you want, which is still extremely valuable. Your doctor probably used SRS to get through medical school, and now look at how much money they're making. For most professions, nothing -> Google was probably a much bigger jump than Google -> LLMs, so I expect that to still largely be the case.

TL;DR: SRS is, perhaps counterintuitively, most useful for those of us seeking true mastery over something.
I don’t have publications, I was trying to solve the TSP problem and found a fundamental building block of reality.
It applies to many fields.
Here is the method to apply in 3D coordinates of the protein, everything else aligns naturally

I did this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/numbertheory/s/UBrRPeIGrx

I’m broke so if you make money out of this
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In addition, your experience and this statement aren't mutually exclusive. As for evidence: political developments in the EU and America(s), including the US, as well as policy changes by some of the wealthiest, claiming-to-be-freedom-loving platform owners on earth, should provide enough hints not to dismiss this claim outright.
Finally, a headline worthy of HN!
The redundant nature of mass scale internet content operates on spaced repetition I think. If you doom scroll HN for example, over time you’ll know more about random things. WSB might be a better example. I didn’t realize how many stock ticker prices and movements over the last few years are now embedded in my mind, without deliberately trying.

This is the 1000th time you’ll have read the same thing. The hivemind naturally regurgitates the same information at a predictable cadence. We’re due for a few Rust posts on HN, for example.

If you stay tapped in, you will always be learning from this organic body.
That's how the original successful space program, the Soviet one, worked. Test-driven development is traditional in the space launch space.

Rapid iteration and testing is the preferred approach if you have a highly integrated, tightly-coupled organization.

If you use contractors, on the other hand, everything needs to be planned out and stipulated in advance to protect the parties involved.
what does it mean to have learnt a word if you can't recall it?
Did not know they added it, thanks for the info.
If it’s perfect, why are there so many different dialects of it?
You're not wrong. We've lost the plot on what value government provides. It should be about community. People having agency and coming together because we see our selves in our neighbors.
tl;dr Chinese mafia operation from Dubai with 1k call centre pitching Crypto scams. With a woman half Turkish, half Ukrainian doing video calls to the victims.
It's a new algorithm that was integrated into the Anki codebase from a very popular add-on, maybe around 2023 or so. I switched over to it basically immediately, and it works like a charm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002138
In Germany you sign a contract and it is hard to get you out. The rent increases very little while you are there. When you move out they do a quick renovation and charge double or triple the rent you paid.
Agreed upon? Or taught in a certain way?

From far away (Europe) I don't see a big difference between the multiple "fanatical" groups that I hear about in US that define one thing or another "their way" and everybody else's opinion it's wrong. And that covers a wide range of topics (like: religion, guns, transportation, gender, etc.)

And just because some people are fanatical on a topic, does not mean there are not huge issues around those topics. Just as an example on gender, the horrible violence that was (and probably) inflicted to women (extreme examples: Pelicot and Fritzl cases)

But sure, it is easier to argue on useless definitions (either for or against) that try to address root causes...
I don't know for sure, or what the official policy is. There are people that took stimulants as kids (due to parents getting them an ADHD diagnosis) but have stopped by their early 20s. And that is probably way more common now than when I was a kid in the 80s, when not even the obviously hyperactive kids appeared to be getting any meds.

Maybe if they apply for ATC they just don't disclose that, but I imagine if they do, it will be scrutinized.
They aren't ruling. Pushing back against bad policies is not ruling. Nor is it a religion.

You're clearly American. The American founding fathers wanted to avoid tyranny of the majority. That is clear. Civil servants pushing back is exactly that! No, it's not documented in the Federalist papers but the world is a lot more complicated than the 18th century.
The figures I have seen in a trade war with Canada is Canada causes a -.2% hit to US GDP while Canada gets a -2% hit. That is not going to work for Canada.

These aren't abuses of power though. We just largely got use to the president not trying to do all that much.

Obama issued 275 executive orders and Franklin Roosevelt issued 3721. Calvin Coolidge issued 1203. I think all the presidents during my lifetime combined issued less than Woodrow Wilson at 1803.

That is not to say I think a trade war with Canada is a good idea. It really makes no sense to me at all.
I see your point. Apple can no doubt weather the loss of $20B.
This is a math exercise, it assumes an infinitely long lived person, as well as a lot of simplifications. That's the same kind of arguments that can make sailboats go infinitely fast as long as there is any kind of wind.

It is not useless. It tells you essentially two things. First, it shows the limits of your model. If you have proven that sailboats can go infinitely fast, which is obviously not the case in reality, then it is an indication that your model is incomplete and you have to refine it until it stops giving out nonsense, or establish its limits.
Second, it shows that what you have taken into account in your model is not what limits the speed of sailboats or memory recall.
W11 Bluetooth is utterly broken. W11 will not recognize the bluetooth devices that I make and sell.

W11 is a great upgrade for my business and I am endlessly thankful that Microsoft is forcibly ruining my employee's machines one by one with forced updates to W11.

My other favorite feature is that w11 natively keylogs my employees and sends screenshots of our entire proprietary codebase to Microsoft. I find so much value in this feature. It's never been more efficient to leak customer and business secrets!
It's as the sibling post says: "alive vs not alive" and "same species vs different species" are just human concepts that we attempt to shoehorn biological reality into. There's nothing about biology itself that says that any given example should have a clear answer either way.
Ever have a word on 'the tip of your tongue'?
Not only does the site look unused - if this were a Show HN that would make sense - it also appears the place is dreadfully scared of anonymous accounts requesting "You must provide accurate and complete information when creating your account", email required ... and the kicker, signup page either not proceeding until script scrapping is complete or the interface is not as robust for different browsers as HN.

IMHO, there's lots of room for improvement before it even came close being easy to use as HN's format, let alone any sort of area that would compete as an alternative.
"You can go through some ridiculous effort to hack windows into being good" does not make windows good or acceptable
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Black Screen - Make your screen black by pressing a key combination.
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MeetingGlass - Easy long video meetings through virtual frosted glass.
https://meetingglass.com
I'm looking forward to the first ChatGPT response saying it can't talk about certain topics.
Really interesting project! Could you share some screenshots or examples of how it works in practice?
I use the 4o very often in my work and it mostly sucks. Sometimes it’s very good, sometimes it has nice knowledge that was faster to find from it than a search engine. Mostly it spouts out unhelpful noise (for my problems).

I’m sure if you need to make a to-do list in react it’s like magic (until the app gets complicated). In real world use, not so much.

(Also I have often code reviewed PRs from people who are heavy users and surprise surprise - their output is trash and very prone to bugs or being out of spec.)
Besides LineByLine (https://linebyline.app), does anyone have tips on memorizing long texts using spaced repetition?
Late Soviets had term for it too - “aggressive-obedient majority”, although this applies more to Republicans in legislature and the Air Force people who took down Tuskegee stuff
Effective Altruists donate to charities which save lives, etc. They help people to choose effective charities using evidence-based approach, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveWell

But that doesn't get into the news. Saving people is boring. Killing people? That gets the clicks.

Suppose you have 1000 people in the movement. 998 well-adjusted people. 1 is a crook who uses movement as a shield. 1 is insane freak.

Of course, you'll hear about the crook and the freak. Well-adjusted people are not newsworthy.
Are you saying that the counterfeiting of name brand packaging is so skillful that even careful inspection by us the consumers cannot reasonably hope to detect it?
Show HN: I built Explain-o-matic – AI voice guide for LLM code in VS Code
A weekend experiment. I wrote a VS Code extension that uses LLMs + native TTS to voice-explain your code ( especially for LLM generated ones after a long night of coding ).

1. Quickly grok unfamiliar code - Auto-splits into well named, logical sections that you can traverse, hear the explanation, or break down further.

2. Can utilize reasoning models for better output (slower)

3. Vercel AI SDK wrapper for multi-provider support.

This was fun to build, and see promise in some sort of more accessible design like this in future copilots. I'm really keen on the learning tools of the future.
Also consider Satan comes to Dinner in E http://erights.org/e/satan/index.html
sorry, I wasn't clear.

Personally, I just went through word lists. When I had them memorised, I'd put them into Anki deck. Because I am going to forget them over time.
I come back to this every few months and do some work trying to make sense of how tensors are used in machine learning. Tensors, as used in physics and whose notation these tools inherit, are there for coordinate transforms and nothing else.

Tensors, as used in ML, are much closer to a key-value store with composite keys and scalar values, with most of the complexity coming from deciding how to filter on those composite keys.

Drop me a line if you're interested in a chat. This is something I've been thinking about for years now.
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The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) precludes APA review amongst other relief (since it precludes district court jurisdiction entirely). That being said, this "termination" is likely invalid under the CSRA.

Please see Elgin v. Dept. of Treasury 567 U.S. 1 (2012) for details.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-45

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Even in this discovery, intact collagen molecules have not been recovered, but only collagen molecule fragments.

Nevertheless, from many random fragments, with enough luck, one might be able to reconstruct much of the original amino-acid sequence.
Ask HN: Should Canadian companies leave AWS in preparation for cut?
My wife and I run a small chain of second-hand clothing stores and maintain our own custom point-of-sale system that handles us buying our inventory directly from our customers who sell to us. The database and API run on AWS in the Canadian data center. We have contingencies for total system failure, but it's not a fun way to limp along doing business.

We are concerned we are an executweet away from having those AWS services cut.

Any other Canadian business here migrating away from AWS as a precaution?
Your link takes me to a github org, is there a specific repo where the project itself lives?
Has no authority but is taking authoritorial actions. Right. He's not a federal employee afaik as he hasn't passed any of the requisite checks or been approved by the Senate.
Don't you think this is precisly why there is a jury system in the first place?

It seems that most legal systems from the start was intended to codify what was considered "just and fair" in the eyes of "the people".

Juries seem to have been put in place specifically to ensure that the legal system operates within this mandate, and to preven overreach or abuse.
In short, the answer to your question is that it's social media. It's always social media.

Unfortunately, in this case it's twitter in particular, and now maybe Bluesky.

I worked on open source projects for years, and resisted as much as I could. But all of the communication besides technical discussion happens on Twitter. This includes networking between devs, quick feature requests, examples of work being done with the libraries, and also plenty of shout-outs and words of appreciation. Somehow even a bunch of technical support via screenshots. It's also where I get around half of my clients as a freelancer.
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What is your qualification in molecular biology and/or biophysics?
According to my tradition, my language is the best of the best. Get off my lawn with your language.
More like this. It reads like the opening of a Clive Cussler novel.
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2010, and 2013.
It's a complex issue. IMHO it's only a real problem when birth rates are consistently below replacement or when they fall way below replacement as they are in a few places like Korea.

In that case, step one is to remove obvious barriers like insane housing prices and pervasive workaholism so that people who want to have kids find it easy to do so. Create a culture that is a supportive environment for families.

I don't see the Project 2025 crowd doing much of that. Many of the billionaires backing the project are pushing work cultures and social policies that will have the opposite effect. Think Musk's "hard core" work cultures are conductive to family formation?

I think it's because their real goal is fundamentalist theocracy and/or fascism. Just like the climate protestors who are actually hard-core Marxists or anti-industrial Neo-primitivists hoping to collapse society to realize their vision, these people are "problemists." The problem is a good thing because it's a hook they can use to sell a whole agenda. Solving the problem without implementing that whole agenda would be, to them, a failure.

Christian Nationalists don't want to fix declining birth rates without implementing Christian Nationalism any more than the people throwing paint on works of art in Europe want greenhouse gas emissions fixed without collapsing capitalism.
It is more than just success too.

Most behavior we believe is some kind of rational action when it is really blind actions based on fiction or just completely random with rationalizations for the behavior after the fact.
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I think it is both and this is very obvious if you read Pareto and Sapolsky.
I do not think you need a confirmation nor a commission to hold office to access payment systems.
I don’t know if that is what is happening here, but it is a common occurrence — both to juice numbers but also for special pricing (as mentioned in article) or mutual flexibility (dedicated launch), because the founders know each other, etc.
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The US provided 14% of the WHO funding but is 25% of global GDP, so proportionately we don't contribute as much as many other countries.
I feel like it's reasonable to assume Hans Reiser would have been on hackernews if it had existed before he murdered his wife.