skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read it that way, but I wouldn't have worded it that way either.

Humans are the ones that decide what intelligence is to them. We've seen many times in history that this is in fact, very unintelligent to do. But sometimes it seems to work splendidly. The individual can define him or herself as the most intelligent while everyone agrees. That really doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond everyone agreeing that they are intelligent. And some people may as a result, choose to entertain their consciousness in other ways, in order to direct it on a different course. And this may wind up being more intelligent. And then we pretend that nothing weird happened and we knew all along what real intelligence was.

:)

I tend to view things as absurd before I view them as intelligent, but my life is fairly boring.
What a shame that our politics has been so reduced that this man is given any shred of credibility.
Gold is at a 5 year low because the market is up. The value at $1165 per ounce is a bubble still. I sold my Eagles and other coins at $1600/oz. After a lot of study I've concluded Gold isn't all that heavily used in Manufacturing and industry. Not much more than Silver. For every ounce/pound of Silver that comes out of the ground we get 1/17.5 that much gold. If all that research is correct gold should be at $259-350 per ounce.

However, people don't listen. This means that if I get any sense the market is going to crash again I will immediately buy Gold bullion again and profit again I'm positive. Simply because people are herd animals and will always buy high and sell low. As the market crashes they'll get scared and shelter up in gold again.
Sorry, I was being cryptic, my fault. I was generalizing your claim about macro languages to other languages.

I mean, doesn't your original argument imply that there is no need for a systems language besides C empirically on the basis of the number of things that get done without one, and more formally on the basis of Turing equivalence?
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"Uber operates in 300 cities worldwide. It has built a better mousetrap, and the world is beating a path to its door."

If by "better mousetrap" you mean wages falling for cab drivers where it makes it nearly impossible to make a living, yes.

This is the one situation where I've seen the majority of people here on HN go against the unions and actually cheer for less wages and benefits.
What an annoying amount of crap on that page for a publicly funded website. Even the back button is hijacked.
Love this sign, too bad I heard its gone
Really? You have to mention Trump in an article about Reddit? Biased much?
I'm absolutely certain you're just buried with the existing work of just
getting your new startup rolling with its original idea (African centric
movies), so put this (somewhat obvious) suggestion on your "possible
expansion ideas for maybe someday" list.

Something I find lacking on broadcast TV is news coverage of Africa. In
the US, the only place where you'll find regular English language
broadcast TV news coverage of Africa is, oddly enough, through CCTV
("China Central Television" via the Chinese government). Though it is
already possible to get _some_ African news coverage over the web, news
as a content source for your service might be a worthwhile addition.

According to CCTV coverage, African radio broadcasting is (supposedly)
extremely popular and far more widespread than TV. The pervasive use of
radio is (supposedly) due to radio being less expensive than TV and far
more widely adopted by the general populace. The part I found the most
interesting is how both pre-recorded and live serial drama, niche, and
educational shows are still being broadcast in Africa over radio (along
with the expected music, news, and talk shows). Though it's audio rather
than video and there a many companies in the "African Internet Radio"
business, radio might (eventually) be another appealing content source
for you.

Good Luck!
I use LinkedIn to locate former coworkers but then I keep in touch with them through regular email.

I dont see LinkedIn as being able to do much that personal websites would not do better. I use LinkedIn because many people, even coders do not have websites.
"I know it when I see it"
Anesthesia practically eliminates consciousness yet the brain states are probably more similar than brains and the United States. I'm not sure I agree that apparent similarity is good enough to conclude that the US is probably conscious under a materialist framework.

Definitely possible, however. And fun to consider whole galaxies exhibiting consciousness.
When "what's new in python 3.5" was posted here a couple days ago it was mentioned that the document was terribly incomplete and not ready for public consumption.
I've faced similar questions and the work of Michael Mitzenmacher (at Harvard) has proved very valuable (e.g. modeling table load for d-left).
Oh yes, with the ant colony called Aunt Hillary :) That and The Mind's I (an anthology edited by Hofstadter with Dan Dennett) were both a big influence on my thinking about this. I absolutely agreewith thepremise of this article and I've wondered for years why people like Roger Penrose insist on consciousness being the result of some hidden process at the quantum level rather than accept the possibility that consciousness is an emergent property of networks. I would need to go back and reread his Mind books now to re-familiarize myself with his arguments, though, I've forgotten the details by now.

Still, the strangest thing I've considered is: suppose that the US, or some other group we are a part of, like the galaxy, is conscious.and we get good evidence that it's true. Then disturbing it's function, or destroying it could kill that consciousness. It would be like killing God.

I absolutely believe in universal conscioussness (as instances of networks across many different substrates running at different speeds and with varying topologies and so on). But whatever you do will disturb its function, and it will be relatively trivial in the overall scheme of things - to quote Peter Greenaway 'A great many things are dying and being born all the time.' If you can conceive of an entity like 'the United States' or 'humanity in general' being conscious on a different scale than oneself, then one can consider oneself as the superposition of a variety of different ideas of varying intensity, as a multiplexed signal whose sample rate is a function of the underlying cellular processes. 'You' may not be the sum of your networked parts, but rather the algorithm that defines the travesal of said network.
I'm not sure why you think circumventing the license poorly is any better than using cracked software. I won't call it theft (I don't think illegal copying should be considered theft) -- but I also don't see any meaningful distinction between how you break the license and use software you haven't paid for.
I'm interested in how you use it to handle communication. I would never try and contact anyone through LinkedIn unless there were no other alternatives. In my experience there is so many junk notification on LinkedIn that any attempt at real communication would drown out.
The main problem with multithreaded programming is that most languages are clueless about threads and locks. They were an afterthought in C, and were viewed as an operating system primitive, not a language primitive. The language has no clue what data is locked by which lock. There's no syntax to even talk about that. Of course concurrency in C and C++ gets messed up.

Rust has a rational approach to shared data protection. Shared data is owned by a mutex, and you must borrow that mutex to access the data. You can have N read-only borrowers, or one read-write borrower. The borrow checker checks that at compile time. This gives us an enforceable way to think about who can access what.
>HN-favorite Scott Aaronson resolves to my satisfaction the question of whether a waterfall can be said to be computing the solution to some problem as it cascades over the rocks, because there exists a mapping in which the initial water state is the initial state of the problem, the gyrations of the water "compute", and the final state of the water can be mapped to a solution. He points out that we can with some actual mathematical rigor observe that the mapping itself can be said to be doing all the work.

This is why panpsychism appeals to me. On some level it makes more sense for me to believe that sentients is an intrinsic property of physical reality then to believe that sentients can emerge from someone moving sticks and stones around according to some algorithm.
Someone pointed out last week that signing up for the Google AppStore seemed to unblock their email.

Maybe Google is doing this on purpose to apply pain to people without Google accounts.
I agree.

Is it time we move on and form our own opinion about the use of the downvote as a community instead of always deferring by quoting pg, whilst whose values and contributions are obvious, has only posted 1 comment[1] (and no submissions[2]) since his last active day 475 days ago?[3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg

[2] I do not know however if he reads or still votes on HN.
Yeah I love Will Smith too, even in Hancock :)

Let's face it : Will Smith played in a lot of top movies in this decade. Could you name another one ? :)

In France we have a Will Smith example too, His name is Omar Sy (saw in the last Jurassic World).

For one Will Smith, you have here in USA Tyler Perry, Kevin Hart, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, Spike Lee (sorry for all the women I forgot here). These guys are awesome too. We want them everywhere in the world.
I've always been skeptical of corporate/strategic VCs for exactly this reason. At the end of the day, no matter what kind of Chinese wall you put in there, people are people and corporate agenda is a corporate agenda and it's perhaps naive to think you can separate the two.

Corporate VCs are effectively a way for cash rich corporations to buy call options on promising and/or potentially disruptive teams and technologies and keep close tabs on what is happening and how things are progressing. I can't think of a situation where corporate VC was a markedly better outcome for a startup or entrepreneur than a traditional financial VC.
A collection of entities or the pattern the entities partake in are NOT self aware. It's only the entity itself observing the pattern or collection as such, that is.

It seems people are postulating properties of collections and patterns of groups, then checking things off, one by one, being satisfied of the similarities. It is the person checking these things off that is realizing similarities then taking the leap of anthropomorphizing awareness into that idea.
>> I remember thinking about this after reading Godel esher bach. The reason I don't believe it's clearly probable is that it's hard to imagine that a system that hasn't been forged under as much natural selection to have much intentionality. And it's hard to imagine consciousness without that.

I too thought of G.E.B. wasn't there a story in there where someone was talking to an ant colony? Not the ants, but the colony as a whole. I've long considered the similarity between cells:people and people:society. A society can have behaviors and a sort of personality. Consciousness seems a stretch, but not impossible. The thing I tend to think more about is cancer, or the fact that a person can pick a scab or that people with various psychological issues can harm themselves or parts of themselves (see cutting, eating disorders, etc).
The CORDIC Trigonometric Computing Technique (1959)
Looks very nice. You should perhaps make the github/source link[1] a bit easier to find, than just pop it on the help-page -- at first I thought you were ignoring the GPL for bash etc.

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-packages
I've been fighting this for months. I run a simple mail forwarder for our local school PTA (so that president@pta gets to whomever is the current president, etc).

I've enabled every possible thing to make it work (DKIM, SPF, who the hell knows) and mails forwarded to my members with gmail (or Google domain hosted) accounts are always getting the forwarded email in their spam folders.
I think there's a fundamental confusion in the article between goal-seeking behaviour, and between communicable self-awareness.

Clearly, large collectives of people can seek goals. Large collections of transistors can also seek goals, up to a point.

But it's impossible to communicate directly with the United States as a self-aware entity, or to have a direct conversation with a collective.

You can communicate with a representative of the US, but there's no way anyone can talk to, or email, or Skype, or send a paper letter to, or have a telepathic conversation with, any entity that would consciously describe itself as "The United States of America."

This matters because you could ask ten representatives of the US for their opinion on something and get ten conflicting answers - without essentially damaging the concept of "US-ness."

This clearly doesn't match the definition of a unified consciousness. It's not the same as a single consciousness changing its mind, because there is no recognisable single mind that changes.

What about insect colonies, animal herds, bird flocks, and corporations? They simply amplify the goals and personalities of their leaders. I'm not aware of any instances where - for example - a separate corporate mind made its wishes known to override board decisions.

(You could possibly argue this is what happened with Reddit. I'd say no - that was a conflict between factions with different goals, not evidence that there's a metaphysical Reddit-mind independently placing conference calls and tweeting to steer Reddit's future.)
Agreed.
The human tendency to anthropomorphize what it should not has enabled priests and witch doctors of countless varieties, in many places and for thousands of years to make a living without producing except for the propagation of misunderstanding. This ignoble tradition is apparently being carried on in the philosophy department at the University of California.
Because there are so very few craters. During the 4+ billion years we thing Pluto has been around, vastly more objects should have crashed into it.

If the surface is 100 million years or less, the number of craters makes sense.

Or we could have some other basic assumption wrong. Science has only known about this since this morning...
Right, so its part of the circle jerk. Once again, not a real phrase.
Slightly off-topic:

If you're considering MySQL for HA, a project called Vitess jives well with Kubernetes + CoreOS, and has been in production use at YouTube for a while now:

http://vitess.io/
As far as I can tell the source for the APK itself isn't available -- but it seems to be targeting Android 5.
These are the important things:

* Has someone offered me a job?

* When can I start?

* Do I trust this manager to sing my praises when I use them as a reference when this job is over in 6-12-24 months?

A reference is almost always the most important thing you take with you from any job. You can take away stellar experience but it won't be worth squat unless someone at the company can confirm with gusto that yes you really did work there.

Important secondary concerns include:

* How much am I getting paid, up front, everything else excluded?

* How much does the company require from me (i.e. am I self-directed, mentored, or micromanaged to death)?

* If the company doesn't run on free software, what software does it have licensed? You don't want to work in ops and have to reinvent monitoring tools, and as a developer you sure as hell better get an MSDN subscription out of it.

The rest is unimportant and mental masturbation.
You must be at least this tall to write about "consciousness".

At least there's only one mention of "quantum".
Why bother randomizing the query parameters, when you could just permanently cache the image?
What is the essential difference between an entity and a collection? I assume an entity is also a collection of smaller parts.
If yahoo sued them? I don't see why it wouldn't. It may not convince an expert witness, but why wouldn't it convince a jury?
The problem here is that movies with black people (as we said in France, we need to call a cat a cat, we need to define clearly the skin here), had to be seen everywhere, not only in France, because that's why the movies need to be : to watch by the most. And that's what we are doing, making exposure to underserved movies. And we are doing even in some underserved countries

We don't need to deal with racism, we want to tackle it.
> Shared data is owned by a mutex, and you must borrow that mutex to access the data.

This is how sane locking code works in C or C++.

The critical issue is that we have a lot of code already written which doesn't respect this simple rule.

90% of the time, that C/C++ code needs to be re-architected to make the locks either more comprehensive (fix races) or less (performance).

Rewriting in Rust generally achieves that, because it is a re-architecting and refactoring step with concurrency in mind.

And if done neatly, this leaves no room for the next guy to come in and undo parts of that design, because there's violating that takes more work than keeping it - the wrong approach is suddenly the harder one to get to, unlike C/C++.
States are another fun one, thought rather terrifying to think that congress in some strange way might be equivalent to prefrontal cortex. One of the problems we face here are identifying the information channels that are actually important for driving behavior. In some cases hours and weeks of talks between high ranking officials in various foreign services do nothing compared to a 30 second conversation on a street corner.
The possibility of sticks and stones, their motions, and algorithms are already an intrinsic property of reality, so the things you want already exist in the model you reject.
You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
Actually I've heard that scientists have proved that your awareness of your brain's decision sort of comes after the decision has already been made by your brain.

Not to mention there's a lot of "subconscious" stuff that happens inside one's mind.
Travis Kalanick on How to Get Angel Funding (2009)
Returning bogus information to trackers is one way to fight back. If the tracking data quality can be destroyed, it will become useless to advertisers and tracking companies will go broke.

Meanwhile, use Ghostery and block everything. A few sites won't work, but there are better alternatives for most of them. With all tracking blocked, you can't watch ABC-TV, but in exchange, commercials are skipped on CBS-TV shows.
> A voter whose online posts indicate unwavering and exclusive support for Republican White House contender Jeb Bush, for example, shouldn't get online advertising for his rival Marco Rubio.

Wait, why shouldn't he? If he only hears about one candidate, he doesn't have a chance to learn other views.

Isn't this exactly what people are complaining about with personalized Google searches?
Maybe sentience is intrinsic to change (someone moving sticks and stones around according to some algorithm). Have you read Giulio Tononi's "Integrated information theory of consciousness"? One of its conclusions is that panpsychism must be true.
So it seems this is clearly happening. The question is what to do about it?

1: Switch from gmail. (I've done this - using Fastmail)
2: Increase publicity to drive Google to change
3: It's arguably abuse of monopoly power --> take it to court
Benjamin Harrison said this circa 1890s:

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

My sincere question is - Why not just make them employees? It does increase the cost of the service from 20$ to 30$ an hour, I would still have the service but use it at half the frequency. But I will be glad knowing the cleaner is treated fairly.
http://hnnotify.com/ does the same thing
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> But it's impossible to communicate directly with the United States as a self-aware entity, or to have a direct conversation with a collective.

Would you expect one of your cells to be capable of carrying a conversation with you? ("No.") Then why would you expect a "cell" (citizen) of the United States to be able to communicate with it?

> This matters because you could ask ten representatives of the US for their opinion on something and get ten conflicting answers - without essentially damaging the concept of "US-ness."... It's not the same as a single consciousness changing its mind, because there is no recognisable single mind that changes.

You could also stimulate ten neurons separately and receive 10 differing responses. And when a person changes their mind, there is also no recognizable single neuron that has changed.
> fun to consider whole galaxies exhibiting consciousness.

Yeah, but a slow consciousness that would be, unless information can travel at speeds faster than light. If not, then there is a limit to how large a computer can be on account of the speed of light and a few other physical limitations.
Why would Linus be using gmail ?

This is an individual who, in response to broken version control systems wrote his own version control system which he uses, primarily, to control versions of the operating system kernel that he wrote.

How is it possible that the above described person is moving his wrist around going clickity-click with a mouse just to read an email ?
My and mbesto's point was that making an app to get any service on demand doesn't really work except for a few high-volume, low margin markets such as ride sharing and maybe food delivery. The businesses that can be disrupted are the ones where low margins are made up by massive volume. Most service businesses actually operate the opposite way - high quality, high margin. Uber, Google, and pretty much anyone else who wants to try won't be able to successfully disrupt the majority of service business markets unless they radically alter the economics associated with the overhead costs required to maintain quality in these businesses. Slapping software with a 5 star ratings system on the consumer front end to expose your business to millions of more customers is not a radical alteration of the business fundamentals associated with many of these types of businesses.
Adding plots to nonsense doesn't make it any less so. Evolution / population genetics is probably the most abused paradigm in science -- perhaps Quantum Mechanics is a close second. Just because something changes based on stuff around it doesn't make it evolutionary, or punctuated. "Close enough" doesn't cut it. It's like saying rings, fields, groups, modules etc. are basically the same thing... or DAGs, binary trees, no big difference.
>I wonder what someone who owned equity in Homejoy would think of this.

Perhaps they should have done more due diligence? When you invest in a company there is always a risk something like this will happen. The question is: why would you invest in a company that can't survive without constant funding injections? It seems like a house of cards that suddenly fell down when the investors stopped propping it up.

Google didn't do anything wrong. The company folded and they hired some of the employees. It sucks for the investors, but that's life.
>If you were happy with 2.5 a few years ago

Do you mean 9 years ago?

-e-

But the real answer to your question is because I keep running into problems that have more elegant solutions in 3.x
I also think multi tasking is usually inefficient.
So we are not self aware, but our brain cells are? But aren't the brain cells themselves also just a collection of entities (molecules?)
I have to ask how could I express any experience, without society? Without society there is no language I can speak. No knowledge to rely on. No computers to write. And no Internet for sure.
IMAP presumably. That's what I do, at least.