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Not necessarily, there are plenty of rigorously documented cases of people being conscious without any brain activity.

This article is also pretty interesting: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.9555...


Without brain activity, all that can be demonstrated is the recollection of being conscious. It is well known that we can recall lots of things that never happened, with our brains filling in the blanks with invented details.


I am not aware of rigorously documented cases of people being conscious without any brain activity. Can you point me to some?


See linked article, under "Phenomenon #6: Cognitive abilities can be retained when the brain is seriously compromised", terminal lucidity, etc: "the patients demonstrated normal cognitive abilities just prior to death, contrary to what objective medical findings would have predicted (e.g., EEG, neuroimaging). These patients are operating in an anomalous manner that brings into question the idea that the body is a “puppet” controlled from the inside (the brain) and that perhaps it can function alternately in some instances."


I'm sorry, I can't take anything in that paper seriously, its references are "case reports", which are not rigorous documentation. They're observations mixed with narrative (even the one reference they say is prospective does not appear to be). This is not science, and there are explanations/reasonable alternatives for all the references that make more sense. In short, I question that claim "the patients acted in ways that would have not been predicted by EEG".


Are you aware of any documented cases of observing brain activity without using consciousness?


If that's equivocation as a wisecrack, it's particularly unhelpful in discussion about a pseudodiscipline whose proponents do no small part of their bullshitting by conflating the everyday psychological sense of "observation" with the sense of physical measurement.


Physicals measurements like everything else can be read only through consciousness. I was not talking in terms of wave function collapse. Just simple fact that consciousness is necessary to know there are experiments happening. Consciousness is necessary for you to experience the world and arrive at this conclusions. You take consciousness for granted.


Yes- that's a widely done thing. In particular, brain activity is evaluated using EEG, MRI, reflex response, and many other physiological methods.


Consciousness is a primary requirement to see, operate, read results from all of that.


Stop trolling.


It’s not trolling, it’s an obtuse reference to the unsolved measurement problem of Quantum Mechanics.


Is that how your llm model reacts when you can't formulate back a reasonable argument?


> You'll need to share the decryption key (e.g. via 1password shared vaults).

Not really. It also supports keeping the symmetric decryption key encrypted with the GPG key of each added user (and handles this automatically). This is the default behavior.

What you're saying also works (quoting from readme, emphasis mine: "Alternatively, you can export a symmetric secret key, which you must securely convey to collaborators."), but feels worse from a security point of view.


True on all counts. I never got the GPG approach working - though admittedly I didn't put too much effort into figuring it out.


Implementation is easy. Getting people to understand GPG is another thing entirely.


Because they have trouble wrapping their head around public / private keys? Or something else?


Exactly. Case in point: Sonos not getting along with Google means the Youtube Music app doesn't allow casting to a Sonos speaker directly (like the Spotify app for example). This means I have to use the Sonos app, which "wraps" the Youtube API, but in a very shitty way (there's lots of contents that I can easily find if I search for it on Youtube directly, but the same search string gives no or bad results if searched in the Sonos app). Not sure if this is just a poor implementation of the YT API by Sonos or more bad will on Google's part (I'm inclined to think it's the first), but either way the user experience is horrible. It's so bad that the Sonos speaker basically sits there unused (even though the sound quality is very good).

I'm not taking Sonos' part here though: like other people here pointed out, I'm pretty sure they patented some very obvious things which they should imo never have gotten a patent for in the first place.

edited to add this link for reference: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/10/the-forced-switch-t...


> So, yes, a $400 iPhone SE bests a $3,000 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro in single-core CPU performance.

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks? I don't believe that for a second.


Why? The iPad Pro is beating MacBook's in benchmarks all the time.


In what, geekbench? I'd reserve my judgement until there's some real life benchmark (eg. cinebench).


This is a very interesting project, thanks. I'd love to see how you solve the problem of typed message passing in the language itself.


These two libraries are probably the best to look at:

https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_agent https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_process

They could be improved but they are good enough for us to get started with.


> Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default browser

shouldn't that read "...Chrome's default search engine"?


Good catch. Corrected.


Looks like you're mistaking HTTP for HTML... The article makes no mention of HTML/JS.


No, this is very much an HTTP thing. When you request a resource over a URL, you should get the resource... instead with their site you get an HTML page with a bunch of javascript includes... that then retrieves content. It works, but it is opposite of what they are arguing for.

Now, this is this person's personal site... they can do what they want. But it's pretty ironic to put a rant about working with URLs on a site with a design like this that doesn't work with simple URLs.


The URL does work. I don't say anything in the post about reading what's on the other end. What you're saying would be like if I had said in the article that I should be able to give the Roku a video format it doesn't support and expect it to work. My website should work for anyone using a browser with default settings. I never claimed it was a static HTML site. It's an interactive JavaScript application.


I feel like you’re arguing for two completely orthogonal ideas. Either you get the resource with the request or you don’t.

The resource you get with your site is the same thing regardless of what the URL requested is. There is then JavaScript logic that loads more information based on the path. The content is then dynamically added to the DOM. This is how your site works, right?

In this model, you never actually get the content with an HTTP request. You get code that runs that contains/displays the content. From the HTTP point of view, the resource is the code. If you don’t execute the code, you don’t get the content.

This is a perfectly fine way to run a website. I have zero issues with this. And as you say, this ship has largely sailed.

But — what you are asking for in your post is the ability to hand a URL to a media player and have that content play. What would happen if the content site had the same setup as your site (without any special configuration like supporting YouTube URLs, etc)? What is the HTTP request returned a JavaScript wrapper around everything and not the actual video?

The Roku could very well support a video format and still not be able to play the content on such a site. And the kicker is — a web browser would probably work just fine and the user would have no idea why their URL wasn’t working on their TV.

This is why there have to be tools to extract YouTube videos to download. For sites like YouTube, the URL isn’t a simple resource locator. It’s a link to a bunch of code that needs to be run to get to the video.

What I think you’re missing is that it isn’t just the client authors who need to support URLs, but also the server authors. If you have a small local HTTP server that just sends raw files, that’s easy. But loading something like YouTube isn’t as simple as supporting HTTP requests. And there is a certain irony in publishing a post that asks for clients to support working with URLs on such a site design.


JS vs pure data (a video file) is an important distinction. I will grant you that. My point is that it's perfectly reasonable to assume users can access this blog post just fine (and my analytics show that is the case for the vast majority of them), because the functionality is built-in to every browser on the planet. You literally have to take action to circumvent the way your browser is intended to work, in order for my site to not work.


That's exactly my point. It's a website. It's meant to be consumed by browsers, so it's fine if the served resource is a SPA that renders the content lazily or whatever. The claim that SPAs somehow violate HTTP seems weird to me.


FWIW I actually agree with the underlying principle. It's just that I have specific things I'm aiming for with my site that require JS. I wish browsers were simpler. But that ship has sailed. In my perfect world, the JS-app functionality of browsers would be broken off into a separate "app player" application that users would download, and browsers would be stripped down to basic HTML and a subset of CSS (essentially fonts, colors, and flexbox). In that world I would definitely have an HTML-only version of my blog.


As anyone who ever played Civilization very well knows :-)


We all play civilization.


I never played


You’re doing it now.


I think the most annoying part of this fad is that if you want to build a gaming PC it's very hard to find good components (especially cases and motherboards) that _don't_ have LEDs. It wouldn't bother me much if the same products were available with and without all the bling.


The RGB LEDs exist to be customised, so you can turn them off if they annoy you.


Even more so in this case, where if they discontinue the product you probably risk losing access to your entire game collection.


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