jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I strongly encourage people to read the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. He makes some rather solid and defensible statements about consciousness (included falsifiable predictions that were later validated with brain imaging), and then makes some rather fantastical inferences. It's thought-provoking.

One of the very first things he does in that book is provide a definition of consciousness that he uses throughout the book. It's a more concrete definition than I've seen in most other places, and in part because it's very small. Like most others, I tend to roll my eyes a bit when philosophers start talking about how consciousness is the act of feeling and experiencing, and is the core of being, and is the sum totality of human experience, and start getting all mystic about it. Jaynes takes the opposite approach: it's not all and everything of human experience, it's exactly one specific thing about human experience.

Specifically, introspection. The ability to not just observe the real world, but to create a simulated world in our minds and observe that. Replay memories, or test hypothetical present or future situations. Anything else unique about the human mind is taken to be a consequence of consciousness, rather than a part of it.

Another big thing he does is show that activities that we normally think of as conscious and rational/intelligent are actually not taking place in the consciousness (these are backed by experimental evidence). For example, chess players get a lot of their performance from perception that filters information before it hits the consciousness. For another, decision-making is shown to be a pre-conscious activity, and a person's supposed line of reasoning is actually a post-hoc rationalization of the decision that the sub-conscious mind dumped into the consciousness (I forget the details of how this is demonstrated). The latter result is... disturbing, because it challenges your notion of free will. But the more I observe myself and others, I can't help but think it's true.

One major upshot of this: I think there's sort of an implicit assumption that consciousness is some sort of "higher form" of intelligence. Jayne's work casts doubt on that. It seems that consciousness interacts with intelligence, but most of our "intelligence" does not come from (what he considers) the faculty of consciousness.

Observationally, this seems to agree with the state of AI research, and the distinction between weak AI and strong AI. In fact, if one accepts his theories, then weak AI is actually just unqualified Artificial Intelligence, and what we currently call strong AI is not AI at all, but Artificial Consciousness, which should rightly be a separate field.
Obviously, you have no experience with flutter SDK and development tools ? Do you ?
Author here. Yes, the Chromium code is very good, and I learned a lot from reading the Servo code as well. We hope to do some more advanced chapters at the end of the book that reference real browser code bases more directly—if we can find an interesting way to write them, anyway.
I've thought of this myself. As devices get more integrated, it could be worth having a professional with the right tools and machinery to upgrade laptops/phone/tablets by unsoldering and re-soldering in new modules.

Upgrade your RAM for cheaper, replace NAND Flash modules near their write capacity or slowing down with fresh ones, breathing new life into a device...

There might be a market for it, also it would be an eco friendly way of upgrading old devices so they remain usable instead of throwing them away and creating more e-waste
Maybe I only have the sequence and not the virus(or small pox) or maybe I want to create a novel virus (respiratory spread Ebola)
> weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal

When you do retreats do keep in mind that not everyone will want to spend a week or weekend away from their family, and that retreats with a bunch of people who can be social nonstop for 12 hours can also be the worst nightmare for introverts. Keep it optional, make sure it's clear that it's optional, make sure junior employees don't feel pressured :)
Being somewhat conservative, recently in the US there have been an average of around 75000 new cases of covid reported per day. Let's assume there's a 14 day window of infectivity (in reality this period is shorter but there are also unreported cases) so there's a little over 1 million people in the US who can infect surfaces at any given time. Pretending for a moment that these are evenly distributed, that's a 0.3% chance of any given person having covid. If a surface remains infected for 3 days, that would mean that 230 people would need to come into contact with it every 3 days for it to have a 50% chance of an infected person coming in contact with it. This would average out to 77 people per day. If 1000 people traffic a location over an 8 hour day, the odds that an infected person has contacted the surface in the past hour are around 31%. Now the odds of a an infected person actually contaminating a surface they touch are probably lower still, but this would seem to indicate most surfaces in public places have significant likelihood of being unsafe.
Interesting. So this will remain a big corporate game
>It goes awry when the team gets larger than seven or so people.

Agreed generally.

With my current employer we do it every day.

5 people, just a few / maybe one minute each... maybe a tangent here or there to discuss something that came up as a group that would benefit from more than one person on the team's input, etc.
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Ooh. Thanks for that tip.
>The redundancy was removed because of a chip shortage, and this was considered acceptable because the self driving feature still requires the driver to keep hands on the steering wheel anyway

But aren't we pretending that this year the autopilot /FSD will actually live to their names? Or will Tesla put the chip back later this year ?
> The only way I can see Apple continuing to be so successful with iOS is through continued innovation, not by caving in to developers demands for features [...]

Let's not forget that a significant (however you choose to define that) reason for the success of the iPhone was - and continues to be - due to the apps available for the iOS platform. Apple understands this - just look at their marketing.

GC? As has been said by others, it's not really on the wishlist. Most devs have much simpler requests that would make development so much more enjoyable. By the time you've written a basic HTTP request-response wrapper for the 10th time, it starts to get really old...
this is why we should go back to be seeing karma points

A lot of the super-upvoted comments aren't any better. Many get upvoted because they repeat some conventional view. I find these get in the way more than obviously bad ones do. They're more work to filter out.

I noticed I'm relying more on user names as a proxy for how good the comment probably is. It's lossy (a good comment can come from an unexpected place) but not that lossy (humans are relatively consistent), and it's fast. I wonder if the software could support this way of using the site. The obvious ways of doing so would unfortunately fragment the community.
Square is the only card-present service I am aware of that offers a free swiper, no application process, no setup fee, no monthly fees and a reasonable transaction fee. That is clearly competition.

It's suicidal to enter the game with an alternative. You have to build a chunk of business and then you can think about something more alternative. Jack and Keith clearly understand this.
The US dollar was backed by gold until 1933. The deflationary contraction occurred between 1929 and 1933. So, there you go.
Thanks for posting this. Would appreciate pull requests and feature requests or simply general feedback if you use this in practice.
Didn't Biden reverse that?
I wish they would have tested further out than 120 minutes in case part of the effect was not digesting the carbs until later (vs just lowering spikes). One of the books I read on blood sugar talked about some hard to digest pasta that will take 3-5 before the glucose spikes up from it.
Good. I tried to sign up and they rejected me because I am not a citizen, although I live in the US on a greencard.
Why would IMGT rely on a single customer?

Dodgy business practices.
Surprised nobody mentioned iMacs. They were the first major desktop without a floppy drive but they did have USB. The first accessory for most was either a floppy or Zip drive.
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Constant news around this bothered me deeply. Someone admits they committed fraud and 346 people died but pays a small sum to get out of the mess without jail time for anyone ? A lot of people say this is bad and these corporations are too powerful and we need someone like Bernie sanders to teach them a lesson.

A closer scrutiny reveals exactly the opposite. It is the government that is too powerful, government tries to open an investigation with an explicit objective of jailing the executive. At some point Boeing has to ask how much it stands to lose if the executive goes to jail. Even though the probability is low, the DOJ has long arms and more resources to harass Boeing. $2.5B is not a fine but a bribe that an all powerful DOJ has extracted from Boeing.

$2.5B is still lot of money and 346 deaths is even bigger disaster for Boeing. Boeing did not benefit from 346 deaths on other hand it suffered massive losses. A selfish and greedy company like Boeing have far greater incentives to course correct rather than DOJ or US government. Remember how USA bombed countries while making completely fraudulent claims about WMD ? Who went to jail for that ?
Thanks, glad that you like it, and I love the fact that Yama "fits in a Commodore 16"...
Have you tried privacy? (https://privacy.com) seems to be pretty similar to the enveloping you’re talking about.
I usually focus on the intersection of two things (within the framework of people working in tech) people who have been through something interesting, and people who know how to make things interesting: the best interviews imo are at the intersection, where there’s a great personal experience we can dive in, coupled with great story-telling.

Beyond that, I’m trying hard to go beyond my own bubble bias (developer/enterprise tech), and make the lineup as diverse as possible
Awesome. This fixes one of my least favorite things about Kickstarter both as a project creator and backer.
Does anyone know: is their a difference between "Common Core" the method of teaching, and "Common Core" the idea that all students across the nation should be held to one standard?
We at BetterLesson have been working on this for the past 2 years. We have accumulated a vast amount of lesson plans from some of the best teachers throughout the country and from various environments, whether urban, suburban or rural. Teachers have free access to all these Common Core aligned lessons, among other standards that we have started supporting. See http://betterlesson.com/common_core/browse/624/ccss-math-con...
The last U.S. civil war had the politicians from the southern states seceding.

Is that what you were predicting 3 years ago, still predicting?

Because all I see are rioting by people who have lost any upward mobility they might have once had.

They'll be burning Teslas next but that doesn't make it a civil war.
They’re out there if you want to search for them.

I went through three or four of the statistical analyses that purported to show the election results were practically impossible.

They were trivially junk. E.g. one compared the voting rate in 2020 and 2016 but used votes to registered voters in 2020 but votes to eligible voters in 2016.

The others were similarly laughable, but no body cared when I posted this.

Others says it better than I can, but the people who believe this stuff believe it because they want to, not because it makes sense. Facts and reason didn’t get them to this point and facts and reason isn’t going to pull them back.
Telegram works fine.
I think most "master" software engineers are a bit more idealistic than that... Not saying I am a master but I occasionally write something and consider it genuinely beautiful.
Que all the managers that will immediately list off 5 manager activities as software engineering "mastery."
It's happened before. For example, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft dodgers.
It doesn't appear to me that their rationale for this is based on a judgement about truthfulness of anything. It is purely based on (in their words):

> we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence
It’s hard to put a company in jail... we still have to wait to see if there are charges against Boeing executives
https://observer.com/2017/01/tired-of-news-head-to-pornhub-t...
> But if you get it wrong, what happens? You have to refactor (if you didn't get too far in), or start again if you did. No big deal - code is perfectly amenable to this.

This works nicely on a small scale, but not with the architectural problems.

> that is a business problem not an architectural problem

It's an architectural problem because this business constraint forces me to get the architecture right the first time - I won't get another chance.

There's no business reality where it's OK to say "just give me another 2 years to re-do the system in a (probably) better way".
> When someone new joins the company, they do what everyone else does: go into our Notion queue, pick a task, and get to work, asking for clarification when needed... Instead of setting quarterly goals or using OKRs, we move towards a single north star: maximizing how much money creators earn. It’s simple and measurable, allowing anyone in the company to do the math on how much a feature or bug-fix might be worth.

Quite frankly, this doesn't seem sustainable. There's only so much high-visibility/high-value work. When your headcount is large relative to "desirable" work, people will compete for the "desirable" work. They will lie about the 60 hours of work they did last week, and tell you that it's the culturally-normative 20 hours of work, because it makes them look like 3x engineers.

> expecting responses within 24 hours... we can compete–and win–on flexibility

Including in SRE / ops roles, where people need to be on-call?

Let's be clear about something here. You have a headcount of 25, and ostensibly nobody is full-time. It's certainly possible to avoid internal competition at that size, with the right culture. But can you really avoid adding headcount? Can you really protect your culture from the opportunists, the cutthroats, the workaholics? How large can the kibbutz grow before the workers' paradise is no longer so sunny?
Yes, my intent was not to mock a Japanese accent, but to adopt what seemed to me the most plausible spelling. In this particular case, the Japanese concept has far eclipsed the original English word, and the term was more or less a Japanese creation in the first place[0], so that's why I spelled it that way.

In other cases, the English spelling is still dominant, so using a back-transliterated katakana spelling (e.g. "Rabu Hoteru" instead of "Love Hotel") would be just weird.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=salary+man%2Cs...
This model is much more expensive than efficientnet at inference (I think the flops are about 2x?). You can use these same techniques with efficientnet.
"Should remote workers have their pay reduced if they move somewhere cheap?"

Who is anyone to say one way or another? It's a negotiation between 2 parties. Employee will try to argue that value they bring is indifferent of where they are based and employer will try to argue that employees are a) less valuable when remote and/or b) more replaceable by other similar workers in those/similar locations.

Either part will try to call each other bluff.

Both will learn that it's ultimately expensive to take an absolute approach and likely to negotiate a middle ground.

I don't buy that remote-only companies benefit by being able to quickly arbitrage by hiring only from cheapest places because you can only remain truly remote when vast majority of your workers are all in various locations, not pooled together in certain locations.
There's a lot of interest in various ML communities on more efficient training and inference. Both vision and NLP have had a growing focus on these problems in recent years.

I think you make a good observation that much of ML progress is driven by tinkering with existing models, though instead of describing it as more "alchemy than science" it's probably more accurate to say it's very experimental right now. Being very experimental is neither unscientific nor unusual in the development of knowledge. James Watt worked as an instrument maker (not a theoretician) when he invented the Watt steam engine in 1776 [1], and at the time the idea of heat as Phlogiston [2] was still more prevalent than anything that looks like modern thermodynamics. Theory and practice naturally take turns outpacing each other, which is part of why we need both.

I'd also caution against the belief that experimental work doesn't require "particularly demanding thought". There are many things one can tweak in current ML models (the search space is exponential) and, as you point out, the experiments are expensive. Having a solid understanding of the system, great intuition, and good heuristics is necessary to reliably make progress.

For those who are interested in the theory of deep learning, the community has recently made great strides on developing a mathematical understanding of neural networks. The research is still very cutting edge, but the following PDF helps introduce the topic [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

[3]: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall19/cos597B/...
Yeah, that makes sense. There's some mental gymnastics involved in writing shaders since you're writing the code from the perspective of an individual pixel. As opposed to other methods like using Processing or the HTML canvas where you can just say "draw a square from here to here and make the lines this thick". When writing a shader, I have think instead "Ok, if I want a line here, and I was a pixel on that line, what would I need to know to determine my color".

If you're finding that to be the obstacle with shaders, it may be helpful to start with just learning a library like Processing, or general graphics library in whatever programming language you're comfortable with, and then come back to shaders. It will still take changing how you think about things, but then you'll have some solid foundation.

Personally, I've found it the most helpful to have some kind of goal in mind. Some kind of image or style that I want to make, then figure out what techniques I need to learn to get there. Starting from the technical side can work, but then it can be easier to loose interest when things get challenging. When I start with an artistic vision, then I often find myself over my head in the technical things I need to learn, but I feel motivated to push through that to get to the end goal.
Why do jelly dildos have value?
You caught the writing vs tool part well :)

I am kind of ideologically motivated about site minimalism (no JS, minimal CSS), which is why I didn't go down the route of medium. Medium is probably the simplest, but as a reader I hate their UI, especially when I have a habit of highlights the para that I am reading and they bring up their annoying share function.

ghost.org is kinda outside my pricing for a trivial blog. 29 USD per month is not in my planned budget, atleast not with the content that I have in my mind now.

Sure, I can answer all of these questions later, once I get an audience, but I was hoping that someone here already might have found a solution that I can use immediately.

Guess I will resort to my backup plan then, have a basic HTML template and copy paste it for each article and edit the content.
The Reagan Recession was brutal.
There is a new problem with jpackage after JDK 14, when your app depends on native libs, you'll get UnsatisfiedLinkError. There is a ticket for that, but it seems that one core dev couldn't repro it and the ticket is closed now... https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259661
The trick of OO-languages is “abstraction is had by introducing another object”.
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In Erlang, the mantra is “abstraction is had by introducing another process”.

OK, it is hard for me to imagine that creating another process wouldn't have a larger conceptual overhead than introducing another object. Perhaps I just haven't seen the magic yet.

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For me OO is far from a panacea. But does get some jobs done.

A big thing is the ability to construct multiple entities that can all be treated effectively the same way because they all implement the same interface. Your function happens to take Y structure. Suppose X inherits from Y but does something differently - Voilà, you have abstracted away your dependence from X. What would the Erlang equivalent to this be?
Are you on 10.6? If not, you're out of luck.
Sounds like a placebo or he had terrible wifi before. Alexa and the old bulbs wouldn't be running Wifi6 so its just a newer router running in backwards compatible modes.

The only Wifi6 device the author owns is probably an iPhone.
Sadly, it is a precious snowflake license (MIT + Custom term) with a very ambiguous custom term:

"The Software and/or source code cannot be copied in whole and sold without meaningful modification for a profit."

Great to see it semi-open source, and well within the rights of the author, though :-)
Can you explain why some would go down this loop route? I don't know C but the obvious solution to me is what you posted.
Be brutally honest about what a meal needs to be. For example, an average sized person can eat a single-patty hamburger and HALF of a SMALL order of fries with NO drink, and be full. This "bad" food has never gotten me in trouble, because I keep the calorie count sane. What gets people in trouble is thinking that they actually need to buy the large fries and a massive drink, add bacon and cheese, and finish with cookies. Then they do it every day, and also stop at Starbucks in the afternoons.

One pound (of body fat) is 3500 calories. This is good to remember when you see a single shake at Baskin Robbins that is 2000.

Exercise is important, but overrated. Remember that humans burn calories even sitting still. So when the treadmill tells you that you burned 140 calories, that is a bit of a lie, because you would have burned maybe 80 if you did nothing at all. It is far more important to just eat and drink fewer calories to begin with.
Apple, in particular, is never (well, while Steve Jobs or anyone similar is in charge) going to rely on other people for essential parts of their platform again. They've learned that lesson many times.