skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you need entanglement. Embedded/embodied cognition runs with the argument that a brain isn't intelligent without a universe, and brains-in-vats models are missing something fundamental, which is all the useful stuff we offload to the body and world around us.
> FWIW, this book gave me the idea that consciousness could be some sort of feedback loop involving the whole Universe (including you and me and everybody else) possibly via quantum entanglement

Then this book sounds like it's not worth reading. There is absolutely no need to invoke pseudo-quantum mumbo-jumbo to investigate consciousness. We don't understand the chemical operation of neurons well enough to say whether quantum effects are necessary for neural functioning (although they probably aren't). Most "quantum-looking" (i.e. obviously non-classical) processes happen at much smaller space and energy scales than the chemical processes we know are involved in cognition.

Quantum entanglement almost certainly isn't involved because it can't be used to transmit information and it requires high degrees of precision to make use of in the first place.

The brain's thermal noise floor is vastly larger than the scale of most "interesting" quantum effects.
The same problems everyone else has, from the sound of it.
I've grown very fond of a CLI media player named cmus. It's lightning fast and does everything I need with a simple interface http://matthieukeller.com/media/2015.01/2015.01.cmus.png

I also keep aliases in my .bash_profile for streams like this:

alias bbc='/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --quiet -Idummy http://bbcwssc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcwssc_mp1_ws-eieuk 2> /dev/null'
In the US - unemployment is down, incomes are up, it's easier at the margin to afford a place to live.

In SF - great economy doesn't help people on the margin when there is not enough housing.
I believe jkot is largely referring to opportunity costs.
Because evolution ultimately reduces entropy in response to stimuli. This process, combined with time, can yield complexity. Countless studies abound ascertaining rudimentary aspects of cognition in even fairly primitive organisms. It's hardly a trait upon which humans hold an exclusive claim - we just evolved the best version of it.
> And then one day you realize there are bugs duplicated all over the place and you pray that nobody hits them.

If you can copy-paste repeated code, you can copy-paste debugging as well.

Duplicate bugs are a single bug.

Obviously not all DRY is bad.
> our knowledge of computational complexity, algorithms, and general problem solving shows that our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains

This is not true.

I wish I could respond with something more interesting, but that's all there is to it. You are just saying something that is incorrect. Our brains are information-theoretically and complexity-theoretically entirely reasonable.
> Thanks for taking the time to talk about this!

You're welcome.
Is that a surprise in the Christian context?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524031
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what amazing in it?
Because it's hard to get girls if you do nothing but sit on your ass. Existentialism 101 bro.
You ask what causes consciousness and how it emerges, which presupposes something before consciousness - something that can cause it and it can emerge from. Most likely you intend the physical world.

Why is consciousness in need of being explained in that manner, is what I think the author would ask. It's similar to saying that physical matter or energy are hard problems, as we don't know what causes them or how they emerge - not in the sense of conversion from one form of energy or matter to another, but what generated matter or energy in the first place.

(With that said, I do think there are strong arguments for favoring the physical world, and that pose a challenge for the author's position.)
Except that if your conscience (and everything in you) is under the _laws_ of physics, it implies that you are a deterministic or randomized machine. But then it is not easy to explain free will, for example. You could say that if it exists, it is a physical phenomenon, but what laws does it conform to? So most naturalists say that free will is just an illusion, but I personally would not call this a "patently obvious" choice. (I think it is a "Very Large Mistake")
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I found that on accident the other day. It wasn't very discoverable, but on the whole, I'm really enjoying the UI revamp.
Everything. iframes can't fuck with you code, but they are 1. displayed in your page (is this a good idea, does this iframe agree with how your page will display it). 2. Is leaking information to this iframe (and consequently, that iframe's server that this email had been opened) a good idea (no. 100% it's not.). 3. Can someone else contrive another vector of page control or information leak that suits their motives and hasn't been considered a priori by you (also yes, 100%. Never underestimate the motivation or creativity of others).

Never, ever, EVER embed an iframe thinking it will make your life better.
I've worked for state government. No amount of failure for any amount of money paid would surprise me.
I think that was a poor flagging/deleting (not really sure how it works) as well.
There's not really any evidence for or against that. On lower-resolution screens, sans-serif fonts may be more readable for longform, since serifs often get a bit fuzzy.
That price is not unreasonable. The US consumes roughly 5 trillion kWh every year. At a low-end estimate of 10 cents per kWh we have a 15 trillion dollar budget to build a facility that lasts 30 years. If we prioritize the environment over cheap power, we could double or triple that budget (and if people use less power in response to higher prices, that makes our job even easier). Obviously it would take a while to ramp up production, but that's not hard, just slow.
> There is a browser one here that I've played for people that want to try it out.

Where?
> You have a body but you're not your body

Not only that, but you're you because you're not someone else's body. That sounds tautological but I think it's important. I think a big part of what gives someone consciousness is identity, and what gives us identity, is the idea of us being an island isolotated within our body and therefore distinct from other conciousnesses.

Which sounds pointless, but I think it's actually significant if you start to consider the eventual effect of identity on "shared consciousness" via technologically-enabled telepathy, which we may actually see one day in the far future.
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Ask HN: Where do you go to get recruiters to find you a job?
I'm looking for a new role, but would like to work with recruiters to reduce time consuming job searches and applications. Where can you go to basically announce to recruiters that it's worth their time to find a good job match for you, rather than just spam by keywords?

I'd like to be able to continue to be a good employee at my current job, have time to spend with my family, and develop my side projects. So I'd much prefer a recruiter to go to bat for me so all I'd have to do is show up for the interview.

I'm leaving because I feel that both professional and skill growth at my current company is limited, but otherwise have a good relationship with everyone I work with, so I'm in no rush to do an intensive job search on my own.

Thanks HN!

P.S. I could interview well with a mid-senior electronics role or a junior programmer role.
As for actual data backup , firebase offers this in the standard plan. But real-time to consistency is bit of a gray zone.

I was just rehashing something the firebase team built . Streaming data import something .

Firebase team says they have something in the pipeline , I hope they release it soon.
The 12 hours here refers to the delivery window on the delivery day, not the time to ship the package. Though the total delivery time is certainly much less than 4-6 weeks.
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I'm not fully versed in the DMCA, but I thought the only evil part was the bit that forbids reverse engineering.
American Football is certainly very similar, but plays involve a great many more people moving at once. I was at a friend's house recently when he suggested watching a game he had DVRed. I said we didn't have time. I was then witness to something I hadn't seen: an entire football game in a few minutes. A wizard with a DVR remote can speed through all the highlights, absorbing all the important parts of the game in perhaps 15 minutes. I don't think that is possible with soccer/hockey/basketball.
OK then. Let's get to work on executing all those laws, such as:

Washington: It's illegal to walk around in public while sick with the common cold or anything you can transmit through the air. Anyone who is sick can no longer leave the house. It's also illegal to buy meat on Sundays.

Texas: Illegal to own six or more dildos.

North Carolina: Oral sex is a crime, so get on jailing them.

etc, etc.
There's an accompanying talk (and slides) that was given at apachecon earlier in the summer. I heard some of the talk (from the OP linked page.. not in person) . The essence of DTA seems to be that it creates key-pairs for both ends of the communication (client and server), multiple DTA's combine to create the private keys and the keys are being distributed to the client side through some out-of-band "protected" channel.

The use-case is not billions of browsers connecting to millions of webservers (as in PKI based TLS) but a small number of controllable client end points (a native app binaries on mobile or IoT devices) connecting to a handful of servers.

The mental image I came away with (not sure if it's 100% correct) is think of an distributed infrastructure to create SSH key-pairs (where PIN is equivalent to the passphrase for the private key).

Wonder if anybody from the Milagro team feels like responding to this thread. It's on HN front-page right now and would be a great chance for the creators to engage with the community.
That’s the pro-short functions side of the debate, but there are a few counter-arguments that you glossed over.

More often than not, a well named function with well named parameters is one of the absolute best and most reliable ways to make your code as close to "self-documenting" as possible.

It might make a single function’s implementation nicely self-documenting, but what really matters is how readable and maintainable the overall code base is.

When we’re reading the code calling that one-liner function, in most languages you can’t see the names of the parameters, only the order in which they are provided. Sometimes the meaning will be obvious anyway, or it won’t matter, for example if you have a commutative function with two parameters. Sometimes the meaning could be made obvious but hasn’t been, for example the infamous boolean parameters where the call winds up being

do_something_with(true, false, true);

because no-one defined more specific types/constants to use instead. And sometimes, there is no inherently “natural” order to the parameters, so replacing a one-liner that was unambiguous with a function call where the parameter order is unclear to the reader introduces uncertainty.

Another potential danger with using lots of very small functions is that while each function individually may be nice and clear, the number of relationships between those functions is much greater. This can cause a great deal of frustration to a reader who has to keep jumping to another part of the code to decipher each “clearly named” one-liner function. It can also make it harder to examine the behaviour in context when testing or debugging, for example because log functions don’t have enough information available to produce complete, self-contained messages, or because every time you hit a breakpoint in the debugger you have to walk 6 levels up the call stack to figure out what’s going on at the time.

Finally, I suspect the benefits of one-liners potentially expanding to include error handling are mostly illusory. How often can that one-liner really take any useful recovery action at such a low level, and how often will it just need to return some type of error value or raise some type of exception anyway, so that code further up the call stack with more information or resources available can deal with the problem effectively?

The idea of ensuring that you always have "meaty" functions is unhelpful, what's important is thinking about things from a perspective of abstraction, modularity, readability, and correctness.

OK, but readability and correctness are also global properties, not just local ones, and the benefits of modularity are closely related to how much complexity is encapsulated and hidden away by the extra abstraction, but one-liner functions rarely increase the level of abstraction very much.
> That sounds like you prioritized implementing streaming first over being a good citizen.

I read that as "it sounds like you prioritized getting a working proof-of-concept first over working out the long-term details".
Most liberals, I guess, were ignoring the problem you have described even during the Brexit. [1]

I recall this Sam Harris piece [2] in this respect.

[1] most liberals are forcing the natives to tolerate even the intolerances that the immigrants are bringing with themselves due to their cultures

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCWf0tHy7M
Yes, his 'Consciousness is an Illusion' in clickbait is a sense. Mostly he is trying draw attention to the fact that the thing he is trying to explain is not the thing other people are saying is unexplainable. The commonly accepted notion of what consciousness is ... he doesn't believe that exists. But that's just because he thinks we are deluding ourselves about what we are actually experiencing as consciousness -- the thing we think about when we talk about consciousness? That's just an illusion, and the real workings are just mundane, and you'll just say "that's not really consciousness" if I explain them.
Some iPhone 7 users report hissing sounds
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There's something amazing about the fact that the entire Red system, including GUI framework, parser DSL, runtime, and compiler for a C-like language (Red/System) is smaller than the average webpage. (Red—the entire thing—is a single 946kb executable (on Windows).)

Also, if you haven't tried a Rebol-like language (Rebol, Rebol 3, Red, etc) you should definitely do so. Rebol was originally created by Carl Sassenrath, who wrote the original AmigaOS kernel. It's a very fun and sensible little language.
> Yeah, this extension rocks! I'm going to use this forever.

Awesome :D

Shoot me an email or add an issue on github if you think of anything that might be worth adding.

cheers!
I also documented some of the quirks and outlined the release in my blog: http://blog.chewxy.com/2016/09/19/gorgonia/

I'd love some feedback on Gorgonia - did I just waste my time writing it when Theano/TF would have sufficed?
Novel, but terrible. The reason why the iPod, then iTunes, and now Spotify has gained so much traction is EXACTLY because they let you store all your music together in one place. I can't, for the love of me, imagine wanting to download an app for every album of every artist I follow. "This is the future of music!" the Github readme boldly claims. Sorry, but I beg to disagree.
Besos is a shithead. Tell us something we don't know already.
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It would be pretty neat if this was collaborative (like google docs). That would be a nice way to teach HTML+CSS+JS remotely.

I was actually expecting that feature when I saw that it was developed by Mozilla, as they made Together.js[1].

[1] https://togetherjs.com/
https://australianbakerycafe.com/ is the closest I've found on a trip to Atlanta GA, but I'm still searching for proper Australian style Bacon near where I live.
3.6 trillions is a lot of money if you intend to bulk buy all of it at once today, but comparatively less over, say, 10 years. US GDP is around 18 trillion/year, 2% of the GDP is a lot, but it's certainly realizable.

Besides, it is somewhat meaningless to look at the price of solar panels without a reference. As I stated above, I have no idea how to estimate the cost of nuclear. I also don't know if the new kind of reactor (like traveling wave reactors) are anything more than a concept (it seems like breeder reactors are pretty much at the level of prototypes today).

I think the important point is what the price difference is rather than whether a one-time purchase of solar panels would cost an amount to large to fit in one's wallet.
The RethinkDB team made Horizon (http://horizon.io), which is basically a self hosted firebase.
Download links don't seem to work
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I've switched to using Plex now, I find iTunes and the Music app way to complicated to use and constantly throwing up dialog boxes when all I want to do is listen to some music.

I've never truly understood how the people who gave us Safari and OS X gave us iTunes - they couldn't be more different.
Statistically, relying on tests to cover areas of the code that you are not actively working on is not a reliable methodology.

That is, yes, ideally you have a test catch something. Realistically, you don't have 100% test coverage.
Morse is readily adaptable to whatever you can sense: I've experienced it with sound, light, and vibration. Taste, heat, and smell might not work so well.

For input, you need to be able to reliably close and open a switch. This may be difficult for people with tremors, but many accessibility systems are built around single bit inputs, so it's a start. If you can manage another input method, it can be translated to Morse as well.

Internationalization is harder, it's not a good fit for non-alphabetic languages.
> Our brains are information-theoretically and complexity-theoretically entirely reasonable.

I know this has been the traditional view of most information theorists. But many philosophers (and a few computer scientists) challenge that view. See Fodor's frame problem[1]. The basic idea is this: yes, our brains are complexity-theoretically reasonable after the problem is defined given a set of inputs, outputs, and problem states. However the real issue is how our brains formulate the problem in the first place - how to sort through the combinatorially explosive amount of information in order to narrow down what is relevant to a problem. This objection has never been satisfactorily answered by information theorists in my opinion. The answers given by info theorists always seems to presuppose the existence of a problem formulation before solving it.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/
> Even if someone is anti-trans, it should be clear that in the current political climate, openly expressing these views is a career death sentence.

I don't want to be the one responsible for someone's career death sentence, but it _is_ posted on a public mailing list:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0005...

1) Trans person is qualified for job
2) Hiring a trans person is now risky because of a perception of a potential "shitstorm" should "something" happen
3) Admission that this perceived risk exists regardless of the trans person's experience, aptitude, or temperament.

Is this not a textbook example of discrimination?

Edit: used "risk exists" instead of awkward phrasing "risk is true"
Do you know a good book or article which describes the differences?
Note: Paywalled, and "web" link doesn't help.
i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.

the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.

they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...

... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.
Cool! But be aware WebRTC leaks public IP address for VPN users, and also leaks hashes of device IDs.[0] And in Chrome, it's very hard to block. This is a dangerous mix with talk of torrents :(

[0] https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc

Edit: From feross I get that WebRTC no longer leaks ISP-assigned IPs when using VPNs.
By institutions they mean rule of law, law enforcement, a banking system, etc. Quite different from what you're saying here.
Leaving the world a little better than I found it. Find opportunities where you can and want to make a difference, then do your best.
The article is oddly silent on food truck competition. Food trucks avoid real estate costs, most employees, and are given free rein to compete with brick-and-mortar restaurants, even to the point of being allocated parking right on the same block in some cases. The result was easily predictable.
> Server-less doesn't mean pricing-less

Well of course not, although that would be wonderful.

> Your can't perform operations to get active users

Something like this would do it, right:

var refUserOnline= db.ref('/.info/connected');
refUserOnline.on('value', function(snapshot) {
if (snapshot.val()) {
var sessionRef = refUserSessions.push();
sessionRef.child('began').set(firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP); // set UUID too
sessionRef.child('began').onDisconnect().remove();
}

});

> Paying 100$ per month for something you can do on a 5$ DigitalOcean server is something that make you thinking twice about server-less magic-less.

I pay Firebase a handful of dollars every month and they handle user auth, hosting, CDN and data. Three or four overheads I no longer need to worry about. Having used Digitalocean and Stormpath (yikes) in the past, I'm happy to have my eggs in one rather than multiple baskets.

Yeah it cost me a few hours on Stackoverflow after bumping into some of the problems you describe but the path from idea to working app is so short with Firebase - and the cognitive load typically inherent with managing multiple services, so small - that it's worth learning the 'Firebase way' of dealing with data (which is mostly just the NoSQL way).

Crisp is sweet btw, I use it daily. Good job.
Do you have an up-to-date LinkedIn account? I spend so much time shooing away headhunters I'm sure several would jump at the chance to help me find work and make their commission if I asked. Many have premium accounts and alerts set up so that if you change your status to looking for work they'll pick up on it.
> treachery, cowardice, and hypocrisy

WaPo is D.C.'s paper after all. That describes business as usual here.
Sadly... no it doesn't. I use emacs for my email, and while I could make it not render html email at all, the vast majority of my correspondence is with people sending rich emails through outlook. So... yeah, html it is.
Do you see yourself going back to vim?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-age-consent-around...

"But is Britain unusual in maintaining the age of consent at 16, and how does we compare to the rest of the world?

In Europe, countries who have the age of consent set at 16 include Cyprus, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland.

Spain did have one of the lowest ages of consent on the continent at just 13, but recently agreed to raise this to 16.

For Austria, Germany, Portugal and Italy it is 14, and in France, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Greece it is 15.

In China, the age of consent is 14, in Iraq it is 18, while in Japan it is five years lower at 13.

The likes of Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador and Colombia all have it set at 14.

In Angola, the age of consent is just 12."