skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of steps not related to self-awareness involved in investigating oneself in a mirror. For example, with the "spot" test, the animal has to:

1) Be interested enough in the reflection to watch it long enough to see the spot

2) Be observant enough to notice the spot

3) Be curious enough to care about the spot

4) Understand that the animal in the mirror is itself

5) Collapse the logical chain that: (a) if the animal in the mirror has a spot, and (b) the animal in the mirror is itself, then therefore (c) it has a spot.

6) Think to use the mirror as a tool for investigation.

An animal could plausibly get (4) without getting enough of the other steps to actually start investigating. To me, (5) seems like the most difficult leap of intelligence of all of these, and it doesn't really have to do with self-awareness-- it's more about complex inference and logical reasoning. (6) also suggests that the capability for tool use might be a prerequisite.

Most cat owners understand (including other posters in this thread) that cats know the difference between their own reflection and another real cat seen through a window. Disinterest is one explanation (though that doesn't happen with actual cats in a window), but I don't think cats' failure in the "spot" experiment is enough to exclude that they are indeed capable of (4).

On top of that, I don't think this experiment says anything at all about the nature or presence of "consciousness".
An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your Life
I'm sorry to hear you had a heart attack in 2014. Hope you're better.

It's reassuring to know that enterprise startups work differently than what the typical startup advice is about. We've dreamed about presales but it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense that it's possible without actually building out a demo first and showcasing that.

I've been doing a lot of cold calling through LinkedIn but trying to do customer development with enterprises doesn't seem to work. Seems like enterprises are almost expecting you to show them a solution instead of taking the time to talk about their problems.
You may be looking for the RNA world hypothesis [1] [2]. In essence, random bits of RNA combine and replicate "in the wild". The bits that replicate better become more prevalent, et cetera, et cetera. This system needs no metabolic process per se. Heating and cooling and/or an oscillating chemical environment , e.g. from the day and night cycle or the tides or a belching vent, could provide the energy to power these cycles.

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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1xnYFCZ9Yg
Please don't personally attack other users like this, no matter what they've said. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14098242 and marked it off-topic.
Implementing Unicode Collation in CockroachDB
>Do you want someone controlling your plane who can't handle waking up early?

I would rather have someone who has no problem staying up late rather than someone who is a 'morning person'. Once awake, night owls seems to be better at staying awake.
Yes, I've had the same experience and am wondering if I need to commit resources to developing a demo.
I wanted to write something here because a friend of mine went through recurring thoughts of self-harm and (though they are doing much better now) it was difficult to see. I apologise if I'm repeating some things you've already been told but:

First of all, please, if you believe you are actually going to harm yourself then talk to someone right away. Call a relative / friend / counseling hotline [online search should find a number in your country / area].

If you can't get through, or you think you might still harm yourself, then go straight to your hospital's ER or call an ambulance.

Bottom line: if you're in that situation, you need to make contact with someone!

Aside from the "urgent situation" stuff above, I echo the suggestions of other commenters that explaining your symptoms to a medical professional (appointment with family doctor, or similar) is an important step. They will likely be able to advise you better than any of us.

Finally, on mental illness in general: I've experienced episodes of major depression and of serious anxiety problems (as, in fact, have many of my friends and family). Medication, for me, worked wonders and helped me rebuild my strength - but the real turning point was when I talked it over with my doctor. That helped me begin exploring what I could do to get better, which led to all the improvements I've felt since.

I know it's difficult and I know I'm not in a position to understand your particular situation. I'm not suggesting these problems are always easy to fix - but from what I've seen, I really do believe improvements are possible for all of us.

Good luck with everything.
Musk Lays Out Timeline for Tesla Semi Truck, Electric Pickup
Do you think people went to Walmart "just because"? They avoided all those amazing local shops to go to Walmart because it was worse?

There were many advantages of Walmart at the time. Perception of lower prices, much more convenient hours (many local shops closed at 5-6), better product selection with frequently updated stock, etc...

I'm wondering if there aren't quite a few on HN that don't even know what a pre-Walmart world was like, especially in smaller cities/towns.
The trick is setting this up BEFORE the other passenger reclines. You're not supposed to recline your seat or have tray tables out during takeoff. All too often, the former rule is substantially easier to break than the latter without getting noticed by the flight attendants. So in practice, immediately after the flight attendants sit down while the plane is still taking off, said obnoxious passenger reclines their seat all the way back, even though they are technically not supposed to yet.
I hope NixOps will be in that list in future: https://nixos.org/nixops/
That's not how I understood it - I thought it was about the upper limit of theoretical parallelism.

But I'm an EE, so maybe I misunderstood some finer points?
I also notice some kind of Finland-Brazil-Argentina alliance
In the end this does not seem to have mattered. Reddit's hardcore "contributors" are the kind of people who enjoy a challenge, even when it's stupid. I think it even turned into some kind of pride for some of them, being able to "master" an idiotically programmed system.

Myself, I just get so frustrated about the idiocy.
Yes, the problem with Doodle is that it's incredibly inefficient to select a lot of different available slots of time. It also forces you to make a selection for specific dates. I need something that allows you to select your weekly availability (Mon-Sun) without asking for specific dates.
Is it wrong for corporations to look at our nation's school-children and see a "market"?

Yeah, it is.
Curious about how you deal with the legality of recording calls. The required verbal notice that people get when they call in for support doesn't seem to be an issue, because the caller can see the benefit back to them (improved support, documenting poor service, etc).

In this case, though, I don't see that the person being sold to would feel like a recording provided any benefit to them. I could see it perhaps even reducing the likelihood of a sale.

Curious where your internal conversations landed on this.
It's really better than a linter because a linter warns you of style errors, but you still need to invest time to fit it.

Whereas this just formats everything for you, set it up on file save and you're done. No more discussions on style and whatnot, your codebase is suddenly uniform.

Go has that with `go fmt` and it's very liberating.
We had configurability in early versions of gofmt but realized it was a mistake and kinda missed the whole point of having a code formatter, so we removed them.
This release tells me that Ubuntu has completely given up on being a desktop Linux distribution. There's mention of only one thing: containers. Containers, containers, containers. No shell improvements, no application improvements, nothing else. So... I guess I'm glad I've moved over to Fedora.
I am not familiar with this, what was the problem with photos and stepping aside, why she didn't want to do it?
Institutional knowledge gets lost everytime an employee dies or leaves the company.
Any plans to have a physical copy with subscription?
GoTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere
Does that mean, the employees took the liberty to kick the customer out? If so, I would think that they either didn't thought anyone to disobey and especially not to end up this violently. Still, this would speak volumes upon United's management.
Oops. Sorry about that. Look forward to it being back up :)
Some time ago I tried to figure out the dumbest way to find important features in most photos given a certain resolution.

There's face/features detection (and other CV) in here, too, but you can get by with some really cheap tricks in a lot of cases. In fact, the meat is it finds things that are chromatically different or more, uh, feature-full.

https://github.com/nkozyra/smartcrop

(again, don't be fooled by the name. at some point I'd hoped it would be smart. it was a class project.)
Netflix also talks about it themselves: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/49-Proce...
At my university the last undergraduate classes were out by 5, but graduate classes would run as late as 9pm. I think a perception that undergraduate should be 8-5 is part of the problem.
An interesting parable... I am well acquainted with many people who work with plant medicines like Ayahuasca in the indigenous Amazon.

In one such instance, a fellow was under the tutelage of two renowned Maestros (master shamans). He, after learning how to converse with them, asked them how they cure ailments like depression and anxiety.

The Maestro's had no idea what depression and anxiety were. They were only accustomed to healing physical ailments; they had to work with the Westerners to develop a modality in which they could spiritually heal anxiety and depression.

I reflect on this story often, as it is a reminder that to those whose only concern is their next meal or the snakes in the grass, they need not fret the ghosts of the future or the past.
Tesla to reveal pickup truck within two years, and final Model 3 design in July
We'll take them.

Among their many other contributions to the city, the Halal food trucks are a center-point of NYC's late night culture.
Did you try reverse engineering the burndown?
I don't generally condone piracy. But I also believe that when a company makes it hard to enjoy their games, or tries to milk money out of games that are 30 years old, that I've probably paid for several times over the years, then I don't care anymore. If even .1% of Nintendo's revenue comes from NES/SNES games, then they are doing it VERY wrong. And if it's less, I don't feel bad because I know I'm not ruining some market segment.

I had an NES as a kid, rebought an NES in college with most of my childhood games, and bought quite a few games on Wii virtual console. These games arent easily portable, take up a lot of space, and I'm not even sure how to hook an NES up to a modern TV offhand. NES won't give me simplicity for the games I've paid for, so by definition of terrible copyright laws, I resort to "piracy". And while im there, theres other games i always wanted to try as a kid, that nintendo will make difficult for me to play (heck, if I went to piracy for legally owned games, why would games i dont own be any easier). It's a vicious cycle.

steam has demonstrated that you can easily cut piracy simply by making things readily available and easy to use. dont give people incentive and then complain about it.
Because your rhythm might be unique or confusing to your team members.

Using a tool like this you all share the same rhythm. No ones feelings get hurt, onboarding is simpler, code is easier to read.
Don't forget that Sportal is an existing name (I saw it advertised in the 90s/early 2000s), and people will try going to sportal.com.
In my opinion the best way to quote here is to start each paragraph with a leading > and then italicize the whole quotation with asterisks around each paragraph.

> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This is awesome but man, reading the canvas portion was a bit distressing. I wonder why they didn't use a game engine to do this? All the work they did has been implemented already in several JS game engines, such as the one I help maintain (it's free and OSS), https://excaliburjs.com. We support all the features they needed including mobile & touch support. They could have also used Phaser (http://phaser.io) too I bet... that has WebGL support for even faster rendering on supported devices.
No, again that's a strawman. To explain it for the third time: I was addressing a specific complaint made in the paper and providing a solution. So far I have not seen any counterarguments against this specific solution to this specific problem.

Later I pointed out allocators are a great solution if you're able to use them. Again, if you can't, I'm afraid you're out of luck and I apologize this solution doesn't fit your needs.

You can, of course, still make statics, you just won't be able to use Box to conveniently allocate buffers in an automatic and type-safe way.

Also check out UnsafeCell if you want to assert as the developer on behalf of your program that you're accessing data in a memory safe way.
The biggest difference is single call vs. trend data.

We're focused on not just looking at how to dissect a single call (chorus, gong), but how to make sense of a larger dataset of calls. That let's us understand multi-day/week trends and how to best optimize call behavior across an entire team.

As I understand it, People.ai is looking at metadata (call length, percentage of time spent talking vs. listening, etc.).
Anytime I see Switch mentioned, I think about nintendo's ol' switcheroo 22 years ago that ultimately outdid nintendo.
Not for everybody, and not for most people I'd wager.
We've demoed the HoloLens to hundreds of people and I find this the case alot, that is, until they put it on themselves and understand/experience what's going on. MR/AR is one of the hardest things to explain and understand until you have experienced it yourself but once people put the HoloLens on, it takes only a minute or two until it becomes second nature whether they are 6 or 60. There's just something natural about the whole experience.
That just goes to show that Ubuntu and friends are not serious production OS. In what world is extended vulnerability to months-old bugs a legitimate prerequisite for production viability?
This suffers from both the fundamental attribution error and the labor-theory-of-value error.

They seem to be implying:
1) We got funded.
2) We worked hard on our pitch deck.
3) The effort on our pitch deck is why we got funded.

I don't see any reason that their first pitch deck is better than their 12th or their 23rd. Just because the 23rd investor liked their business plan doesn't make that pitch deck, or their strategies to improve it, correct.
I've been demoted from first class before during boarding, but that's because I snatched the upgrade for $50 during same day check-in.
There is! https://increment.com/feed.xml
Did there have to be any eating?

Imagine a simple chemical chain reaction, where RNA is floating around in the "primordial soup", and self-replicates simply when it encounters the molecules needed to do so.

RNA is just a chemical, you don't need a whole organism for it to float around and react with other chemicals.

Of course, maybe these two things happened at the same time. Maybe mitochondria developed as the dumb metabolic engine, while RNA developed into the structure. Eventually the structure captures metabolic engines to fuel it directly, rather than harvesting free chemical energy from the environment.
Well, they can think they know something that isn't true anymore. I've seen it before at companies, the circumstances leading up to their success are often repeated as sacrosanct steps not to be questioned.
> keeping it in RAM on a single machine

> 500kB packed array, coupled with cooldown logic, should have a negligible performance cost and can easily be done on a single thread. That thread could interact via atomic channels with the CDN

That's not simpler.

We used tools that we're already using heavily in production and are comfortable with.
"I got sick and tired of programming in blub and then I realized blub only had 23 keywords so I abbreviated them to a single lowercase letter and have people write identifiers starting with either an uppercase letter or one of the three remaining lowercase letters. Ever since I started programming in 'b' I started wearing out keyboards so often -- those blub programmers will never understand the value of 'b' being a succint language since they have never used one.
I was thinking about your comment for a few days now and I realized that the from the natural world, the avocado best fits your Aha! egg substitute fairly well. While in terms of vitamins it won't be the same, but:

1. They look very similar! Both have a large egg/seed in the middle of the white/fruit. Look is important for a substitute, e.g. all of the faux meat products.

2. Nutritionally they're also very similar in terms of fat and protein.
There's something sick in recent trends when people fear of punishment or feel shame for using complete abandonware from early 80s. They absolutely need to pay money and get entertained, with convenient cloud-based DRM-enabled streaming service at sofa. This attitude is worse than any piracy.

BTW, Nintendo and their Yakudza internet patrols don't care and you don't need darknet torrents to get ROMs, they're everywhere. Emulators are mostly opensource and banned only on iOS because iOS is for Clash of Kings and not for retrocomputing.
Who cares about making billions if it's something you aren't motivated about? It takes a long time to make a $BN company, it's not like you can just get in and flip it so you better believe in what you're doing.

You won't find meaning in dollar accumulation - you will find meaning applying dollars and time to something you believe in.
Same here. It's not just work either, I always find music the most enjoyable at 1am and will often put off sleep to finish an album. I never feel like that at any other time of the day.
It's crazy that freeloading squatters have more rights than paying customers.
United Airlines stock losing $950M in value
We're launching a React UI components library for building Amazon / Yelp like search experiences.

For context, we launched a React UI components library for building interactive maps ~2 months ago. Today, we are extending this to include search UIs. We have gathered 25+ components that are typically used in popular search UIs: lists, range sliders, search, calendars, feeds, cards.

We've also got an interactive tutorial for building a Hacker News search app in 5 mins.

Check out the examples built with it: https://opensource.appbase.io/reactivesearch/examples/

Or read up more on the launch blog post: https://medium.appbase.io/reactivesearch-ui-components-for-b...

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Direct github link to the project: https://github.com/appbaseio/reactivesearch
I'm sorry to hear you had a heart attack in 2014. Hope you're better.

Thanks. The doctors tell me that as long as I eat right, take my meds, and get enough exercise, I should be fine. Of course, doing those things isn't always easy, but I do my best.

I've been doing a lot of cold calling through LinkedIn but trying to do customer development with enterprises doesn't seem to work. Seems like enterprises are almost expecting you to show them a solution instead of taking the time to talk about their problems.

How large of companies are you calling into? I think, in general, the larger the company the more they want a complete solution prepared ahead of time. It may also matter what department you call into. If you haven't already, maybe try mixing it up... if you're trying to enter through IT, try a LOB unit. Or vice versa.

Also, have you read Crossing The Chasm? If not, you might find it worthwhile.

More food for thought, if you're not already familiar with the material: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/most-startups-should-be-deer...
It makes perfect sense to me. There is indeed a division between the metabolic first hypothesis, which posits the spontaneous assembly of autocatalytic metabolic networks under the correct conditions (lots of incoming useful energy + abundant simple molecules for autocatalysis). The problem with this view is it doesn't realistically allow for natural selection (even putting aside the difficulty of achieving a biochemically plausible cycle in early earth conditions). The replication first hypothesis allows for natural selection but in turn faces the problem of how the raw material of sufficient complexity (nucleotides) to allow reliable template based synthesis could have plausibly come about. The linked to article addresses one hypothesis for one possible path for arriving at the building blocks of RNA given that early conditions were close enough to its assumptions.

I enjoy works which look for scenarios where both could have emerged simultaneously. Reading the introduction of this paper/article provides an accessible exposition to the topic: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/4/1838/htm

If you are curious about under what conditions self-organization might more effectively dissipate entropy I suggest reading anything by Ilya Prigorine. But this short minute physics video narrated by Sean Carroll is good for a start: https://youtu.be/HxTnqKuNygE?t=2m07s
I would have been subject of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2008 except that I bought a chocolate bar in a tiny store at the last minute. I picked up the chocolate bar and before I could give the cashier the money, .....

> I'm 100% sure it's unpleasant,...

Well, for me, I am only too happy when there are these kinds of security measures....

Also, the screeners are all former military (even women in Israel are drafted) and have been trained to screen according to emotional response. (emotional prosody).
If you look through the marketing lingo, this does show some basic info that every investor wants to know:

* who are the founders and what is their experience?

* what is it? (freelance network for creatives)

* what is the size of the market? ($500b)

* what is the business model? (20% cut for arranging contracts)

* growth rate? (linear, but decent)

Things some people might want to know that were missing

* who are your competitors?

* how much are you asking for? for what portion of your company?

You say they're missing important metrics. What metrics are you looking for? They gave user growth, money in contracts posted in a month, and even gave user retention rate and contract acceptance rate.
If true that would be a really creative way of making some nice profits. Typically distributors are anxious to dump excess EOL parts as demand will plummet. According to my friend who was an account manager at Wyle they would sell off their stock to one of the 'old part finders' for 1/2 to 1/4 of the previous suggested price.

If Nintendo proactively found a bunch of EOL parts they could make a nice limited edition product out of, the buy the parts at a steep discount, sell the 'limited edition' at a price premium, and maximize their gross margin. Frankly I've never met a procurement manager with the guts to do something like that but I'm sure they are out there.