skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you believe the brain exists in the physical universe, that means you can build a physical system that also solves the same problems.

Sure, but in the case of computation, is it possible to make a computing system that has subjective experiences? Maybe consciousness isn't something that can be expressed in computational terms, because computation is itself based on abstraction.
How to build a robust innovation culture
Thanks. Forgot about that.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18755628/

Degree of pineal calcification (DOC) is associated with polysomnographic sleep measures in primary insomnia patients.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469797
This is very true. Having said that, even with shader I've managed to go down the rabbit hole. "Perhaps this shader can be generalized so it'll work for every vertex format...hmm, it should probably dynamically recompile then...once I'm doing that I might as well start linking arbitrary snippets of code then..." etc.
> And most serious publishers will only serve ads hosted directly on their servers or a set of approved CDNs/DSPs.

If the ads are hosted on my own servers, all is good.

I don't know YouTube or how its leadership thinks about these things but if I were in charge, I would go bankrupt before I allowed WPP to insert their arbitrary code on YouTube website and apps.

Point is that we have to put our foot on the ground and tell advertisers that they have to trust us. If that means publishers get paid less per "impression", I would be ok with it. This just seems like common sense to me because advertisers had to simply trust publishers when it came to print journalism. I think we need something to level the playing field so advertisers cannot compel publishers (or exchanges if we can sort of merge the publisher and the exchange) to give up their crown jewels.
For $5k, Chevy Will Let You Assemble Your Corvette Z06’s Engine Yourself (2015)
I suspect it has to do more with human moderation. As much as Google hates using humans for anything, moderation still has a human element. As low as the minimum wage is in countries with a workforce educated enough to do this unpleasant work, it still costs something. Drawing a line in the sand and saying "your videos are so unlikely to generate views that we won't even spend a couple of cents making sure it doesn't violate our policies" probably saves them several millions per year.
Yes, it's getting to a point where it's not really an obstacle anymore. I can even debug on Windows using the latest version of clion, what is the world coming to?
Kinda reminds of the game of "football" played in 17776: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Reduced set of instructions, and simple encoding of them.

ARM instructions are always 32 bit; this includes NEON. There’re signs ARM developer indeed were trying to minimize their count (e.g. there’s no right shift neon instruction, instead left shift is used with negative shift value).

Thumb instructions can be 16 bit, but still this is way simpler than x86, where a single instruction can be between 8 and 120 bits.
> We are getting a first taste of how difficult it is for a world in which humans and computers are intrinsically linked.

It's not just the humans being linked to computers. They're also linked to other humans.
I feel like ReactOS has gained more attention lately and hope some of it will spill over to support of this project. It’s a bit like you need to reach a critical mass in features and usability, and until then it’s an uphill battle to maintain enough traction. Haiku is another cool project, especially as someone who will always have a warm spot left for the Amiga. But until the long waited for beta is out, I think they have an ever more dangerously steep uphill path to climb.
I couldn't agree more. In addition, I am one of the (apparently) few who use FF almost exclusively on my mobile devices. No, FF isn't perfect on my phone but it works just the way I need it to 90% of the time. In fact, I've been quite satisfied with the mobile version of FF Nightly.
ASD blows hot and cold over Microsoft Protected status
What Kernel does this OS use? What's its history? Is it a unix fork such as Linux?
Yes, I've read that. But the lower-middle distinction has always been a fuzzy one. And definitions have been changing. What it means to be "middle class" now is far from what it was some decades ago. And more importantly, such measures as CPI have been tweaked to exclude items that have become more expensive. So the middle class, in any quality-of-life sense, is arguably smaller than claimed.

The clearest trend is the growth of the upper middle class and the "1%". And increasing concentration of wealth at the top. Also increasing unemployment, which is excluded from the nominal definition, because people have given up looking for work.
These days when I look at a jumping spider, I can't help but see this little guy: https://youtu.be/VrS6akzR3sk
I saw the same behavior that you describe. The problem is, there are still serious bugs in the "old" (e.g. Gecko) code, not in the "newest and greatest" "new features" code. And just recently they fired exactly the developers fixing such bugs:

https://www.cnet.com/news/layoffs-mozilla-taiwan-changes-fir...

"Taiwan programmers working on Gecko, a core part of Firefox, lost their jobs, one person familiar with the layoffs said. That's global open-source work, in contrast to newer, regional projects coming from Taiwan"
Sailfish OS has the most farcical history of renames, forks and merges I've ever seen.

MeeGo, Mer, Maemo, Moblin, Harmattan, LiMo, SLP, Bada, Leste, Tizen, Nemo...

It they spent more time on making a finished product rather than coming up with yet another stupid new name, logo and website they might have more traction.
Does this kill the crab?
I tried tricking it a bit, and here's what I got:

Does P=NP: Something about rare earths, then a couple books that mention the problem. https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=Does%20P%3DNP%3...

Who are you: Looks like Books is shy. https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=Who%20are%20you...

Why are fire trucks red? Apparently, there are different answers, and none mention the Monty Python one. https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=Why%20are%20fir...

What is 1+1? 1, apparently. The same query without a question mark gives the right answer. https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=What%20is%201%2...

Which company used to have the motto "don't be evil"? Not Google, it seems. https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=Which%20company...
Five Pentesting Tools and Techniques (That Every Sysadmin Should Know)
"pretty much all of strategic supplies"

That's simply not true.

58,000 of T34/T34-85 was produced during WW2 time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_combat_vehicle_producti...

That's just medium tanks - workhorse of the war.
Total production of armored vehicles in USSR at WW2 > 100,000.

While it got 19,510 tanks in total on Lend-Lease: https://ww2-weapons.com/lend-lease-tanks-and-aircrafts/

Only 4,000 of them were Shermans - the only Lend-Lease tanks that were comparable at least somehow. All others were nicknamed "wheeled coffins".

The same ratio is for aircrafts.

As of fuel then only some high-octane ones - for some aircrafts.
@sdrothrock

I am not in Japan, but the East Coast of USA. I am 22, have no debts, own my car, make 65k and have close to 50k invested in the stock market. I save close to 60% of my income and actively invest it.

On paper, I should be great but I am struggling with this nihilistic attitude to life. I am in good shape, sleep well, drink only water, work on programming projects or other side businesses, play video games, read non-fiction and hang out with friends.

How do I snap out of it and find more meaning in life? I've felt this "content" depressed limbo state for the past 3 years.

My go to quote for how I feel in general is from Fight Club.

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
For the latter, if you're willing to go into about:config, try setting browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll to true, and browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll to false and see if that gives you the desired behaviour.
I don't think the author is talking about simple advertising, I think he is talking about the power to influence the public on a mass scale. I think it is fair to say that western societies are more polarized than they were ten years ago, and a reasonable argument can be made that social media has something to do with it. Ad-based business models make it necessary, to a degree at least, for platforms to monetize their user base.
I completely agree, and this is a prime example of when government intervention is absolutely necessary:

Consumers cannot protect their long term interests and someone is taking advantage of it.

There are many reasons why they can't. Sometimes there's competition that forces you to only consider your short term interests. Other times a limited resource (ie time, expertise) is required to evaluate a set of choices and the consumer can't afford it on it's own. Or maybe the widespread adoption of one thing creates a monopoly and makes other choices impossible.
Whether the end result is nutritional deficiencies from unenriched food or complete and total misinformation, someone needs to intervene, and the only organization that has the obligation and means to do so is the government.

The governments all across the world need to stop this cancer of misinformation and deception from spreading any further. We need to make them stop it.
Per square meter, according to the article, not kilometer.
You grow up hearing over and over that Casablanca is such a great movie that when you finally see it and find it to be a great movie, it’s hard to tell whether that opinion is even your own.
Yeah, DOSBox is nice for retro gaming or even the oddball application, but it pales in comparison to the potential of this project.
So some officers are murdered and others die from traffic accidents. I'm not sure why that makes the job less dangerous.
VC for the Decentralised Future: Introducing the Convergence Ecosystem
It uses it's own opensource implementation of Windows NT kernel.
Thank you. Your experiences seem to mirror my own, I was very disappointed when I learned that the vipassana course was full of woo-woo, despite proclaiming not to be. In addition, it kind of messed me up for quite a while afterwards, so I could not recommend it, despite finding some of the sensations I experienced during the course to be interesting. There are almost certainly going to be meditation retreats that teach you the same techniques without the religious indoctrination, which is what I wished I'd found.

Leaving on day 6 was probably a good move. I stayed the full 10 days but the course didn't get any better by the end.

For those that haven't done it before, there are three types of meditation that are taught at a 10-day Goenka Vipassana retreat. The first two, Anapana and Vipassana, are both very interesting and are experiences I would recommend, but the third, Metta, is basically in woo-woo territory. Metta can be described as "positive thoughts" meditation, as opposed to Anapana and Vipassana (which are both about increased self-awareness). Close your eyes, wish for world peace, now you're doing Metta. If you can find a meditation retreat that teaches Anapana and Vipassana without religious dogma then I would recommend giving it a go, but I could not recommend going to a retreat led by Goenka. YMMV.
No, it's a reverse engineered Windows. I believe that due to copyright issues it even is a fully clean-room developed implementation, which means that it's not based on MS documentation or on decompiled source code.
I find whenever I consider the alternative to free, I need to examine deep within myself to ask if I’d be willing to pay for the half a dozen services or so that I use every day for free, subsidized currently by an advertising model. Although the idea would be great if companies existed solely to serve people like myself for free, it isn’t realistic. Weighing the cost of free vs the potential loss of privacy at some point in the future, I can’t help but choose free today and kick the proverbial privacy can down the road. Thus, I’m a bit hesitant to go find my pitch fork in this fight for privacy.
If you want it to become common place then it has to be easier to use it "correctly" than "wrongly".
I can't speak for Vipassana, never having tried it, but I think that's an unfair characterization of stoicism (but perhaps not of some who claim to practice it?).

http://modernstoicism.com/
"high profile people"

is that a pun? :)
Visualizing an iOS Device in Blender Through Quantum Entanglement
Yeah seems like an odd criticism. What about 2000 hours or 1000....or 50 hours? I'm not sure why the author thinks he deserves monetization. At the very least I concede it seems arbitrary but it's Youtube's prerogative what they do with their platform.
Google has let the AOSP apps languish, and has used GApps as a bludgeon to keep control of the parts of Android they care about. Having phones running secure kernel versions obviously isn't a priority for Google, nor is consistent, functional E911 (look at the VoLTE shenanigans with Motorola and T-Mobile!).

What is a priority is building and extending the moat of GApps, locking services into relying on Maps APIs, push notifications, Play Games APIs, etc. Replacing these APIs is a huge task, and many apps will just outright crash if Google Maps isn't on your phone, let alone Google Play Services. The only reprieve is to use F-Droid, which is not the most consistently maintained app store.
Cosculluela Ft. Bad Bunny – Madura
> What's a fair threshold?

Thresholds are never fair and always arbitrary. However that's not a reason to avoid anything that has an arbitrary threshold. Arbitrary is often better than nothing.
WAEC 2018 Literature-In-English Drama and Poetry Answer  – May/June Expo
Good thought, never saw it from an archiving point of view!
Just a non-obvious thing I learned doing this for a while: try commercial real estate. I see two big advantages, that have played out in practice for me but also structurally. The tenants are companies, who tend to stay much longer, invest more in leasehold improvements and be less demanding (unless something is critical to their business which you are probably aware of ahead of time). The other is that unlike in personal real estate, you can sometimes buy it with a vendor take back mortgage (ie. the seller mortgages it to you). This is risky if you are ever likely to miss a payment, but an excellent way to get more leverage than the bank might give you in a way appealing to both sides.
Is this really true? Has a drug trial ever hinged on convincing a jury of the meaning of code words?
When one party is funded by the public service unions, and they are in power, what do you think is going to happen.
How different languages interact is always cool :).

FWIW it's not just songs; standard Mandarin is usually the prestige dialect/language so anything that's perceived as being more "prestige" than an everyday conversation (e.g. things that are meant to be formal or official or whatever) tends to become Mandarinized among the different dialects/languages. Cantonese is a special example because of Hong Kong's own interesting social environment.

For most other dialects/languages in the PRC, speakers just switch directly to Mandarin where they might have used a "Mandarinized" part of the dialect/language. Hong Kong is one of the few places where Mandarin comprehension is still not near-universal and so instead of just having Mandarin pop songs, you end up with Mandarinized Cantonese pop songs.
COCO – Common Objects in Context
Purism are working on Librem 5, which should apparently run Plasma Mobile. But Sailfish has by far the best UI out there. It's a pity they still didn't open source it yet.
The cryptocurrency bubble stems from our STEM obsession
Facebook is a mirror, and a magnifier. "Fixing" FB is, at best, curing a symptom. A general lack of critical thinking is not FB's fault.
To promote otherwise is naive and dangerous.
> Is it possible to just use ES6 modules natively in the browser if you don't care about older browsers?

Yes. Note that you need to use

<script type=module>

Personally though, I am using Google Closure compiler to turn the code of all my ES6 modules into a single, packed file without modules. Additionally I have told Closure compiler to output a sourcemap so that I can debug my code still. There are some issues with this from time to time. Not sure about what the debugging story is like currently with plain ES6 modules in the browser.

Here is my Makefile in case you'd like to look at the arguments I pass to Closure compiler: https://github.com/ctsrc/Infinite-Tower-Run/blob/191a4035fd1...
The Web Extension APi doesn't seem too suitable for browser automation as it doesn't have support for simulating key presses or mouse movements (other than HTMLElement's click method).

Yeah, you can simulate events, but that can be a lot of work (e.g. typing an 'a' key might require you to simulate all of keydown, keypress, and keyup and set various non-standardized properties on them). And that won't even work in a standard text input as isTrusted is set to False on events you generate. Simulating something like a Tab key press will require you writing code to try to replicate your browser's logic in determining what the next element should be.

Why would this be preferable over something like Selenium?
Even when maintainers try their best, Chromium still logs and reports information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=chromium;d...
At beginning of WWW2, USSR had pretty good position: thousands of tanks, millions of tons of ammunition, million army, powerful ally (Germany). USSR attacked Finland at winter to prevent invasion of France & Britain via Norway and Finland to attack Leningrad. It was risky move, lot of soldiers of Red Army died because of cold, but USSR won.
At beginning 1941, USSR waited for beginning of Britain bombing of Baku, to start invasion to East (to attack British military bases) with help of Germany, and then to conquer Britain islands. Everything was perfect until 22 June 1941.
I know at least some creators are well aware of the connection. Many have switched to other monetization platforms (Patreon and Twitch subscriptions being two big ones) and written off YouTube entirely as a reliable income stream. (That is, they continue posting on YouTube, but mainly to grow their viewer base, not to make money.)

But I think you're right that a majority are probably only aware of the Adpocalypse in the abstract, if that.
Terrible article but reading between the lines:

The photo did not contain finger-tips, which are the only prints stored in the database so they could not simply search it for the person. It only contained prints from the middle of a finger.

However they had a limited number of people of interest that they suspected were involved so they could just take palm prints from those and use that to prove whose hand it was.

I wouldn't exactly call it ground breaking but it's pretty cool.
What's the status of the browser? Before it was stuck with ancient Gecko, because IPC embedlite project basically died. What are they doing now about it? I wish they'd take something like Servo and browser.html for these purposes.
CAN WE GET 1 MILLION DISLIKES?
They've had for a decade at least.
Seen ReactOS pop up a few times and always thought it was something to do with the Facebook Javascript library. This is really amazing, I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Interesting point - avoiding spiders is better for me individually, but reducing mosquitoes is better globally. So I guess it depends if our aversions are optimized for the individual or the species.
Ethereum simply promising to switch to PoS, at some undefined future time when it's extremely convenient for them, provides absolutely no moral redemption. They have to actually do it.
It did - they had a smaller list of suspects and used the palm print to match against one of them, rather than searching the entire UK database for a fingerprint. At least that's what it sounds like. You're right this is a really badly written article.
I don't get it.

Why doesn't YT just rephrase it as "you earned $1, but reviewing and administration costs are $10, so you get $0"?
Interesting that you mention Thomas Metzinger. I learned about him via a podcast he did with Sam Harris (who's mentioned on this thread a few times), titled "The Nature of Consciousness"[1].

From my faint recollection,
Metzinger was refreshing to hear and had tighter explanations. And he called The Hard Problem of Consciousness[2] (as popularly defined by the Australian philosopher / congnitive scientist, David Chalmers) as "boring". I'm forgetting the details as to why, but it's all in the podcast.

Thanks for the mention, I made a mental note to revisit Metzinger's work, but haven't gotten around.

[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-nature-of-consciousness/

[2] http://www.iep.utm.edu/hard-con/
The article states 800 million per square meter per day. I converted it to square kilometers to get something with "trillion."
Flutter – will it replace Android and Chrome OS?
Don't all new Windows releases ship with backwards compatibility modes?
Are you sure you understand what happened?

A master password system is common. For example, choose a weak password for 1Password.app and someone can see all of your passwords.
I've tried fixing some obvious errors on OSM only to have my changes reverted. The project isn't exactly welcoming to new contributors.
Most of it is prefilled in my french declaration.

I had to check a box saying that I don't own a TV (so I don't have to pay that tax)
I also had to connect to my home cleaning service website in order to know exactly how much I paid them in 2017.
That's pretty much it, everything else was already filled.

Since my employer has declared that I worked for them (I mean .. that's the case for most people except black market), the FISC (french IRS) already knows how much I made that year.

If you are freelancing, or another regime different from full time job in a company, it might be more complicated.
but for 90% of the people, you connect to the gov website, approve your taxes and that's it.

US has federal and state taxes. Both are obscure. AFAIK, there is no government website to do your taxes. No prefilling either of course.
So I had to google a lot, look for my w2, etc.
I used hr block since it looked easier than figuring out everything myself.
It was still more of an headache than my french taxes and I don't think that it was only because of my expat status.
It's hard to argue "objective" when those criteria were unilaterally changed overnight from "objectively meeting the criteria" to "oh look, objectively not meeting the criteria because we pulled the rug from under you".

If you have a financial arrangement with any company, and that company decides to change their policy arbitrarily so that they can justify not paying hundreds of thousands of people like you "because our policy excludes them", when a day ago they didn't, normally that would be various immediate court cases and no way for that company to win on any reasonable ground.

This is surely not the least important reason.
Haven't we had auto reload since long before webpack? Or am I missing something.
Past and future of hardware and architecture - David Patterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KRq2Ns0ZE

Programing Should Be More Than Coding - Leslie Lamport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsTfL-uXd8