skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can imagine a perceiving system which does not have any consciousness, and thus experiences nothing.

I can imagine a system which is presumably too simple to have any conscious experiences. But the only thing that really matters is the lack of first person experience of such a system. I can't imagine being such system, and that is what matters, if we are talking about consciousness and not about some words which are used as a substitute for a real conscious experiences.

> In this hypothetical, the "partial p-zombie" cannot distinguish them consciously, so they would not do that.

Let's suppose, for simplicity, that I don't experience color differences at all. All I experience is brightness. But my brain works exactly the same as yours. I see two grey cups and hear myself saying "Do you prefer red or green?" Am I not conscious of this discrepancy too? Am I also not conscious of the lack of any clues when I'm asked to select one of the things which looks exactly the same to me? Sorry, sounds like complete bullshit to me. I will prefer physical consciousness over such brain-damaged metaphysical one.

BTW, are you sure you are experiencing colors? You will not notice if your point of view is true.

> But the rock exists within your imagination, you have total power over it?

Sure, I can image a rock which has supernatural soul and conscious experiences. Why all the p-zombie fuss, when it clearly shows that dualism is true? That's sarcasm of course. But why p-zombie argument is any better? You can't even conceive what is really matters in p-zombie - the lack of first person experience. You can only conceive some images like "dark inside" or a textual description of that.
IoT: The Technology Redefining Mobile App Development Industry
Haha, I just came here to post how could they write that article without mentioning Fastmail.

I need to use my account more, though. So helplessly locked into my Google account for sign ups everywhere.

Perhaps I ought to read that "The Psychology of Dread Tasks" article that is also trending now.
A champions run to an entrepreneur
The Passion and economics are hard to mix and for an entrepreneur, it is essential to strike a balance between the two. Passion offers an unlimited energy to pursuit dream, and an economic acumen makes the dream viable. A journey of the athlete turned entrepreneur “Rob” is an example. A champion Athlete in Engineering years, accustom to a daily running regime with buddies and friends, inspired Rob, design & build Run2Geo, a platform that facilitates organizing and live monitoring of training events, across geo-locations.
The App can theater live stream data of events from multiple geo-location that can be used to measure athletes performance. It also shares topology and other vital information to the users and the buddy athletes. Today, over 7200 (approx) user are using the app every day, setting and monitoring workout goals. The platform is monetized in September 2017 and Expected to achieve breakeven by November 2018.
It’s a success of Leo TechnoSoft’s BOMT – “a partner product development model”, that helped in cultivating innovative idea of Run2Geo into a winning business model.
Keep in mind you still need a privacy policy, even if it just says "we store anonymised access logs which we delete after X months and that's all" (paraphrased).

EDIT: Not sure why the downvotes. Prove me wrong if you disagree. Every lawyer I've heard after the GDPR echoes the sentiment that even simple sites that don't do anything fancy should have at least a minimal privacy policy.

There are certain requirements a site could theoretically meet to be entirely exempt, but if you have a public-facing website in 2018 you're probably not, even if it's a "digital business card".

Besides, the point is that a privacy policy that explicit tells a visitor that you're really not doing much at all with their data is a positive signal whereas a missing privacy policy is more likely to indicate that a) you don't care about your users' rights, b) you have no idea what you're doing or c) you don't want to tell your users what you're doing with their data.
Power naps.

The last couple of years I noticed my inner child suffering. I had to force myself to have fun, be witty & enjoy the things I do / see / encounter.

Currently I hold a job that allows me to take power naps: all of a sudden I am back to my normal self again.

Dunno, but proberbly my age (>50).
Wow, that's cheap.

To give some perspective, an average cyclist can sustain about 100 watts, so generating a kilowatt hour takes ten hours. You'd then need to eat about $5 worth of food to compensate for the exercise.

So buying this electric is 200x cheaper than generating it yourself with a bicycle!

At this point I'd like to start a flame war about the CO2 impact of cycling ;-)
By your logic, a 125megapixel camera arguably has 125 million sensors too?
Math problem generator
How do you prevent disruption on those that you interrupt?
white is a color too
The way I remember it, Pascal enums were useless.

Regarding nil safety, did Pascal allow something along the line of the following?

var x: ^int;
...
x^ := nil;
Swap(x^, y)
The claim was "much less sugary than actual fruit juice", and the key word in the response to that was "heavily" -- artificial or not, "foul tasting" or not, is besides the point.
Spin-out Silicon Microgravity secures $7m investment, appoints CEO
If your endpoints are backed 100% by a db, then you can get by with the postgrest approach.

However GraphQL resolvers can do much more beyond a simple DB query. E.g. you can call other services and combine their reponses. Or calculate the n-th digit of Pi. Or whatever you want to do.
I have. I had the SMILE procedure done just under 2 months ago now so I can't speak on the long-term effects yet.

The procedure was really quick (+- 5 minutes) and painless. I was told that it might feel like I have sand in my eyes for the rest of the day after the numbing eyedrops wore off but I only experienced very minor discomfort, not anywhere near as close as having sand in your eyes.

The first hour after the surgery it looks as if you are looking underwater (slight white haze) due to the eye drops they put in your eye during the procedure but that quickly fades. My vision was improved directly after the surgery and it only took around 2-3 hours to reach 100% (or close). I watched some TV that night and even answered some emails although it took 1-2 seconds to really focus on my small laptop screen.

Next day my vision was perfect and I could see everything close and far away without issues and even went back to work. I had slight starburst at night (there is a picture with an example in the article) on small and direct light sources like a street post but that I was told that would disappear in a few months and so far it has been improving every week. I now only see it slightly on tiny light sources like the stand-by LED of a TV or monitor. With the rate of improvement after the surgery I expect that the starburst is soon going to disappear completely but even if it would stay like this I would 100% choose to get the surgery again.

They gave me eye drops for eye dryness. You take them every half hour for the first week, every hour for the week after that and then switch to 6-12 times a day depending on your needs and stop completely after 3 months. In the beginning I really felt like I needed to follow that schedule closely but now I sometimes forget because my eyes don't feel dry anymore.

Everything considered this has been one of the best decisions of my life and the quality of life improvement is huge.

Although SMILE was significantly more expensive (3300 vs 2300 for Lasik) I don't think you should try to cheap out on eye surgery. Not having a flap like LASIK makes a huge difference in terms of recovery speed and risk of complications.

If anyone has any other questions I would be happy to answer them.
Linux 4.18 Supports the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Yeah, if they were focused on what is best for users then at some point they would have added the option to use a UUID.
What's the reason for posting this? It's been posted before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10667783) and the repo seems to be dead since beginning 2017 (4 open PR's from 2017).

It also looks like it doesn't fit the current web-meta anymore :)
Thanks. Considering doing something similar for our product and add sculpting, this is one of the issues that popped into my head when I was playing around with the idea.
Factor: A Dynamic Stack-Based Programming Language [pdf]
> typically by inhibiting attempts to install modified firmware

This also inhibits attempts by malicious third parties to install modified firmware on your machines.

For Chromebooks we traditionally tried to find a middle route: locked down by default, since most people care more about nobody tampering with their device than about the ability to do so themselves.
For the others, there's dev mode (easy to get at, but with scary notifications, to make tampering obvious) and the write-protect screw (hard to get at, no tamper notification).

Hooking up cr50 into the write-protect line allows to develop a best-of-all-worlds approach:

* still locked down by default for people who don't want to think about their device's firmware security.

* simple to get at (but complicated enough that drive-by attacks remain infeasible), even with form factors that aren't service friendly (eg. glued chassis - firmware folks have no voice in these decisions).

* the ability to implement tamper evidence checks through remote attestation, even if the scary screens were disabled.

Compared to everything else on the market, I think it's a very user friendly set of trade-offs, both for power users and computers-are-appliances folks.

(disclosure: Chrome OS firmware developer)
Lead-based pigments are really stunning—shame about the toxicity. Lead(II) iodide is another lovely yellow, albeit less stable than the chromate. I had a chemistry teacher in high school who used to work on paints and inks—he showed us several demonstrations of making beautiful and highly toxic pigments.
I also completely agree with #1.

What adds insult to injury is that in securing a roof over your head you have to pay 'market' rates that include somebody elses profits (i.e. interest on capital)

Why can't it be more like other government infrastrucure like roads/parking/etc...
where the price of the land is often close to free, and the only costs are construction and maintenance costs. No market and no profits involved.

Slightly off topic but
I also consider having a roof over your head a more fundamental right than moving ~1.2 (on avg.) persons around using 2 tons of metal, wasting precious resouces and producing noise and carcinogens.
And funnily enought nobody wants to live where others are driving their cars, which contributes ever more to the sprawl and total miles being driven. We end up standing in the theater and once everyone stands our view is just as bad as before with the added inconvience of now having to stand)

N.b.:
There obviously is fundamental right to freedom of movement (at least until you hit some kind of border) but in my opinion this does not include grossly wasteful modes of transportation.
Tesla updates Autopilot to nag users to hold the wheel more often
You want be better? Error handling...
>> And the OP's suggested fix, the one you're commenting about, of replacing it in one's todo list with things like “gather bank statements” (or something smaller and concrete like that) seems to help immensely. Does this not fit your experience?

Therein lies the distinction. I don't figure things out roughly. Perhaps it is a habit of generalized thought about Todo lists that I got rid of at some point. Instead, I keep in mind just the first exact thing I need to do, avoiding the thought of seeing the whole picture instinctively.
The irony is that heroin probably is fine in moderation (provided that it's clean product, known concentration etc). And sugar certainly is fine in moderation. We're relatively mature and thoughtful people. We can be cognisant of the fact that we, and especially children, eat too much sugar, without going radical fundamentalist and cutting out every last gram of sugar from everywhere. Yes, there shouldn't be added sugar in everyday meals, no, having a cake for a birthday isn't bad.
DragonFlyBSD Gets Better Hardened Against CPU Speculative Execution Bugs
Agreed, the pricing has put me off.

Another thing I feel is odd is the charging for technical support on the code samples. Either the code doesn't work, in which case that's a bug in the _book_ and should be fixed without paying for that, or it's a failure on the reader to set up the right environment, in which case the issue is likely to be minor and could probably be answered on Stack Overflow.

If it was support implementing the ideas in real world projects that would be worth a lot of money, but that doesn't appear to be what they are selling.
Can a person or small team build a major product in a year?
What major apps can you think of that were developed in under a year by an individual or small team?

I think plentyoffish and Minecraft definitely qualify as major one person projects. I’ve been listening to the indie hackers podcast a lot recently and would add instapainting, Ghost, ConvertKit, StoreMapper, DoubleYourFreelancing, Scott’s Cheap Flights and Nomad List to the ranks too.

As far as small teams go WhatsApp is probably the best known example. I don’t think pg’s Via web ever had even ten people either and he did okay out of it. Less successfully Patrick McKenzie, Erin and Thomas Ptacek built something impressive in star fighter in under a year. Writing a stock exchange simulator from scratch with no previous domain knowledge is pretty cool.

What other examples can you think of?

Thanks to soneca for making me think about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284137
Spearfish and hunt more often. It gets in into nature, ensures healthy meat and forces you to take things slow. Plus lots of energy. It amazing how many things you otite when you look.

Note, “hunting” could just be for plants/mushrooms if you are vegetarian. No need to kill animals to get these same results.
Yeah, it is surreal.

I'm overly stressed out at the moment but I've encountered a couple of local sites that behave quite bad in this regard. I'll probably try to direct an email to the developers and see what they have to say about that and depending on the answer (or lack thereof) I'll continue with a complaint.
It's still used on youtube.com today[1], what's your problem with something not being updated? The PRs are trivial stuff, the issues don't seem too bad either.

[1] <script src="https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/spf-vflhSOzLf/spf.js" type="text/javascript" name="spf/spf" ></script>
I think it's worth noting that the TPM plans of 2003 differ a bit from TPM-as-of-2018.

What was called Trusted Computing, Palladium, TCPA, etc. in 2003 and became known in geek circles as "TPM" is now implemented as TPM + Intel Boot Guard + Intel SGX + Authenticated Code Modules + various other things (and other vendors' equivalents).

The TPM is the most benign part of it all: a slow, passive crypto chip with a small storage that it can hide away from the CPU unless the right system state and keys are presented (although the presented system state might be 100% fake).
Every single visual and sound classification app around. Here's a random link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pogue-8-recogniti...

All the person tagging features in Apple Photos, Google Photos, Facebook.
Does it need to prevent them? Do stars in a repo represent something significant?
Unpoly [1] lets you achieve the same effect without having to wrap your content in a JSON transport envelope. There are no two cases for static and dynamic navigation. The HTML you already have is used for transport, fragments are targeted with CSS selectors.

[1]: https://unpoly.com/
Why's that a serious hazard? I can't (and could never) read anything off my phone without my glasses, but I never considered it any sort of hazard.
DeepMind patents reinforces idea patents are stupid
Even that is easy to change. All it takes if a few economic busts and/or environmental issues, and here comes religion and frugality and so on again...

Like those Roman mores had themselves been supplanted by orthodox/catholic Christian (and then puritan protestant Christian) mores the west.
How to Stop Auto-Playing Videos in YouTube’s Home Feed
I think that this needs to be understood in the context of the "replicability crisis" which is particularly critical in the field of psychology. The real question is what other bogus science is being taught to psychology students today.

Psychology has always played in multiple ponds. Expirement based social science. Explicitly unscientific^ theory (eg Freud). Quite a lot in the practice/medical aspects. A lot of philosophical approaches.

Overall, I think this has added up to a result where when people in the field say "we know X to be true," it's hard to know what they mean, nevermind if they're correct. Do they mean it in the sense that a literary critic means something, or the way a chemist means something.

For example: Atlas Shrugged & Animal Farm are both works of fiction and of political "science". This is fine in the frame of what political science is, a non scientific field. No one since Marx has really claimed otherwise.

When Marx claimed his theories to be scientific, the discussion that followed actually resulted in very important pieces of modern epistemology: what is science. The critics of Marx were also critics of Freud and the criticism was identical.

Psychology though.. it has remained in a sort of no man's land. I know that I at least have really lost confidence in psychology, as an academic field. Practice/therapy is a completely different story. I think there's been a lot of advancement in therapy. I can't help but wonder though, how much it is hindered by bogus "science."

^in the Karl Popper sense
I tried really hard to find a main() function browsing the demo source code, but I could not. I also find it interesting that code boilerplating is called out as a problem, but I run into code like this:

#include "Protocol.h"

#include "comms/comms.h"

namespace cc = comms_champion;

namespace demo
{

namespace cc_plugin
{

Protocol::~Protocol() noexcept = default;

const QString& Protocol::nameImpl() const
{
static const QString& Str("Demo");
return Str;
}

} // namespace cc_plugin

} // namespace demo
You don't understand that people might use the words "open source" in a slightly different way than you do?
Unless the weather is really bad I go for a run every morning. I don't understand the scientific reason behind it but I feel awake and more ready for focus.
I don't think the price matter as much as the fact that this comes across as nickle and diming customers.

I'd probably pay (or expense) $100-$150 for a really good book, with videos, interactive examples, etc. But this pricing just puts me off the whole book as you can buy the "full" book, the "fuller" book, the "fuller" book with support for bugs in it, etc.

I also expect a book to be reference material that I can share with colleagues as needed (we have an office library), so team pricing per seat comes across as quite money-grabbing.

To be clear, I'm not at all criticising the quality of the content, and I'd be willing to pay good money for good technical content. I just don't think this pricing is very respectful of customers.
That's an unfair comparison though. Take an average 22 year old and an average 50 year old, and the choice might be factually clear.
But Champagne is a region in France. Wine made using the same method is known as "Methode Champenoise" (or, less commonly, "Cremant"). You can use either of those on your "Champagne" made elsewhere, but if it's not from the Champagne region you can't call it Champagne.

Seems reasonable enough to me.

Edit: That said, the case in OP does seem unreasonable - if they were attempting to use the word "Scotch" then it might be a different matter but I don't see why "Glen" should be protected.
Building an IBAN validation directive in Angular
Why is all the GraphQL documentation so tightly coupled with either Apollo or Relay?
Apollo doesn't work nice with a non-react setup (imhe), not to start about Relay itself.
All the Relay server side stuff makes the client also really boilerplaty.
I don't think i'd buy this book, since it's also apollo stained.

Does someone have good resources on how to use vanilla GraphQL without the bloated Apollo/Relay stuff?

I'm currently working on a GraphQL server (using Graphene), and thankfully I'm able to not use Relay (with which it tightly integrates). So I'm able to implement my own pagination and filters.
The Dangers of Belly Fat
Why pointing "Northern" Europe rather than Europe in general ?

From my experience, I would say you find more and better vegetables in Southern Europe. And Eastern Europe is quite similar to Northern Europe in terms of accessibility and choice (probably still better in quality though).

And South America in my opinion is rather poor in vegetables (but fantastic in fruits!). They can grow perfectly there but people just don't seem to eat them much, apart from a few specific ones. But they do cook at least.

One final factor is also the price of restaurants. In South America and Asia many people just eat at restaurants/cafeteria/whatever local street food you find all the time because it is not expensive at all. And not super healthy. Doing that in Sweden or Norway would lead you to ruin very very fast (and also street food is obviously less popular when it's freezing outside so it doesn't help developing a street food culture).
In other words, the field just has very low standards for truth, in a scientific sense.

This seems to go up and down the field... From academic publishing (replicability crisis) to undergraduate teaching. Psychology just doesn't have a scientific perspective on truth and knowledge.

Instead of a need (Abu graib and timely relevance) for knowledge triggering research and the accumulation of knowledge, it triggers the field to accept bogus knowledge because they need something.
5 Pillars of Learning Programming
I don't know why you were downvoted.

There are no "larger" ops. However, things like RNNs can require more memory to execute because of the longer chain of data they need to execute the operations on.

As noted in the article you can alleviate this by halving the size of the model at the cost of accuracy.

The heat in large GPUs is because of the large number of cores they have operating simultaneously.
The best option available when I started looking into this a year ago was ReLEx SMILE(Trans PRK being second, LASIK third). I have since had the procedure done (see my other comment in this thread for my experience but TL;DR is I highly recommend it).

From what I remember LASIK is the oldest method with the highest chance of complications and side-effects and longest recovery period.

Trans PRK is the least-intrusive procedure because they don't touch your eye during the procedure but is more painful after the procedure and you have to wear protective contacts for 2 weeks.

ReLEx SMILE is 'latest and greatest' and has the quickest recovery period but is the most expensive option.
Duh.

The boomer generation (of which I am a member) has systematically disinvested in future generations. We've stripped resources from education, housing, and infrastructure. And we've successfully concentrated ourselves into certain geographical areas (counties) and driven housing prices up.

And now our generation's birth rate has (except for trophy wives) fallen to zero. That happens to every generation.

So, young people who want to live in our enclaves have to work really hard, or have to live in our cellars. Those who can afford it don't have time for kids, and those who can't go to live in areas we consider less "desireable."
It's also used in Lithuania.