skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but we don’t have nearly the same amount of evidence for the nature of consciousness as we do for the structure of the solar system... instead, we’re relying largely on philosophy and “self-evident” facts.
That's clearly nonsense. If journalism had "far more advanced ethics and procedures" I wouldn't find glaring errors in journalism and obviously agenda-driven reporting so frequently.

Editors rewriting things is no evidence of rigour, I'm afraid. I worked on a news story with one journalist at The Economist. I demonstrated to him that some of the claims circulating at the time on a particular topic were false and he accepted that my argument was correct. The final story made those same claims. The journalist apologised to me and said they'd been inserted by the editors (the claims in question were politically popular amongst the sort of people who write and read the Economist at the time).

So I'm afraid I'm far from ignorant about journalism. I've done a lot of fact checking myself and worked with journalists many times. The level of effort that goes into correctness in engineering is orders of magnitude greater than anything journalism even attempts.
It actually was started by a predecessor, Diocletian, who actually put an end to the crisis of the 3rd century. Diocletian styled himself after Jupiter and adopted a colleague, whom was styled after Hercules.
Sufficiently smart ones, certainly. I've seen no evidence that we've built one yet, but we will eventually, and when we do, I'd ascribe exactly as much consciousness to a computer as I do to a human.

I don't believe "p zombies" exist --- or, rather, I believe we're all p zombies.
We should ignore the past because it makes you feel a certain way?
You can do it from the https://multinational.io/compare_passports/ page. (And if'd like to add more than two you can manually add it to the url)
Computers don't think; they use math at the basis of their logic, unless they have bugs the outcome always should be the same; meanwhile human brain uses chemistry and biological tissue to process.

I agree with what OP says, but I can't help that majority of consciousness is based in fear. Put it other way: I don't believe consciousness can exist without fear [of being destructed] ever present. And that's the challenge of programming machine with built-in fear: if I fall, then I may die. I'm scared of dying, so how can I do my best not to fall?
I agree. xdebug was one of the worst debugging experiences I've ever had.

Node with vscode was incredibly easy. I'm not sure I see the comparison at all.
Interesting, though I'm not sure (yet) what I'd use it for. Here are my notes:

- I was a bit lost in the empty state after dismissing the help.
(perhaps not immediately entering full screen mode would be good)
- Took me a second to realize the sticky-looking text isn't a note but rather the page.
(I may have been thrown off by the word 'notepad' in the HN post title)
- The '+ Note' and '+ Section' interleaved in what would be a nice outline is a little distracting.
It also creates the note/section at the end of the list whereas the action labels are at the start.
(maybe even better is if you can iconify them and place beside the parent container's text)
Generally for usability I'd suggest to take a good look at OneNote, which in my eyes gets the "type and draw everywhere, with minimal friction" concept very right. And while the underlying data model of such an application may necessitate a collection of objects being scattered on a canvas, that doesn't mean that the interaction model has to follow that directly. So indeed, just let me type anywhere.

Another thing that adds friction in my eyes is that when editing text your first click changes the interface into text editing mode where the text neither stays at the position you've seen it before, nor can you actually interact with it with that first click. So when I see a word that I'd like to change and I click there, that will only spawn the edit window for that text object, instead of just placing a cursor there so I can directly edit it.
I don't think the formal study of ethics is productive either. An ethical system is either descriptive or normative. Does philosophy produce theories that accurately describe human behavior? Psychology and sociology and economics do a much better job of building predictive models.

Does ethical philosophy build normative models that describe what ought to be? Sure. Do these models influence actual human behavior? Not a bit. So why bother building castles in the sky?
You are going to have a very hard time selling that theory. The world is a vastly more fair and less savage place now then at any other point in human history.
At that time Microsoft had almost complete dominance of the operating system market, at 93%, which is the point. There was nothing like the counterpart to it that iOS is to Android today.

Android may look like it's similarly dominant but in the most valuable markets it's way closer to parity and if you exclude the cheap low end devices it's actually a minority. Apple isn't raking in 85% of the profits in mobile for nothing.

Be careful what you wish for. A lot of improvements in iOS in recent years were inspired by Android.
First: your understanding of my analogy is wrong. The moment you fork Android you are no longer allowed to license Google apps which everyone knows is "the money maker". As such the analogy where "the moment you compete you can no longer access the core money maker" (in my analogy - Windows) is perfectly valid.

Second: The point isn't that you disagree with me, it's that you disagree with the outcome of an official investigation under EU law that found that Google's practices are illegal. So I have that to support my opinion. Feel free to bring something stronger to support yours. You can't say it's not bias but then bring nothing to support that claim. ;)

P.S. >There are no complaints about "Windows fragmentation"

Android fragmentation is Google's own doing and is in no way solved by blocking OEMs from forking it. The forks are not Android, they are the likes of Fire OS and Aliyun OS. As such would never count under "Android fragmentation".
I like the Linus Torvalds' interpretation: that (almost) everything is actually a file descriptor. The few things that are not, like fork() returns, are subject to criticism (DJB wrote about how fork() should return an fd, I just couldn't find the URL right now.)
Poland evidently lags behind then. Still C/C++ and Java. Got a lot of colleagues stuck in Java after finishing degrees.
Ok, actually I don't think the documentation needs to be improved a lot, I think you can get 1000% better if you add a "quick start" guide for developers. Just a small page with examples so they get the feel of it. Then they can consult the full reference if they need do to anything else.

For example, https://strike.acinq.co/documentation/get-started and https://developers.trello.com/docs/api-introduction
Understanding you've won at football is quite different to understanding you've won a fight.

Compare two cats fighting and knowing who's won to two cats playing football and knowing who's won :)
Why would I want to run AutoCad inside a web browser instead of just downloading it? Why do web browser developers feel that "run existing C++ code in a web page" is the most important thing facing the web?

And for the microcontroller, likewise - why would I want the overhead of a WASM VM on such a device? You won't fit V8 on it. Anyway, Graal can AOT compile programs down to small native binaries, but they're not that small at this time: give it a few megabytes of RAM and then yes it's possible.
This is the one count against Google that I'm somewhat sympathetic with.

To say they can't be allowed to put restrictions on access to the app store and play services on a particular model is ridiculous though.
U.S Government fire all Americans to trade digital assets to generate own Money
It's where I originally learned to program.
It's depressing logging in now, most sims are a wasteland.
Weird how Facebook keeps signing lucrative contracts with companies whose behavior then surprises and astounds them.
I think this guy is legit. I also think that the soviet union was trying to do this to the US. I also think it’s possible that Russia has carried on doing it. But is it working? Are people more “demoralized” or “brainwashed” than before? The US seems exacty the same as it was 34 years ago. I don’t think their plan worked at all.
See the full picture before bashing Elon Musk
It sounds like they are seeing the same process as sleep consolidation. They should have also compared it to a nap.
I used to enjoy his early musings but he is spectacularly jumping the shark regularly these days...
I agree whole-heartedly. I'd honestly expand services to include things like social chatting areas along with quiet ones and possibly simple coffee shops. It wouldn't need to be fancy, just there.

And I wish they were at least state-wide systems simply because of the variety different locations could offer by ordering books from other branches. I've seen it in smaller systems between branches in addition to things like bookmobiles. There are added bonuses if you can integrate school libraries into general-use libraries after school hours, though not all areas are keen on this idea (my father tried to set this up as a school business manager and it fell on deaf ears).
DuckDuckGo slams Google following EU antitrust decision
The U.S. Code is essentially a castle in the sky. It's quite useful though.
find a few blogs you like and go through their blog rolls. slate star codex is a great place to start if you’re anything like me, but maybe you arent. blogs link each other, and periodically you’ll find new blogs through other channels like your social media feeds. your feed will grow organically.
Page 27-28 of the opinion:

> Along these lines, can the SDOs continue to make money on derivative goods such that they have an adequate incentive to continue producing these standards? As one amici notes, even after a sister circuit ruled that an organization that drafted a model building code adopted into law lost its copyright, see Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002), its successor organization remains profitable both through sales of codes and of “program services, including consulting, certification, and training.” 66 Libraries Amicus Br. 22 (citing Int’l Code Council, Annual Report 52 (2015))

There is HUGE value in the training materials around proper use and understanding of these standards.

For example, a building standard may specify that a sewer plumbing run must have a 1"/12" slope for proper drainage. The training comes in the form of handling the problem cases and still staying compliant with the standard.

In the accounting field, accounting standards are made and enforced to a large degree by private entities. Staying current requires constant training hours, recertification and in some cases external visits from other accounting professionals.
How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat
It's Saturday, so I had time to read the entire ruling. If anything, it calls out the district court for not having done its homework.
Performance can be improved by disabling plugins you don't use, disabling features like code folding, etc. and finally by excluding non-essential files from indexing.

I don't know about the graphics problems but you can disable focus stealing in your window manager. During the first time setup you are given the option of using other keys. For a vim-like experience you can use IdeaVim.

For node, IntelliJ gives you: code completion across files, debugging (local, remote, including Docker), testing (e.g.: automatically recognizes test cases and creates a run configuration from them), code coverage, type inference from JSDoc documentation or flow, linting, version control integration with excellent blame integration, etc.
I'm sure folks in Syria would disagree.
> Does ethical philosophy build normative models that describe what ought to be? Sure. Do these models influence actual human behavior? Not a bit. So why bother building castles in the sky?

Ethical views regarding natural rights are the basis for liberal democracy, either (depending on your metric) the largest or second largest form of political organization today. I'd call that "influencing actual human behavior."

Ethical views regarding harm reduction form the basis of modern medical treatment. "Do no harm" is a normative statement, and I know plenty of doctors who seem to be influenced by it.

These are the simplest of examples. Abrahamic religions encourage their adherents to behave based upon duty, another normative staple. Individuals act based on rational self interest, and a great number of philosophers have argued that they ought to do so. The list goes on.
Good question. My sense is that in the 60s and 70s the militant or idealist response to anthropocene doomsayers was a call to brotherly love and return to nature, e.g. raise kids in a commune or on a farm.
So you believe in things without evidence that they exist? That's very scientific of you.
I am curious about that too.
Discourse is a forum software, self-hosted and does get indexed by search engines.
> the 2008 standard had changed the definition of ranges, such that outside the "C" and "POSIX" locales, the meaning of range expressions was undefined

It was changed earlier. It's undefined in the 2004 edition, too.
Rubin's open source Android didn't have to stay open source. But there was no choice, unlike Apple Google didn't plan on making the phone. So they had to have a lot of partnerships with OEMs and carriers.

There was nothing forcing Google to semi-open source Android. The competitive advantage of Android was that it was free not open source. Microsoft has licensed a closed source operating system to OEMs for decades.
Agree with the last sentence. All the different data structures for example. Where do they come from? Presumably because in doing some practical tasks we realize it would be a lot more efficient if we organize data that way. To acquire proficiency with those concepts by seeing a genuine need for them in the task at hand imo follows a much more logical order of introduction.
You don't know that. Models could be just as real as non-models, whatever those are.
> [...] philosophy has had nothing to do

That's an extraordinary claim (which is dubious at best); and we both know the quote about extraordinary claims.

Sure, there's a ton of pseudo-philosophy these days, but to brush all of philosophy with the same stroke is just lazy.

To jog your memory about the "value of philosophy" from one point of view, take a read of this previous thread here (titled: 'Physics Needs Philosophy. Philosophy Needs Physics'):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17108865
So long as you can get a library card, that works out wonderfully. Last rural place I lived did not have a county-wide system, though, and some folks didn't have a library that served their needs without driving at least 10-15 minutes and paying a yearly fee for their card. This particular library also had limited space for computers, often a waiting list to use one, a half-hour time limit when you used them, and short opening hours. On the other hand, the peole were nice and the building beautiful.

Libraries and their districts vary so much in what they are willing or can offer, and it is a real shame.
What do you count as a DE ?

Right now I'm running mwm, emacs, Firefox, NetBeans, a couple of PDF viewers and lots of xterms.
Ask HN: Should I go through with a Google interview
I've been asked to interview for a software engineer position at Google, and I'm on the fence as to proceeding.

I've got an excellent academic pedigree (including PhD from top British university), and a solid career that has been has focused on robust software engineering alongside engineering management and leadership - I was CTO of a startup with a reasonable number of folk, as well as a principal in a large organisation running a team that made over $100M. I presume this is why they contacted me (of course, I might just have been found in a sweep of LinkedIn).

However, my raw algorithmic skill has atrophied. My ability to build scalable, high quality software (and teams) is exponentially better than it was, but my ability to devise solutions to NP hard problems on a whiteboard is probably not what it used to be.

The material I've been sent to "prepare" with, and the information I can find online, suggests that a reasonable amount of the interview is basically going to be a "coding olympiad". Essentially, "Have you memorised a bunch of approaches to algorithmics, and can you recall them all under pressure?".

I'm currently inclined to cancel the interview, because honestly, I don't think I can right now. I'm not really up for spending weeks of time "revising" as if I was an undergraduate again. Either:

1) They need people who can do this type of thing, in which case, I'm not interested in the job
2) They don't need people to do this work, and ask it as some kind of bizarre ritual, in which case, I'm not interested in the job.
3) I've misunderstood the interview process (though when I asked the recruiter about the interview, she gave me some "trial questions" including "What's the complexity of Quicksort, best and worst case? When should you use merge sort", which suggests to me I've not).

Should I pull out now, or try and "prepare"?
Yeah, this is a serious issue and one I wish wasn't the case.
It's entirely possible that LSD uncovered or accentuated an underlying flaw in your friend's psyche...
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Even with tail calls, and purely functional code, it can be shown like this: imagine you see a purely functional, tail-called, all-state-as-argument call foo(A, B, REST-OF-STATE). Later on, you encounter the same call with exactly the same values - foo(A, B, REST-OF-STATE). At this point you know that the program looped, since you've proven (through observation) that the call to foo(A, B, REST-OF-STATE) will eventually yield another call to foo(A, B, REST-OF-STATE).

This is essentially equivalent to detecting cycles in a directed graph where each node has outdegree of 1. If you hit the same node twice, you've found a cycle.
p-zombie is a fantastic insult for people you disagree with, though
Not sure what you're asking. If you're asking if we are stuck with shitty drugs that only work sometimes and require the patient to be dependent on them, I'd say yes. The legal consequences are too severe to argue otherwise. Even carrying out legitimate scientific studies is close to impossible. Of course one should lol at the individual. One should also look at society's role in promoting depression. But you're not going to fix society so you're not going to fix the individual who is made sick by that society. People need friends and contact with other people, not the isolation our society provides. They need stability in life and purpose, not the unemployment and abysmal life our society provides for most of its members. We can't fix these problems. Blaming the individual for things that are out of his control is silly. Making him dependent on a substance to function is criminal. All the while we have medicine that one doesn't need to be dependent on and can be used once in awhile for recovery but researchers are punished with jail time so that we increase the profits of the company making the drug that doesn't work. Who wouldn't rightfully be depressed in such a society and who wouldn't be angry at people who suggest that the individual's own behavior rather than the helplessness and hopelessness of our society are his fault alone (as our society does with this issue)?
> Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

Most people don't play around with their consciousness enough to realize that there's such a state as consciousness without thought. You can of course argue that it doesn't exist, but I invite you to actually get there before making up your mind. At that point it becomes clear that you've been overlooking something obvious that is likely to turn your metaphysics on its head.

The closest analogy I can give is lucid dreaming. In a regular dream, you might see a flower and work out all the processes that cause you to see it. When you become lucid, you suddenly see the gaping flaw in your model.
I agree with such reflection, but a lot of people want to use slavery as an indictment against white people generally, even those whose ancestors took no part in the slave trade. There is certainly some truth to the claims that such white people benefitted transitively, but the error margins are gargantuan.
> Why is this subject so fraught? ... Why bother?

Because there isn't a good scientific explanation yet. Just lots of theories that are very difficult to prove. I tend to agree that we are just "wet computers" -- it seems pretty obvious (to many of us), however that doesn't meet the bar for good science.
I'm wondering what we are doing wrong at this moment. Allowing people to work in sweatshops for our own betterment comes to mind.
IIRC, if you remove India and China from poverty trends, the picture is a lot less positive.
It probably did but that flaw wasn't obvious at all beforehand. He was a bit eccentric but also a really bright and funny guy with a lot of friends and a very dedicated student.
Federal law determines copyright, not the constitution.

> The obligation to ensure free access to the law rests squarely with the government.

Equal protection clauses and First Amendment control here. Otherwise there is secret law.

In a degenerate example, "the crime of murder and a proper defense shall be determined by standard 451 from the Bradbury Institute." The Bradbury Institute will be happy to sell a copy of that standard for $100 million.
> Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

How does it feel that way at all? You say there's no mystery, but you're stopping short of the actual questions that make the experience of consciousness intriguing.
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It has been my primary for ~16 years, and I’ve been running -current (tip of development branch) for nearly 10 years. Base system (which includes tmux[0]), X11 (which is optional, but maintained by NetBSD), dwm[1], Tcl[2] cURL[3], fossil[4] and Firefox and I’m usually on my way...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software)
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I won't defend Ballmer, but the guy was a salesman, a really good salesman. Not a technologist.

Also Bill Gates was "chief software architect" during the Longhorn/Vista thing so he's hardly absolved of blame.
Wonder why they just don’t start their own store?
If you have a neurotypical person, therapy, or psychedelics can bring a lasting result.

But for a certain subset of population, with messed up serotonin pathways, antidepressants are the cure. Just like for a diabetic an insulin shot is.
Working for giant tech corporations helping them collect data on the population?
I have come across a PDF that purports to be an English translation though I haven't had the time to read it yet. Nor is my Russian or French good enough to determine if it's legitimate, however it seems to be.

There is no attribution on the translation, either.