skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roger Penrose begs to differ. See "Shadows of the Mind", where he argues for the third option in your list. Based on scientific evidence, of course.
PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
That sort of goes back to the same problem of simply knowing what to make, when. Im not even sure what I'd make if I could start two years ago knowing everything now.
A long time ago, when Last.fm started, it had the option to play music similar to two or more artists. You would write the artists separated by a comma and you would get a playlist of artists which were similar. That was really good.
https://www.wireguard.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659983
"If it is real, then most likely this was done inadvertently."

That's probably not going to help much, even if it is true.
I feel bad for the employees. Getting laid off sucks, I hope they all have better jobs soon.

In terms of TTG as a company, they got what they asked for. It's too bad it didn't happen before they hired their first non founders.

I'd been watching TTG since before they had a name. The rumors were that the devs from the cancelled Sam & Max game left Lucas to make a Sam & Max game. This was second only to Star Wars for me at the time.

I bought it as soon as a physical copy came out. (I don't remember if episodes came on disc or if I had to wait for the season). TTG had built DRM into the game that prevented you from using it in a virtual machine. TTG's website had made it sound like the DRM wouldn't prevent anyone with a physical copy from playing.

I contacted TTG. Their rep seemed to be reading of some BS script. He was condescending. He treated me like I didn't know what I was talking about for not wanting to use wine or dual boot. I returned the game to the store* and acquired a copy that had been patched to repair the DRM. After that, if TTG came up in a conversation I made sure to give the person a heads up that they'd just need to pirate it anyway.

* This was a small store, their policy defined games rendered unplayable by DRM as defective. This policy caused them to not carry future TTG games.
Your argument is wrong in every regard that matters and this is in no way comparable to the military.

The contract you sign when you get the job tells you to follow those instructions. And you have laws that say that you can be a whistleblower if they are illegal. Well this may be immoral or unethical but it doesn't strike me as illegal. So your only option is to refuse the implementation and quit your job.

Is the problem solved? No. Then that wasn't a solution and the responsibility wasn't on the engineer's shoulders. When you have a leaking pipe staining the wall don't blame and just repair the wall. Fix the pipe.

You're letting some irrational anger/hate cloud your judgement and it shows. You came up with a comparison with Nazis (!!!) and nothing anywhere close to reasonable opinion on who's really to blame and what the solution is. You're the guy who hates the person in the call center for following those questionable and possibly abusive scripts. Obviously it's on them.
Make your REST resources as dumb as a rock
If the mandate (whether by regulatory or insurer/market force - we’ve established that the providers don’t want any kind of standardisation or data transfer, the hypothetical I’m proposing is that they’re dragged into doing it) is that they have to put their data into some data broker, if they want to keep their own copies too then the cost of doing that is their problem (or a calculation that the value outweighs the cost).

In an ideal market, another player who didn’t want to hoard data could undercut them (not having that cost).

Tuning either the cost/benefit of outsourcing or the nature of the incentives, I suppose, are the key.
As an independent observer (VC; background in investing both in the US & Europe, currently based out of London) - the French ecosystem has transformed massively over the last few years, it's essentially unrecognizable from what it used to be.

Historically French startups were relatively insular, primarily focusing on the French market while largely ignoring the larger global market.

That's long gone - now you see French startups going after the global market from day one (indeed many run product/eng out of France while running sales from the US to be closer to their American customers).

You can tell the article author hasn't really spent time in the French ecosystem due to the lack of mention of SaaS which is where Paris has found it's sweet spot - SaaStr even ran their first conference outside of SF in Paris.

You can easily see the quality of SaaS startups emerging from the French YC alumni alone: Front, Algolia, Sqreen, Slite - each really building the category defining product in their space.
> everything we know suggests it is inextricably tied to and an emergent phenomenon of the brain

I don’t think that’s universally accepted. I think trees are conscious and they have no brain.

I think the brain does create an illusion that other things are not conscious. It tricks us into thinking our own consciousnesses are distinct from the rest of consciousness. And that’s been a useful adaptation for us. And it confuses the hell out of consciousness philosophers. But we were conscious before we evolved it. It’s possible we were human before we evolved it.

> In the distant future there may be a way to extract and transfer consciousness into a new substrate

It’s possible such a thing already exists. We have ancient stories about it. If it were true it would be very difficult to detect.

If the universe is a simulation then it seems extremely unlikely that consciousnesses would never be read, just operating until they get eaten by the 2nd law.
We're a messy species: oceans, atmosphere and space. But we do have a conscience, and we are creative, so maybe there's hope.
Can't agree with you more, the political atmosphere in the Valley and the tech. companies is simply unbearable.

Living in the valley in general and especially in SF basically means being subjected to a daily deluge of left-wing ideology that the people living in that bubble self-perpetuate and feed upon.

The Trump election came as a much deeper shock to the SF/Valley locals than the rest of America: most people there were totally dumbstruck when he won.

The very idea that this was even remotely possible was simply not part of their tiny self-contained world.
At least it's something. You're welcome to add some sources of your own to the discussion.
(Sort of a tangent, but it is called out in the article...) Why DO companies insist on starting out in the bay area? Is it really that hard to find talent in second-string tech hubs?
It’s Amazon the company not Bezos the person.
I'll have what he's having
No.

>>> The mission involves deploying these cubesats as artificial space junk and them capturing them to demonstrate the effectiveness debris removal technology.

It picked up trash that it released. It did not intercept trash. It grabbed a conveniently placed and engineered object with virtually identical orbital parameters.
> Get rid of/make void the fact that software and hardware companies disclaim any and all liability

It already is void or at least significantly limited by law in most jurisdictions. It might be better if we waived statutes of limitations and enhanced damages (e.g., 3× multiple) for damages where the basis of liability would be reasonably viewed as within the scope of a disclaimer which purported to disclaim liability that could not legally be disclaimed, so that there was a significant disincentive for the currently-routine overly-broad disclaimers.
Europe is not tropical.
>You can bet they will kill integration with Spotify though.

Will they? Don't forget, the information flow is 2-way here, users get something useful out of it but Shazam (and now Apple) also learns what stuff is trending. If anything I actually lean towards them keeping or even enhancing Spotify and other service integration, at least as long as those services are viable: it effectively creates a direct channel into competing services that tells Apple exactly what stuff people want out of them, which they could then use directly in making Apple Music more competitive in turn.

Even if we take as granted that boosting Apple Music is a major concern to Apple, doesn't that at least maybe seem like an equally or more valuable way to do it? It doesn't make any users angry either or act as bad PR, they aren't taking anything away, and they get a massive information channel into every competitor and even real-world venues.

>And maybe no more Android support.

By the same token, if Apple wants to boost Apple Music in general then having information on music popularity and trends coming in from the population of Android users too also seems helpful.
Actually, the share and bondholders will be required to bail it in, under EU laws introduced a few years ago.
I'm sorry, but I am rejecting that argument. "Configurable" and "Secure" are not opposite ends of the same axis. They are different axis altogether, that have very little to do with each other.
btw, I just noticed that Zoho.com domain TLS certificate expires next year. Hope you have automatic checks for the timely renewal.. I have been a fan of Zoho and hope you make a comeback.
I thought you meant use all of the services, like lambda, SQS instead of Kafka or Rabbit, S3 for blobs instead of HDFS or filesystem.

Sure RDS can be swapped out easily, but what if I'm using 10 or 20 services?
Per pixel. Not overall.

25MP (or any resolution) full frame sensor with a (say) 1.8 lens will gather more photos than 10MP (or any resolution) APC sensor with a 1.8 lens.
The biggest is that the drivers have adequate information about road capacity and traffic conditions and are acting rationally on that information.

I actually believe that Waze has contributed to a lot of urban traffic problems as of late, because it ensures that more people contribute to braess' paradox instances that might have gone unrealized in the past.
The medical field has all sorts of other market failures going on, that it's not really fair to compare their prices in that way.
At this point, can you really separate the two? Most of Bezos’s wealth is tied up in Amazon, and he is virtually in control of the company.
I'm sure this has been discussed before on HN, but how has wikimedia avoided the fake news problem that plagues facebook, twitter and youtube.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065083.
And I'm also rejecting this argument that if we don't let software companies shovel whatever shit they want out the door without consequence, then nothing will happen. There is no basis for that whatsoever.
"Selena scola" is an AI... Google it

the employee suing is "Selena scola"

Coincidence...or just clever MSM ad strategy???
I would have liked to see Presto in the analysis.
The answer I keep hearing is that it keeps the founders near the VC money, which doesn't make sense here as I don't believe Telltale was pursuing that.

I've always wondered how much cash Double Fine burns through to stay in SF.
Bach died in 1750.
Working on video games is a lot like being in a band after High School.

You shouldn't do it with an expectation of any great rewards. You should really only do it if you are so passionate about the field that you don't have a choice.

Because of the high number of passionate people in the field the risk/reward ratio will always be skewed against you and most people will not be properly compensated for their work.
> Apple engaged in a years-long campaign of false promises, stealth and subterfuge designed to steal Qualcomm’s confidential information and trade secrets for the purpose of improving the performance of lower-quality modem chipsets

I'm so skeptical whenever I read something like that. Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare. They seem even more unlikely at a company with the scale, success, and talent of Apple. Coordinated corporate espionage would be a Really Big Deal, and something I doubt Apple would risk over modem performance. (VW's diesel scandal is the closest thing I can think of. Of course, there are other examples in finance like Enron.)

Maybe I'm biased from my experience at Google. (I know they're a favorite HN punching bag, but we try really hard to do the right thing regarding PII, privacy, ethics, etc.) I can't imagine anyone with the power to condone a trade secret stealing conspiracy at a company like Apple would do so.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
No, but most everyone at Google is in a position to be financially responsible and put aside a bit of money each paycheck for emergencies and/or decisions like this.
If you're currently running a GH4, you should be more excited about the GH5S. It's not cheap but this future Pana FF is probably going to be more expensive again.

You get a camera that does everything your GH4 does, but a lot better. The only thing it misses out on compared to the GH5 is sensor stabilisation, which your GH4 doesn't have anyway.

You get the full benefit of all your existing glass. In fact you get more benefit because the effective crop factor of the GH4 in 4K is 2.3, whereas on the GH5S with the multi-aspect sensor it's between 1.8 and 2. It's a bigger sensor both physically and logically.

Whereas a full frame Pana means an expensive body and a new glass collection, with barely any advantage over a GH4/GH5/GH5S with a speed booster.
if one looks at the history, the answer is a clear NO.
However, note that the traffic flow simulation in C:S is rather simplistic for performance reasons: specifically the pathfinder doesn't take dynamic traffic conditions into account at all! A traveler never chooses an alternative route even if the primary one is congested. But yeah, adding routes usually means also adding choke points (that is, intersections) which naturally slows down traffic.
That's the one meaning of bazaar I meant. The other would be bazaar=market.
Title is a bit misleading. The company sent up the cubesat "debris" along with their net for testing purposes. I guess that does make it space debris. If their net had failed, it would have been yet another piece of junk orbiting - but the the net effect was zero cleanup. It was a successful test.
Well it's not directly out of his pockets. It might impact this year's bottom line, but he didn't paid the 1M directly.
You seem to imply Intel and Apple is a person. There are thousands of engineers who work on these products. Are every one of them supposed to be perfect. If legal had to read every engineers email we would get nothing done. I mean there was probably some commands the cpu sent the baseband and I am guessing Apple wanted it to be the same with the intel chip.
> There's no difference in behavior that depends on existence of free will.

Ah, but you are forgetting a major part of how brain works. Brain models both our own and others behavior. If your brain knows you don't have free will and I don't have free will, it will not fault me for not having a thing I am supposed to not be having.

If it doesn't have free will, brain can assign a response, but not blame. You can't have the notion of blame if you don't have a concept of free will. Same way you can't express certain colors, if you lack the words for it.

Fun fact, when people read about not having free will, they are more likely to lie/cheat on a test.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-...
Just as a thought experiment, do you think without FB the Instagram team would have copied and integrated their version of Snapchat stories to hold the (at the time) rapidly growing Snapchat threat to their business?
m43 is one end of the size spectrum, and I've enjoyed my kit. If you find yourself not taking your camera along because it is too big, then it might be a good choice. The prime lenses in particular are very small, so a body and small prime fit nicely in your jacket.

They are getting squeezed out from below by phone cameras. As they get better, you think, "I could have just used my phone" at times. You can't get a shallow depth of field in as many conditions as a larger sensor. (It isn't impossible, you can get it with some lenses wide open.)

Fuji is doing well with their crop sensors as a good trade-off between size and sensor size. I would look at the new xt3 if I was starting from scratch. They have a nice lens line up.

I used to shoot Nikon, but I wasn't taking my camera with me, so I sold it and went m43. But I do miss the look of the portraits I used to get with full frame. So the new Z series is tempting if somewhat irrational. There you're buying the future, or using old glass with an adaptor.
The article starts off saying it was probably both:

"A company where the president picks dumb products, wastes money, and hires unqualified losers is dysfunctional. A company where the president builds a cult of personality, fires people who criticize him, and hires unqualified friends / relatives is toxic.

After reading The Verge article, it sounds like Telltale suffered from both problems. They were dysfunctional in the traditional sense of making lousy business decisions, but they were also dysfunctional in the more specific sense of being run by one or more jerks."

Maybe Apple managed to survive (thrive!) despite of the jerk, but that doesn't mean one wouldn't bring down a company on a less robust standing that may have otherwise still managed to keep the right trajectory.
I would think that the reason few women are "Juniors" is because the assumption is that they will likely marry and lose the family name anyway. I'm not actually sure what happens to the suffix when Sue Smith Jr, daughter of Sue Smith Sr. becomes Sue Roberts or whatever, but presumably the suffix is dropped at that point since it is no longer needed for disambiguation.
To add to this: if workers are underpaid relative to the cost of living in their area, they'll likely end up on some government assistance program.

Effectively, Walmart/Uber/etc get to double-dip -- they pay their employees less than a living wage, and based on the US tax structure, don't have to pay for the government assistance programs that their employees end up needing to make ends meet.
People don't need reliable citations to post on FB.
> Do you trust that these companies will never be hacked?

I trust them more than I trust myself, unfortunately.

I generally try to avoid uploading unnecessary/extra data. But email and remote document access aren't optional, and while I don't trust BigCorp to do security right, I also know that I don't have the resources to do it right for myself...
I have heard it frequently mentioned by interesting scientists (most recently, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson) that this ability to live against natural biological tendencies is unique for humans among the rest of the animal kingdom. So while it may be fundamental to humans, it is not apparently fundamental to the general biology of the world, and humans appear to be an interesting exception.
Correlation is not enough to establish causation. Do you have a basis for claiming a causal link?
It's disgusting that you'd offer such a comment in response to credible reports about forced organ donation. That the victims' leader holds silly beliefs in no way justifies, excuses, or even explains their murder by the authorities in the slightest. All it can be is a distraction from a deliberate horror.
That's like saying that inspecting your meat would drive up the price. It is an absolute nonsense argument brought up by people who would prefer to have no responsibility for anything they do, ever.
Adding few more details:

Both startups are B2B. Startup A started as B2C but are expanding to include B2B (more focus and that's I'll be coming in place).

Hopefully, I don't reveal too much by saying this:

Startup B is YC backed.
Medical equipment is expensive for reasons other than just liability. Much of it is because of some combination of being quite specialized, protected by medical patent (or other IP law), produced from expensive materials or manufacturing process, and subject to all sorts of regulations involved in prolonging/saving lives.
Flicks is also synonymous with "skip through" or "flip through" or "click".

https://www.freethesaurus.com/flicks
“Defeating the Cheating Level Builtin AI in StarCraft II” Tencent whitepaper
I still use many of these in my day to day life.
Is Dual-Boot with Linux Actually Worth It?
How dare the Poles produce video contradicting our official / popular version of events? Insolence!
"Your life is not predetermined at birth" Yes it is pre-determined at birth.
I've usually heard Tyler as the boy's name that goes hand in hand with Caitlin.
They are a benefit... if you pay people above market! That allows you to attract top talent that otherwise would be locked in at Google etc.

The whole point of low salaries, for smart companies, is to be the one increasing them! Obviously that makes it a temporary advantage, as salaries start to increase... But all great advantages are temporary.

The people you are talking to, who like low salaries because they want to enjoy lower costs in perpetuity... that’s just mediocre thinking by mediocre companies.
What indexes should I create on a table?
Fire the Workaholics (2008)
Posting answers to highly targeted Quora questions is free. Launching on Product Hunt is free. Writing targeted content that ranks on Google takes time, but costs no money. Retargeting ads are cheap.

I agree that if you're trying to build a big business, you need to think hard about how you're going to get customers. But if you're just trying to make a couple hundred a month (as OP asked), it's a completely different ballgame. You just need a tiny sliver of an enormous pie.
> Why do you want to treat people unprofessionally?

The best argument against CoCs is how their most fervent proponents behave as if the rules in the CoC don't apply to themselves.

A variety of pro-CoC comments from various people in this topic could easily be construed as contravening some or all of the following examples of unacceptable behavior extracted from the Linux CoC:

-Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks

-Public or private harassment

-Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
DM2 – maintenance (help wanted)
Do you remember DM2 (DialogMate2 - https://sourceforge.net/projects/dm2/), the capable window manager that was abandoned long ago (the last version- 1.23.1, is from 2007-03-05). DM2 still works fine under Windows XP but on later versions of Windows it has issues. I miss DM2 very much since I have not come across an alternative that has all the features offered by DM2. Written in C, DM2 is a treasure of a tool- tiny, light, rich, configurable, portable. The developer exported it to GitHub (https://github.com/igr/dm2) hoping to find a maintainer of the project capable of refreshing the code and making it usable on modern versions of Windows. For more than a year such a maintainer hasn't been found yet (see- https://github.com/igr/dm2/issues/1). It would be great if there are developers fluent in C who are interested in reviving and maintaining DM2 project.

I am not a programmer and I have no connections with the original developer of DM2- Igor Spasić.
Can you link the replication study or analysis that reveals the flaw in the original?

> There's nothing to suggest that human consciousness is magical, supernatural, spiritual, metaphysical, or unable to be explained

I don’t think anyone is trying to argue against you. We’re just saying there is more to understand than science has so far done. We’re not saying science can’t reach what we imagine, just that it’s tough, and may require new physics.

Luckily modern physics also requires new physics. So we’re not alone.