skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why is this freaky? Consciousness is an utterly arbitrary definition that is not free from debate or alteration.

It's somewhat arbitrary, but hardly utterly. If anything, not only it comes from direct experience, but is also the most constant experience we have.

(That's the point of Descartes cogito ergo sum, btw. We could doubt that the landscape arounds us that we see exists, but we can't really doubt that we think, for to doubt is itself part of thinking).
Meh. I don't really buy into this biphasic hype. If I go to sleep in the afternoon, my body still wants several hours sleep and I'll wake up groggy, disoriented and more tired than before.

I can live on 6, and feel bad. 8 is good. 9 is better. 10 is common for me at weekends when I have no particular plans.
The Cataacombs in Paris are cool, I cannot recommend them as an unconventional tourist attraction enough. Just don't try to steal any bones or you will join them... a simple house rule.
At night i tend to get around 6 hours or so.
I work from home and tend to find a 90 minute nap, as my (long) lunch break really works well for me. I eat my lunch whilst i work. This wouldn't work onsite, I'm sure, but it really works well for me.

Gives me that little pick me up in the afternoon that i used to power through with LOTS of coffee. Down to one coffee a day now
> The paperlike hd looks interesting. https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Ink-Paperlike-13-3-Monitor/dp/....

A blog post featuring that display was discussed yesterday here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100447
Of course, reliance on the Title I status as the basis for arguing that the law is preempted means that both the substantive and procedural propriety of the action by which they were redesignated as Title I services are issues which might be raised against the suit, and would need to be resolved to resolve the suit.
The Molten front page can be skimmed in 5 minutes or less, it has a lot of empty spaces...

Here:

Molten supports Python 3.6+. Falcon supports Python 2.6+.

Molten uses MyPy for validation. As far as I can see, Falcon does not.
In Web Security:
- The Tangled Web (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/)

You can look at the Web Application Hacker's Handbook or the Browser Hacker's Handbook, if you want. But TTW tops them all.
Yuge tracts o' land.
I've used Falcon extensively for about 3 years while at LeadPages.

I would say the biggest difference between the two is Molten gives you more out of the box: input validation, doc/schema generation, ORM support, support for multipart/form-data requests (Falcon doesn't actually handle these out of the box!), etc.
I've experimented with two 3-4 hour sleep periods and it is great, two fresh starts per day... but only works if you don't have anything resembling a normal schedule.
The doctor (and most other) salaries in the UK are much lower however.
Or rather we have a knee-jerk reaction "it a priori mustn't be so", and thus somebody like Penrose who brings actual arguments (regardless of if they're flawed or not, scientists have flawed arguments all the time), is accused of "masquerading religion".
...and what about all the other countries?
In the 1980's there were no fancy scanline tricks to get more colours out of the Spectrum. Game developers just did an extremely good job of working around the limitations of having two colours in an 8x8 block of pixels. Play anything by 'Ultimate Play The Game' to see how gameplay worked, unimpeded by attribute clashes.

I am amazed that decades after the Spectrum was current that clever code has been written to get more colours than previously thought possible in an 8x8 area.

However, none of this was available in the 1980's, when people actually used/played games on these home micros.

The situation was different with the ZX81. Originally this had the lamest display ever, black and white, 40 x 25 characters. Some characters were graphics, i.e. a bit like very blocky unicode. Notionally that was the best you could get. However, you could re-map the characters to RAM and in RAM you could put your own character definitions, e.g. the letter 'A' could be made to be your own 8x8 pixel black and white character. If you re-mapped every character then you could create a rudimentary 'high resolution' game environment. This technique actually required 'shadow RAM' in the 8-16K part of memory. You then had to enter characters the hard way, working out from graph paper what the binary was to be. At the time this was mind blowing. The iphone launch was nothing compared to the excitement of getting high res black and white graphics on the ZX81.

But, it was on the BBC Micro where real mind blowing stuff happened. The game Elite did something utterly crazy with graphics on the BBC B. The top part of the screen was in high res black and white and the lower dashboard/console was in chunkier four colour graphics. The Braben/Bell team had managed to not only think of switching modes mid screen, they implemented it and they did it all with genuine 3D.

This only worked on the BBC Micro, other variants of Elite were not as good as there wasn't the hardware on other systems to do truly cool stuff.

Imagine if you went to a web page and the top part had 4K monochrome video even if you didn't think your computer did 4K with the part below the video at 720p with HDR colours, with there being both modes on screen at once. You would be in awe of that, and this is the best analogy I can think of to think of what Elite did.

Elite was a 1980's game and this hardcore hacking of the display modes was available at the time and not something developed demo-scene style decades later.

Elite defied so many things that should not have been possible. As well as the funky screen modes there were things like the thousands of planets, far too many and far too detailed to fit into RAM. This was tantamount to magic.

I never felt that any of the hacks on the Spectrum had that jaw-dropping awe factor, it is a shame that the subsequent video hacks were not available at the time, in the 1980's.
What about 'Options as a Strategic Investment'?
Pain in Upper Leg
How do you then provide higher-quality but more expensive healthcare to those who can afford it?
That's a clever use of org-babel!
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Funny thing, there are registered tartans for Mars exploration and Earth preservation activities.
>Charmers argues that quaila cannot be reduced to physical causes. However we know for sure that any conceivable information or process that can be performed on information must be tractable to physical encoding.

That's taking what you ought to prove for granted.

We hardly know it "for sure". Even if we're totally certain of it, he haven't proved it.
Ways we misunderstand adolescents, according to brain science
The problem with e-mail links is that if the e-mail inbox gets hacked the hacker now has access to all the user's services.
Ford autonomous research to use NASA's Quantum Computer
Exactly. If jealousy and mate-guarding behaviour evolved in some males, it might spread whether or not they understood what was going on or what the mechanisms are.

One could look at the animal kingdom to get more insight on this, though of course there is such huge variety there that it drives home the point that "it's complicated."
I just have checked orgzly and it impressed me. It has really progressed since the last time I checked it.

So, now I have to think about the possibility of reverting back to org-mode after a couple of years of heavily using Evernote.
Wrt (2): Personally I find coroutine programming to be unintuitive and often lead to unreadable code, where the control flow is hard to reason about. Additionally, it introduces the honestly idiotic programming task of profiling to find chunks of code that "don't yield enough" and then breaking them up to yield more. The possibility is always there that some engineer on your team will commit some nasty blocking API handler that stalls your endpoint.

Threads don't have any of these problems. Conceptually they are sequential code. You just have to clearly state what the communication model is between threads, and use a good one. The actor model works really well.
So molten is batteries included essentially, whereas falcon is not.

Like flask versus Django.

Straight question, wouldn’t it have been easier to fork falcon and add the batteries?
> Nothing can explain "everything".

I'm not saying I argue for the opposite, but that is very definitive statement in need of a very strong argument to be taken seriously.

> What does that even mean?

Things that we don't even know how to talk about yet, like consciousness.

Even if consciousness is just an emergent phenomenon, this still doesn't explain the subjective experience of consciousness. Subjective experience might be irreducible, but it might not. We don't know yet.

From what I understand, you're claiming that we can't explain higher levels of emergence in terms of lower levels. But that's not true, and your example of hardware/software is the prime example of that. We can explain or model every level of abstraction perfectly in terms of the preceding, lower level of abstraction, until we get to the quantum mechanical properties of the substrate your software is running on.

Whether it's practical to talk about the rules of chess in terms of QM is another matter - it's not - but I'd maybe argue that's because we're not intelligent enough to hold enough information at once in our brains, not because of some inherent impossibility of doing so.
Having become a dad for the first time 14 months ago had quite the impact on the amount of uninterrupted sleep I have been getting since. I consider 4 hours in one stretch a good night. Averages are closer to 3 hours. My son simply is not a good sleeper.

Even though my son brings a lot of fun to mine and my partner's life, I have not felt well-rested since his birth, and feel impacted both mentally and fysically due to that.
I think this is a major factor why I'm afraid to leave my job and find something more fulfilling and better paying; at this moment, without my job and colleagues (and the light casual interactions I have during the day), my social life would be reduced to some online friends (who are lately only intermittently active themselves) and my cat. I'm sure I'd be able to rebuild, and it might even be a good development in the long run both socially and financially, but in the short term it'll be a problem.

But that's how it goes. Every time I (/ one) leaves their school or job or the place they live, most of the people you see daily will be out of your life completely. I'm not the type to really reach out like "hey you wanna hang out", but then apparently nobody else is either so idk if it's just me.
Unboxing Chrome – Redesigning the Omnibox
I'll admit i started skimming the article from about half way though but i didn't see any mention of what these flaws actually are?
>You have to look at really successful indie games, such as Terraria, Factorio, Mini Metro, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Papers Please.. and there are many more. If you look at these games do you really think there is an alternative reality where they would not sell many copies? I don't.

Very much yes.

Most of their success is due to being fortunate enough to get a bunch of coverage. From screenshots, most aren't very spectacular. Stardew Valley takes the formula of an existing series (Harvest Moon). Papers Please is a truly unique game that was lucky enough to get youtuber coverage. Plenty of equally unique and just as fun games are ignored. I've never heard of Factorio, but looking it up, it's graphically very unappealing. Maybe my opinion would change if I watched a playthrough of it, but it doesn't stand out. Mini Metro might be fun. But so are many of the hundreds of other minimalistic puzzlers released monthly.

There are loads of games that just don't sell but become classics decades later. Earthbound sold horribly in America until the main character appeared in a more popular series (Super Smash Bros). Almost nobody played Killer 7. Panzer Dragoon Saga is considered one of the best RPGs of all time. Nobody bought it. Its popularity mostly grew after people discovered it through emulation.

The game in this article flopped because there are an abundance of games, it falls into an overcrowded genre, and it doesn't stand out, but most importantly, nobody important played it. If pewdiepie played this, it'd see 10000+ sales in a week and likely appear in a humble bundle.

To make a successful anything, it's 90% marketing, 5% quality, and 5% luck. If the right person finds your product and endorses it, quality doesn't matter. You'll get guaranteed sales. It's then that it takes quality to sustain those sales.
The good thing about this, is it puts tartans into a modern IPR context and sheds the Walter Scott fake history. It's no different to burberry trademarking it's red flash check. All the clan/sept/hunting/dress stuff is a giant fantasy of post Regency construction.

Harris Tweed on the other hand, is much more a "thing" and deserves its restricted mark for heritage reasons.

Cornish sailors knitting patterns next!
I doubt it's for the battlefield. More likely for planning, where you'd have a briefing with several people around a tabletop projection of the ground scene and AR tanks and characters moving around.
Father of Optical Networking, Sir Charles Kao, Obituary
Thanks for the good writeup. This technique however is not new, as others have mentioned. If you look at this phishing site on the "Similar Pages" feature on https://urlscan.io you can see a bunch of other phishing pages with similar themes (gaming / skin customisation) that employ the same phishing kit, going back five months: https://urlscan.io/result/24dc54ec-2008-4fe1-b526-4a25fca25f...

Some example domains: skinssoul[.]com, skinsnecro[.]com, dotaskins[.]eu etc...
Project Atlas
One coffee a day max is a good trick. Like all addictive substances there is a seriously diminishing return and eventual swing patterns as tolerance builds. One a day gives you the full effect and has a chance to fully leave your system so you don't require coffee to function. Coffee withdrawal migraine style headaches are a real thing.
Right, you'd need something like the blockchain - ie, a timestamping server - to validate the posting date. But then you don't need a signature, just a hash. The advantage of using Google's timestamping service is that it wouldn't need to store the hash/signature, unlike the blockchain.
Proposed definition: Loneliness is needing some kind of interaction from other people, and not getting it.

Proposed understanding: People likely need to have enough of each of several different kinds of interaction (analogy: nutrients), and different people need different amounts of them. Kinds of interaction that at least some people need probably include: intellectual, sharing of problems, "merely seeing another human's face", romantic, sexual, sharing of hobbies/interests...
Non-Americans may not realize: In America, going to the ER, it's possible and often happens that someone can be billed any random, unlimited amount for 10 seconds of interaction: $3,150 for "consultation." Yes. Heck, you don't even need to be seen to be billed. As soon as they collect personal information, despite not being seen, they can and do still try to bill you randomly regardless. One ER in the Bay Area has a security guard whose job it is to collect Social Security or tax identifiers from people before they can speak to anyone in the hospital.
It's pretty simple:
https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/
https://www.bupa.co.uk/
I don't recall ever seeing a version that
opens a popup to get you to login.

You'll often get a login pop-up if you pay with paypal - they call it the mini-browser in their documentation [1] - and I guess the intention is you don't have to leave the merchant's website in you main browser window.

[1] https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/...
You may be surprised where unity makes the majority of their money... it's not from sales to the general public.
The parent post is correct, the majority of users are cheap, it's a race to the bottom, where a £50 plugin is considered expensive.
The Wayback Machine is an archive, not a time capsule. Very different things.
Do you have any high level wisdom/takeaways you could share?
> We've written a custom engine from scratch using C, Lua, and OpenGL

No other explanations needed :(
Blackburn, de Rijke, Venema: Modal Logic
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modal-logic/F7CDB0A2650...
Formal verification:

Principles of model checking (Baier, Katoen)

It covers the basics of modeling and verifying concurrent systems against linear-time and branching-time properties. It also mentions timed automata, but those more interested in verifying real-time systems should probably check out another good introductory textbook:

Reactive Systems (Aceto, Ingólfsdóttir, Larsen, Srba)
Well, there is this rear view mirror in cars which essentially draws dark by blocking out the area where the sun would reflect into your eye.

Expanding on that, maybe with some kind of holographic shenanigans, we can have something that not exactly draws dark, but occludes light very cleverly.
Probably not, because many of the differences are fundamental:

* Falcon revolves around the concept of Resources, i.e. classes as the primary handlers of requests; molten revolves around functions,

* Falcon supports Python 2.x,

* automatic dependency injection via type annotations is core to molten.
I’d say sports, too. TV made it so some players were playing for hundreds of thousands of people nationally while others still entertained only locally.
Friends aren't profitable. You are much easier to be exploited if you are by yourself.
What's the venture capital market like in Belarus? What kind of options are there for a growing SaaS business, in regards to either angel investors or traditional venture capital firms?
Mostly avoid unit tests
Out of curiosity I checked out the "New Tartans" page. The most recent item is:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=12260

which, sadly, seems to have been registered on behalf of a white supremacist cult.
Show HN: Fight Cartel my lifestyle rewind
Hi all,

After crashing out and taking months to recover after my startup ran out of runway I have found my self at a loose end.

I discovered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which has really helped me for stress and general health and became something I loved. So I figured can I make a lifestyle co. out of it?

So here it is https://www.fightcartel.com Any feedback on it's progress so far would be greatly appreciated.
Plenty of smart people drop out of school. Even more smart people never get a chance to attend a school out of which to drop.
I think this concept explains it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_element_(electrical_...

So instead of modeling your home wiring as wires, you should model them as wires plus capacitances, inductances and resistances. The loop from light switch to lamp and back is basically one "big" inductor. The challenge is to find adequate values for these parasitic elements.

You are right about AC though, didn't think of that.
Also, when your jobs are a) finding berries and hunting mammoths and b) having sex, it is not implausible that doing a) during the day and b) during the night gives you more reproductive success than vice versa.

It is fun speculation, but still, OP's self-assured "this is so trivial" tone was not called for.
Running a T480 with dedicated nvidia hardware. The GPU in mine is mostly off, as I use the intel onboard graphics for most day to day tasks. The occasional gaming session in windows is the only time the dedicated gpu actually gets some power fed to it.

I run linux on this without any nvidia drivers even. Just bbswitch that turns off the dedicated GPU.
For probabilistic scheduling you could look at software like @Risk by Palisade. Effectively applying Monte Carlo simulation to schedules. You provide a distribution around the level of effort or duration required to complete a task/activity in your precedence network/graph. What you get after enough runs is a probability or likelihood of completion dates/cost (e.g. P50 or P90 estimates).

This is extremely powerful in non-trivial scenarios where you have a properly resourced & cost loaded schedule with logical constraints.
This i like. Reminds me of the Blackadder politics/voting episode where despite there being 1 voter there is 16,472 votes.

Some result where 10 times the voters all vote for one candidate.
My experience (though I'm not a game developer) is the opposite. Linux users are very demanding, and instead of being thankful that your app works well on Linux, they'll take the fact that it works and works well on Linux for granted, and will resent you for charging money for it.

If you support Ubuntu+Debian (1.15% user base globally on average), the next feature request you'll get will be Xubuntu, Arch, and then some smaller distros which has their own undocumented quirks, they'll ask for 32 bit versions (0.0015%) to run on ancient machines that aren't really powerful enough to run the app anyway, and there goes the rabbit hole.

(In the meanwhile, Windows users are 85%, Mac OS is 13%. We're talking about fractions of fractions a percent here when you move out of Ubuntu x64)

These features will be framed as "You're supporting Ubuntu, getting it to work on this {{similar_distro}} is so close, you should do it and you'll have a lot of users". It's not that they're wrong or malicious — it's just that their concept of a lot of users is a whopping multitude of three people.

I'm also purposefully ignoring the more acrid side of the Linux community where they'll call you names, find your personal email, and make sure it's the first thing you read in the morning for not pulling heroics to make it work for their distro of choice (0.0000075% user base).

All in all, not worth it, really. Not financially, not logically. Not from a human point of view, either.

Here are a few things I've found helpful if you're making a desktop app for Linux:

- Consider charging Linux users for support. This is justifiable because for every Windows support request, there are likely 10 people that experienced the problem and haven't written to you about it, for Mac, 2-3, but for Linux, very likely you're only helping that single guy only. This is the best way to do this, but since my app is free, I don't really want to set up a payment infrastructure.

- Make your app free, and ask Linux users to either make their own builds from unpacked releases, or pay for support for their distro on a rolling basis. You don't really expect anyone to take the latter, but it does wonders to cut down on requests in which people demand you support their favourite obscure distro of choice with no help or support from them.

That said, I still provide Snaps, as it's the closest I can get to a universal Linux runtime. This exposes me to requests to provide AppImage, Flatpak, and some other stuff even then, but it's way better than trying to support distros directly. [0]

[0] I tried to support AppImage, I gave up after a full day of trying. Flatpak had similar issues. One of the core developers of AppImage reached out trying to debug, and I helped him as much as I could — but the point is, while the intentions are pure, and I'm glad for the effort, this is deeper and deeper into the red in terms of price / performance.
Of course, we don't. We need 9 !!!
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