skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard of them but I've yet to try them. I guess I'm trying to figure out if there's some way to basically duplicate the idea of an SPA (using client-side templating or whatever) without all the overhead. I think you're right, that static site generators fill that gap, or perhaps just server-side rendering with very little JavaScript on the frontend.
Bike-shedding: What kind of domain name is ap.cs.ucy.ac.cy?
I've made this suggestion on a few other threads, and I'll keep making it until it works ;)

Anyone want to start a modern webring?

- Self host your site

- Put in a JS snippet to link out to other sites

The idea being to drive some traffic to your site without being beholden to Medium/Facebook/whatever.
The bottleneck is making sure what you just drilled doesn't immediately collapse on you. Along with evacuating the material out of the way. That's the reason tunneling takes so long.

From what I've read, Boring Company is very aware of this. Give me a 1st principles analysis for why those things can't be done cheaper and faster?
“So what makes you think that conscious thought isn’t real?”

Haha
Looks like it does export a single "optimised" mesh (at least when exporting to OBJ) - i.e. it not just a load of individual cube meshes, but each separate coloured face is optimised into 3 or 4 triangles. A face with different colours is treated as a separate set of triangles though, so something like a chess board pattern would be a lot of triangles, but a white cube would be hardly any.

I had some trouble importing directly into Unity 2019, this is what I did for anyone else wondering:

- Export as OBJ in MagicaPixel

- Import Obj & Png into Unity via drag-n-drop

- In the prefab that is generated, on the model tab change the imported model's scale factor to 0.1 and hit apply.

- In the prefab that is generated, on the material tab click extract materials and save in same folder.

- Drag the Png texture you imported into the Albedo of the extracted texture.

You now have the textured MagicaVoxel model in Unity for whatever you want to do with it. Yay.
This isn't true: https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/1075817382726250496?s=1...
I don't have the link handy, but this reminds me of the 3D reconstruction from images taken through a pane of glass with water droplets on it. Each droplet acts like a little lens with a slightly different perspective and you can use those differences to reconstruct the 3D structure of the scene.
That's fair. There's not really room to deconstruct the various arguments here. I want to blog about it later.
* AI to be banned*

Good luck with that.
I immediately closed the tab when the popup came and disturbed me in reading your content.
Yes.

But complex and interesting ones.
Hah. They don't have one now. The de facto solution is Maven. Java itself doesn't actually have a module system like the one discussed for Go. It is merely a access control system rather than a dependency system.

To be clear, I give the Java people shit about it all the time and was on the original Java module system JSR that was supposed to deliver it. In the end, the Sun people yanked the dependency part and shipped a module system that is really only useful to the JDK.
I have to say that Osth's GDPR cookie stuff is some of the worst I’ve come across. I usually back out these days.
Common, this is just semantics.

"I would rather say that consciousness is not what we generally think it is. It is not direct awareness of our inner world of thoughts and judgments but a highly inferential process that only gives us the impression of immediacy."

Whatever it is you still can't explain it. End of story.
I mean did he come to this conclusion consciously? If conscious thought isn’t real then why should any of us listen to anything he has to say?
Eventually it will be split from actual Data Science work which is essentially either Machine Learning or Statistics. Imagine making a master sculptor mine his own Marble, it would be absolutely absurd similarly it would be silly to make a PhD Machine Learning expert work on data cleaning. A massive waste of talent on trivial work.

Edit: trivial isn't the right word, it's obviously an important step in the process but quite different from what you are really paying a "Data Scientist/ML Engineer/etc" to do.
Right, but most tech workers still pull the majority of their yearly earnings via the income tax AMT brackets. I'm not sure that's the place where people have complaints about the system.

It's more about the systemic unfairness of investment based income.
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>"Tube sound" is nonlinearity.

In balance. Too much nonlinearity is just noise. You want to have good balance, nonlinearity for warmth and linearity for fidelity.
"Pocketnet blockchain is based on randomized Proof-of-Stake algorithms. However, nodes are required to perform a number of services in order for their stakes to be valid. Nodes maintain the blockchain, they also respond to RPC socket calls from the front end."

How is this enforced? What stops me from faking these services?
Edit 2 is still broken, I find it hard to believe there are less skills than total number of jobs or position posted.
This story is not supported by surveys and studies. White Americans, particularly men, are angry that they're losing their dominant group status. It's not that they're actually losing money or jobs or anything, it's just that they've been brought up to believe themselves above everyone else and always be at the centre of attention. Unfortunately, this mindset means that even marginally fairer treatment of other groups gets interpreted as "oppression".

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existent...
The worst part for me is it opens it in Safari and not Chrome. (As well that it opens directions with not-Google Maps)
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I just tried “take me to the nearest McDonalds” and it replied “which local business, tap the one you want” with a list from nearest to farthest and when I click on it, it gives me directions to the one I choose.

As far as the second question - yeah that one was weird. It said that the population was 69 but the text summary that it displayed was 269,000. It’s the only city that displayed that bug.
Fortnite isn't even the first to do this by a long shot too. All the classes in the original GuildWars had dances taken from pop culture, like the Elaine Little Kicks dance from Seinfeld. Dance emotes in most video games are not original works.

Maybe this will lead to our copyright laws being loosened to encourage more creativity instead of strengthening them for increased profit extraction.
in a very simplistic view, yes we are
Not the first time:

Amazon Echo records private conversation and sends to co-worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrv5GbOKhc
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You can’t explain something in terms of itself. Obviously at some point any process has to be explained in terms of lower level processes that don’t share the characteristics of the higher level process. The cop-out is in refusing to accept that, which results in circular arguments. Like any magic trick (or computer system), once you explain how it works, you’re saying the “magic” doesn’t exist. Consciousness is no exception.
> I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned?

According to Sir David King (head U.K. climate scientist) in 2004, all continents other than Antarctica will be uninhabitable by 2100 due to manmade global warming.[1]

I wouldn't be worried about New York. I'd be on the next ship down to Antarctica to go stake my land claim right now before it all gets gobbled up.

I mean, if this manmade global warming stuff is real, and it's as bad as they say it is.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20100817023019/http://www.indepen...
GP's scenario poses that the late person asks in exasperation what they need to do to be believed -- there's no logical fallacy in telling them why perceptions are stacked against them. Or in your framing, why it's skepticism instead of presumptive trust.

Yes, the goal should be for both parties to reach a correct understanding: not at fault this time, but often is.

Facebook, to some, appears to be only loudly arguing about the specific injustices they feel, without giving up much ground on their habitual mistakes.
> The way most people use Facebook is more of an RSS feed

For many it's become more of an address book
"Compared to these, the effects you described are negligible" is also a positive claim, and I did at least as much work sketching out why I believe my claim as you did sketching out why you believe yours.
Yea, I brought this up because I have published in a few Earth science journals and that was how it worked in that field.

The editors look at the papers and are the first level of rejections. The ones they think are decent they send to people they think would be good at reviewing the content. The reviews come back (or not, and they send the paper to someone else to review), the editor reads the reviews and, if the reviewer think the paper should be published, the editor sends the reviews to the author for the author to make changes to the paper as needed. The author returns the paper with the edits and explanations for why some suggestions from the reviewer were not followed. The editor now usually accepts the paper for publication and hands off the author to a typesetter that will help in getting the Word doc or TeX formatted paper into the style that the journal wants. This last person is paid by the journal, but in no way needs a PhD in the field or much knowledge of the material he/she is reading.
Regarding #2, within a single state you'll have different rules per county. Alcohol delivery is laden with landmines.
I was always surprised their model of selling their older versions at a reduced rate (e.g. latest version $199, next older $100, one before that $49) never took off.

They always seemed so scrappy back in the 90s with their giant boxes and included libraries of clip art.

One of the more novelty twitter accounts I found recently posts images from one of their 10,000 item collections: https://twitter.com/clipart1994bot
ConsenSys plans to spin out most of its startups, and it’s going to mean layoffs
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Everyone gets the logic. It's still pathetic.
New research is a dime a dozen.
Free will in this interpretation is making binary choices to manifest thought forms or not, and consciousness would be having the machinery to interpret thought and exercise free will.
This makes me want to pick Godel Escher Bach back up, anyone else?
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I have and use both Parallels and VMWare Fusion on a Macbook Pro. Personally I prefer VMWare because I've run into less problems managing VMs with Fusion than I have with Parallels. In my experience Parallels updates are more likely to break compatibility with old VMs. I don't really use the "Linked Clones" snapshot feature of Parallels so VMWare's Snapshots work just fine for me too. I was pretty sure Parallels use to cost much more than VMWare for a single seat but a quick check shows that they're both about $80USD at the moment.
For most people, this is true.
I think it’s more of a misleading title, combined with the usual meandering style that philosophers have. What he’s basically saying is that we consciously experience the outputs of a number of expert systems: those responsible for seeing, hearing, selecting what should be attended to, and that even thought is a kind of expert system to which we have no internal access. We know that we think, that we see and hear, but we don’t know the details of how it happens, nor do we experience the details of this processing.

It’s not really very revolutionary, we already know this and it seems obvious when pointed out, it also does nothing to explain how experience of those outputs arises, or what it is.
On the vast majority of devices it is not always on.

It is not a nitpick. Accidentally recording or even intentionally recording is many orders of magnitude simpler when the device is supposed to always be listening.

The fact that a single employee even could make the mistake mentioned in the articles is one example of why. Eventhough it also really does hint that the backend isn't up to par at amazon.
I always figured that thought occurs by reference.

Like, rather than creating a thought the thought is already there, and then we refer to it.

A metaphor : You are in a dark room with a flashlight. You direct your flashlight at a flowerpot. Suddenly you see a flowerpot. But you did not create the flowerpot it just suddenly became visible.

In my model here the process of thinking consists of a series of changes of reference. A series of redirections of attention. You observe a thought. You respond to that thought by directing your attention (much like directing the beam of a flashlight) at another thought. And so on. An endless chain.

Note that I am a longtime meditation enthusiast so my perspective is abnormal and weird.
There is something divine about this.

A gaggle of Academic Philosophers all nodding in agreement that they have no control over their thoughts or publications.
Wiki link on the guy for the lazy, as I had no idea who he was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Giannandrea
Can someone bury this? It is taking up valuable space on the homepage and is literally a patch that fixes a couple bugs. People must be reflexively up-voting it thinking it is an interesting release.
Alternate title: 1 in 4 adults uses their phone as a clock.
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This view is quite similar to the theory outlined in "The Mind Is Flat" book: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Flat-Remarkable-Shallowness-Impr... which I can greatly recommend.
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. I feel the same way. Amazon and Google have yet to demonstrate to me that they value my privacy enough to take necessary steps to protect it. They, like Facebook, know most people foolishly don’t care enough to hold these companies feet to the fire on it.

At the risk of stating the obvious; Facebook has more than demonstrated the opposite.
If by consciousness you mean what everybody means by consciousness there are no well-founded claims about it because it's not observable. If you want to redefine consciousness to mean desk lamps, then I strongly disagree with the conclusion that consciousness doesn't exist because I have a desk lamp right here.
They sure do, and if you drove into Ottawa on the 417 in the past decade, you went right past their office:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3788963,-75.7454491,3a,77.5y,...

They seem to have pulled the Corel logo down some time this year. That makes me a little sad, as it was always one of those little landmarks that reminded me I was almost home when I lived in downtown Ottawa.
While true - you are generally tied to your companies implementation and business logic, with little chance of moving around. So once the system goes your skills can be obsolete
Might be fun to integrate with an API like twitter or twilio so you can practice using an HTTP client (I use axios) with react.
Kotlin. Learning curve is gentle, reduced boilerplate, aggressive null handling, first class language support in IDEA and interoperability with Java codebase.
You've never accidentally slept through an alarm before? Why not have a backup plan just to be extra sure? That sounds perfectly responsible to me.
Couple of points:

3,000 developers and entrepreneurs, largely men in their 20s and 30s, cannot save the world. Ethereum doesn’t scale, and it won’t be able to scale in 2019 any better than in 2018. That’s a fact, let’s kill the fiction and hype from crypto. Ethereum might not be the one.

This is the main theme of the article, the lack of scaling. I wish the author would go into at least somewhat more technical details into why he thinks it's absolutely hopeless "in 2019" as he puts it. 2019 hasn't even started.

Failures of leadership are rife in nearly every industry and system of human society in 2018. We see it in corrupt politicians, greedy tech executives, unethical engineers and, of course, crypto profiteers who especially abused the ICO system. EOS is a perfect example of this. Ethereum might be more attractive to developers, but it may not have as bright a future as blockchain-as-a-service in the Cloud does, led by the likes of Alibaba and Amazon. The market necessitates centralized blockchains before we are ever near decentralization taking place.

Here I can understand the point. I'm pretty skeptical of "open source" governance that itself isn't centralized. Centralized creation, whether it's R&D in a corporation, a university principal investigator, or a Linux kernel, MUST be centralized to some degree. However, I don't think any blockchain development is particularly decentralized.

He might be right that a successful blockchain that's centralized (a bank or an Amazon or something) might be the 'proof of concept' needed before the decentralized demand is there.

It's a shame that so much capital had to come and go before any successful projects made it to the mainstream - assuming they ever do.
any thought that we encounter are simply internal reactions to stimuli of various sorts encountering information we have previously processed/learned. what this article is saying is that we do not control these as is normally believed, we are more of a bystander than anything.
Lawmakers should be fed up with Facebook. That said, Google is an even bigger issue that deserves more scrutiny. The only difference is that Google is spending more money to buy off politicians on both sides of the isle.
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The way you inform the mods about this is to flag it, or email hn@ycombinator.com.
Indeed, that's certainly one way to interpret the lack of free will. You might be inclined to join the Compatibilist camp, which I find intellectually lacking but many people are more comfortable with than raw determinism. Whichever stance you take its virtually certain that Libertarian Free Will, the kind of free will 99% of people imagine when they think about the idea, does not exist.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
It's an always on microphone (as opposed to an always on device) if hacked or if Google/Apple change something fundamental, but only then. Echo/Dot have an always on microphone by design.
I was pretty riled up too when I read the headline, but after reading the article, I think the interviewee actually has a much more benign view that it seems. He does not appear to deny the hard problem and indeed the domain of his claims appear to not even intersect with the hard problem in any real sense.

It appears to me (correct me if I'm wrong), that he is simply claiming that we believe we are having much more rich conscious experiences than we actually are, and that we are often mislead or mistaken about the character of our experience. As a meditator, I can corroborate these claims.

None of these claims deny the existence of subjective experience itself which is the basis of the hard problem. He's merely saying that our conscious experiences are much more disconnected, less informationally dense and less orderly than we believe.
Most open source codebasesfor things that don't suck aren't trash (and if they are that would be a disappointment).
Also I'm disappointment freeware things still exist.
>That's a bold claim. Can you back up it?
They made similar products in the past that were thicker and not easily bendable. That seems to speak for itself.
This article sort of pokes weakly from all angles at an idea that something is wrong without really pinning it down. And it works because we all see that indeed there is something wrong.

I would posit that workplace health is like all other longevity studies. The strength and long-term stability of social connections is by far the dominant factor in longevity, health, and life satisfaction. Isolation kills.

In today’s workplace, social connection is anathematic. Teams are physically distributed. Career progress happens only by leaving. Layoffs are preferred to re-tasking. Homophily is discrimination. Talking about your life with coworkers is a liability. Telling a joke or asking someone out on a date can get you fired. Set off the twitter rage machine and not only is your career over, but the company has a PR nightmare. There are no such things as friendships at work.
How can the food be worse than airline food? I haven’t been on a flight in years that had anything other than prepackaged snacks available at any price.
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I hidden input tag (through .css file) with an id="url" worked for me!
#1 - Even grocery store pickup fails in this regard. I've had employees pick really sad looking vegetables (I am a proponent of "sell the odd looking veggies", but spare me your wilted celery that you haven't been able to sell in a week)

#2 - I can get beer/wine/liquor delivered where I live (Texas) but honestly I can't say that I've ever been in such a crunch where I need to get it delivered. And besides, I do enjoy asking my local Specs' employee recommendations on new beer/wine that I haven't tried that I just can't get with any delivery service.
Yeah, I would have expected this to go the other way around. “Parallels bought Corel? Corel still exists? Why would Parallels even want them?”
I am baffled by how many people have no problems adding always listening and recording Google and Facebook devices to their living rooms.

Some are considered tech people who should know stuff like this could happen, but they just don't care or don't think it will happen to them.

Somewhere there is an ex-Stasi officer who is thinking "I wish we were that good and had people fooled to voluntarily install listening devices and didn't have to tap phone lines and crawl around basements and rooftops".
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This is one of the real dangers of GDPR. If you make it really easy to download the entirety of someone's online life mistakes and fraud will occur where the wrong person receives it. This was probably some human error and not malicious but I will bet the malicious cases are coming (or are already occurring).
I am glad you share our excitement! We don't have open internships right now, but we will post them on HN Whos Hiring when they become available.
I'm not opining on the morality of it, just saying that the idea that the money disappeared or was put in a pile and burnt is obviously silly.
we can't direct our thoughts, they could be seen as streams of information reacting with information that we have previously encountered which affected our processing pathways.
i use siri to turn off and on hue lights (sometimes) and sometimes to set reminders. I do feel that since I dont have Siri on an "always on" speaker, it becomes less useful. I dislike the idea of having an "always on" speaker, so I'm not sure what to do. :)
I'd add a #6, voice search.
I highly recommend visiting the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is full of replica buildings (including a full bridge spanning one of the floors) and super intricate models depicting life in Edo.
Thanks for all of these references. I am checking them out now.
Have you had any people move from engineering to sales by using your bootcamp?
you're misinterpreting the definition of conscious thought given in the article
The irony is that they were answering a GDPR request.