skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Searle claims that the argument demonstrates this, but his response to the 'systems reply' shows that he does not appear to understand the challenge that it presents to the argument:

"My response to the systems theory is quite simple: let the individual internalize all of these elements of the system. He memorizes the rules in the ledger and the data banks of Chinese symbols, and he does all the calculations in his head. The individual then incorporates the entire system. There isn't anything at all to the system that he does not encompass. We can even get rid of the room and suppose he works outdoors. All the same, he understands nothing of the Chinese, and a fortiori neither does the system, because there isn't anything in the system that isn't in him. If he doesn't understand, then there is no way the system could understand because the system is just a part of him."

Searle does not seem to understand that the systems reply is not dependent on where or how the components of the system are implemented. He apparently cannot conceive that, while the subject's conscious mind is solely occupied with mechanically performing the operations of the algorithm, the system that her conscious mind is part of actually understands something, and that this would be so even if the system were implemented entirely within the physical body of the subject. It is an outlandish concept, but the premise of the experiment is itself outlandish, and a philosopher should not expect ordinary intuitions to be a reliable guide to what would happen in such cases.
That’s you assuming he did it for the money.
I disagree. Read their words carefully and it appears they never gave up the old mentality. They just changed how they define achievement.

I’m not saying not to help others - just that I think their mentality is still a reflection of the desire to achieve
A simple scripting language, like LabView’s C subset, that could take arguments out of cells, and write to cells, would be welcome. VBA has too much gobbledegook for a user like me. Python could also be embedded.
> The real merit of academia is that people can be alone in a corner doing one's work, if they choose to. Industry enforces socialisation, conformity to norms, and shmoozing.

That's a bit dubious. If you don't network in the academia I doubt you can get far at all, while you can very well just comfortably do your job as a technical employee even if you are not really into networking (if you don't have further ambitions). Networking is absolutely essential to would-be professors or anybody who wants long-term stable employment in the academia, and the competition is much fiercer.
Q: Is this a Sparkle (popular non-MAS update framework) insecurity issue?

I use the long dead Bodega client to discover and check all local apps for Sparkle updates manually. I wish there were a similar app that both checked for updates periodically and checked the security model of each app's update server implementation (it's a difficult problem to audit the client's update security).
My take: Fear and stress are useful in some circumstances, but should not be increased in others. Populations that are not afraid of death could then be healthier, since they focus their struggles on the current pressing issues instead of worrying about a matter which will never be resolved.

Personally, I am christian, and my faith is a huge source of relief when thinking about big questions and personal crisis.
This is such a vague argument it's basically meaningless. Prestige for what? Helping who, in what way?

And yes, it is important how you come to conclusions. Being right for the wrong reason means your still wrong, and it will catch up with you eventually.
Those are important events in the day, but they don't serve as a basis for defining time.

When does work start? Well, it starts when the hands on the clock points just so, there really isn't any more fundamental definition. But clocks are tools for measuring time, they don't define it.

If your clock slows nothing particular happens to other clocks, and time marches on unslowed. But sunset will bring night whether you notice it or not, and that's a pretty definite marker of the passage of time.
>Especially given the fact that we have higher profits per employee than google (we know what we are doing)

I'm dubious of this claim. Google/Alphabet has a PPE of ~$150,000. Activision-Blizzard has a PPE of ~$33,000, EA had ~$95,000, and Ubisoft ~$15000. I think the only possible major game studios who could meet your claim are Epic or maybe Valve. Unfortunately, those numbers aren't public. So I'm going to assume you work on Steam, since Epic's new platform is likely too recent to have lots of users, and also I don't think it was competently designed.

(the other thing is that this metric isn't particularly meaningful. Google invests a huge amount in unprofitable things with the goal of profits 5 or 10 years down the line. Google devotes thousands of engineers and billions of dollars to things it knows aren't profitable. That doesn't make Google more or less competent, it just implies different priorities than one that's entirely driven by immediate returns).

>Based on my experience (currently responsible for a huge chunk of a major gaming platform, with hundreds millions users), inflexibility, emotional immaturity, inability to think outside of the box, inability to listen and admit failures, lack of emphaty, not understanding basics of sales(to sell own ideas) are major things that contribute to a bad performance reviews.

All of these are important, but they only become important once you have the baseline level of competence. If you have two equally competent people, then yes indeed the softer skills like flexibility, creativity, humility, and communication skills start to matter, and eventually they matter a lot. But those are only good things if you assume a baseline level of competence.

Consider two options. One is that you screen solely for competence. You get only competent engineers along a wide range of interpersonal/soft skills. Some can grow into leadership roles, some can't (or at least it takes longer). But even the most convincing, best "salesperson" has great engineering talent. Then the alternative: that great salesperson is a bad engineer. The ideas they promote aren't always good ones, sometimes they're bad. That's not just "not good", its actively harmful.

>Our strongest engineers will not pass google interview without preparation (me included) and it is telling.

What does it tell? You seem to be suggesting that Google is optimizing badly, and that's possible. But that is by no means the only conclusion. Here's an alternative: "The most profitable things are not always the most technically challenging". Every once in a while you'll see people on HN commenting about how they wired up a shopify store that provides some significant passive income. That's not challenging. It would take an average engineer a week to do, if that. It's still profitable. But that doesn't make you qualified to work at Google (or Valve).
Have a look at https://socialcoder.org/Home/Index
"Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it."
> but there's probably a lot of money sitting in these kind of messes if you do some networking

Possibly, but you may just be stuck doing donkey work (almost regardless of rate, that gets boring after some time). You can identify problems and offer to 'fix' them for businesses, but they need to be willing to actually change their processes. If there's political turf wars over "don't touch my pet project", no amount of money thrown at the problem will make it better. And yes, you possibly can siphon some off of those for a while, but I think for many people it's going to end poorly (political types will turn on you, etc).

You already mentioned some issues in that scenario above - never do anything inhouse with the talent you've got there - people need to set themselves up as middlemen. When the answer to the company's inefficiencies involves "remove the middlemen", it's a major battle.

> Was told we couldn't do something on our site because it was "an old WordPress site" and had to be totally rebuilt for over $50,000.

Interestingly tho, I can possibly see that. I might not tell someone $50k, but if I see some old WP site, and someone's asking for moderately complex functionality, I do not want to touch the existing site. It'll be a rebuild, or a separate service, and then integration work between the two. The $50k price may have just been a "we don't want to do this but this is our 'happy' price" sort of deal. If a new piece of functionality may cost, say, $10k of service work, I don't want to have to tie it to whatever legacy stuff came before, as I'm now responsible for supporting everything on it, because I was the last one to touch it ("it never used to do that before - you broke it!")
> Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

It probably isn't a faulty memory, just one of our inbuilt recall biases. Human minds tend to remember extreme events more vividly. If you think back to past years you most easily bring to mind the unusually hot summers and most biting winters.
That sort of charging system as weight and complexity. And it's it fails, the shoe doesn't work.

If a kid's shoes don't light up, they still function as shoes.
It would be fairly trivial to build. Basically, it is just a CoreXY 3d printer without the head.

I have modified a small CNC mill/router to be used as a "paste printer" for printing frosting/ceramic (https://youtu.be/XwjnVzfl0wA). Many people in the 3d printing community have done similar things with their printers.

I would recommend something without a bed that moves in the XY direction. CoreXY designs would be great but there may be limitations on the carriage weight. In that case a gantry style cartesian printer would be suitable but with 2 Y motors to carry the X stage without skipping.

Edit: Also, See Openbuilds.com there are many machines that fit what you are looking for.
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What has changed about Reddit in terms of quality?
All of them roughly map onto the more modern category we typically use for anything involving mixing spirits with something acidic, sweet or bitter: cocktail. "Sling" still survives via an old-timey British cocktail, the Singapore Sling. Says Wikipedia: "a sling was originally a North American drink composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavored."

As for pepper in rum, I had to look that up too. I suspect that Benjamin Rush would've been referring to something similar to this, because Jamaican rum was so dominant in the British colonies: https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/pepper-rum

Edit: Confusingly, this source from the 1780s [1] says "rum, whisky, brandy, gin, stinkibus, bitters, toddy, grog, slings and fifty other liquors, all come under the denomination of spirits." But this is presumably what Rush had in mind because it's direct from his book: "After a while nothing would satisfy him but slings made of equal parts of rum and water, with a little sugar." [2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=VyRTvziJuecC&dq=sling%20sp...
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=PnZVb3esMk4C&dq=sling%20sp...
For the Wifi device mentioned in the original article, they dissasembled the firmware and found out that it uses "ThreadX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

> "hreadX provides priority-based, preemptive scheduling, fast interrupt response, memory management, interthread communication, mutual exclusion, event notification, and thread synchronization features. Major distinguishing technology characteristics of ThreadX include preemption-threshold, priority inheritance, efficient timer management, picokernel design, event-chaining, fast software timers, and compact size. The minimal footprint of ThreadX on an ARM processor is on the order of 2KB"

ie it's generic code that gets built into a unikernel-style image with the device-specific code that actually implements the various tasks required of a wifi controller.
> One just has to be vigilant in any new proposals that is made on this subject. And scream loudly if the lobbyists go at it again.

They're being paid to do this full time; they're not going to "go at it again," they're going to continue going at it every day, from 9 to 5. And then they're going to win once.

The amount of treasure to be gained by being successful can pay two lawyers for 100,000 years. There's no reason to stop even if they only see a small chance of success.

That's why the system doesn't work.
You can log what you eat here on an average day and find out: https://cronometer.com/
Ask HN: How does your company promote team building and networking?
Last year I started a job at a large corporation with 200+ Devs spread across multiple teams in different buildings. I have gotten to know my team really well and some of the people who work on my floor, but beyond that I really don't know many others.

I feel like people talking to each other more would be a good thing but opportunities are limited unless our work overlaps. We have various social events but they tend to be the same people that attend them. Does your company do anything to encourage staff to get to know each other across departments?
Clayton Christensen divines God’s methodology. Most of his other points were also cliche-ridden. Something is wrong here.
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While it's less immediate than starting or working for a non-profit directly, you can have a surprisingly big impact by creating useful devtools and other tech infrastructure (whether OSS or for-profit).

At EnvKey, our configuration and secrets manager has some amazing non-profits like GiveLively and charity:water as customers, as well as some great mission-driven for-profit companies like Lambda School and Seneca Systems. It feels great to know that we're helping them to help others more efficiently and securely. We have other devtool customers too, so we're also helping them to help others to help others... and so on :)

It's the whole "area under the curve" idea--instead of having a very visible, direct impact by, say, working for the Gates Foundation, another option is to play a small but important role as an enabler for many others, and this can still add up to making a big difference overall.
You could work as a software developer in the public sector. There is a desperate need in many countries to improve digital services for citizens.

Or, you could have side projects that improve people's lives. I have built software that helps developers build accessible websites, software for adding subtitling to videos and software to help memory institutions archive political debate in social media.

You can get started right now.
Is this considered a loophole in the system?
TIL.

Looks like there is at least a bit more variance on the 1/4" jack, with multiple types that are in use. Meanwhile, virtually any consumer 3.5mm jack is going to be TRS or TRRS, though admittedly there are definitely some less-standard things there too.

So the 1/4" jack has been around a lot longer, but may be less 'standard' in that sense. Of course, I also have no idea whether 3.5mm jacks have always been as 'standard' as they are today.
> a low-performer at 200k/year (who might be delivering only 220k in value to the company) still implies a lot more performance than a low-performer at 50k/year (who is delivering 55k in value).

It's irrational to lay off either of those employees, and unrealistic that your low performers are all bringing more value to the company than you pay them for. More realistic is that the low performer on 200k is bringing 100k of value, and the low performer on 50k is bringing in 25k (or 0, or -25k...in either case it makes more sense to let the higher paid one go).

You might say, you've been irrational in hiring these guys at all, and certainly in paying them that much. But maybe they were making money last year and the marketplace changed - the irrational thing is that it's generally impossible to cut salaries and better to make 10% of your workforce redundant than to pay them all 10% less.
> I'd say data is more valuable than oil.

None of the social network companies sell user data. They sell ad placement, and use user data to target the ad audience. Selling ads is not selling data. When I think of selling data I think of companies that actually sell data. Equifax or MaxMind, for example.

Oil and gas drilling alone are 2-3% of world GDP, which comes to about $2 trillion dollars. Facebook and Google make about $100 billion in combined ad revenue. I think it’s safe to say oil is probably 10x more valuable than social network advertising.

> Data breeches are the new oil spills

Comparing credit card fraud with ecological pollution and death?
Banks, insurers, accountants; I know a company with 100M euro rev per year that runs entirely on Excel with VBA. Their office car park gate is opened, closed and managed with Excel.

It sounds crazy but the CTO is a cofounder and he found it is much cheaper to just do everthing that way. They have been running like that for over 20 years.
We're generally not very good at handling market externalities like this. Injuries. Housing. Pollution. Corruption. We tend to think the market will sort everything out. The question is, how many people have to die or suffer while it corrects itself?
I can't tell from the site, but are these volunteer projects full time endeavors? Or is this something that you commit a couple hours to every other day?
He is approaching this from the standpoint of someone who, presumably, _has_ had contact with that being, God, and who views Him as his literal spiritual father.

From that standpoint it is easier to understand what he is saying. Just as with my father (sleeping downstairs), he taught me to help other people and to be kind to others. I saw him doing it and realized how happy it made him, it made me want to be like him, so over the years I tried hard. I failed a lot, but over time I became a kinder, more thoughtful, more intelligent person.

The more kind I am, the more I serve, the more I understand _why_ it is so wonderful to help other people and why it is worth it whether it costs me little or whether I have to sacrifice a lot.

I view God in a similar light; I know he is more intelligent than I am, he knows things I don't, I can sense what kind of a being he is and I want to be more like _that_. I don't understand all the reasons, but I sense that he loves his children, just as my father downstairs loves me and my siblings. I trust that what God wants for me is right even when I would feel like I would rather do something else, so I persevere and I learn how wonderful it is and I remind myself of how much I want to be better. God is an example, both of what to do, and how wonderful it is to do it. That works not only in serving others, but in the details of how to do it and some nuances that I probably wouldn't come up with on my own.

I care about what God cares about because I love him. Presumably that is the same for Clayton Christensen.

Hopefully that helps explain the thinking a bit better.
Yachts to download weather data ‘grib files’, and email. Costs over a dollar per mb.
All of the things you listed are typically justified as being incentives for employees to stick around. If the value of an employee sticking around is not that high, why are they paid so much to do it? It sounds like the root of the problem is that the company is spending years paying for something that it does not want (long-term loyalty) and then having to enact painful corrections later on down the line.
The thing I need most is for "Save" to do "Pull in dependencies and and check into version control".

That way my people can still use Excel but I have a way of validating and controlling it.
'Wide scale commercial' is what is implied in the article. I don't think Dell sold many computers over the 'internet' that existed in the 1980's. [1]

Edit: Here you go (wikipedia):

"PC's Limited advertised the systems in national computer magazines for sale directly to consumers, and custom assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. This offered buyers prices lower than those of retail brands, but with greater convenience than assembling the components themselves. Although not the first company to use this model, PC's Limited became one of the first to succeed with it. The company grossed more than $73 million in its first year of trading. In 1987, the company dropped the PC’s Limited dba to be Dell Computer Corporation and began expanding globally".

[1] I used the arpanet so yes I know about the timeline.
You clearly never vwapped.
If the developers think there is no threat. Then yes, it is for the user to prove this.
benchmars game is great, but sadly not well maintained anymore. Rust has it's flaws, but it's not runtime speed (much more compilation speed, IDE support, distributed compilation support).
Great idea. For some reason it kept removing my semicolon after I used the time-traveling.
Some of the openwrt people believe they can write an open source replacement firmware for the ath10k-based devices. Someone should fund them.

Writing new firmware would be a lot easier than designing a new chipset.
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Ask HN: Direct-to-consumer genome sequencing
Hi HN,

There was a thread yesterday[0] around the inaccuracy of DNA tests from likes Ancestry & 23andMe that was intriguing and I'm hoping to get opinions on the subject.

I'm a co-founder in a genome sequencing lab where we work only on research projects for clinicians, pharmas, etc. We currently don't do direct-to-consumer. However, we're big believers in having access to service and data that tell you more about YOU with no strings attached.

The thread from yesterday sparked an idea: what if we offered targeted genome sequencing direct to consumers?

The value props:

- We provide targeted gene sequencing on certain focus areas (cancer, inherited diseases, etc.) targeting 100's of genes at a time

- We do true genome sequencing instead of genotyping. So instead of just going for certain SNPs, we do the full gene

- We provide deep coverage (eg. 200x) so that you get quality data

- We destroy your data once you confirm you receive it and never resell it or use it in aggregates (with a way to validate & verify this to consumers)

- Price point would likely be around $100-$150 per test with around 1 month turnaround time

- You would get the raw data but no analysis

What I'm curious about is whether or not this would be something people would be interested in. In essence, we'd be giving you raw data for you to interpret on your own and do what you please with some light support/direction from us on how to visualize the data. Our theory is that folks are generally curious about themselves and would learn of ways to explore their true genetic data and develop communities to do so.

What do you think? Thanks for the feedback!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938750
Having Excel save and load readable and editable source file would be the best improvement for me... Version control, easy editing with vim etc while interoperable for people who like Excel. No programming language research needed for that; just normal programming best practices.
D hasn't failed.

Although personally I don't think being a better C++ is the direction D should be going for (I'd rather see it going in the direction of lower level Java/C#).