skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically, believe every normal human is conscious. I have no idea whether animals are conscious, but I'll err on the side of caution and assume they're conscious for the sake of making ethical decisions. I doubt plants are conscious. All these beliefs I've just listed are basically religious, in the sense that I have no testable basis for them. "But what makes you special! If you're conscious, how could anyone not be conscious!" Well, I don't know? Maybe consciousness arises from circumcision, or from baptism, or from chicken pox, or from a certain benign parasite in my gut? Pretty ridiculous sounding, I agree, but no less ridiculous than "consciousness emerges from sufficiently many interacting neurons".

Studying consciousness by reading EEGs is like trying to figure out how computers work by dissecting them. Maybe you can learn some things about computers that way, like, "they're full of weird chip-like board thingies and wires". That's not meant to belittle neuroscience, of course. Studying something empirically is better than studying nothing empirically.
Have you worked at a big company, let alone a big bank?

When you have 100k+ employees, it's immensely difficult to keep tabs on every. single. thing. that's happening.

If a bank sees asset flows into the trillions, even $1bn of tainted transactions is less than 0.1%.

Do you or 'those in power' know 99.9% of what happens at your company?
It's been few years since the first time I read about robocalls. I think there's no way we can stop these spammers from bombarding us with those robocalls. I just read an article that might be useful at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob.... However, it will only work if you get the robocalls from legit businesses.
Shepherd.js site tour library 2.0 released
> written in Go

In C++ and their python-like language with bindings to other languages.
My experience is that PRs quickly turn into a chokepoint which breeds delays and rework. Genuine bugs are rarely found, almost all the feedback is idiom and clarity -- valuable, but I can get the same feedback synchronously from a pair.

Note the reference to frequently committing to HEAD. That's not an accident, it encourages everyone to rebase frequently, keep changes small and to surface problems almost immediately. Whereas PRs quickly go stale and it turns into a game to try and get your PR in first.
Hah! Maybe this is how I should look at my account being suspended for no reason a little less than two weeks ago. The email associated with this 6-year-old account does not exist on Gmail but cannot be registered again either. Such a bummer since I had good karma and a fairly organized feed.

After explaining this to the admins -- I was still denied access back to my account. Actually, it's starting to grind my gears how stupid this admin guy was for implying that I might be some mysterious perpetrator trying to take over a shitty Reddit account. Even my browsing history (which they have logs for) matches the usual tango; figures.

Whatever!
Maybe they are in the habit of doing things like this and getting away with it?
Please fix the CSS: I have to scroll horizontally every single line. I stopped at the first one (sorry to be negative.)

Tested with Firefox and Chrome on Android. Firefox reader mode doesn't work on that site. Opera has text reflow so it works around the CSS. BTW, why in 2019 Opera is still the only browser with text reflow?
Can you explain more about how/when he reduced scope?
You also, of course, need a company that is receptive to this as a goal. I usually run my computer in whatever language I'm trying to learn at the moment, and I've had more than one company dismiss i18n issues I've discovered as "well, we're not going to sell in that country any time soon!" (i.e., "get back to making the demo look pretty").
Thank you. I went back and did some additional reading. From what I read it appears aGPS has different options available.

Standalone - Your handset has no connection to the network, and uses only the GPS satellite signals it can currently receive to try and establish a location.

MS Based - Your handset is connected to the network, and uses the GPS signals + a location signal from the network.

MS Assisted - Your handset is connected to the network, uses GPS signals + a location signal then relays its 'fix' to the server, which then uses the signal strength from your phone to the network towers to further plot your position.

> If you know your location roughy with triangulation, you can improve your location estimate if you add 2 satellites to the mix (more data is usually better than not), but even then it has nothing to do with aGPS.

Isn't this exactly what aGPS is? One or more data points outside of satellite data? If you have an additional resource I'd love to take a look. Just a quick search of the topic did reveal some contradicting statements.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gps-vs-agps-quick-tutorial
> I HATE California ... I'm from the midwest and lived in Minneapolis

Try to get more $$$ and take the MN job
Anyone use Futhark for genetic algorithms or other evolutionary computing uses yet?
The possible reasons I have heard are: 1. This has always worked before with other CEOs they have blackmailed. 2. There is something big going on with the Saudis or Trump and if that gets discovered everyone at AMI is going to jail and this was a Hail Mary attempt to avoid that.
For sure, I would want to. But with how institutions currently asses and pay researchers, it would be detrimental to my career to take the time required to understand the change and update my own work, which might involve dredging up years-old data and tools, contacting collaborators around the world (some of whom might have moved completely out of academia and therefore have no interest in all in maintaining work), getting them to agree on a change, etc. It might not even be possible to update my work - maybe a piece of apparatus would take too long to rebuild, or maybe the change requires that I change my entire experimental approach. It's a lot of work to do research and write a paper, and that's why there is such a massive focus on doing it once and doing it well.

I think its infeasible for various reasons to have people maintain old work in the way suggested in the original comment. Who is responsible for it, especially if the authors have moved institutions (which happens very regularly, especially for young researchers), or out of research entirely? Perhaps there could just be a shorter window in which the work could be looked at and changed if required, and after that it is frozen forever. But that actually sounds a lot like (a more open version of) the current peer-review-then-publish system.
Can you imagine the reaction if a user's post on HN were edited by YC?

I guess it'd be the instant death of the network.

That this action a) happened on Reddit + b) was mostly/quickly forgotten says a lot about the different demographics.

Audiences who largely come for cat pictures and political snark don't have to worry about CEOs breaking the 4th wall.

I've been a Redditor for 9+ years and I still am one. But today's Reddit isn't the one I signed up for.
Ask HN: What is your workplace test strategy?
I'm interested in different [test strategies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_strategy) companies employ and how well it works for them (and for you).

Specifically what's the breakdown of unit/integration/component/contract/non-regression/system/e2e, technical/function, etc. tests? How do you deal with ever-increasing number of tests? How do you keep testing times down? How do they tie into your CI/CD workflow (at what point do you run the tests and what's the feedback time).

Additional thoughts: What are the problems you face, and what would you do differently?

Any related articles or blogs are welcome
Perhaps literate programs shine when they help us build that mental map. One way is positively describing parts of the map with metaphor or intent (where the OP shines). Another way is by discussing alternatives that weren't used. Yes, this can be a lot of content and sometimes crowds out the code, as in this example.
Even patent trolls, a well-known example of lawyer threats, don't go as far as AMI did.
Understanding x86 machine code to assembly
An article is a hindsight reflections on what was done. If you are doing research you need to make notes. I personally can't remember what I've read and where I got an idea. I need to write things down, to be able to refer to it later. I'm logging my thoughts on regular basis, just to be sure they are verbalized and formalized. The goal is not to document every step in a formal manner, the goal is to leave a trail that can be tracked by a curious researcher to see how article was formed.

Current situation is bad, because articles do not capture all the information that needed to validate the research findings. p<0.05 is not enough for this. Including more information into the article is one of the ways to deal with that problem. But the other is to leave footprints, to create some historical data, that could be analized. Or not analized if no one needed it. It is like lazy-evaluation: just generate some data to allow your followers to reason about what precisely you've done. If they needed it, they will research your trail. You do not need to go through a difficult task of writing a high-quality texts about every your step.

The only thing you need to change is to make such notes public. It is coupled with some potential ethical issues, like privacy of subjects for example. If I run experiment, I gathered some data, I couldn't just throw this data into public access. It is possible that there are other ethical issues, maybe something about privacy of researcher as a person. These issues can make logging research activities a pain.
Why should we care about billionaires lees than anyone else?

Are you suggesting that if a billionaire was, say, kidnapped, you would have less sympathy than if an average person was kidnapped?
I think the main pushback you're going to get here is that the next step isn't a purely decentralized use case.

There are around a dozen or two banks that, if they were to come together, could have a centralized database that better tracked flows of money all around the world.

Note still that the scope of implementing, auditing, securing, and getting banks to reveal things that they likely consider very proprietary is already a monumental ask.

Still, I'd say the better argument here is that there should be a superior way for information to be shared in a more centralized manner.

Once that is done. Then maybe we can think about using a blockchain and decentralizing it.
It is racist! Making generalised judgements about an entire group of people based on their ethnicity background is classic racism.
DoorDash and Amazon Won’t Change Tipping Policy After Instacart Controversy
Arkansas is probably the most consistently different from California in those areas.
Finding Duplicate RSA Moduli in the Wild
I dunno, in this case, it kind of does seem that his mistress wanted dick picks?

And maybe you're different than everyone else, but I suspect a lot (maybe even the majority) of adults have taken nude/semi-nude selfies. Probably more women than men, but still.
Uber's bike service is cutting into car rides
My main objection is medium grey text on a white background.
As I understand that logbooks are not available to other scientists, and if group of highly qualified scientists are making a meta-research, combining results of a dozen of articles (and rejecting two more dozens from their study), they cannot use logbooks of articles to reason about articles.
The state of Python Packaging: package types
The average person doesn't care about privacy (they have nothing interesting to share anyway), and better-targeted ads makes capitalism more efficient. Plus, the services that ads enable are very widely used and popular.

All that the EU has served to accomplish is to kill tech in Europe, place popups and opt-in buttons onto every website (accept cookies?), and to extort a few billions out of American tech companies.

Europe can't do tech because its taxes on labour are too high and the whole continent speaks 30 different languages. There, I said it.
Amazing it has been this long: back in '91 I was working for Philips during the development heyday of CD-ROMs. I was in the CD-I division, basically CD-ROMs with a special file format for streaming media. A Dutch executive was sent to the States to "show the yanks how to produce" because that division had only managed to pull off production disasters to date.
Of course, the American management wanted this guy to fail, so he was assigned a tiny team of 1 staff developer (me) a medium skilled contract developer, two graphic artists, and two production assistants. We were all recent hires, and were given 30-days to produce a product that all other productions were typically given a year.
This Dutch guy was a gift from heaven. He collected us into a small office suite, with programming, art, and editing each in separate rooms of two, a shared space each opened into, and best of all, people had to travel through his office to get to us, so people could not bother us without his knowledge.
But the real key to his management style was an idea he called "interfaces": he believed people did their best work when free, but working towards a well defined interface that their work hands off to the next person in a production flow. As long as you respect the needs of the people before and after you in the work flow, everything goes smooth. And that is accomplished by teaching those before and after you the importance of your work and why it is critical to the projects flow. This idea sounds simplistic, but it embeds "care of process" where, and only where, it is required.
Needless to say, our 30-day deadline was met, the production team went on to create a fairly big award winning series of "Ken Burns style" documentaries, and that Dutch executive graduated to become the CEO of global Philips: J.P. Isbouts.
Why would anyone trust the anonymity of a site on an internal corporate network?

I just assume every keystroke I make and everything I do is being logged and reviewed by someone while at work. I don't even log into any of my accounts at work because I don't want my employer stealing my passwords and covertly monitoring my email and social media communication. To say nothing of actual camera surveillance.
In the past I used Redux extensively - and I have only good things to say about Redux. I recently started using React Context and found I was much more productive, to the extent that I went back and ripped out Redux code. The new hooks thing with useContext makes using context even easier.

Learning Redux, especially the "single source of truth" thing was very helpful, but my code is now simpler, easier to understand and faster to write.

I would recommend checking out React context and hooks. I would also recommend watching the Redux videos by Dan Abramov, even if you don't use Redux.
Hard to beat Löve2D! https://love2d.org/
The word cheap and iPhones don't go together.
I am not sure about this... are you talking about experimental research? I am a theoretician. I go through several idiotic ideas before hitting on the right one. I'd be embarrassed to admit my silly, initial attempts
before my colleagues.

The advantage of theoretical papers is that the reasoning is a proof/argument developed in the paper itself. With theory, there's less chance for a fraudulent paper, even though the results may have gaps.
But "artificial intelligence" is a lot sexier than mere statistics.
That is awesome. I've been raiding with the same hardcore guild since vanilla. It's amazing how many players are developers, sys admins, infrastructure, and even other professions like doctors and lawyers.
there are a lot of options out there and this thread kind of surprised me was expecting more interesting submissions. you might want to look at the original flux:

https://github.com/facebook/flux

from facebook if you app has a lot of global state needs multiple stores can be handy.

Mobx is great too:

https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx

With the current project I am working on we actually just vanilla javascript with singeltons with subscriptions (note: I did not write this, but I think it is rxjs).

anyways someone should come along with some answers.

Redux is still the easiest and with Sagas is really cool. One start up I interviewed with was using something similar to hooks, but do not remember the name of it.

Also datomic (used by om.next in clojurescript) has some really clever optimizations and is a joy to use.
I still dont understand why there is basically no service today who protecta my privacy, even if I am willing to pay.

Like facebook or whatsapp. I would pay monthly if they would stop aggregating and analyzing my every move. Hell, even for amazon, i know that if I buy anything, even look at anything, it gets thrown into my profile and aggregated. I dont even dare to use anything by Google... It may be paranoid, but all these models and their fitting of conditional expectations will force me to conform eventually.

For me, machine learning, especually with these data, in health, insurance, credit and career are seriously scary prospects. Maybe because i am a statistician...

I have money, but there is just no way to escape the profiling.
My hope is that when the consequences hit the billionaires, perhaps there will be market for privacy concious services.

I used to be so positive about technology. Now i feel like tech companies and start ups just try to bs and deceive us. Almost no one is honest about what is collected, and privacy statements have become meaningless catch all allowences...

If it ever backfires, like here, lets be clear that amazon, facebook, google and co have only themselves to blame for their despicable and exploitative behavior
I'm currently working on my homework on one of my module (CS5250 Advanced Operating Systems) and I find this site very easy to understand compared to the slides + discussion by my professor. I'm not saying that my professor is not that good, its just that the way information are laid out on this site is very easy to follow.

Anyway, does anyone have any other sites that they can recommend? (not the Intel one. just knowing that it has 4.7k pages makes me not go near it)
Litbetas.com
Protesting a site by engaging with it more. Excellent work, reddit.
> I had the best time ever just sitting in meetings on Tuesday mornings to demo everything in person then do code review with my CTO after. Talk with the whole team including marketing on what we'd work on. I loved it. No agile, was completely in the know and performing.

I know I'm discussing Scotsmen here, but: what about this is not agile?
Not having empathy for Bezos because he's a billionaire and then mentioning a homeless person is just whatabout-ism. And you can really use whatabout-ism on anything.

There's always going to be someone who has an objectively worse life than someone else, so maybe we shouldn't have sympathy for anyone?

"You got raped? Stop complaining, there's a lot worse stuff happening in Yemen you insensitive clod!"
Yep, and also if then, case of, end if... Hopefully an editor can color out the less relevant keywords and maybe autotype them.

It's strange that the home page of a parallel language doesn't give an example of parallel code. Check https://elixir-lang.org/ instead.

Does anybody use ParaSail here? What are its pros and cons?
Japan is doing this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/japanese-government-plans-to-h...

In the US, DHS does this for the federal government, as well as some state and private organizations: https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats
This shouldn't be deleted, the title on this one is much better.
The "editing comments" drama: https://redd.it/5frg1n
tl;dr (for now)

I am the issuer for Bitcoin. There is no decentralised here. The only protection I have was remaining unknown. As I prove who I am over the year, I prove who the issuer is for Bitcoin. The issuer of a money system who did not ask for permission and knows that it was not legal when it occurred. Bitcoin (BSV) was issued in 2009. BTC was issued with an airdrop in 2017.
I feel totally the same way.
Their open source projects, especially pytorch, are masterpieces. Also, there are many renounced researchers of ML(LeCun, He, Goodfellow, etc) in FB.
If I had a chance, I’d like to ask them the reson why they work for FB. It might not be just for salary, but where are the motivation to work for FB?
> I don’t get this at all from the authors. My take is that they call out serious flaws in the rigor of how papers are reviewed. I don’t think it’s reasonable to extend that to say the field is worthless.

I think it's rather undeniable that the Authors essay was not a good-faith attempt at criticizing the peer-review process, but an attempt to discredit certain fields that they didn't like, even by their own admission. I mean, the title of the essay alone should make this very clear. Here's some quotes nonetheless:

> We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies”
> As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies”
> We undertook this project to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research
> The biggest difference between us and the scholarship we are studying by emulation is that we know we made things up.
> these fields of study do not continue the important and noble liberal work of the civil rights movements; they corrupt it while trading upon their good names to keep pushing a kind of social snake oil onto a public that keeps getting sicker

[Note also that this essentially an academic way of phrasing the same things you'll hear people like the far-right Stefan Molyneux (on who's show one of the authors has been a guest several times) say.]

Of importance here that it's not the scientific practices that are "corrupting academia" but the fact that these fields exist at all. I'm sure you can find more if you really want to. Compare this to say the "reproducibility in Psychology" study, which unsurprisingly doesn't dedicate half of their text to talking about why the authors think psychology is bad.

Don't be mistaken: The whole thing was an attempt to cash in on the general crisis the scientific process is facing to score some easy political points and not a neutral and constructive attempt at improving the quality of research in the field. Or rather, their proposal at improving the quality would involve getting rid of the fields that they don't personally like.
The battery won't be flexible. You can have multiple batteries with flexible connections but they'll be a likely point of failure. Will you really need that much power? Bluetooth LE really is "low energy" as are many sensors. If it's supposed to make a lot of light, noise, has a motor, or use more powerful RF like WiFi, then the power requirements will be greater.

You've already be directed to Adafruit which is a great resource, not just as a store and product developers in their own right but for all their learn materials and years worth of weekly videos. Here's a breakout board for charging their little LiPo batteries via MicroUSB.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1904
because then someone would step in to profit from the positive externalities
As an extension to this, I'd like to clarify on the part where I mentioned that I lost real life friends.

Someone online went out of their way to 'dox' me (in the early 90s no less!) and contact everyone they could that may know me.

Awful things were said. A wide variety of things from me being a practicing satanist (with a screenshot of me role playing in game) to some strange elaborate claim that I had tried to defraud people online.

Quite the rollercoaster for someone that just wanted to go home and MUD every day after school.