skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree, but at the same time an entity capable of choosing how to react would violate the law of cause and effect. So, can conscious beings really choose how to react, or is consciousness just the illusion that we can make choices?
This pretty much mirrors my experience exactly, FWIW.
This article makes two assumptions that need more support. One, that having a particular "threshold brain structure" is a necessary condition for consciousness. And two, that consciousness is a binary, as opposed to a spectrum.
It really doesn’t matter what you build. It’s all about who you know, and how good you are at asking for money.
I think that's pretty much what user testing is, and it should be done long before releasing a product.
> The interaction affordances are abysmal compared to physical controls

I find scrolling a map is far more natural on a touch screen compared to physical controls.
As tombert mentioned, ddrescue to generate an iso is probably fine for DVDs. Note that you will need to use something to initialize the DVD or many drives will just refuse to read out encrypted sectors; something like "dvdbackup -I" will work fine.

As a note, do not use slim dvd or bluray drives for this; I went through several and found that they would have many read errors for DVDs that play fine in actual players and full-height drives.

I am not aware of a good way of getting the full menu experience on bluray discs. For many discs, stripping the menus saves 1-4 minutes of time when watching the movie though, so I haven't worried about it too much.

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Also, if your DVDs have any dust on them, clean them with a microfiber cloth and spray for cleaning glasses before inserting. ddrescue will usually complete eventually, but it can literally be days with a dirty or scratched disc.

For everyone else: if you don't care about menus &c. makemkv is great. It's not libre software, but the linux version is perpetually in beta so it's free-as-in-beer (though I purchase a license because it's just so darn useful).
A friend of mine is a personal trainer who put together an incredibly thorough personalizable program for pull-ups. It's aimed at beginners and includes instructions on building strength even if you can just support part of your weight hanging from the bar. It covers warm-ups, stretches, injury prevention, lots of technique (which is extra important if you're already injured), and how to avoid tensing up and causing more soreness the next day.

The program is at https://thepullupsolution.com/ (He doesn't talk like a content marketer in real life.)
I think generally they there seems to be a move to remove anything seen to be outside of the Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window).

However a lot of people seem to forget that the politics of today is only within the Overton window because speech outside of the Overton window at the time was protected and thus the Overton window can "shift".
the Looped Facebook group and the RileyLink is amazing.
Teslas also do that, but I don't know about other lane assist systems.
"Live video can't be made by pushing video faster, it takes a completely differently architecture."

Funnily enough, that's pretty much how HLS, the modern live video standard, works - it's essentially a series of tiny video clips loaded & played one right after the other, distributed through the same CDN as normal video files.

Thanks to HLS, live video is actually much worse than it was 10 years ago with RTMP in terms of latency. There's been some recent efforts in getting it down, although they're generally not standardised, hard to scale (e.g. WebRTC) and or a bit awkward.
The $/W/Block profile is where the security comes from. Insofar as a miner can spend dollars to increase their chance of getting the block, they will, until MR=MC. See this article which explains it very well, though it is talking about PoS: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
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"- The steering wheel contains two dozen buttons"

Actually, one dozen. I also have a Renault, but older, so the configuration is different, but I use regularly three of the cruise control buttons, and three or four of the audio control buttons, and I don't have the phone connection which I would use too if I had it. I can imagine many people using most of that dozen buttons on a very regular basis.

And if you don't use them, you don't have to.
the random function in itunes employs heuristics like this. specifically, it avoids multiple songs by same artist in a row.
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As simple as possible but no simpler – Damian Conway
Is there an official HN stance on this? There have been times I comment, with frustration, that a statement/positions can be hard to grok for those who don't have an automatically-American context in mind (you know, because they might not live in America) the downvotes come swiftly and snarky comments about "this is an American messageboard" follow.

So I'm actually genuinely curious what YC/HN's official position on this is. Asking broadly.
> I'm not sure why having neurons enters into the equation at all when deciding whether something is conscious.

Because neuroscience is bigger business than philosophy.
I think you're spot on. I also think, for most people, the struggle is /finding/ a purpose. Since that's not easy, they default to what is: Netflix.
Perhaps, although this doesn't seem to be a problem on basically any other car I drove. Many times it's on a stalk behind the steering wheel and it requires twisting which you wouldn't do accidentally.

But even looking at the picture in the article (the hand on shifter), there's no natural (or safe) position that would lead to multiple such occurrences.
Maybe they can pool you preferentially with friends of friends, too!

And then there can be the LinkedIn version which pools you with potential hires/recruiters.

Or the Github account version which pools Java and Python programmers together and livestreams the arguments to the Youtube account car ...
Users want more control.
Take this idea apply it to what shows up on your favorite social network feed/timeline.
>“You have the team working through a burning crisis of culture in the office. Once again the boss is MIA, and the first communication we get from him is essentially a blackface picture from his vacation? I’m not sure one can get more tone deaf,” a former Jigsaw employee told Motherboard.

This take is taking the least charitable interpretation of events.

One Someone is on vacation. Does vacation/holidays not have any meaning anymore?

Two, not all face-paint whatever the color is "blackface" (which is contextually different) but evenso, you have the Governor of Virginia who was caught in pictures (and admitted to) wearing actual blackface (with all the context) but he's somehow still not faced any serious questioning from Democrats or even Republicans. This tells you the accusation is optional and is only lobbed at foes. A distant tribe has _no idea_ what blackface is, and for people outside who know, they'd know it has no relation whatsoever --except unless you take the most superficial interpretation.

>“The mission of the team is to save the day for the poor brown people.”

These people [accusers] don't know what they want. Don't help and it's abandoning people (or worse), help and it enters weird areas of tinged accusations of racism.
constexpr evaluation results are needed in the frontend long before LLVM IR ever comes into the picture.

Also, people have done interesting things in constexpr that currently suffer from slow compile times: https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressio...
It would be really nice if the tutorial walked you through creating a sample simple fractal, like the Sierpinski triangle or Koch snowflake.
Using this database of regulation metadata,

https://quantgov.org/state-regdata/

the articles starts out saying that the California Code of Regulations "contains more than 21 million words". Which made me curious: how many words for Texas' code? Answer: 15 million.

$ grep '^[[:digit:]]' admincode_california_metadata.csv | cut -d, -f5 | tr '\n' '+' | (cat; printf "0\n") | bc
21172868

$ grep '^[[:digit:]]' admincode_texas.csv | cut -d, -f7 | tr '\n' '+' | (cat; printf "0\n") | bc
14929400

I'm not trying to make a political point, was just genuinely curious.
Quit whining, b!tch.
> these parts.

The keywords here. Even though every dev on my team knows postgres equally or better than mysql, management chose mysql.

I'm one of the equally camp, and don't possess a strong personal preference, but I was surprised that it was the favorite of the devs and not trusted by the business.
Many years ago I was in a course which had a lab. We would log onto linux machines with network based login(kerberos IIRC). Once logged in, you could also ssh into a server available to us for running codes(limited access).

One day while the lab was in session, I was just playing with stuff and tried executing a fork bomb on the server. The moment I executed the fork bomb, all the 120 machines in the lab became unresponsive, including mine. I didnt realize at that time that they were using the same server for code execution as well as auth server. No one knew what happened and the class was dismissed.
Unconditionally returning on errors all the way has exactly the same effect. Arguing that it's wrong isn't very constructive given that everyone seems to be doing it.

panic() is just another symptom of the same disease.

Exceptions are a very useful tool, and so is pattern matching and support for multiple returns. There is no one true way to handle errors.
Hey you gotta take baby steps especially when trying to pave the way for new legislation. I'm just happy there is some movement this direction.
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So, you're running your databases in containers? Really?

Have you read "Thou Shalt Not Run a Database Inside of a Container"? See https://patrobinson.github.io/2016/11/07/thou-shalt-not-run-...
How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook?
Foobar2000 is pretty good. It seems to have a bias to play two songs of the same interpret in a row. But I don't mind that.
You are right, sorry I am not good in English.
If you're using basic ANSI/92 SQL syntax then it'll work pretty much anywhere, especially with a decent ORM, but as soon as you start using any of the interesting features of a particular database, then you're locked in.

Supporting multiple databases at this point is usually not economically feasible.
I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere and not sure I fully understand the legal speak of the permit, so I’m wondering - are they allowed to drive their cars (in California or elsewhere) with no people at all?

Reason is that while being an autonomous Uber might be the holy grail, self-driving empty capability will surely bring immediate value in balancing and maintaining car share and rental fleets.

Is this being explored by Waymo? Others?
I think the truth here is that saying "Just use another platform" isn't taking into account reality.

Let's say for a moment that Google isn't evil (hypothetical, I know) and that you want a Facebook alternative. Google themselves tried to make one - and failed spectacularly.

If Google can't make a Facebook alternative, what chance does anyone else have? In what way does a #2 platform ever even approach Facebook while FB can just purchase them or otherwise stop them before a critical mass of users switch?

I'm very free market, but this is a clear monopoly and social media sites seemingly requires new rules that didn't exist for telecoms.
My favourite sites are Hacker News, and similarly reddit with the old design and custom themes turned off. Functional, clean, content focused, and high - but not too high - information density. There are changes I would make to both, but there are reasons I got addicted to them.
Ask HN: How do you track your time? Using RescueTime or something else?
I am looking for a time tracker since I want to know to what extent I am wasting my time behind the computer. I was thinking about simply coding a simple app that checks my browser history and I slowly but surely categorize what I deem to be productive and what I deem to be unproductive, and what I deem to be a bit of both.

A friend of mine said there was an app called RescueTime, but you can't own your data. Then I noticed there was this open source tool called ActivityWatch [1]. The Github of ActivityWatch shows a couple of extra options.

So how do you track your time to know how productive you are / how much time you waste?

I remember one guy commenting on here that he uses a chess clock and clicks on one or the other to know what time he wastes and what time he is productive. I find it a very cool idea, but also a bit too involving.

[1] https://github.com/ActivityWatch/
>- Plex Server

I had to stop using plex after they insisted on knowing everything I was watching. Mine runs pihole, a print-server, and a fileserver for kodi now.
You're putting words in my mouth, complete with quotation marks. I never said anything about what anyone should do. I didn't even say that on the whole people in the USA pay less.

In the EU, people pay a varying amount (overall a greater fraction of their income) in taxes. In the US, people pay a varying amount (overall a greater fraction of their income) in healthcare. I think these are widely accepted facts.

The US healthcare system has endless problems, I was only commenting on the "double-dipping" part of my parent comment, not writing an essay.
I thought the goal of companies is to return value to shareholders, not necessarily add value to the economy. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it's a fair statement with regards to how things are today.
Given the number of corporate apologists floating around this site, I fully expect that the top voted comment here will be some form of "rent-seeking behavior isn't always bad". Someone will point at the GDP going up and say this justifies literally everything that corporations do. Someone will draw comparisons between two lines on a graph and say this is why Facebook never did anything wrong.

Is this really what we've sunk to? Is this really what everyone thinks? Are we so jaded by the failures of our economic system we can't even tell when it's falling apart?

Surely, even the most staunch supporter of the free market can admit that at a bare minimum, capitalism in this country is in desperate need of better anti-trust regulation to stop monopolies from crushing all competition. Surely we can admit that simply making a bunch of tech startups with weird website URLs is not going to fix the economy by themselves, and might even be making the problem worse.

Of course, given that we can't even agree that global warming is a problem as the arctic permafrost melts, I'm not particularly hopeful.
If you are doing something illegal, I doubt you would connect with all your friends and family. If you do, you deserve jail time.
Don't be so hard on yourself, it's pretty common to read blog posts like this and come away with the idea that a super smart person took one look at the lay of the land and leapt directly from problem -> solution in one neat step. What you don't see is the people the talked to about the problem, their back-and-forth spitballing ideas, the various googling to see if there's a standard approach ... and most importantly you don't see any failed attempts.

Bear in mind that I don't think this is some deliberate attempt to appear superhuman, I think it's just accidental
Open office is the future on average, just because it's the best you can do for dollar/worker/sqft. Offices with doors, we are told, are too expensive, because they're accounted for differently as part of the building, not part of depreciating furnishings and equipment.

Under that constraint, I don't understand why soundproofed full height cubicle walls with closing doors aren't the obvious compromise between what can be sold and what can be installed. Is it fire code? Do businesses who care about productivity spring for actual offices?

There appears to be a niche here, and I don't see why it's not filled.
I guess it depends on what Sergey or Susan are smoking these days... Odd throwing parties at 'plex when Prop 64 was approved, posing with joints, then banning drug videos...
Let the Great Depression of 2019 begin! Caused by an overvalued stock marked compared to the underlying economy.
Like I said, what's most readable is problem-dependent. Sometimes it's about modular arithmetic, but sometimes it's about not having to say Γ(n+1) too often.

The number line concerns real numbers, not elements.
He leveraged the YCombinator network to absorb a lot of information quickly. For example, I taught him basic networking (routers, switches, multicast/anycast, AS numbers, etc). I shared my 10 years of knowledge with him in a single two hour session because he's a genius, and then he ran from there, vastly exceeding my knowledge. I was there because Emmet asked Steve and Steve asked me to go over, and I was happy to help. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
> - No more Ruby on Rails because no good way was found to scale it organizationally; almost everything is now Go microservices back + React front

Ugh, I just... I keep trying to pretend I don't need to learn Go, but every highly scalable system I read about that's recently been written about seems to be using it. Maybe I just need to stay away from systems that need to scale? Heh...
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The passport is in your hand, you place it on the table where it can be scanned and compared with your face. If they have your face in the database can you travel without a physical passport?
You can't flash LEDs with a VM.

As for teaching your child docker being easier than flashing an SD card... you must have some bright kids, pal!
I don't understand the second graph. If corporate after-tax profits are only 10% of GDP, how come they have the same number in the second graph?
Nice. I like the SSR and that subsequent page loads are basically just a 5KB fetch of pure content in JSON.

But if I go to a content page (eg. https://www.beyonk.com/uk/6Gb_Kj/guided-ascent-of-curved-rid...), I see that the response is a 286KB blob, mostly consisting of CSS. If I reload the page, I redownload that 286KB blob. Wouldn't it be better to serve the CSS separately so it can be cached across sessions?
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> Surely, even the most staunch supporter of the free market can admit that at a bare minimum, capitalism in this country is in desperate need of better anti-trust regulation to stop monopolies

Not taking the position, but free market supporters typically point to regulations as the main reason why monopolies exist.
> That's less than what most would pay in mandatory social insurance taxes in Europe.

Yeah, it might be. But you also pay that in the US, to the same degree.

Why is it so common to think that US citizens don't pay taxes towards healthcare? They do, and just as much as western europeans. The europeans just don't have to pay those extra $3k. US healthcare costs twice as much per person as healthcare in other western nations.
Probably the suicidal people are at the extremes, not the median.
It is difficult to fight back against anti competitive regulations, because most are viewed as important safety precautions. As always, the pharmaceutical industry is the best example of these conflicts and breakdowns relating to monopolies
Not that you're suggesting this, but I fail to see how a stock market correction could improve things for the common worker. I think some people cheer on the idea to buy stocks at a discount -- that ignores quite a bit of pain caused to people. There's real, tangible consequences. Workers lose jobs. Most don't, but some do. In fact, the '08 crisis helped the investment class scoop up working class wealth at bargain real estate prices, when people couldn't hold on.
> So it's not a lack of time or money for anyone but the absolute poorest, people just don't seem to care that much. I really don't know why ?

I would hazard a guess that neither you, nor anyone you know, is a single parent working multiple minimum-wage jobs to provide for a couple of kids living in rented space, with poor transportation available, no easy access to things like laundry facilities, living in a food desert, with no high socio-economic status people in their personal network.

In short, your privileged experience doesn't even come close to what the bottom 20%-40% of Americans live.
Sure and now the button is 25-30cm forward of the elbow, and possibly 5cm lower. The guy in your picture would have to hold his fist against the center console and slump a little to elbow that button.
Your underlying arguement here is truly loathsome.

To argue that genetics plays an insignificant role in executive function is to pervert the science so far as to basically be a lie.

As for my white Western supremecy message, I'll try to pass along your recommendation to my biracial children.
Economic field is a complete pseudo-science disaster. This is another example of it : « the most reliable indicator » is something that has happened 7 times in 50 years, nobody understands why this is an indicator, and the only explanation they give starts with « the market thinks ».

They should probably go back to reading tea leaves, or ask octopusos to choose a box like they do in football. They’ll be more honest.

Europe is seeing negative interest rates for months now, which is supposed to be an anomaly. And there’s still no inflation, which is also abnormal with those interest rates. New monetary theory explains that debt doesn’t matter, and an internet company with 2 billion users is launching its official currency together with visa.

I think now would be a good time for people in the field to start to be honest with themselves and publicly declare what in their work is science, and what isn’t.
My commuter-mobile hauls me from point A to point B perfectly fine with only two.
Good point. Don't have a good answer to that.

However, this happens very frequently in humans, we have multiple different languages and even multiple synonyms for a lot of (most?) words in every one of those languages.

At the same time, would correlation of two things make one of them worthless to have/know/understand?
In physics you often have the luxury, not always available in other disciplines, of having a good theory :-)
I disagree. Touch screens without accompanying physical controls, maybe, but I don’t think touch screens should be banned. I’m a quadriplegic and drive a heavily modified van. I accept that I belong to an extremely small demographic but without a touch screen I wouldn’t be able to control any secondary functions. I think the way my Chrysler Pacifica does it is nice- there’s an 8” touch screen but also physical controls for the HVAC and media.
I have a feeling our regulatory environment is going to be unfairly hostile towards AVs in the coming months and years. Of course we all want a safe and responsible rollout of this tech, but people too easily forget how ABSURDLY dangerous driving is already.

Like with Tesla, every accident and injury caused by a Waymo vehicle is going recieve disproportionate media coverage and subsequent public backlash. I hope we can view these incidents in context.

Admittedly, safety is just one speedbump-- social and economic disprution is a whole 'nother beast.

Whatever happens it's an exciting time to be alive! AVs have the potential to bring more sustainable, safe, efficient, and affordable mobility and I can't wait to see how it all plays out.
This is the key problem right here:

"They also found that lobbying expenditures in that industry are correlated with increased regulation, higher profits and lower entry. Unsurprisingly, they found that lobbying and regulation tended to keep out smaller companies to the benefit of larger ones."