skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everything about the original PC was a quick design by a limited number of people.

I still remember the blinking of the CGA card (instead of snow on the screen because of simultaneous access to video memory by the card + the cpu, they just turned off video to scroll the screen)

On the other hand, I remember the MGA and long-phosphor green display, which was very easy on the eyes. Only a Hercules graphics card playing spacewar was nicer.

By the time IBM got up to speed with the PC and design and the OS... nobody wanted it because IBM lawyers tried to lock everything down (OS/2 and microchannel).
U.S. Truck Driver Shortage Is on Course to Double in a Decade
I think hiring young professionals is not the best option for a startup. They consume a lot of your time and energy and can't be as productive as middle or senior specialist.
The one approach you missed on that blog post: put an envelope inside an envelope. Does anyone ever do this?

{
"original":"json",
"goes":"here"
}

Signed:

{

"original_json_contents_base64":"ewogICJvcmlnaW5hbCI6Impzb24iLAogICJnb2VzIjoiaGVyZSIKfQo=",

"hmac_sha256_of_base64":"bf1f4cb95ce8633aff46888e1717873e32bb2a770b3d4b5b74a59e5e9adefeda"

}

This way you have full control over the raw bytes you want to sign (by forcing them into Base64 where other systems can't get their dirty paws on them).

I guess the problem here is if intermediate systems want to do stuff based on the payload (but without validating it), they won't like this.

But if the problem is just intermediate systems barfing on non-json, this might work!

p.s. enjoyable blog post - as they always are! ;-)
Europe Heatwave: Records Tumble in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
Answer: quit Grievance Studies, enrol in Engineering. :)
If anything, this should be pressure for more regulation, in that arguably it's the transfer of knowledge and responsibility for safety regulation from the FAA to the manufacturers that put us in this "disastrous" situation in the first place.
“Not a death trap” is a relative term. Safety is a feature and like any other feature it gets prioritized according to need, budget, ROI, and many other factors.
It depends on what you mean by worse - as I understand it, a fusion-induced meltdown at least wouldn't release massive amounts of radiation. Massive amounts of heat and destruction to the immediately-surrounding infrastructure? Could be. But not fallout, like caused all the really big problems post-Chernobyl.
I've also given that some thought as well. Actually, all of the above could be combined.
> During this period, no persons in the United States were killed in attacks carried out by persons believed to be motivated by ... extremist far left beliefs.

Depends on what is counted as far-left extremism. There were anti-white / anti-police attacks associated with BLM:

https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gt...

https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gt...
Beyond Meat Is Developing a Plant-Based Substitute for Bacon
Every big company is "hybrid" cloud. Some business critical stuff is running on premises, AWS has cheap compute and storage, GCP has machine learning and some other cool stuff, and so on...
Ha I accidentally clicked that and it destroyed all my entered information; I haven't used it properly yet, but it is of low utility as it currently stands!
What a useless article.

Consciousness is not an impossible problem. It only becomes absurd if it's tinted of mysticism and dipped into a half-digested understanding of the current scientific consensus.

First, let's demystify conscience. Scientifically, there's no soul - it's a religious concept that has no meaning outside of it. What's left of conscience is its shell, its interface.

If we can model something that behaves like conscience, well, we created a genuine conscience.

There are two sides to the shell of conscience. One is the outer shell: the problem is to build something that appears to be conscient. This is a reasonably hard CS or neurobiology problem but by no means impossible. We are getting reasonably close to generating seemingly conscious automata. Surely it's possible to see specific parts of the brain connected to this function: for example, the speech center, and so on. So: hard to do, but doable.

The other part is the inner shell, or "self-conscience." This has to do with perception, mostly, and abstraction. We have already created expert systems that can perceive and give meaning to a lot of inputs.

The trick is creating a system that can perceive itself, its state like it sees the world. This will require a general AI or strong AI, which is currently believed by many experts to be possible although super hard to do. Again though, this is a CS problem, it's addressable by science, and I have no doubt it's a matter of time until we can settle it.

A machine with both characteristics would be just as alive as you or me. It would perceive the world semantically. It would understand to be conscious, and we would recognize it to be conscious too.

At that point, the question of consciousness will become once more only attractive to philosophers and priests. The rest of us will have less problem accepting one of these machines as "alive and conscious."
As far as I know there is no risk for a meltdown. The amount of energy/fuel in the reactor at any given moment is pretty low. Unlike with a fission reactor they have to keep feeding the reactor constantly or it will stop.
ISTM this is definitely the kind of "service" that calls for a penny tip, on the credit card.
I get that Panic is a mac shop, and they make great platform-specific software but...

I recently ditched macos as a dev alongside a handful of my friends. The wall is cracking due to a combination of Apple's poor hardware (mbp kb) and Microsoft's frantic efforts to catch up.

The fact of the matter is that if you work on a team, you probably have a pretty standard set of tools and runtime environment. And, mac only tools exclude both linux and windows users, but also people who have existing configurations.

But the biggest barrier, as I see it, is that there's no midrange space. You have the "low end" of free tools, like vs code, and high end (IdeaJ). I just don't see value in paying for an editor if it doesn't go "all the way".

So yeah, it's easy to armchair strategize, but I just don't see who this is for other than existing coda users. Or maybe, that's enough. They know better than I do, after all.
I wholeheartedly agree on your first point. I was a philosophy major and it was frustrating how so much of the philosophy of mind field were attempting to "run" off with their ideas before they could "stand".

I realize this could be true for a lot of other schools of thought, but it seemed especially prominent when arguments about what makes a person seem to rely on a lower-level assumption of how the brain works.
Yes, but the airline industry has been doing a great job for the most part on both safety and economics.

The A320 costs about what the 737 costs and it has a flight envelope protection system with much better safety. It's had problems in the past that Airbus has learned from and that Boeing has applied to their newer airliners, but that Boeing got amnesia for when it came to the legacy 737.

(The A320 fly-by-wire also improves fuel efficiency, lowers maintenance costs, rides out turbulence to improve comfort, etc.)

Also the lack of safety has not saved anybody any money. I think now Boeing is saying they've lost $8 billion because of the MAX problems, and if they took that plus what they spent to make the MAX they could have been a clean sheet replacement for the 737.

People are so used to the 737 that they don't realize what a backwards airplane it is. Every other airliner from every manufacturer makes some claim that it is comfortable on their official web page. The 737 doesn't because it is the least comfortable airliner (and thus is the baseline everything is compared to.) The 737 is loud for passengers, pilots, and people on the ground. The A220 and E190 are smaller planes that are much more comfortable because they are designed around the human body as opposed to 1960's aeronautics. Compared to a clean sheet design, the 737 wastes fuel, causes excess global warming, has a higher seat-mile cost, and it makes everybody miserable while doing so.

The 737 is what secular stagnation looks like.
The maps load pretty quickly for me (satellite data on the desktop is another story, for some reason). My problem is with the "featurite", which I humbly disagree is getting better. I spend so much time fighting with the UI to try to just see a map:

-The app always loads with an "Explore {your_location}" card that takes half the screen. I am usually at my suburban house, near which there is nothing worth exploring. Even when I'm somewhere else, my primary use of the app is to get directions to an _already determined_ destination. The card is useless 95% of the time, but obscures half of the map, which is what I want to see and is so important as to be the name of the application.

-If I so much as brush the screen with more than one finger, it enters its 3D map mode. Like the "Explore" card, this seems to be screaming "look what we can do!", but it ignores what I want to do, which is navigate using the bird's-eye paradigm that has been used by every other map since the dawn of cartography.

-If I search for a place and tap a result, I get a full-screen card with information about that place, but no map. I just searched for "pizza" and tapped the first result and got a large picture of a pizza. I already knew what a pizza looks like, but I still don't know where the restaurant is. If I swipe the card down and then tap the map to try to get a better view of the restaurant's location, I lose the location indicator on the restaurant and the map re-centers on my current location.

I could go on, but I feel like an old man shouting into the void.
The letter is usually the tip of the Tesla bad news iceberg. The 10-Q won't be released for several days and will almost certainly do more damage because it adds more detail (both intentional and unintentional).
This comes up in human factors/UX, and it has some implications in both directions.

The observation is that a series of closely timed delays are experienced as a single, longer delay - or interaction - by the user.

The upshot of this is that a site where all pages are cheap but there are more of them may be more pleasant for the user than a small number of kitchen sink pages (finding stuff with the scroll bar is also slower). However, very very few of my employers have been willing to sign onto this.

Everybody wants their stuff on page 1. Page 2 at the least. Only losers have their information on Page 4. And if your stuff in on page 20... think of the shame. Can you even face your family for the holidays anymore?

What's really fucked up about this is that people consider carousels to equate to being on the front page. There are websites where I could visit literally every single page on the site in less time than it takes for the goddamned carousel to finish doing its thing. The inmates truly are running the asylum right now. Which is why I've done the Homer Simpson in the Hedge maneuver into backend work.
The United States has had a high level of gun ownership for several hundred years.

SWATting and police militarization seems to have started after the September 11, 2001 attack in New York.

Regardless of your opinion on the issue, it's pretty clear that "gun ownership" and "police kicking down doors" don't correlate.
I could imagine that the fuel supply getting jammed on is not so dissimilar from the control rods being jammed out.
The apps of yesteryear:
https://www.bissell.com/about-us/our-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_Brush_Company#Early_yea...
You could pick the happy color palette (red, green, yellow, black) or the boring color palette (cyan, magenta, white, black). games were so dull.

Even 90's web pages were more visually appealing.
Novel idea, but how do you handle disagreement between the first person who can see an imminent threat and the person in the back of the stack in a way that doesn't get the first guy through the door killed more often, doesn't just become a rubber stamp, blanket approval "to be on the safe side", and offers improved outcomes compared to relying on the training and judgment of the individual in front with a gun?
What kind of scholar doesn't have any references to something he didn't write? Surely Epstein's not the only scholar in the field of search engine effects.
There's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my childhood. Different pages on the same website — even different entries in the same journal — might look wildly different

I touched on this in a recent post here: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-...

I empathize with the author on this, but I also appreciate that platforms have designed their frames to prioritize content. This has resulted in an explosion of creativity within the frame that we wouldn't have otherwise seen, because the platforms have allowed more people than ever to express themselves, and not just the folks who know how to hand code pages.

Homogeneity provided the consistency so that creators could focus within the frame.
This should be easy to change. Make shareholders culpable for management failures. Balance this with an oversight structure that gives shareholders a direct influence on corporate ethics, with the power to investigate and terminate management malpractice and systemic abuse.

Of course the whole point of public share ownership is profit without responsibility. The distancing of benefit from external consequences is considered sacrosanct. So this suggestion is the the worst kind of heresy.

But why should share ownership somehow magically excuse consequences that would be considered criminal in other contexts? If management has to justify its actions to people who share the risk and the blame, it's going to pay a lot more attention to consequences.
Some employees wear their SF street shoes in the office, and they still encourage other employees to not wear them?

One of the reasons I never applied at Gusto is that I didn't want to take off my shoes. The floor is a commons, and it only takes one person walking around with shoes on to turn it from a "no shoes floor" to a "shoes floor".
Warburg's metabolic theory is an important part of current cancer care and many prospective efforts. However, tumor metabolism is an effect, not a cause. The simple-as-possible-but-no-simpler model of cancer is that mutations occur, breaking the blueprint code for cellular processes. In most cases this leads to cell death. In rare cases, the mutant survives and either fails to interpret a death signal or over-interprets a growth signal, or the growth switch is constitutionally activated. This leads to more mutations and some number of daughter lineages also survive. This all stems from very straight forward underlying rates of mutation predicted by the laws of thermodynamics, requiring no other input. There are plenty of example problems available to work through on Rosalind.info.

That is, cancer is a disease of information. And this is extremely compatible with the genomic evidence in every cancer we've encountered, many, many times over. Viruses you say? They insert into the genome and interfere with normal cell processes. UV radiation. Chemical exposures, oxidative stress, etc, etc. Those are intermediary chains of causation. Interesting for specific examples (wear gloves, wear sunscreen, be careful about sex, etc).

One of the blueprints that tends to fall apart is the complex aerobic respiratory pathway, including the Kreb's cycle, etc. But there are other, usually latent energy pathways, like glycolysis, that are available. It is the loss of aerobic respiration that unmasks the glycolysis pathway and all its associated inefficiencies and metabolic stress effects.
I could be wrong here, but I believe experts will disagree and get fired.
I'm guessing construction companies also have a desire to maintain a fairly stable set of employees. Doing a project 3x faster isn't exactly a win when there isn't 3x the amount of work to be done to sustain the operation over the long term.

People don't particularly enjoy boom / bust cycles, so finding competent employees would probably be difficult if everything was "go as fast as possible, then no work until the next contract hits". Construction is already seasonal. Making the work even more intermittent probably wouldn't work too well.
FSD is snake oil and is a distraction. In no way will a Tesla ever be an “appreciating asset”. Ever. Full stop.

Tesla would be wise to focus on being a car company first and foremost.
No, the fact that people have grown up to very limited or even arguably nonexistent consciousness, but still perfectly functional, capable and alive, means that. Functional enough to survive 7+ years by himself in a French forest. Add that these cases prove that perfectly healthy and normal human minds might never achieve consciousness, or at least nothing exceeding whatever consciousness a cat or dog achieves. There was no medical problem preventing consciousness, we don't even really know what the problem was, or perhaps I should say which of the many, many problems this child faced caused this. Lack of human contact ? Upbringing by wolves (assuming that actually happened) ? Was it surviving by himself ? Was it the water ? Perhaps a forest is just a uniquely bad environment for kids ? Perhaps even that specific forest ? Perhaps there was a human or animal or even something else in that forest that somehow further traumatized this kid ?

You'd have to give definitions of consciousness that don't include human contact, don't include language, symbols, any human other than yourself at all, or any thoughts at all not related to short-term survival, don't involve realizing you (as a human) are obviously not a wolf, ...

It also means that there is a period where you can be taught consciousness, and clearly if it doesn't happen before 7 years of age, you will never learn it.
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Ask HN: What productivity hacks work for you?
One hack that has worked really well for me has been to hire staff.

The moment you have an employee, you need to give them work to do.

This has always had a massive impact on my productivity.
Same. Coda v1 was my first step into development, and I still compare editors (VSCode, Sublime) to it.

I really miss the micro-IDE space that Coda occupied – not quite VS Code and not quite WebStorm – and I hope Nova is the same.

Go Panic!
"they have to be evaluated as a car company"

Take a look at the rate of growth in capacity both of their cars and their batteries. I don't know what it is, but with Shanghai Giga coming online this year, Model Y next year, Pickup + Semi thereafter, the growth in capacity and the capital requirements to install it, is not matched by any other car company, possibly in the history of car companies (Musk's posit, to be fact checked).

All that growth is very expensive, but they may be able to fund it from operations. That is 'super impressive'.

In terms of production volumes, they are still small relative to GM, Toyota, VW, I'd still put them in the startup category. But not for much longer.
Even as a first responder (Fire/EMS), there's more that can be done even before then.

A fatal SWATing recently should have raised so many red flags - caller was from an overseas number, described the house as two story when it was one, gave the wrong house color, and said that they could see things through the window from the street (when there were no windows visible from the street).
I think it's plausible. As other commenters have noted, the leak was most likely in application logs. So on Monday night, SRE gets paged about random issue, pulls up the logs and starts debugging, ends up stumbling across a user's password.
> Is this not what is being withdrawn?

What's being withdrawn is their original CUI, linked in the article [0]. From what I can tell, this is very distinct from their new digital service manual, which seems to be replacing the old CUI.

> ...but this would need to be either extended or abstracted to be applicable to, say, administrative systems.

Based on nothing more than a rough skim of the CUI, admittedly, it seems like the original was a very web/interface-oriented design system in the first place. A focus on web components makes sense, since administrative systems can be implemented with a web-based frontend, and web design systems can be adapted to other user interfaces, because they provide a set of baseline, expected behaviours to replicate.

[0]: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160921140920/ht...
You can just go back and put your tip in the Starbucks tip jar after you have received your service. Also if you pay with the Starbucks mobile app you can add a tip for up to 2 hours after your order is complete.
And the hex encoded version of it.
Well why are you allowed to make phone calls that appear to come from somewhere they don't come from?

Furthermore, why do police feel obligated to respond to a phonecall that could be fake but not to a tweet, email, IM, etc?

The system is broken, phones that can call cops should have strict provenance standards.
> There is no equivalent on the left that inflamed the left like Trump does to the right. Period.

The old white man who firebombed the ICE facility in Washington a few weeks ago was repeating things that AOC recently said about "ICE concentration camps."

> You don’t see antifa hooligans wearing Clinton garb. You did see MAGA hats at Charlottesville.

He was also a member of Antifa.
I agree with you, though I think a few things maybe don't hold anymore:

> Sign and date your comments!

> (Should be an editor command to do this)

Now that everyone uses a VCS (well, almost everyone), this is no longer necessary.
The labour force of non-disabled, non-student[1], non-over-65 is smaller than 156 million. You have to subtract those people (Of which there are a lot of) from that metric (Instead of just the unemployed metric), to get an apples-to-apples comparison of non-disabled, non-studying, non-senior workers/non-workers, which, alas, the article in question does not.

You'll also find a lot of the remaining employed people to be significantly under-employed, compared to people doing 40+ hours/week.

[1] 40% of undergraduate students, and 76% of graduate students have >30 hours of work/week. [2][3]

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/at-univ...

[3] So, instead of subtracting 20 million from the unemployed bucket, we need to subtract ~10 million from the employed bucket, and ~10 million from the unemployed bucket. Repeat this process for high school students, persons with disabilities (Some of whom do, in fact, work), and seniors, and you will get to something more resembling a 6:4 ratio.