skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What part of subjective experience exactly do you think that evolutionary theory fails to explain?

Consciousness. We could and should be robots. There is nothing to reproducing that requires this, which is the survival of the fittest.

Brain teaser: Take absolute nothingness (not the "void" of space, true nothing) then have that create something that allows me to reply to you on HN.
Wow, I didn't know about these 2 projects. StaticScript looks very promising but it has no complete docs. I will give them a try.
I don't know what else to tell you - your experience doesn't match mine. I guess we're not going to agree.

I have definitely had hot towels and free alcohol on US domestic carriers. I'm not imagining it.
Facebook Net Income dropped 49% on the first semester of 2019
Oh, sorry for not including the source, earlier. Here it is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC129338/
Standard deviation of what, wealth? Income?

You're on the right track though, at minimum you need to use something like purschasing power parity (PPP) to account for some effects, and wealth distribution to account for others.

Doing these comparisons meaningfully isn't easy to get right.
It does. It doesn't separate them and just allows you to have different types of workers in the same system. So for us we can have the same PTO, hardware and other things equal across the board, even if the employees are not equal in the eyes of the government.
I wanted to thank you for your work on VLC as well. It has been my go to video player for many years.
No fan of Erdogan, and dont doubt that his policies have impacted investment to Turkey, but this ignores:

- greek debt crisis

- brexit

- recent market turmoil

- syrian conflict

all of which have huge impact to Turkish economy as well.
Really cool that they were essentially a bunch of volunteers working together to try something innovative like this - and that was before SpaceX was founded! It's a shame their rockoon prototype didn't succeed, though.
Congrats @clauderoux! -- I've been working on similar fusions on and off during the years.

So "?X" is not true logical variable, but more of a part of a pattern expression? -- in other words, a logical var is a first-class object that can be stored in a data-structure (possibly in an unbound state) and be bound at a later time, and perhaps unbound and re-bound again if there is backtracking. So in Tamgu, "parent(?X,?Y)" acts as a one-shot "find" if the LHS is atomic, and acts as a generator (similar to a possibly nested list comprehension) if the LHS is a collection (but no inter-statement backtracking points are established), correct?
So is the generation of the sequence eager/realized or lazy/by-need?
Now up almost 4% after-hours on earnings :)
Working somewhere and seeing a place from the inside has nothing to do with the fact that the company is toxic or not.

I think we all agree that Facebook takes really good care of their employees and keep them happy, whatever it takes. That doesn't prevent the company to produce a product that is toxic to humanity. It is of course difficult to see that when you are extremely well paid and your salary depends on you producing that product.
Haha maybe a new tagline for them ;)
> I don't buy this "emergent property of the mind" thing because while I understand evolutionary theory I am not sure how you bridge that gap to subjective experience.

So you don't know, or aren't aware of any existing scientific theory, therefore it's magic?

The attention schema theory: a mechanistic account of subjective awareness, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...
Lithuanian here.Most people would kick you out if you wouldn't take your shoes upon entering their homes. However I'm yet to see an office where people would walk shoeless( to have more comfortable footwear for office use only is acceptable,but no slippers).. Also carpets or carpet flooring isn't something one would normally would see in an office,as opposed to, let's say Britain.Most offices have either tiles,laminate or some other, easy to clean surface. During Autumn or winter,people do clean their shoes well enough before entering premises,so no snow or water is brought to the office,as not doing so is a big no no and is frown upon in most cases.
flippa.com

However if it's unreleased no real way of valuing it.
There's an update

> You may have gotten an email a few minutes ago saying we're missing your update for this week. That was totally my bad, we do have your update, I just pulled an over-broad email list for Kevin to send his reminder. Sorry about that, won't happen again! :(
> I understood that we do not understand

There are many things we don't understand, and as time pass we gradually understand more and more of them.
What does this have to do with the existence or not of God? Do you go back and forth between atheist/theist every time a new answer is discovered and a new question is asked?
Nando's website leaked user data
They're also getting some really nice infrastructure in the process. I can't say the same for America these days.
it's hard to say how many you need for a truly effective deterrent when you don't know how many launch sites can be destroyed before launch or how many missiles can be intercepted in flight. iran or nk almost certainly can't hit any US launch sites and probably can't intercept many missiles, but it's hard to know exactly what Russia or China would be capable of in a hypothetical conflict.
> assumption that consciousness is only physical is merely that - another assumption

What does it mean for consciousness to be non-physical? If it is non-physical then it cannot have any impact on the physical world by definition.
macOS Security Update 2019-004 Breaks Sleep Mode on Macbook Pro with High Sierra
Just out of curiosity, does that extend to things like chemical or biological weapons?

I suppose such an interpretation would have the side effect of making literally any hazardous substance legal to possess.
My first attempt to find one blew up in my face. =(

I lived in LA at the time, so I looked for highly-rated local accountants on Yelp. The search led me to this one[1], who proceeded to make a series of nasty mistakes that led to a taxation authority seizing money from my bank account (among other problems). The whole mess took months of time and many thousands of dollars to clean up.

Later on, I settled on bench.co doing the bookkeeping, and found a CPA firm to prepare the taxes every year. It basically works, but it still feels archaic and clunky. Several people here suggested pilot, so I might look at that next.

If you have an accountant you'd like to recommend, I'd definitely be grateful!

[1] https://www.yelp.com/biz/james-m-cha-cpa-los-angeles
Can this be made available for brave browser too?
You don't need that many, but you aren't accounting for several factors.

Firstly, missle defense, depending on the target some area have about a 20% success rate for ICBMs.

Secondly, secondary strike, if many of our sites are taken out by their misses, ground attack, or terrorist attack, we still need an arsenal that serves as a deterrent.

Lastly, failure to launch, there maybe several missle crews that refuse the order, the soldiers on the button are trained and constantly studied to insure they will do their job. But when push comes to shove many people are unwilling to end the world as we know. In addition to that, some sites may not be able to authenticate the orders, communications maybe lost, or the missle may simple not fire.

These are just a few scenarios that have to be accounted for, and when you do that, have a massive surplus only makes sense.
Well, maybe it would produce a hurricane on the other side of the globe.

If I told a time traveling Newton how I’m replying to this on my phone, he might conclude the phone is conscious.

I think the only thing we discover with this line of reasoning is that humans tend to ascribe consciousness to complex behavior.

This could be because complex behavior implies consciousness, but that’s generous. Humans have probably just been programmed to ascribe because it’s a good heuristic esp. in the Paleolithic world.
What about Sublime Merge? I think its great, and works great for me on Linux
You could potentially keep searching upwards for a parentNode that has role="article". While Twitter could change their markup significantly they sorta have to support screen readers so aria attributes will poke through here and there.
Ok whatever. This is kind of a tangent.

REPLACE('convincingly','convincingly, after reasonable efforts have been taken to eliminate deception as an explanation')
Does it play well with planetarium projectors?

Does it have any kind of UI for a , er, second screen, so you can input your destination or configuration off the proyector?
Gmail is now crazy slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.

> I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop

Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.
Your comment got me thinking so I'm going to ramble a bit. The sun being conscious makes sense to me. Not as we are, but then again nothing is as we are. Cats communicate with each other, cleverly explore and learn about their environment but they aren't conscience like us.

Growing up, my vocabulary advanced waaay faster than my experience. I learned what the word "nostalgia" was well before I first felt nostalgic. In fact, I remember feeling it a few times about summers with friends that had moved before connecting the feeling with the word. It was a slap on forehead moment. I concluded that nostalgia was an inbuilt "thing", everyone else probably experienced it in the same way. It's easy for me to consider nostalgia as just an inbuilt reaction to a certain kind of signal. (Something periodic that makes you feel good, then it stops. Recalling the period creates a bittersweet feeling).

The space between consciousness and inanimate intuitively feels to me like a gradient. Various levels of brain damage might yield someone unresponsive to speech but responsive to pain. Then there are people who feel no pain, but otherwise are completely normal.

Therefore, I'd put on the lower end of the consciousness scale "reacting to changes" the more changes something reacts to, and the more varied their reactions, the more conscious it is. We're talking things between the sun and single celled organisms. Single cells don't seem to do much rumination, but they get hungry.

Advanced consciousness seems to require heritable lessons and skills. A feral human that somehow survived alone on an island from birth wouldn't be conscious like the rest of us are, but I bet it would still feel nostalgia if its favorite berry went extinct.

I'm comfortable ascribing feelings to things with full knowledge they aren't feeling it like we are. I bet red giant stars feel fat and old.
The EFF defends Backpage when credit card companies are pressured to withdraw services to Backpage.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/sheriffs-threats-again...

The EFF does not defend Wikileaks when pressure was placed for hosting companies to withdraw services to them.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-lieberman-got-ama...
> Many of them are removed, nearly half of the executive powers lie upon the president,

That I know, too. And that happened (as in many authoritarian states) so that he could maintain the illusion of legitimacy: "hey look, I'm not a prime-minister forever, I am now president".

But do give Erdogan some credit. He is not stupid. And it's disingenuous and deeply simplistic to paint what happened in Turkey as "Erdogan became President in 2013, look Turkey immediately slid into recession because of that". "Checks and balances" alone cannot explain Turkey's growth prior to 2013.
> So you don't know, or aren't aware of any existing scientific theory, therefore it's magic?

Possibly magic, would depend on your definition of "magic".

It's odd to see tech-minded people comment on this, because for us, every 0 and 1 is controllable and we hopefully get the expected output.

And here we are commenting on this "thing" that we clearly understand because X, Y, and Z study that affirms our beliefs says it's so.

I digress.

And don't get me started on solipsism. In that case, I'm not real and this comment is, because it has to be.
Also explains the crumbling infrastructure of Montreal. The mob always needs more money to do the same work, sometimes many times more.
Makes me pine for a sequel to Freelancer.

Or, at the very least, a legal,digital version of Freelancer that I could buy and play on modern systems. My original disc is lost in a box somewhere.
I think the answer is in the first few lines actually.

>Here are the instructions Congress gave last March: Not later than 9 months after the enactment of this act, the GAO shall report to the House and Senate

>Sixteen months later, the GAO has produced its report and it doesn’t actually perform the cost comparisons as instructed.

Bureaucracy at its finest. Over promise, under deliver, and make sure its late too, just in case anyone thought there might be a competent system in play.
According to: The University of Michigan and NC state

The average American's footprint is 21 metric tons a year. The average tree absorbs 21 kg a year.

That makes it a ball park of 1000 trees.
Is consciousness not just the summation of our rational? The summation of our analysis of the physical world? My thoughts immediately go too people who have had a lobotomy. Which is how I learned that the mind can create fictitious explanations of the world without the individual being aware that the explanations aren't grounded in reality.
> Science simply hasn't FOUND [...] I personally believe in time we will

Lets call that Scientism. Beliefs about what may be discovered later are just beliefs, something that should be considered anathema to science itself. (Of course these beliefs may or may not come true, and curiosity about them may indeed provide insight that allows their eventual discovery.)
But in the meantime unfounded beliefs may indeed hamper further scientific insight and discoveries. Ironic, given the history of science & faith, that science might be stymied by limitations of its own faith.
gophernotes is sort of like a repl under jupyter
The thing is, even if this is true, it still doesn’t explain the cost difference between us and e.g. Japan. Construction firms and public infrastructure works in Japan have well-known ties to the yakuza, yet they still finish these at way lower costs than us (even though labor is more expensive!) Why?
It seems like you're describing a specific use case that is different from what most readers think of when they see a post about cryptographic signatures.

If the server generates the token, and all it's effectively doing is verifying that the client has the correct token, then what is gained by making that token be a signature of any sort?
Show HN: TeslaMate – Self-hosted data logger for your Tesla (written in Elixir)
> Before people get too angry at DoorDash, they should realize this is ubiquitous.

I know it's ubiquitous, I'm just enjoying seeing someone raked over the coals for it and I look forward to the angry mob moving on to everyone else who profits from this scummy practice.
Like tears in the rain. RIP, Rutger.
and manufacturing consent and all that

That's another good heuristic. Look for those who manufacture consent, and try to suppress dissent.
> Gameplay would be slow, of course.

Understatement of the century, 4 years to the closest star, it's the new desert bus simulator!
Huh, I really have no problems with the speed of Google maps. And Sublime definitely can slow down in the "right" circumstances. I think this is all more circumstantial/perceptual than we'd maybe like to admit.
Disagreement is shaped as much by power as agreement, because in both cases you accept the framing of what gets discussed posed by the people in power. Truly claiming that power for yourself requires breaking out of the frame entirely and directing your attention where you want it.

For example, public educators have near-absolute power over K-12 students in the U.S. Many students rebel against this (I certainly did), and do things like argue about homework or refuse to go to class. But that accepts the educators' power as legitimate; if it weren't, you wouldn't bother to rebel against it! Someone truly intent on seizing power for themselves would devote the minimum amount of effort and attention to pleasing his teachers, and then go off and write a machine-learning based MP3 player that he can go sell to Microsoft for a million dollars.
Try and imagine a system that could engage in a conversation like that. Like, really imagine it.
Adapting iPhone and Apple Watch to a 3-day power outage
> The problem is that all scientific results around the consciousness question derive from what people report about their personal experience.

There are also correspondence tests between experience and behaviour.

> There's no other known way to answer any questions about consciousness, and science hasn't discovered any way to answer questions about the immaterial.

Because there's no such thing in science. If it's observable, then it will be absorbed into a scientific explanation. If it's not observable, then it must obtain by logical necessity, or it might as well not exist.
You could list it on offload.io or borderline.biz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15200100)
What goals are more desirable to you than happiness?
> Just to clarify that all tipping in the US works like this.

Wrong, only a subset of states with corrupt labor practices allow this.
Mongodb does this? Does that affect how trustworthy they are for hipaa compliant services?
I'd be surprised if this doesn't already exist in some shape or form. Is this article just a coverup to lead people to believe it doesn't? The big tech companies are pretty expensive for a reason, and likely that half the added cost goes to funding 20% more infrastructure to continue projects like PRISM. We make it so easy by putting all our data in a few companies. Have hooks in Google/AWS/MS and you're pretty much set.
Given infinite time and infinite space, anything can happen. Time is a weird thing, but it seems more of it is created every day, increasing the possibilities.
> There are many things we don't understand, and as time pass we gradually understand more and more of them. What does this have to do with the existence or not of God?

How did it start?
You have to give them a ton of equity, like multiple percentage points (or even 10% if you havent raised money yet). Or you need to source them from another country, probably Eastern Europe or India. Good engineer capable of working at FAANG can make 300k easily.
So you are going for 12 thousands and then some? :-)
> Building HSR is expensive and takes a long time to do

Bids and bonds have already been levied against those estimates. Even if you make up new ones to match reality, it was fraudulent in concept. With less than half the length (515km versus the proposed >1200km CA project), the japanese built a HSR for about 2.3 billion USD (adjusted from 1959 ~400 billion yen). From the start, this has been a doomed project to get some people paid. Admittedly, the idea of starting something (anything) to connect the top and bottom half of CA is perhaps visionary, selling it as a doable project was dishonest.

However it turns out, the CA HSR (or slow speed rail) will not be completed in the lifetime of anyone alive today, but Californians still get to pay for it. I'm reminded of Lyta's admission about the Vorlon mistakes in Babylon 5's Thirdspace movie. It's just compounded for the poor Californians, each time.
I think the scenario they're envisioning is one where the server generates an object, and some time later, wants to make sure it's getting back an object that the server has previously generated. HTTP cookies are a good example of this. Anything where you'd reach for JWT is probably also this use case.

> his post is mostly about authenticating consumers to an API. ... you’re trying to differentiate between a legitimate user and an attacker, usually by getting the legitimate user to prove that they know a credential that the attacker doesn’t.

The recipient of the API key doesn't need to verify their object. There's no attack from being able to give someone a fake API key - any attacker in a position to modify the API key in transit, which would just be a DoS, is also in a position to drop the connection, which is also a DoS. Such an attacker is probably also in a position to steal the API key silently, which is a bigger problem. (If a client is really curious whether they have a valid API key, they can just make an API call with it and see if it works, they still don't need to actually check the signature.)
Much of it with the main purpose of enriching people.
To state, that humans are able to watch their mind work is simply wrong.

People who argue with the chinese room argument, are unable to prove, that they're not a "chinese room" themself.
How many people murder their spouse and get away with it?
By the time the Brabazon came to market, there were no shortage of competitive offerings available: the Douglas DC-6, the Boeing 377, the Lockheed Constellation, for instance. These could all haul at least 2 times as many passengers over comparable ranges at significantly higher cruising speeds. And you wouldn't have to wait for Bristol to refit the Brabazon, you could buy any of those planes right away.

The idea of luxury accommodation for a small number of passengers was really the only "unique selling point" the Brabazon had going for it. Once it became clear nobody actually wanted that, it was just a plane that was worse at doing the things people did want than all of its competition.
Depends on where you live, and what sort of lifestyle. Americans make up ~4% of the world population, yet generate ~25% of the world's waste. One American consumes as much energy as ~370 Ethiopians. If every human on the planet lived like Americans, we would need over 4 Earths to sustain us. The generally accepted number you are looking for (for the average American) is about 40. I'm American, and I plant trees whenever I can.
I do have a set of black socks with weekdays written on them. I usually grab a random pair in the morning and go to work.I did have quite a few comments that I'm not wearing the right socks for the day,i.e. Friday socks on Tuesday,etc.:)
While that works for me I'm guessing 95% of the people using Primenow don't know to do that. Amazon is 100x larger than DoorDash and needs to be called out on it.
> A waiter makes $7.25 an hour. If they receive $2 in tips, the business only has to pay them $5.25 for that hour instead.

This is false. Only a subset of states allow this corrupt practice, here's a handy list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage#State_law
What you're saying essentially boils down to "we don't get it... ergo god"
Despite the paper trail, local details of audits I know of, indicated that workers still underreport.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjA...

Anecdotally, it remains true.

Tips don’t go on the official pay reports that go to the Canadian government since it isn’t actually employment income paid by the employer.

Why would sales taxes be inconsequential?
> The problem I have with this is that you can then claim that anything and everything is conscious.

See panpsychism and integrated information theory.