skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the important part is responsiveness.

I once made an app with an export feature. It was pretty slow (I benchmarked it against other tools and my tool was an order of magnitude slower)

But it was extremely responsive. The status bar updated frequently and was accurate, and a cancel button responded immediately.

People in reviews wrote that my app has great performance! Nobody complained that an export would take a minute! I did not expect that.

But then I realized that perception of speed / responsiveness is more important than actual speed. My app reacted instantly to user input, and never lagged, even while processing an export. I even wasted a lot of CPU cycles updating the UI to show status. But the result was an app that felt fast, and people really liked it.
> To state, that humans are able to watch their mind work is simply wrong.

Given that I experience doing so, refuting it takes a bit more than claiming that it's simply wrong.
The Guardian had a so-called Concrete Week[1] earlier this year when they published articles related to the concrete industry and its impact.

One of the articles [2] touched briefly on the corruption related to the building and concrete industry.

I assure you, these mafias exist in a lot of places. Odebrecht has entangled governments of Peru and Brazil with corruption here in South America. I would be interested where else has this happened.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/guardian-concrete-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-...
This is terrible advice. Never talk to the police without a lawyer present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Me too but if I had a repl I’d probably prefer that.
> But as far as we know, you could have an otherwise identical brain/computer firing circuits, producing actions, etc without consciousness.

We don't know that at all. Can you describe how that would be like? Would a person with no consciousness not talk about their own consciousness? But talking about the self is an action. It seems pretty clear that the reason brains talk about their consciousness is their consciousness.
I'm not going to criticize you for your diet choices. I just ask you don't do the same to me, and act like we haven't evolved to eat other animals like so many other species.
> Sounded like the author was advocating another mega-project

No, they were suggesting that in order to find out why these projects are so expensive, it would be best to hire people experienced with mega-projects and pay them for their time to get answers to these questions.
tuvan says> "Every university rector is appointed by Erdogan, most professors in STEM, if they haven't fled, avoid any kind of political stance to continue teaching with the hopes of raising intellectuals who will help save the country. "

Reminds me of pre-war Germany's educational system once the nazis took over. Curiously enough, Erdogan may agree -

"Erdoğan cites Hitler's Germany as example of effective government":

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/turkish-presid...
This is true, but I think it's significant that Erdogan has been promising (along with many other things) economic growth in a fairly traditional sense. His voter base is largely rural and traditional, but to my knowledge he's been offering continued economic growth with rural areas seeing more benefit and less disruption, and has failed to deliver. Even if GDP is a bad thing to optimize, it's significant any time leadership fails on its own metrics.

More broadly, I think lots of nations today could maintain healthy economies with flat or shrinking national GDP, but those are countries which have little reason to expect 'natural' GDP increase without a growth ideology. Most obviously, post-industrial nations which can't rely on growing populations or rapid labor productivity boosts from urbanization and infrastructure investment: Sweden or the UK could plausibly operate at near-constant GDP, and Japan could even grow per capita GDP while shrinking national GDP. More subtly, nations which actively avoid pursuing the common arc of demographic transition, urbanization, and industrialization: Mongolia or Bhutan might try to take an entirely different path. And crucially, any of these nations would need to plan for the outcome: if Sweden 0% GDP growth without intending to, it would point to serious economic problems.

Given all of that, Turkey seems like a singularly bad candidate for falling total GDP. The population is still growing at 1.5% and labor productivity at 2%-3%, while experiencing urbanization and major infrastructure expansion. Crudely put, 1.015*1.025 ought to net Turkey 4% GDP growth without considering anything any other factors at all, so a substantial decline points to something going badly wrong.
If he's American and you're not, or english is his first language and your's is not, it's probably a cultural thing and the chemistry is lost in translation. He's just "busting balls" "busting chops" or making fun of you because he wants you to make fun of him. Just make fun of him - find some common ground.

The pessimism, he wants someone to commiserate with, ie share complaints with. You should complain about something with him ie your girlfriend/wife, your mom, friend, commute to work, finding a parking spot, traffic, etc - just about anything. You'll see him listen to you complaint and become more friendly to you.

Give it a shot, sounds like your already in a bad place so you have nothing to lose. Hopefully this helps - good luck.
> As a result laymen notice that significant parts of science is pure bullshit

This doesn't really happen much. First off, only a tiny percentage of people are thinking about this critically and independently. So it's more like "People are told X is bullshit, and choose to believe it". That holds regardless of the truth value of X, and has more to do with the intentional undermining of science as a source of finding truth.

So yes, we should listen to the scientists. Not the people trying to spin what they say, but the scientists. And not individual scientists, but disciplines as a whole. We should be able to understand when there is meaningful consensus and when there is not. How confident the community is in quality of the work. What ways there would be to interrogate it better. We should be funding competent and trained scientific journalists to synthesize and present this things in as objective a way as they can, instead of listening to PR hacks and politicians spin a random paper they found to support the conclusion they want.

Absolutely there are problems in science, and to some degree we have caused them by creating poor incentive structures. So lets fix that. We should probably be focusing more on evidence-base policy, and creating oversight structures that keep it working well.

After all, for the questions that science is capable of addressing, it is far and away the most effective approach humans have ever come up with. And as recent history shows us yet again, if you throw out those voices they will most likely be replaced by blind true-believers and opportunistic mountebanks. You can't honestly believe this will improve things, can you?

Of course, we shouldn't only listen to the scientists. But these day's we've swung too far in the other direction.
Unfortunately "phishing" nowadays is used to describe any kind of social engineering, including all variants of tricking the victim into executing malware on their machine.

U2F won't save you there, it will just make the attack a bit more annoying.
Thanks! Especially thanks for mentioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series and Sycor. I didn't know about these up to now.
Robinhood stored credentials in readable format
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It is still pretty fast for me.
How fast is your connection? Latency?

I agree on annoyance with "design changes" sometimes. Last weekend having the map always oriented to the North was driving me nut. They used to have a compass with a N to toggle it. While I was driving it took me 15 minutes to find the option under all the advanced options.

But that said I think Google is in general pretty good in trying to reduce the "featurite" in the app and simplify the UI.
Words are not illegal per se.

Words uttered in a situational context that renders them of immediate harm are illegal. I can say "Fire!" in a theater while giving a lecture or putting on a show. I cannot knowingly claim the theatre is on fire when it isn't to cause a panic.

Point is, it is not the Word or content that is illegal. It is the union of word and context that is illegal.

Subtle difference, but it's the only thing that keeps that type of law from getting absurd and out of hand very quickly.
The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo
مليار دولار قيمة صفقات الاندماج
I used to click the button for the html version in the right bottom corner... but now the button doesn't respond because the app is not fully loaded yet, wich is funny.

I now have a bookmark for the non JS version.
This is great. But, I got excited thinking that DoorDash changed their tipping UX by allowing users to tip after the service is rendered.
Remarkable thing about satire is that it truly is the province of the underdog. The contempt people had for their communist rulers was funny ("kicking up"), but the humour would not work if they used the same caricatures downward at the same kind of coarse people ("kicking down"). The irony of the communists was that by being the revolutionary people, "kicking up" became an attack on their "down," identity.
Not all optimization is premature.
Devil's Advocate: Many people in the hospitality industry are making far more via tips than they'd receive from a market wage.
You're not the first to consider this possibility, as you know. The novelist Peter Watts, in Blindsight, has a remarkably interesting, if also remarkably dark, take on the same idea. I won't spoil it here, since the book is an enjoyable read and freely available from the author's site: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

("Philosophical zombie" would be a more precise term than "robot", btw, and might make soi-disant rationalists take you slightly more seriously because it's closer to the sort of language they like to use. I don't know why that would be a desideratum for anyone, but if it is for you, this may be worth considering.)
If you don't need any of the fancy stuff, the basic HTML view is snappy and loads incredibly fast for me.
Absolutely, but that's not the interesting part. The problem boils down to the fact that any kind of formal proof system is only "truth-preserving machinery"; that is, you can't get out something "truer" than what you put in. It doesn't introduce new truths into the world, it just permutes existing ones so that different facets of them are clear.

But when you're trying ask big questions about the nature of truth itself, a proof doesn't get you very far! You're trying to get at the thing that has to be assumed as a prior or axiom in order for the proof machinery to do what it does. Given our current understanding of the universe, a proof in any formal system can never tell you "why" the thing that it proved was true. Just how it got there.
Not to get all "Matrix" on you but yes to my feeble mind it would seem to require a "god" to create god.

Then all things break down, as they do now at the quantum boundary.
Not a great example. Backpage was facilitating prostitution and trafficking for years, naturally that is going to attract some negative attention from the authorities.
I'd only found about this project a month ago when an author gave a presentation and mentioned how she was using Space Engine to generate fictional universes to test how realistic her story settings could be- things like multi-sun (3+) solar systems, establishing what a habitable zone could be, and planets with permanently dark spots to name a few. Great that it's made accessible for people to customize it far enough to be limited only by their imagination.
Use the "basic HTML" version and make it your default view. On mobile it's even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap that is modern Gmail.

The site takes so f*$%ing long to load you should have no problem clicking the "Slow? Try the Basic HTML version" link, maybe with 2-3 tries to figure out where it is (it's a small link). Then you should see an option to set it as your default.

Bonus: you can actually leave it open in a tab without eating three figure MB of memory and sometimes slowing down your machine doing god-knows-what in the background. Only downside is no notifications for new mail, but 1) that assumes you consider that a downside, and 2) that's what actual, native email clients are for.
This doesn't mean they were stored in a database. "a readable format within our internal systems" could be log files if they didn't scrub passwords when logging requests.
Firefox's Facebook container extension and Privacy Badger extension makes this easy to do.
For most of the time I really do love my job but even in the senior management meetings I'm very open about the fact that I'd drop it all at once and would do something completely different if there was no need to earn for living. Everyone is cool about it because the head of sales would rather play golf,one CEO would probably spend even more time traveling the world while the other would probably spend even more time playing FPS. Maybe I just happen to work where people don't drink their own kool-aid..
They were also looking at “engagement metrics” most likely.

“Look, users browse twice as much and engage with content” which in reality is “users scroll past as fast as they can or try to press pause”
> if you can do things in a native desktop app, you're almost always better off than with a browser based solution

The reason fewer and fewer people are doing this are more to do with funding. So if I were to build software today, I'd instantly go with web-apps so that I can monetize them as much as I want.

Web app software has zero issues with piracy and in built regular cash flow model which everyone wants.

Find a way to fund desktop apps and make them as easy to build like web apps and they'll be vogue again.
Maybe it's because I live on a street that literally has a row of single family homes on one end, and several large apartment buildings on the other, but I don't really see the arguments. You seem to have a lot of internalized assumptions about concepts like traditional neighborhoods vs apartment blocks and how that relates to quality of life. I doubt anything I could say will convince you otherwise, so I'll just say that I personally live in a place where apartments and single family homes are in close proximity, and it is still a quiet residential block, and immensely desirable too.
I've accidentally bought buttermilk instead of milk before. I don't think that we can regulate names such that no one will ever mistakenly purchase the wrong item. Ultimately, there is a standardized ingredients list included with the required nutrition information on almost every packaged food product. Whether that's sufficient or there should be more restrictions is an open question, but I really don't think that these arguments are being made in good faith in this case.
Just how large is your cubicle and expensive is your office equipment?
> We could and should be robots.

What do you mean with robots? Describe how our actions would be different if we were robots, compared with our reality where we are not.

Brain teaser answer: Well, that's more of a question of physics, and the origins of the big bang. We are talking about brains here. They came about some billions of years later.
Client certs are great if you control the client. If, say, Slack told me that to use the Slack API I'd need to get a client cert, I would laugh.

One thing that comes to mind is that either you have to check revocation on the server side, or you have to re-provision client certs frequently, and in most client libraries that's actually difficult / annoying. If the server just sends me an updated token, I can just put that in a local variable and call it done.

There's a reason most APIs have moved to "you can just put the token in the request payload". It's hard enough to ask people to set HTTP headers, asking them to set client certs will be super complicated.
This is almost exactly what I would have written so thanks. It too me a lifetime while to combat my childhood bias to arrive at this point. And now I feel like a lot of people have to similarly overcome their own internal bias and realize that consciousness isn't all that special. We search for intelligent life with out in space but intelligent conscious life surrounds us.
Are we living in a free trial universe right now?
Not bad just trying not to get self-imposed exile on an atoll for 2 years
Except that just because you're bad at taking care of your health, it does not follow you should spend less time on it. You'll still die early.

What you're saying only makes sense if you're talking about things that are optional, not if they're required.
Yup, in fact that's my point. No matter how good the encryption or implementation is, there will always be a weak link and someone that finds a way in. For some people, its a fun challenge and bragging rights. For others, it's profit.
A quibble: it's not necessarily "heavy numeric" problems, but problems where the calculations involve extensive data-reuse. (Of which matrix operations are the most obvious.) The GPU is massively parallel, but the up-front cost of transferring data to the GPU is quite high.

Hence, in order for that up-front cost to be worth it, the algorithms run on the GPU need to re-use that data many times. If the algorithms running on the GPU don't make extensive reuse of the data sent to it, it would be faster to just do the calculation on the host CPU.
Top executives live (Fortune, 1955)
> You will not use this Software to engage in any activity that will violate the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, through the use, public display, public performance, reproduction, distribution, or modification of communications or materials that infringe copyrights... other proprietary rights...

OK, not allowed to use it for reverse engineering or other research the DMCA attempts to block?
True but those constraints can result in more creative engineering.

Look at this timelapse of a bridge getting replaced in 43 hours. They had the new bridge built next to the orignal and "just" moved it into place—I'm using quotes because of course that is an impressive operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_j_BEkVCQ
Seems like if this was to become a product/service you could offer a service like https://www.uistencils.com/ but with custom layouts.
I counted only 7 states where it is not true based on the state laws and 1 state where it was not true for large employees. It is generally true in most states in practice, and is how tipping works per federal laws. I should have probably have mentioned I was speaking to the federal law and local/state/city laws can work differently in some areas.
Hipcamp – Andreessen Horowitz
Commented earlier, either Fire in the Mind by Johnson or something by Paul Davies.
Love this blog post!

One minor nitpick: the event that it rains next week is probably rather correlated with the event that it rains this week (in particular it's correlated with the season), so I don't think this is a great example of independent variables. Maybe you can separate by distance: the event that you wear t-shirt vs the event that it rains in city Y vs the event that it rains in city Z.
Gee, I would just naively wonder whether the scope of the signature includes the outermost closing brace. Does it?
> It would be like trying to use a telescope to capture an image of itself.

Which you can do with the equivalent of a mirror. So assuming your analogy holds, then we just need to discover the equivalent of a consciousness mirror.

As for the article itself:

> While physical properties cannot explain consciousness, consciousness is needed to explain physical properties.

This is conjecture. There is literally no proof that physical properties cannot explain consciousness, nor is there proof that consciousness is needed to explain physical properties.
You no longer have O(n) server-side storage proportional to your number of clients, the way you would if you put each token in a database. You also no longer need to worry about consistency + availability of that database if you have multiple web servers. If one web server in your cluster generates a signed token, and another one verifies it, they have the same key (they have exactly one key, among all of them) and it works without any communication or storage between the web servers.
It probably won't be Electron-based.
I was saying that US has high suicides despite a high GDP. Not that there is a correlation.

Actually # of suicides would be a good metric for a country’s health.
it's like a juicero, for camping.
I'm not sure if you're in SF or, if so, where you live/work but having lived in SOMA and the Mission, I regularly see people peeing and defecating on the street. Happened last week on the same block as Tartine, so this isn't some "bad part of town" thing either. Whole blocks regularly smell like urine. Actually this happened yesterday, I was walking right near the Asian Art Museum.

SF is not a clean city. Streets don't have to be 100% shit stained to think that maybe taking off your shoes before coming into the office is a not-so-bad idea.
Turkey is an extension of a multi-national empire which had extreme levels of animosity between its nations, people who identified as non-turks were severely penalized in the past, and to this day allegations of having a non Turk grandparent is something that can be used against politicians. Armenian is still considered an offensive word in Turkey, (as is Turk in Armenia), so portraying Turkey as an idyllic multi-national country is self-deception. Everyone can agree that killing people should be condemned, but it is important to remember that the terrorism of P.K.K. is more similar to American revolution against Britain than to the Al-qaeda terrorism, and it have arised not because some Kurds are despicable people but because there are real unsolved problems still present in Turkey.
many people are also NOT making what they could be making, if paid a fair wage. At the very least, they're subject to an insane amount of income insecurity.

If a bartender at a sluggish restaurant is scheduled monday-wednesday, instead of his usual fri-sunday, he's probably screwed and making a fraction of what he normally does.
> Significantly more arbitrary middlemen making their way into the process because of "let the market figure it out" does, in fact, create some process inefficiencies in supply chains and contract pipelines. Few countries are as aggressively market-based for things meant for public good as the US.

"let the market figure it out" is high variance, low bias => good in the long run (probably the only stable choice)
"let bureaucrats figure it out" is low variance, high bias => more reliable in the short run but escalates in the long run

It turns out most people who influence this decision (politicians etc.) have short-term interests and no long-term responsibility so countries with a weaker constitution (like here in Europe) tend to rather go with the latter one...
P.S. I highly recommend reading Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy for another creative perspective on why the maximum speed in the universe might be limited.
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Too much javascript.

And they are probably optimizing for First meaningful paint (FMP) over Time to interactive (TTI).

Strange for a company that is putting this out: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/u...