skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in the sense that nobody is going to lose money in order to get them to you

And yet all of your rhetoric doesn't attempt to show how they would suddenly be losing money if minimum wage went up. You need to at least talk about profit margins, portions of costs that are wages as well as the relative impact of that wage cost based on how expensive they were before the minimum wage hike.

For instance if someone is making $45/hour they aren't going to suddenly go to $90/hour because minimum wage doubled. Obviously everyone above gets bumped and anyone near it is going to go up as well but the overall amount doesn't double so your wage adjustment should include that.

> It's the group of people right above minimum wage who are harmed the most, because they won't see any proportional raise.

Only if you believe the cost of everything is based exclusively on the minimum wage.

> The continual raising of the minimum wage (among other factors, of course) contributes to distortions in pricing

Feel free to point to anything that shows this is true

> but once they do, advocates will get right back out there and ask for $20, $25...

Please stop presupposing your argument and going off on tangents. My point of contention is that you cannot say that prices will linearly go up with minimum wage.

> Obviously not, it's a nonlinear relationship

But yet everything you say very explicitly says it isn't just a non-linear relationship but a 1:1 relationship.

> It's the group of people right above minimum wage who are harmed the most, because they won't see any proportional raise

To reiterate your previous point which again says "all prices are a multiple of minimum wage"

> If you don't understand price discovery

I do understand macro economic effects including price discovery but you haven't brought up any actual macro economic effects beyond the cost of things.

> No need to result to this kind of rhetoric.

I will keep using it as long as you keep failing to support your central point. Heck the only time you even acknowledge you then contradict yourself on it.

No one who is fighting for a minimum wage of $15 is saying that everyone who is making minimum wage is going to be twice as rich if we make the change. Obviously it will result in increased costs in certain areas. For instance anywhere that relies on 80% minimum wage labor and a 30% labor cost will see a price increase of approximately 24%. However that is no where near the effect you are claiming.
young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions.

This is true. I knew a bunch of really lefty people in the colleges I went to. Now that they're full adults, only one still adheres to that mantra.

My guess about it all is that it's easy to be conservative when you have something to conserve. It's easy to be liberal when you're not invested in a house, neighborhood, career, children, etc... because most of your life is ephemeral.
I work on Fastmail’s webmail.

Did you have a warm cache for either? I find that Fastmail’s cold load is generally a fair bit faster than Gmail’s cold load, and Fastmail’s warm load is consistently faster than Gmail’s warm load; but Fastmail’s cold load can be slower than Gmail’s warm load.

I’m looking forward to working on service worker code loading loading and offline support in Fastmail; I expect us to get warm loading to under one second on a typical desktop machine, regardless of location (because it will require no network calls).

Either way, once the code has loaded, Fastmail is consistently snappier than Gmail. And uses far less memory (in Firefox, 10–15MB instead of >150MB). Offline mode will improve snappiness even further even if you don’t opt into actual offline sync, by virtue of persisting its data record cache. But that’s not implemented yet.
there are only like 40k fatal accidents a year in the US, i seriously doubt 25-30% would be prevented from safer pavement design.
I agree with most of your points, but I see no reason to assume that someone who cannot use language is not conscious. After all, use of language is just one of the brain’s functions. It’s not an emergent result of logical reasoning or something like that. On the contrary, it’s a task the brain evolved to perform, and has “hardware acceleration” for – that is, regions of its genetically encoded floor plan which are dedicated to it. If that accelerator is disabled due to not having been initialized properly… that’s no reason to conclude that the rest of the system is also defective.

It does seem clear that language assists consciousness in most people – e.g. most people report experiencing an internal narrative. But some people don’t. And even if everyone did, I don’t think that would be strong enough evidence to conclude that language is required for consciousness.
Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy', while elected officials trying to limit the influence of foreign capital is 'authoritarian'.

By that logic, limiting the influence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute is also anti-democratic.
ITER is a dead end. Any reactor based on it would be absurdly uneconomical.
That which never lived cannot die
Before behemoths funded by free-but-spying software/services took over, protocols and standards were a thing and had some power, at least. They've (largely Google, but not just them) been slowly killing them. Can't risk making it easy for eyeballs to leave your platform (ugh) since that's what you're selling, and you can't just stick ads in (say) their RSS feed since that doesn't help you track what people click, let alone spy on them across other sites.

Basically protocols are what you want, but they don't make it easy enough to be shitty, so they're dying until we outlaw (yes, with actual laws) being shitty. Which may never happen.
Sure, there's a decent number that do survive, but there's also a lot that attract interest, decent discussion then bomb fast from either getting flagged or excess downvotes/comments - however your algo decides to derank.

Which is not to say I expect them all to stick... :)
Oddly, I see less issues with Facebook than with Google.

Patience. Everyone will get their turn.
Well, there's never a way for me to know whether solipsism is true, or to even calculate a (meaningful) probability of it being true. In fact, this applies to probably infinitely many strange metaphysicses. All I know is that I'm conscious (or, more precisely, that "consciousness is"). I can say that "assuming the standard scientific metaphysics is correct, science might solve it," but that assumption is enormous and untestable.
ITER is not on a credible path to commercial scale fusion power. It's simply too large, complex, and expensive.
I challenge the assertion that something immaterial (other than information) is at play here.

Consciousnesses as we experiment it is exactly what would appear if you were to instruct an intelligent system into thinking it had a subjective "I".

My theory is that consciousness is what appears when your mind theories (your model of other people's mind) become elaborate enough that you need to embed in them a model of your own mind into the model of their mind (aka "how do they see me" ?).

Once you reach that point, you have the ability of having a model of your own mind superimposed on your own perceptions. You also have your animal brain shouting to you that survival is essential and that you are unique (which are obvious beneficial traits to have) and lets your rational mind rationalize as it can.

Consciousness is just the (limited) ability to introspect your thoughts and model an "I". There is nothing happening there that can't be explained through information processing.
Nice, I've been looking for something like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron
Why aren’t they making it mega lightning fast? Not because they can’t, but because the market is willing to put up with the sluggishness.

I treat it just like how I treat the massive phone screen sizes and lack of stick shift cars in the US auto market. Consumers just don’t care about the same things I do.
It's strange, you have to be educated somewhat to make a comment this ignorant.

Where exactly do you think the internet came from that you are using right now at this moment? Where do you think a multitude of inventions and technologies came from?

A huge chunk of that DoD budget is specifically for research and development.

It's bizarre it's like people learn just enough to solidify their world views then turn off.
You are completely ignoring one huge aspect. With restaurants the expectation is that the tips are more than enough to cover the minimum wage of the waiters and therefore the waiters get paid based on the tips they collect. The actual price of the order goes to the cook. With door dash the "cook" and the "waiter" are the same person. Therefore the expectation that a door dasher only receives the tip is completely illogical. When a dasher receives a tip, the price of the order no longer represents money that the dasher receives, instead it represents the maximum amount of money door dash is taking away from the dasher and therefore also represents the minimum meaningful tip size (minus one cent).
More fundamental than thinking is experience itself.

Regardless of whether there is a "you" or if it's some amalgamation of state that is loosely bounded together and "fooled" into thinking it is a unity, something is
there experiencing. At least in my frame there is.

This isn't something you can prove because it comes any sort of structure capable of doing proving. It's just something that's a given and you start from there.

Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" is the originator of this idea. While it is dated, the form of its principal argument hasn't changed.

With regards to conscious unity, there is at least a weak form of it in the sense that you can't experience others' experiences. While it is possible that your own experience may not be fully unified, it is (very likely) disjoint from others' experiences.
> It makes me really sad never to have been there in its prime.

Narrowly missed it by ~six centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople :)
Yes, you are. Those turnstiles have always been more or less symbolic - they are designed to make it obvious that people are fare-evading, not to stop them. If you wanted to stop people fare-evading you would have floor to ceiling turnstiles that are literally turnstiles.

The marginal improvement in the security that adding nasty new bits to the turnstiles increases the chance that less able or unlucky users will get nailed by the turnstile - the young, the old, the frail, the plain old disorganized. There are plenty of people who don't perceive themselves as so disabled as to need the special 'wide gate' but who are put at risk by a system tuned for preventing jumpers and 'drafters'. As I said elsewhere on thread, I've been nailed by a similar turnstile in Sydney (without the extra stuff on it) - while using the system correctly - and it hurt like hell, and I'm a large, able-bodied man. I think the same hit on a 105lb female friend of mine would probably stop her from walking for several days.

It's just not worth it. Want to stop jumpers? Get your security guys off their asses and patrol the goddamn trains.
It is like a PR campaign but I'd say it's also significant.

While it's not a lot relative to the mass of the GDP, aerospace is one of the key areas that the US has had a strong presence in over the years.

US Health Care spending is approaching 20% of GDP but this is because health care is a bloated corrupt mess. Other parts of the GDP also have debatable reality - overprices infrastructure project also are added to the GDP. But selling advanced airplanes is something real the US does - though with Boeing's many shenanigans, maybe not as much as before.

Of course, it's Boeing gutting itself and stretching every area of safety and regulation that brought us here and the regulators letting this go wouldn't stop a fall at all.
If they used the info to hack accounts or other malicious activity, then yes, they should lose their job.

If they just left a log or capture file around somewhere, nope. Everyone makes mistakes.
"They've threatened to kill me the if the police show up."

I don't think there can be any one-size-fits-all solution to this - each case must be assessed on its own merits.
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Have you thought about... hiring an accountant?
Amazon use it in their Cognito offering.
> to not have some sort of intelligence working behind it

People used to think that about, say, the origin of a lightning bolt. (Now we know for sure there is no "intelligence" behind it.)
I have, on a not insignificant number of occasions, used mod_dumpio in Apache to debug things. Which means I end up with all POST payloads in log files. Which has occasionally meant I ended up with plaintext passwords in log files... I am extremely careful when doing this. But I have seen cow orkers copy my debugging techniques and "forget" to switch off the dumpio logging - which has at least once been discovered when a prod server's log files started blowing out in size dramatically. With real user passwords in it... (Quite how mod_dumpio and it's config ended up on a prod server is another rant, which needs to be done over whisky, not in the office...)
This happens in women’s clothing but also men’s. The only piece of men’s clothing which doesn’t reinterpret measurements is belts. Which is why they tell you if you’re an X waist, get an X+2 belt. It’s much worse with letter sizes. There is no consensus. —even within brands.
we should honestly stop yelling climate change and global warming whenever it gets too hot or too cold. That's NOT how it works and the only long term effect will be to create more doubts around climate change.
It's hard to believe a financial services company would store passwords in plain text out of stupidity. Could this be a legal strategy to avoid responsibility in some scenario?
Solar cells have a band gap energy which corresponds to a specific frequency of light. Photons below that frequency don’t knock any electrons loose (they just make heat) and photons above that frequency still only knock one electron loose (and the rest of the energy goes to heat). So a single band gap cell is limited to 20-something % max efficiency as a theoretical limit. The ability to re-emit heat at a specific frequency (that could be fed into a cell tuned for that frequency) would be really neat.
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There are a few case studies on that

Protein folding and grid computing networks are based on altruism and enthusiast novelty interest “wow I can use my spare computational power on this global network of other enthusiasts to cure cancer”, you know, novel in 2004.

As soon as some enthusiasts introduced cryptocurrency to these networks, see Curecoin and Gridcoin, users of those quickly became the most significant contributors to those networks (until those particular crypto currencies’ economic models fell apart). It wasn’t “spare computational resources” it was capital investment for a yield in those digital assets. I believe there are communities still experimenting with this regarding protein folding and looking for mutations iteratively.

So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news
I never got why people are so into free tap water everywhere. Who goes into a restaurant, does not order anything, and asks for free ice water?

If I'm a restaurant owner and someone is taking up a seat while drinking free tap water, of course I'm not going to like that.
> humans are just a vehicle for bacteria

The meaning of life, explained (in ten words or less).
Because you don't want to figure it out.

Everyone knows it's more expensive because it's made by the government. And the government is there to be milked, both by labor unions and crony capitalists such as Elon Musk.
I had Fork 1.0.19. Wasn't any good back then. Just reopened and updated it. Much better now!
Wow. I forgot about Keyhole.

A place I worked from 1999 to about 2002 had what they called a "Keyhole machine." I'm not sure if it was supplied by Keyhole, or it was just the company's machine with Keyhole's software on it, but part of my job was to produce three to ten maps each day for use on a broadcast television station, and it was an incredibly cumbersome process to get the maps from the computer onto videotape (Betacam, IIRC).
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Mmm. I really like mutual auth (TLS client certs) but one caveat:

Now somebody needs to manage the resulting PKI.

Even what looks like the no effort case, where you punt to the Web PKI and have all the clients use Web PKI certs (ie client1.example.com needs a cert with SAN dnsName client1.example.com like a web server would have but making sure the EKU for client auth is asserted) means now you have to either keep pace with us, or risk an impedance mismatch if our policies change in a way you're not OK with.

If you use one or more private CAs there's a tension between on the one hand the convenience of it not being your problem, and on the other hand the risk that it turns out you were just engaged in theatre and there's, for example, an unsecured SCEP server that will happily give any adversary with network access an authorised certificate with whatever identity they ask for...
The last paragraph in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-24/facebook-... says that the FTC will be dealing with Facebook and Amazon while the Justice department will deal with Apple and Alphabet.
i mean cops do have a fairly dangerous job but they also by no means the most or even comparatively that dangerous a job. if you look at the stats being a roofer is 1.5x more dangerous. being a delivery driver is about the same danger as a cop. industrial machine installer/repair/maintenance workers have a slightly higher fatality rate per 100k compared to cops.

stoking the fears of the average citizen to be fearful of cops likely increases their risk of death on the job which is all this does.
Are the actual papers available online? On arxiv.org?
7 hours later: Now I remember why I never got it running, it's an impossible task to accomplish.
Would you steal a bicycle in Japan?

I wouldn't and it has nothing to do with hand-wavy culture.

The reason I would not touch the unlocked bicycle is because I know it is registered with the police. If I got stopped on that bicycle and they looked up the frame number then I would have some explaining to do. Even if I claimed it was mine I could still be prosecuted for not registering 'the change of ownership' with the police. You could imagine the lying, language difficulties and the situation spiralling out of control to end up with time spent in the cells and a few million yen in fines. Could happen.

Note that in America a bicycle is a toy. It has only survived as a vehicle that can be used on the highway by fate, there have been plenty of efforts to fully ban the bicycle from the road and to denigrate it as a toy.

To extrapolate from the bicycle theft situation in Japan to assume that Japanese people are Not Like Us and therefore don't steal is wishful thinking. Personally I believe that Americans are exceptionally unlikely to steal your stuff. I am actually sure that if I did go on a round the world tour that I would find this matter of being honest to be a near universal human trait.
So for context/to call out my own bias: I had a... suboptimal internship experience early on in my career, so my advice is largely through the lens of not repeating my mistakes.

1. Build a network. And I don't mean artificially; find people who share your interest, who you chemistry well with, who you can help, who are eager to help you. Make friends! (Even/especially if you normally might not do so). I failed at doing this effectively, but even so, my SLIGHT bit of network continued to pay dividends for many years in opening doors + providing friends I cherish to this day.

2. Figure out how you can be helpful to your boss/team/company. Whatever the hell that is (but hopefully in line with what they expect out of your role :) ). Find out what their pain is, where they could most use an extra set of hands with your skill set (or a skill set you can take on and learn!) and apply yourself to making the situation as improved as you possibly can; audit and communicate your success as you go. (Make sure from your mentors/team/higher-ups you're in a good path, you're helping, and are visible; this requires building a good rapport, see part 1)

3. Learn how "the game" is played. Companies, especially larger companies as typically offer internships, are worlds onto themselves. You will learn massive amounts about people, politics, society, incentives, and "economics" (in a very loose sense) if you keep an open ear over the course of a career. An internship is your first chance to do so. Questions like: What is REALLY driving everyone in the team/where does power really lie? How do individuals find success, and how can you replicate this? What do various levels of the company value, and how does this pan out to strategy and reality.

In fewer words/to summarize: Improve yourself, socially and technically, while making a positive impression as a professional asset to the company, and gaining a better understanding of how you'll need to continue to do this over your career.

I hope this was even slightly useful, don't hesitate to ask for clarity or detail if needed.
The article says it’s titanium

This is just “manufacturing” which has little resemblance to the consumer makerbot products
All I know is that "experiences seem to be happening." This "sheer fact of seeming" (aka experience) is all I can ever know, and to label it an "illusion" isn't really meaningful. "Illusions" are specific experiences that don't correspond to some truth (that I have derived from my metaphysical models, which I in turn derived from my experiences).
(I work at Lyft)

I've had it with you Scale.AI people always trying to take credit for Lyft's work. We've been working weekends and nights for years, even the hourly workers have had to take unpaid overtime. All that time, I've never seen Scale.AI do extra work to help us before a big deadline.
I would generally have a problem with deliberately outing an LGBT person (or an undocumented immigrant, or any of a number of at-risk groups of people). And performatively revealing sensitive information about anyone for no reason at all is at least unneighborly (I can't go so far as to call it immoral). But none of that is what Krebs did. He violated the code of a subculture he does not belong to, in a manner that journalists do all the time. I think this particular subculture is entitled and unrealistic and that their weird expectations deserve to be challenged.
Keanu Reeves in “300” (Deepfake)
Sure? OK? And?
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> All 911 calls are and should be taken seriously though.

It depends what "taken seriously" means here. If it means followed-up upon in a rapid way to see if there is any corroborating information to indicate that there's a real emergency, then sure.

If it means instead to suppose that any of the provided information is true tout court, then no, this is a recipe for ongoing disaster.

It's important to have a rapid, anonymous reporting system. It's also important to have auxiliary systems in place to verify information that comes in through this system.
Nope. It was to test my native language for unicode support.
Just wanted to say: I like the way you think. In fact, I'm writing up a piece about how to arrive at (what is presumably) a similar realization. In brief: (1) notice consciousness, (2) notice that it's impossible (in a well-defined sense) to know what is causing it. If done right, there can be an epiphany.