skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...aren't trying to spread discourse, but trying to create an outrage and play off of that (evidence exists of the malignant intent).

Playing off of outrage is heavily rewarded by our current societal systems. It happens at all points of the political spectrum, but happens more at the extremes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

The portland professor was being brought up based on academic dishonesty, human experimentation, process, and ethics

It's a hoax. It's a time honored means of expression, particularly when the subject heavily deserves ridicule.

Lack of data, cherrypicking stark examples, and the reuse of the same events over and over again

There's a list of well over 600 incidents of violence, vandalism, and threats, instigated by the far left. If you do some searching, you'll find over a hundred with just a bit of sincere effort, and in pretty short order. There's also the father and son republicans who were chased down by black block demonstrators. There's the time when a mob was calling for Tim Pool to be chased down and beaten. There's the Florida local news video crew attacked, his smartphone knocked out of his hand. The bike lock professor. That's all just off the top of my head. True, such things are also done by elements of the far right. All of it is bad.

In any case, it's certainly not the case that there are only a few cherry picked examples from the Far Left. There's an epidemic of political harassment and assault in 2019, and a majority of the incidents up to the level of vandalism and minor assault comes from the Left. If anything, there's a bias against talking about that in the media.
This tends to be more important in dynamic languages where "the outputs" are often hilariously far from what is reasonable to expect. At least that's where I find I use a REPL in Python--load in some poorly-documented 3rd party library to see what the return type of a function is (for some given inputs) and what properties are available on that object (since the "type" isn't much good given the aforementioned poor state of the docs). In Go, however, you get all the information you need from the type and godoc.org.
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Today my teammate and I debugged a service that was querying a database. Many queries were failing and clients had started to notice, because the quiet would take 45 seconds and API gateway would shut off the connection after 30 servings. We did a tiny bit of debugging, added an couple of indices, and now the quietly takes <1 second. It was 2 hours work, tops.

We couldn’t understand why on earth the team who made this database hadn’t bothered to make any considerations for read queries, but I guess worrying about insert speeds are more important than basic usability.
Seriously asking: why not? Do you just not believe that scale is possible?

I hadn't thought about it, but let's make a few assumptions and see how realistic that is.

* 7.7B people in the world.

* Subtract 1.4B people in China (even though plenty of those people actually have FB and login when abroad or via VPN, there are more countries where Facebook is blocked, plus outliers where usage is low).

* We don't want to count people who are really young. There's also a decay in popularity related entirely to age. I'm going to use ages 15-64, simply because the World Bank made it easy to get an estimate: ~65% of the global population[0].

* We have (7.7-1.4) x .65 = ~4.01B people between 15 and 64 years old in countries with Facebook. Given that Facebook growth skews towards countries with younger populations, I'd say this is a hard floor on what I'll call the "eligible Facebook population".

50% is high at first glance, but keep in mind that we've already excluded most of the low hanging fruit that would make it definitionally impossible for someone to use Facebook. I'd say their number is high, but not spit-take high.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.1564.TO.ZS
It’s against Twitter’s TOS for one.

“Sharing someone’s private information online without their permission, sometimes called doxxing, is a breach of their privacy and of the Twitter Rules. Sharing private information can pose serious safety and security risks for those affected and can lead to physical, emotional, and financial hardship.”
> Only until the universe cooled and became less dense did consciousness become possible.

I'm not sure that statement must be true. There seems to be no reason that consciousness wasn't possible before or during the big bang.
You’d be surprised how wrong you are. Most startups base their value proposition on the fact that by buying saas instead of software, you don’t have to pay a guy for infrastructure, maintenance and system administration.

Which makes totally sense for large organisations but less sense for small ones where it could be easy to manage most services off a single box, provided that regular backups are made.

Consider git alone: you can run a small gitlab instance for free. You can do ci/cd off a jenkins instance. Ticketing systems are one of the oldest things around.

Some basics of system administration is all you need.
The rebuttal takes a view which is close to my heart—but [Motl] puts it so viciously, dismisses without genuine inquiry or curiosity the intriguing claims of the article, and plays so much faster and looser with his ideas than the author he critiques—you can taste his contrition. Ball and [Motl] are probably both mistaken about what QD actually explains.

Edit: fixed names
> If you think that the best ideas naturally win out you're either ignorant

So who gets to decide which ideas are the ones that deserve to win and which ones get snuffed out?
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I use it more than ever! It's where everyone organizes events, says they're interested in festivals so they know which friends are going, forms groups around.
That is only true to a point.
I'm a heavy user of VS Code and recently RubyMine (JetBrains does a wonderful job on their IDEs), but I'm really excited about this.

I wonder mainly about two things.

One, how can Panic compete with a free tool like VS Code? Its extensions are stellar, free, and well maintained. The core product is extremely well maintained and constantly improving.

Two, if they're competing with products like WebStorm or SublimeText, again... How?

I don't doubt that they can do it and that they have a solid plan, and that's exciting. Panic delivers on polish and that alone is very appealing. RubyMine for example is really great in terms of function, but it feels clunky as hell at times. It feels like the beastly Java app that it is. I respect the work JetBrains does on their platform more than enough to pay for it, but there's a ton of room for polish!

I'm eagerly waiting to give the beta a test run anyway. The prospect of a new tool to play with is always exciting, and I've never used a tool from Panic that I didn't enjoy.
My thoughts exactly. How the hell do financial applications not take security more seriously? I just don´t understand. It isn´t that hard to make security a top priority. It isn´t even that expensive in comparison to the price they pay for issues like these, yet it seems that time after time, fast growth and dumping shares onto new VCs or public market investors takes priority over all else...
FTFA

At issue is a site called the “Doxbin,” which hosts the names, addresses, phone number and often known IP addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive information on hundreds of people — and in some cases the personal information of the target’s friends and family.
It's so it's easy to refer to things, like equation numbers in a maths book, or line numbers in code. E.g. people talking about someone's notebook here on HN can be specific and clear.
> "Does a rock have intentions?" was an exam question.

What does a good answer to this question look like in this context? Genuinely curious what they were looking for.

Imo the real question is whether humans have intentions. It seems like if you look at it rationally, we're just collections of chemicals reacting with each other. Set the initial conditions and then the whole thing is deterministic. It's pretty uncomfortable to think this though, so I think it's best if we avoid the subject.
Hold up, Is this thread being inundated by a religious group or something?

Where is the rational thought behind this consciousness discussion? If all of you "critical thinkers" are really responding with "You just don't want to accept that consciousness can't be explained with science" then I have lost my last remaining bit of hope in humanity's intelligence.
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One benefit of performing at the speed of the human hand not explicitly discussed here is the ability for users to _compose_ their own features (and to love doing so!).

If I need to wait even a second for a page or app to respond per click, I am a lot less likely to _invent_ in your app. I won't stretch the boundaries, I won't do things that take more than 4 or 5 clicks. The app will _fit_ me less.

I will call up and ask for a feature that is a 6-7 click combination, if I am paying.

And if you build that feature, now you will likely have a slower product overall.

And also a slower product development org. Because more features mean more product managers. And more product managers mean more coordination meetings. And more coordination meetings mean... well you get the picture.

Love this post!
As an European, I'm always surprised when someone says that our governments are efficient. We're always complaining about them.
Nothing cannot exist. Therefore everything that can exist exists.
Facebook is blocked in China, not Russia. However, there are plenty of Chinese MAUs when factoring VPNs and those who travel abroad. Basically, you can subtract the total Chinese population from the world population and assume you've properly discounted the global population to account for the few other countries where it's banned and factored in those who travel or connect via VPN (Iran, North Korea, etc).
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Oppressive regimes usually /employ/ people to do the propaganda. HN could be just large or influential enough that it gets on the radar at some tiny office, and there might be people whose task is to watch it and kick in with comments/upvotes/downvotes when necessary.

It does not have to be many people, and it can be only a tiny part of their daily watch on larger media.

Moderators would know better about whether this is true on this particular site, but this happens regularly on mainstream channels.
That's extremely anecdotal, and I have experience in the other direction. I don't tip if service is terrible, I give over if it's great. I don't have numbers, but I'd assume people who have awful service will more likely tip less or none.
I was quoted in this piece, and adapted some of my correspondence with the author into a blog post: http://blog.jessriedel.com/2019/07/24/faq-about-experimental...
You're a software dev with 13 years experience and make $20/hour?

You've been significantly undervaluing yourself for a long time
I think the main reason is that if we reach that limit of knowledge, we will always be left with the question, "How did something come from nothing?" I don't know if humans will ever be able to explain that question as it's not something we can experience. That naturally lends itself to the conclusion that there is something greater than us in the universe that can manipulate the physical world we observe in ways we do not understand. Whether that is the colliding of multiverses or divine intervention we wouldn't and couldn't ever know.
You can't prove even that.
If you examine it closely, the argumnent only proves that "it" thinks.
"It" is not necessarily an "I", for what restricts the thinking to an I (i.e a part of reality)? It could be the whole reality that does the thinking as far as the argument goes.

Sorry.
So they probably have a request logger that logs request headers, and they accidently were logging credentials from those headers is probably what happened. This has hit basically every large web service at some point. Crazy this never came up in an earlier internal security audit, but not surprising it occurred in the first place.
>the question of why we have conscious experience at all.

Maybe because being conscious rather than say knocked unconscious is an advantage for survival and reproduction?

While that is semi joking, consciousness quite likely arose as a functional, being aware of what's going on, thing with qualia (what it feels like) a kind of side effect.
squashfs has horrible performance. All requests to the block layer are 512 Bytes. Other filesystems like ext4 make much bigger requests and perform much better in the end despite the compression of squashfs leading to lower overall data volume.

Disclaimer: Measured 2 years ago on ARM32, emmc, with a 4.1(?) kernel.
I've never understood this behaviour. Is it because they don't want to send any official communication stating that they don't want to/cannot match your compensation request? Is it just bad blood? No idea.
Lose a few? Is that like when a password stored by a browser no longer autofills because the website changed the field IDs or the subdomain or whatever else -- not lost but also not being used without digging it up?
Stopping suddenly for no good reason is also reckless behavior. Issuing a bunch of citations is not a remotely reasonable solution. These cars are clearly not ready to be tested in a place like San Francisco.
>Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a form of violence?

We should really stop with the scope creep attempts around "violence".
I don't have "new Twitter" so I can't test this yet, but Safari users can probably use the (for-sale-on-App-Store) Cascadea extension and plug in the stylesheet from https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/master/...
I think the real answer is nobody knows.

It's obviously got some benefits, and I think most people in ML would agree that real world data from the "average person" (as in "not a Dev or paid to do this") is worlds better than simulations.

Still, "ahead" and "behind" isn't really a thing before you reach the finish line here. Many think Tesla will never reach full self driving or won't reach it without additional sensors, others think it's possible but decades or more away, still others think it's right around the corner and can be done with what is on a Tesla right now.

Until someone reaches that finish line, we won't have anything to compare it to, so we don't have any idea how close or far anyone really is.
>If you want to actually compensate the Dashers, tip $0 in the app (raising base pay) and hand them cash at the door. That seems to be the only way to get around this policy.

I am sorry but we have to let you go, because our customers do not seem to like you.
Do keep in mind that PRC citizens are much more common in technical circles than the general American public.
Good job proving the parent's point. This line of reasoning is such a waste of everyone's time.

Just because it's hard to define the lines between inorganic life, simple life, and sentient life, it doesn't mean there's no distinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
The linked-to hacked.wtf page has a screenshot of a tweet from Krebs that is purportedly an example of how he doxxed someone. But the relevant part is blacked out so I can’t tell what level of detail was exposed, e.g. whether it’s real name, dob, address, etc.

Putting aside the debate over what level of doxxing is acceptable, I think we can at least assert that there no level of SWATting is acceptable in any context.
Speaking of Krebs doxing people, I really like the snarky but still kinda benevolent response (sans the threats, ofc) when he doxed the pr0gramm/coinhive admins:

The pr0gramm (a kinda image board) members were upset and since "Krebs" is German for "cancer", they started donating to a German cancer charity, more than EUR 200k in total, to "cure Krebs".

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/deutsche-krebshilfe/
> The no-tipping 20% surcharge model was tried at many Seattle restaurants a few years ago and now it is all but gone. I've asked employees about it and they all tell me they hated it because they made less money

In other words, someone's being dishonest.

In most cases, still, the model I seem to see (and I live in the PNW) was a 15/18/20 tip model, and for personal services (nails, hair, etc.) 25.

Food servers would have us believe that poor tipping and other practices have them one shift away from being homeless, or "I have to pay the IRS to serve you, because they assume I'm getting tips I'm not"...

... and yet, when a 20% "tip"/surcharge (which would be on the high end, I feel, most of the time) is added on to every order...

"This sucks, we're making less money".
I tend to agree, yet I also believe if I'm not mistaken this is kind of how servers at restaurants work too. They have some minimal base wage, then tips. If their tips do not take them to minimum wage, the employer must pay the difference to get them to minimum wage. In essence, we as customers are subsidizing the restaurant owners to get their employees to at least minimum wage pay. So the question is why are we just now getting outraged when this has been being done to people for a while in certain places, and is still happening to servers but it's somehow not complained about that I'm aware of.

edit: looks like it depends on which state you're in in USA on this. Mostly West Coast seems to have 'sane' ones: https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
Maybe the focus on the brain is part of the problem. Sure, neuroscience has yielded some interesting results, but consciousness is a social and behavioral phenomenon, and the brain evolved to satisfy such social and behavioral constraints. The acceptance per se of the Turing test suggests the brain may be irrelevant here.
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This is miserably unsatisfying, but like I stated previously, consciousness cannot be externally observed with any known method.

> is there anything at all

The "what can it do" refers entirely to an internal characteristic known only to itself (or at least not known to me).

Is that then a meaningless concept? Perhaps. But in that case, I would suggest there simply isn't a "meaningful" definition of consciousness. It's just the Turning Test.
My wife's friends/family use them as a form of silo'ing different groups of people. I haven't used FB in years but there used to not really be a good way to do that, at least. That would be my guess. For example, my wife is friends with her own sister 3 times as 3 slightly varying names.

I won't get into my mom's use case. I think she mainly uses them to friend with and snoop on people. Weird lady.
Didn't KSP have some issue with invasive tracking/analytics a couple of months ago?
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The iPad Pro which seems to be the device you're referring to only has 4GB of memory which is shared with the GPU.

The minimum requirements (from steam) recommend 4GB of main memory and an additional 2GB of dedicated VRAM. Clearly this is an issue.

As far as compute performance goes you may be right however as it only recommends an Intel Pentium G3240 or AMD FX-4100 as minimum.
The other advantage of tipping in cash is that all the money goes to the Dasher, the government doesn't get to skim off any of that money.
Given that the US vehicle fatalities as a whole are only around 36,000 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...), 10 - 15 thousand seems hard to believe.
which your comment itself appears to stem from

Another heuristic: Look out for people who would "argue" purely from resemblances. (And primarily by tarring.)

[citation needed]

I'm not out to marginalize academia in general. My wife is a former college professor, and a Stanford PhD. However, I would like to call out those in academia who would marginalize others in academia purely for their opinions. If anything, the threat to academic freedom is even more potent, when it comes from within.
Also, a list in the US created to target the right/extremists: https://www.elon.edu/E-Net/Article/166381
That twitter thread (which is great, btw, everyone interested in this stuff should be following @greentheonly) doesn't remotely substantiate "Shadow Mode isn't real, and that Tesla is outright lying".

I don't know the extent of public statements about it, but comparing collected data like the stuff detailed there to driver behavior is certainly feasible and almost certainly being done. It's also likely true that the marketing department had their way with the announcement and made it sound more like an on-vehicle entity, but.. meh.

I just don't see how you got from that (again, really great) analysis to such an outraged conclusion.
Honest question here:

I was a user of Textmate for Mac for years. I'm not a web developer, so I just needed it as a programming text editor. But it wasn't updated for, like, a decade.

Then I discovered Atom. I know a lot of people who don't like Electron apps, but honestly, it's been fabulous for me.

At this point is there any reason to go back to a paid text editor like Coda or TextMate?
Good for them. Used them for startup a few years ago. Worked really well and super simple to use when all employees were in a single state and we only utilized their payroll services. Once we started venturing into offering health insurance to employees though and our employees spread across multiple states / countries we were not able to customize the plans to our liking (we had some very specific ideas about how we wanted to subsidize insurance) and ended up switching to different provider. We ended up trading the nice Gusto (ZenPayroll) interface for a much more clunky one and most likely a higher premium, but the other provider was able to customize our packages without us having to devote much time to it, which at that point was worth the trade off. I'm sure Gusto has improved hence, and I would likely give them another try today as needed. By the way, for those switching payroll providers, in my experience it is better to do either on a quarter end or year end - while not necessary by any means, it can make it easier to gather all needed documents in case there are tax questions down the road.
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(The author of the blog post is Luboš Motl. Pilsen is the name of a town in Czechia where he presumably lives.)
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I think at this point it's important to acknowledge and realise that america has a right wing extremist problem.

Will the free speech crowd indict radicals who threaten journalists?
> HMAC is bulletproof

… with a well-typed library. Otherwise a lot of people end up comparing it in a timing-unsafe way. :(
Chalmers' consciousness is not an epiphenomenon, it s an entity of its own, but not part of the physical world

> I suggest that a theory of consciousness should take experience as fundamental. We know that a theory of consciousness requires the addition of something fundamental to our ontology, as everything in physical theory is compatible with the absence of consciousness. We might add some entirely new nonphysical feature, from which experience can be derived, but it is hard to see what such a feature would be like. More likely, we will take experience itself as a fundamental feature of the world, alongside mass, charge, and space-time. If we take experience as fundamental, then we can go about the business of constructing a theory of experience.

The problem that most physicalists see is that this introduces an entity seemingly needlessly, which breaks occam's razor.