skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we're pretty close to full employment. lots of industries are job-seekers' markets right now. which doesn't mean that management recognizes this and wouldn't do something stupid like fire a good worker, but that doesn't have a lot to do with the labor market.
> others only pretend to be conscious

> how do I know if they're answering truthfully?

> anyone who professed non-consciousness

The ability to lie seems to me to imply at least some level of consciousness. How could/why would you deceive others if you have no concept of your own existence?
> "...there is no repeating pattern in the decimals, any combination of numbers is possible somewhere ..."
Just pretend pi in base2 is in base10. It is irrational and no sequence will appear with 2-9. Or what am I missing?
On my Android TV, every Amazon videos starts at low quality before jumping to high res after a minute or so. This happens every time I start the app. Netflix never has that issue for me.

That minor annoyance is nothing compared to Netflix's auto-playing trailers, however. I actively avoid opening Netflix unless I already know what I am going to watch, and I close it immediately after I'm done watching it.
Lots of people are bringing up these type of issues, so let me just address them generally. Defaults are important. Yes, it was always possible to build some elaborate booby trapped safe, bury the evidence in the middle of the Mojave Desert, or cook up some home made encryption algorithm to hide evidence. However that wasn't the default. It took elaborate planning and dedication that most people simply didn't have. For example if the average person jotted down an offhanded note, they probably did it in plain English on a regular piece of paper and left it on their desk at home. Now the same note would by default be encrypted on their phone and protected against warrants.
It's the introvert's bane. I'm done being at the restaurant, but I can't leave when I choose to.
Tech is dangerous but also right wing spin machine.

Planned Parenthood recordings (2008)
ACORN videos (2009)
NPR video (2011)
Americans United for Change videos
...
Give us a break.

Wikipedia: A month before the launch of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to O'Keefe's Project Veritas.
Previous AAirpass thread (2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12802751.

I think there were others?
It will sound boring quickly, but I also want to thank you for developing VLC. Great work. Amazing work. You have many devoted fans all around the world.
Why just only such black and white dilemma?

It could be a different format altogether - something third as the golden mean.

Alternatives: Markdown (we need specification for that) or HTML v2.0 or something else.

Requirements to such format:

- it shall provide only one way of text -> rendering and rendering -> text so WYSIWYG can be implemented in non-controversial manner.

If HTML then HTML v. 2.0 as the last version that supported WYSIWYG editing (as it has no CSS). CSS is allowed to be applied by email agent application (user's theming) but not from the body of the message.
Yes. The argument almost defeats itself: why do you waste my time with irrelevant stuff? Why did you make read a whole page of details before coming to the critical point?

That has been my experience: make your messages as short and straight to the point as possible. Put the most important stuff first and the gory details only the curious will read, last. That goes for documentation too.

HTML mail gives the illusion that fancy formatting can make up for mediocre writing skills. That's sad, because no amount of bold face, color or indentation can fix an inconsistently structured piece.

You learn that stuff at school, make your tuition fees (and/or the time you have been forced to invested in it instead of being young and having fun) worth it.
Top things I learned doing this successfully:

1) Find a customer. Don’t worry about your website and your logo and blah blah blah. Find a customer and solve a problem for them. Then worry about the other stuff. The best way to find customers early on is connections and taking to people, not google ad words or search or whatever. Call someone you know and solve their problem.

2) The initial problem you solve might not be the problem you end up solving. That’s ok. Keeping solving problems for people and eventually you’ll hit on one that works.

3) Have happy customers. Do everything you can to make your customers happy. Don’t worry that what you’re doing doesn’t scale. If it’s totally manual that’s fine, but make them happy. Answer their calls. Connect with them. Your first customers are everything. They establish your reputation.

4) Don’t do it for the money. Do it because you want to do it. Maybe you’ll make a bunch of money. Maybe not. Starting a business is not about money. It’s about the experience.

5) I actually didn't have my business going before I quit. That's pretty common advice, but I didn't follow it and I'm glad I didn't. Trying to balance a job and a startup is really hard. If you can get your living expenses low and you don't have dependents, I'd suggest just quitting and throwing yourself off the deep end. That way you basically have no choice but to get things going. Even if your business isn't making enough money yet, you can pick up consulting work to make ends meet.

6) Decide what you want to make it. You don't need to raise VC money and make billions. If you had your own business that paid you, say $150k/year, that's success. Maybe one day you could scale it, and make millions, but pick your metrics of success. Don't feel like a failure because of money.

Good luck! It’s hard. Keep going.
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> You did give them explicit permission by participating in the modern financial system.

This at best would qualify as implicit consent. Which is very different and not sufficient. There should at the very least be a big button you have to press for every agreement you enter into that shares data with credit bureaus that clearly states that you:
1) consent to sharing all of your transaction data with credit bureaus
2) are aware of the various ways the credit bureaus might use your information
3) are aware of the potential consequences in practical terms of how this usage might impact your life
4) are informed about the way the data is stored/who has access to it/what your rights are surrounding it

I would also like to see GDPR-style "right to be forgotten" laws that apply to this data.
The thing that astonishes me is that we really haven't made a dent in the problem.

It's surely something we've wondered about since prehistory, and since then we've made scientific discoveries about things we never even suspected existed. But we still don't know much more about consciousness, except for some additions to the chemical and physical events that can disrupt it.
> We do have a blog post from last year that tells you what we think you should do if you want to be safe and you know what kind of abstract thing (e.g. signing, MACing, etc) you need

A little bit off-topic, but what is your opinion on NSS versus OpenSSL? Or LibreSSL and BoringSSL?
Feature complete is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for self-driving. Tesla does not claim to have achieved this precondition.
Not before deer themselves start using it en masse.
call/cc with handlers i.e. delimited continuations, yes.
Rule of thumb, don't move before either:
* 1K users for B2C (and high enough growth)
* 3 big clients for B2B
"Chud" is slang especially on the left internet for a reactionary.
The Victorian engineers took pride in engineering, it was an era when progress was been made month on month they applied sheer craftsmanship to a lot of what they did (in a similar way to the famous quote from Steve Jobs[1]).

[1] - “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” - Steve Jobs

If you go to the Manchester Museum of Science and Technology, they have cotton looms that have doric columns - there is no earthly reason for that (indeed today we'd use tubular or box section) other than the sheer joy of doing it.

It must have been a hell of a thing to have been alive from 1860 to 1930 (if we exclude all the negatives).
No, You Don’t Need to Uninstall VLC
One of my colleagues wears only happy socks during Winter, no shoes. It’s great because there always something to talk about whenever people bump into him.
> The Department has made clear what we are seeking. We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access. This means a way for government entities, when they have appropriate legal authority, to access data securely, promptly, and in an intelligible format, whether it is stored on a device or in transmission. We do not seek to prescribe any particular solution. Our private-sector technology providers have immensely talented engineers who have built the very products and services that we are talking about. They are in the best position to determine what methods of lawful access work best for their technology. But there have been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done. It can be, and it must be.

This seems to be the key part. He doesn't believe technologists who claim both goals cannot be achieved at once, he claims they can
Interesting observation.

When I lived in a city in the US that had regular snow and ice, floors inside of the buildings were never slushy/dirty, despite everyone wearing the same shoes inside and outside (businesses only, inside my house I always take them off no matter the time of the year).

However, back when I lived in Russia, we had to bring an indoor pair of shoes to get changed into, as everything would be covered in a layer of outside of dirt otherwise.

I honestly have no idea why that was happening, but I wanted to make a point that both you and OP can certainly be correct on that one at the same time.
>If I'm worried about Facebook's use of my data the answer is simple: stop using Facebook.

This doesn't stop them using your data obtained from other users.
Thanks! The Notes component is on the to-do list
I was recently looking into this exact topic and found Dexter[1], which also uses HypoPG.

[1] https://github.com/ankane/dexter
I have chickens, but can't really let them roam. We have fox and coyotes living around us and they've decimated our little flock when I did that. Right now I let them out of their pen for about an hour every night but that's not near enough time for them to make a dent in the ticks.
Yes, but for heavy numeric problems, GPUs are your best bet if you can make them work. The question is what is Julia being used for, I guess.
They can issue a warrant on the client side user

They are just too lazy to do that. They want to go on fishing expeditions and are mad they cant.

Yes it is incomprehensibly expensive for the government to do investigations on everyone, thats the point and how it was before everyone had digital artifacts
If you're serializing the JSON, that is UTF8. You're signing UTF8 bytes... don't mess with them, and the signature will be the same... also, for JWT, the UTF8 is then converted to base64 representation and tethered to the signature. You're signing the UTF8 bytes, not JSON. It doesn't matter how it's serialized, if it isn't UTF8, you're doing it wrong. The order or properties doesn't matter, the signature is on the bytes.
I'm sort of skeptical of the idea that a bunch of people hand-rolling HMAC stuff is going to contain fewer security issues in the long term than widely-used, tested JWT libraries. Sure if they do exactly what you say here, and nothing else, that might work. But what happens when they realize they need some minor tweak to it…
Other countries don't have the same notion of what good service is, and don't expect the server to be up your ass about drink refills every 30s to count as good service. They expect you to ask if you need something, so they're not bugging you. It's just a difference in what's considered better. You see the other style at finer (expensive) restaurants in the US, sometimes. It's really nice to be able to chat with your fellow diners without some stranger constantly bugging you while being pretend-nice.
Worth noting that according to the stats listed, neither lolicon nor shotacon make it into the top 19 tags.
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studios shuttered, developers burned out, and toxic work culture fostered environments hostile to marginalized people

People have been banging on about this for quite some time. One would figure that someone would put together a team that isn't toxic, then succeed. There must be some kind of outside force which makes the whole industry toxic. Probably the same market pressures which turn people into frenemies in other media industries.
San Bernardino also already happened. And it wasn't a big deal. They eventually got the phone broken, and there was nothing of value on it. But that's besides the point, it's an example of the type of thing they are talking about.

From my perspective life would not have been any meaningfully different either way if that phone stayed locked. I also can't image some future scenario where it makes such a big deal. What type of information is going to be on some laptop or smartphone that is so important it's worth compromising our general civil rights? There is almost always a hundred human errors around the crime already that they can piece it all together without godmode on every electronic device. A smartphone is rarely an all encompassing security mechanism for any big evil plot.

There is no 'backdoor' technology solution here that makes sense and they need to get used to it.
I agree - I think it's an absolute misunderstanding of what a tip means. It completely removes incentive for the dasher to follow delivery instructions, grab extra napkins, ensure food is stored upright, etc. I would be so much more on board with agreeing to a set tip amount beforehand if I don't manually enter one after the food was delivered after x amount of time..
Maybe I have never worked a corporate-enough job to see this, but at all the tech companies I’ve worked at, the idea of requiring an MDM profile on your personal phone to access work email would be more or less unthinkable. I’ve known engineers to balk at installing a simple, no-permissions-required multi-factor authentication client; I can only imagine the revolt that would ensue were they asked to consent to remote management.
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Oh, I understand now and that is a completely fair point. The safety driver allowed them to shift blame in a way that will be more difficult without them.

I still do not think that such an incident would cost decades, but undoubtedly the cost would be far higher than the Uber case.
Stating uncertainty when you are uncertain should be considered proper behavior.

Contrast that with how respectful, trustworthy news sites often present stories such as the MAGA hat kids. Do articles from organizations that write mildly slanted stories like that, or such articles themselves, get memory-holed on HN as quickly and efficiently as this one did?
+1. Here's a trick you can use to trip yourself out (also works as a party trick to trip other people out). Look in a mirror. Look at your left eye. Look at your right eye. Look at your left eye. Look at your right eye. You won't see your eyes moving; it is as if your eyes are holding still. But to someone watching you, your eyes make very visible movements whenever you switch which eye you're looking at.

It's an example of "Chronostasis", which is very much like you describe, only perhaps at a much smaller granularity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis.

This gif alone speaks a trillion words if you study it closely: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Ch...
oops left one in that was much further south in Twentynine Palms, CA
This is a fun example of language differences. Here's English to Italian:

Sale (people selling stuff): "forza vendite"

sale (discount): "sconto"

Also, not related, but another interesting example:

"free" (open): "aperto"

"free" (price is zero): "gratuito", "gratis"

Doesn't mean that Italian is superior to English. Simply means that in certain languages, words are ambiguous where in others they are not.
This is exactly my feeling. Gusto just comes across as a nauseatingly virtue-signaling company (another is Lyft which I found out when I interviewed with them).

I read an interview somewhere by Joshua Reeves, and he seemed to answer every question like he was Tony Robbins or some top-level guru. Dude, I don't want your life advice, tell me how to run a profitable company.

Silicon Valley tech is overtaken by this need to project wokeness. That's one big reason I wanna leave this place and work for a more blue-collar tech place. Don't know where that exists.

(I am non-white, and an immigrant, so don't be quick to accuse me of extremist views)
Well, they bought earn/21 for 100M just as a favor to bail out some investors that had money in both companies. It was a completely failed company that had burned through 100M+ in capital. That was pretty weird.
Blade Runner really made me rethink a lot about life and why were put here on the earth, what were made to do and our free will. Given how we are likely doomed to climate change, I worry we will become slaves to corporations which act like governments, only in a much hotter and drier world, and I doubt Musk will found a colony on Mars before our society collapses.
That's a danger with any vision based system, including people, but much less of a danger if you use lidar like GM Cruise does.
"Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed", and all that.

It might be analogous to China offering to defend Texas, if Texas decided to secede from the US, though.
I think the appeal of movies and sports is pretty universal.
Ask HN: How do you overcome sexual thoughts and be more productive?
Sex is a human need. But I often find that when I am working on something I get a sexual thought and I find it hard to forget it. I sometimes masturbate on that thought and that kills my productivity. Does anyone on HN go through the same thing? If so, how do you overcome it and be more productive?
I find that practicing cynicism, starting with myself and working outward, has been the thing that has led to more of a positive outlook than I have ever previously attained. I was angry and depressed for decades until I stopped taking firstly, myself and secondly, the rest of society, so damn seriously.

We have created a fiction called 'the human'. And we have then endowed it with all the best qualities from our myths, legends and stories. We then spend the rest of our time attacking ourselves and those around us, for not measuring up to something that was never actually real in the first place.
That doesn't explain the scenario where the company is shut down or I'm an investor.

My question to you is: why would you ever trust a claim without evidence (especially when the people making that claim stand to personally profit from it)?
It's not JSON, but I had a scenario like this where I wanted an in-band checksum on an archive of files. In the end it was indeed a file with the signature included in the archive itself, and the formula for computing it was basically the shasum of the shasums of `file .` sorted alphabetically, with the signature file itself excluded.

That worked out just fine, but I can see the argument that it's much harder to get to a canonical JSON representation than it is to get to a canonical "tree of files" representation. Indeed, it was easy enough in my case that the repo contained a shell script one-liner that would compute it, and that was the reference against which the "real" python implementation was validated.
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We've been hearing this "both sides are equally bad" argument from Republican apologists for years, but by now there's a mountain of evidence that it's simply not true. Republican efforts to gut and silence science within the government have done profound damage.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but telling the thread to halt is surely a waste of those resources?
I ask for a phone if my duty requires it. If they won't provide it then they don't want the job done very badly and if they fire you then unemployment should cover it. Each granted claim increases their unemployment insurance premium if I understand correctly, so there is some disincentive to just fire you--it's probably cheaper to get the phone. (This is in California, SF Bay Area).
> Sure, you can also destroy evidence! This is already a crime we deal with.

That is just assuming the premise. Destruction of evidence is a crime, but destruction of private lawful communications is not. The FBI has no right to a married couple's sexting.

The usual case for destruction of evidence is one of two things. Either they produce some emails where you're conspiring to destroy evidence, or that they catch you in the act, seize the evidence you were destroying, and then use it to prove that what you were destroying was evidence.

Finding someone with a bucket full of confetti or an encrypted drive but no key isn't evidence of a crime, and it's unreasonable to be able to put anybody in jail just because they shredded their old credit card statements or can't remember the password for an old device that has been in a closet for three years.
Your initial comment seemed to imply that a warrant to break the encryption was "government overreach". If not, I don't see how what you originally posted is an argument against ways around encryption. The question is whether the government should be able to access this information and not whether the government can be trusted with access to that information. If your argument is the latter, than you are arguing against warrants in general.
Maybe don't quit your job just yet.

Start trying to build your ideas with the coding skills you have. It probably won't be the thing you build, but working on a project to learn to program works better in my opinion, as you'll work to achieve something tangible instead of learning in a void.

0. Read Cal Newport's "So Good they Can't Ignore You":

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091...

"Talks at Google": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOdU02SE0

Newport addresses career change strategies, how to build good careers, etc.

1. Read Marc Andreessen's Archive:

Link: https://pmarchive.com/
HN commented collected links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19739943

It is a collection of tweets made in a nice format, then an ebook.

Andreessen addresses a lot of topics.

2. How to Start a Startup:

Link: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/

3. Startup School (CS183F): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXU84_sGXo&list=PLoROMvodv4...

The list is last uploaded on top position, so first video is on the bottom "How and Why to Start a Startup". Haven't watched the series except for the ones on "How to Find Product Market Fit" and "How to Build a Product II" and some of "How to Build a Product"
It took HN less than an hour to memory-hole it. Crowd sourcing is brutally efficient in maintaining an echo chamber.

EDIT: Similarly, a disingenuous "you're posting too fast" algorithm can also silent dissent in comments (based on the actual behavior of the algorithm). As you sow, so shall you reap.
I can easily write a computer program that tells lies, that doesn't mean it's conscious.
haha why is this downvoted??