skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consciousness is something separate from environmental awareness. Consciousness is what you have that lets you observe yourself carrying out the actions you are all while thinking yourself to be the one running the show, even though its entirely possible your behavior is not really "yours" to control, but the processes of your body and mind. In other words the 'thing' inside of you that's along for the ride of one quite immersive movie, is what consciousness is.

When you write a program to determine a pseudo-random number, I doubt there's any person that would seriously indulge the possibility that in that moment some entity puffs into existence, imagines itself picking a number, and then puffs back out of existence. But if this is true it makes any path towards artificial consciousness require some rather extensive handwaving and speculation that is not logically justifiable based on what we currently know.
Worth noting that just like you pay 30% of your salary into rent, the company also pays a two digits percentage of your salary into office space.

So when management says the overhead is only 1.25, they clearly missed out on a lot of things.
Rohit Chopra is not the head of the FTC: he's one of the five FTC commissioners [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission#Curre...
I mean why use any metrics at all of you're going to try to correlate them with something seemingly unrelated with no context like # of suicides?
The problem with the religion-based worldviews is that it opens us up to a vast amount of made up believes and leads to a huge variety of different axioms that become undebatable and completely mess up or public discourse. I think it's vastly preferable to just accept that we don't know the answer to some questions, rather than making something up.
I would gladly write Win32 apps if companies would request and pay as good as JS.
Yes it’s common and you can use it. Of course there is also the fetch api.

If it’s a startup project just use whatever your most familiar with and change it when/ if it becomes a problem.
When it comes to write software when you can write something "faster" in the same time that you can write something slow you should always write it the "faster" way. It's Obvious but... not really.

For example when it comes to web development, today most of the people still choose solutions that by default always do diffing of the whole (virtual) DOM to decide what to change in the DOM and server side build ton of object to render HTML and destroy them after the rendering for each request (ex: React). You can argue that the React ecosystem will save you time in writing code because you can find a lot of good reusable components. Yes, but as you code grow, moving to a different framework (ex: Svelte), when and if necessary, is going to be a pretty large job.

You need to pick the right metric. The main one I alway look at is the ROI. Usually I take "user satisfaction and delight" as the "Return" and the time I need to develop the feature in that way as "Investment". The second parameter is usually the risk involved.

If writing it "faster" take 10% more time and is safe may still be worth to go the "faster" way. But when writing something "faster" start taking 200% and more risk is added, you want to be very careful. Is it really worth spending so much time on it?

Fast enough is fast enough.

You do not have to make everything the fastest you can. If a page takes 10 secs to load, what is the advantage for the user if you make it 10x faster? It is a huge win.

What if it loads in 1sec and you make it load in 100ms? Still a win.

But now what if the page takes 100ms to load and you make it 10x faster? Not a lot of people will notice the difference.

And if you have a page that loads in 10ms and you can make 10x faster nobody will even notice it.

So if you like to optimize, go look for places where "10x faster" actually matter.

It is more complicated in practice but keeping these principles in mind will save you a lot of time to work on what really need to be done.
> But give them a blindfold and they won't be able to reach for the spot their eyes once knew the apple was located in. And they can't tell anyone what is in front of them either.

There's no reason this functional behaviour requires the subjective quality of conscious experience. The recorded movement of a robotic arm doesn't, and it can replicate this feat, for example.
This idea is called "God of the gaps" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps.
They don't work for DoorDash however, they're contractors who are agreeing to terms with DoorDash.
Highly recommend the Space Engine subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/
time dilation ....
Pretty much that. Sorry if I left my fact-checking behind but that stopped once I visited CERN in search of the "truth".

You might be surprised at how many quantum physicists agree with my odd world-view.

It gets to a point where you can't go further (literally) ... then you get this.
No place like that anymore
You should gain more experience in programming before quitting your job.

Instead, during your free time implement one of your ideas and break down the feature set into a simple MVP. Come with a timeline, implement, learn, and see if you can stick with the plan. Once you end up building the product, next you will have to work on finding users (sales, marketing) and convincing them to keep using your product and pay for it.

If you have persevered for this long and also maintained your job, you really have the passion and discipline needed to build on your vision. A lot of times I have noticed my friends (FAANG) talk about various idea, get excited for a day/week but never build it out.

PS: I quit (ex-FAANG) a few years ago to travel, relax, learn foreign languages and now currently working on some SAAS side projects. My 2 cents, you need to have a lot discipline along with tons of motivation, and inspiration to keep fueling the energy to work on your ideas.
Unless I've misunderstood you, it sounds like you're advocating the "god of the gaps" argument. Don't understand something? Hide it behind the ol' God Band-Aid and call it a day. But that's just ignoring the problem with extra steps.

As a side-note, there are some radical, fascinating attacks on the hard problem of consciousness, such as dual-aspect monism.[1] I'd love to hear y'alls thoughts.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/is-matter-conscious
> Close to the metal craft.

Loved this phrase.
Engineers have a hard time disliking someone for emotional reasons though. Like it’s not enough that Erdogan is a bad guy, it has to be about numbers.
I will never forget Blade Runner, Ladyhawk, Blind Fury, all incredible performances. I didn't realize he was 75. Man, time flies.
If you're looking for something that's less of a sandbox and more of a sim, Orbiter is splendidly enjoyable, and as realistic or as fanciful as you care to have it be.

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Assuming a JWT implementation accepts only a fixed header (all header fields must be present and match, no additional fields can be present), are there any other issues with "just use jwt"?
You can do that, but you carry a risk of someone developing an internal client one day that does actually trust the remote header, because they're using an off-the-shelf library. At just about everywhere I've worked, there have been efforts to do some sort of new implementation of a client to existing APIs, either because a new language / framework got cool since the API was originally designed, or simply because there's also a new server but you need backwards compatibility with old servers (The only exception I can think of is a brand-new startup.)

"JWT, but you must roll your own implementation to avoid security risks" is strictly more dangerous than "Our custom signing system," because at least with the custom signing system, people are going to read your spec and not JWT's.
Because sometimes you need to sync the entire program state, or some subset of the state, to make measurements or to let disparate parts of the system interact
Those cases suggest to many people that the end justifies the means.
To -user5994461-, I can't reply directly to you but:

Commercial real estate is pretty cheap in most of the country, we have 3 shifts in my building and are open almost 6 days a week, sharing desks with another shift, my company isn't paying thousands of dollars per person per year for this building.

Not every place is the bay area with insanely expensive rent and insanely expensive cost of living.

I've still seen exactly no one even attempt to explain to me why a payroll company needed to raise 200 million dollars.
A tour of probabilistic programming language APIs
Meritocracy requires some sort of result that holds an idea up against reality. The scientific community uses experimentation and replication of successful results. The economy uses "creative destruction" to a similar end.

People believing an idea doesn't add to its merit.
Why not find a company with a lifetime warranty? My dailies are https://www.goruck.com/macv-1/ and they offer to lifetime-fix-or-replace anything you manage to break or wear out. This brand may be a bit too "military" for you but I'm sure there are other manufacturers out there that actually stand behind their products, no?
Because the philosophical part is the only reason we care what consciousness is. Otherwise we are just talking about, what, perceptive abilities? Reactions to stimuli? That's all well and good, but we can't as easily use that to justify our enslavement and/or slaughter of other beings.
Good link.

If anyone who has a true understanding of the concept of "nothing" can point me towards a Big Bang Theory I'd be happy to entertain.
I wrote about a similar but shorter list for early stage bootstrappers - https://www.bigmailer.io/blog/10-early-stage-tools-every-boo...
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Hijacks back for a newsletter sign up. This is the kind of shit that makes my blood boil.
Users (desperately): "We need fast and correct software!"

Most companies: "Here, have this shitty UI redesign that makes our product worse and 50x slower!"
Another FOSS one I recently stumbled upon is GaiaSky:

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/institutes/ari/gaia/outreach/g...

Since it's being asked for, it has both a planetarium projection mode and an OpenVR branch:

https://gitlab.com/langurmonkey/gaiasky/blob/vr/README.md
> but they can't meet the prior model's mean and variance at the same time.

They could just like, pay them a monthly wage, like everyone else in the civilized world?
Eating more plant-based foods 'reduces type 2 diabetes risk'
Exactly. It's super evident to anyone who works on maintaining SaaS that is in production with at least a hundred users at any given time using it in real-time when you are trying to push features or fixes that even going down for a minute will result in serious service reputation damage. We engineer a lot of reusable scaffolding and reporting tools to modify our services in-situ with minimal/no disruption because it is a huge priority. Operating on public infrastructure is the closest real-world parallel.

But to most people who work jobs where their choices don't directly influence customer service uptime (including a construction worker or a surveyor of construction for the same public works, as opposed to the project coordinator/planner/senior architect/engineer), this is an opaque cost.
Erdogan also "said he opposes high rates because they stoke inflation - a view that contradicts economic theory" [1]. It seems the exodus of intellectuals had a secondary effect in de-intellectualising his policy.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/20/reuters-america-update-1-erd...
That's pretty easy to do with MD5 :) https://twitter.com/i/moments/838685002703466497
I found "the ego tunnel" was nice.
If you have the storage space this is definitely the way to go. I have a good habit of stocking up on whatever Costco has on sale this week that I'll actually use and the savings definitely add up.
The hard problem is leaking dangerously into the real world though. Chalmers' original paper posited consciousness as a physical quantity, which presumably could be empirically studied.
Sorry, I am all for basic courtesy and niceties. But PC culture means not tolerating debate, not open to challenging ideas. It's dogma.
BT will use Ubuntu and OpenStack to power 5G transformation
>GDP in the US is high and we have more suicides than ever.

I think this is my favorite new "correlation does not equal causation" example.
My point wasn't that "pro-gun people" are wrong.

The argument is a tautology, it can't be wrong! If guns ownership is a crime, then owning a gun makes you a criminal.

The tautology is compatible with the hypothesis that if guns were confiscated and illegal, eventually there would be a decrease in the amount of people getting shot. Probably an increase for a while as confiscation attempts resulted in agents getting in gun battles with people who don't want to surrender their property.

Whether the loss in life and liberty is worth the outcome is a matter of personal taste.
I think it may have been Fire in the Mind by Johnson although Paul Davies pushed me along.
Rice University carbon nanotube device channels heat into light
I still think the difference is there even if we can’t know it. It’s the whole tree-woods-nobody thing, isn’t it? Of course the tree makes a sound. If all intelligent life in the universe was wiped, a falling rock would still make a sound.
Yes there is because again, physics does not change. Physics showstopper rules out all others.
Science is better then this. We don't need to directly observe something, it's OK to be able to just indirectly observe.

So, let's assume that consciousness is only physical. What would be the implications of that? It would imply that other physical objects can interact with it. We see plenty of evidence of that, with victims of brain damage, or when using drugs.

Now, to assume that consciousness is not physical, not only you need a mechanism for it to interact with our physical world (since it can order our bodies to do stuff) but also for the physical world to act on it.

Hence, from a scientific perspective, it seems pretty clear that consciousness is physical.
Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
Just received this email from Robinhood (https://robinhood.com/):

"When you set a password for your Robinhood account, we use an industry-standard process that prevents anyone at our company from reading it. On Monday night, we discovered that some user credentials were stored in a readable format within our internal systems. We wanted to let you know that your Robinhood password may have been included.

We resolved this issue, and after thorough review, found no evidence that this information was accessed by anyone outside of our response team. Out of an abundance of caution, we still recommend that you change your Robinhood password.

We take matters like this seriously. Earning and maintaining your trust is our top priority, and we’re committed to protecting your information. Let us know if you have any questions–we’re here to help.

Sincerely,

The Robinhood Team"

If you've used Robinhood in the past, it's a good idea to check your emails!
Well, if your problem is the network stack, then don't use it. My word processor doesn't need to be Frankenstein's monster with parts running in my totally abused hypertext viewer and others running on some servers distributed across half the globe where most of the work their are performing is making sure that they are talking to each other properly. Same goes for almost everything else that is a totally ridiculous "browser-based" abomination.

OK, let's turn this into less of a rant: if you can do things in a native desktop app, you're almost always better off than with a browser based solution.

If you need networking, then you need to put up with latency and throughput. Thay is just unavoidable. What is avoidable is the overhead of unsuitable protcols. HTTP is perfect for one-off stateless requests for documents from a remote server. That is the whole point. But people crammed haphazard session tracking into it (cookies) and wonky authentication, then decided that having open sessions on the server is not something you do and layered an extra layer of statelessness on top of that while all the conplex browser based applications out there are actually incredibly stateful on the client and server. A native client that uses a custom tailor-made stateful protocol to talk to a server that also keeps session state would be much faster and more efficient than the shaky Jenga tower of compoments that are cobbled together to form the current generation of browser based software.
I find GoLand to be quite good.
Robinhood was storing passwords as plaintext
So are we headed down the path where if someone breaks into your house and robs you you're going to have to hand your phone over to the police before they'll start the investigation? Imagine instead if they demanded your tax records for the past 7 years? Or imagine instead of being robbed you've been mugged? Is this really the path we want to go down? Seems to me you have a right to digital privacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction
He was saying that's how it effectively works, and he's right.

The federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2-ish with the caveat that if an employee isn't making on average $7.25 for the pay period when factoring in tips, the employer is legally obligated to make up the difference.

So if an employee's tips average out to the difference between tipped minimum wage and regular minimum wage, then all you've done is save the restaurant money. The employee was going to get that amount regardless.

It's only when the tipped amount exceeds the difference on average does the employee come out ahead.
unless you're living in a low cost third world country, 34k after 13 years of experience is depressingly low and you're being grossly underpaid.
So what, it raises the waiter minimum wage from $2.50 an hour to $7.25 an hour? When the average waiter is making / expecting $10-$50+ an hour, it's still the situation OP describes where tips make up the vast majority of their pay. There are restaurants that do the higher prices no tips thing, but I am not aware of any states where you can show up at a random restaurant and get paid $30 an hour to wait tables?
elite dangerous?
> I think the answer is in the first few lines actually.

Not really, given that the main focus of the rest of the article was about how what was asked of them is difficult to determine, and not even well defined.
What was that book? Irreducible Mind?
In my experience, the transition from running the code to see if it works to running the tests to see if it works, is a major milestone in producing high quality software.
Tipping model is at its tipping point.

It is high time US citizens stop tipping and make businesses realize that the customers are not directly responsible for employee wages.
Personal experience still counts as evidence. If you get a lot of different people reporting the same stuff then that’s a pretty solid indication that there’s some common basis for it.

From this, we know that the physical world affects consciousness in many ways. You can change its perceptions with alcohol. You can make it hallucinate with LSD. You can stop it entirely by applying force to the brain.

So either consciousness is physical or it is non-physical but somehow connected bidirectionally to the physical world. If it’s the latter, in what way is it actually non-physical? If there is some way in which it’s non-physical, shouldn’t that manifest as something that makes it act differently from physical objects? Some force that doesn’t perturb it or some attribute that remains constant when you’d expect it to change?
How are you able to post this comment ... take it from the start, the real deal start.

No laws of physics, no time ... nada.

Now you get to post on HN ... and you have the hubris to state "because, science" ... seriously ...

Science has been given to you ... from where, exactly?
But the puppet is being controlled by a conscious actor, so his assessment would still essentially be correct.
Brave is Chromium, you should be able to install the Chrome extension.
> Now, I hear that with quantum stuff they somehow have proved it to be fundamentally random, but the point is that if you really can't tell in any way, the difference doesn't matter at all.

Someone said that quantum should not be brought up in discussions about consciousness because it’s way too easy to misconstrue the quantum maths about probabilities and observations as somehow relevant on macro scale.
NASA Moon lander vision takes shape
NHS Digital Service Manual
I think that's why the raw cells aren't used as the level of swappable unit very often. If the battery is at all removable, they're often integrated into packs which have some level of built-in protection.
I’m happy for them, seemed like an interesting company. Personally I had a bad experience with them as far as their recruiting went. As a very experienced candidate I was working with a senior recruiter who thought I was perfect for a position, however hearing my compensation requirements said he had to check in and get back to me. I never received a response. Perfectly fine with it not being a good match, but have the common decency to have some kind of response.
It's been several years since I've had access to a planetarium to test, but back around 2015 it had support for full-dome projection, though it wasn't bug-free. It may have improved, but planetariums have never made it very high on Vladimir's priority list for the program, at least back then. I think he could easily dominate that market if he went for it, with his only real competition being Uniview (http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com/)

If I remember correctly, I mapped many keyboard shortcuts to navigate quickly and without obstructing the view significantly. That said, it definitely took a lot of flying practice to not get me and the audience sick while shooting around the galaxy.
Pilot is amazing! They have delivered on exactly your quote for us, except that I do often think about how helpful they are :-).
Ask HN: Digital vs. DVD for Media Library
Which do you recommend? Which is cheaper? Which has better longevity?
Time dilation would not really be workable. Otherwise--consider this. Alice travels to proxima centauri at very close to the speed of light, and then immediately returns at the same speed. From alice's perspective, she's spent a leisurely couple of hours, while from bob's perspective she left and returned ~9 years later. Bob spends those 9 years building a monument. The problem is, alice comes back 2 irl hours later, while the monument still takes 9 more irl years to build.

With real time dilation, she could come back to a finished monument; in this case, she can't.
8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
I would do the following in order:

1. Try talking to him about it. Maybe he'll change (doubtful, but worth a try).

2. If the above doesn't work, report to his/your boss or HR depending on the severity. Keep in mind if he is well-connected or protected in the company, this may backfire. Best case scenario is they force him to change or put him or you on a new team.

3. If the above doesn't work, then it demonstrates your company does not give a damn about you and your only option is to find a new job. As a bonus here, you could explore legal options if harassment from this employee is illegal (race or gender discrimination, etc).
Clustered indexes fix that perfectly.
I wanst implying that they were correlated at all. Simply that a high GDP isn’t a useful metric since the people in the US are still unfulfilled in other ways.