skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that a Consultant is paid to "tell you what you already know" does not nullify their value.

Don't under-estimate how many times we need an unbiased external view to confirm what we already thought but were too unsure to implement.
Correct, the US is the richest country on earth. In the rest of the world Androids are more popular.

I guarantee you that if most of your friends have iPhones, your friends' incomes are probably on the higher end, statistically.

Don't those payment plans require good credit, anyway? A lot of my friends don't have that.
> It provides the information in small increments, so servers are only exposed to the information they need and request, rather than being exposed to the full gamut of the UA string even if they are just trying to figure out one detail about the browser.

So, an extra RT if your app needs to sense which UA it’s talking to.
Although it doesn't stop DNS over HTTPS, I use a DNS sinkhole on my home network and then I use wireguard to VPN into home when I'm not connected to my home WiFi.

The Wireguard iOS app allows you to automatically connect to your configured interfaces based on whether you're using cellular data, connected to specific SSIDs, or disconnected from specific SSIDs.

The only downside I have found to this approach so far is that it can break captive portals on public WiFi networks, which I will just disconnect from if I have a reasonable 4G signal.
> Main Imports: Water

> Main Exports: Conceptual art

I love it!
C++ is pretty close to it.
not-for-profit does not mean "everyone who works on this does so without pay" People have to pay for food and housing.
tpxl and you are using different definitions of "work out fine".

Incarceration and systemic discrimination against an entire class of people does not count as "well enough", in my opinion.

And it's specious reasoning to conclude that if a society made up of untrustworthy actors committing fraud isn't starving and dodging lions, then it's worked out fined. One can go live in a country with low societal trust to see what that's like (Brazil, India, Pakistan, Somalia, etc).

I posit that it's the proportion of trustworthy actors in the system, along with a healthy dose of conveniently timed technological advances as well as luck providing resources at the right time that leads to a prosperous society. There are countless examples in history of a society doing well enough, and every time there is a tipping point where sufficient trust is lost and it starts degrading, or in some cases, collapses.
We appreciate funny jokes. The act of merely spotting a basic homonym or pun, something surely everyone did here, isn't all that funny, though.
Fair enough. The system is statistical; I’m not claiming every harmful tradition is eliminated and tradition is optimal; only that the most harmful traditions are eliminated or minimized (e.g., human sacrifice is only practiced among very primitive civilizations).
> Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness

It doesn't even do that, it just pushes it down the stack.

If I ask, why is the sky blue, I don't want to hear "Because it's made of blue stuff."

Not only is it wrong, it doesn't have any explanatory power at all. Ultimately if you want to understand why something has a certain property, you want to know how it arises from the emergent behavior of something more fundamental. A hurricane isn't made of hurricane bits, and brains aren't made of consciousness particles.
Second this. I barely made it a week at a construction site when I was younger, and I was convinced the experienced shaved a few months off of my life expectancy. I was also just as exhausted coming home from work as I would be from an equivalent amount of time spent thinking about hard mental problems. At least for me, it wasn't even in the same universe as sitting down in an air-conditioned office and writing code all day.
Assumption based on 1) their pricing model and 2) them being acquired by Equinix (who I consider quite conservative).
1. Nobody should go to our current implementation of "prison."

2. If #1 is unachievable, or while we're working on #1, poor people should not go to prison while rich people slide out of going to prison.

I don’t know why you have a lot of trouble with #2. It’s not like you can only argue for #1 or #2, and by arguing for #2, you give up the right to argue for #1.

It’s not a dichotomy.
The consciousness itself (not the theory) is in the root of what we perceive and exercising it effectively broads our perception of reality which is the single most practical thing one can do because everything else we do is limited by our perception.
Well, a paying (until you meet someone) customer
Mu. The definition provided ("consciousness is experience") explains nothing, you cannot experimentally decide if atoms experience anything, the fact that they do or don't doesn't change any prediction for how they behave over time. It's meaningless, like wondering if magic exists but is actively hiding from us. Paranoia is that way.

> Despite great progress in our scientific understanding of the brain, we still don’t have even the beginnings of an explanation of how complex electrochemical signaling is somehow able to give rise to the inner subjective world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes that each of us knows in our own case. There is a deep mystery in understanding how what we know about ourselves from the inside fits together with what science tells us about matter from the outside.

We can make a very simple robot that reacts to the environment - for example follows light and learns where the walls are so as not to collide with them in the future.

It checks all the boxes that simple life does - if you say that a bacteria experience world then so does that robot. So it is conscious but we know where it comes from - it comes from the computational power and interactions with the world it can do. There's no magical spiritualism around it, it's just nested if-then-elses + memory + feedback. Which btw is as good a definition for consciousness as any other. When you become unconscious the feedback loop is interrupted.

> “Of course, you can’t do that. I designed physical science to deal with quantities, not qualities.”

"Quantity has a quality of its own". There's no qualities in the universe, just quantities and we arbitrarily assign labels (qualities) to them.

In the end I think "is X conscious" is as productive a question as "is Pluto a planet" or "can submarines swim".
UEFI-jitfuck: A JIT compiler for Brainfuck running on x86_64 UEFI
Read Bernardo Kastrup's, a Dutch computer scientist and philosopher, criticism on panpsychism:
"https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html

https://iai.tv/articles/will-we-ever-understand-consciousnes...
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/emtud2/bernardo...

He proposes an alternative answer for the mind-body problem; idealism instead of materialism
https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html
2hrs/Illegal for medical reasons/doesn't exist/doesn't exist
because apple doesn't allow promo-codes for apps?
because apple doesn't let developers know who their users are?
If you’re truely interested in my opinion on the situation in france just read my other comments in the thread.

But somehow i doubt you are. Your tone seem to suggest you’re rather the kind of person eager to call anyone a racist every time cultural gaps or even identity in general is mentioned. I’m not sure you realize it, but you’re the exact mirror image of people from the extreme right that blame race for every trouble in the country.
>Edit: I think you could view them only if you both gave answers to the same question.

Correct, but it would show you the questions you hadn't answered and let you answer them right then and there to see their response, meaning a couple of clicks. Scripting that for mining would have been trivial via the website.
I just tested this out on my website and it worked exactly as instructed which is always a plus. Super easy to set up and a clear set of analytics :)
I think you'll still be able to tell what OS and browser it is, just not the specific major or minor version because they'll be 85.0.0 (if that's the version when this happens) forever. All of the examples you've put there will still be achievable with the out-of-date UA string.
I think it's going to be impossible to improve on price being determined atomically by buyers and sellers agreeing on an individual basis what something is worth. That's the heart of what makes capitalism so effective. What this individual is willing to pay for that individual item is almost impossible to predict down to more than a pretty broad range of pricing. So many variables factor into what one person will pay for an item. And that determination changes even for that person depending on timing. I might be much more likely to make an impulse buy on payday than I am on the day before payday. The decisions around how much something is worth is too unpredictable to be centralized or predicted.

"Let the market decide" is a misdirection from what makes free markets great: individuals deciding, for themselves, whether to make a purchase after a seller has suggested (or demanded) a price.

No central planning algorithm can take the place of that, which is why attempts at centralizing an economy are always undermined by black markets.
A reminder of this article/HN discussion [1] where John Gruber speculated that the attacks on Korey published in The Verge may have been part of an internal power struggle.

I have no particular insights or opinions on the matter; I do think it's worthwhile context, given this development.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749694
Oh but the article claims she's done some "soul searching", when in fact, I think they meant she's found all the souls she sucked the life out of.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599775
Wow, who would have thought it?

While we are all here: water wet.
This is bad philosophy masked in scientific jargon.
Related, APL keycaps for sale: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET
I would like to suggest that in your "About" suggestion you provide a short description what a "CAN bus" is (with links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus - or whatever you feel is appropriate ).

I'm a very technical person, and I honestly don't think I'd ever heard of it. I spent a decent bit of time looking on the site trying to figure out what it was before resorting to Google.

It's not a huge deal, but seems to me like it would be helpful, and worth the effort.
Congratulations on getting published!

I've bought the book and read until the Delegation chapter.

Up until now I find that the topics are interesting and the writing is very direct and unpretentious which I appreciate.

I also like the approach you took of wrapping it in a story, I think it makes the topic a lot less dry.

At the same time I feel that it doesn't go into the detail I would like.

For instance I feel that the “How to Measure Your Output as a Manager” is a bit hand waved by using Andy Grove's equation. This is a topic I struggle with because I sometimes feel that I don't produce anything as a manager and that is frustrating.

Nonetheless, the chapters I've read are fine as a starting point and appreciate that you suggest additional literature to deepen the topics.

Overall I'm positive about the book, would buy again :)
This just in: Rust team writes "Jelly" library to encourage adoption by Navy for dev projects.
A watertight USB connector is more expensive than just two pins molded in-place through the plastic.
She disputes the reporting, but didn't say specifically what it was that they got wrong. The screenshots of slack messages were pretty clear evidence to me.
What’s missing is a can bus sim
Getting Started with Google's ARCore in Kotlin
No, these are not UX metrics, these are commercial metrics. There is a reason conversions and tech-support costs and almost all a/b tests and all that are not even remotely good UX metrics, as they do not exist to measure anything users care about in the product, only what companies care about.
I don't mind it happening. Just most of these tools are rehashes of stuff that happened in the 90's and still have the same problems.

Programming has been an evolution higher and higher abstractions. It's not different.

We will probably move to a higher abstraction, but it will probably something like describing the problem with tests, and the computer automatically writing something that passes these tests.

You still need these skills. You will just accomplish more in less time.
I am more interested in the nature of consciousness than its location . . . not sure where this idea could lead.
You can sanity check those assumptions. Worldwide executions are rare especially compared to US incarceration rates.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/04/death-penalty...
>If I ask, why is the sky blue, I don't want to hear "Because it's made of blue stuff."

Well, you are not going far if you hear only what you want to hear. PS sky is blue because you perceive it as blue.
> Ask a storage engineer or infrastructure architect.

I've been both, and known hundreds. I'd love to hear about this solution you have that has the same functionality (your words) as a network/distributed filesystem, same compatibility, same semantic richness, same consistency, etc. without any of the tradeoffs. What are you selling?
OP here. I'm posting this story on HN, with some hesitation, only because it is a particularly notable, powerful example of global geopolitical affairs being impacted by the dismal state of computer security. Please keep the discussion civil and apolitical.
Grindr is section 5.1.5, page 72 of the report PDF: https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/202...
Yeah, and I never claimed that. There's plenty of value in the subjective. For example, I liked this movie more than that one. My tastes are subjective, and yet I find value in them.

But this philosopher's claim isn't subjective. It's not "hey I think it would be cool if all matter were conscious." It's a pseudo-factual claim about consciousness. It's not subjective at all. It's just neither wrong nor right. It would be like me claiming that there exists a being called "god" who has never and will never interact with this universe in any way. You can't predict anything based on this pseudo-factual claim, which means (IMO) it has no real truth value. On the other hand, it's definitely not a "subjective" viewpoint as most people conceive of subjectivity.
Ask HN: Ever found your job is being advertised?
One of my directs showed me a job advert for a VP of Engineering and asked if my boss had resigned. There is no doubt that the advert is for our company and it’s the first my boss had heard about the advertised position. He suspects his boss and some of the other managers are trying to get rid of him. Is this kind of secret conspiracy common? It’s also possible that I will be demoted back to an individual contributor role and my boss will report to the new VP. Anyone had this happen to them?
Very well said. All these points resonate well with my experience.
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Just out of curiosity, what do you considered as poor resumes? I did/do a lot of first round interviews in the hiring process for my company. Most resumes I see tell me nothing about what they did for their jobs, just a bunch of tech stacks, and generic projects (for example: I lead a team of SRE for our company web site with 100K visitors per day).
I'm trying to avoid those mistakes when I start looking this year.
Cheers!
Ten predictions for kids digital media and privacy in 2020
You simply convert all of your money into inflation hedged products: food, stocks, real-estate, etc.
For politicians, authenticity of belief is a big concern. If you are someone who geniuenly believes strip clubs are a moral evil, why do you deserve to be manipulated by a politician who doesn't actually care about the issue and is only trying to steal your vote
> I can teach IF, FOR, and the basics of python in a week. I can teach ruby in about the same. For what they are going to need for a low code solution, that's enough. You don't need to teach all of programming - only a subset that would be covered in a low/no code solution.

OK, now what? Do you teach them deployment of those "low code solutions"? Is it another week?

"Oh, now you want to send a notification to Slack? That's a little above basics. What about another week of learning the concept of libraries?"

Do you see the pattern?
The purpose of this article is to generate fear.

It could be a company that is trying to influence decision-makers to purchase their rust-proofing solution, it could be a political arm hoping to influence voters, or it could be a geo-political enemy hoping to sow distrust in the American military.

But ultimately, since the article does nothing but waffle between all the different ways that rust can mess with things, it's really just here to make you scared.
Just a wee grammatical nitpick about the article title if the original author is reading:

Sharing an SQLite database -> Sharing a SQLite database
Dialogflow and Sendgrid = AI Mailbox
You can just buy inflation hedged assets: real-estate, food, gold, stocks, etc.
What It Would Take to Spark a Global Financial Crisis in 2020
It’s literally Python, and if you’re writing sane/correct Python, you should hardly notice (things will work a little better, documentation will be more complete and actually accurate, etc). You can even do many of the same bizarre things that shitty Python programmers do without static typing, such as return differently types data based on the value of an input parameter. Someone passes in the string “asdf” so we’ll return an int, but if they pass “xyzfoo” we return a datetime. Next thing you know you’ve built matplotlib.
> that means it can't affect anything

it can still affect how we interact with the world
How do you define "practical use?"
They don't want it with burned/crusted/rotting food on it.
macOS beta hints at future 'Pro Mode' to boost performance on portable Macs
I've been experiencing similar exhaustion, and the problem is that even after your workload goes away, the effects may linger.

Recently I've managed to turn things around for myself by nearly eliminating carbohydrates from my diet during a short break from work (which also resulted in me eating less). I can feel the change. It's allowed me to lose some weight and start exercising again, so hopefully I can maintain this.

It was an easy change to make, really; before, feeling hungry was a painful state that I had to remedy. Now, it's just my body telling me I should probably eat. My goal for now is to burn some fat, so I choose to ignore the feeling and maintain some calorie deficiency. I do try not to starve myself though.

I think if anyone's suffering from similar trouble, experimenting with your diet is an easy and low-effort way to hopefully get started on recovery.
US patents hit record 333,530 granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung lead the pack
Client Hints won't work with SSR because they are available only on second request... I hope they fix it before deprecating.
Good points.

I think it's interesting to compare source code and legal documents.

A similar need for precision, internal consistency, lack of loopholes is needed when drafting a legal contract or legislation.

This is all done in natural language, but it doesn't make it magically easier.
What Is the Tulip Trust?
Are they using the borrow checker properly? Oh wait, never mind.
> There is no way to observe that the world would behave differently whether or not the theory is true. If that's so, I can't think what point there is discussing it, except as a mental exercise.

This is a very materialistic view of the world. By this measure we shouldn’t talk about religious ideas or discuss the (non-monetary) value of art. I have great respect for science, but I think there are things worth discussing that fall outside of science.
Again something I discover when they stop it
How useful is Ansible in a cloud-native Kubernetes environment?
In many cases, if the APIs are available _and support all the necessary features_, Plaid will work with the bank to use the APIs. Banks have chosen to withhold some info from the APIs that are available on the site, which prevents a full switchover. The other problem, of course, is the payment model: should Plaid pay banks for access to the data? Should banks have to make the APIs as fully featured as their site for external consumption?

Also worth noting that the largest of US banks do offer APIs, but a large swath of the rest do not, either due to proprietary systems, choosing not to use their processor-offered solutions, or simply avoiding risk.

So, Plaid will have to scrape for another few years, I suspect, until the banks catch up in the US to what we are seeing in UK and other places.
What you're suggesting is what I mean by compliance.

You don't have to talk to them. It's probably the one thing you shouldn't do. You should respectfully refuse to answer questions, even before the point that they arrest you and read you the Miranda warning.

But you should allow a search of your vehicle. If you don't, they're just going to call a canine unit and provoke the dog to signal, regardless of whether there's anything in your car.

You should identify yourself if requested, provide proof of ID if requested, get out of the vehicle if requested, etc. Don't make any sudden movements or reach into your pockets. And smile.

This is where we live.
Project Zero 3-Part Series: How an iMessage Vulnerability Was Exploited Remotely
Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
Maybe it just doesn't rain enough in California for rust to be enough of a problem that people become especially familiar with it.
Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216714155731890176):

> Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking "What's happening?" and then accumulate the replies?

I did just that! Let me know what you think.
I'm wondering if this will be a good test bed for keeping other organs alive outside the body. As far as I know, the liver is the most robust organ and so makes a natural starting point for this kind of work.
> If having an iPhone is a symbol of “affluence”, half of the US is affluent.

I mean, it's probably the richer half that owns iPhones, so it's consistent with what you said.
It was essentially a tax on paper money. Most transactions were conducted over an indexed value, there were many at the time: ORTN, OTN, URV was the last one for the transition to the current coin. And yes, lots of US$ 100 bill stacks, when you didn't want to report the transaction :)

The biggest problem was, contracts had to be written using the national currency, so they got obsolete very fast. For example, the government did some purchase and then paid 4 months late; it was effectively paying half. So the prices you had to put on paper had to guess the probable delay and compensate for.
From my observations, people tend to buy the cheapest possible charger, if buying separately. And cheap chargers are often dangerous.
When large groups of people congeal into one area, power heirarchies naturally emerge(power in this case being defined as the capacity to influence the behavior of others). Government is merely a codification of this power structure into (ideally) a stable system. If such an anarchist haven was made, it would most likely eventually form its own government, defeating the purpose of the anarchist haven in the first place.
Great Planet Money episode about the RVU:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/02/458222801/epis...
I would just like to point out that Sikorsky, the company that makes the damn Black Hawk helicopter, was sold for $9 billion. These valuations are not rooted in reality.