skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well put. Governments are in a race to inflate their currencies, and the dollar being the global reserve makes it uniquely positioned to decrease the wealth of the entire world every time another dollar is printed. My only recommendation is to buy assets, but who knows which assets are in a bubble! Maybe it’s all of them.
Ooh! I don't think I've ever seen someone claim Chez Scheme produced faster code than SBCL before. That's interesting.
In addition to standing in line, you need to get up really early. IIRC, you probably want to arrive before 5 AM.
Bigger deal is with 2038 bug
Mostly government bonds.
Consilience sprang to mind for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience_(book)
* It resonates with the current socio-political zietgiest, aka the company sounds hip and in-tune with the times. This improves the brand image, and allows the brand to connect more directly with those who share similar views.

* To further the above point, it allows you to position yourself and your brand on the correct side of moral issues. This allows your company to look like it's doing something positive when most companies exist, in a Milton Friedman sense, as soulless money making machines with little regard for anything else. This also allows employees to feel as though they're good/smug/working for a positive organization.

* Floating sensitive soicio-political topics leads to great clickbate, and gets lots of eyes on articles and ads.

* It allows you to sell to larger demographic. This makes you more money via sales.

* It allows you to recruit from larger pools of labor, or at least attempt to appeal to larger numbers of applicants. This allows you to keep labor costs down and/or to find solid candidates from alternative sources.

* There is no serious rebuttal to pushing that agenda. If you push back you're a fascist/ageist/racist/ableist/misogynist etc., and this makes the individual, and/or the brand, look bad.

As a soulless capitalist I'd be hammering those concepts CONSTANTLY in order to expand the bottom line. Actual adoption, like many boilerplate talks about workplace safety, compliance, and sexual harassment, would be as pro forma as possible, so long as the perceptions were met.
I remember disconnecting my dialup session and checking that nobody is on the phone as the clock ticked midnight just to make sure we don't get billed for a 100 year long call.
There is an actual, material difference between having no 2FA (guess passwords until you get in), SMS 2FA (have a human person call a phone provider and have the number switched), and token 2FA (given the physical device and a few hundred attempts, you're able to make another device that also authenticates). Saying you might as well not enable 2FA because a token cloning attack exists is ridiculous.
That's not quite materialism - is more like primordial consciousness; Consciousness is additive.
Absolutely they should. But they haven't. Checking the UA string allows a developer to get around the issue, but once it's gone an individual developer will be powerless to fix the issue for their users.
logically, the potato will cool down over time, so every next holder will be less likely to burn
You may suggest whatever you want, but people are getting into mortgages and home equity lines of credit they can't afford. One of the areas they are overspending are on renovations. If you believe this makes someone a 'good' debt slave, then all the more power to my argument.
> this constant myth that comes up when talking about higher education and that is a top ranking = better

I don’t think that any of us think that, but there are people doing the hiring that do think that. There are jobs you can get if you graduated from MIT that you can’t get if you graduated from Idaho State. Mr. Idaho State will find a job, and it will be a good job, but Mr. MIT will find a better one.
> All change takes time and energy.
I think we're still missing a great economic thinker who can try to solve it.

We’ve known that the economy is an intractable problem for a lot longer than I’ve been alive. Capitalism approximates an efficient solution. There’s a large economics and computer science literature on this if you’re interested, or for a fictional treatment you could read Red Plenty, Francis Spufford, which is an historical novel covering the theory in the historical background it was developed in[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate

> The socialist calculation debate, sometimes known as the economic calculation debate, was a discourse on the subject of how a socialist economy would perform economic calculation given the absence of the law of value, money, financial prices for capital goods and private ownership of the means of production. More specifically, the debate was centered on the application of economic planning for the allocation of the means of production as a substitute for capital markets and whether or not such an arrangement would be superior to capitalism in terms of efficiency and productivity.

[1] http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/

Multiple erudite articles riffing on a great book, from economic and other perspectives.
> There is a profound difficulty at the heart of the science of consciousness: consciousness is unobservable. You can’t look inside an electron to see whether or not it is conscious. But nor can you look inside someone’s head and see their feelings and experiences. We know that consciousness exists not from observation and experiment but by being conscious.

But can't we measure brain waves with CAT scans? Isn't there research going on now into observing brain patterns and actually figuring out what the subject is thinking about in real time?

Perhaps this lines up another distinction between the thinking mind and actual consciousness.....but I'm not really convinced by the argument that consciousness is an unobservable black box.
Perhaps in US, but in the majority of regions where low end Android phones are popular even used iPhones are way more expensive.
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No, no one (edit: no one I knew. I see other comments talking about the use of dollars, I would assume they are talking essentially about rich families. I would guess that 90% wouldn't have ever saw a US dollar bill) used dollars in hyper-inflation times in Brazil.

Saving accounts would follow inflation, so if you were rich enough to keep your money on the bank, you were relatively safe.

People would rush to quickly spend their salary in the supermarkets the day they got paid. This created the habit of having "purchase of the month". You would buy food and home stuff for the whole month and stock at home.

The supermarkets had employees whose full job was to remark the pricing tags of all products. Some products could have their price adjusted more than once per day.

From time to time the government would freeze the prices, which would give some time of a more sane world. But invariably that policy wouldn't work, and at some point the government had to unfreeze the prices and the inflation would come back harder.

The bank system evolved a lot during this time, as cash was useless, everything had to be bank transactions.
Part of the point of the article was to highlight the book about rust mentioned inside. It sounds like an interesting book. Many things that disappear from our curiosity are fascinating when someone does a deep dive.
Contrast Ratio
Is the progression toward the heat death of the universe a result of innumerable suffering particles steering themselves in ways that minimize their pain? Should we as humans accelerate the heat death of the universe to end subatomic suffering?

Or is gravity their preferred route? Being together. Maybe the answer is funneling all of the universe into black holes.

Diamonds are very stable. Does this mean their particles are very happy? Is converting your loved one's remains into diamonds the greatest thing you can do for them, or is this reasoning flawed and is the eternal stasis a bad thing?
I can imagine the popup now:

"Somethings wrong! You might be using Chrome and having connectivity issues, or you might be using Brave who have a dispute with Google about usage of their speech recognition API. In the former case, get better WiFi, and in the latter case there's nothing you can do, switch browsers."
For the average Joe it's good enough, no one is SIM swapping Bob who works at Walmart
Realistically, we will just find another, more complicated and more opaque, and more error-prone, method of fingerprinting the browser version.
Because there are a lot of scientific wackos that are trying to push it to mainstream without any proof, see e.g. PhDs in congnitive neuroscience with focus on art and whole conferences organized around such ideas. It looks like some New Age cult inside science. Whether it's true or not, there is no methodology how to measure it, putting it outside scientific domain. It's on the level of simulation hypothesis. The rationale is that consciousness as a quality exists and is present in universe, so there must be some mechanisms for consciousness to emerge - if it is another layer or whatever on top of universe we have no clue. But most proponents of the theory sound like cultists.
It is an attempt to extend the hard sciences into a non-quantitative domain. Consider it early work that might become something like quantum mechanics, but being early, the terms and definitions are still finding their foundations. This is the point where great careers are made, if you're brave enough to dive into the unknown and use your mind for solving truly unknown questions.
It’s also quite possible to raise money on non-VC terms. Say 80% of profit until recoup + 10% CAGR hurdle then 5% of profit. Away obviously takes some capital to get going which a founder may not have but this structure doesn’t enslave you to a unicorn valuation.
I think it's hilarious some fixed the Y2K bug by introducing a Y2K20 bug. Planned obsolescence/long con.
This concept led to me almost losing my marriage, and what saved it. I had been interpreting all of my wife's actions according to why I would be acting that way, instead of trying to understand how she is justifying her actions.

Once I started asking more questions about her mindset, and really listening to her when she answered, the whole direction of my marriage changed for the better.
The parallel you've drawn with the movie industry is super relevant, I hadn't thought about it that way. It actually makes more sense for them to milk whatever is popular to maximise profit.

It's a shame that these companies are becoming risk averse with regards to creativity in fear of not meeting shareholder targets though ...

As for the conspiracy part, I think I got it from Kojima in one of his Metal Gear Solid games (was either 2 or 4). The way it was presented was very compelling, I should play it again :)
Nothing about the topic consciousness is fundamentally testable. Which is why it's often a topic for philosophy rather than science.
When we talk about consciousness, as in the subjective experience of being, that's ultimately a proxy for "which things can we do really awful stuff to". We reason that for things that are not conscious there is no suffering (since it can't be experienced) and therefore we are free to exploit those things in any way we wish. Lately the trend has been to argue that AI is not, that even though we can create algorithms complicated enough to do the kinds of analysis our own minds do (and in a not-entirely-dissimilar way), they are "just algorithms" and have no experience of suffering for us to concern ourselves with. This is convenient for us, because it allows us to exploit such things without being bothered by ethical reasoning. This is also why many will argue that animals are not conscious, and some will even argue that many humans are not [0].

[0] Which is a perfectly rational statement if you operate from a basis of empiricism. There is no way to measure the consciousness (again, the experience of being) of something, meaning you can only observe your own and everyone else, though similar to you, may as well be an automaton.
A Review of Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming in 2019
McGill Pain Questionnaire [pdf]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfAhup-fDYs

Same guy was on Sean Carroll's podcast. His arguments didn't resonate with me very well.
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Ask HN: What is the software for video editing on Linux?
Thanks in advance!
> As someone planning on retiring early, I completely agree, but these men are dependent on government benefits, which, being taken from my paycheck, are lengthening the amount of time I have before I can retire.

I mean, you're not technically wrong, but that accounts for a minuscule amount of the excess value you create. Unless you're your own boss/running your own business (I'm assuming you're not since you're talking about your paycheck), most that excess value is taken by the company owners you're working for. But it doesn't show up on your paycheck, so I guess its out of mind, and its certainly easier/safer to blame those with less power than you.
It once asked me to drive my car along a bicycle path!
>Delivery date: 16 Jan 2020

Much appreciated!
> MinGW uses their own <windows.h> for this exact reason, even though it describes the same API as the one that comes with MSVC.

I thought they provide their own because they don’t want to assume that MSVC is installed too.
Title buzzword optimization, people upvote things without reading any further than the link name.
Why Is There Fluoride in My Water and How Do I Remove It Effectively?
I think he/she wants something that isn't circular and therefore meaningless.
Barnacles are far more interesting than rust. Not least because they are hermaphrodites, that also have the longest penises of any species.

Barnacles (and algal slime and so on) create significant hydrodynamic drag and damage paint, leading to rust also. Toxic chemicals are added to hull paint in order to repel them, but it is of limited efficacy and very bad for the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/science/barnacles-ships-c...

I have often mused on the possibility of a small barnacle cleaning robot. Something the clamped and crawled with an electromagnet, a crushing/scraping barnacle doom. A number of systems out there, but none seem to have cracked the problem.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.5772/62060
https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-12141...
> You say this as though the ad industry cares.

They don't have a choice? The point about passive vs active is that it places control with the browser/user where they didn't have it before. You'll be able to respond to some hints and ignore others.

> Let me introduce you to useragent switchers.

And what's the adoption rate of those, I wonder... less than 1% of users? This client hints standard will make it a lot more reasonable for non-power users to control what information is being disclosed, should they wish.
> The one attractive thing about the away cases is the lifetime warranty

lifetime warranty is worthless if the company goes out of business, too
It’s hard to find a Scheme implementaron that isn’t significantly faster than Python... all while being at least as dynamic and more expressive.

I think a lot of CS students had their brains melted by tough classes where Scheme was the vehicle. Thus, you have a population of users that either are anti-evangelists because they have PTSD, or you have evangelists who exist on a plane above the lumpenproletariat like me, which can contribute to the false notion that Scheme is intrinsically esoteric.

I never got a formal CS education, so I don’t have PTSD from Scheme. Also, I am not a super brain, so I guess I haven’t felt compelled to become expert at the hard concepts that Scheme enables.

People fixate on the S-expression syntax (“all those parentheses!”; counter argument “way fewer commas!”). But I think the real issue for Scheme is the lack of libraries that do hard things for “normals” like me.

If I’m strictly honest, I’m more productive in Python than Scheme. This is not because Python is easier. It’s because the Python community has attracted the CS grads who grokked enough of the hard stuff to make libraries that abstract away stuff.

There’s no reason people can’t write Scheme like they write Python. That is, people don’t need to do all the possible stuff in Scheme all the time. Truthfully, Scheme is at least as easy as Python.

Scheme just needs more smart normals writing libraries for mediocre normals like me for Scheme to become popular. Maybe take a domain approach. I feel like adapting R’s tidyverse to Chez is an easy target. Scheme could be the data scientist’s goto. Maybe show people how easy it is to build self-contained serverless apps in the cloud.

If there were a Scheme community that earnestly tackled any domain with the idea of making it accessible to practitioners within the domain, I think it could get real traction.

And it would be fast. Much faster than Python.
Being a monopoly on iPhones means the rest of the community has to work around their bugs. Why would they put any effort into fixing those bugs - web devs are working around them just fine?

Safari could say "Sorry - <div> tags aren't working in the current release", and all big websites would switch to other html tags in a matter of weeks.
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Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Everything about this comment is a personal attack and sidesteps my real concern--the flagrant disregard for the environment just because someone can do it.

And Don I have to tell you, I am not a troll and I have to ask what crime did I commit expressing myself?

Was the post script necessary?

Maybe I get heated because this forum claims a standard is being held while I see bias persist

Maybe i believe it is important in a healthy democracy that the right conversations happen.

Maybe I hate bullies. You def. Are being a bully.

You disregard a real talking point on how little liability we hold people to disrupting land, and just attack me, AND YOU CLAIM YOU CAN BC YOU PERCEIVE ME AS A TROLL.

I stand by my profile description bc this is a diverse community.

I have a question for you, what is your purpose of your rant? To make me feel bad and you feel superior?
I stand corrected, after some research, I found a paper that offers a promising way to get good uncertainty information from a deep learning model : http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/blog_3d801aa...
Use Fathom Lite:

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/blob/master/README.md
I can generally agree that something like consciousness exists, because I seem to be experiencing it. The test of that fact is ongoing, as I type these words, and it continues to be true. I suspect, based on the fact that other people act like me and all also claim to be conscious, that they are having internal experiences similar to mine, although I can't know for sure.

So I don't agree that consciousness in general can't be tested for. We can test our own consciousness, and we can use induction to guess that at least other humans are experiencing something similar.
No, but some use what people say are his teachings as reasons to prop up their extraction of resources,materials/creating materialist things from the earth; as according to interpretations of their versions of that teachings their god has given them dominion to use all the resources. Dominion of all things:

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."" King James, Genesis 1:28

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology
Theses marketplaces require transparency, accountability, right to appeal, adjudicators, and so forth.

In other words, the rule of law and a fair impartial court system.
That doesn't seem adjusted by the household size. Households can be earning less, despite people earning more.
I do agree that valuations are inflated.

Also, I think that the total addressable market for luggage vs. a Black Hawk are very different.
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Step 1 is really: "be unlike 70-90% of the United States and actually be able to qualify as an investor. Good luck getting there."
Here is an interesting opinion of an AI researcher on consciousness. He basically claims that it is inevitable for an agent that can not store all information that it encounters and therefore needs to compress it. One of the most important things that needs to be represented is the agent itself, leading to self-symbols as he calls them. Correct me please if I summarized the comment incorrectly.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a...

You might be interested in philosophical zombies by the way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Take another look at the author of the comments you're talking about.
Or, they recognize that if they don't keep up on the treadmill, they will fall further and further behind. If you don't spend enough to go to a good school, then you might be stuck with friends who don't earn much too, and are less valuable in your network. If you don't live in the burgeoning economic regions, then you reduce your chances of advancement in the future, and possibly put yourself at risk of losing income.

If you don't live in the better school districts, then your children will have less chance of success. How much are you willing to stretch yourself to give them as much of a leg up as possible?

This is the reality of a society that's had a widening wealth gap for decades now, and it's becoming more and more visible. And since wealth compounds, it's ever more important to not get left behind.
https://www.fossmint.com/awesome-linux-software/#videoeditor...
Considering the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is a phrase that has been around since the early 20th century, I don't think this is a particularly recent issue.
Yeah, it's a shame. I have a Bolt and absolutely love it.
> 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.

How little computational ability is required to define something as conscious? Even a brick reacts to stimuli, albeit in the same completely predictable (to our high-powered brains) way that a simple robot does.
Beautiful - I’ve been using Intrepid Vehicle Spy for awhile but the cost is hard to justify for a hobbyist.
Web search leads to many results, e.g. https://itsfoss.com/best-video-editing-software-linux/
I specifically found the description not very helpful. A facility with high walls? Like a warehouse? A barn? A factory?
It's easier to leave people frustrated then help them empathize or adjust their expectations.

I can only explain it by example:

Some people complain that they have a lot of trouble getting a job in the software field. Other people complain about why it's so hard to hire.

The reasons are very difficult to explain, but more importantly: No one wants to know the truth or bring empathy to the discussion!

I've had both struggles. (I've struggled to find a job, and I've struggled to hire.) If I try to explain why it's hard to get a job, from the perspective of someone who's hiring, I make people angry. If I try to explain why it's hard to hire, from the perspective of someone who's looking, I make people angry.

The simple, non-offensive answer, is that both job candidate and hiring company's expectations are unreasonable. More importantly, though, it's easier to leave people frustrated (in their job search or employee search) than to help them adjust their expectations.