skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hint: you should never frame your reports in such a way ('leaders under me'), 101 of leadership; but let's move on: I think we are not talking about the same; managing people has no short-term feedback loops like coding, it can be fun yes but many confuse this fun with the status involved; from a rational perspective and with the experience of heading larger headcounts (did you lead 100+ teams for a longer time?) paired with hitting ambitious org goals, I find it hard to call 'managing people' fun.
Xfce 4.14 Maintainance Release Available, ScreenSaver Security Hole Remains Open
Another reason why Google's concern here for our privacy is nonsense is if we look here :

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/

We can see, google doesn't need to inform their chrome users :

> A privileged third party is a party that has the potential to track the user across websites without their knowledge or consent because of special access built into the browser or operating system.

INOL but my understanding of this would put Google's Chrome into that bracket. Potentially also Microsoft/Apple ?
Wow. I'm definitely adding this website to my weekly read. It is succinct, provides sources, hasn't succumbed to 'space hyperbole', and minimal.
> If it's not a numerical algorithm, it may not be obvious how, but it's usually feasible. It requires sort of turning the whole problem sideways in your mind.

At this stage why are you even using python anyway? The code isn’t going to be very pythonic or readable and the effort would in my opinion be better spent on C++ or Rust.
ORT (Only Read Title)

There's a riddle in the Gospel of Thomas[1]:

"Make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside."

Here's an interpretation: "inside" and "outside" refer to the inner
world and the outer world.

These share some qualities or aspects, both are known only
subjectively, and there's a similarity of form (there are e.g. red triangles
in both worlds) and susceptibility to will (we can move our bodies and
we can affect what we imagine, aka the faculty of imagination. Both of
these abilities present the same problem: what is intention and how does
it relate to will to cause changes in perception?)

Otherwise they are very different. The outer world is made of
matter/energy in various configurations and, while we don't (yet) know
what the inner world is made of, it's obviously very different than
matter/energy. Perhaps the main difference is that you can more-or-less
manipulate the contents of imagination (I'm using the word here as a
proxy for the whole of internal world) "at will" but the contents of the
real world obey a physics that dictates that you more-or-less have to
push things with other things to get anything in particular to happen
(please forgive my gross simplification.)

Now consider the subjective experience of an omnipotent, omniscient
being. If you can know and alter the "outer" world just as easily as you can
know and alter the "inner" world, wouldn't they effectively be the same?

In the context of a Gnostic tradition, I think it means that, when one
unifies the self with the Self the "real" world and the "imaginary" world
also become one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
I believe they'll just be using the QUIC protocol and IPv6 to track users instead.
>Can you expand on what direction that is and why exactly it's wrong?

It makes the word "conscious" meaningless: if I coin a new term, "baffy", and define it as "Everything in the entire universe is baffy", then this doesn't help us understand anything at all. It pushes bubbles around under wallpaper: ok, if rocks are conscious, then all the hard questions of consciousness just change into hard questions of human consciousness.

>How can that question possibly be answered without knowing what consciousness is?

Similar to how questions about the nature of light were answered. Originally no-one knew what light is, and questions about what it is were just as hopeless as questions about what consciousness is. Perhaps there's some quirk of consciousness we just haven't noticed yet, and once we do notice it, suddenly consciousness will be testable.
> This is blatant unfairness, being punished for working and rewarded for not working.

It's not (not always) blatantly unfair.

I can earn lots of money by working because I live in a society, governed by a body of laws, which has provided tremendous value to me in the form of educational opportunities and an extremely specialized labor force. Our shared civilization also constrains my behavior in myriad ways (I can't just go out and kill animals for food or harvest natural resources wherever I want, for example, and I have to share the limited space on our planet with a lot more people) but, for me, the benefits far outweigh the costs.

But if someone finds themselves in a position where the constraints imposed by civilization outweigh the benefits to them, then it's unfair for society not to help them out.

Ideally, we should all be reimbursed by our shared civilization for the loss of our natural inheritance (our right to live off the land, etc), with society providing the same reimbursement to each member. If people are unable (or just unwilling) to work for additional income beyond that, I won't feel exploited. It'll just be me paying my fair share for the benefit I get at their expense.
Safari used to allow 3rd party cookies in some circumstances, and of course Google abused that for tracking:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/30/google-sued-over...
> That would be a model of a system not the system itself

also worth keeping in mind that a more cybernetic model is totally fine with complex black boxes within the model. This way sometimes you can find truth going from big to small.
But isn't that sending them towards pulping and effectively killing the very nature that inspires their photography in the first place?
There's always going to be knock-offs, but perhaps it would be better to compare Away to, say, Travel-pro? [https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-carry-on-luggage/]

It's not like Away is an artisanal product that's going to be used for decades. It's just half-decent luggage with a fresh look. It's OK as a product, but the aspirations of their leadership and investors is WAYYY oversized.
Install NoRootFirewall. You'll see the camera app making Facebook requests on startup.
It's edited, sorry! I felt it was important to clarify that the general Privacy Sandbox concept they are promoting is designed and built around allowing data collection about users that can be used for ad targeting, whether it utilizes third party cookies explicitly or not.

Note that blocking all cookies breaks the web, blocking third party cookies breaks adtech. It's important to note that even if Chrome has supported the former, it has resisted implementing the latter.

Meanwhile, Firefox, Edge, and Safari have chosen to implement tracking prevention, which has the goal of preventing any ad targeting towards a given user.
Ask HN: Where do you put your blogs?
I'm thinking of doing some blogging on a pretty casual basis and it's got me wondering where people post their blogs.

For me, I don't think I'd be blogging frequently enough or with enough of a common theme to warrant setting up my own site. Instead, something like Medium springs to mind as an option - although I'm aware they've had some bad press recently.

So bloggers of HN, where do you put your blogs?
Kind of a philosophical question, but not really.

The connection between dreaming and REM, a physical and measurable action of the eyes, is firmly established.

Most dreams are forgotten, for most people. If someone takes Ambien and has no recollection of their actions, those actions still happened.

I would say that whether or not you dream relates to whether or not you REM, and you most likely do.
> Please, read the article before posting your usual whataboutism

That sort of swipe breaks the HN guidelines and is not allowed here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are?

Also, please keep canned arguments like "whataboutism" off HN. They're a form of labeling, which the site guidelines refers to as "calling names", rather than actually making an argument. That one in particular (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
aka bullshit jobs.

I agree that the non-joke variety not getting the serious treatment it deserves is scary, I just don't agree that it happens as often as you were implying.
leftist drones spotted!
A Mathematician Turned an Obscure Number into a Scary Story
After climate change denial, inequality denial
That’s only a subset of experiments, the ideal experiment makes any result publishable. For example the search for a new particle, don’t find it that’s fine. Alternatively, any result that’s in doubt like salt’s impact on cardiovascular heath.

Even better is really cheap experiments like analysis of existing data. That you can keep trying until you find something, sadly this means publishing datasets is a bad idea.
It's running mathjax to convert them. Are you perhaps blocking js?
Are you assuming that your employer would increase your wage at the same rate? I'm a bit confused how the inflation appears in the economy and somehow ends up in the pockets of workers instead of somewhere else. Considering that doesn't always happen now with normal inflation, I can't see it happening then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise

Not exactly. Again, not saying she wasn't clever or didn't bust her ass but it wasn't an entirely unique concept and luck/connections count for a lot.
I really thought not having to embed them in the pcb design and manufacturing would save enough to compensate for the screws on the frame.
Noether's theorem is kind of a grand closure of natural science. It's one of those theorems that gives the sensation of transcending its axiomatic setting and reveal deep philosophical truth.

Compare Arrow's impossibility theorem, which is set in the much more familiar realm of order theory, but still appears to say something about the real world.
> dealing with computers and technology is a fundamentally different type of activity, and requires a totally different set of skills, than dealing with people.

Sure.

> If you're the type of person who enjoys the former, I think it's safe to say you won't enjoy the latter much

This seems like a bit of a leap. People can be good at and enjoy things that are very different.
If you find a symmetry violation, you'll probably get a nobel prize. Best of luck.
> But clearly this property isn’t simply additive: panpsychists don’t argue that a Solar System-sized collection of ping-pong balls has more conscious experience than a human being

I think the main difficulty of this argument is that consciousness can only be experienced by the experiencer (mediation/drug-induced experiences aside). Therefore how can you tell how conscious the Solar System, a horse, mouse, atom, etc. is if you can't communicate with them to ask?
They do, but seeing as how most users are force-feeding user data directly into Google's mouth via usage of their search engine and gmail inbox, removing 3rd party cookies from the equation is unlikely to affect their bottom-line in a measureable way.
I recall him mentioning these posts on some of the bonus content that came with the movies, cool to see it pop up again. Thanks for the archive link, site is under heavy load it seems.
For other types of security try https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

It is an electron-like framework written in Rust, and is designed to be as lightweight as possible.
I could not agree more strongly. Also recommend this book for anyone who hasn't read it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
A lot of consumer debt is stuff that is not really optional: housing, medical, transportation, education.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
I believe Digital Twin was crowned buzzword of the 2019 by Gartner
Ask HN: Anyone ever started a non-tech B2B/B2G business?
What are you experiences and how did you get started? Did you have a large existing network or capital?
A bit more reasonable expectation of teachers is that they should be able to motivate both boys and girls equally.

A lot of things were different when your grandfather were in school. Most teachers were male, and boys had better grades than girls. The teaching profession was high status profession, highly respected in communities, and well paid. The post world war 1 and 2 era put a lot of focus on practical skills with practical applications in both home and work. In addition the life path of men had very little free choice, in large part to male only military drafts.

From my own reading of education research and reports, making the teacher profession more gender equal and higher status would likely improve the situation for boys without putting higher expectations on the teachers themselves. Beyond that, the lack of male only military drafts means that both boys and girls have now equal freedom to choose what they want to do, and just as some women do not want to enter the work market so do now some men.
Who still uses X11 when Wayland works great?
The same thing happens with better languages, tooling, abstractions, and libraries in software engineering. Programming never gets any easier because the expectations of what we should be able to do (and how quickly) keep rising.
Models are still the best way to attempt to understand other people's actions.

People rarely understand why they do things and even when they do they will often give a socially acceptable response vs the truth.
I have no idea how you got the idea that I support violent revolutionaries. I simply stated that the 13th amendment(Emancipation Proclamation implied connection) resulted in liberty. That liberty was justified by the constitution created in 1776. Without that constitution, however it came about, emancipation may have never happened. My original comment stated that this was a fundamental shift as opposed to the authors statements.
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That 3% is also baked into the price of goods at this point, so youre paying it even when using cash.

However, some people think the credit card companies are inflating the price of goods with rewards, without taking into account how expensive cash is to deal with. To count, to detect counterfeiting, to lock up, to trust employees, to move. Processing cash isnt cheap, and can involve considerable risk, including increased IRS scrutiny.

Handling money is a cost, like rent and electricity, built into everything we do. Credit card networks are much more efficient than existing alternatives.
If you have Javascript enabled, it should convert the LaTeX to SVGs of the correct symbols.
Why Is Air Pollution So Harmful? DNA May Hold the Answer
The US is not best compared with Rome but with China. China never collapsed like Rome but it stagnated. GDP is not a great measure of the vitality of an Empire. When Great Britain humiliated China with its gun boats, British GDP relative to Chinese GDP was similar to today.

Japan was able to take large parts of China despite lower GDP.

The danger for the US is the same as the danger was for China and many other empires. It is growing complacency and arrogance. China fell behind Europe because it did not think anybody else had anything to teach China. America is on a similar path. Look at things like US health care discussions, gun crime etc. Americans do not think anybody else can teach them anything about these matters.

The US is a science and tech leader, yet its government and institutions are growing increasingly dysfunctional. When I lived in the US I was surprised by how extremely old fashion government seemed to operate. It felt more like my own country 100 years ago.

And there seems to be little willingness in the US to upgrade and improve government. Americans cling to this ida that in 1776 America came up with the most awesome government ever and there is no need to ever change. The constitution is becoming much like the Bible, holy scripture to be followed to the letter, and never altered.

Nostalgia about the past is a dangerous thing. Trump is just a harbinger of what is to come. Voting out Trump changes nothing. His base will not change and they will fight to install a new Trump next time they get a chance. That may very well be a far more dangerous character.

You have essentially one of Americas large well established parties gradually turning into a sort of Fascist party and the American system has no tools or methods to deal with it. Much like the Weimar republic it flaps around helplessly with no idea of how to deal with angry extremism.

But as you say America is very rich, so decline will take a long time. However a rich country consumed by internal conflict and political dysfunction will eventually stop being a player on the international arena. America has always had strength in rallying other countries and western powers behind it. Should it loose that ability or get face western nations partially hostile to it, then the reach of American power will diminish.
That approach is fragile, because it won't stop applying the crazy workaround after Chrome version Y fixes the problem.
You can't know which version it's going to be, and there's a chance you won't be maintaining that code anymore then.
Google cares very much about its customers. Its customers are advertisers. Like any good business, it puts its customers first, and anything beneficial it offers anyone else is just to serve its customers, ultimately.
That's funny. I hadn't realized that. And it must be part of the basis for the character Chidi on "The Good Place". He was also a moral philosophy professor, who produced thousands of pages of his magnum opus without ever reaching conclusions that satisfied him. (Parfit's work is referenced several times on the show.)
There are studies that show even moderate alcohol usage can have a damaging effect. And any amount of alcohol has been shown to raise risk of cancer.

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353

The consensus is slowly moving towards there not being a healthy amount of alcohol consumption.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Invasion of privacy is a valid and serious concern. The fact is that Google is collecting sensitive information semi-consensually and semi-transparently and arguably shouldn't be.
If you copy-paste from the notes app, it tends to do a reasonable job transforming it’s formatting into a plain-text representation.(Or rich-text, if you paste into an app that supports it, like Pages or Mail.)

There are a few apps around that can do this in bulk. I have one called Notes Exporter. Apparently Note2Txt is also good: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2016/5/exporting-apple-notes-...

I am a little worried that some day these tools will disappear, but iirc the notes are just kept in an sqlite database so it shouldn’t be too hard to hack your data out manually, either.
Also, I didn't call to increase taxes! I called to educate people better so they get better paying jobs and in turn pay more taxes.
What are the upsides?
I am my beloved and my beloved is I. I am you and you are me.
Right! But I'm afraid I can't fix that. When I receive an email, I associate it with the address that GMail reports to me,, and when you sign in as something+something@gmail.com, the email address differs (as you might already guess). I know that I can safely remove +something but I can't be sure that it will work the same for every email service and ensure security. Please use something@gmail.com, I won't send you anything unless you explicitly ask for it.
How niche? What's the total market size? Whether or not you can make some income is one question... But can you make an income you'll be really happy with? Will you be able to hire a replacement for yourself if you want to go do something different? What's the best case scenario?
We had a build script that expected the final digit of the year to end between 4-9. Dumbest code I've seen in a while. Broke pretty bad on 2020.
> If anyone's at all interested in learning about what it's like to pitch a publisher with their own book idea, then I guess I've been successful at that now, so I'm more than happy to give you any advice.

Maybe this needs to be a new book?

Seriously, all of this sounds wonderful - and thank you (but I would love to hear some tips on getting a book published from zero - I certainly write enough that I could probably fill a book, whether anyone would read it though...???).
> Google would lose privacy-conscious users otherwise.

Would these users be using Chrome in the first place?
https://dev.to/martinheinz/making-python-programs-blazing-fa...

Honestly the quality bar for most things written is python is pretty low so anything that can help people improve is fine. So kudos to the author.
With some caveats, I happily agree with the angle from this last comment! I agree PWT is a great way to get people hooked on quantum science, even if I consider it as a dead end for fixing the inconsistencies we have (semi-personal semi-professional opinion).
Yes but the context here is coder transforms to manager. And coders got coders because they like short feedback-loops.
>In that theory, the causality works the other way, and digital replicas will not have consciousness

Why not? Digital stuff is made up of matter as well. Unless there's something special about neurons when it comes to consciousness, i.e. the conscious bits reside in neurons and nowhere else for some reason, there's reason to think non-biological structures that produce the same output would also be conscious. Any substantive theory of consciousness, materialist or not, will need to include a place for structure and dynamics, i.e. information cascades, within their theory to account for the correlations we observe between conscious states and brain structure and dynamics. But these qualities are present in a digital implementation as well.
I thought the article would be about the Winklevoss brothers.
The Replublic of Molossia
Isn't that argument roughly as useless as attributing the ability of a watch to show time down to each individual mechanical component? It's technically true, but not very useful to elucidate what actually makes the watch a watch. For example, it sounds kind of silly to say that a single watch gear has some form of primitive time-keeping ability, or has some form of primitive ability to tell me whether I'm running late. The universe is rife with examples of emergent complexity in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ye I did that (also I had to anonymise the ips) but someone decided to run a continuous pen-test against the site over the course of days (I swear they forgot to turn it off or smth) and tragically I had to rework my infrastructure to accommodate much greater traffic than expected (BIG BIG BIIIIIIIG log files) as it made some of my processing fall over.

Its nice if someone has just done some of that sort of stuff for you.
It can be argued both ways. Another option without FDA would be people will self-regulate: determine who they trust - individuals, organizations, or networks - and who they don't trust based on hearing word of mouth experiences being spread vs. people being manipulated via bombardment of shallow, cheap advertisements - allowing a functional mechanism of Darwinism while preventing regulatory capture and squashing of drugs that were known to provide great benefit - but couldn't be patented so were controlled - like marijuana, MDMA, psychocybin, etc; presumably anything that kept in circulation in the black market was providing individuals with benefit, and arguably things like opiates kept and pumped into the public market did far more harm than even perhaps the total of harm caused by the black market drugs.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not arguing for or against here, I just stated another option - so thanks for that downvote whoever the lazy person was did it.
Yes, and delete Dilbert too as it makes this engineering approach to management seem more complex than we'd like it to be.