skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That sucks that this happens frequently.

Never said it happens frequently, I see in average 50 movies a year and I have been doing this for the past 6 years. It's just the good old Murphy's law. There's so much software engineer here, it's weird that it's not a concept that we are aware of.

In my whole life I probably got 5 issues in a movie, they weren't able to fix it only once, and the manager told me there was a burnt smell in the projection room, so I guess it was the good old magic smoke that escaped.
What Is Software Architect?
There should be better ways to identify the browser than the user agent. The user agent is a legacy artifact, have you seen how many "compatibility" parts are in there? Like why does the chrome user agent say "Mozilla" in iy?
Never seen it. Replacing pgBadger right now. Thanks for sharing/spreading the love! ;-)
Universal Differential Equations for Scientific Machine Learning
Showing some example of particularly egregious thought leadership and maybe an animation of it being silenced would go a long way towards helping. I blocked twitter.com in a hosts file, so I can't see if it embeds any tweets.
The petrodollar could be interpreted as the 'oversea holding' that could put their global superpower position at risk.
The idea that you can write software without having to learn to code goes all the way back to COBOL in the fifties. It was a big step forward in abstracting some of the details. As languages have progressed they abstract away details, but you still have to be able to think like a programmer, especially if you want your code to be performant.
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Also you don't get to brag in trades that you spent the week removing 200 of the 400 bricks, and the wall is still as straight & as strong, while being easier to repair later.
It would be nice if it mentioned how it works as well as who it will be affecting.

Is it unfollowing these people, is it muting them, etc?

Clicking "continue with twitter" asks for a lot of stuff including "Mute, block, and report accounts for you.", "Follow and unfollow accounts for you.", and "Post and delete Tweets for you".
No, I can't; if the lower income households have been splitting their earnings into a greater number of households, a growth per person would be masked by a drop in total income per household.

To use figurative numbers, if a couple earns $30k each, then they split but both get a raise of $20k, the household average drops from $60k to $50k despite the large salary raises.
I use a service named Penzu for keeping a journal. It's primarily web-based, but you can make it email-based if you wish to. Basically, you'd set up a daily reminder at a specific time, and you can reply directly to that email to make a new entry.

I should point out that Penzu is not a completely free service. There is a basic free tier, and then there are paid plans with additional features.
They would be long gone, but available at a high daily contract rate
For such a thorough article, I wish there were mention of Python 4
There's another area that's unregulated - off-label uses. See https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example... for a discussion of the evidence from off-label uses of approved drugs.
Ah, Searle's Chinese Room, for which the widely accepted response is the system reply: the system as a whole, and not one element of it, is conscious.

Consider performing the algorithm of Alpha Go Zero through a million people equipped with pen and paper. One can hardly argue against this being possible in principle, but what is playing the game?

This is not proof that AGI will automatically be conscious, or even just that some sort of conscious machine intelligence is possible, it is merely intended to suggest that Searle's line of argument does not show its impossibility.
Common Standards Aren’t Enough
At my friend's company, a director wanted to higher someone but they were asking for more than what director was making. Director was okay with it but HR would not approve it. Eventually, they end up giving director a pay raise to let him hire the person they wanted.
not really other than bulk mute/unmute.

was a gimmicky hack i threw together over the holiday so i could turn on/off vc twitter easily.
I want to tag on the remainder of my profile for you, since you conveniently skipped it in your hate speech.

>Live long and prosper.

I hold a genuine desire for strangers to live a fruitful life.

Please, consider revisiting the source of your anger and hate to a stranger and ask yourself "what is the effect I aim to have?" If you are aiming to hate as a cathartic release, I suggest writing a journal. If you are aiming to hate as a means of cruelty to a stranger online, do it anonymously without your real name attached to it.
Same thought. I assume it's pre-made lists of people who spam or get retweeted by the people they fund?
It's a firewall, against it all...
Yes! For reference, when clicking "Open Diary" linking to https://diaryemail.com/diary and redirecting when not authenticated breaks my back button.
Why do you exactly need to know my age to store my data?
Interesting! Can you share an example of the shortcuts you mentioned?
That’s pretty good then. My one way commute in Lausanne was 10 minutes by bike (15 on return since...up hill), but I intentionally lived near where I worked and the city. Paris offers similar options, but you don’t get a big place as you would get in the outer districts.
>core philosophical problem of how we (or anything else) is able to experience anything at all

By `how` you mean the mechanics of it or something else?
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella. There is an audiobook version, or any episode of their podcast, now over 750 episodes to choose from.
Also check out Coding standards. https://github.com/justinamiller/Coding-Standards
This looks really nice. My blog is rather small and Matomo always seemed to be too big for it. I'll test this one as an alternative.
> For me personally, helping an unhappy or under-performing developer get out of their slump is a really rewarding experience.

This is a pretty nice approach. Congrats.

Often people are chosen in senior positions because the sell themselves. They are articulate and have "executive presence" and they seem to know what to do, but often they don't. I wish more of them were chosen because they listen, and they knowledgable and thoughtful.
Haha, I actually figured it out. You just ship plant-based milk lol.
Reminds me of how we used to pour mercury everywhere to find gold- https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3014/
Change is inevitable. I merely hope to slow the change caused by corruption by doing what I can to prevent it.

The only way to stop or slow corruption is by shining light on it. I support all efforts to increase transparency. Put all those spreadsheets online so people can audit each other. Perhaps it is inevitable still, but it’s the best chance we have.
5) When they do finally start having children, consider what it costs to send a child to college, so have fewer children because they can't afford more.
Why exactly do you need to store my age to store my data (in the signup process)?
FWIW, I upvote things like this on occasion because I often learn more from comments/debate on articles I disagree with than from those that I solidly agree with already. Sadly HN's ability to have productive debate seems to be in decline, but that's another topic.
If we did a little more gatekeeping and a little less bootcamping, we might have the respect and autonomy afforded to doctors, lawyers, and actual, P.E. engineers. Instead, we're just an annoyingly expensive cost center.

What we do isn't easy. We can't pretend that it's easy, that it can be learned in six weeks, or that it's possible to be truly great without earning the foundational knowledge. That pretending hurts all of us.
Woke-Life Integration
Vultr's BGP is not very good though. I regularly lose the full Internet BGP table from them and have to ask support to fix it. Supposedly it's some sort of limit of their network infrastructure. Another day they just randomly stopped announcing my prefix to the Internet, and since they don't even have a looking glass it was impossible to debug without, again, asking their support.
At the Supreme Court, a League of Software Defenders for Google
What is so special about this?
A Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
Yeah, I'll add some sort of "cookie tracking". It's just not done yet. There is some prior art at Fathom and Simple Analytics on how to do that while still preserving anonymity. I'm not entirely sure yet which approach I'll take.

I might make it an optional feature, too. Again, need to look in to it in-depth.

There are a zillion-and-one things to do, and thus far other things have taken priority :-)
Judging appearances is useful as a very low level check, so I wouldn't say it is completely useless, though I agree it is over emphasized.
The service that Paul Graham mentioned is probably this one:

http://ohlife.com

Shutdown announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881

I used it and loved it. It was cool while it lasted. Unfortunately it's just one more example for why I don't trust startups.

Also you probably don't need a service, personally I can just send email to yourself, PGP encrypted. The only bit that's missing is a periodic reminder, to which you can reply. But I can probably set that up as a cron job.
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Room and board can be $80K/4yrs before you even look at tuition.

Expensive schools are over $150k/4yrs in tuition alone.
Ah the old conspiracy conspiracy.
Thanks for all your hard work! We used this constantly at $oldjob and it saved us a ton of time and effort.
Seems there are some screenshots on github that show a list of people with options to mute/unmute individually or in bulk.

https://github.com/tmm/mute.vc/tree/master/.github/screensho...
I'm pretty sure that's the argument I'm making?

1. consciousness isn't fundamental, it's a consequence of normal physics

2. because it's not fundamental the definitions will always be arbitrary, just like with any other emergent phenomena (when does fog stop and rain start? At which height does atmosphere end? What is a planet)? All just labels and arbitrary thresholds slapped on some consequences of laws of physics.

> it is an extremely delicate position with also a lot of handwavimg and question marks

At least i'm not making untestable assumptions. If we can make a perfect copy of a brain and it doesn't work then I'm wrong.

I prefer my theories to be delicate - that means they can be disproven. The alternative is "because magic".
> However dreams are never about the strangeness or the
> alteration of reality.

> If people with bad intentions are chasing you in a dream,
> you don't start thinking about why your life changed so
> much that now you have people wanting to kill you.

This is false. Such reasoning is very common in my dreams, with explanations a hybrid of dreamed facts and reality.
Good point. Show, not tell.

Once you log in, you can see a bunch of accounts and either mute/unmute one-by-one or in bulk.

Twitter doesn’t give very many options for developers (read, read/write, read/write/dms). So unfortunately in order to POST to /mutes, the app gets access to more than it needs.
> I agree w you mostly but you extended this form of systemic analysis to "making a date happy" which I think is a fundamental misunderstanding of relationships. To everyone reading this: please don't go around treating other people as systems to be optimized!

I think people who say this kind of thing have a fundamental misunderstanding of how a certain type of people think.

Of course people are systems to be optimized! What else could they possibly be? It's like people who object to love being a chemical reaction. What else could it be possibly be? And why in the world would love being a chemical reaction and people being systems to be optimized rule out treating people with respect, empathy, and kindness? What kind of straw Vulcans do you think we are?
You can't optimise conversion if you remove the ability to track users. If you see 8 hits on page A and 4 on page B, is it that 4 people left or that the first 4 people visited the page twice before they moved to page B? You can't tell without the unique cookie.

That said, having a unique but anonymous cookie within a single site isn't the end of the world but Google only provide GA for free because it is useful for determining other things.
Life's Network Effects
If that is true for 80% of the population, then that is similarly a cause for concern.

While you are correct that change in household size could be muddying the income numbers, I would say that the difference in behavior between top 20% and bottom 80% must reflect something driving the two apart.
https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example...

It turns out we can directly compare pre-1962 FDA with the current FDA and find strong harms outweighing any benefit of the current regime.

If all the FDA did was "enforce accurate labelling", they wouldn't be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from delayed approval of drugs. Maybe that's not the part people are complaining about.
Presence is possible, although my experience is that things like the cliff effect get less potent the more you use VR. You have to be a willing participant though to buy into the alternate reality and agree to play within the rules. True interactivity is what's really lacking and the thing we're furthest from being able to simulate. Reality just has an astounding amount of detail when you can interact with it rather than just look at it.

None of this is to say that VR can't be useful, valuable or entertaining (I still work in the field and believe in its potential) but we're nowhere near the Matrix and maybe that's not a bad thing.
I applaud anyone one makes an effort to avoid thirdparty analytics products. Analytics in general does nothing to help the users of your site while pushing additional work onto the client and leaking information.

But looking at data is fun so I ended up creating my own super light counter that I run on my site so I can see hits. My goal was to store as little information as possible - only hit counts as stored, and no cookies are used at all.

https://sheep.horse/2019/11/visitlog_-_sheep.horse_analytics...

I don't have any fancy graphs but the numbers are interesting

https://sheep.horse/visitor_statistics.html

EDIT: all I discovered is that my blog gets pathetically few hits.
My experience from applied math:

> Intuition is powerful, mysterious, and a pleasure to wield

until it lies to you. Then you have to crack the whip and reign in the horses. So maybe the price of powerful intuition is eternal vigilance...
Recipes: Open-source data models for third party integrations
I used http://ohlife.com/ until they shut down. After that I just switched to using a Google Doc. The service mostly just provided me a daily reminder, but after you get into the habit it isn't hard to keep it up without that.
Or 1 year at college and then drop out having learned as much as Lambda teaches you.
This just isn't true. In Windows paths are UCS2 i.e. arbitary sequences of unicode code units, inclusing unpaired surrogates. This means that there are paths that will work on Windows but cannot be encoded as e.g. valid UTF-8. As a result Rust has a bespoke encoding just for representing Windows paths in a way that's compatible with UTF-8 ("WTF-8"). It also means that you can't make a guaranteed lossless conversion from a filesystem path to a Rust string; you have to handle the possibility of errors.

On Mac paths are some weird NFKD-ish thing, so equality comparisons are complicated.

As a rule, if you think that filesystem paths as easy then you're probably ignoring all the edge cases. In application where you don't deal with arbitary user files that's fine. In a programming language that's a huge design error.
Splunk had a Y2020 bug as well
At the point where this question ceases to be academic, it's not going to be philosophers that turn the tide. It's going to be people falling in love with robots and simulated humans. At first, they will be labelled as freaks, just like early adopters of any new technology. Remember when online dating had a stigma attached to it? That's going to be a dark time for you if you happen to be a machine person. Assuming we don't wipe ourselves out using this technology, eventually it will touch enough lives that it loses its stigma. The circle of human empathy will stretch to encompass machine people, and they will be given some rights.

It won't matter whether some panpsychist says that all matter is conscious, or some religious person says that only those made in god's image are. What's going to matter is that machine people will give every appearance of being conscious, and humans are nothing if not slaves to appearance and pattern matching.
The trick is to do it with less than seven hills.
I agree that we don't know enough to have a confident answer, but I find Scott Aaronson's question quite persuasive: if you were to replace brain cells with functionally-equivalent manufactured devices one cell at a time, is there a point at which the consciousness goes away?
But then will your diary service work right with it? Honestly, you should use a mail server that isn't from an ad company. And then if you also want to layer encryption on top, feel free.

(Also, calling PGP "the best encryption there is" might be a bit of hyperbole.)
This was my read too, which is mostly why I'm completely incredulous that people actually defended her. She clearly is doing a poor job managing her supply chain, and ultimately giving her support staff the yeoman's task of preventing operational shortcomings from destroying the company's reputation with customers, while chronically understaffing a division that clearly needs to be twice as large as its clearly being used as a "hack" to compensate for other organizational deficiencies.

If your entire organization is riding on the backs of a bunch of over-worked, underpaid staff... hooo booy buckle up Verge stories are the least of your worries.
> What I'm thinking about is: how can we parametrize the manifestations of these scopes, and, ubiquitously, reverse-engineer them, thus linking all the systems?

> Then: which systems are topologically identical? If there are classes, how many? How do they differ? Are they (the systems OR the classes of systems) related?

> If so, is there a hierarchy (or are there multiple hierarchies)?

To what end though? How would you even begin measuring success in such a vast context?

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the art for arts sake, just curious to hear more.
It's real deja vu looking at this thread. Many of the questions/comments here are exactly the same ones that came up in the early 1990s with Taos on CiX, and then later with Elate/intent. :)

Chris was far ahead of the curve - a heterogeneous, load-balancing, multi-processor, multi-tasking OS, with Object-Oriented Virtual Processor, byte code, load-time translation, support for multiple CPU types (including RISC/CISC/transputer and LE and BE), and tiny footprint message-passing kernel, when most people used MS-DOS 3.3 or DR-DOS 5.0, with Windows 95 still a gleam in Bill Gates's beady eye! Nearly 30 years on and he is still ahead of the curve!

p.s. no one has mentioned it yet - try a Google search for "edge tao spyfish". That was 1995!! Not released, but still very interesting reading material.
Git for Data – A TerminusDB Technical Paper [pdf]
No "promise" will make me share my diary with a stranger, not even a legally enforceable one, unless I self-censor my diary. Honestly not sure why anyone would entrust their diary to some web service, unless they take a nothing-to-hide approach with their diaries.

Although, a web service to share notes with friends is probably okay.
Moore's law is a specific example of a manufacturing learning curve, which can be described here: http://www.strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/learning_curve....

This is generally what people mean when they talk about "economies of scale": The more of a thing you make, the faster and cheaper you can make it. Moore's law (indirectly) names the constants on this curve for a integrated electronics, which is a field where the exponential relationship is more pronounced and continues over many more orders of magnitude than in most disciplines.
Well, I guess I assumed wrong then! =)

And for me as a Swede the most alien thing for me is the "lone genius startup"-thing (that probably is very over represented/emphasized here at HN) where developers work for stocks(?) and hope(?) that the company will blow up and seem to take great personal risks. Of course that exists here as well in small startups but we have so strong work force-regulations that I don't think it can get that extreme. And now that I think of it it might be that we are the odd ones so maybe it's not so much u.s. vs. e.u. as u.s. vs sweden. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use the Gmail "+" hack to mail myself on different topics.

name+ideas@ for app ideas

name+notes@ for random notes

name+writing@ for article ideas

(edit: formatting)
I worked on a 2k20 bug just last week. Some of the Perl at work started returning strange values, and tests were failing. Turns out we were using `Time::Local`'s `timelocal/timegm` subs. They use convoluted interpretation of 2-digit years – which we were, of course, passing (and for no good reason):

• https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Local#Year-Value-Interpretati...

> Years in the range 0..99 are interpreted as shorthand for years in the rolling "current century," defined as 50 years on either side of the current year. Thus, today, in 1999, 0 would refer to 2000, and 45 to 2045, but 55 would refer to 1955. Twenty years from now, 55 would instead refer to 2055. This is messy, but matches the way people currently think about two digit dates

• http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2020/01/my-y2020-bug.h...
Sounds like you and your colleagues are really going through a tough time there, sorry to hear that.
Living Robots Created
If you can do that, sure!
My phone is black, but looking at individuals atoms where is the color?

You are right that we don't have a good (any?) definition of consciousness therefore it is difficult to properly ask if Chinese room has it.
After reading and talking with people it seems that consciousness is something one can only claim to have (like a subjective feeling), but can't really manifest (I can only assume you are conscious because I believe I am, and you behave similarly enough).
Wait, the Joneses aren't a youtube couple?
Right. Lisp totally outshines every other language at building DSLs, so if you reconceptualize your project as a bunch of DSLs that utilize one another, you win big with lisp.
Some of us don't sit on HN all day every day talking straw men and actually have things to do on the weekends.
I also did. The memory of it inspired me to build Diary Email.
Rationality: from AI to Zombies is largely based on Daniel Kahneman’s work, with a bit more influence from Judea Pearl’s causality work. The rationalist subculture has a writing style and trends that might be a bit polarizing, but I found it enjoyable. A good bit of it is about how to quantify uncertainty in real problems, and that this uncertainty only exists in the observer, not the universe. It also considers controversial examples like cryonics, race and politics.
On the other hand, if there's no such check you might be able to get 100 year call time credit.
The EU Runs a Large Trade Surplus with Itself
I have never heard of that service (looks pretty interesting actually), but at the bottom it says trust by Uber, Pinterest, Google, etc.

Does this mean these companies are outsourcing their graphics, mock ups, etc.?
Who says the brain loses consciousness when sleeping ? How do you discern between the absence of consciousness and the absence of objects in consciousness ?
Changing the first appearance of the string “CAN” into a Wikipedia link is hardly going to break the flow of the README.