skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of something simpler: the flexibility of meaning of the word 'consciousness' -- for example, in Merriam-Webster:

1a: the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself. (my emphasis.)

If you regard 'especially' to indicate that the emphasized clause is optional (edit: or maybe even if not), you could arguably say (and people do) that anything alive fits this definition, as do even things like thermostats. This, however, is not the consciousness that the science and philosophy of mind is concerned with: it is specifically concerned with the sort of consciousness that we exhibit, which is aware that it is an agent in the world, aware that it has this awareness, and aware that other people are also aware in this sense.

Update: I may have misunderstood your question. The nature of consciousness in other animals is also an open issue and is being studied. It would be very odd indeed if there was nothing like it in any other species, but, at the same time, no other living species on earth has it to the extent we do. I don't think these observations justify the extremely broad definitions of panpsychism, and I do not think panpsychism helps with studying these animals any more that it helps with humans.

Nagel's point is, I think, rather tangential - he is arguing that we probably will never know what it is like to be a bat, as it is likely too far from any experience we could have. I think he is probably right, and again, panpsychism will not change that.
dockless bikes/scooters aren't dumped "wherever"; they are clustered around popular endpoints for rides, which are often also places people will want to start a ride. this can certainly be a nuisance, but it's not random. sometimes it can lead to a better distribution of vehicles than centrally planned docks.
I used to know a guy at Intel who was the leader or one of the leaders of the industry standardization part of the USB initiative. He told me once that reversability (or at least a better scheme for easily orienting) is the one thing he wished they had done differently with the original USB.
Hubspot's Product-Led Growth Strategy
I'm moderately annoyed you think I don't already know all these things.

The problem isn't that I don't know these things, it's that I'm beyond those things and trying to add subtle things to improve quality of life.

> Mobile devices have keyboards. If you mean "does this device have a physical keyboard", you don't need to know that. If you mean "does this device have modifier keys like ctrl and alt", someone might have hooked up a bluetooth or USB keyboard to their mobile device.

Yes, and this makes the experience on mobile devices worse!

On a laptop, if you open Discord, click on your friend's name, and start typing, you'll send your friend a message.

On an iPad with a keyboard, if you open Discord, click on (tap) your friend's name, and start typing, nothing will happen.

You say "there's no way to detect an iPad with a keyboard" like it's a good thing, but it's clearly a bad thing!

I go over a similar problem here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047246

> If you're on a large screen, show hints if you have room. (You might also show such hints in tooltips, as devices with a concept of "hover" correlate well with devices where keyboard shortcuts make sense.) If you're on a small screen, provide a way for people to get those hints anyway via a help option.

This is clearly a worse experience for the user because it means hints are shown to users for whom they make no sense.

Like, yes, that's what I currently do, and it sucks.

> You can't tell from the user-agent if, for instance, someone might be using a screen-reader or other assistive technology, or otherwise using an interface you don't expect. Tell people what option/link to use, not how to activate it. Help them out with things like highlights, or tours, or sample videos.

There aren't ways to detect if someone is using a screen-reader, but there are plenty of W3C ARIA tags screen-readers understand, which, if used correctly, can improve quality of life for them. I get a lot of feedback from screen-reader users that they love my graphical online video game, because I went out of my way to improve quality-of-life for them.

And now, I want to improve quality-of-life for users on iPads, and you tell me "no! everything must be the same on everything!" No! I refuse to accept that!

GitHub has a hint in their comment boxes that you can attach files by drag/drop or pasting. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's miles away from a button labeled "click here". There's no need for this smarmy "don't tell the user how to activate a feature". Some features are subtle and need hints!
Municipal options would be interesting, but I guess I feel like given how long we've subsidized private car ownership in North America it's fine if we subsidize scooter companies (or scooter owning individuals) instead. In the end they seem like a step in the right direction vs. cars.
The sales man gets the glory and they get all the bad as well. If selling was as easy as features then some of the biggest companies in the world wouldn't exist. Also for startups, it's almost required to have a sales person because the market has so many competitors
almost certainly. You'd just want to run the DNS out through the VPN tunnel.
Pair it with "containerise" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ ). With containerise, you can easily edit a text file (host, container name) to create/edit/backup multiple containers.
The liver is responsible for clearing out the majority of toxins and since many of them can cause cell death, the organ needs to be able to regenerate itself.
Performance depends on how many refreshes are asked of your connection and browser, but that mostly pertains to forms and login screens.
I'm in Canada. I biked to work today. I didn't see a single crumb of snow anywhere.
Late reply if you see this.

1. Dong Ting Chun is really good.

2. Liuyishou Hotpot.

3. Núodle has some good dishes.
> A tremendous amount of resources are wasted on adtech - bandwidth, latency

Not to mention cognitive resources. How much brain power has the world wasted on trying to get people to look at or click on things?
One step further: 'Temporary Containers', it trashes the container when you close the tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Specified sites can still be opened in specific containers, and not be trashed.
Apple solved this for all time with their magnetic orientation-agnostic connectors, and then didn't let the rest of the world have it. Vantablack bastards!
one thing about the tablets with detachable keyboards i don't like is the kickstand is the only way to prop up the body. that makes it tough to use one from your lap for example. i realize there are 2-1s (i.e. laptops that have a hinge) but i wish there were a tablet with a detachable keyboard that could prop up the tablet using a hinge. the problem of course is the keyboard aren't rigid themselves so you can't hinge anything from them.
From Krebs tweets:

The NSA's Neuberger said this wasn't the first vulnerability the agency has reported to Microsoft, but it was the first one for which they accepted credit/attribution when MS asked.

Sources say this disclosure from NSA is planned to be the first of many as part of a new initiative at NSA dubbed "Turn a New Leaf," aimed at making more of the agency's vulnerability research available to major software vendors and ultimately to the public.
Microsoft patches big Windows flaw discovered by NSA
It is a popular conceit to assume that anyone cares about your thoughts or that they carry some significant, intrinsic value. This happens to me all the time. It takes reflection to realize that most of the crap that people generate is just that, crap. Sure, it may be crap that can incriminate you in a court proceeding or crap that could be developed into patented intellectual property, but it is crap none-the-less. Its that tendency people have to assume things like "I got super stoned in the late 90's and sketched out designs for Photovoltaic Solar Roofing systems, that Musk guy stole my idea". No, odds are that Musk guy didn't steal shit from you. Your diary wasn't hacked, your sketches were not secretly photographed and your phone isn't bugged. Your idea was in some way obvious. In the PV example it was obvious and requires money and influence to develop, two things that if you had them you wouldn't be making claims that "so and so stole this idea" or "I invented that first".
So that's where the point of the article comes in. If you are working at a corporation, the problem that seems hard (but probably really isn't) and would unlock a lot of value if solved, is a good thing to work on. Chances are, other companies have similar blockages and becoming an expert in that area is likely to offer a lot of career growth opportunities.
Life itself is 'just chemistry'.

And I damn love to be alive.
Modern WSL is more like VM. Actually it could make sense, if laptop support for Linux is poor, just run Windows and run Linux inside. At least you'll have properly supported drivers.
Why is it assumed that the safety of the car seat is compromised because of installing a camera? There is plenty of void space inside of a car seat. The only foam sections of the seats I have are around the head-area. The rest is just plastic with a slightly padded cover.
In real life. The founders already proved that doesn’t happen on the internet.
Business is fluid, so I imagine some of those posts are going to be out of date. I'm reading them more to learn about how they started and what their basic business model was at the time of writing. Like I said, it's a respite from the breathless coverage of the latest food delivery app that raised a billion in their last round.
> Lightning also appears to have severe problems with arcing.

Well, it IS "Lightning"...
I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with.

Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.
There is a significant price differential between a raspberry pi and an fpga solution
>keep your ISP from snooping

So that someone else's ISP can snoop. It's a tradeoff I guess but just to be clear that someone is able to snoop that traffic, you're just moving from your provider to someone elses provider.
Still waiting for the Zelle API.
More to the point, I _couldn't_ read it. What I'm saying is that the combination of your defensive title and the fact that the site still wasn't readable is not a good look, regardless of the content of the submission.
Pure nonsense theory
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Paul Graham.
Maybe a hybrid system with zones? "We have docks set up every 3 blocks downtown, so you have to dock them there or we charge you an undocked fee - outside of the downtown zone you can just leave them wherever".
I can't get maps or gmail for free from somewhere else. Maps is far and away the best in class, and I've got close to two decades worth of lock-in on their mail platform. And we haven't even mentioned the elephant in the room which is search. I'd pay them a seriously nontrivial amount of money each year if they bundled those services into a single privacy-aware offering. Way more than they're making off me from the ads I block and ignore.
Most of these claims I've never heard before, and I know at least one of them (the claim that inequality is lower than in the recent past) is definitely false, so I feel justified to ask: do you have any sources?
Food for thought: Just because e-scooters are turning out not to be a unicorn play doesn't mean they are suddenly non-viable as a transportation or venture option. In fact, having the gold rush leave this space could very well open it up to practical -and sustainable- innovation and implementation.
At any moment, the employed model used to understand a given situation is local. The model is adaptive in the sense that you only need to concern yourself with what is immediate, and concerns about how the effects might propagate are limited to the interface between the immediate moment and the external ones.

Also, many models can be used simultaneously and overlap in the analysis of a particular situation. It isn't necessary to Have It All Figured Out and keep it all in memory simultaneously, just to have a set of methods to draw quick conclusions. Ensemble methods tend to work best IME.
I wish that containers would be transferable in Firefox Sync accross systems.
I'm not actually speaking about software estimates there, I should have used asterisks or something. I mean it even more broadly - most people have no idea what they're doing in any given context, let alone in software with all the complexity. The whole world is just winging it, as a general rule.
A big thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256603
I'm a heavy UNIX user and believer. I hate Windows enough to have run it inside a VM on Linux, taking the pains to set up GPU passthrough so I can get graphical acceleration without ceding control of my computer to Microsoft.

But that was on a desktop. And although the Year of the Linux Desktop may very well be upon us, I have to agree with the article.

There is a lot of really powerful, really slim, really convenient hardware that can't easily be used with Linux. I'm planning to buy a laptop soon. It's not going to be a Thinkpad.

Can someone provide a counterpoint to this article, perhaps in the form of a convenient tablet-like machine (like a Surface Pro) that can run Linux without too much hackery? I'm willing to compile kernels if that's what it takes. But I would like for those things to eventually work once I do.
Even in silicon valley this is largely the minority. Yes it does occur more frequently here but not to any scale worth noting.

It is part of human nature for leads to gain more than the fair share even when the leads are doing disproportionally less work and less skilled work. This has happened across the board for almost every culture past tribal cultures.
Is this working for them? I find it hard to believe that targeting more and more specific groups is actually worth the money for them. Is it really worth it to whatever company makes Easy Bake Ovens to pay for that kind of specific advertising? It seems (naively) that they would be better off finding out where their customers congregate and just buying ads there, without the extra cruft.

I mean, logically it should be worth it because they pay for it, but part of me is wondering if the ad companies are conning their customers on this.
that makes sense. I prefer renting for various reasons. unfortunately this means I ride scooters with an (optimistic) top speed of 15 mph. no way I'm going to try and ride on a four-lane, 30 mph road on one of those things.
I'm sure most are just ignorant as to how much information they are exchanging and not necessarily happy to provide this "by default".
Sure, but I believe the point was that e.g. timing attacks might not be part of your proof but still be a real threat.
The author suggests the following use cases: Mask your IP address, Hide from snooping ISPs, Extra security on public Wi-Fi, Unblock geo-restricted content, Connect to your home network from anywhere

Snooping ISPs, public IP, and geoblocking are not prevented by a VPN server in your home network, which the author does not warn about.

The other two cases work if you make your VPN server accessible from the internet, which the author also does not expand upon or even mentions.

It's a good tutorial but the question about VPN servers is often now how, but where. And this question is not asked.
Extremely dubious claim. What personal information? To which companies? For how long? Etc.
ah yeah i did not articulate that fully. i see the implication i was making now

i meant they can maintain an app store experience without the bottlneck of downloading expected apps on day 1. instead of downloading and using data an wasting time, it would enable the app. so its the same "opt-in" experience as downloading but with benefits
Seconded. It's now titled "The Systems Bible". As humor, the book is a bit dry, but as (perhaps cynical) insight, it's gold. Read this and the entire collection of Dilbert strips, and you'll know 90% of how the world works.

(Amazingly, it wasn't written by a computer guy or other engineer. IIRC, the author is/was a medical doctor or something like that.)
Hiding research results should always be treated as though the results were very negative. There are many reasons that a study might get cancelled that are unrelated to business interests (like breaking of blinds or various other methodological reasons why a study's data is corrupted), and it's okay(ish) to not publish these results -- there are no good protocols for publishing data about a study's failure, but it would be nice to develop those. But without knowing the reason for the failure to publish the study, it should be assumed that the results provide negative evidence for all hypotheses.

Pre-registration is supposed to solve this problem by listing the studies before they are conducted so that it is impossible to completely elide them. A drug approval would then look at all studies pre-registered for the treatment, and only at those studies pre-registered for the treatment -- whether those studies were complete or not.
Blocking ad tracking means breaking the web. It's OK if user willingly wants to break the web for himself by installing addons. But blocking standard mechanisms by default is unacceptable, at least before you develop new standards. Countless websites were broken because browsers started to block popup windows. It was extremely stupid decision.
People will just go around.

I find it hard to resist making a comment in those movies set in New York City where a character has a steel jacketed door and a million locks but I bet the wall is cheap gypsum board and studs on 18 inch centers. You could steal a lot of stuff around a door without even compromising the building structure. You just need the right sheet rock knife and a quiet hallway.

Someone told me about Microsoft having a data center in a leased building, and they had the forethought to fill the space above the false ceiling with motion sensors to prevent someone just getting a ladder and going over the top of the walls. People don't always think about these things.

If you have a model that works for certain patterns, people will begin to ask what situations it can't handle. The attacks will move to that space. They may even look at release notes and try things that were reported as fixed, similar to the way people are now doing analysis on updates for operating systems.

Will it keep lazy criminals out? Yes. But they're not all lazy.

Where it's more likely to help is that you'll find crashing bugs you may have missed, and you save some face by not having particularly naive bugs in your code. That alone may be worth the cost of entry. But it's 'safer', not 'safe'.
Why are you speaking as if there are no better alternatives than Chrome? Other than a few organizations who decided that only supporting Chrome as a browser is enough for their sites and some extensions, there are viable web browser alternatives from companies which don't make their money off of user's data.
I have a container per domain of sites that I visit regularly. Right now I'm at about 40 containera.
> My users much prefer having working potentially unsafe software in the exceptional case where the software would connect to the network (eg reading a youtube stream in VLC or something like that) that non-working software.

Do they, though? Or are they just unaware of what "insecure" means?

Sure, if you frame it as "[technobabble about TLS certificates], click 'continue' to make the software work?", they'll chose the insecure-but-working option.

But if you frame it as "your Internet Service Provider, government, and possible third-parties may be notified you are watching this video, do you want to proceed?", some of them might think twice, depending on what country they live in and what the video is.
I'm not a pro-Apple person. I do think that the AirPods are a greater breakthrough than we realize. Perhaps not in its current form, as was the iPhone before the App Store, but later generations. It is the start of ubiquitous (or natural) computing, even more so than the Apple Watch (iWatch? I don't know). We'll be able to whisper commands and get real-time augmented information (like translations of speech in other languages). The obvious next part to this story is AR which has yet to hit the mainstream.
Huge chunks of their readership -- like the HN crowd currently looking at this article -- may not live anywhere near water and/or may not know anything about boats, docks, and shipbuilding.

Good journalism provides basic context.
I've found that if you try to plug a USB male into a USB 3.0 jack backwards, you can wedge the male connector substrate under the female connector substrate, causing it's connectors to short circuit with the housing, blowing a polyfuse that shuts the PC down abruptly. The problem is the substrate on the female connectors isn't adhered to the wall of the connector, and can bend far enough to touch the opposite wall and blow.

I'm surprised there's not more stories like this lately.
Before you discard it, consider the example of America's runaway bureaucracy. It is completely operated and dependent on humans, but somehow it has a life of its own, and intelligence of its own, and is able to ward off threats such as budget cuts, consolidation, etc. The AI we have constructed isn't just on computers, it is us.
It’s fast coz the cpu be blazing ;)
For every classic computer there is someone who fetishizes it (even Spectrums) and a community they can belong to and talk about it (looks at the VAX-11/730 in the corner). I think Amiga's are that mix of cool, still usable (for some values of usable) and nostalgic for those of HNs average age, so you hear a lot about them here.
Hi, developer of Slopes here. Wait, what!? I do not use push for marketing (I hardly have a working push server). I haven't ever sent out any push notification for any reason (the recording reminders are local notifications, not server-side ones).

I do have a little in-app banner at the top of the logbook screen for messaging like prompting to create an account, or upselling premium, or other things. It has grey background, but its buttons are blue and it has a red dot on it so it doesn't look to clone the appearance of a system notification perfectly or anything (it isn't even pinned to the top of the screen or anything, where notifications come from). Maybe you thought it was a notification? But it can only occur in-app, on one screen, and is in no way a violation of Apple's ToS.

Edit: Screenshot of the in-app banner to aid discussion: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3ib5pbfg5eid51/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Edit 2: The banner used to be all blue, which looked even less like a system notification, but I was worried it was too distracting from users' content so this season I opted for a grey background to help it blend in more.
I have never seen or even heard of the spring contacts in the lightning port failing. The biggest issue I've ever seen is lint ingress preventing good contact/locking, which can be cleaned out.

I can't speak to arcing problems.