skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the ICO page itself presents a great example: if you go to https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... you get:

> Necessary cookies

> Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

> Analytics cookies [toggle On/Off]

> We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. For more information on how these cookies work, please see our 'Cookies page'.

The implication is that a consent dialog would not be required if they weren't using Google Analytics or any other third-party.
You definitely have a way with words.
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There are two distinct meanings of consciousness being used here: my own experience of consciousness in me (it's always first person), and the conclusions people make about consciousness in other people or animals - that they're conscious because they're like them in important ways. The Chinese Room argument is confusing because it conflates intelligence (understanding Chinese) with consciousness (knowing what it's like to understand Chinese).

So I simplified the problem, by replacing the ability to understand Chinese with the ability to see in colour: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/blog/ChineseRoom.html

While the simplified system is able to distinguish colours, how does it have the first person experience of seeing in colour?
> Spend a little more money and get a single board x86 computer (e.g. Odroid H2) or a NUC and these issues go away.

Or ditch emulation and buy an open source based MiSTer FPGA-board. No Playstation generation consoles though, but 8-bit and 16-bit era consoles, arcade systems and home computers are pretty accurate and are getting better each day.

MiSTer also supports "486" core, although it's closer to ~16 MHz 386. Amiga core is also pretty nice.

An FPGA based system can achieve higher accuracy than even the fastest x86 CPUs. Not sure if MiSTer is the ultimate solution yet, but the potential is certainly there.

(Not affiliated with any MiSTer authors, just a fan of the project.)

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

http://www.atari-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=117
I have been on receiving end of browser bugs, developing cutting edge JavaScript applications.

It's VERY useful to be able to use the UA string to do something like:

if (Chrome version X) then { do this crazy workaround because Chrome is broken }

No. People don't even necessarily update to the latest version. The "Samsung Browser" was notorious for seemingly always be some old fork of Chrome or Chromium that would never update.
AdSense, DoubleClick, and Analytics all need 3rd-party cookies, no?
Exactly. I'm a 34, I've been told over and over by employer to get a 4-year degree if I want to advance beyond entry level. I have 13 and a half years of experience at my job, competing companies will not even interview for the equivalent of my current position without a 4-year degree (they'd rather have someone with 6 months experience ad a 4-year degree than someone with 13 and a half years of experience and no degree). I am not CS.

So I can spend 4-6 years getting a 4-year degree and taking on 40-60k$ (my state's median household income is 54k!) of debt at 4.53% interest and probably around age 40 be able to compete for jobs with those that are 20-22 (as some kids are now simultaneously graduating high school and receiving associates degrees). At my current employer, moving up one position means a 7% increase in pay... so cool, I'd have 40-60k$ of debt, at 4.53% interest, and my 34k a year would bump up a to 36.4k a year...

Yeah, NO.

Even internally, training for job-related stuff is only given to those in higher positions... so their degree creates an immediate gap via advantage and then the training they are allowed access creates a further divide, as do awards that are only available at certain levels (get an award for doing X but only people in certain positions are allowed to even do X, someone with an award for X will get preferential treatment over someone without the experience of doing X and without an award for X).

So at 34 I could try to go back to school, after 16 years of being removed from an educational setting, and try to learn how to study/write papers/etc and probably waste a couple of grand before I can get back into the groove and walk into my 40's with 1/3 of the cost of a house in debt for a piece of paper that says I toed the line and temporarily memorized random bits of material and finally have that de facto dues card employers require.

By the time I pay that debt off I'm probably in my mid to late 50s (while having net less than I was without the degree for at least some of those years) and only have a 4-year degree, while I've spent a decade competing against people with Master's so I'm probably not netting much more per year than I would have been without the degree and will now heavily be fighting ageism and have 5-10 years of work left in me wishing I hadn't spent all of my free time in my mid 30's working on a degree.

Efff.
If you want to use chrome, be aware of the company’s underlying motivations.

But I’d recommend not using it at all, I don’t.
Thanks, you're completely right, I have updated the article.

There is one more way to do it assuming you are using Istio and have istioctl (Istio) installed: `istioctl dashboard grafana`.
This is rather embarrassing: one of the design goals of USB-C is that it’s rated for a very large number of insertion cycles.
Average household income is simply average per capita income multiplied by average household size. (This would not be true for median, but I wanted to illustrate how simple it is).

Household size has been decreasing over the last 50 years (less people per family unit), and household income is therefore growing more slowly than per capita income. It's still growing though.

All this is available from FRED data.
If it doesn't, I think one could extend it to work with X forwarding since it seems to be running the applications in a separate X session (just like X forwarding).
How often are private companies paying at least in part for this research... also, since academia is abusing the patent system as much as everyone else, it's kind of expected.
> virtually no one is positing that a rock is conscious in the same way a human being is.

Well, I would argue that virtually no human is actually conscious in the way we tend to posit that humans are conscious.

I think we tend to underestimate the link between our understanding of our experience of consciousness and how memory formation and recall works.

Our own experience of our consciousness is as much an illusions as our experience of the world. When we consider and attempt to discuss our own experience of redness, we are generally left with only our memory of that experience which influenced be a great deal of post-processing, compression and abstraction. I believe the mental states in which you can actually experience pure redness is very different from the state in which you can attempt analyze and discuss that experience.

Thus I would posit that perhaps it is so much that the conscious experience of being a human and being a rock are different, but that they are processed, stored and understood differently.
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Such an homophobic law
Stating it that way really brings it full circle. These sound reasonable, but may run counter your first intuition. Thanks!
Less strict JSON allowing comments and unquoted keys would be fine. Even better if there was a date literal.
ha funny enough i have done a networks 101 course so am familiar with BGP and ASes. just feel like thats a big leap to Packet which is much more cutting edge.

thanks for the confirmation!
> This essay is a bit weird because it systematically avoids talking about the reason people (rationally, I might add) avoid hard problems: they are risky. Yes, the rewards are great, but so too is the risk of failure.

Thank you for pointing that out! This is something I completely failed to include in the essay.
From my experience, when you tackle hard things in the organization, there is virtually 0 risk.
The worst outcome for you is that you feel bad, but this is not going to diminish your chances in career, quite the opposite.

The situation is a bit like here: I failed to include this vital section about risk in an article that is getting traffic right now.
It is embarrassing, but I doubt if this will have negative repercussions for me. (I hope )

Anyway - that is why feedback is so critical.
Furthermore if a population shows poor judgement (or exhibits some other negative trait) we should ask ourselves how we got to this point, and how it can be corrected at a systemic level. Public education is a prime example of a systemic solution to several widespread problems.
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In most big companies in Silicon valley, being a manager is not a promotion but rather a parallel track.

What I find strange is that most of big cos expect managers to not be technical anymore. There is that weird expectation that the manager should have been technical in the past but is now only used as an enabler for the team.
Similarly, I once talked to a person who worked at a major airport. Their job? Optimising and overseeing the transport of cutlery. From airplane, to cleaning, replacing broken parts, back to airplane. These things move great distances and they have to be delivered during very narrow time windows. And this has to Just Work for all arrivals and departures. Such a small thing yet so important and incredibly complex.
That has been my experience as well!
> As we can agree that inequality is natural, the burden of proof is on you to prove that any particular inequality is unjustifiable.

I accept no such burden. Since the ideal world would have plenitude for all, anything that takes us away from such a world must be justified. And 'nature' is not a justification. Disease is natural, but we don't have to justify trying to cure disease.

> A person can give their property to anybody they please, we can and we do tax such transactions, but it perpetuates wealth across generations, it does not constitute an unnatural or unjust inequality.

Unlike what some modern libertarians may believe, the right to property is not necessarily fundamental. There are perfectly coherent moral systems that do not value the right to property very highly at all. As such, the right to transfer your wealth to your children may be severely diminished, if it is important for more important ideals.

> If you took two random people from the worlds population, you have no reason at all to believe their motivations, or the choices they made in life would have much in common at all.

Sure, choices can vary a lot between individuals. But society as a whole can work to ensure that outcomes are not vastly different. For example, it should not be possible to starve in a wealthy country because of poor choices. It should not be possible to be homeless in a wealthy country because of poor choices. It should not be possible to be denied medical care in a wealthy country because of poor choices. And it should also not be possible to have more influence over the country's policy than 99.9% percent of the population because of good choices. Especially when those good choices were made by you grandfather.
I don't see this as subjective, because dealing with computers and technology is a fundamentally different type of activity, and requires a totally different set of skills, than dealing with people. 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, at least not at first.
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He's probably thinking of either Dual EC DRBG, or the HTTP header they came up with to leak enough data from it to compromise it.
I second this. Conserved quantities (by extension symmetries) do not compute. Car engines and refrigerators are both thermal engines, but the same conserved quantities are engineered (say programmed) to do different things.
I'm get your point but I also think you've answered it yourself. You can give time and experience to a software mind by programming in that new layer...
In an org of any non trivial size, no it won't work and it will increase management burden long term because it will damage things. As teams grow, supervision and communication get non linearly harder and less efficient. If you give some rogue the root keys and carte blanche, they may well get sh*t done but will also, almost certainly, cause a lot of problems for others.

Discipline, good hiring practice and clear goals and accountability at all levels are what's needed.
PS/2 male connectors have a set of grooves and rotationally asymmetrical rim. I had always been able to plug them in blind on the first try.
High level languages succeed by exposing the components of computation as combinators one can manipulate like algebra.

I was given access to an APL terminal as a 19 year old math major familiar with punching cards (first with a paperclip). The experience was like taking acid, and I have never replicated it since.

The notation is a red herring, like parentheses in Lisp. APL succeeds by intensively plumbing an extraordinarily limited domain of multidimensional arrays. It conquered a much wider scope because distance from a problem is countered by the intensity of the light; compare the sun to a flashlight in your hand. And the limited domain allowed the combinators to reach critical mass, like the fusion fueling the sun.

APL was intended for mathematicians, who are used to fitting the tools that they have to a problem. Since APL, we have never accepted general purpose languages built on such a limited scope, making it that much harder for our combinators to achieve critical mass.

At 64 I daydream at what could have been, stunned that computer languages haven't developed further by now. I've chased the promise here in every Lisp, finding experiences lost in other languages but the promise ultimately elusive. Haskell comes closest to a practical language realizing my early soaring with APL; one experiences a fluid algebra of combinators even as other aspects are as calcified and off-limits to manipulation as C.

At their best, the parser combinators of functional languages are indistinguishable from the notation in one's mind for parsing. Most programmers see clumsy parsing in college and never master the idea. If one could imagine a world where all programmers are fluent in parsing, a suitable domain for a language could be the application of parser combinators to strongly typed trees. One gains the critical mass advantages of an APL limited domain, but with a domain better suited to modern computer science. In particular, one could achieve the homoiconicity of Lisp, with the hope of better macro tools. Ever stare in amazement that all life on earth developed from the same impoverished code base? Now look at how all macro systems resemble each other. Is that really the best civilization can do, if we had a million runs of the simulation?
ok awesome. minor follow up - why do customers care about the newer instances like cavium arm processors? again is it a pure performance thing? or they are extremely optimized for some kind of workload?

maybe i'm so used to OSes abstracting things that I completely lack knowledge about what baremetal choices can do for me. this is a little scary.
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> Well I think the tricky thing about consciousness is that it can’t be an illusion. There is no doubt that you and I have the subjective experience of consciousness. Whether it is an illusion or not doesn’t really matter, you are just making a judgement about the legitimacy of the process which leads to consciousness.

I'm not sure if you're implying I do or not, but to clarify, I don't deny there is something we believe to be an experience of consciousness. I just don't believe it is any more real than a computer, or to use your example, a zombie claiming consciousness.

> I think what you are getting at is the zombie concept. This is where we construct a being which has sensory inputs and actions, and behaves like a human, but isn’t actually conscious. Distinguishing zombies from real consciousness is supposed to highlight the difficulty in detecting or measuring consciousness. But, by definition the zombie doesn’t have any subjective experience. As soon as you introduce that, you are really saying the zombie is conscious.

Yes, I think we are "zombies" who truly believe from their programming that they are human with a conscious experience of their selfs. I think this belief is evolutionarily important because it might be the only thing that stops pain being morally irrelevant. Or at the very least, it makes us believe the pain of a conscious entity is worth considering.
Who would have guessed that adding code to something would also add bugs?
Meta: fake it til you make it? How do y'all feel about blatant lies about a product? I just can't imagine myself doing what he said he did. And his story of that kind of start makes me not trust the product today.

> “This new iPhone thing, does it support it?”

> Even though it doesn’t have an app store yet so it’s impossible, “Yes we totally have an iPhone app.”

> “Does the app scan receipts?”

> Even though the original iPhone’s camera was so bad it made completely illegible receipt images, “Yes, totally we scan receipts.”

> “Does it reimburse through ACH?”

> I’ve never heard of those letters before, but “Yes we totally do that.”

> “Does it export to accounting?”

> “Yes, it obviously exports to QuickBooks and… you know, all the others.”
It speaks to a real predicament that the OP is aiming to solve with techniques and ideas. BTW, If you are interested in techniques and ideas do us a favor and become a scientist.
"Applying to external companies" as currently an IC looking for an EM role?

I have tried this on a limited level in the past, and either get no response or get told that I don't have experience (I have a few months with one direct report)
Under Siege from 2005 is such a game pitting Palestinians against Israeli military. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqrOayOLP8 Needless to say, the game pissed off more people than the airport scene in Call of Duty.
Or better: when does an embryo become conscious?
probably a little of columns A and B. i guess we're all like that? (we as in underperforming devs)
It's less about "treating other people as systems to be optimized" and more about understanding the "system". Calling people systems may sound cold and calculating, but using that particular word doesn't mean you're uncaring.

I'll interpret the original commenter to mean: Everything is a system with it's own rules. You'll be better off learning the rules instead of fighting the system. Do more of what works and less of what doesn't.

That 100% applies to people, even if you don't like the term "system".
> I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point.

Same here!
That's a good point regarding people knee-jerk upvoting too. I wonder if A/B testing to see whether there's a difference if weighting upvotes higher from people who comment more and probably taking comment length into account - and perhaps factoring in the upvotes of their comments to the weight of their upvotes.
Well so do every other cloud vendor ;) - committed use discount on gcp is 30%
The wafer has fixed metal contacts on it. The part that mates with the wafer has springy metal contacts, and those wear out. This is one of the major problems with the Lightning port — the springy parts are in the port, not on the cable.

Lightning also appears to
have severe problems with arcing.
Not sure why you would think that was sarcastic. Calls to improve education and increase taxes are hardly uncommon.
He was in X-Men playing (basically) a wizard the year before, even.
This has been solved for a very long time already.
It's called PGP.
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I didn't "insist". I offered a suggestion. In my understanding that's one of the reasons people put up "Show HN" posts. It was intended as entirely constructive, and I still think it is a good suggestion. CAN is obscure enough that I'd never heard of it, and yet it is something that I would have an interest in.

You seem to think I was nitpicking the post (unless I'm reading you wrong), and that was not at all my intention.
It's very easy to get a valuation, as this evergreen piece from Basecamp always elegantly shows [0]

[0] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
It's a different mindset, but I still think it's fun. For me, the key with that size of a group was focusing on the development of the leaders under me. When I make sure they are set up for success, things go smoothly.

The hardest time in my life was trying to micromanage a large group. Once you let go, and focus on the bigger picture, it's quite fun. Challenging, for sure, but very fun.
> and digital replicas will not have consciousness

They will also go on internet forums arguing that while they, of course, do have consciousness - the digital replicas of themselves would not!
But... they are going to not just allow users, but per default, block 3rd party cookies?

Edit: comment was either edited, or I’m going senile. In any case: Chrome does allow blocking all cookies as well, and has from the first release. Fingerprinting isn’t easily avoided, but they have taken some steps to make it harder.
And we have kotlin, typescript, and rust due to those languages unwillingness to make breaking changes. The cpp committees unwillingness to remove old garbage from the language is iirc the most cited issue with the language by longtime users.

There are tradeoffs.
> If you don't control a system, it will control you

I'll go one further, and say the people controlling the system will control you, often to your detriment.

You are also part of many systems, and your actions affect others in those systems.

And finally, the complexity of all those systems is such that your understanding is always an incomplete model. It's fine t try to change the bad systems with an incomplete model, as long as you seek out better ones as well.

Any given system will have many different models that are all relatively accurate, and you will get the best results not by picking the one that seems most accurate in some instance, but by using the one that is the most applicable to the situation. Models are not truth, they are lenses, and having more options means you can more easily find the one that provides the clearest picture.

Any system of axioms complex enough is incomplete, and starting from axioms is unneccesarily complex. Find the model or foundation that is closest, and make it easier.
> The rest of us suffer under oppressive income taxes and punitive walls (the standard allowance reduction, lack of joint tax burden for families), that make it very hard to ever climb out of the gutter.

I've wondered before whether the IR35 tax rules were introduced because
too many common folk were making good money in IT, whereas your average posho is more likely to be in politics, law, City etc. Can't have the plebs getting ideas above their station!
> I don't think that makes sense, as nobody can give the slightest hint of a theory that would make that work

I'm not sure what could possibly answer this problem, at least to the satisfaction of the people who think it is a problem. Personally, I'm relatively happy that Daniel Dennett's ideas demonstrate how what we think of as consciousness, qualia etc can be explained via mechanistic/algorithmic processes.
A 'The Heritage Foundation' mouthpiece.
Amazing speed/execution. Kudos!