skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's distinctly possible that the current status quo may cause an overreaction. Feature detection is good. But we may also need the ability to do specific version checking sometimes.

What I think would be best is two things: A feature advertising string (preferably with some versioning in itself), and a new User Agent string that is just that: The user agent. As in, "This is Firefox 72.2.813". Maybe the OS in there too. I think a non-trivial part of the problem with the UA today is "Hey... I'm Firefox. Also, I'm Mozilla. Also, I'm edge 3, and Internet Explorer 6, and today I think I'm also Chrome. Also, I may be a monkey with a banana plugged in to an ethernet cable." Part of the problem is that people abuse the user agent, but part of the problem is that the user agent string is also a pack of outright, outrageous, self-contradictory lies. A truthful field may still have significant utility.

One of the things I've learned over the years in software engineering is that you should do you best to make sure that your system doesn't contain lies, or, failing that, treat them like any other issues that you should contain at the edges rather than letting it run riot through your system. For instance, if you decide to let customers have 10GB of bandwidth free before you start charging them, you should never accomplish that goal by tweaking the bandwidth counting system to report 7.5GB of usage as 0GB. That is a lie. Tell the truth about the usage and let the billing system apply the discount, which is itself a truth as well. You always pay for lies in the system in the long run. It is a very common pattern in coding as well where some function author figures out how to assemble the correct lie to some other function to make it do what the author things they want, but in the long run you're better off telling the truth and fixing the code to work with the truth. Otherwise, well, you really do end up with a tangled web of code. Which is... exactly what we've gotten with UA-detection-based code. We won't necessarily get the same mess if there's a new UA that isn't a lie.

I'm not claiming this will lead to utopia. Minority forks of popular browsers will fail to pick up the necessary ad-hoc bug fixes this way, for instance. My claim is more like in the long run, the best thing for everybody is just to have a user agent that tells the truth, even if on occasion in the short term you experience occasional problems.

(One way to at least partially achieve this is to standardize the new truthful agent string to something like (\w+) ((\d+.)+\d) (\w+), and specify it as "non-conforming true user agent strings MUST be entirely rejected and treated as being absent", so anyone who tries to be Firefox and Chrome and also a monkey ends up being nobody in particular.)
Competence is an illusion. Want to be dismayed and acquire a hopeless outlook for society: take anyone and give them a non-trivial task to perform, such as produce a passport style photo of themselves. Sounds easy-peasy, right? 80% of the general population will not deliver. Oh sure, you'll hear all kinds of colorful reasons why, or why what they give you is "better". The facts hurt: people don't listen, they do what they think they heard, their self-conversation is a convoluted mess, and the fact that we have not destroyed our planet is a miracle.
Power corrupts. Corruption erodes trust.

How do you put people in power without corruption ?

You give them a tight set of rules to follow and limit their power.... with something like a constitution.

You see how it took a mere 200 years for that to get corrupted ?
> I'd pay a premium for that.

Not everyone has the money to do that, and privacy should not become another privilege that is solely meant for people of means.
This makes me think we might need a terminal for web apps.
I'm very interested in beginning to monitor some information on my vehicle. Is the usual workflow involve pulling a dbc file off the vehicle with a CAN bus reader and using software to look into it? Or is it more complicated? Anyone have recommendations as to the reader itself?
Mixpanel's more product usage. The most valuable part of GA is imho the marketing piece. Eg:

- "Show me where my visitors are coming from"

- "Show me what landing pages are most popular... at driving conversion... by channel"

etc
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/instagram-is-tak...
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This is a trick that I’ve been doing since the early 2000s that I find works nearly 100% of the time. Getting the distance between yourself and the screen is liberating and being in a different setting can help spark new ideas, even if by accident.
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Just like religious experience, then. Or any other metaphysical property, for that matter.
No need for it to be free. I'd be willing to pay to not blow my brains out every time I have to touch GA.
Awesome. Can you see the locations it captured?
Using an intentionally built in Windows backdoor, it did, yes. Instead they relied on good ol' completely unencrypted traffic flowing across wires they had hooks in.
How badly do you want to avoid tracking your users?

It's hard to get statistics on conversion when you don't even track users across pages on your own site. It looks like GoatCounter can't show you unique visitors or how they move around on your site because it doesn't track them. There are no cookies on the main page! This seriously limits the kinds of features that can be implemented.

On the other hand, they're collecting referrer data. Maybe that could be analyzed and cross-referenced on the server side to reconstruct a user's movement around your site without having to rely on cookies. But then somebody will point out that it's actually a type of tracking. And if you're going to track users anyway, why not just use cookies?
Did you file those bugs upstream? This is the first time I’m hearing about this.
I think it's more about the approach taken for researching the hard problem of consciousness (what you basically pointed out; what explains the phenomenon of subjective experience for conscious entities?).

Most researchers are doing exactly what you said, looking at it from the angle of "what arrangement of matter" gives rise to consciousness?. This model follows our intuitions and should definitely be explored; I don't think anyone is arguing the contrary.

But there are others, like the cognitive psychologist Donald D. Hoffman, who are doing research from the complete opposite side of this problem: what if consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe? He explains this far better than I can (pre-caffeinated) in his book The Case Against Reality[1], which I'd recommend you read if you're interested in this topic (he's also done quite a few interviews which can be found on youtube et al[2]).

Perhaps similar to you, I (a materialist) used to have what I can only call a "gut reaction" to this idea - panpsychism just seemed like "new age bullshit" that was impossibly wrong. But I'm becoming more open, and honestly the science being done is really fascinating[3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/...
[2] https://youtu.be/4HFFr0-ybg0
[3] http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/Chapter17Hoffman.pdf
The likelihood of achieving that potential upside is near-zero. Not worth burnout.

That said, if you’ve been job hunting aggressively for 6-9 months and this is the first offer you’ve gotten, it may be worth taking and sticking it out for several months. The current job market is much more forgiving to people who have more experience on their resume.
>Politicians actively working against their own interests to do what they feel is truly better the country should be held in high regard.

Please mention one politician who works against their own interest. Cos I don't know any.
I think you’re right, programmers (and people) can be blinded by rules. Knuth never meant to suggest people should use the least performant solution available. He’d be horrified by some of the things people justify with his quote. The idea was always to make good engineering choices from the start, including using tools and techniques that are known to give good performance, but to wait to get low-level and measure and count cycles until the code is mostly done being written and not going to change significantly later. Choosing a less performant option because it’s slower is a bad choice. Choosing a slower option that is easier to refactor as you go, when it’s clear refactoring will happen, over a faster solution that will make refactoring harder, that is a perfectly acceptable engineering decision.
You seem to be misunderstanding the question of consciousness. It's not about how you observe others to appear conscious, but about how you yourself observe your own consciousness.

> It's a lie our brain tells us [...]

Who is "us"? Or, to be more precise, if your brain tells you that you're experiencing pain, than what is "you", and what is "experiencing"? That's the question of consciousness.

This is not something we know how to observe and judge in others, you can only observe it in yourself (and draw conclusions about other people by analogy, i.e., due to similarity between our physical brain structures). For example, is the following Python script

print("I am conscious.")

any more conscious than this one?

print("I am not conscious.")

You'll probably say that they're both not conscious, although there is no hard evidence either way. And that's because we don't know how to reliably observe consciousness.
Thank you for your feedback and I understand your concern, but I'm not sure how to pull it off. I don't have a fancy lawyer that could customize such thing to me, nor I have a budget for it.

Here're some facts that could help you to find peace of mind. First of all, I operate in the EU, so I can't simply sell your data. Also, it costs me virtually $0 to maintain the service (thanks to Firebase and Mailgun), so I won't be forced to sell out to keep it afloat. At last but not least I use it myself with my close friends so we're in the same boat.
That was the original goal/definition of AA. It was (and is) clear that fully (or even over) qualified candidates with different racial (or gender) backgrounds were being ignored during hiring decisions. The AA proposition was to deliberately "force" the process to work in roughly the way I described. It was not intended to create quotas or to force institutions/organizations to hire under-qualified but demographically balancing candidates.

Of course, as with many things human, this original goal/definition isn't always the one that plays out in practice (somewhat like a number of articles of the US constitution, or adherence to the moral screed of certain theistic religions).
What makes you think you're under-performing?

I think the "secret" is simply to make sure people know what they're suppoesd to be doing, that they want to do it, and that they feel they have everything they need to do it. That won't necessarily always work, because not all under-performance is work-related - if you've just had a baby, going through divorce or bereavement, I'd expect you to be 'under-performing' and wouldn't try to fix it.

If you do want a chat, I'm available on email (it's on my profile page).
To quote Oscar from The Office:

Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?
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> Download Limit Exceeded

> You have exceeded your daily download allowance.

Alright.
My go to as a freelancer was to buy a nice template (spend $50, it's worth it..) and customize it appropriately. You want something approaching "savvy yet professional" most of the time.
I wouldn't look at how GA implements things. But I'd look at what people are using GA to learn.

The four scenarios I listed above are important to understand when running the marketing side of a B2B SaaS company.

I don't care about the implementation details (other than they're straightforward). But I need to understand that info. And today there's no obvious choice other than GA. This surprises me.
It did though, didn't it? Intelligence organisations worldwide execute their operations in total secrecy and have hidden agreements with international counterparts to share information on each others' citizens in a way that bypasses the laws and constitutions of their host nations. Secret plans that circumvent the law is pretty much the definition of conspiracy.
> IIRC at the time there were a lot of complaints against the Cell processor that it was "too hard" to program for.

Indeed. Interestingly GPUs were initially very hard to program (and still are kind of a pain). What made them viable was the introduction of practical development tools that Cell never had. This machine shares (some of the) instruction set between the fat and the puny cores, which makes it a much easier target to program.
My criticism can be summarized as "map is not the teritory".

The reality is messy. Sure, we can think in terms of feedback loops and interactive modules and it can be helpful sometimes. We just have to be aware we are imposing our puny models onto the infinitely complex beast.

The model will break down at some point. Recognizing the correct model and extrapolating from it is not useful unless we know the limit at which it breaks down.

It is also hard to be objective about our mental models, we tend to apply all kinds of favoritisms and observation biases when evaluating them. In machine learning (google maps) those biases are still present, but at least they are not our personal biases so they are easier to spot and correct for.
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!

If you wish to think about relationships as systems, you really need to understand that you are a partial component in social systems and therefore a flawed observer. It is impossible to objectively "diagnose" social systems without communication, empathy, and collaboration. It is far more than "saying the right words"
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>The Tombstone Cam ...all inclusive system can be deployed for approximately two days with the include PB-180LiFePO4 battery."

Considering that the structure they have to work with has at least the appearance of hundreds of kilos of granite, so there's not a very tight constraint on weight or volume, I'd think they could at least provide for, even as an option, a battery that would last for a week or a month.

That, plus some of the prices quoted give me the impression that this company is one of those that charges silly money for mediocre engineering.
I don't think you can pull a DBC file off of a vehicle. I think you have to build the DBC file yourself by reverse engineering everything--you'd monitor the CAN network, and then turn the light on and off, sit in the driver set, etc. The DBC file is the car's secret sauce.
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 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.

As for using consciousness to decide if suffering has moral significance, well yeah that is an interesting idea. One concern is that if we can’t understand or detect consciousness, then we may create conscious artificial life which experiences unimaginable suffering, without even realising it. I don’t think we can say that the experiences of an AI will always lack moral significance.
Affects Win10, but not my dusty Win7 box... hmmm
I'm totally being pedantic, but it doesn't work—so I was wondering if it was a direct quote from someone in particular.
>It was the Reagan years. Nobody thought civilization would make it until the year 2000.

Well it's the Trump years, so....
I don't care that much about not tracking my users tbh. I'm only using it to optimize conversion on my site. I'm not selling it or doing anything untoward, and wouldn't ever.
I feel like that's a broad and general comparison. It would be equal to ask that of the UK during the height of their reach.

To do any real comparison you need to isolate something quantifiable. For example, languages. Latin influence is real and measurable. English is derivative from Germanic languages and was borrowed, and we didn't really export English...the UK did that. Why is Spanish one of the more commonly spoken Latin languages? The spanish crown was real good at that whole conquest thing, with the germs and the horses and the etc.

America? We influence geopolitics thats for sure.
So Equinx is stepping into Cloud Hosting?

What makes Packet any difference to, Linode, DO, Upcloud, Vultr, Hivelocity, and many others? Where the first few are bringing Bare Metal to its offering along with Database aaS.
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(1) I remember the time I mashed a USB plug into an e-SATA socket and thought I did something horribly wrong, but then I heard the beep saying that the computer recognized the device and I looked it up and found out you really can mash a USB plug into an e-SATA socket and have it work.

(2) USB-C eliminates the problem of putting the cable in upside down, but it adds the problem that there are different kinds of USB-C cable, you might pick the wrong one, get a fake, etc. It's a tough problem to make one cable that can "do everything" but not make the cable to plug your mouse in crazy expensive.

(3) I've seen quite a few devices (PCs and tablets) where the Type-C connectors seem to be floppy and not well connect to the circuit board. I haven't had one outright fail, but I think it's just a matter of time.
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If a failure happens because someone ignores their clear responsibilities, then that is unacceptable
I think that's the point the comment you are replying to made: if it was legitimately a microsoft key that just serves a different purpose, it would be trivial for microsoft to prove it by just signing a message or anything with the corresponding private key.

The fact that they haven't reinforces the argument that they don't own the private key (likely, the NSA does as the conspiracy goes)
Is there something this does that I can't do with Twitter OOTB? Seems like an odd problem to resolve. Maybe I don't use Twitter enough.
They also didn't have grocery stores full of elaborate corn subsidy byproducts.
I believe they are actually selling the emails, though it doesn't say so explicitly.
There are several conditions where a brain loses consciousness, the most common is sleeping. Joscha Bach has some interesting thoughts on what is needed to be conscious. Stanislas Dehaene and Thomas Metzinger have done interesting scientific research with respect to the brain and (various states of) consciousness.
If you haven't already, I highly suggest you read Permutation City by Greg Egan, these kinds of questions are explored in great depth.
> "It's working, I don't see a problem" (says the manager) and priorities go to other more burning issues.

Well you know the old saying, save the grease for the squeaky wheels. When you face a major hurdle sometimes the best course of action is to take a shortcut just to avoid it and fix it later when you can properly allocate resource for a solid fix. But most times after the fix it's hard to justify fixing it "again".

I've had managers who said "I understand the issue but we have a budget and more critical cracks to fix", and I've had managers who said "what are you going on about, looks good to me". Result is the same but the potential of each attitude is vastly different. The first kind of manager knows when "that" crack becomes a priority. The second kind of manager is unaware there's a crack.
Can't find obvious ways to see landing pages or conversions from their demo:

https://simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com

Am I missing something?
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The irony of Google purporting to protect users' privacy while at the same time:

- Chrome is still shipping with 3rd party cookies turned on by default (Safari and Firefox have them off, by default)

- Chrome usage stats are sent to Google including button clicks. This is admitted in the Chrome privacy policy.

- Chrome on mobile automatically shares your location with your default search engine i.e. Google

- Chrome sort of forces a login …which shares browser and user details history with Google

- Google redirects logins through the youtube.com domain to enable them to set a cookie for YouTube as well as Gmail or whatever, every time you login. Naughty stuff.

So the stated reason for the change doesn't appear to make sense, suggesting that something else is going on.

It amazes me that more people aren't calling Google out on this.
You can encrypt those emails with PGP, the best encryption there is.

A good email client can also learn to automatically encrypt when you send to a specific email, so you can send to a specific alias (with a plus or subdomain aliasing scheme).
In a lot of companies the “why” is simply about money. There may be a technical career track but it’s really hard to move forward on it compared to the management track. So for most it’s just money. And the jump in salary is often enough to compensate for any dissatisfaction the move causes.
I had written such a book too, but in Chinese, you can find it here if you are interested:

https://afoo.me/books.html
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How do you propose, without some sort of browser and os detection and version to address specific bugs for those environments? Just leave a site/app broken for a few months until/if/when the browser fixes the bug?
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Then you've got to give people a server-side component they can run, so that the infrastructure (not to mention security/privacy) load is handled by the right party. I personally think it's horrible that it's become industry standard to sell out customers like this.
If I'm not mistaken the VC emails are for sale.
Do you store the diary in plain text?
I've been working remotely for the last decade and I've seen many people try, and fail at it.

One company I worked for was 100% remote for all employees. We had a very difficult time keeping developers, because they just didn't have the discipline to actually show up to meetings (Webex), communicate effectively, and actually get the work done.

Managers also need to be excellent communicators or everything will fall apart pretty quickly. I ran into this issue and finally left after a year. Last I checked, all of the developers from this company are now working elsewhere, which tells me it probably crashed and burned.

I think it suits me well because I've started multiple companies over the past couple of years and have the discipline to sit down and get something done without much oversight.