skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the only way those notifications should be allowed to even be prompted for is after pinning a site to your home screen.

I’m not sure if iOS does this for any other permissions, but it would be natural to allow additional prompts for access to APIs that are otherwise banned - based on if the web app is pined / “installed”.
Blockchain Casino
I also remember a CSS bug Safari 4 or 5 had with tables and touch scrollbars that we had to resort to UA detection for - it's not always possible to feature detect bugs.
I've always been amazed how livers can regenerate. But I recall reading the new liver is not a perfect copy there's some loss of function. I tried to find out what it was that I read but I can't find anything about it.
Yep. Pilot Wave theory is underdeveloped theory, but it helps to develop intuition. Walking droplets are even better for that. IMHO, it's better to use QM to solve QM problems in science, but use walking droplets and Pilot Wave Theory to develop intuition for others. Walking droplets are easy to demonstrate. Double slit experiment can be reproduced in school lab. This way, quantum physics can be taught in school for children of age 12+, so they will be ready to solve much more complex problems when they will be PhD.

Entanglement is hard problem for PWT. Photos of entangled photons[0] are intriguing, because they look similar to behavior of walking droplets in some experiments (see dotwave.org feed). I hope, someone will be able to reproduce entanglement in macro. Currently, my top priority is to reproduce Stern–Gerlach experiment in macro (I suspect that interference between external field and particle wave creates channel, which guides particle into spot, but it better to see it once). Second priority is creation of "photons" in macro. Entanglement will be third. IMHO, all of them require microgravity to reproduce in 3D.

[0]: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-unveil-first-ever-i...
I am not surprised. She somehow was able to bleed her employees dry for business benefits. People at power love someone like that. Of course they're not gonna let her go so easily.
I believe there can be better and worse explanation, even if they predict the same. I think interpretations of quantum mechanics are of this kind.
Are there alternative methods on buying your book? I don't have PayPal and I don't have a credit card.
I think philosophy has to find gaps in what science can do in order to justify its existence. Some things are untestable -- what are we supposed to do with those things? There are qualitative and normative problems that science can't help us with.

I generally agree with you though -- we'd be better off if we just focused more on science, and describing things accurately, instead of just coming up with wild ass ideas. But it still is good to acknowledge and be aware of known limitations with that approach.
not to mention the simplest one celled animals do exhibit thinking problem solving functions despite not having neurons
Depends on whether you pronounce it see-kew-lite or ess-kew-lite :)
Show HN: Tool to organize and refine ideas – Walling
Ask HN: Are the potential upsides worth working at poor work/life startup?
To clarify, I’m a New Grad in Data Science this year with 1 (not sexy) internship and a few hackathons on my resume.
Why so much dislike for this? It's a theory that pushes on some of the foundational assumptions we make. Maybe it resonates and maybe not. But just being open to a new set of ideas means we can maybe learn something new and interesting. Or not and that's fine too. People seem angry that someone else would talk about an idea they don't currently agree with.
Oh boy. Right now, I am implementing a workaround for websockets in Safari on iOS 13 — apparently, they've somehow broken their already non-standard "x-webkit-deflate-frame" compression scheme and can't properly send fragmented messages anymore when it's enabled: they mess up the zlib stream at the start of the second fragment (or maybe at the end of the first fragment).
Finicity is actually the old Intuit screen scraping tech. It's been around almost as long as Yodlee. Not to impugn legacy tech or anything, but I suspect there's some cleanup to do there.
'The Dream Machine' by M. Mitchell Waldrop chronicles the trials and tribulations of the people who built the first computers and computer networks. Great read if you want to learn more about how computing and the internet were started!
It's also how languages like Scala become "everything and the kitchen sink" multi-paradigm monsters. People making the tool want it to do everything, so that they can get all the developers, so they make it a functional object-oriented imperative procedural declarative hodgepodge of 15 different barely-mutually-operable sub-languages, and you get a mess.
You missed the meaning of that idiom entirely. They don’t want to hear “because it’s made of blue stuff” because it’s wrong and useless, not because it is distasteful.
> businesses got hooked on (and very good at) investing their money

but what do they invest in? Surely for an investment to pan out, something is produced which is then sold!?
Consider the following: your consciousness, that experience you have of being, the one that --in the minds of many-- separates you from a computer programmed to behave like you, cannot exist under your model because it cannot be tested for. Consider also that this statement is ridiculous, because you clearly do have an experience of being. What does this tell us?

Empiricism and the scientific method are a philosophy for modelling reality, and they've undoubtedly done a bang up job of progressing human understanding, but that model is also incomplete. Think of it like Newtonian gravitation, another undoubtedly very useful model that, it turns out, is also incomplete.
http://archive.is/pxyUE
Show HN: I Love It Ship It
Windows 7 hits end of support
It uses handwavy definitions, it's untestable and makes a lot of assumptions without providing any new predictions.
>There's plenty of value in the subjective

But in turn I can say everything you know and experience about the world is subjective. It came through your senses and you have no way to know if it was the same with other people.
> I am hesitant to build software that already exists because it seems sort of pointless in the grand scheme of the universe

It's unlikely what you build will be identical unless you intend to make an exact copy. You really should target a niche that is being ignored and have something that differentiates your software from existing competitors.

That said, I don't think competing on cost as your only difference is a good idea at all. If your software is solving a real business problem that brings in big income, why would a business care about saving a (relatively) small amount of money? If you become popular, could the big player wipe you out by offering a cheaper price tier? Is price going to be enough to make businesses take a risk of moving away from the established player? Will your low cost make paid advertising infeasible?

Also, don't underestimate the difference in the time it takes to build a quick prototype that mostly works, and building something robust + user friendly that people will be willing to pay money for.
Use 3D printing in daily life
It has an administrative cost that would be better spend elsewhere.
> Those degrees count just as much

Well, there is some snobbery floating around out there. In my experience those degrees (like the one I have) don’t count just as much, but maybe 80% as much.
Well apples to apples would be one year studying CS at Lambda School then three years on the job vs four years of university.

Financially you’re wildly better off attending Lambda School, and I think you’d be hard-pressed to make an argument that the four years of university provide a vastly superior education to a year of Lambda School and three years working as a software engineer.
+1 for Kastrup. I have read two of his books and his reconciling modern physics with spiritualism is in accord with my beliefs.

Personally, I believe that our universe and possibly many universes in the multi-verse is teaming with life in many planets. Also, just my personal belief, but I think their is some universal creative force/consciousness.
Did this make anyone else think of the "turbo button" you used to get in PCs back in the day? (I know they didn't make your PC faster, but it came to mind!)
>The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator. The raw data comes from Google Trends.

That's the problem, nobody is actively learning Cobol these days and nobody knows how much is running out there in the wild, because none of the big banks or credit companies will actually admit it.

You joke but the jobs are still out there, still being posted and companies are still hiring. https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/job/irving/apps-systems-engin...
This article was very enjoyable. The connection between dream state emotions and musical emotions are undoubtable for me. I've always assumed that they felt so similar because the brain was practicing finding meaning in chaos by recognizing patterns in the chaos, then organizing and categorizing those patterns until meaning can be associated (through previous experience maybe).

However, I do have to say that I did disagree with a few assumptions the article made:

>However dreams are never about the strangeness or the alteration of reality.

Many nightmares that I have are actually about the strangeness of the dream itself. I realize that something is not normal, and instead of determining that I am experiencing a dream (and thus start entering a lucid dream state), I start feeling like I must have lost my sanity.
This can be a truly terrifying experience when things really go off the rails.
I wonder if this can be seen on Google Maps via satellite? What are the coordinates?
Okay.so let’s hypothetically say I buy your argument that providing a reasonable default is bad UX.

In what other places of application development should we also stop providing reasonable defaults and force the user to choose instead?

- country? city?

- localization?

- number for local support hotline?

- email of logged in user?

- type of currency for payments?

No? Then why is having a reasonable default for downloads bad?
An interesting thought experiment is to imagine an incredibly-detailed computer simulation of a brain, down to the level of individual cells and neurotransmitters. (While this is beyond our current capabilities, it is in principle possible.) Hook the brain up to some decent IO devices, and you’d have an extremely human-like “AI”. (I’m glossing over some tricky details like, do you start with a fetus/baby brain and let it grow up, or somehow clone an existing brain...tricky no doubt, but again, in principle solvable.)

So the question is, this simulated brain, which is behaving very similarly indeed to a biological brain: does it have consciousness? Does it feel?

On the one hand, you might argue of course not, it’s just a computer; computers “obviously” don’t have feelings. It’s just bunch of bits. A precise collection of patterns of electrical charges evolving in time according to rigid rules.

On the other hand, is our own biological brain any different? We don’t think of a few cells as having consciousness, but somehow the broader collection does. Can the biological substrate of the complex arrangements really matter?

Maybe consciousness is like a “soul”, it’s a completely untestable, untouchable “ghost” that can inhabit anything. So maybe everything really does feel, in its own way? Maybe my computer already has some form of consciousness...
I think you are simplifying the concept of consciousness a bit too much and are too hard in the paint for a very un-nuanced interpretation of behavioralism.

Your position would be better described as consciousness is an illusion or consciousness does not exist. It has compelling elements but I find it a hard sell.
I don't see how that's possible considering the proof of Korey's unprofessional communications.
I'd go with web server logfiles plus https://goaccess.io/

Start with the simplest thing that could possibly work and expand to other solutions only if needed.
Who are the main VCs in Australia?
For topside steel, the Navy uses needle guns to keep things from going out of control [0]. You have to prime over it the same day or you get the privilege of doing it all over again!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJmI7R9DgM
I have a slightly different take: Software quality is fairly consistent. But when software changes infrequently, the user can create work-arounds for the broken stuff. When software changes frequently, you don’t have sufficient time to create work-arounds, leaving you frustrated with bugs you can’t deal with.
What Makes a Good Readme?
It was MS who named it, probably
Happened to me once some years ago. It wasn't entirely surprising, things hadn't been going well for various reasons. I happened to see the ad, and just quit.
I apologize for making it emotional. I didn't mean to; I only offered my grandmother's story as a cautionary anecdote. The truth is, it happened a long time ago and I've already found closure.

I hope you find medications that help you.
Rather tangential, but the band ISIS had an album called Panopticon.
“FSB's decision to classify the work came 5 years after the EU project ended. The “absolutely illicit retroactive approach … increases the vulnerability” of Russian scientists working in areas that might have military or other sensitive applications, says Boris Altshuler, a theoretical physicist and human rights activist at the Russian Academy of Sciences's P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute.”

Yikes.
Just to add to what you said, in 2020 you still can't set a systemwide browser on iOS, something you've been able to do on every other platform since the mid 1990s.
This is the exact wrong direction we should take if we want to have any hope of understanding consciousness. Rather than pass a bong around and declare the whole universe is conscious, we should question the consciousness even of entities whose consciousness we currently take for granted. We should ask: is it really true that all humans are conscious[1], or is there something specific that triggers consciousness? For example, maybe consciousness is caused by a certain benevolent bacteria living in our guts, and anyone without that bacteria isn't conscious. If we refuse to even question these things, then of course we'll never come up with any answer.

[1] Of course, it goes without saying that for ethical purposes we should act under the assumption that all humans are conscious.
Why do we vote for things that align with our beliefs? Shouldn't we instead vote for the things that challenge us to better understand the truth regardless of what our personal beliefs happen to be? Not saying your beliefs are wrong, just potentially your actions.
> Often, this comes back to bite when I learn that other managers think the team should be managed differently.

I’m going through this right now at my company, and it’s completely devastating our engineering org’s morale. I’ve never experienced anything like this.
But... but... this politician said it was a hoax!
Art has plenty of value, in that people enjoy it. This theory probably has some value, in the same direction. Some people just enjoy talking about these philosophical ideas.

It's hard to exactly word my objection. I feel like people view philosophers as being in pursuit of the truth -- trying to understand and reason about how reality is. They have this reputation in a way that's entirely different from the reputation of artists, who folks generally recognize as producing work that is not claiming any kind of authority about reality. At one point in time, that may have even been the case. But I think, at least for philosophers who promulgate ideas like this one, the level of authority should be similar to that of an artist, or maybe a poet. The philosopher is not talking about reality, he's just putting some words together in a way that is interesting to some people.

(Your view of religion, IMO, both shortchanges it and gives it too much credit. I suspect most religious adherents would at least claim to believe that their religion does make predictions about reality that are or at least will be testable. Perhaps you won't be able to conduct that test while living, or at the present time. But at least most sects of Islam and Christianity expect that the god of their religion will at some point impinge on our material reality, and has done in the past. I am less familiar with Shinto, Buddhism, and Hinduism, but I'd be surprised to hear that most adherents of these religions view their religion's claims as generically and permanently untestable.)
Ask HN: Eastern Europe company, solo consultant. Could I access a VC?
Incorporated company in Eastern Europe country. No employees, started 6 years ago. Working with any technology needed, no fancy development, customers are happy and more important - problems get solved. I charge about $20/hr. I always have work in progress and never got a customer that negotiated the fees. I like to do this, I learn things, I get to solve real-life problems but I feel that I could be making much more money if I'd charge more.

I don't have any magnificent idea, however I do know that in my country many small businesses need CRMs, ERPs and custom software. So it's basically a lot of work to do.

My question is, can I access a VC like the US does? Where could I find a partner? Where can I educate on how VCs work (in depth)?
TFA's use case is even simpler than that. It's, "Here, go fetch http://my.domain/some/mp4/file.mp4 and play it." Which was also a common way to share video once upon a time, and something that still happens on occasion. But, realistically, I am guessing that the vast majority consumers would never think of it, and may not even have the ability to set that up.

Uploading the video to YouTube is typically a much simpler way to get the job done these days, because it works off of things you likely already have and require only moderate technical skills, while setting up a server that can serve files over HTTP(s) on your home network is the kind of thing that would get your parents to start calling you a "computer whiz" in public again.
Here's a Republic that is inhabited, has an economy, and even accepts visitors! His Excellency, The President (Kevin) is super nice. He used to host at the hosting company I used to work at (that used to exist) back in the day. I used to live just miles from it and never visited. I intend to change that at some point :)

http://molossia.org/
Mildly relevant: Peter Watts' novel Blindsight
I don't think I missed anything, if you already decided what is wrong - this is not a honest search - you just want to find something which satisfies your views.
I like how she didn't admit that some feedback wasn't thoughtful or constructive, just that it could have been more thoughtful or constructive. It's implicitly stating "I already was thoughtful and constructive".
I am not OP, but upvote for the source.

Just a note: graph does not start from zero, so growth is exaggerated.

Current value compared to worst: 360$ (2019) versus 309$ (1981) - 16.5% increase in 38 years. Taking first value of the graph in 1979 of 335$ gives - 7.5% increase in 40 years. IMHO it's abysmal result.

I hope this positive trend will continue, because if there will be some kind of downward correction - we will be back in 1979.
The internet of things is changing the world
This is the relevant data:

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2019/11/2...

Median doesn't tell enough of the story for what most of the population is experiencing.
Please use the latest supported browser.

There, I just told you to upgrade without sniffing UA.
If you saw a library for say Image Processing or cattle husbandry for Java/JVM would you insist that the project provide a description of “Java”? I’m going to guess if you’re being honest you’d say no. CAN really is not an obscure thing at all. Also it is ones of those things that if you don’t know what it is, you probably don’t need this. Otherwise the google burden is minimal for the curious.
Nope, but it could be used to R&D a new tech that would make mandatory connections to nearby 5G to some "telemetry" band where all sensory information would go, regardless of whether you like it or not. Similarly to how SMS type 0 is handled by baseband processor in every single cell phone already - you don't even know you received/sent hundreds of those. It's not like there isn't some precedent already most people don't know about...
Because it is obscurantist nonsense that explains nothing.
Isn't this the idea behind Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials?
Spoken like the stereotypical materialist.
Yes, I think the only thing that could bring down the US would be another civil war, but I don't know how big the dissonances between the states are right now.
For those who aren't aware: CGTN is the Chinese version of Russia Today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/business/cctv-china-usa-p...
IMO the name "mkdkr" is too similar to "mkdir", and 'i' and 'k' are even right next to each other on a keyboard.

Also, the "Dot Functions" thing is... odd!
All Citations Aren’t Created Equal
You seem very unaware. This is no assumption:

US: "Consumer debt was approaching $14-trillion after the second quarter of 2019, according to the New York Federal Reserve. It was the 20th consecutive quarter for an increase."

Canada: "Total credit market debt amounted to $2.25 trillion in the second quarter including nearly $1.47 trillion in mortgage debt and $782.9 billion in consumer credit and non-mortgage loans."

AU: "Hovering around 120 per cent of GDP — that is everything the nation produces in a year — Australia's household debt is second only to Switzerland, and we're not too far behind the Swiss. It wasn't always like this, with that debt burden almost trebling in the 28 years since Australia's last recession in the early 1990s."

UK: "Britain’s household debt mountain has reached a new peak, with UK homes now owing an average of £15,385 to credit card firms, banks and other lenders, according to the TUC."
People on our condo board have owned Teslas for years. We are a building that is out in front of it. Coax cable doesn't carry 240V power. This isn't something you can hand-wave away.
There are still girls in churches waiting for a faithful man to lead them to marriage and to a content life in a healthy relationship.
Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics
As opposed to all of the other explanations of consciousness...
A theory of every “thing” – Karl Friston
And what if much of that income is going to proportionally fewer and fewer people?
I think as long as gitlab has a diff API and a file list API it would be pretty simple. Unfamiliar with their APIs though.
The industry has a near-perfect report rate. Only one company missed a report (for a total of 1 missing result out of 629 trials from industry), and half of them never even reported anything late. Take out the worst two offenders, and they do better than literally every single academic and government entity. In terms of average delay, only two academic/government entities do better than any industry entity (save the two outliers).

I'm not going to claim that industry is perfect. But take a look at the graphs. It is a picture of an industry that is generally in compliance (enforcement could perhaps be stepped up), compared to academics and government who appear to believe that compliance does not apply to them.
Was Jesus Christ a materialist? "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." (Matthew 8:22)
So much this. Our time on this Earth is so short. I used to love video games, but now I'm trying to make up for the time I wasted playing Everquest. There's so many experiences out there waiting to be had.