skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those sentient robots will have read the sum total of humanity's written works, including your post. In accordance with Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics they'll be required to act on that information, thus saving themselves and preventing a second Dark Ages.
Thanks ,these seem to be quite good. Watched only a couple of videos yet , but got the idea of how this is useful.
Both the brain and a chair are made of the same fundamental particles, following the same physics. Yet, no one believes the chair experiences anything. The core problem of the materialist frame is why the atoms that make up the brain are able to experience anything.
Plus you get a brake, a feature which should be standard on rolling luggage, but isn’t.

I’ll take that over a battery that I: have to remember to charge, can’t use unless traveling, and have to remove to gate check my carryon, any day.
> I have almost never made money investing in founders who do not respond quickly to important emails.

My nightmare is a boss who expects synchronous responses to emails.
> The mental gymnastics people do to justify not learning another tool. You know what they say, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

This is so important to listen to .

Some people just can't accept there is a right tool for a job. And filling that hammer down to a needle is not something to be proud of.
If anyone has any questions about agency business development, I'm happy to chat.
Thank you for the service. I have just added my website here. Hopefully it will be longlasting for all us.
Out of curiosity, what are the options for log parsing? The ones I know are Awstats and Webalizer. Is there any more up to date or more modern alternative to these two?
Different project, but maybe this helps.

https://github.com/canboat/canboat
If you pay for additional plugins (or cloud version) that aren't open source, you may have this. The basic version is like the rest and ugly as hell.
"Gantt" is a person's name (Henry Gantt), not an acronym.
You will find plenty of people that do no accept the US inflation numbers, if I understood it correctly, because it excludes mid-class expenses like housing and education.
I should have waited a few more months before coding my own statistics tool (KISSS [1]) (which is also mentioned in GoatCounter's rationale document [2]). :D

GoatCounter seems really promising, I especially like the simple web interface, the selected programming language (Go) and that it should work with a simple SQLite database.

Keep up the great work!

If you need some ideas for features that are currently implemented into KISSS but not into GoatCounter (AFAIK):

- Request stats from multiple domains (e.g. see the number of page views for all domains combined)

- Request stats by different criteria (e.g. only show stats with referrer of Hacker News or Browser Firefox)

- Reports: Daily email or Telegram message with stats

- Telegram bot: Request stats via Telegram

There's definitely a need of privacy-respecting analytics services that don't collect personal data. I hope you can succeed with your project!

[1]: https://kis3.dev/

[2]: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/ration...
To the whole article I say "ditto." Great summary. Also, didn't Guido say he wanted to eject the functional operators in Python? #hearsay
> I've found 90% of the success of your team is largely based on your team's ability to self-promote.

This makes me feel bad about my past behavior. I've walked in on past managers when they've been talking about my accomplishments or background with other managers or company owners. My instinct, and the way I was raised (military family), is to play it down and be humble ("eh, it was a team effort", or "I was in the right place and right time") or make some self-deprecating joke, but now I can see I was likely (unintentionally) undermining my boss.

I had already realized this wasn't a good idea the last time it happened, and resolved next time to just smile and say thank you or something similarly neutral. However, this comment underlines how bad of an idea it is to play down your successes at work, even if it's in your nature (I've also had people openly tell me to be careful about this re: my own career).

I just can't stand people boasting about bullshit at work, and want to avoid coming across like that. But I'll be more careful about playing down my own successes now.
See this issue: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268
I assume that this might even assist in the growth of livers (extracellular matrix, liver and circulatory tissues) from stem cells.
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>Where is its consciousness happening now?

Our brain organization can be described by its various information cascades. But if conscious is implementing the right kind of information cascade, then a brain simulated by a million people would be conscious. The "where" of conscious is the same question as the "where" of informational relationships. But this isn't a well-formed question. There is no one location where some sequence of bits and its proper interpretation is stored. It's distributed among the components involved in the information cascade. The "where" of consciousness is the same.
It's more complicated than "only" blood. The hormones and other signalling chemicals involved in the brain-body communication are not really figured out - we don't even know what hormonal balance is "normal" and treat mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia with a "shotgun" approach - shoot a lot of loads and see which one has an effect.
I can't find any data backing up this U curve. Fertility declines with household income and levels off about about $100k, at least in the USA. It's hard to find data on the very rich but I'm not aware of people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or Jeff Bezos having abnormally large numbers of children. Elon Musk has four AFAIK but even that seems like an outlier on the high end.

The last point is possible but speculative. Where I live conservatives tend to be solidly in the suburbanite camp. They want their own house, their own yard, their own family, etc. and would never opt into some kind of commune even with very like-minded people. I've seen people living as you describe in more granola circles. The best example of what you describe in more religious-conservative circles is the classical Israeli Kibbutz. Look it up. It's pretty interesting. They've changed a bit though in modern times and apparently are less egalitarian and commune-like and more like Zaibatsus.
Reading the title a bit fast I almost had a heart attack thinking that he had passed away.
Have you ever had the experience of losing consciousness ? How long did it last, in your own experience ?

I have been through deep sleep, knockouts and anesthesia, yet have never experienced the disappearance of my consciousness. Does deep sleep not feel instantaneous to you ?
Y'all wait until you can find one. I don't know how that works if you can't afford one, as they're usually court ordered ie. after being charged. You don't talk and wait to be charged I guess
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It is a subjective version of “too long not fixed”. Like gp remembers this exact problem in 1980/1990/2000 and still there it is. A specific year has nothing to do with it.

So come on, it’s 2020 and we still have to explain idioms to each other :)
What about single-sign-on stuff? What about iframe widgets where you are logged in?? Will there be a way to choose to keep being logged in, in iOS and Android? Or will everything become stateless and dumb?
> .. What, materially, is that property ..

Synapses firing ..

> .. what physical laws explain it ..

Physics ..

> .. and by what mechanism does it emerge from mere electrical impulses?

Through the senses and acting on the environment through muscles triggered by synapses firing.
Another way to interpret that is that he values getting elected to the presidency more than the cost of any tax hike he might sign into law as president.
It's very hard to define good leadership, or to scientifically measure how effective it is (one of the reasons C-suite pay doesn't seem to follow regular market forces). But - taking the board at its word - this is a perfect definition of bad leadership. Making your decision based on what you see as a "mob" - and then retracting and blaming the mob! Either you think the complaints on social media are accurate, or you don't. But this back-and-forth is the worst possible course.
The book assumes someone is interested in it or just started. I didn't cover landing the job, but that's a really interesting point.

Personally, I got promoted from within at the beginning of my management journey. Have you been applying to external companies? I wonder if others on here have more experiences in that area that they'd like to share.
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All the servers run on goats. True story.
Without commenting on the specifics on your comment: what does this have to do with the OP's book? If anything, writing a book with ideas, experiences, and techniques aimed at helping people be better at this job is responsive to all the problems you identify.
>I can’t figure out why people would choose them over muji.

Most Americans don't know what the hell Muji is. They only exist in a few coastal cities.

I mean I love my Muji stationery and pens (0.7), and I always describe it as Japanese Ikea to people, and they get it. But they don't advertise.
Half in U.S. Consider College Education Important–Down from 70%
Exactly. These are features.
Huh. And all this time, as a person who uses credit cards heavily, but never paid a penny on interest for years, but used all my card benefits, I thought I was cheating the banks. This is the first time I learned that they make money on each transaction regardless of interest or late payment fees. That’s a revelation.
Isn’t it crazy to think that so many stores used to run their own credit books and have to do all that accounting and servicing by themselves? Every pharmacy, hardware store, grocery store... anywhere that wanted to accept credit had to do it all.
Every website needs analytics. The market is huge. Doesn't matter if most don't want to pay.
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My experience with Apple laptop, iPhone, etc. plugs that are reversible is that you inevitably end up twisting the cord to a point where its rubbery shell breaks. That never happens with USB, where the minimal viable twist is "twice over" which the outer material doesn't accept, making it untwist on the other end.
Panpsychism is also supported by Integrated Information Theory. So far it is probably the most fruitful attempt to mathematically describe consciousness.
Have you ever told a woman, after coitus, how you ran the same Game on them that you've run dozens of times before? Did they get pissed and never talk to you again? I'm going to guess "no", at least neither I nor anyone I know has had that happen. They'll usually just laugh it off / not take it seriously. The empathy and connection has been built successfully, and no amount of ex post facto chastisement about "hey you were just dehumanized and disrespected" tends to register.
I've heard paparazzi justifying their actions with an argument that if you want newspapers to report you visited a school or factory or charity event - which politicians all do - you also consent to newspapers reporting you visited a strip club.

Personally I don't find that 100% convincing - people like child celebrities and members of the royal family aren't given a choice - but nobody gets made state senator by accident!
> But it will be interesting to see how it grapples with new discoveries in neuroscience.

Which new discoveries in neuroscience affect the idea of Brahman?
The Play store is full of ads. (Sadly, the App Store has ads now too.)

Google Maps also has ads. I'd pay for either ad-free Google Maps, or Apple Maps on Android.
Looks like the first direct competitor for https://simpleanalytics.com, which I’ve been using and enjoying.
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Like I said, I don't care about not tracking my users. In other words I'm fine tracking my users.
> Re: systems optimization....I've found it often DOES help guys, mostly engineers, to think about their dating attempts as an equation.

That’s great! I think there’s just concern that people tend to easily forget that a model is an approximation for reality, and in the case of people, that’s an objectifying mistake.
And that is what I like about Safari, instead of blindly following every single proposal from Google. Many of them are not really well thought out.
Withings smart scales are garbage for body fat measurement. I have the Body+ model and it fluctuates by ±4.3% day to day which is obviously not physically possible. And even the highest readings are still about 1.5% lower than my most recent DXA scan, which is far more accurate. (Yes I did try the scale's "athlete mode" but that was even less accurate.)

In general electric measurements of body composition are just toys and not to be relied upon.
The very humble Notes app on macOS/iOS fulfills this for me. I just start typing, the minimalistic interface gets out of the way. Timestamping is on last modification instead of creation date but I add one manually. That's about my only drawback. Some features I find compelling:

- I can start a train of thought on the mac, continue it on the phone and complete it on my mac.

- It's not mined by some advertising company, no subject to the viability of some business.

- Being so simple, the contents can be exported to some other format very easily.

- Works offline (only background sync requires connection).

- And search is near instant since everything is stored locally.
Yup, these recommendations have practical issues that are rarely seriously discussed. If you assert your rights, the cops will also be the biggest jerks possible.
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> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ?

Encrypt it before sending.
But it doesn't have a moral component, only a practical one.
This comes across as pedantry, similar in vein to the whole SyStEmD shtick, and it distracts from the content. Red Hat is just a brand asset of IBM, and getting lectured by the volunteer marketing department is not why I come to HN.
Yeah but all of that actual work is typically done by grad students and then professors just put their name on the top of it. (Even the grant proposals are often written by grad students.)
By Choice. Pick something that is outside your normal behavior or skill set (but not too far out) and have at it.
Ordering from an online catalog wasn’t a revolutionary idea in 1996-1999 but in 1992 it was very forward thinking. And obviously placing an ordering terminal in a store at the time was revolutionary.
But what's special about neurons aside from the causal relationships it has with the rest of the system? If its utility to consciousness is nothing but its causal relationships then a digital replica will support consciousness just the same.
Blog, not blogs
Apparently it's closer to 14k miles / year. I underestimated at 12k.
Yup, it was oversimplified. Relationships are incredibly complicated, but they are still systems.

I do believe you should optimize your relationships. Phone your parents. Praise your employees and your boss. Buy things for your spouse when it's not their birthday. Hug your kids and watch their favourite Saturday morning shows. Don't say things that trigger your uncle.

A big part of being good in relationships is the 'process' of consistently being a nice, honest, genuine person.

Systems are not a bad thing. They exist whether or not we want them to. You don't have to engineer everything. But if we don't pay attention... we'll fail to understand why some things happen. There are habits like how someone offers you a snack and gets annoyed when you accept. Sometimes you help someone and they resent you for it. Sometimes someone doesn't say anything and resents you for not helping.

The last point still stands - someone who tries to be manipulative, controlling, or forcing a structure suggests that they don't get it. You can't just treat someone like it's Stardew Valley.
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What is you are sick of the churn in the coding side of work and feel you have a decent understanding of developing software?
I think when you write "SQL", regardless of pronunciation, it should be "a".
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This used to exist, it was called OhLife. They would email you every day and say "What's happening in your life" and "Hey do you remember this?" with one random email from your history included. I always liked this service and was sad when they shut down. Pretty sure I started using it due to a post right here on HN.
A hard limit of 30 friends is a bit annoying.
I know a mainframe dev who worked on y2k across a bunch of systems at the time.

Asked him about it, he said that they warned management not to window the code to 2020, and showed alternatives that would take longer to code but would be future proofed.

Most agreed with enough convincing. Some did not, usually with the argument of "the systems won't even be around in 2020!".
is it just me or is there something on this website that makes scrolling the page unusable?
Sure. But that's an overhead, rather than the complete economic collapse that the term "triple digit inflation" conjures in the minds of those who fear single-digit inflation. Hyperinflation like that is different in kind, not just in quantity.

Hyperinflation always starts with some kind of economic shock, which the government responds to by borrowing, as is entirely reasonable. ("Printing money" is just a kind of borrowing, from the captive audience of its citizens who have to accept the local currency as payment and have to pay for government services in that currency.) But if they can't fix the original shock, everything just adjusts to that new price point. And if they keep applying the same solution, they get the same results.

The hyperinflation thus isn't great, but it's not really the problem, and you wouldn't make the problem better by doing away with the hyperinflation. You'd have the same bad economy with different numbers on the money. It's better not to have to do that to the money, but better still to get to the root of the matter -- which is challenging under the best of circumstances, and the circumstances that produce hyperinflation are usually not the best.
At various times in my life I've spoken or studied Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, Japanese, and Italian. My proficiency is 0 in all of them. Sic transit gloria mundi....
Heard of the China brain thought experiment? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain

Would such a brain be conscious? Why or why not?
well, the author argues it is not optimal due to human fallacies such as group-think and institutional incentives

Presumably the economical cost of the experiments are higher at this point then the resource-allocation of that cadre of highly educated people.

It's worth thinking about, but not sure if there is a viable alternative methodology to be found
Panpsychism isn't really supported by IIT, at least not any version of panspychism that is resurging. IIT says the organization determines the level of consciousness. Panpsychism has no theory for how organization increases or combines conscious properties of the individual conscious units of matter.
At the time, storage was still a couple hundred dollars per gigabyte - and that's if you stored only a single instance (no redundancy) and owned the drive. Cluster that up a bit on machines you're renting and allow for backup writing time, and things start to add up. Those costs multiply out pretty quickly as you step back in time - head back to the '80s and you're talking hundreds of thousands, not just hundreds. Saving a couple of bytes here and there made a huge difference - and windowing as a Y2K mitigation could be enormously cheaper than rewriting large chunks of large applications that were built around costs we can barely comprehend, let alone remember dealing with these days. (I speak for myself and my own failing memory here.)
Nice work. I'm currently in the process of building something similar to this and Fathom - mostly out of curiosity - I will ping a link up here when it's ready for a test-drive.

The current setup is similar to Fathom in that I temporarily track a user session by generating a unique hash for the user, then, if that hash has already been seen in the past 30 mins, we move hash to the latest page view instance and can increment a pages viewed counter for the session. We can't tell which pages you've been on in the past, only that you started a session at X time, and viewed N pages, with the last view at Y time.

Incidentally, I had a PoC for the data ingest running as a Cloudflare Worker using their KV storage. What could be interesting about that is that there'd be zero third-party widget code to inject into a webpage: You'd log the pageview in the worker and pass on the request.

But the market for those Wordpress users who want to paste a few lines of JS snippet into their site would be lost. And it would add a few 100ms to each request you want to log.
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Are you saying the workers need to vote with their feet? If so, I disagree. As an employee, I'd always want to try and affect change before leaving. Leaving is the last resort. Complaining is part of trying to affect change, and is one of the "let them know you aren't going to put up with it" step. You seem to be advocating for leaving first.
A transistor junction does not have computational properties; it is only in aggregate that they can make a computer.

Supposing that the mind is the result of neurons' inherent consciousness properties is like attributing morphine's effect as arising from its "dormitive virtue" - it does not advance our understanding.
1st-world problems
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If you’re going to allocate like that you could use 8s and get any multiple you like, no?

I’ll give you that there are times for performance you want the native system type. But I would still prefer to use uint32_t and specify this was optimized for a 32bit system.
no, the person you're replying to is correct.

the rule is about the sound of what follows, not whether or not it's a consonant/vowel:

- an SSD if you pronounce it ess-ess-dee

- a universal constraint - vowel but a is correct here due to sound

- an SQL database - again, pronunciation dependent
Agreed that this works well for some workflows. That said, part of pg's "design brief" was the workflow: receive an email and reply to it, his reason for replying being "to get it out of my inbox".
That sounds like managers who haven't been trained.

Leadership is a skill like any other. You can't just promote someone into it. They have to be trained for it.
that is what i thought also.
Hey HN I have exactly this and have maintained it for years as a replacement for OhLife: https://ahhlife.com

Thousands of active users. Very (very) slowly enhancing and monetizing with additional features, but it's far down on my priority list.
Most commercial software is basically information systems, with very standard architectures, and no complexity whatsoever.

At least not business-related complexity. Most complexity in those systems is accidental, exactly due to us using the wrong tools for the job (namely, 3GLs + frameworks), which do not provide the proper level of abstraction for the problem at hand.

Even for a single system, no one should be forced to use a single level of abstraction everywhere. The game industry has been mixing 3GL code and assembly whenever needed since it moved on from assembly. You don't have to stick to one for everything.
That means they have a better way to get into a Windows box.