skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get the feeling you aren't aware of the hard problem of consciousness, so I'll leave this here for you to read up on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness. Are you familiar with concepts like qualia? I recommend reading that wiki too.

This is, again, saying a problem is hard, and then concluding that since we can't solve it, the solution is mind! Which again remains a premature conclusion.

> The problem for you is that you still fail to draw a distinction between 2 highly correlated phenomena: the chemical cascade & the perception of red.

No, that's not a failure. That's my entire point. There aren't two phenomena: they are the same thing.

> We can put someone under anesthesia, shine red light into their eyes & they will still have the chemical cascade, but will not experience or perceive red. How do you square this circle?

Surely you can see how inserting a chemical into the brain might change or interfere with the chemical cascade? If you assume that the chemical cascade IS the perception of red, then interfering with the chemical cascade preventing the perception of red makes perfect sense.

> I've looked at brains under the microscope... never once have I seen a red triangle, or green square, or blue circle, yet here they are in my mind. Again your confusing correlation for the thing itself.

I must admit I got a chuckle out of this. Is this what you think I'm claiming? This is definitely not what I'm claiming. I'm just going to quote this so you can't retract it.

> those neural imaging techniques are all largely about correlation, which is my point exactly.

Neural imaging is done with physical machines, which can only detect physical phenomena. "Correlating" means to take two things and show them to be related. So if you're correlating two phenomenon with machinery that can only detect physical phenomena, you can only correlate physical phenomena. If you're claiming that neural imaging shows the correlation between a chemical cascade and the processes of the mind, then the processes of the mind must be a physical phenomenon--which is my point.

> I know it's probably hard for someone who refuses to believe consciousness exists to admit that consciousness does in fact exist as a separate distinct phenomenon, so I won't try too hard to convince you.

I don't refuse to believe in consciousness--consciousness certainly exists, as electrical and chemical processes in the brain. And I wouldn't refuse to believe in consciousness as distinct from electrical and chemical reactions in the brain, if you presented any evidence for that assertion, instead of just repeating it and adding new unfounded claims.

> I'm sure with time you'll make that distinction too.

You are sure of a great many things.
Over 25,000 Citrix (NetScaler) endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-19781
For me, it's all about focus. The internet brings you anything but focus. Our generation have every learning capabilities except focused mind and focus is the important key to learn anything substantially. Yet our attention are fragmented, shattered, and being manipulated everyday by the internet and social media.

The nature of internet is always distracting. Even while you are reading something, you unconsciously thinking about other thing you might do, in a most frictionless way possible -- just a click away. The book, reading in quiet environment, cut that distraction off completely (I mean, technically you can think about hundreds of thing too, but it's not just a click, tap or swipe away)

I used to read tons of article I save in my Pocket app all day, which itself miles better than junk content on social media of course, but even then, at the end of the day I cannot tell myself what I really learn at all — everything feels, rushed, shallow, distracted. I don't know, I found myself never have real 'focus' when I read online, even what I read is good.

Back to your question, IMO, one good books worth more than hundreds of (sometimes marketing-induced) online articles out there. Also, those 'cutting edge' trend is just that, a 'trend'. Thing that just got popular for whatever reason at certain point of time. It comes and goes quickly than you will ever remember. Most trend dies away after a short while and you don't missing anything at all my friend. If that trend is actually good or important, then you'll see it in one way or another anyway, when all the dust settle — the same with all the "news" out there. You don't have to know them at all and still perfectly fine.

On the contrary, good book with good content always stand the test of time. New doesn't always mean good and old doesn't always mean outdated, especially things about how human think about something. You can still learn a lot from wisdom in the past, that doesn't existed in today's fragmented, always-on environment.
The TL;DR seems to be:
Some entity is flying drone swarms in Colorado and Nebraska. You need a number of permits to do so, but none of the entities that have such permits and the right kind of drones are admitting it's them.

So, either someone is lying or someone is flying without a permit. Or, and this is my addition, someone is flying the drones who doesn't need a permit, somehow.
HN is so full of extremely rational men seeking objective truth, they have perfected the art of quickly downvoting any mention of gender and probably found a way to rationalize it.
I can't not explain why but I always have found the document more easy to read and the hygiene macros steal all the fun from lisp.
Autism and LSD-25: Freeing the Most Imprisoned Minds?
> Central bank rate setting is basically an adjustable rate mortgage for states and their entire economic systems.

The debt markets are complex but at a high level, this is an absurd analogy. The debt the author is worried about are largely based upon fixed interest rates for the life of the debt. As such, one can write down on a piece of paper the obligations borrowers have, and they will not change over time due to the structure of the debt.

If one is going to write an article about predictions based upon the interest rate markets, one needs to do better than "wow, look at all this debt, surely it will not be possible for parties to meet their expected obligations!" If we were in a high rate environment, would one argue there is less default risk? It doesn't make sense.

If you're going to make a prediction, make a prediction. Don't just say "countries will default" if you can't explain what chain of causality gets you there. High debt loads with low rates do not cause defaults: other events do, ones that are hard or impossible to predict. So the analysis contains zero real predictions or information, other than claiming that somehow an unexpected crisis will be made worse by the debt. It seems equally likely as not that debt will exacerbate whatever the next crisis is, it seems extremely unlikely that it will be the root cause.
TL;DR
1) We should not obsess with clean code, we can't agree on what clean code is.

2) We should also not write dirty code, we cant' agree on what dirty code exactly is (see all the counter examples)

There are few rules of thumbs that are always true with regards to code quality. Getting sucked in a job or argument where code-cleanliness is the no#1 metric and by distinction the "version" of clean code that your boss is telling you is a hellish way to make a living.

We can usually identify and agree on the two extremes:
The very very very good code, and the very very very bad code... anything else and mostly all of us as coders are in the middle, and we would be more wise to focus on making the code work then chasing Zen-State-Of-Compilation-And-Code-Quality. It is useless when code exists ONLY to transform data... I've never bought a product based on code quality.
I'm doing VR on a 6 year old i7 and it runs perfectly fine. Improvements come almost entirely from updating the gpu
It’s time for TTDD. Start by writing tests for your tests :)
*don't do _anymore_
Check your presumptions and maybe consider taking your own advice. I'm among the people who don't, and I don't think that I'm idiotic. (but maybe I'm mistaken on that point, because after rereading my post several times I still can't figure out how I inspired this response from you)

The poster I was responding to claimed "yet the extremes people go to extend life is unlike any normal supply and demand curve. I'm not sure there's anything more overestimated and over-hyped than longevity." -- and I think the is transparently untrue because a great many people do not act as though it is incredibly important to them.
It’ll blow up some time after the abort sequence, due to loss of active control at a relatively low altitude and relatively high speed. It’s not simulating an explosion as part of the test, AFAIK.
Entropy of the Code
Are you talking just discretionary budget only? Mandatory budget of the federal government has been growing as much more than discretionary.
I believe A* should always give the minimum path as long the heuristic is optimistic. It will become a greedy search if the heuristic is pessimistic. If the heuristic is "perfect" i.e heuristic(x to y) = min_cost(x to y) the the search will be optimal (i.e no nodes that do not belong with the path will be explored)

Yep after playing around with it for a bit it didn't give a minimum path. I believe something is wrong with the heuristic you are using.

Edit:
You can prove A* will give a min path as long as: heuristic(x to y) <= min_cost(x to y).
Problem seems to be here https://github.com/ssaric/algoviz/blob/master/src/util/GridN...
I think it should be a matter of removing "times 100"
Are plain colored T-Shirts some kind of gang symbol? Does it make it harder to ID you? I can't think of any other reason to not allow plain t-shirts in a club.
I did it the other way around. I wrote some JS before I really learned about JS idioms and a lot of my earlier code looked weird. Like the way I construct an object is to write a function (constructor) that does initialization and then returns an object full of closures, instead of assigning a function to Foo.prototype.bar etc.
No - 'rayiner gave the example of punishing someone who killed their abusive spouse. First, the actual punishment certainly doesn't deter them from committing the same crime again in the future (they are, statistically at least, not particularly likely to marry another abusive spouse). Second, the threat of future punishment is almost certainly insufficient to dissuade them from the original act: if they feel like they're in immediate physical danger, they probably are reasoning that it would be worth it for them to risk punishment.

Besides desperation, there's also passion and mental instability. There's enough cases where you might just not be thinking about the potential punishment at all when committing a crime, meaning it doesn't deter you. For mental instability, we as a society have mostly decided we're okay with reducing/eliminating punishment (and perhaps that you should be institutionalized instead); for passion we generally haven't decided that, except perhaps with the concept of "temporary insanity."
I think it’s worth pointing out a few exceptions to what are decent critiques. As an aside, I agree that these three capabilities, along with first-class functions are essentially the commonly bullet pointed marketing keys for Scheme.

TCO -> I see your point about stack tracing and tend to agree, but more importantly, one key difference between Javascript and Scheme is the focus on recursion. Javascript decided that imperative looping was the proper, idiomatic way to handle iterative expression construction. With this design decision, leaving aside whether the looping vs recursion is an equal trade, TCO was not going to be a priority and the style of programming grew around that first choice or iterative style.

Hygienic Macros - I love macros. However, in contrast to your position, I like my macros like I like my martinis... clean, as a general rule. So while I like a basic assumption of hygienic macros I also want the capability to produce ugly dirty procedural macros to be available. But that is just a preference of mine. I agree that the wealth of options for automated and principled syntax tree manipulation and code generation makes the need for built in macros almost non-existent.

Continuations -> while I understand the strong warning, drifted continuations enable some very nice coding possibilities, particularly implementations of generators, coroutines generally, and better callback syntax. Javascript just decided that instead of handing devs the keys to the Delorean they would just chauffeur everyone, i.e. they built constructs for these common and useful patterns directly into the language semantics. This is particularly the case for future based coroutines, now with the async/await sugar.
It is sabotage. They are doing it due to their unwillingness to admit, that they are wrong in not supporting Vulkan to begin with. If they'll support SPIR-V, there will be more pressure on them to support Vulkan proper.
>No. The meaning of words matters. Words, used precisely, are how people with different values and beliefs can communicate and reach agreements in a functioning society.

A society that puts people in jail for not having $13000 to pay is not a "functioning society".

>Because a debt arising from a criminal conviction requires the convicted person to have engaged in a wrongful act in the first place. Mere failure to pay a civil debt does not.

If the convicted should go to jail, they should go to jail from a conviction for the wrongful act itself -- not for not being able to pay the debt created by it.
See also: https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js
title feels a little clickbaity, especially for how short and inconclusive the article is.
While it started as an acronym for "original gangster", it's now used as simply "original".
>> Your dad could afford to buy a Toyota Corolla and a new mid-line TV in 1980. You can afford to finance one with low interest rates in 2019. But your son won't be able to afford those things with spiked interest rates and more restrictive lending paradigms.

This is a misrepresentation of the real statistics around wage stagnation. Real wages (adjusted for inflation and/or purchasing power) hasn’t changed much for the lower and middle classes in the USA for the past few decades. So, the average American can afford to purchase exactly what they could a couple decades ago.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (2019)
This could possibly contribute to the difference (alcohol flush reaction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction
What's the interval they've been flying at? Has any been keeping track of how often they're spotted?
No, hashes do not need to be constant time because they aren't keyed. In fact, they cannot be constant time because they have to handle arbitrary-length input.
Deaf and Unemployed: 1k Applications but Still No Full-Time Job (2019)
The math and magic of origami (2008)
Build an Apache HTTP Server from Source and Configure It as a Git HTTP Server
None of the bars that I've been to would qualify as clean or well-lit. Are they common?
While between jobs, I went to the local library near my spouse's work in Marina Del Rey, CA. They provided fast and free wifi along with power outlets so it worked for me but it also attracted a lot of homeless. They had portable DVD players and would just sit and watch movies all day. Sometimes the librarians would ask the homeless to leave b/c their aroma was so foul (especially when it rained), would burst out obscenities or bring in a lot of belongings. I eventually ended up paying for a co-working space.

On this article though, my spouse and I aren't into drinking but enjoy being out late so we find going to boba cafes to be ideal. The ones around us are open until 11pm, serve snacks & drinks and provide wifi. It even makes us feel young and hip because most of the patrons are high school and college kids who can't drink yet and spend time on their laptops too.
Twitter has the worst one where they don't trim whitespace so pastes can fail. How hard is adding trim()
One point about high traffic keywords
No. It doesn't matter for the context, but if you are going to try to correct this, from the very link you pasted:

> On February 7, 2017, Apple's WebKit team proposed the creation of the W3C community group to design the API. At the same time they announced a technical proof of concept and proposal under the name "WebGPU", based on concepts in Apple's Metal.[5][6][7] The WebGPU name was later adopted by the community group as a working name for the future standard rather than just Apple's initial proposal.[2] The initial proposal has been renamed to "WebMetal" to avoid further confusion.[8]

> The W3C "GPU for the Web" Community Group was launched on February 16, 2017. At this time, all of Apple, Google, and Mozilla had experiments in the area, but only Apple's proposal was officially submitted to the "gpuweb-proposals" repository.[9][10][11] Shortly after, on March 21, 2017, Mozilla submitted a proposal for WebGL Next within Khronos repository, based on the Vulkan design.[12][13]
No.

A punishment fails as a deterrent if:

+ it is not expected
+ it is not understood
+ it is not net negative

The first, not expected, fits when; one believes their actions are legal and then they are found not to be (correctly or incorrectly); one expects a different punishment to the one given, and the expected punishment was not a deterrent (often seen in fraud cases).

The second, not understood, fits when one expects the punishment but failed to understand its impact on them. For example, those incarcerated may misunderstand the lasting trauma of loss of privacy, agency, and family.

The third, not a net negative applies in cases where the punishment is deemed an acceptable risk or cost, or even desirable. Desirable has repeatedly been the case for the extremely impoverished or ill. Acceptable cost is seen in many corporate dealings, but mainly speeding and parking tickets for the individual. Acceptable risk is even more the corporate case (legal departments evaluate legal risk constantly) but is also the case for career criminals and moonshot criminals.
What happened to your local copy? ;)
While I believe general continuations are too powerful to be really useful in real-world production programs, delimited continuations really ought to be possible. See http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/#tutorial for example. They are quite similar to the Cont monad in Haskell, and are occasionally quite useful.
There are some significant high volume cases. We work with companies doing billions of Lambda invocations per month and realising large cost saving benefits. Lambda itself is usually the smallest part of the bill as one of the advantages of building serverless applications is you shift the responsibility of certain execution to specially designed managed services as opposed to code consuming CPU cycles; for example API Gateway takes over routing, S3 takes over file system calls, etc. A large portion of savings organisations see though is in time to production, as well as the overhead of managing servers and container clusters which is a lot more costly than you might think. Especially in the environment we are in now where qualified Dev Ops talent is hard to come by and at a premium. Sure, a developer can take some time to try and learn how to put together some infrastructure, but that's time taken away from adding direct value to business needs and not to mention the fall out when things go pear shaped later because it turns out a few hours Googling doesn't turn someone into a DevOps expert.
Except the economy is getting more and more dependent on that external money. Good luck banning foreign owners if 20% of your state GDP is real estate deals (real numbers for British Columbia; they also tried foreign buyer tax, although the Chinese figured out some loopholes). Good luck banning foreign investments if millions of local jobs exist solely to make the companies look like better investments, and millions more are tied to advertising, accounting, cloud and other services provided to VC-backed companies.

You can't stop the slowly accumulating long-term effects without a considerable mid-term depression, and no politician will go for it because the majority of voters is very short-sighted.
> So, the average American can afford to purchase exactly what they could a couple decades ago.

Sure, if you ignore the cost of health insurance and medical bills. Also if you ignore the cost of higher education.
Despite the tool you work on which solves (maybe) that one very specific problem the author posed, I'd say his point still stands about 99% of other things in this universe.
> Or, and this is my addition, someone is flying the drones who doesn't need a permit, somehow.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Assuming nymag did their research correctly (it seems a pretty simple series of steps), then the most logical conclusion is that someone has a non-public permit. Which points to military or military-adjacent.
Many do. It's amazing having a big space to read, work, think, etc. at 1am on a weekday (this might not apply if you have a 9-5 job, are married or have kids, etc)
Ditto. Learning theory without real-life application makes it boring and people forget. Learning application without theory leads to hacks. Often the real-life application happens in the last year when it's too late for some. Maybe the interim assignments should be more real-life examples so students could see application of and be inspired to learn deeper.
>Also starting a reply with "No" makes you seem like an asshole and invalidates much of your credibility and people's desire to hear you out. The GP had a well reasoned (and correct) response to your original comment but you proceeded to devalue it with 2 letters.

Since he followed that "No" with several paragraphs, that's a moot point (not to mention much ruder that his reply, what with "makes you look like an asshole" and stuff).

And, no, "no" is not something that makes people look like assholes. It's just an expression of opinion -- whether accompanied by a justification/arguments or not. Even on its own, that is, without further arguments, it's still useful as a kind of "poll" (how many commenters agree or disagree with a thesis).

At worse, it's curt.
It’s weird to live in a society where the assumption is that practically everybody is having/should be having sex. I abstain.
This sounds great, I'm gonna pick it up on amazon right now.
Why doesn't sha256sum use sha-ni?

On the other hand, seems like sha-ni became widely available only with cannon lake and zen, while blake3 should be fast on any hw even if it benefits from avx512
But it does save an enormous amount of time. We have numerous customers using tools like the Serverless Framework to help put together sophisticated systems in days that would have traditionally taken months. I've experienced it myself personally and worked with multiple customers who see the same thing.

Its also not the initial time saving. After implementation, infrastructure maintenance is almost non-existent because the services are all managed for you and you can focus on providing direct value and not worrying about whether your infrastructure can meet your needs.
Either actually self-host or look outside of Amazon's offerings, because they aren't known for being inexpensive compared to competition.

I run Nextcloud on my own hardware and VPN in because Nextcloud isn't something I want exposed to the wider internet. Not very long ago there was a CVE that effected some Nextcloud (and other) setups.