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I think the confusion here is due to the fact that there are two arguable parts to the definition of consciousness.

1) awareness of objects, events and other stimuli and the ability to respond to those inputs with some output. This is the world acting upon a conscious agent and the agent acting upon the world.

2) awareness of oneself and one's inner experience and self reflection and the ability to cause changes in oneself. This is the conscious agent acting on itself.

1 is generally agreed upon as the required part of the definition. 2 is subject to some argument. If you accept 1 alone then you leave open the question of the zombie problem usually given as every conscious agent except for yourself is just acting as if they have an inner life but really are just responding to outside stimulus by some unknown mechanism. This is really just behaviorism and I argue that it would also apply to an individual in that their inner experience may very well just be an illusion. This seems absurd (and I think it is) and that is why 2 is brought on as a further distinguishing factor, perhaps the distinguishing factor since you can now imagine a consciousness existing with only reference to itself.
This seems to be where your argument kicks in since you would need some state in order to build such an inner world but I think the point of the article is that you could suppose that there is some aspect of consciousness that underpins the whole thing. We've removed the requirement of outside stimulus, so now remove the inner stimulus of memory. What remains? Is there some other source of a priori stimulus? A generative factor from which perturbations in consciousness arise? Is there nothing but consciousness of being conscious? Absent that, is there simply a feeling of existence? This is the root at which we strike.
It's worth noting a bit about how he was so successful. I don't believe it was the pricing. He's selling two modules at $149 each or a bundle with both for $249, which is fairly typical.

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying "charge more", but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.

So much so, that most of us are blind to what actually does differentiate Adam and leads to his success.

A more under-valued takeaway than "charge more" would be "the power of free". Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.

During his excellent interview with csallen on IH[1], he described this practice of helping people for free as a "spring" that he was pushing down on. When he finally sold something, that stored commercial energy was released!

Each cycle he's pressed the spring down harder and longer.

His earlier courses came together relatively quickly. His design book was started on the back of a longer free campaign of tidbits on his blog and twitter. This time, he started by building Tailwind CSS into a top-notch open source library with extraordinary growth for multiple years before he monetized it with Tailwind UI.

1) It was csallen's helpful post on IH that sparked me into disagreement to write this one! See: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/adam-wathan-just-made-500k...
Most users are going to use Google regardless. You could say that the user trusts Google, even if we know they shouldn't. Firefox cripples Google's ability to track the user either way, especially with uBlock Origin and Google Container installed.

Even better, it prevents ISPs and other parties that the user doesn't trust from tracking them.
I don't see why you're getting downvoted. You're 100% right. Mozilla get money from Google and spend it on fun projects which have nothing to do with the web. This creates some very bad incentives with regard to privacy on the net. Mozilla don't seem to care about this, they just take the money and keep going.
With disassembling it like he does, he also lost every insurance.

If something happens and they figure out that he had some custom rig with open panels laying around he has to pay.
That's correct - the Xbox was about 95% COTS PC components. It had a Pentium 3, a Geforce 3 deriviative, 64MB DDR RAM, and a 8GB IDE HDD. Compare that to the PowerPC or MIPS processors and custom GPUs the competition was using at the time.
Ask HN: How do some email clients track 'who read' the email?
This is puzzling me.

Even if there are multiple receivers, `to`, `cc`, `bcc` there are some companies that in their client tell you exactly who opened it.

How is it implemented? I always assume these trackers use some hidden pixel image when sending emails - but how can they trace the exact person who opened the email?
I suspect that the majority of people value the convenience of being able to instantly see which of their friends are on WhatsApp.
What a startup can do is focus on a technique, rather than a specific discovery, and use that technique to make discoveries. The example I'm thinking of is Siluria, an MIT spinoff (or, at least, involving people from MIT; they were based in the bay area), which used phage display templating to make catalysts. They came up with the first practical catalyst for the oxidative coupling of methane to produce ethane. I believe they've since been bought by a larger petrochemical company.
I’m in the conference and events business. I had the exact same mentality as you when I started, but after a couple broken monitors and stuff that doesn’t work and so on I started to understand the logic of paying an AV vendor to just make sure there’s a working monitor on the table.
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I face this unfortunate reality. I am simply not rich enough to get a PhD. I am certainly capable and willing. So instead I work as a tech in a research group of something that interests me for wage that is still too low for my capabilities.
There is for sure a sweetspot. I don't think 1280x800 is it.

When you have to scroll around on your screen to read text properly or sourcecode etc. then the screen is just not big enough.

With the 13,X" Inch display from a macbook pro i don't have the feeling of constraint. Its quite a nice size.
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Again, that is provided in higher level languages by abstractions over mutable state, such as STM (example: Clojure's Refs and Atoms [0]). And/or by making immutability the default.

Neither that, memory safety, nor forcing you to deal with optionality is unique to Rust.

The big difference is that Rust manages to do these things while also having similar performance characteristics as C/C++. The trade-off is that the programmer has to explicitly deal with these issues.

I personally haven't yet seen a safety language feature of Rust that is not somehow available in other languages with similar claims. I would appreciate learning otherwise if I'm missing something.

I think the only feature that would push Rust to being at the forefront would be "const generics" [1] or true dependent types down the line.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44580
The actor pattern for ZeroMQ in C (or C++): http://czmq.zeromq.org/czmq4-0:zactor

A similar actor pattern is provided in the Python implementation of ZeroMQ Zyre: https://github.com/zeromq/pyre
>Why would Google not simply shut Chrome down?

Because they'd get less tracking info and have a harder time tracking people across the web? That seems the biggest point here.
Hello AreJaytee. Sorry about that. I was unable to ascertain your email address. From your profile, checked other places, to no avail, couldn't find one for you.

So, please use this direct link to download it: https://startizer.com/download-startizer-mvp-v2/

Let me know when you have downloaded it please. Obviously I didn't want to present a direct download link, haha, but got to do what ya got to do.

Cheers, Ace.
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I think you are over-thinking it. A single part-time employee won't fail your start-up, a lot of other things will like not being able to deliver before your runway runs out. For great employees, it's a negligible loss if they want to take time off to do something else. Not everyone wants to toil away their lives slaving for somebody else.

But if you have other candidates who possibly wouldn't be part-time employees in your sights, you might want to try to hire them first. I know from employer's perspective part-time workers can be a little annoying as they get all the benefits with only eg 60% commitment. And they take as long vacations as the regular employees too.

Disclaimer: I have worked as a part-time employee, and I did deliver during my few work days as much as I would have done as a full-time employee. Moreover, it actually felt much nicer to me to do only a few days a week and being a full-timer at times was almost a bit depressing. Same old stuff, everyday, kinda bores you out.
> pervasively crashy software culture demonstrated to us by C++

Please don’t spread FUD. The majority of commercial C++ software out there is rock solid.

Vulnerabilities are the actual problem in today's Internet connected world and why Rust has grown so fast.

As for GCs: they are not good enough for some fields, so they cannot be used. Even state of the art ones like Go's.
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Indeed. Very few realize to what extent the individual mind merely resonates to a universal tune.
You're missing one thing: incentives.

Even if Telegram has shoddy crypto, their funding model is "we got a pile of money from a billionaire". WhatsApp's funding model is "senator, we run ads".

Thus, WhatsApp will be incentivized to lie as far as possible about these claims, whereas Telegram could at worst be considered to be mildly incompetent.
I dont know where you heard that number. It doesn't seem reasonably accurate.
I live in NL and stopped using WhatsApp when Facebook bought it. Maybe once a year I do need to install it temporarily to join some group, but mostly it's not an issue.

It has advantages too - I get many of my friends to use Signal and I can avoid participating in many group chats that usually have a poor signal to noise ratio. Instead I just get a filtered report about the conclusion from one of the members.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, because it is a valid and important question (even if stated in this somewhat adversarial manner).

For me the promise of philosophy is in examining the deepest assumptions that we use to interpret our experiences and guide our thinking. This is a hard task because just like sea creatures that are surrounded by water their whole lives and thus don't notice it, we don't notice these assumptions and they remain hidden and non-obvious.

Ultimately I feel that current philosophy falls short of this promise. It either descends into technicalities or regresses to a prescriptive "this is how you should think" manual. Probably I am not well-read enough.
No, I don't need friends.
Nobody in graduate school has delusions of expecting a professorship. It is well known that professorships are hard to get and involve a lot of politics. Graduate students don’t have bright prospects and are given a bad financial situation, but do it all the same because that’s the only way to work on something gratifying or important. It seems insane to punish the most talented and passionate for pursuing their calling.
This does not apply to N95+ masks with exhalation valves, which is most of them.
Thank you!! I'd love your thoughts on the app.
I don't have karabiner-elements, but doesn't it basically just remap keys across your whole system (much like my mechanical keyboard can)?

I don't want change my cmd-keys into control keys system wide. I just want to be able to map my cmd-keys in vim (which to be honest is the lion's share of what I use any terminal for).
That does play a factor to be sure but it doesn’t change the fact that nearly anyone can operate one with absolutely no training. I think we can all agree that operating an aircraft SAFELY requires some prior domain knowledge, which is obviously applicable to drones and RC as well. You don’t know what you don’t know.
> binging 6 hrs on movies/shows every days is sure not as valuable as reading 6 hrs every day.

Citation needed

All reading is not inherently valuable, in the same way all television is not. I don't get any more socialisation from reading a book, and indeed unlike e.g. watching TV with housemates/family it's an entirely isolated non-social activity.

Now, if we're talking solely about _children_ then i will give the act of reading additional value due to reading comprehension being a key skill that they need to improve! But mine isn't getting any better at this point, certainly not by reading the same old trash I always do.

"TV bad, Books good" is just a weird generalisation that sticks in my craw and I've never seen a believable piece of evidence for it
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read for theory and big patterns
> could possibly influence our culture in a negative way

Pretty sure you're supposed to ignore "culture" until your company has established itself
Sometimes I feel like I have a "genetic advantage" to not be attracted by social media. I have a Twitter account that I rarely use (mostly for API-access for NLP research), I check into my Facebook account maybe once a month and have never used Instagram. I watch some things on Youtube (usually recorded lectures or tech talks or board game videos) but rarely ever "drift" towards recommended videos and the like.
I used to be on IRC a lot back in the day but quit it completely, I used to frequent specialized forums, especially when I was an online poker player but also have quit those completely.
Don't have a Reddit account and am not really following that. I guess my HN account is the most used social media right now.
I also don't feel the urge to post and share pictures which I notice a lot in my friends. Sometimes it feels like a moment doesn't exist for them unless they can capture it in a picture (whereas for me it actually disturbs the enjoyment of the moment to stop and take a picture).

I instant message but am notorious for "answering late" and keep getting complaints that I don't check everything immediately. I usually put my phone on the charger when I get back to work and only look at it every now and then, sometimes not at all until I go to bed.

Interestingly, I am very interested in how social media works technologically and have also been an early adopter of many technologies. However I feel like I'm fairly "results oriented" when it comes to social media so I expect some sort of benefit from using them vs. the time spent.

I've also noticed that I'd probably test well on my ability to delay gratification and I feel like this might be correlated with social media consumption in some way (maybe there's studies on this?).
You could add RSS 2006-2018
His job, his livelihood depends on a single terminal block/bad soldering & ducttape hackjob. I'm all for DIY solutions to unique problems, but this is just plain stupid. It's only a matter of time before that thing sets on fire.
Mozilla is supposed to be a friend of webdevs. By blocking their income without providing an alternative , or some other kind of benefit, webmasters are going to turn their backs to it.
I love this bit:

>Nor could we make its inconsistency a reproach to it---are not men inconsistent too? Certainly women are, and politicians; and {53} even male non-politicians (121) contradict themselves sometimes, and a single inconsistency is enough to make a system inconsistent.

Not 'love' in an agreeing sense. Boy are we in different times now.

Agreed, I see no justification in assuming that human minds are consistent, in fact that seems self evidently not to be the case. Also just because a system is inconsistent, that doesn't mean it's incapable of generating or 'simulating' consistent systems. So we can conceive of a consistent system, apply it to problems and achieve all the advantages on consistency within some limited domain, while at the higher level being ourselves inconsistent. I see no reason why an automated system could not also do the same. This seems to me to break the argument completely, though I confess I'm no great philosopher and it's highly likely I'm missing something.
I have my alarm set to a high quality radio station at the time their morning news show starts.
This is a 5 minute news show that condenses the essential things of the day. If I feel like I need to know more about a specific event, I typically browse a news site with my phone while walking to work.
That is enough to be able to follow the typical smalltalk once I hit the workplace.
A bit late to respond to this one, but the post stated that smart metering should be compulsory. Whether you choose to pay any attention to it or not is entirely up to you.
Chicken and the egg. If you're sufficiently close to people to convince them to use SMS/Signal/Matrix/whatever with you, then sure, you'll be fine. But what if you're not? What if it's either "install WhatsApp and join our group chat" or nothing?
It's been 2-3 years since I switched back to Firefox ever since I cut around 90% of Google out of my life, sadly I still can't find a good search engine where I don't spend more than 5 mins trying different keywords to get the results google gives me.

Out of all the browsers I like that Mozilla were the first to point the finger to the elephant in the room while Microsoft, Google, Opera just turned a blind eye on privacy, although I don't think anyone expects much from Google these days.

Firefox has once again became my default browser on all my devices after like 6-8 years since I last used it. I guess as far as privacy concerns goes, if you are looking for a company/browser that will continue working on protecting you from trackers by default that'd be Mozilla.

Random observations that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the topic: Firefox for windows is perfect. I actually think it's faster on Windows than on OSX for whatever reason. Playing videos, like using Netflix or Youtube is extremely sluggish on Firefox OSX, but is fine on Windows. I always end up using Safari if I want to watch a video on a higher resolution because the performance drags a lot on Firefox, especially it Netflix's overlay UI you can literally observe it's lagging behind but not in Safari.
Watermills were also on an evolutionary path (so to speak) in the early Middle Ages. From the dedicated wiki page [1]:

> Largely unaffected from the turbulent political events following the demise of the Western Roman Empire, the importance of watermilling continued to grow under the new Germanic lords. (...) By Carolingian times, references to watermills in the Frankish Realm had become "innumerable".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_medieval_watermi...
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No, that's wrong math. You cannot assume only the worst 20% have gone to get tested. In China, there are plenty of people dying AT HOME.
> You just hand waved away the entire problem of whether materialism/physicalism is actually the correct position

It's true that I don't lend credibility to supernatural hypotheses, which I'm sure isn't the most popular position to have, I understand that. However, given the fact that everything we can actually observe so far seems to follow natural laws, I posit that the burden of proof is on the dualists to show me something that cannot possibly work without supernatural intervention (or, preferrably, directly demonstrate such intervention).

Which of course brings us to the reason why this article is written in this way and why it's being discussed here in the first place: because people use the Gödel argument as such a demonstration. However, the argument does not support the claims it generates.

Am I right or wrong to assume a naturalistic default position on this? Whichever way you answer on this will most likely determine your position on the meaning of the Gödel thought experiment.
But is it enough to prove that it could produce any melody? After all, couldn't a binary adder produce every executable binary possible? Well, eventually, and with enough memory.
And hand-wavy magical anti-reductionist approaches are disappointingly vague.

Maybe the reductionists are getting closer and closer to reality, the more powerful the metaphors become?
I like this new "resonance theory of consciousness". That assumes that the nature of consciousness is inherent in the informational integration -- making consciousness a sort of harmony. Of course, that idea isn't new -- it's the same idea that Plato presented in the Phaedo and that the Pythagoreans held in 6th century Italy.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.0037...
That last part is largely something that should happen. I never want to play counter strike with someone more than 1000 miles away from me.
Journalists writing critically about tracking should be seen as pretty clear evidence against a bunch of the conspiracy theories you often see floating around[0]. To turn this against them seems strange.

Ignoring for a second that "putting trackers on the website", writing these articles, and deciding to publish them are the actions of at least three different people/groups, I don't quite get what you are accusing "them" off?

It's perfectly possible to criticise trackers or advertising and still feel the need to use them for economic survival. I'd be surprised if less than 90% of the people in this thread critical of tracking have Google Analytics tags even on their personal websites, where it doesn't serve any purpose except vanity.

And that's OK. Running trackers and criticising them is still better than just running them, in the same way that smoking & regular exercise is better than just smoking.

[0]: HN being particularly dense (pun not entirely intended), and willing to get itself into the most weird contortions of logic to find mechanisms of how some writer might gain some immediate financial gain from some article.
It prevents you from sharing non-threadsafe structures between threads. A language like Java provides a concurrent hashmap, but nothing stops you from (incorrectly) using the standard hashmap. Rust will fail to compile if you share a std::HashMap across threads without wrapping it in a mutex or similar synchronisation primitive.
Well u still take the time to write lengthy stories in HackerNews, so maybe you're not 100% immune to this?
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Very well said.

Rust is the perfect option for projects that:

1) are exposed to untrusted data

2) and, at the same time, their performance is critical

If one of those isn’t true, there are better options. If they are both true though, Rust is pretty much unique.
Can any physicians or researchers here verify the credibility of this site, to prevent misinformation?
It's kind of funny how often people end up using ECB. (Or not using a nonce with stream ciphers.) It's like so obvious that that can't work when you think about it, but I guess most people just don't think about it in the first place.

In this case however, the low quality was easy to identify for everyone. Just go to the website:

>Happy learning and keep coding !!!.

A space in front of three exclamation marks followed by a period. Only psychopaths would be able to write something like that.
> had cancer followed by twins. We reassigned the CEO title, thinking with heads over hearts.

This sounds like the person was punished for being sick and then having kids. Am I reading this wrong?
I think you misread, the OP claimed it derives from carriage, not carnage.