skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note how you insist on a definition for “mind”, but if we are going to keep raising the bar on missing definitions let’s just go for the sacred cow. What is a definition anyway?

Could you give me a definition for “definition”?

At some point you have to be content that your inability to define every single term in your vocabulary doesn’t hinder your ability to use that term in practice.

All we have in way of creating/communicating knowledge is symbol manipulation. Language.

Turing machines are language recognisers, and I am comfortable using them as practically sufficient (for the purposes of conversation) models of minds.

To be sure you see my point, defining “definition” is recursive and that puts you on the computer science turf.

I am a computer. Mathematics is a language; or more precisely - it is a grammar. Our Mathematical models of the universe are computational, and since Mathematics can only prove things up to isomorphism that is as far as colourless, formal, linguistic reductionism will take us.

As for Kantian transcendentalism. Look no further than Jean-Yves Girard’s work on Linear Logic, Geometry of Interaction and transcendental syntax. Is all computer science intersecting with Quantum Physics.
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I mean we are in 2020, none of this should be news, but then a lot of people only discovered them now. They have been doing this since early 2010s.

They have been a hypocrite from the start, but people got too consumed with its free Gmail, RSS Reader along with its Do no Evil they decided to trust them blindly.

The current browser, and Web Tech scenario is pretty much Google's way or the highway. So I am glad Apple kept Safari as the only option on Apple platform. Not allowing them to dictate everything.
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I know it's expensive, but I recommend a proper overnight sleep study in a Sleep Disorders Center it is way more detailed than the data you can get yourself (I tried).

I even used a Trail Cam to film my movements :)
Thanks! What type of integrations? On the input or output side?
In just 2 months it will have killed 10 billion people!
> ... Consumers are another problem. ...

You blame Apple, Google and your consumers, instead of just making native apps. Why?
An ad-hoc collection of tutorials with no overall structure and that are more confusing than helpful

This is how I feel about most open source software documentation and tutorials/articles about library or software usage.
Constructive recommendations:
- add tests (I couldn't find a simple _test.go file)
- relative imports aren't recommended in Go (pkgs like "sorcia/model")
- please rethink/avoid global (package) variables like middlewareDB (https://git.mysticmode.org/r/sorcia/tree/master/middleware/m...)
- avoid adding logic in the init() functions
- screenshots?
https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/09/02/sars...
Very interested to hear more...
Climate change will continue to happen locally first.

Meaning you can have a state-wide localized disaster in e.g. Texas or Florida, or France, but it won't be global for quite some time. Weather events also tend to be much more predictable (we know that a Hurricane won't hover over 1 state for 6 weeks, for example)

Don't get me wrong, it is a global phenomenon, but because it's much more gradual than "shut everything down", it doesn't have the same effect on people's behavior.

I'd venture to say local weather crises evoke approximately the same response as Covid-19.
In this case, I think it means someone with the perspective to think things through at a systems level and relevant domain expertise.

So, a medical device engineer.
Ask HN:Can the current pandemic situation be called a black swan event?
I like it but I don't know what to use it for.

My Lisp usage can be summarized as such:

For anything heavy/performant, I use Common Lisp.

For everything else, I use Emacs Lisp.
> infection that leads to the lungs filling with fluid

> The ultimate goal with these three things is to give the patient time to develop antibodies and fight the virus and clear out the lungs

Where does the fluid come from in the first place? Do the viruses (I can hardly believe) or bacteria produce it? Doesn't the patients own body do? If it does then why and how? Can that be inhibited?
> When I use netflix, I have a much better experience.

If you're on Linux, you won't be able to stream at 1080p, let alone 4k. Netflix even went out of their way to disable workarounds that users developed.
I've talked to Johannes Obermaier in the past... very nice guy. It's not their first bypass, and hopefully not the last either.

PS. I actually have yet another STM32F1 RDP bypass in my archive, waiting to be published. It used a technique where the MCU writes its own debug registers... pretty crazy stuff. If only I had some free time to write a proper publication about it...
What makes you say that? Other than a belief in open source and a sense of optimism?

Do you have a firm grasp on the weaknesses and gaps in Unity as well as it's strengths? Would you say you have a clear understanding of the breadth of features and how much they matter to it's primary markets?

I'd love you to be right but you'll need to do more to convince me that you have some special insight in this matter.
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People talk about the private sector violating privacy all the time.

The gov't doing it is even worse since they have the power to put you in jail and take all your possessions if they want to. Private companies don't.
As a counterpoint, Bloomberg (a medium-sized tech company) is still hiring interns as well as FTEs. We are all WFH but the positions, hiring, internships are proceeding as usual.

Disclaimer: I am a team lead at Bloomberg.
If you enjoy this -- and I am, thoroughly so far -- I highly recommend Endgame: Singularity ( http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ )

I'm listening to that game's soundtrack as I play Skynet Simulator; very fitting!
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They make it hard so you give up and subscribe to their cloud storage offering.
I think that since building ventilators is very difficult and beyond the capability of the diy and foss communities and has a fairly low survival rate anyway, I think that we should focus on other ways in which we could help.

One way to help would be to aid physical containment. The first thing that comes to mind are online tools for communication, learning and doing basic daily life things. I think that there is still room for improvement.

The next thing comes to my mind is that people need to go out to buy food, medicine, etc. They also need to drink something and in some places water needs to be sanitized. Maybe DIY sanitizers are an option?

Food and other supplies might be bought online, but companies doing online sale and food delivery seem to have issues handling the load. I think that the biggest issue is finding drivers and delivery man to bring groceries do people's doors. Surely, self driving cars and trucks and robots taking packages and climbing staircase or using the elevator aren't an option, but I have other ideas.

People could order stuff through internet from their local shops and supermarkets and then pick them packaged in boxes from parking spaces or a drive through with store employees putting boxes in people's trunks or even a system where people go to a door with a belt, scan a QR code from an app, see the door open and their package arriving on that belt.

I remember that when the epidemic was starting, journalists reported that people rushed to shops and all the pictures of people with their carts filled with toiled paper standing very close to each other in a very long queue. To me it seemed like the best way of getting infecded.

I have many other ideas for 'improvements' and notice other 'mayor problems', but this comment is already way too long...

I hope that this isn't off topic in the ventilator thread.
Can you easily add the ability to share screen or application so I can watch a video file with a friend?
> I've always been skeptical of using retro machines to learn low-level programming.

> While the processors are simple, making non-trivial programs is hard, because the machines as a whole have lot of limitations, making programming very intricate, compared to more modern systems (say, 16-bit 80x86, but I guess even Amiga and so on).

Programming in those time was an art. Now some people have 32 GB of RAM and they are not able to use it efficiently.

> If the target it challenge for the sake of challenge, then nothing makes those machines special, I mean, one can code directly in machine code if that's the intention :-)

I've seen OS's that at 20 MHz and 4MB RAM did things that Windows, Linux or MacOSX cannot do today with 1000 times more resources. It is really a shame.
There aren't any. Someone should write one. My beef with them all is they start from the top down, taking giant leaps of logic and assuming that everyone has the same use cases and motivations. In my personal opinion, humble though it may not be, the way to understand Kubernetes is from the bottom up. First of all, figure out how Linux starts your process. I've noticed that a lot of people who are afraid of k8s are afraid of it partly because they have no idea how a Linux machine works anyway. So start there. After you've got that figured out, learn about control groups. What kinds of resources can be controlled? How do you create and destroy control groups? How do you put processes in them? Same thing for namespaces. How do they work? What can a process see from its perspective inside a process namespace?

If you grok all that, then you are ready to grok the K8s Container Runtime Interface. And, if you really grokked it, you understand that Docker is besides the point, isolation and namespaces are optional, and so forth. All k8s demands from the "container runtime" is that a thing has a name and a defined lifecycle.

Once you understand how k8s works at the pod and node level then it should be perfectly obvious how it works at higher levels. That's why I really want to see someone write the bottom-up guide!
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"Historically, Kinsa’s methods have been able to account for a sharp rise in the number of people taking tests, said Benjamin Dalziel, a professor at Oregon State University who studies infectious diseases. For his research, Dalziel has ensured that a spike in testing didn’t lead to inaccurate predictions, and so he believes the current decline in illness is a result of social distancing, and not a statistical anomaly. (Dalziel has had research funded by Kinsa in the past)."

Huh, I was expecting the opposite of this. The previous data could be slightly off because of smaller sample size and now that it has exploded they have a better estimate to reality.
try cronometer. i've been using them for several years, they are by far one of the best calorie tracking apps out there.
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It is hard to answer your question without knowing your context. I'll assume you have had a formal logic course which usually teaches the deductive syllogism. For example;

P1: All men are mortal.
P2: Socrates is a man.
Ergo: Socrates is mortal.

So this is one of the standard forms of a deductive syllogism (there are many others). The basic idea is that if you accept that premises 1 & 2 are true then the inference must follow otherwise your thinking includes a contradiction. E.g. All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, but if you think that Socrates is immortal then it implies a contradiction so one or both of your premises are wrong or your belief that Socrates is immortal is wrong.

In formal logic courses in college they swamp you with all the variants of the deductive syllogism and what gets lost is that they are all based on Aristotle's Law of Identity. The Law of Identity basically says "A is A", a thing that exists is what it is and that contradictions cannot exist. So if you find a contradiction in your thinking then you have gone off the rails somewhere in that process.

So Popper's falsifiability principle is implicitly based on deductive logic which in turn is based on Aristotle's Law of Identity. Popper's mistake was ignoring induction or generalization which is evident even in the syllogism above. The premise "All men are mortal" is a generalization not a deductive conclusion; where do these premises come from? So deduction (and falsifiability) is dependent on induction which his theory completely ignores so it is DOA.
Agreed. There is no choice with IOS: you choose the same WebKit that they've chosen, or Safari. One engine and version, or one browser using that one engine.
> If you must work on ventilators, call established companies making them and ask how you might be able to help. Ask to work for them for free if you are able to.

Anyone doing this should consider the possibility that the answer may be that there's nothing they can do on a useful timeline except write a check.

If you want to help, you gotta swallow your ego.
* It helped me figure out I usually get the best rest if I'm in bed at 23:15.

* It automatically calculates what time you need to go to bed if you're running a sleep deficit. (And it calculates how much of a sleep deficit or surplus you have.)

* Most useful of all, it gives me at least 1-2 days of early warning that I might be running a fever or flu - as I see my heart rate, which is usually quite consistent from night to night, leap 5 or 6 BPM over consecutive days.

This is especially important to know during the current outbreak. I can then do whatever I need to do early to shorten the length of whatever illness I might have (take vitamins/extra rest/fluids/etc.)

It also records a history, so you have a record of roughly when the fever starts and ends based on your heart rate, which you can then share with your doctor if necessary.
It's complicated. I vaguely recall a study that indicated that fatalities for some condition that might normally indicate surgery fell when the doctors needed were out of town for their annual conference. Don't recall the details.

And also, we should hope that proper triage will mean that the non-coronavirus emergencies that matter will indeed be allocated a bed, etc.

I have little doubt that this will be awful, but the counterfactual scenarios are difficult to evaluate.
BY FAR Sleep As Android (previously called like Sleep As Droid or Sleep Droid or something -- it went through a couple of name changes a few years ago when the founder made a company out of it). Developed by a team from Eastern Europe, founded by a dude who was like a sleep science PhD of some kind. This app changed my life completely. As someone with Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder that has no underlying causes like organ failure or whatever, I spent most of my life just thinking (and being told) I was a lazy shithead and a weird kind of night owl. But this app helped me get a handle on it. The best feature for me by far is the "smart alarm" which I can set to wake me up say, within an hour of a certain time. Then using the sensors on the phone, my wearable, and the Sleep Phaser bedside lamp they created in a Kickstarter (uses an infrared sensor, works great), it can tell when I'm in a light sleep cycle and then trigger the alarm. It has always been really rough for me trying to wake up at a certain time, but this makes it easy. The company seems super cool also. I can't recommend it enough. Tons of tracking features, too (and cloud storage if you're into that). They support a bunch of wearable hardware, but it works great using only your phone.
My post above just stated the facts as they are today or a couple years ago, with citations and uncertainty ranges.

Do you have a strong prediction for the future with a date and count? I'm not sure what qualifies as "strict", and I'm only interested in counting deaths.
1) I'm not on Linux. 2) I'd rather have the convenience of streaming at all than the best possible resolution.

I don't know what the resolution of my TV is, but I highly doubt it's over 1080p, if that.
Earport.fm was something similar around 2014, but with YouTube videos.
On micro-coded CPUs Assembly is indeed an abstraction, because that is not what the CPU is running, hence why many mainframe manuals refer to Assembly as bytecode.

On x86/x64, the chips have long migrated to an internal RISC like architecture, with an Assembly => micro-op translation step on the decoding unit.
You are exactly right, it is a self-hosted video conferencing system. It was designed in a way that lets you do some extra stuff that could be nice (like pull in an external video feed)

I will work on making the README more friendly! If anyone else is interested I would love help, working in this space has made me biased so I tend to write thing for myself.
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I assume they avoided that on purpose due to copyright.
These things are easy to investigate without a computer. Just eat something new and see how you feel. Or open a window next time you sleep and see how you feel. Sure, telling people to listen to their bodies probably isn't going to "SCALE to 100X Venture Capitals" or whatever nonsense, but it's a very accessible and effective way to remedy most sleep issues.
There is absolutely no reason that PWAs can't be sandboxed like native apps, or even more aggressively. In fact, native apps are more likely to be spyware, as they can collect much more information from the user than a browser-based app can.
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Thank you! I've been wanting to see exactly this: tests administered vs. positives, over time. I've just been doing it in my head for my state by checking the health authority website.
Really sorry to hear that :(
Personally, I like my food data normalized to a given calorie quantity so i can easily make comparisons and rank foods/recipes easily. I like to search for foods based on their nutritional content: micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. i couldn't find anything like that on the web. anyways, so i created: https://kale.world/c. (shameless plug, i know)
Fitbit Charge 3 can go a week between charges and is super small. I looked at the Apple Watch but it's a bit of a joke for battery life being less than 24 hours. Pretty useless.
Blockers that are under your control like Pi-hole and more obliquely, NextDNS

These are instant and adjustable filters down to the level of rewriting paths
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Most universities and technical schools of enough quality do have Assembly programming classes, even if it is a kind of light introduction to the subject.
Since when was software freedom synonymous with we should all want to use PWAs?

I’d be happy if Spotify gave me an API key and essentially went away except for a monthly bill.

But software has to be a product the masses get first to get made in our world.

I’m glad some folks are having their itch scratched but free streams are more than enough and I can wrap them for consumption as I choose.

Once again building your life around importing someone else’s priorities turns into an exercise of despair from not learning how reality doesn’t stand still no matter how hard you hope it will this time.
I don't know if it's updated for more recent versions, but I read "Kubernetes: Up and running" last year and it was excellent. It covers the motivations behind some of the decisions which helped things click for me.
This is horrible. A great alternative to levels.fyi (without puffery). Though you could not see RSUs or yearly bonus
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Yes, I was the original core dev of StreamAlert during my time at Airbnb.

I'd say the biggest differences are that Panther:

- Has a UI-driven workflow (vs CLI)

- Has an improved design to be more scalable and cost-effective

- Is written almost entirely in Golang

- Made a larger investment in the Athena side, allowing data pivoting and correlation across types

- Has first-class support for monitoring infrastructure as "resources", opening up more compliance use cases

We applied a lot of lessons learned from running StreamAlert and from my team's experiences at Amazon.
AOT is in the making [0]. I also think Godot will win in the long run. Unity is a bloated mess. No sponsorship can fix that.

0 - https://godotengine.org/article/csharp-wasm-aot
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Really shows you how complicated things are. I wonder if I'm given enough time if I would be able to do a full solution that I would be willing to use on myself... I don't think I would... I don't think in all honesty any single person would...
Thank you very much. I was really not looking forward to running docker in a VM. It seems too much like a case of inception.

> Bro, I heard you like virtualization, so we use virtualization inside virtualization to virtualize while we virtualize!

Hard pass. I hope this can be a nice alternative to managing docker-compose.
Streaming above 720p also doesn't work via Firefox on any operating system.
> For example, startups today can renegotiate their AWS costs by ~50% if they push.

How does one begin to do this? I don't think I can just open a support ticket titled "hey, can I pay less?" Or is this meant to be for startups that have existing contracts with Amazon?
Write a blog about this.
Hell, this is how I feel about 90% of technical books and textbooks. Writing is hard. 10X harder for highly technical content.
A large percentage of the population has sleep issues, suggesting they try the basics is actually very good advice. Much like tech support asking you to restart the device, which verifies it’s plugged in and a host of other issues.

If that’s not working then get a full on sleep study, otherwise save your time and money.
Yep. There are other services for that. (e.g. you could just use hangouts)
Yes, of course it's worth it. The media's credibility isn't a finite resource. It ebbs and flows like everything else in this world. Nothing is as binary as you see it.
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> They use STM32F103 or F102 chips inside, with firmware that was probably lifted from the debuggers on ST's evaluation boards.

I wonder if it was lifted using a ST-Link debugger…
i'm curious does Bloomberg have a lot of experience running internships completely wfh? can you talk a little bit about how you're planning to adjust how you mentor and coordinate (if you're hosting this summer)?
I concur. Additionally, the bed automatically adjusts to your sleeping position so it has a more active role in your sleep than just a passive monitor.
I am guessing Banks only test their site against popular OS and Browser for security reasons.