skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're a long way from a good understanding of how consciousness works, but I also think a lot of people are going to subscribe to a sort of consciousness-of-the-gaps idea no matter how much progress is made in understanding the actual mechanisms. Even if we fully understood and and could reproduce it, there would be scores of people who would flat out refuse to see the evidence and would simply assert that the ineffable "experience" does not exist within beings for which they don't want to acknowledge it. The very concept of p-zombies illustrates this a priori refusal to admit any possible evidence whatsoever of consciousness. Another person could simply decide that I am in fact a p-zombie and lock themselves in a closed system of thought out of which there is no path to demonstrating that I "experience" anything at all.

I think if you want to put forth a hypothesis that there is some ghostly ineffable part of consciousness called "experience" that cannot ever be touched or measured by scientific means, then you have a self-defeating argument that cannot be supported. You might as well go full solipsism. There's nothing stopping you.

Consciousness is a genuine mystery at this point, but I think some people will still see it that way even if we solve it, and this is clearer to me every time I see people trash any kind of effort or progress made by science in understanding the brain, claiming that it is not in fact progress at all.
Get Beat Saber, git gud, lose weight because suddenly you're doing aerobic exercise for fun
When I look for art I almost exclusively look for watercolor (or a specific style of realistic western oil). Some more filters based on medium would be useful.
Cool idea. I wish if I send links to friends (via iMessages, Whatsapp, FB) that the link preview populates with the images of the page in question and not a general image. For the artist page, I would like it to show an image from the artist and for the link of an individual painting I would like it to show the painting in question
I'm glad I splurged on an Oculus Quest last year; BoxVR for 20-30 minutes every weekday morning, with some Beat Saber if I'm feeling especially energetic.
And you need a warrant to go through a person's mail. How is that not defacto policy for digital privacy?
Not controversial?

Liberty is what wars are fought over.
> Of course they could operate. They would just have to backdoor their encryption.

Is it even possible to have end-to-end encryption (in the technical sense of the term) with a backdoor? If your product's marquee feature is security via end-to-end encryption your product is a non-starter in a jurisdiction that bans end-to-end encryption, no?
Like Kubernetes?
The topic is not Captain America saving the world again, it's Chinese medical supplies to Holland. That seems like something the Dutch have far more stake in than Americans.

And a country that has dramatically more at stake by permanently looking for fights all around the world should probably be more rational and calm than one that isn't.
Roll20: Virtual Tabletop
pidgin doesn’t support matrix out of the box; we did write a prpl a few years ago but it needs a maintainer to make it properly fit for purpose: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix
Hand delivered.
> Why shouldn’t the price increase with a supply chain disruption and demand boom?
Oh, you mean "price gouging"?
Proven Tips to Sleep Better at Night
I really want to find a great open-source JAMStack documentation site for APIs. Does one exist somewhere?
Create apps fast and cheaply on the MESG Framework
The arguments here aren't great. It's also mentioned to install some other extension (why, then, not use PostGIS at this point?). Don't really understand what the author was getting at.

Also, as was mentioned, this was posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820485
Did you get the email we sent you? It contained a repost invite for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798626. I worry that it might have gone into a spam hole.

(I apologize for hijacking the thread. By the way, invited reposts are related to the re-upping system described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380)
Many of my reps have stopped providing phone numbers on their websites. Kinda cowardly, but it allows them to validate emails with addresses that come via their website from actual constituents.
Unless it's above body temperature, the local ambient air isn't heating your skin up, and if it's that hot you need to sweat profusely to avoid hyperthermia.
Summary: they moved 47,990 lines into separate NPM packages.
Hey dude; nice stuff. Just letting you know I can't auth with Google from the desktop version.

As a side comment, did you use anything outside of pure js on that Electron app ? It seems pretty neat and fast.
Well, I think two waves that stay manageable for the healthcare system is preferable to one wave with people dying without treatment in overcrowded hospitals.
I'm not qualified to contest this, but I do remember a side blurb from "Principles of Neuroscience" (Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell) that said overactive mPFCs are attributed with autism and below is some more research on it.

I don't think you're saying this overtly but I have seen people from the Thinking Fast & Slow crowd glorify their PFCs as arbiters of cognitive bias while forgetting that healthy social, emotional processing required integrated functioning between all neural correlates involved, including the amygdala. I would venture to guess CBT is effective because it stops overactive PFCs which is the opposite of what the nurse's guess is. But as a laymen here, I can't say one way or the other.

I remember a decade or two ago, the ACC+vmPFC combo was getting a lot of praise as this balancing force between the dlPFC and the amygdala saying strong ACC+vmPFC could be the clue to healthy brains. I think the answer will always be, "hey all these parts are important. Just meditate, exercise, and eat right. And don't believe your thoughts too much (CBT)"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688328/
The Freedom of Fork (2008)
The syntax had been proposed long before then; I (along with others) had been advocating for it the prior year. The May 6 blog post was merely the point at which the blog post author relented to the rest of the lang team to bring it up for a vote.

As for your second sentence, RFCs are almost always accepted before they are implemented. There is an entirely separate round of review and approval before an accepted RFC can become a stable feature of the language.
> Your input is discounted at least in direct proportion to how little you sacrificed in order to provide it.

If this were true, corporations would be completely ignored when they provided a measly few million dollars in campaign contributions...
There are numerous accounts of businesses receiving calls from Yelp salespeople essentially telling them to buy an ad package or the negative reviews get prioritized.

I agree that no one is entitled to positive promotion, but to argue that a massive platform that's established itself as the go-to place for consumer business reviews absolutely should be held to fair promotion.

I can't believe that this an argument on HN. You're saying that if you had a small business with a Yelp profile and I found your identity and started posting false negative reviews on your business profile, you'd have no problem being called by a Yelp rep to pay money to make them go away?
This is an incredibly complex problem and it really depends on the details. which keys are used, which are pinned. Which keys the government has, and which certificates it can and will issue itself. Which clients it will backdoor, and where will it attempt MITM attack if necessary.
This claim is false. An interview with an Italian official confirms it to be false. https://twitter.com/honglilai/status/1247163875339800577?s=2...
oh ok. thank you. I overestimated Siberian cats popularity :)
It's novelty.
Basically all models are based on assumptions in closed system. As one gets more information they add it to the closed system eventually making it easier to predict. As we know reality is extremely heterogeneous and an open system with too many interactions. This in principle makes all practically wrong. But it does not mean that they are not useful. (At least they are useful to make scary graphs that convince presidents).

I had a lame model that is currently predicting lower death rate but in a similar trend [1]. In this model my assumption is the lockdown to continue for 45 days. The result which I regret to have seen shows a scary number of 600k deaths after 39 days. So I'm hoping for something spectacular to happen such as vaccine, a drug, the sun etc that I would use to change my prediction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814927
The EARN IT law enables warrants for digital privacy. The problem is that the choice is between "warrants are impossible due to encryption" and "warrants can be skipped by misbehaving actors".

There's no way to guarantee a middle ground.
This is completely different from LearnObit. If that is an SR tool, it would be a combination of learning resources and SR functions, but LO is a note-taking tool combined with SR function, sort of. Anyway, thank you for showing me an interesting example. I planned to add a viewer for learning resources to LO.
Okay. That's kind of interesting.

From all I've digested of Žižek it seems he quite often bathes in exaggeration for theatrics. So, I wouldn't take "pseudo-scientific" as a flat and sincere statement. Also given that Peterson actually IS a scientist (with a few well sited papers).

I tried to watch the talk, but there was so much audience hooting and hollering it was too difficult.

But still, I don't see any evidence of Peterson being a "crypto-fascist" or "intellectual lightweight" as a previous user accused.

The search continues.
i just watched the video and it seems more like the story of an ex-employee being upset at the narrator for being involved in their termination (due to arguably bad judgement).

i don't see what yelp had to do with it.
Good for Paul. He has wanted the CEO job forever, and was notoriously bitter about being passed over last time.

Don’t expect a revolution in Red Hat’s strategy or culture. Paul was already extremely influential, especially on product and R&D which are not Jim’s strong suits.

Things to know about Paul:

- He is very competitive and has a zero-sum approach to competition: for him to win, someone else has to lose.

- He has a bad temper. If you work on the same floor as him, you will hear yelling.

- He doesn’t shy away from Oracle-style tactics. Expect customer audits to get more hardball; more aggressive use of anti-competitive bundling (“if you use this competitor’s product on RHEL, we will not support that RHEL host”).
Hadabot: Mobile robot wheel encoders with ROS 2 and an ESP32 running MicroPython
Hopefully in the near future! I'd definitely like to have funders outside of the US on the platform––in fact quite a few of the smaller grants I've been in touch with do support international applicants.
Map vs. Filter vs. Reduce
I would caution against using zetcd specifically with Kafka however as we ran into issues with this in the past.
>Companies like this always start with a noble purpose, before the pressure to monetize causes them to ruin what was once a valuable service.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

Hell, maybe you can argue Netflix's algorithms have taken a turn for the worse, but to their credit Netflix is the only FAANG+ company (not that Yelp is in this bucket) which really hasn't "gotten evil" over time
So not enough stuff to at very least write a blog post?!
I'd be surprised to see video game stuff pop up here, but you may want to check out Fangamer.com and iam8bit.com .
> if it can be substantiated

Key words, I see no actual proof of OPs claim...
> Can I measure the distance between two given points? Make sure you have the earthdistance module enabled: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS earthdistance CASCADE (cascade pulls in requirements, which are just the cube module). Then use the eponymous earth_distance function; note that it doesn’t take coordinates directly, but its own type, which you convert to with ll_to_earth(lat, long).

Maybe I'm missing the point but I don't really see how that is easier then using "CREATE EXTENSION postgis;" and "ST_Distance" ?
It can also show you assembly at the function level:

julia> a=1+2im; b=2+4im; @code_native a+b
.text
; ┌ @ complex.jl:271 within `+'
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
; │ @ complex.jl:271 within `+' @ int.jl:53
vmovdqu (%r8), %xmm0
vpaddq (%rdx), %xmm0, %xmm0
; │ @ complex.jl:271 within `+'
vmovdqu %xmm0, (%rcx)
movq %rcx, %rax
popq %rbp
retq
nopw %cs:(%rax,%rax)
; └
They're not doing either. I worked there, on the systems in question.
>In the New Testament believers are told to love everyone, including foreigners and non-believers and are given a specific edict to pray for their enemies.

But also:

>34 Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn ‘A man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.…
Transit app adds real-time crowding info; San Francisco's emergency MUNI network
Kdb
Any examples of writing/authors who write with algorithmic style – like code?
i.e. have you found any inordinately clear algorithms / design patterns used in english writing? perhaps similar to how many programmers have clear patterns to how they write code

(e.g they use naming conventions, declare vars at top of scope, refactor reused code into standalone method etc.)

any examples of this from 'great' writers?
Have you (and anyone else posting this same exact comment on any article that mentions employee count) ever worked at a large company? Once things operate at a large enough scale, it requires dedicated teams to focus on very specific parts of the application.

Take SEO for example, it's not just putting H1 and title tags on every page. You most likely have dedicated services that are generating millions of sitemaps, daily. You probably have separate infrastructure dedicated to serving the crawlers so that you can optimize the content and aren't serving your users and bots from the same pool of resources. You have analytics dedicated to monitoring the crawlers and running tests / adjustments as you see results. You likely have services that generate the SEO data for every page (meta tags, titles, canonical links, headings, etc). And in addition to this you have AB testing, legacy systems, and technical debt to deal with.

My point is, it's easy to brush these things off as unnecessary and large company waste (and some of it might be) but to say things like "It's just a CRUD app, why do they need a 1000 engineers. I could do it with 10" is ignoring the vast complexity involved in running at scale.
• try!() has been replaced by ?. You don't even need to know — the compiler will tell you.

• futures 0.1 has been replaced with std::futures.

This is it. This is the exhaustive list of A->B feature changes in the last 42 releases of Rust. Now you know them all.

Rust is aggressive with keeping everyone using the current stable release. In C++ you may need to keep track of feature history to know if something is too new or too old for your compiler/project. There's no such thing in Rust. If you know a feature exists, you can use it.
Even more precisely, 3844 of 5950 Yelp employees on Dec 31, 2019 were members of the sales force. That's 64%.

Page 5: "Our sales force consisted of 3,844 employees
as of December 31, 2019..."

Page 12: "As of December 31, 2019, we had 5,950 employees globally."
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I agree that it does seem insincerely promoted. Furthermore I think think the article is foolish to connect it to 4chan trolls. This goes deeper than that, more likely it's the same group that's promoting it on twitter is also promoting it on 4chan and other channels too.
> With enough traffic and revenue, you'll get a positive return on hiring a bunch of engineers to optimize things that wouldn't be worth it for smaller sites. With enough engineers you'll get a positive return on hiring engineers to make engineering more efficient.

Very insightful! As a corollary, you should not staff up until there is something to optimize.
Preface 1: I think the evidence points to that 5G is probably safe

Preface 2: I do think we should tend to err on the side caution. I fear in 40 years we will look back at our blind rush into many forms of tech incredulously (ie. can you believe in 2020 everyone had wifi installed in their homes? next to their kids?!?)

Having said all that, who benefits from the "anti-5G" coordinated effort?
I'm an iOS developer deeply familiar with Swift and on the path of learning ML. The irritation with "import Foundation" is understandable. Foundation is, wait for it, the Foundation of Objective-C programming and development for the iPhone. It's a library Swift makes use of and needs to inter-op with due to legacy concerns for iOS and Mac developers.

It's not an inherent part of Swift the language, and efforts like those at Google and the open source development of Swift can develop more modern and suitable replacements for those libraries.

I like python, but man I really don't want to make large systems in it. Swift is a great language, and imo the biggest thing holding it back is that it's intertwined with a lot of Apple code. But it doesn't need to stay that way, and for that reason I applaud the efforts to move it beyond just an "app creation" language.
I particularly liked this:

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I like that "Type 1 error" and "Type 2 error" are both 4 syllables, just like "false negative" and "false positive". So they aren't briefer than the thing they describe (at least out loud, and even by char count it's not a huge win).
They're laughing because they all know Corona beer causes it.
Yes, it's a string macro which is essentially a reader macro. We also have regular macros that operate on Julia's AST.

There's some really useful and approachable info here: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/inde...

You can think of Julia as a Lisp-1 with opt out hygenic macros hiding behind Algol syntax. However, the AST is very lispy:

julia> dump(:(x^2 - 1))
Expr
head: Symbol call
args: Array{Any}((3,))
1: Symbol -
2: Expr
head: Symbol call
args: Array{Any}((3,))
1: Symbol ^
2: Symbol x
3: Int64 2
3: Int64 1

The `:` is how you quote code in Julia, and `dump` is just a convenient function for printing nested data-structures.

Furthermore, you can see this package https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl for a string macro that lets julia use Lisp style syntax instead.
3 Commandments for CLI Design in 2020
On Signal you're encouraged to verify out-of-band (such as in person) with the "safety number" which allows users to verify each other's keys to prevent a man-in-the-middle attack. This way you'll notice if the initial key exchange has been compromised.
Daniel J. Bernstein et al's original paper (High-Speed High-Security Signatures), didn't feel the need to take as many precautions as RFC 8032. For instance, they didn't care about malleability.

You seem to think they should have. May I ask why?
Apple can already silently eavesdrop on all iMessages, because they control the public keys inserted to your device. There are no fingerprints to verify you're not under MITM attack so they can just start attacking everyone. Read my longer post on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425897
OK, instead of "dump US market", why don't they (or someone) create a clone that can't be fscked with? Maybe hybridize with Briar, or whatever. Take everything off clearnet, and have everything anonymous.

I was thinking that Session/Loki was better protected, but the Loki Foundation is likely just as vulnerable.
To summarize: Yelp account exec shared another business owner's stats with Louis. Louis reported this privacy violation to Yelp and the account exec got fired. The fired account exec took it personally and got her friends to write negative reviews on Louis's Yelp page.

That's evidence that Yelp practices extortion?
If 5G is dangerous, then non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation in general is more dangerous than we thought. I don't think this is impossible, but so far the evidence doesn't seem strong.
Because it has 80% of the market share world wide, so any flaw makes it more worthwhile, specially given the lack of updates.

Any zero days found in Android devices will never be fixed, other than on Pixel and a couple of selected flagship handsets, while everyone else will be naked with their devices.

Thus brokers will have a gold mine on their hands, being able to target thousands of devices without their owners being able to protect themselves, just like Windows XP before SP2 was released.
The traditional classification system for disease transmission is "contact", "droplet", and "air borne". This is the system that has been taught for well over half a century to every doctor and epidemiologist in the world. But the system is overly simplistic.[1] And that's because the system is based on faulty models from the 1950s that were never revisited or questioned until relatively recently.[2]

During the Ebola outbreak it was still medical heresy to question the droplet/air borne dichotomy. There were just a handful of scientists (one very loud one--Osterholm, I think) pressing the issue. Subsequent research after Ebola vindicated their arguments, but it can take a long time for good science to displace bad science, especially in the conservative medical community, and especially when the new science doesn't make for simple decision trees. The irony is that the old models made (and still make) typically conservative health professionals overly optimistic about the difficulty of transmission of various types of diseases.

[1] See, e.g., Michael T. Osterholm, et al, "Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know", February 19, 2015, https://mbio.asm.org/content/6/2/e00137-15#sec-7 (links directly to the section "The Complexities of Aerosols and Droplets: A Changing Paradigm").

[2] "Medical and infection control professionals have relied for years on a paradigm for aerosol transmission of infectious diseases based on very outmoded research and an overly simplistic interpretation of the data. In the 1940s and 50s, William F. Wells and other 'aerobiologists' employed now significantly out-of-date sampling methods (eg, settling plates) and very blunt analytic approaches (eg, cell culturing) to understand the movement of bacterial aerosols in healthcare and other settings. Their work, though groundbreaking at the time, provides a very incomplete picture." Lisa M. Brosseau, Rachael Jones, "Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola", September 17, 2014, http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentar....

EDIT: And here's a 2019 paper about aerosol transmission of influenza, disputing the droplet orthodoxy, that suggests the continuing predominance of the old models: Timo Smieszek, Gianrocco Lazzari & Marcel Salathé, "Assessing the Dynamics and Control of Droplet- and Aerosol-Transmitted Influenza Using an Indoor Positioning System", February 18, 2019, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38825-y ("virtually all studies assessing the dynamics and control of influenza assume that it is transmitted solely through direct contact and large droplets, requiring close physical proximity").
Requires specific plastic sheets designed for graphic artists -- can't be made with household supplies. Good luck finding an art supply store...