skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you define consciousness as the ability to integrate information and make novel decisions a computer can do that.

But when a computer reads a poem or sees the color blue will it feel it? I suspect that is unlikely. Can a computer take past experiences and combined them into a personal abstract meaning such as grief, love, hate, or ASMR?

"...Consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information. This claim is motivated by two key phenomenological properties of consciousness: differentiation – the availability of a very large number of conscious experiences; and integration – the unity of each such experience...."

BMC Neuroscience An information integration theory of consciousness: https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-...
Look at the official reports on miles driven and disengagements.
Well don’t stop there with the analogy. Give me life changing income, public exposure to entice lucrative side hustles, a union with 49% of revenue to employees, and an off-season.
pmiller2 linked[0] to some alternatives[1], including this one[2] which only requires ImageMagick:

convert letter.pdf -colorspace gray \( +clone -blur 0x1 \) +swap -compose divide -composite -linear-stretch 5%x0% -rotate 1.5 as-scanned.pdf

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157979

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...

[2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94541/185219
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> it views the system that we have as fundamentally meritocratic

Agreed. There is another dimension to it as well. Labor pricing is set by "replacement cost."

In a country where workers have been made precarious intentionally [1], replacement cost will be much lower than (a) the surplus value created by the worker, (b) the risk a worker bares in work activities.

There is empirical evidence that this is taking place on a grand scale. [2]

[1] https://chomsky.info/20120508/

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jofi.12909
No. As far as I know, exceptional ability is really exceptional. Being a very senior engineer in, say, Google Zurich doesn't really qualify. For an O-1 you need to have received nationally/internationally recognized prizes; published media in major publications...

https://www.wegreened.com/o1-visa
...until unemployment insurance runs out. People like that don't understand that it's not forever.

Or worse, they run it out, go back to work, then there's another lock-down because infection rates go up. Now they're not eligible for unemployment at all because they haven't paid into the system for too long.

(At least that's how it works in the three states where I have experience filing for unemployment. I doubt that California lets people collect money forever.)
> Add up all the counties in "SoCal" and you're looking at roughly 20 million people. The Bay area is what... ~4 million for SF/Alameda/Santa Clara?
> the fact that we're going to have more cases and deaths is just a numbers game.

The rates are higher in LA/OC too, not just the absolute numbers.

The LA metro area population (which includes OC) has 13 million people. There are 36k confirmed infections. So the confirmed infection rate is .28%. There are 1600 deaths so far, so the death rate is .01%.

The Bay Area population is 7.75 million, the # of infections stands at 10k, which is confirmed infection rate of .13%, and deaths are 360, which is a death rate of .005%.

It's absolutely not a contest, but the rates are what they are. If you choose to expand either areas' stats out to include their neighboring counties, the differences in the rates don't change much, but will eventually converge with CA wide rates, since this disease is most prevalent in urban areas.

Both the Bay Area and LA/OC appear to have lower infection rates than many other urban parts of the country and world, but the Bay Area is currently seeing both a lower infection and death rate than Southern California. Only time will tell if that holds.

Stats from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_metropolitan_area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
I can't speak for the original commenter, but I guess I just don't see it as a big problem. I have hand sanitizer in my car, but I dunno, a mask isn't so uncomfortable that I feel like I have to fiddle with it a bunch depending on whether people are nearby that second.
Pretty much every statement from an executive or marketing person should be suffixed with the phrase "for now."
This is NYC a week ago. It goes around the block.

https://ibb.co/tQdf3RS

It's a food line. This is what they got at the end

https://ibb.co/KKnC0pd

Politicians simply don't get it. White collars do not get it. They will, soon. Not politicians, the white collars.
> since they got a good deal by buying when the market was down

Assuming the price goes back up later, you mean. But if that were guaranteed then the price wouldn't have been down much in the first place. It could stay down, or even go lower, in which case the Fed will lose money when they go to sell.
If a whole plant/shop is ram by robots then you wouldn’t need a fan first place!
We are obviously more than just "algorithms". Algorithms don't have free will. Unless you are also arguing there is no such thing as free will and that the world is just playing out in a predetermined physics reaction? Yet even that doesn't 100% jive with physics because quantum mechanics are not deterministic.
Bringing two concepts closer, especially visually will result in a better developer experience - Thus merging html and js into a single file, component, class / object and sequential logic was really the turning point to build more complex web apps. This reminds me of the excellent talk by bret victor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Yes you still have to test your app on different platforms and browsers, but the point of the build process is that they make them work on those various platforms, whereas before you would have to manually fix those failed tests and hack in fixes for obscure conditions. That's what frameworks and libraries are for. They've abstracted away things so you can focus on higher level things. Tests are always going to be required, even if your framework and libraries are perfect.

We don't need to stay close to the platform because abstractions allow for more advanced applications. That's why most web apps don't use C, and should never use C, because 99% of the coding work is higher level tasks that don't need the bare-metal performance optimizations.
This is actually beautiful
Response from Kite about the emails leaked:

> Thank you very much for calling this out. A test version of that webpage was temporarily deployed by mistake. The issue was fixed immediately and we’re in the process of notifying the specific users who were affected.

Welp, those were real user emails being leaked.
I didn't scroll down all the way so I didn't see the normalized chart. Thanks for that.

I think that the number of cases which is the default isn't all that important. In fact the higher number who are infected could make herd immunity happen sooner. The number of deaths is far more important. When you look at that on your chart the US is behind many Western European countries and it definitely doesn't look as bad. Its not great but it could be worse.

Do you have a chart that is looking at population density? I think that would also be a useful comparison when comparing different areas. Its not fair to compare NYC with Nebraska for example. I am not really sure how the European countries compare and am interested in a comparison if you know of one.
That's what they tested in the article.
I think there's multiple definitions of magic at play here. One is phenomena that beyond the limits of human understanding. The other, based in the theory of vitalism, is something unexplainable, but also comes with the assumption that these unexplainable things are due some sort of vital force that living things have (often, specifically humans) [1].

When you talk about the magic of forgetting about the laundry, you mean the first kind of magic. When others talk about consiousness being inaccessible to AI, they're talking about the second kind of magic. I don't think it's that hard to imagine an AI that would forget to fold the laundry and not know why. The main problem with a "concious AI", I suspect, is that nobody will actually want one.

[1] I have no idea if viruses or prions are supposed to have vital force, vital theory emerged before most of modern biology and is mostly used today by those who have no understanding of modern biology.
I suspect the latter is true, in a way it wasn't years ago and they were just ridiculously ahead.

On the cost, one person I know who uses them commented that on any given year they wouldn't have much trouble picking one day where it paid for itself (i.e. that day made the whole year subscription worthwhile).
This wasn’t for gaming
"I think this is a valid point, but one consideration that feels missing from a lot of these kind of disucussions is to what extent the economy will "come back", even if every restriction were lifted."

Because there's no point debating such a question. Arguing that we should leave lockdowns in place because people would be too scared to go outside even if we lifted the lockdowns, is tautological.

If the argument is that people are going to stay home anyway, then we should open the economy on first principles.
I started using AutoHotkey to remap the control groups in Starcraft Brood War.

It was simply too far to reach 6,7,8,9!

Then I used it to make a hotkey to have a popout, always on top, no title bar, browser window. I use that for youtube videos or documentation. Always on top windows + a big monitor are really great for productivity, better than multi monitor imo.
Why is 700+ fraudulent ? HBS for example, has >1000 students in their graduating class
I like the idea, as a kind of spiritual successor to the Federal Aid Highway Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...), but for a different kind of transportation.

I don't know if our congress could ever come together on something like this in 2020, but I'm sure some highly specific implementation could be found that everyone could more or less agree to. Is there any existing project or group campaigning for this idea?
Transcribing Century-Old Newspapers with NLP
Billie Eilish is simply the current incarnation of the "breathy misfit 'poet' girl singer" that comes around over and over and over and over. And then disappears.

I hope she makes an enormous amount of money while she's popular and has a smart enough brain to bank it for when she is not.
Fighting Covid-19 fake news should not come at expense of freedom of expression
> Clearly a large number of adults do require guidance

So I should have my freedom restricted because other people can't handle theirs responsibly?
Novel AI tool helps recognize the cause of blood clots
You see this all the time in industrial settings, based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactPCI which looks like this https://www.kontron.com/products/boards-and-standard-form-fa...

Some discrete GPUs in laptops/notebooks but also rackable systems are using it when it is pluggable/"built to order" based on a common board and not hard-soldered on.
Let’s ask ourselves a simpler question: Is a grasshopper conscious?
my response to the "we're family!" pitch is quoting Goodfellas, "f*ck you pay me".
The date isn't "when was this first ever posted on the internet", it's "when was this last materially updated in a relevant manner".
A midwife is a person who delivers the baby. Maybe you're thinking of doulas? If so, New York indicated doulas wouldn't be counted as visitors, but essential healthcare staff ( https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/secretary-governor-melissa-... ); it's worth looking up how your state and/or hospital is handling this. NY also apparently settled on "dads can attend, but should plan to stay in the hospital rather than popping in and out". ( https://gothamist.com/news/all-ny-hospitals-must-now-let-par... )

Hospitals are rightly trying to figure out what rules make sense. It's not surprising there's some uncertainty, and adjustments will be made as we learn more.
One company will always be worst. Using the worst drives often makes sense for a business. It all depends on price, availability, and deployment plans.

Seagate's drive longevity has improved a lot. Compare today's report to Backblaze's 2015Q1 report:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q1-201...
It's all in how you interpret it. Let me show you some other interpretations of what you read.

> 1) Unfortunately, someone took a conversation about a purchase request as a chance to speak to [me] in a personal capacity

"I was checking in on different departments, to make sure everyting was running smoothly, but got drawn into a non-work discussion I didn't really expect or have a lot of time for, but that's okay, he's a nice guy."

> 2) Now that I live with the story, I’ve been waiting for a chance to share it so I don’t have to live with it any more.

"Now that someone mentions some software that would possibly have prevented the exact problem the person related to me, I think it's relevant to share.

> 3) Someone finally mentioned crematoria! Yes! Gather around, fellow engineers, to dissect a Therac none of you will ever interact with. By the way, the guy was half burned and fat. Sucks, right?

"And the implicit moral of my story is that these weird and esoteric systems the top level comment mentioned and wished there were open source versions for because they all require windows do have consequences, and do need options."

Or, you could just assume the person was like "ha ha dead people and fire" and assume everyone that asks you why you're upset is trying to curry favor with some weird set of tech moguls or something.

Edit:

> If it’s a problem that I care about those things, then, well, we are going to disagree.

Caring is not the problem, caring is laudable. Seeing those things where they don't exist, that's not. I think you're keying off some words in the post and letting that set a state of mind that colored the rest of what you read. To me, that exchange was a moment of "aw, that sucks. I feel bad for everyone involved" on the part of both parties in the conversation. Relating that itself is not bad.

In any case, we've gotten to the point where I actually got to see your reasoning to some minimal degree, and it's about what I thought (a gross misinterpretation to my eyes). I've addressed that here and before, and I'll let you have the last word.
Is it hacker news, or just the internet as a whole?
Exactly. LA can't even open a beach. The beach is the safest place to be right now.
Back in about 1970, various people realized that writing code was not the cakewalk in the park that everyone (who did electrical or mechanical engineering) thought it would be. See "software crisis".

They decided that "we would have to get serious" about this whole software production thing. Some people like C.A.R. Hoare and Edsger Dijkstra said something to the effect of "formal logic..." to which the reply was, "Hol' up, there. That's too hard." They then assumed the term "software engineering" and went off in the '70s, '80s, and '90s to develop stuff like UML and the software engineeing lifecycle requirements -> code -> testing -> acceptance V-thing.

For the cynical computer science programmery-type person such as myself, the end result seems to have been the software engineering degree, sort of a lite CS degree (just enough to be employable) with more project management and what-not. At least it's more comprehensive than information technology degrees.
> Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.

Oddly, the article never links to the order nor gives a summary. Here it is:

http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1070029_COVID-19_Safer...
> Not all work is equally valuable. Not all work is equally doable. Some work requires decades patience and sacrifice before one is competent enough to perform it. Some work is physically or cognitively beyond the vast majority of the population.

You're right. Designing shirts that work well in both the board room and discoteca is incredibly strenuous work which is why only people who have the correct inter-cranial skull slope (e.g., Wyatt Koch) can do this work.
It's about damn time. One of the clearest things on display during Zuckerberg's Senate grilling is that tech as an industry has proportionally smaller influence when compared to other industries (automotive, airline, finance) despite having a larger share of the economic pie. Tech is also a newer player than other companies in those industries, so it's natural that the balance of power has not yet swayed in favor of tech terms of Washington politics. Infiltrating politics through lobbying, advocacy or people in seat doesn't outright necessarily jive with our ideal notions of a democracy but it's the way that the game is played.
Seems SSD has potential for higher density though, no?

Though cross-over point is still some time away, a decade or so?
There are three basic positions people are taking:

1. "It's just a bad flu": We never should have shut down in the first place. Vulnerable people can self-quarantine, everybody else should mostly carry on as normal.

2. "Lives are precious": We have to do everything we can to protect people, and that means shutting down until we have a vaccine or have few enough cases so we can effectively test-and-trace. Any economic damage is irrelevant compared to people's lives.

3. "Flatten the curve": Prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed and causing people to die who otherwise could have been saved. But acknowledge that most people are going to get it sooner or later, and the economic and psychological harm of lockdowns are very high, so we should consider the costs and benefits of specific restrictions and reopen in a controlled manner. (As you can probably tell, this is my position).

A month ago, almost everyone in the third group supported the lockdowns, because it looked like there was a real possibility that hospital capacity could be exceeded. But that didn't happen even with effectively uncontrolled spread in the densest city in the US, and is very unlikely to happen in the future because people aren't going to be rushing out to raves even if all restrictions were lifted. So we're starting to see conflicts between the second and third groups, and that's only going to increase.
> Individual (or Company) A does some potentially unsafe activity and the Government says hastily - "Great, sure; continue!"

Who gave the government the power to make that decision unilaterally?

> Individual (or Company) B is affected negatively - so negatively in fact that they decide to sue not only Individual (or Company) A but the Government as well since the Government said everything was on the up and up.

So if the government were out of the picture, B would simply be suing A. There would be nobody else to sue. And the taxpayers would not have to pay anything.

So what value, exactly, is the government adding here?
Not really. I think we just assume that the situations where housing can't keep up with employment would shift the `income minus necessities` equation in our favor, making the massive assumption that we're willing to move somewhere cheap, or that enough other people are willing to move somewhere cheap, or just not move here in the first place. If the necessity of commuting to SF goes away, SF housing prices are less impacted, so it's more like Portland salaries in SF, and closer-to-Portland cost of living in SF.
You could try dropbox. I think your idea of github for non programmers is a worthy one though. We did something similar after hacking together something like our own version of sparkleshare. YMMV, but it has worked out really well for us.
Startup culture is basically the opposite of hacker culture. As kick hints to, the term has been appropriated. This site has been dubiously hackish from the start.
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Yes, we watched my nephew from birth to just over 3 years old for 16 hours a day while I worked. He learned that if the door was closed it meant I was busy. At times when I had on music he knew he could come in and sit and listen while I worked as long as he didn’t talk.

He grew up that way though, so YMMV of course.
I'll tell you this much - if there were a good alternative to Logic that ran on Linux, I'd stop buying MacBook Pros. But I can't adjust to any other workflow, so I bought a new MacBook this year.
Wasm
Well doesn't that counteract pleasantness in an absolute sense? I would argue there has never truly been a society aimed at equality on a large scale. I don't consider the implementation of communism to have been truly aimed at equality and certainly didn't end that way.
Does the planned schematic reflect the reality of the installation?

Does the wiring diagram show how the cable bends under its own tension?
Still, no. You're operating off of knowingly bad data and ignoring serological surveys (which are also pretty bad data at the moment).
uploaded again: https://www.scanyourpdf.com/media/Scan_2020512_oqkk.pdf
Babel is there so you can write your code with the latest Javascript features and separate your written code from what is actually deployed. JSX and IE11 are a subset of problems that this type of abstraction can solve.

This is miles better than the previous alternative: manually importing shims or adding in css prefixes. Babel and webpack also enable macros and static code analysis tools so you can write code in "inefficient" ways that's more readable, and automatically generate more performant code automatically.

Browsers are still split, even if considering only desktop users. If you add in mobile users then all those iOS people are using Safari, not Chrome.

And because of this fragmentation you can't expect the latest ES features to be usable on day one. So you'll always want Babel so you can write the code the way you want, and have platform targeting be a separate concern.

It sounds like you believe that we should be writing very platform specific code for the web, which is a bad practice in general. Nobody should write platform specific code. Leave that to the compiler.
> For what it's worth, none of that subtlety is reflected in the article's 10+ word title, at all.

You don't go to a headline for subtlety.