skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason Tesla releases new “features” is to recognize revenue and to stay afloat.

Comparing the amazing capabilities of Waymo cars to the Tesla toy is very misleading.
Yes. There is actually a whole Wikipedia entry[1] on it.

The relevant portion:

> For candidates in the general category, successful students must generally score within the top 0.25% or top 0.5% of all students to gain admission to the IITs, whereas SC/ST/OBC candidates must generally score within the top 2% of all students to gain admission to the IITs.

> Currently, reservation of 15%, 7.5% and 27% seats are provided for candidates originating from the SC, ST and OBC communities respectively.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_policy_in_Indian_I...
That's in line with what I perceive to be the waxing and waning of various degrees in the US. The farther the incentives drift away from selecting for people with sustainable interest and aptitude, more generally maladapted people in the field for the next five to ten years.

I think it's often a self limiting thing because word gets around that there isn't enough brass rings for everyone.
Because charge is rotation in this visualization, we can also say that the charge is moving since the speed of rotation propagates after the circuit is closed. This is a patent reification, of course, but the idea is consistent with QM.
List of over 100 free seo tools for Google hackers.
Before reading Gravity's Rainbow, I read every book with a voice in the back of my head telling me that I should have thought of that idea first, I could've done that story better. Pynchon killed that part of me and I'm not sure if it will come back--not that I'm complaining.
Damn, I would really hate for Seamless to get swept into the Uber mess. I've been using them for a decade and it would be painful to give them up.

Though on the other hand, I've been doing the old school call and pick it up myself method with local restaurants during quarantine, and not only are their prices usually lower, it does feel good to know that (besides card processing fees from Visa) all that money is going into their pockets. Maybe I should just take this opportunity to stop using food apps anyway.
To add to this, forget qualifications and experience. If a job pays well, that in itself is undeniable proof that it has greater value, no justification needed. Capitalism works not because it rewards on someone's definition of merit, but because it rewards doing what people want.
> I'm interested to know what the majority of the Windows machines are used for.

I have IT experience in the "mom and pop" small-medium business world but am pretty Linux illiterate.

I can buy a copy of Windows Server 2019, install the ActiveDirectory role, create a domain, and domain-join every computer that business has, and start doing all kinds of simple-but-effective policies like folder redirection+shadow copies, define password policies, start checking various compliance boxes, formalize a file share permission structure, enable Bitlocker, etc etc etc. Also, apps for nearly any business exist on Windows.

Do Linux equivalents for any of this even exist? If they do, is there a large pool of competent admins you can hire for cheap in every non-megacity?

The shift currently is from physical servers being owned by SMB to _the same architecture_ in the cloud. As the cloud admin market saturates, you'll see the % of Linux machines in the cloud drop and drop as SMB migrates their familiar setup to the commoditized cloud market.

The bottom line is your average non-Silicon Valley user can't smoothly change between Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. If you think a switch to Linux is possible in any timeframe less than decades, you are out of touch with the common computer user and their business needs.

EDIT: i use SMB as an abbreviation for small-medium business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterpr...
How Bad Is the Twitter and Facebook Bot Problem?
It is a highly irregular company. But based on my experience there I formed friendships outside my work circles and that turns out to be a great thing.

I used to work at a <100 person company and most of those people had been there for years and a decade was common. I had a few friends there but those relationships stagnated immediately after I left.

I've worked at a lot of companies over the years and there are two people I consider friends today that I met at work. Everyone else I consider a friend is a person I met through social circles.
> Waymo is still much further ahead with actual fully self-driving car without anyone at the wheel

Source?
Did I say anything about it being meaningless?
I've sent many suggestions to the Kindle people of things they could improve on the Kindle, all of which were very simple to do. The years go by, they've done exactly 0 of them.

One of them, for example, was an option to eliminate the margin in a pdf display. The pdf already has a margin, so there's the pdf margin plus the margin the ereader puts around the pdf. This significantly reduces the number of pixels displaying information.
> the wild decades portrayed in the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Basing your legal theory on fiction movies is not a great move.
Maybe it would be easier, maybe not. My point is that we don't understand how the brain, intelligence, consciousness and emotions works. We try really hard to, in many different ways, and it's anything but easy. Every time artificial intelligence gets popular, we get the impression that we are on the grasp of understanding it, until we hit a wall. I'm pretty sure the robots we send on other planets or around other stars will be very capable, but I don't think we can just reinvent our humanity from scratch.
There's a few faulty assumptions that might apply to more liquid and efficient markets but do not apply to corporate bonds. Corporate bond liquidity is minuscule and many create/redeems are done with incomplete baskets vs actual underlying. One of the reasons why the Fed decided to include ETFs in this facility is because the ETFs were trading at a steep discount to NAV at some points earlier this year. For example, SPY's largest discount to NAV this year was around 80bps. For LQD (the largest and most liquid IG ETF), the largest discount was close to 5.1%. Discounts to NAV of that size are not academically arbed away with illiquid underlying assets because there's no liquidity or price discovery happening in those assets either.
The difference is the riskiness of the things they are willing to buy...
This was a long and yet one of the most interesting reads from WIRED I have seen in a long time.
Theoretically, since "housing" is part of CPI prices could fall. But, real estate is difficult to predict:

- low interest rates boost home prices, as lower monthly payments increase "how much" house a buyer can afford

- as the post states, the Fed's actions are increasing income inequality. If rich people are getting richer, and they don't want to put their money in treasuries because the yield is zero, that money has to go somewhere. So stocks, bonds, real estate. So that may increase demand for real estate among the wealthy.

But, nobody knows.
Great idea, I will probably include your gist in the original GitHub mentioning you
Break it up for what exactly?
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis is truly worth reading. Lewis's non-fiction is much better than his fiction, and his fiction is world-renowned. Mere Christianity is just so pure and clear.
You are conflating consciousness[1] with self-awareness[2]. They are two distinct ideas.

In fact the second/third sentence on the Wikipedia page for self-awareness is:

> It [self-awareness] is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness
The “downtime” of many RPGs (which perhaps not coincidentally are Japanese) seems to fit this category beautifully. Think walking through towns aimlessly talking to strangers in Final Fantasy VII and VIII, or playing with chickens in Zelda Ocarina of Time.
If I deliver enough value to receive salary X, I don't see how my personal living arrangements factor in. There are stories of Google engineers vandwelling in company parking, by that standard they should have their salaries reduced.

I'm sure that if one of your directs asked for a raise because they moved in to a more expensive apartment you would politely refuse.

[0](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...)
I wish there was a freeway down the street. Then the cars would be here and gone instead of idling in our local streets for fifteen minutes waiting to merge. Here's a real-world study of before and after they tore down two exits of the Central Fwy and built the horrible Octavia Blvd that necessitated a bunch of sidewalk closures and keeps killing cyclists: https://archive.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planni...
The biggest problem with Ayn Rand's thinking is that skilled, intelligent, and talented people are always moral people in her universe. This is not always the case.
This is awesome. I've been following along for a while, so please keep it up.

I wish someday we'll get something like the ESP32 boards but with RISCV.
I'm seeing decent coverage for Park Slope, BK as well. Thanks for the rec!
No, you didn't even acknowledge the existence of securities regulation in your original comment, even though the whole premise of it was that things like Grams are, like "wildcatting", legitimate businesses. Only after you were challenged about the existence of securities regulation did you reveal your real position, which is that you believe those regulations lack validity.

That latter argument is, of course, your real point. You could have made it directly. Why didn't you? Why did you instead pretend that it was obvious that Grams should be lawful, because "wildcatting" is?
I will include a more in-depth deployment process in Github to simplify implementing this by anyone
In my experience at UVic (6 months fresh) the CS students did more theory of computation, and SEng had formal requirements and specification writing, engineering economics, and project management courses that CS did not. And also yes, the capstone. So, those are the features which distinguish software big-E iron-ring engineering from computer science, in my mind.

e: and yes, cf. the sibling comment, some of those courses were mandatory curricula set by The Professional Body Formerly Known As APEGBC (I forget what they're called now).
Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
A company operating at their scale, with the amount of data they have collected, has the best track record of privacy I've seen to date, TBH. I can't think of any other.

One can make the argument that the easiest way to maintain privacy is to not do anything; if you never collate data, nobody's privacy ever needs to be considered. That's the entropy answer; true and boring. If you never have an app, you don't have to care about security. If you never write software, you never have bugs.

Discarding that null set of privacy scenarios, I observe Google's mistakes are far outstripped by the features and successfully-architected products and I can't think of anyone with a similar ratio of successes to mistakes.
still remember the museum night me and my brother in law where one of the first people into the museum. we went to the nachtwacht right away and where able to view it without anyone else in the room for a long time.
Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation by Meister Eckhart and translated by Raymond Bernard Blakney: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6885348-meister-eckhart

Other notable authors, titles, and subjects, some that others have already mentioned: Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Khalil Gibran, sufism, The Philokalia, etc.
Pretty much anything related to the work environment. This can include maintaining a safe work environment, accommodations for specific employee needs, handling employee disputes.
Modeling Data Concurrency with Asynchronous I/O in Zig
> In this view, a building with a thermostat would seem to be conscious to some degree.

I don't think this is as overly broad or bad of a definition as you presume. I recall sitting at a laundromat one day, in a somewhat sleepy state daydreaming, with the rhythm of the washing machine in front of me playing through my mind. My subconscious told me that the machine was conscious. I dug deeper into that intuition, and realized I was seeing a bit of the inner workings of the mind of the engineer that designed the algorithm. Not a perfect example, as I didn't know if the alg was closed-loop, but in any case, it made me realize that our minds are just large bodies of these algorithms working together. We have some additional oracles, random data generators, and probabilistic mechanisms thrown in as tools, but consciousness really is mechanistic and pluralistic.

To recreate it requires not only the qualitative aspects of a being that can think, but also sufficient (read: vast) quantity of systems to get to a useful general purpose thinking machine. There is no "soul" or special sauce or singular definition of consciousness. It's an illusion.
Legal arguments based on geometry are not particularly solid.

My phone antenna technically catches a lot of wifi traffic, the difference is that most of it is not retained/analyzed.

Overall, again, it comes to expectations, and in this case to massive indiscriminate surveillance. A lot of thing changes if in the previous analogies "one neighbor" is replace by "an army of drones/employees patrolling the streets"

Moreover passive monitoring is an attack from a cybersecurity perspective, that wifi makes it possible is a vulnerability of the protocol and it is not nice for google to exploit said vulnerability.
I think he's alluding to the option of giving money to people instead of to companies; this will alleviate personal devastation.
> COVID and all of that means I don't have a printer at home.

I recently felt privileged enough to get a printer at home in the workroom of my 2bd apartment in San Francisco.

And yet, it ran out of toner! The notaries wanted documents already printed! The print shops are all closed! What the deuce!

I got one to sympathize with me, she wouldn't take my flash drive, but ran out of excuses when I said I have the files on my iphone's file section and could email them.
$56 per month, not per minute
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By CPU cores.

I mean, Windows versus Linux server CPU requirements... I don't know if FAANG-like companies are together large enough to skew the median or if the median web server is a single core Nginx system or something in between, but Windows on a single CPU just sounds horrible.

It would be interesting to see the contrast when counting by base OS (so LXC etc. within a system doesn't count).
Finally getting it.
The efficacies are worlds apart.
Non-Destructive Testing of Fuses
Maintainer here. Thank you for posting organice to HN, risktaker! I was close to missing it before going to bed, too, so it's really a nice surprise^^

If you're a fan of Org mode and want to have access to your files on the go, or if you want to collaborate with someone who's not into text editors and source control, then organice might be for you. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have, albeit it's likely going to be tomorrow as it's late here in Switzerland(;

organice is Free and Open Source Software released under the AGPL, the repository is here: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

If you like what you're seeing, feel free to collaborate or hang out with us on #organice on IRC Freenode, or #organice:matrix.org on Matrix.

A big thank you to everyone interested, enjoy using organice and best of health!
Yes, it’s called Ansible
Manhattan Faces a Reckoning If Working from Home Becomes the Norm
I've been doing WFH for years. Some of my collegues I've never met in person. I still consider many of them "work-friends" and I feel satisfied with my work/social factor. We are still in repeated regular meetings, even if they are tele/video conference. In fact, thinking back to the last 3 in person teams I've worked with, I enjoy my job and team more with all of us WFH than in office.

The issue is not that you can't or won't develop work-friends on a distributed team, its that those work-friends have difficulty translating to "not work friends" because they may be in a different state/country than you and can't come over for a pizza and beer afterwards.
> In the McDonalds example, the physical restaurant is embedded in the community and partakes in the market forces of that physical location

Wouldn't this be true of remote software engineer jobs too? Market forces would drive wages downward. If you live in Minnesota and demand SF-salary, your neighbor (who is similarly qualified) might accept a lower salary, and their neighbor might accept an even lower salary, etc until you find the local market equilibrium.

Are you suggesting that that's unjust?
These guys did pretty well for themselves:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_Go

Niantic was spun off from Google.
Arguably, if the answer was obviously yes, we wouldn't all be arguing about it. And as for "random inputs", I don't think that's the kind of free will most people have in mind--it's arbitrary, but doesn't involve people having control over themselves in any way.

My thought is that the defining characteristic of consciousness is suffering. If you can't torture it, it's not conscious. If you can, it is.

This would seem to rule out the programs that run on our computers. But, since we have little (if any) real understanding of reality, who knows?
I wonder what the competition think about this.

It can't be easy for abelton and Steinway to compete with the richest company in the world.
I was responding to the analogy about gold mining in my original comment. Why would I randomly bring up securities regulation? I think you might have lost the thread a bit.
Infinite Jest is the biggest pile of bullshit that has ever been recommended to me. I lose respect for anyone who mentions that book favorably.
A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community
Super curious to know when you start following this lifestyle?
Yes. And I call my vaccum a hoover and my adhesive sticky-backed plastic Sellotape.
I wonder what this trend -- if it takes -- will mean for all these giant office buildings in downtown areas. How many companies simply won't be returning?

I've also seen the takes re: social distancing requiring larger office space, but why wouldn't companies just send their employees in in smaller, rotating groups?
Actually Pewdiepie made a video about this book and its relation to Matrix, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwJF75wZnw
haha this is like those domain name search websites that just automatically register the good sounding domain names for themselves once the user types it in.

do you OP! I think it still provides a service, enjoy all the secrets
I actually agree with you. I wasn't implying that the OP should consider refactoring their code. Just trying to understand for myself when I would prefer autocomplete over organization of code.
GrubHub tends to lean more on merchant costs (like commission) than consumer fees. This is why lately you may have seen (a) scary looking news articles about GrubHub taking half of a restaurants income, and (b) cities talking about emergency orders to limit commissions.

But either way, the economics are roughly the same: getting food made and delivered to your door is really really expensive. It just comes down to how that gets sliced between restaurant, consumer, and driver.
If you're in a union, you're usually stuck in pay bands based on seniority.
Nope. The cert I get expires May 20, 2021
Not directly accessible? There's ethernet ports on the card, and the article mentions you can SSH into them.
Any job that essential should have staff living on site in full isolation. Conditions may even be better for many migrant and illegal farm hands.
A public official tweeting 'F*ck Elon Musk' is hardly responsible behaviour either.
Interaction with the world will vary, may be minimized or even cease. It is not a prerequisite for consciousness, but it is for Inquiry.

Ie. a light in a box, is it not light even if we can't always measure it? Do nothing exist unless we can touch it always, like photons?

Mind may humble and liberate us, or limit and confuse.

Start of Inquiry is like light discovering shadows in the cave wall, mistaking them for light. But shadows depend on light, and not vica versa, even if cold to the touch.
To be clear, that's affirmative action for people in the lowest castes (not everyone knows what SC etc mean offhand).
> Just wait until governments actually start attacking cryptocurrencies.

> eventually market forces will always win.

How is government intervention an example of market forces winning out?
Exactly.

One of my more vivid memories is excitedly opening my copy of Jayne's "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and being dismayed as it slowly dawned on me that Jayne's entire book was based on this category error.

For the life of me I can't understand why people don't understand this distinction (or choose to ignore it).

I can only assume that people ignore the very obvious "magical thing" that is happening in their own heads due to ideological commitments to physicalism or something.
Well yes, my experiences with Mountain View are dominated by these sorts of interview trips trying to "sell" over-sprawled corporate campuses to me for possible relocations. It's not exactly a tourist destination in any other trip I might take to the Bay Area. These companies clearly aren't doing a good job in selling it to me or why I would want to live/commute there.

(I can directly contrast that in my own experiences with an interview in Huntsville, Alabama that gave me a much greater appreciation for the Huntsville area's beauty far beyond "it's where we went to for expensive space museum field trips in school". It did help a lot with my interest in that position, though that wasn't a position that happened for other reasons.)

Tech companies are so focused on making their interview cycles all day gauntlets and grueling/wearying tests/challenges that so many of them forget that they are also in the process of trying to sell the interviewee on their company, their lifestyle, their neighborhood. If you are asking me to potentially relocate, then of course I'm going to be paying attention to every part of how you sell your quality of life and its surroundings. (Especially, if I tell you I'm willing to relocate, but would prefer remote work and would need to be sold on the relocation. I've asked employers to try to sell Mountain View to me and so far most have failed at making it seem like a place I would like to live. That's a lot on them.)
BeOS Intro Speech
You might want to just switch to a dotenv library. Quick Google for Django yielded https://github.com/jpadilla/django-dotenv
Not expecting that to happen as MS is investing less in Windows.
I use AssetUPnP to serve music off my NAS (my collection is largely classical and has may more relevant tags than most UPnP servers handle). I have a Naim amp that understands UPnP, or BubbleUPnP on my phone.
Suggestion: Include some before/after examples