skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you want, a map?

1) Unfortunately, someone took a conversation about a purchase request as a chance to speak to [me] in a personal capacity. He’s a genuinely nice guy though and [I] like him. Just didn’t know what his role was in [my] workplace, and it wasn’t putting that story in [my] ear at that time, but I suffered through it.

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.

3) What’s this? A thread about Azure? Someone finally mentioned crematoria! Yes! Gather around, fellow engineers, to dissect a Therac type of thing none of you will ever interact with, but will nonetheless defend on the grounds of “yeah, airplanes crash too” or free speech or mumble mumble. By the way, the person was half burned and fat. Sucks, right?

That’s a really insidious poison to accept, understand, and rationalize for your work, in ways that are not immediately obvious (clearly), and I lobby for ethics and licensing in our discipline for exactly the reasons on evident display this thread. This industry keeps turning out large-scale systems that are harmful to humanity. Do you think that came from postgraduate studies in evil, or a detached, clinical callousness and disregard for fellow people like the one you’re trying so hard to justify?

That person had a family. THEY WERE THERE. Maybe even kids. Dreams. Hopes. Aspirations. You’ve reduced them to a fat, half-burned corpse in the name of ginning up useful engineering disaster warnings or something. No, the discussion doesn’t NEED to be had. I reject your premise outright.

If it’s a problem that I care about those things, then, well, we are going to disagree. There is absolutely no small measure of irony in the numerous attempts across this entire thread to put my humanity into question for challenging yours. You’re only reinforcing for me that I’m absolutely right, and had underestimated the acceptability of the problem.
I would recommend Madness and Civilization from the same author, in a similar vein. Similar to prisons, society needs hospitals to house the sick, so that the "sane" ones have somewhere they can point to and say, "Those are the sick ones, over there". It's a good argument on distancing one's self from the other, in order to maintain a feeling of superiority.
Flutter seems to be gaining ground on React Native. And they also have web and desktop ports.
Recently flutter overtook react native on Google trends.
This is probably just a matter of how one defines "family".

On one level there's my "real", immediate family (my spouse, my children). On another level there's my "real" extended family (parents, other blood relatives). On yet another level there's my "adopted" family (close friends, their children, etc.)

It's pretty easy to see certain coworkers moving into the adopted family category.
I hoped America will bring some sanity in this panicked world. I’m not sure this will happen anymore.

What next?
From the github repo, the site is a wrapper around exactly two shell commands. Instead of uploading your data to an untrusted site, you can run from the comfort and safety of your local computer:

convert -density 150 input.pdf -colorspace gray -linear-stretch 3.5%x10% -blur 0x0.5 -attenuate 0.25 +noise Gaussian -rotate 0.5 temp.pdf
gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sColorConversionStrategy=LeaveColorUnchanged dAutoFilterColorImages=true -dAutoFilterGrayImages=true -dDownsampleMonoImages=true -dDownsampleGrayImages=true -dDownsampleColorImages=true -sOutputFile=output.pdf temp.pdf
You act like these are well defined and agreed upon categories. The page on consciousness you link lists off many different definitions people attribute to consciousness, including: "It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness."
Graphviz is way more flexible.
Piss in the ocean? Fish do it.
Seems to be true for Vienna. I'm not native speaker and can say that some people weren't pleased to be called "du" (same age or not) and the whole city seems very formal.
It's a common speculation, but employment (and recreation, regular life, going outdoors) actually kills a lot of people.

Every % rise of unemployment in Europe during the financial crisis resulted in a 3.5% drop in all cause mortality, and that includes a ~35% increase in suicides. We can probably extrapolate that for a scenario where business as usual also kills a good amount more people due to a pandemic.

Clearly the US, being the US, could be different due to cultural differences in how the poor and underemployed are treated.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009174351...
"stable" currency isn't "stable" because it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Populations grow, economies expand, efficiency increases. If I have $1 in 1919 when the GDP was $500B (and there were only 100M people) vs $16T (nominal), and I sock it in a drawer, I now own a much, much larger share of the US money economy than I did. I didn't earn it, I just held onto it. I accumulated value by virtue of "I got there first, sucks to be you."

There's no good reason to encourage value generation through inaction. That's one of the many good reasons to have abandoned deflationary currencies.
> and you should be proud that you had the talent to perform at our level for the time you did.

My main takeaway is: they sound a bit bloody full of themselves.
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I always thought calling programmers engineers was very weird until I watched this great talk:

Real Software Engineering, Glenn Vanderburg, Lone Star Ruby 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP9AIUT9nos

which explains what various kinds of engineers actually do. Not at all dry and boring like it might sound! From the YouTube blurb:

Software engineering as it's taught in universities simply doesn't work. It doesn't produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn't produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn't produce systems at all. That's odd, because in every other field, the term "engineering" is reserved for methods that work. What then, does real software engineering look like?
I can testify—from non-tech job at the service industry—that great work culture and fun colleagues can be a dangerous venue to be exploded by your bosses.

I was working with awesome people and had tons of fun as a particular tourist resort exploded in popularity (and revenue) while us workers only saw union minimum wage increases along a massive work stress with the increased work. We all justified still working there because we had fun with our work buddies, which was promptly exploited by upper management that had us work more for less money.

The moral of this story is: Don’t get blinded by good work culture. We still have our rights and demands as workers.
That’s really difficult in the beginning. Like others have said, boundaries are awesome. One thing I did that helped a lot is simply asking if I’d pop into their work to sit and ask a few questions. The answer has always been no. So I ask that they not do that when I’m at work either.

That’s helped in most if not all cases.
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Sounds like an outlet for allowing sharing of illegal material. Want to share cp? Just upload it to facebook? Want to watch children get abused? Just moderate Facebook!
I don't think it's bad to describe a building with a thermostat as a (very) little bit conscious. It would be interesting to formulate a spectrum of consciousness. Something like:

Level 0: Inanimate objects like rocks. They move when moved by something else but not on their own.

Level 1: Objects like mechanical locks that move iff interacted with but do make some sort of "choice". (ie opening or not opening depending on the key used in the case of the lock)

Level 2: Systems that interact with their environments but in very mechanical ways, like mosses, trees and thermostats. It is essentially predictable how the system will behave when disturbed in certain ways, ie it does not learn or only in a predictable way (like trees growing around obstacles).

Level 3: Systems that can actively learn about their environment and use the knowledge to get what they want. Most animals would be here.

Level 4: Systems complex enough to form a "theory of mind" about other beings. Most social animals would be here.

Level 5: Self-aware systems, which can form a theory of mind about themselves. Complex planning lives here.

There might be levels higher than self-awareness, but I can't think of any examples (obviously, since humans are as far as we know the most intelligent beings on Earth). Some attributes a hypothetical "level 6" system might have:

- Perfect insight in their own motivations. Humans clearly lack this but it does not seem impossible.

- Better ways to communicate qualia. The colour purple or the taste of strawberries is difficult to explain for humans, but once again it does not seem like it would be impossible.

- Ability to "really" multitask. Once again something that is not theoretically impossible but very difficult for humans to do.
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication; you can't explain that.
What I do, is print the PDF as image, with 60% jpg quality. JPG artifacts make it look like normal quality scan.

I have my 3-4 copies of signatures as font file, along with initials.
Dynamic scope[1] is generally considered to be harder to reason about since their values are not determined by where they appear in a file (but rather by how the code executes at runtime)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexic...
Ok, did not realize national hadn't leveled out, so I take back 'most'. I feel like my state's (CO) re-opening response is appropriate but we've been relatively 'flat' for a couple weeks. Apparently we're also one of the few states that can afford a Tableau license, we've had a decent site https://covid19.colorado.gov/data/case-data since March.
I learned programming with AutoHotkey. I first used it to grind out gold and items in a simple flash-based RPG for me and my younger siblings. At first it was just timed clicks
Incidentally, Switzerland is opening back up albeit with some basic restrictions.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/switzerland-relaxing-...
I saw this video last week and it reminded me of an AHK tool I wrote years ago to work around some ERP flaws, can't really say more.....

The video also reminded me to let some of the young guns in my team into the AHK secret
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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.

If people are afraid to be in public, then the restaurants, bars, and shops won't see full-scale business return. Those jobs and business will be lost anyway, perhaps with more people infected than necessary. Or, we try and find some middle-ground "new normal" that lets people feel safe in public. Or something else? I have no idea and I doubt many people in this comment section really know either.
It seems like most commenters haven’t read the article.

The opening described in this article happening this week is more extensive than all of the UK and Italy have at the moment.

The quotes read to me as officials are opening things up but leaving enough wiggle room in comments about the future that they can point back to if a big flare up requires them to slow down or rollback.
I own Logic, so I too and happy about the updates. I use Logic every day and since my preference is making music, I don't really have any reason to want to spend the time to learn another DAW.

So, by keeping Logic reasonably up-to-date compared to other DAWs, Apple retains my Mac loyalty. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
By the same authors as the work being discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23153778.

Another gem in the tradition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, providing for applied mathematics what the previous two books did for computer science and physics.

There doesn't seem to be a web-accessible version of the book as of yet, but there is a link to an Open Access PDF in that page: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t3si4b99ijqyhyk/9580.pdf?dl=1
netboot + tmpfs root would be good enough for me
And so many elective surgeries are out-patient meaning there was no reason to pre-emptively suspend. If the capacity overwhelm that never happened had actually happened, we could have suspend surgeries then. And frankly it should be on a case-by-case basis. Some surgeries are more important than an extra hospital bed-day.

I have a large labral tear in my shoulder, an impaction fracture on my humerus, there’s a bone bruise with bone marrow leaking out, my glenohumeral ligament is stripped from the glenoid rim, I have a new area of full-thickness articular cartilage loss...

...And because CA suspended ALL elective surgeries statewide for a month, my surgeon has a month backlog before he can get to me. Until then I cannot perform any of the activities that keep me healthy and sane. Also my arm is at risk of dislocating in my sleep until I get surgery

Suspending elective surgeries was the dumbest possible decision we could have made yet our leaders won’t ever admit that they fucked up and completely botched their covid response.
Colors, tastes, feelings aren't vague nor are the thoughts, imaginations, dreams they makeup. They're the stuff of consciousness, and somehow you have to demonstrate how awareness results in those experiences. Shifting definitions to avoid the hard problem doesn't cut it.
Ah, that is not what I assumed, and rather less surprising.
> It's not just about enjoying life.

Even so, this is not something anyone should apologize over.

Life should be worth living. To someone who has lived their whole life being able to enjoy life in any which way is experiencing a massive shock right now. Of course people want to be able to go to crowded bars, be around other people, go to concerts, ride roller coasters, get wasted, etc. We rely on these things because life is boring at best and usually bad for a lot of people. If we don't have anything to look forward to, even simple things, we lose hope. Gee, I'm really sorry that it seems selfish or even "conservative" to the smarty pants who are content living indoors and consuming media and frozen dinners. Most of us get tired of that and it becomes frightening when our jobs are in question or have no job at all. Just being able to go to a crowded bar, be around other people, having a pint, and not having to wear masks, sounds really damned good right now.

I understand that there's always a cost benefit analysis to all of this, but the high and mighty attitude towards people who simply want to feel happy needs to stop. It damages every discussion.

EDIT: Many of the people who make that kind of argument also say "cry me a river" when someone whose business or job is "nonessential" says anything negative about their predicament. Um, you people ought to look at your own jobs and question just how "essential" they are. I don't think I've ever worked an "essential" job in my life, yet I'm payed much more than most "essential" workers are.
Show HN: What podcast episodes are people listening to right now?
Untitled Goose Game is, for me, a quintessential example of this genre.

https://goose.game
There is a study for every truth. There are plenty of other data showing it is hardly dangerous. Also, so many deaths are being counted as covid when the patient already had a severe condition - Dr Birx and many other public health officials have made this clear, too. The numbers are way inflated.
https://archive.md/j8vY9
Is there some sort of advantage to high income workers being forced to drive to an office every day?
The best hard drive is the one with a backup :)
This sounds like some kind of "cognitive homunculus" looking at itself in a mirror. Does it explain anything, or just push the question of what is perceiving the subjective experience one level deeper?
There are lots of places that are full remote that will pay you less. Why not do it? I have been working from home for almost 2 years now and I will never go back (Didn't have to take a pay cut either, actually a raise).
Adiabatic compressed air energy storage using natural caverns or tunnels
If you have a rich text editor or inline SVG there, you're bound to have to deal with them eventually.
Sometimes the download fails.
Much respect to Netflix, I hear nothing but good things culture and engineering wise.

My last manager interviewed with them and said they gave him a 90+ frame PowerPoint on “the Netflix way“.
For #1 (just as an alternative) I've had good luck with this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...

Thankfully I've never had to deal with #2
I trust it to keep the rivers from catching fire, and planes from falling out of the sky, and the front seat from falling through the bottom of my car.
Why the obsession with product names and logos? Having a Python class for a specific product is not necessary.

...and then people talk about CV-driven development...
I personally love this idea and I hope it spreads to other bay area companies, but I also worry we'll see a repeat of IBM https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-tho...
I loved the concept in permutation city of simulating your own mind out of order, but I think it would only be possible if we can show that consciousness is a pure function. If consciousness isn't pure and therefore depends on some internal state, then simulating out of order isn't possible because you need to go through all the intermediate states to get the right output.
With logic Pro, the money is not made in the software, but in hardware. Users of Logic Pro will buy thousands of dollars of Apple hardware to support music creation with the software.
> That needs to work before moving to more complexity.

It really depends on what level of abstraction you care to simulate. OpenWorm is working at the physics and cellular level, far below the concept level as in most deep learning research looking to apply neuroscience discoveries, for example. It’s likely easier to get the concepts of a functional nematode model working or a functional model of memory, attention, or consciousness than a full cellular model of these.

More specifically, a thousand cells sounds small in comparison to a thousand layer ResNet with millions of functional units but the mechanics of those cells are significantly more complex than a ReLU unit. Yet the simple ReLU units are functionally very useful and can do much more complex things that we still can’t simulate with spiking neurons.

The concepts of receptive fields, cortical columns, local inhibition, winner-take-all, functional modules and how they communicate / are organized may all be relevant and applicable learnings from mapping an organism even if we can’t fully simulate every detail.
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In this case, the caste system based admission is equivalent to affirmative action in US universities
California is solid blue.
Replace algorithms with math and you'll see that you're making a rather strong metaphysical claim that is essentially Platonism.
True, but the article title could have reflected the contents much better.
You're being sarcastic, but humans controlling robots from a distance has actually been tried before, and was promisingly successful: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/26/national/cafe-o....
I did this to present how programs works once:
Did a medium sized presentation and assembled the program piece by piece, only to have it type it's own source code in the end and run another instance of itself. Confused the hell put of everybody in retrospect, but immensely fun at the time nonetheless :)
TheGood,the Bad,TheUgly Solutions to Leetcode’s Single Element in a Sorted Array
This is an awesome article that explains ways of solving Leetcode's Single Element in a sorted Array. YOU WILL DEFINITELY LEARN SOMETHING NEW.
It's unlikely the current orders would survive any court scrutiny.
Graphviz is even better: you can generate SVGs and PNGs that can be displayed without jabbascript
I'd love to abandon my C/C++ UI frameworks for React, but I need

- consistent rendering/support across multiple platforms and versions

- multiple windows

- rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework

Can I do that all in React native? Edit: don't need to bring up electron.
> I’d love to join a start-up developing a remote work nurse-robot.

Even ignoring the WFH bit, a remotely-controlled 'nursebot' could be the best case. Not only would it prevent communicating disease, but it would reduce stress on nurse's bodies, more precise medication administration (by reducing error + augmenting knowledge).

Although, isn't human contact considered an important part of recovery?

I guess the nursebots would be better in some cases than others.
As someone with a pregnant wife, I'd also like to mention that birthing classes, breastfeeding classes, etc. are also not available at the moment.

My wife has had to "visit" an OB/GYN over Zoom.

I don't know how effective or not midwives and such are (I really should get on that...) but women are having to go without them or choose to go without having fathers by their sides. Some places have stopped any visitors from being present.

There are potentially long term health impacts from the above changes, I'd imagine.

Not all of what a hospital deals with is immediately life threatening, though putting it off can certainly make it so.
Majority of remote workers are more productive and communicative
Most likely but I was thinking of shipments made by a single company.
> With friends, I surround myself with people I actually like

There's a very strong correlation between how much we like someone and how similar they are to us. We like people with shared values and hobbies and opinions on important topics. Our friend group has a tendency towards homogeneity unless we actively try to avoid it.

If we assume that diversity of thought is a good thing, being forced into situations where you can't choose the people who will surround you (school, college, workplace) is probably a good thing. Seeing things from the perspective of folks different from us is the personal growth GP was talking about.
Subnautica is a wet-your-pants game of sheer terror. However, if you disable damage and aggression you can focus on beautiful and peaceful exploration and building and gardening. A very iyashikei experience for me.
Hyperbole clearly. Feel free to not use the taxi if you care. But of course you'd want to rant on HN
But approximately 100% the people that use Windows in the cloud are going to be using Azure.
Prices aren't set (solely) by value provided. If that were the case, toilet paper and other essentials would cost 10-100x more than it does today.

Prices are set by supply-and-demand. More to the point, companies will pay you the least amount of money they can, while still retaining you. Just like you pay the toilet paper company the least amount of money you can get away with, even if you get vastly more value out of it.

You're welcome to reject the above on principle. But then you'll have to settle for the next best alternative. And if the company's done its homework right, your next best alternative wouldn't be any better.