skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem is that qualia leads into the idea of philosophical zombies, or people who act like they're alive and think they're alive but don't have qualia. The trick is to either prove they don't exist, or prove you're not one of them, while also not granting qualia to, I don't know, flatworms or search engines. Which is the same thing as proving things about consciousness.
Why doesn't Backblaze then switch to more of the models of the other companies. It almost seems like the more of a particular model they have the higher the associated failure rates.
Could you please provide a link to some cases where Microsoft is suing Linux users for violating their patents? I thought they stopped that practice years ago.
This is very cool, I have the same concern. Most documents I need to scan like this have my PHI or PII on them and I wouldn't trust uploading to a third party, and especially free, site. What I will add to the conversation is that seeing the source code and trusting that you're running that exact code are different thing. Would love to see this as something I could run locally after cloning the repo, as a python or npm script or some. Very cool work overall!
Basically faking a stage by making a job?

That helps but the "definition" of a stage is still far away from the job definition when you have enough of them and people won't know to update this when they copy/paste a job definition for adding a new test.

Plus, visualization is still terrible :)
I'm (unfortunately) boycotting WD and their subsidiaries; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935563
What’s the significance of “The Night Watch” artistically?
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Stop revealing the features of my premium product before it's released. ;)
At least in my company, many folks leave it on snooze always - with a status requesting for an override if there's something urgent. Else the intrusion is very real. I personally used to get a ding from groups or PMs every other min or so. muted groups, still got one every 5 mins or so - very painful.

I prefer the onboard buddy / mentor approach: I just tell my mentee to override this.
Kleenex is a specific product too, but is often used as a generic term. “Bitcoin” might not be commonly used that way but it parses just fine to me.
Not sure how you define not out of proportion.

Look at the FT or NYT international comparative excess death studies. Excess death is definitely in the top 3 and looks to be nr 1 in all of Europe's 30-50 countries.

And this is despite having one of the best positions as one of its richest, relatively few tourists per capita compared to many other countries like Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands etc, the vast majority of visitors arriving by air which was relatively easy and uncontroversial to shut down compared to shutting down land borders in Europe (particularly for landlocked countries).

And lastly, it was hit later than much of Europe let alone Asia, which is massively important. When you have early-outbreak doubling times of 2 days, getting hit 4 days later can mean a 4x difference in the infection/death numbers. It had absolutely no excuse, particularly compared to other countries, to erroneously downplay this pandemic.

Unfortunately whereas many other countries like Spain or Italy are seeing far fewer infection numbers than weeks ago, the UK is seeing just as many as weeks ago. It's slowly improving, but it's nowhere near the home-stretch as other countries are, yet it's relaxing conditions. Finally, it's not even testing as much as other countries, with tests at a rate of 29k per million, whereas Italy/Spain are at respectively 44k and 52k.

This has mismanagement written all over it. Indeed if I came across as implying the UK is 10x worse than everywhere else, no it's nowhere near that disproportional. But it clearly seems to have had one of the best starting positions and worst outcomes, and one of the furthest away from significant improvements.
> In the same sense I don't think "machine x does y" expresses fewer facts than "machine x does y, and it is conscious".

brings to mind behaviorism, which was of course influential and compelling for a long time. The problem with behaviorism, if you want just one problem, is how do you even talk about something like Synesthesia within behaviorism? It's (initially) a purely subjective/qualia related experience. While behaviorism was in vogue, it was difficult to take Synesthesia seriously and it was dismissed as people being poetic and metaphorical, but those who experienced grapheme-color synaesthasia could see shapes present in a number-pattern readily that those without it could not see.
I think you're missing the context here, we're talking about remote positions. Maybe what the company expect to pay depends on where the company's HQ is, if they have one, that kind of makes sense. But the company's cost for an employee shouldn't take the location of the (remote) employee into account because that has nothing to do with the hiring/work whatsoever.
You don't see it on HN much but the Windows world is still massive, and there are still plenty of ASP.NET folk around. I'd suppose you only have to take half a footstep outside the "pure Internet services" sphere to start bumping into lots of Windows, in pretty much any direction you happen to step.

There are also whole industries where Windows has a particularly strong influence, e.g. (from experience) some parts of finance, petroleum, television, and I imagine things like render farms or other specialist graphics work that might have grown out of a once Windows-only desktop software cottage industry.

I guess it's also important to say, much as you might find a zealous love for UNIX inside many (computer) engineering-led organizations, similar loyalty to Windows exists in many more (locally under-represented) industries for reasons that are less likely to be understood around here.
When reading this article, I got an impression that US government banned Telegram from issuing certain securities, but after reading comments and links I come to the conclusion it's not the case and actually US government just said "it's a security, so you have to follow our securities procedures". Granted, those are not very fun, but that's not what Telegram complaint is - it looks like they tried to sneak a fast one and it didn't work. Well done Telegram marketing for temporarily misleading me, I guess.
POWER has Ultravisor.
Office Chit Chat vs Home Procastination

Same thing.

Same productive outcome.

Hence, working from the office or working from home is ... the ...same ... gawd ... damn ... thing.

Well done to Twitter for growing a set.
Market rates are such a weird idea. The whole concept is.

You should pay for how GOOD an engineer is. Not for where (s)he lives.
Hmm, it turns out that I’m actually wrong. I’d see domain registrars offer really cheap domains before, but they’re actually one or two year offers that then bump up to $10/year or $20/year.

We need a tld that offers domains for really cheap with the understanding that it’s mainly for people owning shdkshfkskfjslfjsk.sometldname.
The Visual Studio ecosystem has supported command line builds for a long time. msbuild commands are run by Visual Studio and display right in the console. The .NET Core stack is also very command line first designed.

I think what you're noticing is that Visual Studio makes it easier for point-and-click developers to participate while a bash shell takes a little more effort to learn. You can have poor developers in both worlds or great developers in both worlds.
Andy at Backblaze here. We use SSDs in our core servers and more recently in boot drives as they both need to speed. To store data in our case we don't need the speed so its not worth it yet. Given the amount of data growth, most predictions have HDDs still with about 50% of the storage market in 2025.
I bought books such as Linux Programming Interface to learn linux so that I can apply for jobs. Later I discovered that when the companies say Linux, they don't mean writing native applications on Linux, but that they are actually talking about java applications on app servers such as JBoss. Does anyone write native applications like thick client native applications on Windows which is also rare these days.
FWIW, the US Government also tapped Blackrock to help with the 2008 crisis. This article talks a little bit about that choice then:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/fink-201004
I'd disagree with "the creative crowd does" - I've been doing this self-employed for just over 20 years, and I'd say the split is probably 75/25, Windows / Mac. It used to be WAY more - like 90/10 in the favour of macs, but Windows has got a LOT better - back in the day I used to have to spend the best part of a day setting a new machine up, tweaking Windows settings, etc., to get anything like a reliable setup. Now I can just install Windows 10, do a batch of settings with one app, and you're away. I know that hardware has advanced and that's a part of it, but since Windows 7, the OS is mostly out of the way, and I know plenty of people who are creating music on Windows day in day out, without any reliability issues, and they're spending the money they save on hardware (i.e. not buying a mac) on soundware that makes them sound great.

I use both - Windows DAW is my studio machine (I have a slave which runs more plugins using Vienna), and a 2015 MBP as mobile and for creating videos/images for books as everything looks better. But I'm in the minority in being cross-platform, which is odd to me.
> Quarantine is for the sick, not the healthy

No, quarantine is literally for the “potentially exposed”, not the known sick. Once a person is sick, they are then isolated, not quarantined.
There's absolutely _millions_ of .NET web apps that target 'old' .NET framework out there. Migrating from .NET to .NET Core isn't trivial for most projects and can be very very challenging for others, to the point where it's probably not worth even attempting it. These apps will still be running for years or decades and Azure has by far the best Windows cloud experience.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
This is genuinely creepy for that wifi names can lead to finding the person's name and thus you have found to a few minorities their location, and name. And also for local businesses you can now track and use that data forgood or bad.
I don't disagree. Just trying to help.
I've started programming using Autohotkey,
I just wanted a script for age of empire 2 to manage where catapult can efficiency dispatch attacks.
After that I made a bot that can auto fold poker hands, it worked, with AHK you can search image on the screen and get position of the matched image.
After that I made a fully functional and autonomous poker bot

many years later I am now a software engineer, I just wanted to manage my catapult on Age of empire 2 ....

So AHK is very powerfull, easy langage and awesome !
no offense intended, but how does that compare the an equivalent position in the valley? The point is not so helpful without the reference.

For example, are you equivalent to a L3 with 0 years of experience at google making 200K, or an L6 with 10 years experience making 600k?
While that is true, the win32 API and other stuff that floats on top of NT for the GUI based stuff (which is most stuff) is still very much restricted by that legacy.

NT was supposed to be very tunable and modular and have multiple personalities and abstractions but it turns out it mostly is just win32-on-NT and everything else ended up being on top of win32.

It has gotten better, especially post-OneCore, but it still is very much restricted compared to Linux, BSD and Unix.

Windows NT (and VMS) were not as much multi-user server as they were more closer to mainframes (which died/are dying for their own reasons). VMS, like plan9, had concepts to allow many (theoretically) fancy server things, but were to much a created world instead of a grown world (like post-system-v). Also, while the VMS dude who was on the NT team did influence it heavily, the legacy they had to support made it almost impossible to use any of that fancy 'new' stuff back then. While it was orders of magnitude better than DOS, it feels like Windows needs to make yet another evolution like it did going from DOS to NT to get back to current times instead of patching on top of patches every time.
There are ARM systems that don't need blobs. Whether they are useful to you is a different question. An example is the iMX line from NXP.
Thank you for the link, interesting stuff. I think about this all the time, it is interesting to see other viewpoints. I believe that everything we know, feel and are aware of in the universe requires some consciousness as an entry point. I also believe that there are different levels of consciousness, a computer is consciousness to some level but I think there things (emotions etc) that it can never be conscious of simply because everything in its reality boils down to 0's and 1's which I think can never encode happiness otherwise all of us would be happy simply by encoding that state in our minds.
Obeying stop lights and stop signs is a very very long way from fully autonomous cars. "Deploying a production fleet" is a problem that car companies have solved for a century+ so if the finish line is "Deploying a production fleet of autonomous cars," the autonomous part is the hardest part of the equation, I don't see Tesla making it there first.
Reserving freedom of association for "essential workers" shows the flaw in your thinking. The reason for the carve-out in the lockdown is so they can do their "essential" job. Well, every job is an essential job, to the person who depends on it for their livelihood and well-being.

The mental state of a person attacking another person with a knife, or a virus, is not at all comparable to a person going to bake sweets, cut hair, or any of the other productive employments people engage in.

Actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea.
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I think having a choice of being on-prem and/or completely remote is fine

But I'd like to mention that it seems like a few people are forgetting about how they met their friends in the first place -- for a vast majority of us, the answer is school, something we sort of had no choice over and were sort of forced into. I participate in quite a few forums and sub-Reddits, but how many of them turn into actual real connections beyond the digital ones is slim.

Secondly, in response to those that want to only choose who they want to hang out with -- the flip-side of that is group-think and echo-chamber-ism by not subjecting oneself to orthogonal perspectives...

Lastly, as people in technology, we have choices about where to work -- find a place that works on something that you like with people that you like. I have a hard time empathizing with those that say, "we don't have a choice". Yes, getting a job, as a dev can be a grind, but imagine being a musician or an artist or an architect. Honestly, people in tech have it best -- in all other fields you're absolutely stuck and we're here bitching about WFH policies...
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, yes, it's easy to see accidentally recording when they really didn't mean to. On the other hand, have you ever heard of Google recording less data or giving people more privacy by accident? If "mistakes" always favor one party then it seems fair to start blaming them. On the third hand, would you hear about that if it happened? I mean, what would that look like? "Oh, today's ads are slightly less targeted"? "Oh, Google location services doesn't automatically place me by my wifi WAP"? Negatives aren't just hard to prove; they're hard to see in the first place.

So I'm skeptical, but I don't know how to have enough data to really be sure.
Unrelated to OP, and not to hijack a thread, but if you want to see what an operational version of this in a SaaS looks like:

https://medium.com/@jamie.f.reid/a-useful-tool-for-cyber-sec...
Northern Virginia I believe.

Definitely some locations in Canada too.
Correct -- his house would not have a link to NSANet, nor have anywhere for open storage of classified material. The VERY best he could have hoped for would be a SME-PED and a vault.
Scott Aaronson and Giulio Tononi debated IIT five years ago. Personally, I think Aaronson had by far the stronger argument, and my much less analytical response to IIT is that it broadens the definition of consciousness to the point of being uninteresting and unhelpful.

From the article (Christof Koch's words):

"The theory fundamentally says that any physical system that has causal power onto itself is conscious. What do I mean by causal power? The firing of neurons in the brain that causes other neurons to fire a bit later is one example, but you can also think of a network of transistors on a computer chip: its momentary state is influenced by its immediate past state and it will, in turn, influence its future state."

In this view, a building with a thermostat would seem to be conscious to some degree. I very much doubt that any amount of study of simple systems that fit this definition will tell us anything useful about the sort of consciousness that is displayed by, for example, humans.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823
According to The Paradox of Choice[1], more freedom doesn't necessarily lead to more happiness.

Without choice, people can grow on each other. With friends, we move on if it becomes difficult. With coworkers we have an opportunity for personal growth. In a way, coworkers are more like family than friends.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
Except that the Fed is buying bonds that pay a higher rate that they borrow at (U.S. Treasury rate). So unless there is a lot of defaulting, they should be fine.

It's like they are mortgaging the White House at 0.25% and buying bonds that pay 4%.
Andy at Backblaze here: Good to know. We used to do this with the lifetime stats, but that got lost somewhere along the way. I'll look at getting them back. Thanks.
When SSDs are comparable in price to HDDs. Which is... not soon.
I would readily buy that if they didn't also, you know, sniff network contents and then attempt to obscure that fact.

> The unredacted FCC report refers to a Google "design document" written by an engineer who crafted the Street View software to collect so-called payload data, which includes telephone numbers, URLs, passwords, e-mail, text messages, medical records, video and audio files sent over open Wi-Fi networks.

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
That's a pretty cool project.
Do you mind explaining your deployment process?
Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl.
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Fixed. Sorry, forgot to configure nginx.
Windows Server is available in a "core" edition without a GUI.
I have found that I'm more social (and more socially available) with my colleagues in an all-remote company. I chat with them day and night, regardless of time zone. Our kids video chat with each other. We listen to each other's music.

Rather than feeling like statues that live in an office and turn to stone at 5PM, only to reawaken the next morning, my colleagues actually feel more like human beings in this config.
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> At least with Google we know all the data is in good hands.

... /s ? Please?
That type of software is pretty highly configurable...like "NO MITM for Bank type sites", "only MITM for sites with domains < 1 year old", etc.
I fail to grasp how EV are "just like" releasing captured carbon in the atmosphere. Sure, building them has a carbon footprint, but so does an ICE vehicle, and over it's lifecycle an EV release a fraction of the carbon of a traditional car.

In any case the best solution to transport-related carbon release is not to simply replace ICE vehicles by EV, it's to reduce car and plane usage massively, and promote walking, bicycling, public transport, remote working and shared rides.

Wind mills and solar farms are built today much faster and at a cheaper price and carbon emissions than nuclear stations. We are not 50 years ago, we are now. Combined with existing hydroelectric dams, which act as giant batteries, and other forms of utility scale power storage (actual batteries), existing renewable energy grids have proven to be just as dependable as other sources of energy.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to nuclear either. Give me a secure design that can be built in less than 10 years, with reasonable costs, that private insurers will accept to cover, with proper waste management and control of nuclear proliferation, total operating transparency, that is actually possible to dismantle at the end of it's lifecycle, and a strong risk mitigation plan in case of external events (earthquake, floods, droughts, bombing), and I'll say sure, bring it on.

In the meantime blaming environmentalism for climate change is a bit far-fetched. Nuclear energy has been effectively torpedoed by itself, due to bad management, the fossil fuel industry and spiraling costs, much more than environmentalists (is there any place in the world where Greens have significant political power?)

The bad solution I was referring to is about building a giant barge loaded with nuclear stations in the middle of the Pacific ocean capturing atmospheric CO2 in order to convert it into fuel that is going to be released in the atmosphere again a few days later. Let's just say there's fundamental inefficiencies in that plan.
Debian uses something called Meetbot. It seems like it would be sort of be what you are asking for.

https://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
I'm in a bit of an odd place here, but we develop C++ on Windows (both client and server software).

You'd think that C++ would be relatively portable (though not as portable as Java), but you'd be mistaken. So many things are not portable.
I just created a Dockerfile to run: https://github.com/skhaz/diagrams
It was effectively a Wifi Stingray and MITM peoples connections so they could form a baseline of what people in that local were doing with their internet connections at the time the street view car passed.

It most certainly broke connections. Multiple levels of unethical, how this ever got past anyone at Google stumps me.
Do these transitions actually work? I can't imagine taking a massive pay cut because I need to be closer to ailing parents. That is going to generate a lot of bitterness. What is the turnover like at your company?
Not sure if it counts as novelty or not and its not purely software at all, but I've been learning about and experimenting with VLC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light_communication)

Hopefully when I have a semi useful prototype done I'll be able to write more about it. I'm particularly interested in the upcoming 802.11bb standard and it would be cool to design something that can take advantage of or at least build upon existing 802.11 stacks.

This was a pretty easy to understand paper introducing VLC concepts https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8257800. Sadly it does cost money to read and unfortunately I'm not aware of any way to access ieee documents without paying. Although since it's a research paper and not a standard, you may be able to find it on sci-hub or something similar.
I thought it was the 11 secret herbs and spices
I made one for myself a while ago: https://github.com/ImedAdel/arkiv, it just tries to look for an archived version or sends you to a page to build to archive the website.

Not quite perfect, but does the job for me :)
this is very similar to scandinavian cultures. in comparison, american work culture feels extremely centered around social interactions.
> The Fed generates profits for its shareholders. (from the article)

I wish I had something more articulate to say; this truly boggles my mind how this would benefits the American people. It should benefit us as American's right?