skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the how that matters. Some countries have "interesting" taxi ecosystems.

I had a friend whose taxi would drop her off to a certain part of the city she was in in Malaysia. She liked him and wanted him to bring her back home later because she felt safe. He couldn't. Apparently there were taxi gangs controlling territory and he could only drop off and GTFO.

Or there's what I saw in Peru where a guy was selling TAXI signs at a traffic light. That's all it takes in some countries, whack that on top and you're good to go. Nice to get a tourist halfway down the freeway then "renegotiate".
Yeah, but now I click a button and in 30 seconds get a refund no questions asked.
Jenkins and Kubernetes: The Perfect Pair
> For some reason people find it appalling that US companies have to operate by foreign laws when operating abroad.

Sure, that is the reason why people were appalled - some reason -can't clearly put a finger on it.
Yet we still read articles and threads about how bad the Go GC is and the tradeoffs that it forces upon you.

I get the feeling that the industry is finally starting to realize that GC has been a massive mistake.

Memory management is a very important part of an application, if you outsource that to a GC you stop to think about it.

And if you don't think about memory management you are guaranteed to end up with a slow and bloated app. And that is even before considering the performance impact of the GC!

The big hinderence has been that ditching the GC often meant that you had to be using an old an unsafe language.

Now we have rust, which is great! But we need more.
Your browser sends an accept-language request header so JavaScript isn't needed to determine the wanted language.

My browser sends "en-GB" in this header but Google always defaults to Chinese because I am using a Hong Kong IP.
No, Google pulled its business from China because of massive state-level hacking attempts, not because of fighting for freedom or doing the right thing or whatever that sounds cool. Or do you think fighting against millions of state-backed hackers is a part of following local regulation?
But they still paid full price to the restaurant! Someone in doordash knew the real price at some point then!
I would argue that intelligence is a tool that life has evolved to become more adaptable to its environment. Intelligence exists at many scales, and consciousness is an emergent property of high intelligence. At some point, as your model of the world becomes sophisticated enough, you have to have a model of yourself, so you become self-aware. Self-awareness evolved because it made for smarter, more effective animals.

Unicellular organisms do information processing and react to their environment. You could say they they're intelligent in that sense, they can actually have very complex behavior. However, they're not self-aware, they don't have a model of the world that incorporates a model of themselves. Neurons involved in multicellular organisms as an effective way to quickly send signals across, making multicellular creatures more adaptable to their environment. These neurons started to organize in more complex circuits that could do increasingly sophisticated information processing because that was good for survival, and so on and so on, until you get self-awareness.
I have a long answer to this which I can dredge up and copy paste. Here's the short version.

1/3 random questions from the immigration test as it exists today (so that no one can disenfranchise others by changing the test).

2/3 questions chosen by each candidate on the ballot. Questions must have an objectively correct answer and must be pertinent to the powers of the office itself.

The long version of this answer just adds defining objective, correct, and pertinent in a legally unambiguous way and sketches out scenarios like trick questions to show that the only reliable way to gain favor in this system is to actually be knowledgeable.
Well you have 504 trades approx, but you're buying in and selling out, so you're paying the cost of spread once per day (252 trading days in a year).

Let's say you have have a strategy that has 7% return and 3% volatility. That's a pretty fucking amazing strategy. So you lever up to 4x and now you have 28% return and 12% vol. With your spread tax, you now have 18% return and 12% vol. Using their 2x leverage, you'll have a 14% and a 6% vol. So while your Sharpe ratio will be lower, your max return will be higher. And since you can't eat risk-adjusted returns, the tradeoff could very well be worth it.
My background is in theoretical physics, so I absolutely subscribe to this perspective. In understanding my own consciousness, however, I find it a lot harder to see how such an explanation could work.

The only other problem that I feel may require a similarly "out-there" explanation would be the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. Why is it that a macroscopic object, made entirely of electrons, protons, etc. when interacting with an electron means that a measurement occurs, but somehow when a single electron interacts with that same electron we can just use the Schrödinger equation? The existence of some type of cutoff between macroscopic and microscopic seems to me to suffer from inevitable inconsistencies. More likely, I would think, is that something like the many worlds interpretation is correct.

Similarly, I wouldn't be surprised if something similar will happen when we understand consciousness more deeply. Simply saying that it's an emergent property is sort of cheating and discounting how different the sense of experience is from anything else that we have seen in nature.
Wife and I stopped in at Edwards AFB perhaps around 2000? Maybe 1998 or so.... Have to dig up the photos to be sure.

The armed guard let us on the base so we could head to Dryden Flight Research Center (now the Armstrong Flight Research Center). In those days I figured you just tried to do a thing until someone said you couldn't. It didn't occur to me that there would be a problem driving in to Dryden.

The guard asked a lot of questions, but, pre 9-11, we had no problem getting in.

Dryden has a small museum, a few hangars. One hangars has the original M2-F1 lifting body.

I distinctly remember this space plane (or it's predecessor?) being towed down a small road near Dryden. I guessed it was some sort of X-plane. We were on a sort of mini-tour at that point, being shown around, and I believe there was an attempt by the tour-guide to distract us from that plane.
Isn’t that just Searle’s Chinese Library?
Ah, I saw that link on the BW forum post and now have my data :) It would be great if the data was signed, and it could be verified with a public key. That way you could have validated references for import into BW. Alas, I see nothing of the sort in the JSON.
Having PR-Material in ReadMe.md is the source of success, cause everyone who tries, is a free-contributor until it works.
It's not just this country though. Every society has used some sort of "them" to cast blame on. Even subsets of society have their own "them". I'm not a head shrinker, but just like religion helps certain people feel okay about unknowable/non-understood parts of life, some people are just more comfortable being able to blame their ills on "them" even if it's unfounded blame.
Everytime I was interviewing, some other company out bet FAANG offer. There are many companies in the bay area, which can match/give you more than FAANG. Fb being the only exception. But then, you are working 2X more for 1.5X the salary. So its not really worth it.
That’s the “Flashlight in the Dark” concept of consciousness as the focus of attention.
Well, a more reasonable value for a tesla is 300 wh/mi, and a tesla could pull off 1,000,000 miles of range with a mere 12.91 gm of plutonium.

If the the cybertruck really needed 500 wh/mi, it would require a bigger million-mile battery - say 21.53 gm of plutonium.

But you know the environmental folks would complain bitterly, so maybe tesla should offer a "green" cybertruck option with a heavier 22.66 gm thorium battery. It will probably require retuning the suspension for the extra weight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_capacity
Harmless Flour Is an Incredibly Explosive Substance
And 90% of the time, smooth scroll isn't.
Markdown is fickle and at times unpredictable, and should not be the default formatting method for user input, imo.
Let us all free trade for all, but not china can trade with works but the world cannot trade with China.
> Corporatocracy....

I think it's usually referred to as "corporatism," but, yes. Specifically, I think our current form of government in the US is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
> I happen to be single, and at the moment, where I'm living, if I have a date with someone, I could technically be fined $1500

And well you should be, you selfish person. This is about keeping it from spreading to people who are in a high risk group. How hard is that to understand? Think for others, for a change, not just yourself.
I wouldn't call it strawmanning, but your response bypassed his broader point, by fixating on one element of his personal anecdote which seems petty without the full context of his concerns.

The previous paragraph had a more societally-oriented critique of lockdown measure, and the fact that the disruption has caused him and ostensibly two others so much distress as to seek prescribed medication in order to cope with it is far more salient within the latter paragraph, imo.
I don’t mean this in a snotty way, but I am curious what your company does.

This is not a judgement of your take. I’m merely offering my perspective.

I’ve worked at a large oil and gas exploration company for a couple years, fintech for several more years, and before all that I had two back to back internships at a nationwide insurance company. Since then, I’ve hopped around a few of the FAANGS you listed.

The other companies paid me less, but they were not less stressful, nor did they have a better work environment or company culture. As a matter of fact, the culture is fairly reminiscent of Office Space (and I don’t mean in a funny way). One of these companies did some fairly negligent things around the last recession. The oil and gas company treats people like less than humans and taught me what ageism means. They would hold the lunch and learns where they told us to tell family and friends that earthquakes are in no way related to fracking. They literally walked out everyone over 50 during the industry downturn when I was there. The insurance company had massive layoffs while I was interning before my senior year in college and replaced them with offshore “IT”.

My post is not a defense of FAANGs. I’m just saying all my other experiences were worse and paid significantly less.

Where do we go from here? I’m not exactly an entrepreneurial type.
You cannot sell certain service to china. That is not fair.
I’m loving the comments of this thread. Gives me more courage that cool tech and software does exists out of FAANG World.

I’m just a new grad soon to be graduating whereas my peers are always talking about landing positions at FAANG while missing out on other opportunities. I think its important to look at things from different perspective.
Part of the trillions being spent is an increase by $600/week in unemployment. This article has a state-by-state breakdown of the replacement rate of unemployment before and after: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/business/econ... So while unemployment is obviously bad in lots of ways, I don’t think it’s currently a given that unemployed people are getting poorer, yet.

If you’re wondering who’s getting filthy rich, there’s a half trillion dollar fund being distributed to businesses. Trump has already said he won’t comply with oversight around that: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/28/21197995/c... and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Inspector_General_fo...
You’re absolutely right. Thanks for the time and energy in writing this response. I’ve observed your interventions over time and they are all reasonable and needed.
The full price was paid because a door dash card was used to pay for the order on pickup.
In my experience, this is definitely the best way to evaluate how competent someone is in an area. If they can easily hold a casual conversation and express / defend some sensible opinions about an area, it's likely they know what they're talking about. Obviously, you should ask technical questions in the interview, but it's the little things in the conversation that say a lot. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't scale to the size of the AP Exams.

Dijkstra exclusively gave oral final exams on a board. Allegedly, he stopped one of his former students after the first question and told him something to the effect of "you clearly know what you are doing by how you answered that, so you'll get an A, but your handwriting is atrocious." He spent the rest of the exam time making the student practice penmanship.
in my case being a parent has made me waste less time and prioritize with more responsibility.
Also remember having lots of time doesn't equal productivity all the time (think about parkinsons law, work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"). You can have shorter periods of "available" time throughout the day but if they're well used you can be very productive.
I have a couple of friends who have 3 and 4 kids and they're more productive than I am. How does that happen?, I think the important trick is how you use your time
Yes, React Native for Windows uses WinUI, and Office is their biggest customer.

Also many WinUI components have come from Office's experience adopting UWP APIs.
Nope, stop right now. Anyone in America can come up with $25 of disposable income a year.
Hopefully not a problem with small businesses?
How many lives could you have saved if you lived in a much smaller apartment, had no personal belongings, volunteered on top of your full-time job, and gave all your savings away to charity? Think of others, for a change, not just yourself.
I'm not sure what 'worth it' means, as to me there's no trade off that would make it 'not worth it'. But to answer why do I enjoy having kids and why do I enjoy being a parent (2yo and 4yo, third on the way):

- I've never felt this much purpose before. It's hard to remember what drive I had four years ago, or what motivated many aspects of my life. Now I live to be a dad and I go to work to provide for my family.

- I've learned heaps. Kids growing up is not a one-way street when it comes to education, you learn too. You learn how to communicate, deal with frustrations, be content and be patient. You learn how to do a lot more, too, but those are the main ones that come to mind.

- I understand what love is, to me. I love my wife - often I refer to it as 'love at first sight' over ten years ago, and nothing has changed. But the love I have for my kids is different, it feels entirely unconditional and raw. It's a feeling I never had before kids, and it sure is sweet.

- My kids are so much fun. Yeah, it's hard work, but there's not a day that goes by where I don't have lots of fun, and lots of smiles. I wake up next to my kids every day and it's an absolute joy.

- Getting context is easy. I look at my kids and i instantly know what life is. I have a hard choice, and kids make it easier, because I've learned what it is to be less selfish.

- Getting more out of life. Life was fun and filling before I had kids, sure - but now, daily, I get more out of my life. Often I'll give a mate a buzz at 7:30am on a Saturday morning and find out I've woken them up - not because I'm rude, but because I'm already 1 - 1.5hrs into my day and I forget what 'early' is. And then I get perspective, and think 'damn, I would have hated to sleep those hours away and not of experienced banana pancakes with the kids'.

That's entirely subjective and not exhaustive, but yeah, it's rad.
Google bans Podcast Addict app
Oh gosh. Why do candidates have any business filtering voters?
Could it be possible that the unemployment numbers being reported in the media are larger than the actual number of people unemployed at this time? As in, the economy isn't really in as bad of shape as we are being led to believe.
“ …today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy and the neo-liberal state is only too keen to oblige their greed.

Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions.”

“ They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created….

How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?

Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them. That is what this book is about.”
Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
I have been using open source software for a while. I feel like sometimes Open Source software is better than the proprietary ones. Since it allows you to customize and it gives you more control.

But the question is how do you sustain yourself while working fulltime on building/maintaining open source software

What are some tips to get into open source and turn it into fulltime career
My favorite was getting a recaptcha in Thai when logging into LinkedIn during my first week in Chiangmai.
As much as I'd like to believe that consciousness is unique, I don't think we have to look that far to show otherwise. There's an abundance of mental disorders that affect consciousness. Take for example something as (relatively) mundane as ADHD. Anyone with it that has a reasonable amount of insight will tell you that they are almost entirely driven by attention, which is the crux of ADHD.

I'd argue that "consciousness" is the illusion that's created from attention, which you're ultimately a slave to. While I don't have empirical evidence, considering how difficult it would be, I believe that attention is the heart of what we consider consciousness. What your attention focuses on is built on nature and nurture. Your attention is grabbed by what you're "interested" in and what you deem is important. It guides your thoughts, your perception, your internal representations, your attitude, your decisions, etc.

The illusion is that you have control over your attention. Again, anyone with ADHD and insight will conclude that you don't. If your mind will is a computer, then attention is the cursor that guides interactions with it. However, we're not in "control" of it since basically what we know of as the self is the mouse cursor of the mind. I don't think we move the mouse; I think that's the illusion.

Me typing this is simply a product of my attention and it leading me to the conclusion that I should type this because this topic and the representations I've constructed internally are significant to me as a result of my education, life experiences, genetics, etc.

At least, that's my opinion. I definitely don't want to come off as an authority on consciousness. I don't think anyone is (yet). Despite my view, I do believe we can uncover the mystery of consciousness from mere perseverance, even if consciousness is emergent.

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Someone has already proposed a thought experiment, but I propose an alternative. Imagine all humans (and living creatures in general) as cells and neurons of an even greater being. What if what we understand as the universe is actually just the composition of a larger mind? As cells, would we comprehend or know that? Or would we assume we're independent beings? The infrastructure we build, the roads connecting clumps of societies, the internet connecting all humans together, etc.

Who is to say that we're not simply building more complicated versions of what we would consider synapses between neurons, nervous systems, circulatory systems, etc? Perhaps the progression of humanity, and the universe at large, is actually just a small organ during the gestation or development phase of a much larger being and we are completely unaware?

One notion that comes to mind is fractals. We see it everywhere in nature. What if consciousness does emerge from complexity and what we consider reality is just a single resolution of a much more complex and larger fractal?
And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible?
Ask HN: Those who are bored at work – why?
As the title says.

I'm working from home and I'm thankful that I have a job in these times, but I'm so bored with what I'm doing. The bureaucracy seems endless, the red tape feels like it is dragging me down. More than writing code and/or improving something (anything!), we (my team and many others in our larger area) are stuck trying to demonstrate how something that was built a hundred years ago (and still works) meets some of the new company policies that were floated a few months ago.

Why not take time to fix technical debt instead of proving some of the newer standards are not met? Gosh! All this paperwork! Its so ... boring!
I don't see this at all. Bryan/College Station exist entirely because of A&M, and these towns would do the same as almost every other small town in that area if it weren't for A&M.
Lighter in terms of memory? No way. Intellij is always at a few gb per instance. They are indeed laggy as hell. With the latest Mac os intellij products specifically bring down the entire os for ten to twenty minutes at a time requiring a hard reboot without which the cycle starts again. Except it's not java or intellij, it's the os. I only wish they were electron apps. That way I wouldn't have to return a $4400 brand new 16" mbpro because of its constant crashing due to horrible native apps. All apps can be shitty. At least electron ones are cross platform, work, and generally do not bring the whole system to a standstill followed by a hard crash. While using about the same resources as electron apps.
FYI, https://about.gitlab.com/install/ce-or-ee/
There's an episode of Silicon Valley where Pied Piper bankrupt an unrelated start-up using this method so that they can hire their developers.
Well, you are free to switch to ReactOS in that case.

I rather have the warm feeling that random app X won't snoop my user data files.
According to wikipedia, BCG was never required in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine#Europe
It also subsidizes the tuition you have to pay.