skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying things like "Consciousness is emergent" or "Consciousness is just a side effect of information processing" seems to miss the point.

It sounds suspect to me too, but the reason the idea is appealing is that it's worked fantastically for hundreds of similar phenomena. To vastly oversimplify thousands of years of philosophy, for most of human history the default position has been that every idea had to be reified into some metaphysical essence.

What is the essence that makes a dog a dog? That makes bread nourishing but rocks not? That makes rocks solid? That makes fire hot? That makes falling objects seek Earth? Again and again, we've found simple physical explanations for these puzzles, that once were regarded as just as inexplicable as consciousness. Indeed, consciousness is now the last essence that survives, and that's why some bet it'll go the same way as all the rest. "But this one is different", indeed, and every single time so far that argument has been wrong.
I beg to differ. Travellers need travel insurance. They might need a ho(s)tel if other options aren't there. They could enjoy TransferWise and borderless bank accounts.

You can give away the product and monetize related needs. This is how I did it with my website, where I can still afford to give away all my knowledge. You focus on your core product, but still make affiliate income from pointing them to other things they need.
You might be interested in the Hindu/Buddhist philosophy of Advaita Vedanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta
I'm in Toronto, so we have Skip (Skipthedishes) instead of GrubHub along with UberEats and Doordash

1.) Skip doesn't allow the restaurant to jack up the price, so to the customer the total cost is the same
2.) These companies toss out tons of coupon codes and referral codes that bring the overall cost down (sometimes even cheaper than ordering directly from the restaurant)
3.) In dense urban centers, a ten minute "drive" is way more challenging/time consuming/effort than it would be somewhere else. In fact, these services use bicycle couriers in these areas.
The main drawback of RSS IMHO is that it's strictly one-way publishing. You can't comment, or like, or subscribe, or share, or sponsor directly to original author. Author might posted something really exiting and seen none of the reactions happening in all kinds of RSS readers.

I think it's important if we can have a universal two-way format for long, rich written texts.
Life sciences laboratory monitoring, trading dashboards, factory automation panels, car infotainment systems, graphics, audio and video processing tooling are all largely desktop applications.
And not having a test plays in the hands of others that have a large pool of people who don't understand the system and what they're voting for.
In the article it makes clear that doordash calls the restaurant from their call center to make the order and gets the correct total verbally. Ostensibly this is what gets loaded to the delivery worker’s card.

Since this was part of a “demand test” door dash is more interested in capturing a large number of orders than per order profitability. Once their digital marketing muscle has doordash originating 10%+ of orders to the restaurant they have the leverage to negotiate a per order fee from the restaurant along with an agreement to force the restaurant to manage their prices on door dash, shifting liability to the restaurant for incorrect pricing online.
def accelerator_pedal():
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0QH-khhr8
Filtered out regional sites that Google wouldn't cater my search for (eg Taobao, Baidu, etc).. Only possible with 31 negative sites.

-site:google.com -site:youtube.com -site:facebook.com -site:jd.com -site:yahoo.com -site:wikipedia.org -site:amazon.com -site:netflix.com -site:reddit.com -site:live.com -site:zoom.us -site:okezone.com -site:alipay.com -site:instagram.com -site:twitch.tv -site:csdn.net -site:blogspot.com -site:microsoft.com -site:bing.com -site:github.com -site:tribunnews.com -site:myshopify.com -site:office.com -site:panda.tv -site:stackoverflow.com -site:ebay.com -site:bongacams.com -site:livejasmin.com -site:babytree.com -site:naver.com -site:apple.com <search query>
Nowadays, I don't feel anymore like I need to compete professionally. I've got a decent savings account, half my house is paid off, my family is healthy, and work is interesting. Why would I need to compete with anyone?
Weight can easily be gamed by adding a bag of water.

Verifying shape would be difficult without knowing what to expect beforehand, but can also be gamed.

You won’t get the precision of supermarket weighting if you are dealing with diverse restaurants with a dynamic menu.
I grew up in Sri Lanka, where you can go to Buddhist schools from grade 1-12 every Sundays, and they teach a fairly good amount of Paali and Sanskrit. Sanskrit itself is not something you learn, but Paali resembles a lot of it to a point that you can walk up to a document from a thousand years ago and still grasp what it means.

I studied only for 4 years, but I'm native Sinhalese, which isn't really that far from Sanskrit.
Same applies with manually memory management, you get instead slower allocators unless you replace the standard library with something else, and the joy of tracking down double frees and memory leaks.
I know you probably realise this but I think you missed a few important factors that can justify losing some money on deliveries.

- Takeaway/delivery food costs less to produce than dining in - no cleaning, no turning away customers who want to eat in because the place is full, no hiring wait staff, less fixed rental space cost, etc.

- Delivery reaches people who are too lazy to come to the restaurant. Ask most businesses if they will take a dollar or two profit less and make the sale, compared to losing it. Most will say yes.

- Delivery/convenience puts the brand top of mind for people feeling lazy (plus others see the car driving around). This is marketing.

- People are usually willing to wait for deliveries. At least here in Australia, if I order pickup it's ready in 15 minutes or up to an hour for delivery. This allows some flexibility with scheduling in the kitchen around the driver's schedule.

I think it is a lot more expensive than a lot of us give credit for (I visited Canberra and was aghast at the $9 delivery fees), but there are some benefits and savings to offset this.
Like you said, technology and the industrial revolution improved the "extreme poverty" of the situation. Just because capitalism helped in bring those things about, doesn't mean that capitalism is itself a better alternative. In fact, I don't even think that capitalism was a necessary condition for those things. It just happened that capitalism came along around the same time. Would the loom have not been invented without capitalism? Or the steam engine? People were already innovating in the middle ages (the printing press, etc.) without modern capitalism.

People continue to innovate today without a large profit incentive. Look at the open source movement, the creative commons movement, the content producers all over the Internet that accept donations in exchange for sometimes large amounts of their time. People will innovate because they enjoy innovating. I don't think we can say that capitalism as we know it was necessary for the living conditions of the 15th - 19th centuries to improve.
Jack Ma to resign from SoftBank Group’s board of directors
He is saying that Google could have kept operating in China if they had agreed to follow local (but Orwellian) regulations.
Oh we're in a capitalist society alright. This is exactly where capitalism leads to, and it has been foreseen a long time ago by forgotten and hated economists. This is just an attempt to clear capitalism's name by calling the negative effects of capitalism something else than capitalism.
The procedure you describe sounds like the sane thing to do / to me :)
Sell the data to spy agencies?
it can be whatever you want it to be

i agree this become more common over the years, bit it's anyway easily avoidable through references or just by checking up sexuality, after all statistics are on your side, if you host person of same gender you are unlikely going into hook up
If the hover request is waiting on a 5mb page (god forbid) and it doesn't complete before the navigation starts, then will the browser use any of the pre-fetched data? Or will it have been wasted?
Ah, no but the exam was taken at a kiosk, not on my personal machine. I had only a few minutes in the room to get myself situated. The camera was USB, so I moved that around while the laptop remained stationary.
Tesla has been open in China since February 10th. They were only forced to close for 12 days.
> Restaurants have been running successful delivery operations independently for ages

Have they? Because in my experience delivery from anything but major chains like dominos, mcdonalds etc. has always been awful everywhere in the world.

With delivery services I can get my favorite dish from my favorite small shop hassle and cash free.
The criteria is basically: do you have the time, people, expertise and willingness to build a custom dev platform on top of Kubernetes?

If yes, Kubernetes might make sense for you, if your company is large enough that a PaaS like Heroku is prohibitively expensive.

If no, you don't want Kubernetes.

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/93525292372179353...
Mostly S3. I used to do SSH, but these days I can afford to keep the data in the cloud. I do appreciate the possibility of migrating to other stores if needed in the future, though - might have to soon, for $reasons.
I'm not sure what makes you think I'm advocating "letting the virus burn out of control"? I specifically listed control measures that I advocated (masks, distance), and those alone seem to be mostly working for Japan without further restrictions--though I fully agree yet-unknown factors may mean those alone won't work in some other places.

And I certainly agree the virus alone has economic impact, even if the government (recklessly) took no steps to control it. So do the math with the incremental cost in GDP for whatever intervention you favor, but remember that every extra percent of lost GDP is ~30k dead 75-year-olds in lost health care spending under the model above, even before considering any other economic impact. There is no safe path here, just different and uncertain tradeoffs.
Same for Tripadvisor after being in Mexico - all Hotel prices have been in Pesos for a while (had to manually change it back)
Note that IIT has been criticized [0] for being extremely gameable: it is trivial to build simple circuits that do absolutely nothing, but have more "consciousness" than all humans who have ever lived.

0: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
This seems like a really good companion article to the other top story on HN right now talking about Doordash [1].

Specifically, we're living in an era where companies are so flush with capital that the intent isn't even to make money. It's to corner a market so that they can have monopolistic behavior over it. In a capitalistic economy companies like Doordash, Grubhub or Ubereats simply should not exist because the way they operate is contrary to how capitalism is supposed to perform.

So if companies like that can thrive, the only answer is that capitalism is broken.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852
Those were genuine questions, not patronizing. I just don't agree with the characterization that things are "unfair". I don't see how you can recognize that buying means getting value in return while still talking about fairness at the same time. The fairness is already embedded in the very transaction!

You talk about anti-competitiveness, but isn't that just a matter of perspective and not an absolute moral high ground? When Microsoft was accused of anti-competitive behavior, it was because Microsoft used existing cash and influence to squat smaller parties like flies and gain dominance. In the same manner, we can argue that Facebook could squat other smaller social media networks in China as flies because Facebook was already big, and thus Facebook would be the one being anti-competitive.

I won't argue with you about US interests. But I can't agree with taking the moral high ground.

> "Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports."

You can argue that China is not engaging fully in the free trade principle. But in my opinion it still doesn't make sense to turn this into a moral high ground thing, because all countries have import and export controls to some extent, because in the end all countries look after their interests.

And not everybody agrees that the free trade principle is a good thing (note: this is not my personal opinion). See the rise of populism in Europe, and the number of people who yell that the Poles or refugees or whatever are "stealing our jobs". Now that I think about it, don't you have the same issue with US people complaining about Mexicans?

Turning this into a moral issue is, in my opinion, a childish view of how the work works. I am saying: let's recognize that this is plain geopolitics and interests, and not about morals.
He's missing the why they're doing this.

Tons of websites are server-rendered, which means the decision of which language to show has to be made upfront: at the time of the first HTTP request, so before sending the page to the user.
And we don't know the user's language preferences until we reach the browser and can execute some JavaScript.
If we do as he suggest, it would paradoxically lead to the very behavior he is criticizing in the post: page loads default (e.g english), (then reads user preferences with JS, e.g german), then reloads to show german instead.

So why pre-populating the page with the langage the users in that particular country are most likely to wanna use a bad 'default'? Would it be worth it to rather worsen their experience by forcing all german users to load english first, and then repaint the page with german?

I think only SPAs could afford to implement the whole thing based on user local preferences without major UX drawbacks.
Great explanation. My thoughts approximately (but more eloquently).
Or they think it is ultimately better for the US international image to educate its own people.
You mean Android app? There's no official iOS app. A decent iOS alternative seems tiny Reader.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tiny-reader-rss/id689519762
I’m an European guy living in Japan that browse tech documentation in English. I’ve the same issue than you, sometimes MSDN or MDN pages are returned in French (all my devices UI are in English, with French locale). If it were good French, why not, but it’s crappy MT instead. Have so respect for the user please. Sometimes I got Japanese thrown at me, depending on which network I’m connected.

Finally I sometimes perform search in other languages, for instance Chinese. Of course I got results mostly in Japanese from Google... few years ago it was possible to change the language for a query, now the settings in burried under dozen of clicks, and are link to my profile. So basically unusable.

In a way it’s like the OS desktop UX: developers are busy trying to outsmart the user, yet the end result is more painful to use and less customizable than it was a decade ago.
Gillmor Gang: Freed Media
I read once of the NDE of a person that is very well documented. I think it was Pam Reynolds. http://www.neardth.com/pam-reynolds-near-death-experience.ph...

It is hard to explain if you do not want to consider that our counsciuness may trascend our mortal existence.
throwaway is right though, free markets are much easier than political systems. It could be argued that china is already free market, and even still, that political system has not budged.
> If capitalism is driven by a search for profit, the food delivery business confuses the hell out of me.

The modern Silicon valley venture capitalism is not about operational profit, it's about company valuation.
Decoding UIs with Flutter: Deliveroo Card
> I also don't know how "not having to talk to someone" is a perk.

For us introverts it is.
Install and play Bombsquad on Linux now
Pam Reynolds near death experience is well documented
Fair enough, I should have been more explicit in saying that the team was using it in a weird way for their own purposes. Not only was the use case wrong for them, but the technology wasn't well understood by anyone either. The implementation was partially nonsense.

I'm not criticizing Kafka so much as the way I've seen it used in software. It's largely down to user error, and like I said, Kafka is good software. I had to learn a lot about it for that project and it was a lot of fun. It was my first deep dive into message brokers and I really loved it, so I mean no disrespect to the software or its maintainers.
DoorDash purchased Caviar from Square last August: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/doordash-is-buying-caviar-...

I assume DoorDash doesn't want to alienate loyal Caviar customers and so is continuing to operate it independently, similar to how Grubhub and Seamless merged seven years ago but still run two different websites (albeit with identical design).
Surely you've heard of ConFest? Still going strong since the 70s. Started by Jim Cairns (the then ex-deputy to the ex-prime minister Gough Whitlam). The name is a portmanteau of 'conference festival'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConFest
$15/hr plus tips plus mileage is overkill. Let's say you cut out the awful feature that is tipping and make it $15/hr plus mileage, which is a perfectly good wage.

If I was previously paying $6-7 in fee+tip for a limited selection of restaurants, I'd be okay paying $10 for places that don't normally have delivery.

If that means two trips per hour, and you're not in one of the ten worst cities for traffic in the entire country, then that actually sounds pretty viable.
> we don't know the user's language preferences until we reach the browser and can execute some JavaScript

This is untrue: the HTTP "Accept-Language" header tells the server what language the browser wants to get, right before any request get served. There is no need for Javascript.
I encountered this essay in someone's random reply comment on twitter yesterday.

Knowing the origins of Chicken-Littleism is important for the post-pandemic failure analysis. Humanity's current SARS-CoV-2 predicament results from a perfect storm: change a few variables and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic probably would have fizzled out with many fewer casualties. Treating this otherwise-wimpy virus as a super-virus is surely a primary cause of many of the non-old-person deaths.

Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, has a twitter feed that I appreciate (likely the source of the reply comment where I first saw this link). Here's a quote from a recent thread about his theories of why his former colleagues in the news media seem to despise him:

> 11/ The third reason is the most obvious: the hysterics have been wrong. They know it, whether they admit it or not. Except for the most at-risk populations - who should be the focus of our protective efforts - #COVID looks to be a minor risk. And with every day that goes by...

> 12/ Every state and country that reopen without catastrophe, the lockdowns appear more insane. [...]

- https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1262223339726213121 (italics added)
I know it's in Taiwan, and if this escalates, the supply chain will get cut.

When it comes to 'invasion', there's no chance of defending Taiwan unfortunately. No one has the stomach for that. It's easily one step away from a nuclear war. You think coronavirus is bad...
Microsoft CEO warns against permanent work from home
A few people got a box of rocks instead of a $4k camera awhile back, one guy got two boxes of rocks after returning the first.
Corporatocracy is probably the more accurate term, but the term neofeudalism isn't exactly a huge stretch. The only real difference today is that at least in theory a serf can become a lord, but the same power dynamic remains.

When chattel slavery ended many of the freed slaves became sharecroppers, bound to the land by eternal debts that could never be repaid. Although they were no longer legally bound to their "masters", for many their lives were not really any better.

Although in principle the monopolies and the government are separate institutions, we all know that the reality is that our politicians are bought out by the corporations, and the regulators are staffed by ex-employees of the very companies they are supposed to be regulating. We used to bust monopolies, but since the 70s or so the regulators have become very lax, and practically every industry has become more consolidated than it's ever been (finance, advertising, airlines, utilities, telecom, agriculture, healthcare, etc).

What's interesting to me is that whenever Google/Facebook does something authoritarian that would seem to violate some principle of liberty we deem sacred (eg. censorship, violating freedom of speech), many if not most of the comments seem to rationalize the corporation's decision as exercising their own free speech. But when you're Reddit with 430M monthly active users, your userbase is the population equivalent of the world's 3rd largest country, and so you're effectively the equivalent of a nation-state. When you're Amazon with 750k employees, then your employees could fill up a city.

Does the principle of democracy only apply to country's governments, or does it also extend to corporate monopolies?
Many technological innovations would have been discovered without capitalism, but it would've taken longer, arguably. This is clear to anybody that lived, even for a short time, in Eastern Europe before the fall of USSR. Innovation requires competition, access to capital and freedom of speech, all of them enabled by capitalism.

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> "People continue to innovate today without a large profit incentive. Look at the open source movement"

I'm a part of the Open Source "movement", I've contributed significantly to a couple of high profile open source libraries.

Everything is driven by profit, either directly or indirectly. OSS contributions are apprenticeships for beginners and a great addition to any resume. Improving one's reputation by OSS is no small thing. Granted some OSS developers are exploited, but that's because they haven't learned to say no yet, or to ask for money. But that's just temporary, a part of the growing up process.

Companies contributing to OSS? That's just complementary to their cash cows. There's no company on this earth contributing to OSS without a profit motive.

Also, even in capitalism we need access to "the commons". In order to continue to innovate, the price of foundations needs to drop and in capitalism this is a natural phenomenon. Everybody needs roads and at some point roads become subsidized.

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> "People will innovate because they enjoy innovating."

You have a romantic view of the world. My view is that everything is about sex and power.
I’m in my mid 30s, and have had a healthy, fun career as a comp. engineer. I thought of applying to one of the FAANG companies recently, but the idea of whiteboard/hackerrank Code tests was a severe turn off, and put that idea away. I don’t have the energy to put into preparing for weeks like a code monkey to give a shot at a test and mostly never using them at the job. I’d rather spend more time playing with my baby boy.

I’m not saying learning data structures and algorithms are useless. Only that testing for them using timed tests with toy puzzles is silly and not for everyone.