skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because your body is the record of your experience and existence.

That's why a lot of people think a human brain would never be able to be uploaded to a computer, and if you could do it, you'd not be yourself - you'd be something else.

You are the sum of your experiences, a build up of scars, traumas, and so on.

So according to this theory, you'd only wake up on someones else body if that person had the same sum of experiences you had, yet that's impossible because only you are you - not even twins would experience this. Maybe that's why we value this experience so much: it's so unique and so intimate to ourselves, that we hold on to it dearly.

You then have hints of collective (un)consciousness. Jung explored this concept with archetypes.
> Every time an article about Whatsapp on HN or Reddit pops up I fearfully look to see if there are legitimate privacy concerns.

There are legitimate privacy concerns. The main concern here is that Facebook builds up a network of who you are in contact with, how often you message them, when you message them, etc.

You are either not aware of this or you don't mind, but calling it illegitimate is not a fair assessment of the risk.

What if this data is leaked, hacked or sold or Facebook is pressured to release it to certain governments and they use this data to find dissidents?

This data, in combination with other Facebook data, could also be used by advertisers to target people specifically with questionable offers and materials, etc. People might object to their data being sold this way.

What if the US regime changes to a dictatorship, I know, it might seem very far fetched that some insane barbarian becomes president, but bear with me. Facebook might be forced to reveal said information and the regime will then use this to find dissidents.

What you should be asking yourself is 'Why is this app, that costs millions to make and maintain, that was bought for billions, free for me?' There is someone out there making a profit. This might not be a big concern to you personally, but it is not an illegitimate concern.
Yeah, that's incredibly annoying. So frustrating when you're coming to a discourse thread from a google search. I tend to avoid discourse forums because of that.
What is going on with Google lately? They're really going downhill
Almost everyone has it. I do not want to use WhatsApp, but in The Netherlands it is nearly impossible to go without it (although it seems you do ;)).

E.g. the parents of our daughter's class uses a WhatsApp group. You can decide not to join it, but you will miss out on all kinds of activities people plan together for kids, school-related messages, etc.

Similarly, our larger family uses a WhatsApp group to stay in touch, coordinate our the bi-yearly family outing, etc.

And this goes on and on, basically everyone communicates through WhatsApp groups. If you do not join them, you miss out on a lot of social activities, etc.

I wish WhatsApp just stayed independent and charged $1 per year, which they did irregularly before they were bought by Facebook.
To be honest, I was kind of shocked this happened. Remember when Google used to be cool? You changed man, you changed.
According to https://python3wos.appspot.com/ there were already 50%+ of the most popular packages compatible with Python 3 by the end of 2012
Hosts hitting on their guests has always been regarded as a gross violation of hospitality. The biblical story of Lot is all about that.
FDA: Trucks used to store bodies during pandemic can return to food use
Yeah... Looks terrible for me.
I commented on my own video and the comment was gone in about 10 seconds!
Geometry Images: Vertex Data Compressed into Textures [pdf]
Exempting it from automatic suspension is not exempting it from suspension.
While crazy, this shows another example of the ways things change in Japan. Nothing ever changes until one day it changes overnight. April 23rd someone tweets the bleeding obvious. May 17th (apparently), the entire country is using a different system. But for decades before that, there would be absolutely nothing you would have been able to do to incite change. It would have been absolutely impossible. I always find it amazing that change always goes from 0 to 100 in a matter of days.
I would think that a set of particles that are literally indistinguishable from one another could not meet any definition of 'mind'.

There is no difference between an electron that's flown around the universe and one that was just created in a particle collider. If that doesn't negate the possibility of 'subjective experience' I am not sure what would.
Any frontend dev out there would like to compare this with MVP and Tachyons? I am a bit lost when to pick over another.
> lowest marginal cost

> moon

The energy economics alone doesn't work out. We might be able to make a robot economy in space, but we can't have a significant human economy in space.
Foreigner living abroad, can confirm this sucks.
Parent said "I then tested this by commenting on one of my own videos"
Yep, it actually works terribly in my experience. It's very slow even for web apps, is unreliable in staying paired, and (at least for me) often has issues with file attachments. I would much prefer a standalone app like Signal or Telegram.
Cops aren’t ever eager to take on cases.
Those "soft" sides of the applications are even easier to game than cheating on a home test. Virtually NONE of it is ever verified.

...and I wouldn't worry about the top colleges. Having worked in admissions at one of them - a majority of the students are there due to family connections.
> There's an article right now on the FP about the Netherlands helping GCHQ break Argentinean encryption.

EU<->EU cooperation is different though than US<->EU cooperation.

I will very much agree though, that GCHQ has been in bed with NSA for far too long and it's disgusting.

But I think there's a clear delineation between: "Our government does shady things" and "Another nations government does shady things, and incidentally we're entirely dependent on them not to do it to us".
"random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort" Just single keywords? And which ones? The stories I've seen were about people posting just 共匪, and honestly I'm not too bothered if comments that are just name-calling get deleted. If actual well-written criticism disappears, that would be another matter.
They're too big for their own sake.

That shows on things like this, lack of vision in some products, lack of consistency, abandoned products, products that seem to be detached, etc...
I agree, that this would have been the better option for them. Now they are stuck with their conent-screening frams, and censoring algorithms. It's a mess.

Still. Even if they did take that turn. I don't think they would have stayed truly neutral.
Lot's of ways to penalize competition without banning them from your platform. A wolf is a bad shepherd.
I hope Progressive Web Apps will disrupt the App store/Google Play store and will decentralize app distribution again
Are All Programming Languages in English?
I am not a fan of app stores due to these kinds of ecosystem issues, and could never find any good web only podcast players, so I just made my own. It's public but it only really has podcasts I like in the directory.
There are plugins for Firefox to hide all recommendations and the start page of YouTube. Did this a couple of months back, and it has honestly made me happier and with a lot more control over watchtime etc.

I now live in the Subscription section, and it's great!
>Do you understand what an 'ally' is? They're allies.

Helping allies route around local legislation designed to protect the rights of citizens in one state, by using another states surveillance apparatus to violate those rights, as is the case with the 5-eyes war coalition: this is the end of sovereign state-hood and the beginning of a new world order where the 'intelligence' community ends up having more rights than the citizens they're "sworn"^Wsupposed to protect...

I don't think we should be so easily swayed into accepting this state of affairs.

>This article is about civilian agencies, and discusses civilian politicians talking about them. Talking about civilian oversight doesn't make any sense here. What were you trying to mean?

That's the state of affairs now, but it was not the case in 1982, during the conflict, and it was a long road until we, the citizens who paid for these actions, found out just how it all went down.

>The pop singer?

Yes, he was a pop singer, and he also was the founder of one of the most effective Peace Movements, which deflated with his assassination. We need more individuals like him, now more than ever.
The Commission’s new emphasis on encryption
It was 5 random words that would I knew would be picked up by a dumb regex if it were done naively
It's nog a bug, it's a feature. Doordash uses investment money to evaporate competitors, take over the market and then raise prices for restaurant owners once they gain control. It's a tried and proven concept.

Paying part of the meal is part of that strategy. They know full well that large orders and large amounts of transactions cost them more money and they're betting on nobody actually doing this. They're selling products below the cost of production at this point, something that I would argue should not be allowed in ethical capitalism. Investors know fully well what they're investing in, and of not, they've either not kept their responsibility on reading about the company they're investing in, or the company itself is pulling massive investment fraud.

Play shit games, win shit prices. If they don't want to lose money like this, maybe they should have a business strategy that isn't oriented about purposely losing money to bankrupt competitors. They easily could've set a reasonable limit of say $200 dollars to their cheaper transactions but they chose not to.

Would I go full ethical when finding exploits for an inherently unethical company? Would I dutifully report flaws to companies selling "adult supervision" apps used by controlling spouses? Would I give "bank phishing on demand" websites a 90 day trial period? I don't think so. Making such software is perfectly legal (in many jurisdictions) but is rarely ever ethical. Ethics would need to come from two sides for me to consider responsible disclosure. I have flooded several phishing databases with fake information, got some of them over their resource limit and shut down as well, and I don't feel the smallest bit of regret.
I think he’s saying the owner will comp him deliveries. Not pay him back.
hah, reminds me of http://www.csszengarden.com but simpler.
> I'm not too bothered if comments that are just name-calling get deleted

I am if it's done silently. Particularly at the behest of a government that's more than willing to flatten well-written criticisms alike.
Imagine allowing someone to relay information that causes the decimation of the human population. Just wanted to give an idea of what the other side of the argument looks like.
Link with more details that I found (I am not sure if this is the original post about this):

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/glr2h4/youtube_go...

I really hope that is just some stupid bug and not on purpose. The trigger keywords seem pretty harmless to me.
The revolution will not be Zoomed. Remote work has a long way to go
Its introduction has been an unmitigated disaster in Germany (as apparently and unfortunately is wont in Germany), see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOS-Funk#Einf%C3%BChrung_in_De... (German-only, sorry).

It's still not universally implemented and hospitals aren't part of the network either.
All of the social media platforms have become hotbeds for information warfare. From country based subreddits (or any subreddit with some political content) to Youtube banning videos that are mass reported, it is crazy. Right now in India a popular youtuber had his video deleted. It was apparently on track to becoming the most liked non music video on the platform.
Exactly. If we spent half as much making peace as we do funding war and terror, we'd all be multilingual and a lot more tolerant of cultures not our own...
ffmpeg (and some other programs) has a different solution to this: options apply to the succeeding non-option argument: ffmpeg -f wav infile -f mp4 outfile means to convert the wav infile to an mp4 outfile. of course, nobody ever reads the manual, so they use it wrong.
and our private spending on insurance would drop by a similar amount. its basically zero sum. bernie's plan in worst case scenario was a few hundred billion a year more total but the coverage was superior to almost every private plan out there.
Between predator and prey: waiting for opponent’s action determines success
Replacing "China" with "Taiwan" did not trigger a deleted comment
I love VLC. You're a lead on that? Cool.
That's excellent. It would be funny if that 'LaTeX CSS' moved all images to the end of the web page..
Extraordinary thing to happen at the time of Band Aid and the big donations from the UK to Ethiopia following the first disturbing pictures of the famine being broadcast on the news.

Disturbing pictures on the news are now so routine as to be ignored .. or vanish altogether.
> The problem is getting to "peacetime".

Or defining it. Nobody declares wars anymore. And a large part of intelligence is oriented towards preventing wars through deterrence.
Having an Irish dad, there's a common sense of solidarity between Irish people and other groups who are often seen as oppressed. My Dad and uncles etc. would identify with the Black Panthers, and the PLO, as and a kid (in Australia) I'd wonder why these groups that were so far away and so different were important, and they'd say something along the lines of "because they're us" - like this is the most obvious thing that anyone should know.

There's good and bad here (there's a tendency to see the world as 'oppressor' and 'oppressed'), but it comes from good intentions.
I turned down interviewing with one of this companies because they didn't want to disclose the salary, not even a salary range.

Also, the interviewer explained that I had 3 weeks for studying a list of computer science concepts for the interview.

I already have a Master's degree and I am working, I don't need to study to proof my profesionality.
> They are women who have chosen to stay at a male stranger's house

They are people who have chosen to stay at a stranger's house

> Do you think women are completely naïve about how the world works

No, but I don't think they want to have to take every decision based on probability of getting raped

> I've known two women who couch surf and it was de rigueur to have sex with their hosts

And I know male hosts who had sex with their male visitors. Does that mean that if I couchsurf at a man's flat I should be expecting intercourse for my bed?
We already have a mixed private / public model. Billions of the NHS budget is spent on NHS patients in private providers.

> The NHS is an inefficient mess

Mostly caused by the incoherent Lansley reforms and years of austerity from Hunt.
I may be missing something... Surely post-COVID19 work will see an increase in hot-desking. Remote work is going to be on the up, but not everyone will relish working every day from home. So you're going to get large numbers of workers coming to work 2 or 3 days a week. There is no way that companies are going to pay for seats that are empty most of the time. So hot-desking is practically necessary.
You make a great point. They also mention they are an options trader on wall street, so $5000 easily could be throwaway money for a double-good cause
Sure, but that's why I chose my video, which was posted a year ago with only 800 views. I knew there was no way somebody could have been watching my video within a minute and saw that comment then flagged it - this was automated.
Really disturbing that I had to scroll right to the bottom of the page to find someone questioning the source of this.

While obviously Podcast Addict does not deserve a ban, the sheer number of people in this thread advocating unrestricted speech around COVID-19 is thoroughly disturbing. This despite the carnage that the disease is wreaking in the US and UK right now, and the fact that conspiracy theories spread on Google and Facebook platforms have certainly added significant fuel to the fire of COVID-19.

Even down here in NZ we're dealing with cell towers being set alight due to batshit conspiracy theories spread on Facebook and Youtube. I'm generally very much pro-free speech, but this is one thing that needs to be stamped down on fast, mainly due to more and more americans gathering in large protests and spreading the virus.
I posted about this 3 years ago[0] and I was met with the following (not verbatim):

> "The amount of people who live in the world who do not change their default OS settings is higher than those who live in foreign countries"

> "it is computationally expensive to read Accept-Language vs geoIP"

> "obviously companies know what they're doing here"

I have seen only a few applications using the accept-language header, Grafana and Outlook Web Access are notable, but they wouldn't necessarily have the luxury of using GEOIP as they're typically hosted on-prem.

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-langu...
It's a great pity that you treat legitimate disagreement as mindless anger.

"They are removing content on youtube." is a true factual statement.

"They are applying the same standard." is not.

The motivation may be the same, but the types of removal are very different. As long as their own podcasting app is up in its current form, there is a very good argument that they're not being consistent.
Well said. The whole gambit of sex is that you have to suss it out from each other with tact and awareness without either person being explicit about it -- hell, even on a taxi ride to a motel to do the damn act.

That means that it's always potentially on the table any time you have human connection going on, couchsurfing included. Nothing about couchsurfing means this isn't happening or shouldn't be happening. It's just part of life and human connection.

After reading these comments, I do think that the miscommunication here is a lack of shared understanding of what flirting is.

I presume some people's imaginations immediately go to a host making guests uncomfortable by laying unwanted attention on thick, like the stereotype of the guy coming out in a short robe and hiking his leg up on the arm of the couch.

But I would like people who imagine that to know that most flirting lives in the banter area where both people are having a good time.
Ah, I overlooked the "free pasta for the year", thank you
A lot of open source developers on high profile projects are paid full time to work on their open source project as part of their jobs. Or they built a closed source project and their company open sourced it.
You weren't around for the whole South Carolina-Super Tuesday week? Remember, Sanders was the clear leader after Nevada. Biden was an also-ran. How did that change so quickly? How, indeed.

Blaming the voters is easy. The national news media corporations don't report on the many hours that urban and minority voters waited to vote in Texas, California, Michigan, Georgia, etc. since numerous polling places and voting machines were removed. They don't report on "provisional ballot" shenanigans. They don't report on the double-digit percentage differences between exit polls and results, when the UN considers 4% differences to be clear evidence of vote-rigging.

But we don't have to get bogged down in pesky details. They can't report around the obvious fact that while this system might be working for someone, it ain't working for us. We've failed as hard on Covid-19 as we've failed on "spreading democracy" and "The Drug War", and the whole world can see it. We'll reelect Trump because he's on TV all day, which is why we elected him in the first place. Sure, we could ask why voters are so dumb that they'll vote based on that sort of thing. Or, we could just not have him on TV all day. Could we try that? While we're at it, could we not have as his opposition someone who is worse than him by pretty much any measure?

I'm not sad that Bernie isn't the nominee. As feckless as he's been for the last month, it's clear Trump would have abused him in the debates just as thoroughly as he will abuse Biden. The point is, we shouldn't expect that the function of voting in this nation will just miraculously change from how it has been for 70 years, just because we really want it to. The flawed system will not fix the flaws in the system. When the opportunity for a real change appears, it will be attacked by defenders of the status quo on precisely these terms: it's not democratic like voting! Those attacks won't come because they want a real change.
Because who is going to balk at more sales for slightly less of a cut unless you have priced yourself to the bone already anyway?

Tech is all about inserting yourself in previously untransactable business opportunities via the leveraging of near universal connectivity to the Net, and the ease of electronic transaction settling.

Sometimes, this means taking a momentary haircut to get the right signatures in place, but fee taking and leveraging economies of scale does the rest.

The big head scratcher for me personally is how long it'll take until most people catch on to the pattern, and say "no more".
Thin Ice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Ice_(Doctor_Who_episode)
I doubt it would work well but you could put a theme in user.css (on Firefox) and block all .css files (with uBlock, say). Not sure if uBlock will block <style> tags, but I think it can.
I thought that in US salary is significantly higher than in EU. Probably that's the main differentiator.
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That's true. The comment by mlwiese up-thread, that I responded to, praised Go's low GC latency without mentioning the heavy memory and throughput overheads that come with it. I felt it worth pointing out the lack of a free lunch there; I think a lot of casual Go observers and users aren't aware of it.
h) License under the Parity Public License, and offer paid private licenses to companies that don't want to open source their code. https://paritylicense.com/ https://licensezero.com/
> this extra-sovereign entity

You're dramatizing an intelligence-sharing agreement. Something allies have always done. The entities, the spy agencies, are decidedly of sovereign creation.
I keep reading these same talking points without any data to support it. Can you provide any details on “many schools” or “a lot of schools”?

My alma mater, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, pays their coach $533k/year. That is half-a-million dollars for a mid-tier team in a mid-tier conference. They also built a $13 million indoor sports practice facility a few years ago.
https://miamiredhawks.com/sports/2018/6/7/facilities-indoor-...
Annoying Technology is one of my favorite recent finds. Just wanted to vouch: Good stuff!
I am sure 5G chips can be built with older processes. They might just need more cooling and be less efficient.