skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm personally a fan of attention schema theory. It's based on the idea that consciousness emerges from an advancing capability to create models of both the external and internal world. For me, it scratches a couple itches. First, it's not an all-or-nothing evolutionary gamble, but develops in steps and each step has advantages. Second, it seems pretty well rooted in neuroscience and psychology, rather than relying on handwaves like "all matter has consciousness".

Here's a couple articles from Michael Graziano, the founder (discoverer? namer?):

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-rea...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-cons...
"... complex networks produce extremes of inequality, winner-take-all or winner-take-most distributions.", you would indeed become richer, society, not quite.
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This is really useful! Thanks for linking to it.

I also have a related repository. It is a gallery of screenshots of classless CSS themes: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css. I've just added a link to the drop-in CSS switcher there.
This is a very hard situation for the affected, but I cannot look at it any other way than a positive change. My own opinion is that modern universities are a mix of ponzi scheme with stockholm syndrom. It's a bubble that should have burst a long time ago. From institutions of education and widening of perspecitve they morphed into thought-culling money making machines. I think we underestiumate just how many things changed for the better thanks to the virus.
Google sends me emails and shows me webpages that are English, German and Japanese at the same time..

I'm in Germany, my browser is set to English, and I bought a play store app while I was in Japan using Japanese money.

The other day I wanted to install the "Too Good To Go" app but I had to sideload it because Google thinks the app is not "compatible with your device". It's just region locked and the app should be available to me because I'm not in Japan.

When I tried to change the settings on various Google websites, the language kept switching between the three languages. A forward even failed because of this and I had to find out the next URL and manually edit it so that the language didn't change and thereby restart the settings wizard.

In the end I couldn't figure it out and gave up.
876 people have signed up so far. Very close to hitting the initial target of 2000 participants.
Read the BBC article about the study here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-bristol-52591581?...
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Reminds me of the discussion in ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ about zombie industries directly or indirectly build on top of unsound monetary policies. One could argue this capital burning colossi exist by virtue of access to a populations purchasing power / wealth. Instead of multiplying productivity and increasing living standards they stall progress.
I started web dev in 2012 with a MEAN stack. Now I work with a LAMP stack. I deal with far less migrations and dead packages, but that's probably because Node.js was not very mature back then.

The real question is why someone like me should pitch JavaScript to my Django/Flask shop instead of technology with clearer competitive advantages: Elixir/Rust/whatever.

If I want better CPU usage I can get halfway there it with FastAPI and other Python frameworks.
I had seen them and perhaps it's time to give them a go. Are you (or anyone else) using it, and how is it?
Not paying attention to the news are we?

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/05/04/accel...

Apparently you aren't using OpenGL then,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/in-the-works-opencl-a...
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Use of a hanko implies that you're acting on behalf of the owner of that hanko. If someone signs a paper with your name, you can say someone forged your signature and prove that your writing is different. If someone fraudulently uses your info digitally, you can get them to pull up IP records and other various digital fingerprinting info to prove it's not yours. If your name is stamped, you're kind of boned.

It's not an uncommon thing for people in Japan to be divorced without even knowing it. Their spouse secretly grabs their hanko for 5 seconds to do a quick stamp, goes to the city office alone, hands in the divorce form with both names stamped, and it's finalized. There's actually a separate form called a fujuri todoke that you can do in advance to block these one-sided divorces, showing that the whole stamping system is flawed if you need to do separate forms to block potential events of it being used without your knowledge.

Nearly anything works better than stamps.
> Or would it be better to have a higher price to begin with and reduce it later?

If you have to reduce price of a product without a new replacement product in the market then that is a sign of trouble with business growth rather than a strategy. It goes down hill from there. Only few companies have managed to do this successfully and that too if they rely on commodity BoM whose prices go down or if their service does not require frequent changes/upgrade once developed.

One trick I learnt from a presentation few years ago was to set appropriate price for a product such that you don't make a loss, but give(for a fixed duration) a 100%(or whatever you decide) discount on that price for early customers. That way the customers know what the actual price of that product is and they are also aware that the discount is a fixed time offer. Now you have three levers to play with: the actual product price, the discount and the duration of the offer.

Another trick is to set the correct price for the product, but give some freebies along with the product to get customers on board. The freebies are one-time or for limited period.
Both are well-grounded in reality.

Admin salaries aren't enough to raise tuition much for everyone. If a university president makes a megabuck, and the school has 5000 students, that's $200/student. If it's a dozen admins making a megabuck, and the president making a few megabucks, that's a couple thousand dollars per student.

But that's not the point. Megabuck salaries draw in the wrong people for the wrong reasons. That dean of HLS you talk about: Should it be someone who retired from a high-profile law firm or government job and took a pay cut to help make sure a new generation of lawyers get mentored RIGHT? Plenty of people would do that. Or should it be someone looking to maximize quarterly KPIs and find ways to leverage that position for personal political/career/financial growth? That's the change which happened in elite academia in the past 25 years, with megabuck salaries.

And yes, universities do try to attract foreign students, especially into Master's programs, as cash cows. I'm not sure what's wrong with that -- people need educations, immigrants of this type grow economies, and universities need money. It seems like a win-win-win all around.

But there does get to be a problem when that money is managed by admins of the type described in the previous paragraph. More money doesn't make for better schools if it goes into spending hundreds of millions on fancy buildings, faculty clubs, and similar. General funds don't come with even the minimal financial controls of grants and donations.
Show HN: A password manager for your grandma
Nobody asked for spaced repetition nagging, and no way to turn it off. its so condescending and stupid of them. If you don't give users a choice, the only choice left to them is to stop using your app.
It’s not where they pickup, it’s things like how much do they cost, do they take cards, are they even safe to use?
This was literally the answer I expected when I saw the title.
"They're also fighting conspiracy theories on YouTube"

It's too bad google is so insanely incompetent that there are more every day instead of less. It's enough to make you think that they aren't staggeringly incompetent, have talented engineers, and aren't trying to fight conspiracy theory videos that are among the stickiest content on their sites.
Unfortunately, this comparison uses Guile 2.2. Guile 3 is out and has greatly improved the performance via Wingo‘s JIT.

AFAIK the biggest point that brought Guile-Emacs to a standstill is the internal string representation of Emacs that is different from Guile’s native format.
Use the web app then. Once you're on the page use one of the "shortcut" features of Chrome or Edge and you can open it as a separate app.
you are right, i am describing a hypothetical situation where couchsurfing becomes mainstream. it works now, but will it still work when there are 10 or 100 times as many couchsurfers?

i should have pointed out that i am speculating.
Not only could you see bases because of activity around an otherwise empty area. You could almost pinpoint the exact shape of the bases perimeter because soldiers would prefer to jog along the inside of the perimeter. Smartphones and location based apps and services are a security nightmare.
All I want is X1 yoga with 3:2 screen ratio and AMD ryzen... guess I will wait for X years for them to do anything...
My question was more to do with how the improved value would scale for rural land that had a lot of use but can't generate as much income. Many rural businesses require a lot of land area but only produce a modest income which is possible under the current setup because land prices and taxes are low. There would have to be a lot of consideration given to the population density and the types of improvements made.
I've created and maintaining an Android library that implements user-space driver for common USB to serial converters https://github.com/felHR85/UsbSerial (Nothing fancy compared with what others are posting here but it has been my little proud).

I estimate that I've earned around 3 - 4 k€ in 6 years because of this project mostly from:
- Freelancing in projects related.
- Paid version of an Android app that uses the library
- Free version of the same app with ads
- Donations

Obviously I have a proper job but I've been able to learn a lot because of this side project. I would do it again
Question: When is it appropriate, or not, to use language negotiation?

Answer: The short answer is: always.

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-lang-neg
I have a day job, but I'm trying to see if I can make a living off open source. I'm building a set of libraries, licensing them under the GPL, and offering to sell LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses for those who need them (any commercial use will require either LGPL or Apache 2).

I also found the PolyForm Noncommercial license which, I think is pretty great for hobbyist use and learning, so I'm trying to sell that license for lunch money to hobbyists and educators / charities.

Just getting started, will report back on how it goes.

Repo is here https://github.com/sudhirj/redimo.go
"Many "apps" from WhatsApp to Zoom are treated as public spaces by citizens. But, legally the app-space is closer to a private space."

Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everyone points out this disconnect between social norms and technical reality.

IIRC the book example is kids talking at the mall's food court. While it's not private, as in hidden away, they're talking to each other, not to us adults.

You could eavesdrop. But why would you? That's creepy.
Not OP but I'll chime in.
I have a range of devices myself and within in my social circle. I also live abroad from my family so good communication is key.

My work phone is an iPhone, my personal an Android, and across the family there is a multitude of old and new, Android and Apple.

Telegram is using (or used) some homebrew encryption protocol and I simply don't trust it. As it doesn't have a proper tried and tested encryption I'm not going to use it. (The encryption may have changed by now, as I haven't kept tabs on it.)

Signal is okay. There are 2 main things that irk me. Signal's Windows App is bad. Long loading times, bad UI. Keeps crashing for me. I also frequently video chat with family. Signal's quality is considerably worse than that of other services. The sound is choppy and video may or may not work. This is on all devices I own, regardless of network speed.

iMessage and FaceTime are good but platform locked. The video call quality on FaceTime is the best one across all services for me. The picture and sound is just significantly clearer than anywhere else. If I talk to family members with an Apple device I will generally use FaceTime.

WhatsApp still remains my main one for the simple reason that it gives me the best average experience across all devices and circumstances. Video and phone calls could be better but are acceptable. Chats are easy to use and work. Service quality is generally good. WhatsApp for me stands out because it doesn't really negatively stand out anywhere else. Yes, owned by Facebook is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, but right now, there simply isn't any other application that for me is consistently average across every platform.
On the contrary, it's a classic capitalist move, from Rockefeller to Bill Gates. The so called tollbooth strategy. Create a choke point and extract revenue.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-billionaire-strat...
It's an insanely hard problem to solve at the scale YouTube operate on. Your comment is equivalent to those armchair critics that moan about national sports teams as if they are their kids Sunday league.
Ask HN: Self-Censorship of the HN Community
I know this issue has been discussed here already, but nothing seems to change, so I'll try to to raise it once again.

The ability of certain users with high levels of karma to flag topics leads to censorship. Calling it community self-regulation does not change the fact, that in case with controversial topics a single person can make it so, that a submission never reaches the front page or, if a submission is, in fact, interesting for some users and thus upvoted to the front page, disappears (rather shortly) after the conversation has already begun, and the majority of users never get the chance to see it and participate in the discussion, even if it could be interesting to some of them as well.

I totally understand, how this can help to mitigate submission of illicit content and how this relieves moderators from a lot of work by outsourcing moderation to users.

Having said that, my concern is that:

1) There are a lot of users with high enough karma. This makes the probability, that someone will be pissed/upset by a certain topic, unacceptably high.

2) I'd even argue, that it's pretty easy to get a high enough karma just by doing regular submissions. E.g. if you submit a couple of links daily over a sufficiently long period of time, there's a good probability that a couple of submissions turn out to be popular.

Does the fact, that you make regular submissions, entitle you to moderation of discussions started by other people? I don't think so.

Also, there's a "conspiracy" side to this. What prevents an adversary, who is indeed interested in targeted censorship (as opposed to genuinely pissed/upset users), from using this tactic to create a user account with high karma? It's important to say that, as I imagine, such an adversary is able to plan strategically and act in advance, so they would already have created such accounts by this moment. I.e. there may already exist users, that are either completely fake or affiliated with adversaries.
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Bottom point:

HN is full of smart and influential individuals, but its' self-regulation mechanisms prevent it from being the ultimate place on the Web to discover and discuss bleeding-edge content. Some topics are clearly not welcome here, even if they are tech- or science-related.

Personal example:

In the last month three of my submissions were flagged without any explanation:

- Interview with John Ioannidis on Covid-19 death rate

- James Corbett's in-depth investigation into Bill Gates and Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation (two different links; the second link submitted an hour after the first one; both flagged)
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Try posting something either of those companies care about (I don't mean copyrighted stuff that can be automated) and see how fast it gets taken down.

Given that there is selective attention given to different political subjects it is by definition a political stance.
$10 for a pizza actually sounds pretty cheap.
I hated the weight check at Tesco when I lived in the UK. It unnecessarily locked up my self service checkout a few times per week and in general made things slower.

Compared the AH in the Netherlands where you just scan the barcode on all your things and they really don't care about the weight or where you put them after scanning.

I'm sure there will be a tiny percentage extra fraud that Tesco may catch with this, but given the choice I don't shop there due to the shitty user experience. That's got to cost them more in lost revenue than the fraud they stop.
Exactly. That's the real problem. Even if it's just a "trial". Somehow getting a delivery number on the restaurant's listing without their knowledge or consent is abuse. Good thing they get punished for it.
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They do neither guarantee that the person in question signed (only that someone performed the signature with their private key, which they may have stolen) nor that coercion wasn't in play.
That would be sources like https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...

More broadly, there seems to be a lot of money coming in as student fees, and very little going out in academics' salaries. If things in-classroom are so profitable, there must be a heck of a lot of out-of-classroom expenses going on.
I couldn't have said #1 any better myself. I realized #1 and #2 a couple of years ago. I don't want an executive job. I would enjoy the strategy but hate the political.

I agree that the 7-10% bump is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But I have done jobs (and done them well) that were a level above me, such as tech lead, senior dev, and ASC (I'm a mid-level dev). It would be nice to be paid commensurate with the stress. Plus I would love to use that money, even though it wouldn't be much, to save for my kid's education.

I do have a business, but it's just for selling honey. I also try to make money trading the market, but that has only small payouts because I don't have much capital to risk.

Thank you for your input.
THIS. I do remember outright revelations in user experience, as I showed people how much better Firefox 2.0 was, compared to IE6 (and looking back, version 2.0 wasn't all that wonderful, from present point of view - tells you more about IE than about FF).

edit: it was 2.0, I misremembered.
That may explain why individual restaurants fare better at delivery; obviously they would catch a fraud immediately and are therefore immune to it.
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The issue with socat (and some other tools) is the esoteric argument syntax. Arguments should always be passed as "-s arg" for short option names, or more preferably "--long-name argument" as long names, and multiple different things should be passed as multiple different arguments instead of some crammed way.
I absolutely read your link, it was talking about hotel consumers. But I was never concerned about hotel consumers; I was concerned about the effects on everyone else.

Studies into various markets have shown that AirBnB increases rent for residents by converting long term rentals to short term rentals, reducing housing supply. The question is whether or not the increased tourism offsets the damage caused to the housing market. Studies point towards the answer being “no”.

Source: https://www.epi.org/files/pdf/157766.pdf

This is not an out there theory on my part; the name for this is the “AirBnB effect”, and searching for that shows articles in Forbes, EPI (linked), the Guardian, The Harvard Business Review, among others.
Then you better have human translated 100% accurate versions of your site. Because I've been served "spanish" automatic translations that are gibberish and make no sense. E.g. "data uploading" auto-translated to "los datos cargando arriba", when in proper spanish it should be "subiendo datos".

As spanish from Spain I, and I guess more than 80% of spanish people, prefer to read mexican written by a mexican person than "es-ES" translated by a robot. If I'm travelling to Latam, I would prefer your site serving "es-ES", after that "en-US", then "en-UK", and only after that any "es". Just like I have my browser configured. Other Spaniards may disagree and set their preferences differently, and that's fine. It's 100% easier to respect the Accept-Language header than to do geolocation gimnastics.
Thank you for VLC
TETRA isn't interoperable?
> was early on the reply-swipe functionality

I’ve been using WhatsApp daily for years, how did I not know this? Thanks! (This is why I read HN)
You make the person sit in front of a notary, he confirms their identity and reads them the document they are about to sign (to make sure they know what they sign) and then confirms that they personally and voluntarily signed.

Of course, you can only check for immediate coercion. You can make sure nobody has a gun to their head, but you can hardly check that nobody has a gun to their children in the car outside, or their brother that lives on a different continent.
In the end you need someone to look at those alerts, maybe they just got missed.
You mean, they will watch the kids or mutually exclusive work?
The yelling fire example is especially nonsensical because that's not a thing that ever actually happens. Maybe this idiom made sense 100 years ago, before automated fire alarms, but today it's an anachronism. The only time it comes up is when someone is arguing against free speech.

If we interpret this expression metaphorically rather than literally, then curiously it would most directly apply to people claiming COVID is dangerous and everyone needs to run out of the building (economy) and then wait for government assistance. If there is in fact no fire, as more and more data implies, then it's the people claiming there's a killer virus on the loose who are crying fire and should - by this logic - be suppressed, with people saying "it's all clear" being the ones who get amplified.
i think the federal government also doesn't quite like the fact that it can't wiretap WhatsApp calls upon court order or decree; i don't know which possibility is worse - possible privacy violation or possible wiretapping.
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I've been contributing to open source projects for a decade or so, mostly in bursts - when I was still 100% hands-on, I'd work on projects that either interest me, or are used at work (e.g. Rails).

Over the past few years I've mostly been working in leadership (but still with a bit of hands-on), so I mostly work on things that interest me. For example, for a while I was obsessed with building a web scraper, and some machine learning stuff, so I built:

https://github.com/fredwu/crawler and https://github.com/fredwu/simple_bayes

Working in bursts works well for me, as I can dial the effort up and down depending on my availability and mental space.
It was the Poles and British that cracked the Enigma.
Do you take requests? I'd be interested to hear from folk in particular occupations. If you list the requests, people could vote on them, or you could call for volunteers to answer them.