skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still baffled about the concept of consciousness still being used in the sciences.

It's such an ill defined concept that makes me think that one of three possibilities exist:

- consciousness is the wrong concept

- anything that has some degree of self-reference is conscious.

- there is no consciousness, just computation.

I'm erring on the side of it being just plain wrong or uninteresting.

I don't believe that there's anything supernatural about it, it must be a result of computation, but for some reason we ascribe a special status to it.
Why do fitness classes need to have a special app on appstore?
and let’s not forget about the huge markup on iPhones themselves, this should cover whatever their owner ever downloads.
There is the mypy static type checker that works very well with Python. It works with the typing module that allows unions of types, and other methods. Using the --disallow-untyped-defs command line argument provides more checking.
A function prototype could look like the following where the str and int are the types.

def strlen(check_str:str) -> int:
Yeah that's a bit primitive compared to what the guy in the video is demonstrating. He's sending arbitrary forms from source files as well as from a dedicated input area to a REPL, the forms are evaluated and the printer understands that either more Clojure forms being returned or more output.
Thanks, I hate it!!

I try and keep myself insulated from this kind of garbage YouTube but sometimes it starts to leak into channels I used to love. It's made me unsubscribe more than once.

The formula is so recognizable now that I assume it has to work on the majority of people?
>SALT deductions (at least on Income Tax) are essentially meant to prevent double-taxation.

This is not double taxation.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double_taxation.asp

The federal government charges you x% for its services. The state government charges you y% for its services. The city government charges you z% for its services. The county government charges you a% of some arbitrary "assessed" property value. These are different entities who have the power to tax you.

>Why can the federal government tax money that can only possibly be in my pocket if I've committed tax fraud against my state?

What? This would only be the case if total taxes on your income exceed 100%. And typically, that would then be up to the courts to decide who is the senior creditor that deserves to get paid.

>Now, I have to pay the federal government. Why should I be on the hook to pay taxes on 100K in income, when I truly only earned 95K?

I disagree that you truly earned $95k. You earned $100k.

In theory, it could be problematic if all of your taxes add up to >100% of income, but I think that's more incentive for people to participate in their government and make sure that doesn't happen. But I don't see why a state that mismanages their defined benefit pensions and infrastructure, and hence has high taxes due to shifting costs from 30 years ago to today, should be getting a benefit for it.
It looks like it:

> a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types

In other words, it's a set of native, type-safe Swift APIs that wrap the usual C system calls.

> System pervasively uses raw representable structs and option sets. These strong types help catch mistakes at compile time and are trivial to convert to and from the weaker C types.

> Errors are thrown using the standard language mechanism and cannot be missed. Further, all system calls interruptible by a signal take a defaulted-true retryOnInterrupt argument, causing them to retry on failure. When combined, these two changes dramatically simplify error and signal handling.

> FilePath is a managed, null-terminated bag-of-bytes that conforms to ExpressibleByStringLiteral — far safer to work with than a UnsafePointer<CChar> [Swift's spelling of `char *`].
Assange: "29 year old young man in a foreign jurisdication he had no experience with, the subject of the largest intelligence man hunt the world has ever seen... at that moment, he reached out and asked us for help."

Snowden: "While all of these news organisations around the world, all of these publishers, were trying to get a piece of the story, there was only one publisher that actually said we want to help the source. We want to make sure he's okay. We want to make sure that no matter what happens, he has somebody on his side, and that was Wikileaks."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXqvNE
> I find bugs in every software I use (my freaking microwave oven control panel!).

My dishwasher, which has only buttons to select what to do during the next wash cycle, has a firmware bug.

Sometimes when the door is closed, it will start one of the pumps. If I cycle "heated drying" on then off again, the pump will stop. I figured this out because, well, I've worked on firmware and I understand the how of how software can be stupid.

After I learned to recognize watchdog resets, I started seeing them more and more often, and became even more terrified of how bad software is.
For the first video I don't understand how this could have worked to begin with. There's no way my Tesla would have allowed triggering autopilot in a parking lot with so many lines.
This same non-profit, the APOPO, also trains these rats to detect tuberculosis. Apparently the laboratory testing in Tanzania produces a lot of false negatives, and the rats can screen the same number of samples it takes a lab tech an entire day to test. They use the rats to double check the lab tests and identify samples to be re-tested.[1]

[1]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/8/140816-rats-t...
+1 for using YouTube for conference talks more than "watch me program" type videos. I love browsing through all of the Pycon [1] talks for example. It's annoying that each year is a different channel though. Oh well.

There are also a lot of other great videos in the channel [2] where the talk you mentioned came from.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjMBMGt0WJQLeluw6qNJuA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA
The US is nothing more than a land where there are more controls and restrictions on the government than there are on private companies. This should be a good thing, because you can choose what companies you interact with but you can't choose your government.

This is all only an issue because technology is exploding right now and our government is not designed for the rapid changes in legislation necessary to keep up. Improved communication tools have enabled outsourcing and automation that now allows 1 person to do what was formerly 400 peoples' jobs. Data privacy has become a very sudden public concern when 4 years ago it was revealed people could use that data to swing an election. Professional media outlets are now suddenly competing with average-joes-angry-blog for views and most have needed to switch to low quality/high outrage just to survive.

You end up in a situation where the same system that would have worked 50 years ago suddenly doesn't work now. But the current wealth disparity is not irreversible.
Or as I tell my wife. I am playing my favorite game 'updating playstation'. I turn the thing on so rarely by the time I usually do turn it on there is 1-2GB of updates waiting. Glad I have a semi decent internet connection these days...
> You really think government should be telling people how and where to spend their money?

Nope. And you are free to spend your money how you want. The point missed here is that when it's tax-deductible that money _would_ have been local/state/federal money.

The government already decided you need to return that money back to the community/country. If they give you the power to choose who gets it, they've given you the ability to appropriate government funds.
I have a few cameras and the cables are all hidden. The camera doesn't have to be mounted on a wall to be useful - mine sit on existing furniture and the cables hang down behind, out of sight.

As for their utility, meh, dubious utility. Yeah, I get a notice on my phone when they detect movement. That just means I know when my maid is moving between the basement and the living room. But, I know this going in - bought them more as a nerd gadget thing that actual security.
Military expenditure is often a disguised expenditure to redistribute taxes to states. The military wants to close bases and the civilian leadership won’t allow them because of job loss.

Social Security especially is a method to redistribute taxes. The amount most senior citizens get from SS is much less they put in - even if you account for inflation.
Choose your tools beforehand and get them set up. Get the team set up on those tools.

Amplify good ideas. Give ideas a time to live and kill them if they don't work during that time.
As an open source project, there's no reason a fund to support Firefox development has to in any way involve Mozilla. It can exist independently and fund developers directly.

If having a sustaining fund dedicated solely to Gecko/Firefox development, and it seems implicitly to specific elements of that development (ie. not those that directly or primarily benefit other Mozilla services) is truly important, don't wait on Mozilla to provide one for you to donate to. They don't have the incentive, or frankly the need, to do that.
What are peoples thoughts on separate input form area (like the lower right text input area in the video), versus e.g. in SLIME where the input prompt is the output buffer and moves with the last output? I always thought he former was more awkward, but maybe there are advantages...
Due to user lock-in through things like sticky iMessages, plain inertia, network effects, and anticompetitive practices, it is sort of an extortion.
Unfortunately, one of those 'time and place' uses for python is white boarding interviews.

Sure - you can use whatever you want, but python is probably an advantage for more easily solving those class of problems on a whiteboard.
"It looks like you're running low on {insert random product}. Would you like to buy more?"

My air cleaning machine has the option to phone home and automatically order replacement filters.

3M has an air filter that Bluetooths with an app that will automatically order new air filters.

The copier at work automatically orders new toner when it runs low. (Though not soon enough, and the threshold is not adjustable.)

I had an HP home printer that also had this ability.
A bunch of random ideas:

- partner with Dropbox to offer an integrated web-based filesystem and other file-oriented stuff like Send.

- partner with bitwarden or 1Password to provide integrated authentication - the web desperately needs an open competitor to Google/Fb/Apple in this area, I’d definitely pay for this. They could probably just repurpose Persona.

- rebrand Pocket (which, let’s be honest, has pissed off too many people to ever succeed) and use it to build something like old del.icio.us, targeted to (web) developers.

- make containers more mainstream. The FB-container addon is wildly popular, surely there are other applications that could be baked in.

All these should be optional services that can be turned on, never again we should see the corrupted practices that gave us Pocket.
The concept you're describing is "Doing Well by Doing Good".

There's a qualitative difference between the pure, easily exploited Calvinist interpretation of this concept (hard work and sacrifice will be rewarded by some nebulous power that is keeping score) and the more assertive flavor you see in well-run organizations - confidence, openness and a dash of charity gets people to trust and want to collaborate with you, and you all benefit. Being the nexus of a bunch of such collaborations means you benefit the most.
That's now unfortunately too late, I can no longer edit or delete the comment, maybe one of the mods can censor it. And by the way, you added a new photo to the article but the original file is still there, following the link in my comment still yields the photo with the visible part number. There might very well be people out there that notice that the article has 1.png, 2.png, 3.png, 44.png, an image with something hidden, and then 5.jpg [1] and then start to wonder what 4.png or 4.jpg might look like.

[1] Yes, there are also 5.png, 6.png, and 8.png in between out of order, it is not a perfect pattern, but it is still close enough that one might notice the missing 4.png.
"Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show." - ABC news
FYI Last I tried memtest86+ (in June?), it had been outdated for quite some time and downright crashed on newer hardware. The non-free alternative called Memtest86 (by Passmark) works just as well if needed.
Why Don't They Make Bigger CPUs?
They don't. Look at the data in the US broken down by economic class. Most countries are far far more homogeneous than the US.
I can appreciate that many people have no real concept of cost at scale, but Apple currently handles 100,000 submissions per week[0], which doesn't happen for free.

The question isn't whether Apple can afford to run an App Store. They clearly can. In fact, they currently profit from the operation, and are proud of the fact, which I think is a huge part of the problem.

What I said was that Apple initially ran the App Store at a loss and hoped to break even. That was true in 2008 when the App Store first opened, and it remained true during Steve Jobs' life, so at least 2011.

Some time after that, they stopped operating at break-even, and started profiting from it. I'm not sure when exactly that was.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...
Trying to run and enforce a monopoly on repairs, for once.
What happens now if the account is created now on iOS, but then I do a transaction, say via the web? Does AAPL get a share of the offline transaction also if done via the same account? A good example might be something like the Starbucks app.
They should not be.

Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study

Sept 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine, study in Indiana, USA

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352

People aged 40 or below have a .01% chance of dying.

People over the age of 70 have a 1.17% chance of dying.

Overall the chance of dying from the virus is 0.26%.

I encourage you to share this information.
Apple doesn't allow web notifications for things like fitness class start time but does allow it for apps.
If app developers are allowed to price differently on Apple platforms (pass on the costs) .... it's a good start.
The poor don't sit around a computer and hit F5 constantly to get in place for an online preorder sale.

Online preorders are a "rich" thing: requiring online accounts, access to banking / credit, and broadband internet to compete.

In any case, the K-shaped recovery shows that consumer spending for the lower-percentiles is down: overall retail spending is down 10% for the lower quartiles of the population.
When my sister lost the "sensor bar" on her Wii I showed her how to use a pair of candles to replace it. The sensor bar is just a a set of IR lights that the camera on the wii-mote detects.
Show HN: Name-of – Get the name of a TypeScript type property at runtime
> I suspect that the percentage is a bit higher when you look at low-income areas (either within states or even at the state level).

Okay but how many standard deviations higher? In every single State and school district, Federal funding is a tiny minority of the total budget.

If we're talking about public libraries, even an order of magnitude higher %age of budget attributable to the Federal funding is a whopping...4%.
Well, all distros going to remove python2, so need to convert it to python 3 isn't "Here comes some arrogant jerk, without any history in the project".

That's on top that python 3 was out for quire some time, the fate of python 2 was known. There is no point in maintaining python 2 compatibility.
don't the USA have regulations for non-profits to spend a significant part of their income on their mission?

Of course, this doesn't mean it's well spent, but it means some non insignificant part of the money benefits someone else.
I'm not in the space, so apologies if this question is offbase.

What happens if Apple takes a 30% cut of the app revenue, but you book the class offline (say, via web). But then you view via your iPad?

Another example might be the various learning apps. I purchased a Coursera class via the web, but then I added via my iPad -- does Apple get a revenue from this?
I like videos a lot but I absolutely need to write the code along with the person on the screen otherwise it doesn't stick. Coding Train [1] is a recent example that has worked well for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
I don't agree with the characterization of different governments taxing the "same income twice". A city pays for things the federal government and the state government does not. Therefore, the city decides to implement a city income tax to pay for those things. There's nothing contradictory or wrong about this setup. Similarly, a state pays for things the federal government doesn't, and so they implement an income tax.

A county (or city) pays for things, and they decide to setup a property tax, taxing some arbitrary "assessed" value of your property. It doesn't mean anything to me to say your same income is being taxed twice, thrice, or 4 times. You're just paying for services to n different organizations, in this case, government agencies.

If the taxes are too high, then they simply need to be lowered. But not via deductions or any other game. Let the true prices be easily visible. No one forces a state government to implement a % of income tax, and if it's too high, then voters in that state should demand the the percentage be reduced, or implement a flat amount. Same for federal, same for city.
After using LINQPad and then Pharo (with its playgrounds and persistent images), going back to REPLs is kind of tough.
What's gonna be the excuse when the democrats don't win in 2020? Because thinking a mail leak and some $50k in Facebook ad buys get you an election is not only absurdly stupid, it is extremely condescending towards your fellow Americans in the voting booth.
Thankfully there is this virus going around and we can all see the correlation between the wealth of the people and their propensity to break rules.
I suspect that one of PG and Jessica's attributes is the ability to let their clients spend time in the spotlight when necessary. I don't know for sure, but given their joint histories of monomaniacal self-aggrandizement, it's hard to see Kim and Kanye letting anyone else in their orbits take any attention.
Yeah man. You gotta be cutout for this shyt. Just reading the article alone changed my mood. I don’t see how one can process that amount of information and not have psychological issues.
> It only starts looking unbelievably complex when you take control of every single stage and step, and are this doing the equivalent of running multiple enterprises.

Yup, and that's a good part of the problem with central planning and autarky. There is just too much going on for any one decision-maker to effectively handle.

There is a lesson there for large companies, I think. OTOH, go too far with decentralisation and you have Google's 8 or 9 different messaging systems …
Yes, it's a typed, safe wrapper around a subset of Darwin or Glibc (depending on platform) functions. See: https://github.com/apple/swift-system/blob/main/Sources/Syst...
It's the personal blog of the current president of ycombinator; That's the relevant context. If you're on his personal blog, you at the very least have the tools to figure out the context.
This is like national vs international law. Apple can make rules for entities weaker than it, but with entities that are comparable, it's whatever they can negotiate.

When companies are privately owned and highly concentrated, you get two sets of rules: one for the weak and one for the strong.
Unicode to the rescue: 𝈄 or ≺
The person I was responding to clarified his position on taxes. Maximizing taxation is reductio ad absurdum, whereas there are quite a few examples of countries that don't rely on tax income to maintain themselves.

> "But the Saudi government—a highly autocratic regime—has historically resisted taxing its citizens for a reason: Taxes empower people to demand more from their government, and they can often be a trigger for democratization. “Taxation plays a profound role in the rise of democracy,” Sven Steinmo, a political-science professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told me."[0]

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/sa...
Yes. This is absolutely done when assessing and comparing security footage. Burglars are often serial burglars (it's their job or hobby to steal stuff), and many of them show up on camera multiple times from different angles.

Crime goes by some skewed power law distributions and a relatively small number of people do most of the crime in any given area.

As an aside, security camera footage of a crime in your house is also great for your criminal defense (if you are going to use violence against the intruder) and for pressing a claim to an insurance company. If the intruder pulls a gun on you and you shoot him in response on camera, you can use that piece of evidence to get charges dropped against you or to prevent the police from even recommending charges in the first place.
Did anyone else zoom in?
> Unlike YC, most of the people starting copycat programs were not nerds, were not software developers, did not focus on encouraging programmers to start businesses, and most had not started their own startups despite having almost no business doing so

But there are many programs started by people from the industry. Many who understand the nature of YC very well. IMO the problem here is inherent to copying. Do you copy the 2005 YC or the 2020 YC? If you copy the 2005 one how do you adjust for the fact that the world isn't the same anymore? If you copy the 2020 one how do you make up for the 15 years that never happened? As a copy how will you get the same deal flow, why would people apply to you over the real deal? If you're trying to create a YC in country/place X how do you adjust for the fact that it's different from America/Silicon Valley?

What usually happens is the copier realizes how futile the endeavor is and introduces "changes" trying to mitigate the problems. Usually these changes only make everything worse. And you end up with a big mess.
This thing is simultaneously the harbinger of techno-dystopia and something I can see being really useful in my vacation rental to check up on things between guests. This is part of why these ideas are so insidious.
I couldn't agree more. I had to pull a quote or two from Fooled By Randomness as it seemed appropriate:

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

“If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?”