skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a program is performing a task that is going to make me wait I want lots of communication. Imagine I ordered a sandwich in a restaurant and its taking longer than expected. I'm now faced with a decision, do I wait or do I leave? I could make a better decision about what to do if I could see how many orders are ahead of me or if I can watch the kitchen and see a stack of ingredients ready to go, but the chef paused to clean off the grill. In the case of computer it can be hard to know beforehand exactly what its going to do and how long it will take. Maybe there is some kind of issue I need to fix before the task will ever be complete. As computers and networks evolve and improve (or degrade) it can be really hard for the programmer to have a good idea of how long a task will take to complete. In light of that, I would always err on the side of giving the user more information about what the program is doing and how long its taking.

On a file transfer I'd really like to know, how much has been copied, how much is remaining and the current (5 sec average maybe) bit rate. That gives me enough information to know whether its worth waiting around for it to finish or I should find an alternative or the connection has dropped.

Staring at a spinner, with no idea how fast or slow things are going is the worst and I'm going to give up a lot sooner than if I knew what was happening.
Perhaps consciousness cant know itself, just like fire can't burn itself, and water can't wet itself.
Are they rebranding HoloLens as Mesh, it wasn't that clear? Absolutely love how when you click buy they do a popup immediately to add you to a mailing list. How about doing that either after they buy or when they leave the page?

I wonder how many sales that popup is costing them by distracting the buyer at the point of purchase?
Tesla to launch Full Self-Driving subscription within 4 months
I completely agree with the point here -- people should have the freedom to work a bit less and "live" more (however they define that, be it parenting, pursuing hobbies, or what have you) without fear for their livelihood.

I would offer one amendment: in the US at least, disagreement on this theme is probably one of the major dividing lines between liberals and progressives (and their fellow travelers). Liberals (like Elizabeth Warren, who has labeled herself a progressive but is generally liberal in her policy positions) prioritize free child care and other policies that would make outsourcing childcare less financially onerous, freeing people to work more; progressives and their fellow travelers (like Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang) prioritize paid family leave, UBI, and other policies that would minimize the need to outsource childcare in the first place by allowing people to work less.
I believe there is at least one prominent exception in the hair cells in the inner ear. These are not replaced once they rupture - producing the distinctive tinnitus sound at the frequency they monitor. Or perhaps I'm mistaken in this — it's been a while since my studies!
I must say that I've loved this entire chain of conversation. Some high quality discussion here.

I do think people's critiques of philosophy stem from a need to be pragmatic, which ironically is itself a philosophy. It's difficult to reconcile the lagged "observable usefulness" of philosophy with its actual usefulness.

That which is useful is generally ignored as its been so ingrained in the psyche and that which is seen to not be useful is usually controversial and hasn't made itself to be the "norm" as of yet.
Sounds like you are not doing scrum. And I only know of the term 'daily' being prt of the scrum process.

So. If you're not doing scrum you are not leveraging it's potential and even more important, its rules.

The rules of a daily is non-disputable. It has a formula. If you're not following the formula, it's not scrum.

A daily is not about progress. It's about communication. You communicate what you did since the last daily, and what you expect to do before the next.

But you're not being measured on what you communicated. You are merely sharing what you' re doing.

If there is discussion in a daily, it's not a daily. If you're not using a board for the baseline for communicating, you're fucked.

The role of a scrum master is to take note of what is going on and help out if she hears anything that sounds off. A good scrum master is a bit like a dictator. Focused, on top of things, helpful and listens to what is going on and does not bend to outsiders.

Good scrum masters are hard to come by. That's most often imo, why scrum had a bad rep in some places.

Also remember, agile is something that must happen on a top level, otherwise it will not work very well.
Meanwhile it is impossible for many people to own a house without a double income...

So your idea makes sense, but not in today's economy.
this simply shouldn’t happen; it’s almost unheard of for mobile vs desktop to get out of sync unless the server is super unhealthy. can you file a bug or ping in #synapse:matrix.org so we can try to help?
> Did latex gloves not exist in the 80s?

Yes. As did plain old (but effective) soap and water!
Go figure... this wasn't just the news getting it wrong but, it was also one of the core points brought up in the recent impeachment of the former President.
Streisand effect at full force.
>What do you think about people like Chalmers

If I'm being facetious, I don't :P

More seriously, my reading of Chalmers is not that neural correlates of consciousness don't exist per se, it's rather that

1. So-called "access consciousness" (i.e. consciousness in the sense of "I am conscious of X") is distinct from phenomenological consciousness (contrary to what Dennett thinks).

2. Further, access consciousness has very little to do with phenomenological consciousness, to the point that calling it "consciousness" is a misnomer.

3. Therefore, neural correlates of access consciousness will never give us insight into phenomenology.

I think my position is that of most people in the field. I'm agnostic. Or more exactly, damned if I know what I think about that. I find it hard to believe -- as Dennett claims -- that once we've explained everything about neural correlates of (access) consciousness, that there will be nothing left to explain. I also find it hard to believe Chalmers' story that neural correlates have nothing to teach us about about phenomenology. But my arguments ultimately appeal to an interpretation of scientific data in the context of my own experience, so it's really a gut feeling of "neither seems quite right".

Given this, my stance is basically "I don't research hard problems; I research easy problems". Access consciousness -- whatever that is -- is interesting and useful to study. I choose that.

(N.B.: most of this should be written in the past tense, as I have now moved to a different field!)
Yes, technically you are correct - they are not __banning__ it. But they shouldn't be picking and choosing products based on things like that. A customer should be able to buy Mein Kampf and The Road to Serfdom in the same transaction.
This seems like a strange thing to do.
>family homemaker necessarily be a woman

Women, making a broad assumption, seem to have the traits (honed over millemia) of watching over the family.

But in a household, if the husband and wife exhibit the opposite traits, then that must be encouraged too.

I know of a family in which the woman is the bread-winner, the husband takes care of the kids and home, and both are happy.
I agree! I found it to be a very compelling and interesting exhibit to virtually explore. The artist nailed the medium.
printf and scanf match nicely with their format specifiers, so the serialization and deserialization can be maintained nicely in lockstep.

to avoid the quadratic overheating sttlen you can simply use fmemopen(3), which makes the temporary sscanf FILE object explicit and persistent for the whole parse, and needs just one strlen call.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343149
> The thing is you don't have to participate, it's not hurting you, so what's the problem?

Why do people get upset when they see people falling for scams?

It's upsetting to some people to watch a gullible person get scammed. It's a drain on society. It rewards parasites and charlatans, and most people want fewer of those in society.

> I'd say that point just highlights some issues our society has with mismanaging energy. Let's switch to nuclear power and proof of stake blockchains.

Proof-of-stake is the real solution here, and I'm not really sure why you're blaming "society" for mismanaging that part. People could switch to proof-of-stake without any involvement from social institutions (government, nonprofit, media, etc.) just as they say they can adopt crypto without those institutions.
Why should that do when you can do better? Why stop there? That would be like saying "post everything programming related on r/programming, that'll do. Let's ignore that there are more focused venues for my content".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not keen on getting tracked, either. But I can totally see that from a company's perspective, if you can make sure that only people who are interested in your product actually see the ad, that's better. You don't annoy people who aren't interested (not everyone in a rich neighborhood cares about a BMW ad, some already have a Tesla) and you increase effectiveness.
The word "quietly" does so much heavy lifting in the headline, implying wrongdoing and sinister deeds when there is no evidence of malice at all. What are they supposed to do, make a big press release about how they got it wrong and beg for forgiveness? These things happen when reporting breaking news.
it sounds like there’s something wrong with the server; it shouldn’t be arduous to maintain. please ping us if you haven’t already.
I rather them to slow down and address the performance issues.
The question is valid - it would be interesting to see the comparison. To get some perspective as to how big of a problem cryptocurrency consumption really is.
> Why do women have to emulate men to be valuable?

Why do we assume that those behaviors are inherently a man's?

Women that have a drive to become business leaders do so for personal reasons and not to emulate anyone (except perhaps personal heroes who could happen to be women).

You later speak about a wish to become a stay-at-home father. Is this emulating women or is it a wish based on activities that are not inherently gendered such as cooking and taking care of children?
My iPhoto photo set is much, much larger than Google Photos storage cap; I just want to share a couple of photos with family. But yeah, that sort of explains it. They're pushing you to just store everything in Google Photos.
It's okay the biden admin will just import that many more foreigners and grant citizenship to those 11 million illegals. Problem solved. /s
Could you elaborate on why California especially?
Getting Update has Become easy
Why Consciouness is not a Hard Problem
It partially is, the biggest issue with parallel busses like that of DRAM is skew between the bit lanes. You need the electrical pulses to physically arrive at the same time. It's more difficult to layout 71 bits of exactly equal length than 64.
I have learned that making relative comparisons is useless if you are not at the average.

If you are more capable than the average person, sure you can settle for an around average outcome, but that is very unsatisfying.

The way I perceive things is that I'm going to do something, I'll do it really well or not at all.
You'll run out of data pretty quickly.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/03/15/need-16-ti...
A fairly simplistic empirical examination of the monetary policy since 2009 proves this:

- Historically low mortgage rates

- Decreasing bond yields

- Increasing withdrawals from 401k and other retirement funds

- Increased savings rates for the younger demographic

- Reduction in consumer spending

- Over a decade of QE
Exploring Ansible via Setting Up a WireGuard VPN
GPON that is widely used for ftth in the us is not symmetrical, its a lot like cable in how it works.
Personality disorders in the US population:

Paranoid ....... 2.3%
Schizoid ....... 4.9%
Schizotypal .... 3.3%
Borderline ..... 1.6%

If you can flood social media with messages that will echo positively among people who have inclination to lose their grasp of reality and connect them, it's possible to activate hundreds of thousands people. If just few thousand of them act on their delusion, it causes problems.

source: Lenzenweger et al., 2007, DSM-IV personality disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2044500/?tool=p...
> I think women have largely been presented a false promise by progressives: value and purpose is derived from work, go do what men do to be their equal. It’s not necessarily anybody’s fault, we live in a society where money is valued. But I wish we could structure society in a way such that the value of raising children, homemaking, is clearly communicated and understood. Being a mother without a snazzy career is frowned upon by plenty of people these days. I don't think that stigma is healthy. Why do women have to emulate men to be valuable?

Why ask these questions only as they relate to women and motherhood? Why haven't men being presented a false promise that value and purpose is derived from work? Being a father without a snazzy career is equally (if not more so) frowned upon by plenty of people these days. I don't think that stigma is healthy, either. Why do men have to emulate other men to be "valuable"? Why do men have to avoid emulating women to be "valuable"?

> Couple that with the fact that depression is most prevalent among childless women in their 40s

I don't know your source for this but you should at least consider the possibility that women, particularly women with financial resources (childless women in their 40s, for example), are significantly more likely to seek mental health treatment compared to similarly situated men. Correlation is not causation and more women being treated for depression does not necessarily mean more women are depressed.
There's no denying that from that definition they are the same. It's just after you've debugged enough loops and recursions you can't help but think they are quite different!
I am by no means an expert in pharmaceutical studies, but I suppose they can afford a huge number of dead ends in the initial phase of research due to the massive wealth and in the end, they have to test only for two variables: efficiency and side-effects. An explanation on how it actually works, is a very nice extra, but is not required. The problem for Pharma is that at some point you require tests on human subjects, which is very expensive and dangerous.
You never heard women nagging?
I completely agree. In our neighborhood, I see a lot of folks pushing for 1Gb for better netflix and youtube.

Uh, do you really have 10 people doing separate 4k videos? Its just overkill.

Upload on the other hand is far more important than people realize.
1. I didn't say it needs to be a women, I am highlighting that there’s a stigma against women performing that role today.

2. The problem is exactly with the characterization (that you made) of the “more ambitious” route being the career route. Why do we assume having a career requires more ambition than wanting to raise a healthy family?
But you can verify that the source they publish on Github is the same that was used to built the Google Play version with reproducible builds[1]. Also, Android apps are fairly easy to decompile. They are very likely to get caught if they publish an update with a backdoor.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/master/repr...
Technical Community Builder Is the Hottest New Job in Tech
I'm pretty sure Google would never dare block Safari and start a direct war against Apple - they're even powerless to resist current privacy changes on Safari. Apple has monopoly on browsers on the most popular modern mobile platform and I don't think Google can fight that.
At least being able to move your photos out of Apple Photos is a step towards not locking you into Apple's ecosystem. I don't think the ultimate goal is removing lock in completely. It's a fools errand to try and defeat it. The goal should be to free you from being locked into a company that takes it too far. This creates free choice and a market opportunity for another business to serve people like you.

Also ..
I thought Apple Music was added to Google Home?
I thought Apple now allows you to choose Google Maps as default mapping app?
The question here is not really "is more speed better?" Of course more is better if there were no tradeoffs.

The question this is asking is "what level should the federal government subsidize connections, particularly in rural areas."

25 down, 3 up is plenty for 99.9% of internet users. It's ok to tell people that if they want faster speeds they have to pay for it.

I am in a city with about 40mb down, 5mb up, 3 kids all doing zoom calls/video all day and internet is basically never constrained.
Sometimes you come across communities that look, from the outside, like a Disney theme park. You enter the gates and you're in a different reality. Everyday words have different meanings, and there are stories built up about their definitions, completely divorced from whatever happens in the outside world. Paid actors learn to complete this comprehensive alternate reality. But as you exit the gates, reality returns, and words reclaim their conventional meaning.

It's like that with Bitcoin fanatics.

"Money" and "currency" do have definitions built up over time by economists and financiers over the past centuries. They are not the same as is used, apparently, in the Bitcoin-Disney fantasy park.

Conventionally - and by conventionally, I mean as it is used by all economists and financiers for centuries - currency is a subset of money. A currency is the dollar, the Euro, the yuan. It doesn't have to be fiat, but today usually is. Money is any type of highly liquid asset typically used for the payment of debts, which includes currencies but can include short term bank notes as well. Although there have been times in history where gold was used as money, it is generally not used as money now, although like most assets it can be converted into money. Bitcoin can be money too, but it's a crappy money, for the reasons I described above. Generally, economists don't spend a lot of time splitting hairs about money and currency, because they're very similar concepts.

"Money" is not a synonym for "store of value." You will not find that in any economic textbook, or even Wikipedia for that matter.

Even if you wanted to use the fantasy park definition of money as anything with a store of value, you chose not to even defend Bitcoin as a store of value. Possibly because it's a terrible store of value.

Again: this is just Bitcoin. Crypto can be designed better. The fact that Bitcoin fanatics obsess over Bitcoin in particular is just proof that they're talking their book.
Games industry could learn alot from Weapons design and manufacture, and the Nazis. Moral reprehensible tasks can be split up into lots and lots of smaller tasks, until the responsibility is diluted enough. This is very amateurish process design- its not that hard to make a murderous golema who nobody feels responsible for.
I disagree. Manufacturing planning is slow and complex, but not on the scale of years for the covid vaccine. AZ has a complex internal and CMO supply chain with over 20 sites around the world, much of which has be brought online within the last 6 months [1].

For example, much of the European shortfall is tied to expected production at the Belgian CMO partner NOVASEP. AZ first partnered with them in June 2020 and product was expected to be shipping 6 months later in Q1 2021

Over the last 12 months AZ has made a number of similar decisions for retooling or expanding existing facilities, as well as partnering with CMOs based on their distribution plans, which are now disrupted. Had they known about an EU export ban upfront, they may have negotiated different quantiles with ex-EU partners, or engaged additional Ex-EU partners.

https://bioprocessintl.com/bioprocess-insider/global-markets...
Yes, data portability is a requirement in the GDPR. You should not be locked in to a service just because they have your data.
>the quality of philosophical education is rather poor

Where? In the USA? Indubitably.

In France? Definitely not.
Another thing to note about custom headers is that when used in an XHR (eg: X-Requested-With), they will force a preflight request (with the OPTIONS method). If your webserver isn't configured to handle OPTIONS and return the correct CORS headers, that will effectively break clients.

Best to just never use custom headers.

I've written more about this here: https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2015/08/17/solving-options...
Sounds like you are selling your best years for a certain amount of money and lifestyle.
er master combined with slave sure does, and that's the origin in tech.
> Why do women have to emulate men to be valuable?

I don't think it's a men vs women issue.

Our current society is structured in such a way that work is necessary to survive & thrive - it is usually not possible to take a lengthy break from work without financial & career consequences.

Whether you are taking that break for childcare or (to pick a typical men's stereotype) drinking beer & having BBQ's with your friends every day doesn't make a difference.
Try eliminating the following assumptions

a) Consciousness depends on affect

b) Affect is real, and not simply an imagined experience.

In other words, question the validity of the above. Are they in fact true? How do we know them to be true? Why is a feeling given more credence than hallucinations? What if all feelings are an imagined experience, one that is "programmed" into birth by the genetic material? Just because an imaginative experience is encoded genetically it shouldn't make it any more real, should it? How would humans look like to some alien species that is capable of cognition and consciousness (without being robotic, as our species' scifi literature imagines) but not affect and identity? Wouldn't they see us all acting as if suffering from some mass delusion?
I think the "two capitol police" sources were either lying or the NYT reporter was lying. Either way, with such hefty allegations I believe there needs to be more transparency and accountability for reckless reporting of unverified "facts."
Historical creation myths seem to say otherwise. E.g. those referring to seed, or fruit of the loins, or commandments to multiply.
I don't think the GP implied that women must be the caregivers given that he himself would be happy as a stay-at-home dad. I think he was just commenting about a common scenario.

> If in a male/female relationship the female is the more ambitious one prioritize the male as the primary care giver

Why equate "ambition" with "desire for a high-paying career"? Somebody who wants to raise a family can also feel ambitious about it.
While I'm no audiophile, I switched to tidal recently for another music-loving reason - they pay a larger share to artists.
Show HN: Serverless WebRTC matchmaking for P2P in a few lines
I maintain a small fleet of vehicles. I keep a set of worn pads, rotors and tires that I put on every vehicle before it goes for state inspection. Steering/suspension parts replacement fell off a cliff once I started doing this. I would say this approach taught me something but it just confirmed things I already knew.