skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes me 15 minutes to file my taxes both for my full-time employment, but I’m not some objectivist trying to scam my way out of paying my share of taxes. Just an engineer making a San Francisco wage working for bay area startups remotely while living in the third world.

I’ve spent the past 7 years traveling and living in DN-friendly countries (Türkiye, Georgia, Czechia). When covid is over I will move to Spain for 2 years under the Non-Lucrative Residency Permit.

More and more countries are coming out with non-lucrative / pensioner / digital nomad visas. They dont care as long as you aren’t doing business locally. From their perspectice it’s free sales tax income.

My domicile is now in Florida. I file my federal taxes as a us citizen and Floridan resident, no state income tax. (which means $60k per year for nothing more than bad consular services).
I'm firmly on the other side: I don't think there's anything special about consciousness.
Consciousness is merely the capacity of the brain to keep track of everything that's happening and adapting behaviour. The I is merely a thought structure, we're just a very complicated deterministic script with lots of inputs.

I score quite high for psychopathy and I didn't understand emotions for a long time (as a kid I imagined that people just pretended to have emotions), so the lack of that emotion processing capability, may influence my view in that topic.

Either my brain is defective or it's this century version of geocentrism.
And this, the last but one paragraph:

> The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969. The federal government took over the operation from the Catholic Church to operate as a day school until it closed in 1978.

How weird that all the most relevant info, was at the bottom.
I can't say I've ever read OANN or NewsMax, even though I am conservative. I have read the New York Times before though, and as the linked article and several others by the same journalist indicate, evidently the Times is selective about showing differing views.
Not quite sure you mean by "generate a queue".

But if you mean message queue, you could create a python script that parses the text file using regex and place messages in a AWS SQS queue.

Simplest way to use across computers would be just to transfer the script to each computer you use.
> This would only be surprising if your teacher was a Physics teacher.

I'm not sure. Physics teachers often have to deal with absolute laws of physics, e.g. "you can't make a perpetual motion machine".

You can't ever demonstrate that something doesn't exist (philosophy of the black swan/inviting disproof by counter-example), so it's challenging for teachers to communicate this as a fact to curious students: the result is sometimes teachers appearing scornful.

One slightly-misunderstood law of conservation and you're suddenly a physics teacher who is scorning the truth.
This article from Crucial probably explains the two arguments:
https://www.crucial.com/articles/about-memory/difference-bet...
But their conclusion is that practical latency has indeed decreased over the last 15 years.
I think the problem with current recommendation systems is lack of user's ability to customize them. I don't like youtube's algorithm either.

However, I do not want to just tell them what I like and let them indulge my addictions forever and put me into some sort of echo chamber.

Recommendation is hard.
My impression was rather it's consensus that the vaccine provides more predictable immunity, which is the most important thing if you want to set policy. So recommendation in most countries I checked is to get the vaccine, even if you had Covid, cause it's the same dose for each patient and we have much better data on efficacy, whereas immunity from infection is much less predictable and traceable.
Now I've heard both claims: that if this were lab-grown it would have certain "fingerprints" and it doesn't, and now this, that it does.

I'm not qualified to assess either of these claims. I am leaving the variable set to undef for the time being until a scientific consensus emerges over months or years that isn't tied to some hot-button nationalistic agenda.
There are more sources that are more explicit about crossing into the airspace.

- https://news.err.ee/1608203641/russian-aircraft-violates-est...
- https://euobserver.com/tickers/126198

etc...
First off, I agree with your overall assessment.

> They're quite literally the paper that supported Hitler.

Okay. I get it. Hitler was bad. His ideas were bad. His methods were bad. We can talk about how bad Hitler was all day.

But a lot of companies _back then_ had ties to the Nazi party. Things change, companies lay off and hire on, people learn. Let's try to eliminate this trend of disregarding anything someone says due to something that happened almost 100 years ago.

IBM supported the Nazi party. They're now a leader in quantum research.

Volkswagen is one of the largest producers in Germany and was literally created by them. They now actively support their LGBT members at work.

BMW, same thing.

Bayer manufactured a bunch of the chemicals used in the holocaust. Now they are a large producer of life-saving medication.

There are many reasons not to like Daily Mail. Let's not reduce ourselves to obsolete association just to cop-out of an otherwise valid point.
The Juicero was very overbuilt, I know because I watched the AvE video, but isn't that a sign of amateur engineering? I'm thinking of the old saying that anybody can make a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to make one that barely stands.
It’s a civil case hence no conviction. The settlement might have compensated for the value of the patent, so what else do you expect?
I do this sometimes (the silence). I'm not Russian. When people do it to me and I'm really expecting interaction, I explicitly ask "What do you think?"
Where I live in Germany it may not be the norm but I also came across it several times. Nasty stuff if you suspect something different
This is a correlation at best. An interesting one, but no more interesting than "ice cream sales and shark attacks follow the same curve".

There's probably no real way of knowing exactly why Fox News has the viewers it does. We can only guess.
Java and Flash, but now it is Good (TM), because the powers that be decided so.

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...

So, enjoy the 2nd coming of applets/flash,

https://platform.uno/

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

https://tinygo.org/

.... favourite stack compiled into WASM.
Show HN: The “built in 100 hours” challenge
Twitter's business model relies on it being toxic. Controversy and drama generate "engagement", so they have no reason to change. This isn't specific to Twitter even, any ad-supported social platform has this problem and which is why advertising should be considered a cancer.
Snowflake is a DW solution - in most cases it is populated from other OLTP DBs and uses as a data source for BI tools. What is the purpose of editing data directly in Snowflake?..
Linkedin is a marketing platform where you are the product. Use it as a tool if you need to but try not to forget that.

If you feel something's horrible there it's likely by design and within that context.

(edit: you're to you are)
Nice article. Those "I passed some 2 min XYZ certificate" posts really get to my nerve. I usually use the news feed eradicator [0] on such websites. It is like jumping across the valley of the newsfeed attention river.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
As with all things in life humans are programmed to work out how things work and then abuse them to maximise their upside.

LinkedIn is the same as any social media. It can be gamed and if that's to the advantage of certain people then they will game it.
Countries denying their own human rights abuses is par for the course. Blaming anyone who brings up those human rights abuse as being an agent (witting or unwitting) of a geopolitical rival is also par for the course.

The US itself has a lot of its own problems with systematic racism as well.

But if I criticize the US on this front, should I expect a commenter to appear (like yourself) to tell me that this isn't actually an issue -- it is just being pushed by Russia agents who are only doing so because there is a geopolitics rivalry between US and Russia?
Good find! I'll be installing that later today.
Nim has very easy ways to get full C performance in pure Nim with a trivial FFI to just call C and is both higher level than Go and lower level at the same time because of that. Simple analogies often fail to describe. :-( { This is not intended as a dig/criticism but note on communication limits - you should just learn more about Nim at https://nim-lang.org/ }
Good catch! That was indeed a bug. Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting.
Periodic reminder that fast cryptographic hash functions like SHA-x and MD5, even with a non-secret salt (pepper?), are not designed to resist brute-force attacks on data as low-entropy as passwords.

Use scrypt [0], bcrypt [1], or argon2 [2], which are key derivation functions (KDF) built on top of pseudo-random functions (PRF) and designed to be slow.

In one interesting example, the Keybase founders deviced an experimental scheme to generate Bitcoin wallet addresses from a passphrase and a salt using KDFs [3], the advantage here being that the wallet then is fully non-custodial (note, there are better ways to implement non-custodial wallets [4]).

[0] https://blog.filippo.io/scrypt-all-the-things/

[1] https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

[2] https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

[3] https://keybase.io/warp/

[4] https://github.com/novifinancial/opaque-ke
The same exists on nearly every social media site, sadly. Natural progression I would assume. On Twitter, in dev circles, we have "Junior Dev Porn" where the same poll/questions are asked, the same anecdotes are recycled, and the same code snippets posted, all in the name of empowering junior developers. But at a high altitude it's glaringly obvious the majority are for engagement and follower gain. Especially so when those internet points are leveraged for favor.
I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of the exhaust while riding a motorcycle is intoxicating!
Donations don't go to the browser's development. They go to the Mozilla "Foundation" which works on projects which you may or may not agree with, but the browser isn't one of those.

As far as I know it's impossible to donate towards the browser's development.
Indeed, my bad. I mis-remembered there being an evolutionary link - but I don'ttthink the is one, there's SNOBOL4/SPITBOL, and REBOL/Red.
I took that course in 1985 ....
It’s hard to judge pain.
Some people go to the hysterical quickly.
Others walk in with an arrow in the head, calm.

Even with my own kids. It can initially be difficult to judge how serious an injury a fall of bump is. 99% of time I’m right, but the missed stick with you and the kid.
Why is bhouston's post being downvoted? People don't believe NYT? Or it's too political to mention this?
What kind of ridiculous corrupt government passes laws that prevent manufacturers of goods selling those goods to the general public (including the local workers themselves who made the damn things)?
Also shared on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeXqZxr6ky9ZmT7yVuoTyGB5mMsGVgpwxC7j61...

The file downloads with a hash name, but its a .mkv container. Add the filetype to the filename once downloaded and it should play.
Just don't do it with fingers outstretched
My hypothesis is that people who got Covid once and recovered feel safe, thus start doing more risky things and have more exposure to potential Covid carriers.

So the second time the viral load may be much higher, which leads to worse symptoms.

Do you think this is true in your anecdotal experience?
The reason I usually include "the paper that supported Hitler" is that I don't think the daily mail have changed. They sell the exact same racist, xenophobic BS they did back then today.

Its like if IBM refused to make anything except for holocaust management tech...

Maybe its unhelpful? It just amazes me anyone will touch the DM with a barge pole...
LinkedIn has too much "advice" from "experts". Shut up and make me laugh instead. Everything they post is either self-congratulatory "advice" or just sycophantic worship.
https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn also showcases some of these behaviours.
It's my comment he's responding to, and even though I may not agree with his formulation, I'm sensing he has a point. What if this is a bias that we've acquired while growing up? Perhaps we've conflated consciousness with intent and reactivity (another term introduced by Jaynes 40 years ago). We've gotten used to thinking that a chair, for example, is not conscious by our definition because it reacts in a purely non-intentional way. But does that mean it doesn't have some rudimentary level of "experience" (sans pain, pleasure, a sense of self or other things that come with higher intelligence)?
Almost destroyed an entire people? I think they where pretty successful in that regard.
One point that is often missing from this discussion is that we should take away money from the super-rich because they will use it against us. In two regards:

- They use it in political activities to maintain their status also by fighting against social liquidity, or against laws that let the externalities of their businesses emerge as costs.

- Even when they have goodwill, they don't know what is good for us and how to achieve it, simply because success in business does not prove they are good at this.
Yeah I get that you have to tweak canonical algorithms to suit the current problem but I am thinking more about developing algo for open problems or improving the performance at research level. Also, are algorithms beyond basic ones like shortest path, a* search and network flow are ever needed in real world situations? They all seem done and dusted pretty much.
1992's Revolutionary reading device for the blind [video]
> A guy was putting his hand on his co-workers' knees!

Oh my god!
I'm having a hard time understanding your post -- my depth of thinking may well not be on par with yours. Its obvious that science as a whole explains a hierarchy of phenomenona, with a given phenomenon (like radiation propagation) often being explained ("why does it happen in this specific way") by a more fundamental theory that provides an overarching account of a set of phenomena.

The point is that every update of a scientific theory shifts old "why" questions to new ones. Science will not ever and does not aim to provide an answer to the ultimate question of why anything exists at all or why a given theory of everything applies rather than another (indeed, string theory for example posits a possible, if not actual theory of everything).

In this sense, in the scientific study of consciousness, we do not aim for an ultimate account of why the laws of nature give rise to consciousness. Instead, it is about explaining a natural phenomenon within a theoretical framework that allows us to make predictions with respect to experimental outcomes.
> I said this already 10 years ago: We don't need more cloud computing but need to empower users end devices again. Jupyter is typically operated on powerful notebooks and not on mobile devices.

If you’re working with data of any significant size at all it then it doesn’t matter how fast your user device is—it’s so much cheaper (time and network egress costs) to send the computations from a user device to the cloud than to pull tens-thousands of GB of data to your local machine. Moreover, I don’t know of many local machines with tens of CPU cores, hundreds or thousands of GB of RAM, or tens-hundreds of TB of SSD for handling that computation quickly.

User devices are great for very small data, but I don’t see the point for larger datasets.
> To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism

Small bikes are way worse. These 50cc two stroke engines, often illegally modified with loud exhaust. Not only they are as loud if not louder than a big motorbike but they are so slow they linger around for a while, often it populated area like cities.

They are popular in France because you only need to be 14 to ride one (vs 18 for cars) and you don't need a license.
A signal that you're willing to pay something. The amount here isn't really relevant, and usage goes beyond social signaling.

If it's exposed over the API and someone's logging into my product with that flag set, you could reasonably assume it's not a bot, or at the very least that whoever's botting has paid $3 of their own money.
Thank you for the suggestion, you may have spared me from one of the biggest regrets of my life.

However, I find it hard to say the words, it doesn't really need to be said, it is known. It's a cultural difference for me.

In return, all I can offer is the notion that you are not alone. This is something that probably all of us have to face one day.

Also, I recall the story of Richard Feynman in his old age walking with his friend joking about his surgery & illness, and his friend remarked that he is sad because Feynman was probably going to die soon.
Then Feynman said that he has told so many stories over his lifetime, and it feels like he's won't really be completely gone as long as those stories are remembered.

The 42 song by Coldplay encapsulates this.

"Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkZJc7oA9cE
Indeed takes up much less space. I see why it "stands" but it feels like even the smallest push from the back would tip it over?
Just for your information I've fixed the issue.
I was on dark-mode and forgot about the light mode and decided to only keep the dark one, you can go check it out now, should be better ;)
> The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow

Twitter is incentivized to introduce engagement-generating garbage into your feed whether you want it or not. You'll be fighting a never-ending battle.
A cyclical service delivery cascade in the context of HIV
That much is true, but the tragic comedy is in what people seem to think will actually be taken seriously / make others see them in a good light -- see https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn for evidence.
This is cool! Few things:

Add the words that were already spelled to a `Set` and check for them again when making new word choices. I got "NUMB" three times in a single session.

Z's tracking just flat out doesn't work.

Q is signed different than I learned it, apparently. I sign Q as an upside down P, but the tracking apparently wants an upside down G. I don't doubt people sign it that way but as others have mentioned this is going to be different for different people.

Lastly, I had problems with going too fast. It really felt like I had to strain myself to get it to recognize. More tolerances in the recognition would be nice.
> the banking sector in the City of London

There’s no difference in regulations in or outside the city

> their institutions that isn’t there with some bank in a random backwater

It’s the exact same banks. Here’s a list for Jersey although the same is true for most Crown-controlled tax havens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Jersey
Russia and China aren't comparable to the US (and allies) in terms of military power, economic coercion or control over propaganda. This false equivalence is manufactured by US and allied media to protect their interests.

It's also worth looking at the actual sources. Try to find something claiming genocide in Xinjiang that doesn't end up using Adrian Zenz or a NED-funded think tank as a source.

On the other hand, for the US's atrocities we have plentiful and varied sources. Some of us have even felt the exploitation and destruction directly or through our families.
> They sell the exact same racist, xenophobic BS they did back then today.

Can you cite these claims?
The "Active Mass Center Control System" made me wonder: is it possible to make a passive balancing system that would keep a two wheel bike standing up?
I see what you mean, however in my opinion this "I" you are talking about is just an evolution of the human brain, most likely for the purpose of social cohesiveness/activity/integration/interaction. Everything we do beyond maintaining our own body is for society.

Every action taken is rooted in social hierarchy, social undertakings, social interaction. Better clothes, better cars, better phones for better social status, more knowledge, more money, more research to advance society.

Someone who lives alone in the woods will not take care of themselves much (just like ants, btw), and everyone who has discovered/learned something has an almost compulsive need to share it with others. If they didn't share, they'd be an outcast, considered broken by everyone else. A lot of similarities with an ant or bee hive there, except we're more autonomous as individuals.

Our species is not just about the individual, and as society grew, it required more and more advanced individual hardware and software, which our primitive brains did not have. So it was evolving. Evolving likely by cooperative/social individuals/groups being superior to less cooperative/social ones in survival and warfare. And what it has evolved into is the "I" we experience today.

It adds a whole new layer of complexity, but it's still just "software" running on the same brain as everything else and using the same resources.

There is that theory of the bicameral mind, not sure how accepted it is, but it does seem like a good description of an earlier version of our current minds.

And yes, I believe other social animals also have this sense of "I", even if primitive.

Just one of my (possibly insane) theories, since I find myself thinking about this quite often, in the context of artificial intelligence based on the human one.
I believe it's lack of regulation that is actually at fault here.
There is this cool podcast [0] i heard on authenticity and bragging and how to not be shameless. Especially useful when you are an introvert (like me).

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/hbr-ideacast/id1520221...
We observe our own consciousness all the time. It's just that your consciousness is closed to all but you.
Your ignorance is not surprising. I am from India where our education system is multi-lingual. As a developing country many of our schools (and even colleges) are poorly funded. Many students in these small and underfunded schools (especially in rural and urban poor areas) are taught in their local language. And while English and another non-native language (or another foreign language like French in some of the better schools) are also taught in these non-english medium schools, the focus is often only on basic reading and writing skills. This is partly why some indians struggle with the language. Those who can speak it fluently often have the advantage of a better education (and more importantly educated parents who emphasised on reading books and speaking fluently, and a social network conversant in the english language). I've seen many a good student struggling in college and workplaces because of the language barrier.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro