skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regarding the 2nd question (and the 3rd) it just boils down to "what's consciousness exactly? Is it even knowable?" and I don't think anybody has an answer to that. My personal intuition is that it's unknowable.

You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. For all you know, the rest of us might all be robots being good at fooling you.

I think that if we achieve AGI, at some point there will be a division between people: Those who acknowledge them as living, feeling entities, and those who don't.

Just like even nowadays there are still people who feel about others (based on race, skin color, etc), that they're not really people.
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>Whenever I read something like this it always comes across as insufferably pompous and actually quite a limiting and sad life

Others have commented on how it is pompous (I agree) but I'd like to talk about the "limiting and sad life" bit.

I used to browse the net constantly in any room of spare time, I'd do it while waiting for anything, while relaxing at home, commuting, in my lunch break, you name it, while doing other mindless, yet active tasks such as cleaning or walking I'd listen to music.

Some two months ago I just decided to stop. I realized that all those things weren't really adding much to my life at all, I might try to stay up to date about this or that event, and I definitely still listen to music, but I do so with intent. I intentionally do certain things with a certain objective in mind instead of allowing myself to waste time out of habit.

In doing so, I'm more focused when it comes to achieving those objectives, I don't scroll through news because that's what was at the top of Reddit. I check news sources because I want to learn about the state of something. I don't grab a random album and press play, I think about what I want to listen. I also feel I'm way more aware of what my life is because my mind has way more spare time. I get bored sometimes, yes, and being bored brings very interesting thoughts that I've really come to appreciate.

I feel that a constant usage of internet is actually limiting and creates a sad life while the opposite is liberating and brings a feeling of fulfillment.
Will you build integration libraries or SDKs for the common programming languages and flows?
In my case I'm with C# and use the dependency injection to get an instance of a service that verifies the user requests.
Last time I checked the way that webtorrent/peertube queries for peers watching same video is centralised over websockets to a a select few webtorrent trackers, I think theirs only 2 or 3 running, meaning if you wanted to take down peertubes p2p functionality all you would have to hit would be their webtorrent trackers with a ddos and the platform would go down, I'm not 100% about sibil protections but I do know that peertubes webtorrent trackers verify the structure of an announce, and if it is in invalid format bans you from the tracker, compared to the other webtorrent trackers which are more happy to accept something less strict as an announce
Monitoring for Process Completion in 2021
Go for table-tennis as a hobby (cheap, easy to get started, infinite skill ceiling, can be as demanding as you want, good cardio).

I think that around 50% of people who come at my table-tennis club are in IT.
Yes, It was probably a silly distinction. But I think trust is what leads to freedom, and privacy is used to reduce the need for trust. But there are other ways to build strong trust (or trust-less) networks.
On Coming Through the Sausage Machine
Yep, "SEO" killed the internet. As have "Accept Cookies" prompts, "Do you want notifications" prompts, "Subscribe to our newsletter" prompts and "Why are you leaving our page" prompts. Content farms, click-bot-like farms, fake-review farms. The free internet is dead.
Nobody should use ISP provided equipment for anything security sensitive, ever. ISPs don't care about security at all, aside from "security" as a sales term, and aside from when they're getting a bad name because of egregious failures.

ARRIS shouldn't be given a year embargo, either. They're the same company who've known since 2016 about hardware issues which cannot be corrected in software in the Intel PUMA chipsets, yet they still to this day sell devices with them. They don't care about fixing things - they care about selling things.
Kaeli Swift (https://corvidresearch.blog/ and https://twitter.com/corvidresearch ) has an FAQ on this at https://corvidresearch.blog/faqs-about-crows/#crows-funeral:

> 4) Why do crows gather around their dead? Certainly one reason is that the death of a crow can offer a “teachable moment” that other crows use to learn that the place and responsible party is dangerous. You can read more about this behavior here: https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/09/26/why-crows-gather-arou...
Invidious is awesome, I use it for all of my youtube guilty-pleasure needs. I really wanted to help with the project when the original developer gave up and development stalled a little bit, but crystal is kind of an esoteric choice, while interesting in it's own right. Syntax looks simple enough but I didn't really "get" all the features and tooling based on the documentation available. I guess it doesn't help that messing with youtube is rather complicated when you can't use the API.
It's true, but when does it make sense to include plants that do not deliver reliable power?

Wind power makes a lot of sense as long as you are still using fossil fuels. Every watt generated by wind power means that you can reduce fossil fuel, and thus lower your CO2 emissions. But once you got rid of fossil fuels and you have a reliable source of power without CO2 emissions, you can get rid of the unreliable ones.
You put an equal sign between failure and low income, which in my mind is quite baffling. You could be a failure and pay a lot of taxes too.

But it's not uncommon, we do it with our kids all the time. "If you don't perform good grades, you are not good enough". My point being that changing that view to, "look at what opportunities you (will) have now". Someone being a failure according to you may be quite demotivated at reaching a high income due to the fact that it seems impossible, why do the effort? For what is more important than playing a role in society, and be a good human? Is really income a value of how human you are?
No, many move out during high school. Many move out after university. They are seperate events, not in any set order.
Adding two more to the list;

- FaunaDB

- Macrometa
Shouldn’t it be feasible to build an interoperable version control system so you can still collaborate on GitHub?
Stats and evolutionary biology converge on this topic. On the opposite side, we have politically loaded opinions.
Show HN: NoHoops – opt-in consent capitalism (how to ditch the privacy policy)
Curious.. what would you bring back?
> What would prevent someone from adding a few <script> tags here and there with ads on your site, or code to spy on your users?

Nothing, probably. In a sane country and legal system doing things like that would be illegal. But on the other hand forcing HTTPS means that some users will never be able access it due to old browsers and/or hardware.

More likely though is that I mess up the HTTPS certificates, either by mistake or inaction, and lock out everyone who doesn't dare click the correct sequence of "ignore warning" buttons.

I've already managed to block access for normal users to several sites, several times, by running too old certbot versions, not integrating things properly and whatnot. It's a good thing I'll never use HSTS and HPKP, or I'll make permanent messes.
Electronic locks with electronically delivered opening codes seems like a genuine innovation to me. It's not a fundamentally different concept, but it makes the existing one a lot more practical (e.g. consider the problem of customers stealing keys)
Hehe, neat! I remember doing something similar, albeit once accidentally. Instead of changing the shell (e.g. to LiteStep), I forced an old DOS game to be executed before windows. Exiting the game would result in shutting down the PC.

I was terrified that I removed my OS and replaced it with a shareware point and click adventure game.

It was a great learning experience though (esp. for my German: https://moorhuhn.fandom.com/de/wiki/Dunkle_Schatten)
Hi. Co-founder here. Thanks for checking this out. We're two guys in the UK building an opt-in consent management system to help eliminate the "privacy policy - consent popup - Accept All" combo (a.k.a 'consent theatre'). We're still building our MVP at the moment so this is more about the core concepts (and closer to something called an MVT which we saw here at HN recently [1]) but we already have a few features you can try out. We'd really appreciate your feedback if you have a moment and happy to answer questions if you have any.

Basic Premise: this is all about control of personal data. Informed consent is necessary to process personal data. We believe the "privacy policy - consent popup - Accept All" combo needs to be replaced because it inhibits informed consent. That's why our system will have opt-in consent contracts and user-controlled, configurable controller lists. The feature we're starting off with is a web page tab that contains a 47 word, opt-in, consent policy. We're starting with websites but aiming at all industries where informed consent is a lawful requirement to process personal data.

There are 3 things you can already try out. No need to sign up (we still haven't got signup going yet).

Our Consent Denied status - https://nohoops.com/consent-denied

Our tab blocker - https://nohoops.com/tab-blocker

Our consent tab for websites - https://nohoops.com/getting-started/website-publishers

We're currently looking for a handful of website publishers who are willing to give our tab a try. Thanks for your time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550454
Right, that's what I thought. This implies that you'd either need to recreate the access rules somewhere else for the application layer and use something like Teleport or some PAM server on top of Tailscale, or use some proverbial 'admin/pass123', if the Tailscale access guarantees feel strong enough.

Thanks!
Does this feature have a general name? Swift users seem to call it "dot syntax", which is not a good name. I want to google "C++ should have <this feature>" and find a proposal from 2013 that never moved forward, but "C++ should have dot syntax" is just silly.
I think generally you don't get a choice when it comes to DOCSIS equipment. You can't just connect up your own (or at least no to Virgin Media's network)
I am not sure how is the state stats are relevant in discussing DeBlasio's performance or one week makes a trend though.
Here are the annual stats for felonies:
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_...
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_...

Some crimes are down, some (e.g. murder) are up.
Ok, that's nice. I'm sure some people do it carelessly but lets at least be honest and acknowledge that many also do it deliberately. It's an easy and cowardly way to assert your dominance. If you get called out on it, and you won't, you'll just say you were joking. When you're not called out on it it's a easy way of reminding people that you can do it. Maybe not now but maybe in the future when you're not feeling so generous.

I remember a job interview where the interviewer launched into a story, unprompted, about firing someone. Didn't express any regrets or sympathy for the person. That interview was over that second. Maybe that person was the most deserving person in the world to get fired but just the fact that he thought it was something to be discussed with an interviewee spoke volumes.
I think in this context, Multiple Listing Service. Real Estate.
Contracts can and do go bad all the time but the French histrionics over this affair are really quite something.
Unless you've had it before (and even if you haven't), in which use you can be the adult and assess your own risk level.
Yes, I think is a need for some platform that provides blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms so that you get the best of both worlds:

1 - owning your blog is too big of a barrier of entry, there is a need for a platform: look at the success at medium for tech writers, despite that we hate it.

2 - we need the return of the domain name based blog. This helps with independence, censorship, and the like. You can always move from the platform, and the platform can claim they can't censor you since it's your domain, so DMCA should be sent to you directly.

3 - this platform should do blog + microblog. You don't always have something long to say, announcement, though and quick tips are very well suited to tweets. But only this format leads to quality deficiency. Being able to write a big article easily is equally important.

4 - forwarding all posts to your social networks is essential. Yes, your blog should be the original source (so you get ref, credit, independence and not the duplicate content ban from google). But the discovery problem cannot be solved easily, and those networks already exist.

EDIT: unrelated, but I love phone calls. I mean, I hate doing them, but I love having the ability to do them. It's a universal reliable tech, it works in the country side, it works when the wifi is down, it works well in the car, and I don't have to have the app du jour installed or insist that the other party does.
Trump was an asshole and awful public speaker but his policies were good for the country. The current administration is further diving the US and pushing the limits of what’s acceptable. I fear this is only the beginning of much worse policies to come.
You're missing the point, which is that there are simple solutions to these problems, usually systematic in nature, and 'The Silicon Valley' hasn't helped one iota in helping in this area.

They can have 10 lockers if needed. If they don't have in-wall boxes then put a physical container with a few doors.

They can use the key scheme as described below.

They can leave the package at the Grocery Store across the street, which is a pick-up centre for FedEx and UPS.

Silicon Valley is not solving these problems in any meaningful way.
I like the concept, but I don't know if normal people will jump ship from the usual streaming platforms.

Hope it works out.
Sure, as with anything that is geographically constrained. In Australia all the most prestigious universities are in the major cities.

Same with Asian (Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, China, Japan) universities as well. I believe Europe is similar.

The "move away for college" is very much a US piece of culture.
You can take those routers and use it as a modem only. Then put your own router in front of it.
>It's a mantra at this point that polarization has gotten out of control, but one of the biggest effects it seems to have is this reverse-psychology effect

Covid19 is a religion. You cannot question religions. It's also not a problem until something goes beyond.

>I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.

Until it became a religion. Those right-wing crazies are religious seeing it as religion vs religion.

Compared to the flu seasons, which we go get a shot and then do nothing else. Covid for ages 25-35 is 40 times less likely to harm you compared to the regular flu season.

If you are 25-35, you go get the shot and then stop giving a shit about covid because it's virtually no risk. By all measures soon as the covid shot was available. You offer it as the flu shot and tell people to get it and you go back to flu season measures. Which is basically nothing.

Yet I know how many people who will drive 100km/h in a school zone are scared shitless by covid. The risk mismatch is not because of actual risk but rather because it's a religion. Morality tells them they need to be scared.

>It reminded me of the time people were worried about pollutants causing hormonal changes in indicator species, and then Alex Jones started talking about how "they're turning the frogs gay" and the meaningful version of that discourse vanished too.

There are 9 confirmed estrogens in our drinking water. Especially true of salt-water coastal cities. Hence why you pretty much MUST have water filtration.

How well would society function if we were doing mass hormone replacement therapy on everyone? Would people start being far more likely to be gay frogs or trans or just emotional messes like typical HRT symptoms. Especially if you aren't aware HRT is occurring. Why the huge increase in trans people? Is it because of these estrogens in our drinking water? Nestle and others approve though.

> It's made me wary of the sport of finding what crazy things my political enemies believe to make fun of them, because it seems like the net effect of this is creating "opposite" erroneous beliefs with no evidence

We are on this world together. Finding 'crazy things' or trying to start fights by calling people names does not benefit anyone.
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Eat the rich Why millennials and gen Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Core seems to have fewer PMs but we have similar problems with triaged products due to lack of heads. The PMs we do have also struggle with getting heads just as much as the SWEs do.

At the very least, I think it is clear that Google’s product failings are not just a result of the promo system.
This appears to use API endpoints that are available if the modem is in ISP mode and acting as the Wi-Fi, etc.

Does this also affect the router when used in modem mode?
My experience has been that DPD has by far the best delivery service. Not only can you reschedule delivery for a specific day, but you can do so in advance, or arrange a new address for the package to be delivered to. Perhaps this varies by location?
Google Docs in a clean-room browser
(I bought my DOCSIS 3.whatever cable modem to use with Cox Cablevision myself at Best Buy after deciding which one I thought would be the best.)
It's still not really modem-only mode. They do routing in there, mainly for their management layer.
Holy shit they remove Windows Update? That sounds like a great way to slide into madness as software breaks or malware rears its head
Tips for Object-Oriented Programming in Python
Invidious is great! Google's/YouTube's heavy push to accept data collection pushed me to use Invidious full time with little regret*.

For those interested, you can use utilise Privacy Redirect (for Firefox[0] and Chrome[1]) to automatically redirect YouTube links to any Invidious instances. It also includes redirects for other OSS clients such as Nitter for Twitter, Bibliogram for Instagram, and others.

* The only issue I've had is that it sometimes refuses to play some videos because the media cannot be loaded. Not really sure why that is, but I'm willing to accept that over data collection.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
In JS we can use JSON/object literal syntax and object destructuring to serve a similar purpose:

myFunc({
aBoolFlag : true,
anotherBoolFlag : false,
aString : "Hello World"
});

const myFunc = ({ aBoolFlag, anotherBoolFlag, aString }) => { /* do something with them... */ };
The amount of attention spent on Chesa Boudin and shoplifting is puzzling. Wage theft is by far the biggest form of stealing, and it’s rarely — if ever — prosecuted… but instead we’re worried about a small increase in petty larceny?
Hey,
I am big supporter of canva and congrats on this and other products. Could you explain why did you not end up using tools like ray hyper parameters and many others like w and b etc
On reflection those random downloads altruistically shared back in the day by passionate geeks on otherwise sketchy-looking sites were never as harmful to me as the user-hostile, telemetry-sucking, ad-filled crap clogging up the modern appstore.
I find blogs by periodically asking my friends for suggestions. I recently made my list of favorites:

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/favblogs.html
This is wildly racist. The police are known to openly harass and abuse minority populations. They’re often even rewarded for it by their racist supporters.

Edit: this comment is at -4. Unreal how bad HN’s “community” is. And the site owners do nothing to curb the white supremacy on full display here. Noted.
Could you please elaborate? To me, it looks like the article posits using boolean flags instead of enums is a code legibility issue, not a performance matter. There may still be good reason to reject a large PR such as the one you described. But, I don't get where the micro-optimization appears.
Same, I use Kotlin daily, and I would choose it over Java any day as it really solves a lot of its quirks very nicely. There are however some parts of the syntax that keep confusing me on a daily basis, curly braces being one of them. The other is the weird unintuitive asymmetry that is going on between function types and lambdas. For example, a lambda of type

(Int, Float) -> Boolean

is written as

{ i, f -> ... body ... }

but a lambda of type

(Pair<Int, Float>) -> Boolean

is written as

{ (i, f) -> ... body ... }

because `(x, y)` is a destructuring pattern that projects the first and second components into `x` and `y`, respectively. The pattern in the lambda has to use tuple syntax exactly when the type doesn't, and vice versa. Gets me on a weekly basis even though I completely understand what's going on, it's just not very ergonomic.
Subscribing to RSS Feeds on your E-Reader
Correct, but in this case, it sounds like you didn't need to use the ISP router as your VPN gateway.

If I understand the DNS rebinding attack reference correctly, you could be running the VPN software on your desktop/laptop and still have your IP revealed by your ISP router.
Better advice - rent The Office and do the exact opposite of everything Michael Scott does.

(No throwing stars or nunchucks either.)
This seems very similar to the work over at Quran.com and their API: https://quran.api-docs.io/v4/getting-started/introduction

If you did use their resources, please cite/reference them :)
> Congrats on launching!

Thank you!

> I like the idea. However, I’m a big Pocket user and can’t help but notice that this way of bookmarking takes significantly more effort than sharing to Pocket or clicking on the Pocket extension.

Is it significantly more effort? I don't feel so -- and I used to use Pocket heavily before I built this. On Android, instead of clicking 'Add to Pocket' in the share menu, I just click on the 'save@forlater.email' email contact.

On desktop, I'd say it's about the same effort -- instead of clicking on the 'Add to Pocket' icon on the browser action bar (or whatever it's called), I click on the 'Save to forlater' icon instead.

It's just a matter of clicking send after that, in both cases.

> What’s the benefit over Pocket outside of not having to install an app/extension ?

You own your data. Probably not a big deal for you, but it is for me. Especially with the trajectory Mozilla is going in, I wouldn't be surprised if they punt the Pocket team altogether and call it a day. Also, I didn't really like the other stuff in the Pocket app: discover, activity, profile, friends/following; all that jazz. Just give me plain and simple bookmarking.

Further, I just really love email. Yeah, the protocol is old and its security is shit -- but it's ubiquitous. If it's been around for the past 50 odd years, I'm sure it'll stick around for another 50. Can you say the same about Pocket? ;)
> Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters (ft).

A 20 meter object created a fireball that could be observed from earth?