skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the classical argument with color qualia very convincing (in fact, I thought about it before even knowing what qualia were...). Nothing you can find out about wavelengths, cones, rods, neurons and so on will tell you why you see red the specific way you do, and whether my perception of red corresponds to yours or my "red" is actually your "green". So there is a gap there, something that doesn't follow from the mechanical state of the system.

Of course, I won't claim to be able to define that gap in a precise way (I'm not even a philosopher), but I think it's clear that it exists, and in my view the burden on proof is on those that claim the problem doesn't exist because no one can come up with a believable methodology (even supposing infinite time, infinitely precise measuring instruments, etc.) that would tell us the answer to questions like why my "red" feels like it does or whether my experience of red is different from yours.
Yeah, this is more and more popular. Apple has this built in on their product pages, and recently I saw it on Sonos’ website too. You can even preview some cars using AR.

A photo with a new McLaren next to your garage adds a lot of credibility to all of the “honey, I bought a new car” pranks ;)
"Discrimination" is what sensible people do all the time. It means "distinguishing things that are different", and if you don't discriminate, bad stuff is likely to happen. For example, it can be bad for your digestion if you fail to discriminate between a hamburger and a house-brick.
It is not used only for ads. It is also sold to other companies and 3 letter agencies.
That's not a viable option for me as my IPD is not between settings but at the outer extreme of the widest setting (Quest 2 only goes as far as 68 mm while Quest 1 went to 72 mm which is close to my IPD).

It's still usable for games without any headaches, but I wouldn't use it for reading text or long gaming sessions.
Might be, I don't have the numbers.

> A figure of speech is a deviation from the ordinary use of words in order to increase their effectiveness. Basically, it is a figurative language that may consist of a single word or phrase. It may be a simile, a metaphor or personification to convey the meaning other than the literal meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
One obvious difference between computers and humans is that only one of them is an animal. So far as we can tell, consciousness only arises in animals. This sounds like a truism, but I wonder if using phrases like “complex system“ masks it: both humans and computers are complex systems, and only one of them is conscious, and therefore what could possibly be the difference?

Well, the list of differences between the two is enormous. As the article discusses, some of those differences include embodiment, emotions and moods. So perhaps the “hard problem” is not a philosophical one but a question of detailed knowledge: if we had the ability to drill down to the underlying particle physics of bodies, emotions and moods, plus all the other things that comprise our animal natures, then perhaps the problem would be solved.

To put this another way: perhaps the issue with many approaches to understanding consciousness is that it assumes our animal nature doesn’t matter and that conscious minds can exist abstractly, or even be modelled in silicon. But maybe they can’t be, and so for us to truly understand consciousness we will need to truly understand the body, which we are very far away from.

To sum this up: consciousness, in this view, is not an emergent property of complex systems. Rather it is a fundamental property of animals.
Any time you have limited attention, and more than one idea vying for that attention, the end result is marketing.

Any argument you make that students should spend an hour learning about quantum mechanics instead of something else on the market of ideas (eg. finance, literature, history, etc.) is by definition an act of positioning.

The curriculum of today is the result of marketing in the past. You just don't see it that way because you weren't around when those decisions were being made.
LOL speling: sauce effect => side effect!
>What DEADline? You mean to keep warming below 1.5°C? Do you suppose if we go ver by .1°, we all die?

I will admit, I looked through the site to find if they are doomsaying like AOC.

>It's better to limit warming, but there's no magic cutoff in which we all die.

In the last 20,000 years or so the world warmed up 6 celcius without human input. This has been a great thing for our species, basically enabling us to create civilization. Another 1.5c will be good for us. It will unlock tons of landmass.

>It's on a continuum, with more warming meaning the increase in the likelihood of extreme events and disruption.

The hypothesis that say atlantic hurricanes are worse because of climate change does not match the data. It's a good guess because more energy can theoretically be put into the hurricane but that's kind of debunked now. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/could-clima... Little bit of a backpedal. Sure, rising seas might cause some problems for rich folks who built too close to the coast. I have no pity for them.

>Also at some point, increase in the possibility of positive feedback, but that's likely above or near the maximum projected warming range 2.7°-4°C, and it's still a matter of degree.

Also great news. There are a number of projections 1.9, 2.6, 3.4, 4.5, 6,7,and 8.5.

All the predictions of doom is as if we are following the 8.5 path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

Note how this biased graph only shows IPCC 8.5. Here's a copy and paste.
RCP8.5, generally taken as the basis for worst-case climate change scenarios, was based on what proved to be overestimation of projected coal outputs.

8.5 is not happening. It's looking like all the efforts humanity is making is placing us somewhere around 3. Afterall, above 4.5 is that we basically do nothing. CO2 peaks in around 2045 and life goes on.

Even more interestingly, the climate clock is RCP 1.9. The only way we achieve the climate clock goal is that all fossil fuels end worldwide in the next ~7 years. That's not going to happen.
I don't agree with existing ones being shut down, no, unless they're at the end of their natural life (or there's a real and imminent health threat, which might be why some are being shut down).

"All power plants, coal, gas and nuclear, have a finite life beyond which it is not economically feasible to operate them. Generally speaking, early nuclear plants were designed for a life of about 30 years, though with refurbishment, some have proved capable of continuing well beyond this. Newer plants are designed for a 40 to 60 year operating life. At the end of the life of any power plant, it needs to be decommissioned, cleaned up and demolished so that the site is made available for other uses."[1]

I was actually really pro nuclear power until I started reading about how they're starting to be outclassed by wind and solar and are just too slow to build to meet fossil fuel reduction targets in time, especially those set for 2030 considering their ~10 year build times. I still think it's fine if anyone wants to pursue building new plants, it just seems like less people are willing to fund new ones because of these issues.

But I agree there have been some that have been shut down purely for political reasons or due to pressure from certain green activists (I don't think there's a green hivemind and I've seen many people concerned about climate change support nuclear power and think it's quite safe, especially considering the alternative of climate disaster), and those should not have been shut down.

[1]: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
I live in Berlin and I don't know any German personally who is not for nuclear power.
> if I drop a minute old $1000 phone and it goes to garbage because it cannot be repaired its not luxury it's garbage

Pretty sure if you drop a Porsche from 1m at a random angle it also goes in the garbage.

Better comparisons are maybe things like Commodore 64s or Ataris, for which there are spare parts and active Enthusiast scenes still available. Not sure if that will ever be the case for iPhones, but I could imagine it happening for Mac's or Macbooks.
Most packaging are an abomination, all the junk food you can buy in supermarket (ie 70% of food products) are wrapped in 2, 3 or even more layers of plastic and ink soaked paper, all of it being toxic to some level and environmentally detrimental.

Some products don't even need plastic packaging but are wrapped in plastic to avoid ink migration from their outer marketing shell.

I'd like to see a globalised effort to standardise packaging, either at national or continental level, imagine a standard set of containers manufactured by state sponsored companies, all of it being 100% recycled or reused, sellers get to chose between a few colors/fonts and a few types of packaging (frozen, liquid, solid, fresh food, &c.).
I half agree with his math on private stock, though some private stock is like having the same access as the ultra rich to underpriced off market stock..

I don't follow the stock grants math at all. AFAIK what is usually given is a mix of low priced and ultra-low priced options vesting over 5 years. One might end up getting 300K a year of profit in vesting options by year 5 but is anyone getting $300k in pure stocks given to them in year one?
> The future of cities is being a place to live

The striking part of the linked story is they didn't ask anyone why they don't want to live there, or why they moved away, etc. Just "tax rates always go up and after redevelopment rents will go up even more and I have no idea why nobody is here".

Maybe they have a severe crime problem, or the commute is unbearable, or there's no public transit, or the city council makes bars close at 8pm so young adults can't party. There's plenty of examples from other cities of how to kill a downtown, I'm just curious what Calgary did specifically. Every city in the world has tax problems and redevelopers pushing rents upward. Whats special about Calgary is ... (maybe answer is 'nothing' which is itself the problem?)
:), remembered times using VSS, u could lock a file.
I live in Boston, 6 years of experience. I just went through the big tech thing for the first time. I got an offer from two of them and ended up almost doubling my total income (salary about the same but adding a ton of RSU and cash bonus). I did not grind leetcode, but I do know my data structures and I practiced enough to code basic algorithms without googling for method names or syntax. I spent more time practicing anecdotes, which is the part of the big tech interview where they ask questions like “describe a time you identified a customer issue and went outside your role to resolve it”

From my experience no company founded in Boston pays top end wages. This job search I only considered big tech side offices in Boston and remote roles for Silicon Valley companies.

My recommendation: find some data points on Levels.fyi that match your experience/level, location, and desired TC. If there’s a bunch of data points, then it’s possible. Interview with every employer listed in these data points, and don’t take a job if it’s less than your desired TC. The market is hot and you are in control.
IIRC I haven’t read this specific title, but I’ve read one of Armstrong’s books and IMO she’s a formidable writer/thinker.
For 20-30-somethings that probably read a pop-dev news aggregator? Probably not. Or are most of us in our 80s? There is also substantial variation in reported IFR between political jurisdictions per the CDC (1-9% I think). Seroprevalence based IFR estimates tend to be consistent across national boundaries (and is a much lower number), but I wouldn’t make so bold as to tell you to believe research studies over political appointees at the CDC.
Yeah absolutely. How can this be a bust time when the oil prices are so high?
Yeah, I wasn't trying to say GitHub is different. Instead, this shows a route to profitability for these companies.
née, perhaps? Possibly something for r/BoneAppleTea
That’s irrelevant to the parent’s point. Of course people get old, but the position could be filled by a new wizard when the old one retires. The “wonder and excitement” could be kept alive.
Maybe Pieter can chime in, but I don't think he's necessarily making 10x more than a FAANG engineer :)
When Apple was bankrupt it was Microsoft that lend the money to keep them afloat.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-wh...
Just because some sliver (OK, large sliver) of their consumer base is satisfied with this shit doesn't mean that they didn't live a sizeable amount of people stranded for both hardware and software options. Because they did.

I used to be able to slam an MBP down on the woodworking table, open it up and start typing. Now there is no slamming, because they flimsy. No typing near dust, because they get stuck in the keyboard. Every app is a single window, so you can't chat with two people at once. Everything is in the cloud, so you wait on your very fast computer to do networking all the f.in time (even opening Finder). The UI has lost so much of it's legibility that I don't know what I'm looking at half the time anymore. Active window? Maybe not? What does that label say? Why is this a modal? Where is the "don't ask again items" preference pane?

We have parted ways, I think. I'm not riding with them anymore.
Generally it is understood that qualia are not quantifiable.
Germany has Autobahn, plenty of good roads and yes, some railway lines are fairly decent. Stuttgart to Munich or Düsseldorf north comes to mind. But outside of main corridors, it ain’t that nice everywhere. An example is the A1 Autobahn through Eifel which would help offloading A61 (which is a mess already as it is).
So how does this interact with updating the captured environment? Does the printing essentially just show a snapshot of the environment at that point?

I assume the (closure) is read back as a new closure such that the environment will be restored as an environment shared between invocations of the read result?
Autodesk subs pricing is insane.

https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products
Better Distributed Shuffling with Dask
Apologies if my language is emotional, I like this debate a lot and get rare few opportunities to discuss it with people who are familiar with all the background. I don't mean to invalidate anyone, I think all camps are equally valid regardless of my personal feelings.
GitHub: Stack Graphs for Code Nav (tree-sitter) – StrangeLoop 2021 Talk
Years later, we're still blaming the pilot just so a bunch of brainwashed hipsters don't have to admit Donald Trump had a point about something and they were wrong. We live in a giant kindergarten; thanks.
> and if Visual Studio ran on Mac I'd probably switch my PC out also

Not sure if it supports all the features you need, but it exists.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
A German as well ("Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her").
It seems to be the cool thing to do lately. Especially if you have a visual web app, a tool that has a functional GUI component, or a breaking story about the planet or a new piece of hardware, you must make sure not to include the one thing that would make it most worthwhile -- a picture.
Yeah I think 'dotnet fsi {fileName}' with a script file works. Also Ionide with VS Code using Alt+Enter (similar to other language VS Code repl's) inside a *.fsx script file to run the highlighted code in a F# REPL. F# Interactive has doco online as well that isn't that long but covers most things (single commands, script files, loading packages, etc).
It's not unstable, stop repeating this falsehood. It does behave differently when high trust is applied, pitching up much more, and MCAS was introduced to counter/hide that. Earlier models did pitch up as well, all planes with engines under low wings do, and pilots or automatic systems have to deal with it.

This is not an issue of instability. The plane will remain at a level pitch/roll at a given thrust with the appropriate elevator trimming. An unstable plane would require constant input changes.
Is it bad? I never finished the novels and was looking forward to the show, just haven't had time to pick it up. Should I skip it entirely or is a 'it isn't great, but watchable and you will understand the story' adaptation?
Many plugins add dynamic pages to WordPress - e-commerce carts, membership plugins etc. If WP would just add a cache to everything they would not work. You might say that there could be an API for these plugin to register their uncached routes, but not everyone runs Apache - Nginx is also commonly used and would also need to somehow be supported.

As someone who has written their own WP caching plugin, it's actually very convenient to perform the caching in PHP, because you can check for cookies and regex expressions for URLs, and there are many plugins that handle it well. For most sites I use a free one called Cache Enabler.
This sounds nice, but results in everyone from Hitler on down given free reign, leading directly to everything from Kristallnacht to Jan 6 to shouting fire in a crowded theater.

Can we agree to draw a line in the sand somewhere before legit hate speech?
I grew up in Alberta. I am reasonably familiar with both Edmonton and Calgary. Neither is a terribly exciting city, but I would not say "Edmonton is shit." Really, I think they are more or less the same. Edmonton has an even nicer system of parks along the North Saskatchewan River, and isn't terrible for festivals and such in the summer. Calgary's main strength is its proximity to the Rocky mountains. I can't think of much in Calgary proper that I would recommend to tourists, except possibly the stampede. Edmonton has West Edmonton mall if that is your thing. YMMV.
Another materialist who has it exactly backwards.

Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain. It is the base layer of reality.
Essentials for the Programmer’s Productivity
https://medium.com/@antriani.s/the-16-essentials-for-the-pro...
The Prosperity Paradox
Published at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03869-6 . "Dying" refers to "survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs."
StudyStream (YC S21) Is Hiring a Mobile App Developer iOS (Remote)
Another symptom of a mad world, creating wealth without creating value, between that, the new wave of cryptos and NFTs it's hard not to think this is all a sad joke
We've always paid for innovation and progress with human lives. It's not as though that's a new phenomenon! To think we can get away with pushing forward the state of the art without a cost in blood is safetyism.
And eventually WebGL/WebGPU, one step at a time to have full Flash tooling back, and the plugins will be revenged.

https://www.opensilver.net

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash

Looking forward to it.
John Chidgey has an excellent episode of Causality covering the technicals in great detail.

https://engineered.network/causality/episode-33-737-max/
Yeah pretty much. Depends if you are making a web app or a web site.
Is this just an advert for Hotwire? Every single point just seems to mention Hotwire.
This makes little sense. Almost everything has a site that already exists.

Alternativesto is old and has not
improved much. I am yearning for a better alternative since iusethis has gone away.
WP has built in cache (an API for it, which hundreds of caching plugins take advantage of).

Built-in CDN doesn't make any sense for the self-hosted version. But you can install a plethora of third party plugins for CDN, like Jetpack.

Multilingual support I can agree with. There are discussions ongoing about it and I do think it's going to drop some time in 2022, but for now you're relegated to solutions like Polylang. Polylang actually works really well out of the box, but it does not have 100% compatibility with every plugin.
While there is lots to learn from Sports esp team sports, you have to be careful for many reasons. Here are two big ones -

In sports, everyone agrees what the goal is - win the game. In the real world this is never the case. People will not agree on what the game is leave alone what a win is.

Secondly in sports, since everyone agrees what the game is, its much easier and clearer how to enforce rules, rank performance, develop deep understanding of whats required to win etc etc etc.

So all this makes its extra hard to be a Ted Lasso in the real world.

That said, totally agree, people who generate energy in others, hope and faith in others, not in some unconscious aw gee I was born this way routine, but consciously are invaluable to have around.

The key is to be conscious about whats required from you, to generate energy/hope/faith in other.

Also appreciate, support and protect those who do it well.
A lot of this seems to be a mechanism to sooth anxieties about whether you are on the right track when taking a risk. Feels good to have a nice graph that points upward. In the past you would have seen an oracle or an astrologer to get reassurance.

People do it as well, they gather tons of statistics on themselves like how many steps they've walked and how many glasses of water they've had and how many hours they've slept, which for the most part is completely non-actionable information and your body is much better at telling you if you are feeling well rested than your spreadsheet is. You get a pretty graph for sure, but it ultimately doesn't say anything you didn't already know.

I guess you could convince yourself this is science, but in science the hypothesis precedes the experiment. If you gather tons of arbitrary data and go digging for correlations, you will find them, but anything interesting you find is most likely going to be spurious relationships and other statistical aberrations.

It's data dredging, not science.
Like I said I'm not talking about takeaway food - which I pretty much never order, agree I'd rather eat in a restaurant. I mean about getting groceries (with which I can prepare the meal) delivered.

But I suppose same would stand to compare picking up a takeaway in person vs. having it delivered. (i.e. if that's what I ate, I would almost certainly have it delivered.)
Idea: Option to Disable or Hide Podcasts
Ask HN: Is there any how to build a SaaS web app course?
Is there any course that teaches how to build and launch a simple saas product ?
OP here: so, from the amount of comments I surmise that my like-minded crowd is either not hanging around here no more, or aren't really numerous.

Thanks everyone for participating in this discussion, I appreciate you all.
Show HN: GoSetReconciliation Sync distributed sets using bloom filters
You can keep waiting, given that Google prefers to somehow mitigate C++ flaws than going through Chrome's version of Servo.

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/09/an-update-on-memory-...

> Even if we started writing new large components in Rust tomorrow, we’d be unlikely to eliminate a significant proportion of security vulnerabilities for many years. And can we make the language boundary clean enough that we can write parts of existing components in Rust? We don’t know yet. We’ve started to land limited, non-user-facing Rust experiments in the Chromium source code tree, but we’re not yet using it in production versions of Chrome - we remain in an experimental phase.