skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what about Plato's cave? You say that a mind arises from a healthy brain, but let's say we put a perfectly healthy brain into an environment where it cannot experience the same kind of stimuli that the brains riding in our bodies do. Would it still be healthy? Could we relate to this intelligence, and would we consider it to have a mind?

I'm no expert, but I wonder just how much of the distinction is entirely artificial and the only fundamental difference between our intelligence and what we call AI is the set of input data, and the rest of the difference can be attributed to scale. After all, scale has an effect on cell-based wetware too. Does a cat have a mind? Could one pass for a human?
I want to complement what you said with the other side: I think the end of thinking is also feeling. We think (and use all other tools) in order to feel better. That's kind of the point of any technology.
mind you that VM constraints are not to same as physical CPU contention and in some cases, this could be a bad test. (although unlikely for web developers).
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I don't like Facebook algorithm that hide posts or show them by own secret logic.
I just want to read all posts and to had some control at what I consume.
>just a few months ago people were shitting all over the US military and the president for leaving Afghanistan

The complaints I remember - and the ones I hold - are about HOW we left Afghanistan. It was a chaotic train wreck. I'm glad we left, I think staying longer would have continued to risk innocent civilians, but I think our departure was a nightmare.

>And don’t say the alternative is a perfect utopia where bombs only get dropped on bad people.

I actually think that our technological advantage allows us to be VERY precise and gives me confidence that we have reduced collateral damage. We have missiles that take a bunch of pictures before blowing up, so can say "look, this really was a bad guy place and not a shoe factory". We have people embedded in the country so we can accurately say "the bad guy is in X room". We have really cool sniper weapons that automatically shoot guys that are deliberaly "tagged" as bad guys and avoid bystanders.

I'm proud of a lot of what we are able to do and not do. That being said, we blew up a car full of children and the response was "we thought there was 1 bad guy surrounded by 8 civilians, but it was just 9 civilians". This makes me sad.
> The easiest way to make a lot more money…

Finding two separate jobs that each pay median developer salaries while requiring only half-time input, working them concurrently, and then constantly finding new contract jobs that fit your criteria is not what I’d call “easy”

FWIW, I’ve managed remote teams for a long time. It’s not hard to spot the people who are playing games like this to put in half-time.
Nothing causes no harm. Water causes harm.

You need to demonstrate that the advantages are worth the harm.

> Before injecting a substantial quantity

And as I quoted, the stated view is that the amount of thiomersal was NOT a "substantial quantity."

> It reasonably leads one to think that you are pulling a fast one

Which is why PR efforts to throw shade on the US voting system - despite evidence to the contrary - gets transformed into false belief that the US voting system is corrupt to the core.

Which is why PR efforts to cast doubt on the negative effects of smoking, and on the negative effects on profligate fossil fuel consumption, are effective.

But that doesn't actually mean someone's pulling a fast one, only that people are trying to convince you that someone's pulling a fast one.

> The fault for that is on people like you.

You must also do your part and not make easily dismissed exaggerations, or omit important qualifiers, as else your entire point will be easily dismissed.
Consult.

When you are able to advise company leaders, then you magnify your worth and theirs, because you advance their projects and their employees. This makes you significantly more valuable in ways that the leaders are seeking.

In my experience, this necessitates you becoming an expert, such as in one specific technology, or one kind of integration, or one industry sector need, or in one kind of business leadership technique.
Easily over a million for high end/staff eng at FAANG/ish companies.
Analyzing the types of words that appear in all texts is the most noisy and raw data set imaginable. You could probably find any number of confounders, such as a rise in a genre of romantic fiction or self help books.

To draw any substantial conclusion without further analysis is an obvious stretch
Slab City
tl;dr: that seems to be a GUI to create&mange separate wine/proton-based wineprefixes and install libs/apps into them using winetricks.

Basically, just another Lutris/PlayOnLinux/whatever else.
> I lay any blame squarely at the feet of IT security of large organisations that were entirely unprepared to update a widely used dependency that wasn't an operating system or a runtime. This wasn't just a predictable scenario, it was predicted. Or more accurately, it has occurred already repeatedly in the NPM ecosystem, but for some mysterious reason those incidents were simply ignored by security teams world wide. Instead of chilling them to the bone, they simply shrugged their shoulders and said "Well, we don't use NPM... I think. Probably?" and went on with their paper-pushing or whatever it is CISOs do these days.

I think this attitude is one of the main issues for this kind of incidents in larger organisations. I'm not sure why you would be willing to lay blame at your colleagues for this.
Most of the time, development teams don't tend to like some governance over the code and the dependencies they are pulling in. Not just because they know of course what they are doing, but also because they are under pressure to deliver features. That is what matters for business.
Also, convincing management that budget is needed for correct tooling to track all stuff deployed; is also not as straight forward as you seem to suggest.

In this case, the problem goes even beyond just the code of your own dev teams. This is embedded in countless software packages deployed all over your organisation. Same here, people want to buy and use whatever they want. And all processes to keep some form of control over it, are mostly seen as overhead.

And I'm sure they are lots of "security" people who are just producing documents and policies which are complete detached from reality. But developers who consider security completely as somebody else his responsibility, are a problem as well.

The only good think I see coming from this mess, is that security teams probably will get the means to try to get more control and insight over this. For the coming weeks/months at least. After that, everyone in management of dev will be forgotten about it. But something tells me the security people who are working on this right now, won't.
The Benefits of Going ‘Round in Circles
Mandate Mandarin language classes for everyone 30 years old and younger. Pull another Roosevelt and buy/confiscate American gold at 5000 USD/ounce, then re tie the US dollar to gold at 10000 USD/ounce to ensure hegemony for the next 100 years..(Before China does it first with their citizens gold)
People like him are a reason why employers have to be more careful when hiring remote.
> 2) People cannot afford good computer usually also cannot afford to pay for the game.

I wonder if they had any kind of proof of this. I would think that there are plenty of kids who could get their parents to pay five bucks for the game, but not 500 bucks to buy a fancy new computer.
WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit rough, etc. But they do keep iterating. I do wish they had a full-screen mode where you could use your own window manager, like many Windows X11 servers optionally allow.

But it's good enough now that I rarely find things that don't work. At least for now, it's also a bit of an escape from corporate over-management of desktops. Most companies haven't yet figured out how to overmanage it in the way they do with regular Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
> This idea doesn't work at all. For your dota skin to work in world of warcraft, the developers of WoW would have to acknowledge that 0x1fab... corresponds with $ITEM in $GAME and then spend the time actually implementing that item in the game.

Yes? Why wouldn't that work?

Since that would take an inordinate amount of effort for absolutely no benefit for WoW or Dota, this would only ever feasibly be used between games made by the same company, which at that point they would just use a centralised database for obvious reasons.

> The Movable-Game-Assets thing has been done before on a huge scale by the biggest gaming company in the world, with nintendo's Amiibos. Look at how they turned out! Barely any games on the switch actually support the full set of amiibos, and those that do don't give much. Amiibos already implement the exact thing you're talking about without any blockchain at all.

Nintendo is a super closed system. But also there is a difference in kind: games that implement API for cross-game assets will get users, players and payers, by implementing an entry way to an already existing community.

The future is uncertain, but if you are not curious about this i don't know what to tell you.
There is no other explanation. How could there be from such a short insipid quip?

It's just a blog from 2 bored libertarian/right-leaning academic economists. Content from there pops up on HN every once in a while (because libertarians). Not much to see.
Frankly this snacks of the education systems starting to rot imo. I'd say "simple media" or "self respect" but if that were true it would have decreased during the papers becoming popular before the wars...

My take is either audio/video media is to blame in some way, or, the grasp of the language is failing.
I'm going with the latter driving the former but maybe I'm a pessimist.
Looks like a good service. Often the problem with setting up a business in a foreign country is not registering the company, but opening a bank account for the business, so you can get paid easily by customers in that country - which is really the whole point of the exercise.
I work on an app for my company where requirements start as “we wish to show a message to the customer if their order is abandoned”. So I build out the feature and the requirements change to “we want that message to be customizable from the dashboard”. Now I have built a feature that could theoretically be built to function as in the screenshot, since I’m not longer in control of the text that is showed.

Thankfully my company isn’t scum of the earth, but it’s easy to see how multiple people assumed the features were being used for good intention, and a non-engineer used it to make a few extra bucks.
> The former signs contracts saying they won’t work for other companies concurrently, the latter likely doesn’t.

Well, that's where you're mistaken: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/noncompete-agreem...
Both are equally important. If you ignore your feelings long enough you will be unable to think clearly.
an old colleague of mine work on a project bringing internet to rural communities in east Africa.

his reasoning about network usability were always useful, especially considering jitter and latency.

also, it is surprising how usuable some internet connectivity is compared to none at all.
having a shitty ADSL based setup is far better then no internet at all.
A token is hardly necessary then either.

1. Artist creates work, signs it with his good old fashioned PGP key, publishes it.

2. Patron pays to "sponsor" the work. Artist makes a bundle of the work and patron's public key, and signs it with his own. Publishes it.

3. Patron decides he has to "sell" his patronage. He takes the bundle from 2, adds the buyer's public key, and signs it. Optionally, the artist signs it too to indicate he's OK with the "transfer". They publish it.

Are there ways to cheat? Yeah, if you're confident no one has downloaded the signed document that you published, you can try double-selling. But that's risky: if you're wrong, someone can publish the signed document and prove that you are a fraud.

This illustrates that most of the utility of "distributed blockchains" come from simple digital signatures. If all parties are accountable, public identities, this simplified scheme is strictly superior.

And remember, we're talking about art and public patronage here, not trade of illegal goods. The whole point is that you want people to see it and associate it with a public, accountable identity.
I wish every dollar spent on video games was just given to the world’s poor instead. Just crazy that with all the suffering in the world, billions of people spend money on frivolous entertainment.
The travel job typically has housing built in too and often per diems. So probably closer to 4-5k equivalent! But quality of life isn't great to your point. Software is the objectively better job there unless you're really passionate about nursing!
I never had that, so we can't blame Go.
Not remotely true. Having an active GitHub might help get a foot in the door, but that’s it, nor do companies look at this as a requirement unless it’s specifically for some open source work.
Did your father work both jobs at the same time? I m sure answer is No. GP is talking abput a remote dev who was fooling 3 companies. A full time job means you are available for that company at that time. Not concurrently.
Under market capitalism, you're "worth" whatever you can convince somebody to pay you.
Like exposure, nostalgia doesn't pay the bills.
Just like CGO is not Go, yet not a reason to throw everything away.

If one is dumb enough to use C style arrays instead of C++ bounded checked ones, yes that is a problem, again just like C arrays defined in CGO.
I accepted it because it's more convenient than dismissing the popup every time I want to send someone a message.
"People lie all the time for good reasons. Are those actions unethical?" is whataboutism of the worst kind. We're not talking about any other hypothetical case where a person might lie for good reasons. We're talking about this case, and the lie/misrepresentation was at the heart of why it was unethical.

Secondly, you say you don't see who was harmed - the person who posted the original blog post was clearly harmed. She had a panic attack she was so stressed about the legal implications of the implied threat. The fact that someone else may perhaps have not found receiving this email stressful doesn't really matter - that was the effect on her and it was harmful on its face. Remember that people have different life circumstances which affect things like this - someone who was short of money may see a legal threat with implied financial consequences such as this as an existential threat.

Secondly the people who paid money for legal advice were very clearly also harmed. Their harm has a specific monetary value.

Your "put another way" extrapolation is just a complete straw man. Noone here other than you is talking about observing people in the park. This is about a research study which sent an email which some people saw as scammy or threatening in order to gather data about how small websites handle data subject access requests.
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Oh hey, I did this recently.

The pandemic seemed like it was winding down (remember those naive days of 5 months ago?) and I decided I don't want to go back to the office, ever. Got a kid on the way, and I decided that the time I spend commuting would be better spent with my child. And my employers was making lots of whining noises that sounded like "we're never going to make this easy on you".

First, pick the right companies to apply to. Are you applying to one that 'also offers fully remote positions', or one where everyone is remote? Are remote employees first class citizens? A simple way to measure this: how high in the leadership do you have to be before you must live in a particular city (or some set of cities) to do the job? If the CEO is working from home, you know this company takes remote pretty seriously.

Edit a bit later: The reason I mention 'do they take remote seriously' is that companies that don't take remote seriously are the ones who still think in terms of 'city = salary rate'. Remote companies don't care.

In terms of CVs, no need to make it much different, imho. Maybe call out that you worked well remotely during the pandemic, and any other 'my coworkers aren't in the same physical space as me' experience.

Don't reveal your current salary during the interview process. The only salary you need to share with them is another company's competing offer.

Good luck. The market is excellent for developers right now.
Shelter does the same thing, with the added bonus of both being FOSS and available on FDroid.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
the same with Dave cutler, the lead on windows NT, making sure everyone dogfooded NT as soon as possible.
tl/dr: a submarine for unconventional mortgages

It's all too reminiscent of 2006, when the newsmedia were falling over each other, promoting unconventional mortgages to keep the party going for another year.
I agree with you that in the current situation of 1 to 2 years, my choice does not matter.

> The cost of a nurse is conditioned on the licensed supply, not the willingness of Joe Programmer to do it for $800,000.

The supply of a nurse is conditioned on cash flow prospects. If nursing paid more and had a history of having decent pay to lifestyle ratio, then there would have been more supply of nurses.
Couldn’t agree more.

Plowing through this atm, about 10 months in…

In my experience, layers love to get intertwined in, so called, standard systems.

You end up with a business not really in control of its processes and developers who are experts in non-business domain data models and dsl/code abstractions.

What you wrote really hit it on the head for me in my current position.
That basis is gone, no study required. Reinfections have long ceased to be noteworthy events. But yeah, there are also studies. None as elaborate and big as, say, a vaccine phase 3, because there aren't really any decisions swiftly based on the exact value of reinfection probabilities, but enough to show that there's no reason to assume that there will be less reinfections than with any other endemic cold.
"Young women learn to feel more easily than men learn to think" --Voltaire (b. 1694)
This has everything to do with wages. Nurse to patient ratios have been getting smaller and smaller for many years now. It is a common topic in medical forums.

It is combined with a worst case scenario, but it is compounded by the fact that a parent or young person is going to look at Mar 2020 and decide to not go into nursing because all they got was a sign saying they were heroes in exchange for working with an infectious disease, while many others got to sit at home on their computers.

The situation for nursing homes is even worse than hospitals and nurses. It actually terrified me, even pre pandemic, to think about the level of care I would get if I had to be in an assisted living facility being taken care of by someone earning $12 per hour also taking care of 19 other people. I would rather opt for suicide.
IANAL but I was looking into starting a US consulting company recently, and one of the tricky things is you have to "foreign-qualify" (IIRC) your Delaware/Nevada LLC in California if you are going to do any business there, which for a tech consultancy is quite likely. Then your tax situation suddenly becomes complex and (relatively) expensive, in case that is related to your interest in Delaware or especially Nevada.

Now, whether you can get around this by being fully remote and effectively saying "no, CaliCorp came to Nevada to do business with me, not the other way around" -- that's an interesting question.
Which means you accepted it because you do not care about your privacy or unethical behavior of Facebook.
Wouldn't really thank them.

They found a way to make several catastrophic mistakes while writing a logging solution (one of the most trivial kinds of software) in a memory-safe language.

It's surprising they manage to breathe properly and thus survive.
This kind of meta-linguistic analysis is reminiscent of what I call “linguistic philosophy” that was popular in the mid-20th century as a reaction to the postmodernists. This school of thought is largely viewed as a dead end — words don’t have fixed meaning across time, audience or geography. Even translated words can have very different contextual meaning between languages that cannot be generalized outside of the context of a specific speaker in a specific context. To try to analyze them as if they tell us more about the world than an author’s state of mind is folly.

Furthermore, the last 50 years have been a real reckoning that people don’t make decisions based on facts; they make them based on feeling. This has always been the case; what happened in the 60s was people started questioning the ex post facto “rationality” applied to decisions made by those who comprised the ruling power structures. Much of the discourse prior to that time were emotional in nature but clad in the language of rationality because that’s what the culture at the time would accept.

That there were “rational” arguments in favor of segregation or prohibition doesn’t mitigate that they are failed policies. Historically, “rationality” has just been a code word for “the dominant viewpoint of the ruling class”. If anything, the change in language usage is simply following a cultural recognition that they were never rational arguments in the first place, so they’re just not spoken about as if they are authoritative anymore.
In my experience, the easiest way to earn more is to work as a contractor. You can charge more, have more control over your time, get raises more often and go on holiday more often (every 6 months).

I made a whole video series about getting into contracting. This first one lays out my take on why you should consider it - https://learnetto.com/tutorials/why-should-you-become-a-cont...
I was in the lucky situation that I deleted my FB account already years ago. It was the Christmas before the Cambridge analytica Skandal Hit. My fb account was on sleep for 6 month already by that time and I decided to delete it all. I requested a backup of all my data and then hit the delete button. Seven days later roughly after New Years I was gone from FB. I stopped myself from doing a political post before leaving as I didn’t want to come across a person who things is on a moral high ground whatever. Remember it was before the huge data leek which followed a few month later. I have to add that I only got dragged into the FB bubble because of an employment switch. My company had multiple apps on FB and development and testing was easier with a real profile. I was on FB from 2013 to 2017 or so. And I wasn’t the most active in producing content.

As of WhatsApp. Refused to install the app even before FB bought it. Lucky me was right for once.