skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you reject that tacit assumption, you may wish to examine the closely related tacit assumption that living persons that experience do exist. The relation between the two assumptions is informative.

The thing called you is, in one model, just a collection of atoms, a particular solution to some equations, after all. Some complicated world-lines, that anyone with a sufficiently powerful computer and the right collection of seemingly random numbers could reproduce in principle - or is it?

Maybe the dead don't experience anything. But until you can say what distinguishes "experience" (and "reality") for the living from the mere existence of solutions to equations, it's a missing-definition error to conclude anything sweeping and universal about experience.

You can certainly define experience in various ways, for example particular kinds of electrochemical activity in the brain, or organised information processing in matter of a certain kind. If you do that, you can conclude that those processes cease.

But those are limited definitions for convenience. We cannot say with certainty that's what actual living experience is "made of", so we cannot say with certainty the universal statement that all forms of actual experience cease.

(We can, however, turn "certainty" in the above into a kind of variable, in order to understand what we mean more subtly.)

The distinction is sometimes called "fire in the equations". Who knows what makes a living person actually experience - assuming you believe living persons do.
Thanks for the note. I was 15 and took an eighth in a single dose as tea. I had been smoking a lot of weed too for about a week. Ironically the trip wasn't that intense, but I had a panic attack because my friend (who was also on mushrooms) started having seizures. These side effects also didn't appear for about a week, which adds to theory that most people 'see' these things but their brains ignore them.

I was always extremely sensitive to marijuana too (similar medium-term ego death, etc.)
There’s a way of using some number theory to generate a random-looking sequence of sort codes without repeating them, I wonder if they do something like that. I implemented the technique in Rust here: https://github.com/paulgb/tiny_id
OpenSea Raises $300m in Series C
I use a desktop into which I SSH or RDP from my laptop. Giving my flexibility and performance. But I still have an extra monitor in my office and home which I almost always use.
Using https://hashids.org is sensible for mapping to external ID.
there is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search
Unfortunately it seems that at some point they've also talked themselves into believing that continuing to run add-ons within the main browser process has suddenly become the height of irresponsibility and absolutely and totally unsafe, so a few add-ons are grudgingly permitted with additional scrutiny given during review, but

- they don't want expand that process further, because it's counter to the direction that AMO has been moving (from manual pre-publication review of all public add-ons towards automated checks and only manual post-publication spot checks)

- running add-ons in a separate process as on Desktop isn't possible, because on Android secondary processes can get killed at any time, which add-ons aren't set up to handle correctly

For some reason I've only seen this explanation buried somewhere inside some Mozilla's Discourse forum (I think, if I remember correctly), but I think not much (if at all) as an explanation in the Github issue tracker and certainly never on the official Add-ons blog.

Though I have to admit that even if the above explanation was given a wider airing, for me it already smacks too much of "the safest computer is one you never turn on" and I'd still be unhappy about the add-ons situation and continue complaining.
I'm aware of that. But it makes it inconsistent across applications. I already use Ctrl+v in terminals to enter control codes.
Hari, would you have advice on marketing my microstartup. I made an app halfchess.com TIA
Thanks, I haven't tried it on a touchpad yet, will have a look.
At first I smirked when I read your American bit... but then I wondered... what if those were design choices?

For example, what if someone figured out the average sit-time of gasoline in the jerrycan, the average fault rate and leak rate of the lesser seam, and the average production time and lifespan of the jerrycan - then decided the sometimes leakier version was better because it was lighter, more quickly manufactured, etc?

And then perhaps American soldiers were more likely to pilfer gasoline for joy-rides or bartering, or to steal and sell the jerrycans themselves to their liberated friends and lovers, or for some other reason these cans were more likely to be "lost" as the Wikipedia article vaguely mentions - thus, make the can useless without the spanner and funnel, so as to make it a little less tempting for an improper owner to run off with?

Maybe?

Just thinking out loud.

But these questions reminded me just how fascinating everyday objects can be.
what are your concerns and struggles with building a business on the Twitter API so far?
Not many HN comments make me laugh out loud, but this did
You mean….swivelling?
Consider the median in terms of intelligence. For each subject taught in school take the median in terms ability to explain things to a child in a constructive way. Almost everyone falls below the median in multiple categories. Hence what’s best for the child, and society too, is to attempt to organize things in such a way that the child is taught by people above the median in intelligence and above the median in teaching ability in the subject taught by that person. At scale this requires a government solution unless we are ok saying “screw you” to those who are less than rich.
> It happens when I cut something with ctrl + X.

Not to me, because in the software I use the thing gets actually deleted once I paste it somewhere else, not before. It's more like tagging the thing(s) for moving to a location to be disclosed later.
he was not talking only about CPU but about extensibility!
It has a backend component, you use an adapter to run it on edge/lambda services like cloudflare, or plain old nodejs. In usage it's kind of murky (by design) where the exact delineation is between code running on the frontend and code running on the backend.
Interesting – within the Corinna project, you aim to improve Perl5, isn't it? Is there some reason why you don't spend your time on Perl6?
Losing weight can be surprisingly easy (for most people) by making a few dietary changes and doing some minimal exercise.

1. Lower carb intake to one 'session' a day. Kind of like intermittent fasting, but only for the carbs. Eat as much fat / protein you want the rest of the time. IMO, include 'sugar replacements' in the carb category, even if they supposedly don't have any.

2. 20 minutes of cardio 3-4 times a week. Rowing and elliptical are easy on the joints.

That's it.
The license mentions that all previous licenses are revoked. Is that even possible to enforce? If I had forked a prior version with a different license, couldn’t I just use that instead?

Or better yet, a different product entirely?

Cool idea though. Reminds me of Google Desktop.
I thought you’re not supposed to downvote based solely on disagreement?
Those are LCD panels and lack eye tracking.

Besides, console and PC are pretty separate markets are they not? Once they finally come down to retail I'll pick up PS5 and VR2 knowing I won't ever have to google for what's compatible with what version of whose driver, I don't want to research, I want to buy the package Sony is selling.
I seem to be one of the minority of people for whome this post has resonated well.

In my experience, code reviews are awful in the same way that micromanagement is awful. It's based on a lack of trust, first and foremost. It's also insulting. What's more insulting is being forced to deal with unreasonable review comments.

More than once, I had the experience of spending several days working on a feature, only to be blocked by some unreasonable "team member" who has weird fetishes about spacing and variable names and such fluff. It's really frustrating and insulting.

What's more, it doesn't really contribute anything to actual code or product quality.

The overwhelming sentiment I see on comments supporting the mandating of code reviews on every single commit seems to be based on the idea that everyone is a junior who makes obvious mistakes that are easy to catch by just having someone else take a look at the code.

I suppose this should not be very surprising.

I've noticed in the last few years more and more companies prefer to hire beginners (since they are cheap), and there's a huge wave of people who are learning programming to improve their careers and their lives -- which is a good thing for these people -- but it means a lot of teams are full of newbies.

So it makes sense in this context to install a lot of "guard rails".

What I don't understand is why everyone thinks mandating code reviews is a good idea in the general case.
Unmicrosofted Edge – how to block tracking in Microsoft Edge
He's bouncing between bargaining, anger, and acceptance. Can't say I'd react much better.
But if it was part of how the human brain operates it would concern everybody, not just a couple of tech self-proclaimed luminaries who hope to somehow "not die".
KeePass supports auto type, so you don't really need c&p that often
I am using Maccy[0] for a while and I believe this app should be default feature in the all operating systems.

[0] https://maccy.app/
It's a bit more narrow than this. Jokes, sarcasm, all kind of cheerful additions are almost always acceptable and welcomed unless you actually discuss some actual tragedy. "Foreigners" just don't joke in the same way, as it's hard to deliver a punch line, not to mention a properly timed one. I think that "personality" you talk about is still there on both sides, but is very different. The "native" one is great but hard to understand.

But English speakers that I talked with (or listened to online) love actual wordplay. It's part of their culture. Tiny rhymes, replacing words with wrong ones that sound similar and "everyone knows what he meant".

Anything that you could comment as "pun intended" or "pun not intended" might be super hard to grasp for a foreigner. It often requires listener to know correct pronunciation and some phrasal verbs to get it and often knowing some facts from that country. I usually understand these things when said by Americans, but lack knowledge to understand similar "puns" by other nations. I know for a fact that most of my colleagues don't understand most of those. They might get that there was a joke there, but they won't know if it's commenting the topic positively or negatively.
Apple has requested and obtained semi-custom hardware from vendors before. Their Boradcom wireless cards (around 2006-2012 IIRC) are almost produced only for them, and getting it run on Linux was a long endeavor.

Also, like Java, they have maintained their own nVidia drivers up to a certain point.

Today that gap is smaller since HW manufacturers are more open about their firmwares and drivers, and Linux is more widely adopted.
Yes that's a good point, especially since you're paying them twice (you're probably not getting a refund from the origin)
If you're looking for books on the subject of organised crime in Japan, it's hard to recommend anything. Maybe this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762585.Yakuza

To get a grasp of the darker sides of modern Japan, I wholly recommend these two books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254259.Japan and https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93803.Dogs_and_Demons

Both are real eye openers. The first is a must-read and very good overview. The latter concentrates on post-WW2's construction state but don't be repelled by that, because the construction sector is what is at the base of Japan's current problems.

For a more scholarly but dryer take, the end-all book for people who want to know what's behind the curtain in Japanese society is this (I really enjoyed it but it's a long read): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274912.The_Enigma_of_Jap...
I think this is a good theory. As mentioned in my other reply, my symptoms didn't start until about a week afterwards when I started having panic attacks. From there, the anxiety caused the visual symptoms (I may have even read about them online).

It's entirely possible that I just inadvertently trained myself to see the unfiltered raw output from my visual cortex, which I previously ignored.

If you read about any HPPD communities it seems inextricably linked to anxiety, but hard to know which is the cause and which is the effect.
I really hope there will be some competition to the Apple M1 chip soon. All other laptops seems bulky, noisy and powerconsuming compared to the MacBook Pro M1 I've been using for a year now.
Funny thing is that A players can go downhill not because of their engineers, but because of their management. How many companies have we seen in tech go under because of bad engineering vs bad management?
How do you run background jobs (either schedule-based or one-off like sending emails)?

How do you hold a websocket channel with the client to push real-time updates?

IMHO, "Full stack" means a lot more than "can talk to the database".
At this point an AV with real-time scanning is only useful to a computer user who doesn't know or care about operational security and plugs in random flash drives (or) clicks on everything they see; And since they form the average customer profile of these AV makers they continue to thrive.

For the rest, AV software results in diminishing returns.
Your numbers are completely off. The median salary for 10 months of work per year for high school teachers in 2020 was $62,870 and $60,970 for kindergarten and elementary teachers (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/home....). But this is a large underestimate of the total compensation because it doesn't take into account generous benefits and pensions. In Illinois, for example, 39% of all education spending goes to pensions: https://madisonrecord.com/stories/608526182-nearly-40-cents-.... There is also a very high job stability.

I don't mind the best teachers being paid more but we have to be honest with our numbers first.
Arguably, there is pre-Internet and post-Internet programming.

Perl is a quintessential example for the Internet era of programming. It was developed via USENET and email and FTP, with a global base of open source coders to drawn on. Got a question? Ask the mailing list. CPAN, Perl's automatic module system, dates to the early 90s. This is very different from programming alone on a micro, or on a mini or mainframe in an office environment. Much more like how we still do it today.
My main concern is needing to have a complex development environment before writing the first line of code. Even if it is a comment ;-) Docker, dependency incompatibilities, different versions, building process mammoths (Say hi Google Chrome), configuration files that give more headaches than complex algorithms, etc.
> AMD and Intel provide drivers for their components.

ATI/AMD intentionally redesigned their GPU silicon to make it's possible to develop open source drivers without exposing HDCP secrets, and even the open source drivers can use HDCP if they want to.

This is not known very widely, but this is worthy of great praise if you ask me.
One of the important Android security features is the signature enforcement model. All Android apps must be signed, and the OS will refuse to install updates to an app if the signature doesn't match the currently installed version. [1] On the Play Store, apps are signed by each individual developer. Consequently, as long as the APK file distributed by the Play Store was not compromised at the time of initial install, this security feature guarantees that any updates distributed through the Play Store are coming directly from the app developer and have not been modified by Google or any other party. (Play Store, Play Services and the other system-level Google apps have a wide array of scary permissions, so you should assume it's still possible through some convoluted "backdoor" method. That's a separate discussion, though.) You can also check the signature of any app on your phone manually using a tool like Checkey [2], or by extracting the APK file and using apksigner from the Android SDK.

F-Droid sort of breaks the signature enforcement model because apps on F-Droid are signed by the F-Droid server, rather than the individual app developers.

If you trust the app developer (as you should, especially with proprietary software, but also with complex/harder-to-audit open source software like web browsers), the "developers sign their own apps" model is probably ideal. Android's strict sandbox and permission model reduces the amount of trust you need to place in individual developers anyway.

On the other hand, if you trust F-Droid, you can be reasonably confident that the APK file you receive from F-Droid corresponds to the source tarball from F-Droid, and you can inspect the source to verify that the APK doesn't contain malware. Additionally, the F-Droid team manually reviews the source code for each app before approving it. But keep in mind that if F-Droid were compromised, it would be easy to sneak malware into any app on the store.

Overall, I would trust F-Droid for most purposes and think it's probably a better place to install apps than the Play Store. I still prefer APK files signed directly by the original developer for critical apps like Signal. In fact, one of the reasons Signal isn't on F-Droid is because the developer doesn't believe it provides enough security. [3] You can download the Signal APK from their website rather than from the Play Store, and it even has an auto-updater built in.

[1] https://source.android.com/security/apksigning

[2] https://guardianproject.info/apps/info.guardianproject.check...

[3] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/281#issue...
How to measure your design system
WunderHub: Share APIs like NPM packages
I seem to have drifted to the exact opposite: no clipboard manager, and when I want to cut/copy something and have it persist for longer, I just paste it in a notepad application.

I copy/paste passwords much more often than I require multiple clipboard entries alive together.
So. Many. Emoji's. On. The. GitHub.
Linux is still far superior when it comes to window managers.

If you like the Windows 95 approach both Microsoft and Apple are using you have KDE/Plasma, mature, stable and full of helpful gimmicks.

If you like the out of your way approach and still have all the luxury of a modern desktop (a bit like windows 8 wanted to be) there is Gnome Shell.

If you don't want to waste resources just try something like openbox and if you hate desktops all together try something tiled like awesomeWM

If desktops would be any argument for the average users nobody would be using windows today.
For those who wonder Paddle pricing like I was, it is in their privacy page :)

Paddle Checkout: 5% of SRP plus $0.50
https://paddle.com/legal/
the "market" seems to be betting that these monopolies will persist more or less exactly as they are (see eg the 3 trillion apple valuation that is really an unfathomable number unless you condition that basically the entire US economy will be co-controlled by those entities)

so it seems to me that disastrously bad regulation has created self-sustaining monsters. which market worshiping politician would dare burst that multi trn-bubble?
relevant GitHub issue [0]

We have not investigated too much into this topic - but from what we know it would probably be easier to implement a bandwidth cap than monitoring the bandwidth.

And from a priority perspective it is likely to take a while until we get to these topics, our focus lays elsewhere at the moment.

[0] https://github.com/safing/portmaster/issues/382
I’m shocked by the same thing in Belgium. Most of teachers’ work outside class could be automated if they decided to work collaboratively. I still can’t understand why they decide not to, and frankly I’m a bit worried that such people are in charge of teaching my kids.

As a child, I remember seeing the poor quality of the material we were given, and hearing how hard teachers had worked to produce it. What’s the message behind it? Hard work is good because it’s work?
Run-of-the-mill unemployed people that are outgoing fit the "NEET" definition better than him.

Also in Japan it seems the definition is a bit more broad than the acronym (otherwise even housewives would be NEETs): "In Japan, the classification comprises people aged between 15 and 34 who are not employed, not engaged in housework, not enrolled in school or work-related training, and not seeking work."

Self-training is definitely "work-related training". And he was doing housework.
Equation 4 is obviously incorrect, right?
I paid $2000 for my laptop, and not a day goes by that I'm not grateful to past-me for that decision. Having a snappy machine is immensely pleasant.
Yeah I totally agree with that sentiment.

It’s often tempting to dismiss a product that doesn’t meet your own personal use cases but it’s a bit naive.

It’s actually fun to see products get popular that I know I wouldn’t buy myself. It doesn’t make them bad it just makes them not for me right now.
Sell a NFT shovel, it is 2022!
Indeed. I wonder why Mozilla insists on making it as difficult as possible to sideload extensions on Firefox for Android. I understand compatibility concerns, but surely requiring the user to enable a hidden menu option and click through a warning screen is adequate?
They voted to become a state in 2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...
> YouTube seems to use 10 characters

FYI no commitment is made to that by YouTube.

The API merely defines it as a "string" with no further commitment as to length, format or characters [1]

As for the "how?" there is an unsubstantiated answer based on reverse-engineering posted on SO[2]

[1] https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#id
[2] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/101153
I see this happening also with the default clipboard manager in windows and 1password - copied passwords do not show up in the clipboard menu (downside they are not pastable in VMs either)
Can you really stop tracking in a realistic way?

Etag tracking also sounds hard to defend.
I run Mint with 2x scaling on mine and I like it a lot. The screen's not quite as sharp as the one on the old XPS it replaced, but it's still quite nice.

I run a middling-width monospace font, and I can't quite fit two 80-column windows side by side at 2x without reducing the font size, but if you want that then you want smaller text anyway. (If you run a narrow font it shouldn't be an issue.) Other UI elements are not unreasonably large in my opinion, but YMMV.
You can handle it with Pulse (qpaeq), but it's pretty janky.
Upcoming NFT/dAP based SASS built on ethereum.
From a very young age, me Small Child liked peas frozen. I think the temperature sensation and contrast with other foods must have been interesting.