skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: what are the odds that go 2 ends up like python 3 and it takes the world over a decade of pain to migrate? (I like both python and go, and I’m still maintaining a sizable body of py2 code.)

“Backwards compatibility forever” seems like unnecessary shackles, and the language should be able to grow — I’ve seen some nice proposals for improvements. I just wonder what the strategy is going to be for migrating code from go1 to go2 and how painful that’s going to be.
In the Netherlands it is available to all but only (heavily) subsidized for parents who work (both, unless you are in a one-parent household), are in education or vocational training, or are following an integration course for immigrants. If you are (long term) jobless you generally can't afford it, but that is changing, and the subsidy will probably apply to all parents in the future.
I hope you understand that HIV takes years to decades to develop symptoms.

A lot of people could get infected before anybody realises there is an epidemic.
That's not what I'm talking about. Your working life is where you act on the world outside of yourself.

If you don't care about what you're doing, you're spending most of your influence on the world on something you don't care about.
I don’t see a lot TikTok type video on any of the channels I watch on YouTube.
CS Professor shows how to fix beginner Python code
And in this complexity lies incredible beauty
I use it in my day job. We use it to write sensing and machine-control systems to reason about the data from telemetry, neural nets, and machine-learning systems, to compute strategies for those components, to compile the strategies to native code, and to control and coordinate the component systems.

We also use Python, MatLab, shell and bat scripts, C#, and C++. I work in all of them, but I use Common Lisp for whatever I can.
> that they fix the problem and contribute to the team than fire them.

> And for an employee on a PIP, they should think hard about leaving the company (or at least the team); it'll be better for their career.

Considering both of these statements, a PIP is never the right answer if your objective is legitimate performance improvement.

Even if you're an unexperienced (or outright stupid) manager that doesn't understand this and wants to use a PIP as a legitimate performance improvement tool, the target employee is never going to be on good terms with you or your company and it's very unlikely you'll actually get the desired results. If you do, it's only because the employee has literally no choice but that loyalty will be out the window as soon as he is in a better position to make a move.
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>maybe consciousness is a side effect, an emergent phenomena. once the brain gets complicated enough it will just arise (on a scale)

This is my feeling too. Since the brain is just physical matter arranged a certain way, doing a certain type of processing, I really think it possible that some computer programs we use today are also doing the right kind of processing to grant them a simple subjective inner experience. Of course most programs don’t have a way to tell us if that’s the case, except maybe GPT-3 :)

> are our decisions ours? or some inner layer in us creates the decision and then we just consciously observe it / let it play out

I have evidence for it being the latter: our higher brain functions let us rationalize, to ourselves, the decisions that were deterministically made by our subconscious, so it feels like “you” made the decisions “because you wanted to”. People who have the connection between their brain hemispheres severed can unconsciously reach a decision in one hemisphere, but then consciously rationalize it in the other hemisphere, without having experienced the making of the decision [0]:

>In one example of this kind of test, a picture of a chicken claw was flashed to the left hemisphere and a picture of a snow scene to the right hemisphere. Of the array of pictures placed in front of the subject, the obviously correct association is a chicken for the chicken claw and a shovel for the snow scene. Patient P.S. responded by choosing the shovel with the left hand and the chicken with the right. When asked why he chose these items, his left hemisphere replied `Oh, that's simple. The chicken claw goes with the chicken, and you need a shovel to clean out the chicken shed'. Here the left brain, observing the left hand's response, interprets that response in a context consistent with its sphere of knowledge—one that does not include information about the left hemifield snow scene.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/123/7/1293/380106
I don't agree this is an essential trait of democracy. A weak corrupt democracy perhaps. What incentives do politicians have to push policy down the electorates throats? Except that they belong to a privileged class or are bribed by lobbyists.

In a well functioning democracy with more economic equality and less corporate influence this is much less the situation.
As Workers Resist, the Left Recoils
Numbers and number patterns in Pascal’s triangle
Brain boost from exercise may be due to selenium
Just a couple of late night US talk shows, including the most viewed one, have done this.
> Edit: wait, I think I get it... "Scrubbing simply needs to read every file from the disk so the RAID layer notices and repairs a URE".

If you don't know about ZFS scrubbing, but are using ZFS, you may wish to spend some time researching ZFS some more.

> I find it a bit scary that your have to do monthly manual work on your NAS or you'll lose.

Most distros / ZFS packages set up a cron job and e-mail out any errors. You do receive error reports from your NAS, right?
Here in my region of Spain overall deaths were lower than in a normal year.
Media attention is so skewed towards covid it's almost impossible to even think of anything else. Heck, even googling 'list of cases of deaths globally' directly redirects to covid-related hits. On the first two pages there isn't anything that's not covid. I think this has to stop.
Right. "NewPipe does not use the official YouTube API, but instead scrapes the website for video and meta-data such as likes, dislikes, and views.". So it can do it. If they used the YouTube API this would not permitted.
Senior managers at AMZN have shared privately that there was a time after the NYT story where this was removed or not as strictly enforced.

That time is now gone, and goals are tied to your percentage. A team failing to meet its yearly goal can be expected to be asked to let go 15% vs. the standard 10% say.

It’s real and as messy as people are sharing. Some teams are better off than others.
Also, ask any primary school teacher about the difference between children who went to kindergarten and those who didn't. It's not about education, but about socialization and emotional skills, as well as basic stuff like continence (toddlers tend to follow the examples set by older children in the kindergarten).
This. There's nothing magic about consciousness, and if you think it is, it's because your brains are hardwired to be convinced that you're special. But we're not.
In the article, this is said very well:

> Would you say that these more complicated states of emotion represent higher or more complex “levels” of consciousness?

> Seth: I’m personally very skeptical of this kind of labeling, of higher and lower levels of consciousness. There is a little truth to it, of course. Unless we can agree that human beings are in some sense, more conscious than, say, an ant, we’re missing some very important things about the nature of consciousness.
Make make sure the error output of your cron jobs is sent out to a mailbox that you read.
I have been without FB for almost 3 years now and never looked back. People still look shocked at me when I tell them
I’m not on IG or Twitter.
> I have a really hard time accepting that my self/experience can't be explained materialistically.

I can respect this, but I think you have much bigger problems than consciousness if you're a materialist. Current natural philosophy and physics is far from anything resembling a materialistic worldview.

Where we are right now in both QM and GR can best be described as a highly precise description of what happens, but at the expense of forcibly ignoring the essence of what constitutes material reality. In the case of QM, the "just run the equations" view of the world has been dominant since Einstein reluctantly ceded ground on this issue. To put a finer point on it, unless physicists can provide a materialistic explanation for entanglement or wavefunction collapse, we're still very much in an ethereal, immaterial world.

(fwiw, I am something of a materialist, which is why I have thought of this problem beforehand.)
> ——
> I now work at Cohere (cohere.io)! Give it a spin

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2% inflation is not stealing. 2% inflation is time decay. Use it or lose it. Your claims on future productivity cannot last forever, that over-encumbers the future. (I recognize we live in a system where savings are required, but I don't think it's optimal)

1000% inflation, now that's stealing.
> By your theory, the political conversation should be worst in the countries ranked most democratic, which I don't feel fits the facts as well as the opposite.

I didn't say the political discourse was "worse", I said it appeals to the lowest common denominator. The crowds are finicky and have a short attention span, but sometimes they may happen to be correct. And sometimes they're not.
It'd be nice if he had at least hinted towards what 'the way' is for this problem.
It's very useful but I also think (and this is strongly a personal opinion) that too much live components break the core ethos of the web.

For example, personally I don't want everything changing on my screen in real-time, I want to consume content on my own terms. When I want the content to refresh I will reload the page. Otherwise it creates too much distractions with the screen bouncing around and content changing under your feet that's out of your control.

I think you can tastefully update areas of a page where it provides very high value but that's IMO the exception not the norm. Of course if you want to build another Discord or a live chat (or something like LiveBeats) then sure that's great.

This idea of using WebSockets for everything (even transitioning pages) amplifies the issue even more, but I think it's ideal for things like notifications and what LiveBeats does for keeping the audio player in sync across clients. That's why I really like Hotwire as an alternative to Live View, it uses stateless HTTP for everything and you can still do partial page updates for the person who rendered the page. Then you can optionally opt-into using WebSockets when broadcasting events to more than the person who rendered the page. It's also back-end agnostic. You get the best of both worlds, being able to use HTTP for just about everything and then sprinkle in WebSockets for the real-time broadcasted events. This lets you continue using a tiny server + CDN without worrying about memory being hold onto for each process and you can opt into event broadcast functionality as needed.
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Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?
I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I've recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.

I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with 'offline' alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.

I'd love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly/quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.
This is actually brilliant in its simplicity.
Zenith VR might fit your definition of MMO like 3D game.
Also official colors. Some of the flags have both wrong.
I for one like leftover pizza if it hasn't hardened into a rock. In this case, the pizza had only been in there for less than a day.
The fact that we experience what is being fed to 'us' by the various hardware devices, and not reality itself, is not controversial. The question is, what is the nature of the 'experiencer'?
You are right. This extension for the time being is not available for Android but I have in my plans to create a similar app
Just buy them a couple of Raspberries and maybe a few accessories. I don't have kids, but sure I would have loved them as a kid :)
I can completely follow your logic. And I completely agree that going supernatural or decending into a soul-debate is not constructive. That was not my intent.

Still, you and I can probably agree to some extent, that there is an inner eye inside of our heads looking outside. It also makes sense to me, that those processes could spawn from a feedback loop inside of a brain. Still. why did this inner eye spawn in this head we are in? There are 8 billion heads, why this one?

I'm not arguing for a soul or something. But I find it intruiging, that there had to be a mechanism which made your inner eye spawn at the place, where it now is. Only, what mechanism? Can it be explained physically? In my opinion it has to be, but maybe we missed it up to now
Calling opinions you don’t like propaganda isn’t an argument. I have no idea if democracy leads to less war but given the number of countries the UK and US have invaded I kind of doubt it. England has had parliamentary supremacy since the Dutch invasion/Glorious Revolution and the US didn’t grow from 13 colonies to continent spanning without war.
I was making good money.
And this chef makes pizza to die for:
https://www.seriouspieseattle.com/serious-take-out-ballard/
This is all true, but what some fail to see is that a good portion of everyone's lives now happen in the "virtual", not the "real" world.

You may not see "virtual" actions as "real actions", but they can have dire consequences to the virtual part of someone's life.

Trend is the virtual part of life will be more and more relevant from now on.

I'd argue "virtual" political action is as relevant - or maybe even more, to some - as real political action.
One of the things I surprisingly (?) learned at a small startup as the first employee.

It was me and the two founders that I already knew from working together in the past. I expected that my opinion matters, I tried to improve the product, the service, the engineering, but anytime I recommended something it was ignored. After some months, I learned to just shut up and code. This experience taught me that no matter how close you are to the decision makers, influencing them is still hard. Since then, I just don't care. Sure, I'll do my best, but I do it for me and to get another offer in two years.

Now, I work at a big company, I'm like 5-8 levels removed from the decision makers, and I just don't care. I still try to do my best, if I have any concerns, I might mention it once, but if decision makers are not interested in my feedback, I don't mind. I work my hours, do my best, I don't take anything personally, but I also don't care if there is an outage at Friday (that could have been prevented if only we addressed the issues I brought up a couple of times) or if the feature we are developing never gets to production or if the feature fails (predictably, but a CxO has the amazing idea to pursue some obviously bad product decision).

It's difficult to not show the rest of the team how much I don't care. It's very different to show everyone openly you don't gaf (that's not accepted) and just simply not giving a f while pretending you care (that's okay), so I learned to "mask" my true emotions.
This is a great comment and how one should evolve to stay sane and healthy.

My BS filter is highly developed now.

"We will have the project done by the end of the month.
Failure is not an option. We dont fail. We are xxxxxx.
Come hell of highwater we will get it done.
Lets do it". High fives.

"If you get this done you will get ...... " ($$, vacation, yacht)"

"Give it 110% people"

"If we dont get this done ....... "

This means:
"This project is screwed. Nothing the team can do will save it.

I do the right thing; I talk to the PM or whoever is in charge
and politely but honestly share my professional assessment
of the project.

This is most often totally ignored.
Which is fine.
It is no longer my problem
and nobody can come with "I thought you told me you would get this done ,.... "
or some such variant.

I will do a good job and try within my own parameters of sanity and health
and time.

After a rather unpleasant and unwelcome time I found myself in the army,
having people yell at me all day (and night at times)
Even when you have not slept for 48 hours, still screaming.

I can't say anything positive about the army but it did give me thick skin.

I am entirely unfazed and bored by some office drone talking to me loudly.
Even if said drone starts turning purple.

> ""With all due respect, sir, you're beginning to bore the hell out of me.""
(Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergent Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge (1986))
You need multiple parties (for a rather different notion of "party"!) in the U.S. too. The Republicans and Democrats are "big tents" that aggregate many independent factions. If you can't enlist broad enough support, your policy initiatives will fail. With recent filibuster politics in the U.S. Senate, you might well need a super-majority in many cases for even mildly controversial things.
And web2 is just web1 with JavaScript. And web is just internet document viewers. And internet is just computers with cables. And computers are just high speed idiots.
Ask HN: When should event-driven architecture be avoided?
There are plenty of good resources for how to do domain-driven design, microservices, cloud functions, and event-driven architecture. I understand why these paradigms are useful for rapidly scaling an application. Queueing, the ability to adjust resources per service, and enabling separate teams to build their microservice differently.

However, they also add quite a bit of complexity. Using pub/sub breaks execution context, cloud functions are difficult to debug/test/develop locally, etc. I'm having trouble finding quality dissenting opinions online around this topic. Most resources I've found are geared towards how to implement these technologies properly.

In what scenarios would you NOT recommend event-driven architecture?
Frankly, I would be surprised if it weren't both
It would be nice if there was a tool that re-wrote your Go-1 code in Go-2.
> A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory?lang=en

It's not a conspiracy when we know that GAFA works together: https://gizmodo.com/google-paid-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-sea...
> it's not illegal to put ZFS into linux kernel, because GPLv2 applies only on distribution.

Oh, then I guess it _IS_ in the Linux kernel already.

You're not being serious.
In contrast I speed videos up because of the silences or slow talking. It removes my concentration otherwise. Call it an attention disorder.

I will agree that those cuts in body movement seem odd if anything when silences are removed. Maybe put a cat picture in the middle.
Tribune is a centre-left ginger group within the UK Labour Party. As such, it's not surprising that they would rail against "horizontalism" and "movementism" (what's movementism?)
They bought Sun, partly because they saw a revenue opportunity to go after Java's largest end user deployment on Android devices. I'm shocked they haven't gone after Canonical yet, to be honest.
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Honest question: following this argument, is it to be expected that a sufficiently complex water pipeline can become conscious?
> he decided to go get his MS in CS, without even doing any research project and just opting for the GTA instead of GRA route.

Could you elaborate more on this? I'm assuming this is a detail of the US education system of which I don't know anything :)
Thanks for reminding me of the more "individual challenge" aesthetics of early coding. But I have to ask - you say, "oh well," like that's not something cool. I would have no idea where to even start with a storage virtualization system.

Maybe it's not evil genius, but it sure sounds cool.
Sure - this is why Google Search constantly makes less money. Measuring only takes it so far.
OH. Same here. Those Apple apologist. Apple could do no wrong. Elon Fans are slightly better. Apple is far worst because of how they try to tell you to perceive them. A proper word to describe them would be hypocrite.
Colour Maximite 2
Sometimes it seems wordd don't have good definitions, at least when they can be challenged by science.

Language is mostly usage. For example we don't have a good definition of what intelligence is, on the scientific level. It might be the same thing for consciousness.

We only understand intelligence or consciousness as what we see as a soul or ghost, but nothing much.
You could power the pucks through induction.
This whole concept of a scripting and rehearsing is an older generation thing. Better to sound natural and real than rehearsed
> It's clear as an open blue sky: they don't see the value in it, therefore it must have no real value.

This is not my viewpoint, nor the point I'm making here. You insist on straw-manning.
On my phone at least there is an audible gap if you close the phone with the app playing, which doesn't happen with anything else. My guess is that it's fiddling with something in the background to only fetch audio instead of video.
They do kick them out. Here's a video of them doing just that: https://www.facebook.com/CornwallBJJ/videos/986522782241975/

What would it take for you to have an 'are we the baddies?' moment? Is symbology all that matters in that regard?
People don't want to run their own bank
Vitamin D supplementation is very effective in case of rickets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets). It is very rare now in developed countries because nutrition has considerably improved. Some countries even fortify certain foods with vitamin D so you have to be a very special case to not get at least some vitamin D.

VitD has some other functions in the body too. However, it appears that once you have resolved issues with the bones, the levels are generally sufficient for everything else to function properly. I cannot imagine a situation where a person has problems with the bones due to vitamin D insufficiency and then gets supplements, it will somehow fail to improve these other functions too.

Optimal levels are just a guideline and slightly suboptimal levels mostly will have only a marginal effect. Currently we don't routinely test for vitamin D levels in population except for people at risk because the benefit is small and not cost effective. There is a theory that these suboptimal vitD levels are very dangerous in case of covid but studies have been really controversial about that. I suspect that most of those studies that show big effect are biased in one way or another similarly to many positive ivermectin studies.
Er, you're 27, and you're worrying about whether your skillset will be useful when you're 37?

The iPhone is about fifteen years old, for context.
Genius! I've seen the animation on youtube a hundred times, but never a write-up. Supposedly, the basis for a non-euclidean sculpting robot ;)
I think that is probably true, but if they are going to get caught out it's likely to be an LEO fast moving object from Russia that they've lost track of rather than a commercial imagery platform that isn't trying to hide.