skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only fascinating if you refuse to accept a non-supernatural or non-metaphysical definition of consciousness. Otherwise, most of these questions become trivial when consciousness is considered as a physical, biological process bound to the brain.

Why is consciousness bound to a person's location? Because their brain is bound inside their skull.

Why are you inside your body and not someone else's? Because your brain is inside your body and not someone else's.

Is it possible to transfer consciousness from one entity to another? transfer, no, because consciousness is inextricably linked to the brain. There's no separation between the hardware and the "software."

What happens when you die or someone is born? Nothing. No afterlife, to karma, no reincarnation, no bardo, nothing.

And finally, are those questions even answerable?

Yes, I believe they are, but many people are uncomfortable with the ramifications of the answer as best supported by available evidence - we are purely physical beings existing within a purely physical universe. Despite all of the evidence from biology, neurology, chemistry, physics, etc. failing to show any credible evidence of a supernatural or non-biological component of consciousness apart from the brain, many people keep hoping someone will discover the soul someday and be free of the prison of material reality.
YouTube Vanced does this for me in Android when playing in the background. That is my Spotify basically :)
It seems spot on to me. The fix is rather simple though, allow consumers to set some price that must be paid prior to sending the communication attempt. Want to call or email me and aren’t on my accepted list? $5 please.
New artificial enamel is harder and more durable than the real thing
> If you were an occasionalist, you might think, if such a thing as a 'god-of-the-gaps' exist, it should be possible to build a device that mimics its powers, a 'god machine'.

Then that occasionalist god might interfere and break your machine and maybe break you too for trying to emulate a god.
I work on the theory that Fox News is a result of lack of democracy in the USA.

To give one example, the common complaints about the coastal elites and metropolitans. Its harder to get away with that if you have a democratic system that counts peoples votes since those groups include a lot of people.

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.

https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2020/
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Or you could generate the emoji symbol for the flag you want to display:

country_code = 'AU'
c1, c2 = map(lambda x: ord(x) + 0x1f1a5, country_code)
flag = chr(c1) + chr(c2)
Well. I didn't mean to give a scary rant. I really do think people just need to work harder, and their conception of what's too hard now is incredibly weaksauce. Yeah: A lot of boomers ended up propertied without even trying; Yeah: it's somewhat harder to own property now than it was then, but mainly because the boomers are still sitting on it, and in the next 15 years an enormous amount of housing stock is going to be available, possibly so much that we'll have to shrink the suburbs back to the cities, which would be a good thing.

I do think people have become lazy. I don't see the work ethic of my parents or grandparents in anyone anymore. I can't claim I have it either; but at least I'm not hypnotized by social movements (or, for fucksake Marxist dialectics) into thinking I'm a victim of circumstance. My grandparents were victims of circumstance (and they were solid communists from Russia who gave that shit up and became store owners in America). My father was the first person in my family to go to a university. I don't need a fucking marxist lens to explain to me why my friends in PDX going to BLM/anti-cop protests and getting pepper sprayed are doing what they do. I just think they're putting their energy in the wrong place. But at least they actually give a shit about something, unlike most of the rest of their generation in America who sit on their thumb and tweet about it.
> “Customer Obsession”. There are customers who depend on my team’s application — I can’t let them down!

That is also:

- Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility (We must begin each day with a determination to make better, do better, and be better for our customers)

- Deliver Results (Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle)

- Bias for Action (We value calculated risk taking)

- Think Big (They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers)

- Are Right, A Lot (They have strong judgment and good instincts)

- Ownership (They never say "that's not my job")

- Dive Deep (No task is beneath them)

Clearly, Will Ye Will Ye is operating at an Amazon final-stage boss level, if only they knew [0]!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051100
Clearly a seller that was shipping counterfeit books and knowingly committing a copyright violation. Technically Amazon as the 'merchant of record' is liable for this in a contributory way.
While I feel bad that this guy didn't understand what he was getting into when joining Amazon, it is the middle manager at these companies that have the worst jobs.

I interviewed for an Engineering Manager job at MSFT and they looked like they had about 35 hours of meetings a week. On top of that they are expected respond to urgent issues from their direct reports and respond from urgent issues from upper management. Then there is the corporate politics of other middle managers.

The kicker was that most of the interview they were wanting me to do leet code. Really, I'm going to take this job and spend 50 hours a week of dealing with management tasks AND you think that I'm going to be keeping up my coding skills?
Find an opensource font that supports Unicode Regional Indicator Symbols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol).

Google led me to https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.html. That’s SIL-licensed.

There almost certainly are other fonts with liberal licenses.
Arnold may have partially explained it in https://www.math.fsu.edu/~wxm/Arnold.htm
Oracle has no ground to stand on wrt to OpenZFS, the only legal attacks are possible from GPL side.
Yes to everything, but what even is a metaverse? I still have no idea.
Are there examples of this happening?

Perhaps it may be reasonable if someone misunderstands part of the research (if it did happen)
“ The mutated strain’s effects are more severe, and it is more transmissible — but drugs are still effective against it.”
This might be true in the US, but it's not true in coalition/consensus democracies where you always need multiple parties to form a majority.

There will still be some populists, but it's not mainstream. Populists will usually not rule, their points of view cannot be merged into a coalition agenda.

I think most people in the US are completely unfamiliar with this type of politics. It's a type of politics where extremists do not win, and where centrism is the norm.
I second this, I know some French freelancers billing 3500 EUR per day for high-level, customer-facing, devops work.

The least you could do for "danger money" is 1200 EUR a day (and limit yourself to 4 days a week, but that's another story).
It seems you can on Android. Just close the video and start playback from the drop-down notification. I get audio only but I don't remember if I did that before I started paying for YT.
If they wave a Nazi flag, they are a Nazi. If you don't immediately kick them out, guess what?

There is zero excuse for any group to put up with it.
Two of your examples can be done using a shared calendar, which is more fitting in these cases than facebook, and integrates more deeply into devices, and the third about looking up hours can be done using the maps app.

They try to make you think they invented the wheel but really they’re just offering the same services as elsewhere under their umbrella.
Exactly, as a small business we are completely dependent on the ad platforms internal attribution tools, if they don't work or can't be trusted we won't use them.

It's unfortunate that the incredably invasive tracking and profile building has become conflated with ad attribution. For us attribution is essential and we have little interest or use for invasive tracking. We just want to know from which ad a customer converted.

Personally we avoid the more invasive remarking tools as I hate it myself when you are chased across the web by a product you have looked at once.
Looks cool.

How big is your sockjs-node infra? How many concurrent users do you expect it to handle?
> When you push yourself to your limits at your profession, a lot of stuff clicks into place and you learn so much.

Maybe a cynical take, but if you’re pushing limits then you’re probably just learning the right corners to cut, shortcuts to take, and how to exploit/manipulate people to get what you want fast. If you didn’t learn any of that, then—well, someone else just learned all that at your expense and you’re setting yourself up to just be exploited again and again.

> there just isn't the time

Yeah, that’s the root cause. Why is there no time? Is someone’s life on the line for this deadline or is it just that the manager is eyeing a sweet bonus for delivering early. 99.9% of the time it’s the latter. So why learn how to get manipulated? Learning to work at a consistent pace is far more sustainable. Tortoise and the hare.
Some Applications of Mechanics to Mathematics (1961)
Which is why it’s a perfect time to check out of national political issues.

They don’t affect 99% or your lives anyway and the 1% that it does effect is tiny.

Hopefully people will wake up and understand that what matters is your action in your own home and business - that has the most changes on your life.

All the SJW stuff, BLM and all that stuff does not really change personal lives.

And what improves the earth most of all is when your personal life improves - because it improves everyone else’s lives around you.
Interesting, although the linked article suggests that claim is disputed.
I expect that away from central IT control "corporate rebels" in business units can still create mostly internal tools to improve productivity for smaller groups of users.
PIP?
Do you think the users that want dark mode representative of the user base at large? My gut feeling is that it's especially popular among users who are Very Online like programmers, designers, etc. which tend to be the type of users that file a lot of feedback and feature requests.
Syntax for loops and conditionals introducing scopes to your document may work fine for plain text documents, but in my experience it turns structured documents like HTML in unreadable mess very fast. I don't know why it's a de facto standard for template engines to make it this way.
I came up with the idea of attaching conditions and loop specifications directly to XML tags, and in my opinion it significantly improves readability. I couldn't find any alternative with similar syntax, so I've implemented it myself. It's also in C++, although it works as a transpiler, and templates are needed to be compiled. It can be found here: https://github.com/kamchatka-volcano/hypertextcpp
You're creating a strawman by claiming that people who do not believe in coronavirus restrictions are only interested in the inconvenience to themselves.

It all registers. I could equally say that you're disregarding the other ~99.9% of people whose lives have been affected by lockdowns. I don't think that's true though - I expect that you think their sacrifice was minor in comparison. Is that right?

We don't disagree that people should do basic things to prevent illness - what we disagree on is what a "basic thing" is.
All my comments were in regard to the original thesis by Roaring Kitty, that it should trade at least in the $20s instead of below $5. I don't understand why you keep making references to current price and the resulted community, which we can agree is full of BS.
Wow, that loads so much faster than "real" twitter!
I love this twisted thinking.

When my peers were partying and having a great time I was spending nights at the computer learning stuff.

I made this sacrifice willingly.
Years later I'm reaping the benefits of that sacrifice which I think I earned and is fair but still some people who don't like others to be successfull will call me privileged like it was all magically bestowed upon me.

We all had the same start. I choose a different path that cost me a lot.

And you have the nerve to call me privileged. Wow.
Rants of twenty-somethings about office politics are fine. Just don't
disguise them (weakly) as questions for professional advice.

Then again, nearly all answers on Ask HN are rebuffed by the the poser,
so Ask HN is really more akin to craigslist's "rants and raves" or
reddit's /r/amianasshole.
A giant bag of hopium
So, first, I used [1] this which show 2304 in uk vs 2002 in France. I don't have an account so I can't check sources, but find the difference between your dataset and mine for France quite significant and not sure which one to trust. (this difference has nothing to do with your reply, just find it strange)

So, based on your data:
Country | total deaths | population (mm) | % death
France: | 125,269 | 67.06 | 0.186%
UK: | 157,194 | 66.83 | 0.235%

I don't care so much about the % higher when we are dealing with these kinds of numbers. Is the same as 'eating red meat increases your changes of colon cancer by 10%!!!!` and then you see it increased it from 0.01% to 0.011% (or something like that).

For me, you can find a million explanations for that small difference in the numbers, and I doubt it can be attributed to UK's government handling of the situation.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...
Why is it bound to your location? You are just getting sensory input from a particular set of devices: eyes, ears, tactile, brain (thoughts/feelings/memories). But 'you' are not any of these. 'You', the observer receiving and experiencing all these readings, can be anywhere.

With meditation, you can get a clearer sense of what is really 'you', and what is just being observed/experienced by 'you'. But 'you' are not your body, or your thoughts, or your memories, or your feelings. Distilled, the 'you' of all living things could well be exactly the same - it is just what is fed to them by the hardware differs.
Interesting ted talk [0], tl;dr fastest way to slow down global warming is exactly this

[0] https://youtu.be/tlWuP7wESZw
In addition, since I am the creator of this extension I had a similar problem in the past. Chrome Web Store had rejected one version of my extension with the explanation that the adblocker function is irrelevant to the main purpose of the extension. I send them an email explaining that the adblocking function is crucial for my extension because the ads interfere with the extension and cause problems in its function. Google apologized and accepted the extension.
Your premise needs a reality check.

> 1. Millions of women entered the workforce (started when all the men were overseas fighting)

The rate of women in the workplace ticked up slightly during WW1 and WW2, but by no means was it a sea change. That's a narrative pushed by "traditionalist" thinkers that found a simple thing to pin social upheaval on

The real change was accelerated industrialization during the first half of the 20th century. Millions moved from farms to factories, men and women alike.

> 2. The government went off the gold standard

So what?

> Going off the gold standard kicked off massive inflation.

If you call a steady 1-2%/year "massive".

The real effect has been to stabilize the economy. I guess people who like gold standards don't know their economic history. The 19th century, which is arguably a recognizable modern economy (in the West), was punctuated by panics and strong recessions that made the "Great Depression" look tame. (which itself makes the Great Recession look pretty tame.). Getting of the gold standard was key to fixing that.

> 3. Millions of people in other countries replaced the workforce via globalization

I agree with you here, but again I think you overstate the impact. The US was once in the position of SE Asia today: (relatively) educated workforce, cheap labor, lax standards compared to Europe. In it's time, the American South was the jobs-export market for the North. These trends have been happening basically forever.

More importantly, the remaining manufacturing jobs, and there are many, are high wage and high skill. They're also high productivity, so there are fewer.

That leads to another force at work, which is a bigger threat than exported jobs: automation. Most manufacturing jobs didn't leave, they disappeared.
I think Paternalism best describes the practice in this context. It is fairly annoying to not have options in most facets of software, and especially vexing that I can't own something I pay for wrt to subscriptions.

However, I'm fairly young and despite thinking that my fellow cohort would be "digital natives" and interested in controlling the preferences in their hard/software, the vast majority do not care.

If there is a step to change something for their stated benefit that requires more than a button press and some siping gestures, I've seen people just giving up and living with it. This is worrying to me, because that apathy will be the herald to something of far greater import in the years to come, whether that's politically, economically, or just a microcosm of society. And it does not bode well to me.
"Being oncall every 4 weeks for a team that lost 50% developers over one year? Piece of cake!"

At least it's not every other week like it was for my team for a while. Now we're up to every 6 weeks.
For Apple, which has a market cap of over $3 trillion, the $10B from Google is the equivalent of sofa cushion money.

Apple isn’t going do any favors for Google for a measly $10B.

It’s much more meaningful for Google and Google knows it. For them, it’s a bargain, as it gives its advertisers access to customers who actually spend money.
Which assumes that the user has a font installed containing all required emojis. It's much safer to assume that their browser can render SVGs.
Because something broke inside following the times in which they were requested to help with your "virus infected mouse device". (Sorry.)

Or those times "What do you mean do not open the virus? I tried to open it, I clicked on it a thousand times, nothing happened!". (Both are very real and lived, I am afraid.)
"I was asleep. The expectation that I would see it, much less respond to it, is crazy."
It’s a terrible headline. “Rogue” black holes have been observed before, but only by detecting emissions from infalling matter (usually from a star being consumed). This is the first free-floating black hole detected entirely via gravitational lensing.
No. This is one of the main features of the Premium YouTube
Why could you not post all of your pics to a shared photo album that’s shared with your friends? It’d even remove the step of posting it only because as soon as it’s on your machine it’s uploaded to your cloud photo album. And it’s still free. Further what if you want to share this with those that aren’t your friends? You’ve required facebook usage with no real gain.
> Nice how Zuck said $10bn in the analysts call with nothing to back it up, but the whole press jumps on it.

If Zuck knowingly gave investors bad guidance, I don't think that would go over well with the SEC:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b-5#Forward-looking...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement
This is not possible. 1 ounce of gold today is €1500. You don't want a fixed supply for a stable price level.

The equation is MV=PY - monetary base times velocity equals price level times total output. You are aiming to hold the price level constant.

You can't really control the output, apart from making it lower, which you don't want. Controlling the velocity is hard. That leaves the monetary base... which is very easy to control if you admit centralized control. Or maybe someone smarter than me can figure out an algorithm to control it automatically. Either way, fixing M doesn't work. To stabilize P, you have to adjust M to counteract the change in Y÷V.
More intelligent does not mean more correct. The way I read OP is that level of discussion among mass population seems to be more intelligent.

In my opinion, even if this hypothesis is correct, these ‘more intelligent’ discussions try to build upon inherently two-dimensional authoritarian picture, with carefully controlled inputs. Results of these discussions have very little touch with actual reality. It’s like existing in parallel reality.
> one should be the main button that people really should click on

I don't think there's something wrong with CTAs.

You can misuse/abuse this technology as you can with every, but providing a structured way to achieve a desired result is not bad per se.

It helps build muscle/"brain" memory and can help you perform your task better/quicker.
See, I think modern politicians are very willing to change their policies. They just find it good marketing to appear steadfast in their current policies.

After all, if I want the support of gun rights/abortion rights voters, a clear statement of unwavering support will get it - whereas a wishy-washy "I could be convinced either way" will leave them looking for someone more steadfast.

But that doesn't stop me changing my positions in order to win votes. Plenty of politicians flipped their stances on rowdy protests between BLM and Jan 6th. Plenty flipped their stances on "my body, my choice" during the pandemic. And anyone with a 20+ year political career will have updated their stances in that time.
An open source selfhosted web-based online doc/wiki and collaboration software
I implemented an opensource online doc and collaboration software.
> I think the problem here is that the world has moved on a lot since some of us kids were amazed at what we could make machines like an AppleII do with basic

OTOH, "open ended ways to create" have grown as well. There's of course programming, but also office activities, desktop publishing, making simple websites. If they're interested in modern 3D games like Fortnite, they might experiment with the basics of 3D rendering and game development using something like Godot. They won't come up with the next AAA title, but simple, proof-of-concept arcade or puzzle games ought to be feasible.
> He knows the next frontier is the meta verse

Agreed with everything in this comment up until that point.
Price Controls Were a Disaster in the 1970s. They Would Be a Disaster Today Too
So using Apple's SDKs, App Store, devices and services etc isn't their intellectual property and it is all public domain and free to use?

In case if you haven't read the comment:

From [0] of page 112 (b)

> The Court agrees with the general proposition that Apple is entitled to be paid for its intellectual property. The inquiry though does not end with the bald conclusion. Apple provides evidence that it invests enormous sums into developing new tools and features for iOS.

I don't think anyone would agree to develop all of that for free at a loss, especially when it is used by billions of users and devices. They will still collect the fees either way and as predicted.

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17442392/812/epic-games...
Nano?
Are you sure that it blocks the video? I think that just plays the video in the background