skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure if there is definition of consciousness everyone agree on, but let's try something: consciousness is the ability to perceive our own thoughts.

Since you seem to be treating 'thought' metaphorically, how about we say that consciousness is the ability to perceive our own feelings?

Are there beings that are conscious that do not have any feelings at all?
> An individual file attachment can be as large as 500 MB[0]. It would make the JSON file too big to use.

The backup would be too big to use if it included all the data it's a backup of? What?
Sure, but that’s more “my politics” than “apolitical”. Their messaging should reflect that.
I’m from the modern web dev generation so to speak, but just yesterday had an amazing conversation with my dad, who did what you describe.

He explained to me what a “patch” actually means, or meant back then. He was talking about debugging and implementing loaders for new hardware and such, then he mentioned a “patching area”, I asked wtf that means and apparently the release cycles then where so slow, that a binary left some dedicated space for you to directly hack in a patch. He then would change the machine code directly to jump to the patched area so he could fix a bug or extend the behavior.

Contrast this to the arguably wasteful CI/CD setups we have now.
I use zero as a technique to attempt to "shock" minds into a higher plane of rationality. It's hard to tell how effective this technique is, under various scenarios. It doesn't work great in settings where there are ~no rules, like internet forums. It typically works excellently when debugging tricky software bugs, which is quite analogous to the functioning of the human mind imho, so I think it has promise.
I disagree.

It's not a political stunt. The people who haven't left clearly want to remain their for various reasons asides from the issues they expressed. It's an attempt from those employees to actually improve the company and address the issues they have.
Speaking of ethics, what’s the equilibrium here? Does it pass a Kantian categorical imperative?

I think if everyone did this, the rate each person was taxed at would fall below the current rough meter equivalent amount and the city (and LAZ Parking) would gather less revenue.

Up to you if you consider that positive or negative.
Unless a site chooses to make RSS, especially full content feeds, part of a subscriber benefit. Ars Technica, for example, provides full content feeds to subscribers, while the general public can access title + preview snippets.

Approaching it this way (similar to paid mailing lists) is the best of both worlds, providing revenue incentives to users while removing site ads for users who care about and pay for the content.
Nice! That's great to hear. Sounds like a very collaborative and supportive working environment.
You're definitely right. I can do that. I can also symlink the files to multiple aliases if I want to be able to use multiple possible references for the same key. But I do prefer it when the tool handles that for me.
You are watching YouTube. They have your IP, and can tie your identity using that.
init has a ppid of 0, which effectively is a special value that means the kernel. These processes probably also do the same thing (and thus, ppid=0 is a good way to detect kernel-started processes).
I think you’re right. Smartphones and the internet make it easier to scam before, but why do people want money more than ever? I’ve noticed it. It was a lot different 20 years ago. What happened?
Here's an interview with LaMDA published by Lemoine.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
>either the whole thing tips over and we see a significant price correction ala 2008

There's a ton of middle ground between your two scenarios. 2008 was the biggest housing price crash in history.

I think we see a recession, modest asset price decline, and then stagnant home prices and stock market returns for 10 years.
>Don't take on debt

In an system centered on printing money and distributing it via the banking industry to whichever group is preferred by the current government? Might be the worst advice I have seen. Mortgages are free money and if you aren't using that you are going to become poor within a generation.
Yes, quite sure as I worked several years on this problem and I am speaking from my direct experience of working with and speaking to financial and micro-finance institutions in 80+ countries (see my profile). A majority of the institutions I spoke with had establishing identity as their #1 problem.

Methods existing in one place (e.g. the United States) does not mean that those methods are established and/or will work in another place (e.g. Sierra Leone). This is a multi-faceted problem that involves government, infrastructure, and technology.

Further, there are improvements to be made even in the U.S. For instance, I cannot digitally establish my identity with several providers. Why? Because I do not and have never used credit and those providers rely on the "3 questions" KYC check via a credit bureau.
Or you might end up writing 50 Shades of Grey (which started as an erotic Twilight fanfic published on the internet) and set yourself and your kids up for life. Ymmv.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-started...
+1 on the non-customer fee, I don't know why the US doesn't do that.
We didn't have the debt problems in the 1980s.
I'd say 95% of sprint ceremonies I'm in are a complete waste of time. Still, amen for WFH.
If we take path 2, then you would expect the stock market NOT to crash as it is currently doing... and if it would take that path, now would be a great moment to buy in, right? Since the prices it would stabilize should be inflation adjusted at the moment.
They’re just a service. Coinbase going away isn’t going to be a huge deal for people. There are dozens of other services providing same or higher quality services than Coinbase.
ELI5:

Speaking from ignorance, when an atom/quark/partical spins, do they share Axial precession? Meaning is/are the axial rotation(s) of one atom or quark... harmonized and get to equalibrium - (like women's cycles when spending time together?) -- Meaning they all share the same axial precessional rotation. or are all the axial precessions of items clumped together chaotic.

Now, if there is a higgs boson partical which affects the precessional rotation of clumps of particals, (atoms/molocules) etc... and given that the higgs are rare... not often will it interact with a material, correct?

But when it does - what is the impact.

Also, is the axial precession, along with the spinning of the partical what results in the spiral patterns of wobbly-objects like we see in particle physics printouts of the impacts of these precessional object that have differing precesseional "orbits"

Meaning -- if we knew both the spin, plus the axial precession of each object, wouldnt we be able to better predict the output of a collision...

And as such, when we go to cosmic scales, cant we then more easily determine how to predict the interactions of cosmic objects when they collide...

Further, can we figure out to affect the rotation of an axial precession by using something like a higgs boson to change the state / wobble - for a more accurate outcome that can be 'programmed in a sense?"

SO: can we "steer" the spinning coheasion/uniformity/dis-uniformity of atoms by figuring out to change the material properties (such as magnetic fields) by Higgs-like-particle-surgery against a material (group of atoms)?

---

Like I said, ELI5 - as I just read this article and what I know about other things and this is where my imagination went, so don't be a dick. I am curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
Also not giving any examples because they often give low-effort negative responses (i.e. judge 10,000 startups through the lens of the one crypto they know about).
I mean, there was just an article about how scientists discovered that worms travel after a rain, which is something I figured out when I was ten.

Science has a lot of blind spots. Surfers and children aren’t high on the list of people to consult or observe. Nor for a long time was folk medicine.
No. One China means the acknowledgement that the mainland and Taiwan are part of the same country, but there may be disagreement to who the government is. Before the US recognized the PRC government, it recognized the ROC government aka the one in Taiwan, as being the sole legit government of all of China including Taiwan.

So the US didn't officially support "Taiwan independence". After the US flipped to PRC, they opposed the PRC taking over Taiwan, but the "Taiwan independence" notion didn't exist in Taiwan at the time. The govt in Taiwan wanted to retake the mainland. The independence notion only came into existance relatively recently.
Why couldn't they quit after taking the money?
Didn't realize you could put more into an IRA when you're already maxing out a 401k. I should probably start doing that. Thanks to most of my 20s working for startups and small companies without a 401k, I'm pretty behind on retirement savings goals.
I've encountered people who have lived their entire adult lives in Japan right here on this site. Ever hear of getting married before?
Ask HN: Parents of HN community, what baby monitor are you using?
Hi,

We have a baby on its way which is due in July and still looking for a baby monitor. I'm a bit paranoid about using a Wifi baby monitor. I can rather build something on my own using a React Native app with a spare iPhone that I have but I rather get some recommendations of some (at least) secure baby monitors.

Saw some recommendations on reddit but seems like baby monitors manufacturers are not so privacy oriented.

Any advice/recommendations?

Thank youuu! :)
It most certainly applies, the previous poster gave good examples of config files syntax and semantics, db compatibility, etc, etc.

On the UI front it really depends, you need to make decisions and let users know to avoid surprises.

At Sun the process was that every possible interface that something or someone can depend on is acknowledged to be an interface. Is GUI pixel positioning an interface? Well yes, clearly it is as someone could write tools that rely on that position.

But do you as the author want to give users an assurance that you won't break this except in major releases? Maybe not. So interfaces were classified on the axis of public/private and stable/unstable (it was a bit more complex but that's the gist). Most applications used to classify the GUI elements as an unstable interface. Then you document that so consumers of the application know they shouldn't rely on GUI elements not moving.
We could not trade with anybody if we stopped trading for ethical reasons. By the same logic we should also stop trading with USA because of the Iraq War (and many others).
The rustc repo has a system to assign PRs to reviewers automatically upon filing. On github, PRs and issues are very similar, and one can assign people to them.

There is a bot which checks which components the PR is modifying and based on that it assigns a reviewer to it. It predates github's builtin support for specifying component maintainers, so is a bit different than that.

However, as the Rust project is mostly made up of volunteers, sometimes a PR gets assigned to someone who is less active. This happened in my instance, where the PR got assigned to a reviewer whose last approval that ended up in a merge was in February 2022. The PRs assigned to these maintainers still get reviewed eventually, by other reviewers, or maybe them themselves. The assignment is more of a suggestion than a strict requirement and often maintainers with a desire to review some PR assign themselves. I just wanted to speed up the process so I talked to a maintainer who I knew likes to go through the list of open PRs and approve them if they are trivial. That's what I mean by "fell through the cracks".
Getting access to source code (as part of the interviewing process) will probably be very difficult as noted in many comments here. Also - what code would you be given access to? (some parts? a file? a whole repo? all of which could be cherry picked to show the company in a positive light.)

That code would also have to be vetted in case there's anything sensitive in it security-wise..? Also, source code in itself wouldn't tell you about the processes that are in place or not (how easy it is to deploy code, what's the review process like, etc.)

On the other hand, you should ask questions to learn as much as you can about the development practices. Getting answers to the Pragmatic Engineer Test [0] (based on the classic Joel Test [1], which is useful as well) will probably tell you a lot. Learning that code isn't tested (and that there are no plans to add that, or worse, testing is not considered valuable in general), and/or that code isn't versioned, would be obviously informative.

Finally, from personal experience, I'll add that as a freelancer, you typically get more leeway re: asking to see code. Specifically, if a client comes to you to help them with a project, it's much easier to ask to see the existing code to understand what the current state of it is, and to give an accurate assessment of how much work will be required.

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pragmatic-engineer-test/

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/v8p9ga/japanese_poli...

it is safer so long as you are ok with your rights being infringed every now and then.
Web3 doesn't put everything on-chain though? IPFS doesn't put data on the blockchain, and scales plenty fine
Yet. The can was kicked down the road for someone else to end up cleaning up after.
Great. Now I've got Steve Goodman's "Lincoln Park Pirates" stuck in my head again.

The streetlamps are on in Chicago tonight
And lovers are gazing at stars
The stores are all closing
And Daley is dosing
And the fatman's counting the cars
And there's more cars than places to put 'em, he said
But I've got room for them all
...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3q7o8Yjrg
Right now CK3, but we'll see when Victoria 3 gets released.

The Crusader Kings series focus on characters over nations makes it much more immersive and makes situations that are unfun in other historical grand strategies games much more interesting to play (for example, playing as a Vassal), offering multiple options for playstyle, whereas in something like EU4, you're almost immediately going to min/max to get independence as a Vassal because it's not fun, there's nothing to do. Meanwhile in CK3 you here stories of people managing to control large kingdoms as small vassals through intrigue and puppetry.
>And you know what the easiest to obtain source of large amounts of long-maturity, fixed-rate debt in most countries is? Mortgages.

The banks are going to price in their forward expectations of inflation into their interest rates. They won't just hand you cheap money and eat it.
Melanin affects sleep? Sure you're not confusing it with melatonin?
Djbsort: Library for sorting arrays of integers or floating-point numbers
> Highly talented developers don't need this structure and process,

Indeed. But in most real world cases, this is because they’ve internalized good process and shaken off the categorical constraints that more junior or less disciplined developers still need to rely on.

While the archetype of the idiosyncratic graybeard poring out inscrutable, magical code has exemplars, it’s not the norm that many of us see when we look around.

During periods where software engineering becomes more collaborative and corporatized (as we’re in now), it’s hard for these types to find a home. Yet there are hundreds of organizations stocked with many highly talented developers doing “good” work well.
I ran into this the other day and did a video about it - not the best quality video but shows it happening in realtime with analysis and commentary: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hra2uxx66kf7z0j/PXL_20220609_21480...

The cause in this case was AWDL (Apple Wireless Direct Link.) Holding the Option key while clicking the Wi-Fi icon and clicking "Enable Wi-Fi Logging" and then checking /var/log/wifi.log will show AWDL scans starting and ending randomly, and when the scan is active it causes latency spikes every 1s like clockwork. Unrelated to AWDL, but if a process is requesting a Wi-Fi network scan (different from an AWDL scan), /var/log/wifi.log will also tell you the name of the process, such as "locationd" when the Location Service needs your location. (Tangential, but the locationd process rarely causes these latency spikes for me - on a default macOS install it very rarely requests scans in my experience, backed by my analysis of the log.)

AWDL has to be used for things like AirDrop, so it's expected to have this latency increase while you have the AirDrop window open scanning for nearby devices / sending files to other devices. There are other uses of AWDL (AirPlay, Auto Unlock, Universal Clipboard at the very least)[0], but I don't know what was triggering it so actively in my case... and why it wasn't happening on my M1 Air. It also wasn't always happening in the background like this, it just started that day.

The "fix" was to disable the awdl0 interface, but that may also cause AirDrop/AirPlay and related services to not function (I did not test.) It's easy to re-enable it though.

To disable:
ifconfig awdl0 down

To enable:
ifconfig awdl0 up

Upon disabling, the latency spikes go away permanently.

[0] https://owlink.org/wiki/
The "Reality's Last Stand" Etsy stuff in your Twitter link is hate speech, since it implies being trans isn't a real thing. In terms of Etsy's "Anti-Discrimination and Hate Speech Policy" https://www.etsy.com/legal/policy/anti-discrimination-and-ha... it's "demeaning language...directed at a person or group based on their one or more protected group attributes", in this case gender identity.
Pushing people out on the streets due to eye watering rents also literally drives people insane.

This is as much about tax policy and wealth inequality.
It's indeed not a very popular opinion, but I think if you ask most people in private, they would happily tolerate the most abusive asylums/penal institutions if they could live in a legitimately polite, safe society, where even minor property crimes are a vanishingly rare occurrence.
Reflecting on this further, it seems like so many public figures have villified themselves in this age simply by over sharing on Twitter. It paints a picture of an immature person who gives too much weight to their own opinion and lacks self control.

I feel like Elon Musk is another example of someone who wouldn't seem nearly so much like a jerk now if he could have just kept his mouth shut half the time.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/646567224
Personally, I don’t want to smell everybody’s lunches and burnt microwave food while I work for the rest of the day.
If you ever feel like parking outside of designated spaces, this is the test you should use. Walk around your car and ask yourself, "can a person in a wheelchair go from this side of my car to the other without being too inconvenienced?"

Be particularly attentive to rough ground (cobblestone), curbs, puddles, lamp-posts or other obstacles.

If your parking passes that test, it generally also accommodates the blind, bicyclists, children, etc.

It's not hard to find spaces that pass the test -- which is also why it upsets me so when people neglect to.
Not to mention Coinbase is only a small size player outside the US. Binance is the biggest exchange in the world. No one outside US uses Coinbase, it’s fees are ridiculous.
Yeah, but you can do similar thing with bitcoin. BAT/Brave is cool, but every app having their own currency isn't useful, expect for speculation purposes. It's like having to use different currencies for buying different products in a grocery store.
In my experience scientists and engineers are practical people who are interested in solving problems and improving things. We need such people in positions of power and authority. In contrast people from non-STEM fields, and in particular lawyers, are more interested in activity than results.
Exactly - I’ve definitely seen a surprising number of companies here in Europe where they talk about using Scrum as if it’s proof of them being an innovative and modern company, and really make it a big selling point in their hiring materials. It comes across (at least to me) as a bit old fashioned and out of touch.
Ask HN: Taking a job you don't know how to finish yet
You've been a developer for 20 years. As a contractor, you're excited about a potential clients upcoming projects. You haven't worked in this new space before. You aren't even sure you can do it yet. Do you jump in full-time and invoice for time spent learning? Do you learn first and take the job later?
Japan police are extremely corrupt.

Extremely.

There is a reason they have the highest conviction rate in the world.

It’s not justice.

It’s the social expectation that the law officers are correct, no matter what.

If you are charged, you are guilty, as you cannot bring shame to the police.

No need to pretend they are just or proper.
Not limited to defense or government projects. A lot of startups are building engineering playgrounds where the goal is engineering and complexity. In there too you have a lot of engineers that accrue years of experience building unnecessary complexity (and worse, get promoted into management).
Up until recently (here's an article from 2014 [1]), the Swiss still had explosives near major bridges just in case of attack. They seem to have taken home defense rather seriously in more than one way.

"Until now, hundreds of key roads and bridges across Switzerland have held stores of explosives for use in the event of invasion. The policy was developed during the Cold War, because of fears of an attack by Warsaw Pact countries, eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe."
[1]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cold-war-defence_army-to-find-a...
You really want to add friction to completing those tasks? How long does it really take to complete any one of those things, and how is a ticket going to change the fact it probably needs to get done anyway? Why am I going to write a ticket for docs I can write in an hour and be done with? Why would you want the docs to stay out of date until a ticket is created, rather than just fixing them?

Frankly I think you missed the point of the article. If you don’t trust your engineers to prioritize their own time when it comes to writing documents, you don’t trust them to do anything. You’re exactly a part of the problem that Will is talking about.
I don't think we should reward employees for bringing the stock up, but blame the CEO for when the stock drops. Its a team effort either way.

>That doesn't make the title click bait.

It does. Sensationalism and misleading headlines designed to drive an emotional response are considered click bait too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
> Replacing Russia with the U.S. gives the U.S. too much power over the EU. It can be used as a bargaining chip in unrelated negotiations like privacy rights etc.

I agree with this.
Pragmatically, I’d rather have that person contributing under an known account, which people can vet as the see fit.

The alternative is not that the person is banned from GitHub. The alternative is they make a new account, under a new name.
Russia is a superpower? o-O I would understand if you put EU there. Or if you consider it to be separate states, Germany, UK, and France. Russia has not been a superpower since the collapse of USSR and even regaining those territories (which is not going to happen) won't turn them into one. Neither China, nor US are superpowers because they have a lot of land. They are superpowers because they have immense industries, which the world depends on.