skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Audio is very important, but I have no idea what would make a good microphone, everyone seems to have a different opinion on what constitutes ‘great’.
Having a relatively well-known company on your resume can't hurt. Even having Facebook on there can get you through a lot of doors, despite a lot of techies having strong opinions about them. A company has to hit Enron level before it becomes a black mark on a resume.
What are Google and Amazon doing with crypto?
I got my wrist radio. It's called an Apple Watch.
Agreed! Only people with a fairly high level of innate intelligence can become master tradespeople. Note that I’m not referring to low level positions, e.g. plumbing techs who only snake drains for their whole life or electrical techs who only change outlets.
Typescript, swift, and certainly rust are not common languages by any stretch of the imagination. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
All crypto is a scam and as such, all crypto companies are a scam. Get your feet wet, learn what you can -- and get out ASAP. The numbers others tout like "Coinbase ended March with $6.3 billion in cash. The companies burn rate is $1.5b PER QUARTER." only has relevance for companies where you can trust accounting. Crypto companies have earned the exact opposite of trust. Yes, it's a public company but that means nothing, even before bitcoin public companies were caught red handed. Much, much bigger companies, even.

Do not accept stock or crypto as compensation, only cold hard cash.
I just discovered that there's lots of relevant content, arguments and explanations in this huge Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
The Yougov poll is an interesting exercise in seeing how public perception does not align well with available data [0].

Section 3 of the link breaks down how many people have been identified as at risk from particular ideologies.

'Mixed, unstable or unclear' accounts for 51%.

Islamic extremism is 24%.

Right-wing extremism is 22%.

Left wing extremism is less than 3%.

So, the data aligns well with what the original commentator was suggesting.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referre...
UK have always been No1 when it comes to propaganda.

CIA learned the value of narrative formation from the BBC
I upvote useful and insightful comments as soon as I read them.

For direct replies to my comments, I upvote anything that is remotely helpful.

If HN wanted us to have what you are suggesting, like letting them know, HN would have had notifications for comment replies. They don't.

If someone spends some amount of time to write a reply or their comment is truly helpful, I let them know I read them by saying thanks in reply. I do also upvote them.

Over everything, one extra upvote count does not say that it was you who upvoted it. Does it?

Better to say thanks, directly if it helps you.
Until you start dreaming.
LaMDA didn't perform as well as the released document implies (it's edited, and didn't show alternatives like if you prompted it with "I think you're not conscious. Prove that for me." or "how can I prove to others you're a squirrel")

The big problem is very much though that as you note, the arguments people have been making about this are atrocious.

Basically, it's not conscious, but essentially because it's unlikely to be as sophisticated as it looks in what was put out there.
From my(admittedly relatively light) reading on this subject, it seems that some philosophers of consciousness really like to take certain things they can imagine as proof of such statements. The only proof I've read about for this idea that qualia are non-computational are thought experiments

One is "what if in some future where we understand the workings of the brain and physics perfectly, Alice grows up all her life in a green room, while learning every possible thing about the color red, except for any picture of it; when she then walks out of the room and sees red with her own eyes for the first time, she will still learn something knew, the subjective experience of the color red, the qualia for it - so this must be a non-physical phenomenon".

Or "imagine an intelligent being that has exactly our ability for reasoning, but doesn't experience qualia. It would behave exactly like us, and can talk about seeing red or feeling warmth, but it doesn't actually experience them; so, since the external behavior is indistinguishable form us, but the internal experience is different, this proves qualia are non-physical".

They all remind me of a similar proof of God's existence, which has mysteriously also been taken seriously by some philosophers - "let's imagine something which has all possible good qualities, it is perfect in every way. Since things that exist are better than things that don't, this perfect thing must exist, and we call it God".
I don't hate systemd, it simply makes me upset from time to time. If you're a developer, I'd suggest to look around and try writing portable software. Investing your precious time in systemd is pointless IMHO unless you're a systemd developer. It's alike windows: if you a developer on windows learn its incredibly powerful service subsystem... If people made systemd they definitely needed it but I gave it a try and became convinced I don't need it. So why pushing it to me in my favorite distro without any alternative? To force me stop using that distro? To force me to look around and choose another one? Is that the ultimate goal of higher forces? Well, I have to agree, that's not bad, but this distracts me from more important things.
It is exceedingly unlikely that the SEC would approve a Bitcoin ETF unless the crypto market is cleaned up, which seems even more unlikely.

In terms of immediate risks, FTX is eating Coinbase's lunch in terms of market share and efficiency (they're doing more volume with under 10% the headcount), and if/when Tether blows up, Coinbase's USDC is next in line.
Or dividing by zero
The dudes are all about sun and surfs. They got nothing on them
Hard to notice that hoodie is your problem and not your coding style without ever being pointed out.
If that number is wrong they will need to restate financials, which is even worse. It comes directly from their Q1 2022 shareholder letter.
Florida

ref: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/opioids/florida-law-pu...
Next to nothing, and that's a good thing.
Show HN: A more powerful Crontab based on Kubernetes
Why would the British elite want free healthcare for everyone? Of the welfare dole? Or any of that stuff? Who is making these decisions that they’re feeding to the masses? These all seem like things you wouldn’t want if you were say, an ultra rich British noble or even the royalty.

This is a genuine not rhetorical question. I don’t know much about British politics but the statement that some shady elites are controlling the British through the BBC seems counterintuitive to me.
> In my humble opinion, so far, the only realistic use of crypto is as a store for digital art

Like, IPFS? Does that system count as crypto?

I'm not aware of any crypto system that both stores the art itself on chain and can successfully scale and be useful to a global audience (or at least Bitcoin or ethereum levels of use) without significant costs, slowdowns or sacrifices.
I look at it a little differently.

It's not that consciousness is illusory. Rather, consciousness is synthesis.

A synthesis of sensory inputs as interpreted by multiple, sometimes competing, semi-independent systems combined with stored patterns based on previous subjective "experience", creating a narrative about you and the world.

That narrative is our subjective experience, our "consciousness."
My mother uses one.
> Personally I take much bigger risks day to day by doing things like biking to work, so I'm okay with the risk of my TV sending data back to advertisers.

It's up to you how you feel about the privacy issue, of course, but that's not how risk works. It's additive. The fact that you take other risks, bigger or smaller, doesn't rationally change the value of this risk.
From Milo to Milo: A History of Barbells, Dumbells, and Indian Clubs (1995)
I work in crypto. I have nearly no stake in Solana or any Solana based project, but I have done a little bit of smart contract programming on Ethereum (actually working on changes to a popular lending protocol that has built-in governance for upgrades)

My personal opinion is that the Governance URL would be far more neutral than any article or thread where people are piling on to use this to criticize Solana (the same change to a protocol could happen, and probably has happened, on Ethereum). The /r/cryptocurrency subreddit is not neutral when it comes to Solana, and 99% of the commenters don't understand what they're talking about.

Criticizing Solend if the proposed changes are made is fair, but this is basically how DAOs work... token holders vote to make proposed changes. If you don't like the existing implementation and governance process, you should avoid the protocol, or pay attention to what might change that could affect you.

If I sign up for a web service and agree to a ToS (which always says it may change and that continued use means I'm agreeing to any future changes), I have far less transparency into what changes might be made. Solend users agreed to the protocol implementation which includes upgrading without a timelock (bad practice). But at least there is a governance process, which gives users a chance to get out when unfavourable changes are happening.

Also, I don't know enough about Solend or Solana to verify this, but users of lending protocols typically get a distribution of the governance token based on their stake, which means the "whale" being discussed likely could block this vote if they wanted to.
Did Google’s A.I. Just Become Sentient? Two Employees Think So
Happy user of https://forwardemail.net for $3/month for unlimited domains/aliases. This is the only subscription I pay that I believe has a fair (cheap?) price.

I use it for all email forwards for my family: https://github.com/politician/barissat-infra
I have this book. I found it to be very unnecessary in my leetcode journey. What worked for me is repetition. It’s mostly just pattern matching. I got into three faangs recently so my strategy worked for me.
The royalty rate is on production, not profits. The government takes 12.5% of all produced oil and has the right to the revenues. This is a much more burdensome tax than a tax on profits in that the government gets paid before the oil company, even if the oil company loses money on their investments. That’s why it’s not taxed at standard corporate tax rates.
Here's the Coinbase shareholder letter:

https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q1...

If you look at page 10, for Q1 2022, retail revenue was close to $1b, while institutional revenue was only about $50m, and hasn't been really growing (declining in fact). This likely means that when the hard time comes and people don't have disposable income anymore, Coinbase will also suffer when the tides of retail investors go out.

I'm beginning see Coinbase and Robinhood in the similar category of companies in pay day loans and casinos - they might do really well as a company but a lot of it is quite unhealthy profit generation from the least informed and struggling sector of the population.
Plants do move. They don't appear to move, because they move very slowly relative to human perception. When super-human AI is developed, it may perceive the world at a much higher frame rate than which we operate in the world, and we may look like plants to the AI.
yes indeed, Churchill was profoundly racist, I suspect conspicuously so even in his era. Hated India, hated Indians, was repulsed by the very idea of India
Types don't just guard against catastrophically stupid errors like Cars instead of Flowers. You can use them proactively to tag and refine data, excising a considerable deal of logic from your code.

If you are dealing with priority lanes, all of the methods could be written to only accept Carpool types, even if a Carpool struct has the exact same fields as a Car. Then you only need to parse a Car to a Carpool once and never worry about validating the passenger count after that.

Static typing only seems like a verbose straightjacket in the context of verbose languages like Java and Go. In reality it can help you write way less code. I don't expect the world to switch to Haskell, but I am excited by the direction TS is heading. I think "parse don't validate" will become common wisdom eventually.

Also, the crash cases you mention could be avoided elegantly with Option types.
you need a very loud radio
CONELRAD (or: What are the civil defense marks on 1953-1965 car radio dials?)
Ah, well I apologize for the harsh wording. Glad we’re on the same page.
> allow people to create pirated Blu-Ray disks that work as-expected on vanilla PS5 models.

I don’t understand why there isn’t an industry of selling pirate copies of official games. What I mean is buying an official copy of the game, “image” the disc, and press 1:1 copies for cost + a couple dollars.

Why didn’t that happen? Are there technical issues preventing this from working? I can’t think it’s a matter of cost, BRD can’t cost that much to make at scale.
What if you need to also make sure, sqrt(2) * sqrt(2) == 2? Even this is possible in many representations, but you can see my point I guess.
>My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion

An illusion to whom? It isn't meaningful to say that an unconscious thing experiences illusions.
Super short version: You want to evolve programs. Randomly mutating programs is hard, most mutations break things. Instead, ask a giant language model to propose edits, in the form of diffs (like the ones you get with git or whatever). These mutations are usually reasonable, don't break things, and lead to more interesting evolved programs. You can even further improve the process by using the successful mutations to fine tune the language model to predict better future mutations.
Went down a rabbit hole with that creator's videos. He has a lot of good ones, all done with Blender and Godot.
> not sure how it's relevant here though

As I understood the answer, the expanded version would be "the only disadvantage is having to spend an unreasonable amount of time arguing about this issue, which will drag on forever since it is relatively minor."
Surely an easy win would be the men's urinals. Collect all the pee, and just divert water away via a valve when the cleaning cycle is running. Maybe there is enough money in it for a company to install a system like that for free in restaurants, airports, public buildings etc.
SpaceX should never go public, keep the decisions with the engineering-rich management there and never let Wall Street shareholders have any say on selecting leadership. From that perspective, why does their valuation even matter?

This is one of the problems at Tesla I think; they've likely held off on going into areas that are likely more financially risky but with longer-term industrial potential (electric semis in particular) because the shareholders would balk at moving capital into such production efforts.
Don’t give up. The parent comment is very much inline with how I feel. I was in your shoes a couple months ago and passed interviews at 3 faangs. Just grind the leetcodes. Course are not the right way imo. Repetition and pattern matching will take you there.
Nikon[1] and Sony[2] also released software during the pandemic that turns any of their video recording DSLR/MILCs into webcams. I think a D50 might be a bit too old though since it doesn't have video recording.

1: https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/webcam-utility...

2: https://imagingedge.sony.net/en-us/ie-webcam.html

> DSLR/MILC
Also Consumer Reports, who do highly scientific tests; have labs, engineers, etc.; and have decades of experience. Also, it's published by a non-profit established to serve consumers.
>There is negligible transaction volume in cryptocurrencies.

This is something I dont understand. If cryptos are falling like they are, it surely is bc people are selling and selling at cheaper prices. Isn't that transaction volume that coinbase and similares charge for?
Having the kernel source won't really help with a locked bootloader.
The illusion is of conscious volition; that consciousness is an atomic unit in charge of your actions.

The brain is in control. Whether the conscious ‘mind’ has any control at all is debatable.
>>> I've programmed LabVIEW professionally and didn't have to take breaks every few minutes.

It might vary with individual physiology. I worked in LabVIEW for several months, more than 25 years ago, and the combination of eyestrain headaches and wrist truma were practically debilitating. To be fair, I also had problems with any software that involved tiny graphics, elaborate menus, and fine mouse work, such as CAD.

Text based programming, and plain text editing, are actually things that I use as a refuge from the physical demands of operating GUI based software.
I'd like to add some kind of computational support, and you're right that probability fits pretty naturally. Do you know of any other tools I can take hints from? Or any domains/disciplines that need this?
We are on track for another great depression, same as the rest of the world. It was kicked off last time in Australia by export demand and prices dropping significantly. The knock on effect to wage cuts and striking employees made the depression worse. Unemployment hit 30% at didn't get resolved until the end of the '30s.

If our exports to China and everywhere else get significantly reduced again, the same cycle could continue. Last time we pulled out of depression with manufacturing.

A snippet from Chapter 24 - Manufacturing Industry in the Year Book of Australia 1938 [0]:

The number of persons engaged in factories in Australia reached its highest point before the depression during the years 1926-27 to 1928-29 when the average for those years was slightly in excess of 450.000. The downward trend in manufacturing operations which began early in 1930 continued with increasing force until the number engaged had fallen to 336,658 in 1931-32, a decline of 25 per cent, on the average already quoted. In 1932-33 employment began to increase and gains were recorded in each year thereafter until a new high level of 523,948 was reached in 1936-37.

The classes of manufacturing that employed the most were:

Although factory employment in 1936-37 was considerably greater than pre-
depression levels the gains have been confined to comparatively few classes. The
largest class of all— Industrial Metals, etc. —now employs 30,000 more persons than before the depression, Textiles 15,000 more, Food, Drink and Tobacco 7,500, Miscellaneous Products 4,500, Chemicals, etc. 3.500, and Paper, Stationery, etc. 3,500. Five classes reported less employment in 1936-37 including the major classes, Clothing and Woodworking.

We really should be pushing rooftop solar and key home-made items as much as possible, maybe even legislating it as a requirement where it makes economic sense. Lowering costs as much as possible could make a lower wage bearable. Tackling the difficulty with love will be key in softening a more authoritarian turn in the '40s for fear of secondary economic effects.

In every downturn there's plenty of opportunity, the next depression might make the next manufacturing mega corporations out of Australia.

[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1301.01...
Really? It seems like some of the biggest titles for PlayStation are single player games. Multi-player is often tacked on, but I doubt it's the main selling point for most of their titles. Would so many people have played the last of us or red dead redemption if they shipped those games without any single player campaign and had only the strength of their multiplayer experience to go on? Final fantasy, kingdom hearts, Spider-man, God of war, Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream titles in general), Persona, Cyberpunk 2077, these all depended heavily (or entirely) on single player content.

Plenty of folks would have welcomed a change to play those kinds of games if they were just a download away. Even multiplayer games aren't necessarily off the table if unofficial servers are created and can be used, and piracy aside, it's compelling to be able to run your own software on the devices you own.
If you show me a TM with an infinite length memory tape I’ll accept that.
Not any more then a standard asphalt roof, which is basically what you are describing. Course aggregate mixed with simmering to hold it in place.

The flat parts of each step slow the waters downward momentum much better than a slope would.
I'm saying that perhaps with the exception of dolphins and mayyyyybe chimps, there is a measurable, observable, quantifiable way in which animal communication is fundamentally different from human language.

So, perhaps you can say that dolphins speak, and maybe chimps speak, and then we can even contemplate that bonobos speak (since they are very similar to chimps, but haven't been studied as much).

But dogs definitely don't speak, and neither do any other mammals that we've tried to test in this way.

Not to mention, there is another characteristic of human language that 0 animals can be taught, as far as we've tried - more complex structure, like "not (c and d)"
please note that I ran the bench with 30 threads with 1 connection per thread. you're not doing the same but doing 28 threads with 20 connections on each thread, effectively using 560 connections whereas I only used 30 connections. rerun the same with -t 30 and -c 1
Sure but it’s the same story; the US gov can choose crypto as their currency for taxes as well (as certain countries already have).

The question ultimately is whether crypto’s properties as a currency is better enough to displace the current choice, and how much you / the market believes in this scenario occurring
I'd like to know if anyone's parents, or grandparents, or great-grandparents (think WWII) are actually free of trauma? How do they find a control here for trauma-free people?
plenty of great things about Britain, including the BBC. The fact that is a fantastic propaganda project is to the British credit, it was a key part of imperial maintenance. For the people who fought against empire though (independence movements in Malaysia, Kenya etc), it was and remains, the equivalent of RT
It seems increasingly and screamingly obvious that it's not possible to have country-level power without any action to insert ones-self into, and assert ones power upon, the affairs of neighbouring countries in morally questionable and subversive ways. Which is just a longer way of saying: power corrupts.

The problem I have with this realisation, is that this kind of behaviour sets a precedent for 'acceptability' for all groups and individuals on lower rungs than government - which is everyone. No wonder governments have trouble legislating against bad corporate behaviour, because they have done, and likely are in the midst of doing, shady shit themselves of a greater scale. I feel I'm exposing a level of my own naivete, but I'm trying to convey the path from government 'bad-ness' to the current level of social and civil mistrust in government and also inward looking perspectives on any and all actions (ie. what's in it for me, fuck y'all) that's encouraged by every exposure of such government-approved actions.

You, Government, with all your power, cannot judge me, as a powerless individual member of the proletariat, as guilty and punishable for any crime lesser than that which you yourself has actively participated in and considered acceptable. The wind blows unhindered through your glass house.