skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said "non-abstract" to prevent a claim along the lines of: computation is sufficient to produce consciousness but it needs to actually run to do it and that invariably requires implementing the computation on some physical system.

The point is that computation is abstract, it requires you to pick some physical system but it doesn't care which one, the result is the same regardless.

If a non-abstract physical system is required it means that the actual hardware matters. You can't swap it out for another system and expect the same results.

For example I could imagine some kind of computer that computes using water and there happens to be a program which when run on that hardware sprays you with water, hence making you wet. But if instead you run that same program compiled for some non-water based architecture then running it won't make you wet.
Endless back-and-forth about the Ensoniq EPS being a 13-bit sampler. Yes, "13-bit" makes no sense. Yes, "13-bit" sounds really unlikely.

No, I'm looking at the Otto datasheet right now, and the 2MB memory expansion on my bench which has three rows of 4-bit DRAMs and a row of 1-bit DRAMS. Yes, definitely 13-bit.

No, I agree it makes no sense, but there you go.
Lots of great comments here;

My thoughts on this as other Seniors have pointed out (and I am a Senior myself)

1- I have not looked for a job since 2014, every job since came through my network.
Then the interviews were basically friendly meet&greets but super informal, not a single coding test or take home assignment - note than I always started as Tech lead/Architect. I put in the hours and took pride in my work, have never let anyone down.

2- Unless I am unemployed and desperate, why would I give you between 6 and 7 hours of “free” unpaid labor for an interview that might not go anywhere?
A big part of the interview process is “luck”.
I have many terrible interviewing stories;
interviewing is hard and for the most part a numbers and luck game.
I hate wasting time and for that reason I carefully calculate my odds before applying and put more emphasis on gigs when I have a sponsor on the inside or where the upside and risk make it worth the attempt. Which disqualifies most non tech non brand name companies.

My suggestions for you;

1- Include salary and TC on your job post (it will set you apart from others) and will attract more attention.

2- Shorten/Simplify your hiring process and consider paying folks for their time, at least $100hr.

I have interviewed at places where it costs $40 to park for the day, you are there for 3-5 hrs for a final in person round, but if you don’t get an offer they don’t validate your parking ticket so not only you wasted your time but also spent a bunch of money on top of taking a day off from your current job.

Last but not least, think about the state of the market, Seniors are likely older, with families and mortgages. in this market, stability is important, changing jobs can be a gamble, their offer could get rescinded, etc
Why take the risk? This will be true in the next 12/24 months, what is the incentive - unless the candidate is already unemployed.

Thanks for your time.
You may be interested in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09352
As far as I know it was the first to train a model on commit diffs to generate code mutations, in this case for bug fixing.
It's quite easy to have a minimized exposure to jira as a developer. I hate its guts but if my interactions are limited to writing a few tickets and changing statuses then its awfulness is more somebody else's problem and it doesnt bother me nearly as much.
> which is generally super low.

Except when it isn't, which is kinda the point: Its a fan and a filter, if the fan is improperly fitted, path of least resistance starts playing, if the filter is improperly fitted, blah blah

making a fan spin to the point of getting the most volume allowed through a filter, is probably the easiest bit of the entire process
Same, I check into Jira once per day, max. It's useful to give an overview of what everyone is working on in the "Kanban" meetings twice weekly. I use quotes because we really don't follow any strict rules or structures, everyone just kind of does what needs to be done to keep things moving forward.
Document behind a form, with a direct download link also provided to reduce friction

I'm fine with this approach myself. Display the form and encourage the user to submit info, but have a clearly labeled link that says something "No thanks, just take me to the download". I think this is the best of both worlds - users who want you to have their information can easily give it, and users who'd prefer not to don't feel compelled to make up fake information just to get to the document.

- Document link shared freely

- Document link shared freely, with an optional form if they'd like to be contacted out by the sales team.

I'd consider either of these approaches as acceptable as well, especially the first one (from a consumer POV). But I understand why companies sometimes want to gather information from the people downloading this stuff, and I don't begrudge them the attempt as long as it's done in a reasonable way (see above).

Documents behind a mandatory form cause me to either A. go away, or B. make up fake user information. I don't see how either scenario particularly benefits the company in question. shrug
He's great at getting there first with the unboxing or review with insane visuals and editing, but the content itself is very lacking. He's very heavily biased towards Apple devices, and doesn't dig deep at a technical level, preferring more subjective judgements which are difficult to compare across devices. I don't find his advice any more objective than a Reddit comment.
Reminds me of this classic piece of Internet lore: https://www.internetisshit.org
Do they even want users? What is their motive?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/us/opioid-reddit.html?unl...

> A group called “jailbait” — it contained provocative images of teenagers — led to a ban of “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors” in 2011. The company also shut down a group called “beatingwomen,” which glorified violence against women. Last year Reddit banned two so-called alt-right subreddits for repeatedly posting personal information that could lead to harassment. It took no action, though, against a subreddit organized around gun sales, which drew scrutiny after a 2014 Mother Jones article suggested that some arms dealers sought to exploit a federal background check loophole.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the... also goes into it.

> In September of 2011, Anderson Cooper discussed the subreddit on CNN. “It’s pretty amazing that a big corporation would have something like this, which reflects badly on it,” he said. Traffic to Jailbait quadrupled overnight. Twelve days later, after someone in the group apparently shared a nude photo of a fourteen-year-old girl, the community was banned.

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The Apple / Tumblr issue is much more recent (did Reddit even have an App Store app in 2011 - the version history doesn't go back that far).
A very high LVT is a politically unserious proposition, because it would involve drastically raising taxes on the people who actually vote & hold political power in society- the middle class, upper middle class, and wealthy in suburbs and low-density urban areas. All of the alleged 'efficiency' gains you hear Georgists claim really mean 'middle class homeowners forced to sell their single family home to developers due to crushing tax increases'. Every day the evening news and social media would carry a new, tearful story of a family forced to sell their home. The white-hot rage of millions of taxpayers whose taxes drastically rise overnight would be enough to create bottled fusion- I suppose it would be good for the US in that you could finally find an issue that unites the most leftward Democrat and the most rightward Republican.

'Forcing everyone in the suburbs to sell their home to an apartment building developer due to ruinously high taxes' is the single most politically unrealistic idea ever proposed. LVT is certainly a clever way to make sure land is used efficiently, and probably a good idea in the abstract, and perhaps we could enact it when we colonize Mars. But implementing it on a country where many of the voters are living in 'inefficient' SFHs now is not ever going to happen
Such a dream, having Apple being notified of all the websites that you visit!
You would be surprisingly sad to learn the number who do not even attempt to do this, and the "marketers" that encourage it.
Are you sure that you can just send in a picture? Had this happen recently and I had to install the iOS app and then the app took video of me with the front facing camera.

I think my account was flagged because I follow a lot of people but I don't have a profile picture, never post anything, and I only use the web app (and sometimes from a "suspicious" OS named Linux) so basically I look like a follow-bot.
In English "to compile" is defined as "produce (something, especially a list, report, or book) by assembling information collected from other sources." which seems like a good description of what A0 to A2 did.

It is a pity that when people started to build translators they didn't use that name but instead kept the now obsolete term "compiler".
It's a configuration option, so it is in control of your IT staff. I'm not sure if there are security risks/compliance requirements specifying such a short SSO session duration (20 min?), but may be worth asking.

> Wasn't the dream to log in once in the morning, and have your SSO token be valid for all systems all day? Is anyone out there successfully putting the "Single" in "Single Sign On"?

I work for an identity provider that many of our clients use for SSO between applications, and it is absolutely possible to configure our solution to require 1 sign-in per day.
Let's not be deceptive. A certain lethal dose of a substance does not mean that a lesser dose or sustained exposure at high levels will not cause harm or long term damaging effects (to include cancer). Many want to decrease their exposure to or remove toxins, not maintain continual exposure to them for many years and gamble with their lives for little to no benefit.

Also keep in mind that people are exposed to fluoride not just in toothpaste, but in many other ways, like it being in their drinking water and/or in various fruits and vegetables (to include juices and wines) as a result of various kinds of pesticides (https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/info...).
What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?
Unless you only care about ethically treating that which is stronger and so can hurt you more, granting consciousness and appropriate treatment to lifeforms that surround us is a good first step.
That is how traditional property tax works. However (as I understand it) a LVT that replaces property tax (potentially all other taxes as the one true tax) is based solely on the yearly cost to lease a parcel of land. Your tax is just that, the cost to lease.

With a LVT there is no "here is your % of the district tax burden apportioned by what you own" only a "here is what we estimate it would cost to lease this property for a year".
Our interpretation of sensory experience is a large part of what our "self" is

Considering that our conscious experience is the experience of processing information, when we lack sensory input shit kinda gets wild (technical terms only here)

Sensory processing is happening literally constantly and its essentially inseparable from our every day experience. Because it is our everyday experience

The way we interact is important, back to the simulation question if the inputs and outputs can be sufficiently matched to how real molecules interact with out receptor proteins we can absolutely blur that line between digital and physical even more
If you find Vitalik insufferable, who do you like?
> How do they tell if the man knows Chinese or not? Or if he is just emulating a machine that does?

But this is exactly the wrong question; assume for a moment a computer program can be concious. Does the man know Chinese, or is he emulating a concious computer program that knows Chinese? Either way there would be a conciousness involved, so nothing about this situation disproves that a program can be concious - there's no contradiction here, and thus logically speaking, no proof.

The claim seems to be that because the man doesn't suddenly understand Chinese, the program can't be concious, but this is confusing the program and the computer. If conciousness is computational in nature, then "I" am a program running on a meat-based computer. But it's not the meat (the computer) that's concious, it's me (the program). If the man doesn't understand Chinese, that's fine - he's just the computer the program is running on. It's the program that will be concious.

The man just has to fetch the next instruction and execute it. Your CPU fetches the next instruction and ADDs or MOVs or whatever and the result is Fortnite - the CPU doesn't know anything about Fortnite, it just fetches instructions and runs them.

This is not to say the conciousness is computational in nature (although I strongly suspect that it is), but I don't see how the Chinese Room argument does anything to indicate it is not.

> Likewise if we see a computer that is producing “consciousness looking” responses, how do you know if it is the computer that is conscious or just the people who created the content for the training data? Since the computer is modeling them.

If the program is generating "conciousness looking" responses from a training set, then it probably isn't concious. If the program is generating "conciousness looking" responses by reasoning about it's past experience, then it probably is concious. All the "AI" that's popular in the news today is the former - it's really just applied statistics. The fact that all the current AI is the former doesn't preclude the existance of the later.
You shouldn't have to negotiate prices.
"Review to failure" is a good benchmark to see if they are actually really reviewing the tool, even if the failure is obscenely beyond any normal use of the product.

Especially if they then can breakdown why it failed (and if they'd improve anything).
This sounds like a fantastic way to smother creativity and imagination.

Anybody who has ever worked on open source projects should know that incentives are not always additive.

https://commoncausefoundation.org/michael-sandel-on-the-corr...
> I was part of the technical community within Spotify, hanging out in various technical topic channels, helping people out.

It might be a cultural thing, but you're not part of any 'community' or 'family', it's just a job. And like any other employer they'll fuck you over just as soon as they can.
>> They didn't actually try any of the products themselves (they admitted as much in the article).

> I’m going to dissent here on this thread because I’m not seeing any references.

OK, here's one such reference in "The Best Baby Formula" [1]:

> We didn’t do any testing for this guide, because babies have minds of their own, and it would be impossible to control for all of the variables that might make a baby prefer one formula over another.

Now there might be various reasons why actually testing the product is difficult or unnecessary to produce a helpful, well-researched review article, but there are definitely examples of this.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-baby-formula...
I think the advice is still useful for editing. Personally, I'd add the extra step of re-consolidating the sentences into paragraphs after going through this editing phase though. That said, I do a lot of technical writing and I often find paragraphs with fewer sentences are my better written paragraphs.
You're just re-stating (1). I understood (1) fine and addressed it directly.

Observation isn't required for Turing machines to exist. A computer is still a computer even if it has no user or doesn't compute anything deemed useful.

i.e., Whether something is a computer or not doesn't depend on interpretation or observation. (Directly saying 1 is wrong)
wow very cool, light mode can be also cool
From your link:

> securelevel may no longer be lowered except by init

> The list of securelevel's effects may not be comprehensive.

So yes, it's a nice sandbox that can help prevent accidents, but doesn't sound like something you should rely on for actual defense.
I (about half-honestly) blame Amazon, and more recently Google Maps.

All reviewers are not created equal.

In the early days before mass-SEO, you at least got the benefit of most reviewers being authentic, even if inept.

Now, we have the worst of all possible words: mass fake reviews + a public trained to expect only amateur-level reviews.
The real problem with Jira is that every company adopts it without sufficient support. It needs dedicated admins. You can't just let every single team YOLO things.

Unfortunately, what happens is a company adopts it from the start, and then it grows into an impossible-to-use forest where there's no meaningful way to bring things back to actually usable, and everyone is miserable.
Let's set aside whether it's explicitly screened for or discussed.

If, hypothetically, you knew what they were making, either as a dollar figure or implicitly because of their previous/current job description, what would be the minimum?

I'm asking something which necessarily has an answer, even if you won't answer it.

I'm asking about the limits to your imagination - where is the boundary between a plausible hire and and one that is not? Both in numeric terms and all the stuff associated with it.

When I wrote $5K, that was a serious possibility - think of it as 4 lakh rupees per annum.

You don't seriously go through the same analysis for everybody. Nobody does. Maybe you won't share exactly when you jettison the analysis, but the important thing is to realize this is where the problem lies, and questioning the implicit rules related to shortcutting your process.
I tried Mullvad for a year and loved the approach and onboarding. Sadly the connectivity issues and mobile app don't measure up to what I was used to with NordVPN.

Not sure why a savvy someone would use a subscription with a VPN, so not sure what the news is here.
The same applies to Norway
When I ask "why bother evolve consciousness, versus being just an instinctive reacter to stimuli?" It usually seems to come down to decision making. There's something about having an experience that helps with certain kinds of problem solving.

So if the evolved consciousness is going to actually be useful, it needs to be able to do something that typical instinct-driven computing can't. What might that be?

Maybe it circumvents the error-correcting mechanisms that you might otherwise expect to exist: Open the door to a small bit of environmental noise, and attempt to make meaning from it. If the meaning survives enough feedback iterations after you shut the door, you've just had an idea. This, I imagine, is how creativity works.

So what I'm saying is that most rock-moves would be error-corrected and inconsequential, but if you move the right rock you're tipping the scales between whether today feels like a eggs day or an oatmeal day--the kind of decision that doesn't make sense as the output of an algorithm.
That’s why you look at reviewers who have similar other opinions to yours, and look at pros / cons instead of the overall rating
> Anthony had long come to the same conclusion I had, that highly visible corporate incubators do a good job of shaping culture and getting great press, but most often their biggest products were demos that never get deployed to the field.

Cisco is pretty good at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348900 (2014)

> As we were finishing my coffee Anthony said, "I'm going to let a few of the execs know I'm not out for turf because I only intend to be here for a few years."

One ought to know, 'tis but a game of poker, mister.

More on the role of a CTO: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/the_different_c... (2007) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20642423 (2019)
The Wirecutter takes that standard to be minimum as that is the minimum necessary to be considered a HEPA filter, which the author should presumably know as that is stated in 2 articles they cited lol.
Nothing against the rest of what you say but I wouldn't recommend a "cheap" air quality monitor for CO2.

"Cheap" usually means eCO2, which isn't actually a CO2 measurement but rather an estimation based on VOC measurements. This has basically zero correlation to actual CO2 levels [0].

For CO2, you need to look at air quality monitors that cost at least $100, or which do nothing but monitor CO2. These will have real sensors in them that actually measure CO2 levels (NDIR). You should check to confirm they advertise NDIR somewhere to be sure.

You also need to be very careful with calibration. If your area has consistent low levels that don't match ambient, the calibration will be thrown off and all your readings will be garbage.

TVOC and particles don't have the same problems, there are fairly cheap sensors for them that work pretty well, it's just CO2 you have to be picky about [0].

[0]: https://jsss.copernicus.org/articles/7/373/2018/
aww jeez
> This doesn't justify at all the permanent deactivation your completely new account

It's hilarious that I'm reading this comment right before an article from the EFF titled, "Facebook says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right." How refreshing it would be if Facebook bothered to say, "Meta is too powerful."
"SWEs in the "DevOps" software space (Linux, containers, k8s, yadda yadda)"

Eh. That is a pretty hard hire right now in GENERAL. That kind of hire is a months long process. BUT! Super worth it if they are good.
Using earbuds or earphones.

I suppose my comment does seem like it’s talking about background noise. My major issue is echo cancellation. Background noise is a factor that really messes with echo cancellation but, if everyone is using on/in ear audio then it becomes less of a factor.
> I'd like a really easy way to see all of the tickets I've ever completed.

Can be solved by creating a custom person field called “Developer”. Then you can customize the Status transition for your In Progress status to automatically set that field to the current user or maybe the issue assignee.

For better or worse, Jira is quite powerful and flexible. But it’s not always simple to setup.
yes, <src module="main.wasm"/> is under consideration. Maybe you need a tiny wasm_dom.js but direct DOM manipulation is in the pipeline too.
SSO is horrible.
AMA
Because `@extend` should work for the middle of an inheritance hierarchy too, not just the tips:

class Base:
def foo(self):
print('base')

class Mid(Base):
def foo(self):
print('mid')
super(self.__class__, self).foo()

class Derived(Mid):
def foo(self):
print('derived')
super(self.__class__, self).foo()

Derived().foo()