skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I was under anaesthesia was in 2004, so my memories are definitely hazy here, but from what I remember, they started wheeling me into the OR while giving me something potent. It felt good, like in the morning when your alarm goes off but sleep feels so wonderful and pleasant that you just want to shut your alarm off and go back to sleep. Years later, I heard an addiction to whatever drug they used here was what killed Michael Jackson, and I don't blame him one iota for being addicted to that stuff. And as I was being given that stuff, the doctor was saying some things to me about... something (I remembered what he was saying back in 2004, but it's been almost two decades since so that memory is gone), maybe it was the "count backwards from 100" thing I heard about in fiction. And the next thing I knew, I was waking up in the recovery room, my mouth was super dry, and I was out of it and loopy for an hour or two. It was like my brain just... turned off for the entire surgery. This was before the first time I ever got really drunk (I wasn't old enough to drink at the time), but in hindsight the "loopy" feeling for the first hour or two after waking up felt no different from all the times I've been drunk off my ass since.
I think learning Python changed my life.

Learning Groovy came close, but it wasn’t as popular as Python, and the Java ecosystem was still a drag.

Python actually made programming effortless and enjoyable for me.
Shameless plug: I wrote a small poc module to use hashlookup's bloom filter (https://github.com/hashlookup/a-ray-grass/) in yara (https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara). The idea is to easily discard files that are known to be safe and so to avoid launching thousands of yara rules on a file for nothing. One can also use it to keep track of some files that meet certain conditions for instance. The module can store any string in these filters so I see a lot of useful use-cases for this little thingy :)
edit: forgot the link duh.
For what it's worth I don't find that I'm any more or less likely to think about work as a remote worker than when I was in the office. Intrusive work thoughts seem to find me either way.
I am not competing on price. I compete o quality. In your analogy, I am someone who the company needs to “take a chance”, the company is risking hiring a worse employee because I don’t live in SF or the US. That’s not how I see it.

The pandemic made a lot of people realize they can hire remotely and be fine. Why should I share the surplus with the company? I am a good developer and I will negotiate to get a better pay. Why wouldn’t I?
It stands to reason that the nuclear lobby is out for its bottom line, but let’s not lose perspective on just how devastatingly deadly fossil fuel combustion is by comparison, killing an estimated 8.7 million people per year [1]. That’s 1 in 5 of all deaths globally.

Our perceptions of risk are massively skewed by the (literally) explosive nature of nuclear disasters compared to this silent holocaust to which we’re shockingly normalized.

From Our World in Data [2]:

> Nuclear energy, for example, results in 99.9% fewer deaths than brown coal; 99.8% fewer than coal; 99.7% fewer than oil; and 97.6% fewer than gas. Wind and solar are just as safe.

That’s per unit of energy generated.

Curiously, while most can likely name Chernobyl and Fukushima (perhaps fewer Windscale and Three Mile Island), what of the Banqiao Dam disaster, which killed an estimated 171,000 people the 1970s?

All that said, extrapolating the lethality of nuclear generation to a world with many more nuclear plants is fraught, precisely because there are so few data points.

There’s no escaping the fact that these are incredibly complex and expensive machines, which can fail in unexpected ways, no matter how scrupulously they’re designed to be passively safe — especially when compared to a solar PV park.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...

[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Pick 3 random stones and arrange them so that they form a straight line. Does the line "exist"?

If you consider that only the atoms "count" for existing, then the line does not exist. (Neither do the stones, by the way - since they are constantly exchanging minor quantities of atoms and electrons with the rest of the environment, the set that defines what each stone is is constantly changing. But let's ignore that bit). The line is a "mathematical abstraction", layered on top of the "real" world.

Now consider that you measure and define exactly where that line is, according to the system of coordinates that you prefer.

Now imagine that you remove the three stones. Now there's no atoms "sustaining" that the line any more. But in a sense the line is "still there", it's defined by the coordinates you wrote. It can be argued that it has always "existed" - before you put the stones there, before Earth existed, that particular line in space already "was", in the same sense that numbers "are" - that the line has existed in some way or another since Space itself started existing.

You now pick 3 bottle caps and put them on top of the line again. Now the line is again defined by 3 clumps of matter. Does it "exist" any more than it existed in the previous two cases?

It all comes down to how we use the verb "exist" - it means several things depending on the context. "Exist" in the atoms world, or "exist" as information.

I believe that mind and consciousness is a bit of the same thing, just many orders of magnitude bigger. Instead of 3 stones what defines a mind is trillions of neurons arranged in a certain way. I am materialistic, but I believe in the be encoding of information. To me this means that each mind, at some point in time, can absolutely be "encoded" into a big enough number (huge, billions of trillions of digits). So in that sense minds are "defined by atoms" but also "exist independently of atoms, and are eternal".
Go builds a single binary for both Linux, Windows and osx?
Facebook is still that for me - I don't follow groups and my feed is 99% far flung friends posts about their lives - we've also moved past the "look, everything in my life is perfect!" phase and people are more honest.
I saw a comment that in the Bay Area if you're a lower income working class white male your life expectancy is notably higher than in fly over places.
I could see it being wonderful to talk with someone face-to-face who lives far away, and I know this is a site for hackers, but what is so appealing about a "metaverse" vs a phone or video call? It sounds very unpleasant to me to be so connected. I struggle to control my consumption of content (user-generated or otherwise) and having a company that is fundamentally a UGC aggregator more deeply embedded in my life sounds awful.

It also sounds like it would make me less active... One of the things in my life that brings me the most fulfillment and joy. The company is incentivized to keep your brain glued to their systems (and diverted from the real world) for as long as possible to increase earnings. I already feel that I am some animal product being held ever more tightly in my digital stall by my own human weaknesses.

I don't doubt that the tech will survive in some form. It will be cool and useful someday. I'm glad that Meta is martyring itself to push things forward. But delivered by Meta, it sounds to me like an extension of the dystopian nightmare of algorithmically delivered UGC that's fraying the fabric of society in uncomfortable new ways and lowering our collective aptitude for the things that really matter.

Or, asked more simply: Will I actually use the internet for what it's good for, or just keep browsing Hacker News?
Neither does the stock outperform. It's almost like investing in a commodity market (which doesn't seem that outlandish given the reach of storage now)
If you can develop IOS apps, You can also develop other things.

Become backend developer. Pretty much everybody needs them.
No he realises he needs to control the distribution medium. Apple and Google can’t be allowed to dictate what Facebook does in their platforms.

MZ needs to create an attractive platform of his own. For a brief moment he had one, Facebook was a platform, they managed to even get a killer app: FarmVille.

Then the iPhone came around and ate their lunch. No one cared about developing for Facebook anymore, only iOS and Android.

He will bet the company on a VR device that rivals the smartphone category. He has to.
I'm happy to pay for chat, just not for Telegram. I'd absolutely pay for Signal.
It was a real morale hit to the men as they had grown to really like the dogs. I guess the lesson is to never to make friends with something you are going to have to eat. Though the effectiveness is indisputable given Scott's failure.

On the use of dogs as an expendable resource, Scott said "One cannot calmly contemplate the murder of animals which possess such intelligence and individuality, which have frequently such endearing qualities, and which very possibly one has learnt to regard as friends and companions.", poor guy. Quite the gentleman.
I got dumped by someone who I really thought could be the one. It taught me that the world has its own plans, irrespective of my own wants, and good times end. Sort of snapped me out of autopilot for the first time in my life.
Wow. One can never satisfy these woke little know it alls hah?
But actually there were events, when millions of users migrated to Signal, from Whatsapp. Like the last time when Whatsapp was down. So it is not as onesided as you make it out to be.
I'm not actually sure I would agree on not being able to store recallable memories being end of consciousness. Alzheimer and other medical conditions might very well result being unable to make new memories, but processing and reacting to stimuli based on old memories is still possible.

Reasonably I think stop of consciousness is both not storing and not reacting to.
Serverless at the Edge: A Quick Overview
Why and how to use edge computing platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Deno Deploy.
Yep, and author is a HN user

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jart

Her comment history is full of good info about the project.
Bret Devereaux recently blogged about military logistics and gave some figures: https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...

He also pointed to Wayne E. Lee's article on grass as a limiting factor in Mongol warfare, which I found very interesting: https://www.historynet.com/mongols-on-the-march-the-logistic...
I guess the prevalence of dark patterns in today's websites has blurred the lines here so completely that even the "technically solicited" are grouped in with unsolicited mail if the means by which they were solicited are sufficiently manipulative, annoying, deceiving or briberous.
"This" stereotype?
I would disagree with the term 'fresh'. They still fry the patties etc in advance and leave them heated in plastic trays.

They just moved the assembly process closer to the customers but the ingredients aren't any fresher.
CCC’s self-hosted page: https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-196-signal-you-were-the-chose...
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

> They might think (if I get this done it is worth 10000EUR to me

But that's the thing: How do I approximate how much this is really worth to them?

Your argument against a friendship discount is really good, I can see why it's a bad idea. I guess the idea behind it was to try and build a reputation first and then bump up the prices after the first cple successful projects.

Regarding 20/h: Here in Germany this is actually the absolute high end of what you can get as a working student (which I am) so I thought it sounds reasonable, starting out. But ofc if you think I can charge more I'm all for it :)
Sheryl “lean in the good times but then lean the fuck out” Sandberg?
I was traveling around north-west Australia in 2001 and hadn’t seen the news in weeks. I stopped at a cheap hotel in Broome for a couple of days as a treat and to take a warm shower after weeks of camping, switched on the TV, and saw the wall-to-wall coverage of 9/11 that had happened the day before. I didn’t understand what I was seeing and I sure didn’t understand why it had happened. I decided I should try and figure that out.

Four months later I enrolled in an undergraduate international relations program on the other side of the country in an effort to understand why these sorts of things happen. I went on to write my PhD in the field and the study and teaching of international politics became my life for probably the next 15 years.
I think you are getting confused between the word theory and the word model, which are often interchanged in physics unfortunately.

A "model" is predictive, but a "theory" explains. A theory of consciousness has no need to predict the future. A model of consciousness would. This word has just been mixed up a lot in science. The reason is that theories in physics are almost always also predictive models. However, this is not usually explicitly the case in philosophy.
In 2012 I bought a book called "Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America".

It had a chapter on how to move to (almost) every country in the world. Nothing seemed practical, I didn't have the skills and there was a recession.

But in the end there were some interviews with people who had left, and there was a throwaway line: "I got a working holiday visa for Ireland"

I didn't even know working holiday visas existed! I figured I could move to Ireland for a year and enjoy what I could.

6 months in I wasn't having much luck finding a longer term sponsor, despite applying lots of different places.

Then I was at the pub and heard someone having a laugh about "JSON? I said JASON!" (it was funnier when we were drunk)
Had a chat, got an interview, got a job, got a green card, and recently got naturalized.

I think a lot of things in life have been small serendipities like this.
Does it work with tkinter? So I can have a GUI for every OS in a single executable ?
He mentioned masks because the article itself uses masks as an example of a belief the author claims is false, as cited in the post above.

By the way, lots of people believe masks don't work. You can line up places that differ only by mask mandate status and observe that the case curves are the same. There are many situations like that, but in theory you only need one to disprove the claim that mask mandates (always) work. The case against masks is made by Ian Miller in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Global-Failure-COVID-Mandate...
> the only thing we have direct access to, that physicalists nevertheless tend to treat as a magic side-effect of magically existing reality

Doesn't that perspective require a magically existing mind, which happens to magically discover an entire universe with consistent laws and constants as a side-effect of its experimental enquiries? Not much gained by the change of perspective, then?
May be a little late to the party on this one, but this is a good summary of expert responses to the review article: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-revi...
No need for wayback: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319854
Grafbase: Instant serverless GraphQL backends
Hallucinations are often not religious experiences. Most often when people feel it's religious it's connected to a deep sense of meaning. This can be accompanied to drugs and or hallucinations but doesn't have to. Often connected to feeling of perception of self dissolving, not having any seperatioe, feeling fully one or dissolving into the "outer" world
Narrowing the scope would help
Thank you, I'll read it
I'd say Alzheimer's is essentially the inability to lay down memories that can be recalled beyond a very short period of time (in extreme cases, seconds).
But once your brain can no longer store ANY recallable memories, you're unconscious.
This APE format is not "write once run anywhere", because it targets a specific architectrure (64-bit x86) and won't run on other architectures. Just a toy format and I see no use for it.

What we need instead is better support in Linux for legacy Linux and Windows applications so that Linux could run any proprietary software written for it or for Windows (because there are no sources for it and it cannot be recompiled). Today it is not so: for example, very old Firefox builds don't run or crash on modern Linux.
Yes. When I figured out how to do hyper keys with Karabiner.

https://wiki.nikiv.dev/macOS/apps/karabiner
If qualia are not remembered, do they make a sound?
A friend of mine wanted to make some speaker-stands from some thick pieces of wood, in a Z shape. He didn't know what angle to cut it, so asked me (knowing that I had, some years earlier, obtained a maths A-level). The problem reduced to solving a quadratic, but I couldn't remember the formula for the solutions (-b ± something?) so spent 2-3 days trying to reconstruct the proof (this was pre-internet). Eventually I cracked it, and enjoyed the process so much that I applied to study maths at University ... He never did make those bloody speaker-stands.
Forer Statements as Updates and Affirmations
Not at all surprised this is getting downvoted. There's a decent book on this theme:

https://www.amazon.com/Hallucinations-Oliver-Sacks/dp/030794...

where the author postulates that a decent portion of society experiences hallucinations at least once in their lifetime without any "helpers" like drugs or sleep deprivation. (I don't remember the exact percentage, read that thing ages ago).

I think this is how religions get started.
I have exactly the same feeling.
I wonder if there is something like "Facebook 2008" ?
It seems like LinkedIn is slowly taking that spot
Wait till you get them ;). Sort of joking. I know the feeling, also had that. Getting them is very different from this high, but probably even more worth it. Although you will be more tired and busy then ever before.
Learned I have ADHD and getting medicated in the span of 3 months has completely changed my quality of life and my outlook on the future.

The second best thing was during a dark time with work-related burnout of top to take my mental health seriously and talk with a therapist. Made it a serious commitment for a couple years and it's been the best investment in time and money I could ever have made. Learned a lot about myself, my approach to the world, the world's approach to myself and what makes me tick... just by talking it out.

Nothing else in my life has created such long-lasting and radical changes in relatively short time.
Google brought us some, a lot maybe even, of good stuff. May we not be critical of the things they could do better?

Always this endless either you with us or against us shit . smh.
This question and these comments are giving me flashbacks to when I first discovered (and became a habitual visitor of) r/AskReddit. Back around 2014.

I don’t read r/AskReddit anymore these days. I replaced it with this site..
Probably contains some particles from the grindstone yes, but I wouldn't think in anywhere enough quantity to have a particularly deleterious effect on people's teeth
Lots of great points to take in for me - much appreciated, thanks!

Regarding the discount: I guess my idea was to build a reputation first (get good word of mouth) and then stop with the discounts and bump up my prices after a couple of successful projects.
When my dad died, shortly followed by my mum.

It really made me realise the futility of life.

Since then, it's been ten years or so, and I look forward to being dead.

Not for any religious, spiritual purpose, but just to get all this life nonsense out of the way. It will be much easier to not exist any more.
In Asia, Line seems to be doing well selling stickers which I guess can be a way to monetize a chat app.
problem is that those are two really core features of a messenging app, so they probably don't see how you can keep using the app without them and not have a shite experience.

edit : in case people wonder "share your contact" is actually the only way an app can tell you if a friend from your contact book can be contacted through the app. It's a pretty important thing especially for the onboarding of new people.
I feel like there are a few moments that can change your life, at least I think I can resume them as:

* health issue

* read a book

* break up / got into a relationship

* moved abroad

* got a new job

The easiest way is really to read a book. The problem is finding the right book and spending time reading bad books.
If it’s a lottery you don’t need to make a hard cut off of 50%. You just pass all proposals that meet the criteria. That means you only have to design the proposal so it meets those criteria and any extra work on it is useless since it will be ignored and just get thrown in the same pile to be randomly chosen.
Never miss twice is generally a good doctrine to follow.

Of course not breaking the chain demands a certain precondition, let not getting sick. Not neglecting minor chores daily, that they might some day take a week of your time. Things like that.

That given, its generally hard to break the chain. In fact it might become something like addiction after a while, a.k.a habit.
(Not trying to score sympathy points)
I got diagnosed with metastatic cancer (incurable). Five weeks later (while getting chemo) I quit my job. I was a workaholic software developer. I haven't programmed since. Best decision I ever made and I'm happy and enjoy life (with some limitations).
Probably CPU cooling getting extremely loud. Server fans are notorious for very high levels of noise unlike what you usually see in personal desktops. (At least I think so, never having actually been in a datacenter due to living in the middle of nowhere.)
It depends what you want to get out of your study of the mind. Art can be a goal in and of itself.

It, however, has historically contributed less to the success of medicine than furthering our understanding of biology.

So, I have a pretty narrow, muleheaded interest in evidence-based beliefs that pay their rents in predictions about the world.

Those I like, because they sometimes convert into useful medical interventions.
Feels like a much more fun version of minesweeper for me. Same sort of logic with less anxiety so you can start to go very fast.
Gluing in space applications is one of the very few areas I would consider myself close to an expert in (assuming I am not at the Peak of Mt. Stupid).

As you say, the number of factors involved is really crazy, especially when it comes to proving the suitability for a new glue. Thankfully there are a relatively small number of generally applicable glues that are used for 90% of situations.

For thos interested, the most commonly used glue in space in Europe is Scotchweld EC2216.
Imagine taking time out of your day to post this
> That is no small thing. Bitch all you want but make sure when you do you compare it to the success...

Approaching valid criticism from that angle, with that attitude only throws a big jug of fuel to the already volatile fire.

We are having these these kinds of arguments on another piece of software which I won't name, and it's leading to the same outcome. No productive discussion, no progress, nothing.

Signal achieved good things, yes. Kudos for them coming that far. But if there is a considerable volume of same feedback, it's at least beneficial to listen to them intently, ponder and then sleep upon them, and draw some insight out of it.

A kind reply and acknowledgement would be very fit and handsome jest, but it's not a must.

You might be thinking that Signal is a flawless piece of software, even better than the sliced bread itself, but not everyone is on the same boat with you, and this is the way it should be. If this thing is an infrastructure for some people, and use it that much, the users have at least the right to make their opinions heard.