skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. At least you can use VoIP numbers with Signal. You can also get a prepaid SIM anonymously, use it to create a Signal account, and then not use it. So there wouldn’t actually be any cell network activity tied to the phone number.
I think that consciousness (or rather the feeling of consciousness) is very related to continuous long-term memory storing.

When you're blackout drunk, or under anesthesia, your brain can still infer connections between sequential stimuli (e.g. you can understand words), but none of those memories stay in your brain long-term. I'd say that we were actually conscious during that period, but in the present moment we have no recollection because our memory (for some chemical reason related to alcohol/anesthesia) wasn't stored properly for long-term use.

I imagine the same would happen if we somehow managed to "remove" memories from our minds. After the removal, our current self would not have any recollection of those memories removed - as if we weren't conscious during that period whatsoever.

In conclusion: the feeling of consciousness is deeply related to continuous storage of our life-long memories.
When you are negotiating your salary in the marketplace, the people sitting across from you are Bezos, Sergey Brin, Blackstone, Andreessen, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and a long list of hedge funds and private equity firms.

These are the (obscenely wealthy) people that you are allowing to arbitrage your salary.

I doubt other underpaid workers are celebrating the fact that your salary differential is paying for champagne on a super yacht instead of going to your kid’s college fund or more family vacations.

And I’m sure that the people/groups mentioned are pleased that they are able to pocket the difference en masse because of this economically irrational ethic.
Fwiw, thanks for sharing this. This thread is full of insights on hacker spaces as a business model in general.
I don't miss it being run by google or forced into every product, but google+ circles were so much better then facebook friend lists.

But I refuse to be nostalgic for FB, it's always been meh to me.

And the sad thing with all these changes is it's going to frustrate all the old retirees who just want their computer to do the same thing that it used to do.
When I was a kid this once happened to me by just sleeping. I closed my eyes at night, opened them seemingly immediately and it was morning, feeling absolutely rested.

It was pretty weird and amazing, and never happened again. I haven't heard anyone reporting something like this, but I'm almost sure it must have happened to other people too.
Bismuth-based solder is nice for being lead-free, having a low melting point, and being a true eutectic alloy.

But it has some serious disadvantages:

1. This alloy is brittle, and makes circuit boards more vulnerable to failures due to cracked solder joints than other alloys, causing long-term reliability concerns. Many industry war-stories claim users of bismuth-based solder saw significant failures in the field.

2. Backward incompatibility with leaded solder. If the solder joints are mixed with lead, the strength of the joints are seriously weakened. During the initial lead-free transition, this problem made it largely unacceptable as a replacement. But it's useful if you are reworking a board and desoldering parts...

3. Low surface tension, reducing yield. Modern surface-mount components depend on the surface tension of the liquid solder for self-alignment. Even if the chip is not perfectly aligned with the pads, the melting solder can drag it into its propel place. A lower surface tension means the self-alignment effect is weaker and increases failure rates.

Thus, bismuth-based solder has a long and established history, but it's always used only in niche, temperature-sensitive applications. Recently it saw significant uses in the LED lighting industry due to temperature-sensitive nature of the surface-mount LEDs. But I have to wonder: to what extent it's responsible for all the broken LED lamps...

For the rest of the industry, SAC305 was selected and became the standard: higher temperature, but at least it doesn't have bismuth's reliability problems. SN100C is actually slightly better than SAC305 in all aspects, but unfortunately this alloy was patented (and just expired recently).

> Typical lead-free tin-copper-silver solder you find in factory mass-produced electronics is hard to work/rework manually because of its high melting point.

Leaded solder is preferred by many in hand-made prototypes due to better the wetting properties and surface tension of the alloy, which is critical for successfully soldering surface-mount parts under non-ideal conditions. If the prototypes are assembled by reflow soldering, temperature is only a secondary concern.
someone takes what you said to an employment tribunal and makes the case they were fired without the proper dismissal process ('unfair dismissal')
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> Wonder what would people suggest if one is looking into a long-term many-core Linux workstation setup as of today?

Well, ryzen 5000-family and threadripper 3000-family core count do not intersect(16v24). if you need more than 16 cores and dont mind spending twice as much per core, go with threadripper. otherwise, ryzen 5950x is an absolute beast when cooled properly and is only $480
Huh, they're still ridiculously cheap here in .uk still ... though perhaps only if you pick the least profitable things off their menu.

Triple cheeseburgers reheated in the microwave with a brick of extra mature cheddar added between two of the patties first remain one of the most cost effective "my depression is trying to eat me but I really should still actually have food" meals I've figured out though. (the trick is to microwave it just enough to soften the cheddar then cut it in half, stupidbrain finds a whole burger upsetting but half a burger twice acceptable, yes I know how little sense that makes logically but the entire point here is "working around my brain being irrational.")
This is one layer too high - ssd firmware has no way of knowing your intentions purely from filesystem/sector activity.
What "familiar features" is Signal missing? Honest question. It has reactions, groups, stickers (wish they linked signalstickers.org so you can get more from inside the app), replies, etc. I don't see anything that WA or iMessage has that Signal doesn't. I know WA has statuses, but every time I look at it none of my friends have posted one. Telegram has channels, but do we really need that?

I honestly don't know what these features are. The only thing I hear from normal people is stickers and "but none of my friends are there." This is a genuine question because I can't figure out what others have that Signal doesn't.
this golden age you refer to, if it even existed in the first place, was around well, well before stories came along
You are still failing, but don't give up. Most people can get there in the end.
Counterpoint: facebook are going to add the classic chronological friends and family experience as a second tab “feeds”. In your analogy it would be like mcdonalds splitting down the middle, with the main entrance leading you to tacodonalds and a side door from that hallway leading you to the classic mcdonalds. Parents could send their kids to tacodonalds for a burger taco because that’s what the kids love, while nearby they could enjoy a classic big mac. Most people would probably prefer it that way.

This is just diversification to reach more market segments, and as long as that feeds tab exists they aren’t doing anything different from e.g. youtube, where the home tab is not what I want at all, but the subscriptions tab does exactly what I want.
It's nice to see this inspiring global campaign getting wider and wider coverage.
And a service center can't turn that Ferrari into a Camry, either.
I'm a materialist myself, but I can think of one very fun theory that solves this. What if neurons are special antennas that can "connect" to your consciousness, and when you're, say, drunk, those antennas start receiving and transmitting wrong signals. Your consciousness is just fine in its world, but your body can't talk to it properly anymore.

Obviously I'm just making stuff up, and I don't actually believe any of this.
While missing the Matrix, Wire, and IRC options?
Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
Something that happened over a small span of time that totally changed the trajectory of your life?
After work, go outside regardless of the weather. If you have a garden/yard, do something, even if it's just a short stroll to make sure everything's in order. Chopping wood is a great way to get rid of aggressions.

Finish off with a bike ride or walk. After that, if the weather is nice, try staying outside for a while.
You forgot massive jamming in Iraq.
Here's another, more regional one: why do so many homes in England not have a lock on the bathroom door?

Having been born & raised in another part of the UK. I never saw a bathroom without a lock on the door til I moved to England. Where I'd say maybe half the homes I've been in don't.

Really cramps your style, when you're trying to go for a massive dump and your buttocks keep clenching up every time someone walks past the door!
So far as I've seen here in .uk they still have an inventory and most orders happen that way. (given them being a franchise this may not generalise beyond the locations I visit, of course)
That picture gets distorted quickly, as people have 200 "friends" on social media, most of whom share a rather filtered and polished image of themselves online. People in many cases don't really get an accurat idea.
As an employer you are shooting yourself in the foot with a poor job description. Describing it as a complicated puzzle is not an amazing sign.
> A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one's horizons.

I find it much better. If I want to, there are hobby groups like discord, anonymously, not show off to all for likes and follows kind of social media.

There should be no need to passively know what people are doing all the time. If anyone do that, it becomes addiction.
Seconding `rr` as suggested by @tux3, it's great for debugging.

Also, the sanitizers for GCC and Clang (https://github.com/google/sanitizers), and the Clang static analyzer (and tidy too) through CodeChecker (https://codechecker.readthedocs.io/).

For the Clang static analyzer, make sure your LLVM toolchain has the Z3 support enabled (OK in Debian stable for example), and enable cross translation units (CTU) analysis too for better results.
That's what tape is for and not the usecase in question.
If Facebook was into that kind of thing, we would still have a proper chronological feed.
RuboCop Serves (Much) Faster
Sorry for the LATE reply, but it took me awhile to work through the whole comment.

Very interesting stuff. Sadly, I meant simcity 4, rather than the original, so this isn't too useful to me directly. But some of the methodology, I reckon, will be quite helpful.
I zoomed in on a red spot in the US and was surprised to see the city name "Uvalde" pop up. Not quite in the center of the spot, but any thoughts on if it might be related to the reason that a European like me knows that name?
Same. Putting something down on paper let's me take it out of my mind.
The author compiled the Python interpreter as an Actually Portable Executable (APE) file.

APE files (usually using a `.com` extension) are single executable files that can be run natively on many major operating systems. Kind of a "polyglot" executable file that most major operating systems just understand natively.

The implication is that you can now package Python code as a single file that can be directly run regardless of the operating system the user is on. No installers, no dependencies on what must already be installed, no separate downloads for different operating systems. Just one single file, click and run.
I've been a Signal user for the last 6ish years, and if anything I've noticed message delivery reliability go down in the last year. This is an active discussion point within my circles that something is seriously broken at Signal as we are a large group all having these issues happen to us (i.e not tied to one platform or os version).
> However, the light turned out to not actually be safety glass and not shatter in harmless cubes

You mean like every other headlight? Headlights don't use toughened or safety glass.
One of the key aspects of the live coding scene was, and still is to a certain degree, to provide a contrast to this kind of perfectionism. To allow people to experiment, and allow or even encourage them to fail, live on stage, rather than playing it safe.

It recently has changed a little with the advancement of more stable and mature live coding systems (there's plenty, really ... even my own is pretty stable by now) and more formats addressing a more general audience.

Personally, though, I'll forever cheer harder for a person hacking together a sampler in plain C in 9 minutes than a "stable" performance.

I'd find it sad to see the live coding scene totally going down the Apple road, from a vibrant, proudly amateurish scene to one that is "professionalized", stable, but profoundly bland.
If reality has always existed and will continue to exist for eternity, cyclical or not, it is probably inevitable that the configuration of phenomena called "you" will come back together after your death. It's forever afterall.
Funny how that headline can be interpreted in two widely different ways, given "trans" has taken on a whole new meaning, of late
As far as we can tell consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of the physical processes of the brain, and when you interrupt those processes, you don’t form new memories, and when you wake up it’s as if you time travelled to that point.

Any other explanation involves a lot of hand-waving and vast unfounded assumptions that contradict the known laws of physics. My question for those cases is: how does it work? For example, if there really is a “soul” that is able to influence (and be influenced by) my brain, then what is the physical mechanism for that interaction? Can we describe it in a rigorous mathematical framework that makes testable predictions? In what way is our current description of physics incomplete or incompatible, and how do we alter them to fit this new stuff in? What observations can we make to confirm this?

If someone can answer those questions for the soul, then there’s a Nobel prize waiting for you for completely upending and rewriting our laws of physics.
You can reserve space by setting host protected area (HPA). There are even people theorizing this might add provisioning are to an SSD https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SSD_Over-provisioning_u... . But so far there is zero evidence for it. HPA is not a magic nobody touches area, its an area reserved for special superuser use and no Drive will simply start reusing it for its own internal processes.
Software is made of human ideas molded into grammar, syntax, and abstractions. We know how to work with those at every level.

The mind is made of and affected by proteins, enzymes, small molecules. Those form cells, and larger structures, but at every level it is exceptionally hard for us to work with those building blocks.

There's no nice formulas or method that can tell you what a protein does, or how to design one that does what you want.

It is as if every single token of the source code was encrypted, and it took great effort to translate anything, word by word, slowly and painstakingly.

One thing we can do is take small bits of code, put them in thousands of slightly different live systems, and watch what happens. Clinical trials. That helps a lot, but it is still an uphill battle trying to understand the far future alien technology that is biology.
> With no experience, you're a tabula rasa, but once you've been carved, that's it, fixed in stone.

I mean, if you work in a company/team with bad practices, then that's likely to rub off onto you and affect your further employment prospects, because it will be hard to unlearn being okay with untestable code, no documentation and even the code itself not being self-documenting where possible, the code being not scalable, having N+1 problems and so on.
I recalled immediately about the quantum vibrations hypothesis which Penrose helped create: https://youtu.be/VG8_hlnFdWM

Although it sounds weird the reasoning and explanation on microtubules is pretty fascinating. If you’re interested definitely check that out.
Downvote, eh? Okay then.

> Cosmopolitan Libc does come with some tradeoffs as well
> (static compilation, C codebases, no multithreading
> (Update 2022-07-27:, no multithreading yet,
> the pthreads API takes a while to fill

Toy.

> Regarding python packages with C extensions, the build
> process for adding them to the APE is rather unwieldy
> (2022-07-27 adding C extensions to the APE is much more
> elegant now because of the Cosmopolitan monorepo

Horrific malware. Unchecked C (even libsafe) is bad.

Edit: Nevermind that each app using this software will need to be individually updated every time a new security patch for Python comes out.
Oh sure, was instead referring to the lineup.
I don't think it would became nuclear war.
Zero day exploit =/= people automagically get infected.

One would have to first craft the shellcode insertion into the exploit, which is not exactly trivial, then hope that enough users visit a particular website to get infection (which is a negative feedback loop as the more users visit a website, the more likely it is to get scanned and reported as containing malware), then drop a crafted executable to presumably steal something that is worth money, which is a whole separate problem.

Possible? Definitely. So is you getting held up, your car stolen, and chopped up for parts, with no available recourse. Both are rather unlikely.
Connect this to DALL-E, and instaneously create new Lego sets with text prompts.
>Maybe I am weird, but I never see the Facebook page of companies.

I may be reaching too far here but maybe it is your adblocker? A lot of times companies use the "facebook page integration" thing in their websites which I think most adblockers (including mine) filter out.
it seems the primary problem is the mismatch of pay is adequate for the value of the work (which is low) and it seems better fit for someone near retirement then someone with goals of trying to buy a house and raise a family because the latter tend to expect a higher salary due to their accumulated experience.
You don't have to trust a 3rd party. Just compare your security codes IRL or through another trusted channel.

Without doing that, you can never be sure if there is a MITM attack. Not with Signal, not with Matrix, not with WhatsApp.

EDIT: MITM may not be the best description, let's say: "you cannot be sure, that you talk to the correct person."
I think "recommendations" are polarising rather than exclusively a (business) mistake. some people, like me, you and probably most of HN, see them as an intrusive waste of time and go out of their way to avoid them; however, I would imagine there is a very large slice of society that doesn't actively moderate how they spend their free time, or really question the things they're presented with online, to whom "recommendations" will have become a very engaging way to find new content and spend their time. that description isn't a euphemism for "stupid" either. I know plenty of intelligent people who scroll through a feed endlessly when they want a way to occupy their mind
My guess is that (just like other big players) they have a team for each part/page/section of their platform. There is no cohesive product vision and no product principles (promises) to the users.
Every debate about consciousness is painful to watch because consciousness is a suitcase word (so many meanings are packed into it that we can’t untangle them)
> Signal brought e2e encryption to the masses in a form that was and is usable.

The general users do not care, just like how no-one cares about the inventor of the smartphone and Apple repackaged it and brought out the iPhone to billions of users.

Therefore, WhatsApp is the chosen one because in reality and contrary to what the herd believe here on HN, research [0] shows that even when Signal was boosted by some famous people, 'the masses' gave up using Signal when migrated and instead moved back to WhatsApp or Telegram.

I think Signal has done a terrible job at selling itself and retaining its users migrated from other messengers and was only riding on the back of boosters that don't even use it, which allowed Signal to get distracted and rush and push in a private cryptocurrency project useful to criminals and scammers to execute a pump and dump scheme for the founders.

The level of delusion in the comments about that so-called 'mass migration' or great 'messenger migration' to Signal seems to be as present as a haunted house.

What a shame. And nope, anecdotes is not evidence.

[0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, will check it out after work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31775802
Telegram has a bot API that is great. I use it for a lot of Projects. Used to be a niche feature I guess, but nowadays I see a LOT of people using some bot for some specific feature.
By the force of their numbers occupying the seat of government and forcing the elected representatives and the chain of government (VP, Speaker, President of Senate) to be isolated.

No one knew whether or not the rioters were armed or not. Therefore, the assumption had to be that they were, or that there were those that were hidden in the crowd.

Until they were cleared from the Capitol buildings, they controlled the electoral process and disabled the counting of the electoral college votes. That delayed the part of the transfer of power between one POTUS and the next.
Signal is yet another of those products that Knows Better Than You what's good for you. It Knows Better what you're allowed to do with your messages, what kind of client you're allowed to use, what kind of multidevice experience you need and when it should destroy messages you care about.

The arrogance of the owner directly transfers to the arrogance and lack of control in the software which is fundamentally limiting its usefulness for everyone.
It really looks like Facebook was build on luck and not merit.
Applied to FANG for an internship and 5 years later I'm still there.

I'd call it life-changing as I can FIRE around 40 now (current trajectory). Planning to care for my siblings however, so realistically it's more like 45-50.