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What if consciousness, like intelligence is not only not clearly defined, but actively retreats as science advances upon it's supposed definition.

Consciousness isn't magic, it's metacognition. It's thinking about thinking. You have a finite (and not allways constant) amount of layers of recursion to your metacognition and you can hack symbolic representation to get nigh infinite recursion for very specific cases. Other animals (and likely some computational processes) have a nonzero amount consciousness. It's unlikely we will be able to quantize it anytime soon.

Artificial Consciousness isn't a thing because consciousness only makes for less efficient machine slave labor, it's the quality of humans we are making computers to actively avoid dealing with. Why, other than unwisely funded hubris and ego, would anybody try to make it?
You can also buy RFID safes and RFID rings. That way you open the safe with the ring.
I have encountered it. When writing a shell script do you write #!/bin/bash or #!/usr/bin/bash at the top? I have had scripts fail when moving to another machine because of having the wrong one. Same thing with /bin/env vs /usr/bin/env

It's really not a huge issue for me, but it is at least a minor frustration. (And for people who maintain scripts across different distros / *nixes, I'm sure that it is a larger frustration).
The power grid is just a way to remotely boil a kettle.
Yeah, I chose to use “formation” rather than “peloton” because the latter would have been a stretch. It was two long, closely packed columns. It definitely was ill-advised and ended exactly how it should have.
I hate every touch control on earphones/headphones. It's one of a reason why I bought AirPods Max. I'm curious is it fine finally.
>and it's clearly not threat to anyone living today and probably not for many generations to come

I am not sure how to respond to this in productive way. You clearly deny the impact of climate change, and it is unlikely I will convince you otherwise, so I don't know if it's worth anyone's time. If you're open minded and want to have a conversation, maybe start by responding to the well understood impacts of climate change today, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Impacts
TIL /usr/ucb is no more! https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/preparing-for-the-upco... . I wonder if the same thing happened to /usr/xpg4. (I haven't touched Solaris in more than 10 years)
Yeah I agree with you! Most new compilers these days are built with these kinds of diagnostics baked in from the start. Since the compiler is doing analysis anyway, it's well-positioned to expose that information to the user.

The one thing I've noticed missing from Zig's implementation is separating those diagnostics into different categories, aka errors/warnings. I can't fault them too much for the oversight since the language isn't 1.0 yet, after all. But I do look forward to them finishing this feature!
> native apps are almost always more fun to use

I find myself deleting wrapped PWAs. If I need to use the service and am paying, I’ll ping their customer support email. If I’m not, do I really need it? Life is too slow for stodgy apps and hamburger menus on iOS.
The big question to me is: At what level of the tech stack should moderation happen?

Should it be done by the ISP? By the IaaS? By the software provider? By developers?

Ideally, moderation would occur at just one level. That way, there are less avenues for abuse to occur. Leaving moderation rules vague may lead to some services that could be beneficial (whistleblowers, etc) to be easily taken down.
A bicycle is also harvesting the construction of the road and not counting that. Sail might still be less efficient in the amortized average, though.
I have making web and mobile apps for a long time and have never understood what "native" UI even means. No two native apps look the same. And the thing I always notice is that I can't deep link or do a text search on a native app.

You are absolutely correct that most users prefer native apps but I have no actual data on why.
Recently in startups I’ve been a part of it’s become a bit of a fad to have a short write up called “how I work” which is basically a treatise consisting of that person telling everyone else how they interact with the world. I’ve found it refreshing, actually.
The Qantas-Singapore Airlines merger that almost happened
I am betting compatibility with past practice wins over incremental efficiency.

But I have no way to evaluate whether retrofitting existing airframes with underslung tankage will be practical.
time to turn off auto update for a month or so :)
> Artists need better protection under the law (and new laws to protect them if needed), and more enforcement mechanisms to uphold the law.

Please no. In the name of protecting artists, copyright law is strangling our culture. Misrepresenting art as being made by someone is already illegal as fraud. We do not need need “style” copyrights for arts. Mimicry and copying and modifying various styles from different artists is an integral part of the arts.
How is this an unrelated controversy and the parent comment is not?

If the the question is whether a company should not locate themselves in Austin because of SB 8 is permitted, so too should the observation that prospective employees can readily circumvent the law with a day trip to Denver.
I actually just found today when shopping for drywall that there is 54"x12' drywall ("Super Wide") available. Still not a trucking issue, but interesting.
This is similar to "we're all just a simulation" - sure, maybe consciousness isn't in our brain and it's actually all in another dimension. But then how's it work over in the other dimension? It's gotta eventually actually be somewhere.
Strong disagree here. Flash represented a proprietary takeover of web standards. It was bad technology with a bad license and had bad consequences. Apple’s ideology resulted in a pure gain for the open web.

Apple’s dictatorial control over browser engines on iOS represents, somewhat ironically, the last significant defense in the cause of browser engine diversity. While Apple’s motives might be less pure here, the outcomes are no less of a win for the open web.
Elizabeth Holmes wants a new trial because prosecution witness feels remorseful
Insurance is to make you whole financially after the fact not to response to a life and death emergency in the moment. This theory has been tried in at least one location wherein you were expected to pay annually for fire service or the fire department wouldn't put out your house and would instead insure that the fire didn't spread to the paying customers while they watched your home burn.

It's abhorrent. We ensure cell phones can always call 911 even without a plan for instance which unlike insurance is a nearly identical situation. The logical thing to do is just take it out of the hands of service providers by always requiring carriage of such a call in all circumstances and expecting OEMs/service providers to make back that money on device or service wherein such a device includes that function.
For one I don't think PWAs will, should or can kill all native apps. But I think they could replace a specific subset of native apps that aren't doing anything particularly ambitious in terms of feature set or UI. The article is pretty long but for me there are two core reasons:

- people are used to getting apps from the App/Play Store. It's a very well understood dynamic. Installing from a web page is strange.

- Apple have helped make the above an even bigger problem that it needs to be by making their 'add to Home Screen' option two menus deep with no way to trigger it as a result of user action.

That's about it, really. I know people are coming to this thread to say PWAs fail because the UI is bad or because they're slow or this or that... I don't buy that argument simply because I know of a ton of slow native apps that have poor UI that are successful. Non-power users don't really care all that much if you're offering functionality they want to use (within reason, of course). I would still love to see a web API for something equivalent to UITableView, though.
The Harrowing Search for the Elusive Technical Answer
It's more like pre-pay your fire insurance or fire fighters will let your house burn which has already been tried.
Utah and Nevada, for the most part.

There are lots of great places to land, but being stuck in the desert without any way to communicate is a very real possibility (Ironically, even at many small town airports I’ve landed at).
Pretty bold claims.
I wouldn't mind if the interface froze for a few years :) . until I get a new device or something. As it is I will turn off the "auto update" feature for a month or two to let the other suckers test it for me.
Given that they're transmitting an app form over to Apple's server, they could encode checkboxes with bitmaps and text fields with dictionary LZMA. There probably will be only a few bytes of the actual data per emergency submission + protocol authentication and error correction overhead.
Are you referring to services like https://www.acrartex.com/406link/

It's interesting because it was never intended to work like that, it's basically just a hack that uses a test signal to dispatch an "I'm ok" message
I'd love for commercial fusion power generation to be a reality but I'm skeptical that, at a minimum, hydrogen fusion will ever be practical. The reasons have remained a problem for considerable period of time:

1. Containing a hydrogen plasma involves containing a superheated turbulent fluid. This is inherently unstable that will be sensitive to very minor defects;

2. A superheated plasma produces a lot of high velocity particles. Those not contained by magnetic containment tend to destroy the container (ie "neutron embrittlement"); and

3. Possibly the biggest problem of all: neutrons represent energy loss by the system and there's no currently viable way of solving this problem.

To solve (2) and (3) various groups research so-called "aneutronic" fusion. I put that in quotes because it's just a lot less neutrons generally, not no neutrons.

Helium-3 fusion is one possibility but He-3 is exceedingly rare. The best source may be from the solar wind being collected on the Moon's surface. As you can imagine that presents it's own set of challenges to mine, contain and return.

Hydrogen fusion uses heavier isotopes of hydrogen (ie deuterium with 1 neutron and/or tritium with 2). Why? Because we currently need these neutrons to feed the fusion reaction.

And after all this we extract heat to boil water to turn a turbine. This too adds to cost and complexity.

Personally I think the future of humanity's energy production is space-based solar power collectors.
Thank you for sharing this. That is so weird. Having been part of an MBA program meant that my profile was reviewed through multiple similar tests, but I have not heard of that one.

The thing that jumped at me is that it is not some small companies that are using these. US Banks apparently used it with its private capital customers[1] ( I am almost curious as to how it was applied ).

[1]https://realcolors.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/US...
Bicycles have 200-300W to work with. Motorcycles have 50,000-125,000W to work with. One puts a far higher premium on efficiency than the other.
Go read Blindsight, dispair, then realize consciousness is a decent intelligence bootstrapping mechanism that is likely convergent and common in the universe. Then wonder how quickly it will become vestigial, or if it already has.
> Users prefer native apps.

You've nailed it. Not just fun to use: Users prefer native apps because mostly they are a much better user experience.
Legally I am extremely replaceable because Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and I am only one of three board members who can make legally enforceable decisions.

As a software engineering lead I am becoming more replaceable every year as others learn to maintain various components of the project. Recently, I am proud to have dropped to having fewer than 50% of total commits in the Git repository for the compiler.
Don't discount the team building aspects of a shared subject of scorn.
>It's thinking about thinking.

Half of people talking about consciousness are not talking about that at all. They would call that self-consciousness or reflective consciousness. That is about what someone is experiencing. What many people are talking about is why someone (a material object) is experiencing anything at all.
Natives apps preferred and dev adoption building PWAs is still growing.
No. I didn't say anywhere that it's impossible that someone could want to die and change their mind. You're really missing a basic understanding of logic here.
Sure, I think it's OK to simply be of a type. You are also giving some simple affordances which is good. At the same time it's a pretty tricky and intriguing subtopic within personality type theory.

If you decide to stay on your type-script, your life will be more repetitive than it otherwise would. Many of the same problems, repeated. Your preferences will be less flexible by definition, so your scope of decision-making and even perceptual skill will be limited by subconscious pressure inputs, for example.

Also, you can more readily be manipulated by those who understand your blind spots better than you do. (This makes some people angry, but IMO it's better to embrace it and find a way to work on those)

However, to transcend one's own type requires intense learning, growth, and therefore stress. And the concepts here are so new that there is very little support available should you decide to really go in this direction.

Anyway. Personally I can understand either way. But the theoretical answer to "is having a personality type a problem" is both a hard no and a hard yes. This applies both for yourself and others as they interact with you.
I'd say power users prefer native apps. I genuinely think the jury is out on whether regular users do. The fact that you're citing something like 3D Touch (which was canned precisely because so few users knew what it even was or how to use it) kind of illustrates the point.

I think this is one of those cases where HN is going to just be an echo chamber audience. We're all power users, the majority of whom demand native apps. But we're not typical.
It is resorting to fear.
I can keep reading online literature for hours and watching Netflix for days.

It is not our attention that got shortened. Is is we were tolerant to borings before.

Sometimes, boring is good.
Humans evolved 5-7 million years ago during the Pliocene. The Mid-Pliocene is the most recent period with atmospheric CO2 comparable with the present (ca. 400 ppmv), with mean annual surface temperatures approximately 1.8 °C to 3.6 °C warmer than preindustrial temperatures.

Modern humans evolved 200K-300K years ago. In the last 650K years, Earth's climate was characterized by large climate swings as the ice ages advanced and receded triggered by changes in Earth's orbit relative to the Sun. Slow changes to the shape of the Earth’s orbit and wobble of the Earth’s axis caused cooling that was amplified by natural effects, including the growing ice sheets and the reduction of carbon dioxide by being absorbed in the oceans. Over tens of thousands of years the amplifying feedback caused the ice ages. The warm climates of the interglacials, the periods between ice ages, were similar to today, but probably a little cooler than right now. A few interglacials were a little bit warmer; some were a little bit cooler.

> Modern humans evolved during much warmer times

Not really.
Personally, I dislike having labels on myself that describe behavior whether it be pseudo-science or science-science because I find myself "role-playing" those labels and semi-consciously using them to guide actions. Even for medically diagnosed disorders I'll end up unconsciously thinking "Well of course, I'm going to do X because I have disorder Y/personality type Z".
> Why would you tell your Uber driver you're traveling to have an abortion? Probably TMI even without SB 8.

So an Uber driver would be the only person who could aid or assist someone getting to Denver from Texas?

I think your point is very myopic here.

More realistic examples are:

- friend or family driving someone to the airport

- friend or family paying for flight or donating miles

- friend or family successfully assisting in searching for flight (tough to prove, but still illegal, and certain text messages with detailed suggestions could be damning evidence)

- family or friend making lodging arrangements in Denver (with hotel, Airbnb, friend, etc.)

- family or friend going with woman to Denver to help the woman with anything

- family or friend sending encouragement messages like “hang in there” or “my thoughts and prayers are with you”

- family or friend providing child care or pet care while woman is in Denver

So, sure, technically this can be done without telling anyone involved, but it socially isolates the woman who is probably in a vulnerable spot. I think that is the goal of this legislation.

“Hey Mom, I’m going to Denver for a few days just cuz. Could you please watch my pets and my house for a few days? Also, please don’t ask why I’m breaking down in tears all the time…”

And that conversation assumes no financial assistance is needed for travel, lodging, or procedure.
> I want to be able to wear it 24/7 to track sleeping

What do you do with sleep tracking data?
No it isn’t. Variable names are literally fungible in this context.
Correct. We rely on the courage of companies smarter than us to come up with the solutions to these problems, but sometimes they forget to fix the problems they're responsible for causing.
Iran claims that it has new artificial intelligence capabilities
Looks like they left POPCOUNT off. Again.
The PWA for Zoom when I tried it on my Chromebook was horrible, FWIW.
Why would they lose? The discussion is an absolute about preference to die, not about change of that preference by someone who didn’t die. Also, not hard to imagine that there would be some people whose preference didn’t change. They just suffered longer and then died anyways. This is common with terminal cancers.
I've noticed that. They really are talking about literally the opposite of what I posit consciousness to be. I'd love to convince them to find a different word but I'm not convinced I shouldn't be the one to ceede the term and find another.
Certificate Transparency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

/? "Certificate Transparency" Blockchain
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Certificate+Transpar... https://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alert...

- Some of these depend upon a private QKD [fiber,] line

- NIST PQ algos are only just now announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32281357 : Kyber, NTRU, {FIPS-140-3}?

/? Ctrl-F "Certificate Transparency" https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ :

"Google's Certificate Transparency Search page to be discontinued May 15th, 2022" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781698

- LetsEncrypt Oak is also powered by Google/trillian, which is a trustful centralized database

- e.g. Graph token (GRT) supports Indexing (search) and Curation of datasets

> And what about indexing and search queries at volume, again without replication?

My understanding is that the s
Sigstore folks are now more open to the idea of a trustless DLT? "W3C Verifiable Credentials" is a future-proof standardized way to sign RDF (JSON-LD,) documents with DIDs.

Verifiable Credentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_credentials

# Reproducibile Science Publishing workflow procedures with Linked Data:

- Sign the git commits (GPG,)

- Sign the git tags (GPG+Sigstore, ORCID & DOI (-> W3C DIDs), FigShare, Zenodo,)

- Sign the package(s) and/or ScholarlyArticle & their metadata & manifest ( Sigstore, pkg_tool_xyz,CodeMeta RDF/JSON-LD, ),

- Sign the SBOM (CycloneDx, Sigstore,)

- Search for CVEs/vulns & Issues for everything in the SBOM (Dependabot, OSV,)

- Search for trusted package hashes for everything in the SBOM

- Sign the archive/VM/container image (Docker Notary TUF, Sigstore,)

- Archive & Upload & Restore & Verify (and then Upgrade Versions in the) from the dependency specifications, SBOM, and/or archive/VM/container image (VM/container tools, repo2docker (REES),)

- Upgrade Versions and run unit, functional, and integration tests ({pip-tools, pipenv, poetry, mamba}, pytest, CI, Dependabot,))
The watch can have more or less battery life without a phone nearby; if you don't have a watch cellular plan it'd probably have somewhat more, since more features are turned off. Of course, if you want to force it you can use airplane mode.
Social exercises are intellectual exercises.
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Peter Eckersley's Homepage : https://pde.is/
True, from a technical standpoint. I was referring to the business standpoint as it seems like other than IBM, what businesses are still making any investments in it? (i.e. no consoles using it anymore, Apple is long gone, Motorola (spinoffs) appear to at best be phasing out etc)
That's stretching things more than just a little bit ...
> Funnily enough, installing an app directly from a website is both faster and more convenient.

This only holds true if one directly navigates to the website in question, which I would argue is unusual at best. The next closest thing to searching the App Store/Play Store is searching for the app with Google, where one will be met with pages of results that are likely not helpful, particularly for the type of highly general queries that tend to be used when shopping around for an app (e.g. "recipe app").

Additionally, the App Store and Play Store provide some signal of app quality by way of reviews and ratings, which helps skip over the more obvious clunkers and lemons and filter out the options that don't have the features required. You don't get that with PWAs, making for more time wasted evaluating each PWA in the category.

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On the question posed by the title, from the developer side of things a factor I don't see discussed as much is that for various reasons, a lot of devs don't want to write for the web ecosystem due to the tech stack involved. If it were easier to opt out of JavaScript and its associated ecosystem in favor of whatever devs prefer instead, takeup of PWAs would be more enthusiastic. WASM is promising for accomplishing this but doesn't seem to be where it needs to be quite yet.
The unsung part of this is that Bluetooth is a ridiculously complicated protocol. Basically everyone has a broken implementation of it. If someone asked me to choose whether to write either a C++ compiler or a bluetooth stack, I would probably choose the C++ compiler.

There are very few people who are both passionate about the problem of wireless devices and who understand all of the stack enough to make a driver that is fast, resilient, and standards-compliant. I hear that Apple sometimes bends the "standards-compliant" part - which is why their airpods only work with their devices.

Apple has done a great job giving this team of <100 engineers the space they need to succeed, and it's a huge feat. Most other companies don't even try to write their own BT stack (for good reason) and just use a vendor solution, so their user experience is subpar.
Second hand phones exist.
> the jury is out on whether regular users do

The jury decided, went home and had grandchildren. If anything, power user tools are in web apps. (They benefit from the cloud backend.)

It’s Shazam and Uber and your local paper’s goinga-on-about-town sections that have apps. Because they get dramatically more engagement there than on a web app.
Unfortunately if I underpay my taxes I don't get to pick whether it comes out of the "social programs and infrastructure" bucket or the "blow up children in the Middle East" bucket.