skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. So consciousness is maybe very loosely the ability for an entity to model and interact with its surroundings. On the low end we have a rock. It is the product of its surroundings and therefore you could say it has some kind of model, but no interaction. Then you have a worm, it can do some basic tasks and has a kind of plan. Humans are further along. But at some point if an entity has such a rich model of its surroundings and can control it so effectively, the line between it and its surroundings starts to blur. It’s able to effect more nuanced change at a greater and greater distance. It is less and less surprised by new events. And I guess in this way I imagine that it starts to merge with its surroundings.

Thinking about entropy, a single drop of dye in a glass is very high entropy, but the drop is very confined to a particular place. This is like the rock. Then as it swirls around the complexity increases, even though entropy is decreasing. This high complexity is like us. But as the drop of dye becomes totally intermixed the entropy is at its lowest, but the dye is evenly mixed through the entire solution. It stops making sense to ask “where is the dye?” because it is everywhere.
correct me if I'm wrong but isn't SNL unfunny to most Americans too?
Not the OP, but your definition of "falling off trees" and mine are very different if it took 200 applications to land a job.

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying I would never use that expression to describe it.
Do you pick the "a for an umlaut? It seems like :a would be be typed less commonly than "a, so less need to confirm the punctuation.
>In Rust you can write a function that returns the pointer of one element of a slice.

Have fun fighting the borrow checker on that one.
So, "no".
Funny, with Google you typically want to add "-best" to your searches to cut down on SEO spam.
That’s quite memorable. On the Mac I have to press option-u and then a, u, or o to get an ä, ü, or ö. Optionally holding the shift key to get an uppercase vowel with the diacritic.

option-` is for grave (è)
option-i is for circumflex (é)
option-n is for eñe (ñ)
option-c is for cédille (ç)

When you called QWERTZ an abomination I simply had to upvote your comment.
Despite these issues, and despite and the hack, creditors are still set to make at least a 4x return (in USD) based on appreciation of the bitcoin that wasn't stolen.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-07/mt-gox-cr...
I agree with another commenter that "Which face is real?" is somewhat easy to determine. In this scenario, it's A or B. You already know one face is fake, and one is real. It would be substantially more challenging if the question was rather "Can you spot all the AI generated faces?" and it turns out 40% of the time there is no AI generated face at all.

AI vs. Real can become somewhat easy to identify over multiple repetitions - AI vs. Real, Real vs. Real, AI vs. AI. are all scenarios that should be included to increase the difficulty imo.
To generalize two results*, Zhang has a nice approach to hard problems: he's looking at relaxed versions of them. If his approach to this problem is sound, we can expect Gowers et al to follow it up with tighter bounds. I wouldn't expect this to solve RH, but it's a major step in that direction where we have seen no movement for a very long time.

* one verified, one in review
You may be missing the point of my original post. It is that there are not substantial advantages to decentralization.
Another garbage idea out of Brussels. Given the fact that we're lacking in the system engineering space for more than a decade, this will only curb some of the decent innovations people have began expanding upon in the last couple of years. (See the various talks & ideas from usenix for example, amongst other events)

On the "bright side", this will realistically be impossible to enforce. Any national court who deems such industry important will probably use a local constitutional amendment to reinforce that CODE easily falls under freedom of expression, just like any other craft.

EU showing once again how desperate it is for money. Let's strangle out all our industries until nobody can make anything anymore: See agriculture, energy, manufacturing, and "now" even a bigger range of the IT spectrum.
That sounds impressive! Nice work.
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All of the modern startups have skirting laws as a selling point to investors, they want them to be like that. Look at the Greyballing Uber was doing when it was a multinational billion dollar corperation. They actively don't want to play it the right way, they're going for the money.
At least my grocery still is reasonably organized and well laid out. If I need ketchup, I know exactly where to go to find all of my options side by side.

If I tell Alexa to order ketchup, who knows what brand I'll get or what size? It's possible I might end up with banana ketchup or even mayonnaise given how poorly Amazon's search functions work.
Matt Levine consistently puts out such good content. His newsletter is absolutely worth subscribing to.
That's not a very convincing argument. "I use it because it works" without refuting any reasons I presented as to why it "works" but breaks your other options.

How do you teach people to effectively use a profiler on code with pernicious caching?

Part of why I'm the "Cleaner" is because I've worked with any number of people who will present "evidence" that everything that can be done has been done. Here are the metrics from a year ago when we turned on the cache. Here are the flame charts. See? Nothing to see here. They get really uncomfortable six months later when I'm reporting 2-3x in code that can't be optimized further. And in each case everything was made more difficult by the people ahead of me chumming the waters.

They were partially correct. There was in fact nothing left for them to see, so nothing that they knew to do. But "there's nothing to see here" and "there's nothing here" are two very, very different statements.
Interesting, I did some digging and it looks like Matt has hired a group of CEO coaches to implement the curriculum. https://coach.mocharymethod.com/
Said engineer, said 1000 RPC calls are not the issue, and when questioned further on proving a tracepath / perf result casually exited the conversation, to me it looks like they are not ready to do better or listen to valid criticism, leading conversations on semantics is just creating noise instead of acting on signals.

Also 1000 RPC's are a very valid performance bottleneck, 1000 * latency caused by serde+ network can compounds easily based on data locality + container network orchestration, no data was provided otherwise even when asked for.
Not everything people don't like is an externality. It has a specific meaning. Fired workers are not an externality.
FWIW, I agree with the poster.

I'm SR in my current role, 7+ years experience, tech lead for 7+ people...

I can't get an offer to save my life. I've gone through final round about 10 times now and always get either ghosted or "we decided on another person over you" then the role stays open for months. Had Disney offer to create a new role for me and then rescind when I agreed. Or my personal favorite, hiring freeze right after final interview and "we're frozen, can't do anything."

My latest ended with "we hired someone else for the role, but we just opened this role. Do you like it? We'd only need 1 interview from you since you aced the other ones." 3 weeks later and I can't get a reply from them to even schedule that interview...

I don't know if I'm just missing the mark somewhere or what, as all feedback I can get is "you're great we just like someone better." Well, except for the one who rejected me because "we didn't get a strong feeling of how you work with design at your current role." When I explained step by step our cycle for dev/design team ups, user testing and the feedback loop between dev/design.
"Its balance sheet consisted mostly of stuff it made up! Stuff it made up! You can’t do that! That’s not how balance sheets work! That’s not how anything works!"

I'm picturing Matt Levine being carted away by nice men in white coats after finishing this paragraph
It seems to be tied to "Safari Suggestions", so if you have that turned off you won't see the crash.
I fail to understand how this use of stable coins is better than licensed currency transfer companies. You still need to exchange your local currency twice on shady unlicensed crypto exchanges.

Or am I missing something here? I regularly transfer thousands of Dollars to different countries, the provider I use usually gets the job done on the same day.

There are also huuuge differences in crypto exchange rates depending on country. Crypto exchanges work with unfavorable FX rates when selling USDT unless you already have USD. Binance in my country is currently showing a 4% difference compared to exchange rates on XE.com. Even my bank gives me a better FX rate than that.
> returns since late 2017 have sucked compared to index funds

What do you mean by returns?
I don't think 16.1.1 is unaffected. I'm on iOS 16.1.1 and can reproduce it. Blank address bar -> "old " -> crash. The second time I didn't need the space, as others have also reported.
> But I also think all interviewers having a veto is the wrong approach

It's based on people assuming that others will use that veto reasonably. Company i work for had a veto system but i don't think it was ever used. It was also essentially 3 level system "hire", "probably not" and "i object to this person ever working at this company"

I've heard the latter being expressed a few times but only with candidates that nobody was keen on.
There has been some weird misunderstanding on the business models of ads network. They have zero incentive to sell user data to advertisers or whoever else. That data and model is the only meaningful difference between ad networks, advertisers and their potential competitors, beside of established infrastructures. You don't sell your strategic weapons to your enemy right? They may provides some targeting and contextual information for bidding, but given that many ad networks are moving to automated bidding systems I think this also will be gone eventually.
Guess it breaks it up visually and makes it easier for the brain to grasp what the text is going to be about. Not going to win a Pulitzer with it and I agree that people should still be able to properly read without needing emojis to get it but I'm still gonna go with this for a while... Totally get your point though, thanks for the feedback!
The risk managing part was not discussed indeed.
Yup, did the same. And the layout I happen to work with also has a third layer (menu button) that includes äöüß--that was a glorious discovery.
They don't want to keep the employees and they want the remaining employees to be scared.
Not sure if other states have a similar system, but Washington posts information about layoffs here: https://esd.wa.gov/about-employees/WARN. Looks like Amazon Health Services is getting cut as part of this.
The writer isn't disputing that Tesla didn't exist before, but just pointing out the fact that issuing shares actually lead to increased valuations. The argument that it has to do with the fact that Tesla turned into something more than "just" a car company.
If you are at home, your box is in the data center, then a BeyondCorp outage makes it impossible to work, right?

I agree that laptops can’t always do everything, but many things can be done comfortably well. At a previous job, I had 32 GB of physical RAM and 20 GB of swap (thanks to 5-10 RAM-hungry JVM apps), and things were quite usable for standard dev workflows.
I think algorand is by far the best crypto platform out there, but the sad part is that it's the economic / behavioral issues that hold crypto back. if you could earn Algo and it was widely adopted, it would be an attractive alternative currency and smart contract platform.

but for me tech and adoption are like two out of four things needed to make crypto non-evil (literally) - the third is democratic governance. the fourth is environmental impact which Algorand checks off. But it's not democratically organized or run, which is a complete non-starter.

the foundation that runs it is probably the least corrupt org I can think of in crypto (I am not an expert) but its still a group that hold a giant percentage of the existing coins, which is a huge non-starter as well, and there is no concept of citizen ship or personhood that maps to the real world.

I dont believe in the decentralization nonsense and this pseudo anonymous thing over crypto is not good. to really run a DAO you need real people interacting in something like a co-op. kind of like the internet, actually.

what some people call decentralization I call by an old fashioned name - distributed. there is another concept which is more to the point than the term centralization and it is concentration. The Gini index of a logical dimension of a system is more important to me than whether it is centralized per se.

So voting power should not be too concentrated, wealth should not be too concentrated.

We are a long way from a workable model for crypto that fulfills these criteria. Buterin who is a frontman for libertarians (and worse) who are actually evil is the closest thing we have besides the Algo founder to a non-greedy figurehead, but we need no figurehead.

what has proven good enough for countries will prove good enough for crypto. democracy.
Real life bonds range from Savings accounts (which are tied to the overnight Fed rate, with an assumed repayment within days or one week at the worst), to "Junk" bonds to companies and/or governments that are currently going through default and/or bankruptcy (See Greek bonds between 2009 and 2017)

At the lowest risk end, we have the "risk-free rate", guaranteed by the central bank. At the higher risk end, we have highly risky loans (ex: Greek Bonds in 2014 or so). Or mortgaged backed securities. Or student loans. Etc. etc.

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Bonds / loans are a very old economic subject that have been around for hundreds of years (maybe thousands?). There's a myriad of historical subjects and writings on this subject.

In general, the more trustworthy the issuer and the shorter the maturity, the safer the loan is. An overnight loan with the Fed (aka: Central bank of the United States) will be lower risk than a 30-year subprime mortgage. The economics will demand that the longer-loan will (usually) be priced higher (except in times of inverted yield curves, where people think there's more near-term risk than long-term risks). Etc. etc. Its a big complex subject.

But its all about loans and bonds, and money and IOUs and promises and trust.
It is impossible to tell, from this post, whether you mean to say that the teeth can be removed from the GPL by simply licensing a dependent work as LGPL, or whether you mean to say that the GPL does not steal ownership from you and you can adapt it later to be non-GPL.

If the former, this is laughably wrong and displays a complete misunderstanding of open source licensure. The GPL infects the entire project, that's its defining factor, and you cannot set the entire work's license as LGPL any more than you can set it as MIT.

If the latter, this is a fake distinction, and displays dishonesty about the risks. Regardless of what license I can distribute my code under later if I change it, in order to use a GPL-covered library I must license the version of my code that depends on it under the GPL. That version of the code will be GPL-licensed to anyone that has it, for eternity; I cannot retract it, regardless of what changes I make to my own copy.

Either way this is not a reassuring post. I am glad to know Slint is GPL so I can stay far away from it and recommend others do the same.
FLAC files/iPhone 256GB/foobar2000
Ruby is in low demand, always has been.
I'm sure, but it requires your entire stack to be TypeScript. My clients want to be language agnostic, which requires me to be.
Silver bullets kill everyone, not just werewolves.

Garbage In, Garbage Out is not wrong per se, but we have in the real world the concept of an attractive nuisance, where the victim is not entirely at fault for their injuries. The thing, being prone to invite misuse and misadventure, bears some responsibility for protecting people from themselves.

Caching is an attractive nuisance. These days it's simply replaced Global Shared State which used to be the boogeyman, but sadly we haven't collectively clued in on them being equivalent.
He called Musk's public statement out, because it was wrong. Twitter shouldn't be the place for this, but it's on Musk for creating such unprofessional atmosphere in the first place.

Imagine the same thing with Microsoft. We all know Windows is held together with scotch tape, not to mention that 7 years after Windows 10 they still haven't quite manage to unify the old and the new interfaces, not that Windows 11's new interfaces are any good. What a mess. Except it's not, it's business as usual. Big software projects are messy and hard to manage, but these issues are unimportant when you get the bigger picture right. For Windows the bigger picture is that it runs all your application. This is what makes Windows a good product, the rest is details and can be fixed over time. Preferably in a professional manner.
Will they use the 10-15% cut like everyone else?
Yes. They say that as a contractor you should ask for your desired FTE yearly salary divided by 1000, per hour. So the equivalent for a $120k/year FTE position would be contracting full time at $120/hour. As far as I know it's not any easier to find 40 hours/week at $120/hour contracting than it is to find a $120k FTE position.
CE certification is based on results, not efforts. You don't "obtain CE certification", you simply are liable for non-compliance if your product is non compliant, even if you gave money to someone who runs a "CE certification" business.

Note that there are tons of CE certification. For radio cert for instance they don't need to open the box.
I've never had that work reliably for me, across three completely different Mac installs. :/
To this day I am dumbfounded that Roosevelt is still as revered as he is. He had other problems like poor economic policy that probably prolonged the Great Depression, but you don't even need to look at any of that - the dude implemented an executive order which put American citizens into effective prisons with no due process, based only on their ethnicity. Trump, who I'm told is a racist and a fascist and so forth, never even tried to do anything close to that.

You want to start toppling statues and changing street names of dead white guys? Start with that one. What a creep.
> If this is done with sufficient care and anonymity, with no financial incentive to betray the user, I don't see the issue at all.

Even if a public company somehow managed to pass all of those caveats today the moment their leadership changed it would all go back out the window. And even a private company might go public or change leadership.
Now, If you pay one million to workers, you are now at zero
> The result of adding or subtracting those numbers with ordinary numbers is not a number; it is prison.

Haven't laughed that hard in a while.
Looks like there’s an issue with a chip on my mobo of the iPad. Womp womp womp
I wonder how the people at Sequoia feels now.
I'd like to see the comments of people who lost money in this fiasco here.

The HN crowd is generally hostile to crypto scams, but there are likely exceptions.
Being able to time shift video instruction content made all the difference in the world for me. I could rewind and watch something multiple times until it clicked. Helped me significantly with college mathematics.
Hundreds of Honorary Consuls Involved in Criminal Cases or Controversies
A protocol is just code, code can have bugs. Another risk is around governance. Some protocols use proxy contracts, so a single developer or team can upgrade them. But they can accidentally push out a bug in a new version. Other protocols like Uniswap opt for non-upgradeable contracts, users have to opt-in to the new version.
Just the status game being played by equating status with wealth? This parallels how Nietzsche's slave morality vilifies power, but this vilification is merely how the powerless and weak express their will to power.
Amazing — so they've blocked withdrawals but they're "requesting" that people not deposit. Seems legit.
Never subscribe to his newsletter, it's impossible to unsubscribe when you want to. Literally have to filter it in my mail to go to the trash as for the Bloomberg website won't let me unsubscribe.
This hashlink spec seems to duplicate the existing Named Information (ni:) URI scheme (RFC6920), as well as widely deployed non-standard solutions, namely magnet: URI's. These don't seem to currently support the Multihash format that's recommended here, but could easily be extended/amended to that effect. Not seeing the point of this.
Interestingly that's the Catalan spelling.
Yes, `import { S3Client } from 'npm:@aws-sdk/client-s3@3.209.0'` works. Not every module work perfectlym but newer modules almost always do. If it's a ESM module, you won't shouldn't have any problems.
> That doesn't bother anyone that buys a pop album off Amazon, but that's a different issue if you want to sell porn or drugs or whatever US morals have issues with and just get cut off from payments, so that your willing customers cannot pay you. When that happens, people get out the old "it's a private company, you have no right to their platform"-spiel and crypto-currencies solve that.

I'm sorry but I deeply disagree with this. If you want to do commerce and your area of business is shady/illegal, then the way to change it is to campaign for a change in the law. All that cryptocurrencies accomplish is that people are able to sidestep the law.

I'd like drugs to be legal, government controlled and taxed. But until that day comes, the fact that drug dealing can't be conducted using the official financial system is a feature, not a bug.