skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, it is those claiming that computation equals consciousness who are displaying hubris.

Think about it, if we accept the theory that computation equals consciousness, then then is little to investigate further. Just calculate something, and voila, consciousness exists.

It is this closing down of inquiry that I push against. My assertion is that consciousness is deeper, it cannot be reduced to computation.

How would you even prove otherwise? If it arises from computation, what is conscious? Is it the algorithm? Is it the electric circuits? It is the physical machine?

It is interesting to note my consciousness is bound up what a notion of what my body is. I can identify the limits of my body and make a distinction between it and my environment. What determines the conscious boundary of a entity performing calculations?

On the other hand, there are many strong arguments against consciousness arising from mere computation, some of which I have enumerated.
Don't forget how popular bonzi buddy was back in the day, or the nsfw desktop dancers app. I think when they combine something like that with a chatgpt style bot that will be the tipping point to people wanting an AI personal assistant.

Already seeing people saying they want a new Clippy with bing powered chat.
In my opinion is lack of empathy! Before requesting the interview I usually check the persons work online, e.g., repositories, etc. I personally don't find the twitter activity interesting, but some people give that extreme importance.
If I'm in charge of interviewing, and in touch with somebody, that means the person has a very high chance of getting the job, never failed me!

The last thing I want is waste the other persons time.

It's disappointing being interviewed by people who are assh*les, really makes other people feel like sh!t!
Tell HN: I like lost causes (companies)
I've been working for a tech company for the last year doing stuff that I would consider are "lost causes", this is, we work on products that upper management wants us to work on, but that in reality have little impact and little usage in production mainly because the company is losing customers (and burning money like there is no tomorrow). And I like it. This is why:

- plenty of time for development: because deadlines are not hard ones (so we have been pushing them for quite a while). So, there is no much rush. Quite a relaxed working environment. Management seems to feel like there is no point in pushing more since the company is actually going south

- plenty of time for learning. Because sometimes some sprints do not have much work to be done, so I spent my time improving my skills (e.g., AWS, Go, Postgres, K8s, DDD, etc.) and getting ready for any potential new job I may jump in (e.g., doing leetcode a couple of times per week or so). I have read a lot of interesting tech books and watched tons of tech conferences on YT

- bugs in production do not happen... at all. I don't mean we write perfect software, but since the usage of our software is so low, executing edge cases besides the normal flow doesn't happen, so bugs are not discovered. Besides, even if a bug happens in prod, it's nothing that cannot be solved the next morning

- plenty of time to improve our systems "as per the book". This is, since we have lots of time we do stuff like improving our infrastructure monitoring, performance, SLA, SLO, refactoring following DDD, decoupling of microservices using async techniques (e.g., Kafka + debezium). This is nice because I get to learn a lot "in a safe environment" (this is, an environment we can actually break and nothing happens). True to be told, this costs money, so it's not the most efficient way of working since the company is burning money. I've told this to our managers (yes, we have two!) and they actually didn't care

In summary, I think I love to work on stuff like this. It's like working on personal projects: all the fun stuff minus the stressing parts (on-call, deadlines, extra hours) plus decent money.

The only problem is, most likely the company will cease to exist in 1 year (by my calculations, in 8 months). So, I'm preparing my exit soon. I'll probably try to find another company that is going down, hopefully I can join their "good last months", but that's tricky.

Compared to my previous job (a normal company making money pushing features every week), this is heaven: in my previous job I was so stressed and I didn't have time to learn anything exciting. It was all the time: moving Jira tickets to Done, fixing bugs, and meetings. I don't want to do that again. I wrote dozens of endpoints, but it was all the same boring stuff.
When you're in your mid-50s and you get crippling arthritis or some other age-related ailment, not being able to retire is going to be a serious problem.

Quite a few people, particularly in the trades, don't get to choose when they retire -- their health dictates it.

Plan to retire, start saving now. Even if you choose to keep working in old age, having a lot of money saved up is a nice thing to have.
There is also the "invasive" part. If you're talking about CGM devices like Freestyle and Dexcom, they include a probe that pokes through your skin.
This is actually really convenient.

In our code we have an abstraction that wraps a set using a variant. Instead of implementing an iterator/begin/end based on which data the variant holds, we have an iter() method that unwraps the variant and loops through and co_yields. Since you can consume a generator in a for-each loop, you use it the exact same way (except calling iter).

In our case it doesn't save that much complexity, but it's definitely some. I could imagine more complicated cases where it is even more convenient.
Context switches happen regardless of whether you're using kernel mode ("threads") or user mode ("async") scheduling.

And kernel mode actually has much more efficient and performant context switches, because the kernel can access hardware directly.

(It is sometimes useful to be able to do custom user mode scheduling, but certainly not because of "context switches".)
> Like I said, a judge will make the argument that the fetus' environment is the womb

But then, a lawyer could argue that the mother's imprisonment affects the womb environment (bad food, bad medical care, constant high levels of stress). IANAL but that argument doesn't immediately seem ridiculous to me.
Likely one doctor per location, with a bunch of PAs doing the work.
Potentially - if Nix or Bazel has already built the binaries, and just needs to construct an OCI-compliant image tarball with them, that can be quite quick, similar to a Dockerfile with only COPY instructions. Nix and Bazel can also give you deterministic / reproducible images that take more effort to construct with Dockerfiles.

I've also seen people use Nix or Bazel inside their Dockerfile, like ultimately the build has to execute somewhere, be that inside or outside a Dockerfile.
Would that be the same Martin Fowler who largely made his reputation on the basis of Agile, and thus has a major incentive to make it look good?
Do you have a source? I thought Instagram has a large base of young users. IG is 8.5% under 18 and 30% 18-24.

https://blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-demographics/
They aren't stupid or dense, it's just that their stated motivation isn't their true one most of the time.

They "get" this, but the actual goal is just to remove power from states and put it in the hands of individual property owners so that they are more free to exert it over people with less power.
I don't believe that there's any reason to expect them to take any case that is inconvenient. Bullet-proof legal case or not. How is that problem worked around?
We've put a lot of effort already to make the OSS setup a single `docker compose` command despite the extensive infra we use under the hood. Longer term, we're planning to support other deployment strategies such as kubernetes, cloud templates, and openshift templates. Appreciate any feedback on the self-hosting end here or on our GitHub issues!
Another product of the near-zero interest rate phenomenon that needed to go.
That's still just a drop in the ocean. Tesla alone has more than a thousand 150-250kW+ charging stalls in Norway alone, in over 100 locations. If you combine all other providers we're looking at more than 5000 stalls, providing 150-350kW.

Nio is also deploying fast chargers alongside their battery swap stations, which leads me to believe that they also see the limitations with swap stations.
I think a huge portion of the balance between "hire / grow head count" and "layoff / shrink head count" is linked to the Federal Funds Rate and whether corporations are ready to get rid of X (where X is the number of people they need to adjust head count wise to account for the Federal Funds Rate going from 0.25% -> 5.25% in 12 months)

Maybe they don't believe the Fed and are hopeful for a pivot?
Before jumping on the "Google is now Oracle" bandwagon, curious with anyone with even a little inside baseball knowledge can comment on the reasoning behind this. Because if it's for penny-pinching, "we need to be more efficient" reasons, then yeah, I'm ready to jump on the bandwagon too. But someone else posited it may be more that they want to focus on new skills needed for AI, for example (i.e. "Software 2.0" vs. "Software 1.0" skills, to borrow a term from a recent HN post) - in that case, would make sense.

All that said, by shutting down without announcing a reason, Google must've known people would speculate and likely assume it's because of the "Google = Oracle" reasoning. So I'm certainly leaning towards the "this is pretty sad" side of things.
Most of the people of Asian origin I've met have been happy that the civil rights fought for mainly by black Americans before them helped them as well. This is an economic class issue. Lower class people of any race are more likely to hate other races and blame them (and other people generally) for their problems.
Google is not releasing a product because there is no product to release*. Open AI isn't really releasing a product either, they are trying to win marketshare and gain funding.

*At the very least, not enough of a product to make a release sensible. If they launch Google GPT and it sucks, their product is dead. If Open AI doesn't release their "product," their company is dead and they lose funding and marketshare (that is, marketshare of a future market). Apple isn't releasing anything either; do you think they have nobody working on it? Microsoft is trying to use chatGPT in an existing product (still behind a waitlist) which is probably just to test the usefulness of thier $20 B investment in Open AI. I think Google's research speaks for itself, the lack of a product doesn't speak to anything.
> This assumes a random sampling method.

I would encourage you to explore how difficult it is to actually get 100 responses from 100 randomly selected Americans, and how non-response/self-selection affect your confidence interval.
You clearly know nothing about caste, because in cases where it happens, the "higher" or "middle" castes are most often the ones actively doing the discrimination. As a "higher" caste person, I have seen a great deal of this discrimination firsthand in India (both subtle and egregious [1]), and almost never among my fellow Indian immigrants in America [2].

The typical American response that I already see elsewhere in this thread is "lol this is like a white dude saying racism doesn't exist". This totally ignores the basic fact that it is not that easy to tell someone's caste, which makes it a totally different class of problem. It's kind of possible based on a combination of factors [3], but there are so many exceptions that basically unless you ask someone, you can never be sure. And therein lies the problem – the very existence of these sorts of conversations about "how you tell what caste X is?" is often the backbone of caste-based discrimination. I feel shitty even talking about how you'd tell someone's caste.

And ultimately, I think that's why these kinds of measures will backfire. You are going to have a lot more Indian-Americans being curious about what caste they are when the problem could have faded into the background, with existing anti-discrimination statutes being applied to cases like the ones cited in the article.

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[1] A typical subtle version is mentioning a person's caste in a conversation where's it's totally irrelevant; a US equivalent would be something like "Jim, the new software engineer started today. He's Latino."

[2] A reasonable question here would be: "What changed? Why would Indian immigrants not discriminate after they come to America?" My answer is best guess is most Indians who come to the US are already likely predisposed to liberal and educated to a fairly high level. Unlike the US (where even Civil War history is still a touchy subject), specific lessons about the history of caste discrimination, statutes against it, and attempts at reparations are baked into all levels of the Indian education curriculum. Along with that, exposure to the staggeringly high diversity of America tends to dull any remaining biases that might exist. Like everything, I am sure there are exceptions. And I'm guessing that they are certainly more likely in Councilwoman Sawant's age group (she's almost 50).

[3] There should be a Falsehoods American Media Perpetuates About Caste article. If I wrote it, the top two would be: a) It's always possible to tell a person's caste based on their last name, and b) It's always possible to tell a person's caste by whether or not they eat meat.
There’s also www.rive.app
> even the ads seemed somewhat pointedly sexual, like that was part of the whole deal

The sexual aspect wasn't just "part of the whole deal"; it was a core feature of their product. Replika's ad campaigns specifically advertised features like "role play & flirting" and "hot photos" as benefits of a paid membership.

There's a collection of these ads (some NSFW) at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/113wc5x/lets_gathe...
Did you learn anything from the 2 weeks of data? E.g., did it inspire dietary changes?
there are plenty of SVG NFTs where everything is stored in the contract.

I personally think its useful to qualify your statement to be about improper common uses of NFTs, since few other people knows there is a difference too.
Even though we provide a unified accounting integration similar to them, when we spoke to companies we found that

1. Companies don’t have internal accounting expertise to build the integration correctly, since you need to map each of your business flows to the correct accounting entries

2. Offering only an "integration" is not enough for end customers - they expect automation. So companies spend many engineering months building on top of the integration (automatic GL mapping, custom accounting rules, splitting transactions across GLs, and more).

Rather than only providing the integration layer, we also provide the automation components so that you avoid building those yourself. We also help with setting up your integration with correct accounting entries, so that you don't need to hire an accountant to help.
Remember that quite a few women who didn't choose to have sex are still being forced to carry babies to term.
I can concur with this.

This week specifically I have noticed tons of scammy spams getting into my main inbox.

Up until this past weekend, almost all of them got caught in the spam folder, but there's an epidemic in my inbox this week.
The pilots have the necessary information and know how to do the calculation with pencil and paper if necessary. But computers can do the calculation faster and with less chance of error. And a computer in a vendor's data center is easier to maintain than a computer in every plane.
The async runtime is almost always built on top of non-blocking I/O APIs, and the extra layer of abstraction adds overhead. You're rarely calling epoll in your async code, but rather your runtime is handling all of that for you.

That is, unless you're using io_uring, POSIX AIO, etc., in which case your async code might not have the extra layer of abstraction on top of the system APIs.
They still use your insurance. The service makes it extremely easy to get lab work done and see a PCP very quick (I set up appts same or next day). I've used it for physicals/checkups and for getting set up with physical therapy. My local hospital system had a multi-month long wait to see anyone for a simple annual physical.

tl;dr - quick and easy access to a consistent PCP
no, not anywhere close, they are all inserted, and disposable.
Coroutines and threads are not that different.

Threads usually preallocate some stack space, while coroutines usually don't. But that isn't such a big deal.
> It deserves to be called out as a massive failure on leadership's part.

There are other comments here that say this is 100% wrong. It's not a failure at all. They did exactly what they should have/continue to do exactly what they should be doing.

In COVID, it was time to capitalize on growth.

In 5.25% Fed Funds rate time, it's time to shrink.

Leadership is executing/has executed both of those plans.

> What do you mean calling this out has no effect?

What's going to change? You and I and 10,000 people online calling out some random entity we summarize as "leadership" isn't going to change anything going forward. Why waste the energy being mad at random news online that we both sought out/choose to reply to? Miserable way to walk around life.
https://archive.is/A8U7z
As a nerdy kid growing up, Google always felt like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory to me. There was somewhat of a feeling of mystery about the things they were working on, and when things like Gmail were unveiled it felt like such a wonder.
Now they just seem like a worse version of Microsoft to me, at least Microsoft knows how to deal with enterprises.
right, its more of a conglomerate than a monopoly.
I’m really upset. I love OneMedical and I would hate to have to go back to the traditional model. One of the best features about OM is its relative obscurity. So I as a customer have a huge amount of supply available to me. That means I get whatever health needs met immediately. If Amazon makes the user base larger, I will lose this wonderful experience.
No, I didn't. Whatever labor benefits accrued to these jobs and others are below the threshold of detection, so I don't consider them. The fact that they can use google now instead of not using google is certainly a change, but not one I consider relevant to the claim being made.

hth :)
To put it in a different way, construct a Markov chain with these states and transitions:

(A_0) -> (A_1) -> (A_2) -> (A_3) -> (A_4)

State A_i = you have i unique toys. Each state from 1-4 also has a transition to itself.

The probability of going from A_i -> A_{i+1} = P(A_{i,i+1}) = (1 - i/4). This is pretty obviously: 1, 3/4, 2/4, and 1/4. The transition probability of staying in the same state is 1 - that = i/4, although we don't use those values in our calculations.

The expected time to reach A_4 is E[A_0 -> A_1] + E[A_1 -> A_2] + E[A_2 -> A_3] + E[A_3 -> A_4] = 1/P(A_{0,1}) + 1/P(A_{1,2}) + 1/P(A_{2,3}) + 1/P(A_{3,4}) = 1 + 4/3 + 2 + 4 = 8 1/3. This is true due both to linearity of expectation and the fact that each state only either stays the same or advances. If any state could transition to another state besides itself or the subsequent one, you'd have to do a more complex calculation.
I was thinking of upwards price pressure on housing stock in those communities as the main negative effect. Rationale being that tech salaries are going to be significantly above incomes the local economy supports and thus tech workers are going to be relatively price insensitive.

That said, remote work is hardly the only thing contributing to this problem. And I agree with the idea that changing housing policy is the best way to address it.

I don't dispute that there will be positive effects as well. They seem less significant to me.
Re: the "fun factor" bit.

I'm just now realizing GitHub has conditioned me to be weary of the : character due to the insane tendency to pop up an emoji selector thingie.

Is there any way to disable that?
is this because people will just use chatGPT to cheat?
Natural Python: A REPL with LLM Integration
I wanted to experiment writing code in a REPL session with only prompting, so I put together this demo.

Check it out if you find the idea of programming through prompting interesting.
Eggspensive ... nice, after ChatGPT, now they made eggs think. But grammar not eggsactly right, adjective should be before noun.
Yes, but contexts where you're creating a million coroutines are almost certainly I/O bound (like a web server).
I should have also added this is more true than average for Software Engineers.

Specifically, as a partner, you have to ask yourself what you are bringing to the table in a given relationship; if the answer to that is income/stability, it would make sense that a struggling artist will appreciate that more than a solid well to do professional with their own income. If the answer is crazy parties (or whatever other flavor of fun), you might have an easier time trying to find a partner who has stability and wants excitement in their life.
Profit can stay as cash, pay down debt, get reinvested by upping costs, or get paid out as dividends to the owners.

Either way, the cash flow statement needs to reflect it, the book value of the company should reflect it, and the market value might reflect it.
Plus, who is going to want a shitty picture of a monkey when the chips are down? If that's your concern at least hoard Bitcoin or something.
Frankly a bizarre article to be honest.
What a truly unfortunate coincidence.
Morse code key types: Paddles, sideswipers, and bugs
He could host the image himself. He could even just show you the image and transaction proving that he's the owner (of course you'll have to consult the blockchain to check if he hasn't sold it afterwards).

That said, (a) NFT infrastructure is notoriously bad and doesn't work as it is now and (b) why on Earth would you do all that just to prove you own a picture of monkey.
I don't want to be a competitor or employee of Amazon (I've been the latter), but being a customer of them has been a pretty consistently good experience.
>> about to be decommissioned.

I presume this means disconnected and forgotten about on the sea floor. Or do they actually do anything to pull them up? I imagine pulling an old cable might be very difficult but I don't like things just being left for the sea to deal with. There is far to much trash on the seafloor already.
I'll be hard-pressed to care, I don't have (or intend to have) an account on Tumblr. I'd just like the ability to follow certain users and mix it in with the rest of my federated feed, their personal platform rules don't really matter.