skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hows this for a definition. Its not a definition of consciousness per se, but its a definition of the specific consciousness "you" in the general case: you are whatever you get in return when you ask yourself who you are. Consciousness thus defined exists entirely within the communicative medium.

In other words, consciousness is an emergent phenomena that happens in a system of sending messages when eventually an agent starts sending messages to itself. "you" are the voices in your head not attributed to anyone else.
So here's the paradox: if smaller oil companies promote innovation that benefits everyone, why is Standard Oil so dominate, and why aren't the more innovative, smaller firms running circles around them?

Repeat ad nasuium for your favorite monopoly/duopoly.

Currently. one of the big dogs needs to make a big misstep in order for a smaller company to come in and win. Like car companies being complacent and Tesla seizing the opportunity. Electric cars had been around for a while, hobbyist putting them together but no capital to compete with Ford/GM. Now that Tesla has shown there is a path forward, look at all the capital that has gone to create new car companies.

Apple is not a phone or computer company. They are a luxury brand that is functional. Trying to compete with Apple is like trying to compete with Disney; you cant just be putting out a cartoon movie, you have to have the theme parks, the toys, the cruises. Maybe you can pull it off, but not very likely.
> "I won't notarize this because my ethics do not allow it."

I heard those words uttered at my bank one day, and I became furious. I'd been using, in good faith, a licensed notary at a shipping store, and it turns out he'd been notarizing any damn thing I wanted without regard for proper form.

I had been extremely naive about notary publics, and when I ran into one with ethics, it cast the sketchy dude into sharp contrast.

Thankfully I've had no legal repercussions due to the invalidity of illegally notarized documents in the past, and I haven't needed to notarize something in a while since then.
The Loess Plateau in China comes to mind[1], gigantic scale, mostly manual labor.

1: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2007/03/15/restori...
Thanks for posting this. These visualizations remind me a lot of Steven Lehar's resonance theory of vision. The patterns resemble learned CNN filters, but with symmetry baked in.
Back when I was at school, we had the multiplication table printed on the back cover of all students' workbooks. After a while, I just remembered it.

We also had mnemonic chants for some non-trivial entries.
Nobody I know with acre+ yards rakes or blows leafs. It’s all done with a mower either just mulching it or bagging and dumping.

Raking or even blowing an actual (semi-wooded) acre is a crazy amount of work.
I like being able to unmarshal a json response into a typed struct. That gives me the ability to get intellisense in my IDE. Then I don't have to guess what the json response shape looks like. It also helps me prevent issues with trying to access invalid keys in the json response.
This really helps when dealing with an external API.
For efficiency, I took up machining, where "Doing" and "Gear" have had a cosmic "merge cells" command applied to them. The only reason to own machining equipment is to USE it... to create tools and fixtures to improve your machining equipment.
I despise the SPDX format, it feels like it was designed by the same people who created the current disaster that is NVD.
Realistic AI Based Text2speech
I’m guessing they don’t freely share the data, and instead share it incidentally as needed for a query initiated by the user. So I’m guessing some lawyer will say this is legal, and some PM will think it’s consent and some SDE will say they’re told the user gave permission and now it exists.

Kinda crazy how quickly data spreads and how quietly companies share data and how little control users really have (without becoming luddites).
i love the framing introduction to this post that is something relatively quotidian but then loops back to something dev career related.

> If each person has a finite amount of time to spend either learning or sharing, we'd expect to find a negative correlation between output and experience. This, in turn, lowers the overall quality of content on any given subject

my counter would be that this is a U shaped curve, not a linear correlation. some reflection is good - you only know something when you can teach it, you dont know what you think until you force yourself to write things down, you learn faster when there are many people to correct you instead of having to personally experience everything first hand, etc - but there's some crossover where you're left not doing enough to support the amount of talking you've committed to doing. (this is related to the general study of optimal overhead, which i've tried to gather https://www.swyx.io/optimal-overhead)
Microsoft will reportedly unbundle Teams from Office to avoid antitrust concerns
My passwords always contain at least one poop emoji, the Sanskrit OM glyph, and the hieroglyph which means "motorcycle".
> your comment represents exactly the kind of narrow view people are talking about.

my comment expresses no view - I’m asking why Thomas would be topical on HN
It's an interesting read mostly about the history of Alabama, politics, racism, classism, and the social implications and negative motives that can underly infrastructure decisions and policies.

It's also the story of a gifted child failed by the world in ways gifted kids are frequently failed.

When Henson was 6, he tested off the charts on an IQ test

We routinely take our best and brightest, tell them a high IQ is good for making money and essentially try to break them in childhood. We could do better, if we really wanted to.
That's a great reason to do the take home test. You learn a huge amount about the team by how they react to your code.
This would have been so useful three or four weeks ago. Good to have for the future I guess. Alas.

Google is pretty on top of things in terms of service updates on products that have core adoption / pmf.
Is the performance decent for the ‘cost’ of lacking features?
Rust allows redeclaring local variables to great benefit
How to apply learnings in a job to a company later?
That’s where I live and to my knowledge, this is true. We haven’t got a monopoly though. Lived in Atlanta for many years and once asked around a bit. Pretty sure I could not legally do so much as replace a receptacle by myself. From what I can tell, it is usually more rural areas where it’s legal to do your own work and then have it inspected.

Ridiculous. Needless to say, I’ve done plenty of electrical work over the years. Would have loved to have some of it inspected, but that wasn’t allowed.
Dopamine is a general purpose neurotransmitter used for all kinds of things, all of the time. There is no such thing as a "dopamine reset". If doing a digital purge is beneficial it has nothing to do with "resetting dopamine"
> Be the change that you want to see.

I am. Everything I build is public domain. It's cost me a lot of money but I can look myself in the mirror and see an honest man.

> not by proposing that everyone else lose the ability to make a living off of content that they have created.

Copyright is sleazy. Plain and simple. It's indefensible. It is Intellectual Slavery. I'm just saying the truth that people don't want to hear. Stephan Kinsella is the one to read/watch/listen to for all the extended and comprehensive rebuttals.
Well then its a matter of how much of their content was original and bespoke vs pointing to existing documentation. Running a blog vs responding to people on irc might be a good example?
I can confirm in my anecdotal experience that poison is not effective. The poison also made me itchy more so than the bugs. It is really difficult in large houses or multi-unit apartments because they can hide in walls or behind things. Pretty much have to do heat treatment but that can be rough on the structure.
I have many years of experience dealing with malware on Windows machines, and Android from my dad’s usage of OnePlus phones.

MacOS can also have malware because uneducated non English literate people have no idea what they are clicking.

iPadOS and iOS’s saving grace is that it does not matter what someone clicks, everything is easily uninstallable and walled off.
Quite the uh... interesting commit strategy...
Because network and chicken / egg effect obviously ?

Because an open platform would need first to convince hundred millions of developper to port their App on their platform just to exist.

And the cost does not justify the benefits of that "an open platform" brings.

Apple and Google knows that very well and abuse of it.

Just as a side note I would add: There were a time where Internet explorer was a de-facto (shitty) Monopoly everywhere with terrible consequences.

Technological Freedom and the ability to have the choice brought us Firefox. It tools 10 years of competition to get there.

And The result was a better web for everybody.

Apple with its App store makes a Firefox style scenario impossible: they do decide of the life and death of everything on their platform. Including, ironically, the Web browser.
Is there a word for a “bad man”? The anti mensch, as it were?
- Mouse, of course

- Magnetic check ink

- ERMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Recording_Machine,_...

More importantly: Stanford, SRI, and the high signal of connected people in Palo Alto created lots of inventions and companies. Sports metaphor: when they're on the team, the team scores more indirectly by their presence. Palo Alto-Stanford has been a modern "Venice" in terms of center of business-meets-academic since about 1940. Boston owns it in academia in sheer numbers of campuses and of reputation, but not when it comes to tightening the iteration loops of making money.
> Whole building heat treatment

When reading about this I've heard exterminators say that heat treatment alone isn't always effective because there are some areas that don't reach those temperatures, and it might not kill the eggs that tend to be more durable.
I wrote an article about it and received threats to take it down. From time to time, i get a hoard of emails calling me toxic and threatening to sue.

Fascinating. You might consider publishing those emails (with sender info redacted, perhaps).

Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental.

This seems to nail it. And is exactly what repulsed me from the very start.
One of the things I’ve thought about for quite some time is whether there are any companies, particularly in the software industry, that follow Deming’s philosophy on performance evaluation. In his book Out of the Crisis, Deming recommends against the type of performance reviews that are commonplace in corporate America. This (https://deming.org/dr-deming-called-for-the-elimination-of-t...) is a link summarizing his views.
>Eventually, I called an exterminator but the bugs were back a couple of months later. I eventually left this place.

I am very glad that the exterminator I called was honest with me despite my desperation and told me bluntly that no one could permanently solve the issue without treating the whole structure.
Keep on pushing my brother, highlight the strengths and usefulness of it and make your baby fly
> On the other hand LinkedIn is merely a place to keep my contacts. I find it to be more of a self aggrandizing cesspool than Facebook.

People who post on there with bullshit accomplishments are hilarious. One person in particular who I used to work with had a problem with being “humbled”. As in “I am humbled that the presidential honors society recognized that I am one of the top 12 cyber warriors in my apartment building.”

Many of my former colleagues gravitate towards security stuff because there’s a lot of hiring going on and pay is high. So LinkedIn is now littered with would be cyber-commandos clucking about kill chains, ooda loops, and spouting ridiculous military jargon.
Wow the collapse of society into some black mirror dystopia really is this mundane isnt it?
The Stickle-Brick Approach to Big AI
I wonder if DECWRL's giant megawatt transformer is still entombed under the sidewalk in Palo Alto, and if the daily special includes fried fish, and the rancid grease has returned again.

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/...
I had to live through a bedbug infestation about five years ago; the neighbours had a "sweep up and don't tell the management" approach, which I did not adopt.

After two rounds of standard chemical treatments, my apartment was empty of them -- it can be quite effective.

Despite that, I still constantly found reasons to believe that it might not yet be resolved, and lived a horrible shell of a normal life for months until I had served out my lease and (still amazingly bug free), could move. Even months after moving, I feared having somehow brought them along.

In retrospect, it's hard to believe: but they were gone after those two treatments. The greatest toll was the mental toll and the uncertainty of whether it could ever even be resolved. If anyone reading is going through it, just follow the instructions of a professional, and know that one day, you _will_ be past it.
No that's not what I mean by decider. The decider is the program that takes the other program as input and tells you whether that input program has the semantic property you want.

The only noninteresting semantic properties of programs that exist are "this is a program" and "this is not a program."
It was 30% from the beginning. By definition, it was the same cut throughout, not more.
Varenc below is right. Side loading only bypasses the App Store, all the iOS security controls are still in effect.

That means there is no way to do things current apps can’t. You can’t make a JIT, so no good alternate browsers. You can’t install other apps, so no making your own store. You can’t make background services like a web server that will always run. You can’t make widgets that are more interactive than what exists now. Nor can you get GPS data without or force the microphone on, the user still has to agree.

Side loading gets you side loading. You don’t get expanded privileges without exploits. And expect Apple to be working really hard right now at putting stronger enforcement on private APIs and preventing sandbox escape or limiting access if you do.
They already have the capability to remotely access most modern vehicles, this is built in to cars manufactured in the past few years, along with telemetry that tracks everywhere you drive.

Access to bank account details and emails is also routine in police investigations. And they can simply smash your door in if they need access to your house.
How often does anyone actually totally disable SELinux, rather than just putting it into permissive mode? If the latter is still possible, then why does this matter as much as people are making it sound like it does?
Amazon, is the example given in the first few paragraphs.
> As an apparent anti-Thomasite, would you

I have expressed no view on Thomas. I don’t follow the supremes. Gp said they couldn’t defend him - I didn’t know he had or needed fan club

I could speculate but want to give gp a chance to answer
> Why do we allow lazy lawyers to leverage judges in order to stand on people’s necks?

Diffuse costs and concentrated benefits.

Also, Calvinism. It’s a very destructive belief within some strains of Protestantism that treats people as if they are irredeemably lost if they are unsuccessful, sick, mentally ill, criminal, etc. It is highly corrosive towards any functioning society. This belief makes people feel as if fees / punishments / dark patterns on “those people” are morally justified.
You have a valid point but then for a company of the size of Amazon so deeply in tech, wouldn’t take much to find out that I have a decade old account with several thousand $ of purchase, abiding by the rules all along. The probability of such an account being a competitor would be extremely less.
Duolingo’s marketing is not the issue - the issue is the majority have unrealistic expectations regarding the effort and time involved, get frustrated and then give up.

Yet if DL maintains that "Fifteen minutes a day can teach you a language" (in addition to being "The world's best way to learn a language") -- then it would seem that its marketing quite definitely is at fault.

Being as it is (in part) from ad copy like this where these misconceptions originate.
Career. I'm not a failure in general, I'm pretty successful. I consider myself a failure as a programmer though. I failed myself when I was a teenager by quitting and choosing another profession instead. I did it because at the time I thought I was gonna be miserable doing it for a living. These days... I don't know. I suppose I'll forever wonder what could have been.
> I still think that Apple's dictatorial grip on their platforms broadly stifles innovation and has a negative impact on competition.

If that’s the case, where is all of the “innovation” on Android that average consumers would care about?
AI helps keeping Gmail inboxes malware free [slides]
Here are the slides of my recent talk at FIC on how Google uses AI to strengthen Gmail's document defenses and withstand attacks that evade traditional antivirus solutions.

This talk recounts how in the last few years we researched and developed a specialized office document scanner that combines a custom document analyzer with deep-learning to detect malicious docx and xls that bypass standard AVs. In 2021 our AI scanner was able to detect 36% additional malicious documents that eluded other scanners on average and 178% at peak performance.

I hope you will find those slides useful and informative. If you have any questions, please ask away, will do my best to answer :)
I keep all the backup codes in my wallet, next to the $5000 in small bills.
/s

My backup codes are filed in an expando-file. There are far too many to cram into a wallet. Also, if I'm carrying them around with me when I don't need them, my risk/threat model now includes loss and theft of wallet. That's ridiculous and unnecessary.
schmuck, unless you want to get real specific about it
> Of course Safari already has the same risk

Which is the reason the JIT runs in its own sandbox connected through IPC IIRC.

Breaking the JIT isn’t supposed to even get you access to the parent process (Safari), let alone anything more, assuming you don’t have a kernel exploit too.
It seems ZGC's autotuning is following in the footsteps of Azul's proprietary C4 (Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector) which came a decade or two earlier. Both GCs are low-latency and their main tuning option is just the heap size.
I stand corrected on the data source.

From 5 years of experience though, the stats can money seems right on, while the levels.io data seems VERY high.
I wish the article went more in to explaining how their business worked.
It doesn’t take “billions” of dollars to become an Android OEM and use AOSP.
Who's talking about supporting charities?
3Dfx Voodoo 1 and 2 Glide Linux Driver and Other X.org Code Officially Retired
Not everyone has the privilege of being near a nature park or the equivalent.
Exactly this - over-regulation keeps people from using the safety mechanisms at all.

My other favorite example is gun background checks. If I want to sell a gun to a guy in my neighborhood that I don't really know, there's no practical way to do it such that he gets the background check you get when you buy from a dealer. Completely ridiculous.
Getting locked out and having nobody to talk to is a matter of trust!
Fantastic comments in this thread. Worth reading again in the future.
This is very, very bad news. Even if their client telemetry ends up being opt-in, the “feature” will be part of the client code base, opening up an attack surface and chance of data leakage. I can already see the apology letter from their CEO coming in (“we let our users down”).

1Password, don’t do it!

Rely on other means to collect usability feedback like surveys, internal usability testing and developer tooling for build-time usability testing. Your app is simple enough that you absolutely, categorically do not need to subject your users to mass surveillance.

I am currently paying for a 1P family subscription and I will be moving to another provider or self-host a free/OSS password manager should your telemetry plans eventuate.
If you don’t include some measure of employee satisfaction, retention, wellness, etc, then you will optimize the system at their expense. As awful as this sounds, it’s no different than operating a piece of machinery above its capacity, or without adequate maintenance, because doing so improves some short term measure. If you can absorb the cost of doing so, then you might happily burn through lots of machines and that might be acceptable. But people aren’t machines, and you will either find yourself having retention issues, hiring issues, or like Amazon, literally running out of people willing to work for you even as they literally kill their employees.

The most important thing I take from my reading of Deming, is that there comes a point when you have to put the charts aside and deal with people. If you push people over and over and over, eventually they’re going to snap. Even if they don’t, can you live with yourself at the end of the day?

You also have to consider more factors than just P&L. If you push sales people to the point they start breaking the law, or you push machinery and operators to the point of a massive oil spill, you could jeopardize the whole business, or worse. You need to know where the limits are, and that only comes from understanding the people, and the process, beyond just the charts.

Classic map v territory stuff.
This is so dystopian all around.
Coinbase sues SEC after months of silence from federal regulator
I think I’d rather have a clear set of options rather than having something that is going to essentially randomly, uncontrollably respond to what I input. What’s more annoying something that clearly can’t help you, allowing you to move on, or something that will endlessly try to appear helpful while still being manipulative in upselling and avoiding solving my actual problem?
The “const” Deception
Conversely, one could bring up the literal war in a particular European country, downfall of women's rights and rising LGBT+ intolerance in a certain developed country, rising income inequality and climate change.
> Of course Safari already has the same risk

Apple is perfectly well aware of this and in “lockdown mode”, Apple disabled JIT for Safari.
> Until

This has been the case for over a decade on smartphones, and corporations like Microsoft are currently hard at work bringing it to traditional computers.
If Google were allowed to publish Chrome, not based on Safari, but without a JIT tomorrow I think they’d get review bombed by normal users complaining about how it suddenly got slower than the current WebKit implementation.

It’s mostly developers who care about the engine, end users are going to care far more about the performance.
This rhymes with the 2015 DOJ report that investigated Ferguson, MO after a police shooting there that sparked large scale unrest:
https://finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/articles/investigation...
If there's a reason Google doesn't want to talk about, it's that the biggest legal risk of AI image generation is that it can be used for revenge porn and CSAM.

I don't think it's problematic to be worried about that!