skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less interested in using someone else's computer (not as much, but similar to how i'm disinterested in an API from someone like OpenAI), would rather pay the upfront hardware cost than worry about how many tokens i generate (kind of hinders creativity and excitment about it).
We don't have a definition of consciousness that allows you to determine whether a rock is conscious or not.
I've seen this over and over again: German software engineer salaries are just too low.
Woah, that's a cool direction. Thank you! I'll explore this.
I don't think it's bizarre. I'd attribute it to a common and timeless sentiment applied to the modern age.

I have no reason to believe maternal/paternal love, expressed as the desire that your kids live a better life than you, is a particularly modern idea. IMO that's why its common to see declining fertility rate in countries with large economies and countries with declining economies.

It's heartbreaking to think your child will live a life that's worse than yours. In a poor country, even if you don't have much money, it's easy to think they could do better and live happier than you. In a rich country, even if you have all the means to give them a "good enough" life, it's not as easy to think this.

This is definitely a cultural issue. It happens to be the case rich countries got rich by placing a lot of value in "success", wealth, high achievement and individuality, not in meeting base necessities and being content/grateful with what one has. Which is exactly what you allude to:

> But the real reason is, it's expensive to train a child to get into a top-3 university. Raising a child to adulthood is possible even in abject poverty.

I'm not South Korean, but what I've gathered from friends and media is that it's a hyper-capitalist society that's very, very invested into certain ideals of "success" (academic, beauty, economic, etc). I'm thus not surprised that, if associate that with happiness, the idea of rising a child to be happy is daunting.
I'm not a Windows based programmer, but couldn't they leave the old API's in place, but make UTF-8 safe versions available for everyone and switch to that... E.G. with Win 11?
Mechanical engineers argue all the time about certain ways to design and implement something as well. I don't see it as different as arguing programming languages.

Everything in software is a hard fact. In fact I would say it's even harder since we can measure everything to pretty minute details if we want to. Something that is much harder in other engineering principles. Software is just as bound to the physical world as other engineering principles. For example you can't just write a O(n!) implementation and expect it to work.
This looks like a very competent & fast replacement for interception-tools (https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools). Nice. Having multiple layers is very interesting to me. Being able to quickly swap config is also compelling.
Hmm... Not sure you want to be flaunting star growth charts like these in the light of yesterday's post about buying github stars.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pot-app/.github/master/pot...
Chinese Next-Generation Psychological Warfare
Lots of science fiction and pseudo-science (see especially pp. 70--83), and no critical reflection whatsoever from the author.
Same here. So I just made a bullet point list of the technical things I have done in the past. I got a list of jobs I wouldn't necessarily have searched for on a job board so that's nice.
Location: Trento, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Almost certainly not.

Technologies: Dart/Flutter in the last few years. Previously Ruby/Rails and the usual web tech along the way Postgres/AWS/ElasticSearch/Redis/React etc etc.

Résumé/CV: Previously worked on a large customer loyalty scheme (FlyBuys) and a train booking system (Loco2, then RailEurope) with both backend and frontend roles. In the last few years I discovered Flutter/Dart and have released a climbing app for Italy (Falesia), did some contracting work and am currently releasing my latest side project which is again climbing related (https://climblocator.com). I have contributed quite a lot to the flutter_map plugin and some of my own mapping related packages (https://pub.dev/publishers/balanci.ng/packages). I am most interested in roles that include Flutter/Dart. More formal CV available on request.

Email: rorystephenson@gmail.com

I love interesting problems and it's important for me to work on meaningful projects with a friendly and fun team. I am easy going and I value an environment where we collaborate to achieve the highest quality possible (solid PR reviews etc).

I am active in mountain sports and love to highline and run. I would consider full-time roles but am most interested in part-time (3 to 4 days a week) or contract work.
Yes, of course. I discover things changing in my body every time I look again. And whenever I interact with the world, I discover it has changed significantly since I last interacted.

Of course, since I can't observe anything except what I'm observing right now, I could conclude that I'm creating those observations. But I have noticed time and time again that the world largely looks like the same whether I observe it or not. Also, occasionally things that I didn't observe suddenly happen to me, in a way which is consistent only with them having originated outside myself (for example, a ball hits me in the back of the head).
The most obvious use case for length is iterating over the string and indexing it. In JS (or Go, Rust, Python) indexing and iteration is not byte based. As has been said elsewhere, length depends on the context/way you use it.
Yep, this law was mentioned in the article as something the defendants cited
Well Russian charts do show it, because since 2015 Russia includes Crimea in internal stats. As you can see it's also growing in 2022, despite there being consistently more deaths than births for years on end. I suppose we can infer what this means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#After_W...
> Boeing finds two serious problems with Starliner just weeks before launch

Wow. This is a sign that they made a review, this means that the development process is still breathing. /s
Given Mozilla's recent behavior, I think you should more likely expect the built-in GPT-generated ads that you can't disable in browser settings.
As usual the group size is way to small!

I hope they don't make it mandatory...
>Should this throw an error because there's only one displayed "character"?

Absolutely.
> For example, on macOS, a good amount of space is wasted because we can't hide the menu/title bar.

It was possible with extensions like titleless and monkey patch, but Microsoft did something recently that made these extensions not work on newer versions.
To me, religious explanations always have an air of cozyness, because "reality" of human experience is usually much more harsh then people are prepared to accept. Case in point: "an act of god" vs "the universe doesn't care about you in particular". In any case, I realize I was a bit too cynical for a fruitful exchange, my bad.
>Well, why not?

Separation of concerns?
Supply and demand mechanism can take years, decades to materialize a such stabilization. Wealth hoarders have the power to suck huge amounts of wealth out and destabilize the entire economy, just like has happened now.

"Capital in the Twenty-First Century" talks about this, great book.
We don't care on pseudoscience, be it Western (Abrahamic religions) or Eastern (Indian derivated), but Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...

Read this and stop all the magical fairy tales.
> easy things seem easy primarily because they are familiar

This is also why I struggle to answer the question "is it hard". Is it hard to build a web-app? No. But I've been building web-apps for 20 years. Will you find it hard (if you've never programmed before)? I don't know, if you want to build one this weekend, sure. If you have the patience to spend a few years learning first, then no.
I've been running vicunda-13B on a workstation that can be aquired from ebay for about $500. It's slow compared to online services, but probably slightly faster than text to speech would recite its output, so plenty.

Falcon 40B is probably too much for it, but apparently there's similar cheap hardware that could work.
It doesn't sound too bad for that time if it was an entry level position. I started with a similar salary as a DevOps engineer in Munich at the end of 2019. Munich isn't cheap though, I pay 1,5k € in rent for a 54 sqm 2,5 room apartment in a good neighbourhood.
Your ability to remember later does not diminish your consciousness in the present.

Was all of life in hindsight lived unconsciously after developing dementia?

I have had many lucid dreams that I did not immediately recall, but only a bit later after something reminded me of them. Suddenly I remember being conscious, whereas before I assumed I was out.

Again, memory is a tricky thing and I would be cautious in linking it to consciousness - the experience - itself.
Stored for how long?
I could rant for DAYS about my awful experiences with the US medical billing system but I’m too tired after spending literally months of my life on paying US medical bills and even more time removing erroneous collections claims from my credit report.
Love it. Vimiums keys for switching tabs are reversed though. K goes down and J up. Still easier to remember than which one goes left/right.
You could allow the fences to be in the public area and allow people to walk on either side of the fence. Assuming of course that it's fine for people to walk "inside" the fences, which might depend on whether you are keeping sheep or crocodiles.
Beware - marketing post.
I would think the main reason for preferring the UHK is the capability to add the trackpoint module to it, even though you gloss over it in the text. :D.

Btw have you tried the trackball? When they introduced the modules I was vacillating between that and the trackpoint, but ended up with the trackball (of which I'm very happy), but I would be curious of alternative points of view.
> This means that our conscious experience (qualia) are the result of physical processes. Well then, what makes brains so special?

I don't think they are

> Can other complex systems have qualia? Do they even have to be complex - how about a sliding scale of consciousness?

How about most any modern computing system? We can reproduce the same features with layers of control, permissions and abstraction.

Suppose a system consisting of two modules. The vision module is hooked up to a camera. The AI module has a low bandwidth, serial text communication with the vision module and a fixed API. It has similar connections to other subsystems.

User -> AI: "This is a ball. Its color is red."

AI -> Vision: [ color of current thing = "red" ]

AI -> User: Understood

(later)

User -> AI: "What is the color of this ball?"

AI -> User: Let's see...

AI -> Vision: [ get color of current thing ]

Vision -> AI: "red"

AI -> User: "The ball is red"

A system made in this way can learn a ball is red, can then apply the knowledge to other red objects, but would be completely unable to describe what "red" looks like. That is locked up deep in the guts of the vision module, and the AI "conscious mind" has no access to that.

Different implementations of the vision module might use the same internal representations or might not. It's even conceivable that you could swap the vision module for something different (eg, a camera wired RGB or BRG), crossing the wires, and it being impossible for the AI to tell.
> for western programmers

And by western you mean american, right? You can't even use ASCII in the UK --- '£'.
My approach to learn assembly was to let the C compiler generate assembly (gcc -S -c) from C code and then read the assembly to see how C code is mapped to assembly code. I have written detailed article on this here https://www.avabodh.com/cin/cin.html
the balance on this is pretty clear afaik, people are consistently undershooting their desired fertility outcomes.
I think that argument makes as much sense as saying that an engine is less useful than a car. And pretending that engine.weight should return the weight of the car.
I think JS was somehow salvaged after all that time. The event loop paradigm is lovely.
This is so much BS dressed up as objective. Competency and ability have never been the key criteria used for hiring and education.

Griggs v. Duke Power explicitly banned the use of academic credentials and non-specific tests while explicitly allowing the use of job-specific testing. It did this because those non-specific credentials were used to bias in favor of white employees over colored employees. If a person can do the actual job well, or be trained to do it well, that should be all that matters. And according to the actual decision in Griggs v. Duke Power, that is all that matters.

Show me a world in which everyone is facilitated in reaching their potential and you won't have many arguments about bias. People recognize when they're in over their heads and usually don't like being in such a position.

Are people doing counter-productive things in the name of diversity? Probably. Just like everything else that people do things in the name of. Does "diversity" swamp competency to do a job? To the extent it does, I doubt any more than nepotism or positive implicit bias (hiring people like yourself).
So I guess HN is on a death spiral too, when submissions like this get 100+ upvotes in 4 hours. There's a lot of people that want to know how to signal properly to get a job here. That never bodes well.

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Dang should delete this submission.

Also, I've expressed this before, but in case Dang is reading this: HN needs to ice new users for much longer. A week or two until they can submit a post, a month or more before they can upvote.
This basically adresses my biggest gripe with tabs in an elegant way:

The primary input mechanism for dealing with a large amount of "list entries" in any GUI software, nowadays is scrolling. While scrolling can be implemented in horizontal tabs, browsers prevented it from being used efficiently. Tabs all have to fit on that bar, and if they don't, for some reason you couldn't scroll but had to click little buttons, or if you could scoll, it wouldve been a bad UX, since tabs horizontal scrolling goes too fast for the user, or takes too long.

Vertical tabs. Nice. From now on, any browser not offering this feature, shouldn't even bother applying. Nicely done Brave!
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Color LCDs
People can be conscious and not remember. Alzheimer patients are a clear example.

A model of memory (there are more) says that we form "traces" of events by transferring from short-term to long-term memory, but that these traces need to be fixed to stay memories. This process can go wrong in many ways, but traces can also be forgotten or replaced. E.g., when I go to bed, I know/remember that I've locked the front door, but I can't remember that I locked it yesterday. I suppose I did, but I have little to no recollection of it. In computer metaphors, it's as if this event only has a trace to a single place in memory.
Show HN: List and demo of 20 costless serverless databases
> There plainly is such a thing. The only people who would question it are those who don't have it, and those who haven't noticed that they have it.

How is that different than a soul?

> aren't aware of their own existence, so something about you makes you different from them. I

I see no discernible difference in that regard. That I string words together in a way that seems interesting isn't evidence that I'm conscious. It's evidence that there's some interesting algorithm hardwired into my brain meat. There's no magic there, no spirit, and it's embarrassing that you believe there is and that it's somehow akin to rationality for you to believe it.
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I'm a webdev since the 90s, creator of SPAs in most major frameworks since 2012 and working for the past 10 years as a freelancer for corporations all-over Germany (back then onsite, nowadays only remote). I have a degree (Diplom) in CS and some open source work on GitHub (see CV).

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I have read somewhere that you should learn 2 or 3 programming languages from the get go. If you learn one, you run the risk of letting it's shape dictate how you mentally model computation. At some point someone who learned a dynamically typed programming language first is bound to find out why data types matter.
What if it were determined that people crossing would increase it's value? The argument based on cities with higher density generally commanding higher price per sq. ft. If 10 million people cross it a year, then they would have billions of dollars worth of land.
Makes me so sad that I can't just code up a parser and have a useable language. I have a lot of ideas, but heck, just syntax highlighting is... I don't know where to begin. And auto-completions. I need a tool that does 90% of that like PegJS or other parser-generators do for the parsing part. Don't see why a parser-generator can't also spit out an LSP. And if it knows what tokens are valid next, it should be able to generate completion suggestions. And if you have an AST, you can probably format the code half decently. And then I imagine it's possible to have a semi-universal package manager, I don't know why we need one per language, really. Aren't they all "put some code in some predefined location, and resolve these dependencies with semver please"? Maybe some extra junk for precompiled deps but still.
Yes on both, but I underestimated the hellish, destructive nature of modern organizations and workplaces.
I think listening to endless cassette audiobooks of Just William and Jeeves and Wooster on car journeys was probably the single best thing to happen to my English learning as a child. The vocabulary of the first half of the 20th century is much wider than I expect from more recent books. I'd actually be surprised if any of those words didn't occur at least once. "Simper" certainly did: Violet Elizabeth did so at every opportunity when adults were around.
SEEKING WORK | Global | Remote only
Location: European Union, Central Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but I can visit.

Technologies: Angular, RxJS, React, Typescript, Javascript, Firebase, NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Sass, GIT, Cypress, (worked with React Native before), Last few months learning the backend with NestJS, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL (so frontend first, but can do smaller tasks on backend in this tech stack)

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-stjepanek/

Email: marko.stjepanek@gmail.com

Hi, I am an experienced Developer (4+ years professionally) with Masters in Computer Science. 3+ years working with Angular and RxJS, the rest of it is React and React Native. In addition to my developer experience, I am also a mentor in the company I work and write blog articles about RxJS, TypeScript, etc. Also, last year I held a lecture at an IT conference about that. Currently, I am learning the backend with NestJS, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL so mowing towards Full-stack.
I might actually do that. I would love to have a conversation with one.
And in Finland(and some other countries in Europe) the MSc in tech is Diplom Engineer. (Entirely separate from Diloma in Engineering).

Thus calling ourselves Engineers...

Programmers can also come from trade schools, but those are not Engineers.
You think it is a good idea to track how eye subconsciously moves, and to trust that data with Meta? Don't mind if I skip that tech lane.
The “correlation is not causation” people were right all along!
That's pretty much how every serious dense matrix (or more generally, multi-dimensional array) representation has been done since, well, forever. It's only C programmers writing "My First Matrix Program" that insist on allocating each row separately due to the lack of native multidimensional arrays in that language.
This does not make sense to me. First, you might not want your next job to be just like the ones on your resume. Second, you might have certain constraints, and value certain things more than others in a position; i.e., have your own ranking function. Third, this site is of no use without job listings, and unless you have your own data, you can't really do anything commercial.

But congratulations on your new job!
I did not anticipate that behavior, but I'm glad it's working well. I will add that to the placeholder text in the text input so that others are also given that suggestion. Thanks for the feedback!
This is exactly what i have been working on for few weeks but not been able to get a good final results. I want to make sure that AI is not overselling my skills or completely deviating from my current experiences/skill set when trying to tailor resume for a job post.
Location: European Union, Central Europe, but can work Globally
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but I can visit.

Technologies: Angular, RxJS, React, Typescript, Javascript, Firebase, NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Sass, GIT, Cypress, (worked with React Native before), Last few months learning the backend with NestJS, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL (so frontend first, but can do smaller tasks on backend in this tech stack)

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-stjepanek/

Email: marko.stjepanek@gmail.com

Hi, I am an experienced Developer (4+ years professionally) with Masters in Computer Science. 3+ years working with Angular and RxJS, the rest of it is React and React Native. In addition to my developer experience, I am also a mentor in the company I work and write blog articles about RxJS, TypeScript, etc. Also, last year I held a lecture at an IT conference about that. Currently, I am learning the backend with NestJS, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL so mowing towards Full-stack.
Repeatable Read vs. Snapshot Isolation
They solved aircraft safety back in the 50s, but big parachute is keeping the research suppressed so they can sell more parachutes.
The Abrahamic religions are not western.
Isn't that merely agnosticism?
I’m not sure asking Dang to arbitrarily censor posts that reflect existential feelings about where HN is heading is the best idea. That’s what not pressing the upvote button is for.

Agree on submission icing for new accounts I guess, as it would help people get a better idea of the guidelines and community first.
Python would benefit from this significantly IMO.
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Tabs are entirely useless and wrong abstraction. Look at VSCode, you just use Command Palette to search for anything. That's good
i was hired after inquiring on a Nov 2021 post, started Jan 2022 and am still there.
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I started with JavaScript and went to c/logic gates/assembly, and it wasn't too bad

I had to learn what pointers were, but it was OK, haha.

That said, maybe people who don't have "The Knack" would be better off learning a slightly harder language first..
Hope these kinds of toolings will kill al HR Agencies.