skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The dolphins were filmed gently playing with the puffer, passing it between each other for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, unlike the fish they had caught as prey which were swiftly torn apart.

> Zoologist and series producer Rob Pilley said that it was the first time dolphins had been filmed behaving this way.

> At one point the dolphins are seen floating just underneath the water's surface, apparently mesmerised by their own reflections.

Apparently dolphins know how to have a good time and know more than we think. Dolphins will be the first to jet if it all goes under just like in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

From the Guide:

>> "On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
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Here's a vision neuroscientist - Robert Marc, distinguished professor emeritus University of Utah - shooting down the whole article. https://twitter.com/robertmarc60/status/1096946633361641472
Exactly that... is it bad to be jealous?

It can be annoying... that I know!
I've gotten used to the non physical escape button. Took me a while, but I got there in the end.
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> And they don't eat much of the vegetables, because they are expensive and hard to come by. I've actually been to a Walmart which, despite being huge (200k sqft) have not sold any fresh vegetables at all.

Are you kidding me? Find a farmer's market.
Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app
What surrogate activities are you not doing right now so you can read this comment?
Or, more likely, they are both effects of the same root cause...
The hackers have their publicist deflect attention from them while also advertising that there may be information for sell on Oasis

It also helps the victim as it is less embarrassing to say a state actor has done it

It still works, nobody is asking the correct questions, it requires disagreeing with your friend’s favorite politicians and intelligence agencies while they remain oblivious to the technological limitations in finding the culprit

So what we have here is a vibrant marketplace
I'm a die hard neovim user with a touch bar MacBook pro. I remapped caps lock to control and use control-] to escape in nvim. I'm used to it and it works just fine for me.

Other people like to map caps lock to escape, which makes it even easier. I have even heard of people doing this that have a physical escape key on their keyboards.
I upvoted the gp post just so it and your reply can be kept visible.

This dismissive attitude towards the slow but steady incremental erosion of privacy and authoritarian creep terrifies me. It's like people have completely forgotten about not-so-distant history, and are not just tolerating, but welcoming the mechanisms of oppression rolling out once again. In the name of catching a dozen or so criminals - just like every other time in the recorded history of oppressive regimes.

This has all happened before. For centuries. The same dismissive arguments have been used to defend the Gestapo and KGB. If there's a crime, why wouldn't you interrogate the family of everyone who was reported to be near the scene? Why wouldn't you force a confession and tick off the case if none of the leads are working out?

It takes only a few minutes of empirical thought to realize that not every crime must be solved, especially when that doctrine creates an incentive to 'solve' crimes with easy targets rather than the real perpetrator. You hit diminishing returns really hard really fast by investing extra resources into solving crimes with statistically negligible incidence rates. The only entity that stands to benefit is the proto authoritarian regime and its ability to target arbitrary population segments and continue expanding.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin knew better.
I agree that keyboard navigation in macOS is shit. I don’t think it’s much of a pain point for me personally because i mostly use the laptop keyboard/touchpad combo But when trying to do desktop setups it gets annoying quickly, even the Magic Trackpad sucks in comparison since it cannot be positioned just below the keyboard.

I’ve actually been thinking about writing a keyboard assistant using the accessibility API. In theory it should be easy to drive anything that’s built using UIKit.
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Supreme court ruled you can be too smart to be a cop

As a note I think that rate of acceptance is too high. Way too many are getting past the psyche tests and running around bullying society

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-...
Unrelated but kind of related - when people hire freelancers, they may seem expensive by the hour compared to a full timer, but when you take into account this stat, that doubles the per hour cost of your full time employee, which makes hiring freelancers a bit more attractive.
Looks amazing. Makes me want to move back to Helsinki seeing all the new development
Given the name of the site (I've never used it), I always assumed it was about proving your ability to others (like maybe future employers). Easily-found answers totally destroys the trust that's needed for such a thing to work.
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Roll my eyes every time I see a "Considered Harmful" headline.

As for SIMD, it's a huge benefit when used in the right context. I applied it image processing and video compression algorithms in the past, with significant performance gains.
Big company. Large retailers have lots of data and the ability to act on your analytical insights. Fifty percent more money is significant and you should discount any promises or grants of equity from the start-up. Equity in start-ups is far from assured and will often be subject to dilution, vesting periods and other constraints even if the start-up succeeds. And, in a couple years when you are considering moving to another job for better money and more interesting problems being already located in a very large city means greater ease of connecting and finding that next position.
Or both. My current employer has unlimited time-off and I personally insist that every one on my team takes at least two one week long breaks every year.

Sometimes you can tell someone is starting to burn themselves out. I figure it's better to take the (possible) productivity hit from them being out for a week or two versus the long term hits of either them being at work and just performing horribly, or quitting altogether.
iPhone SE was released in 2016 and still runs the latest version of iOS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_SE
Turn you caps locks key into the Escape key. Using a TouchBar keyboard or otherwise, it is a better way to get around.
Yeah I absolutely agree that there is a feedback loop by which neural activity actually shapes physiology. But there’s also a degree to which psychological disorders are contributed to by errant thought patters, verses being the result of a functional problem with the brain as an organ. For example, with some forms of depression cognitive behavioral therapy (changing your thought patterns about certain things) can be very effective, while in the case of serious bipolar disorder, medication may be the only way to mitigate manic episodes.

For lack of a better analogy, there’s a degree to which different disorders are the result of a software problem or a hardware problem, and all the evidence points to Schitzophrenia as being firmly toward that hardware end of the spectrum.
God, happy to see I’m not the only one with repeating keys issues in my MacBook Pro.

Seriously, it’s maddening. It has halved my typing speed.
By default this is the case but once you learn how macOS is pretty keyboard friendly. I love the ability to set up a keyboard shortcut for literally anything, including third party software, through system preferences.

Only complaint is you have to actually enable Full Keyboard Access from system preferences before you can use the keyboard to do things like select buttons in dialog boxes.
The purpose of the "Primary Holding" section is to summarize the result, so that you don't have to dig through the whole thing.
Here's an article debunking it:
http://justingregg.com/evidence-for-dolphins-getting-high-on...

tl;dr it's not based on any scientific evidence, it's a few anecdotes and it's entirely unclear if it's plausible.
That's not the benefit of science. The benefit of science is that it allows us to test and understand the empirical world and create predictive laws. And no, people didn't believe the earth was static before evolution and geology.

As for climate change, it is perceptible to us. We can actually see the changes - whether it is to glaciers or even crops growing in regions or for longer than previously.

Your messianic "alarm" may be alarming but that's not science is it? It's more fearmongering religion or cult. Throughout history, temperatures have risen and changed. Climate changed occurred before the industrial revolution. Interesting isn't it? We are still around. Sadly, the science of climate change isn't advanced enough for us to scientifically say why these changes happened definitely. That is the honest answer. We have some idea, but nothing definitive. We don't know the degree to which humans affect the climate. All I know is that climate "scientists" peddling political fear have been wrong over and over again. All for what? Because a bunch of greedy globalists are peddling fear to get the human population to accept taxation? So the logic is greedy globalists caused global warming to enrich themselves and therefore we need to reward them by taxing everyone on earth?

I know you are "alarmed" and the world is going to end soon. You should let the banks know so they stop lending out money on 30, 40, 50, 100 years mortgages. You should let the industrialists know so they'll stop planning on using the northwest passage and the arctic as new trade routes decades from now. You should let international organizations planning olympics, world cups, etc decades from now to stop since the world is ending.
The future is virtual, remote, and productive. It is cheaper, more robust to team life changes and can select from a wider net which ultimately makes for better people.

Offices are a distraction except for meetings, integrations, planning but for actual work they are horrible.

Think of all the greats, they all had their own lab/study and that is where the great work was done.

Funny thing is, even when we go to work at an office lots of the communication is virtual internally via text/email/systems with people an room/office over, next building, or other office in another city. When you deal with clients and customers it is mostly virtual.

We should focus more on virtual communication in modern project processes/management as it is the default even in an office for your co-workers, customers and more. Remote working and virtual communication helps that even if meetings/integrations are physical, focus and work flow can be more tuned in.
Lifetime is very misleading. I expect smartphones and apps to become obsolete over the next 40 years. Just like pretty much everything software from 40 years ago is obsolete now.
I had an inkling the article was BS for similar reasons. TTX blocks sodium channels. Nothing about that mechanism would get you “high”, unless by “high” you mean numbness and difficulty breathing.

I love how in the Twitter feed, people want to believe the article is true. Why? They love a cute story? Animals getting high is cool? The internet would never lie? They seem overinvested in it being true.
Missed the 'vendor' part. Most folks dealing in bitcoin, don't trade a whole coin at a time (which is what, $20K?) They use an exchange. Which is the same as now, except without any federal safeguards. In fact bitcoin exchanges have infamously been hijacked and abscond with everybody's coins.

So where's the safety there? Its imaginary.
Ask HN: How Hard Is Learning to Build Electron Apps?
Hi,

I'm a student and I'm thinking about contributing to some open source apps like Boostnote or Notable which use Electron (Javascript/Typescript).

How much time/effort does it require to learn the necessary skills/tools?

So far I'm comfortable with Python, C++ and Java and I'm mainly working on topics like machine learning and computer vision. So learning Electron will probably not be directly useful for my first job.

Would you say it's nonetheless a good use of my time or should I rather focus on my "more career relevant stack"?
There are a few things, nicely covered in "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" by Van Roy and Heridi [0]. Briefly:

1. First-class dataflow variables
2. Syntax for creating flows (c/f pipe in *nix shell)
3. Transparent parallelisation

All of these things exist in libraries of various sorts, but can feel cumbersome compared to native syntax.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/concepts-techniques-and-model...
Workers need unproductive activities, because otherwise the long days that the unproductive activities make necessary would be intolerable.

I'd much rather work 4 hour days with no hot drinks or chatting than 8 hours at a relaxed pace. I can do unproductive activities in my own time.
Work distractions can be a bit misleading. A lot of work I do involves lengthy unit test runs. Often I don't have anything better to do, even if I wanted to work harder. I just have to patiently wait for my tests to finish because I can move on with my work.
I don't know how this relates to my comment, sorry. I'm asking if the guy above me had seen evidence that substantiates his claim that there's a significant preference to people dating within their own race
I... I can't even...

Frack, you're winning at parenting. I'm a dad and have never ever even once thought of it in those terms. I've never once thought, "thank goodness I'm a parent, it gives me something physical to do."
Obligatory Office Space quote:

Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Bob Slydell: Great.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door–that way Lumberg can’t see me, heh–after that I sorta space out for an hour.

Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

... later ...

Bob Slydell: I’d like to move us right to Peter Gibbons. We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
Free coffee!? I have to _pay_ my employer to let me work there.
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There's no way to disable spam filtering in Gmail because most of the filtering happens long before user filters are checked.

If it weren't true, or spam folders would contain thousands of messages.

My spam folder receives no more than a dozen of messages per month and I know that there're tens of thousands attempts to send me a spam.
Unless freelancers are equally subject to this, and I don't see why they wouldn't be.
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Not how it works.

You can trade any fraction of a coin with or without an exchange. Exchanges facilitate trading, but they aren't required.

And btc hasn't been 20k for over a year -- in fact it never got there as I recall. It's been trading around 3k for the last few months.
The current standard working week is 40 hours. 40 is not a magic number and it's not a law of nature. We need to start a serious discussion about reducing it. 32 would be a good start. Retaining the same pay. In case you worry it will destroy the economy check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
I know that I feel like I really have around 4-5 good hours in me of serious deep contemplative programming a day. After that I either check out or find myself doing menial tasks that require no brain power for the rest of the day.

If I do have a huge deadline and have to double or triple that in a day I find myself mentally wiped and kind of useless for several days there after.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve been searching for months for an idea to try out Rust, and now I think I found it!

In case would you offend if I tried to port it?
Fascinating. The rule reminds me of this iconoclastic tour de force from the great David Hestenes, which takes intrinsic angular momentum seriously, i.e. electrons really are spinning or spiralling:

The Zitterbewegung Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/ZBW_I_QM.pdf

"The idea that the electron spin and magnetic moment are generated by a localized circulatory motion of the electron has been proposed independently by many physicists.
Schroedinger’s zitterbewegung (zbw) model for such motion is especially noteworthy, because it is grounded in an analysis of solutions to the Dirac equation. Surely, if the
zbw is a real physical phenomena, then it tells us something fundamental about the nature
of the electron..."
Ask HN: Would You Stay at a Boring, Well Paying Job?
Context:
I'm currently working as a software architect at a very boring, slow moving software company, I spend most of my days having to wait for other people/companies or procrastinating which drives me crazy.

The thing is: I make between 2 and 3 times the salary I would have somewhere else, I have to travel to very cool places around the world to meet with clients.

This allows me to fund my projects and startup (and retirement), but at a cost: My sense of purpose is slowly but surely going away as I spend my days doing things that could be done so much more efficiently but that no one wants to improve. I have not had a real challenge at work for quite a long time now.

Questions:
Have you ever been in such a situation?
Have you stayed, why?
How did you weigh the ups and downs?

Thanks for the answers
I have to wonder how close the flight characteristics of MS FS are to a 787, and how MS got all that information.
Including two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184234
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Sorry if I haven’t articulated my position very well: the property I care about is consistency of code throughout the ecosystem which exist due to the constraints such as the absense of user-defined generics. Hopefully that’s a little clearer, and makes it obvious why “a few built in genetics” is fundamentally different than user-defines generics.
Animals do like to sedate though including some samples in the article, we all know cats love catnip. Same with mice in tests. Even if this case it not fully confirmed or incorrect we do know animals partake in activities to have fun.
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> None of what you mentioned should have been granted to the police

Not even questioning the witnesses, or stopping people in the area?

Please describe the alternative method for police investigation? Someone is killed in the street, now what?
I also wonder that. However how much "dislike" will cause to force to use parents for math code? For me, I could live with that, but I'm not a math-heavy coder...

How much other stuff, apart of math, could be impacted?
I don't see Docker as part of deployment. Docker is a way to run something in a sandbox.

My app runs on an operating system. I include a setup script that prepares the OS so my app can run.

If the OS runs on bare metal, inside a VM or inside a container makes no difference for the app.
And 6 of those 10 Times was in the last 5 days.
that is the opposite of how science is supposed to work. Using the method described you will statistically always find false correlations in data sets. This is because you can find patterns in any set of data.

You have to start with a hypothesis and then come up with the measures and expected outcomes based on it. Then you design the experiment to determine if the hypothesis is false.
I agree. Python is fine for short programs, but please give me a type safe language for developing more complex programs. BTW, as an unofficial library, some devs at Google do provide Haskell TensorFlow bindings.

I am not a Swift developer but I have looked at Swift enough to know that I like it better than Python.

Common Lisp is another interesting language: the SBCL compiler’s warnings will help you catch many errors early. So, maybe Python would be much better with MyPy type annotations and JIT compilation.
In cases like these, we're often guilty of not finding something else to do in the meanwhile. There's almost always something productive one could do, even something so simple as taking a quick look at your open issue tickets and decide which ones to queue up next, or writing a quick email that you've been putting off. The reason you don't do that is because you're looking for an excuse to take a break and aren't motivated to look for other tasks.
For example, in the 3rd floor the magazines section is right next to children's play area. Potentially noisy location.

https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oodi_...
If thoughts like these are making you suffer, there are other ways of thinking.

Whether the object you are working on is an engine block or the Chrome debugger, you are working on something designed by humans. If you were working on the engine block, might you still feel that your life wasn’t “real” enough, because you would be surrounded by metal and concrete rather than trees?

A set of atoms arranged into a piece of wood and a set of transistors arranged in a particular state are both equally “real”. Consider that your experience of reality consists of a bunch of sensors absorbing random photons or other signals from your environment, stitched together by your brain software into a comprehensible whole.

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality - Anil Seth - TED
https://youtu.be/lyu7v7nWzfo

Your feeling of “unreality” is really a basic fact of your existence - if you were raised by wolves in the forest and never saw a single human invention, you still might find yourself wondering if you were stuck in a dream. In that way, even the “unreality” you feel is part of nature. Isn’t that cool?

If you can’t stop thoughts like that from bothering you on an ongoing basis, you might be suffering from a mild depression. Antidepressants work for many, as does therapy.
RescueTime tells me I’m spending at least 7 hours / day productive in my terminal, IDEs, or web browsers. I’m obviously worth at least 3 times market rate then!
As a freelancer, you can bet that I factor my lack of productivity into my hourly rates.
I thought one of Julia's compelling features is the ability drop down to the level of index arithmetics without losing performance (as Python does, once you start writing manual for loops).

If I want to stick with higher-level construct for dealing with "collections of numbers", I can use numpy arrays in Python, the STL in C++, etc.

Do you think Julia's high-level constructs are much better than the competition? E.g., how do they compare with C++20 ranges?
I don't think a Twitter thread is an adequate response to an academic paper. Twitter is the equivalent of the homeless man yelling at the bus stop.