skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Us humans are kind of undergoing that experiment right now with climate change and everything else, and even with the strategies available to us it is unclear whether humans will survive the coming hundreds of years :)

From a philosophical standpoint, and considering the spirit rather than the details: Is this hypothetical experiment just giving plants a challenge at them which they're too dumb or helpless to solve?

It seems there are plenty of analogous challenges which humans alone or in groups are unequipped to deal with.

Is any "challenge" humans respond to not a homeostatic correction, like if everything were perfectly perfect for a person would they do anything different at all? Considering also the homeostases we're built to maintain "just because", like novelty vs boredom.

If a thing "decided" to change its reproductive rate, or selected different sexual partners based on environmental conditions, is this necessarily a phenomenon unconnected to individual agency? Humans do this too.

Developmental neuroscience strongly supports the claim that physical brain architecture requires environmental stimuli, and psychology strongly supports the importance of "nurture" contributing to a person's "self". Do these stimulus responses have no bearing on consciousness?

If your conscious experience suddenly became transferred to a tree, and a lumberjack came to cut you down, how could you convince them you're conscious using the behaviors available to you?

Consider a conscious alien unfamiliar with human society, or a Stone age tribesperson who somehow doesn't embody human cognitive biases like assuming consciousness of things that look like them. If they observe a financial services office for a few hours, do they think the workers are modifying the environment in an individually considered manner?

If plants and humans were both considered by definition to be conscious, would life change?
Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal.

"Neo"-Yoga greatly misses on the mental aspects, and reduces a comprehensive system to a physical training. But, even in this diminished form its better than many alternatives. That was the point. I do not consider "neo"-yoga exploitative, I just consider it neo-mania, appealing to our urge for novelty.
So, there is a part to this argument I agree with -- which is that getting mad exclusively at Superhuman ultimately accomplishes very, very little. Because you're right, this is absolutely everywhere, and literally every non-personal email you get has these same trackers.

My hope with this whole controversy of the week is that it leads people to disable loading remote images by default, and it leads email providers to change their default settings. I don't want to see people riled up just for angers sake -- I want to see that anger directed towards making changes that help with the entire spectrum of email pixel trackers.

This is where I think we disagree:

> What technology people use doesn't matter, what matters is how they use it.

You make a good point that Superhuman isn't doing anything unique, and you make an (arguable) point that what Superhuman is doing isn't even that bad on its own terms.

But if you have to trust companies or 3rd parties to be responsible with a technology, you're still leaving yourself open to less ethical attackers. The safest fix is to get users onto platforms where no one can track them, even if those trackers are deployed in responsible ways.

Think of it this way -- you make a completely reasonable assertion that including Google Analytics on a web page is a personal violation of privacy[0]. When I get around to removing Analytics from Loop Thesis, that will be an improvement. But I'm not under the illusion that doing so will affect anyone other than my visitors on my site.

There are two steps to this process. One is to be personally responsible about what we do. The other (equally important) step is to empower users such that they don't need to rely on us being responsible -- by encouraging them to install ad blockers, by building browsers that resist fingerprinting, and so on. I want to respect people's privacy, but more than that, I want them to be private regardless of whether or not I'm trustworthy.

Encouraging products like Gmail or Fastmail to block images by default is not the biggest step in the world -- it certainly doesn't fix everything. But it is a step, and it makes things slightly better. There is no short checklist to fix omnipresent surveillance; it's a long, arduous road where we hope that things gradually get better over time. The outrage over Superhuman will be beneficial if it encourages some people to change a setting in their email clients that they didn't know existed.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/danShumway/site/commit/c294dc81ae330ec432...
That's /g/ jargon
> "When political humor seemed to work, MAD doubled down on lampooning the Trump administration, which earned some critical praise but likely alienated conservative readers as well as putting the magazine in direct competitions with late night shows that were delivering content nightly"

This is so sad to see. The fact that they took the easy road of Trump jokes, is far from the magazine I once knew. They used to have witty images and commentary that would appeal to many...
What we call “yoga” in the West is actually “asana” which is only a small part of the yoga path. It’s preparation for higher practices like pranayama, mediation and sense withdrawal. On the spiritual path asana is really not very important.
Server side map tile rasterization like the old days, maybe
Has any once-successful print media actually pivoted and been equally as successful?

I can't actually think of one.
No way! That is amazing!
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I own a Renault Duster and I was convinced the UX is crappy by design to make me switch to a higher "tier" of a car (duster is about 12K USD for a new one)

- Audio system has a huge knob that changes radio stations, but buttons for volume ️

- The "Turn off ECO" button that gets me higher RPM for overtaking is behind the cups on the cupholder. I cannot use it if I have a drink. Its quite dangerous when I want to overtake but dont have enough power and cannot get it

- The magical buttons to control audio / phonecalls behing the wheel is a shitshow. There are some buttons I cannot see, but I have never pressed the correct one

- Rearview mirror adjustement is under the parking break handle

- Cruise control is such a shitshow that I never use it
The phone will freeze until the battery is completely drained. NEVER connect the charger while in this state!
I think things like this are stealth politics and/or propaganda.

> Harassment includes but is not limited to: Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, [...].

I translate this as:
> words, words, words, message worded in such a way as to make it easy to accept and/or normalize, words, words, words

Systemic oppression in used in place of a lack of meaningful, quantified, real oppression. When oppression is your cause and you can't find it you image the structures of society itself are composed of it. Never mind that people are literally dying to come to your country to get some of that good systemic, institutional, oppression. When ideology becomes your religion nothing else matters.
These different classes of permits are hard to parse.

Has waymo driven a single mile on a public road in California or Phoenix without a safety driver behind the wheel?
"Busy work" jobs that aren't needed is not good. Investing in technology creates wealth and better standard of living. Most people are smart and resourceful when they want to be. If their job gets automated they should find a different one, and if there are no jobs then entrepreneurs and governments should think up ways to make use of the surplus labor.
Bitcoin's energy consumption 'equals that of Switzerland'
This is still how custom themes for the switch are distributed since the menu file is considered copyrighted they distribute a file and a tool you can use to apply the file to the menu file on your system.
> But I have the feeling that Waymo's system is much more mature than Tesla's. Let's see.

No way. Not even close by any factor. Tesla have real data from real people driving real cars across the world. On the other hand, Waymo have data only from their Test vehicles and augmented scenarios.
Al Jaffee also wrote all the “snappy answers to stupid questions” which is basically a bible for funny. If you havent had the chance to read them Id highly suggest it.
Rice, beans/lentils, basic veggies, eggs, milk, and chicken are all cheaper than the gross pizza you're describing, and much healthier. Throw in some spices, and it'll taste better, too.
I've studied yoga for 20 years. The style in the west was developed during the Raj, influenced by European physical exercise. Classic yoga takes Asana as mainly the precursor to loosen the body and correct the flow of prana (where minds meets body). Pranayama and meditation and are more central. Patanjali's defining text makes very little mention of asanas at all.
thanks to lightning me. i seriously try new firefox today.
Well, well, well.

Does a high tech community need Youtube as a video platform though?

The famous German hacker community "chaos computer club" simply uses their own platform to begin with: https://media.ccc.de/
ahh she belongs to my place... very famous...

True inspiration
Maybe something as simple as a textual overlay "Don't worry - the stream will be back soon" and a script to internally hammer the only element of the page that's actually needed for a video refresh
It not new. Xenforo, Vbulletin etc. has been doing this for ages.
Two thousand opportunities for a plausibly deniable backdoor
The article specifically only says that:

It would validate the claims of Senator Bernie Sanders,
the socialist presidential candidate who has blamed
corporate interests for the woes of American workers

It doesn't mention his platform of regulation, just his "blaming corporate interests". Which is quite the bland statement overall, no matter where it lies on the truthiness scale.
> At least an av cant get drunk.

Far worse can happen, when it gets hacked.
No more code radio by freeCodeCamp:(
Click to display cannot solve this completely, it will change general practice from using one tracking pixel to make all images tracking.
Although, it could work for text emails with just tracking pixel.
I thought they keep track of "associated accounts" via IP address, browser cookies, fingerprinting and so on. There have been plenty of instances where innocent Google Acounts have been terminated due to a different account holder's activity on the same machine.
I didn't get the impression that Zach hadn't beaten the last level for being too difficult, it was just a matter of time and having play testers at his disposal.
I favour regulation that tries to minimise that outsize influence. One elector one vote and all that.

Hence trying to limit opportunity for professional and full time lobbyists, the permanent presence near to government constantly trying to influence, create and ruin policy. Sure, the CEO is probably only ever going to sign rather than write, and their money will always bring extra influence. I'd hope to find a balance that keeps it transparent but minimises gaming the system with money.

As is, lobbying is bending most governments around the world badly out of shape, and seems to have got far out of hand. Of course getting a better system, whatever it may be, through the current system is another matter entirely... :)
> Ironically, in China some gamers complained that the game is kind of unrealistic as all the datasheets are available in Chinese

Heh, I'd count it unrealistic if all the datasheets were available in any language. As much as I rag on Google sometimes, Google Translate has been very useful from time to time.
> This is the shittiest handkerchief math ever.

I provided data and analysis therein. You provided an emotional attack, and a vulgar one at that.

If you have data which supports your premise of:

U give far to much credit to human drivers.

Then please do so. I await the edification your reasoned data-driven retort will afford.
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In your opinion, which company is taking the best approach to solving this problem?
This usually exists. In the UK, there's a registry of persons with significant control over companies and individuals in it can be marked "super secure" if there is a sufficient reason to do it.

https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/api/docs/company/com...
She also says you're doing yoga wrong if you're practicing any time other than between 3 AM and 5 AM in the morning. She's part of a strict school that focuses on pranayama, breath-work, a major part of yoga in India but rarely mentioned in the West. I recommend the Wim Hof method if anybody's interested, it's similar to the Indian and Tibetan practices.
AWS has a very complicated configuration format for permissions. In security, complicated = insecure.
I heard some countries are lacking a good enough electrical grid to do that .. sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-HhIYmHeo#t=50
The Onion, maybe?
In EE circles similar (well, kind of opposite) things are said along the lines that "unfortunately, electrons don't read schematics".
> I sure hope they are not required to be always on, because my experience with Opel's collision detection has been that it's more likely to cause accidents than avert them.

A couple of years ago I rented some Toyota which had collision warning. I got on the exit from the highway, it was a big round swing with high, thin marker poles by the sides. The car suddenly started to emit a maddening high-pitch beeping tone that scared the shit out of me. I hit the brakes to slow down to snail speed (fortunately, there was nobody behind me) and then I figured out on the display that it was collision warning. The next thing I did is to read the user manual and disabled the shit.

> Lane assists and emergency braking assists are going to be mandatory safety features in the EU from 2022.

WTF?! We should make a website collecting all stories of almost-accidents due to these features.
Thank you for that, I have said exactly the same thing many times.
C does not have an ABI in itself, it just uses the conventions of its host system.

e.g. how function calls are done, how names are mangled (for instance on macOS all function names are prepended with an underscore and not on 64-bit windows nor linux...), etc... none of this is defined in the C standard, and it varies across platforms.
Hatha Yoga is primarily physical can be traced to 1st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_yoga
Azure Search is not ElasticSearch “in the cloud”
> Why even bring in the "systemic oppression" part?

'There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted, and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.'
The "comments" page (not "new"; that's articles) has no reply buttons, presumably because replying without context is anti-conversation. I don't think it's charitable to assume other commenters would do that.
Another good reason to use Firejail. You tell it which folders FF gets to access, and Bob's your uncle.
Show some respect for the President.
But they did put a bunch of monkeys in a room, and to opposite effect. Read the link for more info.
There is also this classic:

https://github.com/mattl/opensource.apple.com/blob/88cbaab4a...
Entertaining read! Kind of like a time capsule revealing what was going through their heads at the time. From reading it, it's pretty clear that shrooms and weed were heavily involved in the culture there at H2O.
Ok, we changed to that from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco.... Thanks!
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Amazon. Failing infrastructure that other companies rely upon and expect to function adequately, will not pose the same challenges. They deal with the logistics of delivering items of necessity to people all over the globe at enormous scale. They have their own fleets, their own delivery people, and their own automation approach. In a decade Amazon won't need the post office or UPS. The barriers to entry in taking that on are enormous to the point of near impossibility. Heck, even their ability to sell counterfeit garbage to customers without significant penalty on themselves shows they even know how to disappoint people correctly...
Greed. Humanity has always been driven by greed, but the hope was that it would recognize and overcome this sin and get to the next level. This hasn't happened. I have a weird feeling that humanity (or rather this civilization that started about 10k years b.c.) has just missed the critical point when it needed to take off. The greed was too heavy and we've started losing altitude. In practice, losing altitude manifests as the raising temperatures: the only way to solve this problem is to overcome greed.
>Uber and Lyft removed transparency of costs beyond knowing the cost of your trip for instance which isn't a benefit.

That's the only cost that matters isn't it? And the cost that taxis wouldn't provide a quote for until service was rendered.
I'm not really referring to weight lifting at all.

I've had people cricitize me for doing pullups underhand instead of overhand, telling me my ability to do 10 of them is only because I'm "cheating" by doing them underhand. Nowadays I do them overhand, but when I first started exercising decades ago, it was easier and more fun to do them underhand so that's how I did it until my fitness improved.

The same thing has happened in consequence of some bro learning I do hundreds of pushups daily, but when I demonstrate it they criticize my not doing them "properly" because I don't go entirely to the ground on every rep. rolls eyes

Then I went distance running with someone and they criticized my slow pace as being the only reason I was able to run so much further than them, that I'm doing it wrong because I run too slowly.

It's important to ignore these folks, they're simply not helpful, and they're not saving anyone from injury.

Keep your activities fun for yourself and you'll do them more often, and doing them often is far more important than meeting the expectations of others.
This year I started practicing Qi Gong. It emphasizes slow conscious movements and soft breathing. You are supposed to do this in yoga as well but it's very easy to make mistakes, even injuries.

Qi Gong has solved all of my lower back problems and the tensions in my shoulders and arms. You loosen and breath rather than pulling and stretching.
There was a huge Comcast outage in the bay area last week as well, although most people probably didn't notice since it happened at night.
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Scott Adams. Scott Adams single handedly promotes the “slippery slope fallacy.”

He’s just wrong
To say that the current system works (its current form is a few decades old at best) is to ignore the massive impact that secrecy jurisdictions have on virtually all developing countries. Offshores are used there to facilitate the extraction of trillions in wealth that often is directly stolen from public resource (such as direct tax revenue, procurement contracts, and, natural resource concessions).

Of course you can argue that any financial problem the public sector has is always a spending problem and never one with the tax base, but that strikes me as a fringe political opinion, and particularly as not a decision that the people of Ghana, Russia, or Ukraine got to make for themselves. Perhaps they're not small government ideologues and would actually prefer to have health care and schools.

Justifying all this by saying that very wealthy and powerful people and corporations need privacy to protect them is pretty cynical.

(Disclaimer: I'm an enthusiastic contributor to "lazy propaganda" like this)
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Perl supports this. Optionally, on a per-file basis. Because it’s Perl.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#%24%5b
check out "Spark in the Machine" if you want the anatomical analysis of how Qi travels through our fascial planes.
Some time ago I watched this video: What Did Peasants Eat in Medieval Times? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w)

I was surprised to learn that some food we nowdays consider expensive was very low-class back then, and viceversa, as availability and costumes changed over time. Salmon being one of the examples.

I recommend that series of videos if you like this kind of stuff.
To keep temp at 1.5ºC: “No new fossil fuelled infrastructure, anywhere, ever”
I thought inalienable to be the accepted form: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inalienable%2C...

Is it not? Or are they interchangeable?
You’re still just describing the status quo, without acknowledging any of the issues I’ve articulated.

This whole argument seems to run up against some of the values that HN would appear to hold most dearly.

HN discussions around net neutrality would suggest that this community thinks it’s one of the most important tools for protecting a free internet. However this argument is arbitrarily applied only to specific companies. I could go and create my own website, with my own ad network, and have my own YouTube. I could also go and create my own ISP that discriminates against content in a way that satisfies me. This argument is somehow absurd when it comes to packets, but completely rock solid when it comes to the content they transmit?

This community also derides walled gardens when it comes to publishing software, but walled gardens are somehow perfectly acceptable when it comes to speech?

It seems indisputable to me that section 203 grants common carrier protections to organisations that are not common carriers. The outcome is that freedom of expression is restricted. This should be seen as a problem, regardless of whether you personally agree with how those restrictions are applied.
Why are "feelings" used to justify important policy decisions when the data suggests the technology is dangerous?
recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342264 "Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312642 "Schools are using unproven surveillance technology to monitor students"
i only have like 1200 and i can dv anything
The title is misleading: there are many forms of yoga, and there are older people than her in India practicing them. She might be the oldest person teaching Hatha Yoga, now commonly called "yoga", focusing on asanas and maybe some pranayamas - that's mostly it. Hardly anyone is teaching the complete eight limbs because most people are interested only in asanas, and, more importantly, there are very few people who achieved mastery over all eight branches and are able to transmit their knowledge.
Love the "crashing game is a secret not a bug" solution at the end too!
The internet promised so much, but is being ruined by corporations and governments.

I can't help but feel the ruining is accelerating.

I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free speech. If anyone is capable, they are.

The discovery problem is an illusion. If you build it, they will come.