skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Strange, this was flagged and even after I vouched for it it fell off the front page.

Other than a new user submitting a popular story what could be the problem?
What percentage of that research is publically published? I presume the bulk of it is secret squirrel.
But that’s all based on people’s reported perceptions... it’s not a direct observation. It’s not a conclusion from philosophy or religion either.

So regardless of what camp you’re in, it doesn’t look reasonable to me to trust stories like that.
Wendelstein can't produce power by design. That would require neutron shielding. It's a pure research device.
We better also stop polluting the sun so we can cure skin cancer.
Local government in Chicago is designed to make corruption as efficient as possible. The alderman are like mini dictators.
I used the silver line as an example of because it’s a relatively rare situation where the land acquisition cost was low because it is carried in a freeway median

I'm not intimately familiar with the project (and had to ask you which specifically you'd meant), and you failed to adequately develop your argument between sly ad homs.

I'm proposing that land aquisition, as a net factor -- fighting NIMBY battles, as an example, would be a component -- is one of at least three factors disadvantaging rail vs highway construction in the US.

And yet despite this, your own cherry-picked example comes out far ahead, even allowing for what I'd noted were rough and likely advantageous numbers, than a contemporaneous urban highway project. You've not presented much by way of numbers or cites yourself.

If you don't mind a personal observation: you come across, repeatedly and not only with me, as so bent on burying your counterparties that you constantly shift burdens of proof, fail to construct or support your arguments sufficiently, or care to accidentally learn anything along the way. I honestly didn'y know how the Silver vs. Dig comparison would turn out. I simply followed the maths to their conclusion.
I don't think that focus or attention is equivalent to consciousness. Subconscious != unconscious != no consciousness
Ask HN: Why tech industry is so obsessed with pizza?
I can understand why it is a popular choice with events – it is just 1 dish with different nutrients, everybody is familiar with it, you can eat it with your hands. But seriously, everything is about pizza! Why is it so? Marketing? Culture?
The example is from a Freeman Dyson paper, but I wouldn't take it too seriously.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/242654/7911

There are better example from condensed matter physics.
They'd probably look a lot like Irvine CA.
Cryptocoin Scammers Use New Twitter Design to Scam People
It seems that the new twitter redesign is confusing people enough, or makes these fake accounts look real enough in their replies that they are able to collect coins from unwitting users.

John McAffee, Elon Musk, Coinbase, and probably others are being hit, and the sites appear to all be hosted in Russia.

An example scam tweet: https://twitter.com/Allison63138861/status/1153736743595708416

One site example is here: https://coinbasegift.com/

So far nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
The article specifically states why they believe it is a leading indicator. For example people search for [unemployment] when they hear the rumors of layoffs or otherwise are worried, not after they happen.
I don't really agree. I think motion smoothing is a gimmick. Like 3d and curved TVs before it. It gave another metric (besides size) for manufacturers to compete on - 60hz, 120hz, 240hz etc.

Motion smoothing just doesn't look better, especially when it is poorly implemented (the norm) - the motion tends to speed up and slow down, which is worse than the judder it is supposed to fix.

Even properly sourced hi frame rate material looks bad - I saw the Hobbit in HFR and it was difficult to watch the seemingly fake production - my mind could no longer be tricked because there was so much detail in each second for it to reason with. Nevermind the extra lengths that Peter Jackson had to go through to properly light the film, and the extra detail needed in the set work, costumes and makeup.

Change my mind!
Building production plants is folded into GAAP numbers. Those are real assets with real depreciation.

Actual production at Tesla's battery "gigafactory" is only around 23GWh/yr.[1] That puts them well behind BYD and Contemporary Amperex Technology. About five other companies have battery factories in the 10-100GWh/yr range under construction or operating.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/04/14/tesla-gigafactory-1-battery-c...
I believe your assumptions are faulty. Nothing about ITER suggest that it's volume or performance is indicative of what future reactor design will look like.

Stronger super-magnets, different designs could lead to smaller reactors.

As to why is it useful? A zero emissions powerplant, with minimal environment impact that is immune to core meltdown. Sure we don't have the tech to build it profitabily. Yet. But doesn't mean we never will.
In that context, it makes sense that the greatest danger to a workout plan is having kids.
I don't think it's some special fascination by hackers, designers or economists. She's a hugely popular and accessible novelist and, in the English-speaking world, many people are introduced to her work sometime in secondary school. They're fun reads and you should definitely check them out - if anything, spending time trying to parse out what Paul Graham thinks about them can only make them less fun.
This is sad. We have good functional accounts of consciousness (Global Workspace theory [0], Attention Schema theory [1], recent robotics work on self-attention [2]). These explain much of the specific phenomenology of conscious experience. However Rawlette clearly is completely unfamiliar with this extensive and deeply empirical literature.

"Armchair philosophy" like this still gets published way too much, and is given way too much respect. Rawlette, typical of this genre, believes that "conceivability", thought experiments independent of empirical facts, and verbal theorizing can justify beliefs more strongly than actual research.

For good philosophy in this domain, read people like Andy Clark [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/hod-lipson-is-building-self-a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark
Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?
> The Belgian town of Kleine Brogel hit 39.9C (102F), the hottest since 1833

OK...I'll be the pedantic nit-picker and bring this up: 39.9 C is 103.83 F. How the heck did they round that to 102 F? I can see 104F or 103F, but 102 F!?

Or maybe they got the report as 102 F and calculated C from that? No...that doesn't work either. 102 F is 38.889 C, so should have rounded to 38.9 C if they wanted one decimal place, not 39.9 C.

Also, might as well nit-pick this too...there is supposed to be a space between the number and the unit symbol according to the rules for SI units, except for °, ′, and ″ when used to denote angles in degrees, minutes, and seconds, such as 14° 13′ 41″ [1].

I could see omitting the space if they included the circle, such as 39.9℃ and 102℉, since the circle keeps the C or F from being unpleasantly close to the number.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2794/punctuation...
Campaign Monitor is pretty good. It also let's you pay per campaign if you're sending one off emails versus a subscriber-oriented mailing list.
Very interesting article. Quote:

Many pine trees in managed forests, such as the European spruce, take roughly 80 years to reach maturity, being net absorbers of carbon during those years of growth – but once they reach maturity, they shed roughly as much carbon through the decomposition of needles and fallen branches as they absorb. As was the case in Austria in the 1990s, plummeting demand for paper and wood saw huge swathes of managed forests globally fall into disuse. Rather than return to pristine wilderness, these monocrops cover forest floors in acidic pine needles and dead branches. Canada's great forests for example have actually emitted more carbon than they absorb since 2001, thanks to mature trees no longer being actively felled.
Arguably, the best form of carbon sequestration is to chop down trees: to restore our sustainable, managed forests, and use the resulting wood as a building material. Managed forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) typically plant two to three trees for every tree felled – meaning the more demand there is for wood, the greater the growth in both forest cover and CO2-hungry young trees.
A Hack for Using Multiprocessing with Lambda Function in Python
Regarding overriding the styles of a site, this is another possibility: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools-w...

Disclosure: Wrote that doc
> In the case of restaurants at least, in the US servers are often paid below minimum wage

As mentioned in a lot of industries outside of restaurants people behave the same way even though it's not true. A lot of restaurants pay at least minimum wage, and not all states allow lower minimum wage, yet the culture is EXACTLY the same. Plus, anecdotal, but I know plenty of folks who will fully admit to tipping because they feel it makes them better people (though not in those words). And try never tipping for a few weeks, you bet your ass some people will try to make you feel bad. I've seen people genuinely forget and the servers would run out of the restaurant to tell at them.

Yes, in some industries people are paid less than minimum wage but the culture would be the same either way. It's also a chicken and the egg situation.
That doesn’t explain rising late payment/default rates. Also (holy shit) the average credit card APR is 15%, apparently a record high since 1994. I do not pay interest on my cards, but I have a very high credit score and my rewards cards are all >22% APR.

Something is very wrong if banks are borrowing at record low rates and yet consumers are borrowing in record amounts at record high rates!

Source: https://www.creditkarma.com/credit-cards/i/average-apr-on-cr...
In the same vein, Interactive Brokers will give you 3.26% on a margin loan if you have over 100k in your account. At rates like that you're better off capitalizing the interest and letting the securities you bought on margin appreciate. Obviously don't do this if you don't know what you're doing, but it's actually perfectly safe with a proper options hedging strategy that ensures you don't get a margin call.

To be clear this isn't financial advice, just an observation about what many people are doing due to the low rate environment.
How is what you're describing different than a freelancing platform like upwork?

I'm sure the service terms are different but in upwork's case, they're also acting as the escrow and taking a cut.
>The real answer is that we don't yet know enough about how the brain works to work effectively on this problem.

If we imagine there's a God and I could ask any 1 question about the brain and get an anaswer, all I would need to ask is:

"Hey God: w.r.t. the human brain, are there any special shenanigans like is connected to a soul that's responsible for consciousness, or is it WYSIWYG, just a bunch of cells and that's it?"

Luckily for you, there is no God and I can answer definitively: no, there are no shenanigans. It's just some cells and that's it. I am telling you this definitively. There are no metaphysical shenanigans going on in the human brain.

Note: you might wonder why, for this answer, I decided to phrase it in terms of asking God. The answer is in order to activate the natural scientist's reaction "that's silly, God can't tell you there's no God like that". Well, brain metaphysics is exactly and equally silly. It's just some cells, that's all.
I don't think it's just about space travel.

Unlocking fusion, allows us to tap into a near infinite source of fuel. On a planetary scale.
New Smart Glass Cuts Glare, Alerts Police If There’s a Break-In
Many of the companies on the S&P500 are global businesses whose value is based only partially on the US market.

Also, if something big happens in the US (9/11), stock markets tend to take a hit globally.

That said, I’d still diversify into a few international indexes.
Chip-and-pin credit cards use it. 2FA/Fido/Yubikey use it.
Do we visit the same website?... Cause it seems to me like this place is full of stuffy, smug moralizing about what other people do, at least as much as any other forum. We just use bigger words than most forums. I'm not surprised at all that there are people ignorant of the culture but simultaneously convinced they don't like it.
>In my experience, programs that are unnecessarily slow are often also unnecessarily buggy. The main reason is that developers don't want to touch them. They rot in the background while the underlying data changes.

This is 100% true in my experience.
Credit cards are usury unless you have the cash flow and discipline to pay the complete amount due every statement. They're barely a step above payday and title loans (not in absolute effective APR, but morally).

Personally I prefer to just use a charge card.
"Never sell consols." - The Forsyte Saga.

The British government finally redeemed its last consols in 2015.
We've already figured out that aerobic exercise increases our cognitive abilities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise#Neurobiologic...

Even though weight training isn't aerobic, couldn't it still increase our state of fitness?
Our lack of understanding of the phenomenon of consciousness and subjective experience is so total that it's hard to even imagine what an "explanation" could sound like. The sensation of existence is primordial and weird. I'm curious what you think "research" in these conditions can consist of, other than trying to find ways to frame the problem that permit for some kind of forward progress.
You've been here since 2012! :)

That's really interesting.
no , the difference between physics and complex human systems, is that complex human systems incorporate human behavior into them. George soros called this 'reflexivity'.

Complex human systems possess tipping points and negative and postive feedback loops like greshams law and thiers law. in this sense, the difference, between human behavior is that it is a branch of physics that resembles the study of turbulence, it is not only notoriously unpredictable, but the element driving the unpredictability is human consciousness of it's OWN behavior ( in mass and indvidiually)

einstein himself said the most mysterious fact of the human universe is that it has developed the capacity to understand itself.

consciousness and the complexity of human systems IS physics at some hyper complex level, that is both self organizing and too complex to ever be distentangled as easily understood as 'deterministic' for the purposes of meaningful hard experimentation.

that is why social science and other sciences are such bullshit.
thankfully sound progress can be built upon bullshit as long as it is more sensible bullshit than the bullshit that came before.

the foundations of our understanding of the science of human behavior are not so much built upon pylons of steel as they are recrafted from a puddle of mud and shit, by adding clay and sugar and fermenting the mass, and then removing some of the shit and leaving behind a less smelly pile .

thousands of years of this process leads civilization, here, to hacker news comments containing this philosophy.
OP wants to make ambient music, much simpler than generating music with lyrics.
Cancer has always existed regardless of pollution. It's cell mutation, which is part of evolution. You can't fix it by getting rid of pollution. You fix it by making your own immune system recognize it again so that it can not the cell properly. Either that or restore the proper cell death instruction. Cancer deaths have been going down for years, firstly due to less smoking and less salted meat in our diets and now due to better understanding. It's slow, but it's steady and every oncologist in the world is waiting for the hockey stick moment.
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Hedge funds don't use Google trends as an indicator. They hire photographers with infrared lenses to gauge the inventory of oil refineries and shipping depots, or buy non-public location/foot traffic. I would not be surprised if spotting a trend online actually would be too late to be actionable.
I think in the cheap places they contract too, but yes as a contractor the incentives are almost always wrong and the balkanization precludes economies of scale.
It doesn’t matter.

Oh but it does.

Citations requested.
Is there even such a thing as objective reality?
Commence with the 'there is no free will' crowd followed by argumentation that assumes free will (in order to change people's minds... which they have no control over).
I agree, and I could have been more precise. I highly doubt we'll live in a world where the AES algorithm or source code or even binaries is illegal. The crime will simply be if the gov can show you were using information-hiding practices illegally, such as without an adequate key escrow system (for a large-scale deployments) or refusing to decrypt communications when asked to by LE.
1966 Collision of XB-70, F-104 Drew Attention to Wing Vortex Issue
Given their recent performance, why would you extol the acumen of hedge funds? Despite a recent bounce, they still can't even beat the S&P 500, which has no load funds available. Hedge funds are a tool for making hedge fund managers money, not their investors.
David Cope's Common Lisp one? http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/cmmc.html
I figure Skynet probably sent back an editorbot to flag your comment if you succeeded, but you tried your best to alter the future. John would be proud.
I mainly play video games at 60-144FPS. Panning shots in movies now look absolutely terrible and some shots have become basically unwatchable, looking jerky and unrefined. I feel like I'm missing a lot of information such as reading signs.

That said, content needs to be authored with higher frame-rates in mind. Movies shot at 24FPS are reviewed, edited and produced according to the expectation it will be viewed that way.
There is no such thing as metaphysical proof.
iirc the high speed rail authority was established as a completely new arm of the state government with like 6 employees. If Caltrans ran the project from the start, it would run in the middle of the 5 far away from palmdale and be a decade ahead of schedule at least.
You can't really say that definitively. It is just a philosophical belief.
All of what you say could happen without consciousness though. No one has to be there listening or groking.
Whatever the judge says. Lawyers say no, yes, maybe with maybe being the big fun part
blind fury
Title got the key name wrong, it's demetrication.
yeah, i'd say so. what if lyft's lidar manufacturers said that they should be included in this release because it's their lidars? I agree, it doesnt really need mentioning
Shameless self-plug, I maintain a Spotify playlist that is optimized for getting me into "Flow." I use it for coding/thinking. It has 677 tracks so far. See here: https://whoami.sh/thought/flow-playlist

https://brain.fm/ also has some good stuff. Some of it is tailored for focusing and works pretty well as coding music. I believe their stuff is AI-generated.
No I don't think money is the point. I think money is a resource you need to make more games. I think anyone that truly only wants to get cash can use their skillset in more profitable places. But game devs still need the money to make their dream sustainable and execute on their grander visions. A 20 year studio instead of 2 years as solo.
> Everything must be explainable as physics, and layers above like mechanics, chemistry, biology. Psychology as a field - in the "West", which is basically a global culture now - is based on that assumption.

That's right. It's pretty amazing how much is based off of that assumption which has no realistic basis. I guess it's a "convenient" assumption.

But if we start to think that hey, maybe consciousness is the root of it all, not matter, then we can see why science doesn't understand consciousness at all: it's like trying to find the screen while studying the pictures on it. You can study all the biology, physics, and matter on the screen, but you won't find the screen in the details. In this analogy, consciousness is the "screen" in which all appears. I think mainstream science will shift MASSIVELY once they start looking into as a legitimate possibility.
> Does a rock have intentions?

My first thought: Depends on if the rock is magnetized.
Not sure why you got down voted. You can use words like intention if you define your terms. Also, people are studying now rocks turned to life.

The real question is not consciousness, but why the laws of physics are perfectly tuned for its existence.
ISPs Take Advantage of an Internet Without Net Neutrality Protections
If the day is removed from the date would this be sufficient to make the data anonymous or should the month also be removed?
I wouldn’t say it is a dominant world view.
https://sfconservancy.org/about/

I'm not sure, doesn't look like this would fall under their remit, but no definitive yes or no jumping out for me either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Conservancy

Not a long litigation list either, so hard to see any comparable cases in the two instances listed.

So I'm going to lean against a no, but I'm not 100% sure upon this.
I support the effort, but in terms of solving global warming problems this is IMHO a total dead end. The progress is far too slow. It takes far too long time to build these reactors. They are expensive and complicated.

Say we get commercial reactors in 2050. If these are anything like building fission reactors, we will start getting these commercial reactors online in 2060. That is very late.

Within that time we can massively expand solar power and wind power. As renewable energy start dominating the grid, ultra low spot prices on power will spur a huge cottage industry of businesses relying on buying this power cheap, storing it and selling it later. Alternatively factories will be built to take advantage of it. E.g. only running power hungry processes in periods of low power prices.
As has already been stated you can use the prior tissue to better individualize current treatment. For example I'm a really rare patient, most people in my situation are already dead by this point in their treatment. Chemotherapy worked so well most of my primary tumor was gone within days and they haven't seen it since my 6th treatment. They still think it's there but it's generally too small to be seen. They didn't save the samples from my cancer to figure out why it worked so welln or why I've been able to handle aggressive treatment for far longer than average with minimal side effects. No hair loss, minimal nerve damage, etc. If that information could help even one other person, I would want it out there. I've contributed to every study I can be a part of and consented to every bit of sharing of my generic material I could, I only wish I could do more. Nearly everyone with my same diagnosis at the same time as me is dead. Speaking just for myself, being able to contribute to keeping other people from ever going through this means the world to me.
Ask HN: Is something wrong with robinhood accounts
The web login shows $1500 pending (link1) and doesnt show any stocks I own(link2).

The mobile app seems to work just fine ? Anyone notice similar issues, hope this is not related to the readable format password email sent out today.

Any case such misrepresentation of the financial data is alarming.

link1 - https://imgur.com/mRjlFed

link2 - https://imgur.com/lCn5hUP