skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In somewhat related news, I am kicking around the idea of a modular hardware project to be able to add physical knobs, buttons, and switches to a computer interface, sort of how those magnetic modular midi controllers work, but for more than just MIDI, and with a wider range of input types and a spec for a frame/rack/bus so that you can screw them together (sort of like a modular synth, but probably with landscape orientation instead of portrait) into a console panel.

I want my computer to have a lot more backlit LCD 2x16 dot matrix displays and blinky lights and heavy metal clunk switches and good knobs.

Email me if you have ideas or feedback or want to get involved.
Sure. My point was just that the more free/open alternatives to newer technologies in the industry aren't necessarily advanced enough yet to displace coughing up whatever it takes to buy big name brands and their big budget support contracts so everything comes from one place.
Yes but your under a social contract whos terms are completely clear. You may not like these terms but in any western country you are completely free to find a different country with different terms (exactly the same if you find yourself in a company that would like to leave). You see my libertarian friend its all purely contract law and therefore completely legitimate ;)
What if you don’t believe in Buddhism or the particular meditation approach advocated? I agree that these sorts of events are not quite third places as a modern society of people of varied or no religious belief would expect.

Also, due to movements like the Hare Krishnas advertising free events (often without specifying that it was the Hare Krishnas or whatever other sect organizing it) for the sake of bait-and-switch recruitment, people are understandably suspicious of any vague "spirituality" or "meditation" event where free entrance is advertised.
Some of their portfolio companies seem centered around Irvine, CA and Newport Beach and/or focus on plastic surgery and "wellness" marketing. Seems to me that this is a very well architected investor scam that maybe finds a legit investment from time to time, but is primarily organized around liberating small individual investors from their money.
No way it makes it to court. Not to mention, what damages would they claim? Punitive damages for an employee leaving aren't a thing.
Emphatically, no I go to the same cheap haunts I have for a decade. I drink the same cheap well whiskey.

Well-whiskey 10 years ago costed me $2.5-$3.5 now it costs me at least $7, closer to $8 or $9 with a tip. A meal at a pub used to cost around $6-8 now it costs between $13-$19 dollars.

Essentially, I believe, in larger cities prices are more stable for things like booze because you've already hit the acceptable limit for what people are willing to pay. In cities that are already the most expensive, the change will never be enormous, as you all are probably only seeing the increase in price due to inflation.
As a serious answer for anyone reading this who might be curious, even though the the above comment is probably not asking seriously.

Most of these situations the land is placed in a thing called a 'land trust', at least that is the structure I see most often. These are generally then set out with an elected governing board, and a set of bylaws and rules about the lands. Often these rules can require a voting majority of everyone who placed in money on the land to make decisions about the land. Usually there is a minimum amount of land you personally must purchase in the larger purchase to constitutes a "share" like 1 acre.

If someone has a change of heart later down the line the trust actually is a very hard entity to get around even if you are on the board of a small 5-10 person land trust. There have been examples of such boards being flipped and sold, but more often than not what you encounter is: one of the board members is interested in selling off the land and is utterly unable to because of how the trust is structured. They can be pretty robust.

The only difference between buying land and creating your own trust and foundations like this is, the foundation ultimately controls all the board seats of land trust generally.
Without paywall: https://newslanes.com/2019/08/11/are-we-living-in-a-computer...
I believe you mean "H. G. Wells" ? (typo)
Could glue/epoxy a sensor right behind the centre mirror I’d think. It’s far enough from the defroster vents that it wouldn’t heat up quickly from the hot air.
Andy from Tettra here. We recently made all our metrics public using Baremetrics. We're very transparent internally and decided to be transparent externally too. You can check out our metrics here: https://tettra.baremetrics.com/

The honest answer is that when we asked ourselves the true downsides of people outside our company knowing our numbers, we couldn't really think of any that were actually that detrimental. Sure, potential investors or acquirers are now going to know how we're doing, but they'd find that out in due diligence anyways.

The thinking for why we made the decision to share is that it helps us with marketing because people want to follow along with our story. It also holds us more accountable because we're building in the open, similar to a public company. We get a lot of people who reach out that want to work for us or partner with us because we share so much. Happy to answer more questions if folks are interested.
> The book... says there are four main forces... that enable decoupling in mature economies:

> * the efficiencies driven by capitalism

> * technological progress that has allowed us to “dematerialize” our consumption (by, for instance, cramming atlases, compasses, calculators, recorders, cameras, stereos, and other gadgets into a single device in our pocket)

> * public awareness of environmental damage

> * governments that respond to those concerns by putting regulations in place to reduce those harms

> So, McAfee argues, what we need to address climate change and prevent other environmental catastrophes, while maintaining modern living standards for billions of people, is … even more of each of these [four forces], working in concert.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I missed that reference. I looked for several things, one of which was the Crimson Room series. I probably jumped around too much while backtracking.
Regardless, why can’t a platform censor anything they want? It’s their platform and they can do what they want. If censoring eventually pushes people away from your platform, then the market corrected itself.
This is a great article. It takes a pedantic point about an answer that "everybody knows", and manages to make a compelling case that the way we use this vocabulary is suboptimal.

Great find!
> In truth, there is a kind of Grand Unified Law, of which we are still working out the details, which we (whether we realize it or not) want companies to follow. It is law based on ethics and morality

Companies are unethical and immoral anyway, so this doesn't work.
That voice is you, so perhaps you should have an honest chat with yourself on where the inner conflict really is? What are you expectations of yourself and are they realistic? What could you do differently to make yourself more pleased? Try to make a plan and some actionable steps, and perhaps your asshole alter ego might start to be less critical... just shutting down the voice will not necessarily make the feeling go away, and it will probably find another way to resurface, and that one could be more damaging and harder to understand..
My voice is only sometimes vicious.

The problem of talking to myself outloud ... not a problem! Turn on the camera and call it livecoding.

At work I use a notebook to write down my voice so it has an outlet. We apparently talk to each other in first person plural.
Then we have the “touch buttons”, which doesn’t have any of the benefits of touchscreens (mutability) nor the benefits of regular buttons (touch feedback).
It also makes you sound important

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPGc9lYFyZ0
Incredible. The NY times have managed to "both sides" this. Genuinely impressive.
Absolutely, even real bikes shops can mess up sometimes. I had them install a profiled 10 speed chain backwards one time.

And you don’t need many tools to do 90% of repairs. YouTube, bike coops, and your local bike shop mechanics (may need to be bribed with beer) are all good resources.
American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate
Being fatalist and too harsh on yourself needn't have anything to do with actually talking to yourself in the 3rd person. Echoing the idea from an other user that CBT helps with this.
Not mad. An I did not have absent or disengaged parents (although my voices are not parental figures).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20669830
A third party client's shitty coding broke the entire network repeatedly in early 2016. Third party clients are mostly used to spam users with userbots. The only sane option is to blanket ban them.
> That doesn’t mean the French controlled us.

Who ever claimed that?

My claim, quoting the previous message: "it is a fact, and not conspiracy theories, that a lot of the protests and their leaders are directly sponsored by some specific powers from the outside."

What is there not true? What do you dispute from what I've written?

> If we’ve learned one thing from the last century of American interventionism, it’s that prematurely prompting revolution

So it seems you agree with me that there is such kind of sponsoring.

Some more links:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/15/trump-gutting-...

"The endowment is one of the main instruments by which the United States subverts and undermines foreign governments. In a less Orwellian world, it might be called the “National Endowment for Attacking Democracy.”"

"Whenever the government of another country challenges or defies the United States, questions the value of unrestrained capitalism, limits the rights of foreign corporations, or adopts policies that we consider socialist, the Endowment swings into action. It pours over $170 million each year into labor unions, political factions, student clubs, civic groups, and other organizations dedicated to protecting or installing pro-American regimes. From Central America to Central Asia, it is a vivid and familiar face of US intervention."

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

"funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress "
Yeah, of course there are going to be pests. They used trial and error and the errors were local.
"Giving money for people to spend", what does that mean though? You write a note on it? "Plz spend on chzburger, kthxbye"

Or is it like you use body language? Giving money for people to spend is done like this, while giving money for people to save is done like this.

Every time someone buys an investment, they're buying it from someone who is cashing out, quite possibly to buy a cheeseburger. It makes no sense to call this a "trickle", of course, because it's not a small fraction of the money.
I'm doing this right now! Well sort of - I'm blogging [0] about trying to build https://boxci.dev from just an idea to a product with paying customers in 10 weeks, with the aim of recording the whole process transparently. I'm 3 weeks in.

I'm doing it while following along with the YC Startup School program, and writing about applying the learnings from there in practice is one of the goals of the blog. Hopefully it'll be entertaining / useful for fellow hackers and bootstrappers in the community.

[0] https://davnicwil.com/zero-to-startup-in-ten-weeks
I read this last week. Then today I learn that Epstein is found dead. I feel like I'm watching a conspiracy from a novel play out in real life. This article predicted that Epstein would be killed:

"Given my personal lack of interest in the Epstein case, then or now, perhaps a few of these details may be garbled, but it seems undeniable that he was exactly the sort of remarkable renegade often faced by Agent 007 in the movies, and the true facts will presumably come out at his trial. Or perhaps not. Whether he lives to see trial is not entirely clear given the considerable number of powerful individuals who might prefer that hidden facts remain hidden, and the Friday newspapers reported that Epstein had been found injured and unconscious in his prison cell."
> So if your argument is that laws are morality

My point was explicitly that the laws of a society catch up but they are inherently almost always behind the morality of that society. What you're describing is not only this delay but also the fact that you're talking about 2 different societies. And when the system above doesn't work it's not a democracy.

> And wouldn't laws in a democracy

> Not if dissent has been crushed.

If a democracy crushes dissent it's either not a democracy or the views of the majority demand that dissent be crushed. Again, the point was that if society overall changes it's views on morality of things, laws tend to eventually follow. Either by force (overthrowing the oppressive regime) or by vote. Take the examples of race and sexuality to see how laws were changes as the views of society changed.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical
ultimate robots will be designed using insects anatomy... I hope that they don't all disappear
The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness
I've never understood the culture with that on HN. I probably never will.
If someone wants to buy the shares... even if the company is running well, if the founder has 51%, they might have no incentive to buyback.
Fighting Capitalism with Capitalism
I can actually read in both modes: With a voice in my head, complete with sound and intonation (nice for poetry), and without the voice, which is much faster.

I guess one can train yourself to "switch", e.g. by focusing on the next word faster than the voice can follow.
This is like the arguments that C programmers just need to be more careful about errors. We know that people make mistakes, get distracted, and get older. Real engineering is about designing systems which work well in actual conditions, not some unrealistic ideal case assuming perfect conditions.

It’s also simply wrong: in California, I had to show use of turn signals – not anything else – and no other place I’ve driven since has ever made me pass a test again. Assuming that everyone reads the manual and practices with every new vehicle is unrealistic, so you’re looking at potentially half-century lags between what’s tested and what people are driving.
That's what I meant with "constantly monitoring". If for some reason it fails you need someone to fix it, maybe it's not fixable due to changes from either provider ...

All that makes using bridges unreliable as you don't know if your messages was received by the other end.
The beauty of this plan is its simplicity and effectiveness. You see it time and time again for the simple reason that it is tremendously effective; normal, reasonable people will throw a lot of logical reasoning straight the fuck out the window when it comes to the safety and well-being of their offspring. This is normal and common, and we must learn to effectively counter it, not simply dismiss it, if we are to work against this sort of (again, normal and common and natural) response.
Maybe. But if agreed that we are "real", then we are back to the very old "discussion" about the reality and how we understand it. I think the only part that makes the simulation theory somehow new is the part that makes everything including ourselves an unreal existence, it's not like the first time the humans questions their reality.
What's worse?

1. People getting 2-3 narratives from mainstream news sources, one of which they believe, both of which are often false.

2. People getting 100 narratives from unknown sources, none of which they fully believe, a handful they think are plausible, most are false.

It's good to have everyone on the same page believing what is true, horrible to have everyone on the same page believing what is false. Given that the mainstream can't be trusted, I'll go with #2.
I read some local reports on visualizing them instead of just body-sharing. Idk if it is true and/or healthy, but it would be funny if something watched you from the corner guarding your sleep once lights are out.
> Additionally, he has attended the President’s Seminar at Harvard Business School ('09-'16)

I can only assume it refers to this:
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/event/harvard-seminar-new-presid...

Which is just an $8K six day seminar for college presidents who have no experience. But since he went 8 times, I guess that makes him a "Harvard Man".
What's weird about that is that it mixes first and third person; it sounds like "I" is supposed to be someone different from LeBron James", which makes it sound really strange to me.
System Shock 2 helped define survival horror
Thanks. Sounds interesting. I will keep an eye out.
> Drinking in public is OK.

> Being drunk and a nuisance in public is not OK.

In my experience, this is basically the way it already is in many places in the US. As long as you put even a modicum of effort into complying with the letter of the law in front of cops (ie using a brown paper bag, putting alcohol into a non-obvious container, etc) and you're in compliance with the spirit of the law (ie not being a loud and disruptive drunk asshole in public), the cops will generally leave you alone and you can responsibly consume freely in public venues.
> In Ireland for example, people would do those things and then go to the pub afterwards.

I love the idea of a hot yoga session before heading to the pub for a couple of pints and some darts.
Again, if we accept your premise ( I definitely do not accept your social contract, but that's a different matter) that still doesn't make an employer a government. Their contractual nature is similar in that way, but there are still the fundamental differences already talked about.

By your way of thinking, any business is a government.
It started during WWII due to government restrictions on what could be paid, but was extended to be an obligation under full-time employment via organized labor movement.
It's hard to be worried about any new legislation coming out of a parliament that has been hard at work the last few years, showing that they wouldn't even be able to organise a piss up in a brewery.
You may be interested to watch this talk:

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/deep07/videos/mov010.avi

Slides: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/backpropincortex2007.pdf
That's how praying works.
My Volvo has touch controls for AC but physical buttons for quickly toggling windshield fans/demist. Feels like a decent compromise.
My point was rebutting the nonsense you wrote about most FPS players using controllers.
* Democracy allows people to choose a government that represents them.

* Elected officials are blessed by their votes and work in the benefit of the population.

* It's impossible for a society to exist without a centralized, democratic government to rule it.

* The state has to intervene and regulate the economy as the invisible hand of capitalism has monopolistic and anti-consumer tendencies.

* Taxes are the price we we should willingly pay to live in society and fund activities that only a centralized state can offer, such as infra-structure and law enforcement.

* The state needs to take money from the rich and give to the poor in order to fight inequality.

* Having a single state managed currency is beneficial to the economy.

* When the state prints money it helps the economy to grow and it makes people wealthier.

* To create jobs and fuel the economy we need a bigger state.

* Individuals are generally ignorant, therefore the state has to stop them from causing harm to themselves.

* The state must have the responsibility of managing an army in order to defend its borders.

* The state creates laws for the benefit of the population.

* The state should regulate relationships between couples, and it should protect women and minorities.
Great DevOps practitioners are rarer than 10x engineers. It's the combination of:

* Systems knowledge through the lens of Conway's Law: what does an ideal even look like in terms of organizational efficiency

* Leadership to get disparate teams in an organization to cooperate instead of compete

* Technical competency to help disparate teams adopt the principles, because telling people on the fence to "go Google it" is a plan for failure

People who get bogged down in CI/CD/IaC/containerization miss the forest for the trees and it's why most organizations never see any value out of their DevOps initiatives. If you don't know what to automate then WIP increases your costs. If you don't have leadership on board then you can't reorganize teams to prevent "cycles" and re-work inside the "factory". If you don't have technical competency then you have people re-inventing the wheel, poorly.

You need all three.
I’ve been arguing with people about this since it happened. Sure, there are a lot of people with incentives to kill Epstein, but if you say it’s murder, then you have to explain how the killer did it while he was in federal custody. Even Trump couldn’t do that without getting caught.

#ClintonBodyCount is particularly absurd, because I’m supposed to believe the Clintons had all these people killed, with no evidence pointing back to them. This doesn’t make sense in a reality where Trump can’t even keep one porn star quiet.

The simplest explanation is that he committed suicide, because he was prematurely let off suicide watch. Occam’s razor strikes again.
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the agriculture shills keep pushing this notion that their way of growing with chemicals is the the most productive way when I've yet to see a study that indicates that any of what they've done has increased crop yields.
> The term state refers to a form of polity that is typically characterised as a centralized organisation. There is no single, undisputed definition of what constitutes a state.[1][2] A widely-used definition is a state being a polity that, within a given territory, maintains a monopoly on the use of force, but many other widely used definitions exist.[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

It is probably the most common definition. As per this definition, the citizens can use force because the state grants them that right.
Am I getting a false dichotomy here? Why do we need false narratives at all in the mainstream news? It didn't used to be like that, and there is certainly some reason to expect falsehoods are not inherent and unsolvable.
There currently seems to be a big hole in this approach, which is that rich jurisdictions need to be aligned with poorer ones to work in concert toward these goals, otherwise rich jurisdictions can just “pretend” they’re meeting goals when they’re just moving them to poor jurisdictions.
It depends on what you mean by application, self-evolving/learning programs is basically impossible at this point because of the extremely large search space of possible code within the syntax (how many possible programs exist within say 10 lines, and of those how many would actually run without errors and produce something useful?), not to mention it would produce unmaintainable code in the first place.

But what is useful is giving the language users the ability to write their own domain specific compilers, for example extending the syntax to represent the math more closely making it easier for non programmers and for self-documenting code, doing symbolic analysis to simplify the code and finding the best way to solve it, exporting directly to other formats like LaTeX and even extending the compiler to automatically generate and compile the optimized gradient code for any function you write.