skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you posting that to this thread? I know you said off topic, but usually when someone says that, it's still related: e.g. if the parent comment mentioned something tangential, or I could imagine if the link was to producthunt and you wondered about games on that platform... are you hijacking this thread for a completely unrelated question that you want to ask the HN audience, or is there a connection I'm missing?
I don't think the parent's idea of self is naive at all. Let's imagine you can upload your consciousness into the cloud or whatever. There's two of "you" now. Clearly the one on the cloud is a copy. And as time progresses, that being is no longer "you". It has new experiences that "you" do not have. They are not shared experiences, and so you are different entities. This point might seem moot if you kill the body immediately, but it brings up a good question of what is "you". I think one thing is clear though, the being that you currently associate with "you" is not the same being that is in the computer.
Only good looking ones.
It's quite simple: Whitequark deleted the thread because there is a portion of users/readers on HN that are toxic and/or hostile. People don't want to deal with that type of traffic blowing up their Twitter notification feed.
Not an expert on the subject at all but to my knowledge not quite. Yes, this applies for most cells in the body but in the case of neurons and glial cells, they stay for decades, so in a real, practical sense, the you of yesteryear is still the you of today right down to the cellular level where it most matters in the brain.
Landfills do monitoring to make sure stuff doesn't enter the groundwater, though I don't know how effective it is? Maybe they should get better at it?

There are also some unanswered questions here about where microplastics in the environment actually come from. I would expect litter to be a much larger source? How about fishing equipment?

I would expect stuff in a landfill to be less likely to get out than any other way. It seems like an easier problem to solve?
While at the same time a counter-culture push exists for men to refuse all of that or risk getting called out as "toxic" and/or "mysogonistic" over some of the most mundane behaviors.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I never had small kids - my “sons” are my stepsons - they were 9 and 14 when I met my now wife. She feels the same way. She’s raised her kids and now she wants to do “adult” things without kids running around and interrupting us.
The important thing to note about the parent poster was that he said "on average". Perhaps these things were not invented by average people.

Edit: fix auto correct mistake
For once, rather than take apart the naive philosophy of the teleporter clone nonsense, I'm going to get pedantic about the rules of Star Trek lore.

The transporter does not create a clone. This is explicitly stated to not be the way transporters work in Second Chances (TNG). In that episode, it is considered a very unusual phenomena that there is a second Riker specifically because transporters don't work that way. All LaForge can offer is supposition.

Of course, Star Trek has always played fast and loose with its own technology's mechanics, so this may be contradicted by episodes I'm not currently recalling.
Similar issues in France right now
The EU has Diplomats, treaties with other nations, laws and a court system, a shared and enforced border, leadership, an assembly, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_E..., https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2006/december/tradoc_...

I think it’s clearly more country like than the US was in 1776, and still not a country. Though as you say, it’s not exactly a clear line in the sand.
Nitpicks aside... if you're considering this: Why aren't you using a language that better supports your use case?

(Don't get me wrong, this may be technically interesting, but... choose your tools with care.)
I signed up to ReMarkable during the beta/pilot announcement having gone through decades of testing Palms, iPads, eReaders, pen scanners in search for that analog experience.

I didn't pull the trigger after the early adopter review having seen so many of these devices rushed to market with half-baked file i/o or UI issues with crippled hardware/software slowing that "pen/pencil and paper" experience down. This marketing desire generation is usually coupled with amazing incredible first impression reviews https://youtu.be/RGsWLeHZT8Y that only scratches the surface of total ownership experience.

So far the iPad with Pencil has come closest but who wants to lug that heavy thing around?! From my experience, customers really have to buy the company/platform not the device in hopes that they have staying power. Remember Livescribe? https://www.youtube.com/user/nevermissaword/featured Well they're baaack ... again.

I can only hope the best for ReMarkable and that they sustain the ecosystem to continue on with "your" notes. +1 for the open source we direly need it and that may be enough to support them and buy their 3rd gen model.

Currently I'm really enjoying analog fountain pens and paper, although more expensive! (14K nibs with custom grinds) they're pros on interface pleasure, offset power consumption, privacy and well ingrained UI. Search is waay slower but it helps brain power.

My later tech bet is on paper journal digitalization like Google Books with data capsules: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/HTRC+Data+Capsule
and doesn't everyone use MyScript API for handrec anyways? https://developer.myscript.com/ or more openly I'm hoping on improvements to the tessaract pipeline: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuali...

As for current digital solutions, sadly it's going to the big gorillas via market share like MS with Onenote, or Google with chromebook tablet https://chromeunboxed.com/chrome-os-78-tablet-mode-ui-overvi... (termux Evil Org-mode with your fav Android pdf reader for papers!?) and Apple iPad pencil. Does it have to be this way? It would be ReMarkable if they can pull this off!
Ask HN: Thriving in Information Systems Development/Consultancy
I work as developer for 13 years in IT/Business Consultancy and I feel stagnated in the field. I never liked this area, I was passionate in CG/AI when I took the degree but I ended working for consultancy like companies.

I have been doing tables and forms all my career, never been promoted to manager role.
Do you see any future in this area? Are the IT Consultant developers the new administrative employees? The new secretaries with the democratization of software development?

How do you thrive and keep motivated if you are working in this area?
And why business area development still need engineers when the patterns are all the same like form/tables/validation/database management cycle.
Is this area doomed to low wage due to skills necessary to perform the job?
Exactly. I found it very dishonest that the author is trying to imply that what happened to Tay was due to developers being biased.
Actually, once you're over the addiction to sugar....

* Sugar tastes rotten. Seriously, it's tastes like somebody put something that's gone off in your coffee.

* Fat tastes sweet. I use cream in my coffee, don't miss sugar anymore.

* The supermarket sugar aisle smells like a gas station. Seriously.

I don't miss sugar, it wasn't really adding joy to my life. It was mostly adding dentists bills.

My brother once lived in a very hot dry climate and had access to unlimited Coca cola sugary drinks.... within in weeks he had fattened like a bloody pig. It was amazing.

He now has type 2 diabetes. :-(

I don't miss gluten either, pizza's used to cause excruciating pain.... I now just eat the topping and throw the base away.

All the taste, none of the pain.
My girlfriend went on a 10 day retreat earlier this year. She said that for much of the time there is literally nothing to do other than think. You are forced to acknowledge and confront the thoughts you have as a result of past experiences, which are easy to ignore and let fester when you have the distractions of daily life to keep your brain preoccupied.

During the retreat, there is regularly coaching on how to acknowledge these thoughts and feelings and let them go. So the idea behind these retreats is to give you the tools to deal with these thoughts and feelings and then put you in a situation where you are almost forced to confront them. That's what the parent commenter was referring to by "consuming".

My girlfriend had a fantastic experience and said that she is in a much better mental state than she was before.

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts as I understand it from secondhand experience. Definitely look more into yourself if it's something you want to learn more about.
I haven't seen the government stopping any of those, at least not consequentially.

Let's take a look at this one:

> Dump trash or chemicals wherever it's most convenient

To make these stop, government didn't show itself very fit at reducing the problem. How can this be changed? That's what I would find interesting to hear.
Helps to purge the nonsense from the mind (which can often derail you later on, if suppressed). I journal in the mornings at 6am. I find that it'll take me a few pages to get past the noise and nonsense and then at that point, sometimes the truth will reveal itself. I also enjoy the clarity of mind that I can achieve at that time in the morning.

An outlet for the unfiltered stream of consciousness is important. You just write whatever comes up. No-one else is to read it. That's equally important.

As a result, I'm happier and more creative. But if you want to start, I wouldn't advise focussing on the benefits too much. In all likelihood, you'll start because you need to, or because the time is right. Hope that helps!
maybe https://imgur.com ?
I was in the Masons for a number of years and I was surprised to read your post. I'm quite sure that some of the Masons were gay. It didn't matter any. The only time that I could see someone feeling like the odd man out is where there are events for couples and you didn't feel comfortable bringing a guest. This would be more true for the Shriners than say the Blue Lodge (plain Masonic lodge).

I recently became an Odd Fellow and I still feel the same with respect to whether a member is gay or not. The big difference with the Odd Fellows is that both men and women can be (and are) members. The Masonic orders are only for men.

In any case, I wouldn't write them off completely due to your concern.
Yet another article full of unsubstantiated accusations. This is garbage. Sorry what has Stallman actually done to alienate women? Surely the silly abortion joke is not an example of it. So what if he has strange opinions? Lots of people do. How does that disqualify him from his role? Has he assaulted or harassed women? Has he actually done something worth of being forced to resign? If he has it's not in this article or any other one I've read. Just vague allusions to people growing plants to keep him away. So it's a popularity contest now? This is garbage reporting. The new era of tech is unlikely to attract more women. With this kind of mindset, it's unlikely to attract anyone with a brain, man or woman. I certainly would not want to be associated with the people who would oust someone because of unrelated opinions they didn't like. That's the truly disgusting thing here.
> The selection of women

This is a pretty gross way to describe a group of people.
So when was it exactly? I doubt recently. Mesa progressed to the point of full compliance a few years ago. Today, it's trusted a lot more than the blob, due to the later silently swallowing errors frequently and messing around with substituting shaders behind the scenes.

Try testing current Mesa versions. Previous experiences are no longer relevant.
Money as a System of Control (2017)
Keep in mind that it's analyzing their privacy policy, not their actions. Who a company specifically choses to share the data with and how often they do it is likely not considered.
It would be difficult to allow people to actually do what makes them happiest vs doing what the can do to make themselves happy within the limitations of their life situations.
Different neurotransmitters provide different types (speed, response function) of activation.
> But it reconstructs a clone of you

This is definitely wrong, there's a no cloning theorem in quantum mechanics [0].

But getting into possible methods of transportation is complicated. QM does allow for teleportation. So you can teleport the exact structure, but not have two copies at each end.

The teleporter could also reassemble you in an inexact way and you then would be a clone (at least conventionally speaking).

But the big question is: If you reconstruct everything in the exact same way is the being that comes out on the other end a different being that went in? This may be completely unverifiable because the being coming out the other end would have all the memories of the being sent in. But because of no cloning, you might be the same being.

Who knows?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
So packets can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least-cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
Then bridges find a spanning tree.

Radia Perlman, 'Algoryhme' https://web.archive.org/web/20110609192559/http://www.csua.b...

I hope that we shall one day see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A graph to boost efficiency
While still configuration-free.
A network where RBridges can
Route packets to their target LAN.
The paths they find, to our elation,
Are least cost paths to destination!
With packet hop counts we now see,
The network need not be loop-free!
RBridges work transparently,
Without a common spanning tree.

Radia Perlman in apparent alias as Ray Perlner, 'Algorhyme V2' RFC6325 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6325#section-1.1
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The article is four pages long, why should this special use case be mentioned? Hospitals have very particular needs when it comes to hygiene. It's one of the few cases where single-use and air-tight packaging is required.
Have you considered hosting your own Matomo server? You could just scrape logs or use a Javascript tracker. But the data will stay local to you.
Isn't it great that we work in an industry where a company like Netflix, which has increasing competition lately, just shares potential competitive advantages like this?

I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix, however, the people working on this are, probably, pretty proud of what they achieved and thus like to share it with us, their colleagues at other places of work and they have the freedom to do so because of our industry's great track record of knowledge sharing.
You don’t think developers can program defensively against their ML Twitter bot picking up racism?
Could you suggest a low cost option for meditation retreat? I'd really like to do one, but the idea of paying $1000 for what's supposed to be a no-frill, minimalist, anti-materialistic experience still trips me up. (As a reference, I rarely spend more than $500 for any kind of leisure trip.)

I understand that I'm being naive here, that "the Dharma is free but the light is not." Perhaps if cheap retreat is not an option, you can also reframe my thinking about the cost.
Why is the realtime Linux patchset + Jack audio server insuffecient for what you do?
Name me a working professional musician who doesn't use Apple gear (assuming they use computers at all to make music).
Not only that, there's a difference in repairing a ship over time and swapping out all its parts at once. I'm pretty sure most people would consider the second scenario a new ship.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042443
> It has new experiences that "you" do not have.

Then this is equally true of you now and the you who first read that comment, isn't it?

> the being that you currently associate with "you" is not the same being that is in the computer.

This is not clear, at least not from the perspective of the being in the computer. As far as it is concerned, it stepped into the uploader device (or whatever) and woke up in a computer.

Hypothetical: lets say curious aliens abducted you one night and made an identically functioning copy of the right hemisphere of your brain with circuitry, then replaced your meaty original. You would wake up none the wiser and believe you are the same person right? And so would everyone else, since you behave identically. Ok, so they come back the next night and do the same thing to the left hemisphere. Still you? Now they take your original organic halves and put them back together in a robot body.
> It can be helpful to know that, on all modern processors, you can safety assign a value to a int, double, float, bool, BOOL or pointer variable on one thread, and read it on a different thread without worrying about tearing, where only a portion of the value has been assigned by the time you read it.

What? NO! This is only relevant when you're writing assembly. In C, you have to use atomic (or possibly volatile, I'm not sure), or this just undefined behavior.
It is not difficult to imagine a public servant writing some lines of code in the end of the day, after doing administrative tasks.
Oh, ALBs. Now that's a mess. You'll either be charged per new connection, per concurrent connection, per byte, or per rule evaluation, depending on which is highest any given hour.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/
Under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, that's unethical. Also historically "Involuntary mental health treatment" in the US has not been humane.

We should strive to have compassion for the homeless and ill, not imprison them.
I'm sorry, but in my area in Europe, these retreats are for free. Well, donation based more exactly. At the end of the retreat you can donate as much as you feel like if it helped you.
so a few things you're missing.

First, the location and timing of accounting profits is not the same as economic profits and the return on capital.

Second, what do you think the point of single payer negotiation with healthcare providers is? The NHS in britian negotiates prices on behalf of the entire country. This system in the US would massively move producer surplus over to consumer surplus by reducing prices through negotiating power.

Lastly, healthcare outcomes in the US are terrible and prices are astronomical compared to Europe, do you think it's a coincidence that their systems are centralized while ours is distributed? The US system massively favors capital returns over service cost and quality.
Stock, probably not. FreeBSD is a nicer platform to modify for your use case though.
I'm a few months ahead of you -- I have a 3 week old daughter.

I don't have much to add at the moment, except to expect a constant barrage of (often unsolicited) advice from well-meaning family and friends. I'm learning to take everything with a grain of salt and approach new advice with an experimental mindset.
I plan on going to one in 2020, trying to make the arrangements as we speak.
> There are of course commonalities across businesses, and commonalities across managers for necessary skill, but each business is, in some core, fundamental way, different from others. Good management of a company doesn't following a paint-by-numbers rule book, it requires deep understanding of the particulars of that business, the market & industry it operates in.

This is actually part of the problem with Boeing. They keep all the functions across the aircraft separate, or at least at arms length. So for instance if you want to talk about fuel systems, there is a 737 SME, a 747 SME, a 787 SME, a 767 SME, and a legacy SME.

Cross the pond and want to talk fuel systems at Airbus? There is one SME group that manages all of the fuel systems across the commercial aircraft with leads for each program.

What Boeing created was a system that requires internal competition for resources and promotions and spread knowledge too thin without the sharing of the commonalities across the fleet.
That's the idea, sure. Is that also what happens in practice though?

I can easily imagine that if you're not being distracted on all sides constantly, those crippling insecurities and chronic stress all come into focus, because there's nothing else to think about.
Accelerators Performance and Power Evaluation for Training Deep Learning Models
And the whole point of the thought experiment is to show that such a distinction is meaningless.
Use Raspberry Pi as a WiFi Router
Can someone more informed than me explain the context around Weyl semimetals? I see them coming up more and more in the condensed matter crowd, but I don't understand the interest.
Still the study is useful if your budget doesn't allow for an expensive holiday.
Good points. It seems like Knights of Columbus is one of the strongest today. Their membership is predicated on being Catholic and probably having some level of involvement with the associated church parish.
How about being prosecuted for assault and battery?
Maybe not as in 'having a beer at each others houses', but when you go to each others fights as a team, go to seminars/camps together, or just work through your fight prep together at 4 or 6 week periods at a time, you develop bonds that cannot be described any other way than 'friendships', wouldn't you say? I mean sure, training 2 to 5 times a week in the gym, saying hi when you come in and see you when you leave doesn't give you that, but you can't be a complete fighter without friendships. I mean if dripping sweat into another guys mouth and rubbing all over each other wearing tights doesn't build friendships, what does?
I used to make these with a Photoshop plugin called Flexify and high-res imagery available from NASA. I'm surprised that it's still around, and not particularly expensive: http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html
> Church is so judgmental...

I think you are conflating judgemental attitudes and having standards at all. You don't have to be a deist to think getting sloppy drunk and lying is lame.

And my experience is that actual church folks, not the "church is my country club" types are actually pretty welcoming. But, yeah, if you show up to service high, someone might ask you to leave. I don't consider that a moral or humanitarian failing. On the contrary, it's usually about protecting people more than self righteousness.

But mileage varies in all of this, of course.
Was searching for it, thank you.
As an Audiobus user since pretty much day 1 (and also a Loopy app user), I'd just like to shout out to the author of this article with a "Thank You" for revolutionising music creation on Apple's small devices.

I still remember the first time I managed to combine some of my favourite sound generator & synth apps and create a mix all on my iPad without having to export things to Garageband/Logic [0], and it was a real game changer on that platform.

If anyone knows about audio development on iOS devices, this author is the 'go to' guy!

[0] - https://soundcloud.com/cyberferret/industrial-ants-wav
Maybe this isn't a universal viewpoint, but to me if the concern is to increase social connections amongst men, it seems odd to lump that in with hobbies like it's some bonus goal.

I know there are some hobbies that force you into a social situation but most hobbies seem a consumer of time in a reasonably solitary way and thus would further reduce any opportunity to socialise in the scarce hours when one is not working, asleep or traveling to work.