skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible…" Peter Thiel.
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Exactly. That is also why "logging in to Chrome" or rather Google is such an insidious misfeature. Soon they will be the only ones with cross-site tracking and third-party-cookie equvalents in the leading browser.

That would be check mate for all other advertisers.

I'm just not sure whether it's good or bad that antitrust regulators won't notice before it's too late.
That's a great idea, can write on any device!

In the early 2000s, I had a setup where I could blog by either email or SMS. By default emails would become new posts. SMS would append to the latest entry, or I could create a new one with a keyword (NEWPOST title, I think).

This was a nice way to create and update travel journals before mobile internet and smartphones were widespread.
The email diary service that PG requested has existed for years
“an” sounds more natural to my ears, right or wrong.
He was involved in brutalizing psychological experiments by a researcher who was involved in LSD-based research for the CIA, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence Ted himself participated in any of the LSD-based research. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2000/7/14/murray-center-s... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
For some reason, when I read it aloud too many times, it begins to sound like something less desirable to be mailed.
Hard to read this and extract facts. My sense that this article is intentionally vague.
Just commentary on the engineer turned manager narrative. Please forgive if it is out of place. Should I delete it?
On my work Macbook Air, which has 2 usb-c ports, both have failed over a course of 6 months and now I can't use the laptop at all.
Knowing the top books in the NYC library is relevant and interesting information, not an endorsement of "top" books everywhere in the world.
I am too.

Even just publishing it in their forum is destructive for science.
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To expand, the wealthy would hold money in commodity hedge funds. Presumably the banking system tried to diversify to the max in financial assets directly linked to the real economy.

Look at it this way: an inflation index is a low-dimensional approximation of inflation in the economy as a whole. But the coefficients of this approximation are effectively random, even if well substantiated by consumer budget surveys etc. (which they were). As inflation grows you have to consider the risk that the index (or the USD, for that matter) diverges from your current and probable future cost structure. Maybe it underweighs diapers and you're about to have children. Maybe a lot of people are about to have children and renege on their debts, if you're a bank.

So the USD is basically the price of all imported goods, but Brazil is a big economy that's not a simple "exports X, imports everything else". During hyperinflation my parents used it for long-term savings -- they had immigrated to Brazil, who knows if they might have to move countries again. But they mostly did big supermarket rounds to last 1 month+ of goods and otherwise trusted banks for medium-term (say, to buy a car) savings.
If you are interested in distributed systems , I found the book "Designing data intensive application by Martin Kleppmann" to be a good starting point. Its not about only about distributed systems but also covers quite a bit of ground on overall data systems.
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
I agree that some managers may be full of it, but there's the inverse danger of letting mistrust keep you from meaningful workplace bonds.

Our current startup might not be a family, but we are like a sports team. We spend most of our lives together, working toward mutual goals. Yes, if there's a persistent under-performer, we'll have to say goodbye, but there's certainly a bond here that makes you want to fight for your colleague's happiness and sense of meaning.
Not the page title.
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My take: consciousness is an emergent property of the system as a whole as it becomes sufficiently complex. Yes, that million people (you'd probably need more) working with pen and paper create, in combination, an additional new consciousness, albeit an absurdly slow-thinking one.
In my country we have a jail with this design, it's weird when you notice the similitude.

https://goo.gl/maps/xZcMWFsin3p6W6u68 (use the satellite view)
Nice site. Permanently bookmarked.
It is a BIG overhead. I have lived in such a situation, so as far as first-hand experience is worth...

I am allergic to any defense or downplay of inflation because there is a lot of people here that see "advantages" in it. Mostly politicians that magically solved all cash flow problems of their governments by delaying payment for a couple months. They like to call this "economic development".
Yes. When building an internal mock-up, it's often not the best use of FTE designer time, but internal work benefits from professional polish as well. Outsourcing solves this problem.
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How do you handle the security?
I'm curious how you managed to block twitter? Somehow when I add twitter.com to my /etc/hosts it doesn't seem to have any effect.
Isn't this exactly like https://posthaven.com/?
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Google's Good Intention were to support privacy, and

>the web should be is an abundant source of compatibility issues. in particular for minority browsers, resulting in browsers lying about themselves (generally or to specific sites), and sites (including Google properties) being broken in some browsers for no good reason.

Doesn't that mean every Web feature would be Google's way or the high way. Google, using Blink and Chrome would be dictating the web standards. And if it is incompatible, it would now officially be the browser vendors's fault and not the designer.
The OhLife replacement I wrote is called AhhLife and I have maintained it as a personal side project for many years now. https://ahhlife.com
Why did you take random excerpts instead of looking for the more serious allegations, one of which the parent mentioned.

"The day before Valentine’s Day, Korey decided she was going to stop the team from taking any more time off. In a series of Slack messages that began at 3AM, she said, “I know this group is hungry for career development opportunities, and in an effort to support you in developing your skills, I am going to help you learn the career skill of accountability. To hold you accountable...no more [paid time off] or [work from home] requests will be considered from the 6 of you...I hope everyone in this group appreciates the thoughtfulness I’ve put into creating this career development opportunity and that you’re all excited to operate consistently with our core values.”"
> For each kind of bug, you need a different proof.

Not necessarily; if your definition of security and correctness is sufficiently general and if you can prove that your program conforms to those definitions, you have effectively proven your program to be secure and correct for all bugs. Unless of course your definition of security and correctness was too narrow, which as you note is where the crux of the problem is.

But this is not a hopeless task, there is a lot of active research in building axiomatic definitions of what security and correctness mean, so in theory it could be possible to prove a program 100% correct if the axioms are self-evident.
They should have chosen Java.
> If you think this federal reserve data is false, tell me more about why and how.

I don't think it's false, I just don't think it reflects anything realistic. My critique is with how they measure inflation, which is calculated in a way that ignores anything remotely volatile (meaning anything that has its prices adjusted to reflect reality) and was designed by someone who had incentives to make sure inflation was always low.

There is no need for me to re-write what is already written so I'll just link Investopedia's summary: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex....

Alternative measures of inflation put us anywhere from 6% to 8%, which seems to reflect reality much more than the official number. The concern about this is that high inflation is usually met with social unrest, political extremism, and declining standards of living. If inflation truly is understated, we should know because we'll begin seeing these things in the next couple of years. It will metaphorically be a case of bankers and policy makers saying "but inflation is below 2% - you guys should be happy" as a raging mob assembles a guillotine.
Oh, I didn't think about retweets. That explains it.

(I wonder if it should reflect on the retweeter, positively or negatively).
The shutdown of OhLife caused the "hole in [his] life" that spurred PG's request.
The Y10K bug is our chance to beat Skynet without having to resort to time traveling.
Hey everyone! Elmasry here from Walling. I've launched Walling before on ProductHunt but I'm excited to introduce the tool to HN community.

Whether you're working on a project, researching a topic or writing an article, you can use Walling to create a Wall to organize and refine your ideas and thoughts and eventually get a visual overview of your notes side by side and you can refer back to that wall when you start the actual work.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback or questions!
They're a Direct To Consumer (DTC) Lifestyle brand.

If you sort of wave your hands and say "whatever" to that description what it means is "profit" compounded by "profit".

DTC cuts out all the middle retailers' profit points.

"Brand" lets them charge a premium for their product on an ongoing basis.

You can buy a very comparable piece of luggage off of AliExpress [1] for about half [2] of what Away is selling theirs for, which means that at volume Away is probably getting a 3x to 4x markup. The profit of branding.

If you're looking for something to compare Away to, look at Lululemon (revenues of $3.7 Billion in 2019). I'm sure they're nowhere near that currently, but the venture capital bet is that there's at least a 1/10 shot of them reaching that sort of level.

1 - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000472391335.html

2 - https://www.awaytravel.com/suitcases/bigger-carry-on/navy
It also exposes the self-interest of those who oppose reasonable action to a) discover whats going on and b) do something about it.
Most of the time the answer is "absolutely nothing". From framework (and framework user) point of view there is no difference which protocol version is used, request handling is exactly the same. Protocols are handled somewhere else (by nginx/uwsgi/whatever). Http2 does not provide replacement for websockets.

There are some features and tricks you can use, and some optimizations which are done differently, but this also mostly is either outside of framework scope, or so use-case specific that no common patterns have been accepted widely enough to reach web framework.
For some reason I enjoy trying to share intuitions for idealism. Let me try to do so here.

First, notice that it's impossible to prove which metaphysics (materialism, idealism, solipsism, Last Thursdayism, simulationism...) is correct. Next, notice that the situation is even worse: you can't even assign probabilities to those possibilities without making assumptions about whatever is "outside" reality -- which are by definition untestable.

Now, notice the strong urge to throw your hands up and say "since I can't know, I should just default to the most obvious choice" (which usually ends up being materialism). Avoid this devious trap! It's keeping something hidden.

Next, notice the one thing you can be sure about: the present sheer fact of experiencing something. Notice the mind's attempts to explain it. If you introspect carefully enough, you'll discover that thought isn't the most fundamental capacity you have: "pure consciousness" is. Consciousness takes the form of thoughts -- as well as all sensory perceptions -- and shapes itself into the experience you call "me and my life." You discover that thoughts can no more point at consciousness than a mouse pointer can point at the vibrant pixels it's made of (but boy, do they keep trying). And yet, somehow, consciousness can know itself non-dually and im-mediately.

At some point, the intellectual knowledge that you cannot assign probabilities to metaphysics finally penetrates your core, and there's a mind-shattering "aha" moment that turns your reality inside-out. Various traditions call this "awakening." You do not awaken. "Reality" or "consciousness" awakens to itself, rediscovering its primordial freedom.

Then maybe you go about preaching a philosophy of consciousness-only. Or maybe you just live the best and most loving life you can, knowing that in an impossible-to-communicate sense, we are all the one Love appearing as many.
The part of the original story that upset me the most is how the people she abused were underpaid and overworked customer support staff.

An incredibly strong signal of how decent someone is is how well they treat people that have no ability to help them. Even a selfish asshole will be charming and kind to the rich and powerful: if you want to see their true colors look how their reports talk about them when they aren't around, or how they treat a waiter who messed up their order.
There are plenty of wrong and fake regular USB cables. It has nothing to do with USB-C.
Cool, so people post their diary to an email service? Interesting. Why not just post on Facebook? It's about as public as it gets.
I had a Nexus 5X for a few years and the USB C port started progressively giving out at around 8 months. I had to lay it down flat find a position where it would charge and hope no gust of wind would hit it. Forget charging it while using it for navigation.

I like the idea of USB C, but actual my experience with it makes me happy to currently be on a micro. You just learn which way the plug goes. USB A on the other hand, that's trickier...
> Afterall, isn't every single thing a part of the universe, including thoughts, feelings, and experience?

They are, but they aren't fundamental. They are just our interpretation of the state of the universe (which is quantitative).

> without watching a scan of your brain, and without collecting any sort of scientific data about your nervous system, you were most likely able to discern the difference between those two feelings just now. You didn't do this by any type of measurement of quantity, just by quality of experience (qualia).

I did it by measuring quantities in my brain - voltage was over a threshold on neurons whose firing I interpret as pleasant or unpleasant. My brain is constructed in a way that automatically does this because it's useful for evolutionary purposes.

Is "NullPointerException" a thing that exists just because java programs can throw it? Or is it just an interpretation of particular voltages on particular transistors that is shared between many computer systems because it's useful.

> apparently there has been advances in theoretical physics to include consciousness into the same theory as quantum and classical physics

A paper cited 0 times, read 2 times, citing 5 other papers by the same author. I would wait with calling it advancement in physics just yet :)
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What tech stack are you using for this?

Edit nvm found it at the footer:

https://github.com/tmm/mute.vc
Interesting that both sama and pg have both used the phrase "spectral signature" in articles published within a week of each other.
I'm taking this with me.
I wrote and maintain AhhLife as a replacement for OhLife. Been going for many years now. Thousands of active users.
These days I almost never login to participate on Stack Exchange, however, when I saw that Shog9 had been suddenly fired I felt compelled to authenticate and add my voice to the chorus of shocked supporters.

The one ray of light in all of this is that Microsoft's Scott Hanselman replied in less than an hour inviting Shog9 to speak to him (presumably about a position at Microsoft). I have always respected Hanselman, not just for his technical and blogging skills but because he is a dad and highlights the importance of his family. I raise my coffee mug to both Heyer and Hanselman as class acts and wish them success or finding a way to work together.

The specter this raises for me on the other hand is the shabby treatment of yet an additional long time community member by Stack Exchange. While nothing has been communicated by them, I am assuming (rightly or wrongly) that Shog9 was dismissed for not following the recent edict about the use of pronouns and specifically about banning gender neutral language use. There could of course be plenty of other reasons, but this is the recent hot button issue on Stack Exchange and has already lead to the ejection and/or resignation of a dozen moderators or more.

Every time I feel like Stack Exchange has reached a new low point they seem to go out of their way to dig deeper. It makes me kind of sad.
Since macOS Catalina, you can also sort notes by creation date. So the information is there, even though it's kept hidden.
Running Bullshit.js over the press release...

https://i.imgur.com/hNvmjvV.png
Am I the only one who thinks this amount is very small?

Considering tens of thousands of paying users that use a service which would not function if it wasn't for libcurl, I was expecting nothing short of 50k$
Sites need to be told to obey DNT with a legal sledgehammer. Still hoping...
Have you replied to PG's original tweet? This looks like exactly what he was looking for.
The email workflow is slightly different.

It prompts you in email not having to change applications. This is good for people who like inbox zero and are in their emails all day anyways.
OT: for those who have never been in leader/managerial positions:

- Leading people is 1000x less fun than coding

- Leading people makes your more money than as an avg coder

- Leading people too long makes you lose your technical skills slowly

- At some age and for most, there's no other option than leading, 'go or grow'

- Leading bigger headcounts is comparable to competitive sports 24/7 and shouldn't be underestimated
Seeing as the interpreter takes about 60-70 ms to just start up and do nothing, I don't think we're going to be seeing any benchmarks in the microseconds.

$ time python -c pass

real 0m0.062s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.042s

That was the quickest of three runs on one of my servers.
I sincerely don't understand why ports are soldered to main boards. mechanical decoupling would help
Looks like safari gave them no choice, so now they grab this as an opportunity to say the want to do it too.
We live in a police state. We've also greatly expanded what we consider criminal, and drastically upped the punishment. The USA has some serious soul searching to do regarding morality/punishment, and basically nothing is happening on that front.
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Thank you for reviewing the book, your comment was very helpful to me :)
We can help by preferring and recommending tools which allow for auditability of technical debt.

For example, you can grep a Rust code base for "unwrap", "expect", and "unsafe", while in other languages, ignored return codes or unchecked exceptions are harder to detect.

Similarly, (if I am not mistaken) you can grep Swift code for "try", and find every call site that might throw an exception[1]. Can't do that in Java, C#, or Python!

Tool designers can help by differentiating their products through how well they allow for tracking technical debt.

[1] joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/#easily-auditable-callsites
If it profits them, it isn't entirely broken now, is it? ;)

It's a matter of perception. We profit from the cattle industry. Most of the world doesn't - the climate, the cows themselves, ecology. But we wouldn't 'fix' it, nor would the cows.

The cattle industry could be done so much better. But as it is, it works. Nobody will change it as long as it accomplishes everyone's goals.
> I'm not sure if panpsychism is necessarily a path forward in terms of describing the universe, but I think it seems promising in terms of a prescriptive use of creating, or attempting to create, new consciousness with machines.

If panpsychism is correct, then all of our machines would already be conscious. Creating new consciousness wouldn't be possible except maybe in the sense that matter itself can be created under certain conditions. What I think you're trying to say is that it might be possible to assemble machines in such a way that a combined "machine consciousness" emerges from the separate low-level consciousnesses of its components. Which may or may not happen with every machine anyway, I'm not sure how you would devise an experiment to test for this.
Throwing out there that Wireshark has CAN parsing ability. For any else of y'all that have been stuck with a legacy non standard CAN protocol running on industrial automation, writing a Lua protocol parser and a little script to convert whatever internal format you've been using to pcap-ng will be an afternoon or two very well spent.
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For some systems that people who couldn't really do a proper change and the businesses promised they were actually end-of-life, it was a reasonable choice (there were probably bigger fish to fry). 20 years on and it looks like some replacements didn't happen.

If I remember right, there is probably another group 20 more years out that used some date changes to get buy for Y2K. I do hope someone replaces them.
This service could run just fine on one or two VPS’ on DigialOcean, etc. Zero knowledge encryption could help secure the content too, it there is ultimately trust needed.
You can probably use UA Client Hints to do this; but it requires some custom-fu and doesn't work in all browsers.
> Math class is dealing with intense focus on a poorly documented thing.

I like this and think it's accurate. Funnily enough, it gets better if you go on to major in maths. The quality of pre-university maths teaching is just unconscionably bad. (Then it gets bad again as you reach graduate-level maths, but this is because you're expected to be able to deal with that at that point.)
Those numbers are seldomly inflation adjusted, so just by the 2% inflation most economies target you automatically get new records every year.
Does chromium really have to do what Safari did? aka "no option"?
They're strip searching children, so I don't know that I'd hold them up as a shining example of excellent policing.
There’s several ways to encrypt he content for the owner, including zero knowledge. Complications and risks as a result.
How do your friends read it then?
I wrote a library that a bunch of teams in a larger company were to use to move lots of data around. At one point there was an argument of the form X must always be Y vs X must never be Y, and eventually I had to tell them both that they were getting something else.

Neither department had a job if the other didn’t exist and produce. You can’t go telling the guy upstream from you that they aren’t allowed to do their job or there’s no point. You’re cutting off your nose to spite your own face. It was so stupid. I just had to start repeating “‘compromise’ means ‘nobody gets everything they wanted’”. I walked them both (privately of course) through how to use it and they soon found something else to bicker about. Children in neck ties.
Use Slack as your professional diary
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