skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely do not reject the idea of a non-physical reality. I find myself closer to idealism than materialism, although the needle just started to move in that direction.

Yes, you were actually replying to me above. We do already observe plenty of things that violate our current understanding, quantum entanglement being the first that comes to mind, but we definitely do not lack paradoxes as of now. Sure, as I stated earlier, they might just be knowledge holes which we might fill once our experiments become more sophisticated, but then I can't help but sensing faith.
The right/left brain idea is usually considered debunked, but it's still observably true as a metaphor, even if it's not literally true in terms of physical brain function.

People with what are labelled strong right-brain skills can often do some or all of those artistic things. It's complementary to having a talent for linear symbolic logic, but operates in a different space.

It can also be learned or at least enhanced. But just like other talents some people are born with exceptional ability while others have to struggle to be mediocre. And skill levels as an adult depend on a supportive and stimulating environment in childhood which brings out the talent, as opposed to leaving it undeveloped.
"The general public is not capable of determining what is good advice"

I strongly disagree. Making choices for other people is tyranny.

Edit:

If you're referring to the term "ableist" as in insult--it is not. It is a technical term that accurately describes the logical conclusion of many of the arguments being made in this thread.

"The general public is not capable of determining what is good advice" because "experts" is not an argument. It's a belief. If you want to have an intellectual argument you've got to form an argument that I can respond to.
Lithium disappeared from F-droid ages ago? I remember switching to Librera.
Wasn’t it a lion, brought back from a safari?
Bean burrito - 450 calories, 28 grams protein

Wheat protein based shake - 120 calories, 25g protein

Two soy coffees - 300 calories, 16 calories.

Those 3 proteins complement the amino acid profiles of each other. I typically only aimed for around 130g, so with two protein shakes daily and those other foods I'm very close after only 1000 calories.
I feel like we’re elevating Twitter to something way more meaningful and official than what it really is as a large scale public community bulletin board.

Like take down the forged messages, fix the hole that let them post them, issue an apology, and compensate the people who had their data stolen. No need to blow this up into something huge.
> as opposed to the US, which is on an upward trajectory

You have the wrong scale in mind. The US is closer to the EU than a single country here - individual states have totally different trajectories. For example, Illinois, where I am, looks like those European countries that were hit hard early and is also opening up.
His death was a loss for humanity.
Companies seem to care more about preventing users from rolling back firmware than they do about releasing firmware that works. I've had more than one device wrecked because it happened to be out of warranty when I installed a firmware update that ruined something important.
The golang project itself is a perfect example: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/Make.dist
Hugelkultur is a nice idea until you try to plant something the subsequent year - you can’t dig because there are still too many damn sticks.
Note that there were was significant civil unrest at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Swiss_general_strike
The permaculture community emphasizes the concept of “appropriate technology,” which depends on context but generally means “seek simple/low-impact approaches.”

If you’re building large low-input beds that could last for a decade or more, a tractor might be an appropriate tool given your local constraints vs. a crew of horses/humans and a great deal of time/energy.
What I meant was - the ability to revisit the past perfectly, rather than a "dimmer" version of it.
Y'all might find this project I discovered recently interesting :) https://www.makesoil.org/
As someone outside looking in who's skied there once and know a few people from there or lives there:

1. Big pay differential. This is probably why it only hires locals for the most part.

2. Mormonism is ascendant, and the tech industry is mostly non-religious. You hear stories about it can stifle your social life your not mormon or don't wish to participate in mormonism. Like if your kid marries a mormon and your not mormon, well you're not going into the temple to participate in the marriage ceremony levels of soft social exclusion.

I've lived in the bay area, startup to big co. And 80-100 hour weeks are fairly uncommon in practice unless your working in a very small startup fighting for its life. Along with having a family being anything much of a real problem.

Overall I find it unfortunate that equity financing is looked at as debt, vs the joint venture with the rich that it's more like. Nothing wrong with bootstrapping, but it's obviously limiting as you pointed out.
Buy google ads ? Put google ads in your site ? Google bots will certainly notice you if you do that
What’s broken about it? Admittedly I haven’t been using it for more than a month, but the interface seems to work just fine on my iPhone.
Presumably the proportional representation part of what he said empowers a team which has even 14% of the vote and so being independent is way more powerful than glomming together (where you’re likely to lose supporters who don’t like the guy you decided to get in bed with and you’re not likely to gain any new supporters).
MakeSoil
> Who is to say that a post should or shouldn't be on the site

The mods, and the community.

> Flagging should be used for illegal, dangerous, and malicious content like gore, doxxing, viruses, etc.

Flagging is for when you think it doesn't belong. I agree with you that simply disagreeing with a post or comment isn't a reason to flag it, but when you think something is inappropriate for the site then you have a reason to flag it. Otherwise it becomes a complete free-for-all, with no focus, and experience tells us that that's a bad thing.

And you can't downvote a submission.
The future of the hapi project
Also, either way, what kinds of plants can you grow without irrigation or rain for a full summer? I'm guessing only ones whose roots go deep enough into the pile?
For those wondering what the heck a SPAC is, this seems to be what it's about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...

> A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), sometimes called blank-check company, is a shell company that has no operations but plans to go public with the intention of acquiring or merging with a company with the proceeds of the SPAC's initial public offering (IPO).

I'm still not entirely clear what the implications are.
FDA opens door to ‘batch testing’ for Covid-19, green lights Quest Diagnostics
The problem is that employees of these large private companies are working for somewhat below market wages in exchange for illiquid equity. If these companies stay private for a long time they either have to cash out equity or offer more cash compensation.

Edit: option tender offers are absolutely a thing but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an RSU tender offer.
Insofar as we do not make the mistake of mixing consciousness with self-awareness, it might very well be the case.
Well, there are three cases of patological societies, where one is forced to coexist with other people and unable to opt-out: school, prison and military service.
The trouble I’ve had as a beginner is crafting error types for those “Union of multiple existing error types”. E.g., myfunc() can return an IO error or a Parse error. The boilerplate for creating a new error type (absent macros) is significant, and while I’m aware that there are macro crates available which automate this, it’s not clear to me which of these if any are “most standard” or otherwise how to distinguish between them.
"diversity is simply a way of information discovery"

This is one of the arguments given, and it makes a whole lot of sense, so much so, it's hard to negate. But in my years of business experience, I don't believe it's true.

Having Engineers of 'XYZ Heritage' will not really in any way help you 'think differently' vis-a-vis the XYZ market. It just doesn't work that way.

Now - having Engineers 'born and raised' in a certain part of the world - yes, that can possibly make a difference. It's no surprise that Vancouver has a lot of 'ties' to APAC.

Paradoxically, when you start a business, generally you want to hit the very narrow segment of your best possible followers, in which case, diversity may be the opposite of important: you want to nail a demo, that may or may not be related to diversity.

The primary advantage, I believe, of diversity, actually has nothing to do with diversity. I have mostly come to believe that most of it doesn't matter materially - what matters - is that companies and individuals have an opportunity to connect with one another. A young, white, CEO may simply be unwilling to look beyond his network and local horizons to find, for example, a lot of women. It's the issue of gender that will help the company, rather massive talent pools overlooked.

So having internal biases agains 'certain types' results in just missing out on talent, not so much on some 'special thing' that those candidates bring. Mostly.
Thanks mate! I'm glad you liked it.
Straw purchasers do get convicted when someone is killed.
Downside of this is that you could end up in a different broken state: ex. What if the original firmware now has too old of a CA bundle?

This could be avoided by using your own PKI for updates (and bundle your own root), but I assume most devices out there are using Web PKI for updates.
Well, there are actually many countries with legal repercussions for following the wrong fashion, especially for women. Even in Europe and the USA, many kinds of clothes we wear today would have likely been considered indecent and could have gotten the police involved, if worn on the streets 100 or so years ago.
Basically a startup but at small scale and completely bootstrapped by 1 person
Because the sick person clearly did not view these people as charlatans. It was their choice. Not yours.

You are taking one case where the patient chose to follow bad advice, and using it to suppress the voices of hundreds of thousands of sick people.
> So I made a pair of trousers with no pockets at the waist, and a pair of welt pockets at the side seams, right at that point.

Weirdly, the pictures pants are not slim jeans, thought that was the motivating problem. They look like not particularly slim khakis.

The pocket location is also quite similar to the low-profile cargo pocket location on some of the 5.11 Tactical pants that are designed for unobtrusive utility, addressing a somewhat similar problem space (useful pockets in relatively slim pants.) So, I'm not sure there is really an innovative solution here

But, like most middle-to-upper class fashion for centuries, the driving force between the popularity of skinny jeans is the ostentatious sacrifice of utility because the need for useful clothing is a marker of proletarian status. And the signalling is as much to the wearer as outside observers, so I'm not sure there's going to be a mass market demand for this.
Once when I was at a bathroom I saw a door that had a metal band affixed to it, so you could put your foot between the door and the band to open it.

That being said, that would be only sanitary if you were wearing a shoe with a closed toe.
1 space after a period has always been correct unless you’re writing in a monospaced font (or with a typewriter).
My family lives north of Salt Lake and it does indeed get pretty bad, especially in the winter. I declined a job a Utah valley last year and the pollution was a major driver in that decision.
OpenAI GPT-3: Creative Potential of NLP
I've seen databases as large as 10 petabytes and blob storage services in the 10s of exabyte range. Granted, that was all disk but it'd be cool if you could store it all in ram on one machine.
They have now verified that your specific phone number will click clearly suspicious links. I would hazard that your going to be put into the phase 2 sucker category now as a result.

Why are the links so clearly suspicious you ask?

It is part of the scam. It weeds out those who are unlikely to be scammed early in the pipeline so that scammers don't waste resources on people who will not be duped.

Why redirect to google? They already have everything they need from you including a hash that points back to your phone number indicating what one of their various scams they got you to bite on. There is no longer any reason for them to keep your focus on their data collection site and immediately send you someplace benign. Google seems as good a choice as any.
How would the country destroy itself?
Presumably languages which default to optional instead of null with the default ergonomics being to “or_else” instead of “unwrap” will encourage safer error handling.

It works for me, but I don’t know if it is yet well known what the effect of developer UX on error rate is.
You can do this below ground level, but it loses some other useful properties (catching more sunlight, improved drainage, ergonomics). Depending on where you live, one approach may work better than the other.
> California is bleeding about 60,000 people per year just to Texas.

And yet:

> California is growing in population

So, N people move to California each year, and M move away for M < N, and of those T move to Texas for T < M, and this is "bleeding?"

I'm not a demographer but this makes no sense.

Could you please explain what you mean here?
This is hilarious and super cool.
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How is this connected to the post?
> There are too dang many of you coming to Utah

Would you or your congregation welcome more Mormons to town?

Would you or your congregation welcome more non-Mormons to town?
To be fair, Apple is an advocate of privacy because it fits their business model very well.

You have to remember most of their money comes from selling devices and subscriptions, meaning they had a chance to take a stance against Android’s largest problem with no impact on their home turf, so they’ve wisely picked an achievable narrative.

Needless to say I’m grateful for it, but it’s by no means out of benevolence...
It is my rendering device.

For a number of years I allowed them to run JS on my device and download ads from other servers to my device.

I have now instructed my rendering device to not do that. Even as a devout christian that doesn't feel unethical.

I'm free to try to avoid the ads, they are free (within limits) to get me to view ads.

A pro tip in that regard would be to make the ads relevant and unobtrusive.

A good first step here would be to include them statically on the server side and make sure they don't contain any moving or noisy elements.

Another good idea would be to select ads not solely on what company they can fleece for most money by showing me irrelevant ads but also factor in if the ad is in any way relevant.
It was a little more than that. It was the only app on the live CD of several major distros that relied on Mono. That meant, back in the days of CD's that could hold 800 MB (?) you had to remove a whole lot of other stuff from the live CD, all for an app that most people didn't use. (As was pointed out at the time, what's the purpose of a notes app on a live CD, where you don't even have persistent storage?) It was widely perceived, correctly in my opinion, as a way to get Mono installed on everyone's machines. After the pushback Miguel de Icaza got pissed, trashed Linux every chance he had, and switched to Mac. I'm not going to relitigate all of that, but it wasn't just that Mono was bloated.

* Here's just one link: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html

"Machine would suspend and resume without problem, WiFi just worked, audio did not stop working, I spent three weeks without having to recompile the kernel to adjust this or that, nor fighting the video drivers, or deal with the bizarre and random speed degradation that my ThinkPad suffered."
This will become useful for my move away from the Bay.
I mean, I still think that the immigration guidelines were pretty poorly implemented and caused a lot of unnecessary stress/confusion. I just don't think a ton of residents are actually in a precarious position right now.
Better write a firmware to avoid this problem i have written in the past firmware for devices that don't affect the user experience including CA's, server domain or ip and other parts that don't require a full firmware update, better to "waste" development time thinking of all future problems that are out or your hand than bother the final users IMO. As a developer you should think every problem you could face or you aren't using the best practices of software development.
This doesn’t matter as what you are stating is false assumption.
Deutsche Bundespost built a first fibre optics link in 1978[0].
In 1981 they „ruled“ to invest in fibre tech over the next 30 years. Guess who canceled that. You can also find more in-depth Info and should definitely read [1].
Also the Russians got to Kohl in 1986/1987 and offered him the reunification. But he refused in fear to loose the Bundestagswahl of 1987. This guy was one the ridiculous politicians we ever saw. Heck.. the bribe money the CDU owned that was stored in Switzerland even has ties to gold the Nazis stole from the Jews.
Never trust anything the CDU does. Never trust anyone of the high ranking politicians.
Always ask yourself: Qui Bono?
[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtwellenleiter
[1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Der-Kam...
I'm impressed that for his 101th birthday he's just going to go for a walk and not spend a ton of money partying like he did for his 100th. I can't imagine doing either of these things at 100.
I've been incredibly happy with Joplin, to the point of a recurring subscription on Patreon. It's got everything I want: cross-platform, FOSS, sync with webDAV, and a good clean interface. I strongly recommend it.
I think there’s no avoiding paying people what is necessary to retain them. The alternative would be worse for the company and its other employees if essential talent was lost, or would be coercive and intrusive of the freedoms of these people if they were somehow compelled to continue working against their will and personal best interests.
I didn't think I'd see AMPL (mathematical modeling language) mentioned alongside a scripting language and two systems languages.
I’m sorry but I find ruby „reboot unless config.parse?” much more readable here.
Of course, buried logs take years to decompose. Most people don’t plan garden beds years in advance, or have the space for beds that won’t be used.
And https://schevepalen.tumblr.com/archive
I believe SPAC targets might also have lower regulatory burdens not entirely sure.
QOwnNotes is the best thing to come along in this space in a long time, IMO.

https://www.qownnotes.org/
Yes. Noise suppression is very similar to speech separation (separating multiple speaker voices that talk at the same time). For example you can use ConvTasNet for both speech separation and denoising; in the denoising case you set target track 1 = speech, track 2 = noise, hence you get a noise-only track.

I guess you can also simply subtract the clean speech from the original mixture to get the noise-only track.
You reckon it will work?
Yeah, the bandwidth overage was a grand, give or take. It was a valuable lesson in a number of ways, and why for any personal things I wouldn't touch AWS with a shitty stick.
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I didn't say "European earthworms", I said "worms and such". It's probably an okay idea to just slow the spread of various earthworms from Asia.

There's lots of things that live in soil. We don't have to help them spread.
They have had these for years in OR suites to dispense surgical scrub soap. They use an air bulb and tubing rather than mechanical link since that is much more durable and cheaper to replace. These obviously present an accessibility issue in public places that don't generally apply to ORs. I think the hand operated or IR is the good enough solution in most cases though.
The problem arises when you are a dev trying put food on the table.

It's easy to talk about how other people's work should be given for free when you have a source of income every month, and your basic needs are covered.

But if the author is trying to live of his work, as it's the case here, it's a decision that should be respected.

And Yes, you can disagree with him, and in that case, you can vote with your wallet by not buying it and using any other app.
Meta refresh redirects just don't work I am sorry to say.
Or they can move somewhere where their token status won't be under constant scrutiny.
The first article you link is only looking into 1 specific type of fraud of voter impersonation, and even mentions many other instances of other kinds. Again, without confirming the votes independently, you have no truth set to compare for finding the real results easily. There is still no answer to this.

Also 99.9% of people already have IDs and need them for living in society so it's strange to say that voting is the only thing that should be defended from requiring it. I find this outright dismissal of no fraud existing to be worrisome. It's the same as antivax and other conspiracy theories and more aligned with a narrative than any discovery of truth.
OT: when did HN start wrapping long lines in indented text?
At least TVs on the (originally) European DVB broadcast system can pick up firmware from broadcasts.

Packets in the transport stream include the necessary firmware.
> We are conscious because it is critical for moving in our environment.

Why? It's clear that intelligence is advantageous, but why consciousness? You've noted that consciousness arises from normal brain activity, similar to how our intelligence does. How? Why? Much of what happens in the brain is unconscious, so why should there be consciousness at all?

(As an aside, someone who is asleep is not unconscious in the sense that matters here. If they are dreaming, they are experiencing, i.e. having conscious experiences divorced from the physical world.)

Does consciousness arise because of our general intelligence, and our sense of self (both of which make obvious evolutionary sense)? If so, could computers be conscious? Could they suffer? Where's the threshold? Is there any way we could know? Does Rice's theorem apply here?

These aren't easy questions. It's an interesting time for philosophy of mind. They aren't solved problems. Anyone who thinks they are, needs to do some reading. For a starting point, the work of David Chalmers is one of the usual recommendations.
If a lab in China had been working with this virus at all, they would have had at minimum working cultures of it, and potentially multiple strains and experience modifying them. Cultures alone would have put them ahead of western pharma companies in developing a vaccine—even in the case of an unplanned release.

The fact that they’re not ahead is compelling proof that this virus was as new to Chinese medicine as it was to everyone else.
Boot to "FUCK RUST PROPAGANDA"
Sadly, this is the unfortunate thing. It's exceedingly difficult for an individual to do this, so for most people, the entirety of society is going to have to take up this goal.

Are we? Kiiiiiiiiind of. Its like herding cats.
Nice! Gonna head off to watch this...
I’ve also seen restroom doors with vertical pull bars that have a gap at the top, so you can sling them open with your wrist without putting your hand on it.