skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question is not whether Kandel proved anything, but merely whether psychoanalysis has been discredited. I am not making the case here that it is proven, verified, or completely substantiated in any particular way

Well, if it's not proven and verified, if it's not more useful than another theory, what is the point of it?

As the wise man once said "All models are wrong, but some are useful". Why stick with theory if its useless?

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Let me demonstrate - Geocentric system is correct. From POV fixed to Earth it's correct to say Earth is center of rotation. So they nailed the particulars. Sun and the rest of the stars/galaxies rotates relative to Earth.

However, here is the kicker. The more you want to study movement of a certain galaxy, the more cycles and epi-cycles do you need to construct. The calculations become more and more difficult. In other words - model is useless. Model with high effort to predictive power is useless.

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Is Freud right on some particulars? Yes. I do believe there is strong evidence of a subconscious and conscious process, and subconscious process being the foundation for consciousness.

But ID/EGO/SUPER-EGO? No. That probably doesn't exist. Same for his Eros/Thanatos. Same for his obsession with child sexuality (this was experimentally disproven). It's just a relic of his flawed theory and worldview. Why are people trying to resurrect it? No idea.

Instead of building a theory based on evolution, biology, psychology, people are chasing what some Victorian philosopher said as if it were a gospel.
Because the next step after that would be to bail out the banks. You can't solve this problem without conjuring money via government debt.
I don't understand the downvoting; the MIT Press release could at least point to the research backing the claims, which I guess could be:

https://research.iusspavia.it/handle/20.500.12076/265

Or, despite being too recent to be in the book:

https://research.iusspavia.it/handle/20.500.12076/1463

(of the latter, I guess that this link: http://150.162.46.34:8080/embc-2015/papers/13891714.pdf is a summary)
For a talented pick-pocket it’s not as hard as you think. Apollo Robins and David Blaine both remove watches from oblivious marks during their sleight of hand routines. Anecdotally, someone lifted my friend’s gold Rolex while he stood in line at a street market. And it was on a bracelet which is basically a handcuff!

Apple Watches are much lighter too, so it’s harder to notice when it goes away.
Unfortunately not from where I live (in the east of France)
Internet: Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
https://centralnewsnow.com/a-danish-childrens-tv-show-has-th...

"“I’m not a boy, not a girl, I’m a bit of everything,” said Rei, showing a tattoo-covered chest and a shaved head. “I have seven hairs of beard now,” Rei said."

Decadence!!!!
I attach some references that could be related:

https://research.iusspavia.it/handle/20.500.12076/265

Or, despite being too recent to be in the book:

https://research.iusspavia.it/handle/20.500.12076/1463
Since we already have read that it will be different. Imagine a world where we all have neural sims integrated with something like Palantir. So many criminals will be caught. Found a body dumped in a swamp, lets query who has been there. Don't we all love when criminals are caught from CCTV recordings.

Is it scary, yes. We will need to be more involved in the democratic process.
But the risk is no higher for an Apple Watch than a Rolex or a wallet full of credit cards no? Especially if you use a credit card where you have charge back protections.
Given that the parent comment is clear about the problem being the 24x7 expectation: Someone paid to work or be available that shift, engineer or not?
Developers Remote Work Report [pdf]
The Myth of Sisyphus
Verizon was my, umm, favourite for all this shit.

Shows a popup, saying "we collect your data yadda yadda yadda". Then there were two buttons. One to agree to that. One to manage it. But clicking on the manage button just took a user to screens and screens of garbage information mainly listing the companies that used the information. Without any option to opt out (you could contact them to opt out, I assume individually). There was a button (if you drilled through the screens) which seemed to imply that it would link to a page that allowed opting out, but all it did was take you back to the first screen of the popup. Unreal. Somebody has thought about that; absolute cretins.

They've changed that so that now there is opt out toggles (which are obviously all split into groups and are all on by default and so on), I assume because of someone in legal tapping them on the shoulder?
Kurt Gödel and the Contradiction in the U.S. Constitution
It's important that companies are aware of this, take complaints seriously, inform their Indian employees that this is not acceptable, explain where and how to report this, and offer training to overcome these prejudices.

And have clear sanctions: if someone does discriminate against lower-caste colleagues, and especially when they abuse their power against them (by denying promotion, keeping them away from prestigious projects, etc), then the abuser should be demoted or fired.

If you want to work in an environment where caste matters and the caste hierarchy is observed, do not work for a western company.

Also, maybe there should be some education projects and affirmative action for those Dalit communities.
Could you explain these differences to someone with no experience in flying?
I don't think it prudent to replicate it in nations with no connection to Hinduism.

Your strategy would reinforce the awareness of caste status.

I don't think non-Indians would even be able to discriminate by caste. Discrimination against Indians is perfectly possible of course.
It's a bit of a shaggy dog story and we unfortunately don't find out what the contradiction is in the end.
I am always baffled by how much disorienting crap there is on the Amazon desktop UI. What their A/B tests do not show them is me doing the checkout for family members who just give up.
The loosely coupled metaprogramming of frameworks like Spring is an indication of how feature-poor Java is in those areas. Autowiring and mocking should be first-class features with dedicated syntactic elements, rather than something that's handled by third parties with opaque annotations that mean nothing before the application is run.

I understand that Java wants to remain conservative with its development roadmap, but the fact that the majority of an ecosystem uses a third-party framework is a good reason incorporate something similar into the language.
There are certainly a lot of 737s sitting on the dealer's lot: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=737+max+carpark

But they're probably already sold.
Could you please translate that? I can make up for my poor standard of modern French with Google Translate, but it doesn’t have an option for 16th century French.
>There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not be able to join the "main" Mastodon cluster.

I run my own instance. As far as I can tell, this is false. There are some ban lists floating around, though I'm yet to see a common, standard policy of blocking instances because they don't subscribe to a particular blocklist.
As a diehard fan of the series, I'm shocked! TFTD was such a major letdown to me after the predecessor, and I believe even Mr. Gollop doesn't have a high opinion of it. I'm also shocked to see the author of the linked article laud it as better than the original. I've honestly not heard that expressed by other XCOM fans.

It, bizarrely, leans heavily into its predecessor's flaws instead of fixing them or at least steering around them.

- The much more cramped battlefield areas (namely, ships) expose the very frustrating shooting/projectile mechanics. you can understand squaddies missing an easy shot in the heat of the moment. fine! understandable! but in cramped areas they make even more exasperating mistakes -- if a guy is standing next to a doorway for cover, i might expect him to miss his shot... but i do not expect him to empty half his clip directly into the door frame six inches from his face

- grenade tossing in cramped areas is essentially just a great way to frag yourself and your squadmates. dear lord. grenades are really only useful in the early game, mostly, but TFTD doesn't even let you have that!

- some weapons only work underwater, some only work in air! adding to the already mind-numbing micromanagement of equipment, not to mention the punishing difficulty

- perhaps my memory fails me here, but I remember distinctly less destructible environments, which added so much fun to the original. can't find a way into the house? Blow a wall open! But, also, watch out for collapses! So much fun and so unique at the time.

More importantly, regardless of which series entries we like the best... nice to see a fellow X-Com fan -- and so many others on here! Cheers!
Can you explain what has happened here at a technical level?

What was the TV interfering with exactly? The ISP's equipment coming into the village?

I don't understand how you know it was simple. It's not clear to me what happened in the BBC article.

> You have a problem that's repeatable right on schedule

This is incorrect, the TV had to be turned on. Hyperbolic quotes on BBC like "It turned out that at 7am every morning " are not actually going to be true in the field.
It shouldn't, but it does. Many smaller companies driven by business people, where maybe tech is just seen as a necessity on the side need a narrative like "people are trying to get in and if they do it's going to be a disaster" to take security seriously. Then or at the point where the disaster strikes.

I'm not really sure why this point was voted down below either; just because you work for someone who takes security seriously (at least to the point where it's insurance-satisfyingly safe) does not mean everyone does.

Years ago I worked at a small agency and every bit of time I spent had to be justified and produce tangible/visible results. "But is anyone really going to try to hack this local business" was a question I actually had to answer, since most other employees were creatives.
I work somewhere that does this and it works surprisingly well. It’s rare to find an employer that’s willing to look after their staff though.
Jellysync: Real-time web code push
Show HN: Open end-to-end Computer Vision Platform
> I'm not sure why anyone would want a recommendation system that looks for age/gender/race as that seems fairly irrelevant to interesting content

You can't understand how age/gender/race is important for finding relevant content?! These are extremely important, fundamental, attributes that underpin good recommendations. I.e. they're so important that they generally go without saying, and are baked into the corpuses (e.g. your local news site doesn't recommend articles from another country, Disney's streaming service doesn't recommend knitting shows to children, etc)

Would you be happy if your Amazon Prime or Netflix account only showed items that are interesting to people aged {opposite age group to you} in {country on the other side of the world to you} who are {not your gender}?

I think you'd very quickly be surprised at how much media exists in the world and would quickly realise that you're mistaken.
Wechseln even dans a fraza: http://www.europanto.be/cabillot1.html
Avalanche Mainnet Is Live
Fried food and brown bread doesn’t really work - though perhaps that’s a UK cultural thing.
A drone-carried laser powerful enough to cut branches that thick seems like a pretty big ask, not to mention the accidents when the laser shoots past the branch! Dropping a drone that heavy would be dangerous whether or not it had a saw blade.

I think you could get the setup down to 30 seconds with parts that clip tightly together, e.g. how folding bikes work. The controls seem like a bigger problem, as automating that for the wide variety of natural trees, conditions, and lighting seems challenging. Having it crawl to the next tree and wrap itself around it to climb would be pretty neat too.
Launch a Startup on Product Hunt.
Read more: https://www.plerdy.com/blog/how-to-launch-a-startup-on-produ...
There have been thousands of passenger jet crashes and on the broad scheme of things this plane is still extremely safe. The fact that it wasn't a redesign means it builds off all the lessons learned over the 30+ years the 737 has been in service.

"Got to hit those quarterly sales figures."
An aircraft that crashes is pretty detrimental to achieving this goal. Achieving sales figures doesn't preclude safety
I saw the situation a bit differently, the upper caste guys would have no problem working with the lower caste ones simply because this meant they never had to work. They would pawn off all the work on the others and order them around. And if I tried to force any work on them it just backfired since they just shoved it down the throats of their "slaves".

Even trying to embarrass them in a meeting didn't work. With all eyes on them they would just look at me with a look of mild surprise. They simply (and sincerely) could not acknowledge why someone would phrase as a criticism something that for them is so naturally correct. For them it looked like criticizing a farmer for using work horses. I found this as some of the most disgusting behavior I have ever witnessed in a place of work.
IntelliJ is slow on my PC and unusable on my Laptop. VS Code is fine. Also, I don't use Java.
That's not necessarily the only way. Another way would be if the market was in a state where the EV of starting a company was roughly the same as the EV of working for someone else. People living cheque to cheque would still have less options, but they wouldn't be inherently worse, and over time inequality would stabilize instead of compounding (which I suspect is what is happening currently).

I don't actually think this is a better solution than progressive taxation and decent welfare though (and I'd also have no idea how you'd coax the market in that direction anyway), because it doesn't also solve the problem of the economy losing out on potential successful businesses because their owners weren't wealthy enough to start them.
That screenshot of fastcopy just brought memories flooding back! I was one of the strange kids in the 90's who had an Atari while everything else in the world was windows, the FAT format was invaluable for me as I could easily transfer files between home, school and other kids computers... I didn't appreciate at the time that this kind of compatibility wasn't a given.
There was also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Squad_Nemesis which was also simultaneous turn based. I don't like the puzzle aspect of FS since it's deterministic. It is all hard edges, hit or miss. Maybe if I spent more time with it it might me different.
Raspberry Pi powered e-paper display takes months to show a movie – Raspberry Pi
> (I don’t know of a less clumsy way to say that which is weird).

Cis-woman.
Ok.. I am going to be brave and not going to use a throwaway. I find it perplexing that HN crowd who is usually arguing for a balanced analysis and seeing both viewpoints is suddenly behaving as if this data proves some injustice is currently happening in India as well as US (in the context of Indian caste system). To be clear, India has/had a caste system that was extremely oppressive. Currently though, the social aspects aside, economically and crucially educationally, the "lower castes", have an advantage due to a system of reservations - affirmative action on steroids. I am not going to argue one way or the other as to whether the idea or the implementation of such an affirmative action policy is fair or net positive. It probably still is in principle, but in practice the people who seem to benefit from this, in my experience, are very rich "lower caste" families. More things to say here, but I don't want to digress.
The law suit in the story has to do with IIT. So let's take that specifically. IIT is extremely competitive to get into. It is even more competitive once you are in. It is common for affirmative action students to not do very well there. Call it a difference grit/talent/smartness whatever. This causes a some of them to disengage from studies altogether. Then it is not a stretch to imagine that some of them may not be very good at their job either. The lawsuit and the accusations of casteism has to be now taken with a huge pinch of salt. To be clear, I don't know if any of the accusations in that lawsuit are true or not. But I do know that every middle class parent (including mine) drills into their kids the idea that you have to work freaking hard at studies to "get some where". Everything about that 90 percent statistic can be explained through economics (already rich with all its advantages) or through desperation (high caste+ poor => no chance except if you work really hard). Of course I knew a few so called "lower caste" people in IIT who got in through the "general category" ie purely on merit. They were just as good as anybody there and are also doing well in the tech scene in US.
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Added the below sentence.

The cynic in me thinks this guy accuser in the lawsuit is trying to hide his incompetence by taking advantage of the BLM and current sentiments.
No Heaven for you.
Love Thy Neighbour!
Love thine enemy!
There's been already 2 Playstation exclusives from From Software, Bloodborne and Demon's Souls (original and remake), so you never know.
This. I think US people see caste system as something like skin color based racism in west. Actually it is much more complicated than that.

I know people from upper castes who were actually middle class farmers, and those from lower castes that got benefit from quotas even if they were rich[0].

Affirmative action is always bad. Because the people getting benefit of it are likely to be privileged. In this particular lawsuit, the discriminated was mentioned to be an IIT alumnus. It is basically hard to get into an IIT without decent investment in study materials / training to pass entrance exams these days. But still most of the seats are reserved for SC/ST/OBC and availed by people who are rich.

After reading this, some so called Indian liberals jump in to defend this is never the case. Go to an IIT and check the list of students who got in due to affirmative action (called reservation here). You will find most of them having wealthy parents because most students who write IIT entrance exams take coaching[1], and that's quite expensive.

Some media likes to highlight this or this may even give impression that upper caste Indians are casteist. They are not. But they are likely fed up with the abomination that reservations (affirmative actions) are.

Apart from that, there is likely chances of nepotism in bureaucratic organizations like Cisco.

Also, as for as I know, the caste system alone doesn't explain why South Indian upper caste people are more successful than North Indian upper castes (Brahmins / Baniyas) who outnumber them easily, and also appear more in IITs/NITs.
Nothing better to do than to comment on your perceived decline of the culture of others?
The Accident Preventers – TUM
Surely you can see that, as you are unable to speak every language in the world, yet you understand all media presented to you, that ALL of your media is already implicitly sorted by geography and language?

If e.g. YouTube recommended you the best items from all countries, you'd have a very bad time and would be unable to understand almost all media.

The same applies to age and gender. If you were only recommended items relevant to 90 year olds or 9 year olds, you'd have a very bad time on YouTube etc. Just because you don't notice that your media is implicitly sorted doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Or don't. Just ask users to tell you (without any burden of proof) if they've been paying less. Will a handful of users abuse this? Probably. My bet is that the vast majority are honest people -- particularly if the circumstances are clearly and simply communicated -- and will not take undue advantage. The upside is that you won't be pissing off the honest majority, and the cost is probably (admittedly unprovably) small.
With removing a single line of code, and in some cases even just a spurious period or comma.
Live-coding a music synthesizer (EuroPython 2020)
Which of the first two X-COM games is the favorite usually depends on which one the person played first, from my experience.
Google selling ad space for candidate names
Why does it have to be a long book with a million anecdotes?
Just give me the idea.
Really? That's not the impression that I'm getting from observing developer discussions on social media, including here, on HN. The impression I am getting is that an overwhelming majority of developers who are vocal online share left democratic values and thus resent Palantir. (They've recently started to be resentful of Facebook as well, although I haven't heard of a mass exodus of developers from there.) Do you have a sample of developers who express diametrically opposite views?
I think if this was just in textbooks or a informative video that would be one thing, but an actual stage show feels a bit over the top?
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software
Show HN: We made a tool for async All-Hands meetings
(Or really, any meeting that's more "download of information" than "let's collaborate")

It's called All Hands, and we've launched today: https://allhands.app

The idea is that instead of pressing the big red stop button on the side of your business every week in order to keep everyone up-to-date, you instead schedule in and pre-record the things they need to know. All Hands does the workflow part, lets you include other people (so it's easy to have different people presenting), makes recording easy (all in the browser, no extensions - MediaRecorder is cool!), and then does the sharing + reactions part (emoji + comments). Crucially we're also collecting (anon) stats and (optionally anon) feedback to help teams make the _next_ update more relevant.

We can see more use cases than just the companywide stuff - Product Reviews, cross-functional updates ("here's what sales/support need to know about what's changed in the product this week") etc. etc.

Been building since ~April this year, we have a few folks using the product but would like to get more feedback. Let us know what you think!