skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone read his writings on consciousness? When I was young and still believed in free will I imagined that consciousness used quantum mechanics as a way to generate free will. I later learned that Penrose had theories that sounded similar. But have not read about it.
Editing in Vim feels like a bit like editing in `ed` if you ever tried it. It's a bit like "type in a command, and see the result". You type d3w and you will get 3 word deleted. In Kakoune every keypress results in visual response. You type 3w, you see that 3 words were selected, then you hit d and they get deleted. It makes editing much more interactive, smooth and less error prone.

Unlike the other responder, I am actually not big fan of multiple selections and prefer search and replace. But once in a while multiple selections come handy even for me, so I don't mind them being there.
Appears to be mean: https://www.getkisi.com/work-life-balance
> So is this the normal state of Linux then?

Yes. I would also say it's part of the fun for some people.

I used to be obsessive about optimizing my workflows using customizations that are only possible on FOSS nix systems, but eventually I got other hobbies. Now I just want my OS to disappear in the background and "just work".

> Which one do you use?*

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 (recommended by other HN users, but would be interested to know if anyone has any concerns about it)
I think they've changed the quest drop mechanics that if you don't get a bear ass from a bear, it starts incrementing the drop rate of bear asses for future kills. Previously you were just rolling for that 3% chance all over again.
AWS has a PaaS: Elastic Beanstalk.

Though I would forgive you for forgetting about EB since it sometimes feels like AWS's neglected step child.
It's very hard to get control of invasive species. In a story here about tumbleweeds I said these were an invasive species from Russia, wondered what from the Americas had invaded the rest of the world, and a bunch of responders provided examples [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21967020

Senestech's system for controlling rodents [1] is an ovary poison that stops female rodents from reproducing. The system is deployed continuously to keep rodent populations down in cities. But trying to kill all the rats in a city is probably not a good idea either: "A Vancouver rat study is showing us how pest control can backfire... " [2]:

>> [Rats] may be just as much a part of our city as sidewalks and lampposts. We would all be better off if, under most circumstances, we simply left them alone. [2]

Invasive ferrel/hybrid pigs are not comparable to rats, and I don't think a case can be made to let them alone. Maybe something like contrapest [3] could be developed for these invasive hybrid/ferrel pigs.

[1] https://senestech.com

[2] http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/the-case-for-leaving-city-ra...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPest
> They ultimately controlled where those people worked

[citation needed]. I was a "victim" of that scandal, but if I ever decided to change employers I knew where the door was and I knew my résumé would get me considered at the other players. The agreement was mostly to keep their phone bank of recruiters from polling me continuously and the managers like four levels above me from playing pachinko with the pay and benefits packages (to the detriment of the folks at my level).

Regardless, the agreement was illegal and existing law broke it up without breaking up any of the companies. I don't see how the existence of that scandal supports the hypothesis that larger corporate breakups are either needed or beneficial.

Microsoft of today is an OS company, browser company, videogame development company, and cloud computing company, and they seem to be doing pretty well overall at it; happy users, good products, decent inter-operation.
I'm skeptical that the food/services/entertainment is actually better. What's the Asian food scene in Minneapolis? Can you get Sichuan, Hunan, Henan, and Yunnan or is it just that one Sichuan place?

How about the movie theaters or theaters? I went from New York to Seattle and finding a theater that showed non-blockbusters was really hard. When I did find one, they were always three months behind New York. If I wanted to watch, say, Parasite, when could I do that? Four, five months after New York?

There's definitely some appeal to Minneapolis. You can't rent a jetski in New York and you certainly can't afford a mansion. But you also can't watch the latest Palm D'Or and get Yunnan noodles in Minneapolis.
That depends on perspective. If you are a professional programmer using JetBrains tools as daily drivers then I think think £100 over the InteliJ price is pretty reasonable to get access to their entire library of tools.

Consultants make at £400 day here, dotnet devs usually more.

If you are a hobbiest, it's cheaper.

And the costs decrease each year.

If you are saying £100, then it sounds like it would offer you money for value, so it's probably not for you.
Hm - I remember asking the same question on their Discord channel and at that time (IIRC) the project maintainers told me otherwise. That's good to know!
I haven't foudn that one (had this ideal of finding an open source or ish solution) and will check it out thank you
Right, but news flash: It's not 1840 any more. Chicago isn't the frontier. Chicago and anywhere east of there is east.

... at least geographically. Culturally, those places are midwest, just like everywhere from just west of Pittsburgh to just east of Denver. (Culturally, Pittsburgh is at least partly east, and Denver is at least partly west.)
I got diagnosed junior year of college, knowing sooner would’ve been very helpful.

Probably would’ve been more social in high school if I took meds because it probably would’ve been easier for me to complete homework, and I would have had more free time.
This is not how sourcing works.
Problem: people are hungry

Solution: eat animals

Problem: people like eating animals and want more

Solution: selectively breed animals in a way that makes them reproduce rapidly

Problem: poor containment has caused selectively bred animals to breed with wild animals and created explosive population growth

Solution: kill all the animals?

"[Scientists] are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something." - Jurassic Park

Perhaps we should stop trying to screw with nature. We end up with things like explosive population growth and I don't know... SARS, COVID, etc.
Actually, I did mean to question whether this was a real person, and I did not realize this was against the rules, so for that I am sorry.
> We will all be serfs (NPCs) in a feudal corporate cosplay.

Perfect.
The signs of friction that point to our security champions
If it leads to systemic inflation, then anxiety and depression are likely to follow

https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201327

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2297
I agree with all points especially the cursor. Wish cursor was like Word where it's a line instead of highlighting the letter block.
Old 12$ per month unlimited program for 5 accounts became 12$ for 2tb.
Unfortunately it’s not that easy. Images (animated or not) go through a very different pipeline to videos, and it would be a lot of work to make animated images behave like videos.
R7RS-large is Racket ;).

(This is a joke, do not take this seriously.)
Important to note that it was on a manual typewriter. The key is making it slow, so you can observe how the author is doing what they're doing. Reading is very fast ... typing on a manual typewriter is slow enough to give you time to observe.
Maybe also important to note, this is a "Letter to the Editor"... which I assume means it's not a real study?
This episode was amazing. They use the tweet, which mostly just fueled a day of twitter memes, as a jumping off point into a really fantastic dive into the entire issue. The tweet author is also involved and it's so great.
> Most of the deals Facebook did to buy WhatsApp, Instagram and others where approved by the US government.

Facebook promised at the time that Instagram and WhatsApp would operate independently, which probably played a part in the govt. decision.

That promise has been broken. Seems fair that the approval might be reconsidered in light of this.
>Not the same thing. Retailers are the customers of the product manufacturers. They pay for all of the products that show up on their shelves, even the store brands

That's not really true. They force manufacturers to accept returns of unsold product and have met 30-90 day payment terms. The effect is that these large retailers don't buy the product until after it's sold.

They also just rent shelf space to companies and have little if anything to do with what is stocked there and how it's priced.
Minneapolis has a bunch of tech and startups. Microsoft, Cray, Amazon, AWS, Target, Best Buy, then a bunch of medical tech and insurance companies as well as associated startups.
I imagine the med tech AI space will develop here as well. Google is working with the Mayo in Rochester for example.
When will HN stop sneering at flyover country?
The article asserts that all people have some European ancestry. I strongly doubt that. Consider uncontacted tribes in Papua New Guinea, the Amazon rainforests or Sentinel Island.
They aren't price fixing anymore. Now it's called CapEx and water start.
Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
Why Fox News is still in a coronavirus bubble
Frama-C has a wp plugin that generates assertions about overflow and underflow, which is one of the best tools it has. It's not spectacular about telling you where the problem is, and wasn't great with floats, though.
Based on my experience in SF, this appears to just be your typical comment on Nextdoor, but without as many references to the homeless.
You're getting at exactly my point: Microsoft mostly charges its users. We are users and customers. Google has many services where the customers are advertisers, and we are the product.

Their actual paid services (G Suite aka Workspace, Google One, etc.) are not their bread and butter, so tracking us is an existential issue for them.

> Google is more consumer focused.

No, they're not! See above. I would call them one of the least consumer-focused companies out there. They don't follow through with products, and most of their products aren't even for consumers! They're for advertisers.
What is the developer going to the press with?
Tim Bray had a recent blog article related to this:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/08/Anti-mono...

I love his quote from The Myth of Capitalism: “The tech giants love startups, but in the same way that lions love feasting on lifeless carcasses of gazelles.”
Shorter this article: "It's time for fundamentalist Muslim homophobes and fundamentalist Christian homophobes to join forces as one unified 'I hate gay people because my imaginary friend and this book told me to' block"
Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed by Vesuvius eruption
Under the Hood of Radix: What It Means to Build for DeFi
Facebook didn't make the WhatsApp acquisition blind. They had data from their Onavo VPN service showing exactly how popular it was compared to their own Messenger.
> I think it is pretty confident of you to say that a priori there is no legal reason you could break up these companies.

I'm actually making this statement a posteriori, specifically a posteriori of reading up on what the antitrust laws in this country currently allow and don't allow. That being said, I could easily be wrong, which is why I said "probably." :)

As to changing the laws, this is all well and good, but it's hard to see that happening under a divided government, given Democrats and Republicans have different ideas of the effects they'd like to see out of such a break-up. If they can't do something extremely popular like legalizing marijuana or providing universal healthcare, I am not sure how effective they're going to be at less popular actions like breaking up Google or Facebook. We'll see I guess.
Is frama-c still limited to single-threaded debugging? I know in the general case a context-switch is the same as "call any function anywhere in your code at any point into it" but it would be nice if it had a way for me to teach it about my expected threading invarients (e.g. prove that these objects never escape the current thread of execution).
I got a physical ballot last time I voted, but when I went to submit it, it was placed in to... an electronic vote counting machine.

This also defeats the point of democracy.

Machines can not and should not be trusted for voting, no matter what fancy schemes are dreamt up for to make them supposedly verifiable.

Voting can not be legitimate unless machines are taken completely out of the loop and humans are the ones doing all the vote counting by hand from end-to-end.

Yes, there can still be fraud, but it will of necessity be quite limited and relatively easy to detect than if voting and/or vote counting was done by electronic means.
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"What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white)."

Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.

The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.
Wow, thank you so much for this list! It looks like you spend some time there and I would love to talk to you more! Please reach me at hello at permapeople.org if you want to chat more!
Edit. Fuck HN.
I've tried and like it.

Few comments to improve your work:
French language has a space before and after '?' or '!'.

Also, normally, there are also other accent on uppercase letter, for example I had 'A la serre, le croc et l'ongle.' in 'Le livre de la Jungle', the first A should be 'À'.

Chart for progression in WPM or correctness, tips to improve, audio feedback activation if error in typing...

Keep going, it's a good idea!
I think the analogy in this case would be a car company which gives you a choice of three different types of seat, five different types of stereo, and the option of built-in GPS from whoever when you configure your new car in the first place.

I’m not even against first-party apps, I just want them to be competing fairly instead of being mandatory pre-installs (with the exception of security-critical parts like the OS, the phone and SMS apps, the wallet apps, the App Stores themselves; but even then, there is room for them to be opened securely, it is just harder to do right, and should probably be replaceable later rather than during setup).
very true

People don't seem to realize that sooner or later EVERYONE will be under attack from this sort of '10 large companies that own everything' model

They seem to think - Oh my job is safe, so what do I care if taxi drivers/waiters/delivery people/warehouse workers have a tough life

sooner or later you will be a target, and then you will wish you had not ignored when everyone else was being taken out

because there will be no one left to save your job
I think you are breezing over an enormously important point... Facebook and Google provide their services completely FREE of charge. They provide a massive value for free.
Except that literally every end-user I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with did not know how to properly import data into excel.

Double clicking the CSV should open the data import dialog.
> if I could run macOS on a machine with a good antiglare screen

You can, but right now might be a good time to try switching to elementaryOS before x86 macOS is discontinued.
Thanks for the question! Currently you can view what has changed on the pipeline executions page. Having a pre-deployment planning phase is on the roadmap as well.
It's like asking how to become a cook. There's just so much variety to it - it could be hobby, professional, corporate, or artisanal, etc. You can't give any more specific answer to that.
"hunting" almost seems like a euphemistic term when people are shooting machine guns and automatic shotguns out the side of a helicopter. I realize they are an invasive species and can't be allowed to multiply unchecked, but it makes me sad to think of fairly intelligent animals being slaughtered en masse, often with no intention of recovering the meat. I do understand they are quite dangerous and destructive creatures, but still...
Be careful: with Github auth, the redirection directs you to a non-HTTPS version of their app. The Github token might leak at that point...

EDIT: I don't even know how it is possible, this is an Oauth2 Flow and should never redirect to a non HTTP URL from Github.

Also: the fact that shuttleio doesn't have hsts or at least a 301 to HTTPS from HTTP is not brilliant either.
they also promised to not share data between services

which is also broken
Most midwestern states have a world-class research university. Northwestern, U of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue...
>At first glance, these dates may seem much too recent to account for long-isolated Indigenous communities in South America and elsewhere. But “genetic information spreads rapidly through generational time,” Rutherford explains. Beginning in 1492, “you begin to see the European genes flowing in every direction until our estimates are that there are no people in South America today who don’t have European ancestry.”
There are plenty FAANG engineers minted from the top Midwestern schools - think CMU and other state schools - even if they rank behind the top schools on the coasts.

Top paying tech jobs tend to be found on the coasts though as well.
It just happens to be a post on him which has been upvoted. Probably the first time ever. I wouldn't read to much into it.
> It is nothing new and was propheted in bla-blah paragraph.

I don't think we can have a reasoned discussion about this if you're going to write off any contention as "bla-blah," so I'm disengaging.
YAML is the best part about deploying stuff to K8s, hardly a problem waiting to be solved IMO.
Great idea, lots of potential. Made some quick notes browsing the site itself:

Favicon would be nice.

Lists: How do you ensure quality public lists? Curation? Upvotes? Rigid rules?

Statistics on plants: In addition to "wants", and "haves", would it also be possible to implement a "satisfied"/"dissatisfied" stat for people who did/didn't have success with the plant in practice?

I think something like this would be particularly cool with users having the ability to update little case studies they performed with individual plants, lists and companions that would be linked to on their respective pages.

Companions: I love the idea of a list of "proven combinations". I see in the description you're claiming these combos work well. What I'd really like to see is an explanation for why each combination works well, if there is one, or at the very least a case study of someone else having used the combination effectively.

I guess mostly what I'm looking for, as someone new to permaculture, is a vote of confidence that the information you're providing is well-informed. That can come in the form of just more in-lined text explanations, links to data/research used as reasoning for your companions, or just inlined case studies from wiki contributers themselves.

I've got a buddy who is _far_ more into permaculture than I am. I'm gonna ask him to check it out later today. I'll respond here with any of his comments.
In the end price discovery is supply/demand, and it appears investment in DRAM manufacturing is focused on improving RAM performance, and just keeping up with demand, not outpacing it.

Since the barrier to entry is very high, there's not so much pressure to compete further on price.
I can't imagine they like responding to every request for comment on everything Elon tweets from every blogger out there.
I only read the abstract, but it seems to me that because they found iron and other metals in the brain, they infer it is there because of air pollution.

I am not a scientist but there are metals in the brain, at least iron from the blood stream, copper and zinc because they stabilize proteins shaping. Iron can be detected with MRI.

What makes them think there is a causal link between air pollution and metals in the brain? I am missing something from the abstract?
Things the EARN-IT bill (reminder: supposedly designed to protect children) doesn't do:
- Increase funding for child protective services & foster care services
- Increase funding for parents (EBT, social work, etc)
- Increase funding for schools (comprehensive sex ed, etc)

Because our priority is kids! Honestly! Seriously I mean it!
> I feel disregarding the usefulness of surveillance is part of the problem. We should not be arguing that that nothing good comes out of surveillance. It provides your opponent an easy strawman for a hollow victory. Because frankly, surveillance is a useful tool for law enforcement.

In this regard I recommend you go look into the evidence on mass surveillance. There have been several reports done on the mass surveillance programs that have been operating since 2001 and in report after report, the mass surveillance has been found not only to be ineffective at producing any tips, it commonly just tied up law enforcement resources that could have been spent on their legitimate tips.

Here is a very well sourced article referencing several FBI internal reports, a white house appointed review group, those of non-profits, and local police departments:

* https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-the-evidence-mass-s...
I'm not sure there's any one thing. When I think of New York City, which I would say is not only vibrant but nearly vibrating with energy, it's some combination of the following:

* A ton of different languages being spoken within earshot at any one time

* Lots of different smells at any one time, some delicious and certainly some much less so

* Lots of music where you do and do not expect it, all sorts of different genres sometimes complementing and sometimes juxtaposing the surroundings

* People physically moving and speaking faster

* The physical tightness of the city probably adds to all of the above

But most importantly, I think the above compose into an overall sense of serendipity. The phrase, "in the city, anything is possible" is frequently interpreted to mean, "you can achieve the highest version of what you want to achieve!" I think that's actually incorrect. It means exactly what it says: anything is possible. Relative to suburban or rural areas, you simply have no idea what is coming next minute-to-minute. That, I think, gives a sensation of constantly anticipating serendipity, which we round out to the word "vibrant."
Tom Scott has a great video about the issues with electronic voting, chief among which is a lack of trust and understanding by the general public of how electronic voting would work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
> Facebook shouldn't be reckless with user data, but when it's users start getting black bagged and having their vital organs removed, then we can compare the two.

TikTok's association with CCP is horrifying, yes.

Facebook's hands aren't clean either.
Complicating it even more, if "a" is a signed-integer than the compiler will assume that statement holds and optimize accordingly, put your correctness prover would instead need to flag that (or add the caveat that a < INT_MAX)
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FAANG is currently pretending that the high-pay given to high-quality Bay area engineers is due to the cost-of-living.

I think once remote work really starts in full swing, we'll see wages in remote regions rise as companies realize that they are essentially negotiating with the same people, who still expect to be paid highly for their work.