skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your positive intention of watching out for the quality of the threads. But please don't do it this way. Instead, please follow the site guidelines and be kind.

HN threads are conversations, and it's natural in a conversation for someone to connect a topic to something they were working on recently. That's not shifting discussion to something unrelated. I can see how one could interpret it just as an excuse for spamming one's project, but such an interpretation is just a guess, and if you apply the site guideline "Assume good faith", you'd guess the opposite. It's clear from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801075 that the good-faith guess is the true one.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd be grateful.
This thread on a tinnitus forum discusses a subsequent trial of that vibrator in a controlled setting. Doesn't sound at all promising.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/head-mounted-device-for...
I have very noticeable ringing in my ears ever since I can remember. 2 things

1 Hearing tests have always indicated I have excellent hearing.
2. The ringing doesn't bother me, even in extremely quiet environments. Speaking of, the most peaceful quiet I've encountered was in a bamboo forest somewhere in middle China. I'll never forget the utter silence.
it's just a bunch of JSON bundled inside the rest of the JS assets with webpack
> Because that means not only you (the owner) can do it.

Not when it requires physical wires. This isn't some wireless TCP/IP stack connected to the internet.

Car entertainment/air conditioning systems usually also use a physically separate CAN bus so internet-connected dashboard devices don't get access to the engine and steering controls. They may share 12V power and that's it.

Comma.ai gets access to the "secret" CAN bus that can control steering via the lane keep camera next to the rear view mirror, not the OBD port or entertainment system.
What is special about HIMS numbers? $HIMS SPAC
Or Uber: A failed Randian play to use VC money to squelch out every independent taxi company in the United States and the world by subsidizing rides to well below their cost. To the tune of $1B per quarter. I suspect they thought they could drive them all out of business and then take over and raise prices. Unlike their patchwork of independent competitors, Uber didn't have to cover the cost of a ride from fares.

I guess now they deliver lunch so that's pretty cool.

I for one look forward to the movie.
What I don't quite understand is the logic of choosing a license which explicitly allows this and then getting mad that someone does what the license allows to do, why did you choose that license then?
No idea what ratfucking is, but the willful ignorance in your examples is almost comical.

Example 1: innovations in technology & clever business model put previously expensive thing in reach for an order of magnitude wider audience, leads to significant qualitative shift in behavior/capabilities for the average person.

Uber: Exactly the same thing.

Why are you so offended about the harm to the taxi industry, what about all the vacuum tube manufacturers put out of business by semiconductors? Innovation has always involved creative destruction, but for some reason there's a bigger than usual portion of society now that is completely unwilling to acknowledge utilitarian benefits and wants to make all change illegal. And the even greater tragedy is it's always the comfortable, well-off upper middle class making these arguments on behalf of the working class, with absolutely no skin in the game because they will never be the first ones affected by the negative consequences of their absolutist worldview.
>Rationalists tend to be irrational people who need help.

wot..
Somebody who was influenced by somebody who generally accepts the label X doesn't really fit the definition of X, do they?

They might, but they might also just like capitalism because it does well for them and find it enjoyable when somebody tells them "and you know what? you're not just lucky, you're right".
Section 230 Explained
Without knowing the details and veracity of the claims, I think there is a real danger with big companies like Amazon using their weight to take others' innovations and reap the rewards for themselves.

Now that it's a megacorp, Amazon's employees are no longer the presumably highly talented people that got it started. That is, their newer successes are not a result of disproportionate talent or hard work that would make those successes deserved. Instead it's just another big company that has big capital. And all a big company with big capital needs to do is keep an eye on early successes elsewhere to get into the game, throw lots of resources at the problem, leverage their big mature sales and marketing channels, and see the Dollars roll in. This is not what a healthy market is meant to reward.
I'm surprised a federated activitypub alternative hasn't popped up yet.
I would be really interested to see this model applied to software. I am unaware of any firm that has done it this way so far — which is odd, because it really does seem tailor-made to suit our sort of work, no?

Or maybe I am missing something.
In a sense, but I think most people would say that the inevitability of such stupidity is why we need to build systems that protect ourselves from it. Few people can think through all the implications of all the data they hand out.
I think what's missing on most "piano-games" is that it doesn't really mirror the way I learn a piece.

The way I learn is by bars, repeatedly re-playing bars say, 1 to 4, until I get them, them 3 to 7, until I get them, etc.. But most piano apps want you to start playing from start to end slow, then faster, etc.

So: piano apps should allow breaking a piece into bars, allow you to repeat those bars again and again until you exceed certain score. Maybe even keep track of which bars are harder to play, and repeating the difficult bars more often, etc.
Not sure of today, but as recent as 2011 it was. I don't think a lot has changed there. Wonder why your comment was down-voted.
Android and iOS auto don't have access to the CAN bus that can control steering. They may have access to a physically separate CAN bus that controls the entertainment system and air conditioning. There are normally multiple buses in a car.
> to limit the liability of lawsuits

I always wondered why law firms used partnership structures, but this seems like the core reason (most other reasons could would still work within a limited liability corporate structure).
Nim or Julia?
First: Do you not consider it interesting that a given effect can be already observed in earlier development stages?

Second: Why do you argue against a made-up straw man "replication crisis worrier"? The crisis is based on a large percentage of studies, including foundational ones, being not yielding the same results when done again. This is not a notion you can throw out by reciting a single counter example (whose existence no one even denies?!)...
Exhibit 1.

All the worlds information at its fingertips yet it still perpetuates a misunderstanding.
L4/L5 or crash. Anything below is dangerous because of the propensity for humans to rely on what seems to be working the majority of the time and artificially trust it, especially with a population trained to need to check their phones. We saw this with the infamous Uber training driver crash in AZ, we saw this with the Apple employee in the Tesla, and we'll continue to see this over and over again until we can finally remove the steering wheel so there's no possible ill-informed release of control. Naming L2 systems 'Autopilot' and a bunch of misleading marketing certainly doesn't help either.
I think the underlying issue is that rationalists are wanna-be intellectuals: they want fancy-sounding jargon, but without the rigorous intellectual hard-work to back it up.

(Not that most jargon is good in an academic context either, but at least there you can kinda see why it’s sometimes necessary)

(The other reason might be because rationalism, at least recently, has been adjacent to crackpot racist phrenology ideas, and so has driven away contributions from most of the world, preventing them from branching out into the real world)
The fact remains that it is standard procedure to halt trials early when promising results appear, and people are dying waiting for a drug. This is not something that's controversial, and this is exactly what happened with the previous Remdesivir study.

Of course it's disappointing to see it may not be as effective as we previously thought. And of course analysis may yet reveal issues with either one or the other or both studies. That's how science works - facts, not heartfelt desires.
What are you talking about?

Almost all power belongs to the States. The Congress cannot do anything not in Article 1, Section 8 (https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution...).

The CDC is in fact unconstitutional and should be terminated.
The average car in the US is 11 years old.
I have been heavily influenced by lesswrong. After the initial stage of encorporating the rationality identity and arguing about everything with everyone, I tried becoming more of an applied rationalist when I realised the first approch isn't leading me to winning anything. Shortly after I read: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...

I made a series of life changes. I can't attribute the blog post alone to these changes, but it was something that pushed me towards a more meaningful life. I stopped spending money on things and started buying experiences more often. I bought a bycicle (a thing but gives you many experiences) and started cycling to/from work in an effort to a) exercise b) spend more time outside. I broke up with my girlfriend of 9 years because I figured it just wasn't making me any happier. Cycling in London, UK for years made me very satisfied but I also got tired of the climate and I ended up finding a remote role and relocating to a climate where I can be outside every day. Finally I have started strength training - and now I am in a much better shape after doing it on a regular basis for a few years. It's hard to say that I am happier exactly, but there is a sense of liberty I feel that is hard to describe. The life I am living feels like my own, I feel the sense of control and I am liberated. I would like to think many of these things count as "winning".
Sean is not originally English but Irish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean

And it has different pronunciations depending on the region.
The river was used for centuries for transporting wood.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroplavba_v_%C4%8Cech%C3%A1ch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRowvGeCJA
It simply could be from the inflammation that sugars/carbs cause in the body, as well is if your body is reacting to certain foods you're eating - it will impact your nervous system; inflammation has a depressant effect.
ApacheDS is an extensible and embeddable directory server
Open Twitter links with Nitter (solution for Android)
I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about.

It just seems so for native speakers as they know a lot more about the history of their language than others.

English speakers seem particularly susceptible to it since its lineage has been extensively studied.

It may also just seem so to me since I hang around primarily in the English speaking Internet.
I'm not sure it's what you'd describe as "software", but consultancy firms like Deloitte have an identical structure, and they do a lot of IT projects
I'm basing this more on friendships with libertarians than the article (tho I did read it, if not get the meaning); people are not rationality engines; reason is at the behest of emotions; reason is even often used to back-fill explanations for decisions made by the weighing of various neural networks for reasons concrete but obscure.

Success for humans certainly is increased by an ability to reason well (quickly or slowly, depending on the field), but even more so on being able to motivate or persuade other humans; even technically, my success at learning complicated stuff is less being able to code and fix systems, but more at being able to consistently and correctly explain the complicated stuff and the logical consequences of the complicated stuff in meetings. I force myself to keep programming because I need to keep that understanding alive, but companies would be happy to have me just explaining stuff. And the people I've enjoyed working for the most are able to create a warm feeling of we are all in it together making cool new technologies! Yay we are making the internet! Pump up the feelings so we are motivated to use reason to solve problems in the path.
According to the incredibly comprehensive "understand Wi-Fi" guide posted here recently, MoCA is likely to be better than powerline adapters.[0]

[0]https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#improvespe...
In my mind, and be aware of my bias here, these languages split up into three different categories:

* Has a GC, but you can remove it. This is Nim and D.

* Relies on pervasive refcounting. This is Nim if you choose that implementation, Swift.

* Has no GC. This is Zig and Rust. (Though obviously you can use refcounting in these languages, but it is as a library.)

While this focuses on a specific aspect of these langauges, I think it also represents their philosophies pretty well. Nim and D start from a "what if we had a GC" and then try to make things nicer down the stack. Rust and Zig are how nice can we go starting from nothing?"

There are also additional factors that may or may not play in here, depending on what your needs are. Arguably, Rust is starting to break out of the "niche language" stage and move into the "significant projects and is sticking around" phase, whereas many of these other languages aren't quite there yet. This can matter with things like getting help, package support... some people love the open frontiers of new languages, others want something more mature. https://nimble.directory/ has 1,431 packages at the time of writing, https://crates.io/ has 48,197.
Slowly and deliberately, focusing on the parts that elude me (i.e., I'll skip the intro and other sections that are 100% solid in muscle memory). Paying attention to fingerings. I'll usually focus on 1-2 pieces at any given time.

But I do go through spurts, where I practice every day but then for whatever reason step away from days or 1-2 weeks, which might be killing the neuron connections.

I also round-robin my nighttime between piano, guitar, and composition, which probably ain't helping.
The best strategy for OSS is to use copyleft licenses or EPL.
> Common carriers have large restrictions on the amount of moderation that they are allowed to do

Yeah, I don't think you know what common carrier actually means.[1]

The moderation that telecoms and ISPs perform relates to traffic that can negatively affect other users of those systems. Social media platforms can easily argue that their moderation already follows similar principles. It just happens that they deal with content, not raw bits, so they have to moderate content.

You also didn't address my other point, which is that ISPs aren't common carriers at all and this same FCC voted to make it so. So this seems pretty hypocritical behavior on their part.

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/153
Rationalists seem extremely common amongst the $300k+/year software engineers I know. If that isn’t “successful”, then I’m not sure we’re using the same word anymore.

You can argue that the causal arrow doesn’t point in the right direction—that is, that people that are successful just happen to wear the affectation of “rationalist” because that happens to be fashionable, and not that their rationalism led them to a “successful” career, but that doesn’t seem to hold up against scrutiny, in my experience. Of those that I personally know, most have been engaged with the community since at least the golden days of lesswrong.
You're not alone. I left California and came back for the same reason.
It's a fair point. What's engaging is that typically, the nature of the next emerging cycle is not evident until you're well into it. I started to write a list of possible break-out technomarkets for the 2020s from The Valley, but I decided I'd rather not and be 'surprised'.

One aspect of the scale these companies are achieving is the political implications. Yes, the worry in DC over their manipulation of human nature, but it's also issues like the headbutting of the gig-labor lifestyle against tax policy right in California. Pushing technology forward eventually encounters politics and it's interesting to watch these firms gird up for that battle.
Are rationalists less likely to enter the pool of candidates endeavouring for wide-publicly-visible 'success' due to them noting the low probability of success reality - (and the discomforting fact that this arguably arises out of factors beyond one's control/foresight)?

Entering this pool arguably requires a touch of useful delusion (e.g. trump).
Hey I didn’t know about that! Seems interesting. Thanks!
Read the book "Hearing Equals Behaviour: Updated and Expand" found on Amazon - maybe it'll give you something to look into, a treatment that may help you dramatically.
Another exemple that I like:
"When it rains I carry my umbrella."
does not prevent me from carrying said umbrella when the weather is nice.
However it is the same as saying that "when I don't have my umbrella with me then the weather is good".
Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8
The "steep" budget cuts in Seattle's LE budget amounted to 3MM out of over 400MM. Less than 1%. Is that steep to you?

From https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-c...:

"The Police Department reductions passed Monday represent only about $3 million in 2020 savings; the department was allocated $409 million this year — more than the city spends annual on parks and social services."
I suppose an analogy is that the most puritanically religious are often those who feel most inclined to sin. Your average sinner doesn't feel the need to go full-on zealot to keep to the straight and narrow.
isn't this what redis did when they created their new license?

In effect, if you sell redis as a service (which, and IANAL, as I understand doesn't mean you sell a service supported by using redis) you must pay them in some way.
I don't think just rationality cuts it, you need a goal. For example, I see many MBAs being rational in their relentless focus on efficiency. Yet, this is reactive (to the market), it doesn't follow any value in itself. To attempt to do something that nobody did before, or even to pursue a certain value above other, is inherently irrational.

Yanis Varoufakis told a nice story about him teaching game theory. At the beginning of the semester, he offered the class a free pass of the course: Each student would write down the grade they would want and they would all be awarded by the minimal grade that was proposed. But first, they would have to agree on this proposal. He mentions that there always was a person who refused to agree. When he asked them, why did they were against it, they responded, without a hint of irony, there would surely be some idiot that would write down a low grade (and they would not pass).

Frankly, I don't think this problem has a rational solution. It's a paradox - by being totally rational, you're being irrational. And I think the same is true for rationalism as a life philosophy. If you apply it to everything, the life will be hollow.
I feel like CouchDB doesn't come off as good in that article as it actually is:

- It's fast, especially if you run it on a single node with proper hardware.

- It's well suited for multi-device apps. You even get a changes feed for live replication.

- I'd rather bet my money on CouchDB (Apache Project with significant support from IBM) being around in 20 years still than on Dropbox.

Privacy and user control is OFC up to the app developer.
Also, it's no worse of a CRDT than the proposed structure, you just need to design the document structure well: In the given example, each todo should be a different document and voilá - you'll only get conflicts if the exact same entry is modified.
Why I Am Not A Technocrat
by E. Glen Weyl https://blog.radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-08-19-bv61r6...
My Friend Mister Rogers (2019)
I don't have a lot of experience with hospitals, but what I do have (via relative with life-threatening heart issues, including most recently a pacemaker) says that "I was feeling 80% well when I went in, I was only there because the doctors wanted to be thorough and check my vitals overnight" isn't normal. It seemed more like "hmm, you're not dying, go home" was the general rule. And not unreasonable, either; unless you need to be in a hospital, you probably shouldn't be. Never felt like we were getting pushed out, but they definitely encouraged us to go home. Excellent insurance, so that wasn't the issue, and there were several multi-day stays, including post-surgery. Pre-covid (but within the last three years), so space wasn't an issue either. [And the person's doing great now. +1 modern medicine.]
Do you consider yourself healthy overall? Health has such a wide spectrum, likewise does a person's self-awareness and orienting oneself when you only subjectively have your previous states to base your current health off of - so it's only when you become healthier that you realize you weren't so healthy before.
British Airways argues they should not be held to similar standard of security [pdf]
No they are not contributing. I was working at a big german car maker for the last 5 years and fighting with them so they would allow the devs to upstream all the patches they made just so we would not need to maintain those patches, so it would be cheaper for them. But after 5 years there was still no process for any dev to do that.
Social Media Divides Us
Exactly. Don't use an open ended license and then complain about it. If you want to restrict use, then license it appropriately. Very simple and obvious.
>What would regulations of algorithms look like?

Giving users full control and transparency about what categories the algorithm puts them into and if they desire, turn all algorithmic content delivery off and just give me content I'm subscribed to as it comes in. For a start.
There was an article about that recently, focusing on St John the Divine in NYC (which has also been under construction for more than 100 years)[0]. The argument is basically that since, by their nature, cathedrals can be functional before their construction is complete, having a long-running construction process allows the design to be more responsive to the populace's changing needs.

Also, in a world where leaders lived and died based on the approval of a centralized papal authority, it's just good politics to be known as "that city that's constantly been building that huge cathedral".

[0] https://theprepared.org/features/2019/4/28/building-a-cathed...
Honestly, 99% uptime is pretty crap for an ISP. That’s three full days of downtime over 9 months.

Aren’t customers complaining constantly?
Chinese is partially phonetic (pronunciation can be guessed to some extent from radicals). Katakana and hiragana are completely phonetic AFAIK.
However that is the cynical take we are compelled to choose because of what we know and think of smoking.

Taking only the study itself into consideration, one could easily argue that the participants "knocked it before they tried it", i.e. by taking up smoking they realized how nice it actually is.

I am not trying to revive 60's tobacco propaganda, but I would say for a lot of personality/opinion/habit/preference changes in general this explanation is very likely (and far less sinister)