skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ripping people off with high prices is actually very rare nowadays, mostly thanks to the big online marketplaces.

This is so absolutely untrue that this reads like a joke.

> Many people assume that if they're seeing something that's more expensive than they're used to that they're being ripped off for some reason.

Yes, because it's so absurdly common. "High price ripoffs" are so common that it's the default mode of operation for nearly every company in America. "High price ripoffs" are so common, that it's literally taught in school as a fundamental part of all marketing. (Price anchoring, premium pricing, skimming pricing, are all just 'high-price rip-offs' applied practically).

Yes, it still occasionally happens, but the days of "a high price probably means better time/materials/quality" are long gone. 9 times out of 10, the high price product is identical to the cheap price one, and the higher price is explicitly just a ripoff.
> If this is allowed by your model of computation, then you could use this magical O(1) addition to to implement multiplication in O(n).

How's that?
> Building an unconstrained AGI is an existential risk

But why? So far no-one has been able to explain this to me.

An AGI in at of itself is nothing but a brain-in-a-vat. The exponential increase in scientific knowledge was based on the scientific method, which replaced the ancient Greece discussion-based epistemology with a cycle of observation-hypothesis->test->observation->...

An isolated AGI cannot test its predictions about the world. Since the unconstrained space of possible explanations is bigger than the space of explanations constrained by observational evidence, there is no way an AGI can gain useful knowledge without access to external observations.

This means we are in full control of how "intelligent" (by whatever metric) an AGI can even get by restricting its access to information. But even unlimited access to (passive) information only gets you so far, as some models require data that cannot be obtained passively (i.e. they require deliberate controlled experiments).

The final nail in the coffin of dangerous AGI is interaction with the physical world. Yes, even a toddler is a terrifying menace to millions of people if I place a button right next it that sets off a thermonuclear bomb in a city centre.

But how about we just don't do that? An AGI with limited or no physical interaction with the world (directly via robot body or indirectly through remote access) can't be any more harmful and menacing than the late Stephen Hawking.

There's no need to put AI on a leash, since there's a final naturally limiting factor: energy. Switch off the cooling system and your AGI has to throttle down lest it faces fiery death.
> if we're talking strictly about security of data at rest (i.e. from a powered off state) I trust my rooted Android with a long FDE passphrase over any iPhone.

If you never power-up your phone maybe. But in any realistic usage scenario you're way insecure with a rooted Android phone. Check this link, it's a quick read.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html
All things considered, it remained surprisingly respectful. Some islands of name calling, but, overall, pretty good discussion on the subject.
So, at least in that issue, people on Reddit's conspiracy theory boards are less gullible than you, and other people believing these things don't happen/are rare, and that we live in a Disney world...

(And a difference with the CEO, that you probably missed, is that they have more likely than not done these kind of bribes themselves).
I particularly like arkadia too: fantastic use of colour. Do you sell your artwork, or prints, anywhere that's accessible to us norms?

EDIT: I notice that at one point you were offering prints from Arkadia on Etsy but, unfortunately, they all seem to have gone. Do you have any plans to offer more?
I agree. Generally speaking, I found it difficult to empathize with the writer's marvel for recolored strips, in sentences like "The notion that a strip might have been colored differently from paper to paper opens up a whole new world of imagination". Dude, this has been done all over the comic industry since coloring existed, there are entire series dedicated to doing exactly that to specific bodies of work. Sure, newspapers strip are their own little niche in many ways, but this is hardly unique or original in Garfield. I'm somewhat surprised a fairly famous strip artist in his own right (David Malki of Wondermark) wouldn't know that.
Th audio that these devices capture that is "more than they need to do their job" is, to my understanding, the result of accidental activations. Not great, but one of the privacy considerations to be aware of when using one of these devices.

But I, for example, have my Echo configured to automatically delete voice recordings, and to disallow manual review. I'm pretty comfortable with the privacy compromise involved.

Maybe what you're actually driving at is the somewhat more dodgy practices involved around consent. Everybody should criticise Amazon for their processes here. Manual review is probably generally unexpected, and the default option for an Alexa speaker should be recording no data and allowing no manual review, with both features being explicitly opt-in. This is something it would be fair to pressure Amazon to do, if it's not already the case.

But the point is – it's a dumb argument that "anybody who uses one of these devices doesn't get to complain" and I'm bored of it.
There's plenty of misinformation on Twitter and Reddit too. In fact they're overflowing with trolls, shills and censorship and you need to be very particular in the way you approach the information if it's to be at all useful.
Then use both: put encrypted files on the encrypted drive.
The real thing you're trying to fix is how I become a more valuable member of the firm and get paid more. I don't think you need more communication from you to everyone, you should be listening to what the boss really wants and checking if you're delivering.

Also communicating what salary you're expecting. Maybe you accepted the job at a salary and they thought you were happy with that.
> mostly thanks to the big online marketplaces.

I see you've never tried to shop online outside of the US.

Let's take an example; my daughter has an Easy Bake Oven - it's a little plastic oven with essentially a 100W heater inside, with a little tiny baking tray about the size of your cell phone. There's an optional "cupcake tray", which is again a tiny metal pan about the size of your phone, only Walmart up here in Canada sells the oven, but doesn't sell the cupcake pan.

Amazon.ca today has a cupcake pan for $52 [0] which a) is lower than I've seen it on Amazon.ca before and b) this isn't even the "real" one from the manufacturer, it's an after-market knock off. There's another one listed for $89. It's actually cheaper for me to buy the cupcake tray from Amazon.com [1] even with the $9 shipping and the currency conversion, and I get the cupcake tray and a second regular tray and a bunch of cupcake liners.

This is not the most egregious example I've seen by a long ways. I assume a lot of this isn't actually malice but instead robots trying to sell products and setting prices that are just clearly insane. I've seen products with 1000% markup over MSRP before, and sometimes it's stuff that's easy to buy locally. There's just a lot fewer sellers on amazon.ca, so it's easier for a robot to climb it's price to infinity with no competition.

(And that's not to say everything is like this in Canada - most common stuff is priced reasonably. But if you want something a little out of the ordinary or sometimes if the "main" seller of something goes out of stock, suddenly it costs you a kidney to get a kid's basketball hoop.)

[0](https://www.amazon.ca/Replacement-Cupcake-Muffin-Easy-Bake-U...)
[1](https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Bake-Ultimate-Replacement-Cupcak...)
> It remains a badge of honor for many who like to describe themselves as highly cultured or artistic to describe themselves as mathematically challenged, or to say that their brains aren’t wired for mathematics. Because many of those they hold in high esteem have made similar claims, there is no real social penalty to them for doing so.

For many scientific illiteracy is in the same category as mathematical illiteracy -- but the problem starts there already. Everybody should at least know what a Fourier transformation does -- it's not necessary to exercise it rigorously, but at least an idea... I think this video is enough to give even laymans an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k
“Dumb Little Web Page” Stuffs Your Inbox with Buyer Leads
How the Mayflower Compact Influenced 400 Years of American Government
Right, thanks for that. I've not used either in a while and when I did there was a long separation between using one then the other so it's a bit lost to memory (same for Vim).

Despite my earlier criticism of ED, I've always liked CP/M's command line structure and switch parameters. For example, here's one I think I remember: PIP B:=A: [V O] (I hope that's right, it's been a long time.)

I wonder if that elogence is Kildall's work, as I've never been sure whether GK just took the PDP/DEC command stuff verbatim or whether he altered some items.
Because Americans have been propogandized their entire lives
The purpose and meaning only work if you're bought in 100%. The religion is very intolerant of difference of thought. I spent years in it and was never happy.
I have long been against employer provided health insurance. Obama promised if you like your insurance you can keep it. He was mostly correct (if you squint just right there are some minor changes to everyone's plan which you can count as not keeping it), but I don't like my health insurance - but to get a different plan means throwing away the large subsidy I get from my employer to take their plan.
Well he works at Apple and I'm pretty sure they ended their WFH.
Ask HN: Should I quit and see what happens?
Throwaway account as I don’t want anyone to recognise me.

I’m a self-employed software developer in his early 20s. I’ve started coding at around age 12 and coded as a job since around age 16. Later I did an apprenticeship as a Software Developer and supported teams right after that. At 19, I was a self-employed contractor for a German car manufacturer, later on, I contracted with a for a Swiss company, … . I managed to save a lot of money and make some with good investments. Right now I have about 80K cash and 120K in stocks.

My monthly expenses are all-inclusive around 2K which includes health insurance, rent, … — so I could actually do nothing for 8 years. I’m not happy with the management and as a single contractor I just get to support a team and basically work on it as an extern.

What I’d really like to do is get contracts and do them with a team of my choice — I had the opportunity to meet many brilliant people that I now consider good friends.

Problem is that acquisitions take a lot of time and energy and while we are trying to get some gigs on the side (2 Weeks in) it’s hard to do as a part-time job.

Generally, I’m also interested in getting a CS degree but I need to lean a lot of math first (already have the books here, but lacking time). While doing all of that I’m doing a bit of electronics and 3D Printing on the side as well. I often think about leaving the Project I’m currently involved in and just do nothing for a while. I know myself well enough that I will end up working on things that I’m passionate about and will probably have a lot more energy to find projects that are interesting for me and friends.

Would be interested in what you think — especially people with more life experience. I’m a bit worried of reentering the marked after not having a proper project for a year but guess it's not a problem.

Thanks a lot in advance.
WSL2 needs serial port workarounds for Arduino and ESP32
the TLDR is: better, but you lose important features like autofocus.
I thought the stat on high Utah anti depressant usage was based on the number of people taking them, not dosage levels. Though after a quick googling to check, I still can't tell.
Well that's one more for 2020 Bingo
Mozart/Oz is so underrated. It's a shame it never took off.

AliceML was also an interesting hybrid of Oz + SML.
Any expression or series of gates of only ORs has the non-decreasing property, changing an input from 0 to 1 can never change the result from 1 to 0. So you can't implement any gate that needs that using ORs.

Similarly, any collection of XOR gates is simply a summation mod 2.
Life expectancy vs healthcare expenditure isn't a good measure. I find it interesting that Smoking is way down and in the conclusion it's first as an important factor. Smoking clearly not impacting life expectancy at all.

In fact if you look at their data. Obesity/Overweight is the only factor. Not surprising given >70% are overweight.

Flipside, nothing here surprises me. The US governments actively subsidize unhealthy foods. Not to mention outright inform their people to eat unhealthy diets.

Worse than that, just look at your options for food in the USA. If you banned unhealthy foods and all current unhealthy food workers are banned for life from working in the food industry. You would be left with >90% of their food industry unemployed and practically unemployable.

What do you do with those >20 million people? Welfare system cant handle them. You might say unsubsidize these unhealthy foods and what happens? Fast food prices go way up and more people go unemployed. Same problem.
Sure but the city of Los Angeles isn't a cult. You're free to criticize the leadership of the city, you're free to move to another city and come back and visit your friends, you're free to think whatever you want.
> You had strips where the artist very obviously cut and pasted and reused panels multiple times

The end-state of which, of course, is Dinosaur Comics, which is the same art [almost, 99.9%] every single strip.
Whats wrong with wrapping?
Django migrate model field comment to database
Holy cow, the limit for local officials in California is $500 per year from a single source. [0]

That seems really high to me and seems that it’s completely legal for this official to get $500 from each applicant, given that it’s done in a deniable manner.

It’s $50 for a federal employee [1].

[0] https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Pu...

[1] https://ask.fedweek.com/federal-government-policies/rules-gi...
Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person
The page you linked to describes monads. It sounds like you’re not describing something that makes monads obsolete, but merely a DSL for Kotlin that makes it easier to use monads. Haskell doesn't need that, because monads are already part of the core syntax of the language.
I call that one "creativity" !
It's an excuse to buy an SSD.

And it's precisely what's responsible for falling HDD volumes and rising SDD volumes.

Which, in turn, is precisely what's responsible for stagnant HDD and falling SSD prices.

I can get a big-enough 480GB Sandisk SSD for $55 right now, and a 2TB SSD for $190, manufacturer direct. Looking at their WD_BLACK HDD, that's actually a buck cheaper than their 500GB HDD. For 2TB, I'd be looking at $99 instead of $190; at less than 2x the price difference, the SSD is a far better option for most people.

Of course, the HDD goes all the way up to 10TB (at $320), at which point, so it still comes out ahead for bulk storage. SSDs hit a breakpoint at 2TB, where price and complexity go up astronomically. I can either drop a few grand on a specialized product, or around $1000 on several drives and build a RAID. So there's still a market. Just not a particularly big one.

Prices are based on first sensible link on their web page (presumably, most popular product). You can go up or down in price if you click around, go off-brand, but the qualitative picture doesn't change. HDDs require a lot of infrastructure, and the market is evaporating.

I suspect the upper end will disappear soon enough.

I do still want some kind of bulk storage. I want to back up my photos somewhere reliable, but there seems little left. Tape is thousands of dollars for the hardware, while optical is now tiny. Nothing seems to compete with the volumes, economies-of-scale, or R&D budget of integrated circuits.
> Other countries do have 24/7 TV channels and other media.

Yea and they spend most of that time complaining about Trump. And if they aren't, then people will go to Reddit, or some social media site to do it.

> What are you getting at?

Countries with small, homogeneous populations are going to tend to be less corrupt and better governed. It's more difficult to be a jackass in Iceland than it is in Brasil.
I'm in the same situation with the nearest major city. The train actually makes sense to go in and out on a work day if I need to for some reason given how bad rush hour traffic is. But it's a non-starter for an evening event. I just wouldn't go in if you made it too hard for me to drive and park. (Which the city can absolutely do of course.)
There are plenty of good online comic strips. I have nine in my RSS feed and keep up with them regularly. I can give a few suggestions if you're interested.
Also, the people in charge just putting all the onus on individual operators. That they will jump through all those hoops because it is “the right way” so of course they will do it. Well, news flash. A lot of people don’t and if you have a security breach, its cold comfort that it was because someone took a shortcut on step 438 of your pointlessly difficult process.

Imagine if airline safety operated that way. “Well, it is up to the pilot to make sure they pay attention and keep up with their training. They will do it because it is the right way.” No, they look at how can they make it impossible to do the wrong thing. How can they make this alarm impossible to ignore? In this very specific scenario, is it possible for this problem to go unnoticed or undetected? How can we train pilots and ensure they understand in a real world situation? Etc. Which is the right model, in my opinion. It isn’t “on paper, does this technically solve the problem” it is “regardless of user error or equipment failure, will this still solve the problem”.
It is useful to differentiate between easy and hard as well as simple and complex.

x86 has instructions which can make many thing “easy” But they are not simple.

ARM is far more logically consistent. x86 is really messy and complex but often have lots of convenient instructions.

So I would say ARM is easier to learn and it is easier to learn ARM code as everything by is more logical, regularized and consistent.
Space is outgrowing its billionaires
Yes, it is. If I sell you quack medicines for thousands of dollars, but you BELIEVE they work, am I ripping you off?

Just because someone believes a con job doesn't make it less of a con job.
That's the full extent of tolerable long distance commuter rail service.

The issue is that it can't be modernized to be faster and quieter in an economical way. Actually the issue is that its too uneconomical to do so, the current trains are not economical. This is whether we are referring to that high traffic corridor or to anywhere else.
Personal preference I suppose. There are a lot of urls where the text of the url (or large parts of it) conveys no meaning. In that case it breaks up the comment without adding value. Sometimes you see people use a footnote format here because even the short url is in the way.
Architects should incorporate feedback loops as living elements of urban plans.
"Expert systems" were the hot research area in AI prior to machine learning (data driven methods, basically). Old methods and problems from that era like automated reasoning still have some research and applications going on, but aren't remotely as big an area as machine learning.
As of a few years ago (2009 ish) the important chips in an IronKey were AT98SC032CT-USB and OnSpec xSil 269.
I've got an old one kicking around somewhere. I'll tear it down and post pictures in the near future.
As you say, the vast majority of normal circumstances won’t bankrupt normal people either.

It’s only an out of scope disaster that brings suffering.

Forgive me on the insurance bit, I was speaking from the context of a country which provides some healthcare to its citizens, regardless of income. Not many people, millionaires included think to have insurance that would pay out millions for rare circumstances.
> You mention Swiss train service for example which seemed pretty great as a visitor--but it sure wasn't cheap as is true of a lot of European train service.

The thing is, if you're not a visitor, you'd buy an AG or a demi-tarif (perhaps with a contribution from your employer). The former gives you free unlimited use on almost all public transit (including trains and busses), or alternatively, the latter gives you approximately a 50% discount on the price you paid as a tourist. The latter is quite commonly sponsored by your employer – and even if not, both types pay off very quickly if you actually commute by public transit.
> ...we had rooms full of green text terminals that nobody bothered with anymore...
> ...I've been looking to replicate that experience for a long time.

I am gobsmacked that eBay sellers are fetching $200+ USD on "vintage" DEC and similar terminals (there was a time they were going for $50 a pop, and if you got your timing right, you could haul them away for free from a university that was transitioning away from them), but if you can afford a big room, then you can afford a herd of terminals to stuff into them, and the serial multiplexer.

Handling distractions got easier when I identified the kind of tasks I really didn't personally like to do and what in my personality caused that antipathy, and set up reward systems for doing them at first, and later delegate them to an employee.
I'm just gonna test this here.
Crazy idea, minimize the persons right to a car. Make the electric vehicle boom, a pedal powered one.

I doubt the carbon math on the Telsa (any model) breaks even over the life of the car.
I think with Eth2 we're possibly seeing a the first attempt to address the Innovator's Dilemma[0] in the blockchain environment.
I've been following the Eth2 progress for a few months now and from the outside it really feels like trying to swap out the engine of a running racecar.

Definitely worth to follow how the Eth1->Eth2 evolution will play out, but I wonder if is not too late for Ethereum while newer kids on the block [1], much more agile due to lack of legacy overhead, have already launched solutions for many of the problems (PoS, sharding, scarcity, WASM smart contract infra, super-high TPS etc.)[2] that Ethereum will be trying to...in the next year or so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

[1] https://elrond.com/assets/files/elrond-whitepaper.pdf

[2] https://elrond.com/blog/its-time-to-build/
I learned about BitBar today, only to find that development had slowed down. It still worked on Big Sur but I encountered this text alignment bug [0].

I'm interested in trying its spiritual successor SwiftBar [1] and any other alternatives folks know of.

[0] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/105

[1] https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
This comment should have a dot. The above one not.
I like iPhones as they are. They do many things I want from a phone well enough - except running sideloaded apps with Apple-exclusive entitlements. I find most Android phones annoying (suffering e.g. from poor palm rejection with borderless screens, touchscreen over-sensitivity, ads in system apps, piss-poor AAC encoding quality for Bluetooth audio, etc.)
Ahh sry, ok. Just wanted to share my impression. Then please can some mod delete my original post?
With increasing world population, decreasing famine, decreasing poverty, wildfires at 5% compared to 100 years ago, climate related deaths at 5% compared to 100 years ago,
there´s not even a threat in sight. Humanity and the planet is doing better than ever.