skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i recently moved into a house with some other people. they have cats which they have owned for many years. after living here for a while, i was sitting on the couch watching star trek with these people when one of the cats came up and sat on my lap. they were shocked. that cat didnt sit on any of their laps, ever. and they became a little jealous. this happens literally every time i take up residence with people who own cats. their cats become very attached to me and the owners become jealous. one time, very very jealous.

most people are very blunt. they do not see past the surface of anything. they are impressed with superficial charm and not much else. they arent able to see inside a person, to figure out how their mind works or what it would be like to wear their shoes. they dont build models to explain the world and they arent interested in knowing how anything works. they dont listen when people speak. most people are stupid. and most of the time, this kind of talk is cast aside as being too vague and qualitative. but i have quantified it with cats.

when you consider a cat, the first impulse is to anthropomorphize. and since the cat cant speak, your assumptions about what it wants are guided by your anthropomorphism. most people only get this far and so most peoples relationship with their cats are really relationships with themselves. but some people pay close attention to what the cat is doing and how it responds to things, and carefully pack away that data instead of just writing it off as noise or "thats just what cats do." eventually you are able to demonstrate to the cat, through your actions, that you understand what it is feeling and what it wants. when a cat realizes that you are paying attention, that you are listening, it is a very different experience for the cat. the cat understands whats going on and will act in a way that is designed to communicate. and they will also trust and love you much, much more than anyone else because they know you are listening. thats the key, they are smart enough to know. most people assume they are dumb, and attribute their aloofness to it.

people get super jealous because they think they are showering their cats with love. and they try to fix it by loving them more, but it just makes it worse.

if a person has cats and has not unlocked this line of communication, in my experience they also havent deeply understood other humans or anything else. and i almost never meet people who have.
I agree. Seems like something that is easily defeated using, for example, a JWT
Probably not, alongside the rename, they essentially closed the business side to move to donations based.
How did you know they were edible? I mean, I know people eat snails in certain parts, but how did you know these were safe?
True. Or that their eyes see the same spectrum as ours.

I wonder if it's even more spectacular in different wavelengths?
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A headless chrome works for testing. You can even open GUI apps (at least with X11 on Linux) from the container itself, and it will use the host's X session (chrome --no-sandbox).

I've been using a containerized Rails app with VSCode for a while now and absolutely love it.
My father-in-law is a doctor and he jokingly told me when my daughter was born, that only the babies of doctors who work in the hospital get 10/10
This was an unreleased product with zero users.
>And I think a lot of people idolize him because he embodies what they think of when they think of a smart, successful business person. But I think real smart, successful business people spend two minutes with him, and paint him as a rube.

I agree, but, uh, everyone with half-a-brain knew that this about Donald Trump long before he was elected president. He's been playing this character for 40 years.
Is it also true that people also had no side effects what so ever?
I'll probably try it once Firefox is supported.
Back when cyberspace was a separate world, not just a digital representation of this one. I feel the same about the industry regarding work - the work place and ways of working have changed, and I no longer enjoy it. Where is the new off-world to escape to?
I know that it may seem like an easy option to watch a movie without paying, but you should also know all the risks that you run when you enter an unsecured website, know all about it at https://demyo.com/.
If you have projects with different versions (python2/3, Java5/8, node8/11 etc) you don't need to bother with version managers and package managers anymore.

Just launch the respective container and you are good to go.
Well the payload itself was small but they were aiming for the line between the payload and it's parachute which is a much larger target.
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>Mandating safety is not new or draconian. We do this all the time with regulations and laws because people can't always be trusted to make decisions that aren't selfish.

It's not as clear-cut like you make it out to be and there are real ethical questions here. So let's Steelman OP's argument. This vaccine was developed very quickly and there are potential side-effects. And like OP said, the vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent transmission (though in fairness, it must have some effect because it does reduce the viral load). So you're mandating a healthy individual (who may not even be in the at-risk group for COVID either) get inoculated with something that did not follow traditional healthcare protocols for vaccine development, can cause adverse reactions, and doesn't prevent spread.

Are we OK with signing off on that kind of policy without some debate? What complicates it for me is that dissenting opinions from credible virologist and epidemiologists and clinicians is routinely suppressed and blocked by social media right now.

>I'm 100% in favor of requiring vaccines and keeping the antivax crows in a silo, away from the general population.

I know you say that, but you're not because you're never going to fully trust health authorities with your health (remember, health authorities are people and they make mistakes, see what happened in Flint when the State was telling people water was safe to drink when it wasn't).

For example, let's say there are reports[1] of clusters of really major adverse reactions - do you fully trust health authority's guarantees that vaccine is perfectly safe? Are you really really sure this wouldn't be a repeat of the 1970s flue vaccine fiasco - another vaccine that was rushed into production? And again, the context here is also important. There is a higher risk factor associated with this specific vaccine than a traditionally developed one.

[1] Again, social media has decided to editorialize on this point. That is, even if credible reports come out against the vaccine, they will suppress these reports if it goes against health authority guidelines. Which, paradoxically, leads to reduced trust.
Reproducible build environment.
In big orgs it's a way to manage environment changes for big teams
> Right to self-isolation

Nothing wrong with that but no alien has asked us that question as far as I know.
1) not what I did - I'm providing a hypothesis for what I saw.

2) also not what I did, I'm suggesting an alternative design that encourages discourse.

Mindlessly posting the rules is also pretty fucking boring too, it's not exactly Hegelian dialectics in the average thread is it.
No people will see this in China because Twitter is banned there.
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While in general I agree, there are some cases where all employers make the same requirements. In that case, there is no choice the worker can make that doesn't result in the condition being there, and so there is no choice. As an example, since binding arbitration clauses were found to be enforceable in court, they have since been added to nearly all contracts. As a result, there is no choice that does not result in being locked out of the legal system.

That said, I do not think that vaccination is an unreasonable requirement.
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Looks like they followed in Sophie Wilson's footsteps by designing their own ARM chip! Maybe this will feed into their next iteration of the Raspberry Pi, one hopes?
Just because you're over being in a submerged tube doesn't mean other people can't find it fascinating. I find the silent service totally fascinating, and would happily buy you beers to hear stories you are not allowed to tell.
Same. I remember reading McLuhan as a teen thinking the future would be a golden age of communication. Instead resembles a superfund site, politics, graft, and all.
I think we would want to visit them; and that's the reason we hope they might like to visit us.
And we hope there is some easy shortcut through space; that we might figure out in the next few centuries; so we can visit people while we are still human and still have this motivation.
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Demming’s Out of the Crisis talks about reducing variation to improve efficiency and how difficult that is.
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Haha, I'm sorry about that confusion, as a fellow crypto-fan I should have noticed.
btw, I think it is important to place the blame correctly and take whatever action is possible on the perpetrators to deter such behavior and at the same time patch systemic loopholes that are identified. They are not incompatible actions. If anything, they are complementary.
Now that you've got submarines with vertical launch cells like the latest Virginia class I've wondered about some of the possibilities. Since those are capable of holding Tomahawks, they certainly are large enough to hold an SM-2 or SM-6 SAM missile (though I doubt they could fire those unmodified). Having a submarine with long range SAMs open up some interesting tactics. You detect a bunch of enemy fighters sortieing out to engage one of your ships with an airborne early warning aircraft or fighter on a long range patrol. All of a sudden, way before they enter range of your ship's SAMs, a submarine surfaces, launches a bunch of SAMs, and the aircraft that detected the enemy fighters guides them to targets using cooperative engagement. With this technique all you need is a submarine and a fighter or early warning aircraft and you effectively get a guided missile destroyer which is profoundly hard to detect. Fighter might be a better choice, so it can chase off ASW helos and aircraft without needing the submarine to surface and waste some of its own SAMs.

Lots of things can go wrong of course, and I'm sure it would take a ton of engineering effort to make it happen, but it's certainly an interesting concept.
Any government official can hold press conferences and make press releases just like they used to. However in practical terms the reach of those messages is severely limited. Did you know the President has a weekly radio address?

Besides inauguration day, do you remember reading official documents on the whitehouse.gov website? I never have. Nor have I ever gone to AOC's official house.gov site to read her messages. But I do know what she's saying on Twitter.

Not to belabor the point but where the message is delivered is a huge factor in whether or not the message will even be noticed.
or that they have the same conceptualizations of "needs and wants" as we do?

Availability heuristic. We are the only example of "human level or greater" intelligent life we know of, so we assign "human like" needs and wants to these hypothesized aliens because it's all we have. I think the key thing is just to remember that this is just a heuristic and not to be overly rigid about it. Your point, IMO, absolutely stands that there is no particular reason to assume that "aliens" must be similar to us in this regard.
I think this is because of the prevalence of free (as in free beer) software. The moment this became normalized, every time something actually does ask for money, you have to decide that the expenditure is indeed worth it. Yes, 4 bucks is a pittance in absolute terms for many people, but they still don't want to just throw it out the window, so they have to actually take the mental energy of justifying this purchase.

And yes you could say that the same people won't bat an eye spending 4 bucks on beer, but beer is an immediate reward in itself. The brain is usually already wired to automatically reward it's own decision to buy beer and buying one beer lessens the very restraints that would stand in the way of buying beer to begin with.

These factors are usually not present when buying an app, unless it's a game or similar or it becomes a "passion" purchase.

I don't know how to fix this. I would like to blame Ad Tech and the blight of "free" apps that fund themselves out of mining people's data. I think it is fair to say that this was a contributing factor at least. At the same time, I think there is genuine value in a proposition where people can pick to get the product for "free" and sell their data, or pay for the product and keep their data private.
Alright, I want this type-ahead feature. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/244

Not having type-ahead, instead using gnome's search, makes GTK apps really annoying for me. Right now I have a solution that involves patching, but presuming that my ultimate goal is just that one concessions, just have a flag buried somewhere that would enable type-ahead instead of search, how do you suggest I get that done?

I think that would go a long way towards demonstrating that gnome can be reasoned with, is worth even approaching or talking to.

Could we hire a developer? Set up crowdfunding? Can someone give me a quote and I can see what resources I can bring to bear on the problem?

I'd be open to other suggestions on how to channel that energy productively, but I really think if they can't compromise on that one feature that's important to a bunch of people then they're probably not going to be worth dealing with. Feel free to send me an email, at gmail.
Excellent work! where do we tip you?
Working on that as we speak! We have a couple kinks to work out there :)
But he was not just saying "yay, doubt!", he was arguing that freedom to doubt was crucial to past progress, and that everyone's then-current state of knowledge was also riddled with error. Do you think this is any less true now? This part acknowledges what seems like your exact concern:

> Communications between nations must promote understanding: So went another dream. But the machines of communication can be channeled or choked. What is communicated can be truth or lie. Communication is a strong force also, but for either good or bad.

The change of this sort since 1955 that most comes to mind, for me, is that we have more information hazards analogous to "blueprints for a working A-bomb": now we have "genome of smallpox" and (maybe soonish) "algorithm for superhuman intelligence". But it's not like Feynman had no personal acquaintance with that category of hazards; and the current drive for censorship is way way broader. I think his case against it is just as good now, and more needed.
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So Twitter should let them get away with breaking the rules because...it's China? Or something?

If they have rules against dehumanizing messages, it makes sense to enforce said rules. That the PRC is playing dumb about what they said isn't fooling anyone here.
Don't think about that...it's Swiss we breathe encryption...and some backdoors.
The approaches are more similar than you think. At least the parts you mention Experimental XEPs let people experiment. The compliance suites provide a single spec controlled by a committee. And the differences don't matter when the user experience is the same.

XEP-0027 OpenPGP has been officially obsolete for Matrix's entire life. XEP-0374 OpenPGP never went past experimental. It was officially deferred 3 years ago. OMEMO is the only proposal active.

The compliance suites tell you what you need for file transfer. Core requires XEP-0363 for file upload. Advanced requires XEP-0234 and XEP-0261 for direct transfer. You can ignore the experiments.

Figuring out what features 2 clients share can be confusing with either protocol. Looking at Matrix's clients matrix[1] is easier than finding a list of XEPs for each client. But you still have to figure out what the server supports and what it doesn't have to.

The real difference is how 1 company dominates the Matrix ecosystem.

[1] https://matrix.org/clients-matrix/
Some sort of drug is usually acceptable culturally. Alcohol, very widely. Cannabis, more recently. Mild drugs like coffee. "Prescribed recreationals" like xanax in some circles. In many places Hashish or opium are still seen as traditional/acceptable.

I grew up in Israel, where qat is legal, seen as equivalent to coffee and culturally acceptable. It's fairly common as an ornamental plant.

Giving your cat whiskey would cause an uproar, but I guess catnip gets a grandfather exception.
Also previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25853749
99.99% of ant colonies are not been studied. And for 0.01% we do study, we don't care of them seeing us.

> Consider her ways, and be wise

There is no philosophy to extract from ant society. Pretty dystopian, totalitarian, and despotic.
I have read their opinion, their statement is more unclear. They say that their is nothing in employment law that prevents requiring an approved vaccine but that it was up to the FDA and other bodies to make the call regarding EUA vaccines. It was confusing and misreported in the press. Their release would have been better rid they said upfront "we don't know if employers can require you to take a EUA vaccine".

These payments to take it might be a form of risk reduction from the companies perspective, as you can get a waiver in return for the payment.
I think Threema seems like it might be a solid alternative to Signal.

A couple of other drawbacks for Threema:

- Can’t delete messages on recipient devices (disappearing messages in Signal)

- As far as I can tell, the server isn’t open source

Also, a very brief look suggests the two most recent security audits for Threema only covered the iOS & Android clients? Someone correct me if I am wrong

Threema run & operate all their own servers - that’s good & bad in my eyes (do they know what they doing? Has any of their infrastructure been security audited?)
> I have also lived in rent controlled areas where, even as a renter, these worries go away. ... . People can build for the long term, engage with their neighborhood organizations, form a stable community. You frequently see people staying in the same apartments for decades.

Why not work to a place where you could OWN and not RENT if long term is your goal. Build more housing, allow people to buy property to live in and watch them organically grow communities.
The ABC's are helpful for just about any emergent medical situation. From first responders to paramedics, we are hammered to remember and implement the ABC's. You can do a lot with very basic knowledge.

Correcting problems with the systems associated with the ABC's is more knowledge and experienced based. A good basic first aid and CPR class will get you a lot of that knowledge. From there, staying calm and calling 911 is vital if you are US based.

A - Airway / B - Breathing / C - Circulation
The problem with this train of thought is that it fails to account for the observations so far. We know that the amount of energy required to accelerate an object increases as its speed approaches the speed of light. We have observed this effect. New physics will never contradict this - they may just put it in a new light, or perhaps discover a new dimension. But they will not invalidate the measurements we have so far.

Note that the observations done in Newton's time were never proved wrong - we just discovered that with better measurement precision and in different regimes of speed, they turn out to have additional small terms.

It is perfectly possible that we'll discover additional extremely weak forces and effects, and they may completely contradict our interpretations of the physical theories we've discovered, but they are unlikely to prove that the facts (measurements themselves) we know now are wrong, at least in the regimes we've noticed them.
Newer posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25857877
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25855653
Just practice. Maybe write a compiler (i.e. parser, semantic analysis and code generation) for this language: 1+2*3
Rules of the universe appear to us relatively simple. But the question of numerical stability is not solved specially for later times.

In physics it is natural to start from an initial state and integrate through time, starting from initial time and evolving by time-stepping.

Physics helps but this doesn't prevent the emergence of numerical instabilities like a big-computer being built.

So if you were running a universe simulation, when a life form start to emerge and starts building a big computer you can "erase" them from existence by approximating them away.

When your simulation starts crawling to an halt, you modify locally the current phases at the time of the modification so that the alien go extinct, and you propagate backwards in time towards the origin of the universe, to find the initial parameters of the simulation that when inputted make the alien never be a problem in the first place while not modifying too much the rest of the universe at current time.

From the perspective of a being inside the universe, the only thing we could observe by such a parameter search on the spaces of possible universe, are being amazed at how some constants of the universe seem to be fine-tuned.
Consistency between team members.

Super easy for new team members to get started on a project. No need to manually install dependencies.

Environment versioning in git and docker. Your local environment gets automatically updated with a git pull.
There is a mountain in South Wales with a name that rhymes with orange: it's called The Blorenge.
Almost every commercially successful product I've worked on has been known to be wrong at every point in its useful life. I've worked on a lot of microservices that had no known bugs for most of their deployed life, but they were simple parts of more complex systems that did have known bugs. The computing world is built top to bottom mostly out of programs that are broken.

If this had not been possible, the industry would have gone the way Dijkstra advocated, with mathematical rigor applied to all programming.
Yes, I was asked by a Junior if they should always use f strings now. There are still a couple situations where you need format, such as when you’re formatting a variable instead of a literal.

Also, shoutout to Template for untrusted strings. It’s surprisingly unknown. Most people suggest replace or a custom format function.