skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I thought it was going that way when I started reading it - but by the end, I really didn't feel like you do.

But realistically, it compared dosages of drugs in heavy users compared to regular use at medical doses and the side effects of them. It never stated these were normal users, just stating the things that happen with a lot of use. I was surprised.

Sure, it could have went on to say that occasional recreational use probably won't hurt you, but that's difficult when it could be seen as promoting drugs and a lot of places have pretty draconian drug laws.
That's a shit rate even if the car comes for free.
What if the user chooses to turn on the time well spent feature? Then it would not be a dark pattern but just user choice.
See also: https://www.golem.network/.
We have an either-or choice, and there's no reason for it to be like that.
> In sum, the media claims that were repeated over and over and over as proven fact — and even confirmed by "fact-checkers” — were completely false.

No surprise here. False from the start and in fact they are the ones who were spreading disinformation in 2020 with their lies and so-called fact checkers.

After the chaos, the truth comes out and everyone who saw this through knows the desperation from the media to ban, edit and gaslight the truth and to continue to spread their lies.

The media companies will be on to the next 'villain' to create an image out of to bankroll their 'journalists'.
Exactly. Use your skills to maximise your revenue so you pay others to use their skills.

It is not clear whether we are talking purely about design or also the implementation, which can be another world of pain. I am a very experienced (mainly backend) developer but even some simple front-end tasks like understanding why something isn't aligning as expected take me a long time.

Just pay someone to deliver you the HTML or buy off-the-shelf. Nowadays, you can get something decent from somewhere like Envata for $20!
I think the first question does make sense. By the same analogy, asking what is digestion precisely and how the stomach digests food is perfectly sensible.

I would also note that the second question can make sense, but only if you believe consciousness is not strictly tied to the brain and body.
Ask HN: Where Can I Find “Wufoo and the Art of Customer Service” Article?
I am looking for the article: "Wufoo and The Art of Customer Service". I have searched for it online, and the site hosting the article isn't working. Here is the url to site: http://www.diaryofawebsite.com/blog/2008/07/wufoo-and-the-art-of-customer-service/

Does anyone know if there is someplace else where I can find "Wufoo and The Art of Customer Service" article?
I don’t remember using any overlapping windows in the Alto environment though the display was bitmapped; Bravo, for example, was a “full screen” program. This wasn’t that odd; for example the CADR environment was also non-overlapping-window system. The iPhone was the modern reincarnation of this.

The earliest “overlapping windows” system was, iirc, the smalltalk environment.

I say “environment” because that back then you booted the machines (Alto and later the D machines) into a completely hermetic environment; Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, and Cedar/Mesa ran on the bare hardware (had their own networking stacks and drivers and even had their own microcode. There was no meaningful distinction between OS and application.

My memory is a little fuzzy as this was quite a while ago and there was a lot of experimentation going on all over the place. I left PARC to go back to MIT in 1985.
I don’t think it’s relevant for the general public.
Linux became as popular as it is because it could run on the most widespread desktop hardware: IBM PC compatibles. And that was possible because it was an open ecosystem.
For children and middle aged adults as well, not just people over 65. That and the permanent deformity and paralysis are a big difference.
> I don't think it's possible to do both of those things (stability vs hacking) in the same time

Why is it not possible, exactly?
> The average person in the northeast spends 31 minutes commuting per day [2], for simplicity that's 0.5 hours,* 2 commutes a day, * 5 days a week, * 50 weeks a year (assuming 2 weeks vacation), is 250 hours commuting a week.

You already said it's 31 minutes of commuting per day, so why are you doubling it in your subsequent calculation?
Good point. Here in the UK the big developers seem to be getting more and more creative in generating post-sale revenues, be it from escalating ground rents, property management fees, captive ISPs, or £3 towel rentals for the sky pool.
I think the magic ingredient of SAP is: The accounting works cross-country because it supports all the different tax laws. It makes certain things easier for multinational corps.
Ah well, you are basically replying to a limited world view by another limited one.

Notice how you say "Curiosity *can be* about design, ..." but then the tone of your comment reads like you mean "Curiosity *should only be* about design, ...". Please don't do that.

Curiosity can be about anything, lets just leave it at that.
I’m not going to say you been in SF but you clearly haven’t walked through the tenderloin and probably not spent a lot of time around people that partake in harder drugs on regular basis. Yes it doesn’t match the clinical description, but that’s because the clinical description wasn’t written by someone who works in the heavily drug ridden areas. More likely by someone who probably only dealt with hard drug users once or twice on their ED rotation during residency
Voat turned into a refuge for people on the far right who only wanted to talk politics, 100% of the time. Even if you lean towards that side of the political spectrum, it gets very tiresome.
This was a wonderful read and captures the feelings associated with this so well.

I was only around 12 when I got my first pack free in my usual Focus science magazine, but was hooked from there. It even reached a fever pitch of me winning an auction on a discontinued silver card about relativity for around £80 but my parents wouldn't let me pay (I was very worried about my eBay rating for my account named something like TheCube1221).

The cards were beautifully designed—much bigger than regular cards you'd get in a blister pack, and had scratch off part to reveal the code you would type in to submit your answer to the leaderboard. And of course the edge of the silver ones was actually shiny. They didn't mention it in the article but the back of each card was part of the map of Perplex City!

The puzzles were all great for sparking interest in maths and logic. So many specific puzzles are firmly lodged in my head (the glasses of water one, the pirate treasure division one, the smell based one!, ...). I can still remember that album too, and actually one of my current favourite albums reminded me a bit of that Hesh records one when I originally heard it.

I'd also be lying if I said I didn't have some pangs of nostalgia for that old internet. Browsing websites that weren't in a constant state of flux, listening to the Postal Service, reading xkcd (which hasn't changed thankfully), and interacting in numerous custom built forums—each with their own distinctive flavour.

I'm not sure how possible something like this would be anymore, but hard to know how much to attribute to me getting older and losing some of that fog around the world (I remember my dad having to help me find a hidden link in a page by looking in the source code for "a" tags), and how much is the increase in power of the internet. Short of making codes verifiably difficult to crack (which isn't too fun for the average puzzler, and you can't do that for everything) it feels like if the internet can find a flag in the middle of nowhere from a nondescript feed of it, it could crack anything like this too fast to be fun.

It's very satisfying that Satoshi was found after all these years though, I remember spending a decent amount of time searching. There are probably some true completists among us though who have been fatally nerdsniped by the Riemann hypothesis card, and let's be fair—all the cards still haven't been solved yet!
One could implement similar pricing for other time-saving utilities - household appliances for example.

Do you value the time you save by washing your clothes in a washing machine, compared to handwashing? Then maybe you'll be happy to pay £8 per hour for the time your washing machine is running? The washing machine can provide a touch tablet for surfing the web as you (don't) wash.
Yes, the actual problem is the lack of preinstalled Linux on retail products. You can find that in online shops though. My laptop came with Linux preinstalled and I can’t recommend it enough.
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Even worse, it's more like "if you don't want to drink, just don't be around alcohol! Just stop meeting people!"
Should someone heavier (including being heavier due to being taller) pay more in gas/electricity for their car? We have been doing it all along...
How is the answer misplaced? It's saying that you don't need price collusion or racketeering or mens rea of any sort to informally converge on a position.
I assure you 99% of the problem of any RL project is the simulator. Generally you can't let an RL algorithm control anything real from the start, so you have to implement a reasonably reliable simulator for whatever you want done.

This is the big challenge in practice.
You can argue in the opposite direction that stealing $1,000 should be prioritized because it gives more buying power to those criminal gangs and it finances more criminal activity than the $100.
It depends on how fast the data you use gets outdated. If its constantly changing and being updated cloud is going to be more efficient.

But if its like Wikipedia or Stackoverflow which you can download entire copies off and run on your local system as an app using Kiwix, the local app will be much more efficient since the majority of the data is not changing much. I have a local copy of Wikipedia that is 3 years old via Kiwix and I haven't visited the online Wikipedia since (all request just go to my local app).
Sounds like buzzword driven development
My dad stayed isolated throughout 2020. He had the AZ vaccine in January. About 10 days later a blood clot to the brain caused a seizure and he went into hospital. He was tested when he went in and was not infected, he was kept fairly isolated in hospital for a couple of weeks, obviously no visitors.

We had a late night call saying he was unlikely to last the night, so we were allowed in to see him.

The next morning we were waiting for the phone call. And we had one. From Test and Fucking Trace, who wanted to speak to him. They were insistent he wasn't in hospital so we hung up on them with a rather non-polite scream.

His swab (which was from before we saw him) came back and he was positive, so we had to isolate. He did last the night, and then was moved to a covid ward.

So he clearly caught it in hospital on a non-covid ward. While I was holding his hand a nurse came along to give him an injection. She had a mask on, over her mouth - not her nose. Clearly lots of unconcious people who had frequent negative tests and weren't moving around a ward aren't going to be spreading covid, the only close contacts were the medical staff.

As it happens he lasted another 3 weeks before he came home for palative care. The vaccine presumably helped with fighting covid, but the damage caused by the siezures meant he couldn't even swallow.

He died 29 days after the positive test, so didn't go on the T+28 day stats.
What's cool about IPFS is that anyone can pin the content and the user doesn't have to migrate anything. This makes hosting far more liquid, which should drive down prices.
It's not about you. It's about the direction that technology has been taking where a big chunk is controlled by very few companies that are more powerful than a lot of countries.

I want to be able to chose a device I control, with software I control because I have strong concerns on privacy, freedom to create and waste management. My choices are quite limited and things are hardly moving in the right direction.

Do your concept of democracy being all about your own choices and seeing anybody with different point of view as your enemy kinda reinforce my point. This is not about your specific choices and personal freedom. This is about everybody choices and freedom.

Yes, authoritarianism as a business freaks me out, seeing people embracing it and embracing the fake sentiment of safety it provides is freaking me out. And yes, I do think it's time the Apple and Google duopoly is broken down and people are actually given choice.
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Yes! Most instruments also have alternative formats, including:

- SFZ, with loads of compatible and free players: https://sfzformat.com/software/players/

- DecentSampler, an open format but a proprietary implementation. https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/
it's the way criminal groups live, without laundering they can't use what they got, so more laundering equates potentially more activity for them
Which is how it was going to work, since canada has a carbon tax (i mean, it wouldnt be as it flows down the pipeline, but at the point where its used, if in canada, but its kind of the same in the end)
Sure it this encourages rent seeking behavior and has impact on the your long term wealth.

However if your able to derive utility from the product by renting why should you buy ? It is inefficient way to produce and consume goods.

As a society we already waste too much by buying and hardly using things.

Libraries are great way to reduce the number of actual books printed. Most people don't read most books , having a large unread personal collection is common vanity spend people usually do, which is really a waste of resources.

Many people rent camera/lens when they need them instead of buying expensive gear which is rarely used , these are efficiencies that are good to have.

Not all renting is bad
Downvoted. Unbelievable. Here's the Java Memory Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_memory_model
I think that is what Filecoin [0] addresses.

[0] https://filecoin.io/
In this case I liked this particular overloading of the term because it caused me to reset certain assumptions.
That’s because the internet is no longer a walk through the woods. It’s now a stumble through a confusing poorly-lit casino.
This work for me on iOS:
Keep all the blue apps (Twitter, Facebook, Kindle, LinkedIn..) in one folder. At least one time each week, switch the position between Kindle and Facebook. This way I will subconscious use Kindle a lot more.
We have some evidence that our own consciousness is specially linked to our brains, because brain alterations can alter it in a way that modifying other body parts don't. For example, removing a foot vs removing a portion of my brain will have different impacts on my mind.

So, it seems I'm a brain mostly (or a nervous system?), or at least it seems it's my brain that is talking to you. The question is: are my feet conscious too?

What if it looks like I'm a brain because only the brain can talk?

Regarding the consciousness of multi-organisms: we are like a colony of many cells already! So it's possible that a group of humans may share consciousness somehow (but this seems different than my own, personal consciousness).

Likewise, we use our environment as an extension of our minds, or at least, spiders do[0]. Perhaps that's what the rest of our bodies is for our brain: just part of the environment.

I took a couple of neuroscience classes.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532680-900-spiders-...
> Some of those do calculation that are actually useful on their own. That means that there are coins with better, as you say, fundamentals.

no, getting anything valuable out of PoW function besides security of the chain is a subsidy to the attacker and lowers the security of the chain by that same amount. it also introduces unnecessary complexity, potential of bugs, point of contention over consensus rules, etc. objectively worse.

> Yes.

trade decentralization and independence for performance - bitcoin doesn't, it's the most performant and decentralized financial network in the world

lots of hype and marketing - there's barely any compared to shitcoins

lots of bells and whistles of questionable value - barely any compared to shitcoins

lots of money being made in scams and rug-pulls - zero scams perpetrated by bitcoin developers, shitcoin world is built on scams

so no, none of it aplies to bitcoin, all of it applies to shitcoins.

> Only if performance and decentralization mean something completely different in cryptocurrency than anywhere else

i don't care enough to argue with you about definitions of performance and decentralization, ultimately you decide what matters to you. what matters to me at the moment is best represented by bitcoin - security per joule, cost of attack and cost to participate. every other shitcoin is far behind.

> BTC is full of marketing campaigns, politics and other shenanigans. To claim otherwise is to ignore, or be completely oblivious, to bitcoin history and present

false. bitcoin ecosystem is full of people that will market things to you, some honest, some not very much. shitcoins on the other hand are built on and of marketing and scams. if you don't understand the difference, we can just stop here, no point to continue.
So this appears to be a distributed network of random people's devices, and the 'blockchain' aspect is entirely unrelated to the actually useful parts of how the tech works. It's just how people are paid for contributing their devices to the network?

Am I missing anything? Are the non-blockchain parts of this actually interesting?
That why i wrote "medium business (traditional ones)", the HW stuff can be done by the DC peoples, one HD as spare (online) and one offline, if HD fault, send email "please exchange HD 5". If you can safe 20k a year it's even probably worth your time...well 60 minutes of it...but maybe not if your one of those rock-star programmers ;)
Yes, this and "long COVID" are quite underreported, and it's the much bigger risk. However, there is some evidence that getting vaccinated improves/cures long COVID.
The mainstream media suffers from representational drift as it seeks to build scientists into secular priests whose dicta must be obeyed.
I think sunset is potentially useful in that it denotes a gradual change, rather than an immediate or abrupt cut-off.

Only makes sense in that context though.
Check @ahelwer comment on this page. The youtube video is excellent.
Rather than chasing the source of the leak, wouldn't it be socially the right thing to do to close the loopholes and make the billionaires pay their fair share of taxes? Ditto for the corporates?

Oh, I forgot ... that is the demographic who pays lobbyists to ensure that their looting continues unabated.
The CDC says “When male Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch.”[1]

https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/community/si...
Windows also had one.

And they are all ultimately derived from IBM CUA, so that's a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
I think this is another case where improved surveillance is turning up things that, while they look bad, happen with other vaccines and never turn out to be a problem.

The same goes for variants, which a lot of people expect to break through vaccines because that's how the flu works, but it doesn't actually seem like they will.
I feel your pain. Three things I’ve found helpful:

1. Remain disciplined & use the docs yourself.

2. Bring your doc on screen in a real-time meeting about the topic & update it with the discussion.

3. Link to the doc in emails instead of replying inline.

That said… I’m researching the balance between wiki-style docs and “generated” docs like javadoc, OpenAPI, etc. I wonder if I’m writing too much in the wiki…
One of the unfortunate things about SARS2 is that there is reasonable evidence of some asymptomatic spread. Particularly the recent Japanese study[0]

"When taken together, I think these two studies show that people with asymptomatic covid-19 can and do spread the disease, and the best estimate from both studies is that those with symptomatic disease are about three to four times more infectious than those with asymptomatic disease. That is not a huge difference. Even though people with symptoms are a couple of times more infectious than people without symptoms, those without symptoms could still be causing more infections overall."

[0] https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/06/06/can-asymptomatic-p...
MATE would probably be closer in terms of its feature set.
I disagree. Exercise and walks in the woods feel like taking my brain to the dog park. Mindless browsing keeps my mind just busy enough to prevent me from thinking about anything or from being bored. It's like fast food for the mind.
Hans Boehm (author of the c memory model) criticizes the java memory model https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotpar11/tech/final_file...
If companyA got affected by this, then either:
1- Its companyA's fault for not having a contingency plan
or
2- Its companyA's accepted risk that this might happen.

We understand you're upset and passionate about this, perhaps now when more information has been published you understand better the circumstances that caused this problem.
Everybody uses Javascript, why use another programming language? English is newspeak.

They should just replace English as one of the three working language of the EU with esperanto / ido / interlingua or another conlang.
The people behind IPFS developed FileCoin[0] to provide incentives.

[0] - https://filecoin.io/
The Name "Germany" is from a much different era too ;)

>The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany#Etymology
Is that with AZ or an mRNA vaccine? Also by "problematic", do you know if they meant WHO's "mild" or "severe"? "Mild" is still quite bad, just not enough to hospitalize you.
> defined as you can see the source code

That's "source available"
Serialization does not eliminate concurrency, it is a strategy for dealing with it. That is, when your abstract model requires concurrent writes, you can instead add the operations to an event queue and process them serially. The event queue itself is still concurrently written to. You also still face complex problems with dependent writes - e.g. when two writers want to increment the same place (even worse when they need to apply a more complex function than incrementing, and worse of all when they want to apply a non-pure function to the current value).
It's been a pretty mild pandemic. What has been newsworthy about was the removal of freedom, not the number of dead people.

It's flu-like transmission - which is mostly through droplets.
If you're not sneezing in the face of people you don't have high chances of passing it around
At the end of that paragraph:

> It was more that early releases of Windows failed because they were inferior to other DOS GUIs.

I think the author agrees with you, they’re just noting that this is how many people today (including myself, prior to having read the article) perceive the evolution of GUIs.
Did you go to the source? It’s 31 minutes commuting to work, most people, I believe, tend to commute back from work too. It could have been more clear, but it’s hardly difficult to understand.
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And then banning the bubbles that engage in wrongthink.
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That confirmation bias extends to the capability of peer review to throw out issues.

We need replication.

If anything has shown up the weakness in science over the last few years it is this veneration of peer review. It ain't working that well any more.