skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said, and I think the idea that in the future people will own less and rent more is discussed quite often. In the tech space this has been true for some time, hell, I still remember buying a version of Adobe Master Suite and later lamenting at the switch to subscription model.

I used to be quite negative about of going further down this path, but the way I see it now, what choice do we have in the future? The world population is growing, resources are limited. Is it it feasible that we can all own houses, multiple cars, gadgets etc?

I don't know anymore what the 'right' approach is here. Do we allow people to own and consume as much as they want forever or will the future be radically different in this sense where no one owns anything (car, property or gadgets)? The model that works now may not work forever.

Curious to hear from someone more well versed in this kind of topic on their thoughts?
> why would we expect a specific sensation to always activate the same set of neurons over time?

For at least two reasons. First, the perception of smell is extremely stable in humans. You can immediately recall a smell you smelled like a child and where you were and what you were doing.

And related to that, smell is a very strong association factor for memories. Meaning you much more easily remember something if it smells like before, rather than if it just sounds or looks like before.

If the neurons of this association drift all the time, question is how come those associations stick through the decades. As a programmer, you know that if you start moving associated data in your database around, it's very easy to break your data structure (dangling foreign keys etc.). A brain isn't digital but connected things must stay connected somehow.

I like how to a layman, every finding is so obvious, but to a scientist it's not obvious because it doesn't match the other things they know about the brain.
Zipcar was acquired by Avis back in 2013, and the service seems to have been in maintenance mode since then.

In the SF area, I've been rather fond of Lyft Rentals. But if I'm traveling to other metros, it's back to traditional car rental companies (National, Avis, etc.) to me, at least for now.
Maybe it's like SHA256.

You change a single pixel in an image, for example, and you get a completely different result.
Microsoft's recent history with 'forced UI additions' of this sort would imply it is indeed intentionally user-hostile.
What is CFD?
Problem is that's hard to scale to sophisticated apps that typically run on the desktop, which are often used at work or even for school. Even if it's been ported to the browser, it usually more like FB than it is a messaging app.

And now that I think about it some more, I have a VR headset, and the UIs are often more complicated than swiping on your phone. It's more like pointing at buttons, menus and links with your controller. That's typically the case for gaming consoles as well.

As such, I'm not sure phone apps are still the latest in UI design, it's more that the smaller screen touch interface and apps that typically do one thing well better fit the form factor of smart devices. Granted, the younger generation use their phones for everything, until they put on a VR headset or have to work in a desktop-like program.
Presumably those remote gpus are not halfway around the world. Speed of light sets an inherent floor on the latency.

The issue is not the idea of remote control per se, though connection drops etc. would be a risk, but the notion yoga can outsource it to somewhere with far cheaper labour.
This article didn't go where I was expecting it to, but I liked where it ended up. I thought it would suggest a data driven approach, but it instead said to ignore everyone else and just follow your heart, which is more humanistic and a needed message right now.
Habitual addiction and chemical addiction are not the same things. Cutting Facebook cold turkey has few if any of the side effects cutting alcohol cold turkey has.
Not only that, I always have time to listen to recovered addicts - they know more about persistence and will-power than just about anyone else.
TLDR, general AI means simplistic AI.
new pastebin. Had a typo in the old one- https://pastebin.com/4j9Z3eCc
Do alcoholics overcome addiction with “Time well spent” metrics?
The title reeks of scientific ignorance - science is all about investigate things unexplained...
It’s fairly poorly abstracted, I guess OP is writing this more for fun. You could hide a lot of this implementation stuff in extensions, view modifiers and by composing views and splitting out event handlers. It isn’t representative of SwiftUI really.
What do point 1, 2 and 3 have to do with this thread?
> Express this dismay to them, in a honest open conversation. Discover what holds them back.

Been there, done that.

The popular answer was that projects change too fast and he doesn not have time to maintain docs.

However, I firmly believe it all boils down to internal competition, and a refusal to give away to team members the knowledge they had to build up with their work.

Knowledge is power, and not disclosing how things work and why they worked is the key attain and preserve value within the team. You are a big shot if the things you do are hard and no one else can pull them off, and you achieve that by not giving away the information that allows others to easily do what you do.
So much this. I hope I don't stand on too many toes here. Actually I don't care.

My father has a self driving enabled Tesla Model S which he paid a hell of a lot of money for that he doesn't have as he's in his 70s, living entirely off the remains of the house he just sold. He's convinced it'll be any day now that he gets full self driving and that it'll change the world. He tells me he loves the car and phones me daily to tell me about it. But at the end of the day there are a bunch of complaints hiding in his words. This covers everything from poor fitting, paint issues, weird bugs, massive safety and computer issues, lots of hidden costs and general battery life issues. He's hiding the true picture which is not the real experience.

Between Tesla marketing and the echo chamber Tesla forums, he's traded his entire cash pile and attention for what I can only describe as a prototype that is a ball and chain which limps between bouts of charging CPR and he can't tell anyone because it might damage his conspicuous virtuous electric car identity.

But Tesla will be introducing self driving any day now he tells me. All the time. For the last 3 years...

I'm not really a proponent or opponent of electric cars. I don't really care about the things as they don't factor into my life past the utility of a screwdriver. I myself drive a third-hand Citroen with a tuk tuk engine in it which was cheap to buy and run and takes me to the shops and for the odd weekend out. But from my vantage point, I can't see the return of investment that such complex technology can add to a simple problem. All it does is make it more complicated, less safe and less reliable while milking people for cash for promises which may never materialise. If there's anything I've worked out over the last couple of decades in the software industry is that this model really doesn't work - it's the marketing and development model that Microsoft uses.

Edit: he literally just phoned me to tell me how wonderful it is again. But it cost him 5% of the battery capacity to cool it down enough that it’s not going to burn his ass off (has sunroof) which means his next journey is going to have to end with a 10 mile detour to sit in a supercharger bay (which where he lives will be busy and he’ll have to wait) and thus probably cost a coffee at the same time.
Cobalt is also used in the oil industry as a catalyst to remove sulfur from fuel. This happens in rather large quantities and the cobalt tends to have rather dubious origins as well. At least with batteries we get to recycle the cobalt, lithium and other materials, eventually. They are not permanently lost. Even our waste deposits actually contain rather large amounts of rare earths. Once they get rare enough, we'll be mining our own waste.

Economics basically push us in the right direction. Hard to source metals drive up the price and give a cost advantage to batteries that don't require them. That's already happening with Tesla. The same dynamic is pushing people away from oil before we've run out of it because it is getting more expensive over time.
I spend lots of time reading and reviewing docs and I must say it's a daily reminder on how much empathy is missing in this world. Not a lot of people try to make the thing readable in any other sense than just spouting things on paper.

I often draw a parrallel with code, where once the unit tests pass, let's ship. Dear colleague, would you mind just editing yourself for your future reader or maintainer or future self. You're not that good that your first draft is enough. Edit until it's fairly understandable. Remove the hacks, reorder the text, remove all the TBD/TBC/TODO...
> RL + piggybacking on human culture might be enough, or evolution + RL for biological agents.

Yes, but over what timeframe? Will there be any diminishing returns plateaus along the way?
Probably computational fluid dynamics
On HN if you try to post anything even remotely positive about bitcoin you get downvoted to oblivion, so it usually doesn't feel worth posting. For an introduction about El Salvador I highly recommend Jack Maller's talk where he made the announcement.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_59hrgTiRJU
Reminds me of how if you take out the speech center of the brain immediately, you permanently lose the ability to speak, but if a slow growing tumor takes out the same region, the brain has enough time to slowly shift over to peripheral areas.

As an aside, I wonder if the drift seen in neurons represents thought. Perhaps drift has to occur for the brain to continually think and self improve, even with limited inputs. I wonder how different drift rates in regions of the brain relate to things like better long term memory or creativity.
The Covid lab-leak hypothesis
Reinfection rate differing between different studies and populations could partly or entirely be the result of differing error rates in lab processes. Just a 0.1% contamination rate between samples in the lab or hospital would more than explain most of the results.
But it's only a dark pattern in the right (wrong?) context, no? For instance, my webmail has infinite scroll and it's damn convenient. Yet, I never find myself mindlessly scrolling through my mail. It doesn't increase the time I spend on the site... quite the opposite.

Likewise, I swear Google was playing with infinite scroll in their search results recently, where I didn't have to hit next to see the next page of results. Same result for me - it was convenient and I didn't find myself spending more time looking for/at search results.

But when the context is addictive content, infinite scroll is always there to spoon feed you one more helping.

More often than not, infinite scroll isn't actually the UX pattern you're looking for. But on occasion, it does make sense. However, when combined with insidious content, a dark pattern it does become.
> Those are kind of dark patterns after Al

I think the application should be judged, not the method necessarily.

Example : I have added/used extensions built to allow certain websites (google search, for example) to use infinite scrolling.

I never voluntarily added other 'dark patterns' to my interfaces, thus I think the way such a mechanism is applied is a major factor as to whether or not it's abusive.
Even though this article is sarcastic(?) I can't help but get genuinely angry at these trillion dollar companies thinking they know what is better for us and trying to control and police everything. This is even worse than govt censoring porn and cuss-words back in the day thinking they know what is moral for the society.

I was just talking to a friend the other day on how badly Apple and Google are trying their best to kill curiosity and creativity. I mean when I first got my 286 the machine was just full of possibilities. I think learning the ins and outs of it was more fun than doing anything productive.

I used to hack away at it all day and night. Learning about interrupts, tinkering with the BIOS settings, hacking the serial port, irq, etc. Now everything is just locked down. In my latest phone I can't even run `fastboot` as that too has been locked down permanently because "security".

Thank god we have Linux created before all this Bullshit started happening. If Apple, Google and Microsoft was in charge of things as they are now, we wouldn't even have any hardware to run anything else than Windows and iOS.
How about just making network access for apps opt-in rather than opt-out, and further more also making background network access a permission request, and something that can be monitored.
All bitcoin gains came from some poor guys who bought into this hysteria later than other and are now hoping to find another poor guy who will buy at current prices. I'm not saying that they will definitely stop, it is possible that this loop will continue for a long time, but people need to remember that these "valuations" is simply a product of a hype to resell at a higher price.
It's an advert for PayTM, an Indian payments startup with a history of doing things that get them banned from platforms like Google Play Store.
The FDroid app store kind of does something similar to this.
It’s not a pandemic in the US anymore with the vaccine surplus that we have. Many people still feel that we’re in one, though.

In the words of John Lennon: “war is over (if you want it)”
Evolutionary algorithms are tricky, just like deep learning. It's not "just reformulating the principles of evolution in digital terms, and essentially not providing any new insights".
Some people feel like television, and phones in general, are bad influences. Should Apple build in reminders for their first party products, too. A popup telling you that talking on the phone for three hours a day is bad for you, or that encourages you to not binge on that TV series?
I feel you. A blocker I found is that typically everybody is down in the trenches of the actual project work coding, reviewing, analysing bugs, helping support. Therr is already something more urgent to do.

You need buy-in from your team lead/line manager and a critical number of team members that actually want to make a cultural shift, but for some reason cannot. Your regular team retrospectives are the place to address this and come up with an action plan how to bake it into teams processes.

One of the possible solutions is to block time in the teams calendar for dedicated "learning". That could be regular "developer forums" or "reading clubs" or what ever.

If a document is required to be read before a meeting, schedule 10min in the beginning of the meeting where all collectively read the doc.
With multiple pilots that manage different aspects of the mission. Also, up in the air at cruising altitude the latency is not as critical.
Yeah, I would even say a large amount of NAND gates should do it.
How you measure that at the gate
You put many agents in the same environment, agents are both actors and the environment.
> they don't expend much time investigating "small" crimes and their definition of small is surprisingly large to the average person.

On the other crime types, for example drug related, law enforcement seems to pay a lot attention to the small-time criminals.
I guess it’s hard to say, there could be a number of options, depending on the reasons of your coworkers. Maybe your docs aren’t useful to them? E.g. they might see the docs as too basic, too advanced, unintuitive, or too hard to maintain. Or perhaps they prefer to be indispensable to e.g. ensure job stability?
This comment doesn't deserve downvotes. I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a good alternative without much success.

This comment isn't using these labels incorrectly - the people on most of the alternatives post blatantly anti-Semitic and/or legitimately racist content (not ambiguously or twitter-classified racism, but full-on, hard-R et al, good old fashioned racism), anti-vaxxer mobs, doxxing, calls to violence, etc.

And yes, much of the time this sort of content is the majority.
There are two methods I know of. Either you stop doing the thing, or you do other things instead.

The first requires a presence of mind to enter the void left behind by the thing, that people doing drugs probably lack, since they are, in essence, stimulation addicts. Drugs fill a void they avoid facing. Stopping doing drugs would cause them to face that void.

The second is more amenable, because you can taper off with replacement therapy. Switch to using less bad drugs, or indeed anything stimulating. Continuously replace the thing you're getting stimulation from with another, slightly less stimulating thing, until the thing that is left is sufficiently nonstimulating that stopping and accepting the void feels manageable.

I went from putting speed in my morning coffee to eating a pound of chocolate a day.
Google started doing this on mobile with their chrome for android. Some time ago they introduced an alternative method of presenting open tabs in a grid instead of a list. They of course made the new setting the default and you have to do a Web search to find out how to revert it to the previous setting.
They also disregard your choice upon every update and switch you back to grid view.

Google has become the epitome of bad ux and user-hostile design.
Yes. There's a lot of this on HN it seems. Of course the argument doesn't hold up to evidence... Places like Somalia, Haiti, Yemen, etc. are great concrete case studies to understand what really happens in places with minimal or non-existent governments. The evidence doesn't exactly point towards major advancement in workers' causes.
I think dark patterns include patterns designed to create addiction. I imagine a tremendous amount of slot machine design is about creating addiction.

The line between enjoyment and addiction is certainly not clear, or the same for everyone. But anything strongly designed to repeatedly pull you into repetitive behavior that you reliably find wasteful or harmful afterwards, is dark.
I'm not sure how you can claim all work was done during off hours with ten full-time jobs. If OP got caught he could have some very expensive legal problems.
Haynnna
Nanbaja
I'm not site how a router would identify "mindless browsing", but turning off Internet at certain times is a feature many routers have built in, usually under parental control. Worth a look if you haven't checked.

Personally I ended up with a bit different solution, I wanted to do something similar, but needed it to work on my phone also so I ended up using nextdns to block part of the Internet (reddit and Facebook) after 10. Works reasonably well as trigger to stop my worst doomscrolling offenders.

I wrote up a short post on how to do it https://blog.nyman.re/2021/01/10/reduce-doomscrolling-with.h...
Meat-free diet may lower severe Covid-19 risk
Obviously you know your father best, but it at least seems from your words it makes him happy.

As someone with similar car, you get to know it’s quirks and use it when it adds value.
/r/neoliberal was good for a bit, but it has been slipping into typical leftist content since the election.
I think people need to do what they need to do to survive, and if that means not being friends with someone, that other person will have to get by with other friends.
In a conversation with someone the other day, I said I tried to participate in my community without using Facebook and it was difficult. They laughed.
From detailed experience on this you want to be both the first person to be asked to take on a complex problem and the last person out of the door when things get tough.

Make yourself indispensable through being the person running towards danger, being helpful to your colleagues, being knowledgable and treating people with respect but only write stuff down when asked lest someone think you're replaceable by a few confluence pages.
On the power of marketplaces and third-party integrations
كلمات اغنية بعدني الاصلي علي الغالي
According to Bitcoin maximalists 2mb blocks are too much for our infrastructure, and will hinder everyone from running their own node. But apparently keeping a node online 24 hours is not a big deal.
Probably not. But what about "I felt well in my body after getting drunk" metric?
That amount of theft is not illegal in California
Because not all large people are overweight or fat.
To be fair, that's because JC Penny does 95% of the work of apprehending and gathering evidence against the suspect. If they came to a small business that had a shirt shoplifted but did not apprehended the thief, and had no security cameras, they'd take the report and leave. Vast majority of police departments won't have time for that.
I suspect that is largely to do with frequency of use.

To me it'd be worth a premium to not have to buy, store and dispose of something I know I'd rarely use, to the point that for some things I might well be fine with paying full purchase price if I can just avoid the hassle.

Renting in those instances would be more about avoiding annoyances than saving money.

At the same time I'd assume the amount of time specialized tools lay idle but lock up capital and storage space for providers of rented capacity means you need to recoup a lot of cost per rental event.
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From How To Save a Planet, a podcast I like:

Alex Blumberg: ...and, [pipeline company] Enbridge says, stopping the pipeline won't stop the development of tar-sands oil. The oil will just travel in less safe ways, like by rail.

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: But Tara says that argument is missing the entire point.

[Attorney and activist] Tara Houska: The idea is always like, you know, we're replacing old ones that are leaking. How about instead of replacing them and expanding them—which is what you're actually doing—you decommission the old one and pull it out of the ground and clean up the earth that you've contaminated?

Ayana: I like that option better.

Tara: And there's always, like, this premise of, well, it's gonna get shipped anyway. No, it's not. Like, that's the whole point. No, it's not. Your industry is on its way out. And that's the point. And we all know that. You can't sit there and say, "Oh, well, it's gonna go by rail or it's gonna go by ship anyway. No, it's not. The tar sands are on their way out. And that's the reality.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/76h4r25