skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It pushes the question of the nature of our universe up a level where we have zero visibility

The universe does not owe you visibility into its origins, the lack of it does not make the hypothesis any less likely.

> If there is a concise and complete model of the universe, that is sufficient for it to exist.

Sounds like the ontological argument [1], one of the worst contortions of apologia ever imagined.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
Gotcha. These are actual great use cases. I wonder if there’s a market to make an actual dedicated consumer device.

I guess the main issue is that Ethernet ports are going the way of the dodo.
So my hypothesis is that groups of experts, or expert-adjacent, that are used to dealing with the public pelting them with questions and then ignoring them anyways, will be prone to shooting down smart, good faith questions too.

Here's an analogy most people here should respond to: a family member asks, "you know about computers, why isn't my [insert some app or website] working?"
Now, most of the time, do you think that they actually want the details? Even if many possible explanations leap to mind automatically, maybe it's some weird application that you've never heard of, and you really don't want to take the time at that moment to go figure it out for them. But generally, they're not asking for you to layer on the jargon and actually explain the nitty gritty details of why something isn't working, they just want you to make it work. Very seldom, sometimes that person really wants to absorb some real knowledge and learn. But that's not the common case by far.

So if most of us here are "computer people" to the lay public, then people working in many disparate fields of medical work are lumped together as "human body fixing people". Try to perspective take on what kinds of questions they usually get and from whom they usually get them.

For a large portion of the population, there is not much will to learn deeply about things. For them, science is surface level, and not much different from faith. We still need those people to "believe" in science even if they're never going to work hard to understand it, because the human animal hasn't changed that much in the past few thousand years, and people who are curious enough today to become scientists may well have been burned at the stake as witches by the same kind of people who are reflexively dogmatic today, and those doing the burning would have felt just as justified about protecting the public safety.

I get irritated with it too sometimes, and increasingly some entities like corporations are trying too hard to turn the act of science into a PR battle. It's extremely corrosive, because a lot folks know just enough to nod their heads at something that sounds good without checking whether it's a company pushing some really flaky "science" or real, solid research.

So please, ask smart questions, but also be careful where you sow doubt. Sometimes it's better to just hit the books if you really want to know something. We're not going to reach a state any time soon where everyone that claims to love science is actually going to love the act of methodically analyzing and questioning everything. We're probably going the other direction lately.
Defaulting to root UID is not an understandable default.

Systemd requiring polkit is a valid issue.
The approval is a bet that it could work because of the status quo regarding beta amyloid’s role in the disease. It‘a also a sign of human desperation on the fight against this if you zoom out. Thy are willing to throw anything at it that even have a slight chance. This is what it is about in my view.
That is, indeed, a beautiful useless thing.
How to think clearly
One of the things that prevents adults from sleeping is worrying about life problems

And that adult may not even realize it, because that worry is usually covered by layers of coping. “I’m fine” is adults worst enemy.

My trick is to listen (not watch) to old television shows ...all night

Before using a technique described in itt’s root comment, I also used for-sleep hour+ long asmr videos. Cannot compare their effectiveness because I don’t have a tv.

If I dream at all - it's actually about the show that I'm listening to. It doesn't seem to have any negative impact though

Make sure they don’t broadcast red propaganda in the middle of the night! /jk
I'm in the labor force, but live at home. I can absolutely afford to purchase a home.

Why don't I?

Because I'm not spending $250,000+ on 1400sq ft. These types of articles make it seem like some huge mystery as to why society is the way it is today. It's no mystery. Houses cost to much and employers don't pay enough.
perish? or is this some theory of leaving academia for the cloth?
We are at the "Tether had to disclose it's holdings and it is effectively insolvent" stage.

"The new composition report is part of Tether’s efforts to stay in compliance with a settlement agreed to with the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG) after the prosecutor investigated it and its sister crypto exchange Bitfinex over the cover-up of some $800 million in losses."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/tether-first-r...
You need at least 2 sandbox environments: one that's more development-oriented (little to no restrictions on merging), and one that's more release-oriented (as close as possible to production).

Ideally you have 3, and the third one is not used except to demo new features to customers AFTER they have been released (and perhaps, hidden behind a feature flag).

If you only have one sandbox, then it becomes a brawl between development, sales, and management.

More than three is overdoing it and assuming a technical burden for no benefit. (No, you don't need the capacity to spin up sandboxes willy-nilly. Three is enough.)
Update your talking points.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st... - Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps without bothering the user
YouTube Bans Sen. Ron Johnson for Discussing Early Treatment of Covid-19
London's entire existence depends on letting large global corporations, oligarchs and criminals hide their money. If they stopped doing that the city and the country would spiral.
I’m not sure I disagree, but e-waste maybe?
Risk aversion and a lack of opportunity (luck) seem to have a large impact on this phenomenon, if you will.I know everyone is quick to jump on "helicopter parenting"from the 90's (?) on, but I think (from the limited speakers I've seen on the topic - which are few) really have made a generation of risk averse peoples. Add to that an economic downturn, where a lack of opportunity makes for less situations where luck might happen where you can take those risks... and here you are. Young men in basements getting a dopamine fix in a plasticine bubble with a virtual body.
I'm impressed with the information and detailed discussions about this topic from a gaming forum...
I remember a line from a manga called "Liar's game". The line goes "If you meet someone new, doubt them, question them and then you will understand them better". I think this should be the SOP of when you meet anyone new.
Don’t try to stop completely at each stop sign, that’s impossible.

Instead, only try to realize the truth... there are no stop signs.
To be fair, your friend has the right idea about online dating: the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. It’s like playing the lottery: life-changing good if you win but a negative expectation value.
You are not actually required to accept legal tender for anything besides debts. If the transaction is simultaneous, you are not required to accept legal tender (at least in the US.) This is why stores don't have to accept cash and be card only.

Edit: I am speaking about the US, unsure how this generalizes everywhere.
Not something new and not "an accident".
A part of Taligent lives on with ROOT, which was very annoying.
Right, but it doesn't really help me as someone holding the currency. I can have X dollars in my bank account, government can then declare these dollars are worthless or you have to change it to this new currency at some rate that is set by the state. Neither of these things are good for me and I would hardly call that the government "backing" the currency that I hold.
Big Pharma bad, but making drugs is incredibly costly. Especially in Alzheimers, where so many candidates failed. It's incredible someone is even trying after so many failures.
Yeah, I've just realised they've probably accidentally included a generic URL in the cache rules that they actually didn't intend to cache.

I originally thought they were trying to cache account data responses and so wondered why they wouldn't just use unique query parameters in that case. Definitely risky business though.

Out of interest, it looks like Cloudflare offers some sort of token authentication to authenticate at the edge: https://blog.cloudflare.com/token-authentication-for-cached-...
Steelmanning. Nice, learned something. I like it.
This is an organizational failure and one that has been known for decades. If your entire org isn't oriented around the same goal of shipping value to customers, then they will just end up defending their own limited horizontal viewpoint. The testing team wants test coverage? Why do you have a testing team? QA should be embedded in your product team. QA should want to ship customer value in the most responsible way. Security should want to ship customer value. Even your content and marketing teams. They can express opinions, but the product manager can take it or leave it in terms of how it affects the actual value of the product. And quality, security and scalability are definitely components of value. CYA is not.
I wonder if someone called in a favor with the president in order to hike up the price of BitCoin even more before they sell theirs.
There’s a convenience factor at play. A lot, if not all, e-commerce sites in Sweden have a nice big fat “pay with Klarna” button and it’s a one click purchase. No filling in addresses, getting your credit card out etc.
> I’m well aware that if you want your health data to remain private, smartwatches are certainly risky. But we’re way past that now. These devices can and have saved lives, and despite some early skepticism, wearables aren’t going anywhere.

The Apple Watch is right there.

Apple is very clearly committed to user privacy, to the fullest extent reasonably possible in the current climate. Indeed, they've even doubled down on privacy harder than ever before as of the WWDC keynote this week—one particular item of note being that where the hardware will support it, they'll be moving Siri processing on-device, rather than requiring it to go to their servers. At this point, any FUD alleging that they might still be taking your data, or might want to at some future date, is founded in no actual evidence whatsoever, and is actively detrimental to the cause of privacy as it causes people to think that they "might as well" get something from FB or Google because they're "no different".

If you want a smartwatch, and want your data to remain private, just get an Apple Watch.
>It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up.

That's only valid if the millions of people that died would not have died had people been turned away with fevers. From my understanding that is not the case.
This is a troubling trend that I see in my sons and that I battle in myself.

Why go out and compete for money, success and sex when those things are at your fingertips. I really think it’s as simple as “turn off the TV”. The problem is that the world is a hard place, and games/porn offer a “good enough” alternative that offsets the trouble of putting yourself out there.

Sorry for making this thread weird by bringing porn in.
Sealioning is to good faith questioning as DDoS is to genuine web traffic.
Strengthening the system can hurt though, if it discourages people from voting in the name of security.

And putting in stricter voting controls will not stop people from crying foul. These people aren't working off the facts in the first place, so what difference would it make? If their people don't win they'll call it rigged. If these laws don't give them the result they want, they'll continue to claim fraud until they get enough of an advantage to ensure victory.
FYI I can pay my taxes in crypto in Switzerland.
it is probably a step backward that submitted articles no longer get anonymized in many journals. The logic behind this was that reviewers would know, or look up, the author anyway. In effect this was giving in to corruption.

I completely agree that this is a terrible change. Of course, reviewers are often able to work out whose work something is. Even before widespread preprints on the web, citations were often a giveaway.

But plenty of reviewers won’t do it, on principle, and even for those that do, that fact that they’re obviously not meant to know is a very strong signal that they shouldn’t take it into account in their decision.
Well, there goes the neighborhood. Seriously, half of the attractiveness of RISC-V to both buyers and developers of new hardware is that it is an architecture that is NOT controlled by the likes of Intel!

I guess both Intel and AMD are now wishing they hadn't divested themselves of their now incredibly valuable embedded processor IP 15-20 years ago, when both had the dinosaur attitude that only x86 mattered, and that nothing could ever displace it. (Classical reference to Ted Nelson's warning to the mainframe (and even minicomputer) makers of the 1970s: "Wake up dinosaurs, the mammals are eating your eggs!")

(Historical capsule: Intel acquired StrongARM from DEC (rebranded as Xscale), and sold it off to basically create the modern Marvell. AMD sold off its Alchemy (MIPS) processors to a former exec, and the tech eventually found its way to Broadcomm. AMD also finally killed off its long-neglected Geode embedded 32-bit x86 (originally acquired from National/Cyrix) in 2019.)
30% dips in relation to what? 1bitcoin in 2018 == 1 bitcoin in 2020.

also, there is nobody forcing banks to hold crypto as an asset. nobody.
If a device can be bricked by sending a RGB-lighting command, you should return it to the OEM as not fit for purpose and demand a refund.
There is inconclusive evidence that it works.

That's in theory a good scenario for allowing some level of use.

If this practical level of use is good, I don't know.
If my memory is correct, he explained that this was where most of the market was (especially on the neighborhood of NYC he lives in), and it was easier to fix a bunch of Apple models, rather than thousands of different Android brands/models.
> Ehhh I’m skeptical about juniors needing face to face. Those juniors might just not be cut out for the field.

If your company's chat rooms are great, the onboarding might go well. Otherwise there's a big difference between noticing your boss/buddy is looking at their phone or having another kind of break and sneaking in a question or vice versa, noticing your junior dev's frustrated face, and looking at the green signal next to their name and wondering if it's a good time for a call.
This has a lot of parallels to "opt-out" syndrome in Japan.
Given the concurrent rise of VanLife and FIRE cultural phenomena it's worth considering why many individuals in developed economies ideal life is to not work.

I'd hypothesize that the rising costs both economic, and mental associated with what many consider a basic standard of living independently probably has alot to do with it.

Why work when 60 hours per week leaves you just barely scraping by and exhausted? Why not be just barely scraping by and not exhausted.
I had always seen code review process as partially a knowledge sharing exercise, so fine, maybe none of the 3 other engineers had previously seen those vendor docs, but part of the process is to retrace the steps and see if (with the benefit of hindsight) the reviewer would reach the same conclusion

> Code reviews in my prior experience solved nothing

I find that assertion suspicious, unless the culture was "push the approval button without even reading because ship,ship,ship"
Money is a contagious story plus guns.

I need to acquire USD to pay my tax bill, otherwise men with guns come and take away my house and put me in jail. That establishes a baseline value for USD.
Fantastic F# and Azure Developer Extensions for VSCode
> But London and Switzerland are already working to ensure they don't get badly hit by the minimum tax rate, as they fear it will make their financial districts less attractive

Well they're missing the point of this imposition, because it was designed expressly to avoid companies choosing 'favorable' locations to manage their tax affairs. Suck it up London and Switzerland.
That's like a sim saying that their world would be impossible to run on the desktop in their simulated living room. That is tautologically true.
I imagine what happens is a small circle of people makes a whole lot of money this way.
How is that statement supposed to contribute to the conversation? We all know that Bitcoin's consumption and environmental impact is absolutely massive for what is essentially - currently - an online casino.
This covers the key takeaways from more than 30 books on communication, including many of those mentioned in this thread: https://www.sivv.io/guides/Effective-Communication
The first acceptance should be that making worthwhile change in your life will take time. So, I would consider taking this out of the consideration. Just assume that it will take you time.

The second consideration should be a reflection on your part. Do a simple thought experiment. Assume either outcome has happened already. Which one makes you feel good about your life more?

You are conflicted since you want a quicker solution to your situation and unfortunately for most of us that's just not possible. So take the quick part out of your thinking. Give both options equal time regardless of whether it's true or not. The second consideration then becomes effort and monetary cost. These you have to be brutally honest with yourself and consider how hard you are really going to work and how much you are willing to spend. In terms of positive outcomes, again assume both will happen. Life is strange. We change, things happen, shit happens, etc. So assume things all things considered both outcomes can happen.

Your thinking is muddled because you haven't set the foundations for how you want to think about this. I've given you some suggestions on how to do that.
I don't see how two or a hundred reporters make any difference. It just takes one to find or fabricate a story and every outlet will run with it. That's just how the media works.

The only way is to require bulletproof evidence. But we both know that's not the standard that the media are working on.

I'm not saying that western media shouldn't be allowed there, by the way, I'm just saying that if they were or weren't there we would gain precisely zero information, because of a low standard of evidence, because of the certainty of deception, and because of the viral nature of reports.

It's pretty simple to set up such a situation. Instead of a fully accessible factory, you can make up a story of it happening in some sort of controlled, maybe military or otherwise secretive, area. Or you can just claim that they removed whatever you found there. It has been done and will be done again.

So if this openness were to be installed, I don't see how we could gain any information from it.

There is only one thing. Hard data and proof. Not testimonials or qualitative evidence, but hard data. All it takes is for someone to fly a drone in the right place or leak a video. And videos over controlled facilities in Xinjiang have been leaked, they just didn't show anything egregious. So I don't understand why it seems so hard to produce this kind of hard evidence.
Not OP but in case it's interesting:

I was a remote employee (IC) for about 12 years, and this was a recurring problem. I was one of a handful of remotes in a global team across several time zones, so at some level everybody had to deal with this problem: I didn't have a good handle on the office politics in the US, but the people in the US had just as tenuous a grip on the office politics in Singapore, and so on.

Somehow it usually worked out OK, but we had a director who was very good at shielding us from the more distracting stuff, and we were working on a chronically understaffed, mission-critical, unglamorous, profitable product, so it sort of attracted "just do the work" types.

The OP, however, is a consultant, which brings a very different set of political considerations. Last time I did remote consulting, which was a long time ago, the biggest thing you had to worry about was budget.

Was the $2M project going to get $5M next year or $1M and why? If it's $5M you'd better be able to offer more services or they might push you out in favor of a bigger shop; if it's $1M you'd better make sure you have an internal champion to make sure you still get some of the work; and if you think you can't influence the decision you're not paying attention.

Back then, consultancies would have people on staff just to take all the meetings and drink the drinks and press the flesh and know these things. I'm talking about shops with maybe 10-20 people. I don't know how it works now, but I would bet tomorrow's lunch that whoever still has those people makes more money than whoever doesn't.

(I was a solo consultant, and my lunch was a lot more modest.)
Your doctor is a smart person too but they can't simply check every single medication single handily. What even is "your desired standard" here?
So locations that benefit from <15% tax rates want to avoid it. Hardly a surprise.

It might of been an interesting article if they had a rationale beyond "In the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak is worried that banks based in London, which he says pay adequate tax, will be wrongly dragged into the 15% rate."

The entire point of this tax minimum is 1) No countries are excepted so they dont attract investment/HQ purely on tax rates. or 2) Countries that dont agree face other punishment that outweighs point 1.

Personally I think its quite selfish if countries dont sign up to this. Its much needed and capitalism greatly benefits from "a level playing field" (also a core tenant) as it tends to focus innovation to areas that matter, over company X has a market advantage because they are headquartered in the Cayman Islands and can buy market share over domestic company paying 25% on profits.
It's not a false dichotomy. The infrastructure does not exist and they can't do both things at once
You think people will stop using iPhones because a ride sharing app goes away?

Ever wonder what would happen to Uber and Lyft lost iPhone customers as a user base?
Nah, it's status. We have a teacher and nurse shortage in the US, they're critical professions, and they're super underpaid. Supply and demand doesn't explain the low wages.
> I would also say that I wouldn't be at all surprised if idiomatic Python is actually quite a bit faster than idiomatic Haskell in some interesting use cases. Which does not at all mean that the opposite is true.

I'd be utterly amazed. Haskell is orders of magnitude faster than Python for "typical" code (having to do a hash lookup for every method invocation ends up being really costly). It's not a slow language by any reasonable definition. And the fact that you're suggesting it is suggests that the nuances are not at all obvious.

(Not trying to hate on Python - performance is a lot less important than most people think it is - just trying to put Haskell's performance characteristics in a familiar context)