skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that business has no particular win condiion or let's say "end" - the goal of it is in the name itself: to keep busy.

What do you want a computer to do: to sell as many apple as the trees can grow ? To change the way people consume so they start eating berries instead because they're cheaper to grow ? To diversify into building the collection machine and not just the apple sales infrastructure ? To sell to far away outsiders ? To cultivate in more and more places ?

It seems just so arbitrary and tied to human interest that a computer would have to have its own desires to satisfy to start doing "business" and then be so isolated from human desires that we d have no interest in keeping them online.

Or we d have to imagine very clever yet obedient machines that would stick and readapt to our changing desire and assist us, but then are they doing business or we are ?
Rail guns are under active development. Also, escape velocity is not practical in that is doesn't account for atmosphere.
I would argue that this is ridiculously reductionist and probably has nothing to do with the actual decision making process on either side.
Why hide the names of the companies you tested?
Services like this have a very large network effect. As the informed users leave, the quality of discussion drops and the remainder of users end up leaving too.
So, it looks like re-processing other then for weapon production only gets done on a very small, experimental scale because it is simply not economical, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing). This still leaves us with an endlessly growing stockpile of dangerous nuclear waste products.
> You are not getting health insurance in most European countries unless you are working or registered as unemployed and remain at disposal of the local job centre.

Not the case in France (at least for the past 20 years), and I doubt it's the case in most other European countries.
Americans Hoarded Money in Mattresses to Survive Pandemic
We agree with those points and sell a tool https://www.uclusion.com that replaces traditional meetings.

Many of your real time meetings and discussions were not the best use of time even in the office but now remote is highlighting the problem as you explain.
The entire universe runs on nuclear power. I'd be surprised if we found something much better, but who knows what the future brings.
The thing I want to do is to do something with someone else.
It would be tRUstLeSs and deCEntRALiseD, duh! Until you get into the car of course.
I was gonna say that this comment seemed like something from a decade ago... before I realized the article itself is from 2009 (12 years!!)

Yes, all of that is true, and arguably none of it matters anymore.

> At some point you browser will just turn into another operating system running on top of your operating system.

That happened long ago, aside from a few specialized apps in mobile stores. The only time people need those is if they want faster repeat functionality that they use often (email, calendar, some stores, etc.). Otherwise, everything from office work to realtime raytraced gaming can happen in a web browser... and that's great, even if the dev experience relatively sucks and the code is messy.

The Web has turned programming from snobby/precise/beautiful/elitist/expensive engineering to arts & crafts and democratized content creation in the process (eh, for better or worse). Nowadays writing a webpage is easier than writing a letter.
>the chronic pain tells your body not to try walking/working until the situation fully heals

Yes, I mentioned that reason in my original post.

My query [if Evolution can be queried] is why the need for such intense levels of chronic pain? A tolerable ache in a part of the body will automatically make you aware of the need to treat it carefully. I can't see why 100s of 1000s of years of evolution has selected for a nervous system which cranks the pain up to 11 and then maintains it at that level for days, weeks or [in some poor folks' cases], months or years on end, with no respite.

You'd have thought that, over the course of human evolution, natural selection would have weeded out the specimens whose nervous systems render them practically incapacitated for days on end, on account of relatively trivial injuries.

I mean, look at toothache [which I mentioned in passing in my original post]. People have been driven to the brink of insanity with the pain from a broken tooth. Yet what does a broken tooth matter? Humans can still function perfectly adequately after losing all their teeth and a broken tooth can still function almost as well as a whole one. Yet the nervous system often renders people barely able to function, on account of a broken tooth.

Conversely people can be suffering from life threatening heart conditions, kidney disease, liver disease etc. without ever realising it. I seems the nervous system has a very arbitrary 'level of pain = seriousness of injury' scale, when it comes to alerting us that things are wrong with parts of the body.
Financial Independence Retiring Early.

The basic assumption generally being, anyone who can save two-thirds of each paycheque and invest in a portfolio yielding 4% per year after inflation can retire in 10 years. Saving two-thirds of each paycheque is of course difficult unless one is in a high pay grade to begin with, but there are enough people with the necessary discipline to keep the dream alive for many of us.
Hold power button on iphone and it disables biometric without turning off the device

They might still have a way to image it though, depends on the day as the imaging software always gets thwarted
The system in Austria is extremely rigid and sometimes verges on idiotic in some cases due to how archaic and pro-business it is.

As a Romanian I can say you'd be surprised how many things the Romanian system gets right in favor of the workers in comparison to some western countries. At least on paper.
I am honestly very bitter about Americans glorifying the European system while happily taking home 2/3rds of their 100k+ developer salaries and enjoying much lower prices of everything.

With regards to insurance:

- in some countries (UK, Sweden) - the insurance is contingent on having a social security number, so the coverage is pretty much universal for residents, but people coming from other EU countries will still need to work or register as unemployed to get it.

- in other countries, you generally need to be working or looking for work (i.e. answer phones / invitations from job centre and attend any interviews/courses they send you to) to be covered.

Some countries (Poland for example, I'm Polish) allow you to buy insurance if you are neither working nor looking for work. But as of December 2020, about 1.5 mln Poles are not insured at all. [1]

[1] https://tvn24.pl/polska/szczepionka-na-koronawirusa-czy-osob...
What would that do to all the Stripes holding illiquid shares in a private company?
I think you’re discounting that everything Chrome does these days is designed to become a web standard, unlike IE which was trying to have browser-only features for lock-in.

Chrome does seem to be somewhat hasty, which can have a similar effect in practice. But it might seem different if you actually want a feature and don’t want to wait years for it?

I don’t think Web Audio is as bad as you say. There is the ScriptProcessorNode which is getting deprecated in favor of audio worklets because having JavaScript processing audio on the foreground thread is a bad idea. But other than that, it seems nice for making simple audio processing graphs, and the infrastructure for putting JavaScript in the background took a while to work out.
I really despise this trend of uploading your ID and a selfie for verification. I know it makes sense in some legal frameworks, but beyond that I find it invasive and risky (and rude.)
My guess would be the exact opposite: current chip shortage has lead to billions of USD more put into new fabs and R&D. I think/hope the market will overreact to this shortage, and I'm excited to see what we will be able to do with all those new faster ultra-low cost microcontrollers in 5-10 years.
Idk, there's ways of making you speak

https://xkcd.com/538/
Jotai, primitive and flexible state management for React
Incredibly annoying that apple does not support this, while also trying to crack down on apps that is considered to just be a wrapped web-application. (In which case they want you to make a proper web app instead). Even using notifications is not considered enough of a reason to get an app they feel is just a wrapper approved.
Wendy Schmidt applies the spirit of Silicon Valley to saving the ocean
Not to take away from the accomplishment, but hopefully the "selfie auth" isn't considered the penultimate verification. With no social engineering, just finding a public photo of someone, one could composite a short video that would be very hard to distinguish from reality.
It has been going on for a while. Many of them have gone to the hot take reaction style opinion pieces. CNN copied the Fox 'formula' to try to get ratings. The 3 panel yell at each other format with maybe some news possibly scrolling at the bottom. It is not news. It is opinions presented as 'facts' when they are usually curated opinions to hit market share. The stuff before about 2010 was better disguised but it was still very similar to what you observe. Little news, lots of opinions. After that point I think they just stopped bothering to disguise it much.

It is kind of 'interesting' to watch but you are not going to get much out of it. I cut a bunch of that sort of 'news' out of my life. It was not giving me news but curated opinions to have. I found my stress levels were so much nicer.
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www.allsides.com

They compare similar headlines and also show you what you might have missed because one side doesn't even surface the headline

Edit: this article is about allsides, if you read it
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Was this your browser filling for you?
> Is it important that the org bends to the will of a subset of workers with specific preferences

Huh? Where did this come from? Why "bend"? You can just post on Slack: "The 'Ideation' event is coming, attendance is not mandatory, come if you want to hang out and discuss ideas about tasks X and Y!"

Whoever wants to -- and loves that way of work -- will come. Everybody else will keep on digging on their own tasks and job will still get done. Win-win, no?

> or is it important that we get a group of people who are going to get the work done?

I don't understand why are you conflating "not willing to spend an hour with people enthusiastically discussing ideas" with "I can't get dev work done"?

Too much polarization and "us vs. them", dude. Your colleagues are not your enemies.
Because it is hard it is not impossible.
> We will typically store the rest of your submitted identity information for 3 years. This includes all images captured, extracted data from your ID document including name, date of birth, and ID number, and any information submitted via forms such as name, date of birth, SSN, email, and phone number, and the verification response.

That doesn't make me feel a lot better. :( The images are enough to generate biometric data such as facial recognition profiles.
Sign me up for that discussion as well
This is true--we've owned our house since 2009, so our mortgage is about half of what it would cost to rent around here now.

But in the short term, there really shouldn't be such a big gap between renting and owning. That means that there isn't a global shortage of housing in the market, but distortions in the market because of external factors. Clearly, right now, a renter is better off waiting and putting the difference in the bank.
Ive recently started reading the Tangle newsletter. It’s a daily drop that focuses on 1 topic and provides the left, right and their take on an issue.

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>Quite the contrary. In a sibling comment I discuss how ruminants are the most efficient way to turn inedible plant matter to food that humans can eat.

I hear you and agree with everything you say in the rest of your post. I think we are just coming from two different assumptions. My assumption is that with the population the world the and with the increasing middle class we are seeing an increase in meat and dairy consumption, to a level that cannot be met and hasn't been met, with pasture and grazing animals.
Basically I agree with everything you have been saying about the efficiency of ruminants but as a viable way to feed the worlds population, my assumption is that it wont work and isn't working.
If you look at places like the EU, Pig meat is their largest meat sector and factory farms account for 85% off all pig meat available on the market. (page 4: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/6520...)

The EU is not a singular case, the trend of farms moving towards intensive factory farms is happening everywhere. In my limited research, I couldn't find statistics on how much pasturing china does but I still thought this was interesting: "Today, China produces and consumes half of the world’s pork, produces nearly 20 percent of the world’s poultry, 10 percent of the world’s beef and is the fourth largest milk producer of the world." (https://www.iatp.org/documents/need-feed-chinas-demand-indus...)

Anyway I agree Factory Farming is a terrible "solution", and thinking about food production in the "most efficient" terms is not a approach to the problem either. I just don't think pasturing ruminant animals is a great solution either, I live in a rural farming community and I don't see it actually working. I'll just go eat my lintels and peas until I see a solution that makes any sense to me.
It's great that there are still people in the world paying you 20% a year for not taking on any risk. Really gives you hope for humanity, doesn't it.
EU flags another rare blood condition as side effect of AstraZeneca vaccine
It might get a bit more common since after the ACA you can stay on your parent's health insurance till you're 26 now if they have it.
Haha, HN doesn't even allow you to delete comments, man. They own your comments in perpetuity in the name of whatever. What's permanent about an IRC channel? Its name?
> Why do you need to make the dependence on Redis a part of the public API? You don't do that with the service API, so why do you have to do it with the library API?

Where does the redis instance come from? How does the library get access to it?

These are problems the library author cannot solve and end up being problems for the user. Much like monitoring of that redis instance will also become a problem for the user.
More interaction with humans means smaller brains for cows
I know that KYC checks for Onfido we had no volume but we’re being charged around $10. Is the $1.50 for KYC or some lesser verification?
Presumably not, because "the key is broken" is not the same as "I refuse to hand over the keys". This law, rightly or wrongly, is concerned with the latter concept.
Well, I don't believe what Stripe (or anyone) says; I believe what you do.

Does Stripe have a legal contract with users that says something to the effect of "if it does 1 and 2 above (by mistake or by choice doesn't matter) - that they will be liable for it". If not, all the support documents and technical security documentation is moot. I want to see "skin in the game" by Stripe. If you're so sure about "security" sign a legal contract.
I went and skimmed the rfc you're citing and it's fro 1988, it's old enough to have samples in C code where the "register" keyword is still used (afaik nowadays most compilers will ignore it) along with assembly code for motorola 68020, Cray CPUs and the IBM-370.

EDIT: for reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1071.html
When most normal people talk about 2+2=4, they are referring to addition of natural numbers under the axioms of Peano arithmetic, where 2+2 indeed equals 4.

Sabine Hossenfelder's point is that if we abandon the Peano axioms then we can arrive at different results. For example, under the rules of modular arithmetic, 2+2 may not equal 4. Which is perfectly obvious. Of course if you define "+" to mean something different, then you get a different result. Why is that worth mentioning?

The purpose of language is for clear communication. In ordinary contexts, when someone uses the addition operator, everyone would understand that they're referring to integer addition under the Peano axioms and not modular addition or polynomial addition or something else. Engineering manuals do not need to preface all calculations with "Under the Peano axioms...".

When NASA engineers design a rocket, do they need to worry "what if 2+2 doesn't equal 4?"? Do we need to redesign all of our computer systems and rethink all of our scientific theories? If I'm writing a function which requires 2+2=4 to be always true, do I now need to write code to deal with the case where 2+2 does not equal 4? Of course not, but this is the most natural interpretation of the phrasing "2+2 doesn't always equal 4" which is the title of the video.

Of course it is just clickbait, but it seems to me that this kind of content only serves to confuse people and does not really help anyone. I don't want to use the word "sophistry" here but I can't think of a more appropriate word to describe this video.
Wow, I didn't know Lee was a "nominal" crown princee of South Korea. As a South Korean myself, I really hate the former royal family. It embarrasses me that their negative influence contributed to the collapse of not only their own country, but also Freenode.
Is it true you can't adjust the output of a nuclear plant? I thought I heard something about being to slide the cooling rods from "minimal output" to "Chernobyl", but I'm not a nuclear person.
I think that just must be a law. I see no other possibility.
What's worth nothing, nowadays most of the concepts "that are too hard for web developers" In the quote are already part of frontend programming.

Concurrency - web workers

Compilers - technically you can write compiler, but it's a very specific use case and I think that web is simply not a proper platform for writing them usually

3d - webgl

Class inheritance - classes in js (they're not identical to i.e. Java classes but they provide a very similar abstraction on the first glance)

Abstract classes - Typescript has it

Pass by value vs pass by reference - something that js programmers had to always understand in the past for the sake of handling primitives and objects in js

Garbage collection - weak references in js

Software development methodologies depend highly on team
Isn't this a privacy nightmare? All that data in Stripe data centers.
I think that's the whole point. It doesn't really matter what the CEO'S want. It's about what the employees want.
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A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies
Well, I’m not a parent or an educator, but we’ve had company-wide meetings on Google Meet with triple-digit attendance and I haven’t noticed performance issues.
I was treating "extracting value" as my ability to get value out of something that is "delivering value". Your definition is probably better as a more complete spectrum, so my question becomes "How does Gemini deliver value relative to the effort I need to exert in order to use it?" Essentially, how does it overcome its own learning curve?
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket for Spacecraft Propulsion
Point of note, Teams wasn't built from scratch it was more like a remodel of skype which they already owned. If you start looking under the hood at various aspects of teams one will start to see Skype all over the place.
> Ah yes, an intricate lie.

Not a joke -- what do you think resumes are?
Is this new? (to the USA?)

Because I've used similar services inside apps dozens of times. Sometimes to verify a drivers license to ride a car, sometimes to verify my ID to register a bank account.

Every time is was done in a few seconds so I assumed the companies used an API rather than every car-share building it themselves.
That statement is very hard to quantify even within the same industry.

Apple makes and will continue to make great products for a specific subset of uses because they are willing to make big investments and are very opinionated about optimal user experience. The end result of that is the often great experience of their ecosystem today.

They obviously also employ tactics to lock out competition too (see the purchase of AuthenTec, Dark Sky and a few other small purchases of best in class companies explicitly demanding that they don't work with anyone else).

Innovation in reality is "improving things" and many many companies suck at defining what an improvement is and who the improvement is for. Too many focus on improving revenue numbers and that's it instead of improving user experience, reliability, security, privacy, etc. All things Apple cares deeply about*

* Again, Apple's decisions are only an improvement to a subset of users but that's really all that matters to them. Happier users means more use of Apple products which is a win.
Google News gives you precisely this portfolio of vendors. Why would anyone subscribe to a single news vendor? I'd also advise adding WION, Al Jazeera, Axios, and The Guardian + BBC.
Let's just fork China's social credit score system.
You can dive in my history, i'm really not anti-nuclear.

But these kind of storytelling is damageable. It put in concurrence both type of energy. Can we agree than anything is better than coal and oil for electricity production, and go down from here?
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives

I remember seeing Twitter chatter from the right re: the Fauci email dump, and so I went on various liberal outlets to try to get the left-wing perspective, and it was complete crickets.

Especially when it's something I can't just read and form an opinion on myself (Fauci's email dump was absolutely massive), I depend on journalists to accurately summarize and contextualize primary sources. And it's really hard to get a straight take when one side won't even bother to write a "this is a nothingburger, here's why" article.
If only Stripe would start a pre-ipo stock market. I guess only incumbent regulation prevents this, it’s not a technology problem.
Which is why the blanket "lying media" and "fake news" rhetoric is so dangerous. It removes that trust—often unjustifiably and usually in total—without specifying what other institutions or processes can be trusted instead for reliable information besides a known orange-tinted salesman with an affection for Mein Kampf.

GANs and other deep fakes are going to be weaponized and absolutely obliterate the foundations of this country if that trust in legitimate journalism cannot be adequately restored in time. All journalism is biased, but we're not talking about bias; we're talking about up is down.

Very soon literally anyone can be shown saying anything… to anyone else… anywhere… wearing anything (or nothing)… with resources akin to a typical gaming computer. As a nation, we are woefully unprepared for that day, and we will pay dearly for that lack of preparation.
Yes - but it won't be for a few weeks as I'm on holiday and snatching 5 minutes unobserved on the laptop!
I launched Read Across The Aisle to help people find new news sources and balance their news media diets. It’s totally free.

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Author of blog post talking about this post here https://youtu.be/2Y97YY6yW1k
I sometimes think American politics has been reduced to a census ... whether people claim blue or red are strongly correlated to income, age, urban/rural and other factors.