skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no - the brain is also incredibly parsimonious with respect to how little resources it uses to achieve the information processing power it has. If you could make a computer which could compete in terms of utility, energy usage, and size, you'd be a billionaire in no time.

It's probably true that you could imagine a "perfectly designed" brain which could perform better on some tasks with less complexity, but I think it's also true that there's been a lot of selection pressure towards increased intelligence, so this is probably fairly well optimized.

> why don’t we have a normal abstraction for sending signals? Instead, we have like 10s of slightly different ones with different failings each, but each having many repetitive machinery leading to inefficient “spaghetti code”.

What do you mean exactly by this? Like different neurotransmitter systems? Because I think it's actually quite elegant how the properties of different neurohormones lead to different processing modalities. It's like we have purpose-built hardware on the scale of individual proteins specialized for different purposes. I'm not so sure a more homogenized process for neural signaling would be an improvement.
It should come with an epilepsia warning.
I haven’t read an HN comment this upsetting in a while.
Makes sense while working in EITA department but not that much before or even after. Actually the majority of the company not having a clue about their strategic role, that makes it so medieval hardcore.
Banned Chinese Facial Recognition Was Used to Search for Minneapolis Protesters
You can sell processes as well best practice and manage towards KPIs related to them. Most organizations really don't have enough quality and skill to run in more outcome oriented way, I reckon.

Also, most best practices peddled are supported only be flimsy data and anecdotes - only very few areas that are different. I have seen some examples in medicine that had a lot data behind them (not all of medicine by a long shot, though).
1984 all the way.
For even more context - Rupert Murdoch was actually born in Australia.
f*ck the Murdoch propaganda machine.

Non Murdoch source (I have Murdoch domains blocked on my PC to avoid biased right wing garbage masquerading as "news" leaking onto my PC):

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sky-news-australia-has-been-susp...

There is a Melbourne saying - "Is it the truth or did you read it in the Herald-Sun", the Herald Sun being yet another Murdoch rag.
What's a "caster"?
"For people in my generation (20+-5), no one reads, cares about, or trusts mainstream media. We get our news from reddit, YouTube, and tiktok."

And this in a nutshell is why I don't have hope for your and future generations. Instead of researched and published stuff you prefer "news" from unknown sources (including nefarious state actors)
Working at a big consulting company where we have enterprise and senior technical architect paths. The EA reaches salary wise one level higher. I deliberately stay on the technical one as doing the EA from the outside as consultant i.e. from the outside is really hard even if positioned correctly. The nature of the EA job is political and long term. Often product/service follows organization so to affect change one needs to reshape the org in selective places requiring really high level sponsorship.
Thanks for this resource, definitely going to look into it. I am currently considering to make the freelance/consulting jump, so timing is ideal.
I feel there is a larger philosophical question here. If a law cannot be enforced, should it still be made into law, to signal the expected behavior to law abiding citizens, or should it be left out of the books?

Say for example there is a untraceable doping substance that gives an unfair advantage. Should it be put on the banned substance list even if we can't ever prove usage?
Very senior titles can be difficult indicators of competence because it’s usually someone decently smart and political, or someone in a terminal position that’s been at the company for a billion years and is doing the ol “rest and vest”
Odysee is decentralized?
Despite the first person perspective, at the bottom it says "Written by Sarah McDermott". Maybe he dictated it, or parts of it.
Because despite his illiteracy, he is a clever and resourceful person- with enough cleverness and a bit of luck, its possible to do lots of stuff like this. He was able to circumvent the barriers imposed by illiteracy through deception, careful manipulation, or outright swindling. While iliteracy is definitely a huge concern in the world, I hope I'm not the only one out there to admire him for grifting his way through multiple schools and jobs...!
I understand why you hate “establishment BS”... the requirement of being, at least to a first approximation, accurate, is a huge constraint on entertainment value.

“JFK clone weds two-headed space alien” is better TV than “Fed announces 1.2% jobs growth in September,” but I hope that in time you start seeking out facts over entertainment.
Personally, I love 'tracker music from the 90s', and it's great to see things resembling it pop up in my streaming app's recommendation list every so often.
Hmm, I clicked on both links on both my phone (4G) and laptop (wifi) and got a 404 error each time. Perhaps it's not publicly accessible, and only accessible when logged in to your Github account. Strange.
> Varicella is more infectious than SARS-CoV-2

Well. So it was in our tentative models at the time of this author's writing (8 days). So it is not any more, as of a few days only (3 days).

...Ray Kurzweil was right. /Bitter Joke.
I see the fundamental problem is dependence on existing capital assets that emit CO2. Like gasoline and diesel cars and trucks. Focusing that seems reasonable that you a) don't want people to buy new ones. 2) want to expedite the retirement of current ones.

Putting an excise tax on new fossil fueled cars would discourage manufacture and sales. Using the revenue to help working class people retire and replace their older fossil fueled vehicles with zero emissions ones reduces the number currently in service. The key word with that is 'help' as in help that do what's needed. Instead of carbon taxes which punish working class people for not doing something unspecified to fix the problem.

That said I also support banning production of fossil fuel powered cars with enough forewarning that industry and the economy can adjust.
Which person on the intro graphic is to be associated with the role of an architect, though?
Not just in remote deserts, I submitted 'Olive tree of Vouves' recently, just in a Greek village; estimates range from 2-4000 years old:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves
Yep, they're closely related. Here's my attempt to distinguish the ideas, let me know whether this makes sense:

Eventual Consistency is a property that can be used to describe a datastore or an individual datastructure.

So we could say that, for example, "Cassandra is an eventually-consistent database", or that "the Elasticsearch cluster is eventually-consistent".

One of the core features of CRDTs is that they are, by design, always eventually consistent.

That's useful since it allows CRDTs to be used in environments where peers may temporarily go offline, and would like to catch up with other peer changes (and share their own) - eventually - when they are back online.
They all do.
Gartner has checklists?
Oil doesn't biodegrade either.
Rather than learning how to read, it'd do everyone a whole lot more good to admit that some people are not cut out for school and to send them off to work when they're teenagers.

This poor guy has felt bad his entire life when he could've been an excellent coal miner instead.

Every place I've worked is filled with people like this guy to one extent or another - fearful parents pushing their kids to go to school and pretend to be something they're not. Then people who have an affinity for thinking have to navigate these insecure idiots (sorry, medical term) their entire careers.

It makes workplaces hell for everyone involved, both the idiots and the capable.

People ought to do what they are capable of doing. People ought to be treated with dignity and respect. If we get that far this century, boy, that'd really be something.
You just essentially described Swift
What I'm starting to do is find a few good books. Read and re read them. Then dive in. I've found this is far less frustrating than just figuring things out with a series of attempts and google searches when something goes wrong.
>These people who think it's been so downhill since the 70s.

Hmmm. Old enough to remember the 70s (and 60s and a bit of the 50s).

It's easy enough to cast about for a few real advantages of modern times.

. The ability to type to this forum. Essentially a Usenet group with a different interface.

. Replacement of Sears with Amazon

. Video on demand

. LED lightbulbs

. Greatly improved medical care in some areas, particularly surgery.

. Faster closing on stock trades.

A time traveler from 1965 would notice nothing unusual about my house aside from the flat panel TV.

I think that aside from some healthcare tech, I'd willingly trade cheaper beachfront property and skinnier / more athletic kids for 99% of modern advances.
This is probably technically true, but not useful. It's the scale of the misinformation in the Murdoch news empire that's concerning.
This article uses criticism of lockdowns as evidence of "virus and vaccine misinformation", which is extremely disingenuous.

Criticism of lockdowns is not denialism of the virus or even close to it.
Penpot could be worth a look: https://penpot.app/
Wow, you can type!

Seriously, you don’t have to worry, the project is GPL’ed, so the community can take care of it when you’re not around anymore

You can build a marketing page using a static site generator or a CMS like WordPress

I’m also wondering, how much are you charging (on average) for a license?
Why not just use GC at that point? I thought the whole USP is the zero runtime cost
For my, the most successful strategy I've found is to have a handful of academics and journalists that you trust and who cover a sufficient breadth of topics, and reading their articles/blogs/twitter feed. Then adding a few contrarians who I strongly disagree with just to challenge me a bit.

If you're not careful, you can fall into the same traps with social media as with mainstream media:
1. getting reporting from people who lack context on the issues, or
2. getting a distorted view of which issues are important.
Wow, IIRC that link used to be much easier to find but it seems like they don't want it to be found... :o

"Request Your Personal Information" help article: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

amazon.com link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/privacycentral/dsar/preview.html

amazon.de link: https://www.amazon.de/gp/privacycentral/dsar/preview.html

(They don't even mention "GDPR" on that page but that should be GDPR compliant.)
That is what you get for airing neutral opinions.

In neutral journalism, all sides are interviewed and given grounds to discuss the matter fairly. You don't for example just interview Arabs when it comes to Israel, you interview all sides. But with Youtube's Covid censorship policy in place, each time a so to speak "Jew" was interviewed, the journalist would receive a strike for it and just be banned after 3 strikes.

That people didn't go out and instantly boycott Youtube for this anti-democratic experiment is ridiculous.
I Quit My Job at Amazon After 5 Years
DontBreakDebian – Debian Wiki
The article does not seem to be telling us what is the cause of this difficulty to change anything. Is it maybe the quality of the existing solutions that makes it very difficult to change them? I, personally, am inclined to blame the 'technical debt' philosophy. If you never clean up your messes, things will go slower and slower and slower. Also, the mythical man month comes to mind 'add more people to a project and it will take longer'. The biggest problem of too many people being that knowledge becomes increasingly fragmented. So, one should have fewer people than one actually needs in order to make sure that they have enough knowledge.
I love working with Swift, but it's such a pain to maintain and deploy it
Show HN: Boost – I built a digital fitness coach using real-time pose estimation
Amusingly we outsourced the sector of the economy with high productivity gains while keeping the part subject to Baumol's cost disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Squeezing a thimbleful of update into a ten-gallon can
Odysee is a centralized client using the decentralized LBRY blockchain. Because of that Odysee's contents is somewhat restricted, though you can still access contents directly on the LBRY blockchain, though at a slightly poorer user experience.
Not it isn't, they'll combine anyway, and also sometimes not if it's in the same order. (Sometimes it seems to make sense, e.g. fitting two smaller boxes better, other times not.)

There's just no correlation between #orders and #packages (or even #deliveries) so that's not a reason to behave one way or the other.
That’s quite a dramatic statement.

Let’s be honest, most of the “research and published stuff” is also crap. The majority is built out of reposting things from those “untrustworthy” places, or from “interviewing experts”, that 9 out of 10 times are tangentially linked to the issue.

News has always been more about entertainment than getting information.
I hire teams and I absolutely encourage everyone to snitch if they see bad behavior. I will not tolerate abuse on a team I manage. Anyone who works for me is well aware they should snitch if they see bad behavior. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Reminds me of the scene in The Life of Others (2006) where the Stasi has samples from every registered typewriter in East Germany, so they have to smuggle a special typewriter.
>Instead of researched and published stuff you prefer "news" from unknown sources (including nefarious state actors)

And this is why our world is so messed up now, too many older people believing something just because it was it was in the papers or on TV.
> not all off them is entirely in Activision Blizzards control. I cannot remember playing any games in recent history that had a community as toxic as WoWs to non veteran players.

I think community toxicity is very much Activision Blizzards's fault. There are no community guidelines anywhere, griefing is explicitly allowed (almost encouraged) in World PvP, game masters are few and far between. The report system is more often abused for griefing than used for actual community management.

It's very easy to look at FF14 to see that this needs to all start from the top. They have a very active community management team, and enforce very strict guidelines that go way beyond 'don't sexually harass other players'. They have a new player's guild where the guidelines are often discussed, with players taking on the roles as mentors who are supposed to drill these values into people. They have a very strict policy of never attacking someone for how they play the game, unless they are completely griefing (like a healer who never heals their party). Discussing damage or other performance numbers is grounds for a time out (outside dedicated groups for the hardest content).

Additionally, the relationship between the development team and the player base is much less confrontational. The development team is relatively candid on the games direction, they often explain choices they've made in satisfying ways, and seem to actively listen to player feedback. There is a famous example of a player asking about a quality of life feature in a Q&A, and the dev lead saying something along the lines of 'you know what? That makes sense', and delivering the feature in-game a few months later.

These are all things that require some serious investment in community management, and they pay off immensely in long-term good will and loyalty. Instead, Blizzard fired a few hundred people from QA and community management positions shortly before Battle for Azeroth.
I find many of the behaviors of google anti-competitive too, and slowly moved away from most of the things related to it.

Using a different email provider, storage service, firefox, search engine etc. However I still have to keep chromium/chrome around since some features I noticed just don't work properly with firefox.

On reading about recent http/2 and http/3 development (https://ripe76.ripe.net/presentations/10-2018-05-15-bbr.pdf) and google's approach to it, one megacorp deciding what is best for the rest of us feels too much power in someone's hands.
TikTok scares me. They have found a way to get you addicted to 6-seconds content that you can watch mindlessly without ever choosing it. Basically like a TV except you have no control and your attention span becomes that of a child.

It's literally a (non-chemical) drug and it should be treated as such.
Why guilt? No reason to feel guilty for anything.
I collect old books and buy anything that I can find pre-1950. Last time we moved I had 2000+ books in ~15kg boxes. No guild or shame about it. I love my books.
Understanding the Emotions Behind Procrastination
For further context - Fuck Murdoch
> It makes workplaces hell for everyone involved, both the idiots and the capable.

I think your attitude is what makes the hell tbh.

We should definitely teach everyone to be literate, and not just decide they should be "excellent coal miner"s instead.
How Ground Positioning Radar Could Help Self-Driving Cars ‘See’ Better
That's why it would need a software equivalent of nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, i.e. open-source firmware.

There's still Trusting Trust, but that's rather harder to pull off.
It will be interesting to see the range of comments here as Europe and the US wakes up. Assuming it doesn't get flagged.

It appears to me that Australian users are very supportive of this (but I could be wrong) but are there any reasons why, culturally?

Edits: we hear and understand the political reasons. I'm wondering about the cultural reasons. In other cultures around the world, people wouldn't be so supportive of a tech platform banning a news broadcaster.
I can walk to the grocery store, now I will have to drive to a bigger store because I have to buy everything in bulk.

Your fine isn't tied to any externality so it is stupid.
Isn't brother in that ballpark?
I was thinking more in the lines of Star Trek / The Orville where material wealth is no longer a thing.
What is with Australia and it’s authoritarian bend? First soldiers are enforcing their covid curfew and now this?

And nothing but support. Seems like some of the authoritarian culture of SE Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, etc) has rubbed off on them? The UK is far more anti-authoritarian.

No doubt any video about a lab source of Covid would have been banned too.
I think this comment misses the point. Should youtube be the arbiter?
But other games that have a Raid Finder are doing well and rapidly increasing their player numbers: Final Fantasy 14 has had the exact same system since the beginning, and it's definitely not hurting their growth. I think that, despite the hate it gets, LFR was far from WoW's main cause of downfall.
To be clear, the article specified that he was jailed for a non-homicide offence.
The best tool I’ve found for this job is reflex[1]. It’s easy to setup, Go agnostic, very « UNIX » in its philosophy, doesn’t get in your way with its own logs, and just works.

Before that I used realize but it has the bad behavior of always adding it’s own prefix to the logs, which sucks.

[1]: https://github.com/cespare/reflex
I have a HL-1440 that is old enough to still have a Centronics connector (in addition to USB1) and it's a tank. I had to take it apart once between 2008, when I got it from a university that was throwing it out, and today. It prints all my shipping labels.
Absolutely, that's exactly the answer to the guy talking about "wasting energy" on Bitcoin. On what else would we waste it then?

Energy is being wasted everywhere on much sillier things at much grander scales.
Naming Origami Models
I learned about this from watching the documentary [1971](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_(2014_film)).
I guess they have a legal monopoly on their intellectual property? But I do see a lot of sloppy uses of the word monopoly that just seem to be autopilot.
The irony is that with enough experience, you get a gut feeling for these kind of scenarios and the only thing one can do is to fasten the seatbelt and brace for impact, because of the politics involved no one really wants to listen.
Write a test that launches the application and checks relevant pixels, at the very worst. Which is not generally all that hard. Bonus points if you save the full image so you can see expected / actual results easily.
Youtube should be the arbiter of content that's allowed to be posted on Youtube, yes.

The government forcing companies to host content that they don't want to host would actually be a violation of freedom of speech. Youtube taking down content on their own platform is not.
Isn't that a standard feature in all major systems since at least Windows Vista or 7?

Although things like this show that a tiny bit of effort to explain features could go a long way. Every game explains the controls in the first minutes, on Windows you have to stumble upon an internet post like "10 secret Windows tricks you didn't know!". Microsoft could put tips like that in every update/setup loading screen instead of having Cortana blast through the speakers.

That's also why Windows 8 was doomed to fail. They restructured the whole user interface to a point people have to search for the "shutdown" button, but not a single hint about how to use it.
The story was written by the journalist, Sarah McDermott, and not by John Corcoran himself.
Case and point: I wear glasses. In fact, I'm almost blind without them: my effective vision ends at about 3 feet. Though I am able to perceive distinction between large objects and people, everything dissolves into a fuzzy mess. In American public schools (in the northeast US, at least) in the early 90s, schools would test student vision every year during elementary/primary school years. They would use the traditional eye test sheet, with strings of letters in smaller and smaller font vertically stacked, to be read at a distance.

It took them 5 years to figure out that I couldn''t see anything other than what was immediately in front of me. I was a smart kid, and never had problems in the classroom as I sat in the front row and listened very carefully to what was going in.

I would memorize the eye test sheet while standing in line at the nurses office, waiting to be tested. They never suspected anything was amiss, and routinely reported to my parents that I had perfect vision.

I was finally discovered when my father, trying to be clever while we were out shopping, asked me about an ice cream parlor in the distance. Despite the name of the shop being written clearly above the shopfront, I bombed the question and my father realized that I couldn''t see what he was talking about.
Because Murdoch is probably the worst person in the world, and Sky is his Australian TV propaganda channel. We don't want it to be a political weapon like Fox News turned into with Trump
How does it handle watch mode for compiled or built code?
https://www.reciperadar.com/ - a way to find recipes based on the ingredients you have available.
I used to be involved in solutions design a few years ago. Now I've retreated somewhat to being just a regular 'senior developer'. Solutions design, architecture, and DevOps stopped being interesting to me as soon as they inexplicably became a frustrating exercise in understanding every single method Amazon Web Services has conceived of to cost the company money.