skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mentioned having a good desk and computer setup. If you don’t already have an adjustable sit/stand desk and a split or ergo keyboard, I’d consider those as important as a good chair.

(PS: A good chair need not cost $1000. The Uplift Pursuit, Hon Ignition 2, and Uplift Vert are all totally reasonable and $300-$400.)
> going to get tired of playing handicapped games against 1000 Elo noobs.

False dichotomy. What about playing 1800 players but starting with only one bishop? Or how about playing the same 1800 players get to use some assistance that warns of blunders/mistakes, but does not give away the better moves? It's only "cheating" if it is not agreed beforehand...

Also, bear in mind that your Overwatch example gave the impression that the good/honest player was so above the others that even without the opponent flagging system, the above-average player would be matching with "boring" games most of the time. Removing the opponent rating system does not solve his problem and still leaves the cheating issue open.
I provided source evidence documenting an example of the mechanism and result of what I'm saying. Get back to me when you can provide a source example case of a virus evolving legs and doing a little dance and then we can consider the probabilities equivalent.

Until then, we both know they're not.
But consumers are the community.
> As I understand it, we don't actually know why children have been less susceptible to illness so far, do we?

Well, everything is a theory, but the most plausible one I've seen is that ACE2 expression is age-dependent. Young kids don't have much of the receptor the virus needs.
Sure, and this is the internet where tone doesn't translate well. I'd be tactful and courteous about it: I would finish the session, politely decline future interviews on the day and thank them for their time. It's clear we are not a fit for each other at that point.
Let alone medium have a pay wall now.
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I think many religious people would disagree with your definition. That's the problem with any discussions of the "soul". It is poorly defined.
TAI is pretty well aligned.

It will drift slightly over the centuries. Is that a big deal compared to even the variation inside a time zone?
What? Most of the items in the dollar store seem like consumables?
> they say they already (indirectly) pulled that same CO2 out of the air, instead of the ground, so overall the process is carbon neutral.

I find that difficult to understand. If the output is CaCO3 that still needs to kilned to make CaO, then CO2 gets emitted. Even if that volume of CO2 was obtained from dissolved CO2 in the ocean, one would have had to expend energy to extract that CO2 from the ocean and that energy would have generated emissions as well.

If the output of this is just CaCO3 again, then I fail to see how this is a better solution than carbon capture using a clay geopolymer technique that goes directly to a concrete like structural material. What I mean is, wouldn't it be better to just skip all of this and go focus on rediscovering the technology for "creating" rock like what was possibly achieved at Cuzco (Hatun Rumiyoc) or Pumapunku? Or more realistically in the short term, using fly ash and silica flume or slag to make concrete without requiring CaO?
> The trade publication Loss Prevention Media defines organized retail crime as "any organized criminal, conspiratorial attack on the retail establishment"

Meanwhile, the real world defines organized crime as: criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale.
The Mirror World
All I'm saying is that I don't think non-human animals should be expected to need to comprehend the nature of suffering in sentient begins. You're saying that's unfounded and uninformed. I don't even know how to respond because I almost feel like you're messing with me.

> The dogs know it's wrong to eat food that is for humans and that there will be repercussions if they do so.

No, they know they get scolded when they do it. This is why dogs only stop pissing on the floor when you make it clear they can't. Not because they had some sort of moral realization that it was wrong to piss on their owners floor.
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GPT-3 and Clubhouse social experiment
the level -> nivel one blew my mind
> If people didn't need leap seconds, they would already not be using them.

Why do you believe that?

> Either put them in or don't.

Sure, if you have a time machine we can go tell them not to add leap seconds.
I’d love to see how many HNers have actually been in a Dollar Store let alone shop at one.

Seems like a bunch of hand wringing by middle and upper-middle class Americans who consider Trader Joe budget stores and Whole Foods to be the norm.

Similar to rich white people solving minority problems by elbowing all the minorities aside and instituting the solutions they see fit.
Hehe - disposable razors (with the removable head) are also a kind of subscription.

Good piece. So many things are hidden subscriptions these days, even when they don’t have a need to be.

It’s so obviously a money grab.
On a tangent: The characterization of Harry Potter is way off … I missed the whole craziness and just read it last year.

I have to say it‘s amazingly well crafted and holds up as world literature.

Important: Voldemort just gets his power from people who go along, who dehumanize … We need to stand together despite all of our differences. Harry is not the chosen one or has any special power. There are no clear good and evil lines (it’s complex: the most impressive, likable and heroic character after the last book is Severus Snape :) that twist really got me.

Say what you want about Rowling, but her storytelling is amazing (playing with troupes and expectations).

There are some cringe worthy parts, yet any of the great literature works I reread has them. (Lord of the Rings, the great gatsby, how to kill a mockingbird… )
> I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts/messages/e-mails.

This is the way. My whole family is like this, and it's awesome. Sometimes people are too busy and don't reply, but no one gets offended. It can be annoying when planning, but overall it's great.

> I have another friend who always calls on his commute home and gets offended when I don't answer.

Similarly, we have a rule that it's not rude to call to shoot the shit, but it's also not rude to send the person straight to voicemail for any reason. It's so nice to just be able to call my sister out of the blue and know that if I'm bothering her, she won't pick up.
I thought the fact that mongodb data files were essentially mmapped was used as a critique against its durability as a primary database. Is that not true?

Or was that not a relevant critique?
They want the burgers to taste the same all over the place. A shame because here in south western Ontario we have amazing tomatoes. I eat at least one a day just sliced with a bit of salt.
Precis, the next step in Unicode validation
There's a bunch of places named Vulcan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan#Places
The point being made by GP is that there are very many reasons why modern civilization on Earth may be shortlived: climate change, biological war (or lab accident!), global thermonuclear war, economic failure modes, AI or AGI, large impact, etc. Fixing any one of these doesn't solve the same problem that redundancy would solve, and some of them require solving seemingly impossible coordination problems.
Catalytic converters are a wear part. I shouldn’t have to scrap my car to do maintenance.
That’s a good point. I’ve sent them an email and I’ll see what they say.

EDIT: since I’m still in the edit window, here’s what Tailscale came back with (great response time!).

>We can fairly easily switch between auth providers where the usernames are an email address, like Microsoft or Google or Okta.

>For GitHub the username is different, GitHub uses your Profile name. Any email addresses associated with your GitHub profile are not available.

>Unfortunately there isn't a straightforward way to migrate an existing Tailnet with its devices from Google to GitHub. We generally recommend making a new Tailnet with GitHub and re-authenticate devices using GitHub one at a time. For remote devices, this is more challenging.

>If you want to try it, a suggestion:
1. you can create a Reusable authkey at https://login.tailscale.com/admin/settings/authkeys for the new GitHub Tailnet
2. Over ssh to a node currently on the Google Tailnet, you can:
`tailscale up --force-reauth --authkey=tskey-0123456789abcdef`
3. You'll lose the SSH session. The device will make a new Node key and be issued a new IP address on the new GitHub Tailnet.
4. You can look up its new IP address on https://login.tailscale.com/admin/machines of the GitHub Tailnet, and should be able to ssh to the new address.
Only if you use it as a paperweight
In my view, if people are getting annoyed you're texting them, it's on them. They're the ones assuming you expect an immediate response, unless you're complaining about it. If you're getting annoyed about them not replying, that's on you.
I'd find it helpful if you provided some thoughts on determining what's reasonable and what's not reasonable to expect from future variants. As I understand it, a virus dramatically changing its mode of transmission -- say going from respiratory to a hemorrhagic fever -- doesn't really happen. But we also have a decent understanding of how covid gets transmitted now, so have some way to anchor expectations. You're saying it's not reasonable for covid to evolve to become more likely to cause illness in children. If that's true that's great news, but I really have no way to evaluate such a claim. Why is that unreasonable? Wouldn't we need more insight into why children are currently less affected to speculate on how reasonable it would be for that to change?

I notice your profile you have a biology background. I don't, and am guessing most people here don't either, so I'd find it helpful to get an explanation of why you find a change that puts children at more risk unlikely (and I bet others would too).
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https://youtu.be/bpuAv0sTh-w useful video on where they go
https://youtu.be/53Ru0whEbCA processing video
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Maybe hire some people to handle it? But that would cost them money. That's why companies like Google and Facebook have crap support. The cost of not having it hasn't exceeded the cost of implementing it.
Thanks for letting me know.

So strange.

The 'algorithm' is the noun object of the preposition.

Not society or history .

Is modern English education really that poor?

Or is there purposeful misinterpretation in order to be offended?

I just don't get it.
> What about if someone were starving and they needed to eat a human to survive?

Yeah, what about it? I don't understand the relevance of the thought experiment.

> If you don't want to consider animals as food, then don't consider them food, even if it means starving to death

Why can't I consider them food when there is no other option? Why can't I try to preserve animal life as much as I can, unless my very own suffering and death are at stake?

How is it so controversial to simply say that we should avoid suffering so long as we are not sacrificing our own life? If I'm well off and healthy and have everything I need to survive, then the suffering caused by my killing an animal seems super unnecessary and pointless, no? But that same act (killing and consuming the animal) when I need to do it to survive is _not_ unnecessary or pointless, thus rendering it not immoral. That's all.
The number of police officers in an area is only part of it. Said officers must also be permitted by the policies they operate under to take effective actions that stop or deter the thefts. You could have enough officers and vehicles to have a patrol unit every other block at all hours of the day, but if department policy is such that doing anything other than witnessing the theft and taking a report afterward results in getting fired, odds are, the cops aren't going to be stopping many thefts.
A lot of it seems to also be around review cycles. My company has quarterly goal reviewing.

One of the nice thing about my time in government was that there were no review cycles, just a project to be done. Granted, there were many other problems and we cut corners to meet artificial (and in the end irrelevant) deadlines imposed from above, but the central project never got derailed.
> A blankface is anyone who enjoys wielding the power entrusted in them to make others miserable by acting like a cog in a broken machine, rather than like a human being with courage, judgment, and responsibility for their actions. A blankface meets every appeal to facts, logic, and plain compassion with the same repetition of rules and regulations and the same blank stare

From my (thankfully limited) experience of working with customers, it's occasionally a case of "I actually mostly agree with the rule and think you're causing a scene over nothing, but saying so directly would only make you more irate".

The anecdotes given have a certain smell like they've been filtered through viewpoints distorting things in favor of the author or their family member, and that in reality there's probably a reasonable alternate side. For example I'd guess "the blankface lifeguard made up a new rule on the spot that she needs to retake the test" turns out to be something like the pool administration introducing a new ability check for under-18s, and the idea that the author's daughter "passed" but got failed by the lifeguard is more along the lines of the author thinking she deserved to pass but the lifeguard being the one actually capable of making that decision. Or the "more and more convoluted bank details" anecdote - if the *same form* is being sent back then it sounds like the author initially missed fields on it.

Definitely not to say that there aren't people and scenarios just like what the author describes, and not to say it's not a real problem. But deciding that "thousands" of my interactions must have gone the way they did because the other person wanted to make others miserable feels like it's potentially taking the easy way out to avoid self-reflection or sincere attempts to understand. Reminds me a little of 18:46-21:52 in https://youtu.be/TebCHHCw9rY?t=1126
SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’: A Real Mach 6 Spy Plane Coming Soon?
I was referring more to barring civilians from leaving the city, and shooting at children.
Because Facebook doesn't offer a regular subscription service, and for lots of people Facebook is how they stay in contact with their friends and family. So being SOL because some asshole is trying to steal your account sucks. There's nothing "entitled" about wanting back something you lost because of no fault of your own.
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I just tossed some seeds in the dirt on the side, and now I have a giant tomato plant like 3' high.. pretty cheap unless you're in an apartment I guess.
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I have a somewhat less optimistic view about your points of view. The humans and most of the successful creatures on Earth are terrific natural born killers.

Cooperations in humans has emerged only as a way of better milking of resources from otherwise dangerous environments for one individual-at-the-time endevour of surviving.

The evolution of complex thought on Earth had a lot to do with other species competing with humans for food, and simultaneously hunting humans as a food source.

I share your opinion about not automatic cross-species cooperation, but baselining to peace is not what's happening on our society of speaking predators, most of the order (in the whole planet), of the apparently peaceful society, is being continously kept by sheer force or menace of inmediate violence retribution (nation-states, others).

I.E. You could turn-off the lights of big city for a couple of days and few will have doubts about a tragic outcome.

As we are the only society of intelligent species (at least, we are speaking folks), we know, we should be carefully analyzing those facts when hypothesizing about alien intentions.
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I'll echo that this is a reasonable assessment. In evolutionary hill climbing, the fitter a protein the fewer paths there are to climb higher [0]. Art Poon has some interesting work that effectively maps viral phenotype space by looking at compensatory mutations [1]. He induces deleterious mutations in page phage, grows them until they recover fitness and then assesses if they regained fitness by reversion or compensation. The worse a deleterious mutation, the more likely a compensatory mutation is to arise.

The more optimized the covid spike becomes, the harder it is to get better. What frightens me are polymerase mutations.

[0] Darwinian Evolution Can Follow Only Very Few Mutational Paths to Fitter Proteins https://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5770/111

[1] The rate of compensatory mutation in the DNA bacteriophage phiX174https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15911582/
AI based content suggestion trained through reinforcement to maximize ad revenues at the expense of human attention. Humanity will one day look back and say how the hell did we let Silicon Valley ruin the minds of an entire generation.
It was the 3rd most popular in 2016, and 4th most popular in 2017-2018.

It didn't go anywhere. Vue.js just became more popular for whatever reason.
Curious what your situation is. If it was personal stuff, I would honestly just mute anyone who is too noisy, and then check in periodically. If you don't like them, well they get a large period in between check-ins :). Over time, they come to expect it, and realize it's not personal. If it's work stuff, maybe you could figure out a scheduling system (like a lightweight ticketing system or inbox maybe.)
I'll admit that I don't know if it would have worked then. And it has only been recently that I have got two computers which both have gigabit ports. I don't remember ever using a crossover cable as I always had a switch. I do remember having to manually assign IP addresses in that configuration as it didn't have a DHCP server to assign them.