skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I value your critique. You're right that the work does not fully explore these questions.

> What makes John more authentic of a character, aren't his drives just as biologically determined, but merely by chance rather than by design?

This is a really good question. John is more authentic because he's an individual -- I know, don't scoff yet. He's looking to create a personal connection with Lenina. He doesn't want to "have" her like the other men have her: he wants to love her. Lenina cannot form love bond with John -- that's not in her programming. She can only sample his sexuality.

Now, we may ask: what's the value of personal connections? I have a hard time answering this in the abstract right now, but all I can say is that I've enjoyed intense personal connections in my life that could never be replaced by impersonal collective relations.
While this is how the term is misused in some segments of pop feminism, it actually refers to the (usually uncompensated) emotional labor expected of employees in service industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor

It doesn't really make sense in this context unless you only think of the emotional management homemakers do as labor and not all the other stuff they do. You already provided a perfectly suitable phrase in your post: "uncompensated domestic labour"
"Mozilla" isn't a non-profit. Mozilla, as such, isn't a thing.

Mozilla Corporation (which is where your donations go - you can't donate to Firefox as such) is a taxable, profit-making company.

Mozilla Foundation wholly owns Mozilla Corporation, and is a non-profit. But you can't donate to Mozilla Foundation.

(I don't know how you can be a non-profit that wholly owns a profit-making corporation; I'm not an accountant, and I'm not familiar with US tax law)
Not disagreeing, but how/what could Mozilla spend money on instead?

Is there a backlog (I know there's always a backlog) of WORTHWHILE features/services they could be working on if more money was reallocated to engineering?

Seems like a lot of their more recent services are probably breaking even or maybe even costing them. And I doubt they're really affecting market share or reputation in a meaningful way.

Meanwhile Firefox seems either at parity or ahead of Chrome/Safari/etc, depending on who you ask. (Ahead if you ask me, except on power consumption).

Perhaps Mozilla would have been able to continue Servo, but that's about the only example I can think of. The Rust language and ecosystem doesn't seem to need Mozilla at this point in time. https://killedbymozilla.com/

Maybe lack of a vision has a lot to do with the state of Mozilla and/or Firefox. Then again, it would depend on the vision. After all, Mozilla/Firefox's competition have deep pockets to keep up with any technological advantage that comes their way that doesn't negatively affect/impact their lucrative business interests (advertising, services, etc).
Intel Introduces 2nd Gen Neuromorphic Research Chip: Loihi 2 on Intel 4 EUV
In general, Americans don't know how bad they have it. They work like indentured servants in a third-world country for below living wages and don't have lives.
> Something about anti btcers I don't get you'll wax how smart you are and how everyone else is dumb. Just put your money where your mouth is.

I don't have infinite money to keep propping up my short positions until this thing collapses. That's the reason, not because I don't want to put my money where my mouth is, it's because I don't have enough money to see the pay off.

It's not that hard of a concept to grasp, I believe...
That's so wrong, what is the motivation of this? Did the folks in power make some bet on how fast they can damage UK economy long term by any means available?
I'm really not sure what Sunak was thinking pushing that through in the current climate. A degree of flexible labour in the workforce is helpful anyway and never more so than with the recovery from multiple economic shocks in the past five years. So let's change the rules so lots of the former freelancers and contractors go permanent and lots of the former clients of those freelancers and contractors have to commit to hiring permanent staff, with all the baggage for both sides that comes with under the UK's employment rules, because the new IR35 rules make even less sense than the old ones and everyone from lorry drivers to software developers is questioning whether it makes sense to work under them at all. Full disclosure: I sometimes work in that sort of environment, so I may be personally affected by the changes at some point, but economically I don't see how it makes any sense at all anyway.
Es una buena alternativa para evitar que los anunciantes sigan generando dinero sin pagar membresias a Facebook, realmente fue una decisión acertada.
Radical as in pushed to the extremes, not radical in thought to the general population. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc&t=1s

That I've been DONT MENTION ARROWS ON HN on this post is a good indication we're not close to solving this by a long shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_property_bubble
I've used this as my ringtone for several years now. I think it's perfect for it. And I just love the memories it brings.
Canada’s EV Company Daymak reports $1B in pre-orders
No, it’s the log for transactional NTFS and transactional registry.
> The blog seems pretty clear they will be asking for permission?

They did not. I checked on all my computers following the update and all of them had the option enabled by default.
Baker's salary as CEO is not public yet, as she's only been CEO for a little over a year.
Relevant: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/vaccines-ko...
A iff B doesn't mean that B is because of A. It simply means that if A is true then B must be as well.

> - "If I'd be willing to entertain [..] then they will honestly spell what they're doing and why".

This is true, because if they won't, then you wouldn't be willing to entertain [..]
Rats, no. Marmots, yes. Heavy Metal played through some old Cerwin-Vega speakers drives them away in my case.
Back in the days of yore, I briefly borrowed this Chinese import thing: https://74.img.avito.st/640x480/1870138674.jpg

— which both could play cartridges and had Basic, with absolutely unlicensed Mario sprites in the mem.

But never connected the dots that there was an official thing like that, even though vaguely heard of the Famicom brand's various forays into neighboring markets of the day.
> The people said Apple has asked the Rotterdam District Court for an injunction to block publication of the ruling during its appeal.

> A court spokesman confirmed the existence of the case to block publication, but could not say when a decision is expected. The proceedings are not open to the press or public.
Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230
Hmm, I don't agree, stepping through assembly code in most (C/C++) debuggers works just as well as with high level languages, and process isolation in operating systems also works for assembly coding, so it's just as unlikely to crash the whole computer with assembly code as with high level languages (otherwise we'd have a massive problem if operating system security would just depend on banning low level programming).

Bare metal embedded coding is a different topic of course, but regular application development with assembly works just fine.
This is the problem replying to people who make strawman arguments.

Also, dissent is being amplified with software, which itself is not conscious. Being more conscious of your points will help matters. Not being more conscious of your points will help accelerate the madness.

You've failed to acknowledge anyone's argument here, which is really the hard part to learn.
I think a large part of the media had worked hard for this. Having no trustworthy media is bad because it is needed. I think articles are currently more down to facts, but gaining trust takes far longer than losing it. And there is still plenty of either lies or naive obliviousness.
.club TLD is returning SERVFAIL errors
Looks like the .club TLD is returning SERVFAIL errors on the DNS level.
Unless there is a guarantee there is 1,000 new people per day then it certainly does apply. I think the usual pattern for pacing is to cover multiple bases from repeat visits to trying to cast a wider net to catch people at the right time(s) both personally and in perhaps wider campaign with other sites/mediums.
So you took something you don't understand, pushed it up, then complain when it doesn't update correctly and something goes wrong.

Do you not see that you are the problem in this scenario? Facebook has not abandoned the project and very very few people have switched to Vite/Rollup. You're doing hype driven development.

Now I get this is how a lot of these front end tech are portrayed, and that a lot of these projects could be better in terms of defaults, but what has to be accomplished in front end tech is very difficult. It has to run across so many different browsers, on different operating systems, with different engines across who knows how many devices.

Part of the reason front end development is a mess is because people like you come in, think you don't have to spend any time learning it, and can just put something up because "it's just javascript, it's a toy language". Learn the platform and develop for it. You reached for the biggest hammer you could find when you probably could have used something much smaller and easier to use. You chose the wrong tool, and it's probably because you didn't bother putting in the time to actually figure out what you know and how it would be maintained.
> People like Bitcoin's provable global ledger and this is where the value lies.

What real world value has this brought?
> FF is scoring an own-goal here and eroding trust

Excactly them trying to find more sources of income is fine by me. The hiding it and the deceptive messaging is awful. "enhance and speed up your searching experience" - I'm sure it will.

Even the opt-in screen is an anti-pattern.

"Allow suggestions" or "customize". No "do not allow suggestions". On the first level.

This is the stuff I want (and in the past expected) Mozilla to fight, not to become.
I have no particular advice for you, but greatly appreciate the site and all the fun and utility I received from it. At the very least you might want to consider periodic snapshots of the site and all the software be put up on archive.org.
It seems a lot of literary dystopias have merged and manifested into our current reality. At this point I'm just waiting for someone harpoon at my car as I approach an onramp.
Thanks

I do think I'd prefer the editor to generate Markdown that I want to store, but it could generate "clean" HTML/XML/JSON too.
Yeah, when it's responding at all.
Moral to learn as developers: Follow PR rules even if you are owner or admin, senior executive dev or junior dev.
High Myopia and Its Risks
He followed up here: https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/wealth-production-mechan...

> Producing, storing, converting, and transporting energy is what I had in mind as the missing top-level category.
Was on by default for an American friend.
Remember back in the early 2000's before popup blockers were a thing? You'd hit a page and 100 popups fill the page. When you hit the X and it would spawn new popups filled with ads.

Yea, that's FBs new business model :D
Pfizer, BioNTech ask U.S. regulators to OK Covid-19 vaccine for kids
Let's hope they don't take the incoming Apple bribes for a new office in Amsterdam or something
That would be the fish that they can't export and British people don't eat.
Clint "LGR" Basinger collects 90s-era MIDI gear, and made a video of his stack playing this track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSdaPTuV8E
What I dislike about shopping is self checkout. It feels like scabbing and stealing jobs from workers while making customers do their work for free. It seems like customers will eventually have to stock the shelves should it become any more "self-service."
I loved this OS, as a user. Was really sad to see it go down the way it did.
I am surprised education does not figure more prominently in 9. In a sense all wealth is created through education (a newborn child knowns nothing about "wealth").

NB: Education is not just the "provision of information" or "help with figuring out the rules" (although there are aspects of both).
Entertainment and distraction? A majority of theater, music, and art provide a distraction without providing knowledge or information. For the record, I think that is good. We need a break from our lives.
You resort to assembler for critical operations or performance. Having a nice, clean orthogonal instruction set helps none of that.

So while 68000 ASM may look pretty and be easy to remember, its obvious why x86 won - you could get the critical jobs done.
the ship has sailed, the entire crypto market will eventually be bailed out...what's the point in wasting money chasing a paper trail around the world? we let a beanie-baby asset get big enough to kneecap markets, so now we have to pay

everyone knows tether is bullshit, it hasn't slowed down crypto speculation. and how is tether less bullshit than ethereum? both of them are pure sentiment

some fool with two dollars to his name is cheering on "build back better" which will eventually be the same money used to bail out crypto
Amazon is full of shit lol, and so it’s their twitch
Anecdotally I have heard of similar phenomena among retired professional athletes (no longer on the road for a good part of every year) and soldiers returning home after extended tours of duty (e.g. post-Iraq and Afghanistan). Obviously each of these is different in important ways, but perhaps not entirely different.
I agree with all the other responses here that it is used correctly. First off, they are using it informally, and it's perfectly clear what they are trying to say, so even if it was formally wrong, exercises like these would still be tedious and beside the point.

But even playing the game of treating informal language by the rules of strict logical formalisms, it still makes sense. The two elements implying one another would be (1) trusting mozilla and entertaining this new program, and (2) mozilla communicating clearly about their ads. You trust them if they communicate honestly, and communicating honestly garners trust. Makes sense to me.
Are we post honor? I have this magical machine that makes me, what ten million dollars an hour? After many years of constant service, one of my employees messes up and it goes down for a few hours. Rather then eating the loss, that isn't much of loss since my margins are as wide as the grand canyon, I crank the machine up so it runs faster and produces a inferior quality product.

Did Veruca Salt grow up and get a job at Facebook?
When you setup a facebook ad, you literally say to them: spend $100 per day.

Then Facebook has a 6 hour outage. Facebook can then show more ads to users per time on Facebook, to get to the $100 per day. Or it can only spend $75 that day.

I imagine some advertisers will prefer the first option, some the second. Facebook's machine learning algorithms will do something.

But I don't see the massively malicious intent here. Most likely this isn't even a human decision. The algorithms just know then have to spend $100 per day.

Fine, if there really are 50% less conversions, that's an issue, but frankly 6 hours won't really matter.
Amazon is full of shit and so is their twitch. This breach was gonna happen sooner or later. Nothing surprising!
A cheap nuclear power plant is very possible.

a safe and cheap nuclear power plant (using current tech) - maybe not.
There is also evidence to show that we retain 25% of the same personality traits that we had as 20 year olds, as we age. I think David Epstein's book, Range, references this. So we really do become a different person.
From the article:

"We're trynna find that n*****," a remaining member of the original Evolved Apes Discord named vert told me. "Once we find him he's getting put on the bin and we're gonna pull up on him. The police won't even get the chance to pursue criminal charges once we are done with him ... That n***** is done for."

I am not sure I feel that sorry for the victims here ...
If this goes on for a few more years, with broader investment from traditional investors (ETF), when Tether collapse I half-suspect that the cryptocurrency markets will bring the NYSE down with it in the fall as people sell to cover losses
They both missed (but the film Brazil caught) that the dystopia will be run by a bureaucracy of bumbling idiots.
Oh come on, let’s not pretend that the only expenses a software company has are developer salaries. Especially for something like a browser that has significant security requirements.

Do you have any idea how many tests are run across all platforms for every commit? [1]

The CI bill alone is huge.

[1] https://treeherder.Mozilla.org
Gist:

> The risk of developing a retinal detachment is five or six times greater in people with high myopia compared to those with low myopia

> the risk of developing glaucoma was nearly 50% higher (or one and a half times as high) in individuals with moderate to high myopia, compared to those with low myopia

> Based on the available evidence, they are 17% more likely than those with moderate myopia to need cataract surgery

> The risk of macular degeneration due to myopia rises sharply with age and increasing myopia

(Related: "How to Use Low-Dose Atropine to Slow Myopic Progression in Kids," https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785138)
I tried googling it but I put it all in one word. Thanks for the help!
An American friend checked his browser and it was on without any notification or user interaction.
I think #7 should be modified to "reduce suffering" after which it will accommodate not just healthcare but any pursuit that addresses a person's mind or body. That would include your examples of massage and prostitution as well as others like therapy.

Friendship and romance would fall under #9 as an industry since the goal is to match people with potential friends and partners. I'm not sure the 'emotional services' that you receive from friends, family, and romantic partners should be evaluated as a commodity. To make that clearer, if I manufacture something for a loved one or purchase it while I'm travelling and then transport it back to them I don't measure the value of that action in terms of money and I'd sincerely hope they wouldn't either.
Here's another interesting excerpt, from Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death":

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

The book was released on 1985, and its main premise is that the mass-media has a damaging effect in our capacities to understand and elaborate rational arguments. In his opinion, TV was their age soma. I wonder what he would think today...
Fun fact, I've been asked by a VPN company if I'd ship their (somewhat proprietary) VPN stuff with qutebrowser.

The guy who contacted me didn't understand "if you won't offer a SOCKS or HTTP proxy, even if I wanted to, it's not possible".

Naturally I would be anything but comfortable with such a "partnership" (the only thing I'm exploring is getting money from search engines for qutebrowser users' searches).

Nevermind that it'd also be a bad idea from a monitary perspective, given that I'd probably lose more in donations that I'd gain from such a thing.
A big problem with Awk is that it lacks garbage collection (including ref counting), and that puts major limitations on the language. You can't return an associative array from a function:

$ awk 'function f() { a[1]=2; return a } BEGIN { f() }' </dev/null
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: attempt to use array `a' in a scalar context

You also can't have nested associative arrays, i.e. recursive or cyclic data structures are not allowed.

As far as I can tell, this is because a stack frame owns everything allocated within it, and when a function returns the whole stack frame is cleaned up unconditionally. You can pass arrays down but not up. It's very naive memory management (by modern standards; it's probably better than BASIC).

So I'd say it's clearly not expressive enough for general purpose programming. There are Lisps in awk but they do weird tricks with text as far as I remember.
No problem for me. I'll just slam whichever domain they use to provide the ads in my PiHole configuration, and I'll use the SurfingKeys (JS-customizable) search bar to get results.

I already give monthly contributions to the Mozilla Foundation. Do they need more money? Fine, I can increase my donation. But the whole point of donating money is to avoid ads harassment. If I don't have that right anymore, then I'll either stop donating to Mozilla, or use all my power user skills to ensure that not a single ad shows in my search bar.
I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.
So just disable it. I'm sick and tired of people smearing Firefox because they're trying to make a living. It's still the best open source browser out there, it's still free, as in freedom and as in beer.

Any fork of Firefox is mainly a change in default settings or branding. None of them would exist without the huge contributions Mozilla Foundation receive. People who criticize Firefox and then use one of its many forks, I'd like to tell them to just stop whining and appreciate what they have.
The last time Bitwise tried to list an ETF, they revealed to the SEC that 95% of all bitcoin trading volume was fake. If the SEC permits a real BTC ETF that would represent a serious failure on their part, IMO, and I agree the potential for Tether contagion would increase materially. [1]

[edit] this financial cancer can’t get excised quickly enough. The longer we wait the more will get hurt.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitwise-tells-us-sec-that-95-...
Unfortunately, the screenshot is of an older revision of the page, so it's not perfect recursion. Still, worth a levity upvote lol
Disappointment isn't shock. And criticism doesn't imply either.
Yeah, the answer is always "no I don't see it". That is because I don't build side models in my mind, from thinking mind. While awake, I build ONE model in mind, from what my sensors feed it. When the sensors go dark, I see darkness and hear nothing.

While falling asleep I'm able to have hypnagogic visualizations. I do dream (but can't re-see the dreams) and psychedelics haven't produced anything much in the way of imagery. Maybe sounds and some slight alteration of the model, like movement or some slight color enhancement.
"That terminator is out there, it cant be bargained with, it cant be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop... EVER, until you are dead!"