skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. This means I can create as many accounts as I dare, right? I just need to create fingerprints that are used for identifying an "eye".
> We get a more elegant situation if we suppose that consciousness is a necessary side effect of creatures like us

That's the thesis in Blindsight (well, more 'interesting evolutionary incident' than 'necessary') . There might be other intelligent creatures that are unlike us and that are not conscious.
So there are a few issues if you think about it. First, airports are large and people will order rides from all different parts of the terminal. Putting drivers at various points inside the terminal(s) complicates assignment.

Second, you can't...go up to a rideshare driver and hire them (as a ride share driver). You have to use the app. So having them physically available, though potentially decreasing some wait times, doesn't help most people who hire them. Taxis, on the other hand, you can just walk up to and hire. So having fixed locations for taxis scattered around the terminal makes more sense with the model.

Third, you have a priority ordering problem. Rideshare drivers are given rides in the order they arrived at the airport, but the location of their passengers varies. It's possible someone orders while they are walking through the terminal or when they already have their bags. This also relates to the large size of airports (as mentioned above). Taxis, on the other hand, are hired at the physical taxi and can leave immediately.

I think ridesharing companies could fix all of these problems by creating a 'taxi' mode in their apps where people could walk up to a set of waiting drivers and grab one, but they haven't done so.
One thing about load average on Linux which I never really understood was the inclusion of processes waiting for I/O, I never really got a satisfying explantation until I bumped into this post a few years ago: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-aver...
Wasn’t there evidence that anonymity doesn’t actually play as big a part as people keep saying? Most of the Twitter abuse, you can generally identify who it is behind the account, it’s more the forum than the anonymity?
I think the people falling for conspiracy theories are thoroughly demoralized. They are so far in the rabbit hole that they cannot even acknowledge reality any longer. That won't be fixed by stopping people to read things. I think it will only add to the underlying mistrust and make it worse.

You need to find out why that happened and fix that.
This is troubling logic if we expand it to other areas. For example, what if someone says "Let's ban killing other people"? Is it enough to point out that sometimes killing people saves the lives of other people? Should we outlaw killing in self defense? Should we outlaw killing people who are an imminent threat like active shooters?
If you agree that sometimes killing can be justified, does that mean we need to allow all murder? Obviously not. These issues have nuance. There are always pros and cons. So I will repeat majormajor's point, the mere existence of a pro is not enough of an argument.
There is some stuff they can do. I forget the details as many years have passed. Microsoft was doing that for Windows Phone and there were some issues.
That feels like the “what if instead of legalizing gay marriage we just got rid of marriage” take in this debate. In the sense that “people being able to work when they want to” is a utopian thing that isn’t going to happen, in part because there is real value in people being in the workplace (or even just logged in) at the same time. And even of I did change my working hours, stores and restaurants and coffee shops operating on the normal schedule would open/close at the “wrong times” for me. Plus when I have kids someday I won’t be able to change when they go to school.

Much as we’d all like to be special snowflakes who march to the beat of our own drum, the fact of the matter is that society moves as a unit, and our happiness is often dictated by where it is moving to.
> "I'm going to ask stupid questions now." and "Just so I'm understanding the problem, <here's my interpretation of what you just said>." were two phrases she used all the time.

This is my approach when getting pulled into something. If I have no idea, I want to get that idea. I'll also use "this may sound stupid, but..."

One of the smartest people I've ever met in business was also this way. He also never nodded his head in agreement unless he actually understood and agreed. If he wasn't sure, he'd pause for a minute and work it out, even if it meant pausing the flow of the meetings. Some people interpreted it has him being "slow" but it really meant he actually understand all of the things he was nodding to.
Governments ultimately execute the wishes and wants of citizens at large, and voters have collectively given a resounding yea to get-rich-fast crypto lotteries.
he is from the future
> Without DST, in my hometown, it will get dark at 6pm every day from Sept 23rd to March 4th.

To clarify, is your hometown in the southern hemisphere? DST generally occurs in the summer months.
Una stanza per Panza – Donald Judd (1990) [pdf]
> We see it in survey after survey that the more ‘news’ media you consume the less you are in line with understanding what is actually happening.

[citation needed]?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5608... shows a nuanced result:

"First, we find that social media use is associated with several negative consequences, including the endorsement of misinformation related to COVID-19, lower knowledge about how the disease is treated, and greater prejudice toward Asian Americans...

...individuals using print and radio sources were less common in our study, but these sources were also associated with lower knowledge of COVID-19 and greater stigmatization of Asian Americans.

Finally, and in support that some media formats can have positive influences during public health crises, individuals using web news sources were less likely to endorse misinformation. These findings overlap with recent Pew Research Center findings that individuals utilizing national news on news websites are likely to closely follow COVID-19 updates which could help account for why the endorsement of misinformation was lower."

This seems (unsurprisingly) to depend on the source:

"Further, misinformation scores were significantly lower among participants who frequently use CNN (t = 2.054, p < 0.05) compared to those who do not as well as among participants who frequently use the New York Times (t = 4.397, p < 0.001) as compared to those who do not. Prejudice was similarly lower among participants who frequently used the New York Times (t = 3.070, p < 0.01) as compared to those who did not. Finally, participants who frequently used NPR scored significantly lower on misinformation (t = 5.256, p < 0.001) and prejudice (t = 2.082, p < 0.05), and significantly higher on treatment knowledge (t = −2.242, p < 0.05).

People who used Fox News scored significantly higher on misinformation (t = −4.117, p < 0.001) and prejudice (t = −2.392, p < 0.05), and significantly lower on treatment knowledge (t = 2.766, p < 0.01) than people who did not use Fox News. Participants who frequently used Facebook similarly scored significantly higher on misinformation (t = −3.360, p = 0.001) and prejudice (t = −3.574, p < 0.001), and significantly lower on knowledge of COVID-19 treatment (t = 3.900, p < 0.001) and symptoms (t = 2.387, p < 0.05). Participants who frequently used Twitter scored significantly lower on knowledge of treatment (t = 2.621, p < 0.01) and knowledge of symptoms (t = 2.538, p < 0.05)."

So those who consume "legit" (my words) news sources like the NYT or NPR score well on knowledge and low on misinformation. Those who use primarily social media or Fox News score high on misinformation and low on knowledge.

Sadly, Hackernews readers are not broken out among the sample.
LAX is just terrible in general. The fact that they chose not to build their rail line to actually stop at the airport is just mind boggling.
What do you mean "claims"? M1 has been out for a year. There are countless real-world demonstrations. Apple left Intel in the dust. Intel doesn't know how to make a cool mobile chip.
It is clear, consciousness is what allows you to experience things rather than being a mindless automaton. We can't detect this property nor can we explain it with the laws of physics we have today, but the definition of what it is is extremely clear.

What you mean might be that you'd prefer a definition that you can use to measure objects around the world to detect consciousness? Well, as I said we don't have any laws or explanation for it so you wont get that. But you and everyone else knows that consciousness is a thing and you can prod at your consciousness yourself to see how it responds to stimuli etc, but that is as far as human knowledge go with respect to consciousness so far.
I agree it's condescending, especially as the clerk obviously wanted to find out why he wants the smallest box to better help him. If your experience from working at a computer store is that 50% of the customers ask for thing A but really want thing B because they have little knowledge about computers, it's correct to assume that the customer that wants the machine in the smallest box also has a weird idea of what that means, and probably really needs a different selection criterion.

Saying "It's a gift so I don't care about the model but it needs to fit in my carry-on bag" (or whatever the reason) would have explained it, and nobody would have thought the other was stupid. So in this case he's actively inviting that judgement.
You can construct an argument that we never landed on the moon if you cherry pick your data carefully.

That’s the point being made here: not that his examples are wrong, that they are cherry picked to support his views.

It may be superficially thought provoking, but it is not compelling as a logical argument.

There are tangible downsides to ignoring expert advice; you are not a god. You cannot be an expert at everything.

It is not possible to be an expert at everything.

Therefore, yes, asking questions to understand a topic is good, but no, ignoring the advice of an expert is not good.

The examples given only show examples where the result of ignoring the expert, or third party advice was positive; it can’t possibly be true that this can be the case in all circumstances, except by sheer good luck.

I whole heartedly agree that asking questions is more important than looking smart… but:

> Overall, I view the upsides of being willing to look stupid as much larger than the downsides. When it comes to things that aren't socially judged, like winning a game, understanding something, or being able to build things due to having a good understanding, it's all upside.

You don’t have to look stupid to be able to do all those things, you just have to be humble and work hard.
step 1) collect underpants

step 2) ???

step 3) profit!
Pff. People live farther north than you yet they don’t die.

If scientists say that getting rid of DST will lower diabetes/cardiovascular risks/etc. then I’m all for it.
“What on earth are you on about??”

→ “they”

And if, as you admit, you are entirely unsure of her intended meaning, the decent thing to so it to interpret her charitably, instead of jumping to the most damning possible interpretation.
Well, unfortunately the lead line from the Wikipedia article is a bit misleading, as it makes it sound like it was merely a bunch of sensationalist news stories. That is not true. There were genuine concerns by climate scientists about that (apparently they were misled in part becauase of low time resolution of paleoceanography studies). Check out the references and the rest of the article.

It is probably true that there was no consensus about it back then though. (I do not know enough about it to be completely sure.)
What about the countries that did? There are quite a few countries that have 80%+ uptake rate (Singapore, Malta, UAE, Portugal are all around 85+% vaccinated)- are those countries going to mandate booster shots? You bet they are!
Besides the blog post, please also have a look at the discussion: https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/on-the-future-of-play-framew...
We are asking individuals and companies to sponsor Play's development, meaning everyone can help or donate.
At my company I'd say "ignorance is my superpower." It would usually get a laugh but people seemed to appreciate the mindset of intellectual humility.

Asking childish "why?" questions is often very illuminating, although if it causes you to stumble into some aspect of incompetent leadership then be warned.
> <Why not both? meme>

> There is something to be said for threads that provide a few "bullet points" of the article.

You're right, but those sentences are two fairly different animals. Tweeting the main points and linking to a blog post is great. Putting a blog post into a Twitter thread is awful.
What stops an Orb Operator from just opening up the Orb and publishing random hashes? Assuming that "privacy is preserved" and the hash can't be turned back into an iris, there should be no way to tell.
since languages seem so easy to pickup.

What takes time is being productive with the APIs and ecosystem, not learning the language.
Despite the Electron detractors, I do think it's a pretty powerful tool. In a lot of cases it's very un-optimized/bloated, but it has been proven to be very quick in some cases (vscode, etc).

In any case, even if Electron falls out of favor or doesn't continue improving - other's will take it's place. I believe "web on the desktop" is not going away any time soon.
I was surprised to see that ClickHouse and ElasticSearch have the same number of contributors. That's pretty astounding given how much older and more prominent ElasticSearch has been.

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/graphs/contributors

Edit: I was very off. The Github contributor graph does not show all actual contributors. ElasticSearch has somewhere around 2-3 times as many contributors as ClickHouse.
Background of Judd's ire with Panza: https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/the-panza-collection...
hey, what's step 2?
GVT-g uses KVMgt. Intel has not yet upstreamed their patches.
This describes my world in programming. I have learned to be careful and deliberate in software efforts, and it pays. But I work with quite a few type 1 jumpers that spend countless wasted hours trying to solve problems because they jump too fast to conclusions. FD, I’m often accused by friends and family of overthinking things.

I’m curious if there’s a correlation between type 1 jumpers and people who are more entrepreneurial risk takers.
I've been to all those places. They're in the same valley, so it's no surprise they're all built on the (same) intersection of fault zones and use similar architecture.
https://www.githubstatus.com/ says degraded performance.
And of course Gauss discovered the FFT even before Fourier published about heat transfer.
Great! Still requires vGPU support and the merged driver approach last time I tried won't support CUDA on host (I was probably the first one tried the merged driver thing with vgpu_unlocked?).

Looking forward someone write a Vulkan driver on Windows that just shuttles down to the Linux host. virgl used to be a promising project ...
Voters also like safety and not losing their entire net worth because they published a private key or got scammed.
Just noticed GitHub is down for me. Can't access repos :(
That's a huge question, but I believe the answer is that in a modern first world country, time is expensive and comfort is cheap. (I am also completely ignoring any social changes that have occurred since the pandemic, because all of the pandemic-based social trends started well before it did). People used to meet up and have real hobbies because they were bored and wanted something to do with their time, not because they were principled adherents to (what I believe is) a better and more satisfying way of life.

Comfort is cheap: have you ever used your phone to check your daily screen time? I float between 1.5 hours on a good day and 6 hours on a bad day. On my phone I'm reading, interacting, etc. but that's 1.5-6 hours I didn't spend playing cards or chess or talking to my friends in person, each of which requires a time and effort commitment. I don't have to commit effort or pay any money or walk anywhere to interact with the always-on stimulation box in my pocket. The same applies to streaming applications and video games. Between those three activities (browsing, social media, streaming, and video games) there are billions of lost first-world man-hours every year that could theoretically be spent interacting in person, if the people really wanted to.

Time is expensive: I am at the last few years of my life before I have children and have the most advantageous combination of free time, youthly energy, and money that I will ever have. I also have dozens of hobbies, but trying to find people to do those hobbies with is very difficult because they're all so busy with their own lives. My similarly-aged acquaintances are in graduate school (learning things that they could spread across 10 years in four years due to profit constraints), or they're working 40-60 hour workweeks in technology, or they're simply drained and don't want to do anything besides sit on the couch, which I completely understand given my own stressful 50-hour-per-week white collar job.

If you want a return to "in-person life", somehow time needs to become cheap. I don't see comfort ever becoming expensive again, but I do think that if people weren't so busy and stressed out they'd be able to meet in person more often.
Why does it have to be a "one off error?" When's the last time you used a sundial to figure out the time down to a quarter hour or didn't have a device with you that gave you the current time?

I think most people would agree on two things: (1) that having time after work to do things during daylight hours is ideal, and (2) that the work hours they already have are fine.

A shift in working hours might be fine for childless adults, but it doesn't work for most people. People have to be present to get their kids ready for school or daycare, and you're never going to get teacher's unions to agree that they should be in the doors of a school by 6am to receive students.

So... this fall, no shift. For now or ever. Boom, done. Yes, the days get a bit shorter, but you're still talking about a 6:45pm sunset in Texas, which gives people about 2 hours of active time in the evenings, which is preferable to the 45 minutes previously.
dont worry folks im here to save the world with my crypto currency.
You're right that Uber & Lyft aren't the same as taxis at the airport (where cars and people both queue up and are matched FIFO).

They're the same as personal pickups, one car looking for one specific person.

There's no doubt it's an inefficient system. But it's bizarre that there are hundreds of meters of dedicated curb space for personal car pickups, but all of a sudden when rideshare companies came in the airports are pretending it's some huge inconvenience to the system and forcing them to meet up in the back of the parking garage a mile away.
Unfortunately, they have painfully admitted that they are not joking and they're serious about this ponzi scheme.

So now one of the creative ways of building an exit scam also involves having 1984 as a business model, even worse than the majority of cryptocurrencies out there.

Oh dear.
Sure, while they already have me bent over from ads and fucking Candy Crush on my desktop, a pushy browser, a high performance laptop from 2019 that can't be upgraded to Windows 11 why not try squeeze in VBS slow-downs, too.
Twitter did buy Vine and Periscope. I don't think their problem is just "not buying other companies".
I used to think it would be cool to work in defense.

That was before I learned how often poor and innocent people are killed in drone strikes.

Now I would never go anywhere near that industry.
Funny seeing all the Roku love here.

What I've observed when comparing Roku to other devices.

I buy my apple TV -> I get basically no ads, they don't seem to charge that much to allow folks like youtube tv to have an app on the platform

Roku -> I buy and own my device. They seem to sell advertising all over the device I paid for. They seem to be charging companies for buttons and/or to be able to put an app on the roku platform.

Sorry - not that interested in Roku anymore.
I got into sex work because I was homeschooled in a borderline fundamentalist Christian cult my whole life and expected to become a housewife. My parents made too much money for me to qualify for aid for me to go to college, but refused to help me at all financially or cosign on any loans. So at 19 I went to work on a factory floor for 50-60hr weeks with no education and no prospects, and I would go multiple days in a row without seeing the sun.

So yeah, I worked hard and did what I could and I decided that I would prefer sex work over that life.
> Too bad that seems impossible to effectively implement at scale.

There are technical solutions to this. The old one was called hashcash, which a predecessor to cryptocurrency.

To get an account you would have to do something like $5 in electricity worth of computation one time, which you can do without giving anyone your name. But then if you do something foolish and get banned, it'll cost you another $5 (or however much is necessary to provide a sufficient deterrent) to get a new account.

Obviously now you could just have them pay (or mine for you) a small amount of cryptocurrency, which would then go to offset the cost of banning the spammers who still try their luck.
Do you have the same opinion when you buy a flight on Expedia?
It also works on Intel's ARC and DG1/DG2 discrete GPUs.

Our software also works on most consumer Nvidia cards and also some consumer AMD cards.
Sorry, "conservative" is not intended politically -- it's the word that the industry uses to describe itself.

Not architecture in general, but definitely residential homebuilding.

There are many good reasons for this. Embodied knowledge, building for unknown future buyers, buyer preference for familiarity in expensive products, buyer hesitancy about resale, liability for inappropriate materials choices or poor execution of unfamiliar methods, etc.

The commercial space is a bit more adventurous, certainly in facade but also in design. They have more leeway thanks to sturdier structural components (e.g. steel beams and floor pans) which can support a broader range of layouts, etc.

I disagree with the overly-simplistic theories on symmetry though. Sure, symmetry is pleasing in general to humans, but some of the most attractive and appealing structures are asymmetrical. Your example of "imposing" skyscrapers is unfair. Of course imposing things can be stressful.

You then go on with a lot of exactly what I'm talking about -- viscerally held opinions which are presented as absolutes. Boston City Hall makes you consider suicide? It's not an attractive or organic building, I agree, but that's a bit dramatic, no?

I don't know anyone who loves that building. But I know many people who love other brutalist buildings. I'm a fan of Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander, but I think they both express well-developed opinions and reasonable conclusions, but few absolute truths. Jacobs aspires to a bit more empiricism than Alexander, and I think she fails at that despite being "correct" IMO.

Buildings, cities, and humans are extremely complicated organisms. Some are failures, but describing the reasons is not simple.

PS: My proposal for "the only good thing" was withdrawing from the Universal Postal Union Treaty, which made it more expensive for US businesses to ship products to US customers, than for foreign businesses to do so.