skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, a proper refutation of the idea that cognition is computation is going to have a VERY difficult time addressing the fact that computation and information theory are VERY fundamental physics, right down there with entropy, thermodynamics, and causality.

That’s not at all a given. Our models tell us nothing about the true nature of what they describe, they merely let us make predictions whose accuracy is limited by the congruence of the model with observation up to available computing capacity. Quantum Electrodynamics, which is arguably science’s greatest triumph for agreement between model and observation, doesn’t mean that photons are actually members of the computable subset of C.

It’s not surprising to see man with a hammer syndrome about computation among programmers. It’s an easy trap to fall into and I try hard not to.
"ACH moved to same-day settlement (rather than next-day settlement) in 2018"
Thailand, and most of Asia has had instant transactions and no concept of over draft fees. And since 2017, nearly all bank to bank transactions are free, and irreversible*. So why is the US behind?

Seems one of the biggest hurdles for US banking are the guard rails on financial products. The ability to pull back funds and reverse transactions creates the excess fat that keeps banking expensive and processes slow. 'Get paid, stay paid' as seen in blockchain, resolves this.
Actually the flag was added in some Qt 5.x version due to outcry.
YouTube has been an extremely potent vector for antivax rhetoric. They've banned antivax content, but we'll see how that holds up.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/youtube-an... (2021)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/youtub... (2019)
the standard for negligence for an engineer isnt that "something bad happened", and talking about a building with foundation issues due to unstable local soil is far different than "didn't meet fire code" from the perspective of anyone who knows anything about the issues at hand.

Just an FYI it's unlikely an architect designed those foundations - there were probably engineers who tested the soil and gave its properties to a designing engineer who designed the foundation and both of those things are going to be tempered by what was common engineering practice at the time, and if the unstable soil situation was known about. My understanding is this situation is common in the area due to building practice at the time.
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That's not at all the case, none of the companies they refused were in their supply chain. Also that's a ridiculous argument, you use this product that EVERYONE in the world uses and modern society demands, but you don't have the right to criticize it? So mining and petroleum companies are allowed to do what ever they want. I can't advocate for cleaner energy because I drive a gas powered vehicle? I can't work towards renewable electricity because I currently use carbon fuel based electricity (the only kind available to me)? It's absurd and a absolutely absurd argument to lay at Patagonia.
> The only way FB could grow was by pushing content that got people riled up.

Not sure if I've ever believe it was the only way for them to grow. I hate Facebook (product) for what it has become but it is an excellent tool for its original use, which is keeping in touch with friends/family/communities.
Ah, this isn't the half A-press guy.
> CRC32 is actually very slow in modern CPUs

Dd you read my whole comment? If we are hashing just a few kilobytes of a multi-gigabyte file, it almost certainly doesn't matter.
Hardly anything is ever "proven" in medicine, or biology in general. The best we can do are varying levels of probability. So then it becomes a discussion about how to set the minimum acceptable level of confidence.
They've done that quite a bit for new Android phone launches, iirc.
How easy is it to integrate your site on Wix or Squarespace or Wordpress with Google Maps, FB, and Instagram - compared with just having a FB page?

Also - if these business owners are already spending time on FB and Instagram personally - it's less of a stretch to have a page there. Once they have a page - then they need convinced that they need a full-fledged site. And maybe a lot of them actually don't.
You mean something like Wix?

It is better to get some non-abusive Wix-like company to host you, but those have a non-zero start cost (there a re many of them). Looks like a price of zero on a service is only achievable through some customer abuse.
> Are you advocating for each country receiving the exact same emissions cap, disregarding population?

I would advocate for Western corporations to move their factories back to their country of origin.
Many quant funds have similar “gap to zero” risks like DeFi. Many swaps desks at bulge bracket banks have “gap to zero” risk. Many derivatives strategies actually have “gap beyond zero” risk, as in you can lose more than 100% of your investment.

All of these systems are complex black boxes, for which the full risk profile can never be fully known let alone eliminated. Yet all of these asset classes continue to reach record size. For the foreseeable future, risk is not a meaningful constraint on financial activity or the growth of any otherwise profitable sector.

Global capital is insanely hungry for yield. It’s willing to accept very large, outsized risks as long as returns are attractive. DeFi continues to grow because it offers significantly higher top-line returns than traditional products. As long as that continues to be true, investors will stomach, and in many cases outright ignore, the risks.
I wonder if they'll buyback tech bro company-branded jackets which you can spot all throughout Seattle and SF.
Disclosure: I operate a similar but commercial service at https://webtoapp.design

Whether your webview app will get published in the app store depends on how "app-like" your PWA looks and if you get a strict app reviewer.

I instead add native components to the apps I create to make sure they look more like an app, which works well to get the app approved by Apple.

From my experience, push notifications are a very important feature too, almost all of my customers want that. I haven't found a way to reroute browser notifications to the app, so instead I use firebase to let my customers send notifications.
> betting against a company with such a huge war chest is like trying to catch a falling knife.

Indeed. My biggest fear is that succeed.

I happen to prefer PCs (and there is no reason to argue for or against that). Apple has been incredibly successful at capturing market share and their devices are now mandatory at my new job. I might not like it, but it's not the end of the world: Apple behaves ethically.

Now imagine your [otherwise] dream job demands that you strap a Quest on and feed Zuck's data fetish.
I'm pretty sure that by targeting recycled materials for many decades, Patagonia has been doing its best to separate itself from petrochemicals. I have a fleece that was given to me in the late 90s that was made from recycled plastic. Still works great.

It is a PR strategy from Patagonia, but not necessarily for sales. For as long as Chouinard is steering the ship, Patagonia's goals are much broader than financial success.
What is a responsible way to use oil based products, in the eyes of Patagonia and other moral posers? They refuse to sell apparel to oil companies. The apparel they refuse to sell is created with polyesters made from the the commodity these same oil companies produce.... and people are going to pretend like this isn't objectively hypocritical?

I grew up in an evangelical Christian fundamentalist household. I know what the hypocrisy and nonsensical self-contradictions born of performative ideology looks like. And this, along with the rest of the current "stakeholder capitalism" zeitgeist reeks of it.
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People are going with facebook because it’s free, and because you’d “have” to do it anyway, and most importantly because it has a built in audience.

I recently made a website for my personal art projects - i got absolutely zero feedback. I’m sure many friends/family/random people have seen it now - but they’re not liking, sharing, or commenting anywhere that I can see so how am i supposed to feel that was effort well spent? If I made a facebook page, i’d get to see immediately who followed it - who likes it - who comments - etc.

Not to mention every time i put effort into adding content, i’d see some feedback for that.

If facebook is to be toppled, the feedback loop needs to be tightened for off-facebook content
>You can't make this stuff up

Links to an opinion piece making up a fake controversy using a fake stance the company does not have in a transparent "gotcha" attempt to undermine them. So I guess you apparently can make this stuff up.
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A whole article on financial innovation, and not one mention of crypto or defi? Not even Bitcoin?
You can get very premium Vietnamese fish sauces (also just anchovies and salt) which are smoked and aged in Bourbon barrels for years... for about 1/3rd the price.
It's because it's somewhat of a stretch to draw what he did to the actual history of the NFT ecosystem in crypto (and no one in crypto considers him a "co-creator" of NFTs).
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No journalist has been convicted under the espionage act _because_ no journalist has seen a courtroom under the espionage act. We're already in unprecedented territory with this action. Claiming that it's fine because the end goal has never been achieved when we've never gone this far in the first place seems specious.

The DoJ obviously believes these charges will stick, otherwise it'd be in the administration's best interest to not actually see trial and keep the threat viable.
Indeed, that's why I mentioned other governments. Poison seems to be the Russian flavor.
Are the statements: "the system functioned as designed" and "the system is not working as intended" mutually exclusive?

I understand how the first can be arguable (or obvious, depending on what you mean), but are you really saying the second isn't true?
Which country’s court do you appeal to? Does the transaction take place where either or both parties are? Or where the server is? What if the server DB is in one country, the outward-facing API is in another, and the actual transaction API in another? Yikes.
Curious. What are all these things you want to get notified about? I pretty much have all notifications turned off besides messaging, phone, and alarm.
I’m surprised that an 11 story building would be considered in that area. There are very, very few tall buildings in Santa Barbara.

Then again, “rich old people doing outlandishly ridiculous bullshit” is pretty much what that town is all about. (I lived there for 20 years)
Most languages with grammatical gender have a distinct third class which linguists usually call "neuter". Languages like French are somewhat unique in having lost that third gender

It's important to note that neuter is distinct from "gender"-less nouns
Docker. :)
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And yet people lose money to bitcoin-related hacks all the time.
It's useful to note that c19early is backed/funded by FLCCC, which has been widely reported to be a "fringe doctor's" group.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fringe-doctors-gr...

It's also worth noting that the site/group has been banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation about treatment options.
> I think you can find plenty of that kind of discussion the academic/professional sphere, though it's small in proportion to the greatly increased radicalized chatter.

Agree. You can find "plenty", of a certain quality (but how high?) Compare this to the activity and quality of discussion in the history of philosophy though, an academic undertaking that seems to have taken a seat at the kids table in modern times.

> That's part of the point of radicalization and propaganda - to politicize everything, to the point where there is no truth, just partisan claims and suspicion.

I firmly believe that much of what you are referring to is to a large degree consciously ~engineered. But also at the same time, I think we should be extremely mindful of emergence.

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

> They are doing an effective job, but we don't have to go along with it - I simply refuse to read the partisan stuff; there is plenty to read, especially from the entirety of human history before the last several years.

I prefer reading some of it on an ongoing basis and studying its nature, the ~techniques, the effects, how it alters the perception of the public, etc. Study it as a system, understand how it works, why things are the way they are, how it can be influenced, etc.

> Polarization and, IIRC, radicalization, have increased dramatically recently.

Very true. The internet and mass media is powerful, much of it is controlled by a relatively small number of people, and is increasingly censored and propagandized. And yet, things are still quite open, many opportunities, channels, and attack vectors are available, for now.
Happened with ZOOM/ZM near the start of the pandemic as well: https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/woops-wrong-zoom
Summary: Meta sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead."
>Prior to studies being done, how do we evaluate who is a quack and who is correct

You allow the dialog to take place and make up your own mind.

>I would argue that anyone who had a solution to Covid should rush to get it published in a reputable

Any tool thats not a vaccine gets associated with Trump or the right wing and is dismissed.

Its even stifled funding for anti-virals that give a 50% reduction in hospitalizations.

The government could have spent the last 18 months encouraging people to lose weight, stop smoking, drinking, and eating fast food.

The ONLY tool silicon Valley, the msm, much of acamdeia, the DNC and their loyal sycophants care about is the vaccines and even the slightest discussion of any potential alternative gets promoted as inherently anti-vaxx even if it could be used in conjunction with vaccines
It's an admission that the prison system is in many ways inhumane, but that's hardly a secret.
I think VR/AR Metaverse will happen but it is decades away.
can this dramatically reduce cost of mobile app development, esp for small-to-medium businesses?
Gender is a specific case of the more general structure of classifiers. I think this is mentioned in the article but so far I have only skimmed it. For example Arabic has “sun” and “moon” words. Japanese has a rich set. I have always thought of them as a kind of disambiguator to reduce semantic errors in listening. But really the question of “why” makes as little sense in linguistics as it does in evolution, as any structure is a combination of happenstance, just so, environment, and such.

I have read that affix discriminators (e.g. declining a noun) started off as standalone words. Could be true; the distinction of “word” feels to me like an artifact of writing.
Most enterprise users can’t download and run an arbitrary binary due to numerous security controls and regulations. This is true even if that binary is signed - if it isn’t on an allow-list maintained by high priests it can’t be used.

The real world demands web apps in the enterprise even in 2021.
You do realize that like, 10% of the student population at UCSB is offically homeless right? Right now they sleep on friends couches, in their cars, or in transient weekly rental situations
> back-breaking work of farming, transporting, building, cleaning, purifying, and cooking

Those hard working class are not the most respected or even earning. They are also just doing that for basic needs, minimum wage. This truck driver story itself is about them. Pandemic made it even more clear what society think about them.

Other hand people that are making personal data selling websites, playing stock market, destroying planet for greed are doing great. They can suck millions by unethical means, retire, buy yacht. But goddammit, as soon as someone from lower or middle class wants to slack off, they are told to be useless part of society, work hard, break health. Feels like some kind of capitalist propaganda.
> Maybe you cannot get a high paying job anymore without a $500/month AI companion because without it you are considered stupid.

This is very much saying "maybe if you're not already rich, you shouldn't be allowed to get a good job."
Why does it say:

> We found a clinically important absolute risk reduction of 5·0%, and 32% RR reduction, on the primary outcome of hospitalisation

Why is the absolute 5% and the RR 32%? What's the difference?

Also why does it say:

> There were no significant differences between fluvoxamine and placebo for viral clearance at day 7 (p=0·090) and hospitalisations due to COVID (p=0·10), all-cause hospitalisations (p=0·09), time to hospitalisation (p=0·11), number of days in hospital (p=0·06), mortality (p=0·24), time to death (p=0·49), number of days on mechanical ventilation (p=0·90), time to recovery (p=0·79) or the PROMIS Global Physical (p=0·55) or Mental Scale (p=0·32)

And they say in the Interpretation section:

> Treatment with fluvoxamine (100 mg twice daily for 10 days) among high-risk outpatients with early diagnosed COVID-19 reduced the need for hospitalisation defined as retention in a COVID-19 emergency setting or transfer to a tertiary hospital

Why wouldn't they mention anything else but the reduction in hospitalization in their Interpretation section? Is it because all the other effects were not statistically significant to count?
Carmack said (although he wouldn't recommend it due to safety concerns etc.) that he ties arm weights while playing Beat Saber!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29041607
ethics aside, this is very, very cool, and very, very important research!
Highly US-centric article, would be good to be labeled as such.
Current government treatment of finance and big business (and free trade, and neo-liberal policies generally) is pretty unpopular among voters for either major party. Whole thing's regarded as a bunch of self-serving bullshit for the ultra-rich and the wannabe-ultra-rich, of zero or negative value to normal folks (I'm not claiming that's correct, mind you).

It's one place where there's a huge gap between the average voter and either major US party's platform, and certainly between the average voter and actual laws & enforcement. It's why a certain lately-prominent political figure made the tactical decision to ignore their party's platform and court voters directly—and it worked.
RIP Mr. Autumn Man. Pre-2019 images have apparently been removed from The Onion
>There's nothing degrading about cleaning up shit and piss

That fragment emphasizes the feces and urine but not the circumstances.

>The degradation comes when [...]

Yes, now we do get to the particular circumstances in regards to shit & piss and it turns out that it does matter.

For example, on the Apollo 8 spaceflight, astronaut Frank Borman had diarrhea in space. The turds were floating around in the capsule and landed on the instrument panels:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Frank+Borman+diarrhea

It is not dehumanizing nor demeaning for his fellow astronauts to help clean up the poop.

But an inconsiderate truck driver leaving behind a shit explosion on the toilet and floor without cleaning it up is treating the office workers as subhuman. It's a different circumstance.

Similar idea to clearing food and dishes off the tables. That act in isolation is not dehumanizing. E.g. many people clear food off the tables whether it's Thanksgiving dinner or everyday occasion. However, leaving behind a table mess like the following pics show for restaurant workers to clean up after you is treating them as subhuman:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/7igpwh/p...

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/6pxxqj/p...

That moms around the world willingly clean up dinner tables without feeling dehumanized is irrelevant to mistreating restaurant workers like that. And consider that fast food wrappers and half-eaten food is a much lower level of nastiness than feces and urine on the toilet seat and floor.
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I could have been more clear, the distinction is semantic. I was referring to culling/sterilization to prevent reproduction in the sexually mature. Unborn persons are not adults, even if they will be.
Not a duplicate -- this presents a far better overview of the benefits of this new dorm.
I don't doubt that virtual reality or some combination of virtual and augmented will arise, but I just don't see this strategy as a viable short-term escape. I'm also uninterested in the future virtual reality that Meta seeks when the price that Facebook and Instagram have cost us right now.

I credit the vision even if it repulses me. It's natural to imagine immersive content or at least digital overlays. That's a big vision and long term. The thing is, as an escape-hatch, it is too long-term. I don't expect to see any of these kinds of technologies dominating social spaces or commercial spaces for years to come. They're wonky, niche, and incoherent. It's also too unrealistic to awe critics enough to divert the public's attention away from Facebook/Meta's missteps.

I'm sure the tech's viability and popularity will change with the state of the art and with generational shifts and preferences. For now, I'm eagerly awaiting for Facebook/Meta to answer for the cesspools they've allowed to fester and the intrusions on basic privacy.
“There’s probably a timeline where” = “wouldn’t it be fun to imagine if things were different and turned out differently?”, but with a gossamer covering of adulthood, right?
To be fair I would rather have Oil go into Patagonia shirts, than be burned and release CO2 into the atmosphere
This is actually a much better reason for boycotting than taking on some quixotic initiative based solely on principle (however honorable that may be):

the market has decided that FB is now the poster child for bad business behavior.

That is, it makes financial sense for (some) companies to disengage from the FB brand.

For a company whose business models rely on leveraging social network dynamics to sell more ads, it seems welcomingly ironic that FB should be labeled the social pariah, if even for a short moment in time.

(let's hope it sticks)
Except Microsoft, who did it a few times in the past.
I agree with you completely - I was just trying to make the point that they claim to care about ethics and yet have no ethicists from what it appears.
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Exactly! The Paris agreement provided an anchor. Now every climate policy is put in relation with how it helps to reach the 2 degree target. We hear about it all the time.

We might be off-track to meet the goal but it was nevertheless a massive step forward to frame the debate.
I currently work for a fintech and i can argue we're not getting around the rules, we're just able to move faster on it. We have invested a ton of resources into things like AML, KYC, and ensuring compliance. The only difference between us and a bank going through this is that we get to generally work w/ newish systems and minimal bureaucracy. Meanwhile banks have to work w/ much more antiquated systems and bureaucracy that makes it harder for them to move at all.
> If it were reverse (men were called "women") the same people would complain about sexism because the female version of the word is shorter

You're just making up hypothetical reactions by a group of people you clearly have some preconceived notions about...

The fact that the word "woman" is etymologically derived from the root word "man" can be, and has been, scientifically validated.