skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only consciousness we experience is our own. In the extreme, we can no more say a chair suffers than a human being other than ourselves. Of course we take the pragmatic approach of deciding things that look like suffering to us is suffering.
I've noted the rising temperatures and increasing hate over this issue. Just this week, some guy in LA starts yelling at anti-vaccine protesters, gets into a car, and rams into the crowd:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-injured-after-man...

People are losing it.
Roblox is 15 years old

Its more like they arent used to people noticing their incompetence

But they had plenty of time to improve
The M1 laptop models introduced in 2020 (Air, 13" MBP) only support 1 external monitor. The Mini supports two, basically because it doesn't have one of its own.

The Pro and Max models (14/16") support more.
*EDIT: PPL, not PFL. HN won’t let me edit my post.
This is what preparing in advance looks like.
It points to it being a serious infrastructure issue really. You don't have a hugely popular platform be dead for two days unless there is some fundamental issue with the infrastructure.

Likely some stupid misconfiguration in some overengineered "cloud" architecture is the root cause, and they're mired in trying to debug and resolve the problem, fighting the complexity of the system the whole way.
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision
Not sure about that. While there is a small bias, I'm not sure it sufficient to significantly nudge the result. For example, hypertension comorbidity is 262,659 / 842,974 in vax vs. 207,862 / 842,974 in unvax.
To clarify, you click the timestamp on the comment to get to the comment-specific "favorite" link
like drugs, prostitution, and myriad of other small time victim-less crimes?
Every society that survives eventually realizes it is good to have occasional fasts to reexamine priorities and improve mental health.

There are communities in the U.S. that take an entire month off from these types of digital activities :)
Not only that, but I have the audacity to eat food that is grown and transported with machinery powered by fossil fuels, what a hypocrite I am!

Of course, my consumer choices are absolutely negligible and the most significant thing I can do by far is vote and advocate for the climate. Fussing over my consumer choices is penny-wise and pound foolish, and the fossil fuel industry and other polluters bank on convincing consumers that if they just buy the stuff with the faux burlap packaging the climate will be just fine.

Similarly, whether I use Twitter/etc or not won’t move the needle on the harm they do to our democracy. Systemic problems like these aren’t significantly altered by individual choices to partake or abstain—political intervention is required. And of course, comparing HN to Twitter and Facebook is just absurd.
It's the foundation of 'democracies', which are representative. Reps can't articulate agendas and carry them out because many issues don't exist when they are elected, most others change, when they get on the job they learn more (hopefully), and they need to work with other people to get anything done (by design). It is a leading job of government, one supported strongly by voters, to protect the public.

The hyperbole and strawpeople aren't relevant. Universal human rights, while not perfect, are far beyond what you describe - including for prisoners.
Proctor and Gamble dropped digital ad spend by...

.. oh who the fuck cares, EntrenchedNews algos already blocked this reply so you can feel important.
safe from murder*
Said jail wasn't located in Santa Barbara, situated in arguably one of the best climates in the world, and inmates aren't allowed to leave at their leisure to go enjoy said climate.
Don't worry, it doesn't work.
From what I've read, Senator Ron Wyden is a relatively vocal opponent of surveillance. Hopefully he's not an outlier forever.
UHF RFID Reader
People universally build big complicated systems around cloud providers which are equally not free.

Unless you are doing something extremely basic, this is what gets done, with a good deal of experience it seems the complexity of what people do to manage and automate cloud providers is more or less equal to what they do to manage bare metal hardware well.
online dictionary: a rolling publication with increasingly vague definitions of words, any of which their allies can quickly claim sound use of to evade scrutiny or scorn. see also fact checkers.

It would take an offline only dictionary, interested in generational reputation, to care more about precision than being a tool for the political scrubbing of history.
Does that type of speech, refusing to respect a person's identity, have any additional legal implications being that they seem to be public employees in a public school system? Discrimination as they argue in private businesses versus government ones? IANAL, just curious
You can also do it with major crypto tokens. At least with Fidelity Charitable. You get to deduct the market value and don’t pay capital gains.
Just sent you an email, let me know if you didn't get it.
What Does Your Gaze Reveal About You? Eye Tracking Privacy Implications
1: varroa is a parasitic mite, not a virus

2: honeybees live in a hive - no amount of "social distancing" can fix the hive being infested with mites

3: CCD is multifactorial, and things like lower genetic diversity, neonicotinoid pesticides, and long-range transportation/mixing of bee hives and regional populations also play a role.
I also found that advice about as confusing as all the other consumer-targeted houseplant advice. If you've got some time to invest, then I believe you'll find that advice for professional growers makes a lot more sense, much more quantitative and backed by trials and chemical or biological mechanisms. I quite like:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/46345

That's a guide to operating a nursery, developed by academics seeking to distill the scientific state of the art into something practically useful with basic equipment.

Specifically as to judging how much to water, I go mostly by weight. Thoroughly wet the medium until water runs from the holes in the pot, and then don't water again until the weight drops below some fraction (e.g., 20%) of that maximum. You can use a scale, or judge by hand with practice.

You can also wait until the plants show drought stress. For example, they might visibly wilt, or succulent leaves and herbaceous stems may go from turgid to limp. That's probably not optimal, but it's better than overwatering.

Finally, you can also pot in media with very low water holding capacity, like a blend of normal potting mix and perlite. This makes it near-impossible to overwater, but the tradeoff is that frequent (e.g., every few days) watering then becomes mandatory.
Reading about Katerra here and elsewhere brought me to a naïve question not easily answered by Google:

How often are building blueprints re-used?

E.g. I have a company and we need to expand and want our own building. Do we really need to hire an architect to design something new? Surely someone has already designed a building in the last 5 years that would suit our purpose. Just buy those blueprints and make it again (with some slight adjustment for local codes, geography, etc.). Perhaps this is done frequently and simply not very noticeable?

(I understand the same blueprints may be reused for multiple buildings in one complex, and more often in the public sector).
> The "continuing to browse this website" seems shady. Can someone explain how this is even supposed to work? Is there a timer that expires? If I scroll at all am I opted in?

I would be surprised if it "works", or if they do anything other than tracking you from the first moment until you opt out.
I could not find any data on the actual levels, but there is data available on the effect on children.

By the late 1970s "88% of children had a level exceeding 10 μg/dl" [1] while current data from near the Reid-Hillview Airport shows that there is no particularly noticable effect [2] with just 1.7% of children having a blood level above 4.7 ug/dl. On average around 2% of children in the US regardless of location have a blood lead level around that number.

[1] https://www.jci.org/articles/view/28232
[2] https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-airport-lead-levels-ar...
missing words or mistyping words is more symptomatic of dyslexia then ADHD isnt it? I have some form of dyslexia but i believe its a spectrum disorder and mine is workable so ive never considered medication for it
I found Fishkin article more convincing that this one. The author seems to try to justify his worth (and job) rather than understanding the ads market.
All of which the state has failed to stop?
why do tools like this and others always get invented at unethical companies?
Why would I live somewhere so expensive?

Many seem to not understand that real estate is not unlimited-supply like most manufactured goods. Just because you want a particular home doesn’t mean expect it will go for MSRP like common retail goods. You’re bidding on a strictly limited supply, vs others willing to bid more. At some point reconsider what you’re actually trying to get, and that better is far more affordable elsewhere.
Definitely closer to $15k for VFR alone in the Seattle area. Doing this right now at Boeing Field.

Cessna 172 with G1000 avionics rental rate is 185/hour wet (with fuel) if you pay for a membership program at the flight school. Otherwise ~200/hour.

For rentals you pay for engine time only. There are usually minimums per day if you wanted to rent a plane for a weekend trip or something like that.

Flying Seattle to Orcas Island is a fun little trip.
Ask HN: Passed over for promotion even after impactful performance?
What should I do if I feel my contribution was too valuable to be ignored?
Is it a good idea to show the value of my contributions and ask them to reconsider?

Some info about me : (I am from engineering and research background with 10+ years of experience, working in VR/AR/XR field in the R&D department of a large Company)
I have a ridiculous question about the “backwards” trains.

What makes them backwards?
You don’t even see the problem. Try using “Mohammed” in the same context.
Are you aware of how easy it is to find drugs and prostitutes?
They are. The alternative to “move” is toxic water. My area is developing its own problems, so I’m looking to get out. I certainly wouldn’t send my kids to live in an oppressive uberprison dorm.
Adguard iOS code was copied exactly by a government organization
Since we're sharing weird unwiped data stories, I'll tell mine:

I bought an old Dell PowerVault (rackmountable backup tape library) a few years ago. Upon taking out the drive that was already in there, I found that it still had a tape inside of it. I was able to dump the tape contents; it's files were all gzipped TAR streams. Inside those archives were assets and project files for... a ProtectMyID.com commercial.
I thought this article would be about Viagra ads
I strongly disagree. The human brain, in its connectome, encompasses enough computational complexity to contain consciousness and suffering. A chair does not, at least not based on any model I've yet seen proposed.
Plus, a lot of people already own a Roku and not a Raspberry Pi.
> proportionality and tactics are rare and unique

Are they though? First it's "only" to catch the super-terrorists. Then it's only to catch the murderers. Then it's for VIP missing person cases. Then it's petty crime. Then it's for political opponents. Then nobody dares ask anymore about "legitimacy, proportionality, oversight."

When those in power grant themselves more power, the onus is on them to prove they can't abuse that power. Of course, the way power works is they have that choice and we don't.
> We all have SSDs in our laptops now. These are hard to wipe

Not at all if you have an OPAL SSD which are quite common these days. These have a key which encrypts the data at rest and a user facing passphrase which decrypts this key. If you override the encrypting key, the rest of the data is gone unless you can break AES.
My wife and I absolutely call our coil guest bed our sex bed, so he’s right on.

No guests have ever slept in it either, so there’s that. It’s more of a sex and snoring bed.
Oddly, I went to a talk by him once and he mentioned he briefly thought about suing when the Matrix came out based on this story.
Meanwhile in English, "Yellow journalism" is an old-timey synonym for clickbait.
I wonder how many of the extra cpu cycles are in PV network interfaces. It would be interesting to see how this works out with SR-IOV capable NICs with a VF in each VM.
AMAMA
Also Rohitab Batra's API Monitor v2 - http://www.rohitab.com/ - very powerful - especially if you are hunting down who uses "getenv" (well not really getenv, but you get the picture)

And there is "strace" (not the one from cygwin/mingw, which mostly traces apps written for their runtime), but from DrMemory's - https://drmemory.org/page_drstrace.html

Then you have the realtively recent Detours released, and tons of other tooling TBH, just all over.
I simply ordered a foam mattress from a foam mattress company.

Saved me all the hassle of figuring out what type of foam and cover etc. still only ten percent of the price of a fancy mattress from a mattress store and took ten minutes on amazon. I doubt it's that much more expensively than a comparable block of foam. (I think it has multiple layers, as well).

Three years in, no problems. Good mattress.
This could be a post in its own. What kinda soap do you use?
Developing tools costs money and unethical companies will always be more profitable than ethical ones as they have access to both ethical and unethical revenue streams. More profits means more money to throw at NIH projects.
"incomplete model of how the world works and an inconsistent preference set"

This is unfair, do you have complete model of how the world works while basic questions in economics remain unanswered, like how exchange rates work, how growth works of even on the nature of money?

"There is little agreement on a definition of money or what assets serve as money, much less on the nature of the private and social costs and benefits of a money economy"

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

Even if we fully understood impact of financial policy, this is a political topic and requires involvement.

It's far to easy to deflect criticism by pretending that the finance system is like a well-oiled machine, carefully put together, all pieces humming in harmony, and the plebs shouldn't meddle with it.
You may be interested in meterpreter and the metasploit framework.

It's not an actual worm or virus, because that'd be a little silly, but from automated exploits and a good reverse shell that's a small epsilon away from what you're describing.
> One other thing is, when referring to a mixed group of people, you use a masculine form of plural, same as "latinos". It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages.

This is the traditional rule in Hebrew as well and it most certainly bothers people. Lately I've seen a lot of writing and occasionally even speech that attempts to be gender neutral by using the Hebrew equivalent of "he/she" or "he or she" and sometimes "she or he". Hebrew has a lot more gender than English, so it's pervasive.

For example, at work I might get an email that starts: Dear employees (female suffix) and employees (male suffix)...

P.S. This trend is often associated with a certain popular feminist politician and has been the subject of jokes in political comedy, eg: https://youtu.be/cu3E9Nf_Z6w
Unless you’re in a startup environment or otherwise small
company, your company will likely have some sort of rubric for your job’s career ladder.

These rubrics are built to try to help managers make impartial, and objective decisions. This is not only more fair but more structure also helps reduce liability related to discrimination. The downside of this structure means that even though you may have contributed substantially, you don’t meet the specific guidelines for promotion.

So I recommend asking your manager for the career ladder information, if you’re in an organisation where one exists, and ask for feedback as to why they feel you don’t meet the criteria for the next step. That feedback will help you figure out whether they’re just “missing something” or if they see gaps.
Unethical companies get rewarded for their unethical behavior instead of being held accountable in any meaningful way. They then use their vast resources to grow their engineering force at an incredible rate. Moving fast means they are also accruing technical debt at an astounding rate, which then leads to throwing more of their resources at people to focus solely on solving these scaling problems.
The less barriers the people in an organization perceive, the more likely they are to innovate, whether for the greater good or not.
I hope this brings down the cost per hour a little. Not as much as electric small aircraft will, but anything helps!
Yeah, I've gone the raspberry pi route for a tv connected home media center, I'm much happier with a bunch of Rokus & a remote Plex server. It's 100x more polished than even the best open source projects, and it is no effort on my part to keep them up to date and functional. Just one less thing to think about, making room for other fun projects.

I'm excited about this being released.
I was looking how to automate procmon on CI and found this (but info there might be bit outdated, had to reset my procmon registry to get it back to work) - https://gist.github.com/balaprasathr/ae424eec0e9e2860aa84a85... and whole article that goes deep into it - but can't find it now - I think I've stumbled on to it from the link above.
> Lesson learned: every time you find yourself

Looks like author encountered something one time. And they made resolution that it will happen every time. Doesn't sound reasonable.
Sounds like they licensed the code
The sole reason Apple rejects PWA is that, PWA has the potential to threaten its apps store revenue.

When you can run many apps directly from the browser why do I need write everything as an iOS app.

It's a shame that Apple is the only big player that does not even want to support PWA. Apple is truly a closed ecosystem for pure greed.
Copyright is fine. Software patents are not.

Copyright allows you to decide how your code is distributed. Software patents restrict innovation in a manner that was never intended to be possible.
Byzantine Generals Problem
Research is done because you are compelled to do so, it chooses you, usually something you never thought you'd be good at or interested in, you just can't stop, for me anyway.

An 'uninteresting' but useful scientific discovery is modern infintesimal calculus https://youtu.be/D8_BBoolMm8
>Will you consent to mandatory surveillance of all law enforcement officers that is recorded and stored in a civil controlled repository so that officer conduct may be reviewed at any time?

I think this should be implemented regardless. But the danger is they can easily say "sure; your turn". Some in law enforcement may even genuinely want to do that for its own sake.

I think that's a totally orthogonal thing to violating citizens' privacy and shouldn't be considered as leverage or a counterargument.
What is it that makes 4d the hardest dimension in topology?
I had hallucinations and a manic episode due to a doctor prescribing the wrong amount of Adderall.
Ask HN: Will the global supply chain emerge better off after the pandemic?
Yes but if you are caught doing unauthorized ACH transfers it's not going to be good for you.
So does he have a special reversed image printed on his shirt just for this lecture format?
Actually that was after they did some modification after AdGuard published that on Twitter. They even deleted some commit like one saying "fix AdGuard server connect" by just changing name from AdGuard to theirs. Problem is that they don't attribute, and even their android app is from Jigsaw.

The irony is them being official government agency responsible for cybersecurity and doing that.
Why does nobody hold them accountable for anything again?
> Any argument against a CDO is implicitly an argument against a mortgage backed security. In fact, CDOs by their nature can be _more_ decoupled from systematic mortgage risk.

I'm skeptical because it was CDOs that blew up, not more typical mortgage backed securities.

I think the key phrase there is "can be." Complex software can be reliable, but it also can be a buggy mess or reliable except for that one bug that literally kills you. The complexity creates a situation it too much trouble to really understand it, so people treat it as a black box and just hand-wave and believe whatever they want. It seems CDOs had a similar problem, while perhaps regular MBS are simple enough that they don't.
On that topic: it can't necessarily be ruled out that they might have a soul. (In the sense of possessing consciousness.) Less likely the fewer degrees of freedom you have, and certainly seems like a long shot for ~300 neurons, but we don't know where the lines may be drawn and we may not know for a very long time.
It can sometimes be very hard to cold start in such circumstances, because the demand from all the services trying to access their secrets at once can create a “thundering herd” that knocks the recently restored service over again.

My guess is that they’ve had to shut most services down, restore the secret store, and then bring up internal services in a careful sequence to avoid a thundering herd. At $JOB even understanding the correct sequence to cold start our organization would probably take more than 24hrs.
I should also add as a +1: if you’re in engineering (and I suppose this extends to many other job roles but I’ll speak for eng for now), the difference between say an intermediate and a senior is not completely a factor of contribution, but also of experience.

A less experienced engineer might push an impressive amount of code, but a more experienced and senior engineer will get to the correct solution much more quickly, and more often the first time. Over a longer time scale this will become clear as a senior engineer’s API spec stands the test of time (less versioning) or their architecture doesn’t require a rewrite or their data model can be extended without downtime-inducing migrations.

I’m saying this as a self-taught engineer since 8 years old who consistently closed more tickets than my peers. For a long time I wondered why I was less senior or paid less than them, and as I became more senior myself it became clear that seniority was more a factor of how often my instinctual decisions were the correct call, because I had solved that problem before, and less because of my raw delivery.
> In most cases, it's only cheaper if you value engineering time at $0.

Clearly not at $0 since the cloud is much more expensive and you need more of it because it's slower. If you could have someone do setup and maintenance for free, obviously you'd be way ahead.

So the question is really how much does it cost and whether it's cheaper than the cloud tax.

At a previous startup our AWS bill would've been enough to hire about 3 to 4 full time sysadmins at silicon valley rates. Our workload wasn't huge. I estimated at the time we could've taken one month of AWS cost to buy more than enough equipment to run everything in-house with redundancy, then hire two people to run it all and bank the rest.

At current startup, we're still very small and have no real customer traffic, but the AWS bill is getting close, not there yet, to pay for one full time person. For a workload that could be hosted on a few ancient laptops over a home DSL line if we wanted.

Yes, there's quite the convenience in being able to just click a new instance into existence, but the true cost is also very high. Sure it's just VC money we're all lighting on fire, but I often wonder how much more could be accomplished if we didn't collectively just hand over most of the funding to AWS.