skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa... whoa... let's unpack all the intense presuppositions you're packing in here:

"Domestication" is just a word for a natural evolutionary processes in a symbiotic system. The concept that "domestication" is like, actually a thing apart from evolution is a vastly more difficult idea to parse than it appears on it's face.

>Domesticated animals are all dumber than their wild counterparts.

I mean... again... there are so many things to unpack here. What do we mean by "dumb" and which parts of the brain are being used, and how their size relates to their usefulness. I think it would be extremely difficult to argue any of these claims on their face beyond: small brain -> less brain function, which is extremely spurious.

Homo neanderthalensis had notably larger brains than us, yet they did not survive. Hardly an argument for the idea of greater intelligence -> greater brain size. AFAIK, specific areas in the prefrontal cortex is the primary point of interest when it comes to intelligence, and it's a relatively small section of the brain compared, say, to the visual cortex.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/neanderthal-br...

Finally... the most absurd of all the ideas packed in here is that natural selection for smaller brain size would even be a thing. Human mating is openly available for study, I see little-to-no argument for this being plausible beyond some sort of idiocracy world (is this the domestication thesis you hold? I see in the article they are treated separately), which is genuinely problematic. Possibly that certain types of brain sizes are predisposed to certain behavioral patterns. However, the idea that there is even a single evolutionary pattern for billions of humans is pretty ridiculous. We don't have evolutionary islands like other animals do.
idk maybe mormon culture?
Same in Dutch. 'Ik leen geld van de bank. De bank leent geld aan mij.'
why blame the players rather than the game? It's the government's job to prioritize long term health of the nation

Plenty of people warned about the hazards of allowing these companies to outsource everything, government did nothing. Mostly because they are bought off by lobbyists. This could have pretty easily been prevented by putting tariffs on key industries to keep manufacturing here or at least in North America
No it wasn't, it was something a lot more niche.
That's incorrect, at least in the case of cigarettes. According to the CDC, you have twice the risk of gum disease if you smoke versus nonsmokers. They also state that the more you smoke and the longer you smoke, the greater your risk. That doesn't directly imply a causal link, but it sure winks really obviously in the direction of one.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/periodont...
No, this is turning a meme into an HTTP error code. You're thinking of:

https://i.redd.it/wmwqgt9kbop41.jpg
Facebook hasn't been around long enough to talk about its "long term".
> non-accelerating bodies

Accelerated bodies in flat spacetime (Minkowski space) are well-described by special relativity. One can even calculate usefully in accelerated reference frames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration_(special_relativi...

The Unruh effect can happen in flat spacetime, for example, and is a useful check on Hawking radiation (in a black hole curved spacetime).

It's also interesting in understanding the weak equivalence principle in detail; very loosely, a small-mass object can rest quietly on the surface of a non-compact, non-spinning, spherical mass eternally, while it is at least very difficult to keep the same small-mass object accelerating uniformly in flat spacetime for even fairly short (compared to say the age of the universe, which is hardly eternal) finite times.
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Interesting, thanks did not know that.
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

> So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be. By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update. So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.
https://youtu.be/h02a2HSB58M
> What is the sales pitch you would bring to the CEO of a Fortune 500?

When you buy or merge companies, and they both have RFC 1918 addresses, you'll probably have a conflict between the two entities. You'll probably have to implement NAT with-in your own network and hope the two sides don't have to talk to each other that much. (Or you completely re-IP the acquisition.)

With IPv6, either the companies will be using their own PI IPv6 space and/or they will be using unique ULA prefixes, so the chance of conflicts will be very small.

This at least was one of the business cases for Wells Fargo, "the fourth largest bank in the United States by total assets and is one of the largest as ranked by bank deposits and market capitalization":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTWjNUb4H4
The internet is supposed to work on a server-client model where you can FTP to someone's site, etc. NAT is nothing but a workaround that has caused problems.
Mostly because of their compensation I think.
in my personal experience it also works great for desktop software
> and process information at the same rate we'd need to in a more wild enviornment

If anything that rate of processing has gone up, not down.
> enforcing digital scarcity in a federated metaverse

I don't know, I feel this sentiment betrays a industry-wide common lack of imagination. We start building digital realities, and our first thought is to try and make them more crappy like the regular one?

Nobody really likes scarcity other than speculators and collectors. We shouldn't be trying to invent more of it, we shouldn't be trying to get rid of the advantages of digital abundance. We should instead be trying to manage and mitigate the limited forms of scarcity that still exist in digital systems -- a long term goal of the Internet should be the complete elimination of most non-physical scarcity. Every time we can make a new asset or utility stop being scarce, that's a step in the right direction.

It's a failure of creativity, vision, and (frankly) courage, that so many people in the tech industry are incapable/unwilling to imagine worlds that aren't artificially hobbled and restricted so that they mimic existing systems.

We build these incredible, world-changing technologies, and then instead of rethinking ownership or creator incentives we just waste a bunch of energy and time building little pretend speculative "art markets" and stressing out over whether somebody might copy and paste a file between two computers or share it online.
I think the "good" choice is to remove undefined behaviour and accept that C will be slighlty slower on esoteric hardware.
I would much rather adjust the earth's axis; let's eliminate seasonal variations. Winter sucks. Those poor misled people who live in the Northern latitudes shoulda moved to habitable climates long ago anyway. Leave that shit to the polar bears.

Unfortunately as aurizon mentioned; the earth is all squishy and there's severe difficulty applying enough force to move the planet meaningfully without unpleasant side effects.
> In many ways that makes these rumor filled, science light, unsubstantiated media stories about “this is the most dangerous drug ever” incredibly irresponsible. The stories themselves create the cultural preconditions around encouraging more self-destructive behavior among users. <

What about krokodile?
While we are at it can we remove Antifa and BLM from facebook?
What I want is a tool to make flaky tests fail reliably.

They won't be fixed until they start actually preventing commits. If somebody deletes a test, that is on that person. I don't want a tool automatically suppressing testing.
> Their only hopes of being taken seriously as an Expert - a position our culture treats as the height of dignity - is to create a complete alternate system of knowledge, ungrounded in any previous system, where they can end up as an expert on the Lizard Papacy.

I couldn't help but notice the resemblance with how postmodernism and critical theory and their derivatives have infiltrated Academia.
I am like you too. I’m not fond of blank projects where I can let creativity thrive. I would not know what to do. But give me a piece of paper and an idea and I can roughly detail all requirements for the project, create a backlog and tasks for a week. I’m more interested into the coding challenge offered by the work. I get more satisfaction in finding the best solution than in the result.
John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
> I’m assuming “glass” is the meth and the “M30” pills are fentanyl?

Correct. M30's are opiates pressed to look like percocet - when from the street, typically fentanyl or another potent opioid.
FreeBSD port needed btw :)
Hm, then shouldn't people who live in tribal societies as hunter gatherers have bigger brains still? Has anyone studied that?
Don't pick the right tool for the job, pick the right framework which secures you extra work for being a tool. - @iamdevloper ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
The thing is, academia has always been rather dumb at its main job; analyzing the validity of research. Meaning that, even if the research proves its validity on its own, academia fails to pick it up, preferring to wait for secondary proofs.

It takes a certain kind of a person to go against the flow. Einstein certainly did and it sure wasn't a smooth ride. Even in our days, Geoffrey Hinton wasn't allowed to present on deep learning in AI conferences in the early 2000's, even though the exact same theoretical bases existed then as they do now.
Concrete Math Companion (in J) [pdf]
Very good no-nonsense talk.

Surprising contrast with all other FB Connect keynotes.

10:45 - On barriers he encountered on his quest to release unlocked software for Oculus Go.

20:00 - long critique of Metaverse/Horizon.

34:00 - "Everybody agrees that a closed platform doesn't deserve to be called The Metaverse"

37:00 - On how Horizon World, Horizon Venues, Horizon Workrooms are all mess of disconnected codebases.

38:40 - On upcoming hardware

42:20 - On headset pricing and how "There are people for whom $0 is not cheap enough to make current headsets valuable, because there are plenty of Quest 2 headsets in closets now"

46:00 - On pancake lenses

53:20 - On FB outage

55:30 - On PWA, native and regular Android apps for VR
Past threads:

Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067007 - May 2021 (20 comments)

Politics and the English Language (George Orwell, 1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828499 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)

George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712057 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538496 - Feb 2017 (21 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12327324 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271030 - Aug 2016 (150 comments)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452900 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643231 - Oct 2013 (62 comments)

“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277405 - Aug 2013 (2 comments)

Politics and the English Language [1945] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752825 - March 2012 (13 comments)

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" 1946 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079477 - Jan 2011 (1 comment)

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997940 - Dec 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=636287 - June 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272211 - Aug 2008 (11 comments)

Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115519 - Feb 2008 (5 comments)

Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067007 was less than a year ago, this one counts as a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
This is awesome! Love the focus on short practical tutorials and not leetcode style questions. Are you planning on iterating this further?
Staying at home and collecting unemployment.
Agreed, more neutral color is needed. Also, the contrast/thickness of the borders is way too high. Funny, because I usually complain contrast is too low for typical sites.

I also had trouble reading the About... tooltip. I'd probably move that to the sidebar?
I suspect by the time you’ve disabled all the compiler “optimisations” that would lie knock a few orders of magnitude of performance off the directly translated algorithm, you may as well have written the assembler to start with…

And you probably can’t fine tune your C/C++ to get this performance without knowing exactly what processor instructions you are trying to trick the compiler into generating anyway.
Glad to hear it. I actually gave up exactly at Debian 8 btw.
We agree on one point: the important question is which countries get the best outcomes, regardless of spend or funding.

But I'm unclear on the importance of paying down debt in this case. Will it lead to a better state of things, or is that expectation just a habit we have from thinking about household debt?

Govt debt is different, and US govt debt is even more different.

It is not strictly bad to carry debt at the national govt level. Especially when your debtholders are mostly citizens. People talk about China and other countries holding US debt, but the numbers are not significant.

So what is the right level of debt? That's a good question, but it doesn't seem to be terribly relevant right now (and literally no one knows the answer!). When your debtholders will no longer lend you money, then it becomes an issue. We are not there yet, regardless of what the number is.
Would Meta be able to build a federated Metaverse? If they are, things are different.
Perhaps the alternative is that if you know anything abrasive will be ignored or derailed by others then you’ll automatically not share knowledge and then you don’t learn.

If people who are intelligent can’t handle ideas that aren’t “palatable” to them, what’s the fucking purpose of your academy? lol.
It’s like asking atheists to care about your church’s rules. You’re just stupid for not understanding that they aren’t participating with you any longer.
https://archive.md/Jog6X
Fourier Series [0] (infinite sums of sines and cosines) can be made to equal any "well-behaved" function. This is the same idea in more dimensions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series
> There are only 3 patterns that repeat for every set of 10 numbers

Ah, yep, good point!
I tried this setup a few years ago, over a couple of weeks whilst in Spain on holiday. iPad Pro (1st gen + apple's keyboard case), shared Wifi from my iPhone (4G in roaming), blink, and OpenBSD VM from Vultr.

It was surprisingly OK. Mosh definitely works for dodgy connections, tmux keeps the session(s) around and all works fine. I was writing C in vim, so that also helped, no heavy tools other than the compiler.

I only wish I had the bigger iPad model. And I wish there was a way to attach that keyboard when in portrait mode (far superior for coding on iPad).
Don't they have to payback the loans at some point? And at that point do they not liquidate some assets to do so and pay taxes on that? (Serious question.)
> slavic nootropics and neuro-regenerative peptides (e.g. semax/NASA, BPC-500,

more info?
Terran Orbital Announces $1.58B SPAC Merger
Related tech that got traction is BLE in servers with corresponding apps, like Dell Quick Sync. Lets you flash the ID light of a server from your phone, among lots of other things.
Have you looked at Chisel? It isn't really high level synthesis but the Chisel is converted to Verilog and then that is synthesized like normal. It makes connecting things and configuration a lot easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(programming_language)

https://www.chisel-lang.org/
I like your comment. Discrete "worth to society" is indeed a vague and nebulous idea.

And money doesn't measure that, nor serve as a cosmic measure of morality.

If you remove wealth as being an indicator of worth to society, then Bezos has one less reason for such wealth.

The only reason he has the money is that he played the game well. But society makes the rules of the game and I think they should change.
It might have something to do with drastically lower labor prices and environmental laws.

There is only so much discrepancy in prices that global markets will allow before buyers start rewarding the lower priced sellers for taking advantage of the arbitrage.
New Brain Implant Lets Blind Patient See Without Eyes
And most of it has been offloaded to computers (big data, deep learning, etc). I don't think we're going to have "mentats" any time soon.
> Ares, SLS are basically just warmed up shuttle concepts

Not really. They were started before SpaceX proved the idea of reusable boosters. They are a safe Plan-B, using engines and concepts that were already available. It’s a shame they decided to improve upon the existing hardware and took much longer than initially expected, but that’s what life with rockets used to be before SpaceX showed rapid iteration is a better path.

Also, Congress would be very upset with a bunch of failed launches, but that’s also how iterative development works.
Where in the World Is the U.S. Military? (2015)
The Case for Shared Nothing (1985) [pdf]
If only we could overcome the negatives of the bureaucracy of a large company with a mere double-spend on equipment. It would be cheap at 10x that price.

The whole point of the startup culture is that they can do things better than a large company.

And, quite often, they can. But not always.

A semiconductor plant, for example, is not a startup thing because the capital cost is so gigantic.

However, most fields are not that bad. Even bio equipment just isn't that expensive relative to the cost of the people to use that equipment.

The bigger problem, right now, is that investors don't want to fund anything which requires more than 18 months before flameout/unicorn. That blocks startups that have a 5+ year horizon.
back in the mid to thousands. I had a working example of a sender pays email environment. it used hash cash embedded in an email message in combination with content filtering.

it was more of a proof of concept that an actual practical system but if I was going to do it again today I would instead put the postage at the SMTP level as a protocol extension where your reputation from the mail service perspective would tell you how big a Hash cash stamp to create. This model would accommodate inflation and familiarity for generating bigger and smaller stamps.

It's an interesting project for anyone that has the time.
Thanks for the reply! Nice talk! I spent around a month going down the perfsonar rabbit hole and set some cool stuff up. It was really instructive. At the end of the day work didn't operate a large enough network for us to get great insights from the perfsonar network.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing
I haven't thought about patents. But, for copyrights, I think there should be two "schedules":

1. A fixed original-author schedule which is 28 years, tax free; and,

2. A "work for hire" schedule which is 70+ years, where the Geoist tax is free for the first 7 years, then increases by 1% every 7 years.

Again, the rule is this: you self appraise, and pay your tax. Any other entity can pay the balance due (in my opinion, to the Treasury: the monopoly is granted by the people, not the copyright owner), and it places the copy into the public domain.

For patents... I'd probably say its "free" unless you enforce its monopoly. Then, if you value the patent at "100 million$" you owe the government N-years X percentage X 100 million. Obviously, the valuation isn't the infringing value — infringement is a fraction of its value. That means a patent only "has value" when it's used to enforce its monopoly.
in the wild I would be alert

I am when I hike alone. Not super alert - since there are few dangerous animals in my country - but alert still.

Also, you are very alert when you walk in bad neighbourhoods.
facebookrebrand.com is available. ;-)

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The only reference I can find to "minibosses" is this ancient python-dev thread here (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/01571...)

> I'd prefer if you didn't feel the need to play miniboss on the Python
project

Disclosure: I am a current core dev
Domestic animals have safe, boring and predictable environment. It's expected that they'd simplify their brain - the organ that consumes so much energy. If domesticated animals started playing chess, that would be a different story, but they spend their life mindlessly walking between a food dispenser and a litter box, taking naps in between.
This is from 18 months ago saying covid "could mean" "up to 260 million" face a food crisis.

I'm very confident the real numbers of starved people since then is vastly lower.
> I think that would disproportionately hurt people who have a hard time managing money.

Ohhh. Dammit. My apologies, I thoroughly misunderstood you and was arguing from a faulty premise, and kept digging in because I'm doing 10 other things and wasn't giving this thread proper attention. That explains why I thought it was "odd" that you said that, because what I internalized wasn't what you meant.

Thanks for sticking with it and explaining to me.

Yes, we're on the same page.

Some proposals for helping people who are temporarily homeless are to provide an address (public housing) and help them get a job long enough to be able to pay a down payment on an apartment.

However, that's for people who aren't mentally impaired and just need a temporary leg up to get back into the system.

Some benefits do need to be tangibles like you said: e.g. an apartment (public housing, vouchers) or food (meal kitchens, SNAP) and not money because just giving someone money who can't cook isn't going to suddenly teach them how to shop and cook, assuming they can even be taught.

I don't know if there IS any solution today. I know long ago there were institutions but those were largely underfunded and abusive. However, there is public housing where I live that is for people with a certain degree if disability, but they have to be able to remember how to find their house and do simple things like bathe and eat.

If they are beyond that, that's where society has a big hole right now. Do you know of any efforts in this space?