skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's scary.

It's basically making you dependent on a drug but you have to commit to a specific producer upfront and changing it later on is a huge cost and risk undertaking and maybe even impossible (due to scare tissue).

This basically makes you fully dependent on the company producing the implant.

Now some would say it's like a peace maker, but from what I can tell with my limited understanding of biology it's much worse (and peace makers are more scary than many people realize as today a "no contact" hacking of peacemakers is possible as far as I know)
> Also, modern nuclear reactors are dangerous. The GenIII+ specification for all new reactors requires the use of passive shut off. Which means the operator must actively keep the reactor on.

This seems confused. Shouldn't this read not dangerous?

100% agree though on the broad point. Newer reactors have way better passive safety, and the way to cheaper, safer nuclear energy is build more new plants and retire the old ones.
It's more skeptisism where I see stories about elderly people dieing from old age, but because they tested positive for Covid it was counted as a covid death. Or died in a car accident, gun shot wound, fell off a ladder, etc. I've seen endless stories where these direct causes of death were counted as covid deaths because they tested positive.

Hospitals were encouraged to label people as positive/covid deaths because that's how they got funding for the last two years (since no one were getting optional surgeries, how hospitals normally get their funding). If hospitals are incentivized by money to label someone as a covid patient...they'll do everything possible to do it.
Downvoting to express disagreement is accepted practice here.
The problem goes beyond Zuckerberg to the algorithm driven, personalized advertising model Facebook is built on.

This model in inherently unfair, corrupt and dishonest on every level. It is harmful to consumers, advertisers and society itself. The primary beneficiaries are the opaque ad networks which collude with one another and work to extract every ounce of profit from it with no regard for the cost to others. It is the ultimate expression of extreme capitalism.

Until privacy invading, personalized digital advertising is regulated in some way, the fundamental problem will remain.
> Once the pandemic is truly over it will gradually return to near its old levels.

Given the extreme push to retain remote work, I’d say this is unlikely.

> The fundamental issue is that a lot of people have shitty internet. VR doesn't change that.

I’ve been in middle of nowhere rural areas and still could get 10mbps, which is plenty for video conferencing. Though admittedly this requires demand and local action.

My broader point was about the younger generation. They are quite fond of videoconferencing in my experience where teens and early 20s are on it half the time while they do other things. Most have good enough mobile phones for FaceTime or WhatsApp video. Average internet speeds (and thus Wifi) are in the 40-50 mbit range, which is plenty for a typical 750kbps video conference (1.5-3 mbps or so if you want HD). Even LTE rates are getting better.

Uneven bandwidth hasn’t stopped Netflix or YouTube from taking over our culture. More interactive video and VR makes sense as a coming wave. The demand will grow over the coming decade, and if the wireline infrastructure isn’t upgraded, people will switch to satellite or wireless. Zuckerberg is looking 20-30 years out.
On one hand, the author is spot on about smug ironic dialogue being a plague. Am I too old for this kind of stuff? Nowadays, I feel very lucky when I find a game that is not smug and/or ironic, even if it's bad.
On the other hand, the author is smug and ironic in his text. :(
I feel that's been present in cinema for as long as it's been around. B movies, cheap horror, serials for example.
I trained as a classical pianist before moving to the world of synthesizers ...and rock 'n' roll.

The very few electric pianos I've played that didn't feel painfully limiting in dynamic expression were high-end instruments with a whole lot more than 127 velocity values.

Similarly, I have the obscure but magnificent Nord G2X, which mostly uses MIDI for mapping physical knobs to parameters in patches, but its mod wheels are much higher resolution.

I strongly prefer the mod wheels for params that cover a wide span, like filter cutoff frequency, because I can feel and hear the stair-stepping when using knobs.
Umm, but many companies just deflate like a sad balloon when they stop spending on marketing.

And it's neigh impossible to separate cost of revenue from cost of revenue growth.
I miss buying a game and having a full, completed game.

I miss not having to install games on consoles, or patch them day 1.

I miss expansion packs that were basically a full length additional game with the same mechanics, as opposed to DLC which always feel short and underwhelming and still cost a lot.

I miss offline games. I mean games that never ever connect to the internet even once.

I miss unlocking stuff in-game with accomplishments in-game instead of microtransactions.

I miss dedicated servers for multiplayer instead of crappy peer to peer that we have in every game now.

Gaming really just isn't the same anymore. Once some company finally makes Cloud gaming work for everyone it will truly be dead.
>More likely they hired workers who created that wealth.

More likely they hired workers and everyone created wealth together. A worker can't work until someone builds the assembly line, buys the materials, and sells the final product.

If it's so easy to do the whole process that anyone can do it, what's stopping you? Marxists claimed the capital class denied the funds to the working class to start their own companies. Well since the world went off the gold standard there is no lack of funding. It's the opposite now. Inflation is an attack on wealth. Wealthy people are ravenous to get their wealth out of currency and into "things" like property and businesses. Venture capitalists will fund the most ridiculous ideas in the desperate hope that one of them will "hit".
He was also the last world champion to have any occupation outside of chess.
People cringe at the crypto guys but what they're doing is nothing compared to what [ Hitler/Pol Pot/Joseph Stalin/Idi Amin/Muammar Gaddafi/Saddam Hussein/Ivan the Terrible ] did.
Why is he not promoting a more safe way to do things, though?

Often the safety measures take about as much time as setting up the experiment itself. In these videos, it looks nothing like that.
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> Many "linear" games offer tactical rather than strategic freedom.

This is a good way to put it IMO. Command and Conquer is an interesting exception in the action genre because it had some meta strategy in branching missions of the over world.
> It seems (at least anecdotally) that there are a lot of people in tech who may not game anymore

The newest, most popular game is "how outraged can I get".
Uh... yes?
Some hiring folks won’t even look at a resume but use work product samples instead
I use MATE with HiDPI on my XPS 15 and a 4k Dell monitor.

Look at the MATE Tweaks tool and you'll find the option.
Laravel, or any Symphony based framework is a great choice.

PHP is a very modern and mature language at this point. If the first thing you think of is Wordpress, then you’re behind.
> treat it as literally unlocking the next level of human development

That was literally the way it was thought about a three quarters of a century ago. It... didn't work out.

It's just not there. It's fine. It's safe enough. But it's outrageously expensive relative to other equally advantageous sources, and all the magic technologies needed to "fix" that are always a decade away.
That's why I mostly play point&click adventure/rpg games and text adventures, because that genre can't really survive without a good story. I'm rarely disappointed and the games cost a fraction of what you would pay for a AAA title. Not that I don't like AAA, but every time I watch a gameplay video I get bored fairly quickly because I don't feel drawn to the game, it seems "same old, same old". Perhaps it's just me.

I think "Life is strange" is a good example of what can happen when the writing is strong combined with a nice, easygoing gameplay that takes you through the story. The only AAA game that I bought was "The Witcher 3" precisely for the back story, but after 5-10h of playing it just felt so repetitive that I gave up on it. I am likely in a minority but I'd take strong writing over graphics, physics and other elements of a game any day.
That's how I interpreted it. If the end of the world was being triggered in 10 years we would use any and all options at our disposal, even experimental ones, all concurrently. We have enough labor and resources to go all in on energy production.
Not only is this kind of technical user rare, but public response to a post like this is also demonstrably rare. Of the people who read this, only a fraction will consider changing their configuration to stop Wacom from sending this data.

Incentives are well aligned for a corporation to just try it.
> Who does a boycott really hurt?

The largest shareholders? ATVI has dropped significantly since this episode started. The assumption is this forces changes in management and leads to changes to address the toxic culture that triggered the boycott (more likely general instability hurting confidence in ATVI's ability to deliver).

It looks like that's how this is playing out.
> Why does a device that is essentially a mouse need a privacy policy?

There are mice that require you to create an account nowadays...
That's one theory. Another theory is that the ad industry is exploiting a human nature that has been there long before ads or industry.

How would we test that theory? How would we test if humans have always wanted things or if nobody wanted things until ads were invented?
Writing it is annoying, yeah, but it is more comprehensible. Since code is read more than it's written, the annoyance of writing it is a fine price to pay. Also more annoying than writing it is having to debug subtle bugs caused by incorrect understanding of precedence on the part of the programmer.
Aren't they designed such that you can fly planes into the power plant without causing a nuclear disaster?
No sound on safari, anyone else?
> Homebrew also messes with /usr/local (it stores symlinks there), so this could interfere with the native package manager, I suppose. For example, if you install and then purge a package, it could overwrite symlinks and then remove them (also if the package is a dependency of the package you're interested in).

This is the output of "tree /usr/local" on my non-experimental system:

marco@marco-Inspiron-3421:~$ tree /usr/local/
/usr/local/
├── bin
├── etc
├── games
├── include
├── lib
│ ├── python2.7
│ │ ├── dist-packages
│ │ └── site-packages
│ └── python3.8
│ └── dist-packages
├── man -> share/man
├── sbin
├── share
│ ├── ca-certificates
│ ├── fonts
│ ├── man
│ ├── sgml
│ │ ├── declaration
│ │ ├── dtd
│ │ ├── entities
│ │ ├── misc
│ │ └── stylesheet
│ ├── texmf
│ └── xml
│ ├── declaration
│ ├── entities
│ ├── misc
│ └── schema
└── src

29 directories, 0 files

It has a lot of packages installed but, as you can see, the package manager never wrote a file in /usr/local. So I think it is safe to assume things installed to /usr/local will not interfere with the package manager.

> Also, how would you install Python wheels in a system-wide manner?

No sure, but I think it can be done with guix.
I tend to agree with you, but it should not be the conclusion. We must become ready to handle this, it is in my opinion the real underlying challenge behind the climate problem.

We have started this technologically driven expansion of the human footprint, and either we revert to pre-industrial levels or progress. Assuming that non-nuclear technology will let us have the cake (of prosperity) and eat it too (without drowning our cites) is the collective lie I see propagated politically.

In the spirit of the recent TV series release of "Foundation", this is our Seldon problem.
Almost. Youre right & I agree - I meant the dev cost to guarantee spill freedom etc which causes billions in costs for development.
Yeah at this point the only difference is timing of the tax liability, but timing can count for a lot.
Making music had the opposite effect on me in regards to snobbery. After years of trying to make stuff sound good and write good songs I’ve learned that it’s really really hard and I no longer judge musicians as much as I used to.
Previous discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292
From memory, from things my father and grandfather told me (both trainspotters), being taken all over Britain to preserved railways as a child, and from searching.

Most locomotives for medium to long routes have a locomotive with a boiler in front, the cab/footplate where the driver and fireman work in the middle, and a tender of coal and water behind them [1]. Going backwards, there's even less view for the driver as the tender is square but the boiler round.

The large wheels are the driving wheels, and they need weight on them for good adhesion. That's also why they're huge, to increase the contact area with the rail.

The fireman needs to be between the tender and the firebox (under the boiler), to shovel coal in. They'll use most of the coal in the tender on a long journey, around 9 tons to go about 350 miles (550km).

If you put the cab at the front, you either need some way to get the coal, or a second cab for the fireman -- but then a difficulty in communication.

By the time appropriate innovations to avoid these issues were invented, steam was being replaced by diesel and electric power anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A2#/medi...

Addendum: realize it isn't a given that people know the words, as you probably didn't have a trainspotter father. On that picture, the cylindrical black then green part is the boiler, full of long copper pipes over almost the full length. It's above the firebox, which is between the large driving wheels. The pistons are at the front, just under the "Blue Peter" nameplate, connected with coupling rods to the driving wheels.

The small, front wheels provide stability (somehow, this is the answer I had age 7 or so).

The cab is the bit with 60532 on it; there are forward-facing windows as well as to the side. There are green poles on either side of the entrance. There's the entrance to the firebox in the middle, plus valves and levers to control the amount of steam/water etc (i.e. speed).

The tender has British Railways on the side, and is a separate part, semi-permanently coupled to the engine. It carries coal for the fire, and water to boil for steam. This is a long-range, powerful locomotive. Short-range ones could use smaller versions of all this, which could mean the coal/water being carried around the boiler, rather than in a tender.

If you look closely at the driving wheels, you can see the brakes (acting directly on the rims) and the sanders (apply sand to the rails just in front of the wheels, to increase adhesion if they're slippery with autumn leaves).

Around the front buffers (there's probably a name for the red-painted part) there is a coupling mechanism, a pipe to run air brakes, and another pipe to provide steam to heat attached passenger carriages.
The article's profit calculations assume that every pumpkin grown can be sold. If you take a drive in the countryside today (last day of sale before Hallowe'en), you'll see this is not the case. Huge piles of pumpkins still at the farm stores, and fields full of unharvested pumpkins. I believe the likely explanation for pumpkin patch economics is that pumpkins serve as a loss leader to attract customers to a farm store.
But then it would be tenderforward, not cabforward :)
How the fuck do you have 10 years of IT experience if you are 25? You are delusional dude, I’m not even gonna bother with this.
No longer true. New reactors coming that are way, way less expensive. If we can stop thinking in terms of a quarter century ago, we can finally get to that future we used to imagine.
Truly, many people feel they're stuck in their career, even those I'd consider successful. Other times they feel great.

Like many have already said, set specific goals and work at them.

E.g. * build an app that does what you need.
* try a startup that requires minimal investment to setup
* start a FOSS application
* get a remote job where you can actually do backend work...e.t.c.

The struggle to achieve your goals will keep your life exciting... Of course, there'd be failures and successes but it's all an adventure at the end of the day.
Yeah I definitely agree with this. Many people can and do perceive the inexplainable issue directly. I had a discussion about that recently here on HN, about those who can perceive a "hard problem of consciousness" and those who cannot. Basically some people do not perceive any disparity between a totally physical model of the mind and our conscious subjective experience, while I and others personally do. It is a bit tiring to constantly be called delusional because I feel that disparity
IME the Europass format is only useful if you're applying to some kind of government/public sector or adjacent job. It's insanely verbose, it's a government thing, so it obviously defaults to having every possible box, option, etc.

It also looks like garbage.
I hope you know this already, but just because making dance music became more accessible and it took more time to find the stuff you liked does not mean that it stopped existing. All of the 90s sounds that you've loved have evolved, been rediscovered, died out, evolved again. New genres have been made and then fallen out of fashion. By volume, there is probably more amazing dance music being made now than ever before _because_ it has become so much easier to make, not in spite of it. Not only that, it is probably easier than ever before to discover all of it. That obviously benefits someone just listening to the music, but also all those producers now have access to previously hard to find regional sounds and so the past decade in electronic music is defined largely (just like lots of other genres) by a massive cross-pollination, deconstruction, and incorporation of global dance sounds into new and insanely creative music.
Repeatedly building and improving is how South Korea and France have nuclear power plants that work pretty swell despite the massive political obstacles in their way. A great deal of the costs of nuclear come not from intrinsic technological or process costs but the bureaucracy setup that will almost guarantee non-viable economics. It thus becomes nearly impossible to compare nuclear and solar / wind sources in terms of cost efficiency honestly whatever you support. Costs of anything are a function of the technical, market, and political factors.
Im not sure what people mean with this. Take the original poster: he mentioned he has done some mobile apps and misc stuff. He feels that some of their work doesn't count because he has been "copying and pasting" .

What a lot of those projects show is the ability to get shit done. He has a BSc in CS. If you've got something similar it's a bug plus.

I have lost count of people that fail in parts of my interviews because they are too proud or scared to google for answwrs6 (after I specifically tell them that the problem is designed so that they have to search for some concepts).

I think what happens is that for a lot of us the imposter syndrome is very strong. Particularly if you frequent Hacker News, day after day you will see the 13 year old showing that made a PAXOS implementation in his new Codecademy clone during the weekend.

The reality is that HN is an echo chamber, where people are showing their best. Dont get me wrong it's really cool to see those projects but in real life, a "mediocre" HN coder is actually quite competent.

It's like how people get depressed because they see a stream of their contacts happy life on Facebook. Everyone is on vacation or celebrating some achievement. That's a distorted view of their life. And same happens in LinkedIn and any other network.
Do you mind explaining why one fingering would be awkward on an upright but natural on a grand? I always assumed the human-piano interface was basically the same on uprights and grands, all the difference lying behind the keys.
The sad thing about this is that there are perfectly valid reasons for Wacom to want certain information, like what hardware do their customers connect the drawing tablets to, what operating systems and applications do they use. This is useful information to have, in the sense that Wacom can choose where to put their resources, what applications to test for, etc.

But the very fact they are so damned sneaky about it makes it look really shady. Why not openly ask the users those questions and show them what information would be sent to the vendor? (And I am pretty sure Wacom is but one of many companies behaving this way.)

I vaguely recall using some applications built-in crash report a couple of years ago, and it was a) explicitly opt-in, and b) showed me (after asking me if I wanted to see it), verbatim, the data it was going to send to the vendor, including stack trace and stuff like that, and then asked me again if I wanted to send that crash report. (Unfortunately, I do not recall what software that was, though. sad emoji)

So I know it is not only possible to handle these things differently, but some people/companies actually do that.
Here is my thought process:

> - Move your barrow under a camera.

Minimum $5k, closer to $25k, to set physical hardware, network, queueing line and instructions

> - It would take a picture and through image recognition identify and classify pumpkins based on size.

$100k+ capex to get implemented model on hardware, sufficient training samples + training expertise, QA, etc. Ongoing opex for maintenance (sun, weather), model maintenance, and cloud infra / use

> - This would be pushed to cashier with total.

Customers would argue with cashier, much like self-checkout lines at big box stores.

> - Maybe where confidence level on classification was low it would prompt human intervention.

Confidence could be high on false positives/negatives.

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Overall, I like the idea of AI-assistive technology implementations. Are we to the point where it won't wreck the economics of a small operation?
Agreed, they are not a monopoly in any sense of the word. They're just considerably better than their competition, and it's absurdly easy to choose whichever search service you like, so almost everyone chooses Google.

It's the same with facebook, nearly everyone else is already there, so if you want to connect to people that's where you go. They just hit critical mass first.

The word monopoly gets thrown around as though it just means 'big and bad'. It's wooly thinking that's polluting the debate by obscuring what's actually going on. Missing the mark like that just detracts focus from actual pertinent criticisms of the harm these companies actually do, or what needs to happen to resolve those issues.
China can also build anything they want where they want and sell power for state guided prices which is not possible in e.g. europe where people oppose. Also solar is much cheaper already which makes such investments uninteresting for power companies.
To boot, almost every time a nuclear reactor is decommissioned, it is replaced by more fossil fuel plants, not by renewable energy. You can’t be seriously opposed to climate change and nuclear energy at the same time.