skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'you want to be more selfish with your time and money' - from my perspective having children is up with the most selfish things an individual can do - you are spending a huge amount of time and resources replicating yourself (to as greater degree as possible with current technology) and then usually trying to give that replication as much advantage over other people's as possible.

From my experience parents are often great for their children but the trade off is they often become worse members of society, switching to focusing time and resources on their family (to give their genetic material an advantage) rather than any wider potentially more utilitarian outlets or considerations.
> The AI community usually turns to the brain to get inspiration for algorithms and new directions of research.

??? This isn’t true. The author doesn’t seem to have an understanding of modern AI.
Honestly just more transparency regarding them would be fine. Stigma and insults aren't very convincing, especially when the target has a strong community for support. Things like the refusal to shut down travel with China and the about-face on masks early on in the pandemic eroded a lot of people's trust in government. Politicizing the issue didn't help either. I recall reading a report during the early days of the pandemic where the volunteer being interviewed said they had much better receptivity to masks in conservative populations than others. This stopped about the time masks become mandated. Many members of my home community were also early adopters of the vaccine - their support dried up immediately following the series of mandates, with some of them participating in anti-mandate protests. At this point, further stigmatization of unvaxxed will only create more of a bunker mindset. Perhaps it's best for the future of the country we just accept a 100% acceptance rate is not going to happen.
I appreciate the kind words! And yeah, that could have even been MS Paint: it's been a long time, and I was still using Windows a lot back then. (I made the first version of this page for my wife when the topic came up in one of her graduate math courses: I'd had a much better exposure to Lagrange multipliers in my Calc 3 class than she'd had, and since she was studying in another state at the time I wrote it up in HTML instead of on paper.) I've occasionally thought about going back and redrawing those first few images in some better form, but hey: they still get the idea across perfectly well.

I have every intention of keeping it online indefinitely, as long as my friends doing the hosting don't get sick of me mooching off their web space.
Is this simply an argument in favor of genetic algorithms or is there more to it than that?
Here's an obvious one:

As a society, we went from a period of it being socially acceptable to marry ridiculously young girls as an old man to the present day where it's unheard of. People will point to the law being the reason for this, but that's not actually the truth, really. The age of consent isn't really that high; in many states it's unrestricted at sixteen and much lower with loopholes. Also, in many cases, the raising of the age of consent is a historically-recent thing that followed the shaming.

We've managed to (largely) eradicate the case of "man finds a fourteen-to-sixteen year old girl and erases her future by making her responsible for children" in under a hundred years, and it came from shaming, not law.
> While dopamine does rise in response to rewards or pleasurable activities, it doesn’t actually decrease when you avoid overstimulating activities, so a dopamine “fast” doesn’t actually lower your dopamine levels.

I'm having a genuinely hard time understanding the logic of this statement.
It depends on how much the game is CPU heavy, specially single core performance on some games makes a big difference. High end CPUs tend to have a higher single core performance.
Local food bank was robbed of copper tubing about 15 years ago, and the resulting loss of refrigeration destroyed nearly a half million dollars’ worth of food.
Any patent is expired by now. Still nobody wants to make it.
> Why did you ignore all the counter-examples I gave? Are you saying you stigmatise obese people, and people who drink?

Your points were addressed implicitly, but I can do so explicitly at your behest:

Obesity and alcoholism aren't preventing people with other conditions from seeking medical care because the current medical system (at least in western nations) can account for and manage these conditions successfully, unlike COVID which has consistently resulted in resource, capacity, and utility shortages throughout the pandemic thereby posing an undue risk to general welfare and the lives of others.

I also say this as someone who's been both obese and not obese: unlike a decision to refuse a life-saving vaccine, refusing to eat is far, far harder. And as someone who refuses to drink specifically because I know my own tendencies towards addiction, I empathize with those who started drinking socially and suddenly found themselves trapped by the vice grip of an alcohol abuse disorder.

None of these compare to to choosing to refuse a vaccine without sound medical grounds.

There's nothing much to debate here; the topics you flagged are pretty personal topics for me, so I'll gladly and passionately defend against their misuse in debate.
I understand what the _point_ is, I'm just not convinced that the upsides are worth the downsides.

I didn't try and avoid anything, I actually don't know how racism or anti-semitism has anything to do with this?

I agree on your point that there is some stigma for most damaging behaviours but the Covid vax stigma is much more severe where I live. People who make the "wrong" choice are being treated as second-class citizens, with rights being removed as a punishment for their sins. This is not a healthy way to gain compliance.
Lots of strong words and condemnation. But it’s almost as if Russia laughs at it.

The international community needs to set up a better list of consequences for specific acts by Russia, before they happen. Because we know they’ll all happen again. All of them.

E.g repeated ASAT test: Russian nationals’ assets seized abroad, Russian students thrown out from foreign universities.

Unmarked Russian vehicles proven used in places they shouldn’t be? Novichok poisonings? Arrests of opposition politicians? Nord stream gas line cancelled.

Annexation of territory? disconnect Russia from the international banking system and ban buying Russian gas.
> Have you ever used software linked against OpenSSL? It’s licensed under APL, which is very similar to the BSD family of license - it allows use in closed source projects.

well, if I could I'd definitely choose gnutls over it even before getting to licensing issues tbh. Also how much better did it being useable in closed-source projects (those I don't use unless there's really no other viable choice and doing it myself is not an option) make it ?

> Or OpenSSH - it’s developed by the OpenBSD folks and licensed under a BSD style license.

yes, though I'm not sure if I'm using any openssh-specific interface, ssh -X maybe ?

> Or Firefox - licensed under MPL, very similar to APL.

MPL is closer to GPL in spirit than MIT/BSD, no ? AFAIK you can't make a closed-source derivative of Firefox (which is what matters).

> The rust compiler is dual-licensed under MIT/APL.

I don't use it. The only Rust software I'm using is ripgrep I believe ?

> Both ruby and python are dual-licensed with at least one license from the BSD/MIT group, the python license itself is similar to BSD as well

I don't use either neither as a developer or a user, the huge majority of my direct interaction with my computer is through C or C++ software; mainly KDE stuff.

But all of this is besides my point - if there wasn't a big ecosystem of (L)GPL software existing when I was a teen (Linux, KDE, core/binutils, GCC etc) I'm not sure I could have taught myself enough computing to achieve what I seek to. If everything was BSD I doubt these software would have evolved into something good enough to make for a correct desktop experience (last time I tried a BSD it was deeefinitely not useable enough for me unless replacing most of the BSD base with the GNU one like I do on my mac machines for instance). I've also used proprietary software for instance, but I would not say they made my life "meaningfully better".
Thank you!

Yes, the idea is to combine collecting/hoarding, investing and consuming art.
Don't worry, some of us still are using those tricks, especially nbsp and blank pixel. Why? Well, I'm doing backend/infra stuff most of my time, so I have no idea what is current or bleeding edge in frontend space these days. When someone starts screaming that page/app is looking broken and fronted devs are sleeping in different timezones, a couple of nbsp-s usually fix the problem. Happy customer, happy me :)

Btw. isn't DHTML for "Dynamic HTML"?
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Because obesity makes it more likely you'll end up taking up a hospital bed that someone else might need.
Probably it's referring to your baseline dopamine levels not decreasing
>>I'm not constantly fiddling with my home's thermostat, why would I be doing the same with my car's?

I assume because at home I'm generally in constant shade and not as exposed to radiative elements. Whereas in the car, air temperature is only one factor. Outside sun, temperature of surfaces etc are additional significant factors
No, you're right. The whole article misses the forest for the trees. The term "dopamine fast" doesn't literally mean fasting from dopamine. It's about fasting from easy "dopamine hits" from media designed to exploit the way our rewards circuitry works.
Like with many things it's a balance. If you have to spend too much time thinking about how to create a more reusable or deduplicated version of something, it's probably not ready to be deduplicated. On the other hand, I've watched several projects flounder because of useless duplication:

main.cpp
complex_baseline/*.{cpp,h}
copy_and_mod_1/*.{cpp,h}
copy_and_mod_2/*.{cpp,h}
... (about 12 times)

The duplication means that issues are scattered throughout every copy if they're in the original, but hard to find after the modifications. Doing the exercise to find all the duplicated issues is frustrating and people eventually stop doing it. The code gets worse and worse until a refactor or rewrite is forced on them, and then the customer is unhappy with the delay and it's either hastily done (often worse than doing nothing) or abandoned.
Aren’t these two points in contradiction with each other? Also not a good sign when adverts (this basically is one) hit the front page of HN

1/

Founders may be sick of “hands-on” investors. Part of Tiger’s pitch is that it will be an unobtrusive capital partner. That approach runs counter to industry norms as most firms compete to demonstrate a willingness to roll up their sleeves and help. The fact that so many founders find Tiger’s laissez-faire attitude attractive exemplifies the lack of trust many have in VC’s value propositions.

2/

Hedge fund managers can bring novel perspectives to startups. Though perhaps less visionary than their venture capital counterparts, some founders find the detail and rigor of hedge fund managers’ thinking refreshing.
So for the first time in years, we are leaving for the holidays (in-laws). I was going to use the time off (and the inevitable boredom) to get an AWS cert to help my job search. Now I don't know...

In the past, I've given up on AoC after a couple weeks due to time and conflicting priorities. With two whole weeks of free time that coincides with the hardest puzzles, I guess I know what I'm doing in December.
And web-rings!
Intermittently, pairs of mushrooms, and sometimes a snake.
The opposite of complexity is simplicity, not terseness.
Just because more black men around there are dumb doesn't mean it's racist policy to stigmatize dumb choices.
'Btw. isn't DHTML for "Dynamic HTML"?' Yes [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
I’ve noticed that there are some people who for me are a neutral. Mostly close family like my kids and wife. It’s not draining or regenerating. No person regenerates my introvert energy. I don’t really get any alone time anymore but I manage. I always thought I would die without big chunks of daily alone time but you get used to anything I guess
I'm not defending it; just giving context around how it may have come to pass.
Same here: I would prefer Tesla to rate well on reliability but I can also tell you that in the mid-80s I spent many an hour explaining to a recent Detroit transplant that American car manufacturing quality needs serious improvent and that, no, Japanese quality isn't better mainly because of Japanese government support. Japan took our own Deming seriously; we didn't.

Kia isn't Japanese. And Toyota has had problems since their zienth mid 90s. So nobody has got a lock on this. But one has gotta stay after it
I would love more detail, but I think the point is solid. When I get too caught up in something with negative side-effects, I'll definitely take a break from it. E.g., I'll get compulsive about certain kinds of video game, so I'll take steps to set it aside for a while. (E.g., remove the game from my Switch, discharge the Switch's battery, and then put it in some hard-to-reach place, all so that gratification wouldn't be instant.) So that made me think the dopamine addiction/dopamine fasting people had a point.

But it sounds like some people over-interpret the theory and under-invest in verifying their interpretations through rigorous testing. That's unfortunate, but it's a behavior you see all the time with self-improvement fads. E.g., I think the paleo people had a point with moving away from foods engineered to maximize repeat purchasing. And in the saner parts of that world you'd see people recommending a framework of responsible self-experimentation, where you try things out and look for health improvements. But then there's also the whole "paleo brownies" crowd, where people ate just as poorly but with nominally different ingredients so they could feel virtuous without any actual improvement.
Just out of curiousity, what do you think is serious enough to warrant complaint in the face of environmental collapse? Do you think we should stop complaining about anything less serious than a global catastrophe?
If you have a vaccine that protects against something that is 0.1% deadly you should take it. But when measles was out in the wild killing people we didn't wear masks and have lockdowns to stop it either.
> I'm having a genuinely hard time understanding the logic of this statement.

Doesn't lower your level from a baseline.
Users are perfectly capable of using battery stats and determine which apps consume too much power, and then make an informed decision. This is not some rocket science.
Deer don't generally hang out on busy roads at the best of times. I suspect it has more to do with the roadway being an open area which makes the deer more visible and thus more vulnerable to wolves.
One day, we’ll have reliable fast electric chargers and a backup for charging when off grid. I’ll bet that off road drivers would love to adopt electric motors if they could. The torque characteristics are great, regenerative braking is handy, and the lack of clutches is great. We’re not there yet, but Jeep is getting closer.
Charts and visualisations are a great way to trick people. Not only is the source data obscured (and so readily cherry picked) but it opens up all sorts of tricks around visual perception.

I also suspect most people yet to be convinced will immediately think back to Al Gore's infamous hockey stick chart when presented with visual simplifications of deeply complex climate data.

At the heart of the matter, looking at such a chart isn't meant to inform you, it is meant to elicit an emotional response, and they have been trained to respond with skepticism.
>...the bottom line is that you still have to incentivize all of the nodes and peers to keep the data and you need to do so in a decentralized manner that will always be orders of magnitude less efficient than hosting on a standard cloud server. That inefficiency is expensive.

I'm not sure I agree that it will always be orders of magnitude less efficient. I think if you have enough decentralized nodes you can get closer to the ideal painted by "edge computing". I also think people wouldn't mind storing information in a decentralized way as long as it's cheap enough to do so. It kind of reminds me of the transition of most companies to cloud computing -- "why pay a subscription for a server when I can pay a one time cost for my own?"

Although people slowly began to see the benefits of paying proportionate amounts of money for arbitrary usage patterns, having a dedicated team for hardware availability, and the ease of scaling out, it did take a while to get there. Just like those who have come to understand the benefits of cloud computing, I believe people will come around to favoring decentralized models for some use cases. I also believe the amount of data most people generate and use on the web is so minuscule that the storage costs will be so cheap to pay for that people will worry about it as much as they do a purchase from the McDonalds dollar menu.
> This description suggests that vaccination status is the most significant risk factor for dying of covid

...

> Age and health are more significant factors than vaccination status.

You can't easily change your age or health to reduce your risk. You can change your vaccination status. Thus for any given individual vaccination is the most significant action that can be easily taken to significantly reduce their chance of dying of COVID.
Most of the performance gains are really in the middleware (for example Entity Framework) and getting rid of pre-.NET Core legacy cruft rather than the VM, AFAIK.
Anyone who isn't vaccinated for anything but physician-verified medical reasons is stupid, and should be stigmatized as such. The act of not shaming idiots in communities based on nothing but race is racist. Bad actors should be shamed until there is pressure for them to not reproduce, whether that's with death or just the natural outcome of being seen as unintelligent and therefore less desirable.

There are many communities of racial minorities that are undervaccinated in comparison to the general population. They aren't absolved of the consequences of their actions because of the color of their skin. That would be pretty racist.
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> drop correlates well against middle class wealth, which has plunged steadily, again, since the late 60's

Another correlate, and IMO more compelling, is the size of the labor pool. Over the time frame you cite, the domestic and international labor that could viably compete for jobs grew massively and nonlinearly relative to production and end demand. In other words, an oversupply of labor was and remains a big drag on wage growth.
A way to decrease the noise would be most appreciated.

I'm confident there's lifetimes worth of signal, even in crypto developments in the last year. But there is an ungodly amount of noise over price, outrage, etc.

I asked in a new thread about where to go for curious conversations about cryptocurrencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29297611
… that's where the [¹] comes in. None of these statistics can really be done with naïve back-of-the-envelope calculations. How many people get hospitalized with covid to begin with? How many people require intensive care? How many just die outside a hospital because no ICU beds are available?
Why is it impossible to search the block chain? Isn't this how bitcoin works: to accept a transaction, all transactions with the relevant accounts must be searched and summed to ensure there are enough funds?
It's genuinely good to hear that it's been appreciated (let alone so much). I owe the milkmaid example to my Calc 3 professor, many years ago, though I later realized that I'd probably altered it a little from his version.
Similar in the US, we have a “vaccine gap” for black and latinx caused by hesitancy/racism. They amazingly don’t trust a system the authorities have been spending a lot of effort telling them is a racist system.

But the media, despite the fact that the most hesitant groups are people of color, have painted a portrait of the vaccine hesitant as bad white people (rural, politically conservative, Christian). So shaming and ridicule have been embraced. The media and most elites, many posters here included, love to hate rural citizens, at least those who they presume to be privileged (ie white). They do not realize they are criticizing the uneducated poor, largely disadvantaged black people in urban areas.
How exactly does this affect you? As far as I can tell, your complaining seems entirely unreasonable.
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waiting for the followup, how to vue (life) thoughtfully
https://fadmagazine.com/2021/11/18/nft-now-x-christies-prese...

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/09/tezos-brings-arti...

My bad for thinking NFTs were in Venice officially.

Here’s a good overview of what’s happening even though it’s an article critizing Frieze London - https://www.google.com/amp/s/decrypt.co/84466/london-nft-sce...

There was of course the huge gathering in NYC a short time ago. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/tech...

Christie’s, Sotheby’s are selling NFTs. The art fairs are adopting. Visa has purchased a major NFT for their art collection (Cryptopunk). Multiple major brands and celebrities are minting and joining NFT platforms ie Pharell in Music. As far as artists go I’m finding that most have heard of NFTs and many are adopting.
> If cars rode at 12mph like they do on dirt roads

Cars are often driven at 40mph and faster on dirt roads around here. Bigger dirt roads would see increased speeds.
People say "whats the point?" but this is incredibly thought provoking to me.

Whether the creator intended it or not, this is actually significant art as in capital A.

Whether this example is fake or not, it's a fact that it's possible, if not in task manager tgen in somsthing equivalent, if not today then shortly.

And that makes me think of existense itself. Each one of those cpu cores or processes is doing some job to the best of it's ability, and from it's point of view is worthwhile enough to do, meanwhile merely at some other scale, it's entire life is used just to form a pixel in a disply, and the information being displayed is a trivial amusement.

Next, the controlling process in this case was an intelligence, but the controlling process could theoretically be something brainless and mecbanical like a virus, that isn't even playing doom and enjoying it but just a mechanical process of some sort that doesn't do anything but perpetuate.

And of course if it wasn't obvious, you and I could be one of those pixels. Our whole race could be one of those pixels. I don't mean literally just a pixel in a display but any tiny part in some process that plays out at some other scale.

At a less grandiose scale, are there generals and politicians and business owners who see their armies of soldiers, citizens, customers, employees, as nothing but microscopic dots of material to be employed however they want? Is your whole life not merely a data point for FB or Amazon?

Next, could not Amazon be swapped out for a bitcoin smart contract?

I say thought provoking. As a life long reader, especially sci-fi, this is hardly the first time I've encountered this concept of scale. I mean, even the normies have encountered "Horton Hears a Who". I'm not saying this provoked the thought for the first time, just that it provokes the thought.

I see it, and I stop and dwell on that for a bit (and think of new things like the Amazon smart contract). That is a feature of captal A art.