skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, one of the more interesting arguments against the universe as a simulation came from Sean Carroll. I'm paraphrasing, but he noted that any simulation would be limited and it's possible detail, because it has to use the resources of the real world, and therefore is likely to be less detailed than the real world. And the logic of simulated universes is that they, too, have simulated universes, and you keep on going, and you end up with much greater probability that you're in one of the simulations then that you're in reality.

But, it would also follow, that the version of reality that you experience is not very rich in detail relative to whatever is "real."

The author, John, says that blindness to detail can make you "intellectually stuck." So I would wonder if an implication of Sean Carroll's argument, an implication of the universe as a simulation, is that we would experience less detail and therefore be more prone to getting "stuck".
Ask HN: Advice about aging parents
Hey HN,

I know some of you have been down this road already. My dad is 86, my mum is 79 and my dad refuses to leave his house until he dies. It's our family home from when I was growing up, 2 stories and my dad currently crawls his way up the stairs each day to use his computer. He won't even consider moving down to the first floor (stubborn).

I have my own young family and my partner and I have jobs, so I'm basically looking for how you juggled your way through this part of life and if you have any pointers. I'm 41 btw.
Heck, even with the classical understanding of barter leading to the creation of money, it's not like fiat money immediately replaced it.
I’m not sure what you mean by your first paragraph. I’m not the OP.

This is exactly why it’s bias. I see Elon as half charlatan. In my eyes, it’s hard to not see this as super obvious.

For you, it’s not like that at all.
No that’s emotionally abusive. Just when you’ve got it all working, one apt update and your GPU drivers start dumping core. And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette. On the desktop it’s needy, brittle and like wading in sewage.

I use an ass end iPad. I can hear the laughing now but it’s the least abusive and time consuming thing I own. It just works and keeps out of the way. It’s also not perfect but it’s less imperfect than all the other options.

Edit: to note I spend a hell of a lot of time wrangling hundreds of Linux boxes. I don’t like taking work home.
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This story has been floating since the bill passed with various, less clickbait titles. There's real reason to hope nothing will ever come of this provision but some MADD fundraiser literature.

The notion of cars having "drunk check" systems, bugs me, for at least two reasons. Not only is it a step beyond "presumption of guilt," it is also an erosion of private property rights.

I might be rolling my car around my own "dirt track" i've cut into my valley. The gubmint aint got no right to ask me for a driver's license in that case. They've no concern for the road worthiness of the car. They'd also have no say in what "mandated" systems it still has in that case; I'd say.

Of course these points always get raised, "It's not right to mandate insurance because some are proscribed from gambling" and so on, and at least in my lifetime the usual course of public debate seems to conclude that "principles are nice and all but we have to protect us from ourselves!"
If your transformations are already in Python scripts wouldn’t you be better off with Airflow or Luigi? dbt seems to be aimed at SQL users primarily.
Docker is specific to the Linux kernel.
You appear to be suggesting that because other HN comments (arguing different things, no less!) exist that zevv is wrong. That isn't a very powerful argument.

I have some sympathy for both sides of the debate, but fact is that if your emails are important to you, using a free service from a rather unreliable company like Google is the lazy choice. One of the main reasons it is free is because you get no support if something goes wrong.
It alludes to the hypocrisy in the claim:

> "with the added trust of Microsoft"

Hijacking a competitor's page demonstrates that Microsoft lacks integrity and cannot be trusted
Agreed :) That's why I put it in "quotes"

Can you propose an alternative / more accurate name?
>everyone should know the difference between a Phillips and Pozidrive.

I'm not sure about that: use of posidrive is somewhat regional. In the UK and Germany for example it's relatively common, while I don't think I have ever seen it "in the wild" in the US. In a browsing big-box home improvement stores I have never noticed them when looking at options, and the half dozen set I've accumulated over the years of screws driver sets that have a dozen bits have never include a posidrive driver.

I'm not sure about other areas of the world.
How is it the same thing? Hard left doesn’t victimize themselves while calling others snowflakes all the time like /r/Donald people or sympathizers.
I could not agree more. It's almost baffling to see the constant frustration of closed operating systems, and then outright rejecting Linux as an alternative, as if stuck one some preconception that it is bad. I've regularly used all three, and from my point of view, they are not even close to being equal. It's the only platform where I can start my day, and reliably get to work, without any unexpected fuckery wasting half my day.

The only thing that causes a comparatively bad experience on Linux is in part software availability or driver related, neither of which is the fault of the operating system itself.
I bought an officially supported and qualified laptop as recommended by canonical and the GPU drivers shit the bed at least two times an hour. Power management didn’t work. The battery got shitcanned after an hour.

Just no.

Lenovo T495 for reference.
> you better hope he sorted out a good publishing deal that'll survive him

Presumably this wouldn't help if the copyright didn't survive him, as anybody else would also be able to publish the work.
This story keeps coming up. When you pay for email, you get a customer status. This entails a SLA and a bunch of other rights, which you most likely never get from a free service provider. I hope if those reading these comments still use free email service instead of hosting their own (or paying for it), strongly consider making the switch.
Luckily none of the bank clients actually have any intention of moving their banking into DeFi.

They just move some speculation and crime there.

Among the clients nobody innocent gets hurt, as there is nobody innocent.

Now ransomware and such...
This article has some more detail on some of the artists and songs they stole royalty from.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/two-charged-with-stealing-...
I wish there was better or more reporting and stuff on this. I have assumed this is the case. But :/
It seems to me that their absolutely greatest mistake was releasing the demo. It ate up all the reviewers and hype before the product was for sale.
It has many tech companies in general, way more than its relative size.
None of those 3 even tried to have a product for applications with low cost and low power consumption.

The only competition was from Motorola/IBM POWER (and MIPS in some niche products), but neither Motorola nor IBM ever tried to offer low cost products.

During 2000 to 2005, I have ported some products with embedded computers from POWER to ARM.

The porting was not very easy, because the ARM CPUs had much lower performance, but they were much cheaper, so the conversion was done anyway.

The ARM advantage has always been in its business model, which created a lot of competing CPU vendors, willing to give you the best price, not in any technical advantages of its CPU architecture.

The NVIDIA acquisition certainly threatens this business model, despite all contrary claims of the NVIDIA management.
Ah yes this makes sense
>If something Does Not Work Reliably - when it has no reasonable reason for not doing so - then it Does Not Belong In Production.

Half of the companies would have died if they followed this -- including Twitter (which had to cron-restart Rails to get it to run for more than a day in its early years, Facebook, ...)
Same here -- I use Jitsi to have meetings with friends sometimes (fun fact you can just go to https://meet.jit.si/<any random string here>), and the web app has gotten a lot better over the years (it was never "bad" IMO).

I am not sold on the necessity of GTK/QT clients over Electron applications -- I think the development/packaging ease of Electron is exactly why it's where it is today and what works for users generally is not wins so I view it with dispassion. Doesn't matter how much better GTK/QT is (they can't be that good, devs are choosing to "shoot themselves in the foot" with Electron just over there!). Also the nice thing about web is that phones will at least have a chance (even if overheating during the call).

I was more wondering about what it took to run -- Jitsi's server requirements always seemed a bit too heavy weight -- it requires like 4 things to run. That said, I just took another look at the documentation[0] and it's pretty well written... Maybe it's time to roll my sleeves up.

[EDIT] Did not know Etherpad[1] (one of the things that jitsi wants you to host along with it) has video capabilities...

We are really spoiled for good F/OSS software these days -- it's insane how much good software there is out there now.

[0]: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...

[1]: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
Another symptom of a monopol.

If peertube or the likes was a full blown alternative, people would just quit youtube over this, putting the squeeze on google to clean up its act.
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ASMR is not about whispering, but about pleasant sounds that make you feel nice and tingly. Most people may react well for whispering in particular, making it very popular in ASMR videos, but that doesn't mean all of them do - others may need a different trigger.
Yeah, it's not purely about the money, but also knowing where it's going.

I might spend that much money on takeout in a week, and it's fine cause the money goes to the kid who biked it over, and the chef who cooked it, etc.

But the same amount of money going to a corp trying to squeeze as much money as possible giving no extra value in return, and depriving the original owners of that revenue... that does tend to make me feel dirtier.
Fair enough but I’m still not sure why you think the Arm ISA has ‘lost’?
We need a browser plugin for this.
I'd rather not :-)

Naming things is hard. I love the project though, not because I need it, but it proves one of my point: "If you didn't want me to be able to do X, then you shouldn't have allowed SSH access".
I'm not comfortable with tiny text. I'm using 27" display and with my IDE full screen I can fit around 140 characters. HN is with 250% zoom and around 80% of browser width right now.

Using those 14" displays is like using a phone, absolutely atrocious.
Have other operating systems done a better job, though?

UI/UX is not something I can claim to be good at, but getting it right when it comes to security is difficult.
Is there a word for this new world where we find ourselves without the ability to appeal our problems to human rationality, where instead we are continually subjected to the whims of automated systems that no human fully understands?
I have a Giffgaff SIM for this reason. The expiry is 6 months and I have remembered to use it within that period so far. Not ideal but I would imagine you need a 2FA code more regularly than that.

I wonder if used with a smartphone (mine is in a dumb Nokia) whether you can automated a SMS send or outgoing call once every month or something?
In Canada i have use squared torques, they are superior. Cant find them anywhere else.
About a week ago there was a trending article about backup strategies in HN and everyone shared their insight. But it seems that know one takes thought about backing up your personal cloud services, especially from Google. There have been countless stories of people locking out from their Google account and still people don't do some basic backing up.
Probably been here longer than you, so really irrelevant. Anyway every single page of his site has html errors, not pointing it out is more poisonous than doing so.
Israel isn't criticized on mainstream news outlets? Lol
The police basically don't investigate difficult cases or "commercial disputes". You'd have to take Google to court, and who's going to run that risk?
App Engine absolutely shares a Linux between users. They have a heavily audited sandbox with multiple layers of defence. Of course customers don't get to call arbitrary system calls, but it's also not a VM.
Do you plan on handling sanitization of roles so people can search by that? I ended up using a LONG case when statement to group roles into buckets, probably not ideal

Probably not. I get the impression that job titles are one of the ways that recruiters and hiring managers "show their shine", so to speak, in terms of marketing open roles. Job titles can convey explicit and important information about the role's focus - things like "FPGA", or "New College Grad", or "DSP", for example. It's an opportunity for them to showcase what's special about the role in a succinct way. Sanitizing that away would reduce the amount of information given to all sides in the transaction. It also seems like a really broad task; there are way more niche specialties in this field than there are succinct buckets to place them in, job-title-wise.

I've found it more useful to tag roles based upon title and contents of the job description. It's a way to get the same info across without obscuring the employer's intent.
That's arguably even worse though, it's the Ethereum Foundation acknowledging the principle that DAO code is law and people deserve the contracts they sign up for is fundamentally nonsense, but taking the position that malicious actions mattered only when early adopters were the people hurt and people behind the Ethereum foundation were personally embarrassed by them.
Something to add: use proxychains to ensure that the requests of all apps go through the proxy. A lot of applications don't have good proxy support, or have nothing at all. If you configure proxychains with the SOCKS proxy provided by this script, then you can do "proxychains my-command-that-doesnt-use-proxy" and it will automatically patch the libc calls to use the proxy properly.
Maybe worthy of its own post but there's another kind of overt scammer on Youtube. It goes like this:

They find some technically hip, well known content and create a new channel with a very similar name as the originator. Create an exciting full screen ad for a crypto currency faucet scam, with price charts and crawls. "Live" stream the original content inset into the ad.

Here's one example: https://cryptoplayboys.blogspot.com/2021/11/spacex-scam-live...

Even if you report these things, they don't get removed very quickly. They're getting tons of views so why would YT care? The original content holder would care about being associated with them and should sue for defamation though.
I hope you checked your data and tried to restore everything. I pulled out my Google Music data about 6 months ago and it was almost unusable with Google mixing all the data in one folder.
There is Google Workplace where you pay $5/month/user for a google account including email and there is support
One of the only non-modular parts of the Framework is, very unfortunately, the display (it's glossy).

If you just want to use an HDMI connection, a piece of plastic is sufficient, see:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmenti...

But do not think the solution is without issues (I mentioned elsewhere: touchscreen, battery...)
N.B. note that Google performs some encoding conversions within the GMail backup from Takeout that permanently break all non-ascii characters when an encoding other than UTF-8 is used in the original mail (those characters are replaced by the 0xEFBFBD sequence, and since information in lost it guess it cannot be properly recovered).

Obviously I am not the only one who have been experiencing the issue, e.g. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/71153/takeout-br...

The issue does not happen when doing backup with another tool e.g. mbsync.
To be fair hardware and driver problems never bothered me on windows. They mostly just worked and stayed working.

Apart from printers which are a shit show.
That sounds like the wrong direction to go. That normalizes that it's okay to push bad safety programming as long as the onus is on the user to search for and attempt a conveluded way to contact the manufacturer, at which point the manufacturer will most likely ignore it anyway. I doubt VW has a hotline for reporting this kind of thing, and if so, I bet it's not posted on the car anywhere.
Chrome was successful because it embraced the classic embrace, extend, extinguish. People were drawn to niche browsers because they were faster, designed better, and had cool customizations like extensions.

You have to court users by giving them something they want, before you can get to the position of flexing your influence to drive the direction of the web, which I suppose was the strategy with Chrome from the beginning.

With Microsoft Edge, by contrast, I don't feel like it's deliberately trying to offer something new or better. I would contrast that with, say, Brave, or Vivaldi. I don't use either of them, but I feel like they are trying to innovate and they understand that they have to.

Microsoft has the capacity to bring something new and better to browsers if they wanted to (I would love for someone to bring back Opera Unite, which I thought was revolutionary), but it just doesn't seem like it's part of the strategy.
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Phillips is designed to cam out: https://www.ifixit.com/News/9903/bit-history-the-phillips
> Of course, you'll probably have to jump some hoops to prove that you are you, but IMHO that's a reasonable compromise.

But how can I prove I own my email if I don't have the credentials / Google won't let me log in?
> Each person was matched with a demographically similar partner based on characteristics such as age, race, and sex.

That's a start. But where is pre-existing conditions, general health (e.g. BMI), or even living with family members and/or pets (i.e., a possible proxy for gut /immune system health). Without such things it could be the luck of the draw (slightly) favored one jab over the other.

It would also help to know how much each company contributes to the school. How many grads are employed at each, etc. Influence is a funny and subtle thing and should not be ignored, especially given Harvard's past. True, once is not a trend. But this was a significant and influential "gaff".

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
Even more confusingly, it's not consistent about the measured dimension. The car is 1.8m (wide), the firetruck is 2.3m (wide), the tractor is 5m (long), the bus is 12m (long), the statue of liberty is 46m (high), the astrodome is 66m (high).

It would have made more sense to stay with either height or the largest dimension (but that would have been weird for mountains, which often are far wider than high).
My message did not focus on if at all say they shouldn’t share what they wrote. Everything else you wrote is based around that incorrect assumption.

I said it should be clearer that the person is in a rut.

To give an extreme example, if the person said they had [high level] autism for a few months and did this stuff to get better. I’d think it is fair for people to get offended at that.
Actually, with that much attention to detail, maybe for a church they should have used Phillips screws - also "clocked" of course. Little crosses everywhere...
>Wow, why is there the wage cap when nursing has long been an issue in Ontario? I wonder who thinks this stuff up and thinks they are somehow saving money by doing this. It just generates inefficiencies and unintended side effects.

Bill 124 has nothing at all to do with Nurses. The word 'nurse' does not show up even once. This bill is effectively what put doug ford into power. That is to say, he was elected to pass this one. It is more than required.

As you likely know Ontario is the highest debt subnational in the world. The mcguinty government was in power for ~10 years but did so by buying votes. They had so many gigantic scandals and might be one of the worst governments ontario ever had. Hilariously, the PCs approach was to tell ontario he was going to fire 100,000 people. That obviously didn't go well giving Wynne a majority.

However, Hudak was right, 100,000 less people in government. Because we didn't... we are in a far worse situation. Pre-covid ontario was very bankrupt. It was so bankrupt Wynne was forced to sell off highly profitable assets like Hydro1. Now that covid happened? I dont even know what will happen.

>Whenever there's problems like this there's always seems to be a long trail of government interference that's counterproductive.

The consequences of decisions in either way is difficult and rarely properly assessed. As Greece knows, someone eventually ends up holding the garbage bag and has to clean up.

These are the consequences of decisions made.
Also stops the urge for devs to push for fancy tech in production, or at least until it is demo from a ‘learning project’.
You make valid points, and, ultimately, what constitutes a "valid use" and what doesn't falls back on the registrar or the entity in charge. If it's a for-profit, you're gonna have a hard time, but if it's more of a non-profit, or government organisation, you might have better luck.

It's a huge "it depends" to be honest.

FWIW, if someone buys a huge amount of land next to the big city, and puts up some ads, I wouldn't consider that giving it "proper use", and if someone needs to build a house, I'd consider that land abandoned and unused -- but I can understand that opinions (and even laws on the subject) will vary greatly around the world.

The big question is: do you care about allowing people to have access to unused land to buy houses, or do you care about a corporation's right to own everything in sight?
If the sound proofing is essentially 100% then I'm fine with apartments, but every apartment I've lived in you could hear people noises all around and it's annoying and sometimes anxiety inducing when you're trying to get some sleep or concentrate on a task, hence I live in the burbs where I might hear the occassional loud car go by but never people stomping, fighting, or f..king
I don't need touch, and I don't need a sub-one-second refresh rate. I do need a monitor I can read documents on without eye strain that doesn't cost ~8x what an equivalent LCD monitor costs.
In America we pass giant snot balls and let the courts sort it out later. Of course we are now well into the age of hyper partisan court packing so that may no longer work.
I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents.

This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.
> Each of them had the freedom to organize their days around productivity.

I think the point (I'm probably wrong) is that these kind of people did not have to "work for others" and had 24h a day every day for themselves. I would love to have 24h/day for myself alone and work in a very productive way around 4h in the morning on stuff of my own. As long as I need to work for others around 8h/day (because I need to pay the bills), then I cannot be productive.

Edit: I don't care about being productive while working for others.
Submitted a few times, discussed twice with a considerable number of comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22020495 (2020; 115 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255 (2018; 296 comments)
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