skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the exact same silly argument that people at Reddit used to justify buying the new macbook pros for all their developers. It starts off by implying that developers are 100% efficient w/ their use of time and any time spent saved will be spent doing something productive, instead of say: browsing Hacker News. And then it uses that implication to show off exciting statistics like "you will gain 5 weeks of developer time!".

I really feel like this is delusional thinking in the software industry and it seems to be widespread.
Would they need to be Turing complete? Seems to me they operate on a completely different principle.

Anyways my statement was analogical -- and as we know analogies are merely tools for extending thinking from one paradigm to another. Best not to take it TOO literally.
> Vast majority of pilots are much more trained to safely land than to safely parachute

So if the person is an experienced skydiver, doesn't the equation change towards ditching the plane?

Mind you, no one is arguing whether the video is real or not, that's conclusive that it's likely fake. But what if an experience skydiver was actually in this situation?
So you're telling me we can get rid of the youtube influencer culture at the same time as we get rid of creepy ad tech? Nice!
Sometimes you will find merchants at the bazaar who insult the customer. Rather than change something that doesn't match your needs why not find one of the thousand other distros? I don't believe every community follows the rtfm attitude, and many work quite well. Sorry you had a bad experience. A lot of the documentation exists for the product because of high strung elitists and they will not be friendly, but that is what a lot of people associate with Arch brand. I think you will find highly skilled Gentoo users, which might not have as much of the attitude.

TLDR
Expecting a community to change for you is unrealistic.
Which is exactly what they did with M1 (add a developer mode that doesn't put their normal users at risk by allowing for persistent supply chain compromise attacks), but it doesn't seem to be enough to make some people happy...
They stimulate activity in a precisely chosen part of the brain. There is no inverse. They could stimulate a different part. In fact, they use the motor cortex to calibrate the stimulation level to be the lowest that produces any involuntary movement. I imagine it must be interesting for the subjects.
Amazingly no one has brought up the declining sales of DSLR cameras. https://www.statista.com/statistics/799526/shipments-of-digi...

Flickr is great when, and arguably designed for, uploading photos from your computer. This after you dumped your DSLR's photos and edited them. The primary source of photos is now a phone, so services designed around that fare better.

Also, the professional photographer market doesn't really want to share all of their photos to everyone. SmugMug was better at allowing a photographer to control access to their photos and charge for access. Then the photographer puts a few up on Insta for publicity and advertising. Flickr was kind of caught in the middle, really designed for the pro-sumer DSLR owner, who are disappearing.
MIT license is very permissive but the original author retains copyright and one of the very few restrictions is that you must maintain the original authors copyright notice. So you can use MIT code in a GPL project but you can't remove the original copyright notice and MIT license text.

I don't quite follow your thinking about removing the notice but having it somewhere in history; a given snapshot/ revision will be a distribution where someone can show up and download just the master branch newest state and not the full git history. In which case you surely have distributed a copy of the copyrighted MIT licensed code without complying with the terms of the license, right?
Unless cars have ejection seats it's not the same comparison. Pedestrians in this case are potential hikers or people in the area.
You could say that there is value behind a Ponzi scheme as long as there are more people willing to get onboard the Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme can make a few "early adopters" rich
I thought it was ok. Basically left-wing hollywood throwing rocks at the right-wing big-wig corporate culture, which was admittingly quite hilarious. But, 10 mins in and I've already seen 1) Marijuana 2) LGBTQ references 3) Race/Racism points being made. I wish they also added some satire of the progressives.
Regardless of how prepared or experienced of sky diver he might be, the notion he'd selfie his way down and look at camera rather than doodoo his pants wondering if he'll live another day and looking for a place to land feels implausible for unplanned emergency excursion.

Particularly telling moments are when he's steering parachute with one finger because others are holding the selfie stick; and the footage when he just landed and is trying to disentangle from bushes - but still prioritizing holding the selfie stick at correct angle. If somebody actually has those priorities in real emergency, dear gawd, I don't want to be near that person!

(other inconsistencies have been well noted in op and in other posts)
There are a lot of personally useful things bundled into religion, prayer being one of them that at is core just looks like meditation, which doesn't necessarily require religion.

Strongly agree it's not just a power grab.. I think the power grab comes after rituals emerge and become common.
So, I think we've found some common ground here. I'm going to say two things, offer a simple apology and then make you an offer.

1. You assume that I don't know what it's like not to be able to communicate or make myself understood. While I don't have a comorbid intellectual disability, which it sounds like your son probably has, I have had one particular period of "Autistic Burnout" in my adult life where I was reduced to a shell of my former self. I couldn't articulate complex thoughts, couldn't take care of myself, didn't bathe, didn't eat, could not make myself understood to the people I lived with, etc. I've recovered in some ways, but in some ways I likely never will -- I no longer have the capacity I had when I was younger. I understand that that's not exactly the same thing as your son, who has gone his whole life without the comfort of a mutually intelligible conversation; but I hope you can hear that as an Autistic adult I have had experiences that would allow me to understand your son better _in some limited ways_ than a neurotypical person ever could.

2. The thing with the comorbid intellectual disability is really important. I'm not a huge fan of the DSM, but at least here it's how people get medically diagnosed and the DSM is very careful to say "Autism is NOT intellectual disability, though they do co-occur frequently". From what you've described, your son sounds like an "extremely high support needs autistic person with a comorbid intellectual disability" most technically. I get that "severe autism" can be shorthand for that, but the chilling effect on the global discourse around Autism is that people don't understand the distinction, and conflate intellectual disability (or speech-impairing apraxia) with autism itself.

3. I've reflected here a bit and I apologize for my defensive reaction to your original post. I didn't appreciate the intention behind using quotation marks around the term "severe", I read that differently than you intended it and I apologize.

4. You need help and support and I'm splitting hairs over word choice over here, I get that we're coming at this from two very different perspectives and I'd like to further apologize for not being as empathic as I'd like to have been towards your first post. I'd like to offer you my help and support if there's anything I can do or any insights I can provide or any introductions I can make to other folks in the neurodiversity movement -- or even if just a conversation outside of this kinda hostile environment would be of interest, please let me know. My email address is my username here at gmail.

Thanks, and have a great night!
I'm never going to understand the 'mathmatical jargon' argument against Haskell (and similar). Yes, but this can be true in almost any language that allows abstractions. The math jargon is just a name for a concept and I'd prefer math and programming shared terminology where appropriate rather than coming up with an entirely separate vocabulary. Is Functor really works than Mappable? It's just a label for the abstraction and you'll have to learn the underlying concept regardless so you might as well share the same word.
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> You could charge engineer hours, but who knows how many they would have contributed.

I would guess courts have ways of determining this, perhaps via subject matter experts. It's not like GPL software is the only kind of software for which it might be impossible to obtain a proprietary license - there are probably many cases of proprietary software copying from other proprietary software, where one party isn't willing or able to provide a license to another (for instance, a company might be competing in the same space as another that copied their code, so they're unwilling to provide a license). But more likely a settlement would be reached in a case of clearcut copyright infringement.
The effect on the brain is that.. it's an anesthetic, not sure I follow you.

Trying to guess what you mean: it isn't used as a local anesthetic, but always on the central nervous system, causing disociation in big dosis.

For depression they use much less than that, so many decades with heavy dosage it's a very convincing safety record.
They make software to run advertising operations for big agencies and advertisers.

It manages ad campaigns, audiences, billing and finances, workflows, optimization, comps, etc. It integrates with major ad platforms which run the actual ads, and collects performance data from APIs and reports, and puts it all together in a single place for analysis.
"Famous person has tweeted something"

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University does not teach critical thinking. They teach assignments and tests, where the information is forgotten as quickly as it was received. You do not learn critical thinking having to remember every definition in the textbook. Yet that is still how classes work.

Depends what school you go to and crucially -- your attitude going into that school. I never once thought of my education as a matter of learning a set of definitions, or even a series of concepts. But rather -- as the teachers at my (far from elite) high school articulated to me -- as a process, a way of learning where ideas really come from, and for "learning how to learn".

You're perfectly right -- classes by themselves just don't do much. It's your decision to sit down and learn the material, not just for the test, but for the sake of you're life's work and the person you want to be -- that's when you start learning.

But if you expect to just show up and heave your head filled with knowledge -- let alone critical thinking skills -- you're going to be bitterly disappointed.
If someone is stepping on my face it doesn't much matter to me if they're doing it on purpose or if they just don't realize I'm there -- the goal is to make them stop stepping on my face.

What you're describing is a very privileged perspective that doesn't really map cleanly to many peoples' lived experience. It's not the case that I need to check whether the person stepping on my face really means to hurt me or not -- it may be the case that I need to object to the entire system that makes it easy for others to step on my face.

Of COURSE the face-steppers would rush to assure me that nobody means me any harm, it's just how the world works, etc.

Why on earth would that matter to me?
Procrastination, not enough sleep, alcohol and no hobbies sounds pretty normal for most people.
It doesn’t. Or it will some day, either way, this is the point. It’s still going to require a centralized authority to enforce fair use, ultimately making it no different than any other method of distributing art.
I link to Wikipedia as a first point of call. People should always look deeper, and I can't help that.
The other night I had a coffee at 8pm and couldn't sleep, so I decided to make a little web app which creates a github-wrapped summary picture, a-la-spotify, given a github username. It uses the github graphql api and the python image library to compose a picture. Enjoy.

Please note that this is super bare bones. I will share the github soon if anyone is interested in adding to it.
It set off the flamewar detector, a.k.a. the overheated discussion detector.
I don't think something like this can arise from Globalisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAmZ_kR8S8
It means that everything you need to arrive at a consensus on the validity of a transaction is on the blockchain, and thus enforced by the decentralized network of nodes that validate the blockchain.

So contrary to what the grandparent comment claims, these layer 2 (i.e. scalability) solutions make no compromises on decentralization, as they would if they had a consensus-critical component that was managed by a centralized off-chain party.
At least in Israel, many of the old lines, even if they still operated today, would have been long obsolete. A daily train leaving Haifa at 8:30 and reaching Jaffa by lunch? Three, four hours? The same line today makes the journey in an hour, and there are plans on the table to build additional tracks to cut that down to a half hour. People commute from Haifa to Tel Aviv, with three (soon four) tracks passing through the Ayalon bottleneck.

Or, take the line to Jerusalem. The old line took a twisty, no-tunnels approach up the hills to Jerusalem that took hours. It was mostly only used to get out of the city in case snow blocked the main entrance, because it was so slow. The new line, with tunnels and bridges, cuts right through and makes the journey to Tel Aviv in an hour.

It doesn't really matter what the Ottomans or the British built, because it was built for a level of traffic of a largely rural, empty empire. It would never have met modern needs. As populations grew across the Middle East, even a Middle East at peace, all of these lines would have long been dismembered anyway, and replaced with lines designed to actually meet the transportation needs of the people who lived there.
What if the engineer doesn't have a car or a disability? That would be a problem, if it's not on contract
Great video! Love the visuals -- thanks:)
I should update that, there are a few minor inaccuracies, but it's mostly still correct given our present knowledge :)
It's a bit like having an in-mem db that then commits your transactions to the actual DB which is much slower.
> cannabis can reduces diabetes symptoms and stoners are thinner on average

I am interested in sources for both those.

And please do not use the term "stoner". It many places it is a pejorative term, in my world it is used like racial a epithet, "some one whose welfare we can ignore".
Most of the entertainment industry is about predicting collective mood swings.
Yea. Na!
I've had depression for 20+ years and the best way I would describe it is like this:

Think of that little "kick" you get when you think of something you want to do. Maybe you like eating ice cream, maybe you like playing tennis, whatever it is... that feeling, that subconscious little mental boost that gets you up off your ass, and moving... is completely absent in the depressed mind.

That spark that initiates and sustains action, is simply not there. Tasks, even small ones, are giant and the future is hopeless.
I'm pretty sure some engineers had ideas previously about how to improve the product, they just have no power to do so. It would be weird if it wasn't like that. I wonder if all this is just a way to create a massive quit
Kevin Ham is a name I haven't heard in a while. It is my opinion, after talking to law enforcement, people in Washington DC, and being brought in for various cyberinvestigations that ICANN has turned into (and one could say against their will) Organized Crime.

How so?

Domain names, especially pre-Bitcoin, were/are a fantastic way to launder money.

It costs $4,000 to set up an ICANN registrar. If I buy 1 million domain names from myself from Country X at $12, and the Registrar is located in Country Y, I have just moved $12 million without filing a single SAR. This is a very attractive way to bypass numerous financial safeguards put in place.
This reminds me of Greg Egan's creepily effective SF story "Reasons to be Cheerful", which is online here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/greg-egan/Reasons-To-Be-Cheer...

How happy would you choose be if you could consciously decide how happy to be?
I think the criteria for a diagnosis is if it interferes with your regular day to day life (ability to hold a job, relationships, e.t.c)
Attacking another user like that is against the rules here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them in the future, we'd appreciate it.

Also, could you please stop posting flamewar/flamebait comments generally? We're hoping for a different sort of forum.
I remember also back when GMail first became available to people by invitation, and at the time the amount of storage you were given, while not as impressive by today’s standards, was pretty significant at the time. And someone created a system to allow you to backup files from your computer onto your GMail. I wonder if that system inspired Google to build Google Drive.

Here’s an article from the time, and an excerpt from said article:

> As many of you know, Gmail is Google's free web mail service that gives you 2+ Gigs of free storage for your email and attachments. Now that is a lot of storage; actually more storage than most people really need. So what can we do with all that extra storage you may be wondering? What if I told you that we could use all this extra storage to act as an online hard drive for you to store files?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-use-gmail-...

And the original page, which is still around too.

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

> GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.

Windows XP. Good times :)

If Google did take inspiration from it when later creating Google Drive then maybe that’s even where they took the name for Google Drive from.

Speaking of Google, storage space, and that time period, here’s a comic strip I remember from back then :)

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/669.html
English deals are done in English, French deals are done in French, if a deal is done in French or English the courts are adequately able to deal with either being bilingual. There are some exceptions around jury trials, I'm not sure it's a right in a jury trial, however I doubt very much it would be an issue. Everything standard form from the government comes printed in both French and English.
I really don't know how to feel about watching Microsoft degrade into yet another shady ad company. On one hand, they were never good. On the other, it is still somehow a loss to transform from an engineering company with evil business practices, to an ad company with evil business practices.

Also, can't help but feel bad for whatever engineers have remained there. OS development is rough in a world where people are apparently only willing to pay for Apple's offering.
I think the increasingly typical coping mechanism of disassociating from the present and looking to the future is a fundamental part of the problem. More people would be happy if they found ways to engage with the present and find meaning and small pleasures in it, despite its defects. Deferring happiness to the future, until one has bought x, or achieved y, is a recipe for disaster. Deferred happiness is a never ending treadmill. Once you believe your happiness is contingent, there will always be a new excuse. Depression affects the wealthy as well as the poor.
Please don't go after another user like this on HN. It's not the kind of discussion we want here, and it doesn't add anything interesting.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
Just start the process, get the fMRI scan, pay for that, and request a copy and bail.
Disentangling pandemic effects from "normal" life is complex but overall in the US suicide rates are actually down for 2020, though slightly increased for younger Americans. The trend in the US was upwards into 2019 so these are positive developments.

It is very difficult to properly assess 2020-2021 survey data both because the "you should be depressed" messaging is very strong in the media and the bias in who responds to surveys is complicated by the pandemic.

I am a Canadian and we saw an enormous drop in suicides, 30+%, in 2020 despite survey data (and wacky conspiracies) to the contrary.

I don't think it is "safe to say" much of anything about suicide rates or individual motivations, it is a complex issue.
This post reminds me very much of the climate scientist on Newsroom.

"We're all going to die; nothing is going to help."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
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I remember this dude being another one of those youtube pranksters so doing a dangerous and stupid act for views seems on brand. The FAA won't go easy on him.
> NFT is just a digital receipt

Right but a receipt of what? A receipt, evidence, or proof, that a transaction took place. But a transaction of what? One party got money. What did the other party get? A proof that s/he paid the money. For what? For the proof that s/he paid the money ... for the proof that s/he paid the money for the proof that ... LOL.

Makes me think that I should make an NFT out of Brooklyn Bridge. That might gain lots of fame and thus lots of value?
HN is probably conscious at some base level. All conscious pseudonymous accounts existing within it are kind of short lived threads within its VM. HN Karma may or may not be a transition from the localized to the global state of awareness. But I'm quite sure that anything that computes over some non random inputs including individual atoms has a base level of consciousness woven into it.

Well, you wanted outrageous didn't you?
>>NFTs are a scam and are retroactively obsoleted by digital signatures.

A credibly open and neutral protocol for holding and trading digital assets is not something digital signatures can provide alone. Digital signatures do not solve the double spending problem without trusted third parties. Thus far only blockchains have been able to provide this set of qualities.

>>All of the ideas about logistics tracking, deed tracking, etc etc are all rendered pointless by the oracle problem, you can get identical guarantees with digital signatures minus the blockchain.

Digital signatures provide no guarantees about data processing and availability. Massively distributed public blockchains do.
You can't do race war on HN, and we ban accounts that do. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This technique is a classic one. I remember learning about it in late 90's after I got infected with a malware that hid itself from Task Manager. That made me also write my own Task Manager.

To this day (Win10/Win11) you can hide your program from Task Manager using this technique and any malware that respect itself does it.
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I believe the addressed backups in the article with litestream.
Yeah it's not super helpful. Maybe a bit smaller code, stricter type checking, a little faster compilation time possibly But not really a huge benefit over C. Sure beats writing it all in hand-coded assembly though!
That's just how it's _spelt_ in the UK.

But this is why it's somewhat dangerous to infer tone from text without knowing more about the context.