skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So can headphones and earbuds, and society seems to do just fine with the normal level of consumer electronics regulation.

Do we?

I was under the impression that there has been an uptick in hearing damage in young people due to them increasing the earbud volume above background noise levels (not so much of a problem in earphones that cover the ears as they block out outside noise).

That's a medical problem that will have significant effects downstream over time and the consumer regulation really isn't working.
hrmm, gitlab page mentions a full networking stack.

Not sure on the web browser though
Sure, although it sounds like there's been a pretty strong trend in this direction at SA for a while. The Scott Aaronson blog that people have linked from other places in this thread (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202) says as much. Dr. Aaronson is an extremely even tempered and objective thinker. If he says there's an issue and goes so far as to guest publish a former writer sounding the alarm on SA, I'm inclined to believe there's a fire underneath this smoke.
There is no real reason we can not make any number of floating islands. The danger is of making them unstable, and without leaks AND to have a way to remove biomass growth from time to time.Waves need to be dealt with so the island has the strentth to act as a bridge/beam as waves pass under = cyclic bending stresses if your island was 500 feet square and2 peaks 400 feet apart lifted 2 ends. You could make them in small panels, with hinges, or a strong square beam. They could be daisy chained for miles with hinges every 100-200 feet. Barnacles and sea grass can build up to huge weights = strip the sides and bottoms as needed. You have the ability to make them 50-250 feet deep, better make sure that never ever leak and to CYA make them in sealed cubes in case one sinks, the other would float. Right now it is not economic, but you could save a number of low lying islands by making them a floating countries, sure = costly, but losing the country underwater is also costly. Large floating sea farms can be made with narrow floating causeways with farmed tanks (with or without bottoms). You would need to control waste and diseases and parasites that often infest sea farms.
I think the next 200 years will be a golden age of sea farms and other habitats.
Thank you for sharing. That was an incredible insight into the process and a good behavioral pattern to watch out for, especially because it resonated so much with my difficulties eating too much. I know, that doesn't generally compare to problems with alcohol, but I guess some of the mechanisms are the same. Thank you for being so gracious in providing this.
Right, but that's the expected response. Of course the company is going to claim inaccuracy. It doesn't grant them any more credibility than they would already have if it turns out they are actually right. Another point for the organizers.
Many "diet rules" in the Bible have been found to be about avoiding parasites or unhealthy doses of some chemical.
in summary: after E.O. Wilson died this December 2021 SciAm published a piece which was a reality-detached "PC/Wokeness scold" hit piece on the man

shame on SciAm. I subscribed decades ago -- but never again
Thank you! Some really valuable advice there. How was the bootcamp for you? Was securing a job afterwords part of the problem? How did you afford room + board in SF? I've considered going through one of the programs that promise a job after the fact but historically I've been hesitant for a number of reasons.
Interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks.
Absolutely amazing. That's a lot of work.
Yes! ZFC can’t prove it’s own consistency or completeness but a larger theory can do this. I think ZFC + Inaccessible Cardinal can prove ZFC is consistent.

I had two points in these posts. One is that none of this pertains to whether or not space is continuous. The other is that the statement “arithmetic is consistent” is provable in some contexts. It depends on what the actual theory one is dealing with. In PA it’s not provable but in ZFC it is.

If the universe “contains” a model of PA then is that model consistent or not? How does one know? (I doubt it’s meaningful to say that the universe contains PA though.)
So funny that BuzzFeed is the source of this article.. hello kettle.
I'm also bothered by the unavailability of a replacement brake pad. Why are brake pads not interchangeable between cars anyway? I understand there are different sizes and stuff, but a few standard types like there are for tires, windshield wiper blades, and other consumables should be enough. Tesla looks pretty stupid in this story.
What iPhone feature has been as delayed and as dangerous as FSD? Apple gets their shit right.
Reducing or eliminating fructose is a better answer, I think. Anti-fat messaging (in food) has resulted in food producers reducing fat but increasing fructose content for decades, with an associated rise in obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Check out the lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by Robert Lustig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&t=179s
Meanwhile the crypto bros use their acquired wealth to truly advance the world on the Ms Satoshi.
You make some good points. I gave an emotional response. My emotions come from frustration. I spend a fair amount of time on Hacker News and really love the site, but I'm upset that Hacker News is overwhelming negative, focusing on current technology shortcomings. You say the topic has been debated. I say it hasn't. It's been roundly rejected. That's not debate.

My post was an attempt, probably a lame one, to expand my own thinking and hopefully find one or two others who might look at it with a wide angle lens. Sadly, this didn't happen, so since posting this I've found other communities who are open to back and forth discussions about the topic. I'm an optimist. There's a story about about who is told to shovel manure out of a stable and is very happy about it. When asked why he said "with all this shit, there's got to be a pony around here!" I'm trying to find the pony. HN is the wrong place to look.
I don't consider "woke" to be pejorative to me it's just synonymous to "hyperprogressive", just more searchable because you'll filter out the physical disease and will only be left with the cultural one in the results
To clarify, I'm not saying it's arrogance in this particular case, but answering the above comment which claims there is no need for better bug reporting experience. That kind of attitude is arrogance I think.

All projects can have practical limitations and migrating the bug tracker is still work of course. But ignoring or even denying the fact that current experience is far from perfect is wrong.
Agreed, Omicron is so infectious that any argument to 'protect others' is increasingly difficult to justify aside from reducing hospitalizations and by that token perhaps a general health mandate is in order, with monitoring of peoples daily steps, food consumption and drug use. I'm being hyperbolic, but at some point we need to draw a line.

Taking peoples livelihoods away due to their health status or beliefs is in my mind akin to fascism. It is discrimination
Are we...all we all inmates in Randall's prison?
If not, an enforcement agency could always upload it itself to create the pretext. It might be expensive, but nation states can afford mining hardware.
(2019) Past Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20782943
If people need something else than vaccination and masks, such a thing will need to be identified. Chasing phantoms does not achieve that. And each person who dies because they tried to use things that don't work instead of what works is blood on the hands of people promoting those.
From a purely practical point of view, for me personally, I have a laptop where no matter what I tried, with X I got insane constant screen tearing. I tried with and without compositors, different configuration, different drivers. Nothing worked for me. I tried wayland and its been running silky smooth without any tearing whatsoever.

So, from a personal practical perspective, whatever Wayland does has worked for me, while X11's "superior technology" has completely failed me, on that laptop.
hacker news has truly fallen off

*case in point, this post has been flagged
>The manufacturer could do that before they deliver the car.

Cars do get jacked up in transit. Like "a large piece of metal road debris pierced the window and seat" bad (personal experience). So, even if it leaves the factory in pristine condition, someone at the end of the line will need to look at it to make sure it's 100%. Tesla has decided that final check responsibility falls on the end user.

Also I suspect it's more efficient for the manufacturer and dealerships to just roll all of that into the end-of-the-line inspection instead of splitting it over two locations.

>The manufacturer could run the dealership themselves.

This would work if there was a way for states to ensure the manufacturers had some serious skin in the game so they'd fear legal action.
Two of them did not finish college. Yes it took a while (less than 10 years) but you can make your way to high levels of comp by just being competent.
So first off: Very cool. Amazingly polished, and self-hosting! Especially since it looks to be an actually-independent project with POSIX as an optional compat layer.

I feel like the features that are unique are mostly in 3 groups:

1. Features that shouldn't be unique to this system. Tabbed windows have occasionally happened on other systems, and probably should become more common, and there's no reason it shouldn't work on other systems. I hope this inspires other people to copy;)

2. Features that only work if you have really tight integration or different primitives than most OSs are using. Programs updating file name when you rename from the file manager, or the file manager showing when files are open... might be possible to graft on to other systems, but it'd be a right pain. Even systems like MacOS are going to struggle - the whole OS is under one company that could do cross-functional stuff like that, but any time it touches applications you need external developers to support it and that may or may not work out.

3. Features that are possible, but nobody else does it because it's impractical - possibly only impractical from their starting points, though. Showing total size of subdirectories is expensive on ex. Linux because you have to walk every file recursively. I don't know if they're just eating the cost because they haven't hit a case where it matters, or if their system actually makes it cheap (I could easily imagine a filesystem that moved the calculation cost up front).
If it can't be escaped does that mean it was always here?
The true upside, social aspects of drinking happen for most on the weekends, due to everyone else also cutting loose on the weekends. This is why I have liver scarring at a ripe young age, but to ignore the upside altogether is also foolish.
You don’t need nodes hosted in your jurisdiction to use the network though, so preventing running nodes in one jurisdiction accomplishes very little.
> Are you sure of this? Where do you think retirement income comes from? Public schools, infrastructure, hospitals, parks, national defense, COVID relief, etc? They came from the government...

I was referring to the social credit system, not just taxation. Social credit is an absolutely inhuman way of treating people. We are not slaves of a government.

In regards to where income comes from: it comes from the tax-payer, not the government. The trouble is the tax-payer did not contribute to this of their own volition, but did so under duress because they were extorted by the government which threatens violence for non-compliance. If people deem the services you listed as ideal or necessary, they would of course, contribute to them without the need for force.

How does a State become authoritarian, and what put these western states in the position they are in today?

The answer is that the ancestors people of those states fought numerous violent rebellions against their slave-masters to obtain the freedoms that are enjoyed (in decreasing fashion) today.

But what happens when a population becomes docile, or robbed of their ability to fight a rebellion against a corrupt government. What if the docile even encourage putting their fellow neighbour into such position of helplessness?

Governments are not a force for good. They never have been in history. The only thing that keeps them on a good path is the ability of their populations to hold them accountable. If you remove that ability, you will soon find out that your government is not a force for good. Cambodians found that out after surrendering their arms. Australia is learning the hard lesson as we speak.

I'm not American anyway, but America enjoys the most freedom in the world thanks to its thoughtful founders, who put some constraints on future governments. Today, these constraints are often ignored and you even have the docile calling for them to be abolished.
> Not many car brands even diagnose you via submitted video record.

Your post might contain a clue why that is.
In the Netherlands we had to find the hostess chatting in the back just to be seated.

Then after waiting like 10 minutes we had to find her chatting in the back again to ask for menus.
However, this isn't just the FDA.

If $DISEASE kills 10k people/year, the company manufacturing the device doesn't have to pay anything for them.

If $DEVICE kills one child, the company manufacturing the device is on the hook for several million dollars.

So your $DEVICE needs to clear (roughly) 10K*5%*$2 million per person killed or roughly $1 billion in profit to be economically feasible.

That means that those 10k people need to spend, $100K+ each for that device to make it feasible.

It's not just the FDA that makes companies want to drive that 5% down to damn near zero.
So why can't they install the brake pad without keeping the car for close to a month? They are building model 3s on the assembly line right now right? They have brake pads in the factory? Pull one out of there and put it in this messed up car. If that means delaying assembly of an in-manufacturing model 3 til there are more brake pads, then so be it. You need to have enough brake pads to equip all your cars, especially the cars that you have already shipped.
It's interesting reading your blog post, as there's essentially a lot of projection as to what life would be like for Tesla drivers post-warranty. It's now over four years since you wrote that post, it would be neat to see how it's turned out.
It doesn't matter what I believe, it's what I experienced and observed. For example, I knew a couple who lost their money via fraudulent debit card transactions and bank did piss all to investigate - and I understand its hard and bank is not motivated much. By using a credit card for example fraudsters would've spent bank's money and my friends would not be responsible for such transactions. Now if they used crypto they would be in the same position and there wouldn't even be an authority to ask to investigate (how convenient). I am not saying that people are not getting ripped by corp - just by probability many people are. But I don't see "crypto" as the answer to the problems I know about. What specific problem crypto solves in payments?
maybe its the inebriati
https://youtu.be/VTSCppeFzX4
Volcano erupts near Tonga, disrupting undersea fiber cable
At a large scale it is also very difficult to create high accuracy. Simply defining a meter or kilogram is a high difficulty task, however there is a canonical "kilogram" that you can go and visit in France. Along with a carefully maintained set of proofs that were built off of the canonical "kilogram" which in turn are used to make the calibration weights we all work with. We then measure/calibrate the accuracy of any weight measuring system by how well it tracks to the canonical kilogram.

Similarly, for any "new" measurement, there will be a number of "calibration" measurements performed to ensure that the results are in-line with other measurements of well known things.
It has networking
https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence#features

Even has an irc client ;) everything you need
The results of levitate on target may vary depending on the game engine used, but it's generally fun.
Well, one of the problems with alcohol and nicotine is that you also can't just cut them out entirely. Withdrawal symptoms are brutal and not compatible with modern 40 hour week jobs. Cutting out food, especially sugary ones, probably would bring about some subset of the same withdrawal symptoms...so the problems are more closely related than they appear, IMO (disclaimer that I have never been addicted to either so I may be completely off).
Nukes. The cause of, and solution to, all of the world's problems.
Sarcasm? Real? Here's a hint: EF Hutton did not exist in the 1990s.
yo, no offense, but how is this comparison even relevant, let alone apt? it made sense in the parent comment, but the way you’ve extended it seems to imply BMW went out of business or something. where are you going with this?

also, again no offense, but do you mean “pretty much nobody else is making a smartphone that doesn’t run Android”? because you started by talking about iPhones.

the first paragraph made sense, maybe you just need to clarify.
Megacity
There is this concept of “fat adapted” after you’ve been on keto for long enough periods of time. I would assume that’s what was happening.
My strategy has been to stick to everything Gnome on Ubuntu. In gnome tweaks you can even turn on ctrl-a and ctrl-e! Everything feels consistent

Really wish Linux followed macs example of using super instead of ctrl for copy/paste/etc in general though…
We have pretty good reasons to believe that CBD, in the absence of THC, is protective for people who have contracted COVID: it keeps them out of ICU.

Unfortunately almost all retail products that claim to have CBD don't. CBD from the pharmacy, which does, costs more than people usually want to pay.
Freaking brake pads and rotors had to be ordered at the Tesla dealer service center? And you're telling me it takes over two weeks? What the hell. I can go to Firestone or literally anywhere and pads and rotors are just in stock
It's a hot topic of debate. Some people advocate for full disclosure, which means tell everyone as soon as you find it. The idea behind that is that attackers might have already found it and be exploiting it, so people should know in order to protect themselves. Others advocate for coordinated disclosure (sometimes called responsible disclosure, a controversial term[1]), with some sort of time limit. Google Project Zero does that with a 90-day time limit, with some exceptions to extend it or reduce it[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12308246

[2] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/04/policy-and-di...
Commissions for salespeople — the most studied example of "merit-based" compensation — don’t work. They’re _expected_, but they don’t produce the results expected.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-paying-sales-people-bad-b...

The other reality is that what you think is merit-based is…not. There are lots of studies showing that there’s substantial bias in pay against women and racialized minorities.
You don't need a 3D printer. Just order bulk acetaminophen and caffeine powder, then put as much as you want into capsules. (Don't poison yourself.)
I watched the video which said no networking. Maybe the video is old.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/205mph/status/1482262486535573507

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/Rony_banchero/status/148244064075...

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/MrCombs679/status/148224129613568...
I was mostly thinking over the longer term.
Are the salaries formulaic or table-lookup in that case?

If everyone got paid the exact same amount, there’s no penalty to publishing the salary number (that everyone already knows).

The problems start to drift in when salaries are individually determined (hopefully based on contributions to the company).
Anybody know how much trouble you’d get in cross country skiing or snowshoeing along the routes of these big power lines? They clear all the trees and brush and it looks like it would be a great alternative route to get around in winter. All those no trespassing signs have me spooked.
Ideas like mining bitcoin with otherwise non-economical natural gas? Too late: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/datacenters/
Gives me very strong BeOS vibes.
Probably more than just SEO. DMCA isn't just stoppable by keywords optimizations. Someone in Google obviously did something special.
I am sure they can fix it but the fix is going to bring the revenue down so some heads can get chopped. Who wants to put their CV "improved Google search results user experience by increasing the ad revenue by -3%"
isn't even obvious that "identity politics" is tethered exclusively to left-wing politics.

The essay explicitly states that it is not!
Interferometers are nature's vernier calipers.
OK. Here's a lawyer explaining it https://www.romanolaw.com/2020/01/03/how-to-compel-specific-....
Parametric polymorphism is even older than that! It's almost 60 years old, having originated in CPL.
I'd say that "defund" is softer than and different from "ACAB" or "abolish the police".

"Abolish the police" is pretty much right out of Kropotkin, and a lot of people aren't comfortable with that (perhaps rightly). "Abolish" as opposed to "disband" is a deliberate nod to "abolition", as in slavery abolition. See also: the meme about how modern policing is descended from slave patrols in the Antebellum South (based on my non-professional reading, this seems to be half-true, and it looks more like modern policing developed in 18th-century England).

ACAB... meh. Because of the power dynamics involved, I see nothing wrong with assuming that any police officer is hostile and a threat to your life and liberty. Police departments generally seem incapable of regulating themselves effectively and seem mostly immune to civilian oversight. Maybe there are exceptions in certain parts of the world.

I do agree that some people take "defund" further than others. I also think that a lot of people are "defund revisionists" to some extent, who are squeamish about really aggressively defunding in starve-the-beast fashion, much like how people are squeamish about "abolishing" the police. But I don't think it's a bad thing that any given crowd doesn't agree on what exactly it means. Politicians seem to be more or less uniformly interpreting it in the way I described it.
thats really cool!

too bad the linked video is nowhere to be found....
I have one and I'm happy with it. No manufacturing issues. Sometimes I think I overpaid but I pass more than one $5.99 premium gas station and that puts me at ease. I charge at work, even. Hard to not be satisfied with that.
Took me a few tries but you really get a sense of accomplishment once you've bootstrapped your own system.

Then you realize what a pain in the butt updating is without a package manager :)
This is the Google AI blog.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

I think it was Carmack who introduced me to that protocol through a dev talk, if my memory is correct.
Im pretty sure my math is right here, so… It would be more appropriate to say they failed to shell out for the 256 bit processor. Because at 256 bits per int a vector of 3 ints can easily encodes any location in the observable universe as Planck length coordinates.