skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's difficult to believe we are nothing more to us then a bunch of molecules because I still am me...

What do you mean by still "me"? If I lose an arm, I would definitely say I have lost a part of "me".

> What's the difference between me and a perfect imitation?

As far as I can tell, there is no difference until you begin to interact with the outside world, at which point the "yous" are no longer the same. Your body is constantly replacing itself with new parts and molecules to keep your brain and body functioning. This effectively means you are building a new copy of yourself all the time.

Why does it bother you if another process does it all at once? Does gradually replacing all of what is "you" make you feel better about "you" versus some ability to make it all at once and see it happening?

> I believe I am going to remain where I was if someone just makes an atom-perfect copy of mine and puts it near so the copy will probably have exactly the same memories I have and believe it is me but will not be me actually.

The other argument is that the "clone" you will very vigorously also try to defend it's "me" status since you are perfect copies, and it will claim that it is it's own "me" brought about not by birth, but by artificial means and claim it has the exact same rights as you would. It didn't choose the path of "birth", but if you are perfect clones, why does it have any less right to the life it believes it has that you do? Because you were "born naturally"? What if you made the clone for spare body parts and through a misstep, the clone woke up. I would argue the clone has the right to your life now for gross human rights violations if it so chooses while you would head off to prison hopefully wihtout parole.
I'm a fan of Douglas Hofstadter's (of Godel Escher Bach fame) view that "analogy is the core of cognition"†

On this view, I guess the question of whether to utilize analogy or not is reduced to the question of which analogy would be most useful, since all categorization (and thus, much of thought in general) is essentially analogical thinking.

† https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
You certainly have to set one up for Rust. I'm not sure about Go. Unless I need speed I generally reach for python, but even it sometimes needs a C compiler. I'm surprised the Node.js never needs one? Usually these "higher level" languages end up (on large projects) ultimately calling out to c/c++ libraries of some sort that aren't included in the "native libraries". Is that not true for node.js ?
Pre-declare available working hours, and adhere to them.

I have a cronjob that signs out of {slack, email, zoom, ...} at a particular time of day, my work accounts aren't attached to my personal devices, and i respond promptly to communication during working hours. I genuinely don't see work-related comms when i'm not working, and my work availability is in my slack profile, my internal email signature, and in my outlook calendar.
If we just charge them for the pollution, they'll fix it. The cost of fixing their equipment will actually save them money, but they won't fix it right now because they don't have the activation energy. This is easy, let's do it.
Will you donate an electron microscope? ;)
If anyone wants to know more more about Deming, I can warmly recommend this blog post by Avery Pennarun: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20161226
It's really just that network effect is a feature, especially on a communication platform.

Personally, somewhere on my project backlog is a plan to set up a personal Matrix server for this exact reason, as most of the public ones I've found stop just short of actually supporting bridging for any Meta platforms yet.

(And even if they did, E2E bridging is still WIP at the spec level anyway if memory serves, which would mean still having to roll my own for the time being... Because naturally, if I'm concerned enough about my dependence on other people's cloud services, or their harvesting of my data, to consider going to lengths like these, then I'm obviously not just going to just wantonly funnel a collection of DMs spanning about half my lifetime through a third party's servers.)
>I think methane lasts for less than a decade in the atmosphere before it's broken down into C02

Source? Google info box says:

>Methane is a powerful greenhouses gas with a 100-year global warming potential 28-34 times that of CO2. Measured over a 20-year period, that ratio grows to 84-86 times.
It does sound cool but I wish there was like a dollar sub. I already pay so much in Patreon fees…I see there’s a free subscription so I’ll see if I keep reading that
Except when not http://www.chokanji.com/ckk/
Well, I'd say you're correct, but my point is they are not "unfashionable", as in "ewww! you use Facebook!?" in a shrill tone. All it will take is the GOP to politicize being on FB, and it's over. Divide and destroy.
All the things you mentioned are products of evolution invented for the purpose of increasing survival rate. For example emotions serve us mammals to bond with each other, bring us closer together so that we help each other in order to survive.
And yet there is so much talent being squandered on the surveillance industry, wall street, and make-work paper-pushing meta jobs in general. It's not a "shortage", but rather a severe misallocation of labor due to the intertwined issues of inflationary monetary policy, financialization, and MBA-ization.

In the productive economy, direct labor has been relegated to being viewed as replaceable human-robots, and so there is little money in actually performing the work. Rather one achieves financial success by getting into the position of managing the work, and the prevailing wisdom is that you're a sucker if you don't do this.
That’s irrelevant.

It would be simple enough for Facebook for example to build a store into their own App, and build their own ‘platform’ within the Facebook app.
Yeah but how much money did Apple make before the iPhone? Maybe they should be paying the telecoms for all this data use.
Companies have been complaining about dev talent being in short supply for about a decade now. Best way to get a raise is still to quit your job after a year.
Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome's Canary update today
> AFAIK you'd have to have a pretty bad keyboard for it to have a significant role in latency

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ puts a lot of keyboards >= 30 ms which is an insane amount of latency
This sort of technology offers a lot of value for understanding human health in the future.

Right now, we (physicians) discourage people from getting tested outside of guidelines because we don't know what to do with incidental findings. But you could imagine that as a society, we would like to detect and understand these things, rather than just remain ignorant to them.

Inexpensive technology like this could be perfect for performing large-scale studies with repeated sampling of volunteers over time, to gain information that can help the next generation.
Jump is really good, I’m not sure I’d compare them to RenTech, that’s very select company, but certainly Jump Crypto has a lot more in common with e.g. Alameda Research than they do with $COIN_COMPANY.

It’s a very opaque business, but AFAIK Jump’s bread-and-butter desks are more like ultra-low-latency microwave-tower Chicago <-> NY/NJ arbitrage.

When conducted ethically (which ic clearly not always), arbitrageurs and market makers provide a critical, socially useful function. There are ways to cheat, and people do everyday, but that’s any business.

Retail traders benefit from ethical HFT whether that’s on ARCA or Binance. I’m not sure the same can be said for things like PFOF, intentionally mispriced IPOs, or offering crypto traders 100x leverage.
Just because it’s in a spec, doesn’t mean it’s not a footgun. No “collective false memories” required.
Different cameras have different dynamic ranges (pro cameras can have much higher dynamic ranges than an iphone or even a consumer DSLR), so what dynamic range do you find acceptable? (Also it's pretty hard to show via a digital image what your naked eye would see, since the eye has a high dynamic range.)
> Ignoring Tether for the moment there are many other stablecoins that can be used to generate savings at a rate of ~50x the interest paid on USD by banks.

There's a reason we don't have huge return on investment on most assets.

There's not way that 50:1 ratio can ever possibly work at a large scale. Unless, you know, it's a scam.

It's Econ 101.
What do you mean by unique?
You don’t seem to realize that Apple’s profits come mostly from hardware sales.
During his studies and very early career? That's completely normal and I don't understand why more people don't do it.

Studies don't give you any idea of what a job is actually like. They also don't give you a reliable indication that you'll like a field. Choosing bio out of high school, then moving to CS for any reason, then trying a few jobs using these skills is a normal and healthy way of searching for a job he really likes.
What's the reason to use LiveView? Looks like a lot of duplicated or dislocated behavior on top of a rickety and heavy websocket setup.
I agree. I almost always feel that analogies make sense to the person saying them, but not to the person receiving. You often need to already know the topic at hand to understand why the analogy is relevant, but if you’re new to the subject it feels just confusing.
I believe the question is less about input latency than (as mentioned,) scheduling latency or the amount of time from when the scheduler marks a process as 'ready to execute' to the time it actually starts executing.

SchedLat (https://tanelpoder.com/posts/schedlat-low-tech-script-for-me...) is one tool/approach to doing this, but it's a bit out of date.
I think Apple's stubbornness at keeping their commission ~30% underscores how critical that percentage is to their bottom line profitability - both present and future. "Services" is foundational to Tim Cook's vision to continue to grow the company and increase its revenue streams.

Based on latest Q4 earnings, Services is one of the highest growth segment of Apple at 25% YoY (others being Mac at 25%, Other Products at 13%). As the clamor for M1-based Macs subsides, monetizing its existing 500M+ users is the only major revenue-growth area. But what happens if their commission rate is cut in half to 15%? Apple doesn't break out the specific App Store revenue amount or percentage but it must be quite significant.

Hence they're willing to risk these continued lawsuits and regulatory backlash. The day that Services division no longer reports 20%+ YoY growth could well be one when Apple stock faces the reckoning like FB/Meta.
There's actually research that supports this. Basically it doesn't matter what American voters want, they'll only get whatever the overlap between what big corporations want and what they want is.

It's heartening to me that 50-70% of American voters generally support every sensible policy you can name. Many of them are in no real danger of getting passed though.

Here's an article that covers the research and some critiques. The criticism seems a bit absurd to me, the bit about the rich being successful in convincing people of what they want only makes things worse, yet is presented as if it undermines the research.
Happens everywhere

Yes it does. The USA just happens to be an extreme example of it.

No too many places in the world where it is fairly common for employees to be laid off after decades of service, shortly before becoming vested in the company retirement plan.

If you don't show any loyalty or decency, you can't really expect any in return.
> There are certainly a lot of shortcuts I could have taken like putting potential internal transfers on performance management, but did not.

> I feel bad for the LinkedIn poster here, I think he had a lazy manager.

Is n't OP's manager actually did that?
Like everything else Google comes up with, just see Android.
This looks entirely offtopic. Commenting on wrong post?
IIRC There was some decade-plus Mozilla bug over here on HN a few months ago where the newest comment was like "So the OP was my dad, and he's now dead. Anyway, here is some additional info"
The path that computing is on is "You will buy a screen, pay monthly for internet access, and then pay monthly to access a cloud service where you access all your SaaS applications.
99+% is a big number no matter how you try to slice it. people on the brink should assess and mitigate their own risk, with reliable, honest information and help where needed, not paternalistic overreach. people are dying, full stop, every single day, day in and day out. why weren't you so concerned about the millions who have been dying all along? why weren't you sounding the alarm like this about the flu that has killed more people in your lifetime than covid (which likely always will be the case)? let go of the mediopolitical propaganda and move on.
Beatles documentary used custom AI to isolate the sound of each instrument
I don't know what point you're trying to make. It's logically clear that you don't need unanimity in what the sensors are detecting to make a decision.
Tracy? It's mostly used by game devs.
Posix apparently explicitly allows calling programs with an empty argv, so it isn't just a Linux implementation detail Polkit failed to handle.
While there are plenty of people annoyed by any ads at all or who believe any form of marketing is inherently evil, that is not at all a majority view. Yet almost everyone hates the way Facebook does it except sellers. The problem isn't the ads. It's the level of surveillance required to make them as effectively targeted as they are. People don't want everything they ever do to be recorded, catalogued, and studied to build a psychological profile of their global purchasing habits.
> It addresses a specific set of problems or use cases as does all software. Crypto just attempts to claw back a limited subset of privacy.

And it's just that - an attempt. If it makes you feel better that you feel like your thwarting the government then have at it.

> I never indicated that it does

Unless Crypto is widely adopted, then it doesn't solve any of the aforementioned things you mentioned.

> the pitfalls and complications are worth it.

They might seem like their worth it, until you realize you can't gain any of the benefits you mentioned without having solutions for the discussion of "who is going to pay for this bridge".

The fact that crypto advocates don't think of any of these logistics is what makes me not take any of your arguments seriously.
Israeli study offers strongest proof yet of Vitamin D’s power to fight Covid
And whose inventor is still an active HN'er.

I miss del.icio.us
I think it is amazing that they're getting decent ADC maps - diffusion imaging is fundamentally about measuring how much the image gets dimmer (due to diffusion sensitizing gradients), so it's always running up against SNR limits. This is so darn cool.
It sounds like a git joke about squashing vs merging.
>Monopolies are bad.

Not entirely... there's a tradeoff. People forget that monopolies can be a good thing in that it can force a standard. For example, if English were said to have a monopoly on language, it would become very easy to speak and communicate around the world, as it would be the only language spoken everywhere. Contrast, if we have 200 versions of spoken languages, we'd have communication barriers to overcome when we try to communicate with someone foreign.
Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter[1]:

> Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you.

> We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybody, top to bottom, involved in planning, editing, implementation of everything in this document should leave Apple. You betrayed us.

1: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14895589519056691...
I guess "bugs" is a strong word, more like "suboptimal UX", but I'll definitely reach out with details.
Maybe we're in different bubbles, but my experience with bad takes on Twitter is that the entire first level is mockery and quote-tweets, with people doubling down on that mockery in the responses to the quote-tweets. Rebuttals, if they come, happen mostly on locked down accounts or via subtweeting (although mockery is also standard in the subtweets).

I also don't think that up/downvotes are likely to change that for Twitter, since Twitter's culture is essentially built around bull sessions[1]. A key part of socializing during bull sessions is mockery, and getting buy-in from your group to perform mockery/ragging on another person in then group (who is supposed to gracefully accept said mockery).

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bull%20sessi...
Friday Facts #367 – Expansion news
Fred was a friend and a colleague. Smart and enthusiastic. A creative and versatile engineer. PhD under Edward McCluskey at Stanford on building reliable and fault tolerant systems. A good manager. A teacher. A pilot and flying instructor. A Workshop organizer for the iconic Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop (amw.org), A UNIX partisan who brought the operating system to HP. Now, at 77, he is gone. He will be missed.
So you're argument is that an online digital store justifies a higher fee (30% vs 22%) even though it's significantly less expensive for Apple to run a digital store than it is for Best Buy to operate physical retail stores?

If anything, that's just evidence that Apple is grossing abusing its market position.
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I have a great experience with Hashicorp tools and great respect for both the company and the founders. I was using Consul, Nomad, Packer, and Terraform for years in previous projects. So I chose Terraform in this serverless world also mostly because of my experience and trust in the tool.

AWS SAM, Serverless, AWS CDK, ... are all valid tools. Just don't use AWS Console for changing infrastructure; your clicks are hard to share ;).

Here in Mantil we are using mostly Terraform but also the CloudFormation and AWS SDK for operations where they fit better.

In the article I was trying to highlight the difference between two approaches; one imperative (build infrastructure line by line) the other declarative (describe desired end state).
It looks to me like GP may have commented without reading the article. "Mergers ruin everything" could be misread as "Merges ruin everything". Just reading the title could lead someone to think this was a discussion about git best-practices.
A Time article [0] reports on this paper [1] that reaches the same conclusion as the user's comment. However, it's a mice study, which is an important limitation because rodents are nocturnal, according to the Time reporter.

Meanwhile, Harvard Health [2] and WebMD [3] also both continue to report that blue light suppresses melatonin production for humans.

From Time: "Animal studies should always be taken with a grain of salt, as they often do not translate directly to human behavior. And there are additional caveats to this particular paper, says Dr. Cathy Goldstein, a sleep specialist at Michigan Medicine. The researchers looked specifically at cones in the animals’ eyes, which detect color, instead of melanopsin, which senses light and is central to the issue of melatonin secretion.

"They also kept light levels dim, regardless of color, which may not reflect the bright lights of electronics.

"And finally, though mice are frequently used in sleep research, Goldstein notes that since the rodents are nocturnal, they may respond differently to light than humans do. Taken together, Goldstein says these conditions mean the study’s results apply only to a very narrow set of circumstances and metrics. “For this to get extrapolated to saying ‘blue light at night isn’t bad for you’ is a little bit of an extension,” Goldstein says."

[0] https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...

[3] https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-blue-light
When doing the necessary communication to solve PDEs numerically on multiple nodes.
Comparably funny was “LRUCacheMapOldAndBroken”. ldbrandy is a legend.
> If you can lock the movement into a specific position and it's repeatable because of the geometry of the motor, it's a stepper.

BLDC, series wound, and switched reluctance motors will also hold their position. Cogging torque exists in the majority of motor types. It is not very useful for dividing motors into families, and is certainly not specific to the group of machines called stepper motors.

If you energize each coil of a BLDC, series wound, or SR motor (not the wires, each actual coil) in sequence, the shaft of the motor will rotate once (or very close to once). If you do the same with a stepper motor, the shaft will have turned 22.5 degrees or less.

It is possible to make a linear stepping motor. The Vernier scale is basically stepping as applied to measurement. This is not that.
Doomed to fail by design. The study used a Digicomp Astrology computer, which calculated charts using the Western tropical zodiac system. Western astrology is practically useless because it does not take into account the precession of the equinoxes. Thus in the 2,500 years or so since it was translated from Persian and Sanskrit into Greek and Latin by Pliny, its reckoning of the planets’ positions has slipped almost 24° from their actual physical locations. Vedic astrology (Jyotish) does take equinoctial precession into account, thus it uses the actual location of the stars and planets to calculate and interpret charts and draw Astrocartography maps. Thus it is far more useful and accurate.
> "You can get practically any idea accepted," Bernays explained, "if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn't know."

Doctors should try telling people to get flu and COVID vaccines. Oh wait..
NYC public school cafeterias going vegan on Fridays
I am talking about choosing to tie yourself in knots and thereby preventing any further progress toward understanding what you are talking about.

You could also choose not to tie yourself in knots, and then you would not be blocked, and could begin to make sense.
F-Droid is right there. They're niche, but that further underscores that even a group of open source volunteers can maintain a well-curated app store.
I think people would prefer notifications here, but Safari doesn't support that either.
>would have become a web browser

Not on iOS where that sort of thing is prohibited. Sure they could put a skin over safari, but apple would have banned the entire FB app as soon as they found a developer's app they didn't like.
You still haven’t addressed the fact that you are lying about apple’s security.

You don’t know how many flaws there are, how long before they are fixed, or how many are protected against by the App Store.

You have no facts and yet you continue to make a claim you know you can’t support. Indeed you have presented links that show for certain that Apple’s security is not perfect.

It seems like your ideas about the perfection of Apple’s security exist only in your imagination.
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>Foxcon's worker's deaths are a cost of doing business of delivering iPhones to YOU the consumer. Their blood is on YOUR hands.

Is it not? If you buy conflict diamonds do you get to wash your hands and say "there isn't any blood on my hands because it's the local warlord's choice to use child soldiers, not mine"?
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