skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine how fucked up your in-person social groups/interactions would be if everyone, for YEARS was for some reason only capable of boosting/encouraging one another, with no reflexive negative responses -- no frowns, no eyebrow emoting, no body language.

I think you are really overstating how bad the interactions would be. Phone calls show no body language, and though it might hinder a deeper intuitive understanding of someone's emotional responses, I would say that phone communication is far from "fucked up".

When someone disagrees with what I am saying over a phone call, they can verbally express their disapproval if no body language is available. In fact, verbal disapproval is preferred so that they can express nuance.

When someone disagrees with what I am saying on the internet, they can express their disapproval in a reply if no downvotes are available. In fact, a comment reply is preferred so that they can express nuance.

For many millennia, there has been understandable evolutionary pressure to ostracize people who look and act different from those in your hunter-gatherer tribe, as you may not be able to trust them with your tools, food, and other tribe members. That evolutionary pressure is antithetical to the optimal functioning of a modern globalized society comprised of law and social safety nets, and valuing freedom of expression.

The most important signal nowadays is whether information is well-researched, not whether people agree with it. If not kept tightly in check, voting systems tend to devolve into surfacing the most popular opinions rather than the most useful or even the most true.

For example, some of the most important information I read on the internet fifteen years ago was the stuff that was heavily downvoted back then, in particular, controversial fringe stuff related to medicine and finance. Fifteen years later it's finally entering the mainstream and being upvoted, but I've had access to the information this whole time in small part because I set Reddit not to collapse downvoted comments by default.
Too many options. I'd have found a continent poll more interesting, I bet many will just not bother scrolling.
> But it is not the same question as: how is it possible that we have any experience at all?

Let me send this ball straight back to you.

In the morning when you wake up what happens? You might take something to eat. How would you find the kitchen, how would you recognise the food, or even know you need it? Of course, you are conscious. That's how.

It is possible to be conscious because otherwise your body wouldn't be able to survive. It's essential for avoiding death. We are self replicators in a limited resource environment, after all. This balance between self replication and death evolved consciousness as an evolutionary advantage.

Being exposed to your internal and external environment is the source of consciousness. Even a single cell can seek nutrients or avoid bad places, or decide when to replicate, it has a rudiment of consciousness. But panpsychism? It's one step away from new age babble. Stones are just stones.
> This is also why I don't believe in "Smart Contracts" and the term "code is law", ultimately people want people to be answerable to people. We have courts specifically to address contract and financial disputes, they are essential and provide a level of insurance over business and financial operations.

This is exactly wrong. Some people ultimately want people to be answerable to people. There are plenty of people however, who want to be answerable to code instead. Unlike with other people, you can potentially verify that the code you trust in is neither irrational, nor cruel.
I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a common submission technique is to cut off blood flow to the brain (known as a blood choke).

I've lost consciousness twice after being put into a blood choke. The experience of regaining consciousness is visceral. For those that haven't experienced it, it's very much like a turning on a computer.

Initially, your brain does not (or cannot) process input like vision, sound, touch, etc. Slowly, over about 30-60 seconds, you begin to see and hear but they don't make any sense. You've completely lost the context of who and where you are. Then you begin to recognize colors and shapes, sounds of voices, etc. Eventually, you see and hear everything but still haven't built a concept of the context. Lastly, your brain seems to begin making sense of all the inputs and you regain full conscious awareness.

If you think it's just like waking up from a dream or from a nap, you're wrong. It's a completely different experience, one that's so profound that I distinctly remember the entire episode even years later (and I have poor memory recall generally).
Actually, I'd rather see some progress in housing. As in being able to go into a building, with a different unique experience each time.

But perhaps GTA is a bad fit for this kind of innovation.
this is from a year ago
Interesting reasons why people used to drive automobiles with special gloves
We could ask dang if he can share some stats if he’s allowed to. It’s an interesting question!
I think the analogy would be more equivalent to AWS. There are different costs associated with using the various SDKs (i.e. Lightsail, EC2, S3, SageMaker).

I'd also say the more it can be defined in terms of technical reasons the better.

There are R&D costs to maintaining a cutting edge, industry leading 3D Graphics SDK for iOS that the primary users beneficiaries of said library (i.e. Epic, Xbox) should contribute to.

This would require a bit of mindshift and context.
S&P500 Price in M3: All Money
I don’t think there is, but then if we’re talking about putting waste flare to use rather than release it into the atmosphere and pay hefty tax, I can totally see remote (even ocean) sites carry a standard container-worth of miners - potentially would pay for itself.

Edit: dropped a word
I wish analytics had an 'audience view' to help communities understand themselves.
So then the answer is yes, after a reasonable timeframe happens, without this financial doomsday happening, you will admit that you just fell for a dumb conspiracy theory, and people should not take what you say seriously?

That would be falsifiability, if you agree that yes you will agree that you fell for a conspiracy theory, in that situation.

If you make up an excuse, then by definition, your opinion is unfalsifiable.
> By the same logic BestBuy, Verizon, and other hardware retailers should get a cut of Apple’s revenue.

Best Buy, Verizon, and other hardware retailers buy Apple products at a discount and sell them for retail price. So, in a way they do get a cut of the revenue that Apple would make when Apple sells products at Apple's retail stores.
I hope the guy was not on a visa. Seen many people with visa issues being played with just because they cannot easily move or are halfway down the greencard path.
Ads are a corruption of organic discovery though. Yes it could help you but say person A hocks product 1 because they are paid, even though product 2 is actually superior for you. Ads corrupt their incentives. Even if product 1 is good for you, product 2 is better. Product 1 ends up succeeding because they decide to play the game of corrupted promotion.
I actually enjoyed that about San Andreas. The feeling of just being out on a limb between the bottom 2 cities listening to k rock was great. Although here I’m hoping it’s vice city.
Yeah and I'm totally missing Norrland in Sweden. Bummer ..
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707
I've used `cyclictest` for this before, it's a simple command line application that measures how long it takes to wake up and run a user space process in response to an interrupt. I've used it in the context of minimizing latency for network and audio applications. I'm not sure how much this relates to desktop application responsiveness as there are additional layers involved.
it's a defacto standard for template "engines" targetting HTML or other markup to invent ad-hoc syntax rule

Totally.

My hypothesis: people enjoy writing templating engines, which is why there are so many. And people especially enjoy inventing their own programming languages.

Templating engines are the perfect place for a web developer to dip their toes as gently as desired into language creation, in a format that’s kind of fun and is also immediately relevant and useful.
From the indoor perspective,

Won’t the coal or wood stove draw indoor air out, which would get replenished by drawing outside air inside?

Meanwhile the gas stove just vents it’s exhaust into room air?
Right, I could work at Facebook, where they seem to be betting the company on an idea that Mark Zuckerberg got after watching a sci-fi movie -- that I'm not sure anyone is remotely excited about.
> - Have you examined desk-rejected candidates' applications manually? I know someone who was contacted by some HR quality-control person at one company after never hearing anything back about multiple opportunities they applied to there. As it turns out, HR's automated software incorrectly decided my friend was unqualified and never forwarded their applications to a human. That was despite the fact that my friend was apparently one of the most qualified applicants for those positions. I'm sure this is common.

I have this fun situation at the moment. I applied for a job with a company that apparently decided that wading through the resumes was boring, so they just threw away all applications (a friend works there so I have inside information).

I didn't bother with a referral as I assumed, incorrectly, that I should glide through the process.

That same company went through my friend's LinkedIn connections and wanted their help to recruit me.
I think it it depends on the company and manager. I got a PIP once (at a FAANG, in the US), and it really felt like my manager had put a lot of effort into designing something that was achievable and customized to my situation. "Passing" the PIP would have required only a slight ramping up of my admittedly very low performance at the time.

My manager either wanted me to start doing my job again, or leave and create a space on the team for someone who would. He seemed slightly biased in favor of keeping me on the team. It didn't seem like a fun situation for him to deal with at all.

I ended up leaving, but it's because I was disengaged and didn't see a way out of it. (And I had great offers elsewhere.) Not because my manager was being abusive.
The effects of artificial light are manifold.
Assigning upsides and downsides is left as an exercise.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=light+pollution+human

Also note humans seem to have an inherent "light budget"
the cheaper it is, the more we use.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=historic+light+cost+v.s.+use&t=ffs...
Hiya! Excited to try this,
The devil is of-course in the details :)
What are the throughput implications for the rest of the cluster? IS there any way to profile the transforms usage as a percentage of the whole?
How much of the API is exposed? can it create topics?
May be swapping ours soon since the gas stove is malfunctioning anyway (won't hold temp, have to constantly screw with it).

I'm happy about improving air quality, but not happy that it's gonna be significantly more expensive than getting another gas stove :-/

I'm glad I can afford it but every time I see one of those "electric's not god-awful anymore, induction's amazing!" posts on Twitter or Reddit or whatever it's like... yeah, great solution for us folks with plenty of disposable income, I guess.

Not sure how I'm going to make certain kinds of flatbread that I heat directly on the flame. I'll figure something out I suppose.

Reports of the tops being easy to crack worry me, too. I don't like having to baby kitchen equipment.

[EDIT] Hrm. Reading about cooking technique on them, I'm not sure I'd be able to make scrambled eggs (that didn't suck). My technique relies heavily on being able to move the pan on and off the burner. I guess... I could live with just not making scrambled eggs.
Yes, they're not valued on making $10 billion per year. That P/E means it would take 24 years to make your money back. They're valued so highly because they're growing and it's expected that in ten years, it'll $30 billion per year, cutting your return time. If growth ends, then this overvaluation corrects itself.
Thousands have swallowed a tiny camera instead of having colonoscopies
In the US you have house price increases due to tech, in Canada you have this based on speculation and money laundering. Your pick, I rather live in a place where at least the salary can catch up.
Looks like it. I guess my info was a little stale. Thanks for the link!
Does anyone know how old the toys that launched a propeller from a stick-spiral are? I used to play around with these as a kid, and was fascinated how low tech they could be and still fly.
Protons don't bind without neutrons mixed in.
>ah there's a bit of miscommunication on my part; that second part of my comment was and less about you and more me ranting about what i'm seeing in the system as a whole.

I understand that, but I don't think this was the right time launch into such a rant.

(Also, just as a general rebuttal, I think many modern Marxists fail to acknowledge how class dynamics have changed since the 1800s.

There's no acknowledgement of the tension between the managerial classes and the people doing the actual labour - something which David Graeber explains brilliantly - and instead an immense focus on control of the worker via control of the means of production.

Access to the means of production is ridiculously democratised now. You can look at my HN profile for a concrete example, but I, as a single 22 year-old from Australia, was able to design, manufacture and distribute a product globally, through cutting-edge logistics networks, without putting a cent of my own capital on the line.

For the average worker, who is more often than not employed in a service role, a similar dynamic applied. All a skilled plumber, electrician or cleaner needs to start their own business now is a Facebook account, some tools and a van.)
Hell no.

Maybe it's different in the Bay Area, but at least in North Texas where we are headquartered, I see a ton of older front-end developers. Not to mention, I see a lot of people much older than you do a bootcamp in JavaScript to switch careers and get hired.

As long as you're willing to stay up-to-date on the latest JavaScript framework, you'll be more than fine. The reason you see a lot of older back-end developers than front-end developers in my opinion is because it usually pays better and back-end technology stays more static than front-end technology.
FreeBSD did not require non null argv[0] until 9 days ago.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/773fa8cd136a57...
> To me, the fact that illusion and hallucination are being invoked is strong evidence of handwaving being engaged in to dismiss an otherwise difficult problem.

Dennett doesn't dismiss the difficulty of the problem, he just dismisses that the difficulty is where people think it is. For instance, he would fully agree that the brain is insanely complex and just elaborating how information processing works will be very, very challenging. His opponents then say from this position of ignorance on how this works, "but even if you explain all of this, there's still something left to explain!"

Is there really though? How could they possibly know this? It's a classic god of the gaps argument/argument from ignorance that theists use to cling to their deities or support intelligent design, hence "residual christianity". After all of this time debating consciousness, the very best arguments we have for qualia that cannot be captured mechanistically are thought experiments that are easily dismissed as circular (and which Dennett has ably deconstructed to show their vacuousness).

Frankly, I find Dennett's rebuttals are brutally logical and pragmatic.
I know it's a meme, but I genuinely miss Google Reader. It was so nice to have many sources of information aggregated into one app. Now it's fragmented across HN, Reddit, Substack, Twitter etc etc. I don't even bother following it all anymore.
Excel Macro's... What does a virus have to do with visualizations?! /s
Netflix, spotify… you dont have to look far
>People are significantly more exposed to the stock market these days than in 1910

>Considering tons of people's 401k's

I'm surprised to hear this, because my understanding is the opposite. Something like 60% of Americans have a 401k, but the numbers for how much they have in them is grim. Almost everyone is underfunded, less than 20% of Americans made a contribution last year, and overall 9/10 stocks are owned by about 1/10th of the population (and rising).

>If any leaders gets really serious about breaking up some of the Big Tech companies you'll see enormous pressure to get them out of office ASAP.

Even if it did tank 401ks, I don't think you can be so sure about the public reaction to it. I can't claim to perfectly understand human behavior, but I'm very confident that it not well predicted simply by applying a value-based analysis.
OpenSea admits that over 80% of NFTs minted for free are fraudulent
Or a massive brain hemorrhage.
Op was about circulation in Europe, where I am guessing they have these things.

And if people are not doing it enough in western nations where we do have access, then my posting this serves to increase awareness in this small hn community.
IMO, it's worth breaking CA up in the survey. At a minimum, Northern and Southern.

Califorina at times is like many states. Living in the Northeastern US, "California" is kind of like combining New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine into a single state.
It really is.

For some reason it reminded me of the crazy project where some team used the earths field as the static field and just added gradients and the RF stuff.
I can’t find the article I remember but this project looks similar and scans a capsicum rather than an apple.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6956005_A_practical...
Got my PhD in the US and have since returned home. Not making as much as I could in the US, but then again, I make a decent living where I am with no boss and a flexible schedule.
The report also shows it to have superior thrust to a traditional rotor for the same RPM.

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16436679...
I’m assuming Ganon Wario is still out there somewhere.
I suspect it's a mobile GTA game designed to create a sense of FOMO and using microtransactions to scratch that itch, eventually relying on a small number of "whales" to support the game.
A shame Facebook hasn't seen the massive upside in pivoting to "be a force for saving democracy, with a side line in diminishing inequity, political (and wealth!) polarization, and inculcating respect for the commons, the middle ground, and public wellbeing."
Cmd/Ctrl+F plus your country name.
There's no place to leave to.

Or if you mean developers abandoning support for iOS and Mac, then yes, that is precisely what we did.
The American Dream is twice as easy to achieve in Canada as it is in America.

We also pay a fraction for our single-payer healthcare, and pay absolutely nothing out of pocket. Drugs are not free, but are heavily subsidized.

I would also use healthcare for my own choice to never live in the United States. Not only do Canadians spend about half as much towards healthcare in our taxes, but we also pay absolutely nothing else. In the States, you personally see nothing for the amounts that you are taxed, and you have to have medical insurance on top of that. Finally, said medical insurance comes with crippling co-pays and deductibles that severely discourage people from seeing a doctor until the time for treatment has come and gone, and palliative care is the only remaining option. Even a single emergency visit to the hospital is sufficient to wipe out years or even decades of savings.
If you think there is a hard problem, it is on you to articulate one. Thus far I have not encountered one that does not depend on undefined words or circular arguments, i.e. knots.
I personally can and do use it privately, my point is that it isn't that way for most people and privacy isn't inherent to all or even most crypto, and that's something only being made worse as crypto goes more and more mainstream.

After all, most people trade in public blockchain crypto through CEXs and leave their coins in hot wallets. Effectively the same as using a bank.

To put it differently, crypto _can_ solve many of these problems, but it does not _inherently_ solve them, it takes a skilled and cautious person to use crypto in a way that does not link to their identity.
Isn't the assumption that you're working in serial? Given that this work can be done in parallel and many areas will take a long time, why not work on as many as possible?
Mind sharing the said document, or would that be too much of a favour?
I've not gone back and checked the results, and done the maths, however:

I did read that each time Labour got in government, it would have occurred irrespective of the parties the Scottish MPs represented. That because the swing within England was so great as to make the Scottish votes an irrelevance (England being about 10x the population of Scotland).
I wonder if its practical to DIY your own production line automation today with Arduino. Like if I had a simple product, could I buy stuff off the shelf and integrate it myself in my garage and end up with a little mini-factory? Exciting to think about.
Pretty old -- the Wrights played with something similar as children: https://www.wyso.org/news/2017-12-25/the-toys-of-orville-wri...
also, while ads were certainly dispersed through magazines and the like, a huge chunk of them were really just in the back and not with the main stuff.
WebOS phones/tablets
Bay Area is still by far the center of the tech world. Maybe in 10-20 years that will change if like you said people move out and the network effects vanish, but I don't see any signs of that happening. Unlike what you might read people say on Twitter, plenty of talent is still here, and there's a lot of people moving back after having left during COVID.
The acceleration due to gravity isn’t a constant of nature —- it’s dependent on the mass and mutual distance of both objects.

EDIT: distance, not size
>If you agree that there are always going to be security issues, then there is no reason why customers shouldn’t be able to choose a product where human moderation is used to mitigate them.

First of all, that is one of the worst arguments I've ever heard. A iMessage can install a virus, but you don't see people asking for human moderation of all of their messages on the remote chance that one message contains a virus.

I'll also just copy/paste my reply here since you decided to not reply to it.

What's the difference between running an app ad-hoc right now (via XCode) vs allowing a user to download and install any app they want. The answer is, there isn't any except for artificial limitations put in place by apple.

Anything an app that is installed could do would be the same between the store, ad-hoc builds, or installed from a download. The security is in the platform, not the App Store. How many times have we seen something slip through Apple's review process? Fortnite got a full CC flow UI through, many apps back in the day would slip WiFi tethering into their app and get through. All it would take is a simple API call with a boolean to enable or disable the "security issue."

> You haven’t made any case as to why customers should be denied this option.

Xbox Game Pass, done. Any time Apple bans someone from using a new technology, it harms the consumer and limits user choice.
That's a good point. I feel stupid for asking now :D
And if your iOS users actually pay it then you're a fool to not charge 30% more to your non-iOS users as well.
If Apple had confidence in the superiority of their service they would not be afraid of someone undercutting them.