skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's ethically wrong to financially hurt our elderly.

Why would it be more wrong to hurt the elderly than the young? The elderly are far wealthier
> most successful European entrepreneurs will just end up starting companies in the US instead.

And then they will not be able to serve the european market, nor profit off the european economy. Good luck competing with each other for that US market.
They want people to put effort in, however irrelevant the form of effort is to the job.

Platforms with one click apply like LinkedIn flood companies with irrelevant CVs.
As a night owl and an introvert, there's this perverse feedback loop where I'm incentivized to be underslept before an important presentation, because the slight good humor / mania / heightened senses (and, I would add, a mild numbness to peoples' judgments about me) help me do a better job of the presentation.

Of course, I'm not advocating that people be totally loopy! But there's a weird Ballmer peak-esque [1] effect.

[1] https://xkcd.com/323/
> I have been able to find exactly one pre-registered experiment of the impact of prolonged sleep deprivation on cognition. It was published by economists from Harvard and MIT in 2020 and its pre-registered analysis found null effects of sleep on all variables of interest Bessone P, Rao G, Schilbach F, Schofield H, Toma M. The economic consequences of increasing sleep among the urban poor. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2021 Aug;136(3):1887-941.(the authors changed analysis post-hoc and fished out some significant effects. Notably, they put the post-hoc results into the abstract but decided not to mention the null-preregistered results there or anywhere else in the paper explicitly ).

This is the highest quality of research from the most fancied universities, and it was pre-registered (the gold standard of oversight). And even they were dishonest with the results. For me, personally, this single paragraph is enough to shut the door on all (all) psychology research.
Hauling / towing heavy / bulky shit.

Every now and then their 5' 100lb wife will use that truck to go for groceries and then you'll see them there, because you have no life in the real world, and you'll judge them based on that single interaction alone.

Meanwhile, the next day, her hubby and the family will tow an 8000lb boat to enjoy the lake, and heck they can even stop at the hardware store pick up a couple 1000lb of concrete / 2x4 for their home improvement projects.

I've personally saved a few grands this year in various fees alone by being able to haul shit and do DIY home improvements.

But sure, that's only for social grand-standing...
Interview: Austin Next with Jason and Michael Scharf
And yet, no animal except humans is self aware. Really makes you wonder why that is.
Let's add more nodes so we can overfit even better!
> As far as "is the stock fairly priced" - it is only 5% of the market cap of Facebook.

Twitter looks under-priced if you count its recent acquisitions from Quill, Sphere, Revue and it's intention to focus on the so-called 'web3'. Lots of ways to grow in those areas if they are smart enough.
Your argument depends on a flawed and deterministic outlook of human improvement. Your premise that there is a mandate of responsibility to "better" other human beings is the justification of the philosopher-king dictatorship. It eerily resembles the argument made by Soviet Russia for push towards homo sovieticus. There is no such thing an inherent responsibility towards bettering others. Responsibilities are instruments, not ends in and of themselves. If wanting to "ascend" to being a greater individual is the choice of said of the individual, he should every right to, crab bucket be dammed.
In what way is a French resident protected if their data is stored on a server in France but can be federated to other countries?
https://archive.fo/8K6XB
Well said- it's as much or more to try to provide minimum reasoning to allow a party to bring them to court as influence proceedings in court. But the lack of statements made after termination is undeniably helpful to parties with this kind of MO if things end up there.
And then they find all the porn and it starts to make sense.
> However this was struck down by US courts and that is what leaves us with this mess.

According to Wikipedia, it was struck down by the CJEU, not by a US court:

"The EU-US Privacy Shield for data sharing was struck down by the European Court of Justice on the grounds it did not provide adequate protections to EU citizens on government snooping."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield#L...
I would add medical debt, student loans, credit card debt.
Do you have a link or can you suggest search terms for an example? I can't imagine that being useful, as you have to wrap around at some point anyway.
Been contributing to different DAOs and this looks really interesting!
Do not spend time reading it. From the article:

"I have no trust in sleep scientists

Why do I bother with all of this theorizing? Why do I think I can discover something about sleep that thousands of them couldn’t discover over many decades?

The reason is that I have approximately 0 trust in the integrity of the field of sleep science."

By the way, he criticizes the book: "Why we sleep". Sure the book exaggerates, but it shouldn't be completely disqualified. BTW, if you like this book, you will probably like Oracle of the Night: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/07/the-oracle-of-...
> I’ve split the specular and diffuse components with polarization so the diffuse is on the left and the specular is on the right.

Does this mean the author took two pictures: one with a polarization lens, and a second with the same polarization lens rotated 90 degrees?

I'm vaguely interested in what's going on here. For others who are interested, I think this reddit post has some technical details which relate to the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/comments/mfle5u/how_...
I'm not always a fan of Apple's decisions, but short of pulling AirTags off the shelves and scrapping the product entirely, they've gone far beyond any of their competition (Tile) with this stuff.

Ultimately, maybe we're better off just losing things sometimes.
In what way are they a dividend stock?

They don't pay dividends and despite share buyback stock is down since IPO
The end of natural gas has to start with its name
Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio]
Snapchat is all ads for me. I have no idea what any of the buttons do except there is a 50% chance of seeing an ad with women in bikinis.
Thank you, that’s an excellent article!
The query language reminds me a lot of JPA, which makes sense because this is essentially an ORM layer on top of Postgres.
Youth don't have as much (or any) savings to lose and can switch jobs / demand a raise to make a higher wage. Anything they do have saved is probably invested and increasing in value along with inflation.

Elderly just have less money to eke a living on, and can no longer get a job (most likely).

Everyone gets hurt by inflation (well, maybe not if you have a ton of debt), but the elderly are stuck and can't do anything about it.
Reading sovereign individual right now. This is what they are predicting. Pretty cool.
It’s more about growth. Twitter isn’t growing as it should be.

If they were able to show strong user growth, revenue would follow as would the stock price. There are folks who love twitter, and those who prefer images. The larger segment is those who prefer images.
Looks great. Will try this out!

Would a graphql API be part of your roadmap?
NT 4.0 was "widely popular" when it came out. Consumer PCs didn't run it, so it's forgotten history. Anyway the question was whether NT ran on big-endian architectures, which I answered. I have nothing to say about how popular those ports were, only that they were easily technically achievable for the NT OS.
I get an alert every time I ride my wife’s bicycle. It would be nice to be able to mark her tags as ok to be near me.
They have ads but not even nearly is the tech on par with Facebook or Google.
Difficult to understand how they are doing so poor when the media and politicians are the ones holding this simple platform on float like a baby.
Prior to now-ish, we didn't have a bunch of companies working on a single browser, we had a bunch of companies making a bunch of browsers. With a core open source browser that everyone steals from and adds their own flare to, I'm way more open to that. That is the best of all possible worlds, IMHO.
"We plan to update our unwanted tracking alert system to notify users earlier that an unknown AirTag or Find My network accessory may be traveling with them."

How does this work if one doesn't own an iPhone?
Writing free software is like painting. You should do it if you feel like it, or if you, yourself, get something out of it. The moment you start to feel that you are owed something is the moment that you should stop doing it, because what you do from then on is probably not going to be any good.

By all means, do try to aim for the greatest good that your software can create, by making good software, good documentation, a nice community, an AGPLv3 licence, etc. But never feel like you deserve anything, that the world somehow ought to pay you back. It might or it might not, whatever happens happens. The world is not just, and to assume it will be just is setting yourself up for inevitable disappointment.
I don't buy that.

If you squint a bit, Lua and Javascript are basically the same language. Lua shares many of javascript's peculiarities and warts (strings you can do arithmetic on, all numbers are doubles (originally), arrays are objects are hashtables of sorts, global scope by default etc). Now it's of course true that Lua is less of a mess than javascript, but a) the complexity explosion of javascript postdates V8 quite a bit b) lua has plenty of optimization challenges of its own that javascript lacks (e.g. metatables) c) the relative amount of resources poured into both projects differ by orders of magnitude (3?). I'm pretty doubtful anyone tasked to build the fastest JIT in the world from scratch upon being offered a choice between targetting lua (with luajit's total budget) and javascript (with v8's total budget) would pick lua.
With zkrollups, you get an on-chain proof that the off-chain infrastructure did everything correctly. A contract can even verify that proof before updating the data on chain.
If they always said Associate then that might be perfectly fine. Changing periods roles in their last pay period isn’t simply referring to everyone as an employee.
If a business pays taxes, and the laws don't take their needs into account to some extent, that's not justice. It's just mob protection with a veneer of legitimacy.

Lots of loaded assumptions there, of course, starting with the first conditional clause.
GraphQL is already supported: https://www.edgedb.com/docs/graphql/index
I tend to not fill out these forms because I have a resume, and then I get rejected without an interview for jobs I am almost literally verbatim a match for.

Do recruiters even read resumes anymore? I am genuinely not sure at this point.
Obviously a personal subject, as you have to figure out what you value in your life.

But for me the answer is, and I think always will be: absolutely yes! I flunked at school early, never paid any attention and was only drawn to computer stuff, even though that was before it was mainstream. I found programming, and learned programming thanks to public knowledge posted on the internet, people sharing information via IRC channels and reading through open source code. I don't think I would ever become a real programmer unless it was for open source code and general openness of the internet at the time.

Now I live a comfy life beyond what I imagined at the time, when I was just programming for fun. So now I can give back and give others the opportunity I had, by doing the same activities and helping others to learn more on their journey.

I couldn't ignore the shoulders I stand on and not offer my own shoulders to others. A life without contributing back patches to libraries I depend on is not a life worth living.

For me.

> Since companies steal Open Source software without a care in the world, what’s to stop companies from stealing Rig and embedding it into their proprietary software?

I don't understand this viewpoint. How can a company "steal" open source software? The license you have given the project is to allow anyone to access/modify/use the software in any way they want, so it can't be stealing at that point. That sounds like you want to write software that is not open source, which is fine as well, but has nothing to do with open source software really.
https://old.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/comments/mfle5u/how_...
The word you're looking for is "paranoid", not cynical I think.

Reasonably, to drop CO2 emissions by 5% each year, ie. to have a change of keeping climate drift below 2°C avg, these reactors won't even be enough for French energy needs...
Most of the newer research on this topic suggests that it's neural connection complexity, and specifically frontal lobe volume, rather than overall brain size that determines intelligence or brain power.

https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/ask-neuroscientist-do...

>Luckily, there is much more to a brain when you look at it under a microscope, and most neuroscientists now believe that the complexity of cellular and molecular organization of neural connections, or synapses, is what truly determines a brain’s computational capacity. This view is supported by findings that intelligence is more correlated with frontal lobe volume and volume of gray matter, which is dense in neural cell bodies and synapses, than sheer brain size. Other research comparing proteins at synapses between different species suggests that what makes up synapses at the molecular level has had a huge impact on intelligence throughout evolutionary history. So, although having a big brain is somewhat predictive of having big smarts, intelligence probably depends much more on how efficiently different parts of your brain communicate with each other.

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I thought about that as well. I imagine, that it could also be used as data to render a Pandoc template and have a nice looking document fall out at the end, if anyone wants one. Problem is, that I am too lazy to start creating one such template. But one day ...
I'd be curious if the author uses ad-blocker
Solving a classic Legend of Zelda puzzle using Python
Hi HN,
I've been working on this website for far too long. There's still a long way to go, but I think it's at the MVP stage. It can be used to share contact data and have 1-1 chats. I'll be posting more blogs on the privacy model and technical details, but for now I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you
CloudCannon releases support for live editing in Hugo with Bookshop
I agree that it's very easy to tell between the students of a great teacher and a bad teacher. I've found that the best teachers are ones that came from industry, they did their work, and then went into teaching.
That's why my school's engineering department is great, as is one of the physics teachers who sadly only teaches me once every 2 weeks.
Please add webhooks for ZeroTier network endpoints coming online or going offline! I think some existing formal feature requests for this already exist?

Absolutely love ZeroTier!
I've long thought that schools should just let people go at whatever pace they want.

Great for high achieving, high conscientiousness kids, but it isn't going to work for a lot of kids, especially those without academic support at home. The last two years have been an approximate experiment in this; in the sense that kids who didn't want to participate had an easy out. What we saw is the bottom fall out.
> I realized just how disconnected JavaScript developers—yes, the "big boys" are especially off in CS la-la land—were from web development fundamentals. HTTP distilled down to its absolute essence is brilliant, but for some reason gets absolutely ignored in the JS world.

Can you please elaborate what these areas of disconnect are? I looked at Joystick documentation hoping to find more of your thoughts this topic, but could not.
Let’s see how hard it is to neuter the sound generation within the AirTag itself. If it’s silent itself, an Android or no-device trackee is vulnerable.

There is not much tech that lacks unpreventable malicious use. Needs to be expected for pretty much anything.
Ethereum actually has almost no client diversity. The vast majority of nodes run the geth client (go).

Regarding the security aspects of L2s: they will of course not be anywhere near as robust as ethereum itself, but over time they’ll get better. However, they also don’t need to be as robust as ethereum given they effectively benchmark against the ethereum chain so while things could go wrong, the amount of damage will be very contained and as the ethereum mainchain scales the damage radius becomes ever more contained. Finally the bridges that are being implemented to move assets from ethereum to the L2s can implement emergency withdrawal mechanisms which allow users to get their assets out even if things go wrong.

Not perfect, but the tradeoff seems reasonable to me given the performance enhancement and the diversity of functionality that can be offered via many different environments.

Disclaimer: I’m quite possibly biased due to my company working on L2s.
It's not a strawman, it was the company I worked for.

We helped manufacture medical devices. We sold a device that took medical images, and then sent the images to a server. The server would do tons of processing on the images, and help manufacture a medical device custom to the patient.

We ran our servers in the United States.

We could not sell our product in France, until we stood up servers in France to store and process the data.

Why would we do such a thing? To provide excellent healthcare to people. Even ungrateful French people. Our product was lower cost and higher quality than our competitors, with better patient outcomes.

What monsters we were for running our servers in the U.S., right?
Back when I learned Ada it didn’t have a solution for use-after-free, does DbC fix that by expressing ownership and sharing?
No, I absolutely did not suggest that. What I suggested is that the creator’s monopoly on distribution is inherent concentration of power and thus you don’t solve problems with concentrations of power if you force Apple to allow sideloading on iPhones.
At 3.5 years since release, my brother's Note 10 was just upgraded to Android 11 - a major upgrade which will extend the life of the phone also quite literally thanks to Lenovo style charging limits.

The Note 10 was released in August 2019. By Apple standards getting a major OS upgrade at this point is nothing exceptional however in the Android world it's a stand out - and is also proof of Samsung's claim.

(Lenovo let me limit the max charge % many a year ago on my X1 Carbon, I've been wondering why phone manufacturers have lagged behind on this. Here is locked to 85% vs Lenovo's more flexible configuration).
FWIW they are still a thing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=instant+camera&ia=shopping&iax=sho...

My subjective, anecdotal sense of trends is that instant cameras were big in the 80s, faded in the 90s, and made a small (but sustained) comeback in the mid-2010s.
that is simply incorrect bonobos, orcas, elephants, dolphins, chimpanzees, etc have all shown degrees of self awareness.
Have you ever thought about making fresnel lenses out of rippling fluid? Like, sound in water or whatever. Making fine ripple pattern for lens or diff grate.

It would be kinda programmable too.
I'm sure they're frustrated that people keep using AirTags as tracking devices rather than local thing-finders, but I think there are good reasons for that.

Local trackers have been around for a long time. I had a "TV remote finder" years ago that you'd stick to a TV remote (or keys), and it would beep when activated by a second device. More recently, Tiles work pretty well, assuming you don't need direction finding. Personally I don't regularly lose anything large enough to benefit from an AirTag. I need it for things like individual AirPods.

But a small device with a worldwide range and no subscription fee that I can attach to a car or suitcase? That's a novel capability. I have one in both cars and my electric skateboard.
But there's around 10 billion people on the planet, you can always find some unusual person to make a point.

In this case, though, she might agree with me, I'd say -- in that she spends part of her time reading and constructing things, from the article you linked: "reading and construction".

Modern tech? I think there's lots of cool not-modern tech, ancient tech.

Edit: She's an amazingly cool person! Thanks for linking the article, I might have a closer look at her & her life (now done. I wonder how many books she has to read, and after how long she's forgotten them so she can re-read)

Edit2: Sorry if my first version of this post sounded a bit grumpy. Now edited
So every US company needs to have a separate, non-controlled, entity in the EU? Seems pretty unrealistic to me.

In this scenario, I feel like the US company would be better off blocking traffic from the EU.
Steel man argument for the opposing position:

At a certain point, no matter how well paid, you're going to want your future employee to do something that seems pointlessly redundant to them, and to do it as conscientiously as possible in spite of not knowing the importance of the task you want them to do.

Might as well get that test out of the way as soon as possible, with their own document that they can supply to cross-validate it, right?

/steel man argument

Is this actually good? Are you going to needlessly turn away really smart people who should be objecting to seemingly pointless tasks? Should really good employees object outright to doing things they think are a waste of time? Maybe they should? Or maybe they should acquiesce after a bit of pushback even if they don't understand it?

Maybe this is an adequate speed-bump for applicants - if simply accepting resumes means that you get a much greater percentage of unqualified applications, perhaps it's worth it to select for those willing to tolerate the exercise?
I wonder if Jack's new company will see a similar stagnation. Square is getting beat by Clover while the CEO is focused on blockchain.
Then we better hope it becomes oversold at $19, since when that happens it becomes a very strong buy signal.
There is an Android app which allows Android users to see the same notifications.
Cross Polarised Scanning on a Shoe String Budget (2017)
> In an upcoming software update, every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message that clearly states that AirTag is meant to track their own belongings, that using AirTag to track people without consent is a crime in many regions around the world

That really should do it. I mean, in the unlikely event that a message to first time users doesn't solve the problem of people being stalked using AirTags, go ahead and keep working on the other updates. Belt and suspenders. But my guess is, it won't be necessary.

They should consider adding a message for iPhone users to tell their friends with Android phones that they "should be really careful not to get tracked by AirTags, because there's no way they'd know about it".

/s
Do the UK bus companies provide an effective alternative to rail? I can't imagine paying these prices on a regular basis.