skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
150 hours over how long time? Those who aren't "naturals" may need more than that to "get it" and start seeing benefits (coming from someone who after several attempts in various forms finally "broke through", in lack of better words, on day ~6 of a 10 day Goenka-Vipassana retreat. That'd be ~10 h / day during that time).

After that I was able to do 30-60 minute sittings at home and experience the associated change. If you're also a very cerebral person you may also need a similarly concentrated "boot camp" or similar to get to some base level.

In a similar vein, if someone has extremely weak physique, it's not really convincing when they claim that physical exercise doesn't work for them, as they did spend 150h at the gym machines ;)
I agree, but also include groups which make heavy use of the phrase "the woke." Tribalism in general can easily spiral into cultism.
The potency has also become quite outrageous.

As if drinking straight moonshine is somehow a better experience than a bottle of wine because the proof is higher.
This exactly.

The Stripe founders point to the fact that the HTTP protocol actually includes a status code for “payment required”. So the idea of micropayments actually belonged to the original conception of the internet.

It seems to me that is was is precisely because of the difficulty of receiving payment that we ended up with a few large players, and with advertising as the main vehicle for getting paid on the web - with all the consequences, including an unduly focus on short-term attention and clicks.
To hear Douglas Adams write about the RISC chip is kinda surreal.
Most of your comment is very poorly phrased.

> And I don’t feel shame, I feel responsibility.

This is spot on. There is nothing to feel ashamed or guilty.

If anything, people can feel GOOD about creating a world where people are judged for their actions rather than attributes they have no control over.
No, people that support the concept of being compensated in response to the value they bring, ie capitalism, are capitalists. Including most proletariats.
I thought folks often smoke marijuana to cope with nausea induced by chemo therapy. That might be part of the “crisis” aspect.
You can't open the conversation offering "the entire history of math since ancient times" and then demand thoroughly modern things like "an actual published result that was cited by other results" as counter-evidence.

Nonetheless many of the examples in the above links still fit your criteria.
> It quotes sources who have admitted to lie to advance their agenda.

I mean just where did they admitted it? I am asking in good faith.
I'm not sure. if I need it to survive? yeah, probably. I'm vegetarian but I'd kill animals if the alternative were starving. all the meds I take were tested on animals, some of them probably primates.

if there's an alternative that's a bit crappier but pretty usable? then I'd choose that.

if the alternative only lets me eke out a meager existence, dependent on help and unable to work? I'd probably still go with what works, even if it means animals were harmed. I dunno if that makes me a crappy person, but it's hard feeling this helpless.
We've got anti-AdBlock tech, mandatory tracking consent for site usage, and even mobile games with mandatory ads that don't progress if the device volume is too low. Many people on HN would even support the first two. I think the lack of existence of this tech is not due to ethics concerns, but due to it being noticeable in the TV return window, rather than patched in years later like many smart TV's most obnoxious ad slots.
I don't see the moral argument at this point though with fentanyl.

Nothing quite robs one of agency like death.

Before fentanyl, I don't think I would be for full legalization. At this point though non-legalization seems immoral.
> 6: Is your group suspicious about the outside world?

Why, yes; yes, we are. Whiff of nihilism in the air, and all.
As the web matures it is time now to abandon acronyms and most other forms of abbreviation, in my opinion. At best they confuse at least some people and at worst they are shibboleths. Little would be lost since those rare abbreviations which turn out to be genuinely useful and communicative will make it into the dictionaries regardless of what we do.
I think that crypto is still going through it's early stages. There are many problems to overcome, such as mining which wastes huge amounts of energy.

One problem I'm working to overcome is safety during buying and selling cryptocurrencies. It's very easy to make a mistake when buying/selling, especially for inexperienced users. Even experienced users also make mistakes. The answer is automated trading, which has more safety built-in. You can use it whether you want to invest over the long term or look for short term gains. https://tradecast.one
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I think the advertising industry is well on its way to obsolescence in many ways. I pay zero attention to TV or YouTube commercials (I either skip them or am not watching linear TV in most of the time), adblock everything, and just look for something more interesting the moment I come across an ad.

(and I seldom go back to anything, site, app or TV channel, that doesn't let me skip ads.)

Then again I'm not in the US and am not a football fan (which I suspect is one of the drivers behind the timing of this article), but I believe we now have, worldwide, two entire generations of people who mentally blank out any form of advertising they come across. It just doesn't register unless it's fun or goes viral, and even then people recognize it for the outright manipulation that it really is.

I can't wait for that bubble to burst.
Won't name the firm, but there was some brainwashing going on.
Exactly, this isn't really news to the media companies.
Sounds great. If you were my neighbor I’d like to look over your shoulder some time.

Any pointers to blogs posts or books or videos that give a walkthrough of a system like yours, to get some inspiration?
Monogomous doesn't mean anything in this context. It is possible to get it from non-sexual encounters - we've confirmed cases in virgins, after all [1] and if anyone has ever had other partners, they (or you!) have even more chance to have it as skin to skin contact will spread it (in other words, that condom won't stop it). Most people have had HPV at least once in their life. A lot of strains simply have no symptoms whatsoever, so folks don't even know they had it. Many cases simply clear up on their own after producing no symptoms. Some do cause warts and some hang around and cause cancer later in life, though.

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33101476/#:~:text=The%20hori....
what does it take to freeze stem cells ? I think a better business model would be to sell special freezers so anyone could preserve stem cells of his family members autonomously forever
Maybe people should stop using inflammatory and ambiguous words and actually bring up those points then. Taking shortcuts is not working and is just causing flamewars.
The problem with Douglas Adams is the beauty of the writing distracts
from the the real message. I barely noticed this was about
_advertising_ as most commentators here have picked up. To better
understand a piece like this, remember that Adams is working as a
professional writer and has to give his employer - a magazine here -
something they want. In this case the vehicle is a story about
magazines and how they are dysfunctional with respect to
advertising. The real writing, as is always the case with Adams, is at
a higher level, and is about how we stupidly build complexity,
obfuscation, indirection and side effects into technological life,
failing (or forgetting) to see the value of simpler and more humane
configurations.
I think Douglas Adams wrote about something very much like that, but I can't place it. Maybe it was Philip K. Dick?
Since when we started calling multidimensional arrays - tensors? I see it's shorter and sexier, but tensors, as I remember them from general relativity course, are something different.
The Flutter toolkit I'm working on, powered by the back-end (or front-end if you like the API): https://nexusdev.tools/
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But... but... wasn't all this web3 tech supposed to solve this?! I was promised non-fungible monkey jpgs! How could I have seen this coming?!
Can you elaborate on what you mean? This was very vague.
It is. However it's unbearably slow when generating previews for prototypes. XD and Sketch are great for quick prototyping and Figma for actually implementing a large scale design system.
It is horrible but definitely not exclusive to Sony.

Microsoft's Kinect, the always-on 3D camera/mic that could have been used to read people's facial expressions while watching ads. I'm glad it failed.

Google speakers which have a microphone array they use to measure the shape and size of your room. Definitely only for acoustic purposes of course...

And some people pay money for that, which makes me fear this might become standard in all kinds of devices. Those things aren't even that great in terms of features. In movies like "I, robot" the machine overlords were at least useful for cooking.
It’s not on a sci-hub, though
Man that sounded like a lots of work for watching YouTube.

I watch YouTube usually because I have something else to do, and I needed something to make a sound + be my timer. If an ad starts to play, it will not effect my main task. 5 or 10 seconds later the Skip button displays, I click/tap on it and continue my task, and the ad will be forgotten almost instantly.

I don't think those ad makers knows how ads actually work: you only have certain amount of seconds to convert a client. After that, the ad will be forgotten. People who interested in your product will sign on after few encounters with the ad. And for those who didn't sign on, they don't care and pushing more ads will simply annoy them and makes them hate your product.

For example, those 5 seconds TikTok ads are low quality and extremely annoying (, making me believe that ByteDance is using the strategy to downgrade the user experience of YouTube. Very clever indeed), I'll never sign on no matter how many times it plays.

For me personally, I like to take my time to read the detail about a product, those video ads just can't cut it. The text + picture based ads displayed by Reddit catches me better.
The other thing is that technical debt is not always bad. It's just another stat to manage along with budgets, ROI, available engineering time, customer engagement, etc. etc.

If you have a product that's nearing end of life and you can boost its value for another year with a quick hack, then do it. If there's a system that really needs refactoring and is getting harder to extend, but still works fine as it is, then you leave it alone. If things have gotten a little curly but are still serviceable, just roll with it. You don't just trash everything, obviously, but a year from now when you retire that codebase, any extra time spent on it now will be wasted.

In your new flagship product that you have no plans to replace for the next 5+ years, you take the extra time to keep everything nice. You re-engineer whatever needs re-engineering to add that feature like it was always meant to be there. You refactor the smelly bits of the code. You push back entropy to keep it shiny because it's likely to be worth it.
Blockchain is magic, didn't you know?
What does “fake” even mean in this context?

I can recognize your claim to the “original” digital image I right clicked and saved.

The version I’m selling isn’t that one, it’s this one. I’m not selling your copy. I’m selling my copy. Look - I even point to a different location on the blockchain where ownership will be recorded.

An alternative approach - I can right click, save, and then change the color of one pixel by 1%. That’s a different image! Is it also a fake?
Unlicense [0] is the "short and simple" counterpart to CC0. I like the idea of simple language licenses, too, but there are thought to be some issues with these [1].

[0]: https://unlicense.org/
[1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/147111/10551...
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Then there’s NDPSoftware’s Git Cheatsheet which is interactive.

Click or tap the backgrounds or the arrows.

https://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html#loc=local_repo;
Clearly there should be integration tests/automation that outputs asciinema examples?
I think this article addresses some legitimate concerns of Bitcoin and PoW, but fails to present a strong argument against cryptocurrency networks running on Proof of Stake.

Gini coefficient is a poor metric to describe distribution in a cryptocurrency network. A single user may utilize dozens of wallet addresses, with the majority of their value centralized on only one or two addresses. In some cases, users may deposit value into shared contracts (DAI, WETH, staking, liquidity pools, DAOs, etc), giving the impression that the token balances are unequally distributed across the network. The WETH contract address, for example, is holding $22B USD worth of tokens.

There are many current Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies that would be worth considering and analyzing: Tezos, Solana, Avalanche, Cosmos, Polkadot, Cardano, Celo, Mina.
> based on the rise in ampltitude

The apparent rise in amplitude is horribly annoying; but I understand that actually increasing the volume during ad-breaks is forbidden (at least in the UK). Instead, they tailor the audio spectrum to create psycho-acoustically the impression of increased loudness.

Automated ad-filtering on broadcast TV seems to be a hard problem. Some filters look for the channel logo screen at the start and end of the ad-break; but (a) you have to set up each channel; (b) "sponsors" now book slots at the start and end of the break, before and after the channel-logo screen.

The best solution I've found is to record anything I want to watch in advance; then to skip forward 5 minutes when the break starts, and FF/RW if I land in the wrong place. I'm a bit surprised that so many people seem to be buying big-screen TVs, but apparently not STBs with hard-disk recorders.
Star Citizen’s starting to come into focus, a decade into development – Polygon
Can GPT-3 AI write comedy?
"If OpenAI's code is conscious then it's definitely insane.."

As a kid, I spend some time in my aunt's house, close to psychiatric clinic. They have there a lot of "insane" people, most of them not dangerous at all, so, many could walk out, most ended talking with neighbors around the clinic.

This experience opened my mind about that what humans say aloud could be a thousand years aways from rational thinking, if self-consciusness could be scientifically defined I think you could diagnose many people as not self-conscious.

That said, what we currently can read written by NLP models looks for me a lot like the "psychiatric talking" I listened a lot time ago.

I always wondered if that people from the psychiatric clinic was really self-conscious, maybe they were "part-time self-conscious", and sometimes they just did "crazy talk", because they were not in "self-conscious mode".

Now I wonder if the advanced NLP models could have some conscious thing just popping up there in the words they push out of their internal stuff, in the flow of the equations running the calculations. Somewhere, currently out of reach of the state of the art science.
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There is a ream of "real" papers and studies linked here that I simply did not know existed (proof of work papers before Satoshi etc).

This is going to be a very dumb question but how does one catch up on the computer science academic literature ?
Oh, the creators did. The suckers who bought the NFTs didn't because they had sufficiently little understanding of the tech to fall for it.
Depends on country. As example Slovakian parliament: 6 of 11 parties are based around the single personality. With various degrees.
Where did you get 100 milliseconds? On your phone it should be closer to 1ms.
Who says it's not exactly as they wanted it to be.

It's about profit. Things like proof of ownership means more complexity and reduces profit.
Knowing one of these people, this is the first thing I thought of.
Yeah, I think we really should see difference sometimes between public and private companies. And on extension companies that aim to be public or sold like most VC backed startups.

The public aim to make as much money as possible or at least increase valuation. The private however can be content with making enough of it. Which can really change the long term plans.

Also being public company and not increase enough valuation always runs the risk of being acquired and someone else doing it.
For sync you can just leverage iCloud, for editing two macOS/iPadOS apps come to mind:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/darkroom-photo-video-editor/id...

https://apps.apple.com/app/pixelmator/id1444636541

Of course both don't have every Lightroom feature, but that might be a boon to many like me.
I suspect GP meant: increasing pool size is only prolonging the inevitable

I've also observed on other DBs that you can increase the connection pool but it shifts the problem to other resources.
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There used to be a DBLink data type containing both collection and id. But without any additional features using it.

It was considered bad practice and eventually got deprecated. Since 99% of the time the collection link in a given attribute is fixed and known in advance so it’s just duplicate information.
Easy: have you ever had a an epiphany how idiot you were and did not understand what all people told you for a long time? Then you realized something and everything just snapped into place. You now understand all. Paff! An axiom or condition was just changed in you by an experience. Suddenly you get now what others told you. Welcome to an other system of understanding.
Everyone always brings this patent up while forgetting that large companies will literally patent every single idea that comes up just in case. Doesn't mean it's ever going to actually happen. See also: Amazon's Wage Cage (though, looking at Amazon, they might actually do that one)
Given that caloric restriction makes chemo therapy more effective[1], I wonder whether the mechanism is as simple as people who smoke cannabis during treatment having more appetite, which lowers the effectiveness of the treatment.

[1]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0873-x
If you want to be on the far end of the speed/space trade off you could simply use a lookup table. That should speed things up considerably. You'd index it by byte (split the tables, save one shift left) and then recombine the results.
Many around the world. I think your comment speaks more to your lack of knowledge than the state of the world.
It seems to me that lowering the monthly cost is precisely what they'd prefer. 8 years later both parents are probably back to working full-time, and with promotions etc they will have better economies.

Why would a young not so well off family prefer to pay 35 dollars a month for eight years, to paying say 20 for 20 years?

I'm really confused by this because it seems that it would benefit both your customers, and you, since you could charge more overall while imposing a smaller burden. Plus it would sound cheaper.
BlockFI to settle $100M to the SEC, states
"This makes me wonder. Who is actually using Photoshop today and why?"

Photoshop has unrivalled features - not just photo editing, but also digital painting, animation and even limited video editing. At one time, Adobe even added 3D features to Photoshop (which they later removed). Photoshop also supports a massive market of third-party add-ons like plugins, brushes, scripts, effects, LUTs etc.

In a different comment, I mentioned that no other software can rival Photoshop in learning resources. So yes, Photoshop is a monster in features, bloat, in clunky UI - and still dominant in design and photography fields.
Yes, you can create a private password protected game and set all the rules. You will have a private leaderboard with everyone on your game.
Some opinions about good choices here, over a year of app development:

* Don't get confused by the myriads of state management solutions. Just use GetX, it's a sane solution that works as advertised.

* There were a couple of storage plugins like hive that claimed to be better because they be native to the platform and not SQL. As with all platforms, that's bull. SQLite is available, so use that.

* The routers are a clusterfuck, the recent addition of declarative routing by the flutter team was a step in the wrong direction. However, the go_router (in the list) that's based on that looks actually nice.

* Evade everything with code generation, it hinders a good development workflow and the related plugins for that regularly break. For JSON-serialization that's hard though, I make an exception here, since there are many DTOs to manage.

* Flutter theming is a mess. An example that says it all: If you set a colorScheme with a primaryColor, Theme.of(context).primaryColor is not automatically that color. The results of the new ColorScheme.fromSeed() were awful in my test. flex_color_scheme solves that. Be prepared for significant changes here when Material 3 gets fully introduced to Flutter (the recent release 2.10 started with that).

Some things to keep in mind despite plugins: Flutter is not ready for the web (and the sites it would produce are JS abominations, so it will never be suited for the web if the approach does not change) and while the framework seems more stable than native app development, there are still breaking changes, both in the core and even more so in the plugin ecosystem. Selecting plugins based on a good stability is hard (as it's not obvious), but worthwhile.

Despite its shortcomings and Google connection Flutter is really nice to build iOS and Android apps with one code base, and I'd prefer it even for just an Android app by now.
and the content is fit for this purpose
Loving Flutter to bits. It's been such a tremendous help publishing a fast, reliable and good looking app cross platform. It can't really be compared to anything else. The regular updates are awesome as well. There is always performance improvements and other things to look forward to.

Keep going!
I disagree. It's highly subjective but I think Prisoners is much better than Sicario. Enemy is very good, too, and I'd probably rate it his second best. I still haven't seen the Dune remake, however.
I love Photoshop. Their hotkeys are a muscle memory in my brain for 10+ years.

I hate CreativeCloud. It eats resources and I found gigabytes of random trash logs it writes.

I wish I could download and use Photoshop on its own.

When I get a new laptop, I won’t install CreativeCloud.

Has anyone got recommendations for photoshop alternatives? For graphic/web design only stuff, editing, cropping, adjusting pixels and stuff like that.