skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Emotional states can very obviously cause physical changes - it’s why people blush for just one example. Or why people get sick to their stomach when they’re in anxious.

It might seem obvious, but it's not obvious that the causation doesn't go the other way instead - the physical changes cause the emotional states.

This is the James-Lange theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Lange_theory

"while most would think the order of emotional experience would be that a person sees a bear, becomes afraid, and runs away, James thought that first the person has a physiological response to the bear, such as trembling, and then becomes afraid and runs. According to James, the physiological response comes first, and it is perceived as an emotion and followed by a reaction."

If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its characteristic bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff" out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains. ...What kind of an emotion of fear would be left, if the feelings neither of quickened heart-beats nor of shallow breathing, neither of trembling lips nor of weakened limbs, neither of goose-flesh nor of visceral stirrings, were present, it is quite impossible to think. Can one fancy the state of rage and picture no ebullition of it in the chest, no flushing of the face, no dilatation of the nostrils, no clenching of the teeth, no impulse to vigorous action, but in their stead limp muscles, calm breathing, and a placid face? The present writer, for one, certainly cannot. The rage is as completely evaporated as the sensation of its so-called manifestations. - William James, What is an Emotion?, 1884

https://emotion.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1353/2020/...
Good question. I think it would on the motivation of the wearer.

If if they are wearing it primarily as a method of socially fitting in and signaling to those around them then it might be "virtue signaling".

If they would continue to wear a poppy on remembrance day in contexts where the people around them did not know what it meant then there's clearly something more than signaling going on. Perhaps it is their tradition, or it helps them remember.

(I should caveat that I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with social signaling so I don't use the term "virtue signaling" as it seems to have a pejorative or sarcastic connotation.)
My favorite sound effect is in Monty Python movies whenever they have a knight in shining armor falling down the stairs. The sound effect is that of a galvanized garbage can filled with junk banging down a staircase. Makes me laugh every time.
The product is really called drop source? That sounds like something Little Bobby Tables would type maliciously. In this case though, it is doing what it says on the tin.
The eastside freeway in Atlanta doesn't exist because NIMBYs opposed it for years and the final stake through the heart of the project was when Jimmy Carter selected a site for his presidential library right in the middle of path the freeway was to take. Instead Atlanta got Freedom Parkway (most famous as the cover image for 'The Walking Dead'), a much lower capacity, much less useful road but also one that didn't destroy the surrounding neighborhoods like the Downtown Connector did with African-American neighborhoods such as Buttermilk Bottom.

NIMBYism stops many useful projects but it also protects a lot worth saving.
Democracy is far from the surest way to safeguard human rights. It's just a game of definitions that whenever a democracy commits atrocities, it retroactively stops being a democracy, even when the people are on board with it.
I always find that argument hilarious because the USPS was required to actually have conservative, healthy funding for their pensions - something no other state or federal agency does! And this is supposedly a bad thing! Just look at Chicago for an example of unfunded pension liabilities - a ticking time bomb.
No more mr nice guy.

The power of your subconscious mind.
I'm by no means down the rabbit hole if by that you mean a blind adherent. I find the philosophy interesting in and of itself but the people aren't any more than people being people, for better or worse.
Which, incidentally, is also something electric motors are far superior at (flat curve...).
Standing with Ukraine: A Message from the CEO
I completely disagree. I think it was pretty different compared to typical Zimmer soundtrack; it felt very alien and didn’t lean on an orchestra as much. For me, the soundtrack was an important part of why the movie was so engrossing in a theatre. Many of the people I know (subjectively) felt that the music was pretty unique and non-stereotypical. I mean, compare any of the top blockbusters and the soundtracks are all going to be pretty similar — Dune is an outlier, at least compared to that!
See:

> Ever since I saw Dune (2021) I was interested in the conlangs spoken in the film, including Sardaukar. Cue my surprise however finding out that Sardaukar is not actually a conlang - David J. Peterson (the creator of conlangs in Dune as well as Dothraki and High Valyrian in GoT) said that it was actually just English, but warped and modified by the sound team.

* https://nihilinpeccato.tumblr.com/post/667497212569354240/th...

Peterson has some tweets on Dune, e.g.:

* https://twitter.com/dedalvs/status/1452724546369253376
Victoria Nuland said:

> Ukraine has biological research facilities

and:

> we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach

If nothing dangerous is being done there, who cares if the Russians get a hold of them? I'm asking in good faith, because her attitude suggests these aren't just run of the mill labs.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has...
Hey man, people eat placenta.
You don't get to simply say no to eminent domain in any functioning country in the world, and neither should you be able to. I don't see the problem as long as you are properly compensated.
> What I don't understand is letting them into your home.

Then of course you wouldn't do it, and nobody is saying you should. But other people who have their dogs in their homes understand it just fine. Live and let live.
Most Popular Dog Breeds of 2021
Here’s the presentation in video form with a bit more context & detail.

https://youtu.be/-O01G3tSYpU
> Tons of effort to keep that from happening, and to have a pet that doesn’t destroy your home?

It's their home too.

OP's situation was a rescue dog from a likely abusive previous home. There are often pets available for people who are not able to handle that situation; My dog peed on the rug occasionally for about 3 weeks, and pooped indoors twice, and it's not happened again in 3 years. To pull the "children" card, children make huge messes, cannot be unattended or unsupervised for years, destroy homes, and yet that's not seen as "burdensome"
“ bosons, quarks and leptons – with their charges and properties make up everything.”

The empty space between the bosons, quarks and leptons is not made up of any of these particles, yet the space ‘exists’ - without it, everything in the universe would just be a big clump.
I agree with most points in the blog except for the last point which struck me as a bit of misinformation itself.

> P.S. Yet another form of misinformation is political lies of the sort that we’ve been seeing most notoriously from Russian propaganda lately.

Considering that most russian media is banned/censored in the west, it's highly unlikely that we are seeing much russian propaganda. Instead, the political misinformation we've been seeing are western propaganda. Across all social media and all news platforms, it's been 24/7 western propaganda. Even here, we've had daily western propaganda. I don't remember a single russian propaganda post hitting the frontpage.

I don't think anyone can seriously claim the political misinformation we are experience are russian propaganda. It's most definitely anti-russian western propaganda. If I'm wrong, I'd love to see examples of social media or news stations/papers/etc that are running russian propaganda. Obviously russians in russia are being bombarded with russian propaganda. I doubt anyone in NY or columbia is.
There is a flipside to this: e.g. GLIBC will switch to an arbitrary precision internal implementation for some operations that would otherwise lose a little precision and as a result run 1000x slower on some inputs.

Not a good thing when you're attempting to do realtime signal processing.
They want to be able to choke people to death and make it illegal for you to film that is essentially what this bill amounts to. Nice going Arizona.
Ethics question: if those people could lead an otherwise happy and normal life not viewing themselves as some kind of an experiment wouldn’t it be immoral for someone to take that away from them?
Raspian, RaspberryPi OS, Ubuntu etc are all known as derivatives of Debian, since they are directly or indirectly derived from Debian.

https://www.debian.org/derivatives/
https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives
Thoughts:

* The best single indicator of whether the photo was taken in the US/Canada/Germany or elsewhere is whether there is a disk drive next to the computer. Disk drive? Almost certainly US/Canada/Germany. Datasette with no disk drive? Likely somewhere else.

* The person with his feet up on the desk in photo 12 is watching TV. The Commodore 1701/1702 monitor is still prized today because of its excellent picture quality, including chroma/luma input from a Commodore 64 or 128. The box on the monitor that resembles a PCjr is a TV tuner box.

* Photo 9 shows a Commodore 1571 drive, designed for the Commodore 128, with the 64. When used with the 64 the 1571 is no faster than the 1541, but at least is not susceptible to the latter's head-knocking and inevitable alignment issues.

* Conversely, as discussed elsewhere, photo 15 shows a 128 being used with the Commodore 1541 drive. The 1541 is fully compatible with the 128 in 64 mode, but in 128 mode isn't compatible with the latter's burst mode or double-sided disks.
The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti, with a forward by Aldous Huxley.

I read it while living in California, during a trying time after deciding to move far away from my parents, and it helped me see all of life in a calm new light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom
Conway's "law" is such a cop-out excuse for shipping shitty software... There's no such law of nature that says you must ship shitty software. Enterprises ship shitty software because the average tenure of their developers is 2 years, and they have no incentive to improve things beyond what's necessary to pay the bills.
A couple of small and simple iOS apps after being frustrated with more enterprise based solutions.

Thiro [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thiro/id1555982483] a basic time tracker that does grouping and reports right. The only thing it lacks is billable hours.

Emerald
[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emerald-money-journal/id143705...]
A super simple expense tracker that does most things right, but unfortunately has a few bugs. It’s the only one I could find available that is privacy friendly and doesn’t have bloat.

Both of those apps are made by indie devs and have no subscriptions.

In addition, I am trying out timeator[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timemator-time-tracking/id1458...]
which has the right idea for how I want revenue and time tracking to be integrated.
Cracking the Code of Kyoto Colloquialisms
Issue being we don't know if it's information
Please spare us from truth-seeking and leave that to the philosophers.

In science/engineering we care about instrumentalism, not truth.

All models are wrong. Some are useful.
The remark about cryptographic authentication in probe packets is the key. The attacker mustn't know what your packets say, or be able to fabricate or (important!) save and re-use what it has seen before.

It involves lots of public-key encrypted random numbers carried in the probe packets. You discard packets that don't match your expectations, and you are safe(ish). If you have to avoid too much public-key encryption and decryption because your cores are slow, it gets more complicated, like establishing beach-heads and using symmetric encryption and, still, random numbers between those while establishing the next level up. But cores are usually fast enough nowadays, even on cheap routers and IOT SOCs.
*pneumothorax
I bought elden ring and I’m not used to open world games and have found I'm not a fan. I’ve been grinding and have made no progress and am about to give up.
> As a researcher, I like their non-hype way of defining AI as "programmed ability", which is accurate and realistic

This is the first point of advice in the Heilmeier Catechism

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism
A Crash Course in the Fundamentals of Audio (2010)
As a thought experiment, how would this be handled in America?

There would be a lawsuit. And probably a settlement.

Beyond that, there wouldn’t be any effort to track these kids across their lives.

And medical privacy would prevent any sort of public inquiry.

Best case scenario would be a large lump sum payment to a committee of lawyers charged with monitoring the well being of the children.

I don’t think charging the individuals and institutions that let this happen with “making it right” is a good idea.

This crazy doctor should never be allowed to see these parents and kids again.
If the topic belonged to a certain category (see below), many people would consider that to "be" an instance of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

>> In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. The concept is named for ultrasonic dog whistles used in shepherding, which are audible to dogs but not humans. Dog whistles use language that appears normal to the majority but communicates specific things to intended audiences. They are generally used to convey messages on issues likely to provoke controversy without attracting negative attention. One example may be the use of the phrase family values in the United States to signal to Christians that a candidate would support policies promoting Christian values without alienating non-Christian supporters.[1] Another may be the use of the phrase "international bankers" to signal to racists that a candidate is antisemitic without alienating non-racist supporters.[2]

However, since this story is a different topic, it "is" not an example of dog whistling.

We are swimming in a sea of patterns at all times, but unfortunately we often cannot see the ones that are there - but luckily(?), this is compensated for by often seeing ones that are not there!

"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"

- Frank Herbert
It’s more likely someone will accept them and that some exchanges will still accept them. What you’re suggesting requires perfect and total global coordination.

With fiat in a bank, you don’t have a chance since it just gets frozen and you don’t actually have custody. With crypto it’s more likely you can continue to transact.

It’s a matter of degree.
> I hope it didn't cause serious damage to those kids.

Me as well, but I also hope this doesn't turn out like the plot of Legend.
>n a windows/linux/notApple ecosystem, you've got to give permission to an application to fully control other devices...that's...not a good idea, from a security standpoint.

Apple should provide safe defaults - but ultimately the user should be making that decision. Its entirely possible to do this safely, Apple simply chooses not to and pretends its something to do with security.

> But apple has spent a lot of time building a reputation where they can be trusted to do so()

Regardless of whatever "reputation" they've built, Apple products are riddled with bugs and security problems. As a technical user, I never think "security" when I think Apple. I guess for most people security is something that is easily marketed.
You could be correct, of course. Your viewpoint is basically the same one that Descartes argued for 400 odd years ago.

Or it could be that you personally can't empathize with dogs or other animals, so you think they have no feelings. (IIRC some people made that criticism of Descartes.)

The major difference with humans as compared to other animals is that we can use language, which means we can describe what we are thinking and feeling in elaborate detail. But that does not mean animals who can't use language must necessarily have no feelings at all, just because they can't describe them verbally.

The way to investigate this question is not by dogmatic pronouncements but by looking at evidence. People who spend a lot of time with animals use much the same nonverbal cues to read their emotions as we all do with other humans. Since in both cases predicting behavior based on those cues works reasonably well, it is reasonable to conclude that the underlying causes inside the animal or the person are at least somewhat similar.
> like loss of federal funding disincentivizing such bullshit.

What if the Feds want a similar law?
Further down it mentions that “20 or so” people submit 85% of complaints
What I'm saying is that the "recipe" part of a recipe website is a commodity – there is no "authoritative" source for a given recipe, unless that recipe is too niche in appeal to end up widely disseminated. This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsNLzyqqINw) has a pretty good coverage of the topic.

Compare and contrast: phone-number directory listings. Who should Google cite as the authoritative source for lists of name-to-phone number associations? Nobody. All the lists are copying from each-other, curating and correcting the data taken from one-another, gathering their own original data for additions, and everything in between. Every portal overlaps every other portal, but mostly has the same stuff.

Compare and contrast, in the physical world: printings of public-domain literature. If Google indexed bookstores, which printing by which publisher would you want them to rank first on a search for e.g. Pride and Prejudice?
If America cannot continue to evolve, improve, and adapt, then its prosperity and leadership role will fade away. It doesn't matter how great our ideology or political systems are (or we think they are). It doesn't even really matter how many advanced weapons we have. You can't fight the whole world forever.

I guess people would literally rather take the chance of America falling apart or the earth melting than let someone build a subway or new building near them.
Looks like they pulled down the listing this afternoon. Does anyone on this thread have a screenshot of it?
It's not even the best soundtrack to a Dune movie. By a long way.
This is one of my favorite little videos to illustrate the dichotomy - https://i.imgur.com/o7lI08Y.gifv

For all of our mastery of information processing, our ability to fabricate and motivate fine differentiated structures is really quite incredibly poor relative to biology. The little beetle is basically alien technology relative to the toy. But add in the fact that it can feed itself, repair itself and reproduce itself with a system that can scale 3-5 orders of magnitude up and down based on need is pretty mindblowing.

The mRNA vaccines might be one of the first times where we've leveraged biology to directly fabricate a discrete part with desired properties. Certainly in raw tonnage of output I can't think of anything that comes close. I feel like this is only going to advance with time, to the point where we may be growing robots instead of milling and printing them.
Tell HN: Stable Kernel Updates
Stable kernel updates - [Kernel] Posted Mar 19, 2022 17:11 UTC (Sat) by corbet

The 5.16.16, 5.15.30, 5.10.107, and 5.4.186 stable kernel updates have been released;

each contains another set of important fixes.
I remember Coffeezilla did a video about that article

The Untold Truth of Napoleon Hill - History's Most Beloved Con-Man

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDzb9ZplX0
They are making it complicated so people will be afraid to record. The language of the law doesn't matter. It's an attempt to create a chilling affect so they can beat and choke people to death without the public recording it because they'll be afraid of going to jail for that recording. This is a direct reaction to George Floyd and police thinking they shouldn't be held accountable for such things and Republicans kowtowing to the Police Unions.
Do we have any clue what, if anything, Martin contributed? Because I’ve played every From Software game and Elden Ring just feels exactly right for a Miyazaki game. Is Martin’s name just along for the ride?
Working in gamedev the audio team would always share how they did certain sounds on the condition that you never mentioned how outside of the room.

There's nothing more infuriating for the audio team then someone pointing out how an audio was made in a demo only to then have to redo a track because that's all key people can think of when they hear it.
These are the types of jobs that should have a term limit. They are easy, are boring, but they require a high level of caution because of their ability to cause harm. Boring jobs just suck your ability to be alert since the same thing happens over and over without incident. I suspect that this lady had been doing this job for so long that by default she thought that nothing bad could ever happen.
I bet someone with a few years on the job would have been more alert and careful
Biden’s Executive Order on Blockchain for Climate Transparency
We don’t know if they’re fine or if they’re immune to AIDS.

There was no control group or follow up studies.

China has its faults. But allowing an overly interested public to voyeuristcally invade the private lives of its citizens is not one of those faults.
Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August about the first month of WWI. Got me interested in reading more history, and I think history has so much to teach us, but my quest really started with her and has branched out from there.

Tuchman often points out the critical mistake or mistakes that lead to the collapse of a crucial offensive that basically ends a country’s ability to succeed at war.
I can chime in as part of the central team for SLAs, etc. We offer a platform to produce datasets given some inputs, SQL, and pushes to downstream systems. Standardized jobs are ran after the user’s SQL to produce standardized outputs.

It works well, but has many issues too. User’s SQLs and input data can differ, often in unpredictable ways, because they bring their own and expect the central team to handle the rest. Those edge cases break the standardization rules, fails the workflow, confuses the user because the platform is a black box, and they ask about changing it or adding a new feature. Now your standardization asks are bottle-necked by this central team, and the options are:

- to wait for the central team to fix/improve it

- find some hack around the platform

- don’t use the platform and its associated toolings, so you build it yourself and have another disjoint system for a specific use case

- central team might build a feature that one team asked for 1 years ago, but now nobody needs it anymore and nobody knows why it’s in code. Repeat many many times for various asks over the years and your code base is likely a foreign mess.

- give your resources/funding to the central team to prioritize your ask. When built and a few years later, the central team owns something they themselves never wanted.