skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now it is us that is destroying life around us

Speak for yourself. I'm not destroying anything. If you are, can I suggest you stop please?

In all honesty, what I think is going on is that corporations are the ones taking actively negative actions - their owners/ceos/etc destroy etc with knowledge that what they do is wrong. Consumers aren't - we have a limited set of options and do what seems right to us.

However, in a new wheeze, corporations and governments are trying to 'socialise' the risk. Rather than change or be responsible for their actions, they are lobbying and publicising the wrong causes of destruction. If we believe we are responsible and are prepared to pay for it, in taxes, fines, lack of transport options, additional restrictions, higher costs, etc - they are happy to charge us!

In fascism (ie corporations and governments) the rulers don't mind if we (the governed) foot the bill. In fact, there's more money to be made that way!

I do not accept the corporate blame being deflected on to 'the people'. Its not all people - the culpability is specific and can be ascribed in each case.

Global warming and environmental degradation is nothing to do with me. I do not accept blame being laid at my door - I'm not prepared to accept a martyr's role. I don't believe in original sin either. If there is destruction of something, well someone did that - we should ascribe blame where it is due.
Ha, I used pyinstall and QT for the first time during a one off project. Smoothest GUI development I've ever done coming from knowing nothing about the stack. Esp. pyinstall. Had to do literally nothing for win/mac/unix builds.

To be fair though, it was a relatively simple app, but I feel that's the typical use case if you're already proficient in python and just want to add some buttons.

I don't hear about using this stack much, so I'm glad it's getting improvements + more attention!
Banning them is silly. The benchmark programs reported unthrottled speeds, but when the phone has per app throttling (to save battery) you may not get the speed you measured in each app.
> Apart from Google's monopoly and the big technical challenges, what would a competitor need to defy Google?

Which monopoly? Email? Search?

Regardless, the answer is time. It took Google a decade to win the search war completely. It will take a competitor time to dethrone Google.
I did the talk, BTW.

Because TBH Smalltalk isn't a great choice for low-level code such as OSes and drivers?

I hadn't seen Engel's talk at that time, but I have now, and we've chatted. There is a tiny tiny outside chance I might go and do a PhD with him... :-)
No, it can't be coercive, by definition. If a jury of your peers deems that you did not provide informed consent, then the contract is void. A contract cannot be deemed both coercive and valid under common-law/libertarian principles.

Coercion is when someone reduces your option set, by threatening violence (against the person or property of you or someone you love). An offer, that you are free to reject, and have the faculty to fully comprehend, cannot meet the definition of coercive.

As for selling yourself into slavery, that calls into question whether the you that exists today has a right to the you that exists in the future to the extent that the current you possesses a right to sell that you's liberty away, and I am fairly a certain a court would rule you don't.

But these extreme/fantastical scenarios are not what libertarians are arguing about. There are far more mundane examples of people's liberty being repressed by anti-libertarian laws, that anti-libertarian apologists cannot excuse, so they resort to these hyperbolic examples.
"Why don't you show me research supporing your claim that body doesn't contain sand particles in amounts at least comparable to amounts of microplastics detected?"

Because that's not what is being discussed. What is being discussed is breathing in sand, that beach sand can cause silicosis, etc.
> Despite all the posts about the declining quality of Google

We assume people in general are dissatisfied with Google, because there are blog posts about it, and some people on HN agree, and because we have certain strongly held beliefs and technical knowledge that lead us to this conclusion. What we have not validated is whether people outside the tech community are as dissatisfied as we are. If they aren't willing to switch, then there won't be a notable competitor to Google.
>when they took away the ability to search for exact terms

You can still do this. Put quotes around the terms.
You see to have a misunderstanding of how the domain dispute process works. Having a trademark/company registered doesn't allow you to expropriate domains from an existing owner. See for instance, nissan.com. However, if you registered a domain in "bad faith" against someone with a trademark (eg. using it to redirect to a competitor's site, or trying to extort money from them), your domain can be seized.

see https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en for the UDRP, which is used for most, but not all the TLDs.
“To this day, it’s hard to find two Node applications that are structured similarly.”

I’ve seen a few Express applications that were mostly the same.
It's the Eternal September effect but for self-promotion.

IG was "genuine" when people were fleeing there in droves to escape the parents and grandparents that had turned FB into a PG-rated blandscape of baby and family pics.

At the time, IG was this new thing that seemed to focus on artistic self-expression. This was when IG filters just recoloured your photos, and didn't smooth out wrinkles or add dog ears and tongues.

At some point people realized that you could take photos with product placement, and it was all downhill from there.

It'll happen to TikTok as well.
I will take that as high praise! :-D
> This paper feels very unconvincing.

Could you explain why you phrased it this way, as opposed to e.g. "I find this paper very unconvincing."?

This isn't a critique; I'm just trying to understand a recent drift in language, and if/how it corresponds to a difference in the underlying thinking.

In my upbringing, there's a strong delineation between "thinking" and "feeling". In that view, thinking is mostly about propositions, ideas, and logic; feeling is mostly about emotions.

My best guess is that "... feels ...", as used above, is meant to express a uncertainty about what follows.
Tangentially, the weirdest coding practice I've seen was a company with a single PHP developer who didn't know what a function was. The entire company ran on a 5000 line top-to-bottom script with a cyclomatic-complexity in the tens of thousands, and was executed by Windows Scheduler. At one point I counted controll structures nested 17 deep, ifs inside loops inside ifs inside loops, etc. Also, the one developer didn't use version control and was resistant to my attempting to teach him. I worked on the website though, didn't touch that script with a 10 foot pole.
eh, maybe? I understand that a quadrillion dollars is a large number, but I don't comprehend exactly how large of a pile of cash that would be (assuming Benjamins and not Jacksons).
Yeah, I submitted it myself right after I made the talk.
Your math doesn't add up.

If .17% are homeless, then its 99.83% that it's 'working for.'

But the part you missed is that anything less than 100% is unacceptable. If the system is working, it must work for 100.0% of the population, not 99.83%. Nothing less is acceptable for a 'working system'. Anything else is 'work in progress'

Also, I would like to point out that .17% of 330 is 56000 people. Are you saying that 56000 people don't matter?
With auth, perms, db setup, templating, validation and migrations ?
By revealed preference, those are not human values.
Yes. The only force we know that achieves this is undirected, and no single part of it stays at the top for long. Contrast with superintelligence, a single entity which does not evolve but optimizes in a directed way.
Some companies did manage to produce NES compatible cartridges without NES permission, but it wasn't easy. They had to work around or defeat the lock out chip designed to prevent that.
As a tall guy, I've always assumed that there is a reason most good male dancers I can think of are average height or shorter. Tall people just don't have the right body proportions and/or fluidity of movement. There's just something that looks gangly and weird when tall guys are dancing.

Maybe that's just what I tell myself to feel better.
Twitter's demanding a login today, which I do not have. But, it's simple to understand while this is the case... Bombing somebody, like hitting somebody, appeals to the lizard brain while helping somebody requires the higher-order neocortex functions to rationalize the behaviour. It's "giving something away to others" that's not a big lizard thing...
What does unresidualized mean?

What do the need to do to the software to “residualize” it? If that’s even the right expression.
Reading this, I realize I’m more scared of other intelligent entities (AI/Aliens) turning us to pets or putting us in some zoo/cages, than I am about them killing us.
From any machine who has checked out the code? That's sort of the point of git. Any cloned version of a repository is a "git server" in itself.
> I don't have good answers to any of these questions, the point is rather you could probably fill a shelf with books and dissertations on each of these subjects.

Ah yes, but are the books and dissertations meaningful? You're telling us that you have no way of knowing for sure, so why should we care? It's just paper filled with random scribbles.
Reminds me of something I read recently:

The majority of people who criticize virtue signaling possess no virtues whatsoever.
It wasn't that bad of a comment, but was pretty much exactly what you said. Was having a pretty bad day when I posted.

Keep on working OP, I want to be able to pick python instead of JS someday.
The example I gave happened with informed consent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery
Because, relatively, we're smarter than the average bear.
This is spot on. One person I know gets pimple popping on a fresh TikTok feed within minutes. I have no idea how the algorithm can converge on that so fast, but its certainly some dark NN magic.
That would be true in any system, for example strong people have more power than weak people, intelligent people would have more "freedom of thought" than stupid people, ruling politicians would have more power, and so on. In capitalism however, you only have power if you give people something they want. In socialism for example, being "rich" would just mean being a part of the ruling elite, but you would still have people who are "rich" and have more power than others.

And nothing in capitalism says you have to value buying a yacht higher than anything else. There is also no rule that says capitalism should have no laws whatsoever.

Power is also a good thing, for example being able to cure cancer or feed people is a power.
The FSF party line is that it isn’t anti commercial and the GPL is copyleft, not viral.

But you know…

But dual licensing has been around for decades and I’ve never heard them oppose it.

In practice here, no commercial licensee will want to maintain a fork. All improvements are in the OSS version available to any GPLed software.
> Javascript will be 30 years old in 3 years

Python is already >31 years old.. Python is even older than Java. It is so slow - can barely crawl compared to other languages. Maybe we should retire grand-daddy Python ?
Have you ever been to Ohio? Cincinnati is arguably the most interesting of Ohio's cities and is still kind of boring (I say this having lived in the 4 largest cities within Ohio). It is logistically important and is undergoing an Amazon boom (plus some UPS/Fedex locally, UPS Worldport is ~100 miles away in Louisville) with multiple new 1MM+ sqft warehouses being opened each year for the last ~5 years. Cincinnati's airport also has multiple daily direct cargo flights to various Chinese cities to shuttle inventory.

Housing is moderately cheaper, but the $20-25/hr jobs aren't really the types that people are willing to relocate for-- they're physically demanding with super high turnover because they are probably a bad deal relative to the wear put on your body. Mostly there have just been more bus routes to transport people from exurbs to work these jobs. Nobody really chooses to live in Ohio if given other options (besides even worse states like the Dakotas or Mississippi), they're just born there or familial obligations cause them to move there.
Of course there are only 100 people named SMRT left.
The other ones died.
That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake
It could also change the way its reward function is being computed.
I love the idea but the name is going to be a problem for discoverability.
DuckDuckGo just ended their value proposition:

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

Not that there are many great alternatives, but the whole point of a SEARCH ENGINE is not censoring results. I understand ranking makes it searchable, but omitting views / results based on politics is self-reinforcing and makes anyone using the service blind to views and in a sense reality.

I think search can’t really be “improved” until it’s decentralized and uncensored. The quality decline IMO has to do with the social networks and “trusted news sources”, which I also think is a walled garden limiting accuracy of info.

See “trusted news initiative”: https://www.bbc.com/beyondfakenews/trusted-news-initiative/
That's not how values work - people go against their values all the time due to incentive structures. I want everybody in the world to be fed, but not at the cost of myself being tortured for a million years. Our goal as a species should be to align our incentives with our preferences so the behaviours that get rewarded are the ones that we want to see.
Sizewell C nuclear power station: Government to take 20% stake
And that was my point.
I understand those numbers better as i have a better visualisation of them.
We are going to a beach tomorrow. There are trees behind us. My kid, and his friends, have a better idea of the stars than ever before - they'll be even more impressed at the beach.
Thanks for the in depth answer!
UK Covid infections climb by a million in a week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30769099
And on other end you have 40k AI. That rightfully decide that overall best actions is to get rid off humans... Purely from utilitarian perspective against Chaos.
This doesn't work like it used to.
This sounds like the Seinfeld effect.

The things that were revolutionary at the time have been so copied and are now so commonplace that they seem utterly mundane.

You can’t understand Pet Sounds as a person in 2022 who has lived their whole life in the world that Pet Sounds created. You have to be the person in 1966 who never heard anything like it before.
> Was any force ever able to get close to world domination? At one point in history the US had nuclear power and no one else had it. Was that edge enough?

I'd rebut that most current technologically and financially leading-edge civilizations have optimized for that, at the expense of world domination. Even China has indeed evolved into a more financially (rather than physically) optimized state.

The last time we had major superpowers devoted to total expansionist war was Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and neither of them possessed nuclear weapons (or ISTAR, chemical or biological weapons, space capabilities, logistics, or data networks in the modern sense).

If a modern superpower (which is to say, excluding the current Russian government) devoted itself to preparing for and then launching a war of global conquest, who's to say?

I think what does cut against the rebuttal and buttress the "there can never be physical world domination" is the sheer amount of space, relative to a potential aggressor.

There are no world-spanning empires anymore. Consequently, you would have to fight through opponents sequentially, meaning each one is better prepared than the last. And that sounds like futility.

What the Gwern timeline does accurately identify is that the key element is time.

Either everything is over quickly and before opposition begins to mobilize, or there can be no world domination.
> counting back links

Do the algorithms weight links based on visibility or relevance? A link at the top of a sorted content site HN should probably be worth more than one at the bottom, and one buried in invisible metadata somewhere should be worth 0.
Microsoft is pushing extremely hard for it. In Windows if you miss a barely visible button you will find yourself switching to Edge and Bing without realizing it.

That Google is still at 85% show that people really want to use Google, it is not just "whatever comes with the computer".
Hmm. Started working in retail at 16 (comic books): I think I felt comfortable because I was within the _framework_ of this brick and mortar business, and I loved comics. In college I was ‘volunteered’ to run a student club: times I needed to speak in front of an auditorium to introduce speakers were not fun. I had notes, but my brain stoped working. I suspect I would need more experience to get a feel of it. Left home and moved to NY and remade myself: I have learned to read people better and judge their intentions and compute my personal jeopardy more quickly. Most of the time I realize I’m just excited, and not nervous.

I have overcome my awkwardness over time by having new experiences, and separating myself from my childhood support and striking out to make it on my own. As my dad used to say, ‘fake it until you make it.’
I can recommend going beyond the source code and check the checkin comment or bugtracker entry of the code you intend to change (once you found it). If the code is strange or arbitrary there is often a reason, and knowing that will improve your understanding.
Electric cars: Five big questions answered
Doesnt change the fact that 70% of web developers are shit at their job.
It was designed to be listened to on an AM radio, so yeah an audiophile might not like it, its very much not for modern equipment in that sense.
I’d agree with this assessment. The American liberal arts education can do a fantastic job at producing well rounded and well read students. At the very least exposing people to arts and humanities — or conversely to the sciences.
1k-year-old oaks used to create 'super forest'
I don’t think I was awkward, but I was definitely shy. I improved in two ways:

1) Self-help books. I read a lot of them in my 20s. You name it, I read it.

2) Pushing myself to try out what I learn in the books again and again. Whether it was body-language stuff, or how to build rapport when talking, how to appear more confident, etc I tried it all. It was always on my mind. And essentially I faked it till I made it.

I often pushed myself to interact with strangers when it wasn’t necessary. Saying a few extra words to the checkout person, telling someone you love their jacket, always smiling in those interactions, etc.
> Advanced morality about things like race and gender is complex and not within everyone's reach.

"Advanced morality" - what's that? Can you teach me?

Afaik, morality begins (and ends) with the Golden Rule 'do unto others'.

"Treat others as you would like others to treat you (positive or directive form)"

"Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated (negative or prohibitive form)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
Well look at science itself, is it not a long series of incomplete answers? Do we discard quantum theory and general relativity as base rubbish because they don't add up to one cohesive theory of physics? No, they are still useful. We even keep Newton in our bookshelves even though that theory is demonstrably incomplete.

You go looking for answers because you want to understand a thing better than you do, sometimes that results in dispelling notions you thought were correct but turn out to be wrong. It be extremely beneficial to know that you don't know.
> Take anything Rasmussen says with a grain of salt. They are not out-and-out fraudulent, but they are generally the least accurate of all major pollsters.

>Also, there's this:

>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/531830-rasmussen...

>They weren't great in years past, but endorsing a coup d'état is pretty bad in my eyes. I didn't know this previously; I'll have to adjust my opinion of them.

How did you get the impression that they were "endorsing a coup d'état"? As your article said, they outlined a scenario where that could happen, but I couldn't find anything that's an endorsement of it. If anything, the fact that they quoted stalin by name makes me think they're against it.
The only reason Gradle is faster is because it uses a daemon for build caching and leverage JVM code optimization.

Once you apply that same strategy to Maven, it actually tends to beat Gradle in performance too. See Maven Daemon: https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd
Please see my edit where I address selling oneself into slavery.
I wonder how well protected the charging circuits are against damage from malicious chargers.

If it is at all possible to damage the car, then I can image this turns out to be a problem.
> Capable of handling stressful incidents without batting an eyelid...

A lot of anxiety-ridden people have a sort of "Hulk secret" that they seem to handle stressful situations well because they are always extremely stressed. If they couldn't maintain a calm exterior while freaking out inside they couldn't get through the line at the grocery, so when shit starts hitting the fan for real that mask makes other people think they don't feel it.
If the author's question is "what is it that makes Pet Sounds such a great album", and they are aware that critics say this:

> Pet Sounds revolutionized the field of music production and the role of producers within the music industry, introduced novel approaches to orchestration, chord voicings, and structural harmonies, and furthered the cultural legitimization of popular music, a greater public appreciation for albums, the use of recording studios as an instrument, and the development of psychedelic music and progressive/art rock ...

Then why not study those aspects of the album? It seems like those are historical and technical innovations, not esthetic or preferential. They are saying "look at all the ways this album changed the world." The author's strategy instead was to listen to other Beach Boys albums, then listen to Pet Sounds again, and expect to have an epiphany. I think that's a hopeless strategy, and probably misses the point anyway.
This is amazing. So many times I've needed to do something similar to the demo, and I have to hack things around. I'll definitely be using this.
Discussion is "content" but in very strong context to some other "content". Feed's next video doesn't broaden that context, it creates a new one. Reply on HN/lobsters/reddit/even 4chan of all places isn't like that.
Unless you’re really big and mature company - you don’t yet have competitors - only opportunities.
Deleting the reward function ends the game.
I think you've confused popular attempts to over-fit the findings of sociology to social ills with sociology itself.
> For example “smrt” means “death” across Slavic languages

Surely "Mr. Death" is a bit unusual in its own right?