skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can limit our word space by e.g. bird names (like they do internally at Twitter), and still haven't used most of them.

There's a funny paradox: ask people to "name 10 white things", and they do it SLOWER than if you make the task harder by asking to "name 10 white things in your fridge".
> I know MDMA was previously used in couples therapy and and now in helping with PTSD.

100% this is the best thing couples should do if they need therapy.

Anecdotally I see with my own relationship and that of couples I know that almost all problems are due to inadequate communication (Saying the wrong things / not saying the right things).

MDMA totally opens you up, enabling you do communicate this to your partner. "I really love you but sometimes I just wish you would X". Understanding the other person's emotional needs and how important they are will go a very long way in fixing a relationship.
Bees only life 2-4x longer than fruit flies, and fruit flies "evolve" resistance to stressors in 8-9 generations (a month).

So I'm not sure why bees couldn't have some minor changes within a year. But I'm also skeptical that's inherently a bad thing.
Has the goal ever been anything else but "State Integrity/Consistency"? I don't think so, states are evolved beings and self-preservation is their basest, strongest instinct. Public safety, order and prosperity are just some of the strategies to get human cooperation, very often totally illusory.

Or maybe I've just been reading too much ACOUP.
you autoscale the consensus system?
I don't know any non-profit organisation, but one of them offer free plans and as far as I know some european countries directly offer services to sign documents for their citizens. For example Austria with handy-signatur.at and the Digitales Amt app. (most of it only for Austrians and/or in German language)
Zircle UI: A front end library to develop zoomable user interfaces
Beekeepers also make money by renting out hives for pollination?

Edit: Found an interesting article:

https://theconversation.com/the-farmer-wants-a-hive-inside-t...

To quote:

"Alternatively, crop growers can buy their own hives and set them up permanently, eliminating the cost of rental and reducing the pressure on honeybees used for pollination services. However, this comes at its own cost. Growers need to maintain the beehives themselves or hire a beekeeper to do it."

It seems like this robot may be aimed at farmers who want their own hives for pollination purposes, but also don't want the burden of looking after them?
> Intelsat-12 is a bent-pipe satellite, whose "dumb" transponders rebroadcast anything that they receive within their frequency band. Bent-pipe satellites remain the most common technology today, with no real defenses against such attacks.[1][2]

[1] https://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/ltte-technologica...

[2] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA487592.pdf
I think people are looking for a bad guy all the time. The difference is that they often blame those who they should be friends with. Once you have a cartoon villain the infighting stops.
> ... all the seats he grabbed was thanks to his friends from big industry

Sounds a lot like modern US politics, doesn't it (eg [1] [2] [3])?

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brother...

[2]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-bac...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
You might find How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas Hubbard useful. - https://hubbardresearch.com/about/applied-information-econom...

1) https://hubbardresearch.com/

2) https://www.howtomeasureanything.com/
Great post! I always learn something new from fly.io blog posts. I hope y'all succeeded in clearing out the hobgoblins.

As an Elixir developer, fly.io has been a tempting option because it has a lot of buy-in in the community, but counterintuitively posts like this make me question if fly.io is really for me and my relatively small and local apps. Apps with a global presence requiring low latency everywhere, as this post shows, invites a lot of technical complexity. Is fly.io mostly for the "big dogs" then? Is it still a good, affordable solution with nice developer UX if you only ever intend to deploy to a single region?
This.

My younger and naive self used to over value the tech stack of a company, nowadays I don't care, there's way more important issues than the specific tech stack chosen like people, organization and processes.

A strong engineering team pushes for meaningful and well organized requirements collection and encoding, documentation of the business domain, values (meaningful) testing and is strongly oriented towards providing the best developer experience possible.

Languages and libraries do play a part in developer experience and satisfaction, but they are generally way less important.
It's even more interesting to consider the ethical engines built into self driving. If a car has no choice but to hit a man or a woman, which one should it choose? Adult or child? Two adults or one child? Should the car save a child pedestrian but risk the driver's life? This must be built into the driving self driving system or I don't see how it can be legally approved.

Okay, so you've got a private company explicitly writing down the value of human life in a big list, top to bottom. Let's pretend we fast forward the several years to decades for the public to accept this new reality. Now we realise that different locations operate under different value systems. In Saudi Arabia, one man is worth three women. You best believe they will require the car to run down the woman. So each country/location is going to require an ethics update, and it's all going to have to be public. Imagine the heat Tesla is going to take by complying with Saudi rules and explicitly programming their cars to mow down women instead of men.
What is the logic behind separating those from the core server? Binary size? Automatic configuration?

"Wow this has a lot of features" vs "wow what are all these extra things I need to sift through to figure out what I need", no?
Most 78 year old men who aren't dead don't really have the mental faculties to clearly lecture a university at 78.

A soda a day rots far more brains than an occasional trip.
Is it possible you took something else? 2CB shouldn't have that effect, at least not without overwhelming visuals and laughter as well.
>Seriously?! How did they justify donating to the truckers as something to be punished? That sounds almost like a police state to me.

So imagine Trudeau's point of view. The Canadian media smeared the protest as nazis, racists, white supremacists, who were going to Ottawa to overthrow the government. Indie and international media clearly disproved this, but Trudeau never saw this. Joel Lightbound, one of Trudeau's top allies saw this.

So imagine you are Trudeau. You believe that a bunch of nazis are looking to overthrow the government. You absolutely declare a national emergency and send the police to arrest them. You also seize the bank accounts of those who are involved in the military occupation of the capital.

The problem? The canadian media was lying quite extensively. This was a legitimate protest of regular canadians who are good people.
>It's always amusing to see libertarians complaining that a government shoots first - financially in this case, and only after a long delay - and asks questions later, when they're typically the people claiming loudly that far more extreme forms of violence are always legitimate in personal self-defence.

do you regularly see libertarians advocating for shooting the friends & family of an attacker, in your own words, "after a long delay"? this is a very poor comparison.
Here's my theory: you know that pseudoephedrine works, so taking this thing that's supposed to be a replacement for it, and sounds pretty similar, will convince your brain that phenylephrine will also work. So yes, placebo, but with foreknowledge of the effectiveness of pseudoephedrine. I'm curious if there have been placebo-controlled studies on phenylephrine where the participants were told they were receiving pseudoephedrine
Physician, anesthesiologist speaking. Intravenous phenylephrine widely used, effective. No good in stomach.

Doctors struggle to harness all the historic use and evidence for treatments, sometimes based on great evidence. Often evidence is the best that can be had given available resources.

Drug companies hiding data (derived from volunteers and patients) is wrong, and a problem. Selective publishing of only positive findings in medical journals is common. Careers depend on publications. But despite these pressures, most doctors think hard about these issues, and do their truthful best for the patient in front of them, given the imperfect knowledge available.

OTC labeling is deceptive at best. Placebo only works for a few things.
I am leaning more towards just owning your own domain name, and using that for your e-mail address. I.e. configuring custom domain for e-mail. This way, if your current provider goes down (for the long run), you just go to a different provider, and configure your existing domain name for the e-mail. You don't have to change your e-mail address at all this way!

Yes, you could also run your own mail server, but this is not my point.
> What adults mean is something different; "Don't leave me alone with myself, exposed to the existential chasm in my soul, and my abject learned helplessness".

I've come to accept and adopt my late father's idea about the purpose of portable music players, which he formulated shortly after the Sony Walkman had got competition from other brands of cassette players, and which now, after an (in retrospect rather short) interlude of dedicated MP3 players, applies to the music player apps in smartphones:

That's why everybody[1] nowadays walks around constantly marinating their brains in a drizzle of background music[2]: To drown out their own thoughts -- or to cover the lack thereof.

___

[1]: i.e. more or less "everybody", at the time of writing, under the age of... Idunno, ~50?

[2]: Or muzak, as Dad may have put it.
> Chronological home feed is our selling point.

It does not have to be "this and nothing else". The main complaint people have with Twitter is censorship and algorithmic curation without transparency. Mastodon solves the first problem with decentralization, and it could just as well fix the second problem with a market for algorithms to apply to your own feeds. And you could still keep the default chronological timeline for those who wish to keep using it this way. Adding more features does not kill your product, it just makes it more flexible for more use cases.
The datacenter in question was going to deliver residual heat to the community. Not really sure how well that works with a datacenter given the relatively low temperature exhaust air but yeah, you jest, but that was apparently the plan.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dutch-data-center/
I should not have said “morons.” I am not formally educated beyond high school, does that make me a moron? Well, maybe. I meant no insult there. Not sure what better word to use.

I am repeating myself in the thread, but perfect is the enemy of good. Just because there are easily citable instances of corruption does not make the entire concept of democracy invalid, does it?

What would be a better system in your view? Would it still involve elections?
> Since again, the display tech is essentially what defines a Kindle Amazon is somewhat forced to use eInk displays despite their higher cost otherwise it would not be the same product.

Since Again? Again. You didn't address any of the questions I asked about the justification for the claims about "expensive", "patents", none of which are substantiated. You've jumped again to this "somewhat forced" which I already pointed out is a ridiculous claim and "higher cost" despite what I already tried to clarify about how the display stackup and production volume is completely different. I've already rested my explanation, no point repeating myself.
Waymo Sues California DMV to Withhold Driverless Crash Data from Public
They did. https://blockade.rcmp.ca/news-nouvelles/ncr-rcn211130-s-d-en...

RCMP denied being involved and were rushing to unfreeze those accounts.
DJI Dock
“We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living."

-Winston S. Churchill

So yes. Facebook is slowly dying, with it's aging users. (Kids don't use it much.)

But it's going to take a long, long time. Facebook Marketplace draws users of all ages, and there's always the chance of some innovation along the way that might draw younger people in.

I wouldn't bet on Facebook dying any faster than Twitter or Snapchat.
Try it... but I predict you'll get a model that doesn't work at all...
It's back up - at least https://mail.protonmail.com/u/0/inbox is working for me again.
Polystyrene hives are quite common. I'm sure plasic frames exist but I haven't seen them in use.
2CB is a very easy one in low doses. Lots of laughter and grinning and mild enhancement of colours.
A possible alternative.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/share-mac-files-wit...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remot...

Another alternative,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/...
For a moment I thought this was about Idle Words [0].

[0]: https://idlewords.com/
Cool! Would be nice if you could support Remote jobs as location as well :)
The history of FIFA and the actions they have taken means they have lost the right to the presumption of good faith, regardless of what the site guidelines recommend.
there is a whole subreddit about it : https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
What does stagflation mean for your equity portfolio?
> I am curious what an open algorithm could mean in practice...

Could be a series of different algorithms to choose from, such as:

- a feed about the people you follow, ordered by the popularity of their posts among their own followers
- a feed about the people you follow, focusing on people who post least often and tend to be under-represented on a typical chronological timeline.
- an algorithm to suggest topics or other people to follow, based on other similar profiles to yours.
- a feed to focus on newer accounts instead of established accounts...

etc. the sky is the limit. You can then imagine a UI that goes with it to switch from one algorithm to the next so that you don't waste your time scrolling down.
Yeah, classic editor who probably doesnt even know the difference and just search for a phone template
A system to create a government?

(not that I want to engage in pedantic discussions of definitions, but I think there is a point, that in most democracies, there is no more power for the demos, once the government has been elected, until the next election. There are exceptions and nuances of course, but direct democracy like in switzerland is quite rare)
Material design, flat design, next_shitty_design and whatever else doesn't have clearly defined buttons with text labels suck usability wise. We've all know it, we all said it. But they are everywhere and I cannot explain away with just the usual "the crazy pretentious wannabe artists cabal has taken over". There must be more than that or it would have not be so successful in the market.

I personally think the superficial users - which are the majority - are to blame. They require things that look in accordance to the most recent fashion and are willing to sacrifice usability and efficiency to get it. You can see this everywhere, clothes, cars, homes. Fashionable design sells more than almost anything. So I think the designers have no choice but to produce what sells.
I'm just so happy now.
No hill is worth dying on for a company, unless perhaps its an early stage startup and you're running out of cash.

I have a family to support, and saying "OK" to bad decisions from on high has never threatened my livelihood.
Go module are easy to use, compiling is even more simpler: go build .
Sidetrack: I think the focus on domesticated bees as pollinators is dangerous. If wild polinators can't survive we are fucked even if we have bees.
2 of 5.
Tesla fans remind me of Linux fans. "It can definitely 100% do this thing... if you don't mind x, y, and z. Also you need to do a. And b. Some sometimes c if a does j. Also it doesn't work on Tuesday. But that doesn't matter because you shouldn't need to use your car on Tuesday anyway."

I dig the commitment and passion, but as a consumer, I want the thing to work perfectly first time, every time. If it doesn't, I don't want it.
This has been discussed ad nauseum. The client side code isn’t looking at your files, it’s looking for a signature.

If you don’t have the signature, it won’t do anything.

I’m a privacy advocate, and this approach actually increased my trust as it was a more palatable option than allowing unfettered server side access in response to LEO requests (which happens in extreme cases, but not on a routine basis.)
I don't think I ever want to eat honey again.
Even if it is debunked, that article is from 2015. What happened the next 7 years?
I'm certainly not arguing otherwise. Some would argue that fascism (as Mussolini explained, the merging of Corporate and State power) is the logical continuation/byproduct of "social democracy" when the oligarchy feels threatened by popular movements.
Юра, мы всё проебали :(
> when severe cases ramp up so quickly that they overwhelm the health system.

Wait a minute:

A. You agree masks slow transmission.

B. You agree the issue with covid is 'case spikes' overwhelming hospitals.

You don't see the logic of mandating A, to prevent B? For the record, masks work far less well when only some people wear them.

Obviously, masks should come off at some point, but there's no point being hasty. They make sense.
I think it's in their interest since they're using crypto as an "investment" rather than a means to exchange goods and services. Moreover, it's probably hard to envision as an issue as long as it works to their advantage and concentrated amongst a few in a form of digital currency.

Then again, I rarely hear anyone discuss the benefits of inflation (I didn't say hyperinflation).

"This damn inflation is making my mortgage payments significantly less than my payments from 10 year ago!" said Nobody
That's a good point. You can have a person who is amazing at their task, but doesn't communicate and doesn't get documents and info to others that need it. Even if you're the best in the world at writing code, that's not worth a damn if you're withholding the materials and knowledge about a project that other people need to do their work.

If you're too busy thinking what an amazing worker you are and everyone else is dragging you down, there's a good chance you feel vindicated in behaving in a way that makes your coworkers' jobs harder. Why should you help them out? They're not even trying to do things right and they're making you look bad.
That true. For one, we’re arrogant enough to say that we’re qualitatively different that other species…. Same dna/rna, same mammalian systems, same environmental stressors, same in-group/out-group hostility. Yeah, the neocortex is larger but it’s not as if it’s used all the time - the lizard brain at the core seems to drive a whole lot of actions.

As Douglas Adams wrote, maybe it’s the fact that other species don’t do what humanity does is the sign of true intelligence. He was writing in humour but there’s logic in that statement.
https://dune.xyz/poma/tornado-cash_1

Between 40 and 200 million per week.
The poor treatment of migrant labourers in Qatar has certainly not been debunked. I did not hear about the death rate being different, but having your passport confiscated and your wages withheld is about as close to slavery as we are likely to see among developed nations
Given its longevity and installed base, I see no reasonable possibility of C/C++ going away or being significantly curtailed in the next half century.

C is 50 years old this year. And it's everywhere

It's more likely we'll be (or my kids will be) involved in harm reduction around these systems, rather than outright replacement.
Spain, Munster, Ireland

This seems a little wrong as a region.
>I am curious if you generally feel comfortable with the government being able to retroactively define something as "terrorism" when it does not conform with your general political views. Personally I think this is a terrible idea whether or not I agree with the people being targeted.

There's a hilarious video from our parliament.

Andrew Scheer(former conservative leader, former opposition leader) was talking.

Elizabeth May(former green party leader) got up and started accusing him of 'dogwhistles to nazis' blah blah.

Andrew Scheer stands up with the biggest smile.

He points out Elizabeth May has been arrested and convicted of an illegal blockade while being green party leader. That the precedent set will mean that the green party donaters will have their bank accounts seized as well as her own.

The irony, it's only matter of time that conservatives take government back and very well can do this now.

On twitter a ton of greenpeace and antifa people freaked out at this new precedent.

"What if I donate to greenpeace. Some point later they have a protest that goes sideways. My bank account gets seized?"

Yep.
Is this really a new technique? Dividing a puzzle up into a different set of regions that can still be reasoned about is something I’ve done occasionally while solving them, and I’ve definitely done it while designing and generating puzzles because it can really help cut down the degrees of freedom.
you haven't seen Intel vulkan drivers on Linux, I guess.
Spring have blogged about it. Releases are on the way: https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early...
'Everybody' is already on Discord and I doubt I can convince all of them to move to IRC. Plus voice and video chat.
I work a lot with Nim, for my own projects. There aren't many jobs out there for Nim just yet. I'm going to release some of tech I've built as Open Source (https://nexusdev.tools/). With any luck that will help to build up the Nim community, which in turn could help jump-start the Nim job market.

DocUI, the back-end SDK that uses Flutter for the front-end, is actually multi-language on the back-end. But I also have a back-end web-framework built on top of Jester that handles user management. Another example is an ORM that generates Nim data access files (which is Postgres only at the moment, but other DBs could be added).
Definitely not my favorite look, but at least the buttons look clickable. That’s an improvement over having to inspect source in order to distinguish clickable elements from plain text.
Wow, personal abuse based on a whole series of straw men.

Quality post.
While the Trial framework is capable of doing A/B testing (and historically started out for that purpose), it is fundamentally an asset delivery mechanism, and is mostly used for that (i.e. I suspect that most of the domains using Trial currently have no "B" to pair with their "A").

And some of the differentiation that IS being done is not A/B testing in the usual sense of the word. i.e. if one particular hardware model needs a different version of an asset, those models can be assigned to a separate set, but that does not really make it an A/B test.
I'm going to need to look up some numbers, but the US, which is where we're talking about, didn't join WWII until fairly late in the war. I know you don't literally mean that there were no young men in the workforce, but they weren't leaving at 18 and coming back at 30 years old. The war didn't last that long, lol.
Seems like, at least as an initial implementation, the kernel could disable the feature when entering kernel mode and then manually mask all accesses to user space addresses. This way mistakes will not impact security but only cause spurious system call failures.
Every cloud provider does CSAM scanning or they'll be chased down by certain three letter gov agencies and/or US senators looking to score easy political points.