skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good real-life parable is to read what happened on Easter Island [1]. In short, humans found a completely isolated island that could support a population of around 5000. Over a few centuries they damaged the environment (cut down all the trees, overfished the local waters, over-farmed the land, etc) to the point where it could only support a population of about 600; at which point their civilization descended into anarchy and cannibalism until "the market adjusted" the population to be equal to the available food.

Ten years before the collapse of Easter Island, someone could have made the same argument: When we cut down all the trees so we couldn't hunt dolphins any more, we replaced that with clams. When the clams were gone, we began hunting birds. When the soil became so poor that we couldn't grow one crop, we replaced it with another one. Our track record is 100%; there's no reason to believe we can't go on replacing one resource with another forever.

And then one day they couldn't.

Or listen to Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

"Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race 'looking out for its best interests,' as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief." [2]

So far we've been able to replace wood with coal, coal with oil, and so on; so far there hasn't been anything critical to civilization that we've run out of. But it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that something like that could happen.

[1] http://employees.oneonta.edu/allenth/Class-Readings-Password...

[2] As quoted in https://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-talebs-black-swan-tha...
You're talking about the "Bus envelope".

Pick a person, a trusted loved one or family member likely to survive
you, and let them know where those written instructions are.

It's well within the remit of existing lawyers and I advise you
involve one. Wills are standard documents. If there are time-critical
actions make it a legal instrument that precedes any transfer of
responsibility to an executor (who may not end up being the trusted
party you designated and probate can drag on for years in complex
cases.

Yes it's a security risk because you'll need to write some things down
including passwords. Tell them a password in advance that they'll
never forget and anticipate that they may be in shock or unable to
follow complex time-critical instructions at the time. Use a unique
shared secret like "Remember what that bird was singing when it sat on
the balcony on our honeymoon night?"

Many people in service are required to leave a "professional will".
Clients need to be informed. Debts paid. Records destroyed (there are
many legitimate circumstances for this).

And god willing, it never happens for you.
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This could be a browser extension, such as a toggle button to "never store cookies for this site".
I don't agree with you. For me , no longer feeling free to state the simple biological definitions that I assign to the words "man" and "woman" is absolutely the first thing I think of when someone mentions freedom of speech. On Twitter and off.
Never. One is the best.

If and if they have a note from the Hiring Manager's Mom would I give ANY employer a second interview.

If you are Talented and they do not hire you on the spot, they are not going to do so. Why? The "A Player" to be named later has a new position within seven (7) days. Period. Get it?
Ha whoops. Fixed the typo. Thanks.
Free speech in terms of the first amendment is about government censorship, but in todays society with only a handful of giant media and tech companies controlling the vast majority of information flow, then free speech takes on a the second meaning about corporate or private censorship. It may not be illegal, but that doesn't mean its ok. And for the record, I do no support completely unmoderated media - that would be a nightmare. Free speech in both forms are, and will always be, very tricky things to deal with.
The Dutch rail network is top 3 busiest in the world. Many lines have 10+ trains in each direction, every hour.

The usage of certain lines at a certain time is calculated in periods of 6 seconds!

We're waaay beyond normal human coordination capacity.
This is not only repetitive, but anti-human pedantry.

Tell them to call it freedom of expression if you're so inclined, and keep supporting their fight for it.

Anything less is detracting from their point, seemingly intentionally.
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Not only that, but the conditions in the West are contingent on the work done in the rest of the world. There's a reason we're not all working in sweatshops making all the products we are constantly using, and it's because we have poor people in other countries doing it instead. For their living standards to rise, ours will have to lower (though the economy is not a zero sum game of course, and technology/automation can reduce the necessary labour).

I don't think it's malicious or anything - I just think that this perspective is a little ignorant of how the world really works.
Are you inferring that when someone tweets about a topic that’s the exact moment the thought first occurred to them?
They claim to be a platform, not publishers, so they shouldn't be able to invoke publisher rights and be the judge of what can or cannot be published. Let the government do this mediation. Twitter should let people ask a judge to issue content take downs based on the law and just comply with it.
Sure, but I think this also highlights something even worse - if Twitter becomes censorship free, how do you stop the bots? You can't by design!
The Berlusconi approach?

(I'd suspect Musk of wanting to run for office, except I don't think he'd accept a lesser office than President which he's ineligible for. Maybe a state governor like Arnie?)
Embrace it! It’s more fun to keep having a bunch of ideas that might have potential than to see one of them through and maybe discover it doesn’t.

I mean you know what you have to do if you really want to: give one idea the attention to grow. Choose to do that and commit yourself to it. Or don’t.
How do you tell safari to ignore this list? When i want to go to discord safari insists on discoverykids.com.

I (think) i have turned off all search-suggestions in settings.
Thanks!

Not a native English speaker. So it's easy for me to confuse the terms. You're right, of course.
I don't see a needness to care about any of that except funds - bitcoins and bank accounts if any. Former might to be tattoed as a qr in nasty parts of a body which is hard to be observed and therefore decoded without my knowing. And latter has not any reasons to be a secret from the family. Last but not least is an access to my phone number but it depends of circumstances of my death like will my body be burned (with my clothes and everything in pockets which is common during war which is going on my backyard) or will I be robbed. So sorry that it is impossible to duplicate my phone if the phone to which my digital life is bounded is going to be carried everywhere, because why not to have an access to my digital life from everywhere.
> Then again, where's that at?

I believe they're going to be building the Cybertruck at the new Austin plant. The plant is still under construction but looks pretty far along from the highway. It's kinda cool how they built the factory with large glass windows on the outside so you can see in from the road.
Jira + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YClta_Erq6U
I agree, but an an alternative to mbox/maildir format on your machine : I wrote https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb in order to have a single-file SQLite DB with all old email contents (all UTF-8 inside, simple/minimalistic schema), together with a small GUI to consult emails and do queries (full-text not fully implemented yet but this is the target) and all attachments extracted in a side folder so that I can directly browse with a file manager.
I have found that working with multiple people with different skillsets on a project can help - I currently work with another programmer and a designer, both with the same mindset. We keep each other motivated! I previously tried working on projects myself because I wanted 100% control, but never ended up completing many, and the ones I completed MVPs for lost my interest shortly after.
It is not quite clear to me what the author of this update (Martin Blume) is claiming. He says that Abraham Pais, in his biography of Einstein, reports him correcting the error before submitting it to the Physical Review. Blume notes that this contradicts Kennefick, and also Einstein's own note at the end of the 1936 paper. It would also, it seems to me, make nonsense of Robertson's review, and his subsequent correspondence with Tate on the matter. As far as I can tell, this casts doubt on Pais's version, but it is not clear to me that Blume sees it this way.
If pictures of people you don’t want to see get selected, you can block them from being selected.

Select the person and it’s something like “Include this person less” that you’re after.

It’s not perfect, but it’ll allow you to keep the photos and not have them pop up in memories
> Have you actually looked at the competition and see how long android phones last and/are maintained?

Yes the Fairphone are doing well thank you. Very easy to tear apart, setup the system of your choice, and find replacement parts for.

> Apple products hold their value more, leading to a pretty good used market.

What does that mean? Money is just imaginary numbers. A phone is a phone: either it works good or it doesn't, how much and why it's valued by people brainwashed into a commercial cult [0] matters little in the equation.

> No doubt this is bolstered by Apple’s fairly generous global warranty policy that is also transferrable.

Kudos for them to respect the law. Although i must point out that for some years, at least in France, they were obviously breaking EU laws by saying their phones had only 1y warranty (2y minimum by law) and selling people "upgrades" to get the 2 years.

> It was not some secret attempt to blanket slow down old phones. If you replaced old batteries the problem would not happened.

Do you have a source for this? It's the first time i hear that explanation, and it certainly was not put forward by Apple in their update log at the time (suggesting malice). Also worth noting that Apple makes it harder than it should to crack your phone open to replace the battery, so i don't think that's a strong argument in their defense.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/43884-neurologists-apple-is-li...
> Rail transportation in particular.

ahem bus rapid transit
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Most serious security teams do not consider containers a security boundary. So it’s not a sandbox inside a sandbox, it’s just a sandbox.

Gvisor and firecracker are the most popular sandboxes for containerized workloads.
> Elon will sell Tesla stock to end world hunger

They wouldn't give him a plan...which I bet he figured would happen.

The long-term conversation ended with him asking questions about rampant child abuse under the watch of the UN.

Get your facts straight.
only very rarely do intelligent people get their wallets drained -- its mostly young people hopping on the cultural movement (e.g. NFTs, games) without actually knowing what they are doing.

if you abide by a few basic principles (keep your wallet cold, actually read through smart contracts before executing them, read the specification of everywhere you are putting your tokens) you'll be just fine.
Wrong. autopsies on covid deaths show the spike protein in the brain.

It's been in every autopsy report after report for TWO years. Time to maybe finally accept that viruses that infiltrate the brain can also cause neurological problems?

Personally, I thought Dark Ages were over, but then covid happened and it turns out people have really hard time accepting unpleasant truths. Post-viral syndromes are not well correlated to severity of illness. It can happen even after a relatively mild disease, and destroy your life.

Instead, people get questioned about their sanity. Witch trials next, I presume?
> a resource humanity has depleted and not effectively replaced or otherwise made irrelevant?

If we were to have depleted something we need without finding a replacement, humans would be extinct by now, or at least on a path towards it.

We’re alive and, on average, extremely safe (life expectancy is higher than ever, despite obesity, opioids, etc)

So, if we assume that we’re better of than ever in history, I don’t think there can be any way the answer to that could be “yes”.

Of course, one can claim that assumption doesn’t hold. for some, having all the modern stuff may not make up for not being able to see dodos, passenger pigeons or huge herds of bison.

Even a resolute “no” answer doesn’t say much, though. Past performance is no guarantee for future results.
They had some interesting UX in early apps like Hypercard. Too bad none of it was free software so it's lost in this day and age.
Could battery swapping replace EV charging?
Thanks so much!

Honestly, this was a personal project that got a bit carried away. The initial iteration was just a simple terminal app that allowed me to fuzzy-search through a lot of my notes quickly, with the ability to store and access a plain text file against each. I was rsyncing to the cloud so I could access my data across different machines, but got frustrated at the lack of conflict resolution, so figured I'd build a mergable data structure and use that. It _then_ became annoying that I couldn't easily access my list on the go, and hence the web app was born.

I actually (amusingly) built this completely on my own, which certainly made things more challenging WRT testing the collaborative components. Have certainly had the opportunity to test it a bit (mostly for "life" things such as sharing shopping lists...) but hopefully opening up the MVP will get some more organic and extensive usage and the opportunity for some good feedback!
This is not an exploit. This is not a vulnerability.

This is a research project that demonstrates how to access a system in unconventional ways. This allows a user with previously privileged access to install boopkit so they can access with the same privileges again in the future without SSH or other conventional methods.
I can't tell which way the arrow of causality points, but all the digital banks in the UK are in various stages of still growing to reach the scale where they can become sustainably profitable.

This in turn means that they will have their risk assessments inverted from the usual high-street banks: optimise signup/account creation flow, and deal with AML requirements in a slightly delayed fashion. Making it really easy and smooth to open a current account brings in a surprising fraction of the crowd who would be rejected or otherwise earmarked by high-street banks.

Being digital upstarts, these modern banks also don't have the fraud and risk departments their established competition has. In order to not get hammered by the FCA, they almost certainly veer on the blunt instrument side when dealing with suspicious activity. And law of large numbers guarantees that there will be a significant number of false positives.
This is one of the reasons we need to be expanding the space for collective resources - it's not likely we can sustain a world where everyone on earth lives in a single family detached home in the suburbs with a car, private heated pool, private air conditioning etc that the author advocates for. However, if we're a little more clever with how we allocate and share our resources, we can scale up standards of living in a sustainable way - urban transit and a fleet of automated electric taxis, community pools, zero energy building techniques and mixed developments, and so on. This just requires that we head back in the direction of sharing things (social democracy) and away from economic individualism (neoliberalism).
This sounds great. I hope it makes it to production without issues.
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I study a lot . I’m ok at it —- certainly no great talent. I haven’t learned any methods worth a damn and not for lack of trying, but I feel I know things about my own learning machinery which has made me much better at it over time.

In my opinion, learning how to learn is nuanced and operator specific. Lots of us are in the long tail of people for who highlighting, skimming, Anki, etc makes no difference. So, the advise from Feynman and generally I usually find is insufficiently meta — or overly first order if you prefer.

You’ll get more purchase starting at the second order, but few articles are titled “learning how to learn how to learn”.
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Which means it's often difficult. The traits "Has a comprehensive test suite" and "is spaghetti code" are often rarely seen together. A poor code base has become poor because it's not refactored and cleaned up all the time - and that's often because their is no tests to help with that.

And if there is no test suite, there is often very few ways to add a test suite. Poor code has very few points where you can attach a test. If the code contains file databases or structured input of some sort (a web page) you can add some very high level end to end tests. But not all code has easily verifiable endpoints like that. Perhaps my bad experiences comes from "hard to test" domains (Sound, drawing, ...) code, and not "given this input this is written to the database and this is written to screen".
To spell it out clearly:

Mackenzie Scott will leave running the platform to the people familiar with it. That's exactly why she's the best person to own Twitter and turn it into a public good vs. Elon, who also knows absolutely nothing about running Twitter, but will no doubt intervene.
That is amazing! I hope it ticks some of the use-case boxes, and if it doesn't, I'd love to know what those boxes were
Embrace it.

Instead of thinking that you are wasting potential on the big ideas, think of it as your portfolio of small bets (credits to Daniel Vassalo). Instead of exposing yourself to risk of "one big idea" for the expectation of "one big payoff", you can think of yourself as your own VC investor, with the most important distinction that you will be choosing how to invest your most precious resource: your time.

Take the projects that you see potential but lost interest and put them on microacquire [0]. This will both free your mind for other projects and give you a sense of accomplishment.

[0]: https://microacquire.com/
Or has watched 'Kindergarten Cop' too much.
No I'm saying that quote

> The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.

Is pretty disingenuous when it turns out that he's launched the poll a week after he already decided to buy 10% of the stock. Do you seriously think Musk spent several billion dollars on twitter stock and then decided to check what people think?
You are using focus very metaphorically as a focus in life, not the cognitive faculty. Just select the one that best aligns with your goals and finish it, you can keep churning new projects all the time, just don't confuse ideas/sketches with projects and projects with businesses.
I took typing in HS on these. Sadly the trackballs were almost always worn out or gunked up. The paint program was pretty painful because of it in elementary school.

We didn’t have any programming classes, just a room full of them for typing class, with the server in the closet.

F F F space H H H space. Ugh.

You could wander the menus of the word processor and actually dial the modem. We got endless joy from calling Pizza Pizza and hearing an annoyed voice coming from the closet.

We shared one dot matrix paper and my friend and I just split the odd and even pages and print twice because the teacher would let us listen to our walk/discman when we were finished and I really wanted to listen to The Bends.

So I guess I did learn a bit about programming :).
Meditate. Expose yourself to the feeling of letting go.

Meditate: Literally train your mind to focus. It's going to the gym. Won't happen in a day, week, even month. Consistently do it and you'll eventually see progress.

Letting go: I have a long track record of starting while not going deep. Eventually, I just had to jump in the cold water and start letting things go. Literally put away physical gear for hobbies I wasn't actively engaging in but that took up a bunch of emotional and mental space and energy. Store it away and move on. Part of that process was telling myself this doesn't mean I failed or gave up or even that I would never do XYZ again. Just not now. I started learning the drums a bit ago then I also decided to try to get good at golf. Amongst other things, something had to go. Bye bye drums. Closed all the drums-related tabs. Put away the training material. It's golf time. Maybe in the cold months I'll pick back up, but for now, I'm relieving myself of the self-prescribed duty to practice drums. After doing that for a while, you feel a weight lift.

For some people, starting a bunch of things might be a way to protect against failure (or hard work) since they never actually commit to pushing something live. For others, like me, it's a lot of fun to learn something new (learn, not master).
Disclaimer: I work at Elastic.

Elasticsearch has a general purpose authorization system as well, based on the concept of "application privileges": https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr.... It's an interesting concept I never really considered at previous jobs, to piggy-back the authorization system of some infrastructure already in your stack. On one hand I can see some team members finding it to be a bit of a "smell" since it's pretty far from the original intended use case for something like Kafka or ES, but on the other hand it can free you up from having to build this type of thing yourself from scratch or libraries.
Sure, but we should ask. How much could he own?
TO control the negative information about Tesla, Space X, etc.
It's literally the name of the resource:

https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/autofill_tld_whitelist_ur...
I am confused, what is Web3?
Also sorry for clickbait title.
Should it? Should free speech be extended beyond the bounds of government and if so doesn’t that contradict its original meaning by making the government restrict who should and shouldn’t provide uncensored free speech?
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