skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much room do we leave for phrenology?
The “fifth wheel” parallel parking tool that never hit it big (2018)
France does this with age-verification for porn sites. Visit pornhub via French vpn to see.
I had a private investigator for a father, was once a professional magician, and am currently a full time security engineer, so I am pretty sure I think like one. All of this exposure has convinced me it is generally easier to hack a human mind than a computer, and modern social media is designed to do exactly that. You spend a few extra seconds viewing a white supremacist rant by an uncle on Facebook, and next thing you know that is all you see... until your views start shifting in that direction before you even realize it.

Dopamine optimized algorithims designed to put you in a false reality full of only content you are willing to engage with the most, is one of the most toxic and addictive propaganda tool humans have ever created... and it is sold to the highest bidder. Behavior changes as a service.

It isn't on page 83 on my list. It is number one.
This is less like being vegan and exactly like being Amish. The Amish, unlike what is usually believed, don't reject technology. They are very careful in adopting technology and seek to be deliberate about what technology to allow in their day to day life.

I think this deliberateness unavoidably leads to being a Luddite. The dominant force in human history is the continual development of new technology and it's integration into day to day human life, and human adaptation to that technology. We adapt to technology both quickly, via culture and training of children, and less quickly via genetic evolution.

Walking away from a technology that the vast majority of humanity embraces might be adaptive, both in terms of the individual and in terms of survival of the fittest, if that technology leads to the users becoming dramatically less fit. Rejecting the use of lead utensils is a great example of an adaptive rejection of a new technology.

Fine, you might rightly argue, this isn't about survival or evolution, it's about the quality of your life. It's hard to argue against that, and reasonable limits on the use of technology for children that can't regulate behavior to optimize their own health is certainly necessary. However, beyond that, abandoning technology in a more holistic way is no different than being Amish-lite. You are being deliberate about what technologies you accept into your day to day life, and this is admirable. However, it is also Amish-lite in that it is very likely to also be a form of freeloading.

The Amish are very much freeloading on their host society. They do not contribute to defense, nor do they utilize resources they control efficiently. Without the efficient utilization of resources of their host society, which allows for such things as large standing armies and fighter jets, they would have long ago been killed or displaced and their land taken. Rejection of Tik-Tok seems very unlikely to lead to any significant freeloading, but rejection of something like 'owning a cell phone' certainly does. As the rest of the world adapts it's culture and day to day life to what having a small pocket computer networked to every other computer unlocks, dramatic new ways of doing things will be unlocked, and new efficiencies will be found which will enrich everyone, including to some extent the Luddites, who are not participating in it. If there are enough of them, old ways of doing things will be maintained to profit from them, whereas if they participated the old ways of doing things (for example calling a phone number to order a pizza, and many more things, and things we haven't anticipated yet) could fall by the wayside.

Certainly you have a right to be a digital Luddite, but I don't believe there is any reason to think that this will give you a better outcome, by any measure, than just participating in the societal evolution would, and if done in a large scale way it is just being Amish with a different default threshold date for acceptable technologies.
Those who are generally able to understand and then recognize the dangers will have the ability to do so from young age,

<sarcasm>Which is why heroin addicts, quit when they choose, and have zero issues staying off the above.

Which is why after even a few doses, they never become horribly addicted, and end down a path of self destruction.</sarcasm>

Addiction means logic, and choice go out the window.
Are there any patents blocking GPUs from implementing all features of SPIR-V?
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Remote override for authorities to stop the car, instruct it to pull over etc. Alternatively, passengers always having access to a pull over when safe button.
Same way humans do? It needs to recognize flashing lights and emergency vehicles to obey the law to get out of their way, and from there add code to fully pull over and remain stopped as long as there’s a cop car with flashing lights staying behind you.
This is a very clearly written article. Business focused without the bs lingo. I like that kind of thing, because it gets me thinking about stuff instead of feeling stupid when stepping outside of my expertise.
Why do parents do this? What a waste of time. Give your kids the phone, show them exactly where all the stuff is you don't want them to see, and then let them rock out.

When my parents tried to shield me from stuff, that never worked. I would just ask a friend, 'Hey, can I borrow your phone?"
>I decided to move away for big tech

Please correct the tile to "from" . Reading the original title made me think that a start-up guy moved to big tech for his children.
> Just like Trump he has a personal brand big enough to jumpstart a social network

That appears to be an embarrassing failure, tho. And Musk's personal brand is much smaller than Trump's.
> solar in the desert

Some places don't have deserts. Or even large unpopulated areas. Definitely not large unfarmed areas.
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> Isn't that solvable with HVDC links?

No, because then you have the Russia situation times ten - namely that a foreign power can cripple your society at will.
> In 2020, Shor was fired by Civis Analytics after tweeting a summary of an academic study about protests by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University. Shor's tweet read "Post-MLK-assasination race riots reduced Democratic vote share in surrounding counties by 2%, which was enough to tip the 1968 election to Nixon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shor

There’s one example of many of a thing that supposedly “doesn’t actually happen”.
It's like we are fighting an invisible economic war. The question is, why is it worth throwing other people under the bus? Somehow everyone is convinced that it is worth it.
I think "trying to use a framework" is approaching it from the wrong end. I find it more enlightening to try to achieve something larger without a framework, seeing what pain points you have and then adopting whatever you need to solve your problems.

In some cases, "trying" might be actually succeeding, but finding out that the same could be done with 1/100 of the time/effort. In other cases, you just find out what you want to do is just not feasible as a single developer and leveraging others' work is a must.

That approach also makes it much easier to evaluate if the framework is good and is good for you and your project. Otherwise you're trying to figure out if a hammer is good without having any nails to drive.
> That is your first-order problem to solve.

Definitely. Personally, I've taken steps to remedy it.

On the other hand, other parents I discussed it with now consider me a luddite, and visiting friends is still a thing of the past for most of the local kids. I suspect it will remain so until the fear of Covid goes down and interacting with actual people becomes uncontroversial again. :D
Go I'll allow but both Dota and SC AIs were playing an impoverished, simpler versions of the games.
A form of "plural majestatis" which paradoxically implies that the individual author has only relative importance

(«paradoxically» as the majestas itself is founded on representing something higher, not of some high status of the individual which happens to be endowed - it may sound like boasting but on the contrary it would be a downplay of the individual).

In other contexts, that "we" can have even more foundations: "I could never have done this without the work of others", "Not just me but all those who think alike" etc.
In Silicon Valley where I am, everyone tells me it is impossible to live without one here too but that is just not true.

I check matrix messages and emails and keep up with people and make plans to meet them when I am in my office, or in a stable location on a laptop.

When I am on in the car, taking a walk, at dinner with my family... I don't need to be reachable at that moment. Society teaches you you need to be reachable every moment of every day, but the people around you will adapt to your communication cadence. The few that won't are not worth your time anyway.

The world will get by without being able to reach you for a few hours at a time, and the mental health wins of not being constantly anxious checking messages 100x a day can't be understated.
>And Musk's personal brand is much smaller than Trump'

The world is larger than just the USA. Elon has an international following that probably outsizes what's left of Trumps crazy republicans.
Don't hope too hard. Lots of our dear readers think like this.
It was meant as a supporting statement rather than a correction. I write copy in several languages, and trimming fat is key.
Stripe basically deals with the easiest parts (the technical) and leaves the hardest (or rather, the most energy draining) part for you as a customer/business owner (the bureaucracy of having a business in your country of choice). If you start accepting money, you need to pay taxes, no way around that.
Or to make people believe they had actual input and ensure a stronger commitment that way. Because a team that committed to something is more likely to see it through. Even if it means unpaid overtime and all the other crap management uses to extract the highest possible return out of us working drones.

And why wouldn't they? If I can ensure that a machine runs at 120% by giving it the illusion of participation in decisions I would absolutely do this.

/s
He's not missing it at all.

I've seen the investment pitches. Nobody is seriously considering it for a reason, it's a terrible, terrible, idea.

Covering intermittent sources is pretty much 100% public sector's responsibility, everywhere.
Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!
That actually never happened, much like cancel culture it's a myth made up by people trying to sell books.
Citadel modeled their hiring process on the NFL and NASA (2020)
my HP48 GX calculator had a IR port, and there was an app that could use it as a TV remote transmitter. Install the correct tv brand "driver" and off you went. Worked great.

Also, one project I did at a hackaton was a tv remote app with a couple IR leds connected to the original iPhone headphone jack and a webpage (no native apps at that point) that generated the correct signal in the form of a .WAV file for audio playback. Didn't win but that later landed me an interview at a top company.
In EU there is a law that you should drive with headlight all time.

Old cars drive with low beam, new cars comes with daytime running lights (DRLs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp#European_...
I take that as an emphatic no.
The scalable solution would be that law enforcement will be given a direct override/pull-over button for any driverless car. I expect this to happen in the future if driverless cars reach large volumes. Maybe I haven't thought this through enough, but I can't imagine a circumstance where you would want a driverless car to be able to ignore stopping directions from law enforcement.
But how long can you keep your host deliverable?
You'll find some of those such jobs (Research Software Engineers) at https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/
Reducing GeForce RTX 3090 Ti power by 33% reduces performance by 10%
Debunked in the sense that the bloomberg article is a work of fiction. The authors wrote a "fascinating" story that has nothing to do with the real world. They assume backdoored resistors and other nonsense to make it impossible to verify their story akin to Russel's teapot.

Reality is boring. There have been supply chain attacks that installed malicious firmware or replaced pin compatible chips. That's not surprising, that's boring and old news.
> Daily standups shouldn't be necessary with a team constantly communicating.

I don't agree there. Constant communication is important for a good team, however in constant flow it often is being lost, what is important. Important things easily get lost between other noise.

Whether a daily is the right approach can be argued. Maybe a weekly is enough. However having a time where everybody listens and things can be brought to attention is useful in my experience.
You are just moving goalposts from "grep -l" to "grep t". The "grep -l" should be reliable by virtue of line buffering and Linux kernel source path names being shorter than PIPE_BUF (which yes, you do have to know|check - much less to know than a >5000 line man page). While I could address the moved goalposts, I already mentioned xargs --process-slot-var [1] elsethread and, in my experience, goalpost movers are never satisfied.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/449224/how-can-i-ge...
Probably because now that there is a protocol, an ethical nurse would feel compelled to follow it.
> we have to be smart about it.

We could start by prohibiting IQ caps enforced by police departments.

No, really, they went to court to ensure they could continue to refuse candidates who exceed their own intelligence or any other arbitrary intelligence limit they want to enforce.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
Well, cutting out "the entire future" is a bit dramatic.
We may be building a better future by using smolWeb tech like gemini:

My browser with 20 tabs open is a game of 'kill the tab that is burning the CPU'. I have to have task manager open at all times. I'm effectively dual-tasking between work and managing browser tabs eating CPU. And I have a beefy laptop. This is with browser addons that block tons of trackers.

While in gemspace, I can open the same amount of tabs and never worry about CPU usage. And that's by design. I'm not saying that gemspace solves the same problems as the web. Of course not, we are talking about fully functioning apps here! But it lets me interact with content (what websites used to be) without worrying about tracking by bigTech nor CPU usage. It's a big win.
While this may backfire, I would say installing tracking software on the phone, then doing many subtle things which gives this away, would be an awesome learning experience.

"Creepy?! What? Google, Facebook, etc do it. What's wrong?"

I feel like hacking the phones of parliamentarians, then setting up a website showing their daily activities, would be excellent.

Double effective if it just keeps happening, even when you say you'll stop, no matter how often they reset or reconfigure the phone.

"What?! Everyone else does it!"
Parking citations attach to the car (as does civil collision liability generally), but moving violations can only be levied against the driver. Which is how some red light camera fines are avoided, if the driver isn’t clearly identifiable by the camera.
i think the point was that it is scary to know that you are getting stuff recommended based on location. that means that you can assume that more recommendations are from nearby which implicitly reveals the location of the people in the videos.

having my kids be seen 100 random viewers world wide is one thing, having the same video shared with all my neighbors is quite another.
Russia’s ‘Highly Bizarre' Strategy to Defend Armoured Vehicles with Wooden Logs
Still, it is not an either/or situation. If teachers want to use WhatsApp for their personal communications, fine by me. What parents are perfectly entitled to do is to go to the school board and say "*We don't want to use WhatsApp. There needs to be a proper messaging platform for school communication"
The SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil: A magnet origin story [video]
Well done. Your children will definitely thank you for reasons not
even apparent today. Teaching children about technology, rather than
letting them be taught by technology is the key here.

This is the new tobacco. As research accumulates on detrimental
effects (individual cognitive impact and societal damage) it's going
to get easier to do the right thing for your children. It's hard right
now in 2022, as seen in the many hostile comments from those who've
made other life choices and feel obliged to defend them.
open source it man, we will figure out how to fix it !
But in this case one can be true and one can be false. If you imagine a world where either situation is true, then the context changes the truth of the statements.
The Trump stuff is hard to understand; seems like he had such a massive oppurtunity.
The value of a mentor comes from getting advice that's very specific to you - books can't give you that.
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The best way to get rich, and this is supported by evidence, is to have someone give you money. Usually it is one's parents.

Just the facts.
> Can you even imagine that today?

Try to give in UK an opinion regarding the State of Israel not matching the Pro-Israel lobyy diktat and you will find yourself in trouble. Ask Jackie Walker.
> I can't imagine a circumstance where you would want a driverless car to be able to ignore stopping directions from law enforcement.

Funny, I can't imagine a circumstance where I would want "law enforcement" to be able to override my directions and take control of my car.
>Being in meetings means you get to be in the room when decisions are made. Even if you aren't an active participant, you get to at least listen in.

Why do I care if I have no say in it? Why am I wasting an hour or two of my day listening in on this when they could have emailed me the meeting minutes and decisions so I can spend 5 minutes reading through them?

If I'm not actively participating i na meeting, if my views are not taken into account and respected, then it's a pointless meeting for me.

>Some engineers seem to want to work for long stretches uninterrupted, like monks copying sacred texts. That is not the way to succeed.

The reason we want to do this is precisely because we're *not* just copying sacred texts. But rather we're sitting there working with some mental models and concepts, figuring out the chain of API calls and how it all clicks together so that we can better work on the actual problems. Getting up to that point always takes some time. Even getting to the same headspace where I was the previous day when I left work, takes some time.

So if you come to my desk and interrupt me I'm going to have to start from zero again and this will take time. So if I have a meeting coming up in 30 minutes, there's a good chance I won't start anything big. And after the meeting I'm again going to just be going through stuff for 30-60 minutes before I get to the point where I was.

I hate being interrupted because my work is in large parts, inside my own head as opposed to just typing in code. And thinking is often easier when someone is not talking to you.

https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
It's more about the payments space (the newsletter is called "Bits about Money").
What do you think adwords is?
hearing decreases or changes with age (see story on children and handdryer)
The magnitude doesn't matter, it is a qualitatively different phenomenon.

This provides a definition of a market distortions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_distortion

This may help understand why it is defined this particular way and why it excludes inheritance and other wealth transfers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
Sure, plenty of rich people choose not to cultivate political connections.

After all, maybe I make $300k a year and think our mayor is, by the standards of politicians, one of the good ones; and getting invited to fundraising dinners and charity galas and rubbing shoulders with influential people makes me feel important and successful. So maybe I'll donate a few thousand dollars every election cycle.

On the other hand, maybe you make $300k a year but think political donations are a grubby embarrassment; that fundraising events are full of fools, the stuck-up and the self-important; and that the two parties produce policies that are barely worthy of your vote, let alone your money. So you don't donate anything.
aka free market capitalism..
France installed less than 60 reactors over 15 years, I think they aimed for 80. Even just constructing "a few 10k+" fossil fuel plants over say 30 years seems really ambitious to me. Each is a fairly large construction site that binds specialized construction skill for several years. In many countries you would also face prolonged legal battles before you can even start construction.
I'm a musician too, and yes, it is absolutely awful to hear someone practicing next door. I'm fortunate to play mostly electric instruments so I always practice with headphones because I understand how painful it is for others.
Ask HN: How to find a post upvoted long time ago without the exact name
I have recently came across a lot of ideas and knowledges that I saw in HN post very long time ago, but I have difficulties remembering the title, so It is very hard to find them
Any suggestions?
it depends on personality. i spend more time on the internet if access is limited because i want to make the most of it, whereas if i have unlimited access it is much easier to take a break, because i can get back any time.

self-discipline is easier to learn if i am in control, not when it is forced on me. the key is to find other more interesting things to do
But it has nothing to do with inheritance as wealth inequality would exist even before inheritance.
The poster probably only meant to convey that the article is compilative (a summary, as opposed to new research) for those who are up to date.
>That’s surprising if you think abstainers are vegan fitness freaks stereotype, less surprising if it’s actually pretentious stoner stereotype.

I suspect a substantial portion of abstainers are former heavy drinkers or people with other health problems.
At the time (506 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
Emory university can still be held accountable for the same discrimination as the bakery. Hope that helps!
Ya i think OP may be mixing up crash bandicoot and banjo kazooie
Should we fire anyone who thinks phrenology is real? How about flat earthers? Should they be unable to feed or shelter themselves because they’re wrong about something?

Are you right about everything?
> I doubt even a single conservative works there.

They likely do, but not openly.
Oh hey, another post about "concrete" science on a subject that is still far from certain, in a complex biological field where most such studies are far from certain, badly done or in some cases simply dishonest. The irony on top of the cake is seeing so many comments here applauding the reasoning, on a site where a great many commentators happily espouse the virtues of numerous other mind altering chemical substances for all sorts of "beneficial" reasons despite these substances even less clear-cut effects on the mind and body.

Then of course there are the frowning comments by virtuous abstainers, who seem to use their absolutist criticism of alcohol as a pretext showing off supposed self control and asceticism.
>>> I think I've noticed a correlation with more noise and lower economic class people

This is true and it is true all over the world.