skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No matter which side you're on (real or not, overblown or not, etc.)

One thing we need to step away from is this framing that there are "sides" to be on. Allowing for there to be these separate "sides" just invites conflict and allows people the opportunity to create an identity around something they have no business having an identity about. There are people who are anti-vax now (and weren't before) for example, but that's not a "side" anymore than being for or against bandaids would make sense to have "sides". Framing this as though there are sides also has the effect of legitimizing indefensible things, like being anti-vax.

As an example, are there two sides to the flat earth debate? If you say yes, then you're admitting that people who think the earth is flat have an equal standing with someone who knows that the earth is round. But these do not have equal standing, so it shouldn't be legitimized as a "debate" where there are "sides". Something like private versus public (to oversimplify) healthcare is worthy of two sides and a debate. Broadly speaking there are two defensible and respectable opinions.
This might just be stereotype. As a single data point, I work at a large boring non-tech company - my team's ML runs on Kubernetes just like the cool kids do it.

I've seen a lot of modern tech from other large companies too (banks, retailers etc.) - the culture and pace of development might be different but their tech stacks are very up to date. Even if some of those companies have an old mainframe still running somewhere, they have tonnes of other software too, most of it much more up to date.
Private space travel is exploding. In 2016 Spacex had captured 30% of the launch market. They've doubled that figure since. The space shuttle cost $50K per kilo of payload. The Falcon 9 brought that down to $3k. They're hoping starship can bring that down to $10! Imagine buying a burger for $5 and sending it to space for another $5. This is already bearing fruit of cheap, global satellite internet access.
Could be that I am mis-diagnosing myself. I've never seen a mental image in my mind. I've never been able to conjure one and I've been trying for years before falling asleep to conjure even a sense of color. Nothing. Black.

To be honest, it doesn't feel like such a handicap to my life that I would start submitting myself to clinical trials. If the worst to come out of my mis-diagnosis is this post, I can live with it.
.. damn. Just read the text.

And here, from the title, I was going to advise you to go to Mike Rowe's website, and learn to be a heavy equipment operator, or carpenter, or something.
Weird how the nation with the most propaganda, maximum incarcerated and most wars/bombings in the modern era acts holier-than-thou all the time.

Probably just a coincidence tho.
I'm surprised they don't mention hangovers. I stopped drinking 4-5 years ago and since then I've noticed how many people have 2-3 drinks without a second thought. It's now clear to me how much of my tiredness and achiness was caused by drinking - not stress or insomnia or whatever other idea I had at the time.

I'm not concerned about what other people do from a moral standpoint, but I know a few people in particular who complain that they can't sleep well and drink half a bottle of wine a night.

Little good can come from pointing it out - in the US discussions of drinking habits usually lead to confident assertions that in 'Europe' such drinking is totally normal and reminders that the Queen Mum (allegedly) credited her health to a glass of gin a day.
I have to do a little 'dance' to reach the Start menu now. I have a pretty ingrained muscle memory of shooting the mouse to the bottom left corner to click the Start menu, now I have to retrain my muscle memory.
> Update: So I went there with my friend Ivan, and we got into a firefight with police. We got shot up pretty hard before we could even get a shot off ourselves. As I lay there dying, all I could think about was how the Apple 1's bit shift register worked -- I wished I knew! Damn you, Putin!!
>> companies that were doing old stuff The Right Way, with lots of well-considered automation and high-quality backups and well-documented, repeatable, largely scripted configuration

Are there any examples of this? I’m coming up on 20 years into my career and i’ve genuinely never seen a large company that had their IT function ticking over sweetly. Every single one had aspirations and had some things nailed to a greater or lesser extent but none were “done”.

If anything, things are a LOT better today. The old mis-configured MS Exhange host hanging off the office DSL line is gone these days. The MD / CEO’s password is unlikely to be Password1 nowadays.
A typical desktop PC from 30 years ago had at least 2MiB RAM. There's no cheap microcontroller with this.
> It’s often not literally free

Ok, cool. Not what we're discussing though.
Yeah I'll concede this. Job numbers are often similar. They jump a lot month to month. Unless there is some crazy spike that you just can't ignore, it's better to use a trendline.
I don't know anything about him except that a friend has recommended him. What's the problem?
I used NetZero for a summer by setting up a dumb dialer machine that shared its network connection to the rest of the house. The dumb dialer autoconnected to NetZero when outbound traffic was detected and since there was no monitor plugged in no one ever saw the ads. Was a pretty simple solution for a couple broke college guys.
Translating: drinking alcohol or not drinking caffeine
How much latency is this going to add?
I've been trying for years to visualize. My SO is an artist and my mother a psychologist, so I've been trying to gets tips and tricks from them. I never managed to even get a hint of color.
When doing these calculations, we really need to think strongly about electric airplanes.

By the time any major high speed rails are built, electric planes will exist.

Given electric planes can be fueled with green energy in many European countries there is not really an environment argument anymore. Well one could argue that its less efficient and that true but the difference is certainty much closer.

Electric planes will also make air-travel much cheaper, because the operational cost will be far, far lower just as with electric cars and the 'fuel' will be cheaper as well. The fuel is consider a major part of the cost right now and has the potential to be much lower.

Electric planes also require little buildup of infrastructure. In fact, electric planes will allow us to fly many more routes to smaller airports that are often not utilized much right now.

If we can get the absurd security restrictions removed and make air-travel within continents more like trains we can eliminate much of the wasted time as well.

Because electric planes have the potential to be much more quite while on the ground and on landing, airports can be build closer to population centers. And there are additional innovations that could make propellers in general more quite as well.

Planes allow for point to point transport rather then following a line of stations. Or rather you still might use stations but on much less granular scale.

From where I live I can reach a local airport in something like 10min with the bus. If I could fly from there to places like Paris, Milan or Berlin it would be quite amazing. Even if those flights only happen once 1 week or so. Or you just connect to some larger airport and get on a second plane there.

I feel like really major investment in high speed rail is misplaced. I much rather see more investment in local rail. And if you need to hope from city to city jumping into an electric plane would be better.

Now the technology is not fully there yet, specially in battery cells (and how to package them into plane). No proposed electric plane can fly Zürich->Berlin. But I think major investment in that sector would yield amazing results. The current electric plane companies are minimally innovative because they want to just get electric plane of the ground (and they are right to do so).

However once you really think threw all the implications of electric planes you could do so much more. Its like first generation EV were just traditional cars with batteries in them. When now in Tesla and BYD produce cars where the actual battery cells are a vital part of the cars structure.

With battery electric supersonic overland flights are a real possibility because you would fly high enough that air density and distance would make the sonic boom much less of a problem. We could rethink vertical launch as well.

In general a change in paradigm will force revising on many of the most basic assumptions of how traditional combustion planes look.

I would not be surprised if we fly around with electric vertical starting, supersonic flying wing airplanes in 30 years.
Coinbase Loses Bid to Force Arbitration of Crypto Theft Lawsuit
Racism is a form or subset of bigotry. I view bigotry as bad - elevating one subgroup at the expense of another or it’s reverse. It’s a group property as well as an individual’s property. Different treatment based on colour, religion, language, …, is “bad” unless you’re in the top group. It’s really always bad, but you have to see past the groupthink to see it.

I’m white, which is bad. But both sides of my family come from non-dominant European groups, which is good. The Irish portion was discriminated against in the 1800’s, which is bad. Depending on when they actually came to the us, they might have fought for the North in the civil war, which is good. So how do I parse my actual goodness/badness based on the current tv scores?

Nobody I’m aware of can change the past. We all can change the future and even aspects of the present if we give a shit and try to change. It requires seeing others as people, rather than “them”.
I work in finance. My point was basically that the industry is usually slower to adopt the new stuff. Of course they will adopt cloud, but are the the first ones or are they 5 years behind the leaders. It seems they also tend to not change COBOL code often and are just adding new stuff in the new tech. So change still happens, but the scope and rate may be different than other industries.
How is this different than workflow automation (for non-developers) solutions? Or is the takeaway that any workflow automation is ripe for unbundling?
This was a great article. A practical question came to mind while reading it: Now that bad-faith communication has become normalized, does it makes sense to keep bringing good-faith communication to a bad-faith communication fight?

Obviously it would be ideal to model the behavior that we'd like to see in the world, but what if this toothpaste can't be put back into the tube? Brandolini's Law suggests that this might be a cultural "innovation" akin to the invention of gunpowder.
SEC. 2. Section 2270 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:
2270.

(a) It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate or promote misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.

(b) The board shall consider the following factors prior to bringing a disciplinary action against a licensee under this section:

(1) Whether the licensee deviated from the applicable standard of care.

(2) Whether the licensee intended to mislead or acted with malicious intent.

(3) Whether the misinformation or disinformation was demonstrated to have resulted in an individual declining opportunities for COVID-19 prevention or treatment that was not justified by the individual’s medical history or condition.

(4) Whether the misinformation or disinformation was contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus to an extent where its dissemination constitutes gross negligence by the licensee.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Elon Musk's not-so-secret weapon: An army of Twitter bots touting Tesla
Mastodon is perfect for this use case, though.
Meat prices are up close to 30% for me in NYC since January. I am aware meat prices don’t dictate inflation numbers but I’m really having a hard time believing any official estimates at this point. The actual Covid numbers over the past ~1.5 months (use imagination) look extremely “smoothed downwards” as well, not that they were ever accurate (although certainly the US was one of few countries willing to or capable of providing public numbers). The underrated thing about Trump was his administration wasn’t capable of hiding their incompetence.
That's what I did. A few months ago, I bought 2 10GbE NICs off Ebay to connect my main desktop and basement server directly. I already had cat 6a running between them.

Some advice: make sure you know the form factor of your NICs. I accidentally bought FlexibleLOM cards. They look suspiciously like PCIe x8, but won't quite fit. FlexibleLOM to PCIe x8 adapters are cheap though.
Not sure what kind of company you work for, but where I work, I am the approval process, so I mostly do whatever I want, as long as it doesn't compromise my network. I would assume that "can I install X?" also means "X + it's dependencies"
Saying that due to my skin, regardless of my actual life and heritage, I have some “privilege” for which it’s okay to discriminate against me as an institution is the definition of institutional racism:

Racial bias + power.

I’m uninterested in your semantic game to justify that racism.
Private room vb4, will never forget. Raw, Ash, MrChichis, igneus.. fun times.
well it also cant selectively turn off cores based on load either so
Turkmenistan rips page from authoritarian playbook, digitally disconnects nation
I think the simulation aspects of conscious and intelligence are fundamental. We don't simulate the world, we simulate what we might experience.
The average user doesn't understand search engines then. It's expected that any search engine will prioritize certain results over others, because that's the entire point of a search engine, it filters and ranks sites.

"Unbiased" is doing a lot of work here. I think DDG's messaging about that could have been better, and they could have better indicated what was going on when they used that language -- but to be clear, there has never in the entire history of DDG as a browser been a period where they didn't rank political content and where certain political sites weren't given higher search rankings over other sites.

There is no betrayal here because this is just how search engines work. There couldn't have been a period where DDG wasn't ranking political sites because the only way for a search engine to avoid ranking political content is to not return political results in the first place (never mind the conversation of what does and doesn't count as "political").

At most what we see here is that DDG was a little too eager to lean into people's misunderstanding about what they meant by the word "neutral", and too slow to correct people who took something away from that phrasing that wasn't true.
So what you are telling me is that if you own your home, drive an electric car, grow at least some of your own food and try not to get injured you can pretty much beat the system? Thats the dream!
Groups absolutely have an emergent consciousness, whether it is based on consensus or tyranny. Even a "human self" is ultimately a symbolic, higher-order complex formed from separate, often competing cognitions. In a very similar way, a group forms a mind and thinks, even if only one person is calling the shots: your conscious awareness will likely tend towards the cognitions created by your core beliefs, but that doesn't mean the others aren't there. They're just less conscious.
The implication is not that it isn't bad, but that it is a supply and demand issue rather than a monetary issue.
They originally used - but IBM wanted /
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The number of infections is down.

Restrictions mostly gone / loosening without any disastrous results.

Sounds about right for now.

I worry about COVID, but I also worry about wearing out people / society / side effects. If there's space to loosen restrictions I'm all for it.

Let the scientists keep a lookout, let the citizens relax.
Ah, so I'm just a nitwit who is a danger to himself. Got it. That must be why they tax me - they know I can't responsibly handle having disposable income to spend on vices.
I have no idea. But it does seem to coincide with the booming interest in cryptocurrencies. I suspect crypto is many people's first introduction to basic economics and finance. Crypto has a very Hayekian / Libertarian bent, so I think it makes sense that this hyperinflation fear is so common 'round these parts.
though a certain female family member would disagree, claiming to remember conversations word-for-word years later

Surely many people do. Otherwise you wouldn't have all these biographies and non-fiction books packed with conversations people have managed to recall in a level of detail enough to not get sued. I can barely remember a line of conversation from this week, let alone important ones from years ago, so I always assumed most/many people can remember conversations to some reasonable level in a way that I cannot.
I think this is already possible.

I have seen research where false memories were induced into people by photoshopping childhood images of those people into events that did not happen to them — and worse, in 16% of cases just by showing adverts of things that could not happen such as meeting Bugs Bunny at Disney World (wrong franchise): http://people.uncw.edu/tothj/PSY510/Loftus-Memory%20for%20Th...
From my experience with corporate IT departments is that if you ask nicely, you can install what you want if you explain the usage and that doesn't collide with any tool that is already in use. If you get a linux machine, you probably even get administrative rights, but that depends a bit on the company. But many IT departments only provide rudimentary support and you are responsible for the system working.

Of course IT is wary of users installing random software because that is their job. But if you communicate your intend it didn't ever pose a problem for me.

If you have a windows machine you should be aware that there are portable apps, which don't require administrative privilege. So you could just download Firefox, 7zip or any editor you would like to use. I would still communicate it to IT, but you wouldn't need to bother them.

If I had to ask for every package I need or just want to test, IT wouldn't have any free minute anymore. But they might want to check if you are responsible about your downloads.

Corporations often disallow SSH, so if you want to login to any remote systems, IT might need to build a tunnel for you. They generally dislike that because of the security risks, so developers often get placed into their own subnet to limit any fallout in case of security breaches.
During the pandemic, my ballet instructor switched from teaching in-person classes to teaching online classes.

Although they saved money on studio rental and travel, they ended up teaching far fewer students - despite starting out with an established group of regular students, and charging much less than an in-person class would cost.
Hypnotist David Snyder says it is (one level) the other way around.

The first answer you get from the unconscious and it is right.

After that you start making up lies to be socially acceptable.
> Surely only the purveyors of political misinformation could disagree with this.

Ah, the preemptive "if you disagree with me you're spreading propaganda" tactic. Bold.

The funny part is how much your comment reveals about your own bias. Most other people can see it, but you yourself cannot. The exact thing you're accusing others of.
Anyone feel amazed at how many blogs are under a {user}.github.io domain? Github is not just about open source, it's a blogging platform too. People forget that.
Agree completely, what is the worst that Apple is going to do with that data? Find out how to sell me more of their services and products?

Not sure they could sell me much more considering I already do Apple One premier (or whatever the highest tier is), Apple TV's, HomePods, AirPods, etc etc.

Maybe that is a bit of the wrong mentality, but it's a balance for me.
Maybe it's just your outlook. VR is progressing rapidly. Electric cars can drive themselves. Rockets land themselves. We can output MRNA vaccine's in days that solve major issues. 3D printing is getting really awesome and cheap. You have access to more compute than ever. Deep learning is solving vision and language.

What's so boring?
That makes a lot of sense. One big result from a lot of the subliminal stimuli research scientists do is that nothing that doesn't enter your consciousness and get combined with your other sensory input streams get preserved by the brain for more than a second or so. As best we can tell conscious awareness has a far narrower bandwidth than your visual cortex so of course its dropping details.
I firmly believe that the whole "masks aren't necessary for ordinary people" was not based in any science at all, but because they were next to impossible to find, and they didn't want a panic.

In my midsize town, with a 600 bed hospital, people (staff, patients, etc) were walking through the ER, and stealing whole boxes of N95 masks off of shelves. The hospital had to move them all to locked cabinets along with the addictive painkillers. They were almost completely out, and not able to get any more.

There were literally states/hospitals organizing a purchase (at insane prices) only to have the feds come and seize the masks and end up with nothing.
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> Yet there was not this inflation during the Fed balance sheet runup in 2008-2018......

Could you think of something which happened in 2008 which might have impacted the velocity of money in the global economy, despite the aforementioned QE? QE works great following a recession. For quite a number of years later, in turns out. But not forever. At some point the economy recovers and continuing to pour gasoline on it stimulates it beyond the target inflation zone.
This is so cool. I'ver definitely wanted this tool multiple times over the last couple of years.
There have been a couple DuckDuckGo initiatives recently where they force you to download their mobile app in order to get access to a product or feature on the desktop. I don't see how this is necessary, and it seems a little bit like a "growth hack", which is not the tone I want to associate with DuckDuckGo.
I generally agree, but cars are fully integrated into even the most non-western countries regardless of wealth or poverty. I admittedly can't imagine solutions that also help us meet our (time constrained) climate objectives or which don't cost trillions of dollars, but I think it's pretty rhetorically crumby to criticize someone's "ability to imagine an alternative" without proffering one's own proposal.
Modern ML is incredibly inefficient
I learned to program by writing apps to punt other users and scroll chat rooms. Those were the good ol' days!
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> you’ve won the lottery by living in one of the few places in the US that has a functioning public school system

Are you seriously claiming that's there exists significant portions of the USA where children don't have access to school? That's absurd.

I'm Canadian, my kids go to public school. In fact, we're walking there right now; a privilege I wouldn't have if I had to be in a car, commuting to an office at this moment.
Did you try VP9? Huge jump in quality as well. Slightly worser than AV1, available for ages (not apple though?)