skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a number of levels at which you could interpret the research in this article.

One is at face value, in terms of what the article is saying: that the things people look for in dating are not the things that bring happiness in a relationship. There's probably a lot of wisdom in what's discussed — find happiness in yourself before you look for it in a mate, what's important aren't the things you see at first glance in a potential mate, and so forth.

Another way of interpreting all of this though, is that the researchers are extremely off in the way they're approaching these topics. For instance, are people really happy in a relationship if they tell a researcher they're happy in the relationship? Is saying in a research survey that you're happy the same thing as being happy? Is it the same as predicting divorce or relationship dissolution? How would you measure relationship happiness? Is that the same as relationship functioning? Does the difference matter?

I'm not sure I want to take sides in terms of how the research is interpreted — it might be a bit of both — but I couldn't help but wonder if we're all just completely missing the boat with relationships. How people approach online dating apps isn't necessarily how people approach dating in general, and how people talk about their relationships with strangers isn't how they actually feel about them. Maybe the problems are with how online dating apps are structured?

I guess I came away from this really unsure of what to make of it. It's pitched as a message about how you should think about relationships, but I came away wondering about the dating research industry. For me it's a bit broader — I've started to wonder about reported well-being in surveys, for example, as barometers of actual societal well-being — but it applies to relationships nonetheless.
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I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.

For background, in the 3D printer market there is a really big step function in 3D printers. The least expensive (and thus widely used) are the Creality printers which are made in China and evolve quickly as the open source market does, but seem to suffer from reliability issues. More expensive are the Prusa printers which are also open source, but rock solid in their operation and well supported. In terms of value they probably reach a good compromise between openness and capability per $ spent. Then in the "full commercial" mode (which has things that commercial users need like 24/7 on site repair, solid warranty terms and easily replaced parts that tend to have a usage lifetime (like extruders) are Makerbot (which was bought by Stratsys) and Ultimaker.

The first printer I ever bought was a Makerbot Replicator, which turned out to be the last fully open source Makerbot printer they ever produced. I chose it because Makerbot was a leader in the field and it had dual extruders so you could extrude an easily rinsed of "support" material as well as your main material and that made 3D printing complex shapes possible. It never worked well. I mean it worked as well as it could, but its best day wasn't really a good day.

I augmented it by getting a Prusa Mk3S, which has been an excellent printer. It fixed all of the issues that the Makerbot had, but lacked dual extruders so it could not easily use a separate support material. I've been very happy with the Prusa and got the kit to upgrade it to an Mk3S+ (basically better bearings) and it remains my "go to printer." However the combination of a lack of support material and the difficulty of printing ABS without an enclosure, lead me to get my third printer.

And I went back to Makerbot and got one of their Method-X printers. Their marketing makes it sound a lot better than it is, and it still requires manual build plate leveling which seems really lame for printer that lists for over $6000. My alternative choice in "pro" printers was the Ultimaker S5 (also a $6000 printer) but those don't show up on the used market nearly as much[1]. So I found a used Method printer before I found a used Ultimaker.

Sadly, the merger announcement seems to have Makerbot in charge of R&D which seems backwards. They are good at marketing, R&D not so much. Hopefully the combination will make a 3D printer company that can compete with Prusa, but if Prusa starts shipping the -XL printer, I think it is going to be a tough road.

[1] This is probably a better signal of usefulness than I give it credit for :-)
There's no evidence otherwise. You have to believe that the mind has a materialist basis or else you believe in woo woo magic.
Thanks, I appreciate your openness to feedback
I don’t know whether this is a crypto crash or part of some wider downturn or maybe even not a crash at all, but I think it’s perfectly rational to welcome a market correction. Anything being wildly overvalued or undervalued causes bad decision-making and makes us all collectively net poorer.
Amazon is doing a big stick buyback this year. Currently that’s a more tax efficient way to accomplish income production for most of its shareholders. Alibaba is doing the same.

Netflix has done buybacks in the past but their financials aren’t great right now.
I think the critical question here is does it have a concept of cattyness? This to me is the crux of a AGI: can it generalise concepts across domains?

Moreover, can it relate non-cat but cat-like objects to it's concept of cattyness? As in, this is like a cat because it has whiskers and pointy ears, but is not like a cat because all cats I know about are bigger than 10cm long. It also doesn't have much in the way of mouseyness: it's aspect ratio seems wrong.
Don't sweat it. People win the lottery too, but that does not make it an 'investment'. I've always thought of the lottery as a tax on people with bad math skills. You could win but you might have a better chance of getting struck by lightning.
We don't have that phrase in English but it translates very clearly. Interestingly, your description of Orban's behavior exactly matches a somewhat famous game theoretic analysis of international leaders' behavior called "the two-level game." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-level_game_theory

He's not unique in this regard. Every national leader has to consider the interests and perceptions of their domestic power base when negotiating with international leaders. Very often a mismatch between their rhetoric and actual behavior indicates that they are trying to sell an unpopular but necessary international agreement to the people back home, or that they must accept an international reality that does not match their domestic political framework.

For example, Putin finds himself in a difficult position right now because he has convinced his people that the Russian military is invincible and the Ukrainians are dominated by a small number of Nazis who need to be removed from power. Meaning, his domestically acceptable "win set" only includes scenarios in which Ukraine cedes large swathes of territory and makes at least some notional concessions around governmental reform toward "de-nazification." Anything else admits the political framework he uses to justify his power is premised on falsehoods and risks destabilizing his regime.

These positions are of course not consistent with reality and therefore not within the Ukrainian win set, and so no agreement will be reached until something changes. I suspect that is why Russian journalists/propagandists have recently started recasting the war as a conflict against NATO, because that will make defeat more palatable to the Russian people. Getting beat by NATO doesn't mean the Russian military was horrifically incompetent and their government deeply corrupt, but rather that it was an unfair fight sprung upon them by evil westerners. It feeds their sense of grievance while excusing Putin and his lackeys from any personal responsibility for the widespread military failures.
Absolutely. Having an ideal to fight for and a vision of a better future are both necessary to move beyond the current system.
Is there any plain text editor shipped with MacOS?
They weren't betting on Terra though, they were betting on Luna, which isn't pegged and is obviously a bet.
I shouldn't need to strategize to be seen as a human. But yeah go ahead and blame queer people for people thinking they are subhuman.
Thanks for your reply!

I also think it's scientifically interesting and appreciate the work.

But it should be called a model or illustration, because a human could never see this with bare eyes.
I believe the spec you link is a future proposal at the moment. And I trust a consortium of folks from a variety of browser vendors along with folks from other interests over a single product, when it comes to trying to figure out a better way to make things more accessible. And maybe Flutter can just use AOM in the future when it's available in browsers.

As of Feb, 2022:

> While still in draft form within the Web Incubator Community Group, the Accessibility Object Model (AOM) intends to incubate APIs that make it easier to express accessibility semantics and potentially allow read access to the computed accessibility tree.
It sounds like a perpetual motion machine. 100% of Revenue comes from land but somehow this isn't passed on to those occupying the land. It also ignores entire segments of the economy that don't have significant land requirement: Finance, services, digital Commerce.

Google on Googlers pay no taxes but plumbers and homeowners in urban areas pick up the slack. Sounds highly regressive
Haha, nice, that does explain why PostHog adopted Kea! :)

I know I've said this in a couple issue threads, but just to re-state it publicly:

As Redux maintainer and RTK creator, I do feel RTK is the best approach for using Redux, and that's why we now teach it as default.

But it's great that you've been able to build out an alternate toolset on top of the Redux core that suits your needs and share that, and it's _also_ my job as maintainer to make sure that you still have the tools available to keep that working. (which is why even though I've marked `createStore` as deprecated per our prior issue threads, we're not going to _remove_ it - too many apps and libs depend on it as-is.)

And yeah, agreed that Kea and RTK have different areas of focus. We don't _want_ to handle routing or forms :)
There are things that can be useful in the abstract and so antithetical to usefulness in actuality that it's not really worth getting into.

Like... the idea of using blockchain to ensure a decentralized * network.

We've HAD them before on the internet. They worked fine as long as the average person knew nothing about them. They don't work when 12 year olds and 4chan trolls and Trump groupies get access.

Wanna fix social networks?

Step 1: Recreate twitter.

Step 2: Make it compatible with user-created subscribable blocklists (and exception lists) that can be shared and modified.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

You never have to see anything but the content you like, and it's still "free speech" even under the most ridiculous faulty application of the term because the company isn't blocking anyone directly. List owner block someone you like? Add them as an exception.

Boom, social media solved, at least until people who are REALLY for personal responsibility decide it's too much trouble.
Get some new IRL relationships. I find volunteering for a cause an amazing way to make new friends.

Source: I am in a tech-oriented urban environment and I know nobody who is into crypto.
Tesla produced the first ICE-equivalent EV sedan that was not merely a "compliance vehicle" in decades.

Then, it turned out, people bought them by the hundreds of thousands, single-handedly recreating the market for EVs.

Then, other manufacturers noticed, and started realizing they might be left behind if they didn't take EVs seriously.

Now, sure, there are many competitors, but even still they have only been built in small quantities.

How long Tesla's edge will last is an open question, but there's no question that Tesla has single-handedly exploded the demand for EVs in the consumer vehicle market.
Yes, absolutely! The most people actually using crypto for payments are scammers and criminals (ex. ransomware), most of them is bad for the environment (huge energy consumption) and NFTs are basically a huge scam for non-technical people. I hope all these criminals go broke and there will be finally some actually useful things can happen.
> What real math is involved in predicting the stock market?

Are we really comparing the two markets?

Owning a stock means owning a piece of a business. If you have all the stock in the world, you seized all means of production, good job.

If you own all the UnpossibleJimCoins in the world what exactly has changed? Oh but that coin is not insert another coin, it doesn't have the consensus/cult.
parasitic procedures

You can be almost sure that once the underlying mechanism is known, the necessary stuff will be synthetised instead of being transferred from a young person to an older one. If only to guarantee stable supply, consistent quality and rule out accidental transmission of various pathogens from the donor.
That would be Andrew Sullivan the eugenicist and warmonger?
Well, there are clauses saying after condition X is met you get Y. Clauses that would say you can't be fired up to Z days before you reach X are neither common, nor would they fundamentally fix the problem if you think about it. If you can prove that preventing bonus vesting was the reason you were let go, it might be worth talking to a lawyer, though - courts have the power in principle to intervene in such cases.
Maybe it is related to the language of the keyboard.
Imagine you are a customer looking for an authentication solution to help you integrate with customer enterprise systems.

Were you going to search for work OS? No you’re going to pick from one of the words above.

I think inflating a product by obscuring it behind grandiose facades is a rookie marketing mistake.

Unless your apple and need a name for a new Color or something.
I am not a doctor.

SIDS seems to be a catch all for a lot of things. Putting babies on their back, removing objects and bumpers from the crib, etc did reduce SIDS but didn’t eliminate it.

This may be a major chunk of what is still considered SIDS but is not 100% of what is considered SIDS
I will expect more people to mock this decade of extreme marketingspeak that was funded with fake money and fat investor pockets. The people doing the mocking will lead the next wave of tech growth
No reason except most of recorded history but if we throw that out sure humans aren't panicky herd animals that can't assess risk or long term plan.
Elephant shit also has a finite supply, and is actually more useful than Bitcoin.
There's a ton of scummy behaviour with things like this.

Skype was particularly scummy. Not only were executives fired to avoid a payout, their options/shares were bought back at a low price (called a clawback agreement) and the company was incorporated in the Caymand Islands (IIRC) so suting them was going to be incredibly difficult.

Mark Pincus of Zynga fame decided a bunch of people didn't deserve to get rich on the IPO so went to some people to get them agree to a smaller options package than they had in exchange for not being fired.

These two fired suggests they didn't have clauses in their contracts for acceleration in the event of termination and/or they possibly had clauses that would give them a big payout. Or maybe it was just the timing to avoid a final vest (assuming a 4 year vest, which isn't a given).

The two may even have grounds to sue so Twitter may have settled with them prior to this announcement for less than they would've had to pay out. This avoids litigation, the two exxecs get something and Twitter has to pay out less. Win, win, win (sort of).
I disagree. The edge of a BH is essentially an asymptote. While there is a mathematical bright line, when looking at it you should see light in all manner of red/blue-shifted colors near the event horizon. Since that light is coming in from a variety of directions it leaves in a variety of directions too. Everything would look soft and fuzzy around the edges. Out of focus.
>"When did this start happening?", I thought. But looking into it, it seemed as if it had always been like this -- only of course it hadn't!

I feel like it has been like this, at least on Windows, for more than 10 years. I remember working on projects in highschool, copying data from the browser to Microsoft Word and having to remove formatting.
> there is no way to create an abundance of physical space.

Sure there is. The sky is the limit, quite literally. A 10 floor building can fit 10x the amount of people that a single house can.

We have the technology, we have people willing to put the time and effort into using it. The only thing stopping this is some nonsense law.
> Chomsky starts from the position that the general population is ignorant of history and politics and can be programmed by the elites to what ever worldview.

Oh right, that they are a blank slate that one can just write things on? Except that’s a thesis about human beings that he has specifically argued against.

Typical “ignorant masses” projection by some vulgar Marxist interpretation.

Speaking of skin in the game: Chomsky protested against the Vietnam War. A war fought in part by conscripts on the American side. How does that jive with your condescending theory that Americans have no skin in the game?
I just tried in Gmail and cmd-shift-v worked.
Part of the deal with being an executive is no job security. It's part of the trade you make for gigantic compensation. I never really feel bad for executives who are fired, even for unfair reasons -- it's just part of what they sign up for.
that's far too considerate an opinion to put on the internet :)
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> if I had just kept the little I had... But I'm really just too risk averse

I don't think it's about risk, it's that if you hold stocks or crypto or many other kinds of investment, and your holding is worth $x right now, if you're a believer in the efficient markets hypothesis, you have no real idea whether it's going to go up or indeed down in the future.

I bought a house because it's a place for our family to live, not because I belive it's going to appreciate in value. If you buy ten houses, you need to have information - or sheer belief - that your investment is going to pay off.
A new robotic pigeon can bend its wings like a real bird
Does this deal have a serious chance of going through? My estimate, based on the direction of Tesla stock, is this deal will not go through.
Authorities regularly stop people who's flight itinerary include certain nations. When I flew to Iraq, I split my ticket.

I flew to Sweden, and then on an entirely different ticket paid for via Swedish company from Sweden to Iraq.

This isn't advice or saying to do that. But when I did it, the computer in the US didn't know to flag my flight -- I looked like a normal person just going to Sweden. It's all horse shit of course, going somewhere the government doesn't approve of isn't evidence of a crime.
> Transfers of wealth from productive to unproductive industries arent risks worth rewarding

Down that path lies authoritarianism: who decides what is productive?

Is art productive? Is your comment on HN productive? Is beer productive? Is Haskell productive? Are you productive? It isn’t hard to argue most everything is non-productive. Remove all non-productive uses of money or time, and what is left?
I am old enough to remember passport controls when going skiing in Austria, which was 30 km away from my home. Hell, imagine to show documentation at nation borders! The audacity!
So if the company has widespread layoffs (not saying that's what happened in this case), then anyone on paternal/maternal leave is automatically immune?

> This sends a horrifying message to employees.

Yeah, as someone without kids, your proposal certainly sends a horrifying message to me.
> but afaik that platform is pretty heavy on politics

Twitter is what you want it to be, topic-wise, based on who you follow and what they like to talk about. Further tuning is possible using blocks and muted keywords.

However, there is bleed because people you follow and Twitter's recommendation features can't help themselves (and not just about politics; anything "newsy" pops up).

What happens when Elon's "anything under U.S. law" approach kicks in is toxic behavior and arguments will get so extreme that it will drive millions of people away, and those who are left will see the quality of their feeds decline. Then many of them will bail, too.

> That only works because HN is, mostly, politics-free.

This place holds together because the signal:noise ratio is so high and @dang and the community work to keep it that way. Toxicity and low-value contributions kill communities, regardless of the topic at hand.
I am glad. And it is not because of schadenfreude either. I believe that crypto has actually been a serious contributor to inflation through the use of electrical power for "mining" crypto.

It is no coincidence that last year when bitcoin achieved unheard of highs and many obscure cryptos, including at least one that was started as a joke, achieved multibillion market caps was also the year when many power companies around the world found themselves suddenly without the ability to provide sufficient power to demand.

Sure there were other reasons. But crypto was part of it. And probably the most important part because it is the most drasticaly rising source of power demand.

You see power demand is usually not that hard to predict. It depends on boring slow changing factors, like population numbers, number of households, GDP, average temperature, etc. So power utility commissions and power companies had a relatively easy time predicting demand and keeping up with demand.

Then crypto comes. And then the price of crypto skyrockets to the point that people can really print money by plugging in computing devices in their wall sockets.

All of a sudden power demand goes up much faster than power companies can handle. And we have high power costs, power outages etc. OF course there were other factors, such as extreme weather events, etc. but the higher power costs persisted even after the extreme events were over.

There are official estimates floating around the web that crypto uses about half of percent of worldwide power. I suspect the real number is much higher. Crypto power use is hard to estimate because a lot of crypto power use is done secretly.

If bitcoin actually crashes to very low numbers (like 3 digit dollars), then we will see a dramatic reduction of power use, and all the experts and power utility commissions will be surprised how much power crypto was using all this time.
I agree. The problem is that Putin is not interested in diplomacy. Putin has made it very clear that he only respects force. So the only way to convince him not to invade a country he wants to invade, is a hard guarantee that NATO will defend that country. That's the only way. And NATO didn't give that promise to Ukraine, which is why Putin felt he could invade it.

NATO is now trying to prevent escalation while still trying to help Ukraine and prevent it from being conquered. The problem is that now there's a violent and bloody stalemate. It needs to stop, but the only way to stop is for Putin to pull his forces out of Ukraine, and he's not going to do that without some very strong arguments.
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
> font face

Except where you're copying math and all your Greek alphas change to a.

Your smart copy/paste would be great if it is smart enough to infer the right options from context, and update from my subsequent adjustments.
holy cinnamon I've never seen this -- brilliant
When the CEO "asks you to leave," it is absolutely the same as being fired.
What's the difference between intelligence and consciousness? Could a human be intelligent while not conscious?