skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom out a little and try and think about the bigger picture.

In many industries, you can see these "bar-raisers."

Starbucks didn't invent coffee, but they created a mass market for a more premium sort of coffee in a country that previously didn't see coffee as something more that a thing you chug down in the morning so you can wake up.

Nintendo didn't invent video games, but they raised the bar for home consoles after the "great video game crash" and have repeated the feat several times since despite rarely if ever being on the cutting edge of tech.

And so on.

Tesla did something similar. Previously, electric cars and hybrids were seen as dorky and decidedly uncool by most. Tesla changed that public perception. It's hard to imagine the "luxury" electric car market existing without them. Perhaps another company might have accomplished the same feat, but Tesla was the first one to pull it off.

From a raw innovation standpoint, these advances are huge because by creating new market segments, they ensure a flow of money into those markets. Tesla's expense has paved the way for billions if not trillions of dollars into EV R&D and battery R&D. That matters, a lot.
The pods are here, pod living, whats next? Eating bugs?
200 Billion in crypto wiped out in 24 hrs is bound to cause ripple effects in traditional finance as well.

"Crypto has at least started to work its way into the real financial system. Some traditional investors also own crypto; if their crypto goes down they might have to sell regular stuff. Some public companies are exposed to crypto (because they are crypto exchanges, because they have levered crypto holdings, etc.), so your boring old index fund might go down when crypto goes down".

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-12/crypto...
Process isolation improvement never ends. Firefox 100, FF 1000, FF Universe... will be improved and hacked again. Why?
Thanks for calling them out (again). Honestly people in this forum are too eager to upvote contrarian opinions. I hold a PhD in physics, and I wouldn't feel qualified to challenge ETH's work.
I don't see slow change as a net negative. It's not necessarily positive, either, but not trying to fix things that work perfectly well is a good mantra (looking at you, Google).

Also, he was recently promoted to CEO, which would be strange if the common opinion at Twitter was that he failed as a CTO.
FTX CEO acquires 7.6% in Robinhood
Make sure to watch the Google Io from yesterday to see what Google actually is about.

Apple makes high quality luxury hardware and that's it.

Google tries to save the world (android, maps, secure by default, 24x7 renewable...). Of course overstating a little bit as google is still just a company who earns money
I've learned that, when speaking with a certain half of society, any narrative other than Twitter's future being bleak, and it current state good, is not accepted.

Twitter has huge monetary potential, and adoption potential (beyond the niche audience it current has), but if the status quo is kept them that potential will likely never be realized.
In some way, even though the crypto wave has been (and still is) it has atleast pushed the envelope a bit on the common understanding of cryptography. Normal people has heard some new words, some has interacted with some of the concepts, some has maybe even seen a private/public key. To some degree that makes me atleast a bit interested in what comes after that.

For example the concepts discussed in this article has some merits to them imo. Without the hype, digital signing could definitely be something artists could adopt to give their art a bit more uniqueness in the public eye.

I wonder if there are some ZK things that could further help artists with some of the things they are having problems with in the digital world. I am personally still just barely understanding the concept of ZK things so I clearly won't be the one figuring things like this out but I am really amazed by the cool things that it is able provide.
but most engineering programs aren't as cool as this.
It’s funny that while this is Ed Norton doing an Owen Wilson impression, it could very well be Owen Wilson doing Ed Norton.
For me at least, the fear is not so much about the specifics, but more around the fact of what exponential curves look like. At any point, everything before looks basically horizontal and anything after looks vertical. In that sense, the fear is that while things seem quite behind right now, it could in an instant zoom past us before we even have the time to realize it. It is partly rooted in science fiction.
> would you care to explain why is this?

I assume it's yet another case of the fallacy of revealed preferences.

If you look at what people actually do, any insight into what they want is confounded by environmental effects (eg, they'd prefer to use feature A, but feature A is missing or inconvenient to access, so they end up mostly using feature B), selection bias (feature A is most useful to precisely the people who know how to turn off or deliberately break telemetry), and other issues (A/B testing confirms that people have a revealed preference for clicking on animated icons (because they're trying to make the fucking thing stop squirming in their peripheral vision while they're trying to concentrate on something else)).

(Talking with users is definitely possible (usually easy) to screw up, but I have yet to encounter any evidence that it's possible to not screw up telemetry-based design decisions by any means other than ignoring the telemetry.)
This is the beginning of the end for streaming services. It was good while it lasted.
Cell phones mean busybodies can call from anywhere. Used to be they would have to stay in your business all the way home to make the call.
It's the usual HN physics thread stuff - for some reason physics really brings out the confidently incorrect crowd.
I will never understand this. I thought vine was going to be the next big thing right until the day they decided to shut it down.
That doesn't appear to be the case in HB 20, at all, although proponents have certainly tried to claim it is.
I'm not sure it works that way. It's not like you care less about your first child after having a second. They're all the most loved thing you have in life.
You mean like German police using the data from COVID tracing apps, although legally they should not be used for anything except virus tracing?

Or it doesn't count since Germany is not a democracy?
You’re getting downvoted for no apparent reason, but there’s an argument to be made here that crypto crashing would cause retail investors to pull out of investments altogether, and meme stocks like Tesla would take a hit. Bloomberg, WSJ, etc. are all writing about this potential contagion effect today.
It would. That's beside the point though. The React logo is an abstract shape hidden in the negative space of another abstract shape. The Internet is full of negative space logos of this sort, some more clever than others (React's ranks on the less clever end of the scale).

The FedEx arrow is an abstract symbol hidden in a wordmark, of which you can also find a lot of examples, most of which are created by compromising the wordmark's shapes, which the FedEx logo doesn't stoop to. The zzap logo also manages without this, though as you note, it could be improved further.

The point is that the React and FedEx logos are in different categories (despite having the "negative space" aspect in common), not just different levels of difficulty.
Zig's a regular presence on HN (as is creator Andrew Kelley).
Show HN: My TUI library, PyTermGUI now features an intelligent layout system
This was by far the most common missing feature of the library since my first post, so I'm really happy I managed to figure it out.

See the release for some code examples and a detailed changelog, and most importantly, have a great day!
That is false. SIDS is a term that refers to an unexplained death. Any death which can be root caused in any of the ways you refer to, or any other manner, cannot be diagnosed as SIDS.

It is not possible to root-cause SIDS because the term semantically refers to deaths without a known root cause. If a death can be attributed to a cause, it stops being SIDS.
Social media moderators really brought this on themselves.
Burn his reputation? No one knew who this guy was 2 weeks ago. Now he will just fail up like all other execs.
I'm picturing the solar system's first batch of actual moonshine.
> And does paper fiat have intrinsic value?

Yes, to the extent that people with guns will enforce its value (as I mentioned above).

> Bitcoin is trustless money. It's mindblowingly amazing that we now have trustless money. We've never ever had that before. That is the value.

You'll have to forgive me if I disagree that "mindblowingly amazing" constitutes "intrinsic value".
Staying Focused During Market Downturns
I suspect the reduced number of malicious acts by adults has been more than balanced out by the increased rate of children killing themselves as we cripple their development more and more over time.
A(G)I has become a question of compute economics, for better or for worse. Those with more tightly integrated computational capacity or a good enough logistically sound plan to acquire just enough of it soon enough win, hard.

Should we, the people, watch in awe as our best and brightest financiers chase towards the ultimate prize, the key to all that future entails?

Are those respectable people worthy of the key, and what happens to us in this wild scenario?
IDEA does this too. It's infuriating.
> Twitter under-performs [in] product innovation.

I see things differently. The number of customer-facing feature releases in recent years has been significant.

Yes, some are irritating (GIF integration). Others miss the mark (endless iterations of topics/explore/algo changes). Still others haven't been attempted but are sorely needed (editing tweets, clear verified account policies).

But a few innovations are trying to solve real problems identified by subsets of users (Twitter Professional, Twitter Blue) or help everyone a lot (photos, doubling tweet length, improvements to RT functionality, reporting tools).

Another thing to keep in mind: When discussion forums try to shoehorn too many things into the feature set, often to compete with other platforms, the results can alienate existing users. I see this with Instagram bolting on TikTok-like features, to the detriment of everyone who just likes to share photos.

(I am thankful most of HN's feature improvements have been restrained. Slashdot tried to do too much with new features, and it hurt rather than helped the community)
There's a number of comments here poking fun at the "conspiracy theory" aspect of this. Do people really believe it is a "crazy idea" that ultra rich amoral people would fund research into controversial life and health extension, even at the expense at younger people?
I've done some thinking over this and reading of the history, but I don't know that I disagree with any of your points, and clearly what you've said is factual. I mostly disagree from an opinion standpoint.

Particularly the following statement.

> The EU is optimised for ensuring basically nobody is doing anything against their will

To me, just because representatives from member states vote for something, it doesn't mean that individuals aren't being made to do something against their will.

Democracy itself always gives rights to the majority against the will of the minority. On top of that their are many issues with representative democracy to begin with including media manipulation and corruption.

As a defensive mechanism against other blocs I see your point, and its a catch 22. Governments are generally the cause of major wars. So, it feels counterintuitive to band together as another larger government with centralized control.

I wish that people would never rationalize "following orders." If that alone went away, then governments would become impotent.

I'll try to do some more research regarding my original post and get back to here again. These are just some of my initial thoughts. At this point, nobody else is watching this comment thread, so it's really just a discussion between you and I. No need to prove anything, so I'll try to be correct, researched, take my time.

Good chatting, and I'll follow up again in another day or so.

Cheers!
I don't think the landing page is bad. Product seems cool. I don't agree with the people talking about extra features. The main issue I feel is that this is something only people with quite a bit of money and leisure can afford (because it's not solving a direct problem, it's just for convenience). So you need something on the page that will unconsciously persuade these people that it's cool. It's an upmarket product but the website doesn't advertise it as such.

Rather than doing online ads I think a promo vid with a progressive looking family / hipsters would be more effective. ;)
I agree that in principle it sounds good. The one issue I pick up on here is the old 'tragedy of the commons' - some countries are just not going to want to pay for it, meaning that other countries will be hugely economically impacted by this. As far as I can see, the only way to make this enforceable for the entire planet is for the largest consumer economies (US&EU) to include a carbon boarder tax where emissions can't be outsourced to other countries.
And tragically, the eventuality is you'll be forced to get a new device supporting 5g/6g/Ng in order to retain telco network compatibility.

Why do the dominant manufacturers (Apple, Samsung) insist we not have a headphone jack and expandable storage? It's starting to feel rather stupid and like a huge ripoff.

Wireless headsets are expensive, and after a year or two the batteries wear out and the entire thing is junk. What a ridiculously high tax on customer wallets over time, not to mention the e-waste.

USB-C buds have been 100% crap on my experience. If you have recommendations in this department, please do share.
In Colorado a law was recently passed to deal with this. According to [0]:

"During its initial committee hearing, sponsoring state Rep. Mary Young, D-Greeley, said allegations of neglect or lack of supervision have been on the rise in Colorado, even as the number of substantiated cases are dropping. In 2019, there were 3,854 allegations of lack of supervision; 82%, or 3,169, were unfounded, she said."

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/31/colorado-reasonable-in...

edit: more context to quote
Even if a SIDS death takes place in such an environment, it has to be unexplained in order for that diagnosis to be applicable.

> low base rate of SID[S] deaths which have no obvious explanation.

All SIDS deaths have no obvious explanation; that is how SIDS is defined.
I alway just use awk to process csv files.

awk -F '^"|","|"$|,' '{print $2,$3}' whatever.csv

The above works perfectly well, it handles quoted fields, or even just unquoted fields.... This snippet is taken from a presentation I give on AWK and BASH scripting.

That's the thing about AWK, it's already does everything. No need to extended it much at all.
I think the fact that you keep framing this as a matter of “opinion” is revealing in itself. You speak of “provocation” as if it’s equal and commensurate to bombing and invading a country. I really cannot understand people who keep pushing this point. Ukraine decided they might like to join NATO - so therefore Russia has a right to invade and level the country. Please make this make sense to me. The bombs dropping on Ukrainian citizens every night while Russian citizens sleep in peace should tell you enough - this is not a matter of “opinion” - how easy to say that from a privileged position in which you and your home are under no threat.

And your analogy with Canada and China doesn’t hold up either. In that case too the US would have no right to invade a sovereign country for making decisions about its own future. You speak as if this imagined scenario somehow justifies Putin’s actions when it fact it highlights how wrong they are even more.
> The product is almost unchanged,

That we can see. Either the entire leadership is stupid and promoted a dud, or maybe there's more going on than meets the eye?
People have kept asking this question for the past 12 years. Meanwhile my TSLA shares bought in 2013 have been doing just fine.
Ubiquitous cell phones.

Things really were better before them. (Said as part of the last generation to experience that world)
Yeah, I know a lot of "upper middle class" folks in the US who have bought Teslas.

To be slightly more quantitative, we're talking about folks who make roughly $100K and up, particularly the ones who and don't have kids.

So, roughly the top 15% of earners in America.
Yeah the thing that was so freaky about AlphaZero is that it was more powerful than AlphaGo, despite being more general.

This system lacks that feature.
Yamaha QY70. I remember reading something 20 years ago, maybe more, about artists using it to compose while traveling. Probably Björk.

http://www.synthmania.com/qy70.htm
The fact that vine as a name and at least some vines are still at least somewhat prevalent online, makes me think that vine literally was "already" the next big thing and twitter just completely misread the room.
> You can't just start a restaurant (a private company) and say no blacks allowed

But you can ban people who start restaurants and say "no blacks allowed". Do you see the difference the two groups? One is what people are. The other is what they say or do. Discrimination based on the the first is illegal. Discrimination based on the second is not.
I am quite scared of human extinction in the face of AGI. I certainly didn't jump on it, though! I was gradually convinced by the arguments that Yudkowsky makes in "Rationality: from AI to Zombies" (https://www.readthesequences.com/). Unfortunately they don't fit easily into an internet comment. Some of the points that stood out to me, though:

- We are social animals, and take for granted that, all else being equal, it's better to be good to other creatures than bad to them, and to be truthful rather than lie, and such. However, if you select values uniformly at random from value space, "being nice" and "being truthful" are oddly specific. There's nothing universally special about deeply valuing human lives any more so than say deeply valuing regular heptagons. Our social instincts are very ingrained, though, making us systematically underestimate just how little a smart AI is likely to care whatsoever about our existence, except as a potential obstacle to its goals.

- Inner alignment failure is a thing, and AFAIK we don't really have any way to deal with that. For those that don't know the phrase, here it is explained via a meme: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/deceptively-aligned-me...

So here's hoping you're right about (a). The harder AGI is, the longer we have to figure out AI alignment by trial and error, before we get something that's truly dangerous or that learns deception.
Why does it need to screw into the heater? I picked up a coffee mug heating plate at a garage sale for $3. Works great.
I think in context, "vacant" means a property that nobody is living in and is not on the market for rent. It's simply owned by someone as an asset. This was the complaint in some parts of Canada: Chinese owner/investors buying condos and not renting them out but just letting them sit empty.
The link is badly formatted / designed, but if you click the show sources, it takes you to a page that says "288 since 2009".
This article¹ (you can find the full text on scihub) mentions that many flaws appear in the original study, such as

"Only 6 of the 167 coroner-pronounced SIDS
cases used fans, while only 36 of 309 controls used fans."

and

"The case and control groups were not similar at the
beginning of the study."

---

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19414701/
We should not expect private individuals or corps to be able to infringe on people's rights.

If a monopoly infringes on any of my rights, I expect the government to do something about it. Heck, even a non-monopoly company. Such companies should be split up, regulated, whatever, and the officers should be subject to penalties.

A monopoly should not be thought of in the same way as some random company.
Thanks to /r/quebec, /r/france finds itself in... Canada ?
Exactly, and I'm sure these incentives will start to increase in scale as the world sees the impact climate change will have on the wider economy.
I'm sympathetic to attempts to rein in overzealous social media moderation but... this position is entirely consistent with the EFF for as long as I remember there being an EFF. A law that says you can't moderate social media strikes me as worse than leftist moderators.
Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia (2018)
Technically, stocks are also just some bits somewhere. Ownership in general is just an agreement. If you own a house, it's only really yours as long as people agree that it's yours and respect your ownership.
That's interesting, but it won't work with native code that statically links a SSL implementation.
In 2019, they were claiming $3.5B a week. Even worse.
Plugged into the laptop (and into power) at all times. I found if I was moving the laptop from location to location (home to work, etc), most of the docks performed well. But if I leave my laptop for a week, eg only removing it on the weekend, all of the TB3 docks get squirrelly and in need of reset. Seems they all have problems with sleep or hibernate type situations -- even though macs don't hibernate unless on 2% power.

Nowadays I use amphetamine and never let my laptop sleep or display sleep while on power, ever. I also now set my display to never enter energy saver mode. I don't have to gumption to go back and retest any TB3 docks with those settings though. I rather like the Anker TB4 I have now.

IIRC I found CalDigit to be the most reliable, but it too would eventually crash or otherwise become invisible to the Mac.
I don't see why you wouldn't still be able to do that. Firefox still uses X11; it's just that the content processes can't directly speak the protocol now, and must go over IPC to a more trusted process to do so.
The US compared to Europe it's a shithole.
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> I thought SIDS had been debunked as...

SIDS is a generic catch-all for unexplained sudden infant deaths . That's why it's literally "sudden infant death syndrome".

At population scale, certainly some deaths would be counted in the SIDS bucket due to missing ordinary suffocation during the autopsy, but it's not correct to say that every SIDS case is just suffocation or that SIDS has been "debunked".
My 2016 OnePlus 3 is running LineageOS 18.1 (android 11) and will continue to recieve security patches for about 1 year if I recally the typical LOS lifecycle correctly.
They’re less rare in certain communities. Something like 20% of abductions in the US are hispanic girls despite that demo being roughly 10% of the US population of children.