skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people I know who moved to nyc because “they really need a girlfriend at this point” shows how dense cities is the answer for single people
How to edit file in /nix/store?
I am suggesting that the political spectrum is not just "the left, which cares about human suffering," and "the right, which does not".

Or maybe I'm just nuts and there's no one else that thinks individuals should have agency to decide whether they're suffering or how that suffering should be alleviated.
New book offers surprising insights into the traits of outstanding people
I’m a lifelong atheist, but I am starting to look at religion simply for the community and fellowship.

But honestly I don’t want to be religious. It seems like it entirely suspends one’s ability to think critically, and I have so little of that particular talent that letting go of what I do what feels like a disaster in the making. It feels exceptionally hard to go into it with an open mind.
I’d completely forgotten about the abdication.

Also regarding the vertical system of yes sayers, if I’m not mistaken a lot of those people were essentially telling Nicholas that he should maintain the autocracy in various ways because he had some hesitations about it.

I should read up again and refresh my memory. The empire was incredibly fascinating.
> I said the same about XP and, before that, about Win98.

But were you wrong?
I have this too. Is there some study showing it is the same underlying problem causing both symptoms? I only knew that you are more likely to have tinnitus and migraines if you have visual snow.

There are some treatments for both symptoms. The ones I've tried involve listening or looking at static. Neither had much effect on me.

The best way I've found to deal with it is to ignore it. focusing on treatments preversly makes me more aware of the annoyance.
When it comes to foreign policy, the Ukrainians have as much agency as the average American, and it doesn’t help them that in this case it’s American foreign policy that has caused them issue.
internet has made us soft in a sense, most people on HN judging by comments, think very narrow set of things are important - money at job, leetcode, status, politics, grievances. but actually collective action to avert disaster and genocide are the most important things.

I think war is the immediate future, and HN folks will have no way to cope. everyone should be doing science, lobbying congress for a carbon tax, forced urbanization.

individualism fueled by social media has a lot of people on here who think NIMBYs and WOKE are the only real threats
Not a network, but this site has been my go-to for decades for recent archaeological news — https://www.archaeologica.org/news.
> If Apple had instead shipped batteries with instructions for pure DIY repair, we’d be reading an article about “I tried to replace my iPhone battery but I destroyed my iPhone in the process”

Is that happening with cars? Because you can trivially walk up to any dealership and buy brake parts.

> It’s standard practice for manufacturers to cite specific manufacturer tools

Normal, cross-manufacturer tools (aka wrenches, sockets, etc) will get you 90% of the way there, and kludgy, one-off hacks with what you have on hand will usually get you the last 10%.

The main problem with regards to Apple and the right to repair is parts availability and intentional restrictions against repair such as part serialization where it still needs Apple to be in the loop to "pair" the part to the new device. Nobody was complaining about the lack of a specific machine to open their iPhone - that problem has been solved already long ago.
At least in the Philadelphia area, the ingredients are often summed up as “everything but the oink.”
I believe over multiple poker hands that advantage from luck would quickly diminish and then disappear. I would be very surprised if any normal chess player, a total novice at poker, would be able to beat the best poker player in the world if they sat down to play for a couple of hours straight.
In some cases, but I have known pretty happy billionaires.

Being happy is being satisfied with what we have. If we have what we want, we tend to be happy.
I think it will be climate change leading to food and water shortages that trigger the collapse. Or perhaps I should say “new normal” after “new normal”
The page at the link that @onphonenow provided details numerous ways, written into California law, that a pedestrian may not always have the right of way.
ha ha evil troll
Browsing https://selfservicerepair.com/home, it seems to me they do more or less exactly that (the parts sometimes are bundled with mounting screws, the manuals assume you have professional tools, and you’ll have to call them to DRM ‘register’ your new part with the other hardware.

I can’t find the requirement to rent this set of tools on that site (disclaimer: I can’t fully emulate a sale, as the site asks for an IMEI, and I don’t have a device for which they sell parts)

So, from my browsing, renting the tools seems optional.
How people feel about the future of the world seems to be largely colored by how they feel about themselves and how they feel about their own future. At least from a sentiment/valence perspective.

The future will have vastly more technical innovation in the next few decades than we’ve ever had. We’ll have 10,000x the amount of software we currently have. We’ll use that software to innovate in every non-software sphere, too.
Just wanted to spotlight this model response to a beginner’s misguided question. Feeling good about humanity.
Crypto Might Have an Insider Trading Problem
>Apple can trivially comply with Right To Repair by just selling parts, documentation and any software needed to pair new parts.

... which they do! It's $69.00 for the iPhone 13 mini battery or $70.99 for the kit which also includes a replacement display adhesive and a set of spare security screws. In both cases, you can get $24.15 credit when you return your old battery.

You don't have to get the toolkit; you can put together your own tools and do whatever crazy shit you want with a hairdryer or whatever.

Are you seriously saying that Apple's decision to both sell and rent (on what I'm pretty sure must be a loss-making basis) the tools that they themselves use for the repairs is ... malicious?
Obviously, and it's pretty juvenile and reddity to imply I hadn't even read the article, thanks. It might surprise you that there's actually a lot more to Haiti's post-colonial history than just the debt the French tried to call in.

30 years of rule under the Duvalier dynasty held Haiti back in the 20th century much, much more than the country's central debt, but I understand the urge to direct the blame the struggles to one specific cause instead.
War is cruel. I’m not seeing anyone saying the individuals who lost their lives deserved it.
Removing characters for lossy text compression is only a silly idea if trying to solve a conventionally practical problem.

Spoken and written languages have roughly a 3x overhead for channel coding. You can get a message across while losing characters and even whole words. Does lossless compression to entropy of text really capture all of the data saving possible? What if you undid some of the channel coding by dropping sets of characters or words then compressing? We don't need to do it (bits are quite cheap), so we don't, but it is an interesting problem that helps think about other problems.
> we've discovered a large chunk of humanity doesn't believe in science and cares only about themselves.

Ironically, both "sides" feel this way.
I came to this article expecting it to be about a potential cause for tinnitus in disturbed sleep, but the claim within it actually seems to be that tinnitus causes sleep disturbance, specifically of slow-wave sleep.
Did Github ever solicit feedback from the community for this feature? Was there ever a beta before they rolled it out?

Because some of these critiques really should have been dealt with beforehand and I'm concerned that we're now stuck with lousy defaults that they won't ever be able to change.

The visual font size problem seems particularly disastrous:

> The math font is a really small,

> MathJax’s default font MJXTEX-I and GitHub’s default text Helvetica have a different x-height/cap-height ratio.

I don't understand how Github could launch this feature with this problem unaddressed. LaTeX isn't just about getting formulas right, it's about communicating ideas.
Keep calm and do your best. Value the people around you. Cultivate your own skills.
I think everyone used to be religious and so church and mass was a way to get a community. Since more and more people are atheists, this community thing hasn’t really translated to the other side.
Cautiously optimistic.

I watch curiously from afar as we appear to be making our way towards the 2030s nanotech revolution that Drexler and others have talked about.

If that happens things like global climate change become manageable, antibiotic resistance and cancer are eliminated and we can take a crack at ending material scarcity.

But with that comes the threat of small scale DIY bioterrorism which increases the odds of our destruction.

Either way, I don't think that we can get out of our predicament with social coordination alone. Culturally and possibly as a species we just don't have it in us to coordinate this many individuals in the way to needed to tackle the problems, and there are too many defective bad-faith actors who aren't even really acting in self-interested positions if viewed from any timeline of significant length.

So my cautious optimism comes from technological revolutions. They've changed the face of human societies and improved the human condition for so many in the past, the hope is that they'll be able to do so in the future and that the nanotechnology revolution will lead to more individual autonomy than ever possible.
One anthropologist who has studied the collapse of human civilizations is Joseph Tainter. This podcast interview and youtube interview covers Tainter's research and perspectives. Both interviews are pre-pandemic and Tainter's concerns about globalization (the reliance on semiconductors largely made by TSMC in Taiwan or the reliance on the global sea shipping system) are now our everyday reality.

omega tau science & engineering podcast - 184 - Societal Complexity and Collapse

https://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-coll...

Joseph Tainter on The Dynamics of the Collapse of Human Civilization [2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsT9V3WQiNA
Switch Bounce and How to Deal with It (2015)
Nice. Will read.

One of the many notions from Lingua ex Machina [2001] is the evolution from protolanguage to proper language. From nonrecursive verb-noun clauses to recursive subject-verb-noun clauses.

https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Machina-Reconciling-Darwin-Cho...

That book had so many intriguing open ended questions, before we had the tech (ability) to verify stuff. IIRC, others were:

the way the neocortex is organized into hexagonal columns, which I think is what Jeff Hawkins (et al) is working on;

how notions compete inside our head using Darwinian processes;

how thinking (consciousness) may be like resonance across our brains, like a song.

Thanks again for the link. Am noob, so just barely grasp this stuff, but am excited nonetheless to learn about more recent findings.

We live in an age of miracles.

--

Summary copypasta from Amazon:

A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language.

A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle.

But structured language presents the same evolutionary problems as feathered forelimbs for flight: you need a lot of specializations to fly even a little bit. How do you get them, if evolution has no foresight and the intermediate stages do not have intermediate payoffs? Some say that the Darwinian scheme for gradual species self-improvement cannot explain our most valued human capability, the one that sets us so far above the apes, language itself.

William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax. They compare these intermediate behaviors to the curb-cuts originally intended for wheelchair users. Their usefulness was soon discovered by users of strollers, shopping carts, rollerblades, and so on. The authors argue that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were "curb-cuts" that indirectly promoted the formation of structured language. Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, Lingua ex Machina presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin.
> Obviously there is nothing wrong with this, but it makes sourcing split mechanical keyboards hard and expensive.

Wouldn't increased demand (regardless of purchase motive) increase supply and decrease the price?
Everytime I see prices of hard drives back in the day, I get a feeling that's a mixture of claustrophobia, despair and shock.
As currently defined, datetime.timezone doesn't directly expose the zone offset as a whole and always requires some reference datetime object to compute it, even though the built-in implementation would simply ignore it for now [1]. So it can be surely upgraded.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.tim...
the iPhone Mini was a testament to that Apple themselves will respond to a certain amount of market demand, however its inability to sell well (with reportedly under 4% of total iPhone sales) is probably going to be a lesson for Apple to heavily consider whether or not extra SKUs are really worth it.
Kremlin propaganda is so poorly constructed, and yet, some people still fall for it.

Source: I spent the last two years+ full time in Ukraine, much of the last decade in Ukraine.

I'm not Ukrainian - I just know reality from theatre.
I can understand your feelings and thoughts, I have the same from time to time.

On the other hand: Renewable energies are getting traction, new generations are valuing other things (not always 100% altruistic maybe, but better than before), cities start to develop in new ways and I think there might be a faint hope for some kind of big swing around.

Large issues like climate change and turbo capitalism with all problems are still there and I'm not sure how to "fix" them fast enough but I still have hope.

And: We, each of us, can still try to be "the best version" of ourselves every day and live and stand up for what we value and want the world to be. That's the least we can try, probably.

edit: What I really wonder: How do we overcome social media with all its negative effects. I'm on IG myself but it's all so full of bad stuff. social media really has to change somehow.
Yeah, but my understanding is that the manual issue is compounded by the fuel efficiency gains in newer automatic transmissions using these 8-speed designs, with minimum efficiency rules meaning it's impossible to match in a manual. I've noticed that in the handful of models still offering manual, often the manual is not offered with the top performance engine.

This seems to be happening in Europe as well where historically over 80% of cars have been sold with manual transmissions.
Millions will die in World War 3, Global Poverty will take root and lead to more lives lost, Natural Disasters will reduce arable land, etc..

Aliens will come and enslave the human race, Meteor will burst from the sky and wipe out all life on Earth

Or things go as always it has been with technological growth taking mankind to the stars and beyond

Who knows
Dogmatic for adherence to ideology above all else. One does not have to be violent or oppressive to be dogmatic. Monstrous for his dogmatic adherence to ideology, which would leave the Ukrainian people to fend for themselves in the face of the Russian invasion.

"Frankies" means fascists, humorously. Followers of Francisco Franco if it helps you remember.
The wealth of the world per capita grows at an exponential, but fixed rate (~3%, plus or minus). I don't think there's a way to get around that, so that 3% is zero-sum. You can argue that the rate that our productivity can grow yearly is unbounded, but I have yet to see evidence.
Is your argument that we currently don’t have the technology to have the phone’s screen and back enclosed hermetically in a reversible matter, while staying thin ? We’re also not arguing that no tool should be required, just not 79 pound ultra expensive ones.

We have 3d stacked nm features processors, I would not see the above as an unsolvable problem, nor even a very hard one to be honest.
>Is that happening with cars? Because you can trivially walk up to any dealership and buy brake parts.

What is your point here? You can just buy the parts trivially from Apple too.
I'm still digesting the paper (it's rather long) but working through multi-cloud brokers reminds me of Leslie Lamport's sarcastic description of distributed systems:

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer
you didn't even know existed can render your own computer
unusable. [0]

I would like to see a research direction that reduces dependencies in could systems rather than increasing them.

p.s., There have been a number of industrial attempts to commercialize the cloud broker idea. None have succeeded to my knowledge--the market does not seem to be there.

[0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...
Mel's Loop – A Comprehensive Guide to The Story of Mel
> We are blissfully unaware that a few short centuries ago people often behaved in much more depraved ways as soon as they were far enough away from the tenuous rule of law.

What makes you think this is true? I have plenty of experience of people who play very nicely with each other, even when they are for all practical purposes not bound by law to.

> why it took us a hundred thousand years to escape a subsistence lifestyle

You use the word "escape" as though we are universally better off now than when we spent a few hours a day foraging. Do you have evidence for this? What if people preferred to live their lives the way they did -- much like, I suppose, you prefer to live life the way you do?

(No doubt do many people now have it better than many people then, but it sounds like you're asserting that the opposite is not the case too.)
From the layperson’s perspective they already are repairable. Apple offers repair programs at a somewhat reasonable cost already. I doubt the average person will care if they themselves can repair it at home.
Hell yes! Back then here in the USA we had only 2 sexes, 3 TV networks, and all libraries had were these printed website things they called “books”.

Nowadays we have 57 sexes, 570 TV networks, and libraries in the city have evolved to their true purpose of sheltering the unhoused. And soon we won’t be burdened by our privacy belongings!

https://twitter.com/wef/status/800965291215818752?s=21

I mean, who wouldn’t see this as leveling up?
What else have you tried? Have you picked your own wild strawberries? Have you gone to a farm that grows them and has a stand?

I'm very skeptical that they're worth $2 per strawberry.
Small font size seems the easiest to fix. Kerning seems worse since people will manually tweak spacing with \, etc, so you can't just change it whenever you want.
I wonder how much not building your capital in a seismic zone helps.
Swappable with the aid of a screwdriver != detachable
Had they got the guy from Flextape, everything would've run on nitinol nowadays
I had vague problems in that area and changed pillows - I had a harder latex sort of pillow that was moulded, moved to a cheapo supermarket pillow and seems to have gone away.
A furnace fan will move a lot more air than a box fan would.

The reinforcement on the filters really depends on how much filtering they do. For example, this filter[0] has metal to help keep the filter media in place, but this one[1] has nothing.

The key difference is the MERV rating, the first one is a 13, the second is a 2. The higher the rating the more it filters, but the higher rating also makes it more difficult for the fan to pull air through and require better reinforcements to prevent the filter from getting sucked into the fan.

[0] https://www.homedepot.ca/product/filtrete-filters-healthy-li...

[1] https://www.homedepot.ca/product/hdx-20x20x1-fiberglass-air-...
No, what’s amazing is hearing people who are well versed in the multiple US foreign adventures that more often than not results in thousands of civilian deaths, political instability and worsening opinions about the US, vehemently argue that of course the US should intervene and anyone who even raises the idea that maybe we should mind our own business gets labeled as “pro-Russia”.

The left is basically parroting the exact same language the right did for all its foreign interventions.
Don't forget to adjust for inflation. A $4.5k disk drive in 1990 would cost around $9k today.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Are you suggesting that non-professionals are not capable of making simple websites?
Nooo way, really?
Disagree. You can feel lonely and be married. You can feel lonely in a happy marriage. I personally feel it if I don’t have a big group of friends.
>Self-determination and agency is only available to those who have the means to fight for it. Ukraine has none, it has whatever the nations providing 10s of billions in military aid allow it to have.

Fascinating claim about a country that has been successfully resisting a Russian invasion for 3 months with predominantly locally-produced (and upgraded) weapons.

Nevertheless, if we steelman your argument and agree that Ukraine can never be truly self-determined and that it must choose between US or Russia, then not choosing a country that has done to Ukraine what the Russian Federation has been doing at least since 2003[1] seems favorable.

There's also the matter of centuries worth of historic memory of repression and subjugation, tortures, rapes, murders, man-made famines, forced mass deportations, etc. perpetrated by Russian autocrats and dictators. And now, quite alarmingly, we are seeing Stalinist-style atrocities being committed in 2022[2,3]. With this in mind, falling under Russian occupation is the worst case scenario for Ukraine and Ukrainians.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Tuzla_Island_conflict
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_filtration_camps
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre