skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think genetics has a larger predictive effect than sunlight.

We know this isn’t true because Singapore is practically on the equator and went from less than 10% myopia to over 90% in ~50 years.
I wish people would realize that Law and Order is different from Orderly Justice. Law and Order allows immoral laws and actions so long as they are codified in law and the "Order" from following the law can lead to injustice. Orderly Justice means there are procedures in place to ensure order while pursuing justice. Sometimes we get ticked off at how long it takes (look at all the process and time (and delays) involved in trying to determine the truth and ensure justice around Jan. 6th).

In this case I believe a [grand] jury of peers would have found had the officers gone in and just taken the suspect out, they would have been justified.

Sadly we have more and more of a Law and Order society than an Orderly Justice one.
You are sentient when you have control over (and are aware of) a mental model of reality.
That wasn't my intention, although I imagine they do play a role.

The human eye (specifically the ciliary muscles) are most at "rest" when staring at objects in the distance.

The human eye doesn't seem to be as well-suited for staring at distance less than ~20 feet for long periods of time.

I imagine learning how to read and write in general, the shift from an agrarian society to cognitive labor, and the invention of glasses all were just as important factors.
This is superb.

I want to add that the author is comparing it to self-study, which is something they enjoy. Most people don't enjoy it. For those people, an undergraduate degree should be more fun than self-study ... and if it turns out not to be then IMO they should probably drop out.
Isn't the business reason that they would rather acquire an existing mail app that is similar to what they had in mind rather than building a brand new one themselves?
Of course they (we included) do.

Is the implication no-one should?
Damn dude, having seen anything this insightful since that last Malcolm Gladwell book. Thanks!
> Thus we learn how to think, and we end up with whole countries filled with people who think, think, think but never start doing anything.

That could of have used a lot more thought: What is the basis for it? Are less educated people more productive? Is the US ever portrayed that way?

IME, there are individuals who overthink - that is, they think for emotional needs not related to the problem. But I don't think I've ever encountered an organization where generally too much thinking was going on!

I think it's trendy to denigrate or ignore critical thought, education, reason, facts ... Our decisions come from somewhere; either we think for ourselves or we are victims of others who will think for you and influence the public. It seems so many trends these days benefit a powerful few and train the public to follow them obediently.
I gave this some more thought, because I find this topic fascinating and important in light of recent developments in the field.

Sentience requires the ability to perform computations and to store information.

This is the most basic necessary precondition and rules out most inanimate objects from being sentient right away.

The scenario of a patient incapable of any kind of perception (keep in mind that this includes touch, taste, smell, and pain) and incapable of conscious interaction (e.g. locked-in syndrome) can still be observably sentient (testable by monitoring brain patterns and various pain- and reflex tests). Pain response and cranial nerve reflexes in your example, would be considered signs of brain activity and sentience. They also qualify as perceiving and interacting with the environment, though passively. Their absence in many jurisdictions is equivalent to the death of the patient (specifically they are declared brain dead).

This understanding of being alive or dead, however, is separate from our understanding of sentience. In the context of human being specifically, being alive is a requirement for being sentient. Generally, though, these are two different matters entirely.

So back to your example:

> I think I can imagine a patient who contacts a horrific virus that cuts off all external and bodily sensations.

Locked-in syndrome comes to mind.

> She is still fully cognizant but now feels herself to be bodiless, floating in nothingness.

Speculation, but sure, why not.

> From the outside, she seems to be asleep or paralyzed. She is kept alive by caretakers and her own autonomous processes but she can perceive none of it.

Every coma patient can be described by that.

> Is she sentient? Id say yes, but she nevertheless lacks some of the required conditions.

The answer depends on what I outlined above. If she has pain response or cranial nerve reflexes, she's medically considered alive and if you want to also sentient. If the physical examinations return negative results, an EEG several days apart can be used as another indication. Flat-line EEGs some days apart are a good indicator of non-sentience due to lack of any activity thought to be required for sentience (i.e. the computation-part mentioned earlier). In addition, cerebral blood flow can be tested as well.

The absence of intracranial blood flow would again indicate a complete lack of brain activity and therefore lack of sentience of any measurable kind. This of course is done over a period of time, not in an instant, as patients may still recover (though usually within days, not months or even years).

So this adds another important part to the equation: time. So I need to clarify my previous proposal by including it:

"Capable of perceiving and interacting with the environment at any point in its existence for a significant period of time."

There. I think that's much better already, because it also excludes otherwise functional humans from being sentient (e.g. children born without a cerebrum, aka anencephaly) while including people who are temporarily (due to trauma or illness) incapable of perception or interaction.
Most people would not know how to identify the most skilled vet clinics.

For consumers to make informed choices, they need to have some understanding of the domain.

If a Vet says Rover needs a XYZ procedure, how would the pet owner understand what a fair price is or what other treatment options are?
Japan 10-year yields breach Bank of Japan's upper limit
Microsoft's Simulation Framework Accelerates Federated Learning Algorithm Dev
The transcripts are impressive. Even knowing it is an AI bot, I still did read it with a bit of "these responses are better than I'd expect from most people I talk to over chat".

I think that the way the Google engineer raised this is probably questionable. But I think that chat quality at that level raises potentially ethical concerns, sentient or not.
Tried it. No change. Add still opens the video.
The problem with many of those argument is that the source base to draw such wide conclusion is really bad. And while we have some comments on some things in some regions, to make wider conclusions about economics for the empire as a whole is really tricky business.
Linked from the article:

https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=c9d7a555374df02a66219b57...

Details on the cancellation of the JV marching band.
Sed is terse for that, but not very memorable...sed -n '0~5p' filename
IMAP doesn't help if you prefer to read mail offline, after downloading it to your PC and deleting it from the server. There are still ISPs around with mailservers that measure quota in MB; for example, sdf.org offers 25mb free and up to 200mb paid.
So people just want money even if they are just a number doing boring work and hate their job and have no impact.

That’s what I gather from the replies so far.
Skyera was another one with ridiculous promises of density/price (flash storage arrays) that never really went anywhere. That hardly fills me with confidence for Techyum’s legitimacy.
Fun. "It looks you're writing a letter" is more offensive than this though.
I got a bunch of alerts about my droplets being down. Also couldn’t log in to DO’s dashboard. status.digitalocean.com showed everything up and running…
> I suppose that when the cost of failure is reduced, dynamism results, because reaction times to opportunities are reduced and people are able to take the risk of following a new path.

First, how is the cost of failure reduced?

It sounds like fundamental economics: If you reduce the cost of investing, usually by lowering interest rates, then investment increases, following the pattern you described.

What is the state of credit / funding in China? Is the government still pumping credit into the economy?

> People seem to throw themselves in to ventures without business plans, market research or specific costings.

But usually when we start seeing that pattern, it's a bubble. Resources are being allocated to unproductive initiatives.

As with anything, there's a balance.
I'm not familiar with their implementation, but it could be that the bundling is only a temporary solution for browsers that don't support import maps. Or a light layer on top of it.

Import maps are pretty cool, you don't need to bundle in modern browsers and it plays to http2's parallel request strengths.
Cracking the Cryptic quickly became my favorite pandemic past time. So much so that I've started making variant Sudokus - it's relaxing, creative, meditative, and I find it quite fun. I definitely second the suggestion to check out the CtC youtube channel!

And I encourage anyone with even a slight interest to check out the videos they post where constructors explain how they come up with some of the puzzles. I never imagined I'd be able to do it well or find it fun but I was pleasantly surprised after trying it out and having a blast.
This exactly. The argument about non continuation are nonsense. Yes of course after 500 years it was different. Look at any state with 500 year and it will not be exactly the same.
The prank cursor, switched the index finger pointer to use the middle finger:

Which makes the end of the post hilarious:

> Bonus chatter: A bug was filed in the RAID database to track the problem and its resolution. In the bug, there was some discussion as to how the issue should be classified. Was it an “off-by-one” error? Or maybe it was a “bad pointer”.
Not really a fan of passwordless.

I want my login credentials synced to all devices, and to not need an extra piece of hardware.

Until Android and Linux can somehow sync, I'd much rather have Passwords that Bitwarden can easily manage and sync.

Passwordless will be great eventually but it doesn't seem to be ready for general use yet. We need APIs for apps to be able to provide virtual software implemented authentication the way password managers currently provide autofill.

Otherwise, you're stuck with either no sync, or some OS provided sync solution locked to one company.

Bad passwords aren't really an issue unless you're manually creating and remembering them.

We just need to stop the losing battle of telling people to make their own secure passwords out of words and numbers, and focus on password managers and 2FA.
Well I guess it would vary depending on the criticality of your services but I've always been skeptical of running production workloads based on a number of reviews I have read in the past. For testing and development they have been great for the price.
How about cryptographically signed packages as the next step? It boggles my mind that most popular package managers like npm, pip and cargo don't have verification of package authenticity before installing built in.
Ask HN: Model Business as Markov Chains?
Is there an easy tool to sketch a business model as Markov Chains, estimate probabilities, uncertainties and starting values, and run Monte Carlo simulations to visualise the probability space of the outcomes given the input?

This could be immensely valuable to check your overall understanding of your market. Are your mental models in sync with your assumptions about the economy’s fundamentals and the underlying mechanisms of cause and effect? If your micro-models don’t add up to your macro-projections, you’re either having delusional dreams about the future OR your everyday decision making is impaired due to flawed models.

Such a simple model could give answers to highly complex questions, e.g.: how much additional money do we need to raise when inflation hits our input factors with 10%, while we limit our price hikes to 6.5%? What if our most important channel for leads gets 100% more expensive and 10% less effective?
What I want is a mathematical model of cause and effect, written in the language of probabilities, translating micro-estimations into tangible long-term projections.

Financial planning via Excel sucks. This is what we need - or don’t we?
Absolutely, the same.
I was able to play Doom, Descent and most of the popular shareware games at the time. But I had to buy a separate 72 pin SIMM that attached directly to the card instead of having it share memory with the Mac.
But essentially no light vehicles damage the roads at all. Virtually all road damage is caused by heavy trucks. If legislators cared about charging for road damage, they would heavily tax diesel.
It is pretty normal for poor mental health to take a toll on relationships. Sometimes the problem really is that simple.

But with that said, it is always a good time to work on yourself and relationships.
I really resonate with the part about people having opinions without having any background of the issue... kind of like how everyone who had a PhD in epidemiology in 2020 suddenly has a PhD in Russian history.
Still faster than my SSD
I had somehow completely forgotten about lanyrd. It was a really cool site at the time, and I’m pretty sure I had an account. I’ve never been someone who goes to lots of conferences but it was cool to see who was going where.
AMD hardware is much more cost efficient on software that has not yet been developed. If you are planning on not using GPUs, definitely go with AMD.
> I don't think many developers nowadays understand how fast computers are, nor how much needless bloat is in their software.

Most, as in > 50%, of developers aren’t in a position to decide which languages, libraries and tools to use, or how much time they can spend on performance improvement.
I think HTTPS gets you pretty far. There are far more concerning attack vectors for those package ecosystems to me
I’m curious how this compares in practice to other languages such as rust, Haskell, go, or Java. Cache efficiency at the level of arrays vs linked lists, and specific code for vectorization all happen in programmer land - but are C/C++ engineers really getting that much gain over alternative languages whose compilers don’t allow keywords for unlikely, or inline?
So your proposal is, what, you have a warehouse of grain, and each day you sell your grain at price $X and buy new grain (N days more recently harvested) at the same price? Because you're trading nominally fungible commodities they're priced the same, but when you go back twenty years later you'd have an equivalent quantity of grain to withdrawal regardless of how the price fluctuated in between?

The main problem is that you'd need to pay for storage over the 20 years in between, which would take the form of selling some Y% of your grain each year to pay the storage on the remaining percent, which is basically the same as inflation.
In your belief system, what perpetuates for example the price difference between a .com domain and a .net domain? Is there an intrinsic value of .com over .net? Or do you believe that they should be equally priced.
https://willymaps.github.io/spoke/
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
I had around $47,000 in Wachovia in 2008. I was a Wachovia customer since 1991. I didn't lose a penny. Wells Fargo bought Wachovia and over the next year they automatically transitioned us to Wells Fargo accounts with the same login/password, account numbers, and my account balance. I'm still with Wells Fargo 14 years later and everything is fine.
I find the arguments under "But how is this different from traditional advertising?" very unconvincing. They provide examples as to what is different about social media advertising, but no convincing reason why traditional advertising wasn't also treating attention as a commodity.
Right with the same amount of sunlight.

I’ll grant that with indoor malls and public transit there’s less exposure to direct sunlight, but you still can’t avoid being exposed to the sun daily in Singapore.
-randomly

You don’t own the copyright for any picture generated by a computer, whether random or intentional
We experienced about 10-15 minutes of downtime. All DigitalOcean resources and the dashboard appear to be fully operational now.
Lobbying is banned on Brazil but it's ineffective. There's a profession called "doleiro" that basically is a guy that facilitates money laundering and exchange of favors between politicians and business. Corruption is so pervasive that politicians job is basically to create all sorts of bureaucratic impediments for everything so if a company wants to do anything it has to pay for special treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash
I don't think this is a good argument. The Byzantine Empire was at a peak around 1000 and the main reasons for it decline after that is not mercenaries but rather that Basil didn't have an heir and his daughters were left in power and had no interest in ruling so that only a few decades later the state was disaster.

Combine that with the rise of a new powerful enemy and you have a disaster on your hands.

New evidence suggest that the Theme system was only barley function for a long time before the decline. In fact, going away from that system is partly why they were so powerful by the year 1000.

> by the end of Heraclius's [1] reign

I don't agree with that at all. If there is any reasonable point to talk about non-continuation it would be 1204.
I don't know what the sarcasm is helping. Somebody's working on documenting it and they're not done yet, and they're documenting that too.
I feel like there’s a KFC joke within reach
"Senators" here is doing a lot work; the senator in question is Ted Cruz, who stands to benefit the most from Biden's ineptitude and isn't a stranger to twisting news for his own political gain.

Even the letter betrays your point by calling the ban a "de-facto" ban. Ted Cruz is playing with words here because he knows there no official ban but he can blame any sort of organizational mishap on a perception of a delay due to effective media propoganda. And again, this tone of this letter doesn't match the data; Biden is issuing _more_ permits than Trump did.

>And then Biden has made it clear this administration is pursuing ambitious goals

He also campaigned profusely on eliminating student debt and a $15/wage that were wildly popular among his base. 2 years in and he has accomplished naught and has actively renegaded on those campaign promises. I trust that you would find it incredulous if someone told you that businesses were raising their prices because Biden put in a $15 min wage, when clearly that hasn't happened.

Chest thumping at the pulpit isn't policy. And if he hasn't enacted policy, that you can point to, then any explanation you might have is baseless speculation.
And it looks like the programming environment is running on that hobbyist OS kernel, Linux, that will come to nothing ;-) https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html
I would probably LOL if I saw it happen while I was using it. In the early 90s, a lot of software tended to have "character" like this.
The problem I have with this logic is that many of these sites have become so big that they are effective monopolies. Alternative sites are hard to have your voice heard on and sparsely populated. Its a problem when the biggest forums for discussion on the internet takes their cues on free speech from North Korea
5 orbital and 5 sub orbital.
Did you try any IDE from Intellij? Just spend 30 minutes on exploring what can it do out of the box.
I think that with enough spaces disbursed evenly enough, this would actually be good. And I love to drive and park.

Technically if you park in the supermarket free parking, you can't leave your car there while you pop in to the bar around the corner. Instead you're supposed to move the car to the bar's parking. If the parking was independent of either business, you could park once and visit as many businesses as you cared to walk to from your car.
> Workers not being paid enough, and out of control inflation is how the soviet system collapsed.

No its not actually. If anything the Soviet system collapsed because the elites didn't really like it that much. The elites had lost interest in preserving the system. Elites didn't like the party discipline.

There is a reason why Soviet collapsed and China didn't. Just having demonstrations and unhappy population does magically lead to successful overthrows of governments.
This is a very minor nitpick, but saying you need a specific technology is part of the problem, even if it's a really good and appropriately-complicated technology like postgres.

90% of the time, you need whatever technology your company already uses, or your team already knows, that solves the problem.

If your company already uses .NET and SQL Server, you probably don't need node.js and postgres. If your company already uses PHP and sqlite, you still might not need postgres, unless there's an identifiable reason to switch.
A lot of Doctor offices pushed this Phreesia check in crap during the height of the pandemic, it seemed to me that it was being sold as a "safer" way to check in to see instead of pen and clipboard.
I can't say that I believe this happened, but it's a fun story.
I guess I've been subscribed for at least 80% of that time (I've got bookmarks since at least 2008, but I think I'd been following it for two or three years before that). Writing that is consistent, and is consistently informative and occasionally emotionally impactful. Keep up the good work; you remain near the top of my RSS feed.
Recently left a startup I worked at for around 5 years and decided I would do a proper exit interview, telling my manager and HR exactly why I was leaving (I was unhappy with engineering leadership [no people singled out] but in general listing all the things I didn't agree with and not wanting to work with leadership anymore).

2 months later they shakeup the engineering leadership and getting rid of them. Granted no one liked the VP and the yes cronies he hired inside of engineering (plus several other senior people had left), so I have no idea if my interview contributed to it in any way, but it sure made me feel much better.
Personal experience.

Whenever I switch glasses my vision gets much worse.

If I stay on a prescription for a while I'm stable.