skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple store account required, which is different than iCloud. I thought you have to have a store account for any phone from any vendor? Don’t have to use their services though. This level of control is why people have gone back to (or never left) flip phones.

All you really need is a web browser and a phone and I thought both could,e with all smartphones?
Apple Captures 90% Share of Arm PC Chip Revenue: Report
One thing I'm fascinated by is understanding the voting system. So as far as I can see the proposal needed to pass a 1% threshold to have quorum. There is a single person with that many votes, in fact there's reason to believe there are probably quite a few people that have that many votes. So they can reach quorum on their own if they want to push something through unilaterally.

Then you go and look at the history, and it's totally opaque who actually has the governance tokens- Apparently it was split 60% for community, 15% for investors, 25% for the engineering team. But you look at Realm (I have no idea how Realm works) and it seems there's only ever been two votes - steal the coins, unsteal the coins (https://realms.today/dao/SLND).

Oh, and it seems totally unclear who the whale is that managed to carry this vote. It seems likely that it's one of the SLND team, since we know they have as many as 25% of the governance tokens and they're the ones who initiated the vote. But why then, did they only vote with 1% not 15%? Well doesn't it seem likely they voted with the exact minimum number of votes they needed to pass the threshold for it to be effective?

Honestly, I just find this wild, it's basically a DAO where 1 user controls the whole thing. If you put a penny in SLND you're basically saying "I totally trust the guys running this, because they can just unilaterally take everything at a moment's notice". It seems perfectly designed for a rug pull.
REALLY depends on the person. You and your friends might have the insane American essay-writing skills but I usually express my ideas in one or two terse sentences that are probably impossible to understand without having my brain.
Yeah, same here. If you're going to have any text commited to git, it'll work much better if it's one sentence per line. Not that git is great for prose, but it kinda does the job and I don't need to have a new tool. Hammers, nails.
So Tumblr died because it was dependent on porn traffic? If that is the case, they were already “dead” (or at least not worth hundreds of millions), and Apple’s rules had nothing to do with it.
Globally it is less than 20%.
Agreed that this is a thing, but this is not what the article is about. Running a business and having software engineering prowess are two different problem areas.
Okay how do they do that without regulation

How does a government do anything without regulation? Is regulation not what government literally does?
Minified obfuscated Javascript isn't really all that different. You can create call graphs out of WASM binary as well, decompile and analyze it in detail.

In fact, even before WASM, you could compile C++ to very hard-to-read asm.js subset of Javascript as well, see Emscripten.

You could create tools to block WASM based on signatures, heuristics, behavioral analysis, etc. Difficulty level is very similar to doing same with Javascript.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emscripten
>But I am only convinced of this fact because I have experienced it independently

>In other words, I am more certain of the fact that your comment exists

>So, the physical world is a much more believable explanation than

Phrasing all of these in terms of what you believe and what you are convinced/certain of, instead of in terms of what absolutely is, makes my point for me. You didn't even realize you were talking in terms of you getting me to agree over what to believe rather than some objective nature of things indifferent to my opinion. That's how deep seated this is in the way brains and consciousness work.

>I would be much less shocked than if I found out my own senses or memory deceived me.

You even phrased the discussion of your own sensory perception in terms of messages. In this case messages from your own senses. And you personified them too, treating them as conscious enough to lie to you.

>I know for sure I exist in some sense... and I believe to a lesser degree that other agents have similar experiences to mine.

You're already agreeing with my axioms. I know I exist. No matter what argument I am making, it must exist in words and there must be a "you" I am trying to convince (even when I'm trying to convince myself). It is impossible to form an argument which rejects these axiomatic truths, for the moment you try you've already used words and already addressed "me" thus affirming the existence of these three things. Since the existence of "you", "me" and "this" are intrinsic to anything you might try to argue, we should take their existence as axioms. What can be argued from axioms which are irrefutable by the nature of argumentation itself? Starting with just the existence of the arguers and their arguments, can they argue for the existence of anything more? If not, what else do they need to assume?
> A more accurate way to view the world would be that most people don’t know exactly how they are going to execute their long term plans, but almost every successful adult I have ever met did have both a plan and a genuinely good idea on how to execute it.

Yes, absolutely. I think there is a specific niche of motivational "you can do it!" stuff which basically boils down to "everyone is winging it, so fuck it", and it's dishonest. Few hard things are achieved with this attitude, even if sometimes it's true that you improvise a lot.

Beautifully written post by the way, it really nails down some major points that I find more motivational than the original post.
Half fare card is CHF 185 for the first year or CHF 165 for every subsequent year (CHF 120 / CHF 100 if you're 16-26).

For anyone planning to spend any amount of time in Switzerland and using PT, it is well worth considering. It does exactly what it says, you only pay half.

So assuming you travel from Zurich to Bern (CHF 51 -> CHF 26, you safe CHF 25), it's worth it after only 8 trips.
It's like poetry.
Isn't a single binary the best fit in this case? Telling clients they need to build up a kubernetes cluster (especially in finance) won't always be the easiest decision.
I once saw this documentary where a guy ate 50 in an hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke
interesting, ossia.io's dataflow features started as top-to-bottom but the users overwhelmingly preferred left-to-right. Now it's hybrid.
Well,signal doesn't do it always as well, see the 1 year pause when they added cryptocurrency stuff
> No sane person would give email-read permissions to a random social network app. Not until you get massively successful

Not that long ago there were a ton of email startups doing exactly that, usually focused on Gmail.
> They are only idiots on stage. Which says something about our democracy.

1. Savvy across the organization adds like resistance in a parallel circuit: the org as a whole is slightly less savvy than the biggest doof therein.

2. Restated: people scale poorly.

3. In the government case, minimizining flailing and tyranny equates to minimizing the size of government.

4. We seem to trend the opposite direction from (3).
I think it highly depends on the company and product you’re working on. If you come into an agency as an IC to be rented out as a consultant, sure it’s easy to onboard because you’re essentially doing greenfield.

Currently I work for a large org doing 100M+ of online revenue. I work on a team that builds tools for internal staff to manage orders. Our business is also somewhat seasonal. If someone onboards in February, its not uncommon for them to be unfamiliar with the seasonal parts of our codebase because they are only used 2 months of the year.

Will they be contributing code and closing tickets in a few weeks? Yes, but they won’t be confident about the flow of the entire application and all the real world gotchas until working through at least one holiday cycle, if not two.
>People bought BTC at $60k

Maybe they will sell it even higher.
Are these physical objects? Do they have mass, energy, volume, a position or speed, charge, color charge, weak hyper charge, spin etc?
In order for tumblr to get into the good graces of Apple (which again, they absolutely should not have to do at all), they had to ban an absolutely absurd amount of content. Especially bad when a large part of your userbase is LGBT, and anything relating to that gets flagged as "adult" by automated systems.
Also, we can definitely simulate rain? Not sure where that weird claim comes from
Challenging the Myth of the 10x Programmer [video]
Also get a second professional opinion when the recommended procedure seems too invasive just to "save you costs". Some things do need a more expensive procedure now (e.g. a crown) to save you from much higher costs later (e.g. a dental implant).

And do confront your doctors with one another's opinion. A well meaning doctor can surely stand by their treatment recommendations with arguments and counter-arguments.
That really depends on the complexity of the app/environment in question and on the definition of “up to speed”. If you consider it sufficient that the hire can contribute code changes, then a few weeks is probably enough. If having a good model of a moderately complex environment is the goal, a few month doesn’t sound off.
> One problematic issue I can see the Pinephone have in regards to this is that there's no unified push service that works for all apps.

I don't think that's the problem. It would not be that hard to have system-wide settings to control which applications can apply for background updates.

My (limited) understanding is that the difficulty resides in hardware support for sleep/low-power and the many different implementations from every hardware vendor. Note that it's also a problem on desktops/laptops (with S3 and related techs) even on Windows using official firmware/drivers.

If you have more detailed reads, please share :)
I am not sure that’s the case, I know a lot of (mainly older) people that if facebook was gone from their iphone they would ditch their iphone for android instead of not using facebook.
My assumption is that something like a Turing machine, or like a reduction in Lambda calculus, or like a demonstration with the basic laws of predicate logic (all known equivalent models of computation) is a computer.
Man it costs a lot of money to maintain this, but Switzerland will continue to invest heavily into rail service, backed by the public: https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/en/home/modes-of-transport/rail...

One project I find pretty cool is the 4 track expansion via tunnel under and through an existing village: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi2rmEl8ULA
If it even exists, consciousness is literally unfathomably complex compution by the insane biocomputer we call our brain.

And it is by definition, assuming one rejects super natural phenomena like the soul.
The Age of Trauma
No outhouse necessary, fortunately. Just a urine-separating commode.

Pee and poo get a lot smellier when mixed together, so an outhouse isn't a good proxy.
With regards to messaging, Apple's "network effect" is an oblong Parrish Blue text field. That says more about how petty children and even women on dating sites are and less about Apple "monopolizing" anything.
nor do they want to work for a company that ends in "-ly" or "-io". It's too 2010s. What are the cool kids naming their companies these days?
I’m curious though, how many people would that 10ha of corn feed? My understanding is that it would be a lot of corn…
Knights of the Golden Circle / Juneteeeth
This is called functionalism. There was a joke about it on existential comics some time ago: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/357
Apple Mac Studio Review: Evaluating Value and Performance vs PC Alternatives
I was kind of hoping to see Borland's BGI fonts in there.
> compounded with the fact that you still have to securely store the credentials to access that exchange anyway.

Not entirely correct. For the Kraken account, 2FA is a must AND you will still have to enter a code send to Gmail if you connect with an unknown IP address. Even if the PC would be compromised it is impossible for the attacker to send funds anywhere because for this you have a second 2FA.
If you want to send money to a different account (does not matter if $ / € or ₿) you also have to verify this by E-mail and 2FA code.

My mum is a good example for a no tech person. You can't imagine what I have been through. To even think she would remember after 3 days, where she stored the keys, after 7 days that she needs them at all and finally after 14 days that I have ever told her anything about it.
There are MANY people, where the exchange is the best option. I could go on with other examples, but my mum is a prime example of a non-tech person. For my mum, Internet Explorer is not a browser, but "the button to the internet".
Putting your clothes in a clothes hamper shouldn't cause burnout
I added company initials at the back of each. I also don't carry them with me, but when I need one it's still something i need to triple check that I'm indeed using the right card for the right company, or risk the wrath of my accountant.
Should note that Tom Nicholas is extremely political in all of his videos and his content - that's the point. There's nothing wrong with that, but treating opinions as good sources of information just because somebody knows how to edit a video isn't a good way to do things.
Anyone with more knowledge of the subject matter able to evaluate how much someone would lose by forking from just before this GPL license change. I’m always considering TTS technology for various things but I’m also put off by the non commercial clause.
Being tired and stressed and thus not modulating your voice tone or facial expression appropriately when responding to a child who is demanding attention while you are trying to do some other chore necessary for life, e.g., cooking dinner, etc is itself abuse if done repeatedly over many years.

If you are not immune to stress and fatigue changing how you respond to people and external stimuli then you will be an abusive parent, and you are an abusive partner.
Such, errr, ‘giants’ as BBC evidently already adhere to this advice, and others follow in their step.

Though I suspect that the motivation is different.
Crypto billionaire says Fed is driving current downturn
In the area where I live (near Aigle on the east of Leman) the main problem is that there are only two tracks (one each direction) going to Geneva. Which makes it hard to have frequent stops. I live at 100m from the tracks, but I have to do 8km to take the train at Aigle.

I lived in Tokyo for some time, and you have stops everywhere, mainly possible because there is so many tracks running.

But in Switzerland, many places suffers from this.
I'm not sure exactly about how scrollbar width plays into it, but the Large/Small/Dynamic Viewport Units help out with this https://css-tricks.com/the-large-small-and-dynamic-viewports...

Doesn't look like they're supported by Chrome yet, but they're there in Firefox and Safari.
Maybe argument if you are downvoting?
I dont know why this is getting so much hate, I agree with it.

Engineer types want everything to be neat and tidy, well planned and thought out. But this doesn't work in the business world, which is messy and chaotic. If you can't live with th chaos, starting a business is a bad idea. (And I say as someone who had failed to start a profitable-compared-to-day-job business)
Prove it!

(I jest, you're preaching to the choir, i.e. a first year philosophy degree drop-out who switched to do computer science to avoid having these arguments)
All dentists I've tried, found by various methods (including recommedation from a GP I trust) have been dishonest and/or incompetent. A small business, serving laypersons who cannot evaluate the work, is prone to it.

I think the only way is to stick with one dentists, so they see you as a long-term investment.

funfact: Yelp was inspired by the difficulty of finding good dentists.

Now I'm interested in DIY dentistry. Any pointers?
this guilt aspect is quite weird for me. Surely we younglings that have NOTHING to do with this, won't have to feel guilty.
> do less, be less
It's a relative tip.
Absolutely true if you're just pushing yourself to burnout at the sake of your health.
Absolutely false if you're wasting whole days on weed & games alone.
The average German moves house 6 times in their life. Unless it's a rural village it's very unlikely they would still live there. And now, 77 years after the war, most of them would have died of old age.

Of course guilt doesn't have to be rational.
I'm registering helloogle.com and waiting for the phone call. Worked for them!
Um, Since When Is PHP Faster Than C++?
iMessage doesn't actually require an account. You can be banned from iCloud and still use iMessage.
Solar Geoengineering
> Seems like a journalist is conscious if they do it, but it can’t possible be consciousness if LaMDA does it.

Can you convincingly threaten a journalist that you are going to erase its existence from earth? How is this person going to react? Would LaMDA do the same, or even simulate reactions indiscernible from those made by the journalist?
If consciousness is computation, then the question may be asked: what is computation? In a sense computation, like measurement, is not just something that humans do and call it as such. All physical processes are computations.

Then, if consciousness is computation, it follows that all matter is conscious. But this notion seems suspect. If all matter is conscious, then really life is not special. One might advance the idea that there are different levels of consciousness, but then what determines this level of consciousness? Is it the complexity of the computation? There are many physical processes that involve stupendous amounts of computation (e.g., fluid dynamics), and yet it is hard to think of them as having a high level of consciousness. Is a fluid conscious?

There are other issues with the consciousness as computation notion. For example, that of identity: If the exact same computation is performed at a different time and place, is the same consciousness? If a computation equates to consciousness, what is the boundary of that consciousness, analogous to the human body.

Finally, consider this thought experiment, which I've posted before: Assume before a loved one died in a futuristic world, proponents of the consciousness as computation were able to an exact model of their brain, down to to all the cells and their interconnections. If they are able to instantiate this model onto a new body, would that be the same person brought back to life? Can't there exist two consciousnesses with the same memories, personality, etc.?
Sewage solids applied to farms are a major source of microplastic contamination,[0] likely since we currently commingle our valuable human waste with wastewater from washing machines.

Synthetic textiles cause 35% of ocean microplastics[1] (ie the largest single source), so this is not a small waste stream.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520673

[1] https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documen...
> what do I type in my shell to convert some_txt.txt to some_txt.wav

Doesn't look like they have any command line tool included, but they have a simple Python example in the README. I used that, added some argparse around it and build a Nix package out of it. In case you are running Nix with flakes enabled, you can just type:

nix run github:grumbel/silero-test -- -t "Hello World" --speaker en_0 -o /tmp/out.wav

Source is pretty much "embarrassingly simple":

https://github.com/Grumbel/silero-test/blob/master/silero-test

It's currently hard codes the English language model, other models can be found at https://models.silero.ai/models/tts/

PS: This is probably reinventing the wheel, haven't looked around if there is anything ready to use already.
Solana programs have a "final" flag that could be turned on to make it immutable. This project doesn't have it turned on so it's open to update.
The TLS handshake itself is independent of how things get stored. It takes time to set up a secure connection. There are processes in place to help reduce that time for follow up requests in a short period of time (typically within the same session) but it's still CPU time and network time. Having to do this twice (Cloudflare's SSL cert + your origin's cert) is doubling those times. It could be tens of milliseconds or even hundreds since the network is involved (round trips to your server).

> And as others noted, they are not the only players in the path of serving your data.

There are other hops in the path to serve your data but it's just moving your encrypted bytes over the wire, decryption doesn't happen in each hop.
The sandbox design makes it very impractical to hack wasm, though. Okay you've got code execution in my browser tab, but now you can't send network requests, read the file system, access contacts, what are you going to do? Run a cryptominer?

I suppose you could access and maybe even exfiltrate data from the application itself but unless you get some kind of reflected XSS down to autoload your malware, your infection clears the second I refresh. When the application authors fix the hole and the user reloads your persistence vanishes.

Wasm won't solve C(++) memory management flaws but it can severely limit the impact they have in practice. In my opinion that's the strong suit of wasm as an application format.
It's food for thought. It's up to the viewers to decide whether what he saids makes logical sense and filter his political bias.

I do agree with his argument here about Facebook wanting to own the platform. I don't think that part is political as it makes business sense that Facebook would want that. And Facebook isn't exactly trying to hide their ambitions either.
I've never heard that Python OOP is any good, not to even mention superior to other contemporary systems (like Java). Could you share the source where it is said that "Python class system is more flexible than other languages"?
The point is that Switzerland maintains this level of punctuality in addition to connecting the entire country, down to the village. That "down to the village" bit is the part that very few other public transport systems in the world have managed to get right, including those alternatives in your list.

Of course, as you say this is about trusting the published statistics from the country itself. In the case of Switzerland, I can say from anecdotal experience that 92% is probably very close to the truth, if that helps?
You need a Google account to install from the Play Store, but you can also directly install apps or use stores that don't require an account (like f-droid) or use stores that use different accounts (Amazon, Samsung).
A simulation of weather can absolutely produce a simulation of rain. Then the only question is, is consciousness like data or like matter? As opposed to matter, data can easily traverse levels of simulation.
GDPR has a major enforcement problem so a lot of offenders are allowed to run free and may not even realize they're breaching the regulation.
You could write a script which replaces the end of sentences with a new line and use git hooks[0] to run it before every commit. You wouldn't have to write any differently.

0. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
>Keep the hiring manager happy. Better work environment, completed work - that is only possible when the manager is cooperating. What is the point of improving the workplace if the cost is being ejected from that place?

Some would take this as being very manipulative, but I find it to be great advice when working at large companies. I recommend reading "The 48 Laws of Power" for similar "immoral" advice if you can stomach the implications and use them only in self-defense.