skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet you only exist because trees and soils are there to form a complex ecological web that sustains you.

This type of narrow thinking
that we somehow "own" nature is nuts. We don't own anything and cutting down trees and scraping soil we actually eroding the foundation that sustains us. You can very well exist, and people did for thousands of years, without cutting trees and scraping soil.

I'm shocked to see people with such a distorted view of the world are here on HN, otherwise a place of informed people.

Hopefully in a few decades people like this will be denounced as they climate heretics that they are and punished for it.
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> USB-C PD is like those girls who say "I don't know what do you want to do?" on a date only it's voltage.
https://12ft.io/https://www.wsj.com/articles/etf-that-bets-a...
That's a pretty bad example.

There is a technical / physical aspect to interoperability. If you want to swap your engine, the new engine needs to fit and mate up with your transmission (though, this is easier than you might think). If you want to run an app on your phone, it needs to be in a format the OS can use.

Then there is an extra, unnecessary, layer of political control. I absolutely can, with a bit of work, swap in a Chevy LS engine into a Ford F150. I don't have to ask Ford's permission. Chevy doesn't have to ask Fords permission. I, as a person with free will, can buy this engine and that car and combine them.

Apple totally prevents this. They do not allow you to do what you want with the device you own. For good or bad, they absolutely operate differently than other industries. At least from the consumers perspective.
Also, mouthwash containing alcohol increases the risk of oral cancer. I have had multiple dentists advise against mouthwash.
This is very cool! Awesome job!
My SO is the owner-operator of an SCorp currently adjusting the business to hire W-2 #1. As the consulting CIO I'm doing everything I can to keep it on 1 SSO.
On the first issue, that's the Boltzmann's Brain proposition, and well, yes. Given infinite monkeys, you'll get Shakespear. I don't see what that has to do with whether consciousness is computational or not. It certainly doesn't refute it.

>Just to be clear, you don't doubt that a sufficiently large field of rocks is conscious as long as it is performing the same computation as a brain?

No I don't, for the same reason that if you slowed down my metabolism by a trillion times, I would still be conscious. I wouldn't seem conscious to you, but that's a problem with your perception, not with my nature. I'd just be conscious very slowly. It wouldn't fundamentally change the nature of who or what I am. For rocks interacting according to rules, substitute atoms. Is a rock any more or less inanimate than an atom? This is all just materialism 101.
> curiously they had and still have extremely negative opinions of medical paraprofessionals like PAs and NPs

This isn't entirely unfounded. There are real concerns over replacing MDs with mid-levels with much less training. The AMA is significantly to blame for the switch, but as a general rule I won't see PA/NPs for anything beyond prescription refills or something like that.
Five word sentences are fine. The first paragraph is not; the content itself is dull. Do it with useful sentences.
How long do you think it would take someone who has the learning capability to understand algorithms well, to read a bug report?

I find this sentiment very strange. I think you're right that jobs require a different kind of work than they may have previously encountered, I just don't think it's very difficult.

To put it another way, some developers are not smart enough to understand inductive proofs of algorithms not matter how much time they spend, the reverse is not true. Perhaps the individual you know likes to use a lot of academic vocabulary which gives such an appearence.
Your post and tone shock me. OP is being completely reasonable to look for a job that's a good fit. If your rant is really about you being upset that a service you like is shutting down, why are you making it about something else?
Not to mention, the moment ppl around you perceive you as "technical" (details don't matter to those who don't understand), literally EVERYBODY comes to you with "an idea".
I moved from android to Apple recently and that is really pathetic indeed. It keeps predicting and correcting words that are obviously not what meant at all.
Especially if you get into procedures like crowns you are probably talking multiple visits. Mind you, they don't need to be next door. I kept the dentist I had when I was working 45 minutes away because I like them and it's not that much of an inconvenience to drive up there.
We shouldn't expect them to be! I just don't think it's tremendously important whether educators can effectively deliver complex pornographic lectures on Youtube.
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*Stands on soapbox*

I've been kicking around an idea I've been tentatively calling
"techno-conservatism". The tl;dr: "Like Amish, not Luddites." It's
becoming more and more clear that each of our technologies has
trade-offs, and the uncritical acceptance of those trade-offs has lead us
to poison ourselves and the world in several fairly significant ways.
This would seem to me to make a more considered and conservative
relationship with our technology imperative.

There are movements like the "Slow Food" movement, and of course the
Amish are famously conservative in their acceptance and use of modern
technology.

The general idea is to start with a simple and ecologically harmonious
low-tech (but sophisticated!) lifestyle and then add essential technology
(in a kind of "progressive enhancement", eh?) to increase QoL (Quality of
Life) without, y'know, poisoning anything.
A pro-life pregnancy center trying to reach pregnant women considering abortions is a peaceful and non-coercive form of pro-life advocacy, and I think it's strange for pro-choice activists to try to ban it.
It's great for teaching kids / teaching yourself / experimenting with game engine / concept stuff.

It has image loading / blitting on screen, etc, input, etc, and you can do a lot with it, but it will be all pretty manual. Which can be a lot of fun. But it's not a "framework" like django is a web-framework. It doesn't give you any higher abstractions at all (sprites, animations, objects, maps / levels, etc...)

I like it, for teaching my son to code, having fun hacking easy oldschool 2d games in it.

Another more "modern" alternative might be https://love2d.org/ - I've played with it a few years ago briefly, and may well look at it again some day. It certainly seems to have a more active community than pygame - but is `lua` not `python`.

Neither have the greatest distribution / mobile story in the world, there are... options... worth checking that stuff before choosing a system to build in if that's important to you.
actually, it turns out it works fine on my desktop but not mobile. Not sure why, but wasm is a bit janky sometimes.
I was going to add something about improvisation and jazz. While it’s not planned out you wouldn’t describe them as “not knowing what they’re doing” nor are they just blindly mashing the keys.

They’re feeling their way through a dynamic situation guided by skill, experience and luck.
I also like that they let you download the raw wireguard config files so that you can connect without having to use their client. You can just plop them onto your filesystem and use wg-quick to get going.

Since I'm also a ProtonMail user and I considered switching to them for VPN as well but their python client doesn't seem to work correctly on my Arch Linux install and it doesn't give me anything useful to debug it beyond "An unknown error has occured" so I couldn't be bothered to investigate beyond that.
That's absolutely new to me. Last time I got a Libero it was like 380 or so for 2 zones.

Thanks for the correction
Writing code is a different job from management. Of course you will be very successful if you have good management skills and you combine them with strong technical acumen. But writing code while being a manager is a recipe for failure.

What you saw at Fastmail is pretty much standard in the industry: above average intelligence in the worker ranks but way below average ability and intelligence in the management ranks.
‘Fluffy’ crab that wears a sponge as a hat discovered in Western Australia
Something hanging is not automatically a "deadlock". If you jiggle it and starts moving again, that tends to be evidence against the deadlock hypothesis. It could be a lost wakeup problem. If something is blocked on a write due to a lost wakeup problem, what it means is that the task was preparing to block a due to no buffer space just around the moment when space became available. Due to a race condition, it blocked anyway, missing the "buffer available" event.

Lost wakeup problems are more readily susceptible to recovery by "jiggling" the situation than deadlocks. If there is a deadly embrace situation, and you randomly wake up some involved task (in such a way that it doesn't just error out) it will typically just spin around and wait again, re-engaging with the deadlock. You can interrupt deadlocks in a breakpoint debugger, and when you hit "go" again, the deadlock typically continues.
I mean I'm not saying they're right, but it's really only this one election they're claiming is fraudulent. Not "any election we don't win" as you stated.
Been a mullvad user for more than 4 years and love it. Thanks guys and keep up the good work.
Right, but knowing how much someone gets at starting vs how much they get at 10, 20, 30 years is helpful too.

Is there a bulge of experienced teachers getting 100k/year that pulls the average up? Does the pay range max out at 80k no matter how long you are there?

This data is more useful than the average.
Author here. I'm sorry for being blunt, but good grief, comments like yours make me want to stop blogging!

You did not read the full paragraph nor the paragraph after the one you quoted, right? (If you took the time and read them, I really should stop.)

Also, yes, there's no Instagram client I know of (and thus none is listed on https://linuxphoneapps.org), but Facebook properties and a privacy-adjacent, nerdy developer crowd somehow don't go well together.
This is pretty good for illustration to a layperson, thank you! Filling in a few other examples could be useful. For instance, why do 1/4 and 1/8 work in base-10?

I imagine you could create a table of the fractions 1/2, 1/3, ..., 1/10; prime factorization (e.g. 1/4 = 1/2 * 1/2), their decimal representation, their binary representation, and maybe for familiarity the sum-of-fractions represented by the binary representation. e.g. 0.101 meaning 1/2 + 1/8.
German rail has what we call the Profalla-Wende (a "turn" named after the former minister of transport). If a train is sufficiently delayed, and at the final destination would turn around to do the same trip in the other direction, it might skip the last few stops and just turn around earlier. Now the train is on time, skipped stops aren't counted in the statistic, the ripple effects from tracks and stations blocked by the delayed train are gone, and everyone who wanted to go to the final destination is skrewed.
He was a brilliant asshole. He's like Elon Musk, but with focus and maturity.
>Apple threatened to remove all of their users from tumblr if they didn't

That isn’t true. Not allowing the tumblr app doesn’t remove all users.
Not asking directly to you, but in these cases is there (depending of the country) a way to make this kind of malpractice stop ? Organization to which to report the dentist ?
I wonder if you can force the code to compile ZFS in, since the license problem is one of distribution not of user/runtime.

Ubuntu might not be able to distribute said "no module" kernel, but it might run.
Same for me. I used to have cavities nearly every time I went to the dentist, and none after switching to electric brushing a decade ago.
I have to do this in my emails. Most people just ignore the second and third sentences in a paragraph. No idea why, drives me crazy - but this does help.

You can tell they don't read them because they ask questions that were answered in them.
If you sign up on iOS in app, you get to keep your credits after cancelling. One of the things Apple does right imo in regards to consumer protection.
I mean they could just make that some option under parental controls. Course even then I’m sure some subset of adults would complain that their phone is suggesting naughty language.
Mullvad is awesome from top to bottom. From strict adherence to their values to the apps that they make and the service that they provide. I've been an extremely happy customer for years. Keep up the good work!
>I don't know that I'd call Raku battle-hardened yet

You're right here, the Rakudo[1] compiler had its first stable release back in 2015 and comparatively speaking, there's a lot of space for growth.

[1]: https://rakudo.org/
I live in a big city, so I see a lot of elderly people. But especially the ones who are not mobile anymore you probably see less. If they were using those tricycle things, I would certainly see them at least some times.
Crazy thing is, it was just as great already many years ago. And yet people fall for absolutely weird fake privacy vpn offers.
Well, that's not quite true. The first half of the article is about effects of stress during gestation.

"The effect was most prominent in babies whose mothers had been in their third trimester on that fateful day."

> epigenetic effects can span generations[1], something that a purely environmental effect could not

Why not? It seems to me the only way you could rule out environmental effects is if there are no aspects of the environment that are constant across generations, otherwise those constant aspects of the environment would necessarily effect multiple generations.
> Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can't even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like "educational discussion" will ever be recognised automatically.

But why the obsession with recognizing it automatically?

I've long wondered why we never developed a digital system for asserting copyright rights. Like, you register a piece of IP with Google and Google should give you a key. You can then use that key to sign certificates that grant certain people legal use of your content on Google. When I go upload a video, I upload all of the relevant keys that indicate that I've included certain copyright material in my video but I've cleared it up with rights holders ahead of time. Video game companies, for example, could one click hand out keys for free to make sure game streamers could legally stream their games.

Similarly, Google could outsource their enforcement of "for educational discussion" to individual organizations. Cornell could agree that staff uploading content that is in keeping with Google's TOS is an official part of Cornell disciplinary proceedings. In return, Cornell has to place a bond at Google that would be forfeited if they ever broke their agreement. Insurance companies could insure such bonds by evaluating whether Cornell has the right processes in place that would prevent TOS violating content from ever appearing on Cornell's YT channel. In return, Google agrees to turn off all ML content moderation on Cornell's account.

This could easily scale down to smaller channels. If I'm a video essayist channel, I could agree to take a mandatory training course and put down a $X00 bond to have my channel be free from all ML copyright checking up to my first X0,000 followers/X00,000,000 views. If a human judges me to have violated the TOS, the $X00 is there to pay for that human's time. No spam channel would find it worthwhile to go through verification and they would still be subjected to the normal ML checking but people who depend on YT for professional reasons could be more certain of avoiding automated false positives & negatives.
IIRC the *BSDs are much more likely to recompile the kernel and reboot if needed for new hardware, whereas most Linux distributions have gone the "build every possible driver in the world as a module, load as needed" route.
So one out of several billion elderly people. Nice, but not really a proven concept.

My father used to be a doctor in a place that got converted into a pedestrians only area, he reported that a lot of people had issues. Business for other shops also declined.
I have been doing this for ~ 10 years or more. It is trivial to do if you own your own email domain, and only slightly more difficult with GMail.

There are other benefits that the article author does not cover, that become clear when you think about how threat actors analyze breach data.
What kind of roles are you looking for specifically ? It may help if you list things down a bit more in detail than generic Business Development/Sales Training and Management. For example:

- Do you want to work only for startups ? Do they have to be startup or can they be small business (non VC funded but growing organically).

- Do you only want to work for "social impact endeavors" ?

"but I haven’t yet discovered the right fit"

What is a right fit for you ? Can you be more specific ?
> Why is someone working in research publication not using a typesetting engine like tex?

Research Publications is more than just Academia. The de facto standard in industry is Microsoft Word. Everyone accepts word docs and expects to receive them. Sure, some publications take tex family documents, but not all. Why use a tool not everybody takes.

Git is too obtuse of a tool to get not programmers to use.
Counterpoint - SaaS software pricing is hilariously underpriced at the current levels for the value it typically brings, that even SMBs should be paying the "enterprise rate" or at least some bump in price.

I do think hiding SSO behind "call us" is a pain however.
FB is where basically all local social interaction takes place. Restaurants, schools(!), neighborhoods/HOAs, local governments, kids' sports stuff, et c., all treat it as their main platform for communication. These may (may) provide info through other outlets, but they're usually neglected, outdated, and incomplete—you are expected to use Facebook.

I don't even have an account with them, but I have to visit the site all the time. If my wife didn't have an account, I'd have to get one, for the times when it's needed. FB is the Internet, as far as local real-world stuff goes.
Is also true of computers generally. If you want a computer that really supports Linux (or whatever OS you want), you have to support the vendors that are doing the work.
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That is crazy to me. `hacker chained together "about 6 or 7" different exploits to get to the data` <- but somehow the hacker couldn't use $5 per month vpn?
What works for you in making it frictionless and sticking to the schedule?
CA based TLS isn't included in the protocol. The UA is free to decide how to trust certificates. If you can come up with a better model than the CA model, QUIC supports your model without changes.
Thanks for giving me clarity into your thought process. I agree the choice between "correct" and "marketable" is a difficult one. Sometimes the most marketable tech is the correct choice. Sometimes the correct choice is the one you and your team knows, even if it is not the most marketable. Sometimes it doesn't matter, because when you are building an app, there are many paths to success.

Technical correctness is not the only factor, there are other kinds of correctness, as you point out with React: "you would get more self interested developers and it would be easier to recruit for".
Most allow you to chose where the VPN exit is located, so you can have traffic originating in another country.
Lol no it is not like studying for a test and doing well on it. It is like cheating on your med school exams and then taking that license and killing people through malpractice. What they did was highly illegal and unethical.
I think this is a little bit more complicated than that.

Split brain patients are fully aware of events where their executive function clashes. For instance, they can see how one limb operates out of sync with the other one. So how do they establish this awareness? Who is watching? Who is the one that verbalizes that fully conscious experience?

Certainly one could argue that this could be the result of an observer in the right or left brain verbalizing their subjective experience, but that creates several problems.

The biggest one is that for this to be the case there needs to be a commanding observer at any point in time and this would mean that one brain needs to communicate to the other when would it becomes the observer. That would require some unifying substrate that allows this cooperation to happen beyond the physical connection of both brains. This assumes a full separation of the left and right brain. There are also some theories (Gazzaniga experiment) that suggest that the left brain might be in this case the conscious operator simply because the left interpreter is capable of overwriting the right brain by default. But this experiment fails to explain the meta-observer experience that allows the subjects to effectively participate in the experiment and explain their experience with both right and left stimuli. The experiment correctly shows the existence of separate logic centers but can't explain why the subject is still experiencing his cognitive interpretation of reality as a single observer.

This is the fallacy of consciousness theorization. We don't have any good definition of consciousness because it can only be defined subjectively and uni-personally.

Empirically and logically we know that is implausible to have two simultaneously operating and fully aware consciousness. We know this because this duality doesn’t work at all with any rational interpretation of ourselves. We are one and only one. We are never two simultaneous people and there’s no thought or physical experiment that would allow us to test or imagine that.

Some people might have mental diseases that completely alter their consciousness and sense of identity but their experience is still a single observer experience.

Split brain patients are in fact the best example we have of consciousness being discrete and somewhat separable from brain function. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the brain isn’t the one producing the conscious experience but it certainly shows that the brain mechanisms that could produce consciousness are very different from the ones that enable other neurological functions.

The idea that a patient with two physically separated brains can have a relatively normal life (even when executive function clashes happen, one brain is still capable to overwrite the other) shows that there’s some unknown hypervisor function that enables their conscious experience.
> I don't fully understand what specifically do you mean by saying that there was no holocaust to non-Jewish Poles

There was no systematic extermination of Catholic Poles. To be a Jew in occupied Europe was to be hunted. 90% of Jews in Poland were killed. You basically had to have a miracle to survive. There's very little in modern history like this.
Agreed. In the company I work for, I'll often set up SSO even if there will only be 3 people who ever use the service.
Industry standard is Word Documents, EVERYBODY accepts doc files. (Unless you are doing layouts then it can be a handful of other tools)