skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is that replying to? What I suggested isn’t “following the herd”, and does attempt to profit off of something others didn’t notice. And unlike the plan the parent gave, this one actually results in a short position in SOL and which allows you to dump the SOL on the market at a time of your choosing, rather than whether it happens to fall far enough and the interest has accumulated enough.

The position of the whale, under the parent’s plan, is a clumsier version of what I described because it leaves an unknown lag before the SOL gets dumped.

> Unless they had a plan that only worked by doing it the way they did it.

I don’t know many short gambles that actually take a long, and which deliberately introduce uncertainty in when an asset is dumped on the market. And if this is your best defense of its merits (“maybe this is the only way it would work”), you’re offering nothing but unbacked speculation (that mistakenly read me as suggesting they “follow the herd”, no less).
Is it possible to setup an open wifi "honeypot" on some old Android phone to 'capture' the TV?

Yes, this should not be necessary, but actual legislated protections for this kind of behaviour don't exist, and aren't even being discussed at any high-enough level that makes it appear that action may be closer than a decade away (unless maybe in Europe, in which case may be only five years away).
Fast Finite Width Neural Tangent Kernel
TAVA: Template-Free Animatable Volumetric Actors
I believe the list was simply the most mentioned books but I don't have the link in front of me
There's a plot twist in Dorothy Sayer's "strong poison" (1930) which depends on the burden of completely re-doing a page because of a typo early on. It was a valid mcguffin right up until the mid eighties.. And then suddenly fell off a cliff of "how quaint: you just fix it in an editor and re-print"
We had some freshly made ice cream at the Tillamook Creamery in Oregon: https://www.facebook.com/TillamookCreamery. They get the milk piped into the building. It was so much better fresh.
And yet Australia is a rich well functioning Democracy. A great place to live. I chose Australia over the US and that was the right choice. So perhaps entrepreneurship is less important than some might think?
IIRC, the Celsius problem isn't BTC, but some complex relationship between stETH, ETH, and ETH2.

But yes, BTC dropping and scaring people into wanting their ETH tokens back should have been part of the calculus.
This is really cool and something I've wanted at work before. I agree with @vikstrouss's comment - if you keep adding to this I think you'd have paying customers.

If on the other hand, in case you're interested in monetizing it in other ways I'd be interested in chatting with you as well.

I noticed you said you were recently laid off, if you're looking feel free to ping me, this kind of initiative is a very good sign that you're going to be just fine.

Congrats on shipping!
Evolution Through Large Models
"Infants as young as nine months old prefer individuals who are nice to people like them and mean to people who aren’t like them, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science."

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/babies-pr...

On the other hand:

"People have found that even by 18 months of age, children have expectations about how things should be shared fairly."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19421644
Minedojo: Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents with Internet-Scale Knowledge
But what if that anxiety is preventing you from taking the trip to overcome the anxiety?
> 1. So it's coincidence luck that I get advertising for 'window safty latch for children', as an 'interest' for '18-35'? They knew that I was looking for an apartment and had a kid that was 1yo and thought 'oh you know what that guy needs, window safty latch for his kid'

It seems doubtful that you can hide the fact that you had a 1 year old kid from facebook, unless you're a very sporadic/careful user. Besides, it's not too hard to imagine one of your friends outed you to facebook (eg. posted photo of you with a baby, or mentioning the fact that you have a baby on a post/comment somewhere). From there it doesn't seem too implausible that "had 1 year old kid" was a targeting factor for "window safty latch for children". As for the "looking for an apartment" part, I don't really think that's necessary for sending you ads for safety latches. Even if you live in a house you'd need latches to secure room windows that are on the second floor.

>2. So facebook leaked information that a conversation happened between me and a friend and they thought, oh you know what, Phillip had a conversation with X, and X just search for 'cat toys' so Phillip must want cat toys right now!

e2e provides zero assurances about metadata/social graph. that's been the case since PGP days.
I entered the comments section to find a post like this. Thanks Dang!)

(I honestly clicked on the link because I thought I was going to read a snarky post about Fahrenheit being the better system. Surprisingly, this is more interesting!)
Google now allows you to download the fonts in the appropriate formats so you can serve them up yourself, so I don't really see the point.
People get off on criticizing crypto. It makes them feel better about themselves.
I'll add some nuance:

- Most people don't know what they're missing re: clunky interface controls

- Most people want a single feature-complete device that doesn't take up an HDMI port or require another set of cables to connect (yes, that's trivial, even enjoyable, for 'us', but 'they' are not 'us').
There's twofood related experiences I want my kid to know me for:

1. Going out for icecream.

2. Pancakes at home on the weekend.

Of course, non-food related experiences I hope to add up to much more.
The daisywheel printer was a scarce resource at work, the first daisy wheel typewriter was pretty much coveted by the few cogniscenti who were already up to speed with changing the head on an IBM golfball.

We were expected to proofread the living bejesus out of our stuff from RUNOFF (the pre-troff but very similar word processor which was on a Dec-10 amongst other things) on lineprinter, before queueing up to print it out on daisywheel. The paper was very satisfying fanfold with increadibly fine edge strips with the sprocket feed, tearing it back into loose sheets before binding was great. Well.. right up until you spotted a typo and had to go back and adjust the markup.
Improving Cell Reception by Making Signals Noisier
Agree, minimizing diffs (even indentation!) is a necessary evil.

Nowadays I will use lambdas that return early in preference to goto. Not from fastidiousness so much as to avoid confusing the optimizer.

Poster child for reprehensible use of goto is procmail.
SpaceX is currently valued at ~$135B as of last cap raise (which was fairly recently).

Boeing's market cap is current $80B.

Snapchat was valued pretty richly but is now valued at $20B.

Personally (despite being a huge fan) I think SpaceX is actually quite overvalued on a risk-adjusted basis.
Being fat isn’t an illness in the same sense as we normally define it. It’s a conscious decision making process that is self-inflicted. It’s lazy to turn to medication just because the real method is difficult. Most medication has side effects, deal with the root issue instead
The related analysis is that comparing one’s expenses without also comparing comparing income is an incomplete comparison. That was the nature of inclusion in the comment in reply to the grandfather commentor.
The thing you miss is CIO DGAF because he has paper trial covering his ass - pays for all kinds of corporate placebos (antivirus, waf), even did a pentest. Worst case scenario they will get in the news and get free advertising to >50% of clueless population.
I guess a problem with discussing voting is that there isn't really agreement on the purpose of it.

One view could be that the purpose of upvoting is to lift informative posts to the top and make them quicker to find. In that case, I don't see that downvotes really add much. Poor posts just sink to the bottom from lack of upvotes.

Another view could be that the purpose of voting is to show dis/agreement. My own feeling is that expressing a position without offering a supporting argument is a bad practice. Others no doubt feel differently about that.
> This is exactly what it is...

I'm literally taking the narrow conclusion from the second paragraph: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

> This is exactly what it is ... albeit not "consciousness" proper

Which is it? You conceded the first point in the second.

> The Turing test is much weaker than the Chinese room experiment.

Yes agreed, this comment on the Turing test was a reference to the linked article that makes the same claim. I'm not conflating consciousness with "being able to pass the Turing test". It's a remark on how understanding consciousness need not be a prerequisite of consciousness.
Most people would be better off buying a new fridge every time it breaks rather than a subzero. Subzero is at least twice as expensive, if not 4x as expensive as a consumer level fridge.

Costco even offers a 4 year warranty if you buy with their credit card.
> Neither of these companies sell user data. Both these companies take user privacy more seriously than almost every other company on Earth.

That depends on your idea of privacy. Collecting and retaining incredible amounts of data about people even without their consent isn’t my idea of respecting privacy.
> The survey did not ask women to explain the reasons for their regret.

This seems a strange question to omit in the survey.
There's a big difference between regretting because:

- the procedure negatively impacted their health

- the eggs failed to produce viable/healthy babies

- they did not end up needing the frozen eggs and felt $10-20k+ was wasted

Not asking and then attributing the regret to the conclusion that the procedure "could lead to unintended childlessness with devastating consequences" make me feel like they started out with the conclusion and worked backwards to try and get supporting results from the survey.
This is just yet another disappointing take on "I feel like there's something mystical about consciousness, that I can't actually define or describe in any meaningful way, but it's definitely impossible for it to be anything computers can do!"

This is the same kind of nonsense that leads people to search for some kind of magical "quantum" thing in the brain that makes the special mystical consciousness effect, because of some vague intuition that it can't come from the normal high-level behaviour of neurons.

The obvious position that should require significant evidence to contradict is that whatever consciousness is, it's a mundane physical effect that can obviously be implemented with a computer. Nobody has yet made any kind of falsifiable predictions about mystical non-computational souls or whatever, and I'm going to continue dismissing this bullshit as pseudo-scientific nutjobbery until there's actually something testable or falsafiable.

Name one specific concrete measurable effect that you believe consciousness can exhibit and computation can't, otherwise this is pointless masturbation.
Is this about the HODLers? So stupid. Such stupid people
Yeah definitely. I think that most of the unproductive shit I pull as an adult in the 21st century was useful/necessary in the past, either mine or way back on the Savannah.

It’s like the limp you often still have even after the busted knee has healed.
Fridge: inadequate hearer coil design allows drain to freeze, causing overflow & water spillage. PITA but ultimately fixable with a hack.

Dishwasher: POS, ‘nuf said.

Induction stove: cooktop has been excellent, oven convection gave up the ghost.
> I’m curious if others have successfully gotten teams of designers and engineers to stop worrying about mobile/tablet/desktop first and instead think in terms of an infinite number of viewport configurations

Sadly, no, despite my best efforts across multiple teams I've led in the last few years.

If someone manages to crack this, I'll hail them as a hero.
youtube, netflix, etc...?
What does TDS mean. Google is no help :(
In your face disgruntled, embarrassed employees!
Good list. I would only add 'Send without sound' and 'Schedule send'
The only rational reaction to this can be mass selling when it opens back up
As a techie who writes a lot of docs, I kinda hate Markdown. I use Markdown for all my to-do lists and notes, but it sucks balls at conveying complex information in compact form and being readable. Any good docs written with it need touching up to be easier to read. With 10-20 additional formatting functions it would be decent.

Meanwhile, most word processors have crappy UX and require training to figure out the mystic incantations to get the presentation right, and then screw it up at save/export time. We could definitely do better.
we will become a third world country
They know this isn’t right - maybe even makes them liable for the money they are holding hostage
> Before getting too deep we need a working definition of consciousness. This is a tricky concept to define rigorously since it seems that a rigorous definition of consciousness practically requires a theory of consciousness itself. To make matters worse, in these kinds of discussions it oftentimes gets mingled with related ideas like self-awareness, intelligence, and executive function. But in this post I am interested only in consciousness as a sort of perception or sentience — an awareness of being, or, more loosely, “what it feels like to be something.”

I'm not sure this definition succeeds in distinguishing consciousness from some mixture of perception and self-awareness, both of which machines running programs can have.

Maybe defining consciousness is difficult because we don't really understand what we mean by it, and our attempts to make claims about it are more flimsy and baseless than we like to believe.

The "what it is like to be a bat" stuff doesn't illuminate the matter at all. It just elevates the figure of speech "what it is like" to an illusion of philosophical rigor.
Thanks man. I did notice that when I moved to Japan for a few years, I lost a pretty decent amount of weight just from the different habits

I'll check that out for sure.. right now I'm in the honeymoon phase of dieting, where I can lose weight by just switching from sugary soda to sparkling water and staying away from American restaurants
I’m seeing them for $1 online at target and Walmart in a HCOL city.
You're always in network partition -- the question is, how long is the network partition? It might be milliseconds. Maybe even microseconds.

But I don't agree that the CAP theorem only applies "when you're in network partition." An available (AP) datastore will have potentially inconsistent data if you write-then-read (ie, the write that you applied may not be read back) even if you "aren't in network partition."
I imagine it was along the lines of “It’s Shut The Fuck Up Friday”.
>Fortunately in what sense? You're talking as if BTC was worth nothing. 19K is still a really good price if you zoom out.

Fortunate in the sense that I learnt that the only way to reliably value any asset is to calculate cash-flows -- for me anyway. There are a million things (BTC,ETH whatever) in which you can invest and some of them will make money but I learnt these weren't for me because I can neither predict how high/low something can go

> I understand young people whose first investment was BTC 1 year ago and bought at 60k and are -70%. But if you have been investing for 10+ years as you mention then there's nothing fortunate about not having bought BTC.

Investing in company stocks that I somewhat understand, yes. Fortunate about not having bought BTC .. well. I don't seem to understand how BTC can be worth anything at all so I didn't/won't :)
Mother Moo
Some people think that writing might become different in the future because there is a machine that can automatically change sentences into proper English. All people would need to do is state their ideas instead of worrying about the structure and grammar.

This comment was generated by GPT-3 given the following prompt:

- Writing as we know it may be a thing in of the past

- GPT-3 will automatically rewrite sentences into proper english

- People will only need to articulate ideas instead of worry about structure and grammar
Word salad! What really is the point of Philosophers? Imagine a philosopher getting away with saying "According to Descartes a solar panel will never achieve over 95% efficiency because rocks in the desert" The sentence rightly doesn't make sense but because consciousness is a fuzzy concept people get away with making hard statements that sound truthy while in essence spitting out nonsense that is no different to GPT-3 babble.
This is a little bit of an emotional take I think.

The burden of proof is on the claim that you can get there through computation, not otherwise.

We do not understand the fundamental reality of consciousness, this does not mean that consciousness is magic. The assertion that you cannot get there from computation implies there is a currently non understood yet essential piece of physics(I assume, but I do not know) which doesn't fall under "computation". A laymans initial thoughts point this towards the quantum realm.
Are you kidding me? This is what qualifies as being "informed" to you? The rantings of some random podcast host who did a weekend of "research" on a topic he obviously knows nothing about? I watched that whole video and it was one of the most vapid, substance-free, piles of bullshit I've ever heard.

I seriously question the quality of your judgement and your capacity for critical thought if that video is what is inspired your original comment.
Would you say that the opposite assertion, I.e. that consciousness is computation is not grounded on belief and bias? I believe consciousness is computation of some kind. I think some of the challenges with consciousness is the link with the substrate of the computation, like a program that cannot run on any other computer, a kind of soul DRM?

The belief in my uniqueness is instrumental in my belief that I am a conscious being.
It's interesting to see this perspective. My experience with canvas-based flow charting applications shows that users prefer the horizontal left-to-right flow. The ability to shift drag the canvas usually makes horizontal scrolling a lot easier. I believe it's mostly due to the fact that people find writing to be the closest metaphor. It is expected that adding a new node or step will appear to the right of the current one.

However, I think more research and experimentation are needed.
It's pretty unlikely that you'll have ethernet over hdmi happening unless you go way out of your way to have it. It's not really something that just happens spontaneously, you need your devices to have it and the cable to support it. I think eARC canibalized the channels it used too?
I disagree with any sort of “justified belief” epistemology, so of course I disagree with you completely. If knowledge were “justified true belief” or anything like that, then it would indeed be the case that any knowledge would require either an infinite chain of justifications or a privileged self-justified fact that cannot be examined or criticized using reason.

If, on the other hand, the pursuit of knowledge consists of something like using creativity and reason to solve problems by making new conjectures and criticizing them, then no infinite regress or un-criticizable is required. According to ideas like this, the goal is to solve problems rather than to “justify my beliefs” or “increase my confidence” or “guarantee that I’m not incorrect.”
If you start with what we already know, natural responsiveness is fairly straight-forward. There are still phones out there running 320px. There are desktops running 6-8K. There are people using side-by-side windows at 4K, making each window slightly less than 1080p. And we know the same page needs to work on all of those and everything in between. With just those four pieces of information and a little logic, you can make confident decisions about your layout's behavior at different breakpoints.

With that in mind, the same is true now as it has been for almost 20 years. The layout should be made of 320px columns growable to 400px, while components occupy one or more columns. If everything else is based on that foundation, it will be rare to run into special cases. Whereas the current breakpoints based around 768 and 1024 are actively working against you by creating common dead zones that you need to adjust for.

You can see the 1025-1079 dead zone in action by visiting most websites in 4K side-by-side, causing a horizontal scroll as the content overflows. That includes major sites from Google, Meta and others who really ought to know better. Since almost all of my browsing is done side-by-side, I've resolved to reducing the default browser zoom to 90%, which eliminates the horizontal overflow on most of these sites.
If that's where you draw the line, you've already lost. Satan wanted you to use computers and he won.

If you want to be saved, stop using computers, and I'd say stop using any technology that uses electricity just to be safe.
Platformer Toolkit: Interactive video essay on game feel
How do you find the texture compared to traditional ice cream?
This statement does not instill confidence in the business or “product.”Interested in seeing where this lands.
My problem with this is that we don’t even know the extent of “things” that can be computed, maybe consciousness is a type of computation that has yet to be discovered at which point I can very easily see the headline “consciousness is obviously computation”.
If you work with vendors and suppliers, you should have good rapport with those folks. Ditto for peers in technology or business in your company. It’s something you need to always work on. Be kind when you don’t have to. Listen to people. Be fair when things go wrong and generous when they go right. Build trust and bridges, help when you can, etc.

Being able to pick up the phone and get action is key to any director role. I’m a senior director for a few years, and who I know has been more important than what I know more times than not.

One example is a few months ago, there was a critical failure in another part of our technology org, a legacy system that has alot of impact to the business. I was in a rotating major incident commander role, and the primary teams were all impacted by COVID.

Being able to call the business leader and let her know that we have a serious problem, but are working on it kept the situation calm was key to preventing intra-org issues. You need to project calm leadership, even when you’re flipping out internally when the normal processes are all useless.

Having relationships with suppliers and SMEs allowed us to leverage key people and get them engaged - they were ultimately essential to getting things running again.
Hehe, It did take a long time to get used to it, by necessity of "where I work upgraded, so no choice but to work with it". So, now it's second nature, and in my brief interludes with LibreOffice I struggle with the layout style and finding where things are.

I did say "But then I'm not sure if that was just a case of getting used to the new layout" - still open to that being the case.

Maybe it's like 12th edition text books, change for the sake of change. In the case of Office software, we need people to keep needing the 'basic' and 'intermediate' training sessions; we need credentials to justifiably decay with time?
If the computer didn't burn down then the simulation was not perfect.
https://opensource.com/article/21/10/learn-ada-2021

Vscode/emac has Ada plugins as far as i know