skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently left DataRobot to join another company. I was there a little over a year so I don’t have much stake in this controversy. There are a lot of good people at DataRobot but I’ve seen quite a bit of turmoil in my short tenure there. I hope they are able to get through it and survive.
https://smol.pub and https://mataroa.blog are also nice examples. I host my blog in Mataroa, and love the experience so far.
Ask HN: To what extent is an effectively cooperative global community an utopia?
HN do you think it's possible to have a global community in which people from richer countries would be truly compelled or wanted to share their resources with people in a far away land, (i.e. not as much as in their local communities but much more than now) ?
For example in case of draught based hunger, rising sea levels because of climate change, oil tanker spill etc.

Especially in case of climate change, where consequences come relatively slowly.

Context:
I read developed countries are helping but they do not have a sense of urgency as it is happening far away.
In other words

"out of sight, out of mind".

Humans mostly agree on what constituts suffering and pain while there are many definitions of happiness.

I am thinking that in very simplified terms, emotions are "weights" to data in our neurophysiology.
Similarly as nods in neural network have weights to them.

I feel a stronger connection to people I personally know and whom I can experience with my physical senses.
This feeling of connection in my experience grows strong the more my values and values of other people are aligned and the more time we spend together, especially if situations are diverse and optimally challenging (we experience state of flow together or in a timely manner).

I find it difficulty to truly empathize with people with whom I have no or rare contact in real life.
The challenges of their struggle are soon just a data point in my consciousness with no important emotional weight attached to it.

Where as if I am connected to my local community these weights attached to data are much bigger and they correspond to me much more. Even more so if something is going on with my friends or family, then the emotional "weight" on that data is even bigger

This means I dedicate more of my energy, time and resources to my local community, which is probably optimal.

I also vaguely remember reading Foundations where in the end Isaac Asimov character
thinks that telepathy is important also because is provides with a greater *feeling* (emotional weights in my sense) of connection between members who share this connection and can share feeling even if physically farther apart.

Unless we have case of trekonomics with unlimited clean energy and even in that case there are limited resurces we would need to share if we would like to prevent suffering and pain for a vast majority of people living on Earth.

HN what are you thoughts on this?
Getting the right number of steps is really hard.

Even with a receiver with a volume knob denominated in decibels-- there's 30 useful steps between really quiet and really loud for content that is using the full volume of the track. Content that is quiet, or quiet in places, can easily need another 15 steps.

And sometimes, sitting in the room with the atten set to -34 dB and -32dB feels really different.

So that says you need 22+ steps to be sufficiently expressive, but everyone wants a 1-10 scale.
This seemingly applies to virtually everything now too. It makes me wonder how direct the connection is between this phenomenon and young people feeling like the system is rigged against them. I don’t necessarily think it’s new or unique to society but it does seem exacerbated because of this.
An author does get to choose which platform they publish on. I'm really surprised by all the apologists here, the article is clearly click bait trying to cram ads down your throat. The real irony is that while the post is bearable to look at in chrome it's near enough unreadable in Firefox.
Today, if you can stand 1080p, a ridiculously small bitrate, and using a gamepad: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/cloud-gaming

Later this year, or whenever Microsoft upgrades xcloud if you’d like to actually enjoy playing it!
Most blogs consist of more than a single html page and usually reuse the same styles.
I'm glad it's working for her. I unfortunately had the opposite experience... Some sites I use that are smooth enough on Google Chrome just positively chugged on Firefox. I assume there's some key differences in the rendering engines.

If that's not a problem you have, then I can't think of a reason not to use Firefox.
> How do you come out of this and break the cycle?

Probably realizing that even if you live up to your expectations you'll always be a nobody, especially in a world that is about to be populated by 10+ billion humans.

If you think of all the 'greats' : Newton, Einstein, Galileo, Leonardo, Alexander, Aristoteles, JFK, Gandhi...the world was much smaller back then and yet their death was absorbed by the rest of humanity in a nanosecond or even less. The half mast flag and months of grieving imposed from above are just that, people will keep eating and laughing and drinking and partying behind closed doors, not out of respect but out of fear of prosecution.

An other way to talk yourself out of it is to understand that whatever you are after is a great goal indeed, and the self will be elated when you reach it, but the self will be even more elated if you reach it with the minimum effort, and so by thinking about it too much and ruminating on the paths to the goal you are going to automatically deny the 'minimum effort' bit and thus end up with a sub-optimal path due to excessive preparation
> To try and reduce eating to something we have to do misses the immense emotional, cultural, community, and individual value we derive from it.

OK, but what about the people who's enjoyment of food leads to ill health, loneliness and misery?

It's great that you can derive such pleasure from a basic human need but the abundance of cheap and readily available food has a downside too.
> I'm pretty sure the origin of shareholding was that it allowed the owners of corporations to avoid liability for the criminal actions of the corporation, and to limit possible losses to the value of the shares.

This statement has so many issues.

1. According to wikipedia it was awarded to trade guilds and monasteries in the 15th century, way before the advent of corporations

2. it's a stretch to say a particular nefarious use of something (in this case limited liability to avoid criminal liability) is the "origin" of something. There are non-nefarious uses of limited liability, eg. in the case of a bad investment. Saying otherwise it's like saying "the origin of a defense lawyer is to allow criminals to avoid punishment".

3. being in a corporation doesn't magically make you immune to prosecution. You can't form a hitman LLC to murder people with impunity. Being in a corporation does make it harder to assign blame, and it's easier to prosecute corporations than people (they don't have 5th amendment rights for instance), which is the reason why you see cases of the corporation paying a fine or whatever but the directors getting off scot free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability
The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in putting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work.
A lot of what we call "human intelligence" and "consciousness" derives directly from the fact that we live in bodies made of meat which we have to constantly eat food to maintain. Our perception of time, the spectrum of colors we see with our eyes, the range of flavors and scents we can detect, our deepest yearnings and compulsions. All of these are optimized toward finding food and eating it. It is both one of our most basic functions and one of the highest joys.

What else does this guy have going on that's so important?
I haven't experienced that with HBO Max on AppleTV. The Disney+ app sometimes has the audio drift out of sync as a movie plays and pausing/play brings it back to sync.

You know what has none of these problems? Playing locally from my NAS using Infuse. When I'm watching something I care about, I download it to my NAS in advance. Sad, but true.
Because there is a lot of Python code at my work.
fair enough. regardless i think it's a work of art and meets the definition of compiler in my mind. i hope that the author chooses to publish the rest of their course materials and does so in a language i understand. i expect they are/will be fantastic.
Reading an encoder or a couple volume buttons is even easier.

In either case, the software has an annoying scaling problem.
The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in porting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work. Getting a nice console has been my solution for gaming.
Well in the defense of everyone that hated it: the show was unequivocally awful in every way imaginable. The writing was bad. The acting was bad. The casting was bad. The costuming was bad. If they would have done a shot for shot, line for line live action remake, it would have done well, but the hubris of the people producing it would never let that happened.
No reason the company cant do that, usually, but it's not advantageous for (most) employees. RSU comp is taxable on vest, but if the stock is not liquid the employee must pay out of pocket at each vesting event to cover the taxes.
An Interactive Guide to Learning Bayes' Theorem
> Similar to how some indigenous people in the Arctic have special permission to hunt whales, or how some Native Americans may possess eagle feathers.

> Plus, we've seen how Neo-Druids have right to worship at Stonehenge, and that's a relatively new cultural tradition.

Again, all of those special permissions are fine since they can be granted without making it illegal for the rest of us to do things that were previously legal. A better comparison would be if the neo-Druids were given exclusive right to visit Stonehenge.
Any browser that do not have a multi-containers features is unfit for use in 2022.
Crossover fills a similar role for macOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRwkvrp2rBw

It's actually using DXVK here, the same D3D11-to-Vulkan wrapper used by Proton, so they must be stacking it on top of MoltenVK to go D3D11-to-Vulkan-to-Metal. Two levels of translation isn't ideal but it seems to get the job done.
'Skyrim VR' potential user base links to an article on smart speakers. I also think it is very unlikely that there are 200M VR devices out there, but only 90M macs.
I’m a native English speaker, but this is one of the quirks I’ve never learned.

I guess it’s like how naked mole rates are neither moles nor rats.
What do you dislike about tab groups? Or is Chrome's implementation on mobile not good?

I think the current design is ugly. The way Edge handles them in the vertical tabs sidebar looks a lot better than the way other Chromium derivatives handle them in the tab strip, but still not the best. I like Vivaldi's implementation better, but the UI is relatively laggy. I miss old Opera.
> As long as the team works good, doesn’t do any harm, doesn’t break any laws, doesn’t hurt other teams performance

Discriminating against people of other ethnicities who are applying for a job on the team hurts those candidates, surely. In the US, doing so would break anti-discrimination laws. And if the team is too insular, or if their business is conducted in languages that other teams in the company don't speak, then other teams' performance will definately be negatively impacted. If records—even emails—are written in a language other people in the company can't read, that's even worse; it can become impossible to audit the team's work, fix things that might go wrong, or pick up the pieces if the team breaks up.

Even if the internal effectiveness of a team like this is high, that effectiveness is almost certainly outweighed by these negative effects.
Outlook account shows unusual activity from Microsoft IP address block
true, but for a blog, the html would be cached per page, which means that if you look at n pages the same css is loaded n times too.

depending on _how_ you cache it, there might be a cache invalidation round trip for your css (Q: has this changed? A: no), which might or might not transfer more data than your embedded css anyway.
I quit Facebook September 2017. I felt myself being drawn into a permanent 'fight' mode, and didn't like it. I originally did it as a 'let us silence this for a month and see what gives. After the month, I did not want to come back.

I briefly tried to re-engage in 2020, but that lasted about a week as polarized toxicity on the platform seemed to have gotten a lot worse than even before.

I didn't delete my account as I still use Messenger.

If you feel even 10% bad about your FB habits, take a 1 month brake and see. Don't worry about missing something. I look at my 2017 posts and shares, after all I just need to scroll down through a few years of "happy birthday' wishes, and they're still no different than what I would have shared last week if I was still on there. Just give it a try.
It is possible to do analog processing of signals that have been sampled in time, using a clock signal, but which have not been quantized in amplitude.

Some circuits of this kind are widespread, e.g. the so-called switched-capacitor filters or the so-called charge-coupled devices (CCD), which are used in many image sensors.

It is possible to make an analog computer that works like a synchronous digital computer, with all operations done under the control of a central clock signal.

In such an analog computer, the digital registers of a digital computer are replaced by capacitors which store electrical charges that are the analog quantities corresponding to the numbers stored in the digital registers of the equivalent digital computer.

Such a synchronous analog computer would be slower than an analog computer that works in continuous time, without a clock, but the synchronous analog computer can be made to have a higher precision, because its precision can be made to depend only on area ratios between capacitors, and such ratios can be very stable during aging or temperature variations.

In an analog computer with continuous time, without a clock, the precision is also influenced by other kinds of electrical components, at least by resistors, and in integrated circuits it is difficult to make high-quality resistors.
This definitely exists in the US as well. You can see a variety of caste discrimination lawsuits against tech companies.
Considering you didn't mention once if the results of this team are good or not I would say this is pure racism.
Yes, any failsafe could fail, but there are ways to reduce that risk. For example, if you use an “default safe” system where you have to actively keep a weight from falling, then when you lose signal or lose power, the weight drops, you know that in the “default” state, you’re safe. And example would be if you held a weight in place with an electro magnet. As soon as you lose power, the weight would drop, and the vessel would return to the surface.

This is the same idea behind semi truck brakes. The brakes are by default engaged. When the truck is running, there is a build up of pressure to disengage the brakes so that the truck can drive. If something goes wrong (loss of power on the truck), the brakes are engaged by default to stop the truck.
You really can't force people to want something they don't want.
There's an interesting contradiction at the heart of US law regarding free speech. Does the first amendment give you the right to merely voice your opinions, or does it give you the right to amplify those opinions via mass media?

Citizens United pretty thoroughly says it's the latter. But calls to reign in Fake News and to force tech companies to censor their users contradict this.
US announces NT$3.2B arms sale offer to Taiwan
Employees can sell to the investor. I don’t think investors want to manage 100+ stock sales including sending in tax forms etc. There are active secondary market to sell shares in private companies.
I just play it on my Switch.
When people bring up "overpopulation" as a primary cause of climate change, I notice most are only counting the 8 billion humans that are on earth right now and not the 80 billion land animals [1] that are being sheltered, fed then killed each year for food. It's a mind bogglingly large number that's hard to believe and yet easy to ignore because changing it will mean changes to our lifestyles to fix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_slaughter
First, let's put things in perspective. Netflix is still a successful and profitable company. Their amazing growth has indeed reached a platu.

In my opinion they fell too much in love with the concept of keep doing the one thing you do well. We usually criticize companies that don't do it but sometimes it works the other way too, esp if you want to keep growing at the level that is expected from a FAANG company. They didn't really expand their service to other areas (beyond expanding to original content and international, both very successfully) like Amazon for example is doing with Prime. But they did keep increasing prices.
Why apartheid is reprehensible? No I don't think I have to explain that one...
Their engine barely runs on windows, expecting it to run at all on mac is a reach.

For reference, they’ve been patching up the same homebrew game engine for decades.
Black and white? Or is the publisher + author being a hypocrite? Feels like the latter.

"Do as I say, not as I do" is rarely forgivable. One or two lingering trackers? Maybe. But that's not the case here.
That's what I do, got a PS5 direct from Sony and am playing Skyrim on there now with a M1 Mini for compute.
My aging mom fell. If I weren’t a doctor, system wouldn’t have helped her up
The privacy-first platform that cannot be self-hosted. So many contradictions.
My daughter attended a Waldorf school (in Europe I believe they are called Steiner schools, after the founder, Rudolph Steiner). There were good things about it and bad things, and I know the experience varies a lot with the particular school and the particular teacher you draw (the same cohort of kids and the same teacher travel grades 1-8 together). My daughter had an amazing teacher so overall I'm happy with the experience.

One of their policies, something we had to literally sign on to, was that our kids would not consume any mass media: no TVs, no movie theaters, no radio, no laptop, no cellphone. That policy long predates laptops and cell phones. The net effect is that Waldorf families can be friends only with other Waldorf families otherwise (a) people think your kid is weird, (b) you are a cruel parent, (c) your kid will want to spend all their time at Jane's house doing nothing but watching TV.

It is one of the aspects of their approach that I really appreciated and had a notable effect on the kids' behavior. Bored? Draw something. Go outside and lift up some rocks and see what is crawling underneath them. Build a fort out of found objects. See if you can stack rocks and make an arch. I've seen this happen on the playground: a kid grinds two limestone rocks together to make powder, collects it on a leaf, and pretends the powder is a magic potion; rather than being ridiculed, the other kids immediately take up the fiction and run with it.

8th grade is where they loosen the policy half way, then the next year they say there are no requirements but it is still good to try to keep it to a minimum. All of the kids were thirsty for phones by then and they get pretty sucked into it.

That was 10 years ago, and the net effect on me is that I have no desire to watch TV and rarely watch movies. Having an eight year break without it taught me I'm not missing much. I work from home so I don't experience any awkward moments being culturally out of the loop at the office water cooler. The only social media accounts I have are youtube (I'm there for the content, not the comments) and HN. I believe I'm happier for it.
I am using analogue sensors with machines learning, there is a lot of information in analogue signals that is lost with conversion to digital.

I use mostly opamp's to amplify signals.

Good to see these benefits are being recognised.
I run 2 dehumidifiers on top of air conditioning and stay under 60% (almost always under 54%).

Also the hydroponics water the roots of the plants in a closed system so very little of the moisture is evaporated.

Also I'm not sure about your calculation since poop. I would imagine it would be kg consumed - 0.45*kg pooped - house leakiness loss
You can write the notes up in an SRS and make sure that the ideas stay in your long-term memory. While not without their drawbacks (such as a lack of explicit support for dependency hierarchies, that might enable higher-level learning beyond raw "ideas") SRS systems really are ridiculously efficient once you go past the effort of inputing content and first committing it to memory.
I've seen some very limited discussion about new modes of analog processing. For example, you can generatively produce an FPGA bitstream with a genetic algorithm that does strange things. E.g. totally disconnected logic components evolving such that they influence the operation of each other via RF leakage within the die. There are no doubt other methods. Constructions which model neurons are also a possibility, as are other things.

A lot of the analog in those devices is very high speed and must be put on, say, sapphire substrate or invokes some other complicated method, requiring wafer level integration or another package. The energy budget may be worse for digital at our current tech level but other effects like package size and package/wafer/process cost dominate.

Spintronics, phononics, photonics, ... could also lead to new computing and reduced sizes.
Sure, food is a way of sharing cultures and connecting to some common history -- I agree with you that these are all means of self-expression and connection -- but I'm not really interested in this mode of expression.

And for most other parts of life, that's a legitimate position and you're allowed to opt out. Don't like musicals? Don't watch them. There are lots of things from which people derive emotional, cultural, community and individual value -- and where other people choose not to participate, and that's broadly seen as fine.

But food is in a different, much more oppressive position: I'm not allowed to opt out. I am forced to participate, to some extent by cultural forces, and more broadly by the primitive cravings of my body. And the fact that I don't have much choice about participation is a fact that I do not like.
I'm in a cow county, but here both people and cows are outnumbered many times by elk and deer. A large part of the local economy is about supporting hunters from the cities.

A local rancher told me that they make almost all of their money from hunting parties in elk season. They wouldn't bother with cows except that the cows improve the foraging for the elk, improving their business. The cows are cultivating, seed distribution and fertilization devices in service of the elk herds.

I think that the more wild forage we can maintain along with our domesticated food system, the better. In paradise it's the rule rather than the exception.
Related story of another African king and some of the erasure that enables the bias towards believing Africa had no pre-colonial wealth or tech. From the article:
“When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-citi...