skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Maher Saba, told managers that they needed to identify people on their team who “need support” by 5PM the following Monday and “exit people who are unable to get on track.”

If your management team don't already know who needs help, and aren't already exiting people who are unable to get on track, then it's the management team who are the people who don't belong at the company.

This always happens, senior leadership make dumb fucking decisions - like close to doubling the size of an already enormous company, or completely abandoning their cash cow core business. Then the shit hits the fan and suddenly Joe in engineering is a lousy slacker who shouldn't be here.

>Zuckerberg has the unusual ability to weather tough periods that might sink other CEOs.

Yeah, this unique talent is called "owning the majority of the voting shares". I'm quite certain at this point the market has priced in the non-zero possibility that Zuck will shovel all the money from the profitable parts of his business into a VR bonfire and that significantly affects the shares.
Isn't panpsychism orthogonal to materialism?

Isn't the trivial solution in the non-material case just regular mumbo jumbo? Ie. the connection between the consciousness and the body is severed by propofol while it's active, and so memories are not formed to keep you sane, or whatever? It stops when it gets to Nirvana, etc?

All the attempts to explain it with non-materialism seems to very bluntly fail Ockham's razor. Sure, before fMRI and anesthesia it was a lot easier to compare the two theories and not see the huge extra burden for proof of any kind of non-materialism.
In the US there were incidents with truckers using illegal jammers to defeat their employers’ GPS trackers:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-acc...
I don't really know what you're talking about.

NZ looks to me to have a lower death rate than Australia. See [0].

I haven't done a deep dive of the literature but from what I understand wearing face masks is pretty well established to correlate with lower infection rates. A Google search gives [1] which seems pretty reputable to me.

It sounds like you're picking a fight about your personal cause celebre? The original article is talking about trying to figure out how to build evidence. The underlying assumption is that once you have evidence, you use it to inform decisions. You're pushing a false narrative by not only ignoring evidence but also misinterpreting or lying about the evidence that's available.

[0] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?data=deaths&location=Austra...

[1] https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/nCoV/CO...
You can just call or text people every now and then if you want to keep up with them.
Related and a super creative and smart way to use the Lua API exposed by Renoise!
Above Us Only Stars: Exposing GPS Spoofing in Russia and Syria (2019) [pdf]
It’s not an accusation, it’s a statement of facts.
I chuckled at your request for a press article - part of the reason this corner of the country still has a lot of really old practices is that it’s remote, and the population is tiny. There’s no press out here, and according to the internet there is nothing here. The prime minister was meant to visit a nearby town last year, but cancelled on the day when he realised it would take 2hrs to do the last 40km. Until the 90’s, here was a day by road, minimum, from Porto - usually two, according to locals. Now it’s 2.5hrs. It’s so unvisited that a large ruined 15th c. castle on top of a hill thought long lost was only “discovered” in the 1980s. The locals still laugh about the government men coming and discovering what they already knew was there.

I can’t find anything about the bread - I’ve tried searching previously - it’s just a thing people do here, and always have. There’s a lot of that sort of thing, here. Thankfully there are some efforts going on to chronicle this stuff before the old folks all die - amateur historical society taking recordings etc. which is better than nothing, and I saunter about with a camera. They still have a forge in a nearby monastic village, powered by water-bellows - and it’s not a novelty, it’s where you go for scythes, machetes, etc. The watermills for grain worked until the 90’s, and were then abandoned - we live in one now.

The local breed is “Mirandese” - to be clear, most folks these days have abandoned the awkward old (usually on public land, wildcat) hillside groves, but the ones which are still worked, usually by elderly farmers, are donkey powered. The village near us, there are only three (actually, four now) donkeys, two of them work - but they all munch the pao de burro. Hunting and transhumance with dogs is also a big thing here, and I’m 99% sure it’s the same stuff I see shepherds giving their dogs.

Wikipedia has a bit on the breed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_de_Miranda
Sure, but isn't the question that which one do we actually have for a mind?
It won't be very challenging to get folks to move to Signal
As a concrete reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system, which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 (I'm on phone at the moment, happy to provide cites later but truly, they're not hard to find).

Don't trust Moxie; don't trust the server side of Signal.
Aspyr's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Is on Pause
I'm not arguing for or against anything here, but regarding your comparison:

> If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exist independently of my brain? Interfering with a radio doesn’t change what’s happening in the recording studio.

Interfering with a radio distorts the transmitted, outcoming sound. You could say your perceived consciousness is just that: something transmitted from an origin. The state of the brain could then very well mess with conciousness. It could add or remove harmonics, delay, EQ, filters, etc.
There’s a lot more depth to Severance than its aesthetic style and setting alone.
Name even one of these zealot goals please.
You have no actually good reason to remain in your relationship if you're a lying adulterer. You only have evil, selfish reasons.
A list of 166 games like Wordle
Why not "closed world" apps like Whatsapp or Discord ? I personally loath them (specifically Discord) but they seem optimized for the kind of use case you want. Facebook and friends are a huge and dysfunctional towns square, but you don't need a towns square to talk to your family, you need a private shed.
+1 though I often unsubscribe, the best stick around
Especially if you have to fill out an SF-86 form such that they have blackmail on you for the rest of your life, oh and since the Chinese stole most of those from OPM… this should apply double for reasons of foreign counter intelligence?
That's an absurd strawman.

If you really want to use this analogue, then the provider is getting upset after continuously providing 8000 gallons of ice cream every month to an individual who bought a single ice cream cone with "unlimited refills".
A more important reason that McDonald's has become slow is that they've switched to just-in-time assembly of burgers. They used to have an inventory of burgers, and for most orders, you ordered and the person taking your payments immediately assembled your order. Now there is no buffer, and everything is made fresh.
Ive wondered about the drop in activity. Like is it less busy because people are using it less and it's boring or w/e or are the 20year olds who were posting party pictures everyday and having friend group drama just aren't doing much anymore and grinding through life without shareable stuff
Kids is a popular excuse. See also fucked up divorce laws, etc. See also the good intentions pavement system so well known on roads leading to hell.
"However, I'm not entirely sure about the software developer scene over there though."

Malaysian dev here.

I think Vulture from Spider-Man Homecoming is a good analogy. It's a lot of people who have been reverse engineering foreign tech. There has been a lot of attempts to "colonize" the area, by Silicon Valley, Rocket Internet, China. Many pull out to fight a war at home and leave behind the tech and expats.

But lack of funding means a lot of jobs are remote. Local companies tend to move their HQ to Singapore and such. Many startups here are ex-Rocket and other foreigners who are good at raising outside money or have deep pockets.
When I needed a security policy for my startup, I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything that made sense. I only found policies that are very, very, verbose, so much that I didn't know what to do with them. And most often outdated. In the end, we wrote our own, focusing on producing something that's comprehensive yet concise. (After all, if it's not concise, no one is going to be able to understand it.)

We're planning to make another round of changes and publish it under a permissive licence. Here it is in case it's useful to someone: https://www.hardenize.com/about/security_policy

A good security policy is very important early on to inform architecture and design. Ours has worked very well for us. It also often helped us get away from having to complete customer security questionnaires.
Is it zero sum though? Finance in general isn't - it allows people to invest and manage risk.

If I bought a bitcoin at $100 and sold it at $1,000 - who lost money trading with me? The person I bought it from because they could have kept it and made the money I made? No - they were happy to realise their own returns. The person I sold it to? Assuming they still have it, they hold something valued substantially above $1,000 and are quite happy.

The only way for this to be zero sum is if bitcoin has zero value. But bitcoin has at least some utility so now the market is just arguing over how much - and that value changes as bitcoin becomes more accepted / useful.
I'm an electrical engineer and I just spend the whole day yesterday reworking some factory-made Sn/Cu/Ag boards in the lab. What kind of parts are you soldering? Thru-hole parts are easy. Surface-mount parts can go quickly from annoying to very hard/nearly impossible to work with Sn/Cu/Ag, depending on their size and thermal sinking ability.

Sn/Cu/Ag solder has a narrow window where the solder is melted and wets pads but the FR4 substrate isn't yet degrading. If you have sensitive plastic parts like connectors, etc. the window is even narrower. This is doable in an industrial reflow owen. However when doing hand work or repair, it's impossible to control the temperature this well.

For example, after years of experience, I'm still unable to desolder large BGA or PGA parts without visibly degrading the board (i.e. there's usually a brown mark left on it - unfortunately the boards I commonly work with these days use white soldermask, which makes this even more obvious). That's with a temperature controlled pre-heater and a hot-air station. I won't even attempt to solder such parts manually with Sn/Cu/Ag.
Plain-text emails have my full support. Especially in corporate environments, where you get endless shitty images and signatures appended on long chains that make it near impossible to see earlier emails.
I can't help but feel like Fall Guys was not the ideal example given just how comically vulnerable it was, it trusted the client for so much instead of running calculations server side you could just tell the server you're at the finish line and disqualify everyone else.
Your questions are right however you are assuming there is some state of conciousness there isn't it is the state of content of consciousness when all objects are removed from it than what is experienced is what you are calling loss of consciousness but that is not how spiritual text describe it or people who claim to be enlightened describe it unfortunately science has not progressed enough to solve "hard problem of conciousness" but the good news is you can still verify this claim experientially yourself and decide if its true or false for you.
My screen reader doesn't pronounce it the way you'd expect, because it's not using Greek characters the way they should be, but it is the name. Transliterating it, is as wrong as using the original, but the author prefers the original, so that one wins out.
When I was put under so my wisdom teeth could be pulled out, I remember the IV line being put in, the doctor starting to count down from 10 and maybe getting to 7, and then suddenly I was in the parking lot with my mom actively walking out of the place. I confusedly asked if we should go back so they could actually do the operation, and then I realized there was gauze wrap in my mouth from the completed operation.
> who owns Netflix and what their agenda is

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX/holders?p=NFLX

Pensions that are underwater like Chicago?

To make more money so their obligations aren't bankrupt?
The radio-receiver metaphor doesn't go far enough as it still assumes a somewhat physical brain, but it helps at first untangeling yourself from materialism. If reality is nothing but a dream it would be no problem to dream up a brain that modulates the dream-content if it is manipulated.

- Taking red paint and spraying it over your wall will modulate the dream in such that the wall appears red.

- Taking a hammer and hitting your head will modulate the dream in more unpredicatable ways.

What if these processes are the same? It's nothing but stuff made out of consciousness affecting consciousness.
there was same problem earlier as well with deep sleep.
Someone put me in front of fruity loops as a child and it just worked out and sounded great (for me, then).

LMMS is exactly that. You can make it as simple or complex as you want it to be.
How to pick a number for any purpose
This is a feature for Google, not a bug. I suggest you read “When Google met Wikileaks” [0] for a nice read related to this topic, including discussions with former U.S. Department of State people brought in to run Google ideas.

[0] https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/when-google-met-wikileaks/
Papers get cited for very different reasons, from "historically significant paper cited in the introduction" over "related work we're building upon" to "this proves a statement/theorem we're using". It might make sense to start categorizing citations in some way.

Only for some categories I expect the authors to have read the cited paper. Some of them don't necessarily mean the cited paper is high quality. Some are recommended reading to understand the original paper, some are'nt
> can't figure out how to make a maker space profitable.

Maker space membership and other charges come during the most cash sensitive period - the very beginning of an idea, the period where angel investment is required instead of charges. I.e. maker space acts opposite of incubator, and thus it is no surprise that while incubators are profitable the maker spaces aren't.

May be with the growth of all the massive condos around people lacking garage workshop would provide maker spaces a second chance, though i'd bet more on the people just losing the habit and skills of making instead.
When did you throw in the towel? In the last year or so they’ve been rock solid for reliability. (Note: some Android devices background app memory/power/cpu management of Signal effetely makes any type of messenger useless.)
Meta can make this a feature within Instagram.

I am confident this app gets Clubhouse'd.
Would you mind to elaborate what makes you stick to Outlook?

Was a heavy user myself but years ago moved to Apple Mail and never look back
The embargo against Cuba, partially relaxed under Obama, reinstated intensely under Trump, maintained today by Biden.

Think of the children? Nah… America, fuck yeah!
Most of these check the certificate chain, and I've seen a few also upload fingerprints of certs that are rare or not seen before.
I had my first full anesthesia experience as an adult - emergency but minor surgery, so not an extremely scary ordeal. I was very distinctly trying to pay attention to the process of going under, as in: do i feel it fade? etc.

I remember doing the countdown thing and also trying to see if i could notice it at all like going to sleep. but, just like an off switch, no state change, just a full stop (but without something like "blackness"). First woke up to voices of nurses chitchatting across the recovery room and knowing everything was okay.

But as another comment put it, I can only imagine death being similar (if instant/unexpected/while sleeping/etc), just without the coming back. Which is scarier.
With Outlook being mentioned as the "killer application" for staying with Windows, I'm curious to learn if anyone has evaluated Evolution (Linux groupware) and found it lacking in key areas? If so, which?
It is bit strange. Sometimes there is various levels of dreams, sometimes there is vague feeling of remembering something or waking up for moments.

And then there is those times when time is simply gone. Look at clock, it is 2. Move head next time it is 6... In time that feels like an instant.
Kid's'd be better off with a repressed parent, or an impoverished deserter parent, than a cheater. Cheating kills the trust in both parents, because the cheater becomes a disgusting liar and the one cheated on will likely be seen as too weak or otherwise unfitting, to be a good role model. Either way the child will doubt the value of the parents they even came from. That really leads to hell, for the whole family.
I worked for a Big Pharma co about 10 years ago, where we were caught up in an email storm. It appeared to be from a distrubution list covering thousands of staff, the purpose of the distribution list was unknown...
Does 'fresh' mean 'cold', like burger king?
I am in the same boat. I don't trust Moxie.
Awesome map, and awesome use of mapbox.

I haven't followed their progress and was really surprised to see globe view, 3D terrain and custom projections landing in v2.
I hate to say this but Google, particularly YouTube, has the best "discovery engine" in my experience. I'm a fan of long-form content so that must be the primary reason why I prefer it over other platforms.
The Buddhist answer is that all of physical reality is also in the mind. Rather than physical and mental being separate, physical reality itself is constructed by the mind
Both, obviously.

A related example: in the Snowden archive we saw that NSA sends people into American (and foreign) companies to achieve project BULLRUN sabotage goals. They do this for other programs and it is clearly not only NSA.
What Google Analytics can't tell you
Unrelenting these people pretending to be your friend, life so futile it borders on evil.
Hey, I am a JS dev and don't know a lot about python. Can someone ELI5 what is going on here? Thanks.
and Sun, Netscape, etc. Just because some of these predictions didn't happen doesn't mean a lot of them did.

Sun Microsystems appeared solid.
Apple _did_ almost die.
IBM is only a shadow of their former self (IMO, the original IBM _did_ die).
FB and Google are still young in comparison.

I have no stake in either, but IMO Google is more likely to survive than FB. FWIW, both have high quality staff that will bail if the growth stalls.
It’s curious the things we’ll expend tremendous time, energy and materials for that don’t really matter in the slightest. Perfectionism is truly a curse.
Python's biggest issue - distribution - solved without any containerization.

once this gets threads, TLS and a recent Python version, I can see it becoming a non-toy fast. well done!
I used to be a DJ for a few years and Facebook was useful for organizing and promoting my parties. I’m not interested in getting into a semantic debate if such a need is necessary or good for society, but it was useful for me and many people did want to go to my parties. This is a modest example.

Also, people are artists or learning. It’s nice to have a simple and organized way to save your public work online to share with friends.. I can keep going. It’s easy to forget the usefulness of facebook.

To be clear, Facebook has done harm and the company is at fault for much, but I do think there is something in the structure or DNA of facebook which could be salvaged and become useful.

I don’t think that Likes, algorithmic feeds, or sharing political/insane links with everyone you kind of know are quality features of facebook.
Stand on top of the highest peak. Proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean.
Three heads and eight arms. An eight- or sixteen-foot body. A staff or whisk. A pillar or lantern. The sons of Zhang and Li. The earth and sky.
How are the options for connecting a Quest 2 to a desktop PC?

Can you use it as a virtual desktop, like Arcan Safespaces: https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr...

What about writing code in VR with unlimited virtual monitors/windows?
It makes sense for a volume knob, but speaker pricing is not logarithmic; a 40-watt speaker does not cost twice as much as a 10-milliwatt speaker, it costs more like 100 times as much.
Perhaps it's the classical case of enterprise software - the people who make the call to spend on Facebook ads mostly don't have to work with the advertiser UI themselves - they have underlings for that.
What OP means with WhatsApp status is the photo/video stories that only last for 24 hours. What you're describing is now called the "About" section of your profile.
You can use hdparm(8)'s --dco-setmax option to reduce the visible size of most SATA drives. This is not particularly useful for single drives — leaving unpartitioned space works just as well, assuming an OS that never writes to it — but it does stop TRIM-ignorant RAID controllers from potentially kneecapping SSD GC by "initializing" intentionally unused space.

Though I imagine most RAID controllers initialize with zeroes, and I hope SSD firmware doesn't reserve flash to store large extents of zeroed sectors, so this shouldn't be terribly useful for underprovisioning purposes. But without extensive testing or access to SSD firmware algorithms, it's hard to say.
Agree. I still check FB from time to time hoping to see something from friends and acquaintances, but my main "social media" has become a family group chat on WhatsApp.
the examples given (matrix, activitypubkindathing) both have major players (matrix, mastodon) that move fast enough that everyone else is constantly chasing after parity with them, which IMO kinda re-enforces moxie's point.

As far as I can tell, if you want to do fully open and parity, you got either IRC, the joke being still lack of parity, no client can agree on using the same E2E encryption method, etc. Or XMPP, once again, 5million extensions to the spec (the XSF recommends reading through 23 seperate RFCs to get an idea of how to implement a client).

- - -

So, if you have issues with the current options, and concrete ideas of how to solve them, please free us all from the hell that is current open communications. This isn't a "just fork it", its an earnest plea.
I can learn TypeScript if you come here before the Himalaya trip, BYOB & BYOC.
Mine was not. I had knee surgery, and I had vivid dreams of an arousing kind. I heard later that that was not uncommon.
Temporal is great, I’ve been trying to invent something very close to it for some time. I’m also very excited by the Python SDK, will be useful for math/ML heavy tasks