skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that Duolingo is does something similar. They have a streak wager feature where you bet a few gems on how long you can keep a streak going, but four weeks is the maximum. After that the wager resets to zero and you start over, trying again for a perfect month.

There's also the Duolingo "streak freeze" - give yourself a couple of freeze tokens in reserve that you can use if you miss a day. Give yourself a way to earn streak freeze tokens again if you use one (eg maybe if you get 30 days in a row again). I'm currently on a 2000+ day streak on Duolingo, and while I've definitely missed days over those 5+ years, the streak freezes mean I've never missed more than a day in a row over that time. Gives an incentive to regroup and restart immediately if you do break the chain, rather than losing all motivation.
I have a feeling that the metaverse is going to be completely unusable through over-engeneering.

What kind of made second life great in the beginning was its roughness and that you could really discover stuff because everybody could basically do whatever they wanted. I have a lingering feeling that this is not going to be so simple this time around.

That said, as long as I dont get a "holodeck" like in Star-Trek I don't think that I'll put on a headset for this.... If im honest with you I dont even want to put on a headset to have an immersive experience with current gen video games, so why would I do this....... to hang out?!

Lastly the way people talk about the metaverse, I am pretty sure that every experience I can possibly have will be monetized to the max. So please wake me once there are pirated servers of the metaverse, leaving me to actually being able to experience a limitless world, not one where the limit is my credit card limit.
I think GP meant that moving someone to Matrix/Element is much harder than moving them to Signal.
> What is a reasonable amount of time for an emerging technology like this to develop?

However much it needs to prove itself, I guess; cryptocurrencies have not proven themselves, I want to add 'yet', but they've had over a decade now and they're STILL suffering from extremely high value variability, energy costs, and scams / crime. That's not a basis to keep building on. And every attempt at moving away from those negatives has failed or ended up being a scam itself.
Ask HN: What tech stack is Framer built on?
Are they using WASM or Canvas or just HTML/CSS? Figma is using WASM but not so sure about Framer & I can't find any info online about that.
In France, Spain or whatever that would just have been another election riot and considered completely normal. The police would be flamed for shooting protestors though.
Only a Mark kinda guy would invest in building a whole new ecosystem to try and win in it just because he didn't come up with the fact that video is much more catchy than your grandma's motivational pics.
...and they tell all your contacts that you've created an account. super bad.

anyway, I hear they're working on it.
> how do you measure your own gps “accuracy”?

Because GPS is way cool. First, there is the official site: https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/ I am far from being an expert, but being a flying nerd, that's what I can tell you:

The more satellites in sight you have access to, the cooler stuff you can do with GPS. Minimum to establish 2D (on globe projection 2D) location is 3 sats, minimum for altitude is 4 sats. There are mathematical simulations you can do to see if, and when, a given aircraft will have access to 4 sats (or more), called RAIM: https://www.mygdc.com/new/static/usermanuals/web_help/RAIM_P...

Now, things get even better if you use 4+ sats, or sats from different constellations (I am not sure how mature is cross-constellation data validation, however, so let's pretend 1 constellation for now). With 5 sats, the receiver can calculate the position even more precisely, determine the level of URE, etc. You can even detect that one source is unreliable, and discard it (effectively falling back to 4 sats). With even more sats you can (theoretically) do cool data analysis, where you can determine those factors even more precisely.

Now, add the inertial factors. Many passenger have either in-software (history of previous positions) or in-hardware (think accelerometers, magnetometers) inertial data sources. A sophisticated flight management software (FMS) can cross-corelate the inertial data with GNSS data and determine when the latter becomes unreliable.

All of those measurements and factors can subsequently be reported via ADS-B or ACARS, to help with fleet management, and general predictive maintenance. While aviation technology might sometimes look way out of date at a first glance, the modern airplanes have some really cool technology hiding in it.
when you are oncall and people who are not oncall keep replying to the oncall email in response to the not-incident making pager duty go off like a frog in a sock ..stop it.. I say.. but not reply-all.. 'cause then you footgun again
Exactly; I don't understand why people are still trying to defend cryptoCURRENCY as a currency.

I mean in theory Tether and other stablecoins try to fulfill that promise, but these are dodgy in their own rights - and they have no protections either, as the SafeMoon thing from a while back showed.
I don't know why he seems to forget that part of why Facebook took off is its mass adoption in Third World populations (part of which immigrate and end up being monetizable) through initiatives like Facebook Zero. The barrier to entry to VR is a whopping month's salary for most people per headset, not to mention the bandwidth requirement. It's not gonna be as world changing as he thinks it is.
Occam's razor = the theory with the fewest parameters should be preferred, or often interpreted as the simplest theory.

Do you think that humans universally or even have historically interpreted physicalism as a simpler theory than a non-materialist one? I don't think so

I think you speak from an already materialist perspective, in that you accept the physical world as something that really exists out there, and that your own subjective being is less tangible or somehow illusory compared to that. That is the opposite way round from how Buddhists felt it obvious to consider it, which was to always frame everything from the first person, human experience (the five skandhas, the eight consciousnesses, etc.)

Personally, I think it's simpler and more obvious to have that first person explanation from the point of view of where I actually seem to be, rather than an explanation that everything I see is real but somehow I am not. Why would I see my immediate experience of reality as less real than the objects that I perceive to be external to me?
Microfluidic Cooling on Overclocked Intel I7-8700K Drops Temps 44%
To give a counterexample of one, I've never been a user of Facebook (never signed up to FB, IG or WA) but I absolutely loathe the company and its sociopathic behaviour under Zuckerberg. I hate everything the company represents. I take an active interest in its travails and will celebrate its downfall.
Maybe you had time to do stuff they didn't. A broader experience always wins out in the end.
If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, it does not imply that consciousness exists independently of your brain. The consciousness would require inputs, which come from the brain. You could assume that the consciousness is paused when those inputs stop. Our perception of time is after all subjective. Although this all kind of defeats the purpose of believing in a non-materialist theory of consciousness.
> sentience also means self-awareness,

How is token #100 not able to have read-access to tokens #1 to #99 which may have been created by the agent itself?

> empathy

How is a sentiment neuron, which has emerged from training a character RNN on Amazon reviews, not empathic with the reviewer's mood?

> & extrapolation of logic

This term does not exist. "Extrapolation is the process of estimating values of a variable outside the range of known values", and the values of Boolean logic are true/false, and [0,1] in case of fuzzy logic. How would one "extrapolate" this?
I think this thread has transitioned from interesting analogy to just describing Apple's business model with the word burger instead of phone
FSO (local analog of Secret Service) is constantly spoofing GPS around Putin's location to make drones think they are in no-flight zone.
It is strange that it is so difficult to be social on a platform that is supposedly "social media". For example, I cannot just follow my friends' feed like I want, the comment editor is often unusable on mobile phone. I cannot send messages to others without installing the app, etc.

Social media facilitates the forming of grassroots movements and this challenges the existing power structures. What Facebook does is curiously well aligned with preventing people from forming grassroots movements.

It does not require a conspiracy for this to happen. It may just be that FB gets pressure from some governments to set up policies that effectively curb down grassroots movements, and if it does not comply, it would get pushed out.
I love the $13.37 price point - I’m wondering how many times you have to explain why it’s that exact amount.
Sure, here are two, but I have hundreds. The second one triggers quite often for me.

The art is trying to writing a rule without too much false positives. False positives are myriad. Probably 60% of warnings are false positives, so you don't want to add too much more to that. On a typical document, I can get ten pages of errors, fortunately, going through it goes quite fast.

<rule id="" name="">
<pattern>
<token>comprise</token>
<token>be</token>
</pattern>
<message>comprise be</message>
<example correction=''>The thingy may <marker>comprise be</marker> configured to do things.</example>
<example >The thingy may be configured to do things.</example>
</rule>

<rule id="" name="">
<pattern>
<token regexp='yes'>arranged|configured</token>
<token>to</token>
<token postag='VBG'></token>
</pattern>
<message>You followed <suggestion>arranged to</suggestion> or <suggestion>configured to </suggestion> with a gerund.</message>
<example correction=''>The thing is <marker>arranged to replacing</marker> the other thing.</example>
<example>The thing is arranged to replace the other thing.</example>
</rule>
I mean there's a lot of innovation and good things happening from people intentionally breaking these things - "OK, sue me", to test these terms.

Except that an ISP will just suspend your account, and if you object they'll be the ones that go "OK, sue me".
CIA is partially responsible for making conspiracy theory a slur. This makes your comment very funny for some, I suspect.

Do you have a statistical breakdown of a normal incidence rate of former intelligence officers in positions of power? You’re generalizing for the entire company, but the concern seems to be that these people are in major positions of power, not merely randomly distributed groups within the company.

Coincidence theories aren’t much better than conspiracy theories.
> Nations aren't a real unit to anyone except for rubes

A geographically contiguous group of people who see themselves as having a common culture and values, combining for economic/military coordination and centralized decision-making for certain kinds of decisions certainly seems like a natural unit for humans to organize themselves.
>Facebook would sink someday

That day is very far into the future (in tech terms). 1.96 billion users are a whole fucking lot of a base to bleed. I would bet actual money that they won't dip below 1 billion by 2035, and that they would be still there (in whatever profitable form) with the same trademak in 2050.
You're confusing privacy with anonymity.
I admit it's no big feat ;-)
I don't see how grocery store prices are related with people dying of hunger. That's going from one end of the problem to the other and doesn't help anyone when you ignore all the issues in between.
Privacy != Anonymity

If you live in a village where everybody knows each other what happens inside your house can be private even if everybody knows you live there.

The other way around you could be at a nightclub in a big city where nobody knows you and do the most i timate stuff publicly (but protected by anonymity).

Of course if you have privacy and anonymity what you do will have even stronger protections, which could be especially useful in the internet, where the biggest part of our conversations is not ephemeral but persists. But to defend Signal here, this is actually something you could choose with their disappearing messages.
This theory requires you to distrust a lot of people who saw you sleeping for a long time.

It also requires ignoring a lot of common sense knowledge. For example, the chicken you left marinating overnight for your breakfast became quite tasty, why is that so if no time has passed?

Why does your body become lighter overnight?

The inconsistencies just keep piling on if you want to believe time doesn't pass when you're sleeping.
Here's a simple model:

A market of one token that was initially worth nothing 1 year ago but the market now sees has value - let's say $100 - because it has some genuine utility - various companies have said they will accept it as payment for a variety of different products.

If you add all the cashflows for trading on this token over the year, $100 has been made. In fact the only way for these cashflows to sum to zero is for the token to be worth zero.

Where did that value come from? It came from the increased utility of the token.
>That's what younger users right now seem to prefer

They don't prefer it. They just can't resist.
I hate that it relies on phone numbers instead of usernames. Sure, for the masses it is easier and certainly a success formula. But I still like to have an alternative anonymous service.
I suppose if you take the viewpoint that Pinochet and those other latins had no personal agency, had no choice, then you can blame all the deaths on the CIA. But even if you do that, "tens of millions" is really big.
Not the literal first but certainly one of the most prominent.
But in order to do 'bring privacy to masses', don't you think they need familiar features? Otherwise it's just 'oh that weird crypto privacy nerd chat app' that the masses don't want to use.
Mark Zuckerberg ‘visibly frustrated’ over worker’s vacation question
They're all different brain functions. A lot of brain stuff happens during REM and deep sleep. Different brain stuff happens during concussions and anesthesia. I wish it was as easy as some planned experiment monitoring input/output but brains are complex.
I can't even remember when I deleted my FB account, but my experience matches yours exactly: less but better.

It _is_ a bit of a pain to juggle the matrix of options, but the bulk go through iMessages, Keybase Chat, Twitter, and good ol' mail.
I feel the same way. I’ve been carrying the stream of opening my own makerspace for over a decade. I still look longingly at buildings for lease, and do I the math of how close it is to public transit and potential makers.

Even a very successful space I used to visit closed doors back in 2018, as some of the exotic tools became more commonplace.
GPU prices a bit closer to normalcy
Interesting take. Me and my friends also moved to group chats. Probably unconsciously to avoid the intrusion.

I guess FB overextended by invading out feeds with ads and "recommendations" rather than gossip about friends.
> nobody under 30 uses FB any more.

well, aren't older eyeballs more valuable anyway? Like more disposable income, maybe more free time for those retired? The mine might be empty some day in the future, but it doesn't seem to be the case right now
Also worth pointing out that Jitsi isn’t a standard protocol (AFAIK), but an open-source library. Matrix, the protocol, doesn’t actually have support for video/voice chat.
Find something you're passionate about

It's hard to work just for money, that's usually not where love lies
I still disagree about your main point.

Even the existence of software controlled lock features is not something that most people will even know about.

I would say this stuff is "arcane knowledge for geeks", not "prudent assumption".

Not all Tesla customers work as programmers or have read up in Tesla forums on the internet.
Ask HN: Automated Replies Through Amazon
I bought a couple items from a third party vendor in Amazon. They were never delivered, and after two days exchanging mails with them through Amazon's system, I was given a refund. So far, so good.

What baffles me and I want to ask about is the fact that every messagge from them ( a very small business ) was signed by a different person, "Magda", "Peter", "Rick", "Toby", and so on up to a dozen, not two mails ever came from the same person. I doubt "Magda", "Peter", "Rick", "Toby" and the rest of the bunch actually exist, obviously. This tiny store would have dozens of employees on one hour work shift each just for e-mail replies.

Is this a known automated service offered by Amazon to small businesses to "personalize" replies ? What's going on ?

Maybe the store just trolling ?
> A private property is a property that a class user should have no reason to want to directly write to.

What the user of a class has reason to do depends on what they need to get done. Maybe there is a function that already does what they need to do or maybe there isn't. So the choice is: call a function or write code that directly accesses the variable. This is a choice you would have both for private and public variables. But people say that they make things private because the class user should use already existing functions instead of touching the variable directly if there is already a function that does it. So does that mean that private is a way to tell the class user that there are functions that touch this variable, to increase the chances that the class user finds and uses them?
Capital S “Science” where the goal is continuous funding and reputation growth are in a likely unresolvable tizzy as long as long as humans have confirmation bias and a desire to be right. There’s far too much reason to cheat and to lie with p values, even if unintentionally. This isn’t new, it’s just had a light shown on it.

Applied sciences where the end goal needs to be something that actually works and not just getting published are in much better shape and arguably innately of more value to begin with.
facebook losing users is a bad thing?
>we build a social network on the blockchain

Mmmmm yes, documenting my shitty cringe opinions in an immutable record forever with the full force of a global distributed hashing network.

Unironically though, imagine where we would be if logging to social media was even a tiny bit more expensive than free, PoW was originally invented to combat email spam after all.
I use this: https://memooo.ooo/posts/git-multiple-identities/
Yeah, the radio is silent when it's off. The radio is needed to turn the signal into something.
My approach to this problem was to write file_to_obj converter. It creates a x64 (msvc only currently) file that you can link to. The file contains "unsigned char[]" and size of it or if using c++ you can generate obj for std::array of bytes. Imho the binary format is not that difficult and every tool should target that (i.e. if using gcc target gcc obj format)
> doubt they're the ones making the big strategic decisions

Of course not, but I doubt that the ones making these decisions are ignoring the metrics that the thousands of smart engineers are generating.

All the large companies are able to afford extra staff whose job is exclusively to generate and analyse metrics.

It seems a reach to conclude that the company pays thousands of people for a specific output, just to throw that output away. It may happen to one or two of them, but certainly not to all of the people generating the metrics.
> Scientists these days are just interested in grants.

Ladies and gentlemen, to add insult to injury, the greedy scientist myth strikes again.

There is not a better feeling in the world than to work for free for several years, six days a week (plus Sundays of course), with the weak promise of receiving a "turtle grant" someday. Maybe. (Tomorrow perhaps, the turtle is blocked somewhere. You will be paid in two years) and then being called "greedy".

Yes, there are people getting rich with the money for science, It just happens that they aren't the scientists. They are the politicians that keep the grants as their own personal loans. Science can't be fixed because is the guarantor of politicians that only need to go creative and put impossible requirements year after year to be allowed to keep most of the money for themselves.

In 2010 under the president Zapatero, the spanish government de-funded first and then keep for themselves the 25% of the money compromised for science. In 2015 under president Rajoy the government keep the 48% of the funds allocated for science and in 2016 the 62% of the promised money never reached any researcher. The money was used instead for, who knows... a new swimming pool for each minister maybe, or fixing accounting holes in other sectors... I wouldn't discard cocaine parties neither.

https://elpais.com/diario/2011/04/02/sociedad/1301695203_850...

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/04/ciencia/1507133529_8680...
Our local library has a maker space attached to it, though it’s pretty mundane. I’m glad for its existence, and I’m hoping it will heroes into something spectacular.
Lol, I can't even find someone to fall in love with and here's this website :-(
Anonymity massively helps privacy. Legislation in my country could force the company to spy on me and break encryption, technical challenges completely aside.
I agree with you. I had the same sentiment while reading the site.
> There is little to no way to deliberately make friends after age 30

This is absolute nonsense in my opinion and more importantly, in my experience
It is pretty easy to say it is good if you dismiss anyone saying it isn't as bitching. Signal was insisting everyone using a phone number as identifier. We now know there were zero-click iMessage exploits being used by oppressive governments to target politicians, journalists and activists. All they needed was your phone number. It is slightly more complex than that but still you do the math.
I read a thread at Reddit about people that have been in a coma. Most of the people said they had no idea of the time passed. No dreams, no nothing.

Other people said they dream like during the night, but had less awareness of time. So not like when I sleep and sometimes feel that this dream is stupid/frustrating/repetitive and either I should wake up now or the dream should change.
Someone needs to tell HR then. That is in no way what they are looking for.
I think what is happening here is that the python interpreter can be used as an executable. This way you don't have to install python on the host machine and can carry your programs on a USB stick for example.

Correct me if I'm wrong
The issues is that until the delivery business model runs into a brick wall (which IMO is inevitable), we'll see this continue. It's hard to blame them because being slow to disruption can be fatal to a business. It's just hard to tell at the beginning which disruptive ideas will end up taking over, and which ones end up as duds.
Wonder what makes you think of Shopify as a great product?

I work with it on quite a high level position and everything about it is plainly terrible: support (terrible, only few people that care can help), management (many promises - zero delivery), tech side (team is suffering from ways their API works).
Totally agree. And so does my team. We solve this by running daily Slack-ups, i.e. just tell what you're doing on Slack, which is much, much faster.

We only use daily standups when there are new people on the team.
this is why they bought instagram