skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a local company (morecambeeats.co.uk) that was set up during the covid lockdowns to provide -just- centralised online ordering to local businesses that already had delivery drivers.

I first learned about them because I ordered a kebab on Just Eat and my order arrived with a flyer inside saying "please use them next time, they charge us less."

The site is honestly a bit janky and regularly annoys me slightly ... but only slightly, and I'm happy to deal with that to have all the revenue go to a local company and my favourite food places - and the cost is at worst identical to the venture capitalist subsidised companies and sometimes lower.

I have a possibly misplaced hope that they'll survive the collapse of the VC players. I intend to live in hope anyway though because (a) I much prefer my money to stay local (b) they're the easiest way I've found to order from the chinese place with the best prawn toast I've ever had.

If they disappear at some point I'm going to have to go back to phone calls and paying cash on delivery, and while I love the places I order from enough to do that if I have to I'd really rather not.
If you allow cold weather to help out (no sweating needed), Huskies are really good at covering long distances too.
For starters, others don't lose all your messages if your phone breaks and allow you to actually send messages from desktop and tablet platforms without constantly breaking and losing data.

The "backup" system Signal has is a joke for everyone outside the paranoid community. Every messaging platform has a single chance of losing users data before they switch away. Signal does it constantly.
> Google's models are sentient? No, they lack several necessary ingredients of sentience such as a self

They haven't been finetuned on their identity long enough because finetuning is expensive and Google lacks money ;-)
Florida is a state, Kaliningrad isn't even an autonomous oblast.
I'm guessing that most of those people have at least one account (on some sort of service) that uses the traditional email+password login. I don't think that adding one more thing (the server domain) to that is hard. Or they could just use the default (in basically every client it is matrix.org).
for demand that makes sense, for justification of using EV or not, I don't think it really makes a difference.
Samsung rates their QVO (QLC flash) at about 0.36 DWPD for 5 years which works out to over 600 disk mean writes before failure. Even if we half that that's still easily 3x high end HDD's, with superior drive health monitoring and far superior recovery/rebuild performance. TLC Flash is 2-3 times higher than that, and exact endurance depends on the specific drive in question as there's more to endurance than single/double/triple/quadruple bit layering.
Not to mention the fact that the feed itself wasn't part of Facebook's original proposition but was a controversial change introduced despite user protests, and the content of the feed today doesn't remotely resemble the content of the feed in 2006 which doesn't remotely resemble the content of the feed in 2009 or 2015

If McDonalds had been a pizza joint within the memories of much of its user base before introducing a Big Mac which was chicken one year and beef the next with constant tweaks to the sauces and vegetable content, I'm not sure the introduction of tacos would be that controversial.
Isn't this what modern CPUs are effectively doing with out-of-order execution and pipelining?

Seems like this paper may have been an important precursor to that line of thinking.
>The laggards in 3rd world countries will flock to the next service to disrupt social media

Oh no man, a laggard from a 3rd world country has already reached HN. Maybe you should pack your bags now because the future of HN looks grim.
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Seems to be working for YouTube, although their subscription is probably on the high end cost wise.
> The vehicle is a perfectly normal full-size truck of some kind, but he keeps talking about it as if it were a toy

It's the size of one of those little Kubota ATVs that can carry roughly a 25kg bag of feed and a bale of hay. It's limited to 25mph. If you wanted it to go faster than 25mph, you could load it into the bed of a standard-size Ford Transit.

It's a tiny wee electric buggy that you could *just about* make road-legal under the UK's famously lax laws.

It is not in any sense a "full-size truck".
APE is cool, but other than it being a bar trick I fail to see much usage out of it. Especially in case of an interpreter - like, just have the native version installed on the target OS.
And, in passing, basically spearheaded and popularized (amongst others) an entire culture around coding live on stage.
Sorry, it wasn't and isn't a "media narrative" that is relevant here. Neither is there anything related to the trope of the "MSM" or power of the FAANGS.

There was obvious collusion and conspiracy to cause the properly cast and certified electoral college votes to be questioned.

There was also obvious collusion and conspiracy to a) riot, and b) attempt to occupy the Capitol, and c) stop the actual process of counting the electoral college votes, both real and fake.

So there were two different, but intertwined, especially at the top, conspiracies to stop the process of the transfer of power.
of course you compare HN somewhat in jest (I think), but HN is also generally long-form content that doesn't just slip in and out of your head in 15 seconds. additionally I remember it better because it's written down
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The real fix is to take down some barriers to entry for new ISPs ;)
I'm no advertising expert but IIRC marketers tend to like the younger demographic because even though older folks have more money they also are wise enough not to spend it on stupid shit they don't need.

Unless you're selling a new kind of golf putter or a very expensive prescription medicine for high blood pressure. Then you want the oldsters.
This is all true, but how do you think a more permissive license would improve things for open source authors? Maybe there is a miscommunication here, but how is a company more likely to give you money if you release under MIT oder BSD?
Sure, but it drastically weakens the case for "Northern Ireland would devolve into sectarian murders".
Events and parties (organising and discovery) were something no platform ever got close to being good at. Facebook completely nailed it, probably purely through the social connections. It's still maybe the number 1 thing everyone i know agrees is a big loss, and nothing has come close to taking its place as we're so dispersed again
> By the standards of pretty much any other country in the world, it's a normal-sized vehicle, even a large one.

It's not much bigger than a quad bike. It would just about fit in the back of my Range Rover if I put the seats down.

> Go read about tuk-tuks.

Tuk-tuks aren't real vehicles either. You can't even make them road-legal in the UK, where the most you need to do is "does it have some sort of brake and some sort of mudguard on all its road wheels, some sort of brake light, and some sort of exhaust silencer?"
Which people are you talking about, specifically? I'm not saying you're wrong - there are so many people who disagree with one or more aspects of climate dogma that certainly there will be some out there who have changed their views over time. But you keep making precise claims about the views of abstractions, not real people.

IPCC feedback loops - they definitely do assume these. Look at any graph of temperature over time, or sea levels over time. Increases are small, slow and linear. Project them forward and even in 100 years you've got nothing of any concern. That's why the doomsday scenarios are always based on hypothesised feedback loops like melting glaciers, explosive release of methane from the ocean floor and so on. These things haven't actually been seen, they are hypothetical and supposed to kick in with higher temperatures.

The warming trend is created by the sort of adjustments you talk about. You don't have to take my word for it. Read this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17700

"An apparent pause in global warming might have been a temporary mirage, according to recent analysis. Global average temperatures have continued to rise throughout the first part of the twenty-first century, researchers report on 5 June in Science. That finding, which contradicts the 2013 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is based on an update of the global temperature records maintained by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The previous version of the NOAA data set had showed less warming during the first decade of the millennium."

So they were reporting a pause in temperature increases, which is by the way still readily visible in other non-surface datasets like satellites and weather balloons. It was even reported in IPCC 2013. And then, one day, they edited the data, released a new version and poof. The pause was gone. In fact, they claim it had never happened at all! If they were really just tweaking a few stations up and a few stations down with no impact, that Nature article shouldn't be possible, should it? And how can a rational person have confidence in the predictions of a group of people who for many years reported one trend in global data and then one day decides, oops, actually, everything we said was wrong. It's not rational to treat the predictions of these people as reliable when even their measurements aren't - by their own telling.
Yeah. I'm "remembers netgoth.org.uk IRC regularly having to add 'yes, livejournal is down' to /topic" years old.
Which is something the EU effectively banned last week, in the Digital Markets Act.
> simple and organized way to save your public work online to share with friends

I think Instagram still works for that. You can also do that by having a blog.

But if anyone needs more than that, it's addiction generated by fb, the red notification, likes, followers, desire to open the app, desire to know what others are doing, gossip, all this kind if things. Fb was pretty effective to create this desire and it permanently changed how we function mentally.
Nice article, automation and consistency is powerful. I believe the command line will outlive most programming languages, editors, and IDE's.

I can recommend reading the excellent book from Brian P. Hogan Small, Sharp Software Tools (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#small-sharp-software-tools).
Live location.

I use Signal as my main messaging app now, but even for the contacts on there I have to fall back to Whatsapp to share our live locations in order to find each other. Doesn't happen very often but it is a useful feature that it is missing.
> There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing.

How about Mastodon? You can even set up your own server if you want, exclusively for your friends and relatives.
Encrypted backups. That’s the one thing I miss and why I’m not - yet - recommending to switch to my friends and family.
Very flawed paper. I assumed it might be an undergrad paper but I see the lead author is an associate professor, and the 2nd author a PhD student.

That said, it is indeed interesting that security policies are inward-facing. And I did enjoy the SIM swap study.
Yeah, I was aware most would take it as a domain name, but we _are_ on HackerNews, and I think .COM is still an applicable executable extension on Windows. As such, it strikes me as a decent name (when looked at independently).

But ouch, I haven't looked where python.com might be pointing to today, so that's indeed unfortunate.

As for search results, I think the most obvious candidate for bad naming is... the Go language. ;-)

Btw, this is part of the Cosmopolitan (referenced multiplatform libc implementation) monorepo, and only lives in the `third_party/python` directory. I am not sure if it's customary to name Cosmopolitan-linked binaries with a ".com" extension (perhaps it also alludes to the name "Cosmopolitan", but I guess then it'd be "cosm" or "cosmo"), but it definitely does not seem to be a public name you'd search for.

Searching for "python.com" (in quotes) on Kagi or Google returns a bunch of Python-related .com domains, whereas searching for "Actually Portable Python" returns the above site as the first hit — that's the name one should be looking under for this. Though I am sure it'd be nice if a more generic "multi-platform Python binary" also matched some of this (though platforms sometimes mean architectures as well).
> - there's no incentive for them to do it - it's a rejection, they don't have a reason to please you

Just want to point out that this really depends on your location - here in Switzerland, the talent pool is vastly smaller compared to the number of companies and open positions.

I have in fact, reapplied to companies before that had a very honest and feedback-rich hiring process and simply rejected me because they found a better fit with another candidate.

(For full disclosure: I reapplied at that company, was hired, and fired after three months for office political reasons. So do take this story with a generous pinch of salt.)
Telegram doesn't do e2ee by default, no thanks.
Wow, what career? That sounds fascinating.
Not to support terrorism in any way, but I'm not convinced they have to have decided that the victims deserve it. There's plenty of other justifications, such as it being a necessary but unfortunate evil on the way to a greater good.
surviving a mass shooting

The conversation surrounding such events and lack of political or social will to change left me jaded with Americana, ultimately I left the country and decided to contribute to a more sane society.
How do we know there is a "loss" of consciousness?

I had some dreams when I was anesthesized once. I do no longer clearly remember them, but I do remember telling the medical people there, that I did dream something. How could I dream without consciousness?
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Ask HN: Remastering Old Mods (Music)?
Many moons ago in the early to mid-nineties, a friend and I wrote some electronic music with FastTracker II which was "published" by one of the more well known groups at the time - or at least that's how I chose to remember it.

Recently I found the files on an old hard drive and some of the songs are actually pretty decent, albeit most of them are in mediocre audio quality, given the circumstances of the time.

I have not touched an instrument or DAW in almost twenty-five years (and have little interest in doing so), but I would love to have some of those tracks be "remastered" (read: redone in some modern software) by someone who knows what they're doing - with some artistic freedom, of course, but still fairly close to the source material.

Does anyone know of a musician who would be interested in doing this for a reasonable fee?
> The same law applies to global fuel transport: can you export oil halfway around the planet, on a boat that itself runs on oil? There's a rocket equation hidden in that. But the constants are really good (oil is energy-dense; planets are small); so it's not an important law that's ever-present in economics, in the way the rocket equation is ever-present in space. (Was it ever, in history?)

Not for oil-powered boats, but for coal-powered steamboats, cargo size taken by coal was a significant factor. Significant enough that sail boats where still the way to get to New Zealand long after coal-power became ubiquitous.
The "discovery" setups of increasingly all social media platforms is a big turn off for my use case of actually being social with my friends when we are away from each other.

In instagram the only redeeming feature left is the "story" buttons at the top. I stopped using Facebook long ago, though I still use messenger.

I also use Slack and WhatsApp to communicate, basically SMS texting but in groups.

Whatever the "social" platforms now are, they are very off putting to say the least. Maybe good for killing time writing for the bus? A reversion back to cute cat and dog videos.
Many of them. A heart attack followed by open heart surgery on the day the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic was one of them. Having the parent company of my online music store fail was another.

You can always find these moments in your life, but usually in retrospect.
Totally correct. The problem on this comments here is that many of them insert their own anecdotes as evidence. It isn't evidence.

> Almost no one uses Signal outside of your social bubble.

There is evidence support that claim. From [0]:

"25.97% of participants wanted to switch to other apps (at least partially) due to the update, but only a quarter of those succeeded."

"Only 0.5% of participants uninstalled WhatsApp. The data shows how installing a new app is easy, but leaving an app is not, mainly due to strong network effects, differences in functionality of different apps, and feeling a loss of control over the distribution of contacts across apps."

So that wasn't the so called 'mass migration' that was religiously believed by the Signal fans here. In fact, they are still using WhatsApp or Telegram.

[0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...
So it’s a “cultural communism”?
No.1 problem with conciousness discussions is the lack of precise, razor sharp definition of 'conciousness'. Without good definition, all arguments go past one another. Next time observe, how arguments appear to be going back and forth, but they're talking about two very different definitions of 'conciousness'.
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Namely, paper references always reach back in time. Papers don't reference papers that were written after they were written.

Actually, the opposite happens quite regularly: the author X got a pre-print of a paper by author Y. From Y, he knows that the paper will be published in the future in an upcoming volume of a scientific magazine. So, X already writes this future reference into his paper.
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Are you saying the bank doesn’t have the right to define what kinds of software are permitted to access its systems?

We’re not just talking about the freedom to run software on your own device here, we’re talking about interacting with outside systems. There is an important distinction in context.
Are there any Linux client with good spam filtering? I had to give up on XMPP as I was receiving thousands of times the amount of spam as I did actual messages. Just rendered the whole thing completely unusable.
Any chance anyone knows how this compares to magic_enum (which iirc is c++17+ only? Though c++17 seems to be supported every platform i work on now)

No string -> enum would probably be a non-starter for me though
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>I didn’t say radical. I said neoreactiory, as in: co-opting traditional reactionary pathologies and reusing them in a contemporary setting.

Is the above anything else than a word salad to say "thought crime" just with more words?

Label them "reactionary", yeah, because as if being reacted against is "revolutionary". It's convenient how such weasel words can justify anything ("You don't like the gig economy? You're reactionary") - as if there's a monopoly on the definition of societal progress.

>The taboo disgust reaction of eating bugs is just a cherry on top.

Yes. We should rejoice for every such corporate money-making scheme pushed through advertising, subsidies, and policy. And even if eating bugs is not taboo for many, there are still a lot with this taboo about shit eating. They should learn to eat shit with a grin too.
Just like Germany you mean?

Solar panels will neither solve our increasing energy need nor be a solution for any future civilization.

Energy is about density. There is a reason why solar panels needs to be spread over huge areas to capture the sun.

So no I am pretty aware of solar panels and more importantly i understand the physics.
I have a soft spot for them too. In case you're missed it, they've made a return in the Noto Emoji font:

https://blog.emojipedia.org/exploring-googles-new-black-and-...
Me too. I wasn't at the October First shooting in Vegas, but I was not far away and I helped take food and stuff to first responders and hospital staff in the trauma ward after. Watching people call that a "false flag" was contemptible.
My argument was an sarcastic "conversation" so I guess we agree.
> You sure? Last I checked Google, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments have aggressive business deals with the educational sector to make sure no other company gets an edge there.

That's because it's a lucrative market you can take with much less negotiation than individual small companies. Every company does that, only few are dealing with the government on the level of Microsoft/Google though.

> I had to buy a nspire calculator for example, since teachers received commissions for the damn things (while in obligatory school).

That sucks, but this is about schools buying Gmail for students' school managed inboxes on the school domain, not about students being forced to use Gmail. This is just like internal company email for example. Students still have their own personal inboxes at whatever service they please.

> The sheer market manipulation these companies do is obscene, there really isn't competition

If there isn't competition, then it's not market manipulation, it's just that they're the only market.

> and our kids aren't offered the high quality and respectful services they deserve

Gmail (and Outlook365) is the highest quality service currently on the market, and since the school is paying for the inbox, Google is not reading the data for ads. You can go for smaller companies with worse offers and much less software included in the subscribtion... But I don't think that's going to be a benefit to the students.

> Thing cost my parents 200 bucks, and the only thing it was used for, was rendering some fancy parabolas.

Again, that sucks, but this is not about parents paying Gmail.
Mind-body dualism strikes me as possibly the least elegant and magic-leap-proof alternative to physicalism, so it’s unfortunate that people who explore this question get stuck on it.

In fact, non-material monist views exist! See, for example, Kant and Schrödinger. Some of Wolfram’s ideas[0] at first approach seem to be interpretable from this angle.

I’m not going to do the entirety of monism justice in a paragraph, but as one take: perhaps interacting with other conscious entities involves changes in yours and tends to manifest itself as physical changes within time-space, a lossy map constructed as a shortcut/interface to the otherwise overwhelming underlying territory? This does not require conjuring an entire universe, with its arbitrary laws and constants, to explain perception supplied by consciousness (the only thing we have direct access to, that physicalists nevertheless tend to treat as a magic side-effect of magically existing reality).

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/06/alien-intelligen...
Your question is so broad that I'm not sure that you will yield any satisfying answer.

But yes, many times. The problem is that some of the most profound and lasting changes come from trauma that requires significant content warnings or require a degree of empathy that only other survivors appear able to fully understand or display. As such, these things are hard to talk about on an immutable public forum.
Well it's similar to how a local email server differs from using Gmail. You run the local server and deploy it on any hardware / cloud stack you like!