skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So if your identity can be restored after sleep and anesthesia, why not after death as well?

I don't know the low level details about how the brain works but...

When you're sleeping and are under anesthesia your brain is still an organ that's alive. Your body as a whole exists and is functioning.

I don't think this can applied to death if our definition of death is that your skin, organs and cells decompose into nothingness relatively quickly. Over time you'll reduce into a pile of bones. Your brain, heart, lungs and everything else is long gone.

Your identity can only be restored at this point if you believe your identity is fully detached from your brain, in which case then you may believe your identity will continue to exist in an unknown state that as far as I know has never been measured or confirmed in human history. That is of course where lots of folks have different opinions.

I'm not here to sell anyone on my opinion but I have been under IV based anesthesia before. It's a legit pause button on what we perceive as our memory or consciousness. You drift into sleep within seconds and wake up as if nothing ever happened, then feel a little groggy along with deal with whatever side effects you were put under for and your doctor will tell you what you were responding to requests during the surgery which means you were able to do things like rest your arm in this position or look to the left, etc..

But the takeaway there is your memory has a gap that can't be accounted for. If your identity is composed of your memory and anesthesia is a combination of drugs that affects chemicals in your body to alter your brain into not remembering things then we've scientifically proven your memory is directly tied into your body (brain included), otherwise if it weren't then "you" wouldn't have been paused right?
The city limits include a lot of area that I consider suburbs, such as the area around Circle C in the southwest, the areas close to Cedar Park in the northwest, anything west of 360, etc.

> Austin has one of the most pro-urbanist city councils in Texas

Setting aside the fact that "in Texas" is one hell of a qualification to that statement, the voters haven't been helpful in allowing growth to happen. They just haven't been given the opportunity to stop it. CodeNEXT got a majority in the council, but it would have been crushed if it had been put in front of voters.

I think the influx of pro-density residents into central Austin is changing things really fast, though.
Ruby on Rails Time Without Time Zone
The lack of evidence is from people and information being disappeared by a totalitarian regime. That itself is evidence.
I think that is due to bots causing performance impact and the easiest way out is mandatory login + banning/rate-limiting searches for authenticated users. I can't remember where I read about this though, overall GitLab had lots of bot/scraping performance issues in the past and the GitLab project has so many issues that it's particularity expensive to maintain.
From the essay:

> “We don’t do that here” should be a statement of fact and nothing more. It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals.

Of course it cuts both ways. Any method of setting a boundary can be used to enforce morally just or unjust rules. The authors point is that

> “We don’t do that here” was a polite but firm way to educate the newcomer about our culture.

Genuinely asking: Does your position of "maximizing individual agency" mean that we should not enforce boundaries? If am running an office and someone makes a homophobic joke (not acceptable), what (in your view) is my recourse?
Manuals are rulesets, you can evaluate if they’re being followed or not. How do you do that for culture?
Well, it's 'great support' in that i use it as my daily driver instead of Jitsi without problems. The spec is indeed still in proposal, and it's currently being integrated into Element Web/iOS/Android. Meanwhile Matrix has had native 1:1 VoIP/Video calling since 2015.
I go outside and bike in the park, and touch grass to feel myself more at ease. Natural environments give me something dense bricky city simply can't, the feeling of primordial meaning perhaps.
Humans will human. I'd you give someone a system that doesn't require their attention or put significant effort into holding it for long enough, they WILL quit focusing on it and become distracted. Especially in something like a car where they can't get up and move around to keep alert. If your system doesn't account for the human, your system is faulty.
Baking soda can be used as a microabrasive to clean stainless steel as well. If you mix in a little dish soap for lubrication, it scrubs out burnt-on stuff really really well. Way better than most stove-top cleaners, and it doesn't (seem to) swirl the stainless steel.
You would have to update your card at every business?
> Companies shouldn't be changing the political landscape anyway, that would be a scary world.

I'm curious as to how you think lobbying works in the present day and the past four decades or so.
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Ian McGilchrist is a good place to catch up to the state of the art in consciousness research that goes beyond materialism.
Yes, but the OP was talking about overestimating dumbness, and it being bad for protecting against home invaders. It still doesn't make sense to me.
LESS(1)

[...]

--mouse
Enables mouse input: scrolling the mouse wheel down moves
forward in the file, scrolling the mouse wheel up moves
backwards in the file, and clicking the mouse sets the "#"
mark to the line where the mouse is clicked. The number
of lines to scroll when the wheel is moved can be set by
the --wheel-lines option. Mouse input works only on
terminals which support X11 mouse reporting, and on the
Windows version of less.

----

5. Using the mouse *mouse-using*

[...]

Don't forget to enable the mouse with this command: >
:set mouse=a
Otherwise Vim won't recognize the mouse in all modes (See 'mouse').

Currently the mouse is supported for Unix in an xterm window, in a *BSD
console with |sysmouse|, in a Linux console (with GPM |gpm-mouse|), for
MS-DOS and in a Windows console.

[...]

*xterm-mouse-wheel*

To use the mouse wheel in a new xterm you only have to make the scroll wheel
work in your Xserver, as mentioned above.
I am excited to see Rust gaining popularity and becoming a first-class language at Meta.
Looks like it? BGP stuff is hard to prove out
This is how 1:1 calls have worked in Matrix since 2015 - predating even Vector/Riot/Element.
Gitlab has been having growing pains over time, I imagine this is related to bot traffic. Many of their APIs have had similar limits put on them, and request limits added in the last year.

I imagine keeping Gitlab.com performant has been really difficult with their growth, and keeping expensive operations open is counter productive to that objective.
And now you're having a nature vs nurture debate at work, how is this a better outcome?

That approach assumes that 1) every venue is an appropriate venue for a debate, 2) that everyone who supports a value or norm is educated enough on it to explain its technical merits to a skeptical audience and 3) everyone is capable of defending that idea against a hostile debate opponent in public.

To me "we decided, it's not like that here" is firm and clear, communicates that this is a social norm that is not up for debate at this time in this venue, without necessarily declaring it's absolutely final or that there is no appropriate venue. There are not really any perfect solutions here but this is a quite good one.
I saw this recently too, i actually just thought the search was broken and I gave up on trying to search until i tried to search another gitlab project a few days later and saw the popup notice.

I dont use it for anything myself currently and will stick with codeberg, sourcehut and during working hours, github.
Twitter is full of self-important people and I hate that as much the firehouse ads and follows on facebook. It's more of an echo chamber. I only use it to follow a couple of people who are important to me (and not just themselves), some memes, and try to have a variety of news source from the middle out so I don't get stuck in wokeville or fascisttown echo chambers.
The word "We" is of critical importance here.

It implies that the one asking the question is by definition an outsider, and they should know their place.
It also implies : "You do not need to know the answer because you are too unimportant; OR this is a stupid question who's answer is obvious."

IMO, it is easier and less combative to tell the real reason you refuse to answer and take personal/individual ownership for it. "I spent X amount of time figuring out architecture. It will take a Y time to explain. Let's discuss this in another venue where time isn't a bottleneck"; OR; "The manager / higher-ups decided that certain personal topics are off the table to maintain cohesion between the team."

It is fine to impose culture onto new entrants to the group. But, that inherently implies a power imbalance which is important to acknowledge and communicate. If this is supposed to be an equal relationship with equal agency, then this sort of behavior veers on workplace bullying.

I agree with the above commenter, that such rigidity and opaqueness towards interrogating a team's culture cuts both ways. If you wish to use it, then do so at your own peril.
GitHub is only slightly better (in this regard). You can't perform an "advanced search" without logging in.

Still, I'd rather use GitLab ober GitHub.
A virologist did a fairly comprehensive Bayesian analysis. It's long and technical but he's fully on "team zoonotic":

https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/natures-neglected-g...

There's fleetingly little evidence of anything aside from a natural origin. This could be consistent with a natural virus collected at the WIV which subsequently escaped, but the multiple lineages at the market makes this extremely unlikely as well.
I'm pretty sure that current valley hiring practices filter out the mischiefs needed to take things from sustaining to innovative. It's why tech is coasting and deteriorating.

I look for passionate adults who respectfully disagree with me. Most firms apparently want eager children who aim to please.
You can get the "RV" variant now at starlink.com/rv. It's a little bit more per month but allows roaming and turning it on and off. On the downside, it's explicitly lower priority on the network than the fixed ones.
even on the US site, i've submitted several requests over the last 6 months and i never get a download link.
The upshot of biased news sources is that they are extremely strongly motivated to find any stories that corroborate their world view. Nine times out of ten that leads to reductive propagandist journalism, but every once in a while they stumble upon something that mainstream outlets hadn't bothered to look that deep for.

For instance, I'd not expect a far left outlet to look into misdeeds of Bernie Sanders, and I'd not expect a far right outlet to look into misconduct by Trump.

As long as you call a spade a spade and don't pretend things are objective in their presentation, there can be a lot to gain from even super skewed journalism.
I find nitter helps a bit with this, certainly cuts down on the noise.
Can you detail further? - Personally, this seems like insanity so I'm curious what lead you down this path instead of using the more common tools like docker compose or buildah.
> "gay" people

What do the quotes signify here?
It's much appreciated. I try the best that I can to do the same from an EVP level, but the layer above me is intent on imitating the big 4 in every respect.
The API should definitely either allow directly managing indexes or provide even lower level primitives that let the query engine create its own indexes.
> Or in other words: “It’s ‘dess-turb-uhd’, with THREE vowels!

Some of these pronunciations still survive, such as "I learned* the words to the song" vs "the learned gentleman".

* as a kid I was taught to write "learnt" but I never see that in the US.
The Wuhan lab used to catch wild bats and take virus samples from them. It’s not too far fetched someone sold the same bats to the market or was infected and infected other people / living animals there.
I'm not American, lobbying is corruption and that it's fully legal is one of the scariest things when looking towards America.

BTW: I'm a big fan of your work. :)
>Fzf is written in C

That would be fzy : https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
Giving a justification is seen by these people are an excuse to debate.

For another example, trying to turn down something you don't want to do:

A: "Can you come over and fix my Wi-Fi?"
B: "No, my car's in the shop"
A: "Oh, that's OK, I can give you a ride"
B: "No, I have to go get dinner"
A: "Oh, that's OK, I can feed you"

The point is not to debate. The point is that "no" or "we don't do that" is an answer in and of itself.
The theory of gravity has been ossified by the fact that every freshman physics student tests it and determines that it is correct. That is the correct way to build consensus around an "ossified" idea: to show people that it is obviously true. Even if the truth is uncomfortable, like it was to the Catholic church in 1600. If you try to suppress discussion instead, you lend credence to the idea that you have something to hide. Eventually the truth will win. If you have the truth on your side, why try to suppress its discovery?

Similarly, we used to be interested in showing people that racism was bad. Anti-racism educators and consultants would talk about the economic benefits of widening your market or your employee pool. Now that we instead call people "racist" to shut down discussion, actual racists are gaining ideological footholds, and lots of people are suspicious of the people who call others "racist."

People are not stupid. If you want them to agree with you, you should not talk down to them.
I'm not complaining about it :).

I've simply found that this aspect of Swiss culture stands in real opposition to the engineering mindset I rely on in my work as a Software Engineer.

If my (fictional) non-tech-savvy CEO comes up to the engineering department and says "I just came back from %conference% and we need to put everything we have onto the blockchain!", then I will gladly be the one to speak my honest opinion on that rather than publicly agreeing with the CEO, but then ignoring him and continuing with the existing architecture.

Think of it like this: A convention in the USA is to tip service workers, because they are often legally exploitable (by being e.g. paid below minimum wage). So lots of people outside the S would say that "you always need to tip employees, regardless of if they do a good job" is a terrible part of US culture.

I still tip - but I also preferably simply spend my money at establishments that pay their employees living wages and make the concept of tipping extinct completely.
What the article referenced.
>It makes clear, though still implicit, that was has been transgressed is a social norm specific to that context.

But it really doesn't though. In the example of the off color, (e.g. racist), joke, saying "we don't do that here", doesn't specify what "we" don't do. We don't make jokes about that specific race, but others are ok? We don't make any race based jokes, but sex based jokes are OK? We don't make jokes specifically about that topic?

Its farm more effective to say something along the lines of "what you just said is inappropriate for our work environment, please keep others in mind when making jokes"
because users generally own more than one device.
The occupancy sensors include wifi and bluetooth.
.... to you.

To other people, it's quite useful.
Boiling Billy, Firey Felix, Hot Hannah, Incandescent Ivan, Roasting Robert, Sweltry Stephen.... [Edit: spelling]
Is that $1.50 per device from the conversion process or extra materials? I remember getting stacks of 50 CDs for like $5.
Leaked TikTok memo told employees to ‘downplay the China association’
Where at Meta is Haskell primarily used?
I don't think you need to be a boss or have unquestionable authority to use this style of language.

It's like if a cop tells you to stop doing something at a traffic stop, because she tells you so. It's not that you think they're going to shoot you if you keep it up. But it's authority on the level of, I could make your immediate future very unpleasant if you don't do what I say.
I missed it skimming through the first time. The exact list:

> Meta’s primary supported server-side languages are Hack, C++, Rust, and Python.
Unfortunately the WebKit implementation in iOS is a rehash, even worse, of the IE days. So I definitely wouldn't call it WebKit or an alternate choice(Except it's Apple so for some bizarre reason it gets a free pass on HN).

The original comment is still effectively correct in spirit, Firefox is the only browser not under "hostage".
https://archive.ph/1PQqh
The market seems to be wide open for a range of home devices that don't violate your privacy.
Ex-Goldman Banker Tipped Squash Buddy on Deals, US Alleges
Police request warrants. Judges approve and sign said warrants and they then become legally executable.
Check out my comment history and you’ll see that I agree with the points too! But the bar for a good Hacker News post is “interesting”. Opinions that are widely agreed with on here, and have been for years, don’t meet that for me personally. That’s my say on the matter, you of course are welcome to yours.

For what it’s worth, I live in the UK, and have never been to the US.
I’m super happy to see these things, and some money is better than no money, but judging by how much my lab spends per year, $50M/yr isn’t going to get them very far. And we do consumer electronics.
I have never used the package or the vehicle recognition.

But it seems to work decent enough. However the face recognition works off of the faces you have categorized in photos. So actually recognizing specific people will only be as good as that database is. I assume in the backend it is largely the same tech so you can get an idea of how well it will work based on that.

I can't compare it to other offerings since I have never used them, but it does what I need it to do.

I have had issues with false positives, but I also am using a not great quality camera with it so it is limited with that. I plan on getting a better camera but just have not had a need for it yet.
I use 5G as a backup. It costs me only around 40 USD and includes the modem which I have attached to my router.

If you are in a city there are cheaper back solutions than starlink.
The New York Times has a nice obituary on his life.[1] There are two things that I would like to celebrate from his lifetime of innovation.

The Gaia Theory is a beautiful framework to understand humanity's outsized impact on the Earth and all of its lifeforms from fungi to insects to the trees and the critters who spend a lifetime in their canopies. The Earth will survive the spasmodic calamity of our species, even if we don't. It doesn't matter if you are the most cynical technologist or an optimist trying to change what you can -- that theory puts us in our place; we are so minuscule against the backdrop of planet, the solar system, the universe. Lovelock noticed that disproportionality a lot sooner than most.

The other important discovery he made was electron capture detector, which is a device capable of detecting man-made toxic chemicals in the wild. When I read Silent Spring and the testament to the frightening effects of DDT, it changed my life. Without that invention, Silent Spring might not have been written. Absolutely transformative for me.

1-https://archive.ph/bQFAt
Ok, the specific culture that she wants to protect aside, I can see this being an effective way to give reminders. It's not going to work with people that are so new that they don't know what the cultural norms are. But, let's say there's an issue with the continuous deployment system:

"Ah, let's just build it locally and copy the binary to the production servers."

"No. We don't do that here."

<sigh> "Yeah. Ok, I'll see if I can debug this thing..."

The reasons are obvious, and we don't need to open a debate right now, despite the inconvenience at the moment.
I'm generally in agreement with you, but what I don't agree with is the author's assertion that it is a "magic" phrase that "ends the conversation". Realistically, it's very easy to imagine someone saying "why?" afterwards, leading to the exact kind of debate the author is trying to avoid. Anyway, I think it's a useful tool in the toolbelt, just not magic.
"Gaia" is often seen as a really unfortunate name for an actually well-thought out scientific theory. However, this was exactly Lovelock's point and why he decided to go with a name like that. He and Lynn Margulis WANTED to highlight and stand against the cultural biases of science as an institution.

Though it should be noted there's growing scientific support for the theory regardless

https://aeon.co/essays/the-gaia-hypothesis-reimagined-by-one...
That's a bit strange given that we're on hacker news.
Yeah, the easiest way to go is to have a bigger name like Apple or Migadu handle the actual mail server stuff, but use your own custom domain

Of course that doesn't help when you've had a Gmail address for 15 years and can't get rid of it
Imho the 90% of query planning is not that hard at all in practice. If it's your data, and your query you'll probably have a pretty good idea which table you'll want to filter first, and what to join the same you would with any data structures.

The hard part is getting all of that consistent with concurrent writes. Can rows change while you scan? can indexes? How do you check that your write is valid immediately before committing, etc. things like that.

I think SQL makes that pretty hard already, but in a "database-as-a-bag-of-data-structures" mode I think that's going to get even harder.
Tabletop Radios Are Still a Thing in 2022
"When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. ... And sometimes...the person involved doesn’t want to be educated."

This mindset seems to me the reason that there's a backlash against (us) progressive-minded people. Can you imagine a more condescending, insulting approach? "I'm advanced, you're a Neanderthal" doesn't win many hearts or minds.
Yes, that's what I found so fascinating about combining drugs. Nitrous oxide and opiates for example (caution: nitrous is a fire accelerant and what killed Tony Hsieh [1]). I was able to achieve a state similar to hypnagogia [2]. My only point in commenting is that anesthesia is not like being dead, as far as I know - nobody knows what being dead is like. I'm old so my time is approaching. I look at it like my last big trip. Who knows what will happen!

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/zappos-founder-tony-hsieh-surrounded...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
There is a reason a new person was hired. For example, to start doing something "they don't do here".
I honestly don’t get why this is such a big deal when accounts are free.
Disney is a very successful and long-lived company. If I had to bet money, I'd bet they know their customer base very well and are correctly positioning themselves for maximum profit.
Where is lobbying illegal?
Complexity is not an issue.
It a very basic thing to do in these days.

UX might be a bigger issue, as it is harder to view this data in any device and still keep keys unaccessible by Google. But still not too hard. People use Whatsapp web in daily basis.

Main problem is the ML use for video feed to trigger some stuff etc.
I have a related observation:

There are now many binary blobs (binaries without source) in Linux kernel. Apparently this is legal. An official statement was made nearly 15 years ago [0], yet they are still there.

[0] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/tab/kernel-driver-statement