skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there's not an ironclad, undeniable path between the scientific method and optimal human values, then the only way to arrive at a culture where science is the shared value and ideology is coercion.

Let's leave the scientific method aside for now and focus on persuasive arguments as the way to change behavior (scientific method is persuasive but is not necessarily the only method to persuade someone ethically).

> I see no way to scientifically conclude almost anything about correct personal values.

Well the way I would attempt to persuade someone is by teaching them about the tragedy of the commons, i.e. when the security of the many is threatened by the incentives afforded to the individual, usually we call this pollution or corruption but I'll call it the tragedy of the commons.

Now, the persuasive argument would be that you would rather be persuaded than coerced (or that is my assumption here) but if you were to undermine the security of the whole to enrich yourself then it follows that if the whole is properly coordinated then they would balance out your gains by refusing to work with you, thereby eliminating the advantage you achieved with your actions and if you are made aware of this preemptively then your calculations change and you realize that the only way for you to gain an advantage is to contribute to the commons.

There are some assumptions in there and the argument is not completely persuasive as I delivered it here but I am trying to make a scientific experiment of sorts by building a system on these principles and seeing if the resulting economics can become more legitimate than the current system without being founded on coercion (i.e. whether people will willingly move to this new economic system because they perceive their interests better aligned with this method of assessment) ... you can check out datalisp.is, I was recently on the street and I am still flat broke (because I refuse to go against my morals - all part of the experiment ;) so this project has been crawling along, now my situation is on an upswing so I am hoping to make a lot of progress in the coming months.
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Why would that be acceptable if entertainment is not?
Way out in the water, see it swimmin'.

- Black Francis
"The dog has a lot of false positives"

Wow, just like my real dog!
Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems
How do you know the dreams didn't happen before you were fully anesthetized or when the anesthetic was wearing off?

I've had dreams when sleeping where in the dream several minutes or even hours seemed to pass where something happens at the start of the dream and the rest of the dream is trying to deal with it, such as an alarm going off. When I wake up, I find that the thing that started the dream, such as an alarm going off, is actually happening for real and it just started a few seconds ago.

It seems then that the time experienced in a dream can be much longer than the time actually spent in the dream, and so it is possible that every dream remembered is one that occurred just before waking up.
Erm - those aren’t ads? If you’re already paying and there is product on the shelf of the store you’re already inside of… that’s just a product.
Who says your quote on the bottom doesn't describe you on the side you didn't intend to be on?

Every time there's any political news, all I can see is people complaining about "shriekers". Have you considered that complaint in itself might be considered the "shrieking" you so despise?
I think that only works in the short term.

When your catering to that fringe becomes a problem or uncomfortable, people will drop you en masse — precisely because they’re too busy to care.

Hollywood’s stocks aren’t doing well enough to say their strategy of catering to the fringe is working: they’ve all suffered massive losses as people tune out.

But it’s not because people are fundamentally uninterested: Rippaverse raised over $3M, anime and manga are setting records, etc.
Yes, you can pay more to remove them I believe.
Quota was the biggest during 2000s.
I find it quite interesting that his final voice sounds exactly like a female speaker standing at a podium in a small auditorium, not someone speaking directly into a microphone like most TTS systems.
Won’t the bag be in a virtual world though? :)
Sales from the last 20+ years without supply chain disruptions is more representative of people’s preferences than sales during a unique 2 year period with industry wide supply issues.
For live TV there are ads, but that's because there are ads during live TV, regardless.

However, Hulu does offer up ad-free options.

https://help.hulu.com/s/article/hulu-no-ads

Basically, people opt-into seeing ads. They can opt-into seeing no ads, too. It's not rocket science.
Variables (since they are not just constants), flex and grid all allow doing things that were previously not possible or at least not reasonably. Nesting is a pure syntax change that is already solved via a preprocessing step. So yes, we should weight what this adds in convenience vs. the cost of the adding this to all browsers, maintaining support for it forwever, the impact it has on future additions as well as new websites using this not working on older browsers. Note the should - I'm perfectly aware that the web dev ecosystem already often ignores many of these.
Yep. There are subscription levels with and without ads. I believe the ad free is $7 more per month.
> When your catering to that fringe becomes a problem or uncomfortable, people will drop you en masse — precisely because they’re too busy to care.

The problem is that people can become inured to it, especially if there aren't better options. That state can exist for a long, long time.

Edit:

> But it’s not because people are fundamentally uninterested: Rippaverse raised over $3M, anime and manga are setting records, etc.

After Googling a bit, that Rippaverse thing seems like it's an opposite-polarity reaction, so it's still part of the problem.
Adventures with Deferred Texturing in Horizon Forbidden West
A dog will always perform a certain spiral inwards walk pattern before it comes to rest on bedding.
“The CEO made me buy it” is what children would say.

It’s pretty clear today what you can buy or not but to lesson your climate impact.

If you choose to blame your poor choices on “incentives” well, that’s on you.

Own it.
Yes, I believe they're two sides of the same coin. Buying an NFT did two things: A) it gave you the opportunity to flip it for a higher price (this is the most visible way that one can make money from NFTs), and B) it signaled to the crypto community that you were one of the tribe. The second was important if you wanted to execute your own trading scam, which many did.
It's actually a lot more stupid than that: fresh bread can get stuck in their throats or elsewhere in their digestive tract.
Yep, it's a real threat to security, whistleblowers and even an organizations cyber security posture. I'll post a few strings which is enough for a state like North Korea to lock someone up for life. For example by just running strings on this binary. I find out the authors name is Zhou from.

C:\Users\zhouh\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\aho-corasick-0.7.18\src\ahocorasick.rs
C:\Users\zhouh\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\aho-corasick-0.7.18\src\classes.rs

I also know what version of the library he uses which means I can pwn anyone using this if a exploit comes out. And not only this library, I know the version for every library he's using. Like Chrono-0.4.19 from this string C:\Users\zhouh\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\chrono-0.4.19\src\sys\windows.rsSystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime failed with:

In strings there's actually 304 unique strings with his username in it. I know every file, I know every library. There's nothing stopping a malicious actor from downloading popular rust server binaries and using strings to determine if they have an exploit. And alot of software DOESN'T upgrade their libraries from vulnerable versions, especially if unmaintained. It's a big issue.

It's a real shame that Rust ignores this. And the fact that my original comment was so lambasted against really shows the amature nature of Rust users which don't align with real world organizational goals.
> Broadcasters are required by law to accept ads from political candidates on any topic, no matter how controversial it may be.

> Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

I think this law amounts to compulsory speech by the broadcaster, and SCOTUS should strike it under strict scrutiny.
> Yeah well, the pesky thing about management is that it's secondary function is to entrench itself.

I thought entrenchment is the primary function. A secondary is to feign care for reports.
(moxie’s blog post was actually a direct response to me mailing him to ask if Signal would ever consider speaking Matrix)
"Any" includes people who do not use Google and this is about 10% of online users. For them, a lot.
I guess it's possible i've been sending outraged missives to Hulu in my sleep, but I don't think so.
Sure, but it's invite only. This could be useful for people that aren't included.
One problem with Valgrind is that the thing you're debugging should have been tested with Valgrind from the start, otherwise you're just going to be flooded with false triggers.

Now imagine that you're developing a new application and you want to use some library, and it hasn't been tested with valgrind and generates tons of false messages. Should you then use it? Or look for an alternative library?
Starlink's current problem is capacity
Man, was really hoping it was this one: https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/robot-dog-with-submachine-gun-...
If it's reasonable, then there shouldn't be a problem letting users turn it off.
Role-based access control in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB: Now in preview
>Do you think that humans universally or even have historically interpreted physicalism as a simpler theory than a non-materialist one?

To be fair with humans, the simpler theory is almost always "my neighbour is a witch, she did it"

Hand waving complexity as that thing you feel in your gut instead of having some proper definition for it was and still is the standard human experience
The sound of one hand clapping.
When some physicalists talk about consciousness being an illusion, they're generally talking about the experience of being the centre of reality, they don't mean we don't have these experiences. They're addressing the fact that the brain isn't always conscious, that consciousness seems to go away completely in some situations, so for them it's not a permanent aspect of ourselves. That's all.

I prefer not to use the 'illusion' terminology because I think it's misleading. We do have a real experience of consciousness, just not always. For me Buddhism and panpsychism, and the idea of consciousness as being fundamental is a hierarchy inversion error.

If consciousness is a computation or an emergent phenomenon of brain activity processing information, then we are a kind of information system. It doesn't therefore follow that all information systems are in some way conscious. That's like saying horses are all animals, therefore in some way animals are all horses. Yes we have some things in common with all information processing systems, so we have some of the same features like persistent memory and such because we're members of the same conceptual category, but that doesn't make us the same thing.
The "metaverse" is designed for the proles that watch 8 hours of television daily.

Well adjusted intelligent people don't want "convenience" (in the sense of just having everything be a click away). They want interesting and fulfilling careers, travel, to cook, read, paint, play, exercise, spend time in nature, etcetera.

Proles either don't have the health or funds for those things, or just don't want to (e.g. depression).

That's the target audience for all of this stuff. I don't know anyone successful that spends their time scrolling on nonsense like TikTok, it's always the "my life is awful" crew, almost by definition.
It's "zavináč" in Czech -- pickled herring. If you buy them in a jar, they're rolled up, looking a lot like that symbol.
Ask HN: What are some good resources for micro service design?
I'm still quite early in my career, only at my second SW Dev job. My previous position was a monolith app with arguably poor design resulting in large parts of the app being very tightly coupled when they shouldn't be. Obviously this make testing some parts of the app very difficult and of course those were the critical parts of them app (our integration test suite took over 24 hours to run at one point).

When I joined my current company they were in the process of breaking down their monolith into micro services which based on my work at my previous position seemed like a much better alternative. After some time here I feel like I'm unsure whether or not micro services are as amazing as they need to be but I'm currently chalking it up to my inexperience with them. It seems like there needs to be a balance of making sure that each service has a limited responsibility while also not having services too interdependent.

So basically I would like to learn more about good design practices and pitfalls to avoid. What resources have you guys used to learn more about micro services?
Thanks so much, this was really helpful. Your blog post was well written!
Sadly moving is not an option at the moment.

Probably, as someone else suggested, the only option is to invest in audio insulation and a good AC.
So, to be safer than 0.07 death per billion miles in air travel and still have at least 4 death (there might be more deaths from other causes) and assuming nobody will die the rest of the year, also given 3M daily commuters from your numbers it appears the average commute in NYC subway is more than 52 miles?
It’s amazing how much value this company has built on top of R. In my opinion they’ve done more for R than pandas and numpy has for python.
Human Capital planning for SMB is being tackled by TONS of startups, but HC planning at the Enterprise level is much less competitive - however a point solution for HC planning will have tremendous difficulty breaking through to the mass market as the consumers of the end result (finance most often) have to cobble together the results from a solution that targets the single HC problem plus multiple other point solutions to actually generate the output desired (fully burdened headcount forecast matched to organizational objectives & a hiring/staffing plan along with other financial objectives driven off of headcount - such as software licenses, facilities space, etc.). Excel/Google sheets are superior here until an ERP is purchased by the organization in which case ALL point solutions become redundant and obsolete (leading to 100% churn for high growth/successful customers).

Our platform allows engineers/entrepreneurs to launch point solutions (meaning it solves one specific use case as compared to breadth of an ERP) to enterprise customers. If you're interested in chatting happy to discuss and help those trying to improve the lives of those trying to disrupt the forecasting & analysis world (regardless of whether it has anything to do with our company).
Its funny that you say that. I initially read his comment as being in favor of the move, despite the "shriekers" on twitter who he perceives to care too much about fairly mundane details of Disney's revenue model.

Now I realize that its also possible that the "shriekers" were in favor of political ads and he's against them.

Yeah, both sides look shriek-tastic to me.
Very strange, I could have sworn I've tested in without -R with Debian 11 (I can't check, that laptop broke and my other machines are still at 10). Maybe it's terminal definition or something changed.

Terminal emulation is a spooking place full of ancient magic. One of the reasons why I assumed "modern defaults". It would turn "a weekend hack" into a session of misery. ;)
How do you define this though. If someone say talks about XYZ politician. And the current governor feels if said XYZ person takes his position that it’d cause you personal harm. Can the current governor access your camera?

If a police officer comes to your house without a warrant are they allowed to break in? If not they shouldn’t be given access to my camera feeds without my permission.

The move by google here just re-affirmed that I made the right choice to not buy their products.
I love learning more about the ampersand, for obvious reasons.

I've used this unixname for a long time and it's always immensely satisfying when people realize it's just my real name.
theres places u can find ppl. online dating aint that great, heres some that i seen work:

* religious organization

* hobbys

* service (lots of hot young chicks volunteer at animal shelters)

and tbh even if u dont find a girl right away you'll still get smth from all of those. keep ur head up king.
Can you please quote the part of my comment that mentions race?
What's the point of being intentionally obtuse? We're talking about commuter transit, which doesn't include airplanes.
Agreed - I wasn't trying to say that this is actually a likely outcome, just that it makes more sense to hold companies accountable than individuals
and a year or two ago, when I had a hulu subscription, that ad-free plan didn't mean no ads on all channels. just on their 'core' ones. If it was a partner company, they still showed ads, even if you paid for ad-free.
Great technique to push people for selling houses, so accepting down price deals. So maffia can buy the properties for the cheap and then do whatever to make a profit.

Step two: Repeat at next neighbourhood.

Solution: Noise isolation windows and walls. Costly, but it works. Isolate from the outside world, including installing an AC machine.
I've had a background interest in getting involved in CTFs for a while now, but haven't yet made it a point to overcome the activation energy to do anything beyond Overthewire's Bandit. I'd be interested in hearing how other people coming from a pure software engineering background (+ associated Linux knowledge) got started. I run into a dependency graph where I'd like to join a team and learn from others, but I need some baseline skill to do that, which requires either a top-down approach of what feels like memorizing tricks that may-or-may-not apply to a given box, or a bottom-up approach of spending a ton of time learning about the fundamentals of networking and file systems (which is often nontrivial to convert into techniques that can be used in CTFs). I know for stuff like this the key is to just get started, and the understanding will follow, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations for how to do that.
Yeah, this sounds like a mean prank.

Maybe the victim would find it funny if they were shown the Wikipedia article after the fact and had the psychological experiment explained to them, similar to https://xkcd.com/1053/

Short of that though, this just seems cruel
Your daily reminder - if you don't host the data, someone else does. And their interests may or may not align with yours. And even if their interests align with yours today, that's no guarantee they will tomorrow. If you don't want audio, video, etc potentially shared with authorities, don't install cloud-enabled audio/video devices in your home.
I can not stand thievery. And the brazen nature of it is so irksome. The fact that people need a fleet of security cameras and a fake dog to protect their home is ridiculous. These people should be caught and sent off to labor camps for a very, very long time.
Yes I agree, a PR for the company, not for the camera. Indeed is a good thing this support, for that I posted it. A firmware update for a 10y old camera, and a DSLR camera that also the lenses are discontinued. Well, I’m glad for it.
From talking with people who have used R but not as their primary language, "R" and "Rstudio" are basically synonymous. I anticipate having conversations in the future about how Posit is to RStudio as Meta is to Facebook.
That's one of the worst things about advertising at the moment, IMO. There's no awareness of context. I just had a paid promotion in a YT video interrupted by a YT ad last night.

It doesn't help that ad lengths and frequency are getting out of hand. Its almost like they want to intentionally make the experience bad enough that you give them >$10/month just to get rid of the ads.
It doesn't. If there is no ampersand it is assumed to start with `& `. So `.childclass` is equivelent to `& .childclass` and if you want something else you need to do `&.additionalclass` or `& + .additionalclass` or whatever you want.
Playing video games has no effect on wellbeing, study finds
Don't weld anything with chromium in/on it, it'll kill you!
it doesn't matter. if they arent happy then it's their job to go quit the existing one or even if the spouse wants to kinda stay together for kids make it clear they separating as a romantic couple. sneaking behind a spouses back is shitty.
Apple makes it difficult to develop apps from another platform (unique low level libraries like Metal, requiring a Mac for publishing). I think one result of this is that cross-platform app authors who aren't ALSO primarily MacOS users just kind of throw their code over the fence and hope it works. I can't blame them.
All other issues aside, even assuming you can get the proper permissions, bringing guns into foreign ports is a major hassle and involves significant legal paperwork.

Companies that provide armed security for cargo ships for example will keep the weapons on a boat at sea in international waters, transfer them to the cargo ship at the beginning of their security detail, then take them off with another boat before the cargo ship proceeds.
Thankfully I have control of my computer and can decide what does and does not display on it. Thank you adblockers.
Seems to me you left one right here though. You might not consider it as such, but I'm sure neither did the people you complained about.
I stopped downloading torrents when streaming came along.

I maxed out my Hulu subscription to avoid commercials.

Hulu forces commercials on me anyway.

And now I get to watch commercials about 'Merica, which apparently dictates worldwide political matters. Sweet.
Good point. I see his Twitter post has about 8000 replies and his Instagram post has over 24,000 replies.
I read "opportunistic pirate" as a regular unarmed person who might just be tempted to steal stuff from a seemingly unguarded ship.
Thanks. Sadly this is probably my only option at the moment.
ML still needs runtime type checks due to references
I think a point missing in this is that written latin had contractions. In carved form, word.spacing.was.optional.as.well with dot as a separator, and so the use of the contractions w.mk.for.some.odd.interp.o.meaning (would make for some odd interpretations of meaning)

So I per se and A per se typographically would have been important because I might be standing for I. for Imperator or some other contextual meaning. Because they hadn't invented double space after dot == next sentence and barely invented sentence punctuation, you needed per se to distinguish single letters as contractions from their use as words.

I think -I stress this is only my opinion.