skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False. Tangible benefits are frightfully hard to bring about. Nobody does that for free. Newton came up woth calculus, shared it for free, and transformed the world.

But all tangible benefits arising from that involved a lot of people, a lot of work, and a lot of risk. Planned obsolescence, bad as it may be, is a non-issue in the bigger picture.
Hi! Just wondering if you're still around? If you have a lot of C experience, haven't you written a lot of for and if statements? I'm still most confused.
> you then become aware of something you did, and react; ergo consciousness does effect the body

consciousness can be a side effect, like log files. Every time you send an email you get a line in log files, but the email wasn't sent BECAUSE of log files.

> Why would you need consciousness if it was merely "post-factum rationalization" with no feedback effect?

This is a good argument. It could be like the concept of color. We needed a way to distinguish good and bad food, so we have color vision and we created the concept of colors (which are simplifications and abstractions of real world, but useful ones).

And when we have these abstractions we use them sometimes in ways that have no relation to reality, like talking about feeling "blue".

Similarly we needed a way to know where to stop when searching for root cause on cause-effect tree. When somebody hits you with a stick it's useful to attack that person and not the stick (too early termination) or their mother (too late). So our models of the world had to have the concept of agency and consciousness. It doesn't matter that the concept is correct, it just needs to be useful. Just like naive understanding of physics like "everything thrown falls down and everything slows to a halt if not pushed" is wrong, but useful so we have it built-in.

These calculations don't need to be conscious, consciousness can still be an illusion, but the distinction remains useful.

If you insist we learn from our memories that are constructed around the concept of consciousness - therefore consciousness have effect on our lives - I can grant you that, but that doesn't mean consciousness is real any more than kids behaving well to get presents prove the existence of Santa Claus.
It's a violet, not a purple technically. Purples tend to be bolder, and have a closer 1:1 Red to Blue mix; while Violets are more Blue, and often softer.

You may also be a bit colorblind. Not everyone sees color the same, even among the population who is not diagnosed colorblind. Determining color is also a skill akin to tones in music. It's a combination of skill and innate ability to determine them.
I’ve stopped believing in the ideology of the average legislator. There are some high profile congresspeople or senators who are deeply ideological, and act according to their ideology, but I feel like that is the exception rather then the rule (hence the high profile).

Rather then ideology most legislators rule by the most persuasive lobbying, this includes people and PACs that pay for their very very expensive campaign funds. And in this case semiconductor monopolies simply has a better performing lobbying campaign then social advocacy groups, so the former gets passed but not the latter.

Note. I don’t believe this listing of democracy is unique to the USA. You see it in Europe as well. However USA is especially prone to this because of lax lobbying laws, lax campaign financing laws while also being one of the least represented democracy in the world (even less represented then non-democracies like China).
The product cannot be adapted as the concern is specifically that Google can be legally compelled to violate GDPR. Schrems II is very explicit that EU companies cannot send data to the US for as long as the US CLOUD Act is on the books.

"Banning Google Analytics" actually downplays it. Even Google Fonts is actually illegal now; and it will continue to be illegal until the US does the smart thing and copypastes GDPR into local law.
Is now a good time to enter the industry? Who is doing the most innovative work?
Is DNS tunneling not used anymore? I've been thinking of setting one up recently
I think the idea is less that they will fire you at the first opportunity, and more that if firings need to happen, you'll be on the top of the firing list.
It is things like this that has reduced the usefulness of wikipedia for me personally. I wasn't aware of the whole "notability deletionists" before I tried to look up the Rockstar programming language when discussing esoteric programming languages a while back. I knew that there was a entry there it was a nice short introduction to it but it was deleted by these people. In one way it is piece of "programmer culture" that was removed but at the other hand it is an esoteric programming language so it might not be "notable" almost by definition.

This article highlights the slippery slope of it. It is one thing to remove the esoteric language that nobody is seriously using but has a little cultural significance except for a small number of programmer nerds like myself. This composer is actually notable in comparison. Who gets to decide notability? What is next? Are we going to be removing lore from small ethnic groups because there isn't some academic reference to it and someone dutifully transcribed oral tradition and translated a language which only a few speak... No not notable...
A new horse is heading to Vietnam. There is still opportunity to stop it.
I think this is for the codepoints that have both an emoji form and a non-emoji form? (And yeah, that's admittedly confusing for the app.)

I think Unicode does specify a way to force those codepoints to either the emoji form or the non-emoji form, but there is still an encoding that is ambiguous by spec, I think.

E.g., the "TM" symbol falls into this; on macOS if you open the character selector and search "trade", you will get both variants.

Edit: this: https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Presentation_Style
> essentially making it a constitutional issue due to the 2nd amendment.

Yes, because that's how the American constitution works. If you think something else should have similar protections - or if you don't like the second amendment and think it should be repealed - lobby for a new amendment.

Until then, it's the highest law in the land and is on equal footing with any constitutional protection, regardless of your personal policy preferences.
Curious how advanced authorization (like ABAC) can be implemented with RLS. For example returning resources that are accessible to the team I belong to within the tenant.
It's illegal to go through someone else's mail, and that was the hypothetical you proposed.

My argument is not that it's fine as long as the likelihood for abuse is low, my argument is that it's fine as long as there hasn't been any actual abuse. When something does happen, we can respond to it.

Until then, it's not reasonable to go through a bunch of worst-case scenarios.
Taxes in Argentina are insane. If you have a 1000 USD monthly salary you will be taxed in the same way as a billionaire: you have to pay a third of your income and 3% of your total wealth (that is, everything you own) each year. And you can't even deduct most debts from the 3% tax. And you get nothing in exchange, because all the money goes to the politicians' pockets and a welfare state that literally hands out money to millions of people who refuse to work
Ask HN: A twisty puzzle that is not too hard and not too easy to figure out?
The classic Rubik's cube is way too difficult for most people to figure out on their own. And other puzzles like the Pyraminx are too easy in that regard.

So is there a twisty puzzle of moderate difficulty that people can figure out on their own without prior experience in twisty puzzles?
I think it's because women haven't integrated the technology yet. Please let me explain :)

Women are high consumers of luxury goods across the world. The luxury goods market was estimated at more than $400b in 2020, and increasing. If you take into consideration the fact that a large portion of these transactions undergo banking fees at around 2%, that makes more or less $8bn of revenue turned into smoke, which luxury companies lose to banking intermediaries.

The two main reasons why these companies agree to pay banking fees is insured transactions (the buyer pays with a credit card then fails to reimburse the bank) and convenience (most luxury goods customers carry more than one credit card with them).

Pseudo-DeFi offers a good replacement to the first cost (insurance). However, first, most luxury clients actually don't need the credit card: they simply cannot pay easily without pulling out a bag of cash (and look like crooks) or use a credit card.

Second, crypto payment is not yet convenient: we need to offer women an attractive, portable and easy to use wallet mechanism that can easily withstand loss/theft of mobile device, easy to top up, and in the correct cryptocurrency that is accepted across luxury brands. Think of it as the iPhone problem: there were many smartphones with a touch screen before the iPhone, but none of them looked attractive.

Once luxury brands solve this problem (or Apple, I can easily imagine Apple solving this problem, because 94% luxury clients have iPhones), in my opinion, crypto payments will take off worldwide and there will be no looking back. They will reduce costs to both sellers and shoppers, which qualifies quite well to the "why" question.
Yeah, I am sure there is some strategy to rolling out such a big change. It limits a Day 1 blast of complaints and media posts when they slowly roll it out. Plus it lets them eliminate any issues (according to them hah) before it reaches the masses.
If anyone is curious about these topics I'd strongly suggest the Closer to Truth series.

Thousands of episodes covering all aspects of topics about existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhAVbX3K5Q4
I weep with you, friend. Keep your eyes up, know that we feel for you.
Given how the market is reacting, or non-reacting, then yeah this is business as usual for Meta. But hating on Meta is just free karma on HN so why not? You don't come to these threads to deal with the truth, you just voice your feelings or farm karma.
Raising the retirement age isn't about getting more work out of people, but reducing the number of years the state has to pay retirement benefits.
There are any number of things you can have that are not technically illegal to acquire or possess per se, but would almost certainly be illegal to use in any expected capacity. I think it's reasonable to describe those as "almost illegal". Google Analytics is, apparently, in that category.
Slippery slope arguments are a fallacy. If something bad happens, or is proposed, we can address it when the bad thing happens or is proposed. Nothing actually bad is happening or is proposed here.
They built a modern day replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in downtown SF [1]. If the original is anything to go by, this one should last 600 years!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisc...
Interesting video explaining how light affects people from a visual point of view and at the level of circadian rhythms.
I’m just here for the occasional Don Hopkins mega posts.
Apparently he had the option to do it under Bush when Democrats were obstructing Bush's nominees to the federal courts, and he chose not to, so the evidence suggests that he would not have just removed the filibuster for the fun of it.
The only thing that matters to see their trajectory is their performance with respect to their industry peers.

So assuming they're just an online entertainment company, Netflix is higher, Twitter is about the same, Disney is probably on the up, Activision and EA have similar downward trends, so I don't know, might still be too noisy to tell.

Personally if I were a betting man I'd be shorting them hard. People are quickly souring on the entire social media industry. There's no reason it had to stay around
Yes, TikTok must do per-user model tweaking to whatever degree they can afford, right?
Because they are fundamentally an advertising company masquerading as a social media company. They are trying to focus group their way to “what the kids want these days” and it shows.
a domain name i know primarily from about 20 years of downloading PuTTY and friends …
Yep, TikTok learns really fast and after it has learned it shows you mostly stuff it knows you like.

Then - maybe one video in 20 or something - you get stuff that's either completely different, completely new (under 100 likes/views) or related to something you liked a long time ago. And then the next one is again something you actually like.

The Instagram model is just shoving "recommendations" to every 3rd slot on my screen. And every 4th one is an ad.
Poor people want free money and will never learn any lesson. They just vote Peronism no matter what, because it's a religion to them
> C++ has a standard library and smart pointers that eliminate a lot of errors with dangling pointers, and if people use those exclusively

You can't use smart pointers exclusively, because there is no "smart observational pointer", and there cannot be one, because that would be a reference type checked by a borrow checker, which is exactly what rust uses.

You can emulate it with shared pointers, but then you're left with basically a reference counted language. Why not using swift at this point? Also this creates a semantic impedance mismatch that tends to manifest with cycles.

Source: walked a codebase that would (ab)use shared pointers
I only think it's embarrassing to humans if you are particularly attached to human exceptionalism. It makes me think about how contextual information is. I think it's about who you are, who they are and how you relate. Plato and Aristotle are interesting because the history of human thought is interesting, not because anything they said individually was particularly unique. I read certain blogs because of the way that person combines ideas is compatible with the kinds of ideas I want to be combined, or my background, or their sense of humor. I think one big problem with AI in the future will be the massive explosion in signal to noise ratio. Trying to differentiate between AI and Real is mainly only interesting in it's significance around AI (and yes, misinformation, etc.).

Maybe we'll go back to reading local papers or listening to local bands when that's the only way to differentiate.
https://restofworld.org/2021/instagram-and-class-in-india/ I saw this last year and it does a great job telling the story of how Instagram's recommendation engine biased towards "elites"
> understood graph theory enough to apply it to social networks.

Facebook accounts have a friends list. Why would you need to understand graph theory.
I have a small digital ocean droplet, lowest tier serving mine. I need to probably do a write up of the steps soon before I forget. I'ts its own web server so you have a lot of options. SCGI, HTTPS, SSH, Socket Listener. I have mine behind reverse proxy sand boxed with systemd's DynamicUsers feature.
They're not waiting, they didn't want it

https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-street-view-germa... is a pretty good writeup on things.
They rolled out this update slowly and when it hit my account, it happened to be the day Biden posted about his Covid diagnosis and that was the post at the top of my feed.

I couldn't figure out why it was showing me this post with an all black border and not letting me scroll.

First, I thought it was a bug and then I thought they were forcing everyone (or some subset of American users) to watch Biden's instagram lol. Not a logical reaction but was my first interaction with the new UI and I was very confused.

My SO also thought it was a bug and we spent 5 minutes trying to fix the app before realizing it was just a clunky update.
I did not know this: "A tiny pinch of baking soda to vegetables or meats while roasting or sautéing accelerates the rate of sugar caramelization, and supercharges the Maillard reaction, the rate at which the amino acids in proteins react with sugar. The result is delicious bittersweet flavors, attractive golden-brown colors, and nutty aromas."
China’s property sales are set to plunge 30% – worse than in 2008
The problem with regular note taking (and why Zettelkasten is better)
Previous Discussion about this on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386630
It’s a fun, relevant metaphor. Some folks live under a bridge and have nothing to do but to harass travelers. Trolls don’t own the bridge and they certainly shouldn’t be demanding tolls and taxes. But their position has stunted their minds and twisted their hearts.

They’ve spent too much time wallowing in the unreal realm of the internet; they fear the light of day. If people were to shine a light on them, they’d die of embarrassment.
Their share price would just update to reflect their position. The market isn't going to punish a company for declining, just price a company based on current position and future prospects. It is the nature of companies to grow, stagnate, decline, and fail.
The mention of solaris is interesting. The Gnome 2 based Java Desktop was part of what would be used to sell commercial institutions that had regulatory requirements for things like Accessibility (e.g. banks, government) - and it did win customers. This meant Sun put a lot of fixes into G2 upstream that helped stability and viability.

I used it natively on solaris 10 on a desktop for several years with few limitations or issues. You could even use it on a SunRay but the performance would never compete with the dolphins

Then, at a critical time it just kind of stopped being. Sad day indeed
Can't speak to the planning that did or didn't happen on this. That also includes and risk assessment... I would look to whoever did the risk assessment for not understanding what was happening well enough.

That said, whenever I've touched a legacy app for any forward migrations... I've learned that date/time handling is usually one of the first things you should confirm. Just my own take on this.
What happened next? Did they say log in? Don't some countries, maybe the us say they will keep your laptop for "study" if you don't log in and let them snoop?
Very similar to what I have done. It's very powerful to have a lot of notes in one system like Evernote. Mine goes back to 2006. Likewise, I don't use it for document collaboration or any of the sharing functions – just personal notes synced.

Nowadays I create one note per day. I feel like I take a lot of notes – 500-4,000 words a day.

What balloons the size is I often find myself more in a transcription mode when I'm having critical conversations or interviewing people. Remote work makes this easier.

I've also developed a small number of short-hand annotations. eg. "(" for my inline thoughts, "[" for questions or topics I want to get to in a meeting.
Oh my, quite the rabbit hole of corruption surrounding that plant.
Here's my cynical take: This bill will subsidize a lot of jobs when we already have zero slack in our labor market. I think it's an excellent target for spending and would have a positive multiplier in normal times but in 2022 this seems likely to just goose inflation another inch.

Unless we actually start seeing cyclical job losses finally hit right when this money starts being spent. Which is entirely possible.
The supply chain crisis is getting better –and it could make things cheaper soon
Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22No_Way_to_Prevent_This%22,_...
Having the right to defend yourself from home invaders with deadly force is a right that has existed long before the laws of man were codified. Hell, it’s a right even animals recognize.
If you threaten to do something and don't follow through on your threats, they have no more meaning.

McConnell and his party apparently had a similar situation 10 years before and did not throw out the filibuster.
FWIW I did not feel like everyone was super smart at my FAANG job. I didn't even feel that anyone was particularly curious. Obviously, YMMV depending on the company and the team.
I don't think anyone is worried about hyper-inflation right now. You almost always have a out of control printing press behind hyper-inflation. The risk is more 1970s style high inflation. And I am not saying that rising wages caused the current inflation printing, just that the causes of the current inflation printings are mostly one-offs, and that it is wages that will cause this to become a cycle like it was in most previous high inflation environments.
That reminds me of the argument about sentience lately. Why can't a neural network be sentient if all our actions have been trained by interacting with the world since birth?
Grief is an enormously complicated emotional state that cannot be pithily summed up like that sentence. It's just a quote from a game.

In my experience, it doesn't pass, as in disappear. Instead, the fact of the loss slowly becomes a new fact of your reality. The newness of it will pass. The rawness of the pain will fade - most of the time. There will always be things that bring the person right back sitting next to you. But you begin to re-make your life.

If you continue to struggle and haven't already done so, I can recommend talking with a counselor (I hate the word therapist). Sometimes we just need to unload, but don't want to unload on/burden the other people in our life. Grief can be isolating in this way.
Too bad dreamwidth hosted blogs are behind cloudflare and set to block non-corporate (or older) browsers. Try to read this post from a Debian Jessie system and you'll just get a cloudflare page that doesn't work.
Just to clarify, the dollar was gold-backed from 01944 until the end of Bretton Woods in 01971; it wasn't a fiat currency.

Also I think saying that inflation was "lower on average" is really a dramatic understatement. From independence up to the advent of the "mixed system" in 01933 (really a switch to fiat currency until 01944) inflation was probably zero on average. The same was observed over the 1300 years of the commodity-backed pound sterling (usually gold, sometimes silver or bimetallic).

I think there are plausible arguments that fiat currencies are less prone to such crises, and even that they stimulate economic growth, but I don't think it's an open-and-shut case.
>No it was a wise and practical decision.

Well the Democrats just lost all chance of any new gun control and will probably have some gun control repealed. Not only that, they lost the power of Democrat controlled states to enact gun control at the state level and will have much of state gun control repealed. They completely lost the right to abortion at the federal/constitutional level as well. What did they gain for that immense cost? Some federal judges back in 2013. If you think that was wise and in no way short sighted, I really don't know what to say.
For me it's incredible that it's like that in the US (I assume you're in the US as you mention "google fiber" and "at&t").

You folks have to change that, decouple who lays cables from who can use them, or at least make companies who lay cables let any provider access them, etc... - look at how some european countries deal with it (at least the ones that have the most happy users - details will probably be important) and do the same => no risks.

(Repeating what I wrote in the past ) I'm in Switzerland living nearby Zurich but using a small regional Internet Provider located 50km away (outside the region I'm living in) and my parents are in a different region in a 800-souls village and use a major national provider, and we both ended up getting FTTH, with similar costs and great reliability - cables in both cases initially layed down spontaneously by companies not directly related to the providers, hoping that we would start using them at some point (I waited for 1 year being scared of complications but my parents switched immediately as their old ADSL connection was extremely unreliable) => this is a practical demonstration that this system works & good for everybody (customers & providers & whoever lays down the cables), therefore no reason not to adopt it.