skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me a government, and I’ll believe you that it’s not a superstition. I only see people.

People organizing and working together is great.

People feeling they have a right to use violence to achieve their goals, not so much.

Edit: https://xkcd.com/386/

I will take this opportunity to to try to express myself a bit more clearly. I don't really expect to convince anyone of anything, but rather I would like to reach the few people out their that do resonate with me and my words.

Government is superstition just the way Santa is a superstition. You can call it an inter-subjective entity, or egregore, but ultimately it's not more real than any other imagined concept. It is perhaps a useful mental model to apply labels and titles to groups of people, or certain concepts, but it is also valuable to realize these are labels and models.

A government, as far as I know does not exist, insofar as I cannot interact with it as a single entity, or see it. If you look at this from an esoteric perspective, perhaps nothing is real, or it's all consciousness, or a simulation, or vibration of energy, however that doesn't change my lived experience of what appears real now.

I take issue with collective thinking, labeling a group of people with an identity, and then acting as if this identity is real. I don't have any animosity towards any other man or woman living in a different "country". I doubt many people do, and yet under the superstition of collective thinking, many people go to war, fighting against a "them" that someone did us "wrong", because we've been told so, or believe in large geopolitical movements. If every single conscious entity took a step back, and only acted violently in self-defense, there would be no war. There would simply be no reason to do it.

There are numerous arguments against this, such as "there will always be 'bad' people, so we need gang up and make sure they don't do bad things", and soon enough, there will be a group of people, believing they are the only people who can legitimately use force and violence, because they are stopping the 'bad people'. If you look at a history book, you'll find more death and destruction because of "governments" by a very long shot, and very little due to the few "bad apples".

The "Common Good" is another fallacy that leads to much suffering. How do we define it? We can use numbers, and metrics and "happiness surveys", and try to use left brain thinking to optimize for it, but ultimately "good" is in they experience of the individual conscious entity experiencing it. Trying to define it mathematically is taking away the agency and life of those who experience it, reveals a certain hubris and elitism that certain "experts" know what is best for everyone, for the "common good".

A book I recommend for those interested in what I'm saying is "The Most Dangerous Superstition" by Larkin Rose.

If you think I'm wrong, please continue to do so. I am supportive! I don't intend or expect to reach you.
I never mentioned pro-choice or my stance on it or population control. For the record I support choice. I added the topic purely in response to the OP ask.
fyi, those are from the same person, see https://homebrewheadphones.com/build/
The Amateur Radio Parity Act never actually passed, did it? Nor did the PRB-1 rule from 1985 affect private land-use restrictions like HOA covenants.

Suffice it to say, based on my understanding, it has never been the case that ham radio operators had any special relief from HOA rules.
That a technique can possibly fail doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a decent chance of helping
Preimplantation polygenetic testing. The idea is that, when doing IVF, you sequence the genome of all the embryos and implant the ones that you predict will have properties that you like.

This already exists for monogenetic screening (for parents who don't want to pass on heritable diseases for their children, where those diseases are localized to one gene). But the idea here is that, by checking thousands of genes, you can make predictions for things that start to be very relevant to parents, like attractiveness or height or intelligence.

I don't think people understand how important this is going to be. If the process is expensive, it will only be available to rich people. In a generation, maybe they'll have children that are more intelligent or more attractive than average.

If that starts happening, I think it would have pretty negative effects on society, but there's no way to really prevent it (rich people will just go to Singapore if you ban it in the US). So the only reasonable option is to have the government subsidize it and make it affordable to everyone.
Source: I work in the field.

This is a current limitation, and an artifact of the data+method but not something that should be relied upon.

If we do some adversary modelling, we can find two ways to work around this:

1) actively generate and search for such data; perhaps expensive for small actors but not well equipped malicious ones.

2) wait for deep learning to catch up, e.g. by extending NERFs (neural radiance fields) to faces; matter of time.

Now, if your company/government is on the bleeding edge of ML-based deception, they can have such policy, and they will update it 12-18-24 months (or whenever (1) or (2) materialises). However, I don't know one organisation that doesn't have some outdated security guideline that they cling to, e.g. old school password rules and rotations.

Will "turning sideways to spot a deepfake" be a valid test in 5 years? Prolly no, so don't base your secops around this.
Animal Crossing is very female-coded. There's not a lot of male-oriented style in its fashions, so it's a lot easier to play with your gender if it tends towards classically-female. Even something like a beard is treated as an accessory, and can't be worn with some other kinds of accessories, like some masks. (Not because of fashion requirements, but because it's the same slot as other things.) Since women can wear pretty much any male-coded garment, there are lots of "neutral" things like tee-shirts and pants, but not much that's specifically targeted to men.

Society does provide a lot less variation in male clothing than female clothing, but they could still do better, especially in formalwear and semi-formalwear. You'll see hundreds of dresses, from cocktail to ball gown to ballerina, before you'll see anything like a plain blazer.

Animal Crossing uses singular "they" for everybody in English, which is presumably partly to avoid having to add another complication, but it has the nice side benefit of normalizing it -- even though they know most players will be female-identified.
I would move the project to be under the company instead of your personal account. Place links back to the company on the package website. Link back to your company in the terminal output. I wouldn't go beyond that.
> One of the later tweets is "pick business partners...with integrity." They're both good bits of advice.

Really? This is good advice? Is "don't work with a known thief" also good advice? Most people know this already. They make it seem like it's this grand knowledge. it's not. It's worthless advice dressed up to sound good.
I think the poster assumes that identification of trends reveals basically greed. And makes a plausible point in noting that the purpose of engineering is to alleviate and improve quality of life. Only, the tone is not really appropriate (and less so the assumptions).
it just means your target market doesn't have anything better. sure it can mean competence, but it can also mean you're an early stage in a niche space (a lot of app startups where I live gain a lot of traction and backing, only to dissolve into obscurity once people realise there's a market there)
It also plays into Bruce Sterling's Distraction, albeit as a minor element. Same generation of cyberpunk author.
Printing the source out on paper would probably be the most long-lasting storage method (aside from engraving it into large pieces of stone, maybe). But typing the source code back in for most non-trivial pieces of software would be really painful.

"Here's the source code, go type it in" hasn't been a very popular method of distributing software, for good reason, in a long time.

Maybe there's some way that you could include the true source code (in C or some other well-understood language) of a small decoder program, which would then take as input some more-compact representation of the desired programs? Something minified and compressed, but kept in a form that would make it relatively quick to type in? Maybe you could have the user type in groups of characters (6-7 or so at a time, because that's generally assumed to be the number of abstract symbols a person can easily hold in working short-term memory) and get a checksum back, that they could verify against the input book.

Actually, you should probably have checksums per-line, per-page, and per-chapter/section. That way if you had a decoding problem, you could quickly drill down to the error without manually checking each character.
You're assuming civilizations end in abrupt events, whereas it might be just as likely that they decline slowly over generations until one day people are grazing sheep on Wall Street or whatever.
protip: if you develop a keen sense of anxiety, you can short circuit the depression.

of course, as a side effect, you'll start to only work, being wonderfully productive as the depression wraps everyone around you in your irritability blanket and snuffs the life out of your relationships

...but hey, it keeps you productive
They are public companies; it will be kinda obvious from their annual reports if they aren't investing/devesting enough to hit those goals, and if they dont announce it to the public that will cause them bigger problems.

They anticipate increased costs for ICE vehicles and increased profit from EV which is why they're moving forward. They don't control the segments of the market they need to make it happen, so it's a risky bet. However, the manufacturers that are switching first are largely luxury brands, so they make a healthy enough profit that even if they stumble they wont be under water.
Social media creates the conflict that shames people for documenting their moments. In days before the Internet, there are several instances of people photographing themselves in front of monuments and other things, If you check out "old school cool" on reddit, that becomes apparent (for those who weren't there).

Now, social media pays people for becoming celebrities, so the culture is a lot more staged as a result... It's not the fault of people who otherwise catalogue their activities and travels, so this should always be kept in proper perspective.

Social media rewards vapid, ignorant, and self-obsessed behavior in tech bloggers and politicians as much as it does wealthy teenagers that do nothing more but filming their daily self-absorbed excess within their lifestyles.

Normal and aspiring creators share the photos for those that care in hopes of being discovered, but most of the time they're off the platform's scripts, so they don't get promoted at all by the platform. It's the corporately engineered algorithms that should be blames for presenting personality/brand based (staged) content to most of us on purpose whenever we ritually don't like the content.

If you don't like content that is not based on personality, start clicking "like" on stuff that isn't popular, and not based on the common ego-driven social media tropes...

Also stop supporting things that make social media bias, personality cults, and consumerist/psychological manipulation popular... TikTok literally tells platform users what kind of content to create, that way they shape most of the experience on the platform into most of the repetitive "personality-driven" drivel that we see promoted on it (on purpose) all the time.
> this is a clear demonstration that a fundamental understanding of fractions was skipped in order to grind out solutions

Leaving aside that you concluded this from a one-sentence story about solving a single problem, it's funny that the idea that a "clear understanding of fractions" can make the skills easy to learn is something that virtually every trained teacher has believed for the last (I'm not sure how many) decades and yet nobody alive today is reporting that it happened that way for them.

It's possible that every future teacher getting certified to teach politely pretends to believe these things, but secretly wishes to spend their career torturing children, so they abandon the teaching of concepts as soon as they step into a classroom. Or maybe they go through the motions of teaching kids to understand the meaning behind fractions, but they intentionally do it wrong and laugh with each other about it in the teacher's lounge. That's one explanation.

Another explanation is that this opposition of "understanding" to "execution" and "concepts" to "skills" is an incomplete way of looking at things that has limited application to how people learn but isn't a panacea, and people still struggle with skills no matter how much you try to prepare them with concepts.

I think it does a vast disservice to anyone when we assume that their job performance would be radically improved by the first cliché we ever learned about their field.

If the idea is so magical, and we know that it has permeated the field of education for generations, where are the generations of students who remember math as being "trivial, intuitive, beautiful, clever?" Different educational philosophies have come and gone, emphasis has shifted, so where's the generation of parents saying math was much easier for them than for their kids? Where's the PTA meeting where all the parents say, "We think there's something wrong with the way math is taught here, because we all remember fractions being trivial and intuitive, but our kids are finding them hard?"

Maybe teachers aren't such idiots that they consistently overlook the value of the most cherished and shopworn truism their field has produced in its history?
Show me a common good, and I’ll listen to you. I only see people.

Every time we generalize it results in violence and conflict.

I am 100% supportive of people working together.
First reaction - the next two brilliant ideas from U.S. Lawmakers in this area will be:

- General Washington's Chicken

- Great Leap Forward
Assume an average rate of €10/hour, with a working week of 37.5 hours, that gives you an income of €375.

If you're working 7.5 hours a day, you're on-call for 16.5 hours Mon-Fri, and 24 hours for Sat/Sun. That gives a total of (( 16.55 + 48 ) 10) = €1350.

So yes, you get paid a lot. (Of course the hourly salary there was low to simplify the numbers, but you can see the income for working a week on-call is about the same as working three normal weeks.)
The term was coined, afaik, by Sarah Perry in this blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183908/http://theviewfro...

Words will evolve, but I wanna say she was going for something higher level than self-help.
Maybe a fish or crab hiding its eggs in the mud? At even distances whilst swimming/walking in some direction

(I don't think so :-) just a thought)
I'm working on prompt engineering. I can confirm this is the next big thing that hardly anyone is thinking about.

I'm getting good results from simple approaches to storing and retrieving memories of past conversations and crawled/indexed documents. This is being built at https://mitta.us/

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Bx-fUfKedZ5

inventive-anteater|> The website discusses an approach for improving the accuracy of the GPT3 language model by providing feedback to the model based on user interactions. The goal is to allow users to interactively teach the model to avoid common mistakes, such as misinterpretations of word meanings. The implementation of this approach is described, and four tasks are used to demonstrate how the model can be substantially improved with user feedback.
Rich people already have children that are more attractive than average. Being attractive is the biggest signal for generational wealth which reinforces the need for trophy spouses which reinforces the signal and so on.
Do you think then that those crime waves in America are mainly caused by immigration, or by racial/cultural diversity? Care to elaborate?
Why aren't you afraid that Israel has nukes or Pakistan?
Neovim
https://neovim.io/

Cross platform Neovim front-end UI, built with F# + Avalonia.
https://github.com/yatli/fvim
I am using the prediction market Futuur, I advise a lot, serious company, several markets on the most diverse topics, I'm making easy money there monthly!
Yeah epiphanies don't actually do any work for themselves.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but my impression is that hydrogen might work for specific applications, but we don't have a very efficient of generating it. It still takes substantially more energy than if we just store the energy in batteries.
I would consider it perfectly normal to discover something in my company or on Github was written in Rust. It's the 12th most popular language on Github by PRs according to this: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/1 (Shell and Nix don't count).

It's only 3 times less popular than C. As I said, very weird definition of mainstream.
Join the army. See the world. Meet a lot of interesting people and kill them.
Show HN: Professional Knowledge Sharing App
A new idea on how to share knowledge, publish and share multimedia, interactive digital books.
> ....and your chances of being able to do those things (without severe risk of poverty and homelessness) are increased dramatically by having been lucky enough to be born wealthy, or at least upper-middle-class.

While this is true, it also isn’t helpful. Play the cards you have, not the cards you wish you had.

You always gotta start somewhere. Might as well start with what you’ve got and go from there.
how can people actually believe this pseudoscience. What models have been accurate for a number of year? The IPCC one just averages others, so that is cheating.
Bug-riddled messes that eventually became great games
Gaming the lottery seemed as good a retirement plan as any. (2018)
This sounds eerily familiar.
Let me guess, there were sprint planning sessions that went on for hours. More time was allocated to planning the work, than for the actual work.

Replacing one dogma (waterfall) with another (dogmatic agile), is not agile.
This is really interesting. I like the blog, I don't want to subscribe for emails but I would like and RSS but I don't see it
What usually happens with me is I do the thing for 10 minutes and then reach some logical breakpoint or a point that needs a context shift and I come crashing out of the "work zone" and back to square one where I don't want to do it any more.
As far as I can see, secops is an eternal cat-and-mouse game.
I'm not sure there's a basic question we can ask that a lot of human users wouldn't fail. President of the country? Too difficult.
Can you point out what war crimes is Ukraine committing?

I read the article by Amnesty International and I could not spot any.

Yes, they make crazy accusations and demands but I did not notice any war crime described. If would like to reread the parts where in your opinion it has been described.
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> and not just another car.

Worth noting that other manufacturers have clued in to how a good mobile app can be a selling point of a car or a package on that car - FordPass does location tracking[0], Chevy has tracking and life360-esque notifications where your family can know when it enters or leaves an area[1], and of course Rivian and Lucid have it or plan for it[2,3].

0: https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/fordpass/getting-starte...

1: https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/news.detai...

2: a review from 'chas k' says 'It shows location of your truck' https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rivian/id1570215232

3: https://www.lucidmotors.com/air/connectivity#:~:text=And%20w....
Post-Brexit. Why?
Is globalization really the result of corrupt leaders though, or a shift in corporate practice to accommodate the rising demands of consumers? It seems like no amount of corruption really matters as long as we're drinking lattes and eating avocado every day.
Without highly automated, industrialized farming, majority of people's occupation will be food production, as it was most of human history.

And post apocalypse labor shortages would mean nobody will be growing food for you, so you most likely need to do it yourself.

If I survived and was industrious, I would start making tractors to sell, instead of twiddling with Forth.
Exactly.

This is why we have CloudWatch Events (now called EventBridge).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/W...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-...
Why can't updates be installed via a USB stick or over Wi-Fi at home?
Many companies choose not to take subsidies/grants due to the restrictions they come with. Many areas of the country also have lobbyists preventing things like selling excess capacity back to the grid. The subsidies will also lower over time; the govt isn't going to pay people to use solar in 2040.
To oversimplify it, "I'll preserve coal jobs" (not exact quote) was a vote-winner a while ago. It's incredible that there's a political party holding the world hostage with its temper tantrum of "If the other side wants it, we're against it!", but hey, that's how it currently is.
[Gattaca](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/) is about the long term consequences of this exact technology for society.

In particular, the consequences for the children born naturally who don't benefit from this tech. They don't get any say in the decision, but end up heavily penalized, barred from certain jobs for "safety" reasons, aren't desirable partners... an underclass of society.
> and even safety-related over-the-air updates.

I update the GPS data in my decade old VW once a year using an SD-card. Not having always-on internet is certainly no reason you can't get updates.
It's probably not obvious to many that there's nearly a limitless source of training data on social media at this point. Your comment is eerily prescient and now all trends can become suspect as being a plant for additional training to circumvent, well, known circumventions!
It is notable that in Srinivasan's "The Network State" there is no mention of Ordnung as a positive example of how a parallel social order can and does work. All the mentions of Amish are negative examples at best.

Much value creation is already digital. If you’re reading this,
you’re probably an information worker. You may not have thought
about it this way, but the majority of your waking hours are
probably spent in front of one screen or another a laptop for
work, a phone on the go, a tablet for reading, and so on. So, most
of your life is already spent in the Matrix, in a sense, even
before the advent of widespread AR/VR. Short of a pullback to an
Amish or Andaman Islander existence, most of your life is and will
be digitally influenced in some form. Moreover, much of the value
in the physical world comes from blueprints created on a computer
in some form; eg, the iPhones manufactured in Shenzhen gain much
of their value from the designers in California. So, a good
fraction of value creation is largely digital.

Srinivasan, Balaji. The Network State: How To Start a New Country (p. 279). Kindle Edition.

No social network. If there’s no social network, you have no
digital profiles, no messaging, no community fora, no mass media,
and no easy way to recruit from the internet. You’d essentially be
living an Amish life, relying on pieces of paper or offline cues
to determine who was part of your new state and how they
interacted. This isn’t going to succeed the nation state.

Srinivasan, Balaji. The Network State: How To Start a New Country (p. 371). Kindle Edition.
I guess the best solution would be to look for a hash that is tied to those two technologies instead.