skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they simply can't do some of the things that those driving automatic transmission cars take for granted.

They sure can, though it may be more inconvenient. In addition to the examples given by a sibling comment, I’ve seen a guy on a car with manual transmission steering with his knee while using both hands to eat ice cream from a cup.
Why would it be binary? Few natural things are. E.g., living/non-living is an obvious binary that turns out to not be so clear once you look at the details. E.g., whether viruses are alive. Ditto all of the theories about life's origins: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-o...
History of 'Vacation'
Is that on the manufacturer schedule, because that's insane?
> The problem with effective altruism is that it is devoid from reality:

Nah, people just are rather clueless on the what and the why of effective altruism.

The top causes are things like deworming, anti-malaria and AI risk. These are things that substantially increase economic productivity (the latter on account of people not being dead).
If you're a naive economist and you think Homo Economicus is real.
>They are most often meant to add a touch of humour, _so of questionable value to begin with_

This comes across as remarkably sad to me. Humor is of questionable value as a baseline?

To each their own, I suppose. I enjoy a technical article with animations that explain things, or a well-placed joke/humorous anecdote/etc. Especially in cases where the humor also supports a point or illustrates something. I tend to remember things better when they have some sort of emotional impact, and out of the emotional impacts possible (sad, angry, etc.) I definitely prefer joy, humor, etc.
Refinancing is not free. There are still costs for any loan like appraisal, possibly an inspection, and recording fees, but some lenders will roll those costs into the loan or offer higher interest rates to offset their costs.

Nonetheless, I’ll take the lower principal of a lower priced house than an over-priced house with a lower interest rate … lower taxes and possibility to refinance at lower rates.
"Wow and those stupid libs were saying global warming! Idiots!"

I can already hear them screeching.
> only true downside

Its main downside is an additional cognitive load that it imposes. You need to do one more unnecessary thing to drive your car.
Zoom battery usage per hour should be a standard metric. Nothing kills a battery faster.
It's called covering your ass. Github/MS need to protect themselves, which means taking all actions reasonably possible to fend off charges of obstruction or collusion.
Something was screwed up, very likely on Windows, definitely on Linux. My 5800H gets 9 hours of battery life on Linux with KDE (full glass blur effect, IntelliJ, Firefox, etc...), without any undervolting or underclocking, at ~80% battery, 1440p60 15.6 inch screen. And about a third of the power consumption comes from the desktop class SSD I put into it.
For me what was eye-opening was the amount of digging in and denial of it.

I thought with it literally right there in your face that the denialists would come to some sense. No instead we got, "you can tell you weren't around in 1976, it was worse then", which it wasn't and a basic check would clearly show that's a lie. "Oh the climate is always changing", not at this rate.
The usual 'snowflake' ad hominem attack thrown in too. I don't even understand what even is the point of this head in sand strategy.
>GitHub had to do this. It was required of them by law. Tornado was sanctioned.

Does anyone know if this sanction, "contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for...", applies also to individual human persons not associated with a corporate or institutional entity? Is there somewhere I can read about what sactions are, what they mean, and who they apply to?

If it's just a Microsoft problem and not a human person problem then the solutions are many and obvious for any tool that's useful. git itself is already pretty distributed friendly.
I remember some pro-vegetarian group passing out flyers that said you wouldn't eat this (picture of a dog), why eat this? (picture of a pig).

I was always tempted to respond with, “Good point. I’ll bet dogs are delicious.”
This is like assuming that being able to program the VCR will make you a great software developer.
How have previous challenges worked?

Are they like puzzle hunts where you don't know what you're looking for? Or are you only responsible for breaking cryptographic codes?
If those needs are professional, possibly. As someone who has been largely remote for a long time, I'll fly in or do a long drive for an occasional multi-day team get-together.

But, if it's just a case of wanting me in the office semi-regularly so you have people around, I won't be meeting those needs. (But I'm sure there are plenty of other companies where offices are more back to pre-pandemic ways. And someone who cares deeply about that should probably seek out such companies.)
Because government officials are supposed to be working for the people? Does your barber want to ban Bitcoin? The school-teacher? The doctor?

Nope. They either don't care or actually like it.

Also, "banning" things in America is close to impossible due to the populace intense distrust of the government. You can't even ban AR-15s, imagine thinking its possible to ban a piece of software running on a raspberry-pi.
I just got an M1 Pro 14” 10c 32GB RAM and while the battery life is great compared to anything else I’ve used, it’s not as amazing as I would have hoped.

I get around 6 hours from 100% with a light Webpack dev workflow + Docker for Mac running in the background (arm64 postgres and redis containers).

Is that normal? powermetrics shows package power bouncing around 500mW - 10 watts when compiling, which would suggest I should be getting a lot more battery life. Is there a utility to reliably check power consumption of the whole system? Stats.app seems to think my system idles around 5 watts and goes to 40 watts when compiling which is much higher than the package power and my screen is only 1/3 brightness.
Exactly, and the incentive is that customers do not care.

Build quality, keep redundancy, and in the next pandemic your business will flourish... unless you'll have had to close it before 'cause of people buying cheap and not good!
I hate to put this to you, but your post sounds like a whinge on my language, dude
Randomness is the basis for all life and seems necessary for there to be any sort of curiosity component to intelligence. At a macro level, it seems to represent breaks in cycles that allow for change. Further, if our own decision making amounts to weighted distributions in neuron paths, how would a brain resolve an equally weighted distribution (no matter how small the chance of that happening is).

Edit: To further explain, I apply the basic principles that govern life to all facets of life, all the way up to the complexities of human society, language, etc.. That is, DNA is a self-replicating system that through randomness was able to build more and more complex organisms over time. It generically represents a way to encode behaviors through time, a necessary subset of which include behaviors for self-replication and resource acquisition (mostly to satisfy the self-replication requirement). On a more complex level, human society is the organism, human language (including speech, writing, visual arts) is the DNA (a means to pass knowledge, behaviors, etc. through time), and humans are the "cells".
https://www.pysimplegui.org/ is one option
Why do you assume he "needs" her to support his career? Many founders are deliberately single and not in a relationship to focus on their startup, and do perfectly fine.

And how could you call someone a "servant-wife" just for choosing to be a stay-at-home mother? In what universe is that not completely disrespectful to people who choose to be stay-at-home mothers? You are calling a person a "servant" for being a mother and denying her agency by defining her only in relation to her spouse.

By this implication, the opposite of a "servant-wife" is a "working-wife," and it's shocking that you can't define a person independently of a spouse within this framework. The term "mother" doesn't do this, but better yet, it's best to skip negatively judging strangers entirely.
I actually wonder if humans lack a crucial adaptive advantage if they do not intuitively understand how systems work. But then it occurs to me that some ancient philosophies and religions emphasised the need to be in tune with the surrounding world.
With copilot I'm sure the data exists and it's a matter of modeling it out. The fact you can't configure co-pilot to do celebrity coding by fine tuning it to a particular person or organizations repositories is actually surprising to me.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo
You mean the "green" party that relentlessly fear-mongered nuclear and got Germany addicted to russian fossil fuels? The one that is going to be forced to start burning coal again?
They will also elect legislators that will remove such laws.
If you ever want to go on a road trip, EVs are not a viable option right now.
All equivalent code has the same performance with a sufficiently smart compiler. In practice, compilers are often not sufficiently smart.
"Linux developer David Laight added, "It was pretty much obsolete when I was writing ethernet drivers in the early 1990's. Sort of surprising support ever got into Linux in the first place!"

When I worked as a network consultant in the early to late 90's I had multiple clients each with thousands of nodes using DECnet. I was 1 consulting network engineer providing services in a limited geographic area, so if I had that many customers with that many DECnet nodes I feel safe in saying it was still in wide use during the early 1990s.
The Guardian had some pictures which really showed it (including one of Greenwich park) - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2022/aug/08/...
I can’t say for sure but I vaguely recall reading complaints that some ARM CPUs are similarly flawed.
If it is used by e.g North Korea to evade sanctions then that claim isn't that much of a stretch.

However it is clean that we, the programmer community, needs some way to stop projects from being sanctioned (as opposed to companies or specific persons). One obvious way would be to amend open source licenses to not permit them to be used by the US government if it attacks any other project in that group or something similar.

I am sure something better could come up, but we have lots of power if we were willing to come together and use it.
Still less dangerous than automatic. Automatic is easier to cause panic acceleration since they don't need to manage clutch and transmission (almost).

Not a deal breaker for automatic though. Calmer driving, better experience and safety driving can prevent it.
Reminds me of some young adult book (written by Tom Clancy IIRC) where the main informant had backdoored the generic mouse drivers and had access to most computers around the world or something. It’s been over 15? years since I read them. I don’t remember the name. Net force?
The TMAO point is weird, considering that many fish have many times more TMAO than red meat, yet fish are not associated with increased cardiovascular disease.

Also, red meat is not associated with higher blood glucose levels. In my own case, it is strongly associated with decreased inflammation.
> how many volumes would an Amazon catalog be?

How many products and companies would Amazon remove if they had to pay for each page in their catalog? Either way it would be a massive improvement.
Prices aren’t dropping that much to offset a tripling (or more) in interest expense. Or we have a long way to go at least.
> Railways, as well as telecommunications companies, ISPs, public airlines, bus lines, taxicab companies, phone companies, cruise ships, motor carriers, freight companies, and others CANNOT discriminate.

Funnily enough, several of the things you have listed (I believe, actually, most of them) are not common carriers but contract carriers. That means they can discriminate, except against the enumerated prohibited classes.
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edit: to add some comment: Too bad only this group can participate. Just wanted to have look what type of puzzles they are and recreationally have a stab at them.
Doesn't 2FA include emails?

I always get my OTP verification codes (banking, corp login etc.) both on mobile and at my email id.
Some previous discussion so many years ago when this was news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13107802
This is a little cold. To get into the market, most people need to put in all the money they’ve ever saved plus a good fraction of all the money they’ll ever earn in the future. People will naturally be anxious about the value of that asset as they may need it to fund their retirement, nursing home, etc.
My guess would be free will. Most of us are heavily dependent on this concept being valid.

Edit: I guess I was wrong.
Possibly because it wasn't done with Bitcoin? Bitcoin is pretty bad for shady dealings because its open and everyone can see your transactions.
Thanks for the free lesson, Random Internet Stranger. I appreciate it. Unfortunately, the cognitive dissonance you give me is just too much to bare. Your wisdom is clearly beyond reproach, and so therefore Rust cannot be a systems language since it has panics. Yet, I and many others use Rust for systems programming. My brain might explode from the contradiction!
For most people that is a non-issue. Modern EVs (especially Tesla) are exceptionally good at estimating remaining range. I know EV adoption in Norway might be a bit of an exception as of now, but as things are right now, in Norway, it's not something you think or worry about.
Personally I like JavaFX.

I made something pretty complicated with tkinter and Python. It's not that hard to do but the result looks awful, it doesn't support many features people expect in 2022, and the documentation for using tk in Python is poor. You probably need to refer to the tcl/tk documentation and translate it in your head to apply to Python.

As much as people hate Electron, the rendering engine in a web browser is head and shoulders better than any other cross-platform system and I think it's a sane model for programming. The main trouble w/ Electron is that you have 30MB of runtime for any application, even if it something that could be coded in a 25k .EXE file based on Win32.
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I have an M1 Air where I max out the 16G RAM all the time. It works because swap works painlessly for me, but I would have been really, really happy with 24G (or better 32G). It works but I have unfortunately no breathing room in RAM.

Often, I use 11-18G, rarely I use 20-50G.

Definitely go for M2 Air if you like the form factor (I prefer the M1 Air’s form factor though).
Transactions from your Bitcoin wallet can be worked out with a pen and paper, and then passed onto others by hand, entered into their Bitcoin node by typing in what's written down. By advocating banning Bitcoin, you just banned Free Speech.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
E2EE generally doesn't obscure who is talking to who AFAICT.

Onion routing does, sure.

Ethically I find that area very much a double-edged sword. It's great for privacy and people evading speech-hostile regimes, but it does also enable trading and propagation of CSAM etc. It's why I've never run a Tor or Freenet (does that still exist?) node, I don't want to support that stuff with my resources.
Yep, you're are right, my bad.
The Bristol Four acquittal was not an act of jury nullification.

Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, no offense is committed if there is a "lawful excuse" for the damage.

The defence argued that there was a lawful excuse on several grounds:

1. The defendants believed they were preventing a more serious crime (public indecency because of the statue's offensiveness).

2. The defendants believed the statue was owned by the citizens of Bristol (as stated on its plaque), who they believe consented to its removal.

3. Their right to freedom of expression and assembly under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The judge instructed the jury that they were allowed to consider questions such as the statue's offensiveness in deciding whether these excuses applied.
Exactly this. Every boomer who whines about 15% interest rates in the 1980s - rates which existed only briefly - is leaving out the fact that they got low prices and continuous opportunities to refinance at lower rates for the rest of their lives.
I don't begrudge anyone being scared of guns. They can have carastrophic results even when handled properly.

The snake charmer isn't afraid of snakes, but that doesn't mean that your average Joe should go around, blithely picking up every snake they see.
Why would he drive into a situation without a plan for recharging?
When they fail to take steps to prevent it, they are often punished. Here’s a few big ones from 2021 alone:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/03/24/le...

Why aren’t these banks put on the sanction list where it’s a crime to do business with them? Because the vast majority of what they do is not money laundering and when they are discovered money laundering, they generally stop. And when they don’t, they are added to this list: https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

Whereas Tornado Cash is a service that is known to enable huge amounts of money laundering, and nothing was done to stop it.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115378385/tonga-volcano-stra...

Also this: The recent eruption in Tonga has apparently had unusual effects on water in the atmosphere. Has this affected the situation in Europe? I'd love to know. Japan also skipped a monsoon season this year.
Oops, I had it the wrong way around.
Well, you will lose but I basically don't believe your claim is anything more than hyperbolic bullshit as no one who is working as a SWE is actually spending only 1% of their time programming as per your initial comment.
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I love manuals. It's so engaging. I don't find it annoying in heavy traffic at all. I love hills. It's fun.

Nowadays, there are convenience features like hill holding and auto downshifting.

One gripe I have is you get improper pedal placement such that you can't heel toe properly unless you're bigfoot or you've bought a real sports car. Manufacturers say this is what people want... screw that.

The article is paywall'd, but I agree, when manuals go away, something more will be lost.
Some of the financial services I use do, some don't. Things like discord don't either which is also annoying.
I don't travel much, especially recently, so this may not be worth the hassle for frequent travellers, but I factory reset before going overseas, or use a non-current phone to take overseas.

Whence through customs etc, reinstall only the essential apps for the trip, just remember your passwords or your single password to your password manager.

You can also spread about an encrypted set of instructions amongst free email hosting.

Some people would say it's a hassle, but it keeps customs' nose out of my private life. I'm getting to an age where it's not necessarily weird to have the appearance of barely any online presence.
Amen to deep roots.

I had to remove a tiny 5 inch diameter palm tree from my back yard and it took me about 2 hours of heavy pickaxing and the shoveling. And ultimately, I had to tie a rope on the tall end, and have my wife lever it from the root with the pickaxe. Extremely hard to remove these bastards.
I had a hell of a time finding a bank willing to put together a mortgage for sub $150k. Has taken me almost 8 months, and multiple failed attempts with various national and local banks before we finally found one willing to work with us to buy my wife's grandfather's house so he can retire.

Without all the cash up front, a low-priced house is actually harder to buy than a house you cannot afford. One of the banks literally told me, I qualify for a 5% down payment on a $750k house (roughly $4k/mo payment), but they wouldn't touch a $110k house with 20% down.
If you bought your home as shelter and are going to live in it for the next 30 years then this doesn't affect you. Quite a few people buy starter homes, then upgrade as their family grows. Or have to move due to employment. Or a number of other things that can affect them.
4. Dried leaves are highly flammable.

Had to clear a big pile of dried mixed palm and cordyline leaves, and
decided to burn them. Big mistake. They're full of oils. Be very
careful with that. Annoyingly for the same reason they don't really
rot, so getting rid of them can be a pain.
I'd have thought it was fairly obvious why a pitch about nerds saving the world from the cyberpunk they grew up reading might appeal to nerds! That's why AI safety organisations are often exempted from the expectation of even basic transparency about what they've done with marginal dollars never mind metrics by the very same people that expect less nerdy causes like feeding people to prove their efficiency and need for the funds in granular detail. The application of the "Bayesian" approach involving setting arbitrarily high "priors" for marginal dollars given to people like them saving humanity where the possibility of others can't even be considered looks like post hoc rationalisation (otherwise pretty much every intervention criticised by GiveWell as inefficient use of funds is subject to the "but what if one of the beneficiaries goes on to directly or indirectly save humanity from AGI/climate change/nuclear war" counter argument...)

There's nothing unique to EA in this (people convinced that most aid money is wasted sometimes give to organisations they have some sort of ethnic/political/religious affiliation or people they generally like unconditionally, and sometimes that trust heuristic has even been right!) but it did purport to be the school of altruism that didn't.

As for the Wells analogy, the two most notable uses of AI safety funds seem to be (i) attempting to build AIs and (ii) distributing fiction they believe best illustrates the possibilities of AGI, so I'm not sure I'm altogether off the mark in imagining what well-intentioned utilitarian nerds of the time (Wells certainly was one) might have done with more cash. If you subscribe to the view that I do: that "secretly unite to eliminate humanity" is a fairly non-obvious and risky goal for a class of technologies which evolved self awareness from being rewarded for meeting human needs, then popularising the idea of conflict between human and AI could be more likely to have extremely adverse unintended consequences than intended ones. Popularising the idea that it's the self aware general intelligence that's the dangerous bit about AI, not the intermediate step involving humans having access to immense calculating power whose recommendations they don't really understand seems like something of an existential risk blindspot too.