skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this pattern quite fits Jaynes. In his book, he suggests that early literary works like the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh were written by bicameral authors. So the transition he posits occurs after the earliest written communications; the discovery of earlier literary works wouldn't necessarily have him revise his date unless those earlier works contained the sort of introspection or subjective consciousness which Jaynes says is present in the Odyssey but not the Iliad.

In his view, bicameral minds can certainly write fiction, but the fiction they write carries some evidence of their bicameralism. It all seems far fetched to me, but I don't know ancient Greek so I can hardly evaluate his claims myself.
Halsey was mediocre but honestly I only think mediocre in comparison to the talent that otherwise surrounded him.
A user on Tutanotaa has clearly set up an AzureAD domain using tutanota.com. I doubt this is a conspiracy.
Dropbox or a google drive are options. Or host a little SFTP for them
Well all the old mysteries aren't really moving forward very much so a new mystery is a lot more exciting. The odds of solving a mystery is most likely inversely proportional to how many people who have attempted to solve it before. There's still a lot we don't know, though.

There are entire fields which are, by their very nature, limited in how much we can learn. Archeology and astronomy are two. Like what's up with the Phaistos Disc?
Total tonnage is all that matters when it comes to how much warming we will get. But when it comes to deciding how to limit the total to under that amount we have to come up with a limit for each country.

Why by country? Because that is how we've split the world up for regulating.

When deciding each country's share of that allowed global tonnage, per capita does matter. Other allocations, such as equal amounts per country, lead to absurd outcomes. Here's a comment giving an example [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31935567
The space between the concept of a recently evolved bicameral mind and the last sentence: “Finally, the concept of a non-unitary Self is presented as one of the most relevant contemporary legacies of the bicameral mind.” should give you a pretty good hint where they end up — quite some distance away.
Perhaps the carbon could be flown to the Moon from Earth, and combined there with the available oxygen and hydrogen to manufacture kevlar. (Not sure about nitrogen; is that available on the Moon?)
Azure Kicked My Butt
A less than epic tale of moving a hybrid-tenant application from AWS to Azure
One possibly obvious one:

Fasting in mice turns on SIRT3 which requires NAD+ and this newly discovered gene SLC25A51 is involved in transporting NAD+ to SIRT3. There's plenty of data that shows mice can live 30% longer when calorie-restricted due to sirtuins being activated..

Anyone who's ever listed to Dr. David Sinclair speak about longevity, he almost always talks about how NAD+ is possibly the most important chemical in the human body, since we'd be "dead in 30 seconds" without it.

Sirtuins are the longevity genes that are activated when organisms are under duress, which can be simulated by fasting. Your body doesn't know when you're going to eat again, so the sirtuins get activated.

I wouldn't be surprised if researchers and labs are looking for ways to activate SLC25A51 chemically to get the NAD+ flowing to SIRT3 without requiring fasting.

You can listen to David Sinclair and Rhonda Patrick get into the details of how all of this works: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/david-sinclair
Using map or array instead of switch-case is a common optimization way, but please do a benchmark if you have no confidence whether you need do or not.

E.g, it doesn't already work in Go, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46789259/map-vs-switch-p...

But if there are too many switch-cases, the codes may be ugly to read, so maybe using a map or array is a better choice here.
yeah well we’ve been waiting for that for about 15 years so any day now …
I don’t remember the Slashdot comments ever being valuable. It was flooded with troll comments, and once you got past the troll comments, there were low-effort jokes, “first”, etc. Dig through the Internet Archive and you’ll see old Slashdot comments in all their glorious mediocrity.

Or search for “gnaa”, but not if you’re on a corporate network.
If you don't know, you've never had one. If you get one, you will know.
Not quite - the javascript engine failed to optimise reasonable situations, so the dude translated to a code structure (arrays of functions) that didn't require optimisation.

Essentially he was forced to manually code what should've been done under the hood anyway.
This is excellent, thanks for sharing. My solver is designed to find every possible solution so that I can evaluate the ratio of "best" solutions to all solutions. A lot of these optimizations are super interesting, but since I'm intentionally going for comprehensive brute force (rather than finding any winning solution as quickly as possible), they're mostly off the table, at least as long as puzzles are randomly generated and I need to filter them based on solution space characteristics like this.

I did realize while reading this that I could get a little more sophisticated by finding out the number of moves in a best solution using an aggressively optimized fast solver. If that number is within a range that's fun to play, say 8-11 moves, then go ahead and find all the rest of the solutions with the maximum brute force. If not, then just scrub the whole thing since I wouldn't use that puzzle anyway.
I feel embarrassed to ask - on this site, how does one read the actual article and not just the abstract?
Lol.. if this is the case they should STFU and go fix their own service and apologize for being hypocrites.

One thing I can't understand is do they just have the one domain? Like almost any good email relay, possibly having more domains to register or a custom domain to register from will fix the issue. This is like being surprised ProtonMail gets blocked when spammers use the service primarily due to anonymity. Duh.. Microsoft Teams doesn't want a bunch of anonymous spammers using their service. Who would have thought?
My experience was seriously different.
I started with Slackware, switched to Arch and after a failed attempt to run some AUR scripts, I was tired and switched to NixOS.

Incidentally, I treat both my Emacs config and my NixOS and home-manager configurations as Igors. They are never really finished. In this sense, the "many months of effort to get to that point" does not matter.
Also, with NixOS I feel I can be bolder than with other distros, knowing with way more accuracy what is breaking my configuration.

> Yes, Docker is an ugly duck compared to Nix, but it brings 90% of the reproducibility benefits and probably everyone on your team can be up and running in hours.

The Docker replit was using before Nix was going hopelessly "uglier": https://blog.replit.com/nix

Also, what Cargo and NPM and `<insert lang here>` lockfile system do for each lang, Nix does in a more general package management level.
Technically speaking, how is signing up with a Tutanota email different than signing up with another email? What does an email address actually reveal to Microsoft which they can use for tracking users?
not a terribly significant dent, considering their pre tax profit is in the billions https://www.experianplc.com/media/latest-news/2022/full-year...
They didn't specify whether they meant nominal or real wages, and their main point was that fuel and groceries were becoming less affordable.
> There is a huge price spread on nearly-identical products because people don't have enough information to determine which of the various supposedly equivalent products available are more reliable, efficient, safe, etc. and this is reflected in people spending more than necessary.

Information about a product is part of the whole package. It's ok that people pay extra for it.

You even get effects like what you describe in some of the most efficient markets. Eg aluminum that's traded on the exchanges often sells for a different price than over-the-counter deals. See https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-11-20/the-go...

That doesn't mean that the market for aluminum is not 'efficient'. It's just a bit weirder than a naive look at the physical properties of the ostensible good, aluminum, would let you to believe.

Basically your critique says 'there's this subset of physical properties that is the same for two products, but they sell for different prices; hence the market must be inefficient'. But products aren't always made up of their physical properties alone.

Eg suppose I have a business selling sheets of paper with the winning lottery numbers of five years in the future. This is a product with a lot of information asymmetry: you can only judge its quality five years after buying it. To make it more extreme, assume that my predictive powers aren't quite so awesome: I can't divine guaranteed winners, I merely manage to produce lottery numbers that are a thousand times more likely to win than your average number. Still a useful product, but even harder to judge by individual customers.

Now a competitor springs up who sells the same sheets of paper with numbers printed on them. It's just that my competitor's numbers are no better than chance.

The physical properties of the paper and ink are exactly the same. They even use the same font. A lab couldn't tell them apart.

Would you insist that both suppliers' products should sell for the same price?

Now assume that I don't even print my own sheets: I just buy them in bulk from the other supplier, but I only resell the sheets that have the increased chances.

Now the sheets really are identical, and the only difference is my reputation for quality.

I hold that an efficient market will have different prices for this ostensibly identical goods.

> If, in fact, a particular brand was consistently more reliable than others but priced at a premium then with perfect information everyone would know this and a new manufacturer could introduce a similarly-reliable product at a price point within the spread and everyone would buy that instead.

Yes, that strategy is available even with imperfect information. And we often see that in the market, see https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184207/was-the-jok... for an example from popular culture.
Why not just get a regular credit card and just... don't spend more than you earn? I get there are people with control issues that can't help themselves, but calling credit cards in general "financial vampirism" is like calling 750ml liqor bottles "sobriety vampirism"[1] because it's possible to drink yourself to death with one bottle and some people can't help themselves.

[1] okay not the best phrasing but you get the idea
Message size and format restraints imposed by the email security layers have caused me issues sending and receiving candidate deliverables in the past.

Email is not secure anyway, if OP is so paranoid about exposing an IP surely s/he will want some more dedicated data transfer option
The criticism highlighted in the article looks more like hate than criticism, to me.
Kids today and their "analysis of history from the present perspective". Sheesh!
Well, unfortunately, it does. And there are worse things than whisky.
But knowing how the JIT deoptimizes is a good thing for anyone programming perf-sensitive code for that JIT. Even developing a sense of where branchy logic might deopt is a good thing, even if your code might not be perf-sensitive but could be called in a perf-sensitive call stack, because it’ll give you a good heuristic for when optimization is premature. Optimizing for the JIT isn’t and shouldn’t be a guiding principle for every dev, but it’s harmless or good for us to be aware.
This is one of those gotcha that trap senior devs way more than junior devs. Growing up with C being my first language, I intuitively associate switch with a jmp table (ie extremely fast). Even though I knew it’s unlikely to be as performant in JS, it never occurred to me that it would actually be slow, until I did a deep dive into low level JS optimization.

Related: Matt Godbolt’s talk on emulating 6502 in JS. He also mentions the poor performance of switch for opcodes: https://youtu.be/7WuRq-Wmw5o
I have a short tuta.io address that always gets odd looks when I spell it out to people, who tend to react weirdly when not hearing a major domain when typing in an email address.

Anecdote aside, I've had several people not receive my emails at all, some I've been able to actually test, using Tutanota for outbound messages. I've created or helped create Teams accounts for others several times in the past and have never run into anything like this with any other provider. Microsoft is setting a precedent by singling out one provider. I hope it's not a sign of things to come. Virtually all email is de-facto controlled by a Microsoft/Google duopoly.

I looked into running a personal email server on a home machine once and was put off by how many people told me my messages would be undelivered without numerous hoops to jump through.

What a mess.
Could you set up a "evaluation" repo under your organization for each candidate, and just and hand out temporary credentials whenever you want to give a takehome?
The project you linked to is erlang, not elang as referenced above.
Online fraud is rampant across major platforms. Companies lack the resources and immediate financial incentives to combat it. Google Maps is another good example. I live in Vietnam and businesses stealing another business' unclaimed listings is common practice, or claiming the listing for a public landmark and using it to advertise their tour company for example. Then there's fake reviews... These platforms simply can't combat fraud at scale, undermining trust.
It probably varies by state.
Yes, I refuse unpaid “homework” for a job I don’t work at regardless of how it’s couched.

The more folks who put up with this nonsense the more pervasive it becomes.
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While it may seem like it to, say, alcoholics, a 750ml bottle won't literally call you and try to entice you to consume more if you have it and are moderating your consumption.

So that's a difference.
Would “Super AI” lead to the end of life on Earth? It's not a stupid question
Just recently I wrote about this book on my dissertation. I was thinking about Socrates and his daemon, and that reminded me Jaynes' theory.

His is a fascinating book. I read it a long time ago, so I'm missing most details. But I remember how thrilled I was upon reading it, for how much it drove me to think outside the box.

I still find it fascinating, a mixture of 'this can't be right', and, at the same time, 'makes so much sense'. As I have no dog on this race, I really don't care what is the right answer. I will still recommend Jaynes' book in a heartbeat to anyone interested in the topic of consciousness and its history.
2006, to be accurate.

https://researchr.org/publication/Dolstra2006

More recently there is an attempt to run Nickel as a successor for Nix:
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-10-22-nickel-open-sourcing/
Oh I don’t know, the emacs ecosystem seems pretty healthy to me.

The thing is that the “accessible” environments like VSCode are getting really good. Ten or twenty years ago you couldn’t really move serious code around fast without knowing vi or emacs (ideally both).

emacs is still mandatory if you want to go crazy fast, but the people who reply “challenge accepted” always seem to find their way to it.

I recommend getting crazy fast for a number of reasons (separate conversation), but it’s no longer obvious that the non-emacs/non-vi folks are handicapping themselves gratuitously.
You can typically insert into a skiplist in parallel with better performance than inserting into a balanced BST in parallel. So you may prefer a skiplist for concurrent write-heavy loads.
A dev/sales combo is great for many products! I’d be a bit concerned that a PM in a dev/PM team wouldn’t have much to do, though.
> [...] there still seems to be cases of doing the legal minimum even when it's not enough to be safe.

But even more cases of companies going above and beyond the legal minimum, and customers who care will buy from those companies.

Eg it's perfectly legal to sell furniture with drawers that can catch and hurt the fingers of toddlers. But it's also perfectly possible to buy furniture that doesn't have this problem. (You can also buy kits to retrofit some of that protection.) Similarly for sharp corners on tables.

Are you suggesting that the wide availability of tables with sharp corners is a problem? That we need regulation to ban sharp corners on furniture?

Is the availability of tables that go beyond the legal minimum safety a problem for your world view?
Tell HN: Pinebook Pro is a $219 brick
Just got my Pinebook Pro, installed the default Manjaro Plasma (you can't get that wrong), after reboot, I was asked to apply updates. I did and after a reboot the machine is completely bricked. Many people on Reddit share the same experience! I wish I've search Reddit before throwing $260 down the drain!
>diminishing returns especially due to it working faster than the speed of my RAM (2667MT/s * 8 = ~21 GB/s).

That sounds kinda slow; Is there only 1 DIMM in the slots? I remember benchmarking 40GiB/s read speed on an older system that had 2 dual-rank DIMMs (4 ranks in total).

I'd expect 3200mbit/s*(64 data lines)*(2 memory channels) = ~48 GiB/s on a typical DDR4 desktop and a lot more with overclocked ram.

Great writeup either way.
I'm surprised this blog is written by an academic economist. There's no data, and no citations, mostly amateur philosophy.
Yeah but "hundreds of millions" can buy a lot of cybersecurity consultants. The shoplifting loss from a single store probably doesn't make much of a dent in a S&P 500 retailer's profit either, but they still spend money on loss prevention because it saves money on net.
Might be they push 20 kW out to the grid after subtracting off what they use. A grocery store burns a hell of a lot of power on refrigeration.
I think charging appropriately for shipping and returns would help.

For non-specialty items, I'd suggest brick and mortar is better.

The challenge when we think about 3 pairs in order to keep 1, is that it isn't just the shipping on the 3 pairs, or 5 pairs of shoes shipped total.

The extra 2 pair take up extra space on each delivery van, each way. You reach a point where many people take this approach, and the company needs to be sending out 5 times as many vans to your neighborhood. That's just the end of line delivery as well.

I don't know enough about stock and warehouse, landfill, etc, but these things do add up.

We all need to be aware of the externalities and issues this cause, aside from just directly on the business profits/costs.

Unfortunately, because this has become common practice, the attitude seems to be "everyone else is doing it, so..."
It’s hard to tell. It’s a single angle so it’s kind of hard to tell what it could be. If they had multiple angles and some closer ups, we might be able to guess better. As it is it’s hard to tell if it’s something protruding with shadows or or the opposite like slits or holes in the surface.
I took that as an "obvious exaggeration", but it felt pretty out-of-place.
The t-shop is exceptionally quick at taking you somewhere random, which I amusingly discovered several hours into my first character. IIRC the player run rescue service managed to get me back to AM.
I went to that museum (U.S.A.F. museum in Dayton, OH). If you like warplanes, I highly recommend it. It's an incredible value for your money, and you get to be up close and personal with tons of amazing planes (SR-71, YF-23, B-52, etc.) You definitely want to give yourself two days.
"By knowing consumers so well, Big Tech can place ads at the right moment and at the right price. For every major turn in life, the appropriate ad will appear. Say, you are invited to a baby shower. Ultimately you will be bombarded with ads for baby’s clothes and toys, but maybe a handmade gift would be much more suitable?"

What the hell am I reading?
These are clearly holes left by creatures living deep within the Earth, beginning to investigate their cosmos. They have not yet found the surface, but that day is coming. Oh, yes. Someday they will arise. We should all prepare ourselves.
But since, once you spent the $10, they are now somebody else’s income, namely for the person/company you bought from. Which means that now, by simply summing everyone’s incomes, you have an accurate count of GDP, without ever considering how individuals spend their money.
I think the main problem of contention is, confusion about personal income v. national income, the latter of which includes institutions and is the one being used for GDP calculations. Money cannot be spent without being received by anyone, and the moment it is, GDP goes up in the country it’s received in.
As I said, you can make a version of Python that uses s-expressions without changing anything else about the language. You can even give that same treatment to C! Python is also perfectly capable of manipulating s-expressions at runtime. (It's much more of a hassle in C. But that's because almost everything is more of a hassle in C.)

Homoiconicity is fun, but it's not a very deep property of your favourite language.

See https://github.com/eratosthenesia/lispc for someone making a C with s-expression syntax.
There are some relevant effects of UV on these semiconductor sunscreens to consider. For example:

It is generally agreed that UV absorption excites an electron from the valence band to the conduction band of the semiconductor. The resulting excited electrons, in the otherwise empty conduction band, and the “positive holes” in the valence band allow charge transfer to the TiO2 surface which facilitates oxidation of surrounding molecules. Sometimes direct charge-transfer causes the oxidation.

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/11/18192/htm

Some questions which stem from this finding include: what is being oxidized on the skin in its immediate vicinity when UV makes contact with the semiconductor sunscreen? What are the implications?

Is there any performance difference between nanoparticle sizes?