skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So universes with (seemingly) deterministic laws of any kind are just extremely rare sub-trees of this wave of ”every possible wavestate”.

Wow!

This is very similar to what I experienced when I accidentally ingested a large amount of psilocybin (and went to ER just in case, it was the most terrifying experience of my life).

This is what I wrote in my notes post the bad trip:

"I felt a disconnection from my self and could see the fabric of existence, that life is an inconceivably large tree of choices that forms the current state of the universe among an infinite amount of universes (for each infinitesimal choice)"

e.g. I "felt" that there is a sibling branch in this tree of choices in which the universe is a slight modification of the current one. But curiously even when my whole personality disassociated from my "self", there was a "foundation" of my consciousness always attached to the current existence, and to it all parts of my personality that form my consciousness (id/superego/whatever) eventually converged once I got back normal.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread" -Anatole France
The US has the strongest deterrence in the history of the world, and it's constantly at war.
An economy that is dependent on continuously increasing population is the mother of all pyramid schemes.
I wear my clothes and shoes almost until they disintegrate. Some of them are more than two decades old, still good. Harder to find quality stuff that lasts nowadays, but it is possible. Wear cotton and leather, avoid plastics. But then again I an very pretty, tall and slim, wearing old worn out black stuff gives me cool punk rocker / oldschool goth look. I know not everyone can pull this off :)
A big chunk the posted article addresses this exact topic: https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Self-Exi...
All modern satellites use multiple narrow spot beams; in Starlink's case each beam is 22 km wide. This allows spectrum to be reused.
You get a link inside Instagram to some website that does not belong to Instagram. It is none of Instagrams business what you do on that website. People do not even realise they are still inside Instagram while logging into their bank account and Instagram keeping a log of some of their activity inside that bank website. It's insane.
I wish this view would gain more currency in the zeitgeist. Who do we grow up idolizing? I can't speak for everyone. Maybe somebody grows up looking at a Bob Ross or Tommy Chong or someone who seems to be happy all the time and thinks that is what they want to be. Not me. I was watching someone like Michael Jordan win over and over again, dominate competition, achieve at the top of his field. Did it make him happy? As far as I could tell, no, but so what? Happiness is incidental to your personal temperament, not the point in itself. The point is to win. Set goals and achieve those goals. Maybe it's a nice afterthought if achieving those goals makes you happy, but just achieving the goals at all is the objective of your actions. It's at best orthogonal and maybe even counterproductive to the extent that being too happy risks making you less driven. The world's greatest winners all seem to hate losing more than they enjoy winning.

Is this really supposed to be a bad thing? The humans in WALL-E all seem pretty happy. The central premise of Brave New World is everyone is happy. Yet these are seen as dystopias. Why? Clearly, humans value other things more than happiness, and these other values have driven us to dominate the world and build civilizations. So why does so much of our self-actualization literature seem to assume happiness is some kind of supreme value and the ultimate goal of all other action? It isn't.
Unfortunately many parents pass on really shrill and tasteless clothes made from cheap synthetic fabric. If you care about esthetics and teaching your children about style and materials, trading clothes becomes much more difficult.

Flea markets turned out to be a much better source for fantastic old clothes, but require more time and at least some money.

However, with three children who inherit their older siblings clothes, many pieces don't survive the third iteration of wear and tear.
My god...you are like the 8th inactive HN user I saw that suddenly springs into action to suggest Brave or post links to Brave

I think we can see whats really going on here. Any chance to drop or mention Brave, after not being active for weeks or months, suddenly congregate to push Brave browser

Dang really needs to do something about this type of astroturfing
When I've shoulder-surfed my managers and PMs for roughly the last ten years, they're all like that: wall-to-wall meetings. Any technical work they do (and here at least, (T)PMs are expected to potentially contribute technical work) is done outside 9-5.

Certainly there are techniques to mitigate this, but I see it, at least.
He picked a charity to help and this is your response?

He won a government contract to with specific deliverables. I'm not sure how he would have any responsibilities beyond those deliverables.
Whoa what? Wasting away life savings of hundreds of people is way worse than regular evil. Why is that on a different level than Facebook or any major corp who are worse because of more power and scope, but still??
Imagine a restaurant that followed your rules (customers are never kicked out unless they do something illegal). Would you eat there? How long do you think it would stay in business?
> Statistically, one could make the argument that there are infinite possibilities of A(nything) and just one of N(othing), so the odds are stacked infinitely high against nothingness.

This reminds me of the classic joke that all probabilities are 50/50. Either a thing happens or it doesn't.
I think that app is intended to measure cellular carriers. To measure wired broadband they used SamKnows routers instead of an app.
Phased arrays and beam steering are pretty magical. Both the satellite and the ground station can aim at each other by using hundreds of antennas as a "lens", providing very efficient use of the spectrum. If I had to guess, I would assume that Starlink's beam size is about 10-50 km in radius.
Yeah, "dont make network requests from the database" is a common antipattern, but it doesn't quite apply with sqlite-http. It's mainly meant for data processing scripts that use SQL, which is typically on a local database file with pretty low risk. You probably wouldn't want/need sqlite-http on a SQLite db that a live application uses, unless you use the no network[0] option

[0] https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-http/blob/main/docs.md#no-n...
When management starts blaming the employees for the lack of direction, it's over. Both FB and Google are as disruptable now as they have ever been. FB's main competition is Telegram, imho. Google has more of an incumbent advantage but less of a strategic vision.
Well we have to square what you're positing with the evidence right now that in the aggregate as their network size increases, the speeds are getting substantially worse over time on average. Lots of explanations for that, but its still the current outcome.

And there are definitely reasonable scaling concerns here. They're using a finite set of frequencies and the laws of physics still apply. Any concurrent transmissions are going to be impacted by both their phy layer modulation strategy, in addition to the mac layer. But we know so little about those layers currently that its hard to comment without being entirely speculative.
>> "Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight."
> I disagree. There are plenty of people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company.

No, the parent is right. Psychological research shows clearly that people don't want to be dead weights. They lose motivation and become burned out for many reasons.

And it's entirely the company responsibility to address the problem.
I worked at a place where the VP of engineering didn't understand anything about engineering nor his department. Lifers who shunned any type of responsibility were given free reign to continue their ways and made sure to spread their attitude to new hires in their teams. The VP promoted a total whack to be the overall architect which came up with one stupid idea after another disrupting all operations. A complete overflowed influx of fresh product managers and mid-level people managers with zero engineering experience created an even worse hierarchical political mess where it was now impossible to give any sort of proper feedback. Orders would come through several layers before it reached some low level grunt without a fancy title who would finally recognize that the orders made absolutely no fucking sense, yet had no way to resist them. Many of the actually talented but overworked doers left. All the problems in this organization lay squarely with the leadership and their inaptitude with regards to engineering. When a nice image of an organization is valued more than actually valuable work, this is what you get.

I've heard similar stories from other places as well, because I went looking, and I really wanted to know if what I had seen was unique. It unfortunately wasn't, although I couldn't find an example as bad as mine. Similar types of stories and situations existed in most places, but not in an as concentrated fashion it seemed.

So when I hear anyone complaining like Zuck or Pichai, I know where to look for the problem. The non-engineer managers who provide no value themselves, don't understand what makes engineering tick, and prevent those that do to get their ideas through, unless they can take credit for them and with low risk. Elon Musk is right on this point. Unfortunately they've already infested themselves so tightly in the fabric of the organization, patting each others backs, that it is impossible to get them out. These same people are now going to be put in charge of throwing the "garbage" out. Ha ha ha.
As someone who is often doing outdoor activities and sports in a very hot, humid area I can't find a good alternative to plastics for clothing. But they last a long time. I have a lot of synthetic workout clothing well over a decade old. I guess not nearly as long as you. :)
Ask HN: How do we save the planet?
Asking for my daughter.

How would you explain the current situation, the outlook and what to effectively do to a little human?
Brain-monitoring tech advances could change the law
The majority of the time the terrorists are our own citizens.

This story is obviously an abuse of the system, but if this stopped natural born citizens who were planning to lock the doors of a busy nightclub and set it on fire it would be doing its job.

But even the system is only partially to blame here. It's really the corrupt employee and lack of oversight that is to blame. The system did allow the corruption to spread to other companies, but even if it was confined to Meta that would still be a lot of damage.
I'm with you - "All models are wrong, but some models are useful".

I do think dark matter is tantalizing because it hints strongly that our model needs a fundamental change in understanding at some other level. It just feels like too much wall paper to be adding to the model in an attempt to cover the holes.

Doesn't mean I find any of the current alternatives more viable then our current models.
Not really; a serious cyclist is someone who depends on and is invested in cycling as a mode of transport, who is not able to meet commitments if their bike breaks down without an real-time remedy.
How is this site generated? Some of the CSS feels like Notion, and I'd love to see a way to use the same thing for note-taking and CMS.
> people who put effort in ... make things worse

Dead weight? Sounds more like friendly antimatter

GP:

> > I have no qualm with those that want to drift around megacorps

For me, that depends on what the company is doing. Let's say it's mobile games or quant trading -- then, slacking at work in a way just gives people more time away from the computer (fewer games to play?). And changes which ones of the rich people, get richer.

Then what does it matter.

Whilst if one is working for a hospital or a stopping-online-manipulation department, then, in such cases, slacking is sad, not good for society, right
I get your point but this is just the StackOverflow stereotype: "Hey I need help doing $thing, any advice or help?" A: "Why would you want to to $thing? Nobody does $thing. My advice is to not do $thing." _Accepted answer_

It's also this fallacy[1]. The topic is disposing of old clothes in a Earth-friendly, hassle-free, and socially good way. Putting up barriers to consumerism further upstream is an entirely different topic.

[1]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679762210753...
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/why-did-people-start-e...

"By the 19th century, people were no longer consuming mummies to cure illness but Victorians were hosting "unwrapping parties" where Egyptian corpses would be unwrapped for entertainment at private parties."
There is no single answer to this question as it is a matter of philosophical and religious debate. Some schools of thought, such as Buddhism, accept the existence of cause and effect, while others, such as some forms of skepticism, deny or question its existence.
Kias/Hyundais are as well.
Bevy's Second Birthday
Quantamagazin actually has an article that seems to fit perfectly into the discussion:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-physics-of-nothing-un...
I would. If there wasn't the teeny bit of SSO that means I can't access any relevant work software on a non endpoint managed machine.

Office? Gitlab? Jira? Confluence? Any code at all? Adobe Experience Cloud? Any Google Service? Adobe Creative Cloud? Our Time and Expenses Tooling?

All locked behind SSO with EPM enforced. Additionally nearly all internal resources are only accessible via VPN. And guess what - only usable on EPM devices.

When I started I received a device, SDD encrypted me being root. After being acquired by big corp we now are in compliance world. Parts of that would have come regardless of big corp due to client requirements.

But a lot of this is quite taxing.
I realise how exhausting it must be to put yourself out there and under the scrutiny of strangers, especially with the need to not leave loose threads and untruths hanging, so I'll try to keep it short and don't expect an answer :)

1. I feel like this is often a miss-understanding between neurotypicals and many neuroatypicals (not limited to autism, but also including disorders with emotional dysregulation, anxiety and others). Neurotypicals often finish each others sentences to signal understanding and engagement, or as a means of implicitly checking if they are still on the same page.

It's a bit like a checksum, a heartbeat package, or a TCP Ack.

"So we should make the cache at least..." - "Three times as large!" - "Yeah or four times for good measure."

For somebody who has trouble reading the intentions of others (as with autism), or who have a tendency to feel judged and controlled (as with anxiety or BPD), this often comes across as a rude interjection.

2. You can't know the aspect. Sometimes it's apparent from context, but most of the time neurotypicals just do a wild guess, and provide some answer. It is up to the other party to clarify, and given that they are the ones with the request, they will probably do so until they receive a satisfying answer.

3. Of course. Nobody expects you to just make stuff up, or have unfounded opinions. But I've noticed a certain tendency of people on the spectrum to vastly prefer forward chaining over backward chaining reasoning, whereas it's the other way around for neurotypicals. The truth I was trying to get at is that often there is no clear answer even if you had all the information available, and even worse often times it doesn't matter. Your company will probably be equally successful with react or elm, because it's other factors that are much more influential for success. With forward chaining reasoning that's a bit of a problem, because you can reach a point where there's no real path forwards. With backwards chaining you can just presume that some missing piece of information will eventually pop up or not matter that much and continue.

It's akin to Goedels first incompleteness theorem paraphrased very roughly: You can either have a system of reasoning that's consistent or one that's complete, but not both. Forward chaining gives you a consistent system, but you will have cases where you can't proceed, whereas backwards chaining allows you to sometimes just assume missing facts to be true, allowing you to take "a leap of faith". Those facts might actually be (unprovably) true or they might lead you to mistakes/inconsistencies.

That's not to say that backwards chaining is superior, forward chaining will allow you to more thoroughly explore the search space for which you _have_ all the facts, and it's a lot less likely to bring you to wrong conclusions.

4. Yeah maybe that is actually a problem that the industry has as a whole, and not specific to neuro(a)typicality. Sadly it's often, strong opinions, strongly held.

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Text based mediums for the win!
I have been using for years. It is quite usable, improves every day and even replaces things like Google of Office365 clouds (in a self-hostable way). I recently installed on a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (first version) and I now use it as a laptop whenever I need a very long battery life or something smaller than my full sized Linux laptop. And, it is a real product, one that is thought to be used.
It is like the difference between a private club and the telephone company.

Should your private club be able to expel neo-Nazis? Absolutely.

Should the telephone company be allowed to disconnect neo-Nazis? That's more iffy. What if they are a monopoly? What if there is an oligopoly, and all the oligopoly firms make the same decision? Neo-Nazis are terrible people, but if we set the precedent that one is allowed to deny them telephone services, will less obviously terrible groups be next?

Maybe we should also let the telephone company disconnect the Islamist violent jihad sympathisers, they are obviously terrible people too. But what happens when some Islamophobe starts stretching the definition of "Islamist violent jihad sympathiser" so that Muslims who have zero sympathy for that get labelled with it anyway? (Yes, the classic "slippery slope argument" – but some slopes really are slippery.)

Some websites, such as "Jay's Cool Community for Elementary School Kids and their Parents", are like a private club. But facebook.com, google.com, etc, they are like the telephone company, not like a private club. Different rules should apply to different kinds of websites.
It's generally agreed that it is totally safe (it solves the crossloading issue). I think we can all stick with the proven safe knots that we are comfortable with, and the fact it makes partner check a bit trickier applies also to the double bowline on a bight. I'm equally happy to triple-check myself and make it clear to my belayers that they are off the hook there.

Here is my pitch for "doppelter bulin" (double bowline on a bight):

Even if by some miracle the ENTIRE retraced half of that knot came undone, you would STILL be tied in with a normal bowline. I do a stopper knot too, but I think that illustrates just how bomber it is. And I only use it for single pitches for lead falls, on multipitches I still simply do a figure 8, because why get fancy?
This is a question I have been giving some thought to. I am certainly not a genius, and I have known many people smarter than I am, but I have cognitive abilities above the average of the population and of my social circle.

But we associate and measure intelligence (think g) with respect, broadly speaking, to abstract problem solving; it is mathematical ability, logical thinking, shape rotation, vocabulary, working memory. In fact, for people who are "smart," but not in the sense we normally associate with that term (e.g., typically not good at math), we use "street smarts." Picasso, who was an artistic genius, is not defined as "intelligent," and we don't say, "Picasso was an artist, why wasn't he happy (assuming he wasn't)?

The idea is that happiness and cognitive ability live in the same space, but why should that be true? All of us have seen many people with low IQs happy, cheerful, satisfied. We might think it's because they don't understand much, and we'd be approaching an important insight.

Why are we surprised that smart people are not as happy as we think they should be (which is not true, as far as the literature tells us), but not that smart people are not more physically fit (if you are so smart, you can't lift weights three times a week on a rational program, can't you use your brain to eat moderately and be satisfied with 2k calories instead of 5k), and not that smart people don't get laid as much as we think they should, since that should be a positively selected trait?
This isn't anything like how a place like Google or Facebook works.

I would guess that the vast majority of developers (I daresay 100% of them) posting on HN would not like to work at a place like that.
Such a beautiful metaphor for the daily standup!
One of the nice things about Logic Pro is that you could keep all your EXS24 instruments across, like, 20+ years of history. I still use Logic Pro with some outbound rack synths like Roland JV units--it's still a damn nice experience working with a Roland JV + a MIDI sequencer, even if it doesn't "sound modern".
I had a coworker who ended up in a similar situation. At one point they were almost literally being paid to do nothing. They eventually stopped even going in to the office all while collecting a pay check. As nice as that sounds, it was still not a great situation because they didn't know how long it would last and figured eventually, without warning, they'd be dropped. They ended up leaving on their own to actually do something and have a more stable job.
what are you suggesting? I didn't recommend Brave to anyone, it's just a comparable example to this issue. You can look up their legal issues and build your own opinion based on that.

And why are you suggesting i'm an "inactive user"?
Remember the Hacker Manifesto: What could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons.

The physical infrastructure of cable is not expensive. The fiber itself costs nothing in bulk. Currently a pair of 1Gbps 20km rated transceivers costs <USD$20 in bulk.

The only things that make installs expensive are: (1) regulation; in particular ingrained antiquated systems of land ownership and associated regulatory capture bullshit by established monopolies; (2) switching infrastructure and associated power, land and security requirements; and (3) one-time installation process costs such as trench digging, termination box installation and cable termination.

Once installed, the cables are unlikely to fail unless aggressively attacked with digging equipment.
Same thing happened to one of my domains. Network solution added the .info domain and I got the same email. Moving all my domains out of NetSol now.
Carnap and Quine both argue that treating metaphysical "existence" as a predicate leads to a number of problems. In particular, they argue that it is not possible to know what exists independently of our own perceptions and experiences. This means that any claims about the existence of things beyond our own experience are necessarily speculative and cannot be known for certain.