skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. I pretty much agree with most of the political and economic points, but one thing that’s palpably absent is an analysis of the structural patterns and habits inherently imposed by technologies, beyond their ties to the political economy.

So many of the systems and technologies for discourse we engage with have reduced the amount of content presented on a given topic at a given time down to the smallest micron possible. Even this “essay” is just a list of bullet points, each of which alone is a thesis that’s probably worth significant reflection and elaboration, but that’s simply not the dominant modality anymore. We’ve come to expect, and only make room for, bite-sized discourse. This helps ensure we remain in our internet bubbles and never develop the critical stances and motivations necessary to drive toward change because we don't make room for the complexities and nuances that inevitably arise when exploring any topic seriously.

The technologies we use to engage in discourse today establish patterns that are anti-discourse. They only support a vapid form of commentary, “takes”, reactions, but hardly discourse. Twitter has an extremely compressed character limit. Facebook is limited to similar snippets of information. Tiktok and Instagram reduce discourse to series of images with at most small snippets of text. Furthermore, there is no “program” as there was with television—we’re completely free to sporadically jump between a thousand different topics at will, ensuring the 21stcentury schizoidization of our brains really takes hold.
You’re assuming that most road damage comes from passenger cars. In fact most road damage comes from large semis weighing 20,000+ pounds. The worst roads are almost always freight corrridors
It's possible you could sell it, and still work on it as an employee/product manager at cypress... So both could be true.
Depends what you pay for.
This strikes at the common "just build your own" meme / rebuttal to everyone that complains about well anthing by big tech these days

Open Source software, like social media and most other human endeavors has a network effect to it, that is why these companies want to control the users and do not embrace open protocols,

This idea of "well just run your own git server" is fine, i do that, but if I want to have a SUCCESSFUL, and POPULAR open source project today, it almost has to be on github at this point, the idea that I would get 100's or even 10's of people to commit, used, interact with my project on a random site running gitea is just not realistic

That is the point and desire of EEE, I am not sure why people do not understand this, why people refuse to think about the network effect, etc
You’re blaming your previous colleagues for management apathy/incompetency and your own choice to not have left sooner. I have sympathy as someone previously in on call rotations, but I’m also sufficiently experienced to know to get out at the first sign of boundaries violations (7 weeks!?).

Take better care of yourself going forward, no one else will. That is what the message is, self care over a nebulous business.
Most recently, Python 3.11 changed syntax to allow for variadic generics:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/#grammar-changes

The other case that I remember off the top of my head is Python 3.6 adding annotations for variables that aren't created via function definitions:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0526/
What's the appropriate user agents to disallow if you want to let search engines in, but not ML training crawlers?
nah, there are tons of non-FAANG languages which don't try to redefine common terms and clearly explain their advantages. They get much better reception.

(D and Nim immediately come to mind)
You can also favorite comments if you click on the timestamp.

I have 1785 favorited submissions over the 5 years since I found the feature; I really need to capture all of them and their links, would be a shame to lose all of that information if HN goes away.
Seems like BITCOIN has crashed to very low values recently as well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harrypotterobamasonic10...
If you are not offering something in exchange for money (i.e., you are not a company) in your website/blog then you don’t need an impressum. Obviously, if you are a legal company, then anyone can Google your company to figure out who’s the founder, so in this case adding an impressum to the company’s website doesn’t expose more private information that is not already exposed publicly.
Meta most definitely is a hardware company - Oculus (selling lots), Portal (not so much), etc. It's obviously not their biggest source of revenue, but denying its existence is ... weird.
Or just use more trains and streetcars.
Comically bad, actually laughing here XD
“Think about it this way,” says Dr. Zakaria Neemeh, a philosopher from the University of Memphis, “when I feel happiness, my brain will create a distinctive pattern of complex neural activity. This neural pattern will perfectly correlate with my conscious feeling of happiness, but it is not my actual feeling. It is just a neural pattern that represents my happiness. That’s why a scientist looking at my brain and seeing this pattern should ask me what I feel, because the pattern is not the feeling itself, just a representation of it.”

As a result, we can’t

I’m not a professional philosopher, but I think that if you replace “when I feel happiness, my brain will …” with “when my brain …, I feel happiness” then the conclusion changes. How they came up with this prerequisite is unclear.
That will only lead to dubious constructs with shell corporations etc.
Zoom lets you draw on screen or allow remote control which is not possible with a webapp.
> In that case do not do a Ph.d in math at all. Do it within an engineering department instead, much more funding and you get paid accordingly.

The math I listed can be one heck of an advantage in doing research in engineering and other fields. First, get to apply math known poorly or not at all in the other fields. Second, get to do some research in math that in a math department does not look significant but still is regarded as significant for what it does for the problem selected from the other field.
> One wonders why!

I would actually wonder why, since from what I hear, what you describe is the standard tactic for police. It gets confessions, so they do it.
I have a /24 I registered back in the 90's. There's no maintenance fee because it's a legacy block.
That is odd. Within the docker container, I agree, you probably shouldn't do that. Esp. since Dockerfiles themselves allow you to run a list of shell commands as your entrypoint.
> Code is free speech though.

not morally, ethically, or legally
Right, because its a brand new model that I created, one that has never existed, or even been imagined before:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_weal...
They still do. Just now it's European and Japanese companies with American factories.
Hm, the only Alice in Wonderland themed CS book I recall, is "Foundations of Databases" which has sections on datalog:

http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/
I think the point you’re making is that he used violence to coerce the bank.

To OP’s point, he was only asking for his own money back, whereas a robbery is trying to take someone else’s money. I guess it all depends on the bank agreement and procedures during a bank run or a default. Sure, you get a statement that says you’re credited with $210k, but you don’t actually own that much money anymore if the bank lost some of it and can’t pay everyone their full balance.
By what system would you ensure that people only eat locally grown food, though?
It's really hard, right?

Courts have held that schools have a lower threshold to justify a search, due to the need to maintain a safe environment that is conducive to learning.

Schools don't really want to be involved in the outside-school life of their students. But what happens on phones, etc, between students outside school hours absolutely affects the learning environment and how events at school should be interpreted.
I find podcasts a terrible format for anything technical, where I want to be able to read tangential material as necessary.

But I’ve had a few long drives recently and have been the sort of pop-infotainment genre. 99% invisible and various podcasts highlighted on there
That is the whole point of “printing money”. It takes value away from the money in bank accounts. It is used to forcibly redistribute money into the economy during a down turn when people would rather not spend it. If you have 100 “pie tokens” and then create an extra 900, there’s still only a single pie to go around.

Of course this targets middle class and poor people because the rich don’t keep money in a bank, they keep it in assets. At least, not enough to materially affect them.
> Most weekends rather than recharging for the rest of the week, I end up more tired than I started.

As a parent, it's hard to remember that ending a weekend "recharged" is a common experience.
Probably it is an answer. People gravitate to a distro offering them docs in their preferred style. And some of these people contribute to docs later in their preferred style. This process becomes self-enforcing at some point: the style is refined, the knowledge base grows, the community matures... It doesn't happen overnight, so it didn't happened in 90s.

And one more reason for a late arrival: in 90s there were less people on Linux, they were not able to create all kinds of knowledge bases, so they resorted to a more achievable project of creating HOWTOs, which was meant to be good enough for everyone.
> The California Energy Commission estimates the sea [Salton Sea] might produce 600k metric tons of lithium carbonate per year.

> The land under the lake is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government – mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians.

Should be interesting over the next 10-20 years as battery production increases and efforts are made to secure reliable sources of lithium.

Hopefully, this results in an actual remediation of one of California's worst environmental disasters and not a repeat of the environmental problems caused by uranium mining on Navajo land in northeast AZ and northwest NM during the Cold War.
They in fact can if enough of the bits are lifted. Whether they win is a different and not totally clear question.
Nuclear is reliable to a fault. It is rock solid. But it doesn't "go up" very fast - that is where you need gas support. Which is quite different from solar and wind, where you can't predict the ups and downs
Since the tape prevents leakage, isn't it in contact with the water flow by definition?
Paul Morphy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy

> Returning to New Orleans in late 1859 at the age of 22, he retired from active chess competition to begin his law career. Morphy never established a successful law practice and ultimately lived a life of idleness, living on his family's fortune. Despite appeals from his admirers, Morphy never returned to the game, and died in 1884 from a stroke at the age of 47.
He continued to be a very highly paid contractor. The last time
I communicated with him was many years ago. He had married another friend of mine, and they relocated overseas. He was doing contract programming for high performance network hardware back then.
The exact limits of a public school's authority to search mobile devices, to handle events that have partially occurred outside school, has not been established.

Here's a nice summary:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1159120.pdf
By that logic any bad thing could happen anywhere at anytime. Which is technically possible, but not plausible.
I quite liked The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist (1982), by Jacques Vallee. Readable for free here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC
No one in San Francisco calls it "San Fran" - it's "the City"
I understand why it might for you and your own values, but why should that sound alarm bells for others who might see things differently?

Imagine that you're one of these patients. If you're looking at the last poor years of your life anyway, and it turns out that you see they'll be spent in the shadow of a global pandemic and economic crisis, it's sensible that you might want to just turn out the lights and go to bed already.

Making that choice on their own terms isn't something that people do flippantly; instead of assuming we know what the right answer should be for them, isn't it more humble and respectful to assume they made a sound choice and then draw insight from how they were able to do so?
Ones and Tooze - shortish weekly podcast about world events and economics, with Adam Tooze

The Inquiry, The Briefing Room, and Analysis - BBC podcasts about current events

Revolutions - great series which has had its final ever episode, but as a history podcast it’s not going to become out of date.
https://archive.md/GeG7v
The "Grokking _" series by Manning is also along similar lines.
Please prove me wrong with more than the word “meme”.
You could always be incredibly racist. AI devs don't want another " we trained an AI on reddit and it is a Nazi now." Headline.

Not that that's practical or going to help your blog in any way, might as well not write anything at that point, but yeah.
In buses, the problem is so severe that there are some EV buses shipping with fossil fuel heat for cold climates.
> Is unrestricted free trade

I have never met two people who can agree on how this would actually work. Just some basic questions:

Is there still government controlled currency and interest rate? If not, how is the money supply in the economy managed? Am I allowed to print my own currency?

Is there intellectual property?
If there are no trademarks, there is no such thing as counterfeit goods, so I can produce a laptop and call it macbook.

Does that mean Cartels are allowed? Is market manipulation allowed? Presumably unrestricted trade means I can run pyramid schemes and call them banks?

What happens if the seller lied about the product?

Is there adverse possession of property and planning permission? If not, can I dig down or build up as far as I want? What if I block sunlight to your solar panels on purpose?

Can I sell my kidney? If yes, can I trade in someome else's kidneys?

Can I give out loans with crazy interest rates? If yes, you just legalised debt bondage, a form of slavery.

Is there bancrupsy?

Are there air rights and rights over electromagnetic spectrum?

Any conceivable set of anwers to these question amount to rules and regulation. You can't actually function in anarchy
I don't think this is intended to force you to do things their way. I think they wanted to let you move the map with only one finger, but when they tried to implement that, they ran into some sort of problem, so they had to do this instead.
That all depends on the amount of lobbying going on.
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape.

Lots of other great podcasts have already been mentioned, such as BBC In Our Time, Darknet Diaries and On the Metal.
Notes on Amazon's DynamoDB Usenix ATC'22 Paper
So, use multiple filters in series, I suppose.
You really think they don't already use cooling towers ?
This is the correct response. Unfortunately it's my concern that rather than work to fix the underlying issue or learn to live with it, we'll continue to get FUD spread by people like OP. Ultimately this will lead to people going out and buying knockoff chargers with a 3rd pin and none of these EM filtering or other safety components.

I've seen this for at least 10 years come up again and again, Apple should just sell an India edition Macbook with either a plastic case or a sleeve to avoid people complaining since there's no interest in addressing the cause.
> It is true that building an EV in the first place does embody more carbon

Also, is this true for building a new EV vs building a new ICE car? People just regularly replace their cars and vehicles, and in that sense the transition need not necessitate any more carbon than would've otherwise happened.
Yes, we understand. Many of us understood ~6 messages ago. Some of us understood even before that. Anyhow, the horse is very much dead.
> I Watched An 857-Hour Movie To Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes

International trade is not the same thing as capitalism. International trade existed before capitalism, and if capitalism disappeared tomorrow, short of everyone simultaneously adopting anarcho-primitivism, we would still have trade between nations.
Human computers have been a thing before electronic computers. It was an occupation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
Does robots.txt not fulfill this requirement? It’s the same problem as web search. Google builds a derivative work (a mapping from queries to pages) by scraping the web with opt-out consent.
Aha, but you have one out. You could burn the trademark and lock it up for 10 years, and potentially, let all IP owners from the time of infraction causing the corporate death sentence go fallow (so any company that acquired such IP after the infraction would have a worthless piece of paper).
What democracy exists in the US? You don't vote for your president. The preferences of the American public have a statistically insignificant effect on which legislative policies get passed. Popular suffrage has existed in the country for ~50 years since indigenous women got the vote. Do I even have to get into what total lack of privacy we enjoy in the "free world"? Come on.

I'm tired of Americans comparing anything bad to their geopolitical enemies, especially when Putin was backed by the CIA and MI6 as a useful wedge against communism. You don't get to fuck up the entire world with aggressive state interventions and then act like you're some bastion of democracy. Ask a Chilean what they think about US democracy. Or really anyone for that matter.
Recently got into The Adam Friedland Show, an excellent center-left podcast with commentary on current events, history, media, and art.
Tricks of the MS-DOS masters.

Might qualify as quirky.

Felt like I was really learning some important arcane knowledge reading this and testing out the commands in grade school.

At the time of purchase, the computer shop owner suggested I was wasting my time because computers would be programming themselves in ten years, or something like that.
To be fair, if a system that allows anyone in the world at any time to enjoy a banana is unsustainable in a way that may cause human civilisation to end due to our environment collapsing, then perhaps we need to look into finding a different system. However I’m pretty sure that making human beings sacrifice short-term benefits for long-term sustainability, at scale, is almost impossible.
I listen to a lot of podcast episodes (over 5,000 in the past 5 years [1]), but I don’t subscribe to podcasts.

The way I listen to podcasts is similar to how I consume web contents:

Search by topics/people, and Find podcast episodes to listen, then move on, not subscribing to podcasts.
Search by topics/people, and Find web pages to read, then move on, not bookmarking websites.

For podcast recommendations, I’d suggest focusing on topics/people that you’d like to learn more. You can search and find individual episodes [2]. At this moment, there are at least 140,000,000 podcast episodes [3] - vs there were 25,000,000 web pages indexed by google in 1998 [4]

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/wenbin-fangs-podcast-p...

[2] https://www.listennotes.com/

[3] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

[4] https://www.thinglink.com/scene/452856351543001090
Hackaday: Swarm vs. Iridium: Which Satellite IoT Service Is Right for You?
Rather interesting article comparing the rather awesome Swarm IoT system versus Iridium.
Not really. Very few people will remember you and they will die too. So don’t worry too much about what “matters” or your legacy. Do what makes you happy.
The summary doesn't really explain everything and the actual paper [1] is gargantuan and filled with math I don't understand as well as questionable assumptions (to me). That said, I think it can be summarized as, "Everyone's brain runs it's own operating system." Observing the pattern of neurons doesn't tell you what that pattern means within the context of an individual's brain. Like seeing just a list of bytes and not knowing what CPU or OS it's meant to run on.

The paper goes on and on about relativity and observers, but I think that's the gist of it. And it makes sense, and seems applicable to Machine Learning. If you train an ML algorithm on two slightly different sets of data (equivalent to our life experiences), the generated models could provide very similar results when queried, but the underlying structure of the two models will be wildly different. In fact, we have trouble understanding how and why some models produce the results they do, and backtracking through the model is like trying to find the original string after it's been hashed. Though there are Explainable AI methods, it's basically impossible to trace the step-by-step decision tree all the way to the source.

My guess is that the human brain is a giant learning algorithm, with some guaranteed universal data inputs such as the biological makeup of our brains and physical phenomenon like the force of gravity. But we input an innumerable number of unique experiences as well. So even though we can observe the various neuron connections objectively, we have no idea what that particular pattern means in the context of that person's brain model. I'd bet that any similarities in neuron patterns we've observed to date probably stem from the fact that we all share equivalent sensory inputs.

Hmm. So, if this is true, in theory if we figure out the fundamental human learning algorithm, in the future we could implant a chip into a fetus to record every sensory input (and monitor the brain for the result of any quantum randomness that pops up), and then re-create your consciousness perfectly later in life. Just a thought.

1. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.7042...
I have found that with age it became easier to learn and just as easier to forget details of what you have learned.
Wow, Off The Hook is still on? I listened like 25 years ago. Is it still good?
Great article.

It goes together very well with the idea of purity spirals (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315237)
California Efforts to Reduce Jail Pop. During Covid Come to End as Crime Rises
specifically, hybrids that have at least 20 miles of range and are plug in. this is an amount that allows the majority of commutes to be fully electric.
ML models learn very differently from humans; take very different pieces of information away from what they process.

ML is effectively parroting bits and pieces of what it's trained on back based solely on the input - this has quite clearly been demonstrated by Github's CoPilot software. This is different from a person who has internalized a lesson and writes code not only based on the input, but their own existing knowledge beyond the glyphs and their order that they've read.

Perhaps once we move beyond this parroting, we can revisit the ethics of free-for-all ML modeling. It's more plagiarism than free use in its current state.
Similarly, Tenuki in Go is to ignore and not respond to the last move and instead initiate play elsewhere.

I saw a Go comic strip where the best move was to leave the board and do something else.
I wish that we had a planetary mass driver to launch you into the sun. Then maybe I would buy some ads to share the great news of your departure from our plane of existence.
> Isn't that basically saying that surviving needn't be in a definition of 'human right'?

Yes, because "surviving" isn't a human right. It's something we, as a society, should do our best to make sure everyone is able to do, but that's not the same as saying it's a human right. If it was, then "not having a heart attack" would be a human right, which is clearly ridiculous.