skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the idea that we have perfect free will already is silly, so much of who we are and what we are allowed to do is environmental or due to circumstance. who cares if some magic dude makes people not want to murder kids when circumstance already makes a bunch of simple things like choosing to be an artist as a career impossible?
Yeah that's the most forgivable part ;). I never understood this particular idiosyncrasy - after all you don't say "it costs dollars three", and you also put other units of measure after the value, e.g. 80 mph, 100 °F, so why on earth does the dollar sign have to go before the amount?
It is just a guess, that tries to explain the observed behavior.
Understanding Longtermism
Just buy a Bluetooth headphone amp and you can use your favourite headphones again. The ones from FiiO are small and pretty good
I understand the cost and complexity of doing so but I think that production loads should be engineered across two or more service providers. That way any incident on a given provider is recoverable without that providers cooperation and you can mitigate against Oracle style lock-in.
Cyber security is a very broad domain. There are roles where your combination of experience would be both interesting and valuable.

You might find it interesting to explore other areas of the domain through the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge [1] or through some activities I’ve been putting together on Cyber Springboard [2]. See which areas might interest you, and then find roles that allow you to grow in those areas.

Moving back to software with security experience can be a good way to keep your skills fresh, but with a different perspective and set of skills that you can use to help grow others around you as well.

[1] https://www.cybok.org/
[2] https://cyberspringboard.com/
Are you passionate about product development within a confines of somebody else' company? Then it's definitely not a common passion.

If, on the other hand, you're passionate about software development and electronics, then it's a very common passion and you have to be in the top 1% to make a living out of your creations. Of course, there are subniches with various degrees of difficulty - it's easier to make money on some technically simple B2B SaaS than on consumer robots for example.
I think you could ask for permission to interrupt. From what I can grasp of the example:

Get attention from the speaker, raising hand or whatever

- "Can I interrupt you for a second?"

- "Yes."

- "I think we all understand most of this... Does everyone understand?"

Look for confirmation from others

- "Could we skip to the next item/solving the problem?"

In the happy path your peers (some of them meeks) are glad someone interrupted the monologue. Of course outcomes will be different all the time. Same with tangents. "I think we have drifted a bit from the topic, or is there a point?" It's easy to get carried away. But being polite there should rarely be an issue.
IMO that should be illegal to sell. Such a missed opportunity.
One thing one can do with a digital camera and some post-processing is to have a character move in the frame; here's one image of France's first lady walking in a public park for example: https://i.imgur.com/sC31sEf.png

Or roller skating in front of the Musée d'Orsay: https://i.imgur.com/2kIlWSK.jpg
This comment is a text book case of projection. Everything written above is 100% true of the comment itself. Critical but without substance. Looks down their nose but not realizing they are lying on their back and actually lookup UP.

The original article and Pinker are quite clear: there are HUGE problems to be solved. Theirs is not a philosophy of complacency, but of hard work. REAL hard work that can actually SUCCEED. Unlike complaining, and unlike just ignoring the problem, and unlike pretending everything is getting worse when we know it isn't.
Sorry for lashing out. I was sick, so I spent the weekend in bed scrolling through HN and it was just getting to me.
How can you write an article on US phone market without explaining the GSM vs CDMA issue?
Ahh, damn. I thought this was from the 90’s. I totally would have believed the U.S. Army would experiment with camels in the 90’s or early 00’s. Kinda like how the Navy was experimenting with dolphins.
I think they do that deliberately.
"Error handling is just expensive code bloat" -- PHB
$2500 is honestly not that much. Google cloud dropped the ball on this and shouldn’t need to be handled with special relationships
It depends on what exactly you're looking for with "small phone"; I don't really care about a few dozen grams more or less, I just want something I can comfortably use it with one hand. There are basically zero serious devices that allow this AFAIK, except a few Android Go things that are very slow and have a support cycle of about 3 days.
This is why I'm still runnung 68.11.0 on Android. The last usable Firefox version.
The Race to the Moon Resumes
I do love it. I really do. I run a free code school for refugees, with an internal division where we also build products. All our teachers are volunteers, professionals from the local tech scene, so I work with hundreds of developers with all kinds of backgrounds and specialisms. It's both meaningful and technically interesting.

I'm the only technical person on staff, worldwide, so it's obviously an insane workload, but it keeps me fizzing with solutions. If I have an idea for something, I can build it and try it - so it keeps my crackpot inventor soul happy.

And it's wonderful to see my trainees flourishing in their lives and all their achievements. We have supported hundreds of people to become developers and restart their lives. It makes it easy to work hard, to do this.
I just tried on my mobile. Chrome is much slower. Firefox is sub second, while chrome was a noticeable wait. I actually checked if I didn't have connection issues and opened a new private tab in Firefox to check.
If you are polite, it works:

alias please='sudo zsh -c "$(fc -ln -1)"' # rerun the last command with sudo (because it failed )

Easier PATH management:

# nicer path configuration and lookup
function path {
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n} | sort
elif [[ "$1" == "--save" ]]; then
path $2 && echo "\npath $2" >> $HOME/.profile
else
if [[ -d "$1" ]] ; then
if [[ -z "$PATH" ]] ; then
export PATH=$1
else
export PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
else
echo "$1 does not exist :("
return 1
fi
fi
}
Ans as all of that is really complicated I suggest everyone to partner with a "Merchant of Record" (MoR) like paddle.com and some more. Basically you are not selling your app or service anymore, paddle.com is doing that. They are doing all these complicated things (globally!) and pay you the price minus some percent, totally worth it.
But with all the cons of Bluetooth (need for charging, high latency, lack of high quality bidirectional audio).
I wonder if some of this might be the effects of long covid...

If workers used to work long hours, but then caught long covid that made them feel exhausted and foggy all the time, they might decide to switch to part time, or shift the focus of their life from work towards family life.

It looks pretty similar to 'burn out'... But would be triggered by disease.
Traveling today so don't have easy access to my bookmarks with that data (is heavily buried in UK govt websites) but here's an analysis of the excess death data that also shows ambulance call outs jump permanently and significantly in April 2021

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/massive-increases-in-exc...

A lot of it is due cardiac reasons. You can also look at when excess death went up in younger age ranges that weren't affected by COVID and see that it starts at the same time the vaccine programme reached them. Hard to explain as lockdowns given they'd been happening for a year by that time.

Edit: Here we go. here's an analysis of deaths by vaccine status for the UK:

https://bartram.substack.com/p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-...

N.b. The way you calculate the population size heavily affects the meaning of this data and the government itself doesn't know what the population is, so there's plenty to debate here, but you can see why the author concludes there should be an investigation. He uses a conservative pop estimate based on official NHS registrations (because the ons estimate is definitely wrong) and plots the graph of the difference by status at the end. So you can set that for everyone under 75 the vaccines appear to be making things worse not better.
> The whole point is that God loves his people enough to save them, the Church will expand, and Christ will return in glory.

ish. It also promises that not even death is an escape, but that God will raise all the dead and judge an enormous majority to be literally thrown into a valley of fire.

Reading the Bible I see more of a threat, than a promise.
The same is true of DigitalOcean, fwiw. Shutting down machines used in production with no notice, outside working hours. I don’t know why these companies don’t care - they’re massively shooting themselves in their feet. Incidents like this turn customers off for life.
Right. Heavily-regulated industries like banking, auto and healthcare are known for being so much better at treating its customers like human beings...
The editor doesn't need to do anything special to avoid mixing tabs and spaces in Python - quite the opposite, the simplest editors (the ones that either preserve or expand all tabs when you save, depending on the setting) will do.
Developing the Redesigned Home and Download Pages
I rescued a couple of ADM-3A terminals from RGIT many many years ago (like 30 or so) and found they contained the optional lowercase ROMs *and* a board with a 6809, a 6845 and a bunch of RAM as well as a few other things to allow it to emulate a Tek 4016 "storage 'scope" terminal.
Having written Elixir code for about a year and coming from Go, I miss static types dearly and specs are not enough. I have to dive into the code to know what I'm working with locally. My largest frustration is all the unhandled errors and exceptions that will not have the required context when they finally crash some process. It is apparently uniodiomatic to capture details in structured logs.
The problem imho is bandwidth. Unless you are iq or similar, creating geometry and textures from thin-air with pure math is just not possible, so you need to load 3d models, which are much heavier than their html/png counterparts.

For individual models, like if you browse sketchfab, it's not such a big deal if the artist optimized things to be "game-ready", but for full environments, it's a problem, especially as audience expectations are influenced by what they see with multi-gigabyte assets on standalone games and simulations.

I don't think this is a complete showstopper, like 10-20 years ago we had the same problem with 2d games and Flash, but as long as the experience was compelling enough and the preloader wasn't completely boring, people waited, but there has been a shift towards wanting things to be instantaneous on the web (e.g. video with adaptive bitrate switching, blurry but instant > sharp but buffered)

Anyway, I guess my point is I don't think it's exactly a technical limitation of programming, as much as a conflict between audience expectations and wait time
What happend on newer versions?
never use google cloud systems for production is a strong statement based on one random incident. CGP customer since launch 2008 (when it was App Engine) and spend around $3k/m on it (Also using AWS and Heroku). Never had a single issue but CS responses vary a lot depending on how you funnel requests.
I somewhat agree in principle. At the same time, the (implied) promise of the big providers like AWS and GCP is to provide everything needed for a reliable service while saving the time for setting it all up yourself. If you need multiple platform providers with fallback logic etc., it is hard to see a scenario in which setting up your own infrastructure would not be more effective.

Perhaps the latter is the more practical solution indeed, though.
When my kid was born I wanted to have a day off with her every week, so I just asked for 36 hours so I could work 4x9. I was so used to working 40 hours I thought the jump to 32 would be too much. How wrong I was haha.. 4x9 with a kid is not doable unless your partner can also be flexible. Asked to go down to 32 hours, was asked if I could hold on for a month since a new engineer was joining and said OK.

The cut in salary is 100% worth it to spend a day with my daughter. I feel happier.
AWS will email you for months and months about billing issues before they terminate anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdaitcha

> All deaths are considered to be the result of evil spirits or spells, usually influenced by an enemy.

wonder if that has something to do with the sleeping on the road thing
How do influencers partner with brands?
The absolute impact of DARPA (nor sending a clown to the moon or ITER) doesn't say anything about whether the money was well spent. Opportunity costs are a thing.

To bring up another example: in our timeline, government-funded militaries were an earlier driver of electronic computing.

But IBM was hot on their heels. Similarly Konrad Zuse was starting to build computers in Germany.

If there hadn't been a war to divert so many resources globally from the private sector into the militaries, these business driven efforts would have started the early computer age at about the same time (perhaps earlier even?). At no cost to the taxpayer.
> Pardon me while I go throw away my custom in-ear headphones I've had for over a decade, or my Ear Hero receiver-in-canal headphones that leave my ears open without pinching my glasses against my head like bone conduction headphones do. Where was I? oh yeah, phones getting designed to death.

Come on. USB-C to headphone jack adapters are $10, and apparently Apple's (which is universal) contains an excellent DAC.
Can I ask how you use Sidebery and Tree Style Tab? I found that they both create a panel on the left side of screen and will stay there forever, which reduces the space for web content. The left panel also makes my small laptop screen look even smaller.
Also had 2008 plasma Panasonic. It felt great. The image quality, amazing sound, the menus, the consistency of interactions (latency on every operation was always the same), the beautiful form factor, the large and high quality remote. It felt like something from the past, when good TVs were expensive and made to look and feel like it.
I practice BLUF (Bottom line up front)[0] for that very reason, and never send bare hello messages.

[0] https://www.animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/
Some of them can change warmth as well (at least on Kobo) which is a cute feature.
Haha good stuff. There are a couple of my friends who'll get a kick out of this (I'm a huge adherent of the CoI).
Hell is other people. Cloud is other people’s computers.
vscode's remote dev is indeed god-tier. I love vscode.
With AWS the problems I heard was your bill getting really really high unexpectedly.
Figma is a browser-based design tool that took the world by storm when it was launched in 2016. Invision was the top prototyping tool in 2017, but was quickly overtaken by Figma with a 50% growth jump in just three years (According to this survey by UXTools: https://uxdesign.cc/the-precipitous-rise-of-figma-and-fall-o...). Figma’s understanding and focus on design and user experience propelled its growth. But when it comes to integration with developers, it is slowly getting there.

In the design to app process, designers will use a design tool like Figma to design what an app will look like, then handoff that design to developers who will implement it and bring it to life. Currently, there is no way for a developer to convert design to code automatically within the Figma software itself. Often, developers will spend hours implementing a design, and often is tedious and extremely frustrating at times. While programming itself can be fun and rewarding, more often than not the tedious aspects of it can be brutal and take away from the enjoyment of seeing an idea spring to life. Which is where tools or plugins like CopyCat come in. Such tools make our lives easy by converting Figma to HTML and help us build products faster. The Figma to HTML tool takes care of the tedious code like spacing, borders, colors, etc. It essentially creates boilerplate code for you to build off of and use your time on more challenging ideas or designs.
To an attempt of reconstructing the idea through available information some months ago, ACeP works through "voltage switch tricks over different sized and charged particles in the microcups".

The so-called "waveforms" that optimize the workings of traditional E-Ink panels, in this case seem to be something like - just inventing some imaginary "recipe" - "a big shock on the cathode followed by a series of short tickles on the anode tends to place the larger sized and strongly negative charged particles above the (etc.)". The producers have also declared that there is a lot of "heuristic attempting" before defining the "waveforms" (as recipes to make a class of pigmented particles go in the right position).
100% agree with you. I've gone through the entire journey of experimenting + building my own authentication to using a reliable open source solution.

Been using this passwordless login recipe by supertokens for my recent projects: https://supertokens.com/docs/passwordless/introduction

Re-inventing the wheel calls for a lot more than usually anticipated. Best to keep it simple - and if you do end up innovating might as well open source it or contribute to an already popular OS solution.
Isn't this type of service supposed to be automated? Why is having a secure service about who you know?
>Sidebery[0] and Tree Style Tab[1] are excellent reasons to stay with Firefox (or any of its derivatives).

I'm using Sideberry (moved from TST) on FF and i think it's good but Edge has great native vertical tabs implementation which doesn't require any "advanced" configuration to make it work.
> My Plaid Tesla has a motor on each of the rear axles

In car terminology you have only one rear axle (which is all of the unsprung weight in the back) and two driveshafts, I think you meant driveshaft (unless you have a six wheel Tesla...).
You can install ad blockers for safari in iOS. For system-wide, I recommend using an adblocking Public DNS server, like AdGuard.
The iPhone SE is the modern version of your device.
Sure, we all know the big bottleneck for EV's is the batteries. But there's a lot of individually tiny things that can be improved to make that battery last longer. Like high-strength steels, aluminum or even composite construction to save weight, aerodynamic improvements, low rolling resistance tires, and yes, light-weight high-efficiency motors like this article talks about.

Could we make do with ye olde three-phase induction motor? Sure, that is an extremely good design, simple and yet pretty high efficiency and with a century-long track record. But if we can make something lighter-weight and with even better efficiency, why shouldn't we do it?
Amusing, but not strange in the least. Pilots sometimes need to remember in incipient emergencies that first, they should fly the plane.

I worked a bit in e-commerce and the first sentence I wrote in every incident response manual was "Does the potentially affected website work?" Because people would forget to check that!
Yeah, I love this list. The best rule is #4:

> Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
Thanks for this. I was checking the billing page recently and was surprised by the 2-3k cost for the support plan. Now I see it’s a % of the monthly spend
Does business interruption insurance cover Google, or is that under the "acts of God" exception?
Even Toyota isn't large enough to influence the market like that, they will have to cave sooner or later if they want to stay in business.
> It means any hobbyist can play around with it

Not in legal terms it doesn't. In the absence of a licence, a copyrighted work may not be distributed in any way. So you could theoretically sue those hobbyists.

Just bite the bullet and pick any of the common licenses. Sounds like you'd want one of CC-*-NC or perhaps AGPL.
London exagerates this. I work on 6 figures and can't afford any savings. I've moved into a boat to pay less rent, can you believe! I don't know how the rest of the population does it on a fourth of my salary.
What if I'm confident that I can convince you my 32 hrs are worth just as much or even more than s.o. else's 40 hrs though?

I as an applicant would also not want to be ruled out only based on that, I would want to have a chance to present my own full offer to you as well.
I don't think that's helpful, because that's just not how licenses work. Please at least add that sentence to the repo then.

Unless your definition of "hobbyist playing around with it" also includes "oh, I accidentally made something useful which uses your code, but now I have to rewrite it because I can't in turn use a useful license".
The profiles situation is probably the biggest papercut for me with Firefox.

I fix it with the extension and then installing the extra software, but it really shouldn't be necessary.

Containers are excellent, but not the same. I would like my work Bitwarden separate from my personal Bitwarden.
VirtualBox worked for that same audience about 10 years ago. It was stupid simple to set up, and had pretty sane defaults. It's only gone downhill since, the last few times I tried, I couldn't even get it to work. I thank Oracle for this.
Ask HN: Is the science depicted in A Thousand Brains, credible?
I have been reading it for the last few days, although it is a very interesting read and as a ML fellow I could agree with some of the points, but I start to wonder to what degree is this research / science credible? Or is it another alternative approach that mainstream neuroscience community do not really consider (Something like The Physics Project by Wolfarm https://www.wolframphysics.org/)

I am asking this as mighty claims has been made and I do not know where can I see something that shows evidence about it. Also, if these claims are true then how come DL community is not more enthusiastic about them? I am really confused actually.
Also: If you're on AWS/GCP and only backup to S3/GCS, you're doing it wrong. All your backups to setup a new system (even if it takes time) need to be with a different provider.
Ahh, the dangers of writing a comment whilst distracted. I meant rather to include the context you need to have yourself; something akin to "you must be this tall to ride", "you need a doctorate in physics to have a chance of understanding this properly".
Fill a tank with nitrogen and cap it with something akin to an explosive bolt. When attitude is favorable, blow the bolt and let nature take its course. Sorry it's late here and I'm just spitballing. Seems feasible though.
One thing that surprised me about silica gel packets:

They absorb water really quickly. I recharged them in the oven (a few hours at 180C), but when they cool down, even 5 minutes in my house and they're saturated again.

If you have accurate scales, you can weigh them to draw a graph of water absorption over time.

So, to properly use them, you need to rapidly move them from the oven to a sealed container. Even 30 seconds out has probably degraded them.
Surely the same argument wouldn't apply to Chrome which is owned by a monopolist megacorp.
All of the relationships I have with suppliers are handled by an account manager at the supplier who I can call to get things sorted out. This is normal.

Why should a business relationship with Google (or any other cloud service) be any different? I don't use GCP but if I was going to start, I would ensure that I have a person to call or its a non-starter.
You work on autopilot at Tesla. You are _the_ demonstration that Tesla's camera based approach is insufficient, has awful deficiencies and is a dangerous product. I wouldn't be saying much if I were you.