skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we wake up every morning, this is a wide range of options available to us, and we only see a tiny sliver of them.

When we do the same thing we did yesterday, we will see that option more clearly tomorrow, and other options less clearly. Our agency narrows.

When our options have narrowed too much, it can be hard to get unstuck. Hard to get out of the rut. Wake up, go to work, consume content, go to bed. Every day. Sometimes we might dream of other options, but they don't seem attainable, they're just too distant.

I think the only way to expand your options is to actually do new things. The new thing becomes more salient, and the next day you might see more than one option. Build up more ways to be.

Some activities are worse than others about further narrowing your options, and some can help expand your options beyond just becoming more salient themselves.

Scrolling endless content never lets me get bored, never lets me think of something else to do, and doing something else is always a bit harder than continuing to scroll. There's a clear similarity to drug addiction, where options narrow until to just doing that drug all the time, and being wasted on the drug doesn't do anything to expand your options.

Going for a run expands my options. I get a bit bored on the run, and my mind can wander. I can reflect, and may choose to do something new tomorrow. Journaling expands my options. Practicing gratitude can expand my options. Meditating can expand my options. Talking to a therapist can expand my options. All that mental health stuff shares something in common here, it lets me break the cycle of narrowing options and narrowing agency, and instead widen my options a little.
The war is affecting my friends. My friends and family are all entering different stages of their life. It's been hard to meet new people. Office friends are even more removed and many moved away because of covid and work from home. I see how expensive my grocery bill has gotten every other weekend.

Phones and technology are some of the only escapes left.

This is bad advice, even worse than saying use the phone more because it's dismissive of the larger issues I am facing in life. The phone isn't the thing doing the killing, it's the governments of countries like Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. There's are good and bad guys in war, but both countries experience a loss in souls.

That's also not how dopamine works.
> "convert a word problem into an equation"

Isn't this a huge step? It's not a minor detail remaining to be solved, but possibly the largest step!
+1 for "Get off your phone."

Mine fell in the water months ago and changed my life. Now when I close the computer and walk out the door I'm completely unplugged for a few hours (FitBit for health though of course).
anybody else let down from the video? there was no just simple observer perspective in real time. maybe because it would have been funny going really fast for 20 meters.
> Not much faster land vehicles than those.

Top fuels top out around 350 mph. The land speed record is 760 (manned, for unmanned it's a rocket sled exceeding mach 8).

The land speed record has been above 350 since 1938: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railton_Special

There are in fact a fair number of much faster land vehicles.
I imagine tomshardware has to "play nice" so they get free demo units to do benchmarks, articles, overclocks etc with.
What about all those ads for the cell iWatches that boast leaving the phone behind?
> But have a fully built high revving ICE

Once you do this you are sunk due to weight. If you need another torque band, far better to add a second electric motor with a different gear ratio (Tesla already does this) or use something like a DSG with the single motor.
You can do physics/computations in OpenCL, but not the graphics part
Labor laws are complex. No trained lawyer would make a comment saying something is “literally illegal” based on some article posted on an online forum. This should be a red flag on this opinion.

That being said, companies do this all the time, at least in my experience. I’ve worked at multiple companies that employee union and non-union employees. Unionized workers have a contract, which is one of the things you’re accepting when you unionize. Companies can offer new benefits, but I think most assessments aren’t going to see this as “literally illegal”. Some of the benefit differences I’ve seen firsthand is the amount of PTO, sick leave, and education benefits. I’m not a lawyer in the least, and Apple may be breaking the law in some other way, but this seems like a normal practice based solely on the number of companies that employ it.
It definitely sucks when you feel stuck in the wrong niche, or a low-performing organization.

In such cases, the most important thing is to realize the locality of the problem, & the potential to move to a new niche, or organization.

There is extreme variety in the world; when in a bad place, move (literally or metaphorically).
You're making a huge assumption throughout the analysis that you fail to acknowledge -- you assume that cost savings are passed on to the consumer, ie, that there is a signal being communicated from consumer to producer on the basis of rising or falling prices. I don't believe that is a valid assumption in this scenario.

If Coca-Cola manages to reduce their bottling costs, they pass on those extra profits to their stockholders, not their consumers. The behemoth that is Coca-Cola production cannot slow down or speed up fast enough to respond to actual consumer demands: they must plan ahead to anticipate them. This is more easily done by influencing consumer demand via promotional deals, advertising, and market capture. They operate in a meta-stable fashion, constantly producing at a roughly constant (if always slightly rising) rate, and using influence over the market -- prices, exclusive contracts, quasi-monopoly, promotions, advertising -- to control how quickly it gets consumed to keep sales up and inventory costs low.

In reality, consumers can't choose what's not in front of them. If Coca-Cola wants to use only plastic bottles because they're easier to manufacture and transport, that's what governs their use of plastic bottles. Any price difference seen as a result of that will not be due to cost savings, but rather in response to the change in production processes that affects the market supply.
I completely agree with the sentiment, but i'm sure deals are made on less trivial factors all the time. They just aren't explicitly stated.
The cumulative advantage of a unionized career for lifetime earnings
How do you exceed the realism of the physical world? Isn't it perfect realism?
>>All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content.

I think I see the problem here ....

(and I am not being flippant - I gave up 99% of social media almost a year ago: no twitter, no facebook, no instagram, no tiktok etc - and I hardly read the news at all except for stories of local importance - my life is better for it, give it a try - you don't have anything to lose.
Yes you can enable syncing in ublock origin settings. But you need to sync them manually. Have a look at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage
This advice is simple, brief, and 100% on spot. The tricky thing with consuming this advice is that it may feel low effort. When I was experiencing burnout, I may have even been annoyed by this advice.

But there were two things that I loved as a kid and decided to pick them up at the peak of COVID pandemic, as I was experiencing burnout. I took racquet sports and calligraphy. It has materially enhanced my life quality and I can just say "why didn't I think to do this earlier?"
“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” — Thomas Jefferson

I don’t think blissful ignorance is the right way to think of it. I think the news (and social media) today is the same as it’s always been. Don’t cut yourself off but don’t take any of it too seriously.
Note my uncertainty about the suitability of a max-sat formulation. But also note who did the Fawzi et al result: the DeepMind team at Google. I think that dogfooding their own stuff is an understandable default.
Usually you need to transform power anyways on a train, because

* lights, plug sockets, etc. are all at normal household voltages

* often trains will run on multiple voltages, so a transformer needs to be involved anyways

* lower voltages let you have thinner insulation, so thinner wires let you save space for things that matter more like a bigger passenger cabin
By your logic an unqualified person could attain the CEO job. The CEO is picked by the shareholders to maximize shareholder value. The top boss is extremely well vetted to make sure they make good decisions to protect shareholders' money. The CEO's #1 job is to hire & fire managers that let him keep his job by increasing sales. And so on down the chain.

How could people at the bottom be more "accountable for customer disgruntlement"? They have less skin in the game than people up the hierarchy.
if the belief is that employees using sit/stand workstations will improve productivity and output, it's a business' own choice not to do so for employees who have collective bargaining.

there is also a cost associated with maintaining different workspaces and equipment for employees of different status, and it's a company's choice to take that on.

typically when discussing working conditions, you're talking about minimum standards. it's not very smart to refuse to improve working conditions across the board.

you said in a reply further down that you were an executive level manager, you should have told HR to shove it because your individual performance would be impacted by the collective output of your employees, and the costs of improving working conditions would be returned in several multiples, some of which you might receive as a bonus.

it was, however, your choice and right not to do this. :)
My wife was the first person I shared my feelings with. Since then I have learned and grown to share those feelings with my family and friends as well.

I honestly don’t know why I didn’t grow up sharing my feelings, but I believe it has something to do with culture as well as the way paternal figures in my life behaved.
Hosting SQLite databases on any static file hoster (2021)
Oh no!

I can see how this is a hassle to maintain though; just for example, my Huawei consistently resets the default sms app to the crappy stock one every time I use their "ultra battery saver mode" (which I otherwise like a lot) even though I explicitly included signal in the list of apps that are allowed to run in that mode.

So I can see how the ecosystem makes this an annoying feature...
Like Jack Handey?

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, Robots Can’t Replace Me!
I agree with getting off the news. Every morning when I wake up, I check the news and run into a bunch of fresh, disturbingly sad news items involving some disgusting, pathetic psychopaths that upsets my entire mood.

I started to avoid looking at any sort of news and felt better. I know that we need to have a positive outlook, but the level of disturbances seem to get me these days. I urge you to try it out as well
Quite a few of the newer EVs have 800 V batteries to make fast charging more practical with cables light enough to be handled by ordinary humans.

You can make an electric motor run on pretty much any combination of voltage and current. You just have to make the appropriate trade-offs in insulation, conductor cross section, etc.

ABB (my former employer) makes motors that run on 13.8 kV with a power of up to 29 MW. See https://new.abb.com/motors-generators/high-voltage-induction...
Thats like telling obese person 'get off bad food' . Everyone already knows that.
So many things in this response make it clear you have no interest in arguing in good faith. I thought you were actually trying to make a rational argument before, but this response belies that you are not.

Like this one:

> since leftists, namely, the democrat party, were primarily responsible for all of those things over the past 200 years

That is so inane it does not even deserve a response. You've given away that you're not arguing in good faith.

> Similarly, you assert that birthday modulo 2 has no impact on economic outcome, yet fail to provide any scientific evidence

This comment illustrates this well. You know that birthday modulo 2 has no impact on economic outcome. You know that that's the case. There is not a shadow of a doubt in your mind that that is obviously correct. But of course whoever you're arguing with must provide mountains of scientific evidence (at which point you would undoubtedly move the goal posts), whereas you're allowed to get away with "simply" making semi-rational arguments and quoting, over and over, literally one source, who (according to wikipedia):

> Sowell was an important figure to the new conservative movement during the Reagan Era, influencing fellow economist Walter E. Williams and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Oof. Double-oof. So this singular person you're relying on for all your backup was an important figure to the most awful presidency of the modern era, the start of an economic plague that has allowed the rich to loot and ransack this nation's prosperity and dramatically worsened the very racial and socioeconomic disparities at the heart of this argument, and a corrupt Supreme Court justice who is a major leader in a movement to destroy democracy in the U.S. and replace it with a peusdo-Christian Theology. Yikes.

I came here prepared to reply with more rational discussion, but like always, the longer you talk to racism-apologists, the more you see the facade unraveling, the bad-faith arguments, and the goalposts moving. It's not worth it.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. If the purpose of science research is to build the understanding we have, teaser articles seem more like a way to put a name on a creation without actually contributing to our understanding of something.

I guess this is an artifact of how cutthroat academia is and how vital it is to have credit for being first.
I understand more consequential damage is generally not reported, so as not to give free damage assessment reports to the Russians.
I read the news once a day, I read Reuters because it’s an Wire service it’s less biased, slanted towards bullshit (less not zero).

Been great for my mental health.
I know a camera guy* that decided he wanted to get footage he'd never seen anyone else get. He got permission, but everyone just shook their head and suggested it not being a good idea (yes, please read foreshadowing there). This was back in the day of using a BCSP over the shoulder camcorder that brand new easily cost $75k with the particular lens being used. He was behind both cars standing between them, and when they took off, the forces were so violent it caused the spinning heads in the camera to stutter so badly the footage was unusable. Viewing the footage, the image is fine right up to the point of start, then the image goes crazy in the way only an analog system can do, then stabilizes again when everything calms down. Not only was it not usable footage,
but he spent hours peeling/scraping melted rubber off of everything. IIRC, the driver of one of the cars was legendary John Force.

* I swears it that it wasn't me in the "asking for a friend" manner
> This is a really clever and thought-provoking idea, and I believe that is the spirit in which it is intended (rather than as an "actual" game).

It seems more like an elaborate joke to me. I can see people being annoyed after being teased with the notion of a new game, only for it to be a gag.
I found this article from the following tweet:

NEW STUDY: Being in a union means a $1.3 million increase in lifetime earnings – larger than the average gains from getting a college degree.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/158020922939...
A despicable creature who sought to enrich himself off of his lies about the death of innocent children. There's no monetary amount that can equate to the pain he's caused the parents and families of the dead, nor the stain on a society that is markedly less-perfect because a monster like him can even exist.
Is critical infrastructure usually protected against this?
You don't. A succinct lyric that helped me eliminate the stigma in my mind around not "being into it" all the time:

> It's oh so sad to be happy all the time.

> Autolux - Selectallcopy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vth-n34LK8E)

Society, in general, is a mirage. Most people are insane and insanity is contagious. After 2.5 years of non-stop insanity and some variant of psychological abuse, it's not only okay to feel how you do, but should be expected.

A short read that helped me to realize and accept this is Awareness by Anthony DeMello [1]

FWIW: Don't let the world get you down. Look at your desire to consume content as a phase that needs to pass like a thunderstorm and enjoy the rain.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Antho...
I just wanna talk about the irony of a HN thread, where a large portion of people probably make money by making things people use or look at on their phone, that is mostly people saying "the problem is your phone, get off it".

What are we all doing?

To flip it around, if we're all spending our time making things we believe contribute to harming people, yeah I think that would burn you out.
The only reason this isn't a dealbreaker for me is because their sms implementation was so buggy and feature-poor that I would never have used it.

(The only reason I use signal is to talk to my girlfriend. The only reason we use it is early in our relationship I was going through a phase where I adopted annoying privacy tools. I wanted to abandon it, but after years of using it she's developed positive emotional associations between our relationship and signal, so for non-technical reasons she likes to keep using it just to talk to me)
ctrl+f "stigmata"

Damn it, someone made the joke.

Don't forget the promise Palmer Luc-- I mean Eldritch makes Mayerson: that Chew-Z offers incredible opportunity to allow formative experiences customized to the user, yet Lucke-- I mean Eldritch is so controlling of the shared hallucination that Mayerson surmises death is the correct course of action.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33182223
I like how you decide to call one "a panel" and the other "an ad" when they are exactly the same thing.
I hope that the signal devs are looking at this thread and seriously considering reversing this horrendous decision. Just announcing this was a horrible idea, but you can at least salvage it by formally retracting it. Getting rid of SMS support would immediately and swiftly kill the app. I use Signal for the sole reason of having a secure messaging app that works with SMS. If you get rid of SMS support, you immediately kill the app. This is quite possibly the worst decision you could possibly make.
in HNs case, I suspect it's deliberately intended to lower interaction with grayed out text (to avoid pile-ons and low-quality/flamey discussions rooted on such comments)
Yes, Germany has such a rule, Kurzarbeit basically does this through a state subsidy.

And one particular aspect of Germany is that capacity is controlled on the way up. The reason why the US has these huge swings is because capacity isn't controlled. It isn't possible to have the upside without the downside. Germany's political economy is totally different because the US has a far higher level of competition and innovation, this isn't possible with Germany's labour market.
Well, the point of a union is that management actually has a very bad sense for what employees want, so employees can't rely on management to meet their needs.

Like in this metaphor, sit/stand desks are a visible 'we care about you' move that cost $500/head one time. Meanwhile, the dental plan sucks and management ignores it because only a small subset of the employees notice and even then, it's only periodically.

So from that point of view, HR probably just said "well, based on the union negotiations, they don't seem to care about the desks, might as well shelve it and put the money to use elsewhere."

OP is the one adding the color about 'saving it for the next negotiation'
That's just like, your opinion, man. SMS/MMS is decentralized, open, and works on every modern mobile phone out of the box. No other text messaging technology does this yet.
Can you get rewarded by the company doing something? Do you think any security or intelligence agency doesn’t have that already? Perhaps it is a duty to disclose it, and you might want to privately contact the company before doing so, so they have a chance to patch it.
That was only forking the apache process. This is forking the whole ruby app that also happens to speak HTTP. The gain is in the app side not in the best way to serve HTTP where this is probably a loss over threading or event based solutions.
I just saw a breakdown of a crash where the engine shut down, allowing the clutch to stop slipping. That final clamp dumped a huge impulse into the drivetrain and ripped the tires off the wheels. (At least that's the way I understood it).

Clay Millican has an amazing YouTube channel that brings you behind the scenes of an NHRA top fuel team - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClT3GT7hxLbNnypukfyxelQ/vid...
I'm surprised you had to dig a bit to see it is in KM. A US audience might assume MPH.
This is great news, but we should temper our expectations: It's likely that Jones will appeal and keep this tied up for years before he has to pay anything. Even if he is eventually obligated to pay some amount, it is unlikely to be what the jury just decided. And even if it is what the jury just decided, Jones' company is already "bankrupt" (yet still on the air) and he will almost certainly avoid liability through all the useful tools and entities available to a person who has hundreds of millions of dollars in the first place. And through all this, he will probably remain on the air spouting his lies - as he is literally right now as I write this post.

In sum, it's good to know that we're trying to hold him to account, but it seems unlikely that this stops him in any material way from just continuing on the way he has been.

Our system is not setup for situations that involve faith as bad as Jones', on the part of people who have not themselves committed an obvious violent crime.
AMD chips had the same branch prediction side channel vulnerabilities that intel did. At this point their offerings are pretty similar with intel being a bit cheaper but using more electricity.
https://archive.ph/e6672
This is why I have my cameras on a routerless subnet with dual NIC viewing machines.
for my curiosity, which part of your comment (or maybe the one you replied to) involves screen scraping?
So how were the damage calculated? I get that this guy is a nutjob but how can saying something is a hoax get you a 1B fine?
That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.
I recommend reading some history books and reading less news.

I mean that sincerely, but it sounds snarky. Nuclear weapons has been around for like 80 years and influenced global peace. News optimization function is for you to want more of it. The world is constantly changing. If you want to worry about things you have close to zero chance to influence you have so many better options - singulary, bio engineering, self replicating nano bots, great filter, windows 11, climate.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Harari is a fun read, much better than news (which btw, are really hard to come by if you would like to get some insight about what's happening and not just be fed propaganda - kind of disappointing how much there is of it on our side)