skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree on a philosophical level. Intelligence has always been—and always will be—a moving target. As soon as we discover something that we previously thought was unique to humans, we redefine what intelligence is to exclude that trait.

Previously using tools was a sign of intelligence until we discovered that other animals (even insects) do that. Then it was required that you had to make tools, until Jane Goodall showed us that other apes do that. Until AlphaGo we had this idea of particular games, always upping the size of the decision tree. And now it looks like we are in a crisis and just have this vaguely defined general intelligence, a term with quite a racist history, that nobody actually knows what means.

Me personally am of the opinion that we need to ditch the word intelligence in science and technology (it can remain in philosophy). It has all the same problems of a grand unifying theory in cosmology, and a whole host of more (see Stephen Jay Gould to discover those).

Calling it a mystery is being optimistic, rather, I would call it a misdirection.
They have a problem understanding a lot of things.
Back when I was in college me and a few classmates put together a site where you could share files with others using a link. Looking back at it, there are so many issues with the code, from just about every perspective. Up until recently i still kept it as an item on my resume, described something like "my first web app project, preserved with all it's bad code and questionable practices".

https://github.com/sgolovine/transmit
You can overcome the RPi scarcity by migrating the code to the Teensy platform, which aside being cheaper and less power hungry than the 2,3,4 RPi, is a lot cheaper and more easily available. Not an easy task since there's no Linux under the hood, but there are some excellent audio/midi libraries to help. They already built commercial-level synthesizers with it. By combining the breath sensor data with other pressure sensors you could end up with a very expressive instrument.

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/index.html

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Audio.html

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_MIDI.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2674LdYW5I
The page is cool, but have you seen this product though, even cooler! (disclaimer: paying & happy customer)
> I am starting to think there might actually be a strong correlation between how people look and act.

I think the way people act influences the way their appearance is perceived in very subtle ways. A sketchy liar could have exactly the same bone structure as an honest man, but the sketchy liar will be perceived as less honest due to almost imperceptible differences in body language, the way they hold their facial muscles, etc. The result of these subtle differences can be detected with a vague sensation of "this guy is sketchy, he's probably about to lie to me."

Also I think there is an element of truth to the old wive's tail of "your face is going to get stuck like that". People who frequently have malicious facial expressions in private will find themselves having malicious facial expressions when they don't mean to, when interacting with the people they intend to deceive. Maybe out of pure habit, or maybe because those muscles are just getting more exercise. Somebody who often has a lopsided smirk will develop muscles on one side of their face more than the other, and eventually they can't help but to smirk by default.
How do you define a "comparable country"?

According to [0], the UK isn't doing that much worse than Germany (12.2 vs 12.6%). It's doing same as Norway and better than the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and way better than Sweden. The latter being barely better than Ukraine, which is actually at war. Now I agree those are "smaller countries", so maybe not comparable?

Some "peripheral countries" are doing great (Romania), others terribly (Hungary). This is to say that values are over the place. I don't see any emerging trend that would allow easily to pinpoint the reason prices are going up in this or that country but not in the other.

The issue with Germany's decision, wrt to nuclear, is that it affects everybody because of the way electricity prices are set in the EU (priced for the most expensive production).

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/consumer-price-ind...
I wish more websites/companies realized how effective, practical, and beautiful this design is.
Author here - a few months after the time of this story, we reoriented around a single purpose for the team, "Automate ourselves out of existence". It took a few months to remove all of the dependencies, tag all the alarms, train up all the team-specific oncalls, but we managed to do it, and I had the great honor of taking the very last SRO oncall on March 31, 2014 :)
In the case of TikTok and Afghan folk poetry, there is just no way that I would have been able to reach the audience of tens of thousands that I have without TikTok. I didn't even have to do anything besides upload videos; their algorithm figured who would like it, and put the content in front of them.

I don't necessarily disagree with anything you're saying, but at the same time I can't just dismiss the difference that this makes, especially when creating content for non-white, non-Anglophone audiences.
I like the topic, it's one I'm reliably interested in. A topic of known desire. :-)

IMO people are in many ways the same person that they were some time ago, just not in all ways (Linda Berens created a helpful lens/labeling system for this: the Core, Developing, and Contextual you, so to speak).

So my own theory about this works in terms of frequencies. Longer waves are more reliable for identifying relevant interests and leveraging them; shorter, higher-frequency waves less so. It's generally more helpful to be aware of longer-term interests than shorter-term ones, especially when there's a known opportunity cost.

For example I was shopping for candy the other day and couldn't decide what to get except thinking from my list of favorite candy which I update over time (per your note on journaling), so I went with reliable ones. Instead of a random result, I got a reliable result that I wanted (good feeling about purchase later). Some random is good, but I find that usually I don't want all-random, but rather reliable-enjoyment.

It's been a very useful practice because even if I don't have a list for a given area, the same principles apply to other areas.

I've had some other surprises in this topic of thought too, for example usually if someone asks me what I want in life, it's reliably better for me to answer with shallow, little-picture stuff. Like, I want a week off work, a new tool or pocketknife to fiddle with, a stack of old DVDs from the library, and a $50 candy & soda budget. I have learned that I automatically focus with intensity on the big-picture stuff, which can lead to neglect of the little-picture in my own case, and that's the liability, not the other way around.

Anyway, thoughtful post, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Hello, library author here. Happy to answer whatever questions you have.
I wander if you look at "website bytes" to market cap as a metric, these might be most valuable bytes?

(That's if you ignore the websites of subsidies)
Who didn't ship jobs and industrial capacity to china? USA did it. Canada did it.

They are not in the same place as the UK. I don't the UK did anything different than what was the liberal consensus of what to do at the time.
Holy shit, Yuji Naka? The guy who basically single handedly coded Sonic 1 in Assembly. This a sad day indeed
I don't know if they explicitly allowed it, it seems more likely the CD code was only checked locally so there wasn't much the game could do to stop code sharing.
No, the UK is doing about the same. Look at the data:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate

Netherlands: 14.3%

UK: 11.1%

Germany: 10.4%

Euro area: 10.6%

Italy: 11.8%

etc.

"The UK is simply doing worse WRT inflation than any comparable country, and nobody, not even Conservative UK politicians, really debates this."

Nobody debates this because outside of the HN anti-UK bubble nobody is claiming it, and nobody is claiming it because it isn't true. This is what I mean by HN discussions about the UK being hot garbage for the last few years. Way too many posters are willing to simply make things up in order to attack the UK.
And that is how you end up ‘doing a lot of things, but not getting anything done’ - if you think of lots of things all the time, anyway.
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I tend to put anything other there that I consider interesting for others to see, or something that I might want to share with others. For example - ways to to abuse a type system, or how to do something weird like embedding Elm within React. The truth is that if you put out a lot of code, very few people will see any of it, unless you intentionally and directly share with them. If you're applying for a job, chose your favourite repos and send them over. If you want to avoid any form of judgement, just put a disclaimer in the readme. When it comes to games - there will never be enough open source games out there. Being able to see how something done, however hacky, will be great for hobby game programmers.
Many open source project documentations are good. Kubernetes, Python are two I constantly refer to. I haven't been terribly disappointed.
A Decentralized Protocol for Remunerating the Open-Source Ecosystem [pdf]
Rust was already mentioned, but I want to call out the compiler error messages specifically. That's putting documentation where you need it exactly when you need it most and it's a triumph.
When most people are asked to consider the accessibility problems that masking causes, they often don't realize that it extends beyond just the person wearing the mask.

Like you just described, somebody else wearing a mask can impose a significant accessibility burden, even for people who may not necessarily have hearing difficulties, for example.

Encouraging, or even forcing in many places, people to wear masks was truly an accessibility tragedy. It's made even worse by the fact that widespread everyday masking isn't even effective. A lot of people were forced to endure a lot of unnecessary and unjustifiable suffering.
The challenge with that, in my experience, is not getting distracted along the way.
Yup. Also as i mentioned i purposefully delete my accounts and rotate them to ensure i don't keep identity either. Frankly the lack of identity to me is the core of what makes or breaks a "social" network.

Having no permanence to the accounts kinda makes it feel more forum like. Where i can pretend there's no point system, it's just content, people discussing and helping, etc.
Some video games already did something like that, except instead of AI they put you in match with other offenders, in sort of personal hell, then only let you out once you won some matches
https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...

the short answer is "1"
I have the "I want to do everything but end up doing nothing" issue, and my current hypothesis is that I have undiagnosed ADHD. I don't think that is something I will change as long as I am not causing harm to anyone else.
Yeah, that sounds somewhat familiar. To add, I recently read this book :“love+work” by Marcus Buckingham. His insights are really good at what decades of research have taught him about loving your work (and how to get there)
I’m not so sure of that. I am British but live in [redacted].

Pretty much all of my friends, family and old colleagues speak of problems in the UK while asking me if I am experiencing the same here.

Obviously [redacted] isn’t perfect but I haven’t had anything like my parents and sister have had with electricity price increases as just one example.

My worry is the UK will continue on a self-destructive path still.

This was my worry when I originally planned leaving the UK back in 2016 (moving to [redacted] in 2018) however I did not predict it would be quite this bad.
Why mention Jeremy Hunt? Just the small matter of him being the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK govt with a track record of good analysis.

Believe what you want at the end of the day. I would love to have to been proven wrong, but Brexit is an unmitigated disaster to almost every expert worth listening to.
One of the creators here.

The keywords are grouped such that keywords that occur together often are in the same group. The colour represents this grouping.

There may be more useful groupings we could give or allow the user to choose between. We would be interested to hear any ideas for that
I wrote something very different.

The argument is:

> the individual is responsible on his self, and is endowed with a judgement to carry on that responsibility, and that the judgement of his peers is not qualifiable as worthy in such an amount to override that of the responsibility bearer, so, exceptions aside relevant to the impact on others, the peers will leave the individual "in peace" and in suspension of judgement. This produces (logically) one side of the inappropriateness of having peering eyes on you: the peers do not have the qualifications to intrude

.../hence/, privacy is a natural right. Because, by nature, you are responsible over yourself (you are that inside you), and the others are not, and their judgement is imperfect. So, what you do is your own business, naturally protected by right against the eyes of others (apart, of course, that behaviour which has consequences on others).

> simple and direct

Only proportionally to simplicity and the actual possibility of making something "direct"... As noted («Principia Mathematica»), "1+1" is not really direct...

> "I don't like someone looking at me so privacy is a 'natural' right"

But that is a secondary argument, and it is actually valid: one has the natural right not to be bothered, not to be disturbed. There has to be real, definite, proportional cause to break that rule.
Well, now the US has outsourced to Musk not only the space capabilities but also the groveling to the Russians. In for a penny, in for a pound?
Twitter revenue was over 5* billion last year. With subscription they can make $5* billion... if ~50* million people subscribe all year. I realize cutting costs is a huge part of his plan but it would be very surprising if 1/100th of that number paid up.

Edit: off by 10x. Still crazy.
The Geopolitics of Microchips and Semiconductors
Sofort is common, as the name might suggest, in DE (and I hear also AT). Weirdly a lot of people don't know it's a private company, assuming it's a service offered by their bank. I guess because the name is so generic.

I would never pay for anything with it.
I miss it :(
While I agree with the sentiment behind your post, especially regarding reexamining our society, I think you're coming off as a little overly cynical.

This vaccine seems to be a promising tool to preventing people in treatment (or people who come across fentanyl by accident) from overdosing. In principle at least, that seems like a positive thing for me. It's not a silver bullet, but what is? Addiction is a hard problem...
I also believe the current owner is more neutral than the previous, and has stated as much in his belief of free speech.
Welcome to the First RISC-V Site
Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive for him.
I'd imagine there's a lot less motivation to build new physical recreation spaces like skateboards etc if almost everyone is starting at a screen every waking minute.
The mask itself muffles the sound.
Go for it! Hell, I threw up some current code on GitHub that's arguably embarrassing (link in profile).

It's not like anybody posting crummy code in answers on stackoverflow is worried about the quality reflecting on them. Or the blog entries that are more or less "I've just learned $technology; now I'm going to tell the world!"

If you've at least got a fully baked project, even if it isn't up to your current standards, you're miles ahead of some of the code people publish.
Ah anywhere, the land of milk and honey
Headers full of navigation. Sign up for my newsletter spam. Footers. The webpage isn't just "the document we're talking about", but an entire application most of the time.
In Baltic states and Finland it has been norm for many years.
https://makecommerce.net/service/bank-link/
What exactly is it that you are proposing the donors get in return? "influence"? How do you quantify that? Is it votes? If not votes, then what?

Buying "influence" is not corruption. Paying a representative or a senator to take specific actions in the course of their official duties would be. Giving money to a senator and then asking them to call the DHS to push your business partners visa through is strictly not corruption.

Anyone who'd call this "grossly corrupt" has never interacted with real corruption.
What does UK produce? Finance, money laundering and real estate come to mind. All are in decline, for various reasons.
Preventing people from accidentally dying from overdose seems like a pretty worthy goal.
Shockingly strong! I've always wanted to see the glass blowing process at their factory in Tokyo, but they've been closed for tours while upgrading for at least ~2 years before covid (when I was frequently in Japan).

My understanding is that they use some type of cold annealing process that strengthens the thin glass.

I've not managed to break one in 4 years of dinner party use.
Love the experiments coming out these days: this, flox, even Replit. All working on diff approaches to a "Nix UX". Someone's going to get it right...
> Even legacy auto makers are struggling to scale and produce EVs cheaply. Expecting Tesla to do that right away is ridiculous and unfair.

Are they even trying though? I don't get the impression that Tesla is trying to produce EVs cheaply. All the self-driving crap is adding to the cost, and even worse it's getting them in trouble with safety regulators, which is the last problem they need. And now all the Twitter crap, how is that helping?

Let me put it this way: Musk has become the wealthiest person in the world, yet no actual environmental problem has been solved. To me, that's very telling. It's mostly promise, hype, not reality. The cars are real, the rockets are real, but saving the Earth is not real. Congrats on the business success, but that's not the same as public service, and nothing about Musk's behavior gives me confidence about his "good intentions" toward the world.

Or here's an alternative take: What else are well-to-do Tesla owners doing to save the environment beyond buying a Tesla? I don't really believe their hype any more than I believe Musk's hype. It's a collective endeavor, one in which you must act as a citizen and not just a consumer.
I've learn a few things about this problem over the years:

"Wanting to have done something" and "wanting to DO something" are very different. E.g. "I'd like to be able to play Claire de Lune on piano", vs the deep work of becoming intimately familiar with every single note and phrase of the piece. The latter necessarily involves getting obsessed for a while; you don't be able to do it if you don't find something deeply stimulating about the specific piano piece.

A lot of the things I've "wanted to do" I really just wanted to have done—I wanted to be able to do something, I wanted to know if I was capable of it. But I didn't really want to do it. I didn't really care. I just thought I was capable of all kinds of things and wanted to delight in verifying that. It had a sort of superficiality to it—my reasons for wanting all these things were not compelling enough to drive me to actually do them.

(Especially faced with the immediate rewards offered by video games—games and things like that change the "weights" on your internal reward system; you can feel this if you just think about the game, it feels like everything else shifts out of focus and the anticipation of the dopamine prize expands to fill your view.)

When you're in school it's relatively easy to do whatever you're told, and it doesn't really matter if you care about it. But accessing this sense of internally-generated energy that can drive you towards things that are important is a completely different skill, and you can't force it.

So either:

* figure out what you deeply, truly want to DO, and do that (which may be completely different from the things you enjoy imagining HAVING done)

* or, think deeply about what you want to "have done", and figure out why it excites you, and focus in on that, activate your curiosity for it, and let that draw you in
There is no higher accomplishment than living in the moment. % of time spent living in the moment is the most important metric I can think of.

The "problem" is that it's something that you can't see in others, whereas wealth, assets etc. are for everybody to see and so people start competing to get those things.

There lies the difference however, to call yourself a competitive person you must be able to compete without ever knowing how you are faring against others, that's the ultimate form of competition. That's also how life begins. A Spermatozoon doesn't know and won't ever know the position of other spermatozoa, if they are ahead, behind etc. in the race to get to the egg. They only know that they have to swim as fast as they possibly can.

Likewise humans can't possibly know the amount of time that other humans are spending living in the moment, but, like sperm, you don't need to because your goal is to get as close as you can to 100%
It still operated on money. The Soviet system did not obviate money in any way. The reason the gulags existed was so the government could get cheap forced labor. That means it was about money.
Yup! Very clever game.
What I was really saying was that corporations should have to obey campaign spending limit laws that were explicitly designed to apply to them, to limit corruption.
This feels like bullying. This person is free to work on whatever they want with their life.
5 billion right? Not 50 billion? So 50 million users, I would also be surprised if a small percentage of that number signed up, but technically nothing I said was untrue :-)
I mean there’s changing your mind through learning and growing, and then there’s spewing contradictory ideas as they pop into your head because they suit you in the moment. I may be proven wrong but this feels to me like the latter.
I think many chess players will agree that latest chess engines (Stockfish NNUE/Leela) are playing better conceptually, so it's less useful to use older ones (SF8/A0) to study learned concepts. Still cool work tho.
I call it the "minimize bullshit" feature. Reddit also has it.
Back in the 1980s Apple used to write checks to the people who were coming up with the fundamentally important pieces of its eco-system. Bill Atkinson (Hypercard) got money even after he left Apple. The application switcher, the drop down menu: Apple paid individual engineers to get these bits of functionality. If Apple was smart, it would continue to subsidize apps that are central to its eco-system. That includes Homebrew.
Dialup – How things worked 40 years ago
A joke landing page, demonstrating modem speeds and showing off my twitter (for how long...) and github activity. Send me a pgp message, I'd love to try it out :D
Given that it works through anti-bodies it doesn't seem that odd?
Sounds good. Any recommended starter guides? Thanks!
> But he wasn't aware of the flip-side... that the manager is then responsible for judging the situation and not making direct requests that are impossible to refuse.

You assume he cares. Assuming the person across from you gives a crap about you is a regularly fatal one.

Humans are not basically good. They are basically greedy.