skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complex society -- legislatures, economics, the works, even writing -- could easily have occurred hundreds of times over the millennia, without building with stone and so leaving no trace after they collapsed or were wiped out by invaders. We know about a precious few that did build with stone, that could have been as socially sophisticated as you like, but left no trace of that.

We know extremely little about people in the Amazon basin, beyond that they had already domesticated orchard trees by 10,000 years ago, built over wide areas, and had no access to stone. They had ceramics, but did not favor bricks. They left us a few enigmatic inventions including curare and terra preta.

Assuming primitive social relations is very close to racism. Sophistication seems to need nothing more than population.
I wish I could credit the drivers of these cars with a new sense of austerity in order to find depth in their mental life.

But I have seen the folks that climb out of clay-color Dodge Challengers. They do not convince me that such focus drives their decision-making.
It has already been in many areas. I have worked with computers for almost 30 years now, and the kind of things that we need to endure nowadays because of a company's decision is truly absurd. We have entire devices that are closed using cryptographic methods controlled by the company that sold it. In the very near future, we won't be able to program a single line of code for most devices without having our identity strictly controlled by companies and governments. It is a dystopian future for computing.
I think you are conflating System 1 and System 2 thinking (from Kahneman's _Thinking Fast and Slow_ [1]). Frauds typically work by triggering our System 1 ("lizard brain", containing our emotions and our innate mate selection/attraction) which selectively / temporarily disables our System 2 (cognitive / rational faculties). We have words to describe the abstractions in the mind ("ego", "defense mechanism") which form filters that prevent information from passing System 1 into System 2 unless our mind is open to accepting it. The entire point of these frauds is to trigger System 1 of the victim.

This article[2] was eye-opening for me in helping me understand how the brain filters information before it can reach System 2. You probably notice it when you talk to people and they reject / deflect facts that disconfirm their priors.

While I agree with you about the {QAnon, The Big Lie, Bolsonaro protesters} examples, I think people (including myself) severely overestimate _our own_ ability to withstand something untrue that tickles our confirmation bias. We all have these features, only some people have better control over their System 1 filters.

I'm fascinated by these topics because (1) I work in cybersecurity and (2) I have family members that fell into QAnon + The Big Lie. Learning about _Street Epistemology_[3] has been really interesting to help me better understand not only many of these belief systems, but how discussing them in selective ways can avoid the filters/defenses of System 1.

[1] https://suebehaviouraldesign.com/kahneman-fast-slow-thinking...

[2] https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/truth-status-and-tribes

[3] https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Street_Epistemology
Ask HN: What are your book buying habits?
When ordering online: Do you order one book at a time? If so, how often do you purchase? Every few days as you find a book, every couple of weeks or months? Or, do you add multiple books to your cart slowly over time, then sort the cart, then place an order for a handful of books so that they'll ship at the same time? Does fast shipping generally matter to you, or are you okay with waiting?

Me: Sometimes I'll buy multiple books from separate publishers, but at the same time. I'll add books to the cart week to week, the carts stay as-is in my current browsing session, then I'll visit each cart at the end of the month to place an order. Usually, I'll get a few boxes from different publishers around the same time, depending on shipping speed.
I modified a Jupyter notebook that’s been going around to do this and have nice Markdown output.

This is the best AI diarization and transcription I’ve been able to get so far: https://github.com/zachlatta/openai-whisper-speaker-identifi...
> Seasons are a lousy way of describing times

Given the context, 'spring' is just another way of saying second quarter. It has nothing to do with seasons beyond incidental alignment between calendar quarters and observed seasons in certain geographic areas where the use originated. Indeed, even second quarter breaks down where the Gregorian calendar isn't used, but you have to make assumptions at some point in order to communicate. Context fills in the gaps.
Except it is true! That is precisely what I was getting at with chess. Right now the #1 player in the world is rated 48 points higher than the #2 player, and this difference is typical and often even more extreme. And the #2 is rated almost 20 points higher than the #3 player!

I could try to explain what those numbers mean mathematically, but I think there's an even easier way to get the gist of it. There are hundreds of of thousands of FIDE rated players. That #1 player's rating is 2859. For him to be 50 points higher than the #2 player is insane in terms of any notion of broad-level approximate human equality, but perfectly normal in the not-even-remotely-equal reality of what we see in chess.

And this is mirrored everywhere, even in sports where the physical limitations on the body are presumably more limiting than the cognitive ones. Running is nice because it's a field where we are going to miss close to 0 outliers, and you can fairly compare generations regardless of time.

Imagine we take Usain Bolt at his peak, and have him run a 200m race against the 200th fastest human to have ever lived at his peak. People might expect this to be a pretty close race. In reality? He'd finish about 9.8 meters, more than 32 feet ahead of the other guy. It would look like 'fast' guy vs 'meh, more or less average' guy. When in reality that 'more or less average' guy is one of the fastest humans to have ever lived!
If Mastodon is the new cool, where all the climate activists hang out, why does it use node and not Go, Rust or C++?
Yet another lie and attempt to derail from the point.

Political centralisation, not physical. You can build a 1GW renewable plant and connect it to a transmission line just fine, but much more importantly anyone can build one.

There's no way 50% of the world will be allowed their own enrichment or reprocessing facilities. And even in the ones that are allowed, the process is necessarily under extreme regulatory capture and is controlled by a cartel that makes oil look like a free market.

Rosatom had to be exempted from sanctions because the fuel and waste processing supply chains are so centralised that over half of Europe's nuclear fleet would have shut down if they didn't do businessnwith Russia.
Mastodon, Steampipe, and RSS
It's wonderful to be at the intersection of Mastodon, Steampipe, and RSS in this remarkable moment. I'll readily admit that nostalgia is a factor. But RSS did bust things wide open twenty years ago, Mastodon's doing that now, and I love that RSS can help it happen again.
Probably does. By the logic stated, we could just put a probation on a rapist's genitals and it should all just work itself out.
> Fabricating quality MOX that be fed back into reactors

MOX can be fed back only once. After that too much Pu-240 accumulates, and that's a non-fissile element that absorbs a lot of neutrons, so it's a neutron poison (see [1]). Pu-240 can't be separated from Pu-239, except using the same methods to separate U-235 from U-238 (but more difficult, since the relative atomic mass difference is much smaller). If you get into the business of isotope separation, you might as well enrich Uranium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel#Spent_MOX_fuel
Not the same. I'm saying there's a double standard for non-human mammal life; torture and eat is ok, torture for science isn't. The de minimis argument wasn't the key point. Charles Manson also didn't kill anyone.
thats crazy. 35 seconds for 60 min on base with a 4090. wow!
thanks for the info! also btw i mentioned on another thread i was getting an error. but are you planning on offering this as a paid api?
> Material costs are up. Land prices are up. Labour cost is up. Building code standards are way up. Building permit prices are up. Houses are 2x-3x bigger than they used to be.

The core truth about house prices is that they mean revert to replacement cost (see previous link to interview with Chris Bedingfield).

Obviously no-one will build stuff that people can't afford to buy at a profit, so you won't see a supply response from people who build houses, until the price for which they can sell the house exceeds the cost to build.

So long as people are competing for existing stock, they will bid up the prices, and this causes a supply response once those prices push the price beyond where it is profitable to build.

> Lack of supply? 15 million houses sit empty. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EVACANTUSQ176N

Vacant housing contributes to the supply problem!
We're post Windows 8; every device is a mobile device.
Protip/shameless plug: the MIT Press website now includes a reading enhancement feature called BeeLine Reader, available under the 'Aa' icon. Disclosure: I'm the founder.
8 billion - USA population = how many people you insulted.
I wouldn’t call GPS the cloud
Hilariously enough, bad grammar and typos will soon become a positive indicator that something's worth reading.
Saw another article where Zuckerburg threatened to remove news altogether from their platform. If only it could be so. Remember how less politically polarized we were before the advent of social media and the ridiculous 'news' they spread?
The Last-Ever Boeing 747 Has Been Built
It's a decision that actually benefits the customer and developer enormously. Imo an "apple thing to do" is to change chargers simply to make a profit.

Apple handling price/international conversions and currency fluctuations seems immensely useful.
This is the entire purpose of this legislation. It requires hospitals to publish their prices for these specific “shoppable” services.

The problem with this legislation is that prices at one hospital are only useful in comparison to another hospital’s prices. Since the law doesn’t provide a facility for comparison, even the compliant hospital’s data is nearly useless. There needs to be a centralized database with compatible definitions for each procedure that allows consumers not just to see the prices, but to directly compare them.
But any female lobster that's caught with eggs gets their tail notched so that if she's caught in the future they throw her back to grow new lobsters.

So you might also be breeding lobsters that get pregnant more often and value traps as food?
Did they change? Do you mind linking them or do they just further the examples? The 4-5 in that twitter thread are just the most egregious.

I have absolutely no idea why I was downvoted and flagged for pointing to a thread it links to his views on child sex and rape.
There's a whole field studying how our cultural capacity to create culture is one of the key abilities of human beings as a species, and how the cultures that we create are themselves subject to evolutionary pressures.

One good introduction is "The secret of our success" by Joseph Heinrich. There's a good review here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...

I have developed a lot more respect for traditional cultures and religions as a result of adopting this perspective.
How about the women whose profile pics he “harvested” (stole)?

Isn’t there a huge ethical issue there?
All things considered, 4 years is pretty good!

Someone explained to me it's more of a supply chain thing than planned obsolescence. Phone technology and batteries specifically have pretty short production lives - keeping a battery in production and in stock for long periods of time can be crippling to your product line when the competitors come out with 10% denser batteries every year.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ek1fs
If the population of students that respond after one survey request is different than the population of student that respond after two survey requests (or don't respond at all), then the original 90 responses aren't representative of the entire student population. "Altering your experiment" is a distraction because the presumed goal is to learn about the entire student population.
Lets be honest here: The name is FUCKING IDIOTIC. Every time I write "jupwhatever notebook" I want to ... break things.
My charitable reading is that “y” roughly corresponds to “oo” in some languages, so there’s a world in which this spelling makes sense.

But yeah it’s Jupyter. Like Jupiter but for Python.
+100 prayers
the most profound one in that case was probably C, or 'no answer'
Emacs had (or still has) a web browser. The problem is that companies (starting with Netscape) took control of browser development, adding tons of both useful and useless features, with the goal of controlling the development of the web. Emacs and other projects cannot compete with that.
Am I the only one who thinks it's entirely obvious that JS is a bad idea for emacs? The beauty of emacs is that it's all in lisp. All of it, except a small C core which is mostly just the elisp implementation. If you don't like lisp, why on earth would you use emacs? There's an absolute fuckton of editors out there that support Javascript.

I don't even care what RMS' argument was, I think he's pretty out of touch most of the time. But putting Javascript in Emacs is just a stupid idea that would completely ruin it eventually. Let Emacs be Emacs and Vscode be Vscode.
How do self-driving cars do in the pouring rain or snow?

This "faith in technology" is borderline religion without proof, it's ignorance that it is as good as the code bugs and sensor fail (and people overriding safeguards out of laziness).

Pedestrians and cyclists are the "beta testers", I am sure the people in the hardened car frame will be mostly fine.

Yeah yeah, automation "will kill less than humans". Who goes to prison when software kills someone?
https://archive.ph/HX3k9
He is looking for TeXmacs. Sadly it seems the porting of the GNU extensible editor to use the GNU extension language (guile) ship has sailed.
What prevents an attacker from using it?
The biggest semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the US are Applied Materials, LAM Research and KLA. AMAT is a pretty big company with a wide portfolio of products but it doesn't do lithography which the Dutch company ASML has the only EUV product.
I think the reason the rate is so low is because they really don't want people thinking about how valuable the data they'd be giving up is.

That said, however much these companies offer in exchange for spying on you, it's always for the same reason: because they know they can take far more from you than they're paying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_AG

Checking to see if there's anything else recent about the company...

Article regarding a complaint to a blogger:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063779

And lots of articles on ProtonMail:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Running out of?

Or burned through all of?
>> https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/mining/whats-so-rare-about....

Rare earth metals aren't actually rare. They are called that because they were once thought rare.

https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/mining/whats-so-rare-about....
Show HN: Get product feedback directly in your web app
It’s not mobile optimized yet, so please open on desktop or laptop.

Feel free to let me know what you think of the problem/solution, and features I should add next.
Thank you for mentioning gaslighting. I had that thought immediately but was wondering to myself whether it applied here (which means it was working!)

It's baffling that a company can do that and expect to still be trusted in the future, and with people's lives, no less. Alas, it'll likely blow over, if it even makes any kind of splash.

It'll be interesting to see the copious amounts of doublethink in the announcement.
Archived: https://archive.ph/EYppA
Do the changes in color actually reflect the importance of the content? Because if not, I find myself focusing on the wrong things.

Giving that you are a founder, how much money can be made with such a thing?
Based on the docs it looks like it actually uses pandoc
"GF"
What’s the point of maths research? It’s behind tomorrow’s breakthroughs
Low-code is not a cure for overworked IT departments
All those use-cases you've described actually seem really practical, especially the fraud detection. Being able to detect things that would otherwise be invisible or require physical contact to ascertain already makes it a worthwhile EDC tool in my opinion.
When I was growing up you never posted your photo online where strangers could see it.

Earlier than that, it was also considered proper etiquette to ask before taking someone's photo.

There's been a huge culture shift and some of the outcomes are disheartening but quite predictable.

...little recourse other than to continuously report fake profiles across social media platforms

If they don't take down your fraudulent likeness or their efforts toward that end are a joke, hire a lawyer and put them in touch with the owners of the site.
>how can we be sure that chatGPT (or even the whole of GPT-3) is really not just some callcenter in the Philippines?

This question alone makes me think you haven't used it.
Yeah, they're all different types of wrong. Which is cool for an essay question, but strikes me as BS for multiple choice.
ffmpeg might have amazingly efficient inner loops (i.e. low-level decoding/encoding), but the broader architecture (e.g. memory buffer implementations, etc) is quite inefficient. Like the low-level media code it's not that each component itself is inefficient, it's that the interfaces and control flow semantics between them obstruct both compiler and architectural optimizations.

When I wrote a transcoding multimedia server I ended up writing my own framework and simply pulling in the low-level decoders/encoders, most of which are maintained as separate libraries. I ended up being able to push at least an order of magnitude more streams through the server than if I had used ffmpeg (more specifically, libavcodec) itself, even though I still effectively ended up with an abstraction layer intermediating encoder and format types. And I never wrote a single line of assembly.

There's no secret sauce to optimization: it's not about using assembly, fancier data structures, etc; it's learning to identify impedance mismatches, and those exist up and down the stack. Sometimes a "dumber" data structure or algorithm can create opportunities (for the developer, for the compiler) for more harmonious data and code flow. And impedance mismatches sometimes exist beyond the code--e.g. mismatch between functionality and technical capabilities, where your best might be to redefine the problem, which can often be done without significantly changing how users experience the end product.
Nah, OP was right, it is stupid. I like hard games, but if you’re not getting any enjoyment out of it just give it. There are a million other things to do.
NASA Workmanship Standards (Pictorial)
very very often the result is "we dont".

Often "evergreen" is the fastest/cheapest solution.. ie every time the app installs it comes from the internet source so its always the most up to date at the time of install with no extra work being done.

chocolatey and (hopefully) winget offer "upgrade" functions, so you could script that out for your supported evergreen deployments.

I'm not really sure how i feel about chocolatey atm, it has the potential to save me a lot of time, but as I dont truly control the source I'm not sure i trust it.
Log4Shell Lives
Yeah, but who uses MSIs? Windows Installer is just a flash in the pan. It's so much easier to just make an Inno Setup-based SETUP.EXE. /s

It makes me shudder to think how many hours (days? weeks?) of my life I'd have back if developers had just packaged their Windows application as MSIs instead of making me, as a sysadmin who wants consistently updated client computers, do it for them.
Ok, still, does that hold up in court? It’s just a technicality. Vidangel has tried a bunch of loopholes and they’ve all been closed.
Amazing that AirBnb's dev team can release something this smooth and advanced but its messaging system is simply unbearable to use. What's up with that?
I get the complaint kind of. But this articles example doesn't really feel right to me. I'd like to see the author pull off this project on his own 10 years ago. Not sure it's even possible. He'd be spending years writing some of this from scratch. Instead he finished it, figured it out with time left to write a blog post about it.
I have no clue other than I’ll never pay $70 for a game as long as I live.
We're all patched in case anyone is wondering.
The same fear is part of what's holding me back as well.
I think we can all agree that maximizing profit is a cause, while also acknowledging that the situation is not ideal. There are many solutions to this self-imposed problem, like standardizing the battery interfaces.

I agree most company's have no incentive to do that. I think those incentives should be put in place though.
The US Census is not doing sociological research on people's opinions. They're collecting factual information. Big difference.
I was thinking about RMS during the "spat" between Elon and Apple. Neither one of them have our interests at heart. Big platforms are bad in a lot of ways.
Unified Endpoint Management is the new MDM.
Can you send me the audio that caused it, you can email me at team AT revoldiv .com. If there is going to be a lot of interest, yes we can provide it as an api service. Our service has some niceties like word level timestamp, paragraph separation, sound detection etc... for now it is a free service you can use as much as you want
Yeah, that's exactly my point. The post above mine was implying that older workers demand higher pay. But I think it's the younger workers that demand higher pay.
“That's the Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard”
It's not them, it's you: Why potatoes don't deserve their bad reputation
"Research has shown while potatoes may not have all the same benefits as some other vegetables -- such as lowering risk of Type 2 diabetes -- health issues associated with potatoes may actually be due to how people are preparing them and what they're eating them with. More than 54,000 people reported their dietary intake for the long-term Danish Diet, Cancer and Health study."
big investment eh? guess tsmc knows china is going to invade soon.
There was such a theory, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, I think, although I can remember neither the name of the linguist (I don't think it caught on broadly, so it really was just one researcher) nor the name of the theory.

I think it foundered for a number of reasons, one of which was that it had--so far as I know--no account of the creativity of humans "doing" language. That is, we can understand and speak any number of sentences we've never heard before, and it's hard (or impossible) to imagine that all those novel sentences were ever in the brain, or that new nerve connections grew so rapidly.

For example, I can tell you that I've invented a fugelizer, and that it is useful for turning bryles into fugels. Now I've just used three words that you've never heard before, but you can sort of make sense of what I've said. But clearly there's no 'fugelizer' neuron in your brain, etc.
black is great on a car, but very hard to keep clean, especially if there's a desire to avoid hairline scratches and swirls. There's also a need to avoid car washes to keep the car scratch free.

Grey/Silver color range is much easier to keep clean, and stays cooler in the sun.