skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any white collar remote job is fine. No risk to the business.
As a US citizen I would absolutely love that (a short, unprintable answer from the EU to the US). And would cheer if the EU were in a position to deliver this. But...

The way it looks to me (sorry, not trying to offend) is that while the EU may be an OK construct for the peacetime prosperity it is not functioning well during the times of conflict. As of today, it does not have military strength, energy security or economic strength from which it can deliver such an answer. And when you have to depend on someone else for the protection you have few options for saying "no". My 2c.
Free market?
It's not about simulation theory as in "we are living in a simulation," but about consciousness. My reasoning goes like this:

- 'A' is a computing entity and an organism: it takes information in, it reacts. Its genes use those two functions to ensure survival. Note that A doesn't need to be conscious.

- As environmental complexity raises, A must collaborate with other members of its own species (most likely, the same genes control the hardware) or of other species. Let's say B.

- Evolution gives A the capability of partially simulating B ("other"), so that they can negotiate. Evolution also gives them the capability to communicate. Communication happens between members of the same species because they share the same set of genes. If B survives, the genes of A survive, even if A itself doesn't (abnegation).

- The capabilities are somewhat loose. For example, there is not a restriction that A must be different from B. If A can simulate B/other, it an also simulate with B/other=A. The trick is very useful to strategize interaction ("plan"), and to cope with bigger groups.

That process where our brains diverge and simulate an interior dialogue is what we perceive as consciousness. For example, as I write and edit this post, I'm actively imagining ('simulating') how peers from my species will interpret it, and my sentences are changing so that they are decoded by the path of least resistance in the reader, thus advancing my goals (actually my genes').

So, consciousness is an illusion that we can't escape in speech[^1], discourse or logic. It is what we are. And it is tremendously useful, because it allows us to "edit our future" to a great extent, with the implication that by doing so, we increase the chances of own survival or, if that's not possible, of our genes' survival.

Now, that component is missing from our current AI iteration. Put simply, our artilects don't run continuously and don't have genes commanding them. They don't have an endocrine and nervous system constantly producing overriding signals ("hunger", "pain", "lust", "do so that the group survives") that must be rationalized a-posteriori to the point of forming entire cultures. The thing is, we could engineer entirely artificial replacements of those things, and with a bit of fussing, we would replicate the illusion of consciousness. But the idea of doing that and also binding our creations to do useful work is simply repulsive to me (edit: my genes are providing an overriding signal saying that, creating a being with the potential to inflict damage on me and my group (read: them the genes), is something that only deleterious members of the species would do, and that at the very least, dissuasive action should be taken).

[^1]: We can shut it down however, it's not inherent. We routinely do when we sleep, and sometimes when we do something that requires more of our lower brain, for example doing intense physical exercise or having sex.
Pretty sure this service is already offered by Google or Apple, I remember seeing a demo of it
If you grant an application access to your contacts, you are sharing the private data, perhaps PII, of others.
The biggest advantage of vim is the movements (key bindings), and there are plugins for many editors for that, e.g. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
The idea that we'll get Americans to properly dispose of plastic is not credible to me, without some kind of cultural shift that I don't expect (I'm aware that some other countries, perhaps Germany and Japan, are much more diligent about how you dispose of household waste).

I've observed a number of people who haven't seemed to internalize the current rules about what can be recycled. People especially want to think that thin plastic bags can go in the recycling with everything else. I don't think people are going to move away from single-stream recycling, which appears to be a big part of the problem.
A carrier could probably do that, individuals could not. The challenge is that caller ID is generally kinda like your email display name: It doesn't mean anything. The important part, which STIR/SHAKEN is adding verification requirements to, is what telcos are actually involved in the exchange.

I'd love a setting I could flip to disable inbound voice calls from any carrier that isn't like... Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Comcast.
He notes that it was government action that broke up the phone monopoly to allow multiple phone companies. That's probably a good precedent to look at. It's super unlikely that governments will break up any social media company, and the resulting phone systems are sufficiently insecure that SWATting, phone scams and zero-days transmitted by SMS are as common as mosquitos.
Slight correction, Deep Blue beat Kasparov in the 90s with Minimax but did not use neural networks afaik. Alpha Go does use neural networks to traverse a game tree but it’s algorithm is Monte Carlo Tree Search.
In 2003 we (USA) kidnapped Abu Omar off the street on Italy and shipped him off to Egypt where he was tortured for years. We have vassals and client states, not allies.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/collateraldamage/clerics...
No worries, all this is coming in a few years as well.
Slightly tangential, but for the past few weeks I've been actively eating less by deciding what I want to eat, and then ordering / making a slightly smaller portion.

I imagine you could apply the same thinking to shopping. Before checking out, pick one or two items to cancel or leave to the next purchase, or choose a smaller size.

Sometimes it costs a little more per unit, but the upside is you consume less.
Evil, VsCodeVim, IdeaVim are all faithful reproductions with thorough coverage of the typical text editing use cases.
Is this really a massive cost, though? What does it cost to release some statements to the media and maybe reimburse some hotel receipts in 6 months? Especially balanced against the fuel savings of grounding half your fleet for 6 days. It's absolutely cheaper to run without enough staff and then just deal with the fallout every couple years. No one will remember this. Even the people effected will pick the cheapest flight next time, not matter the airline.
Yes, it's not great for lots of business models. But the dotcom boom happened when the effective federal funds rate was much higher than it is now.

I think (and perhaps I'm very wrong!) we'll settle back into a 2018, 2017 tech industry minus companies like OpenDoor rather than a early 2021 euphoria
Yes https://youtu.be/1FwgCRIS0Wg
> Southwest is a "discount" airline.

They're also the "friendly airline", they easily have the most personable and friendly staff. I don't know what they do different, but Southwest employees treat me human and all the rest generally treat me like human trash. It's got to be a company culture thing, maybe connected to Southwest not having a first-class section.

Usually I fly with Southwest whenever possible without thinking twice about it, but this outage and the outage last year are forcing me to reconsider. Better to deal with rude people than to have my flight delayed..
We should at the very least stop producing and transporting around the globe useless items such as a plastic tree imported from China I saw on sale in Brazil.

A plastic tree in Brazil that came all the way from China! It's surreal.
No. Southwest staff is almost never disgruntled. They're hired and known for their positive attitudes. The company culture is very different from other airlines, which is why there are a lot of books written about it.
I guess my hope is that rather than requiring a bunch of hardcoded boilerplate for each package management solution, we could come up with a reasonable set of primitives that they'd all need and then find a way to express them agnostically. The power of LLVM and LSP are that it's not just one entity producing all of the implementations, but that each side of the communication can contribute the stuff that's specific to their use case so that no one else needs to worry about those internal details. If I write a new programming language, all I need to do is implement a language server client, and then everyone can get plugins for pretty much any editor they want without needing to do a huge amount of work. It's possible something like this exists for package management right now, but my current impression is that the only products that try to provide something like this would not be as easily extensible to adding new distro package formats that might be invented but instead hardcode a few of the most common types (debian, rpm, etc.). The key part that seems to be missing is a standard for what the bits in the middle should look like; what's the package-level equivalent to LLVM IR or the LSP?
Rephrase the last comment to be short and sound 100% like a human:

"We want to pass the state object to a worker and use it to manage connection pools and other resources. To do this, we will need to modify the server code to pass the state object to the worker and use it instead of the Axum Extension. The worker also needs to be able to access and use the state object to manage resources. It's worth considering if this is the best solution for the project before implementing it."
How do you program if you have a hard time accessing array elements?
After reading some of the comments here I didn't bother reading the article.

Just wanted to mention on the subject of being uncomfortable:

I've slept on the floor for decades, initially just to avoid wasting space on a bed in my bedroom while still living at home. But this increasingly became apparent as preventative of waking up with back pains which I'd experience whenever deviating from the floor at friends' homes or hotels, so I just kept doing it. It's not cozy or comforting, it's just dull but I'm so used to it that it's fine.

Eventually it became clear that by sleeping on the floor I had unintentionally made getting up easier. It's not a comfort trap like the soft cozy beds I used to sleep on. This effect became very apparent when I started doing pushups every morning. When I'm already on the floor from where I slept, it's a very short (dis)comfort delta from where I was to where I want to be when what I want is doing pushups on the floor. I'm already on the hard floor; just put away the blankets and pillow and bust out a set then get on with the day. There's no substantial comfort debt to dig myself out of first...

Since experiencing this I've started becoming more conscious of limiting comforts and making them more intentionally used when necessary. It pays in dividends to be a bit tougher across the board. Maximizing comfort continuously is tantamount to coddling yourself constantly, that's what we do to spoil babies.
> I think gutting the teams was the correct move

If you don't trust the previous teams, then fire them and hire new people. Firing these teams and leaving them gutted was definitely not the correct move. If you're worried about the effectiveness of your current fire department, the solution is not to stop having a fire department, it's to get a better one.

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Going after the legal team in particular is a little strange, because you can call out Twitter's upper management, moderation teams, and policy stakeholders as lacking nuance/neutrality, but Twitter's lawyers were arguably the best free-speech advocates in the room. They challenged government/police orders to unmask users, went to court on behalf of users during lawsuits. They were good at their jobs.

If there was any team you were going to keep to help you push back against government requests, it probably would have been the lawyers.

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But it goes back to -- it doesn't seem like Musk is actually interested in building effective structures to support free speech, it seems like his interest begins and ends with complaining about the existing structures. Hire whoever you want, but having a shoestring moderation/legal team at Twitter will make these problems worse.
If this was the way things work, then technically Twitter isn't a business since they've been cash negative for their entire history.
Public transit or taxi/ride share? Lots of people with medical conditions where you can't drive work just fine. Also if you live in a city you can probably walk to work.

Also even with seizures you can drive if you're on medication and haven't had one in a while.
Are there more data sources or ways to overlay node graph information over time series data?

I’ve wanted to use it, but haven’t had time to write a custom day source.
Thanks all for the warnings and information. I've been using Magic on and off for the last four years, mostly for travel planning. Their quality of work is not what it used to be.

I went to remove my credit card information from their records today, and it turns out you cannot actually do this yourself which is a red flag. I had to open a request with them to do it.
These days I have switched to

https://www.taichi-lang.org/
Except this movement was not started by the protestors on the ground. It was started by protestors on twitter, some of whom spread false news to exacerbate the situation.
I already have a reasonable Adjusted Gross Income on my annual tax return. We already have an American Geological Institute. Have many Adventure Game Interpreters to choose from. Amplified Geochemical Imaging is a mature field. Hell, we even have some early contenders for proto Artificial General Intelligence if that is what you meant. But obviously we don't have Acronym Gist Inflation, and your text remains unqualified and vague.
> "best day for layoffs"

Best day from the employer and employee perspectives are different.
You have to be careful what you mean by approximate. In this context, it means a schedule that requires more than the optimal number of pilots.
Another way of meaning approximate is canceling routes till you can find a schedule that fits the pilots you have. That’s actually a harder problem, and is not CS means by an approximation algorithm. Obviously that’s what SW has to do, but part of the reason why things are so disastrous is that this problem is quite difficult (in terms of algorithmic difficulty)
Washing machine and dryer. Our last pair had troubles. I did open both up and attempt to diagnose and repair. I got them going but both needed a part replaced, dryer it was the belt and washer was having issues with the pump.

The problem is that it is hard to get the parts and it takes time, it's not guaranteed to be a fix, and the local repair people have a 2+ week wait to come and look. It's much more convenient to just buy replacement appliances. I'm comfortable fixing things but I don't always have time and that time would be further stretched having to go to the laundry place in town.

We bought replacements, got the repair company to fix up the old machines and sold them on.

Parts is the biggest issue. Our coffee machine needed repair. I would have loved to fix it myself but the parts are really expensive so I couldn't experiment... I tried replacing the tubes and a valve. In the end it needed a pump. The repair place that sees loads of them can just stock some spare pumps but I'd end up paying more than a new machine to do that... and the shipping on parts, it was stupidly expensive.
There are tons of very cheap hosting providers who are stable and have been around a long time. You could look at buyshared.net which is the webhosting arm of buyvm.net.
They know how to take the reservation, they just don’t know how to _hold_ the reservation.
Yeah there is a lot of complexity to the process.

Other things to consider include that if the child’s genes kill the mother they generally do this by causing the child to fail to exit the mother, which also kills the child. The exception to this would mostly be genes that result in the mother’s death from blood loss, after the child had exited, so related to placental issues/placement. But for this to succeed for the child it also assumes someone else would care for the child as well as the mother would have, which is unlikely at best.
All opinion, but worth considering:

It is probable, based solely on the rate of technological change, that the concepts of engineering, computing, programming, etc. will be historical by the middle of this century. Electronic engineering was the dominant technology trade in the late 80’s. Within 20 years, computer programming became the dominant technology trade. With AI advances, programming by humans will all but disappear and this field will be replaced by “cognitive architects” that build artificial intelligence systems and solutions. After that, who knows?
So, did you know there are no manufacturers in the US that can produce N95 at scale? Even now many masks still come from china and Asia. There was an article about one company in the US that has ceased manufacturing because the hospitals who purchased from them in prior pandemics (eg: h1n1) promised to keep buying but the hospitals fell to cost cutting and moved purchasing back to china.

In these circumstances capitalism directs us to the cheapest solution. Not the most robust solution. The solution is basically government as a guaranteed buyer. Yet this factory never had that and went out of business and even in Covid times didn’t come back afaik.

Finally remember that mask-nationalism was popping up in 2020. China was restricting exports of masks and so was the U.S. and Europe. The difficulty of acquiring masks was not to be underestimated. There were additional sordid details of government sponsored programs being used to personally enrich certain (relatives of potus) people.

And during the alpha strain of Covid it turns out the relatively low infectiveness combined with droplet control via cloth masks actually did the trick and reduced spread. Pediatric flu deaths went from ~150 to 1 in the 2020 season. One! All thanks to distancing and masks. We literally made a strain of the flu extinct via masks.
Check out kitboga on YouTube for some hilarious scamming the scammer videos. The guy tries to waste as much of the scammer’s time as possible and he’s quite good at it. Of course there’s only so much one person can do, but he does seem to be doing more than the entire US law enforcement apparatus combined.
Bank Americard to get a new name: Visa (1976)
One can use hypothes.is on mobile Safari with the bookmarklet. I didn't really expect it was going to work, but it does.
Google offers it for businesses which don’t have online reservations. A robocaller calls for you during business hours to try and set up an appointment.

The problem is that it isn’t actually integrated into any schedule or reservation system, so they claim availabilities which just don’t exist and you only find out hours later when the business denies the reservation.
rephrase below with simpler words:

"We want to pass the state object to a worker and use it to manage connection pools and other resources. To do this, we will need to modify the server code to pass the state object to the worker and use it instead of the Axum Extension. The worker also needs to be able to access and use the state object to manage resources. It's worth considering if this is the best solution for the project before implementing it."

"We want to give a worker a state object to help them manage connection pools and other resources. To do this, we need to change the server code to give the worker the state object instead of the Axum Extension. The worker also needs to know how to use the state object. Before we make these changes, we should think about if this is the best way to solve the problem."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monies
No one needs this much, but lots of people want this much or even a lot more. Some folks have expensive tastes while others are content with reading library books in a cabin in the woods.
"I have trouble believing that someone can be literate yet"

Several things here:
1) Perfectly literate people can be computer illiterate for many reasons. That you have trouble accepting this doesn't make it not true.

2) Some people aren't literate or are only semi-literate. Many years ago I worked at a bank for about a year, and the bank served a lot of farmers - some of whom had not complete their education and were functionally illiterate. Some of those folks are probably still alive and no more literate than they were then.

3) Some people are perfectly literate in one language, but not fluent in English and user education materials are not available in their language(s).

"It shouldn't be up to these users anyway"

Users are why banks and any business exists, not the other way around.

"most people will figure it out just find once they don't have a choice."

Most isn't all. Not even close. I find the willingness to abandon large swathes of the population really inhumane.
The U.S. has been expanding eligibility for Global Entry over the last decade.

No idea where you live but:

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...

This also gives you TSA Pre. It’s cut my average time spent queuing in U.S. airports and at the border by an order of magnitude. Worth the effort.
Wait until they find out that the United States has way more debt that it can service over the coming decades, and that the way out is persistent inflation combined with gaming the inflation metric used for Social Security cost-of-living increases.
One man’s search for the first Hebrew-lettered cookbook
The "proper" way to dispose of plastic is in the trash. We just need to admit this and get the message out.
>Yes. Was it a colony? No, not in any defined meaning of that word.

Since you only responded to one comment and not the numerous other points that were made by other posters, maybe you could provide these defined meanings you speak of.

Again, I propose that you're letting strict semantics get in the way of a wider truth. During the famine Ireland's "relief" programme was run by a colonial administrator. It looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

But to extend an olive branch to your argument, let's pull the first definition of colony from Google.

"a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country."

Sounds like the shoe fits to me. Now you might not agree with the definition, but it is a defined definition all the same.

Again though, my argument in another thread is that you're myopically focused on textbook definitions instead of wider patterns.

I'd have the same lack of patience for someone insisting that what is going on in Ukraine is "not a war" because of a lack of formal delcarations. A "special operation", it is not.
Safari's date picker really isn't that hard to use.
> Can someone point out a big flaw in my password management system?

The issue is that your passwords have almost zero entropy in them. The only guard is that others don't know your secret function. Password crackers are already programmed to handle functional password composition. You might want to ask yourself why pw crackers are programmed that way.
> Developers shouldn't expect themselves to be able to do good design work

Rude. People can learn to do multiple things without being pigeonholed, you know?

> I see so many opportunities in FOSS lost to basic, unnecessary branding and usability oversights.

It's FOSS. Feel free to contribute.
Yup! Noticed that. Although I wish they had spent more time and resources on improving the staff scheduling system rather than adding a new fare class ("Wanna get away plus") and trying to milk the boarding system for extra cash.