skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have made a conscious commitment to stop all use of emojis. They seem innocent enough, but ultimately they're debasing language and limiting the range of free expression. For example, in 2018, most major platforms changed their revolver emojis to water gun icons, in an apparent attempt to "do something" about gun violence. This would be a laughable proposition if it didn't border on dystopian. We should not allow these corrupt companies and consortiums to dictate our capabilities of conveying ourselves based on their political ideologies. Orwell understood well vagueness and use of euphemisms as powerful tools of oppressing political opposition, and wrote beautifully of it in Politics and the English Language (1946).
Perhaps, but AIT doesn't actually give any useful information about the phenomenon of split votes. It doesn't tell you how likely they are, or give any statistical insight into the effect at all.

Anytime there is an election, it is always technically possible that people's preferences are uniformally distributed and no electoral system could ever give a good result. That's basically all that AIT says.
I kept forgetting to read the damn book, and then I lost it.
> “by pretending that only women can get pregnant.”

Only women can be impregnated. Stating otherwise does not make it so.
They have, it's called Macports. It started as a port to Darwin of the existing *BSD ports and (I believe) is subsidized by Apple.

It installs itself in /opt/local, it respects the Apple SIP.

Homebrew basically sucks, because it doesn't follow Unix conventions and it doesn't follow MacOS conventions.

Macports has both pre-compiled and build-from-source, supports current and past MacOS releases, uses xcode/clang for compilation, supports port variants and multiple versions installed in parallel (with "port select" to choose a default) etc etc.

Not sure why people use anything else.
Does Beyond Earth count?
Polarised Shockwaves Shake the Universe’s Cosmic Web
Would putting a low price ceiling on airbnb listings do the trick? Let home owners rent out a room if they have the extra space or go on vacation, but not let them make any real profit on any substantial allocations of rooms or whatever.
AirPods Pro (the in-ear models) with music playing worked pretty well for me. Non-cancelling closed isolating like AKG K550 with music also weren't too bad.

The key to the music not being distracting for me is the music being both familiar and of a particular nature. Stuff like trance, retrowave, and synthwave usually does the trick.
The bureacratic IT blob don't get the iPad and present Apple C-suite execs and up, too. Very much doubt SJ would prefer directing Apple effort to filling the Windows platform with Apple product. Certainly, iPad is not well integrated with an idea of ecosystem but maybe the big picture is years away and pushed further away by supply chain and pandemic updates.
They basically did with CIV Beyond Earth. It was very mid.
Sure it is.

Look at the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan for Michigan. It covers a number of gene therapies at a cost of $2.2M for one of them.

Not all European countries pay for it.

https://www.bcbsm.com/amslibs/content/dam/public/employers/d...
I can't find anywhere he published those stories. Do you have a link?
X Class Solar Flare [video]
I hear what you're saying. You're doing a brave thing too!

At this point I've done some UCB style classes and some slower improv where we play it more "real" and honest. I don't think I really like the UCB style anymore. The more improv I do, the more see the UCB approach as a bit of a trap for smart people.

The UCB style is alluring because it implies that you can think your way to being a good performer. But when you actually pay attention to what gets the biggest reactions from the audience during shows, its almost never the "clever" ideas. My favorite improv to watch is almost obvious - where the performers breathe and look at the audience and then do the "dumb" thing that you might never have thought to do.

Its hard to explain these kind of moments. I once saw a performer endowed as a "horse breaker" who needed to get to Mars by his 3rd scene. I was in the audience stressing out on his behalf - how can he get to mars? But of course, he's a horse breaker. He goes to Africa and "breaks" the best horse there ever was so much she could fly him to mars. Its all made up, so why not!?. The audience was in hysterics. But it didn't feel fast or clever - just a fantastic show.

"Poppy" performances bring me in my head to try and come up with the clever offer, but when I do that I sort of forget how to play and I disconnect from the moment. And I disconnect from my scene partners and the audience.

I did some clowning recently. My clowning teacher said in good clowning, the clown knows less than the audience about whats going on. And when we feel shame as a performer, we should practice sending it "out not down". As performers, our feelings are part of the show too. There's something for me in that. It feels more integrated somehow than just getting laughs on stage for being clever.

As I said, this whole journey has been full of upsetting moments of self awareness and learning. Its terrifying, but I couldn't recommend it enough if anyone is keen. Its definitely a good way to practice being brave.
To be clear secret societies is an optional game mode, and it’s not half bad for what it is, especially if you enjoy overpowered gameplay.
You make a compelling argument. I have reconsidered my position and am now on board with the pregnant man emoji.
> Passwordless authentication means removing the most critical failure factor from authentication: the human.

Yes it is but you are removing a layer of defense not a link in a chain. You think this is better based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of defensive security.

> This type of attack is not based in reality; most attacks are done remotely from a location with limited jurisdiction and practically no repercussions

Of course the threat landscape never changes right? And the process you have to issue new yubikeys is flawless too right? And threat actors never adapt right? WebUSB and in browser vnc can't possibly be abused? So many things can go wrong.

Look, here is the fundamental thing you people that jump on these hype trains don't understand about security: it is that after half a century, what we've learned is that it is a cat and mouse game and there are no long lasting silver bullets and even if there were, you still do security in layers because mistakes happen and you could screw up something that makes your silver bullet ineffective. So you add multiple layers of preventive and detection focused security.

You don't remove an entire layer of security and somehow twist that to sound like you improved something. It's legitimately fraudulent and harmful.
It’s keg only, which shouldn’t matter, except that it does if you want to add any extensions. For example, postgis can’t be added to Postgres 15 using normal brew commands (you can if you edit it and build from scratch and link manually, but that’s kind of a nightmare). Everything is set up to treat PG14 as the default, because that is the one that is not a keg.
Am I the only one who almost never gives a F what office set up there is? Loud, quiet, people around, no people, open floor plan, cubicle, office, I just don't care. I'm doing my work and others are doing wtf they want. However, I do demand a desk next to a window.

The only thing that I find annoying is really long loud personal calls that aren't funny. If you're talking to your friends on the phone, you should be telling jokes.
What would be the emoji equivalent of old man shaking fist at cloud?
Sorry, what?

Political just means it’s a socially invented question that gets both raised and resolved through interplays of power.

Which, incidentally, was the same for the “Do dogs have souls” question. For political reasons, it became a pressing matter for the Catholic Church to make a pronouncement on. So they did. And their decree carried weight because they were a politically influential body.

So yes, I guess it is no more political than than that. But it feels like that’s not what you were trying to say?
THINK OF THE HOSPITAL CHILDREN
Just create a tailscale network and make one of the home devices as the exit node. Its free for upto 20 devices.
Yes, this is correct. I give £1,000 to charity and gain £190 in tax relief. I do not gain £190, I have still given away £1,000 against keeping £810 for myself.

This is a scam?
Or physical ones. Like someone walking over asking for an email or for help or something.
If the program in intended by me to run on a small form factor computer with limited storage, such as a router, then the program nearly doubling in size is going to draw attention.
Trying to lead a life of success is like trying to have a best-selling novel.

It’s possible, people do it, but there are many paths, and none of them are certain.

It’s a decision tree. Are you the kind of person who thrives on having huge goals that are a decade out , or are you the kind of person who’s more successful focusing on one foot in front of the other for ten years? Either way works, but not for everyone.

Of course success is possible. But success is not an activity. What activities will help you?
Not really, a black hole is not different orbitally than any other object with mass. You could replace all the stars in the Milky Way with a black hole of the same mass and basically nothing would change for us except not having starlight. Black holes suck everything in the same way that stars and planets do - unless you are literally heading right towards it, if the relative velocity is high, you would just move past each other.

A tiny black hole would not have enough mass to pull in a significant amount of matter and would just pass through the earth if it were coming from space. If the black hole were created on earth it would need a lot more mass than a collider could give it to do anything funky.
It's definitely better than the previous ones .. the previous games feel unplayable now. I can't imagine civ5 (4 cities only to be viable and stupid-as-heck civic options) or earlier (no hexes, stacking units?). But... at the same time, Civ6 feels super phoned-in and underwhelming most of the time. (The AI dialog, world congress, road-building-via-trade routes, and various other stupid things are so annoying that I can't believe anyone who really cares about the game had any input on them.)

Mostly I just want the same game, made by a different company that's run by people who are less interesting in churning out DLC for $ and leaving all the quality-of-life stuff to modders.
Porque no Los Dos?

Why not hire for both, or hire a team with both?
3 days is to limit the shock. Then, it’ll be “we have got so much positive feedback, productivity has skyrocketed, we all need to come back full time”.
Caveman simplicity is the best! The “gardening” involved in many PKM apps is what has turned me away from them. I’ve started just throwing my stuff into a Markdown file on GitHub (so I can easily sync across devices). I’ve taken the same ethos to my website on GH pages (steph-inners.github.io) and use it to share knowledge that people commonly ask me about. It’s super easy to update, and Ctrl+F takes care of finding things later.
Because we’re not paying for the tapes, Microsoft is.

Their archival storage tier is extremely cheap, but has a high retrieval cost and a very slow retrieval time. If you wanted to keep 1+ year full and incremental backups of a large amount of data it’d be a no brained. If you’re only keeping 60 day full and incremental than the retrieval cost and time doesn’t pan out cost wise IMO.
That sounds hilarious
Small cube farms with tall partitions don't get obnoxiously loud and you can still talk over the walls. Have the floor subdivided into reasonably sized cube rooms and you don't need to have offices with doors.
Didn't bother reading the article. Why does anyone care what Facebook says about the workplace? They have a lot of cool tech for sure, but this whole reinventing how people collaborate on basic shit (not lab science, open heart surgery, physical mechanics) seems like a waste of time. A whiteboard and some beer works just fine.
> Were you just turning noise cancelling on or doing more? When I still had to go into an office I'd turn on no-vocals music to finish killing external sound.

Just noise cancelling. Playing music is more distracting than office noise for me.
15.1 came out in November.
The top 1% of the vegetables gets 99% of the veggie emoji.
https://archive.is/kdF3l
U.S. Calls Off Search for Unidentified Objects It Shot Down
JustWatch is a good standalone mobile app that can do this.
Walls?
The dirty secret is we think we want the AI to play more realistically, but actually don't. This is true in many games but especially Civilization, where we rely on the AI behaving predictably to feel mastery over the environment, and for diplomacy to feel "fair". If the AI were playing to win, diplomacy would mostly evaporate as a game system. It'd break the fiction of the game.
You would think that the gravitational attraction of all the matter in the universe would slow down its expansion, at least a little. However we observe that the rate of expansion of the universe seems to be accelerating over time, and it seems like something must be causing that. The cause is called dark energy, but you’re right, we don’t really know what it is.

It’s analogous to the situation with dark matter. Again we hypothesise some additional factor that causes behaviour we wouldn't otherwise expect. We attach the terms energy and matter to them, because those are the things that generally cause the kind of effects we observe, but they’re placeholder terms and it’s always possible the observations or our theories are incorrect or incomplete.
"Earth's Best Employer..."

Stack ranking, layoffs, and now micromanagement from Jassy himself.

Just months ago, they were positively frantic to hire anyone they could get their hands on.

I hope potential employees remember this when the market is on the upswing again.
> Note that if I am trying to fix an app that I want to keep using I sure as hell may want to keep the preferences.

Of course, `man defaults`. You can modify the preferences and potentially fix it, backup preferences, etc. Again I must stress that you use `defaults`, the .plist on disk isn't always accurate even if you terminate the app and reboot the machine.

> The case where I want it to auto clean up is where it is repeatedly broken and I never really got to using and configuring it yet. It's pretty rare.

There isn't really a one size fits all perfect automatic solution. Not all apps are good macOS citizens.
https://archive.is/IRlJq
https://archive.is/NzkQi
Year was 1995. I was a 15 year old kid who discovered Diku muds. CircleMUD to be specific. My life revolved around building MUDs and PC gaming. My family bought a Pentium 133, it cost my family a fortune and we were not well off. I got good at C and Linux, went off to work in 1999 after almost not graduating high school. The rest is history. I owe so much to MUDs, which lit my brain on fire and led me to a life I never could have dreamed of. MUDs still exist, you can still build them and they are as much fun now as they ever were. Give it a shot :)
When I delete an app on an iPhone, all its data is also deleted. Gone. Why can't it be the same for the Mac?

That's what the average end-user understands by removing an app from the system nowadays.
> With his situation, he should know his internet activity and online accounts are being monitored.

The man does not have a good track record for making good long-term decisions.
https://archive.is/ZCAHK
If there was a correct answer to this whole discussion, this down-v'd comment is it.

Instagram is being flooded with 20- to 30- something people bragging about how they hate work, hate their coworkers, hate going out with their friends. Why is everyone so bitter?
Well, I don't know if you noticed, but the part of the thread I responded to was already about discussing Mr Hersh's trustworthiness. And on the contrary, his soundness of mind has everything to do with this.

I would love to discuss the merits of the evidence presented by Mr Hersh. Too bad he hasn't given any! We just have to take him at his word because apparently he's credible and we have to pretend that octogenarians are just as mentally present as the rest of us. Anyone calling this an ad hominem doesn't know what the fallacy even means - it's not attacking the person instead of the argument if the person is the argument in the first place.
Meanwhile people across the US under indictment for small time crimes are being rearrested all the time for arbitrary violations of their bond conditions.
Menace by Anduril
I wonder if there ever will be a good neighborhood tool swap app.

How many lawnmowers does one block REALLY need?
BCBAs are paid by parents and schools. ABA is considered “Autism therapy” although there’s no particular reason it could be. The techniques used in such therapy bear a striking resemblance to conversion therapy, especially when the goal is to make the child behave normatively in some way, let’s say by not fidgeting. Much of the most cited evidence for ABA being effective like it raising IQ was gathered in the 80s, when autism I was diagnosed over a hundred times less often, with it becoming insurable in the 90s.

There are also some hilariously dark moments in ABA’s history and even it’s present. The judge rotenberg center, still open, being the most infamous where they strap down kids and shock them with electric vests (aversives in ABA speak, a rare practice) while strapped down. People prominent in ABA’s history like Ile Ovar Lovaas were pioneers in transgender conversion therapy and they used the EXACT same techniques they used on the autistics. He also published an article about slapping children.

They overwhelmingly work with autistics (mostly because of insurance) who were instrumental in conversion therapy in the past. From my experiences reading their communities, forcing autistics to act more normal is still a common goal. They work largely for companies who hire a few BCBAs and they’re structurally under pressure to produce results as measured by parents or children. Even today it’s common for ABAs to be assigned to torture autisitc children by subjecting them too heavily unpleasant experiences over not maintaining eye contract or stimming which are pretty transparently against their interests and only suit the aesthetic preferences of the adults around them.

The former patients in my experience give a mixed reaction to ABA (from “it let me fit in and live a normal life” to “I liked them they weee fun and funny” to “meh” to “fuckers tortured me” to “why did they have such a fucking problem with me flapping my hands?”) but their opinions broadly speaking don’t matter in any real way because they don’t sign the checks. Mind you, people with autism are overrepresented among BCBAs. Since autism diagnosis doubles every few years and is diagnosed in more and more marginal cases amongst people who are more and more lucid and articulate, who much more arguably never needed by therapy at all, the political correctness of what is in practice benevolent brainwashing of autistics is declining sharply. Were ABA only practiced on 80s autistics (autistics with high support needs, low functioning autistics) nobody would care so to be honest BCBAs reputation got screwed over by the broadening conceptualization of what autism means.

Hope that answer wasn’t too short.
>> Also this made me wonder how many people on HN don't actively use an ad blocker. Is there a reason why you don't use one?

I’d rather pay.
Indeed, anyone with an infant knows bowel movements run the entire emotional gamut. Everything from the sad face to the party hat, from the exploding head to the dollar sign eyes.
> Not a single person will sign up for 1Password because of this park

I'm not saying they made it for marketing purposes, but that seems very naive to me. How is this any different than any other type of marketing supposed to increase name-id?

If you want to save a park, save it without putting your name on it...
It would be a different game, but as a counterpoint: people do play and enjoy multiplayer civ.
What did you expect? Fashion trends are circular.

This one blocks natural light, turning the employees into vampires.
When I say good I mean comprehensible and lucid. I am an electrical engineer. And it was a pain for me to good find books that will make me understand things.

Where did I look for resources? Everywhere.
It may be difficult to define a line, but I think a line needs to be drawn.

When "platforms" editorialize content for the purposes of manipulating user behaviour, rather than merely to act in users' interests in helping them find what they want, then I'm in favour of them losing protection.

HN does the latter, so I think it'd be appropriate for HN to keep its protection.
"On February 13, 2023, it came to the Government’s attention, based on data obtained through the use of a pen register on the defendant’s Gmail account, that the defendant has used a VPN or “Virtual Private Network” on at least two occasions to access the internet."

I hadn't heard of a pen register before. Apparently it's monitoring:

- All email header information other than the subject line

- The email addresses of the people to whom an email was sent

- The email addresses of people whom received the email

- The time each email is sent or received

- The size of each email that is sent or received

As an aside, would headers give away the fact he was using a VPN when using Gmail?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register
a lot about the nonsensical lust for 'ai' will be solved, once people realize it's not literal human 'intelligence', it's just a collage of data based on statistical analysis of past data and a prompt.
IV > VI >>>>> V
Incredibly stupid study. 800 calories a day is not a diet, it is starvation. Of course metabolic rate is going to slow way down.
>"Ah yes, the party of personal responsibility and small government yet again telling me I cannot do something to protect myself from a danger or even control my own body, business, or home."

Your previous comments on HN:

"PayPal data breach notification (maine.gov)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530067

>"mrguyorama: As a resident of the state in question, I'm curious as to why this comes from our state. Did paypal not have to report this anywhere else?"

According to your previous comments on HN -- you do not live in Idaho.

(If I have this wrong, then please correct me -- you have my most humble apology if this is wrong!)

If you do not live in Idaho -- then there are no laws in your State which criminalize those who administer mRNA vaccines.

If there are no laws in your State which criminalize those who administer mRNA vaccines -- then there is no limitation on your personal freedom with respect to being administered mRNA vaccines...

In other words, you are completely free to adminster (or be administered by other people) as many mRNA (and non-mRNA!) vaccines to yourself as you wish, should you wish...

So I don't understand exactly what your issue is, if you are indeed free -- and it would seem that you are...

Perhaps you could help me to understand?

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I spent some time trying to get them to do this for a previous startup back around 2017 but their view at the time was essentially that a couple interns and/or "the community" would solve the problem. At a higher level I think they just didn't see it as an important market to serve. We were getting decent performance on their cards even without ROCm but it just wasn't something they cared about.
Is there any theory of why meditation is beneficial? I guess most meditation could be described as "minimizing verbal thoughts". Why is minimizing thoughts better than maximizing them for instance?

Is there any theory of how meditation offers evolutionary benefits?