skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly the same thing, but it's relatively easy to build your own optical tweezers. There's a video I can't find at the moment where smoke particles are captured in the beam waist from a defocused laser pointer.

Pretty interesting to watch even if it's not really exhibiting Doppler cooling or any other effects more exotic than convection.
Experts on Tech Hiring Talk About Where the Jobs Are
I feel like this is what everyone actually wants. Typescript in the browser (at least for me personally) would be awesome, and if they made TS into a separate language with its own runtime, that would be like the holy grail.
The regulations never mandated cookie popups.

Companies who decided to continue their invasive policies chose to implement those popups to provide legal cover. Non-invasive companies don't need to do that. The issue is with the companies, not the regulation.
Agree. Also consider massive bureaucracies which can send armed, sometimes irrationally violent people, with no agency, following policy, just doing their job, to throw you in a cage because some database had incorrect data.
This is fine, but the problem is most people who think this then vote for wealth transfers from working to non working once they need help.
Presumably not that different from how it has always been where unless you're literally the first person ever to develop a certain skill, you've always had to contend with the fact that someone much better than you exists.
Why didn't Noah link to the best work being done on this right now? There's a huge, collaborative Google Doc
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
Doesn't std::unique only generally work on consecutive items, and effectively requires the items to already be in a container (or at the very least have access to iterators to the items)?

If so, that sounds fairly limiting to me (i.e. potential extra storage - of duplicates, sorting required, etc).
>Freedom of association is about a person being able to choose who they wish to interact with

...like companies choosing not to negotiate (ie. "interact") with unions?
https://archive.ph/zZIi0
Some years ago I was interviewing for head of automation position, and in the process was asked how'd I go about making sure a Web admin interface (to a product that by and large doesn't need a Web interface, think, in the same category as Kubernetes) is well-tested.

To which I responded that I'd not use any JavaScript. Ideally, XML with stylesheets. Very light-weight, renders extremely fast, and is extremely friendly to automation tools (doesn't even require a browser for most tests). For the kind of product this was intended for, and I still believe it to this day, it would've been perfect: nobody needs any CSS animations there or any kind of interaction beyond filling forms and submitting them.

One of the interviewers was the head of the front-end department. He hadn't for a moment considered this to not be a joke, but pretended to answer this seriously by explaining that if they don't put a fashionable JavaScript framework into job description, they will not be able to hire front-end programmers.

In reality, there are plenty of things on the Web that could, in principle, be just HTML or, as in my example, XML + stylesheet, but won't be for no reason other than to feed the echochamber of the job market. Nevermind that from the business side this makes user experience worse, costs more to host and to maintain, and yet...
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FAANG-style companies are laying off in Europe, too. So are start-ups.
> Some special boffins on Mars would run atomic clocks, and worry about synchronisation with earth.

I think at some point, you have to redefine utc to be based on an estimated atomic clock at the center of the sun, because it's easier for mars and earth to estimate that, than for earth to go on its merry way and mars to estimate the time on earth. Relativism is fun?
If our consciousness is merely observing the universe, why do our physical mouths talk about the consciousness we experience? It sure seems like our consciousness is affecting the material world.
I think the issue here is more that the legal text could be interpreted as going quite far, even if this was not necessarily intended.

Here the proposal , scroll down to 'Article 1' for content.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...
everyone is exorbitantly indebted to everyone. At some point, someone has to put some reality back into the simulacrum because simulacrum does not feed your family
Oh wow, it started as a game concept! I was just thinking I wish they made a videogame with the physics and geopolitics (stellar politics?) from the show.
Having the page at an angle makes all the image examples for dutch angle look really weird.
>but were they as polarizing as the ones we have today? Newer things are scary, but what we have today is downright fearmongering.

I implore to take a break from current events and do some studying of journalism history. 'Yellow Journalism' is a term from 1890. There is nothing particularly new here. Even scientific debates of the day were filled with tons of complete garbage. What you're suffering from here is survivorship bias. The bullshit and otherwise wrong statements mostly get forgotten about over time, and the statements where people were correct get restated, copied, and otherwise taught again so it seems like the past was far more wise than it actually was.

In addition, if electrical demon snakes had rose out of the wires and strangled all of us in our sleep, we wouldn't be here to write about it now. Much the same if we decided to launch nukes during the cold war. And the same will be true if we make an evil ASI. The probability of electricity killing mankind (in mass) is near zero. The probability of nukes killing mankind is likely far closer to 1 than anyone would like to admit. With ASI, I have no clue, but from my understanding of the problem space, we're a lot farther from 0 then I am comfortable with.
This is nonsense.

The correct response to advertising sapping your energy is to block ads. The correct response to billboards cluttering up our lives is to collectively ban billboards. "You're either strong enough to resist temptation or you're a 'zombie'" is terrible advice. To the extent that you are able to control your environment, do so. And then use that environmental control to make it easier to exercise self-control in the instances where you can't avoid temptation.

Also understand that willpower is a continuum. If you struggle with alcohol, and you spend all of your time in bars, I promise that you are eventually going to slip up and drink. If you struggle with alcohol and you don't go to bars, then when you're offered a drink you might have the willpower to refuse.

If you're dieting, don't leave food out on your counter. If you're addicted to cigarettes, look into nicotine patches and consider chewing gum. If you're struggling with anger issues, block Reddit. You're not a "zombie" if you take active steps to remove temptations from your life and put yourself in fewer situations where you'll be exposed to addictive behaviors. That is healthy behavior.

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> Same as you can not consume advertising (cant adblock billboards).

Case in point.

People vastly overestimate how good they are at ignoring advertising. It takes brain power to do that filtering (even if it's happening unconsciously). You can't block every ad, but block every ad that you can block. There's literally no reason not to.

Install an adblocker on your browser/phone. Install SponsorBlock for Youtube. There is no reason at all to artificially make this harder for yourself. It doesn't build up willpower, it just means you'll be inundated with more omnipresent ads that take more willpower to ignore. However strong you think you are, I promise that advertising does probably statistically affect you. Statistically speaking, you don't just ignore it with no consequences. So get rid of as much of it as possible.

As a species, we evolved brains that allowed us to dominate the planet because we had the capability to purposefully reshape the world around us. It's so silly to say that the true human relies on willpower alone. That has literally never been true in the entire evolutionary history of human beings. Imagine saying that it's 'zombie' behavior to use tools and to adapt your environment to make accomplishing tasks easier.

So the point is: install an adblocker. Limit your web-browsing, or block sites outright. If you need to go more extreme, switch off of a smartphone entirely and see if you can get an old-fashioned mobile. Try different strategies and see what works. You are a human being; so heckin act like one and use some tools.
Almost a 70% decline since peak. Looks worse than I anticipated
Yes web workers are cool. Sadly its only single threaded. If I'm not mistaken the newer version of the engine can run multithreaded but only on super modern browsers. This slightly older version ensures more compatibility
Setting aside this specific case, what is a business supposed to do if a union's demands are unreasonable and make it infeasible to keep the business profitable? If they try and replace the unionized workers, that is frowned upon and in some cases illegal. If they shut down the business due to no longer being viable, that seems to also be legally murky.

If a group of employees wants to band together and collectively bargain, that feels like it should be allowed, but if the company wants to completely sever ties with that group or if an employee wants to be hired and not associated with the group that should also be fine.

I agree that the balance of power is tilted in favor of capital over labor and that imbalance has been continually growing over the past several decades, but it feels like there should be a better solution than legally protected unions. For example:

- Increased relocation assistance for people who need to move for a job

- Improved safety regulations, which is a common reason employees decide to unionize in the first place

- Increased public sector employment to provide more alternatives to those in exploitative private sector jobs

All of these seem like better ways the govt can help workers than legally protected unions.
In the US, you can check the address database directly to see what the minimum required elements are that resolve to your address [0]. This is what the USPS does when you mail something, they match to this database and then print a delivery barcode along the bottom of the letter.

Worth noting is that the delivery barcode is all that really matters. If you write 'return to sender' on an envelope and change nothing else, then throw it in the post box, you're going to get it sent right back to you. Always take a marker and block out that barcode and enough of your original address so that it gets forced to a human.

[0] https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress
> Will it be illegal to somehow disable the client side scanning? If so then how long until you are breaking the law when you turn off the government scanner

And once they've normalized "your computer will spy and inform on you", is there any reason to think that won't expand to things which aren't colloquially "computers" but in fact are now computers?

What about "smart houses"? All your IoT toys are computers. Once phones, laptops and PCs as mandatory reporters has been normalized, is there any reason to think all the other microphones and cameras already in people's houses won't become mandatory reporters too? If they make it illegal to disable client-side scanning on computers, might they also make it illegal to remove the crime-detecting cameras in your own home?

Modern cars already narc on people, logging and uploading GPS traces that can be fed into police dragnets, just like phones. Cops can ask for a log of who's been inside a 'geofence' and where does that data come from? Phones and cars reporting on their owners, generally without their owners knowing anything about it. The 'slippery slope' isn't actually a fallacy if you have enough datapoints to legitimately draw a trend line. And I think we certainly do.
This was operating at a tiny scale.

My guess is we’ll have 10 or so around the country each dealing with 100x as many batteries.
of course it is too far, which is why other languages don't do it, though they use objects elsewhere
> licensed stores, which is what you'll see in a Barnes and Noble

FWIW, Barnes and Noble operates its own brand, Barnes and Noble Cafe, that isn't a licensed Starbucks.

Licensed stores have full branding and, these days, accept stars as discounts and purchases there accrue stars. The third category (corporate and licensed being the first two) is "We Proudly Serve", meaning the business isn't a Starbucks but has an agreement to sell some or all of the 'bux product line.
Amazing to say something like "I dislike moral panics" to "Im pretty sure the issue is actually wokeness" in one paragraph. Author needs to keep introspecting, good job challenging your self on one idea atleast.
Some people argue we might consider abolishing (or at least ignoring) institutionalized peer review, e.g. Liam Kofi Bright. The blog post/Arxiv model seems to work reasonably well with no fees or formal referees, and was more or less how science worked in previous centuries. What's more, if formal peer review can't prevent something like the modern replication crisis, and creates publishing incentives widely acknowledged to be pathological, is it really that valuable?
A prescient article that predicts today's world of modals and random redesigns.

https://archive.is/cCrqJ
No, I was going based off the mental model I replied to:

> A commit is an immutable object. Whereas a ref is a pointer, literally a place on disk (a regular file) that holds an address (plaintext SHA) to the latest point in a logical chain of commits.

Reflog shows you the immutable commit SHA and the HEAD@{N} ref. I've only ever used it to get back to a commit I've lost, never by ref, so to me it's a commitlog.
Neither am I, now.

I wonder if this is a fluke, or if someone intervened manually. I was definitely getting the result consistently as I was testing which parameters I could remove from the URL and still get the Google Images page.
To be fair, the author uses the qualifier "may" and explains the desire for monospace and consistency. It's not like it's clickbait, the author makes a valid argument. Perhaps disregard sub-headings if it results in overlooking the nuance of the article's overall suggestions.
I think that OP is somewhat naive with some of these examples.

> Or some idiot MBA type uses these AIs to optimise some business process and the AI decides dumping radioactive waste in the ocean is the best way to do it.

The idea that a relatively simple AI (i.e. non-AGI) will have so much control over a system that it can get to the point where radioactive waste is being dumped feels outlandish to me. That would involve multiple systems and definitely some human beings. Just because an AI would theoretically make a harmful decision in an effort to optimize something doesn't that decision will come to pass - there are still going to be plenty of safeguards for things like this for the foreseeable future.

Your Uber example is sort of relevant, but I don't think it's fair to say it's the same as cutting off power during a snowstorm. One of those things is much more highly regulated than the other (maybe with the exception of Texas and their power grid).

The other thing to bear in mind here is that while it's not impossible these things are going to happen, the reality is they'll likely happen once and then face a huge backlash. Your Uber point is a good example of this - we no longer see surge pricing spiking during emergencies.

Though again, I'll exempt the Texas power grid from that claim... it'll probably freeze over year after year because it'd be a travesty to regulate that sort of a critical utility. I could AI crashing it repeatedly for the same reason.
You are making too many assumptions about the arrival of chargers and BEV in the first place.

When looking where the chargers will go, the issue is that the cars aren't necessarily going to be purchased and delivered, either. So, it isn't clear where the chargers will go, if anywhere. Today, there is a small rollout of chargers planned, but that isn't enough to say that many post offices will have chargers.

For those reasons, "the parking lot" isn't a feasible answer compared to specifying which post offices or other information. And, the USPS has said they don't know where the chargers will go, possibly a location centralized between several post offices. After all the question was asked by that poster, so it's best to presume that actual information was desired not flippant answers like are in this thread.

Many post offices have full lots today, so purchasing more vehicles and retiring some will surely mean there will be even less room for chargers in the parking lot.
I bet you lots of people are ignoring the "don't use this in prod" advice. Why doesn't Tailwind just offer a for-production CDN link? I understand that the build step provides features, but what if I don't care about those features?
Mostly all of American iPhone owners
you can't get anything done if nobody wants to do the work
with latency up to 1 hour
It sounds like you have access to all your resources, which means you could migrate away to a new AWS account. Have you considered doing that?
No time zone would make everything extremely complicated for everyone
This works in the Netherlands too, and people commonly use the format for writing the sender address on the back of the envelope.

Eg if you live on Braamstraat 11, 5614LK Eindhoven, you can write “5614LK 11” as the return-to-sender address and it’ll work. Post codes here are always \d{4}[A-Z]{2} so it’s obvious to anyone (incl the address scan computers) where the postcode ends and the house number starts.

If you mail internationally you can write “NL-5614LK 11” and it’ll also work.
Article is about 'Millions of Americans'. US folks with the FAANG salaries is a rounding error in the 'retirement age' group.
According to this[0] post, the legislation only applies to 75 billion or more Euro companies.

So, you won't have to worry about that until you reach 75 billion Euros.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34996473
Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU
Excess mortality in Europe in December 2022 was almost same as during covid waves.

Alarming is graph showing excess mortality of children 0-14 that is higher than ever.
What kind of debt would you be able to obtain?
> I prefer KSR's "time gap". At midnight on mars, everyone just gets a 40 minute period where the clocks don't move.

For anything legal, scientific, etc., dealing with time or speed (tracking experiments, wage and hour laws, etc.) you need to be able to track time during the clock pause, which will lead to adoption (by social convention, if nothing else) of a standard method of recording times within the pause, which leads to clocks that display in that format times during the pause. “All clocks stop for 40 minutes” is not a stable equilibrium.
It’s not because they didn’t see the point in what they were doing. These people had a lot of free time and only worked a couple of hours per week.
It looks to me like, in the US, the downturn is limited to a specific subset of the tech space. Mostly the SV-style companies. The larger tech space, at least in the software engineering segment, appears to be largely unaffected. They even seem to be hiring at the same rate as normal.
Because conversation doesn't (and shouldn't) work like that. There's plenty of asides, or casual mentions of things that are only slightly relevant or add to the point without being all that important.

Say we're talking about genetic engineering and I say something like 'This reminds me of that one movie where the one like normal guy, I think it was Tom Cruise, is trying to go into space'. It doesn't matter that I'm talking about Gattaca, or that it was Ethan Hawke and not Tom Cruise (a name just pulled out of the hat) and maybe even messing up plot details, and stopping to look it up just completely ruins the flow and break conversation.

I had this happen in person last week when someone mentioned Irish had a word for a three month period, but nobody could remember it. Several people went to their phone dictionaries immediately and it just stopped the conversation (and none were able to find it, either).

So there's lots of times we bring stuff up just as an aside or to add a little more flavour without it being important in conversation. I'd say that's hoe conversation should work not just 'Here's my point and all the facts that back it up.' There's no flow there, it becomes more like a debate or presentation, not a conversation. And if people are curious or it really was important, you can always look it up and send it later, but you'll often find nobody is that curious and it isn't that important.
> At some point something is going to shatter in that generational chain if the cost of everything continues to go up.

Maybe that's the final push we need to adopt universal health care like the other civilized countries? When the cost of caring for Boomers will become too high for younger generations to bear, it will either solve itself out through policy or lots of misery.
IP doesn't have a requirement for clock synchronization. Certificate validation does need clock synchronization, but most of the time rough synchronization works; you only need precise synchronization if you present certiticates close to their not-before or not-after dates.
Are you sure? It might be a case of someone in the system Googling the address and writing it in.
> Industrial society itself was feared and hated for centuries by people who thought it would separate us from the land and commodify our existences. And yet very few of those panics were borne out in the long term

this was not a great point to end that list with. We are commodified to the gills.
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> The terms "Earth time" and "Moon time" seem weird to me in themselves, in my view it's "Human time".

- It's also weird the time on the moon would have to account for variations in earth rotatoin speed (as UTC does)
- Time on the moon actually goes slower due to relativistic effect - the effect is small (in tens of microseconds per day) but measurable.
That's a great alternative to kiloton.
No one wants to write html_page.html, but html_page.js?? Now you’re talking.
Honestly - it'd be pretty nice to be able to opt-in/out of the default user agent styles applied by browsers. If we really want to preserve compatibility - opt-in to a version.

Keep it all the same as current if there's no tag on the page, but if you add something like <meta uastyles="1.0.0"> or something, apply an improved set of default styles.

Get rid of the need for resets with <meta uastyles="none">

Basically - I'd love a way to allow browser vendors to dramatically improve the defaults without breaking everything, and also giving frameworks an easy opt out.
'Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Year to Sit Around' | Futurism

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34998043