skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis seems to me very different, it is about who pays in the end the part of the high processing fees generated by the rewards, but unlike similar thesis, the accent is about differentiating "financially sophisticated" people against "naıve" people regardless of income.

The article is about a Federal Reserve paper referenced in the article:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2023007pap...

>Notably, our results are not driven by income, as they hold within the sub-samples of low-, middle- and high-income individuals. In particular, high-FICO high-income consumers benefit the most from reward credit cards, but they do so at the expense of low-FICO high-income consumers.

>While credit card rewards are often framed as a “reverse RobinHood” mechanism in which the poor subsidize the rich, our results show that this explanation is at best incomplete.

>We rationalize our findings in terms of fnancial sophistication, meaning that reward cards constitute a redistribution from naıve to sophisticated consumers.
But businesses would not be able to survive if they were to behave. Having the people pay for a wee bit of clean up on the corps behalf is an acceptable trade off for the privilege of having the corps be profitable to bring us all of the things. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs /s

Yes, the sarcasm is dripping, but it is not far off from the beliefs of some legislative types. Whether they are MAGA or not is not relevant. We've seen this long before MAGA was a thing.
Which still sounds pretty normal for a last year of phd. Freedom and autonomy from the burden await past the degree.

Deep psychological work is going to take longer than a year, cost $$$$, could be fleeting, and clearly not going to finish the degree in a year.

Or quit the program and start a new life. But I’d strongly advise OP first honestly discuss that with their mentors.

Life absolutely will go on and the market will find a place for OPs work in either direction.
I make melanin in my melanocytes.
i really don't see any similarities with brave new world, it's not particularly dystopian, and your dates are a bit off.

there is a realy interesting film of scanner darkly, with a great cast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)
also check out rtx (my project), which does everything asdf does but 20x-200x faster and with better UX https://rtx.pub
I don't understand the need for "mainframes" in industries such as banking. Isn't a mainframe just a beefy server?

I get that 40 years ago it made sense for a bank processing thousands of transactions per day to have a big computer to do that.

But today that could be done on a laptop with a Python script. Has the compute needs really grown proportional to the speedup of the hardware?
Oddly, this may create problems for end-users that are currently able to acquire these substances through a prescription through the "Special Access Program", which grants the ability to import drugs not available in Canada, which means your choice of suppliers.

If there is a domestic licensed supplier, and only one, Health Canada will likely force you to go through them and pay whatever they ask.
I'd avoid the comment that "you are pretty far away from rock bottom" - because it does not help the OP.

Like, "Really? Criticize them?" That is why I'd avoid it.

Everything else written about "takes time" @prhn is great and healthy IMO.
Sure: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-security-cookbook...
The Guardian is a British newspaper.

Please ask around acquaintances who live in Ohio, friends of friends, how well informed they were/are about these events and at what point they got looped in. You can find that out first hand, I believe in you.
I still find it easier to assess my body weight in stones and pounds (14 pounds, one stone). I'm currently about 13 stone 7lb. I have no idea what my weight is in kilos.
If the UI change requires no network calls, it's better to use a JS hook or/and Alpine in my opinion.
Especially if that person is in a different country than the US. Wiring money from the US to many countries is an exercise in frustration and futility.
I'm not entirely sure what sort of courses you are planning to offer, but what I can tell you is that course material quality at traditional higher education providers (bottom tier) is appalling (and they know it). If you can get it right, that would be worth a lot more than $1m/year. At the moment, the most obvious bottleneck would be the relatively small context window of GPT models (<3k words). It is speculated that OpenAI plans to increase it to 24k words, which would make it a lot more feasible though.
Your mistake is considering "you" as just the part that consciously decides. There's no brain and you, there's just you (or just the brain, it's the same thing). You and your brain is one thing, not two.

In other words, I can fall asleep whenever I want. But "I" (and my brain) is not just my conscious/speaking layer. The whole layer stack needs to want it and put it to practice.

It's the same with any other activity, just that for most there's less disagreement between parts of the layer stack. E.g. we can usually speak anytime "we" want. But an autistic person going non-verbal finds that they can't speak, even if their (what-you-call "I") thinking/top-layer wants it.
Please stop calling "a woman is a person who identifies as such" a fuzzy definition. It is to definition what "alternative fact" is to a fact.

Now, you are right that for the purposes of this event no one defined what a girl or a boy is. The reason it is so (as is the case with many other social conventions) is because neither the participants nor the organizers challenge the classification.

There is no doubt that had it been challenged strongly and frequently enough, the implicit definitions would become explicit and formal.
Presumably running the lathe/printer, drawing schematics and providing step by step directions unique to the materials you can afford.
Is the disaster over? Are the investigations over? We don't even know what the total cost is going to be from this disaster, so how can we apply fines to the company that will cover those costs? Sure, we can start forcing heads to roll if that's what you want, but how many heads? Oh, right, investigations are not over yet.

Knee jerk reactions can be just as dangerous
Journaling, meditation and exercise. Those have always helped to center me and reinvigorate my inner alignment.

I use journaling to analyze my thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It’s a tool for putting myself under a microscope. Often tough questions can become much easier to answer.

Meditation is powerful. I can’t fully articulate what it does for me but it improves my self worth and allows me to interrupt negative thought loops (which is what I call your situation).

The journaling pairs nicely with meditation as I discover earlier and earlier triggers of bad thoughts via journaling. Then I preempt them
via mindfulness - the skill cultivated while meditating.

Finally, exercise is key for healthy body chemistry. It contributes to healthier mind, leading to better progress.

I don’t do these things as often as I should but when I do I feel great about everything and I feel more myself at the same time.
It is intelligent enough to learn how to operate a car and navigate complex environments with other actors in it. To me that is enough to call it intelligent, how much intelligence do you want to see in a process before you start calling it intelligent?
Some people are on TikTok so everyone forfeited their privacy?
Friends spoke about three types of shock. First, the raw novelty of extended physical confinement. Second, the wonder of feeling food insecure in this age and in this city. Third, a disenchantment with government pronouncements.
> Waymo, Baidu, Mobileye and Cruise?

2 of the 4 don't have anything available for mass market, and they are money losing ventures.

Mobileye is the only player that matters of the lot, given Baidu will effectively be limited to CCP friendly markets.

The ability to take a 1.5K "toy" to make a standard car have partially autonomous is also pretty nice. A great toy that is pushing the industry forward to make sure self-driving is available at reasonable prices vs $15K premium for a "beta" software that will never make it to production.
It's not misinformed at all. The US's involvement in the Ukraine war is strictly along party lines. The Biden's have been involved in Ukraine at nearly every level for decades now. There are several high profile politicians in the US with ties to Ukranian companies. We flew a Ukranian flag in our congress. That should tell you everything.

There is not a "war" except one caused by politicians. The price eggs and gasoline in the US are not a function of this war. I could not care less and I certainly do not want to send our boys to die for a politician's dirty laundry. Whatever happens over there is a problem of the EU, not mine, and not anyone I care about. Being a "good global citizen" is pointless agitprop from BlackRock ESG. My life is already too complicated. It would be wise of us to not go about pissing off nuclear powers especially when the US is as fundamentally weak both in the spirit of what it stands for and leadership as it is today. Eisenhower tried to warn us and none of us listened.
This is actually what I do every time. I thought it was standard practice.
It seems to be just the editorial that's erroneously claiming that "Erik Hoel proposes a novel hypothesis".

The actual review article appears to be a perfectly serviceable review of the topic.

https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00064-7
How would environmental activist or their actions being reported in media cause further action than it currently is, when it’s being reported and demonstrated against every day?
BlueSky by Jack
I think this is being handled the right way now by the Internet Archive. Sort of like a library that keeps old copies of newspapers around on microfiche, or a museum that has samples of bugs in Indonesia 100 years ago. They have a dedicated mission to preserve, around which supportive people can organize effort and money.

I don’t think this can be solved by decentralized protocols. A lot of folks just won’t put in the effort. Quite a few companies already actively delete old content; there’s no way they are going to opt into web server software that prevents that.
From "issues trusting people" => ∞-smart emotionally intelligent response - applauding you @batch12

Adding to this, OP: you are not alone. +1 more.
Damn! Favoriting this comment, thanks for the lesson. Might become handy later in life :)
Serendipitously I’m reading Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror. It’s a frustrating book, very knowing, referencing many historical figures without any sort of introduction. I’m not sure I’d recommend and I hope there’s a better book written. France is its main focal point, though it discusses French relations with the Italian city states at length.

The Black Death came to Genoa in 1348 and decimated Europe’s population over the next two years. Smaller waves of the plague occurred every decade or two as population immunity waned (due to children not having been exposed). The decrease in the labor forced caused a spike in inflation. So I kind of think there’s a closer parallel to ~1400 than 1500…
The knee-jerk smearing of journalism has really reached a boil with this event. I have seen this "nobody is reporting on it" comment, without exception, in every comment section of the dozen stories I've seen on the topic, and I barely even read the news.
> There is no reason Emacs couldn't be the number one editor right now

I suspect you're right that under different stewardship Emacs could have taken over the wold. And who knows, if they cared to run usability studies on the initial user experience it might still be possible.

> This is just admitting defeat

If you assume that everyone values popularity or ease-of-use then this is a reasonable conclusion.

But if you'd forgive some unsolicited advice: assuming everyone shares your values will make it hard to understand or predict other people's actions which will hinder your attempts to communicate, negotiate, or manage anyone not like you. It may be simpler to imagine they're crazy, foolish, or deluded but personally I've found it useful to operate under the assumption that their values are real and just as valid as mine.
>You don't believe animals have a conscious?

I think it’s a matter of degree. We don’t know what level of consciousness they have relative to our own experience. Can you say with certainty, for example, that a mollusk or sea cucumber has conscious experience?
The media is covering it, but it seems like concern for CO2 has crowded out some of the more mundane environmental issues. The business lobby have turned most of the environmentalists into paid coporate shills who think if only everyone buys an EV, the planet will "heal".
I love PyQt, I wrote lots of graphical user interfaces for my lab equipment during my PhD, was super easy to wire stuff up and replace Labview with Python. The design was similar to this app, simple frontend that allowed you to e.g. set microwave frequencies, toggle outputs or make measurements. My colleagues were initially quite skeptical but 10 years later they're still using the software and it spread to other labs, they even hired a full-time developer to work on it.
That level of backwards compatiblity with legacy versions exists on other platforms (Windows, z/OS, AIX), especially those implemented in enterprise environments. If I have a Windows app written in Win32 API, it'll run on Windows 11 on 64-bit architecture. That's what companies want. That's how Linux became viable for those customers. Even Edge has an IE mode because that's what enterprise environments need, support for older libraries and APIs. I won't deny RHEL was higher technical debt for sure, but that was the trade off, because that's what enterprises prioritized, support, stability, and knowledge that an update during their monthly patch cycle and change window for rebooting the server won't break the business applications they rely on for fundamental operations, at least not on the same major release version.

RHEL was never supposed to be the latest, I think even a every new major release they'd be on a kernel and library version that was 2 years behind but had been through its paces. IOW, it was a feature not a bug, and its what companies were paying for (their customers were boring legacy Fortune 500s not startups). As a business model, it was solid, and the most successful in the commercial market by far because it catered to their customers needs, even if they're not our own, even Ubuntu Server took pages from their book.
This is good advice. Many therapists are one-trick ponies. For example, talking about trauma for three years won’t help you if your real problem is undiagnosed ADHD. Some challenges require ongoing help from a therapist (borderline personality etc) but otherwise if you’re not seeing rapid improvement they’re not helping, and might be making things worse.
Car Play (and I assume Google Play) is a real game-changer. I understand Tesla's system is pretty good but any manufacturer system I tried to use in a rental car was awful.
Because they stated a hypothesis. In order to be a theory, it needs to be rooted in data.
He started hedging when the NYT adopted it as their house style (understandably, because the NYT's rationale was silly, overreaching, and a little incoherent), but he's talked about this on Lexicon Valley before: it's proper noun describing a specific set of people for whom "African" is an imprecise descriptor.
Kraus's radio astronomy textbook has or used to have a chapter on this topic. Its all a matter of distance. I never had a problem detecting legacy NTSC analog TV from the east or west against the backdrop of the sun out to dozens of miles.

The same equations that apply to Jupiter's decametric radiation would apply to our own analog TV broadcasts. The numbers IIRC are not terribly impressive, if you knew exactly the modulation scheme and frequencies and power levels in advance and devoted a long term monitoring program to sampling excellent data using a better antenna than our civilization could realistically build, then it would be quite realistic to detect old fashioned NTSC TV out to a couple dozen light years at least.

The problem is technology marches on fast, and the idea of pumping out megawatt class narrow band signals for mass media seems very temporary indeed, we're done with that as a civilization and that era barely lasted a couple decades. Its not a "radio cone" its a "radio donut". The engineering required to detect my wifi signals from earth orbit would be insane; the aliens will never detect my youtube viewing. Toward the end of the analog era, I had cable TV which theoretically wasn't radiating any signals at all out into space.

It would be like trying to detect and track and do intel on the 2023 Russian navy by detecting spruce trees from orbit, because in the old days sailing ship spars required straight long spruce trees to build, so in 1700 whomever controlled the spruce forests controlled the seas. Looking at spruce forests from space is just not conceptually a useful way to even consider doing intel about a modern naval missile cruiser or a nuke sub. Or another example, no matter how hard you scan for mammoth herds and mammoth fur from space, you won't figure out much about our petrochemical spandex based yoga pants clothing industry in 2023. You can't just use a bigger telescope, its conceptually not going to work.

Now if you had spies or observes or space probes detecting and relaying the story back home, maybe back home they could build something?
The DEA is not just chasing street drug dealers. They also went after US companies that helped manufacturing the opioid crisis with oxycontin and fentanyl and tried to shut them down.

Unfortunately, big pharma talked to their congressmen buddies to limit the action of the DEA. (see Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act)
No it does not. No mammal develops a natural instinct to flow into an equilibrium.

What is happening is natural selection is operating on a more macro scale. Ecosystems can be naturally selected out or in.

Ecosystems where the individual components do not function in equilibrium overload and die out. The only thing you have left are ecosystems with "mammals" that happen to be in equilibrium.

The minute you introduce a foreign species into a new ecosystem you break the system by introducing a variable that has a positive feedback loop. The ecosystem either overloads or humans can intervene by apply negative pressure (ie manual culling by hunting the invasive species or even genetic engineering).

Humans are simply a natural overload. We could be part of an ecosystem that is suppose to overload and die out so that another ecosystem that has a higher equilibrium can take its place.

>Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.” Agent Smith.

The matrix was such a garbage movie thematically speaking. They had a huge lack of understanding around the nuance and nature of biology.
"You are what you eat", as a guiding health metaphor applies to your mentality, in my experience.

EAT: good thoughts. Positive framing of negative circumstances.

As an adult, you can really only count on yourself always being there for you. So, "feed your thoughts" with healthy food.
The Christian cross-pollination is fascinating/odd.
Ideas to visualize cyberthreats
I'm interested in ideas anyone may have concerning the visualization of cyberthreats -- both in real time and historical.

My initial thought was to capture references to particular cyberthreats in online news to quantify the threat's impact.

Are there any online platforms that do this? Any other novel ideas on how to do this?
Maybe it’s just packet loss from a live recording, but this video just reeks of deep fake.
Again, Signal supports anonymous connections, anonymous user accounts, secure operating systems, etc. If anything, it’s more secure than SecureDrop because it doesn’t require using Tor, which is a huge red flag and appear to acknowledge odds of it being secure are questionable at best. Also, assuming user uses an anonymous connections, anonymous user account, secure operating systems, etc — Signal would have no information it could be compelled to provide.
The book "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss" by Bradford Matsen is all about Otis Barton, William Beebe, and the Bathysphere. The idea of locking yourself into a steel sphere and descending an order of magnitude deeper than any human had previously (and coming back alive) is wild. It's an excellent book that I found at a used book sale and it kinda sent me into a deep sea exploration rabbit hole. "Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste" by Jacques Piccard descending down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is also a good one.
Yes? That's what we had on DVDs back in the days, one 5.1 or 7.1 audiophile mix (or sometimes both!), and one simple stereo mix for the other 99% of the population; both distinct from the cinema mix.

There was never a reason to get rid of that in favour of the current "one size fits none" approach, other than cheapness.
oxycotin, which is opium, should only be used for medical purposes. Yet somehow pharmaceuticals got doctors to prescribe until we have an opioid crisis in the US.
> will never lag

Why are you using emacs, then?
Emacs GC pauses are awful. The input lag is on par with vsc. There is work being done on both, but right now it's terrible.

I'm just here because I want buffers that can be scaled individually along with good vi-emulation. I'll never pretend that the performance is any good
How can you tell that they’re over the legal limit?
It's not something I just made up. It's an extremely common misconception about what the

*UNCONSCIOUS*

is. Moreover, the way you imprecisely use ill-defined phrases like "subconsciousness", "asking questions", etc gives a very strong impression that you're talking about some outdated, pseudoscientific conception of the unconscious mind as a conscious, distinct entity.

You can't be so imprecise and just expect people to understand what you mean. Especially if you don't even read the replies.
It sounds like you're feeling inclined - I would recommend it. I had a great experience.

I knew I wanted to do another entrepreneurial role but not do so immediately. I didn't want a tech job.

I spent a few years in construction project management and it was a great experience. A huge change from the tech business world. Initially the money was pretty tragic. But it was fun! And it improved. Moving from high tech to construction is a little bit like entering another world. I found it fascinating.

During that period I also read Ray Kroc's (founder of McDonalds) book which includes him saying "When you're green you're growing. And when you're ripe, you rot."

I prefer to be green and growing. In my career I've encountered many people in a fairly robotic non-or-minimal growth mode. Each to their own.

My experience left me thinking the world would be even better if career switching was easier (for those that want to). I also theorised how I might include this in my next startup (time will tell…). During that period I progressed my vision and plans for my next startup. The period was invaluable. My new startup has been underway for some time now.

Good luck with your plans.
India nationalists would claim that they are simply attacking a foreign influence operation, which the BBC - as UK state affiliated media - clearly is. That said, India govt invocation of tax compliance as the sole motivation is stretching credibility
I had the dependency spiral issue on every distro (I played with quite a few), compiling with something like Gentoo made it worse. RPM Forge existed, I think the Linux experience in general was bad back then, and RedHat actually was one of the least problematic. Until Ubuntu, it was the easiest and most approachable to use for novices.