skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So? Millions of people lack basic skills, like 1/3 of the population struggles with digital skills.

You mean people can't use their hands?

Digital skills are not real skills, they are imaginary skills that mostly boil down to "they don't know software products" but they also "don't care about them" and it's a very very very broad field, many people take for granted their knowledge about complex stuff, but basic "digital skills" are easily learned through simply doing it. Just like cooking, but less useful.

Coincidentally, I never used TikTok, I don't know how it works, it's one of the few Chinese stuff that I really don't care about (but it's ironically loved by Americans who also hate China for everything else). Based on this sentence many people would say that I lack basic digital skills, but I am also a professional software engineer since 1996. Many of the things that are basic digital skills for me, are advanced stuff for people who only use a smartphone. Many basic skills, like using a real keyboard, are alien to touchscreen natives. And so on. TikTok is not a skill, but if it was I would lack that skill.

Meanwhile cooking is something that anybody can do, even chimps ca do it

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/chimpanzees-...

> Some skills are basic but obscure - maintenance of a bicycle is a basic, but if you never has a bicycle, you won't have it.

as I've said, biking is harder than cooking.

> Or maybe prepping a live fish for cooking.

If you cook it in its entirety in the oven or on a grill, it will be edible, and will taste good.

Or fry it, fried lattarini are cooked exactly like that, you eat them whole.

https://www.tusciatimes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lattar...

Virtually every animal that is not an insect can be cooked the same way: open the belly, remove internal organs, cook it. Done. .

Fancy recipes are not "cooking", there's the same distance between playing soccer with your friends and being a professional soccer player.

Saying that TikTok helped someone to learn how to cook is misleading, the merit is of the person that started doing it and learned how to do it by doing it.

Replace TikTok with "grandma book of recipe" and the result is the same.

TikTok has no real value in this story, it just happened that someone used it for inspiration because that's what that person knew. Coincidence is not the same thing of correlation.
Thanks, someone definitely was 'inspired' by the other. But yes, it looks impressive so far.
Could adapting to quinine derivatives bridge a previously unbridgeable gap leading to quinine resistance? Everything seems to be a web or tied together. Could quinine resistance tip some balance resulting an explosion of malaria? </insomnia-thoughts>
The cool thing about Reddit is you might just be able to ask for a recommendation and someone will give it to you. Either someone else has asked before, or you find the right sub where the people with the answer are.
Agreed, its a nice accessible article for beginners. I can see someone who has really only played with Arduinos and Adufruit modules looking at this and getting some inspiration to try out some of the techniques he mentions.

For example, you'd be suprised how many practicing EEs I've met who aren't aware drag soldering is a thing. (Which is a fantastic technique btw, saves so much time and gets you much nicer joints than individually soldering )
It uses the magnetic head of the floppy drive for IO. Devices like that don't function without the correct driver and are thus unsuitable for embedded devices.
>And don't start me on the sound signals like the stove complaining it got a drop of water on its sensitive touch buttons placed right next to the pot.

I believe this is actually a safety feature: When a pot boils over and spreads water on the touch panel, both the pot and the touch panel may be too hot to touch, leaving no way to turn off the stove. So, to be on the safe side, the stove turns off and beeps.
>China is the single greatest threat to world peace.

Polling shows the US holds the title of greatest threat to peace. Unfortunately for the US, the respondents know world history.
U.S. Considers Vaccinating Chickens as Bird Flu Kills Millions of Them
Bacteria-activated, self-assembling “nanonets” trap and kill superbugs
Because you get in the mind of the test-giver and correctly predict the point they're trying to make and act accordingly. If you can't or won't, you fail. That's what school is about, after all.
I think some of the concern is overblown, some isn't.

The Replika AI stuff is definitely concerning because it deprives people of actual relationships by subsituting something artificial that can never supplant something physical/real. Kind of like the movie Her (2013). But this is already happening with stuff like onlyfans.

The stable diffusion stuff shouldn't threaten artists, in the same way that digital art doesn't threaten traditional artists. It's just another tool to be integrated into their workflow. Use it as a starting point to refine, or for inspiration. Did early animators feel threatened by computers? Sure, but it meant they didn't need to hand trace every frame for rotoscoping. Did Phil Tippett feel threatened by CGI superceding his stop motion in Jurassic Park? Probably, but he evolved to integrate his knowledge into the CGI performances. They also ended up using scale models/animatronics for basically motion capture, using elements from stop motion. He still pursues his stop/go motion passion as well.

AI instagram models aren't anymore threatening than current instagram models, since they already set unrealistic expectations based on fake personalities and lives.

Yeah, a problem is people anthropomorphizing it and by doing so they assume it has more intelligence than it actually has. Its an interesting technology, but you're right to be concerned (as am I). I honestly don't think anything can be done to prevent it though, especially as SV companies disregard ethics and want to just produce products without thinking about the repurcussions. Maybe there will be a backlash eventually against AI as people once again strive only for human relationships. Maybe society will be stratified along those lines. The best you can hope for is that people continue to think and question.
> "The push for eSIMs has little to do with "reducing parts counts" or thinner devices, and everything to do with carriers wanting more control over their customers"

And yet, it's the phone manufacturers who are pushing eSIMs. Many carriers seem resistant to rolling them out! Why? If anything, it's because the opposite is true: eSIMs make it easier to switch providers, by eroding the barrier of having to first acquire a physical SIM card in order to switch.

> "Mark my words, we'll start seeing eSIM transfer fees, locks, policies - all designed to keep people from participating in a free market for cell phone services."

I think if that were to happen in Europe, we'd quickly see a regulatory response from the EU (if it isn't illegal already).
I just tried doing this and was immediately met by a "you must verify your account by phone" screen.
Content curation as a way to level up communities
There's a great deconstruction of trolley problems in The Good Place.
I was surprised to pop into the comments and read the same in the first few top posts. Now I want a follow-up article from the author, haha.
After 90k miles in an ICE, if following the recommended service intervals I'd expect to pay for:

- 9x oil/filter change

- 2x air filter change

- 1x fuel filter change

- 2x spark plug change

Other things like brakes, tyres, coolant I presume are the same as an EV so not worth including.

In the UK you'd be paying about £1200/$1450 for that in a normal car (e.g. VW, not Porsche).
Perhaps. Bullies don't scale, AI does.
The same 4 chord intervals used in a thousand summer hits.
Yeah, that is a strange comment. For me, the canonical use case for all non-negative but -1 for error is index_of(collection, value). If they "never run into negative numbers", do they not see/use this pattern?
The internal "world model" are things like "GPU's are faster than CPU's", "Military hardware beats nonmilitary things" etc. Then when you ask the comparison question it categorises the items, and for the plane vs card you get military vs nonmilitary response. Or computer vs gpu you get the cpu vs gpu response or similar. I showed the example of how to reason about this in a post below.

Anyway, while you can call that a "world model", that world model is very brittle since its just a bunch of heuristics, if you reverse engineer the heuristic it uses it is really easy to find cases where it fails completely. Like if you ask it to compare a modern integrated GPU to an old dedicated GPU, it will say that the old dedicated GPU is faster even though it is ancient and slow, since when people talk about dedicated vs integrated GPU they almost always say that the dedicated GPU is faster.
>What totally different domain or topic should I study

Any domain, literally.
It believable, but it's dated April 2020. The page also existed in 2020:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200806100237/https://smarty.co...
But left the fiddly bits and fjords to another species.
Very sorry for your loss, this is hard to digest, and I can understand all manner of thoughts go through your head during such a trying time.

You are together with your mum, sister, and grandmother, caring for _eachother_. They care for you, you care for them.

Not to sound too harsh, but we're not in the 50s or 60s anymore. We know today women are strong, capable and most of all caring. If you struggle with life currently, talk to them about it. They can help you atleast as much as you can help them.

Communicating openly and honestly about your feelings with them is incredibly important.

Don't worry about seeming weak to them - they will see right through your mask anyway as they are your relatives. Most likely you will find, that the expectations you put on yourself, do not match the expectations they have from you.

Hang in there!
Paul Stamets has been talking about Lion's Mane for years. It is an incredible supplement.
(not OP but…)

The Doctor's advice I don't get the reference¹, but for deprecating a device this could be a concern if your phone or similar device suddenly stops working² and that is required to prove who you are.

--

[1] perhaps searching for some officially, erm, unsupported medication resulting in getting blocked by a service that list closely enough linked to an identity provider that the ID account is locked also? — seems a stretch

[2] or is lost/stolen – a potential problem with any physical security token or virtual token if you only have it associated with a single device
> since they're not the same sizes on 64-bit platforms

Not guaranteed, but they certainly can be.
It seems like they meant that the existence of free global roaming suggests that roaming fees may not be very lucrative for the visited carrier, and exorbitant roaming rates are mostly to the benefit of the home carrier.
What if the penalty for defecting is exceedingly high? (Law enforcement.)
> Like yesterday Amazon kept showing lightbulbs with the wrong physical socket size.

Amazon could improve their usability so much by providing proper metadata entry systems for sellers and enforce their proper usage by moderating their platform.

But that costs money, there are more than enough customers still buying stuff off of Amazon and the real cash cow is AWS anyway.
Can't let these natural intelligences loose in the world without first aligning them.
I've been taking lions mane for two years daily and have experienced no such side effects. Anecdotal, of course.
If an adversary knowing your IP address scheme it’s so bad to you, you’re not doing it right.

Security through obsecurity is not security.
That is why humanities/liberal-arts courses are better that "specialisations".
I believe Clang under -Weverything has a warning about possible loss of precision.

It also has lots of annoying warnings that would dissuade many people from running -Weverything by default.
I think most customers would like a dishwasher that actually works, which—having used quite a few of them—appears to remain an unsolved problem.

First, there’s the mystery of “wet dog smell” on glasses that has persisted across multiple apartments in multiple states for us (and appears to be a well-known phenomenon across the internet). And then there’s the issue that despite their claims to also dry dishes, most dishwashers do no such thing as the plasticware remains soaked despite many interesting but ultimately unsuccessful hacks by dishwasher manufacturers.
I'm actually surprised such a simple app would have such bad performance and crash at all?
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>> We, us or our means Sandoche Adittane (Micro Entreprise), company number 79218834400016.

They don't provide their business address nor their country or phone number. How can it be trusted?
Burning money on the risque projects should be the industry standard. No matter what would happen here, either of outcomes are positive. Dying of facebook or making cool vr toys are no things to be mad about. People are simultaneously defending stale tech companies to keep their cushy jobs and criticizing them when they are in the R&D phase burning piles of cash, which is the necessity.
I have a really hard time telling the difference.

Edit: in the "App Setting" on the Edge browser, it says up to 4k UHD. On the Windows Store App, in the same place, it says "Up to HD". I use the browser most of the time, and if I'm only getting HD then it's just really good.
No it is not. It is perfectly solvable by dedicated specialist that has long time experience maintainig jira, knows how to interact with jira api, has budget to by licenses for third party plugins that implement such basic functionality etc.

If you ask "normal" it person to do this, i'd like to see those 5 minutes
> Like yesterday Amazon kept showing lightbulbs with the wrong physical socket size.

This exact thing happened to me. One of the problems, was that the bulb I was looking at, had a specific mini-candelabra socket, and the ones they showed me, had one that was just slightly larger, but looked almost identical (and the name was also “mini candelabra”). This was one of those “recommendations,” in the list at the bottom.

I actually ordered the wrong bulbs, based on this, and had to return them.

I have also had Amazon direct me to gray market and counterfeit goods, with extreme confidence; often insisting that the dodgy product was being sold by the manufacturer.

I now order direct from the manufacturer, for anything over about $50, even if I pay more (happens less frequently, these days. Amazon is no longer the bargain it used to be, and even gray market now sells for full retail). Sometimes, the manufacturers use Amazon for fulfillment, but I don’t mind, as they direct me to the real product.

It’s not 100% Amazon’s fault, as the scammers have figured out how to game the system, but Amazon is not trying to fix it. I assume that this is because they make so much money.

I have heard, anecdotally, that selling on Amazon has become a nightmare, for legit sellers; especially small ones. The scammers have no problem, putting up with B.S., but real sellers can drown.

Here’s something I experienced, a couple of years ago, when I was looking for a stand for my phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25582762 (the links in that post no longer do what they did, back then).
Name the 20+ companies that have faang level compensation.
> meta-information about how you should reply to the quiz itself.

This is referred to as "rubric", and paying attention to the rubric on exams is a very important skill. Especially when some of them are confusing, and you get "answer ONE question from section A and TWO questions from section B BUT no more than ONE question marked with a (+) in total" on a paper that folds out to thirty questions.

While it's often infuriating it's useful to know how to operate in an environment where the rules will be read pedantically against you.
Unfortunately, even the LLVM community has chosen a combination of Discord/Discourse, and deprecated their mailing list/IRC channel. This is a very unhealthy trend, and only the most ardent of communities such as Linux/Git/GCC stick to old-fashioned publicly-archived mailing lists.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/README
Sadly true, which leads to a conundrum when trying to get inside the test-giver's head: did the test-giver notice this intricacy of the question and therefore I should give the clever answer, or did they not realise and therefore I should give the naive answer?

In this particular instance, my son and his friend were unable to convince their teacher that the test/quiz was flawed, so the naive answer was the "right" one to win the teacher's approval.
FourSigmatic coffee is real coffee with lions mane. Did you try something else?
I'm glad we agree that IRC isn't any better but even worse.

As much as I dislike Discord (bad search, terrible notification system) there's also no open platform that can really compete with Discord, they all crumble when it comes to voice chats.

I'll admit that a thing I like about private communities is that they feel more comfortable - that not every single user of the internet will be able to see it.

The whole archival thing (like on IRC) can be done with bots. You could forward a message, add an emoji or ping the bot to archive a message.
I think this test is pretty ambiguous.

If you answer all the questions after reading all of them, you could only get only question 100 wrong and get the other 99 correct, so reach a score of 99/100.

If you answer only questions 1 and 2, you get the answer to 100 right too, so you could score 3/100.

In the latter case, you could score 3/3 too, depending on how the examiner decides to mark it.

So which is it?
Yeah, most youtubers simply read off some prepared generic script... although there are a few exceptions like HeavyDSparks who at least make the effort to make a fun story tied in with the video's topic for whatever supplements they're shilling.
To be frank, if we take a human schoolkid who knows some natural language well, getting them to apply this "language model" to make mortgage calculations requires either to give them an external tool for that or do many weeks (at least) of training in mathematics..
That apartment is my mother’s not mine. In the end it’s her say. Her friend has a nice empty apartment but she cannot find tenants. My mum says we have already enough problems. That apartment needs renovation with money I do not have. I can dream only now. She says asking for 50euros a month would be too much.

I do not think my family are freeloaders. And I do not want it to get to that that my sister becomes one. She actually is not materialistic but dad was awarding her for good grades, reading books.
> the most obvious target audience to drive meaningful usage is harcore gamers. And the novelty of Beat Saber will only go so far; you really need AAA titles and publishers.

I really feel like what you need is omni-directional treadmills. I really like VR rhythm games, but for most other games beyond that feel like you really need some more natural way of moving around. The only exception to that would be things where you'd naturally be playing sitting (in a cockpit, in a car, etc).

> The launch of Meta Quest Pro was abysmal

As far as Meta being out of touch goes, the Quest Pro not shipping with a total light blocker seems pretty indicative. i.e. you need to spend 50USD on https://www.meta.com/quest/accessories/quest-pro-full-light-... if you really want to properly game on it, on top of the $$$ you already need to fork out for the headset.

> I received the PSVR2 last week, but didn't have time to unbox yet. Really hoping it gives Meta a run for their money, and sets the bar high (despite being tethered).

If I compare the PC, Quest, and PS versions of a game like Beat Saber the PC version is moddable and a vastly better game for it with loads of custom contents, the Quest version is semi-moddable but cranky about it, and the PS version AFAIK isn't moddable. Even for games with official custom song support (e.g. Synth Riders), the PS version doesn't support any of those.

Even if technically superior in some ways I'd consider PSVR2 mostly an expensive paperweight unless they were to release PC drivers for it (which they won't). Only seemingly decent piece of exclusive content for it seems to be Horizon: Call of the Mountain, but that's only 10 hours or so.
"10 Seconds" needs addition - even if site opens in 0.1 second and shows cookie management options, in my mind it will take 10 seconds to get rid of it and I close the site. So it's often not about actual speed, but speed "from my experiance".
Really? For me it's the contrary, posts like this from companies are a signal to say "Jump out of the ship while you still can".

Kinda like when crypto exchanges tweet "Yo we're definitely not blocking withdrawals, we're perfectly healthy".

You know what would make me consider a company? The fact that they don't have a bad reputation to begin with, and don't need to make posts like that to try to save their reputation.
> What a crazy move.

Not at all! Done right, we could have ended up in a sci-fi future strapped to our VR headsets all day long. But the real life, physical technology is just not here yet (maybe it's impossible and never will be), the software they invented for their lacking headsets is disgustingly bad (Horizon Worlds) and there is no nameworthy content.

I assume his advisors and tech leads all pulled the wool over his eyes and sold him their lofty dreams as tangible reality.
I would love a faster dishwasher -- not because I need the dishes washed faster, but becuase I live in an open-plan flat with the kitchen and living room in the same space, and anything to reduce how long I have the dishwasher churning away would be wonderful.

Fortuanately, I tend to get away with a 30-min wash for most days, but someone please invent a 10-minute dishwasher please :)