skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you come to this assessment by yourself or is it other people telling you that you aren't conscientious?

The reason I ask is that I have come across people who gaslight others for not being conscientious enough. But it is their form of manipulation. In that case you have nothing to worry about.

If it is your self assessment, then perhaps what you are describing is procrastination or being in situations where you are expected to do stuff you don't have any motivation for doing.
Did he make that true via policy changes, or was it an astute observation of what was going to be true given economic realities?
> Your links don't reveal growing complaints,

Actually, they do. People didn't complain about this really 2 years ago. For the past few months, its all over the place (social media: Reddit, Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram; OSHA fines; SEC anti-trust lawsuits).

> Of course there will be tons of complaints, Amazon is huge. Picking out a few of them is meaningless.

No, not really meaningless. It's indicative of the illegal practices consumers are being subjected to. This is why we have Consumer Protections.

Amazon may be huge, but it's growing hollow and financially strapped it seems.

Thanks for your hot-headed opinion. I'll file it under "flagged for lack of data."
Kids decided to imitate people new to Wii Sports and threw the remote at the vizio hard enough to shatter the LCD and backlight.
Telegram indeed handed over IP address and phone number to the court. https://download.uol.com.br/files/2023/04/657265820_telegram...
That's because it's too hard to get away with it.

Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.
Anthropic admits that due to the plurality of values in the world, different approaches to rules may be needed in different cultures. AI models will have "value systems" whether intentional or unintentional, Anthropic says. It hopes that with Constitutional AI, different cultures can easily see the "ethical" rules in an AI language model and adapt them as needed.

Glad to know someone out there had the same gut feeling about this problem as I had.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31884631
POTS phone wires typically have 45 volts DC across them when the phone is on-hook. When off-hook, the voltage goes down to just a few volts.
When the phone is ringing, you'll get about 90 volts AC, so if you have high skin resistance and you were holding the wires, you'll get a jolt.

Where the article first refers to "off-hook" voltage, it should be "on-hook" voltage. When the phone is on-hook, it presents (approximately) infinity ohms of resistance to the line. The reactive load will obviously be a lower impedance because of the capacitor-coupled ring circuit.

On some of the pre-ESS (GTE) switches I phreaked on as a kid, the polarity of the DC voltage going to the calling phone would reverse when the phone being called was answered. You could put a diode in the right direction on the calling phone and it could only ever receive calls thereafter. If an outgoing call were placed, it would dial and ring, but would disconnect (hang-up) when the remote side answered. You could also put an LED across the same diode (oppositely polarized) and it would light up to show you when the remote phone was answered.
I feel like this goes beyond techno. So many critiques I see show only the most cursory understanding of the thing they’re critiquing. I’ve found a lot in life that finding the good stuff needs digging.
I'll explicitly spell out the other assumptions of the scenario since you chose to miss them.

If you've cornered someone in an alleyway, you have overpowered them, there are no police or bystanders to physically interfere, and "the law" isn't going to manifest as Captain America and beat you like a mook in some comic strip. You would get away with what society calls a crime.
Nothing is stopping you from robbing that person. Do you have the authority to?
Wonder if the timing of this is related to the expected Ukrainian offensive?
Even this news report could not call it attack on minority (though they surreptitiously use images to build that notion), because reality is just the opposite - it is Christian tribes attacking local Hindus.

India has similar to affirmative action law (called reservation) which provides certain castes and tribes up to 60% of allocation in various governmental programs (like admission in university, promo in govt jobs, etc.)[0]. Kuki tribe (now all Christians) had this reservation for long but Metei (local Hindus who also qualify for Scheduled Tribe in that region) were demanding them to be included too. Recently, judicial court gave Meitei right to be included in this reservation system [1] and Kukis started rioting against it. The attack has been primarily from Kukis to displace Meitei from this region, and hence not share reservation quota. (um! does genocide ring a bell? probably not because genocide of Hindus in India is common thing. See Kashmir[2], Kerala[3], and currently going on in West Bengal).

I'll also add that in India, English media is very heavily biased against Hindus so one has to read regional language news or social media to find unbiased (unfortunately, unfiltered too) reports. To answer what you are thinking next - you can prove it yourself! Just compare what English dailies/channel report vs twitter layperson and regional newspapers do with evidence. Not just for this, for any (seemingly never-ending) forthcoming incidences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/manipur-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar_rebellion
> I don’t see why this one needs special treatment.

All the other things you list have special treatment. (Apart from tylenol?)
I have an Apple TV and it works nice - the problem is that the amount of fiddling to get everything on and correct is annoying - I can easily do it but the others have a hard time remembering that HDMI needs to be set to 2, receiver on, etc. Even with ARC it seems to get confused.
It sounds like you're not considering a Tesla. Seems to me Tesla tech has been pretty stable for a while. They're changing battery tech, but it's not a radical thing, so not going to change the value of the existing cars much. (And if you're going to drive the car until it's dead, doesn't affect you at all...) Plus, the Tesla charging network is mature. In the current situation, the charger network is Tesla's biggest advantage. They made noise about opening it for a bit, but then they seem to have changed their mind and if I were them, I wouldn't do it until the others come close to parity.

Outside of Tesla things are changing faster, yes, because all the others are scrambling to come out with new models and figuring out how to make good EVs. And the non-Tesla fast charging facilities are widely reported to be a mess and hopefully will improve a lot.

But... 5-10 years feels like a really long time. Used cars are expensive right now and not a great value. You may want to consider whether any of the cars out now meet your needs--personally I'd rather be driving an EV sooner rather than later, it's a much nicer driving experience IMO.
File this under one of those rulesets that needs updating since "behavioral norms" is no longer really a thing in the world.
I acknowledge that win/loss is arguable. It invokes ethical cans of worms that I'm reluctant to open here. In theory, the dominant demographic at HN are from affluent countries, so the maxim that there are endless folk from poorer countries who'd be willing to come and do our work for a lot less - could apply to most of us, in similar fashion. Would we call that 'a win'? Highly subjective, obviously. And dependent upon other factors such as opportunity cost, the question 'is there something economically better we could be doing instead'?

I suppose my point could be construed as highlighting the significant factors of power and inertia in regulatory systems, as pertaining to environmental and economic setups.

Regarding your point about Voting Out - it assumes that the major political parties differ in their stance on this one matter. If both/all are subject to the same lobbying, then whichever is elected will see the status quo remain.
Yes. For example, in Japan, resting your chopsticks by leaving them stuck vertically in your bowl of rice, and passing food directly from your chopsticks to someone else's chopsticks, are both discouraged because they remind people of funeral customs.
Tiring to see so many Americans continually ignore the fact that guns, shooting enthusiasts, and hunters all still exist in Australia. Just a simple google search would reveal shooting clubs exist across this continent. Sure, shooters are not out there with a full auto Barrett 50 (which, funnily enough is now Australian owned) going rock and roll on the local fauna. But guns exist here, they're in people's homes, and this is a fact.
Any major/minor form used for communication/currency will be regulated in the end in the name of national security.
No amount of democracy, socialism, communism or any ism for the fact cannot overcome it.
As long as govts don't behave like a service provider but like a ruling class this won't change.
Power corrupts, anyone. Hard limits on power, individuals instead of parties, extreme transparency(including defence, yes), and war free world is the only way we ever achieve freedom. As long as we allow govts to function in secrecy, someone will not care about ethics and morals.
Why not try it? Wake up tomorrow, and decide that all of your most optimistic hopes and beliefs are objectively true. That harebrained idea that you've been nursing is a sure winner, and it could deliver 12.5% returns with enough backing.

Sure, people will disagree with you about how much things cost, or when payments are due, or the terms of contracts that you signed.

But if you're patient, you will eventually find people who'll readily believe a friendly smile and a dollop of gish gallop. They give up money easily, and they will often defend obvious cons once they have skin in the game.

You'll always be looking over your shoulder, though, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Your brain will know the truth, even if you try to suppress it, and the gap between expectations and reality will only grow with time.

Would you really want to live like that? Maybe for a day, I guess...
You are describing StarLink once they get laser-based relaying between satellites working.
This is objectively wrong.
Thunderbird has at least 20 million users. You think meta has trillions of customers? Those outsourced content mod teams are not included in that headcount either
Landlines carrying electricity meant that telephones still worked even when the power was out. That's maybe the one thing I'll miss about landlines.
I was reading Matt Levine commenting on how the oil industry would have to figure out how to get "out" while making wild profits as recent as this year. It sounds poetic: the elements of man's destruction and food salvation are both rended from earth and yet both might end up being undoable, on almost the same time scales of technological evolution.
Walmart with reused bags and a getaway car works best IMO. Don't even need to pay.
HK protesters tried mesh networking in 2014-2019 as well as anti-Covid protesters in China in 2022 but both were quickly shut down by blocking the service providers (Bluetooth mesh sharing apps were removed in HK app stores and Apple Airdrop for the latter).
If you want to learn about the many different ways to accomplish goals like this, you can look into the terms 'decentralization' and 'post-scarcity society'.
Syncthing is amazing. Dropbox was the trail blazer, but then of course became enshittified. Syncthing is everything I could wish for, it's nerdy enough there's knobs to tweak, but it "just works" out of the box and I can install it on my Dad's laptop to back his stuff up etc.
Love, Love, Love Syncthing.
Congrats on the milestone!

Mine is 19 years old and I’ll be writing a similar post to yours next June :)
And those workers don't want to do those jobs, for that $, anyway. A friend of mine with a farm in Quebec, Canada says even if you can find folks to do the work and pay them well, they often aren't reliable. Better all round to use temporary workers
>https://indianexpress.com/

India hates Pakistan. Knowing this, it’s hard not to take what they have to say about Pakistan’s politics with a grain of salt.
Glad to hear it's not only within the ruleset, but will be addressed!
> Zero is a quantity approaching to zero

no, its not. zero is zero, its nothing. "a quantity approaching to zero" is "a quantity approaching to zero". its easy to remember because zero is not a quantity, its a lack of quantity, by definition.

these are two distinct concepts, which some people mistake as the same item.
Because control of the Euro is split between lots of argumentative, economically-varying countries who are instinctively more interventionist than the US.
> I don't see you offering much in the way of strategy

I'm not offering any strategy at all. I don't have one that can stop Linux from hitting the secure attestation iceberg in a few years. As far as I can determine, no one does.
I did read the paper and Wei is responding to it, and others. What do you mean "It's not a different metric?"
It feels like we could solve a lot of problems and reduce a lot of guesswork if every patient got an ultrasound, an xray, and/or an MRI as a part of intake. I know the MRI is asking a lot, but just having an objective record to look back on could help doctors immeasurably. Not to mention the people where they would immediately find the problem.
Cheshire, not to be confused with Cheshire:

https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire
That's shady. The court order is very clear about what data was disclosed (IP address and registered phone number of the group admin), and why the court deemed it "not enough" (they wanted the data for all the group participants). https://www.conjur.com.br/dl/telegram-decisao-suspensao.pdf
Nice to see clear thinking on the topic. Hope this gains a lot more traction before it is too late.

CBDCs in the Chinese digital yuan vein (and that _IS_ the dream of policy makers, make no mistake) are similarly nefarious to policies regarding 'the transition to EVs' - incentives first, then measures to compel (taxes, onerous / impossible to comply with regulations, outright bans) and finally baked-in redefinition of vital concepts like ownership, privacy, right to repair etc...

Central banks and big government desperately want malware-style CBDCs - you have your money until it is voided for x.y.z reasons, full financial records transmitted to every government agency under the sun, only transactions to approved merchants, only money on govt authorized software platforms etc.. etc..

This is a radical redefinition of a great many concepts vital to modern liberal democracies - ownership, privacy, freedom to name a few - that needs to be slowed to a crawl so that the nuances of what this means for these core tenants of democracy are fully considered and that we don't end up massively concentrating power into the hands of the wrong people.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874448
> Being bad at trading gets you zero EV, not negative.

I’d have to think a bit more to be sure, but my first instinct is that “bad at trading” would be negative EV given the presence of firms who are good at it. If you enter a trade in the “wrong direction”, you’re much more likely to get a fill than if you are in the right direction. Other errors include letting losers run (hoping to “get out even”) and cutting winners short (banking a minuscule win when a large win was coming).

I feel pretty sure that overall poor traders lose money rather than break even.
That’s pretty risky, though: the authorities can track radio signals easily enough and they can hammer the exit nodes. One mole uploads a video to a known destination and they take down each IP seen delivering those packets.
> dealbreaker for iOS folks, though

Is there anything that is a dealbreaker for "iOS folks"? If usability would have been a dealbreaker they might not have been on iOS in the first place.

Let's just look at Syncthing not being on iOS - Apple makes sure things like Syncthing can't be on iOS. Mobius Sync does a trillion workarounds to give a semblance of being on iOS. So maybe "iOS folks" should reach out to Apple talking about why softwares like Syncthing (which is top notch!) is not on "iOS".

I mean for heaven's sake Apple keeps devices so limited and they themselves don't write softwares to fully utilise a device's capacities and features and don't let anyone else write them. I was reading Logic Pro on iPad comments a day ago and "iOS folks" instead of being enraged at Apple giving peanuts in terms of capability on a fully capable device (that too after years and then not opening it up for other devs), they were going crazy as if Jesus just made third appearance on the fruit company website.
> There is no evidence that intelligence runs on neurons.

1. Neurons connect all our senses and all our muscles.

2. Neurons are the definitive difference between the brain and the rest of the body. There is “other stuff” in the brain, but it’s not so different from the “other stuff” that’s in your rear end.

Don’t underestimate what a neuron can do. A single artificial neuron can fit a logistic regression model. A quarter of a million is on then scale of some our our largest AI, and biological neurons are far more connected than ANN. An ant quite likely has a more powerful brain than GPT-4.
Precisely.

When someone states definitively what LLMs can or cannot do, that is when you know to immediately disregard them as the waffling of uninformed laymen lacking the necessary knowledge foundations (cognitive/neuroscience/philosophy) to even appreciate the uncertainty and finer points under discussion (all the open questions regarding human cognition etc).

They don't know what they don't know and make unfounded assertions as result.

Many would do to refrain from speaking so surely about matters they know nothing about, but that is the internet for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
In my experience, individual small farms tend to be "displaced" moreso by government, than by broad concepts like Globalization.
-0 exists. It's just not a mathematical object. It's an IEEE754 signed-magnitude bit-pattern — one that is distinct from the IEEE754 signed-magnitude bit-pattern we call +0. Both of these bit-patterns encode the semantic meaning of the mathematical object 0; but that doesn't mean that the bit patterns are the same "thing."

Compare/contrast: the JSON document "0" vs the JSON document "0.0". Both encode the same type (JSON only has one Number type) and so the same mathematical object — which is, again, 0 — but these are distinct JSON documents.

And that's the whole point of this change. Erlang == is mathematical equality. Erlang =:= is (encoded bit-pattern) representational equality.

Which is often the kind of equality you care about, if you have canonicalization happening at parse time, and so you want to implicitly assert (usually for added efficiency!) that the values you got after parsing + mathing are not only mathematically equal to some value, but representationally equal to that value.

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(If this irks you as a mathematician, you could model IEEE754 as its own mathematical group — a lattice, I think? — of which +0 and -0 would be members. Along with with some — but not all — base-2 rationals; and a random assortment of signalling and non-signalling NaNs.)
There isn’t in the set of real numbers, but there is in the set of floating point numbers.
also not just any employee. apparently a "senior partner relations manager" who really should have shown more restraint and social awareness
> The economic value from operating it will generally not match the opportunity cost of not doing other things.

Trouble is finding a better opportunity. From personal experience, my small acreage and old equipment, on average, nets me half of my developer income for just a couple of weeks per year of work. That's really hard to compete with. What else are you going to do instead?

It doesn't scale in the sense that if I put in more time I won't make more money, but the nice thing about small farms is that time commitment is also small. Fantastic income relative to the time commitment, and still leaves you the ability to do other things the rest of the year.
The best solution is to write papers by yourself and have exactly one name on them.
Rather than wasting everyone’s time, why don’t you enlighten us about how you think those different concepts should combine? Be sure to include examples.
> for whom any NZ wage is a fortune back home

This is the problem to solve, and something I believe is becoming solved gradually even if very slowly; developing nations have been developing. But if we manage to eradicate this idea of "high wage countries", or at least reduce it so that the imbalance is not order(s) of magnitude, then that will alleviate many of the negative side-effects of globalization.
Well I'd go with Swing and SB for the back end. Opens up the possibility of a monorepo though! Also that'd mean web and desktop code would be the same. That's awesome
Despite some early mis-steps with Syncthing - mostly me just failing to understand how best to use it - I now count it as one of my favourite tools.

Rock-solid, gracefully handles long periods of one or more machines going offline (eg personal use computers in a home network), partly configurable with text files. The way it can be set for one-way syncs also opens up new use cases.

I use it for syncing documents, video capture, certain config files - even my ROM collection to my Steam Deck.

The only place you really shouldn’t use it is on Git repos - something that is probably obvious to anyone who has used a git branch, but worth re-stating. For a simple repo with only a main branch you want on just two machines - eg dev desktop and laptop - you might get away with it for a little while but it’s extremely brittle and will eventually trip you up - through no fault of Syncthing or Git, I should add. Just fundamentally incompatible paradigms.
Thanks Eli! Almost 15 years ago learned a lot about Python GUI work from your blog. Some of your examples helped me write some software for NASA!
Why not?

Using the in-person book club example, I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where 1) nobody pays anything to anyone, 2) the same person hosts every meeting, 3) food and/or drink is provided and not pot luck style.

If you're in an in-person book club you'll be paying money either directly or indirectly. Small sums absolutely, but still something. This seems comparable in cost.
> gets rich

Presumably this is meant to imply something about Khan. Was he poor before he became a politician?
Yep spa weren't even a possibility back then
Shorter cryptobros: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MOM THE SEC IS LOOKING AT ME FUNNY
This is some SIGBOVIK material!