skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ford made cars cheap, at least cheap enough for the average person. But those cars were never disposable. Every Model-T was a serious investment in both money and time on the part of the new owner. And owners kept them going for a decade or more. Back then it took knowledge and work to keep a car on the road, to deal with inevitable roadside breakdowns long before cellphones. People took pride in such car-related skills. Henry Ford did not invent cars to be fixed only at the dealer and then be thrown away after the lease/warranty expires. That is a very modern phenomena.

Model T 1918 price: $680

680$ in today's money: $14,732
A brief history of insults
That’s the thing. As soon as the economy stumbles and just having a job means you’re lucky, remote work will be scaled back to a large degree.
Other way around. Cli params have highest precedence.
I was probably thinking about about decentralizing curatorial control than I was the platform itself. I dunno, the article was paywalled :)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Poem)
Making more shows costs more money. More shows don't increase revenues when you have a subscription model. Their ideal model is to produce the bare minimum amount of content that keeps people from unsubscribing.
That's the situation in the US. In most of the EU, you can expect either 2G or 3G to be available for at least five more years.
For scenario 1, in terms of a soul (self-awareness), will it replicate you or a clone of you?

What does our soul constitute?

In other words, does option #1 effectively kill you?

Edit: Thanks for the polite clue, klausa. Back to mowing.

Edit 2: If this thought experiment interests you, check out this[1] Black Mirror episode (which has mixed reviews, but illustrates this experiment fairly well).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel,_Jack_and_Ashley_Too
Earth is overpopulated, Thanos was correct.
Do you have a Substack? I remember your name from the data-to-viz. I’m interested in reading more about your experiences and thoughts on the space
So what are you advocating? That everyone live in a non-descript gray apartment block, eat unflavored nutrient paste, wear identical undyed clothing, etc.?
> and is for the whole world exactly the same as me, is still not me

If both are identical I don't see why both aren't equally me.

> because I am on Earth, and I can't be in both bodies.

Why must there be a single continuation of "me"? I wouldn't necessarily consider this true even under current medical technology - we can split the brain in two and have two parts that do not directly communicate.

What if the process is symmetrical (one body in, some kind of mitosis occurs, two bodies out at equal distance)? Does one get assigned "the real me" at random? If both have the same memories/personality/train-of-thought and experience the process as continuous, why not both?
Anyone who is child free still has a vested interest in the future generation.
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People are wowed by animals that have multiple brains (eg: octopus' arms), perhaps not realizing that humans do too, in a sense — the enteric nervous system (described in the article).

It's the reason you can still digest food if you're a quadriplegic, for instance.

The enteric nervous system has about the same number of neurons as a cat brain, for point of reference.

Sometimes I think of the activity of my guts as my little cat brain, taking care of things down there, so I don't have to (:
I guess op meant before the Indian Chinese border conflict.

I guess it's not possible from india now.

I too bought a good winter jacket for 1600 still great after 5 yeats
Do people not understand that tactic, or don't they want to understand it? Perhaps it's a bit of both, but it is not a sure-fire way of denying a request.
It doesn't have to be a nonprofit. There is nothing wrong with turning a profit. The problem is when the company's only goal is ever-increasing profit and they are willing to sacrifice the wellbeing of their employees, customers, and community to achieve it.
This logic makes no sense. What about no smoking spaces? Basically every nation implements these and it benefits everyone (including smokers, more reasons to quit). Are you going to try and tell me "no smoking in front of the building" is the new apartheid?

Smoking and parenthood are lifestyle choices, which have consequences. Skin color is not, and shouldn't. It is not relevant to the conversation.
It is an anthology. But it's all about stretching our technology to its limits and looking at the societal/philosophical consequences. So, the source material is limited. You can produce episodes faster than technology changes. And niche and really experimental technology that people generally don't have access to is not as appealing either.
This guy's work and dedication is truly impressive. He posted a video [1] about his concept of a PCB drone 4 years ago and he and his methods have evolved so much. In addition to his highly specialized knowledge of designing, testing and iterating PCB coils, he also makes comprehensive and interesting videos out of it. I highly recommend checking out his channel.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_qUbPTYfk
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So do EVs need replaceable batteries?

If swappable EV battery form factors had been standardized and enforced from the outset, free of DRM and lock-in, we'd be enjoying incredible advantages by now. History will see this as a missed opportunity without a doubt.
This is effectively how Tailwind works. You end up with classes like `hover:text-black`.
Here's a thought. Allow kids, but require that they have manners and are well behaved. I love kids and have no problems with them, but hate kids that have no manners and are not well behaved because the parents are not doing their job. The same is true with dogs. Both take work, but as a parent and a dog owner those are part of your job.
It’s coming in iOS 17: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...
There is more to this than immediate comfort or being childish.

On one hand is taking responsibility for your kid and ensuring they are not a nuisance for other people. You should not outsource your responsibilities.

On the other hand understanding that kids are not full grown adults and that raising one is hard. It's also about understanding that if everyone stops having kids society will collapse in a couple of decades.
911 million people were registered to vote in the last Indian federal election. 67% turned out.
How does signaling work without time?
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well that's hilarious too, in that I just pointed you to a bigger context.
I certainly hope it's more than a hypothesis! [1]

If true, this could potentially provide breakthroughs against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism, and a whole host of other diseases.

[1] I know hope isn't science. But let's give the investigators plenty of money to continue this research. This is the most promising new line of thinking we've had towards solving these diseases in my entire lifetime. beta amyloid, tau, and the rest haven't gotten us anywhere.
> There are enough options...

Maybe, with regard to living in an area with/without kids around.

But for those who want to have children of their own...what I've heard from younger folks around here, that really does not look like an option anymore, unless you're in the 1%.
Interesting. How was the learning curve coming from Illustrator?
Congratulations, you correctly identified the underlying philosophical thought experiment!
I’m hypersensitive to noise and kids make a lot of noise. A cafe like this would be one of the few I could go to.
The Centrality of AffineTraversal
Dogs have a much lower carbon footprint than children, nothing about that news is sad.
That’s exactly what they’ve come out and said: attendance will factor into annual ratings, and remote workers will be ineligible for stepping into management roles going forward
Great work this, I wonder if the end goal is a drone why it uses such a strange rotor design rather than something more conventional (which also would obviate the need for such extreme RPMs).
I noticed this too! The reddit webapp on mobile was pretty much unusable before and would constantly ask me to download the app. Accidentally visited it a few days ago and was surprised it didn't happen.
There was no real competition to the Adobe suite for decades. Pros didn't have a real choice.

The same pros didn't have a choice between Mac OS and Windows NT. The lack of accurate color calibration kept them on Mac OS, even with it's significantly inferior kernel process, and memory management.
There is also an assistive mode available that you can use on all iPhones to put a software "home button" always on screen.

I know because one of my previous iPod Touch devices had a broken physical home button so I used the assistive mode sofware button instead.

This might also work for people who are too old to understand how to use the phone without the physical button.
Is it? Or are people just sobs that waste resources and hoard shit like there is no tomorrow?
> But your last choice sees the end to your psychological continuity, since the continued existence of the soul does not provide it. So you first ended bodily continuity and then you ended psychological continuity.

I reject the framing of the centrality of the soul in this exercise, and being forced to reconcile this question with the previous questions that do no pre-suppose the existence of the soul.
Please don't cross into personal attack. If you know more than someone else, that's great, but then please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. If you don't want to do that or don't have time, another fine option is not to post anything—but swipes and putdowns only poison the ecosystem, so please don't do those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, but you are trying to connect a largely US-centred type of nuttery with an ancient UK ritual.
academia sounds systemically toxic.

publish or perish, lifelong grudges from irreplaceable never-wrong superiors looking to further their own Erdős numbers.

unpaid peer reviews that then become paywalled. rent-seeking from public libraries / community colleges via bundling.

data "science" aimed at producing a predefined conclusion. e.g. corporate research grants. p-hacking, dismissal/omission of inconvenient results that dont fit a narrative.

the adage "people don't leave companies, they leave managers" is simply not a thing that can happen without risking your entire carreer.
I use quick and dirty greps all the time, even when there is a "better" option available. It just works and is very intuitive in interactive contexts. Probably GP works in a similar way.
There is also the reduction in pollution/carbon and overall savings. Letting a building of 500+ people wfh even one day a week takes an average of 100 cars per day off daily commute routes. During covid I remember going outside and just being surprised at how clear the sky was. I know that that kind of reduction is not economically feasible but I do feel guilty sometimes driving into work knowing that it is entirely unnecessary. I work for a government agency and most, if not all of our meetings are over Teams anyway because we are spread out all over the downtown area.
Are you suggesting we should replace humans with dogs?
They were also really tiny capacity-wise.
Depends a bit on your definition of a sentence, but "no" is only an interjection. The sentence lacks a verb and a subject, so some might not consider it complete. In case of a yes/no question, the rest of the sentence can be thought elided, which would make it complete.

It is, however, perfectly clear.
Sure. They're likely doing that too meanwhile. :)
An opinion, to be sure, but not the only one. If child free, you’re only vested in whatever it takes to get you to the grave comfortably, demographically speaking (and there are already 8 billion people on the planet, headed to 10 billion).

Another opinion is that children are a luxury good, not a necessity.
This sort of ageism is bikeshedding a nothingburger.

The real issue is the shunning, misery, suffering, starvation, and suicides of the elderly.
A skilled welder can make more money than a secretary (not to mention a logger or oil worker), but the secretary can probably work from home and the welder can not. At the end of the day, the __vast__ majority of those dirty physical jobs are done by men, whereas women mostly do more comfortable office work, regardless of pay.
I refuse to be called a has-been yet! :P

ps. Hi Rob.
> Yet office net operating incomes were actually higher in the first quarter of this year than in the first quarter of 2020

I'm confused.
It's cheaper to have no disability access than to have it. It's probably cheaper to exclude poor, black people from your property.

Too bad, when you live in a society, you have to deal with other people living in the society including those under the age of 18.
Eh, it's not like it's much easier to find the last turtle in python. Or C++ when people are extensively using patterns like PointerToImpl*, which can really obfuscate things.
>so why the tut-tuting?

because you've suddenly switched to a sort of dualism. If you are a psychological reductionist (from some of your other choices, like say using the artificial brain parts), then you assume that minds are what brains do. There is no consciousness separate from your brain, your brain produces your consciousness. So all that matters for you to be alive is for some brain to be around that produces the same mental states you have. There could even be multiple of you!

But if you hop on the spaceship you threaten that continuity for the sake of your body. In that case you treat your consciousness as distinct from your body and are afraid of 'losing' it or not being able to transfer it should that particular body die. So you don't just care about your psychological state any more, you think your particular body 'carries' your mind around. That's a contradiction.
This kind of evaluation, ie. "it is pretty bad" is where experience have told me that unless I know the person giving feedback, predictive power on how much I will agree is zero. What is bad? I watched just one episode so far and loved it, are all the other rehashes of previous themes with obvious low budget and bad actors?
If a manager can’t differentiate between a high performer and a low performer unless the employee is sitting next to the manager, that sounds like a manager deficiency
The moderation and meta-moderation system was a thing of elegant beauty.
"Black people aren't children" Deflection

Both concepts (white only and childfree) are the same (Exclusion of the others), and come from the same place (My right to have what I want is more important than everybody else's)

Same as it was considered bad taste to have blacks lingering around, now it is bad taste to have children running around.
Sunk costs.
And that’s related how? Choosing to have a kid (or a pet) is a choice, while race isn’t. Seems to me that’s a pretty major distinction.
A lot of TPMS are basically just specialized RFID systems. Some don't even have a power source for the tag.
A Government massaging the data to make the situation look better than it is doesn't qualify as a conspiracy theory. Rather as expected outcome if anything.

The point is that the raw data is always the most valuable. Translating it is an easy task that can be done if the user wishes so.
Don’t forget Yoko Tsuno, Achille Talon (they were my dads I didn’t understand them), Agent 212, les 4 as, Blake and Mortimer, le chat, and so many more. Most of these are ligne claire style and I think that’s herge’s influence.
I was pushing back at the parent comment suggesting pre-reqs are some big conspiracy.

If a university blocks someone who is capable, but lacking pre-reqs, from taking a course there is no real cost to them, and little to the student. (At least for me there were more courses I was interested in taking than I had time to take.)

If a university lets someone take a course without pre-reqs, and that person lacks the required foundation and does badly in the course, it's bad for the student (time wasted) and bad for the university (disruptive to the course, bad in University ranking exercises).

Pre-reqs are not perfect, but it's also hard to assess what all potential students are capable of before before taking a course in the same way that job hiring is difficult. So they are a reasonable approach.
>If you need complex data structures use YAML.

Please god no. JSON or TOML at most. YAML is too complicated.
Thanks for old slashdot, was one of my favorite sites and got me into linux and cool open technology back then. btw the thing you are looking for in the article (10 best stories from hackernews) has already been built (not by me), check out: https://brutalist.report/topic/tech?limit=10

(edited for typo)
But why would the feeling of continuity be broken by an instant replacement?

In both cases (gradual and instant replacement), at any given moment, there exists only one entity with your consciousness and self of sense and continuous memories leading up to that moment.
It cites multiple studies though. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/

Just because there are not currently any FDA approved medicines doesn’t mean it isn’t science. I also would push back at anyone asserting government approval is required for science to be accurate.
Discussed at the time:

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173920 - Aug 2013 (246 comments)
The general level of professionalism has certainly not increased since February 2022. That is to be expected though. On the other hand, combat effectiveness has definitely increased.
That's not a pro-social attitude.
In so doing, it's less than Gatsby and way less than Fitzgerald. There is nothing here in this 'epilogue'.

"This Commodore 64 is useless. It can't even run Crysis."

Snark aside, I didn't ask if the epilogue was any good or not, I asked where it came from. It came from our collective consciousness as embedded in the language model. It turns out that what we've been dismissing as mere "language" is an insanely powerful thing, maybe the only thing.

We're still in the first publicly-visible generation of LLM technology, and the model that generated the epilogue was already behind the leading edge in many respects. Anyone who's not blown away by this is whistling past the graveyard. Computers are now doing what we do. Yes, they still kinda suck at it. But they will get better at it much faster than we will.

I mean, really. What is a human author thinking, if not, "What would feel nice here? OK, now what seems like it would go with this sort of thing? OK, something else, let's have more, what kind of concepts go here? What do people normally say when they talk in this way?" It's been understood since the Greek classical period that there is only a finite amount of ore in the original-story mine. Everything after the first seven or so basic ideas is just implementation.

I have to wonder what you'd think of Anthony Burgess's epilogue to A Clockwork Orange, the one that the book's American publisher and Kubrick both chose to leave on the proverbial cutting-room floor. The one where Alex grew out of his rebel phase, got a job, and started a family. This epilogue reminds me of that, somehow. I could easily see Burgess's final chapter emerging fully-formed from an LLM in the not-too-distant future.
> 2. Platform team agrees to support kubernetes, because OF COURSE our developers need all the bells and whistles, and elastic beanstalk isn't good enough because what if we need* Feature X 3 years from now?

This is valid criticism. It's leading to an interesting rift or tension, at least at my current workplace: Infrastructure like this enables teams to be agile, but the infrastructure itself rapidly stops being agile and you need to have a 1-2 year planning horizon.

A good platform enables you to deploy several times a day (if you want, you can always choose to go slower). But changing a core infrastructure piece if dozens of teams and dozens of dozens of service deployments depends on it... a year is suddenly a rather short time. In fact, I'd say you're not replacing such a core piece, you're rather adding a new deployment infrastructure and now you have 2 for a long time.

As such, going for all the bells and whistles you might need 2-3 years down the road can be a very valid point - as long as you have evidence and reason to believe the complexity will be utilized.

Otherwise, I'm totally a friend of having some Jenkins Job or Github action to rsync jar-files to from Artifactory to servers. Standardize the App-Server and the 1-2 java versions to have, have a proper systemd unit for it and have at it. We've run the company software like that for years. It just wouldn't work at the current scale.
It is not mandatory for password managers to fill in passwords. Turning that on is often an extra step because you need to install their browser extension. Everyone is free to not do so.

And there are plenty of free (and open-source) password managers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers

It’s fine that you don’t want to use an off-the-shelf password manager, but if you’re not familiar with how they work in practice, perhaps you should not advise people to not use them. Your system is a way to manage passwords and from your description seems to be more complicated than most people (especially non-technical users) would bear.
Can we call it ponzi pyramid? Or speculative pyramid?

I agree this isn't a scheme, as it wasn't done out of maliciousness, but it share so much property with it (including who will have to hold the bag) that I kinda like the image.
As a non-major, I did not have access to an advisor in the department. My general advisor was for the liberal arts college (which I belonged to), and he did not have any sway in the engineering college.

I ended up getting to know one faculty member and having them back me up when I needed it, but it was still a bureaucratic mess every time. Meanwhile in my own major’s department, anyone could basically sign up for any class freely, as long as they agreed to accept the consequences of not being prepared enough.
Is the end goal a drone? I've watched a bunch of his videos on his PCB motor project and I don't recall him mentioning it was for a drone at all. The title here on HN itself is editorialized to include drone so who knows.
I took the same path and got the same tut-tutting. The clear issue is being uncomfortable with immediate replacement vs incremental. I agree it’s illogical, but I’m okay with being illogical on this very hypothetical question.

For me, personally, it comes down to the risk of copies. While both scenarios make copies possible it seems less likely in the case where you’re simply replacing parts of my brain. I cannot imagine copies not being made in the teletransportation scenario.
The problem with this is that in my organisation at least I see a reasonable anti-correlation between perceived value of team member and resistance to using the office. YMMV of course, but the point is it ain’t as simple as ‘the people the business values will leave without fully remote’.