skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That brings me back to my original question:

> What is the difference between slowly replacing your cells a few at a time through biological processes, and instantly replacing all of your cells through the teleporter?

If you believe that you die when your cells are replaced (because you are in the old cells and thus can't be in the replacement), then I understand your point of view. But if you're saying that slowly replacing you is different than quickly replacing you, then I would be super curious to hear the logic for this! (This is a sincere comment, I am not seeing the logic myself and would really like to understand it)
I'm deeply unqualified in pretty much every way to comment on the efficacy of this design - but _wow_ am I impressed with both the creativity and the perseverance of this guy.

I love software, but there's just something undeniably cool about hardware.
It uses hand tracking too. And if you are using hand tracking you might as well use a touch screen.
> my partner wants to keep it

What are some of your partner’s favorite shows on Netflix?
So what, we’re all supposed to be happy going back to a miserable life of commuting 2-3 hours a day to work in miserable open office layout nightmare factories to “soften the blow” (that might not happen) for everyone else?

Nah. I’m good. The world has changed. Adapt or die.

Frankly, between AI and remote work, I’m happy to watch our miserable current instance of the world burn to the ground.
> all of this will take money both literally, for hardware, and possibly figuratively, for people's time

anyone who's ever run a company knows that people's time is not figurative money but literal money
Discussed at the time:

From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670518 - April 2019 (14 comments)
The elderly will have it worse. And it’s about time. You make things demonstratively worse for your

Imagine a high school leaver being able to live in a 4 bed suburbia with a couple of cars, stay at home spouse and 3 kids. That was the norm in the 70s. Not today. Money has been taken from the workers and given to the parasites for the last 30 years, it’s about time it flipped back the other way.
This ignores that employers compete with other employers. It’s not as simple as employers vs employees. There are also plenty of companies in smaller regions enjoying being able to hire remotely over being limited to their local pool of candidates.
A sad data point, proximate to anonym29's comment: 2 decades ago, the apartment complex I currently live in did not allow any dogs, and was swarming with small (and often noisy) children.

Now, the dogs greatly outnumber the children. And the monthly rent (with no real physical improvements) is nearly 3x higher.

(Location - south-east Michigan, USA.)
I ordered a couple, they all sucked. There was a kickstarter or something for an expensive one which compelled me to find a cheap one.
And the people arguing for white-only spaces said whites caused less property damage than certain other races.
> Personally, I wouldn't even interview with a company that was hybrid, even if that's unfortunately becoming more and more common.

That’s fine. They’ll find another candidate
Aber waren Sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg?

reference for those unaware: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nice_here._(Nett_hie...
I definitely enjoy how the timescale on the internet is less pressing. In person, people need you to hurry up and choose where to eat or what to order and what to do next. Online you have your leisure of evaluating the options.
Didn’t Edenic charm already prove to fail at three (counting the snake)? ;)
Agreed.

I wonder what that would look like?

Something like: if every best next token has a confidence below some threshold for some length of context then the model can confidently assume ignorance?

I would love to read the training corpus required to achieve this without metamodeling.

That would likely be a utopian forum community devoid of ego and gaslighting and filled with humble people with a thirst for knowledge who clearly communicate the limits of their current experience.
Even with infinite funding, hits are not something that just scale up infinitely. Talented showrunners, cast and other production staff only have so many hours they can work before burning out/running things into the ground, and you can't duplicate them with more hires.

The standard strategy is to fund spinoffs of popular franchises. Marvel is a good example of this taken to the extreme, where there literally is a constant content stream.
I've watched only the first episode this far. I'd rank it average in relation to the other episodes, which is still around 8/10 for me, as I like the series.
You mean, like almost every other person on the planet with this weird thing called a “steady job”?
It probably doesn't apply to Black Mirror, but you can do real worldbuilding in a show that goes 25 episodes/year that you can't do in 10 episodes. And some shows/genres really benefit from that, becoming something more than the sum of their individual episodes. Many modern shows miss out by rushing through a self contained story in a short season.

But if I understand Black Mirror correctly, it's an anthology without a shared world/characters. There'd be diminishing returns much sooner with additional episodes. There's only so much to say about that theme. And we're living it every week anyway.
Yeah, I have never read a definition of "soul" that made sense to me. The premise for Question 3 said that it has some small effect on character, smaller than upbringing and genes. But lots of people have character or genes like me. So are souls unique? If not memories, what information _is_ stored in the soul?
Not sure why this is posted here? So Adobe has a bug in their algorithm for detecting unused accounts.

Get in touch with Adobe support to file a bug or something? I get mistaken e-mails from companies all the time, but not one of them is HN-worthy.
That's what your advisor is for. And if your advisor doesn't help, speak with other faculty members. You're responsible for your own education in college, you're an adult (normally, and if you're that precocious that you're a child in college your progress will be very different from the norm anyways). In the ideal world you get a good advisor (like I did, skipped several 2xxx level math and CS courses as a consequence; still took the same number of courses to graduate). But you could also have a shitty advisor (like I did at first) so you have to shop around and find someone who will help you. Form relationships with faculty members in the department, demonstrate your competence so they can advocate for you to your advisor as well.
It's kind-of a bad test. When you get to the "reincarnation is real" bit, you've undermined anyone who doesn't believe in a transcendent soul.
It gets worse after that, the first two episodes were definitely the strongest imo.
The only device I've ever seen firsthand that had its battery swollen was a Macbook. Battery was glued of course so replacement wasn't totally easy.
Every new account/os installation, I have to hunt around to turn that off. I absolutely dislike colored output in almost all cases. Might be because I'm color-blind. But they keep moving those settings around. Perhaps that part is done in their spare time by the MS Office menu bar team.
If there’s no written menu available what’s the other option?
fixed link [1]

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_federal_land.agen...
In Hollywood -- and Netflix is definitely Hollywood now -- nobody knows anything. William Goldman said it.

If they could invest in only the hits, they would.

If they could reliably improve their customers' happiness with their service, at minimal cost, they would.

If they could cut down on the expense of actors and sets and writers, they would.
Black people aren't children.
> So you either have to ignore your friends, bore them with your morals or just give in anyway.

Is it really so hard to just say "Gah, sorry, I don't have an IG account"?
Sad if you enjoy kids, great if you’re child free. There are enough options for everyone to maximize their happiness potential on this topic.

(And that rent, woof)
I can't say "been there, done that", because I know little about how you came to the position you hold. And I've had my share of burying hypotheses I've held for long times, so chances are I'm wrong.

But I held similar views. What moved me away from these views was the experience that in science you have methods that will let you see with high probability when your thesis is wrong.

Philosophy does not have such methods. You cannot only take the opposite claim for almost anything, but in my experience that claim has actually been taken by another philosopher for almost any topic.

The current consensus is in my experience lead by the people with the loudest megaphone. It's not the best theory given the things that really happen.

No philosophy (in the sense of actual writings of a philosopher) was causally involved in bringing the first astronaut to the moon; in building the first pacemaker - I would argue in none of anything where you could say: if you can do this with it, its probably on to something. Its methods seem to work.

As said, I cannot judge your thinking in any way, but this led me to question that philosophy is not practically relevant to me. How can I even judge if it works? And if I can't, is this not blind trust? Like an imaginary screwdriver for imaginary screws.
It’s Milou in the original French.
Let's not go there. Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories do not add to this discussion.
Related. Others?

EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36394922 - June 2023 (13 comments)

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361510 - June 2023 (605 comments)

EU parliament passes law on user replaceable batteries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36336190 - June 2023 (15 comments)

Non-replaceable battery? Not if this proposed EU law passes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34129250 - Dec 2022 (234 comments)

EU legislation could bring back user replaceable batteries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34085963 - Dec 2022 (23 comments)

Replaceable batteries are coming back to phones if the EU gets its way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30867892 - March 2022 (14 comments)

EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660953 - March 2022 (637 comments)
Best to remember that these kinds of statements are statistical rather than definitive.
Don’t forget the TPMS too.
wait when did you order it and when did it arrive oO. Your comment reads as if you ordered it one hour ago and it arrived within minutes lol
I don't run a company either, but I suspect it boils down to how serious one is about not only attracting but retaining talent.

The flipside of having access to a vastly wider pool of talent is that the talent has access to a vastly wider pool of employers. As such undercompensated employees already know of or will quickly discover their value and are likely to move to greener pastures when the opportunity inevitably presents itself.
I am somehow interested to read the news about this ans I still dont know which Xbox is the latest.

If they want me to check on google, they failed.

Also it is funny that you attack people on.. hacker news for not understanding the versioning.

It just proves that microsoft does it in a bad way.
Yup. That's how I found it. And without the mail context, it didn't make much sense to me.
You mean market forces that pushes the companies that make their business less accessible?

I personally don’t expect anything. I’ll just not go to places that don’t have information. That’s the market in action.
What about thin water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_cell
I believe the point they were trying to make is that the naming is confusing for consumers. Even if you’re aware of the difference, the naming is still confusing. If someone with knowledge of the product can’t figure out the naming, then how can anyone else?
>Whatever appears at the other end of the teleporter is not me, I'm dead and my consciousness extinct, so why the tut-tuting?

If you think you died when you entered the teletransporter, then you either think bodily continuity or an immaterial soul is relevant. All that matters for psychological continuity is that the person has the same memories, personality, etc. as you.
At some point the content will become repetitive and uninteresting, unless you keep changing it. Then, you'll essentially have a new show with the same name. Look at the simpsons, for instance. It's still popular, but I consider it to be a completely different show from when it started.
It ought to be "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<program-name>"

I have trouble seeing the rationale for other locations when the XDG standard exists
There were some interesting comments in a submission earlier this week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36420460
SiFive makes OoO cores for riscv
It takes more than a week to produce one of those episodes. Think about all the weekly shows you know. Are any of them scripted, highly produced affairs like Black Mirror? There’s a reason all high quality popular weeklies are talk, sports, or reality TV. Yes you can do a sitcom weekly for a long time, but the sets are largely static along with the characters. Production values are also limited compared to something like Orange is… or Black Mirror.
Yes they are mostly weasel ways of saying No. But humans are strange irrational creatures and for some reason even when you know what the other is doing it's still better to hear I would love to help you but.. phrase.

I've tried the downright No after getting advice it's just better to say No directly, and I can tell you from experience that there is no better way to burn bridges and get people to dislike you when you do that. People seldom respect you for doing that. I think it's some strange disconnect from the theoretical and practical.
The problem here is twofold.

First, many countries have their own laws and policies regarding air quality exposure. Often times these regulations use metrics about time-average exposure (e.g. the annual average 8-hr maximum ozone concentration) and can't trivially be converted between agencies. It causes very negative user experiences when your air quality summary disagrees with what a regulatory agency is putting out to the public due to a measurement technicality - much easier just to localize the data in the same way you'd localize the rest of the UI.

Second, we're stuck with AQI and similar indices because air quality is a multi-faceted problem with different components measured wildly differently. For instance, PM2.5 and PM10 are typically reported in ug/m^3 - but who actually knows what these measurements mean? What's the difference between 15 and 30 ug/m^3? It's very far outside of the experiences that many individuals have, so end users really struggle to interpret these values, even when you translate them into simple "low"/"medium"/"high" categories. Then of course gas-phase pollutants are typically reported in volume concentrations like parts-per-billion or parts-per-million. Aside from the fact that these values are very commonly misinterpreted as much smaller than they actually are, the difference in units adds another bit of complexity into users interpreting what they're seeing.

A well-designed air quality index could factor our all these challenges. I definitely h/t Breezometer for their attempts there, even if it is generally poorly received. But it's a very challenging problem no matter how you slice it.
You don't have to be an expert to read multiple files. If you do need expert assistance with something like that please contact me and we can work something out.
The sigrok community, such as it is, mostly consists of a lot of frustrated would-be contributors who can't get their drivers reviewed or bug reports addressed. Nobody is maintaining it anymore.

The project really needs somebody to step in and take it over.
Every business needs marketing, even the most basic coffee shop. Maintaining an online presence is just part of running a modern business.

You’re free to not do it, but the market will push you out in favor of businesses that do.
As L.Torvalds once said, developers wants server with same hardware as used dev machine. So I think RISC-V servers success will happen only after RISC diffusion in dev desktop market.
> You’ll have to call Netflix to cancel and they’ll just pass you around the call Center until they hang up by accident.

Nonsense. Cancelling is easy: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/407
I'm evaluating them ultimately from their technical prospects and on a long timeline. Sony has a bright future as a content curator no doubt. It's their hardware business I think looks shaky.

Consider a future where TV sales dwindle, cannibalized by personal screens like tablets and headsets. Or imagine smart tv platforms clamping down on media that they don't get a cut of (anything over that 'obsolete' HDMI port).

Those trends are slowly underway, and part of the reason the console segment is not just stagnating, but shrinking. Sony has a big piece of a shrinking segment and no easy way to move to the other gaming segments. Microsoft on the other hand has 3 generations of games that run on Windows, which is still the dominant OS in a growing gaming segment.

If we could define the console wars as: who will escape the console segment before it disappears? That is the lens by which I say Sony has the worse hand. They're more likely to become an Atari or Sega at this point than Microsoft is.
I pretty much agree with all of that. I started my career in a very different time but it's really hard for me to envision graduating and working from my apartment by myself all day.

And, even today, I suppose I developed some new professional relationships during the pandemic but, yeah, a lot of it has honestly been coasting from the before times. It's always hard to separate out various effects but it would be pretty natural if a lot of people felt less engaged when they don't even need to pretend to be engaged.
> we view them as public utilities

Maybe that is side effect of age. I certainly do not see YouTube that way. Maybe growing up with it is different.

And when they started it seemed like a fools errand—copyright issues, giant costs (OMG, so much money down the drain), no real way to monetize at all at the time.

In other words: giant heap of risk. I had a friend that was a competitor to them (but was more on top of copyright issues, thus their downfall). This was not for the faint of heart, and the exact opposite of a public utility.
Anyone else finding it hard to believe an unnamed big company would approach the author for a 500k CEO role given his background/work experience?
TV serial actors are a different cut than super-stars in Hollywood.

You aren't going to attract the superstars with a "steady job". There are some incredibly talented TV serial actors however.
Please don't take HN threads into gender flamewar hell, or any flamewar hell, or any flamewar at all. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36469006.
Every part of your first sentence is inaccurate.

Submarines are glued tight; all the body panels are welded together. They do this because making waterproof riveted joints is hard [0]. Riveted joints would flex and open up, requiring constant maintenance and caulking, and early riveted subs would leak trails of fuel behind them (and significantly into the sub itself!)

Second, submarines aren't even waterproof. There's lots of things that are hard to seal, like the spinning propeller shaft. Submarines have a natural advantage over your phone in this regard: all the water that leaks in can be pumped out.

Under the new regulations, phones can't be glued or welded shut, and there's not much room for a bilge pump in the average modern smartphone.

[0]: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1518898
To your point, not every small bump in life needs to be a blog post.

This certainly falls under first world problems. A small annoyance, like spilling coffee in the morning. And the author spilling coffee on himself is just something I can't get outraged behind.
That is not correct. Contactless cards can gather enough power from the terminal to operate a full-blown smart card.
There is also plenty of research linking childhood trauma and trauma during/before pregnancy to physiological changes related to weight gain.

Then there are people with adhd, autism, and numerous other conditions that can indirectly influence it.

So yeah, “just do it” and “just have some self control” etc is totally not it. I have zero tolerance for all this pearl clutching about giving people a break from the self hate. I seriously doubt it’s harmful for people to acknowledge that there are things they can’t fully control that hold them back. The real point is you can say “yeah whatever, but…” until you turn blue but without being able to peer into another persons mind you can’t make any factual assertions about how hard something is for other people.
The risks of picking a place you don’t know for a date ;)
Production companies can't produce content that quickly. Back in the day we had weekly sitcoms, and it took about a week to produce each episode. But for the most part they all took place in one or just a few locations, and usually those were sets on a sound stage. So all they had to do was churn out a script a week (which is no easy task) using the same characters and same actors. The writers usually had a "show bible" that has elaborate backstories for every character that they could draw from, as well as knowing the actor playing the character and sometimes even getting input from them.

There is a reason people would complain that "every week is the same story!". That's because the constraints of the medium meant that you had to keep deviations to a minimum.

Black Mirror is akin to making a movie for every episode. Every episode has different actors, which means they need to be cast. They have different locations, which means they need to be scouted or built. They have different characters which means a lot more work for writing because every character needs a backstory. Basically they have to start fresh for every episode.

Something like Stranger Things is sort of 1/2 way between -- they have their characters and actors, but they have a lot of locations, and the story varies wildly from episode to episode. Each season is like making a really long movie.

And that's just the production side of it.

From the business side it doesn't make a lot of sense either. The whole point is to provide fresh content for users. If you can provide a new show every month, that's a lot more compelling than a new episode of the same show.
Keep it. It will last 500k-1M miles. Simplicity and reliability are king. The new ones have all plastic bumpers and grills that degrade in 10 years. The absolute worst are the new Lexuses.
$100 for the entire Affinity 2 suite -- and they give you the apps on macOS, iPad, and Windows.
I increase double my productivity and I only have to work 20 hours rather than 40. That’s a good thing, everyone from Marxists to Monopolists agree that it’s good

Marxists think the benefits of the increased productivity should go to the labour. Monopolists think it should go to the owners.

Im not aware of anyone who thinks it’s better for a human to spend 10 hours work to produce enough food to eat that day rather than 1 hour.
Yeah, but it's real easy to write code, be a radiologist, manage money, ... I really doubt that most of the HN readers would be able to deal with that fire or oil rig.
I wish Netflix would produce more of its niche shows. There are so many shows with diehard fans that Netflix produces a season or two of and then cancels.