skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry if I came off as like, an unreasonable FDA bootlicker or as being callous to the people dying or suffering reduced quality of life due to bureaucratic incompetence, I do think that's terrible.

If what you wanted me to agree with is that doctors should be able to get people drugs that there's excellent reason to believe are safe and effective, regardless of whether the FDA has finished approving them, then yeah, I see how that makes sense.
There's a high chance AI significantly lowers the barrier of gaining experience with these things.
Interesting article. The study on this topic can be basically found in a community called NIME. https://www.nime.org/

One of the most popular concepts there is `embodied music cognition`.

How can we define music and musical instruments?

In many cases, we tend to pre-assume the music we discuss is just the combination of melody, rhythm and timbre, but how about sound-based music?

The author tends to have a negative attitude towards digital instruments, but I can share that I feel amazing when I created this piece together with the instruments:

https://github.com/chaosprint/Packing

My performance video can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYu55YZJH_s&t=102s&ab_channe...

Now I am fully engaged on live coding:

https://youtu.be/iKj7IibG0OU

The main takeaway is that these digital music making tools offer a unique embodied experience while I feel tired of physical instruments.
So what if demand scales differently. Should foreigners go back home to leave jobs to nationals? Should women stay home to leave jobs for men? Unless you answer yes to those, why would you choose another arbitrary category like age to do the same?

I hope you're never old with people around you that think the same as you think now. Either you can do the job or not.
> There’s gotta be some reason for the mental health crisis, along with all the other crises out there.

Evolution adapted you and everyone else out there to live in a small band of 50-200 people who only had occasional contact with other bands of about the same size. You do not have the psychological machinery to deal with more than that. Because humans are intelligent, and can learn to compartmentalize, we've scaled to a global civilization of 8 billion, most of whom live in constant daily contact with thousands of others, including direct contact with strangers.

This causes psychological malfunction, especially in those experiencing other sources of stress. Non-genetic hereditary factors contribute greatly. Cycles of abuse, dysfunction, and so on.

The world population has doubled even since I first learned what it was in grade school. And, soon enough, it will crash in the other direction, further confusing and causing strife.

Humans don't scale.
this is very true.

my team just merged with another, larger team.

before this merge we operated off only github issues and never had problems with it

now we have length jira planning sessions, new meetings every 2-3 weeks on updated jira expectations, and a whole group of people whose job it is to track our jira usage and let us know if we aren't using it correctly / meeting standards

under one system we always finished work ahead of time and could actively pursue more projects

under one we are constantly behind the "estimate" for our assigned work

care to guess which is which?
I can also predict a further slide in usage numbers after any name change...Utter mis-management. Twitter is a scuttled beached whale now. Musk is turning a very useful info platform into his own personal pulpit out of hybris in the highest order.... He's Captain Ahab... The only consolation is that he lost tons of money doing it.

Threads by Meta is still a Twitter clone, it won't last nor grow if they don't break ties with Twitter features like flooding users with undesired content, and if their only plan is to slowly monetize ads into the platform. Exorbitant cloud hosting fees are prohibiting most of the best ideas from rising now... What a ghastly grim tech innovation time we live in right now.
His handling of Twitter so far doesn’t scream mastermind.
btw, what's (roughly) the new idea you're working on? If you're at liberty to mention it (am just curious:)
"Stepping aside" makes sense if you are in a singular position, like the CEO of a company.

Most positions are not like that. Even though tenured positions in a university is a finite resource, having a highly productive professor on such a position is beneficial, no matter the age. The problem here is in they way science is financed, not in the glut of Nobel laureates refusing to leave.
Nice !! Please check out Spectra City if you are not alread aware they are a fully CC0 project built for WebGL (WebXR), although I think for now they started on a platform called Spatial.io & my impression is they are closely tied to the real built environment or proposed so as in a way for the local community to active participate on a new city block restoration project as an example.

https://www.spectracities.com/
The Level 1 lock supports Wi-Fi along with NFC. But you can disable the Wi-Fi if you want. But it is a software disable so you have to still trust the software. At least on a Yale lock, the Wi-Fi module is optional and removable. But having it in enables most of the nice features (otherwise it’s just a lock with a passcode you type in).

For me, I feel like I’m gaining more security than I’m losing, so it’s still worth it.
I wish the self-hosted option was more self-hosted
"Just like we will always need jails." citation needed
The problem is that it's not economy, it's academy.
Now you're questioning if human nature and pursuit of "better" can be changed. That's like asking "can't we all get along" and get rid of police and armies, which obviously doesn't work.
UX improvements might not be as high in the priority list as other improvements.

Further, as far as I remember, (it’s been a while since I administered a red mine instance) it’s quite possible for an instance owner to actually modify the UI for themselves.

Finally, UX changes come with a significant retraining cost.

With all that considered, it’s quite possible for UX improvements to exist but it also be the right decision to not make those changes.
Pools in Austria have signs asking you to shower before swimming, but not everyone does (lots of people with dry hair in the pool). Kids just run through the shower and jump right into the pool.

For some reason most pools don't have the strong smell that I remember from my childhood anymore. Either it's because they are better ventilated, or because they check the chlorine levels more diligently (they sample the water every hour or so), or maybe I'm just not as sensitive to smells anymore.
Tracking the journey of a uranium cube (2019)
I’ve not tried it, but you might want to look into https://www.stack-ai.com/.
US human rights _just_ regressed less than two years ago, with limitations to access to abortion!?! Is there a need for more proof that what you dismiss as 60 years ago poor decisions is already being reimplemented?

I absolutely understand your point regarding mental illness, but so far the US don't seem to be in a good shape to handle it without SERIOUS risks to others, and on another scale than people getting stabbed randomly, which happens with our without mentally ill people (and is also a very bad thing).
What Was Gaming Like In The 2000s? [video]
Are: your member-benefit idea - we live in an extreme mono-culture of company structures and I think any innovation there might help. Tell us more :-)
So it took a few years longer than originally planned?

See "US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021" (https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-citizens-need-visas-to...) with 256 HN comments from 2019 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346012 .

> Although the exact launch date of the new travel authorization is uncertain,

Ahh, so it could be another four years? :)
you can also take a few steps back from the screen, it works too
https://archive.is/KHsKh
You don’t need to root the device for that attack vector. Just put whatever device you want inside an Echo Dot case and pass the audio through to Alexa so that it behaves as expected.
You can upload PDFs to ChatGPT with Code Interpreter plugin enabled.
When I was in the US, certain companies (like Discover) had customer service which were a joy to interact with. An almost immediate connect with a human, who had the permissions to make a relatively large chunk of problems go away / actually have the right information at hand without having to transfer or hold the call. I would not hesitate to do business with them again if I could.

Good customer service inspires loyalty to a company in a way discounts/advertising cannot. Their topline might not be the best, but they'll never go out of business.
Hacker News and “Paying for Media”
How many regular people do you think are able to fish, hunt and farm - and whose life now depends on it? What about agoraphobics or germaphobes? Who will give up the very valuable arable land and clean water needed for these activities? Who will teach them to do it?

It’s very difficult to shake the idea that you’re trolling.
I have this theory: Humans have a spectrum for "worrying about things" or "things deemed important", let's call it 0 to 1. Things you don't worry about are 0. During normal life you worry about some things, and stuff surrounding work may even approach 1. Normal, because your family's well-being may depend on it. Then you retire or become unemployed and the 0 to 1 spectrum starts to drop in scope, the spectrum starts to cover a much narrower reality. Soon you worry and get annoyed by your neighbor not taking good care of his lawn or kids skating through the park... I've seen it happen to people retiring, I was once unemployed for 10 months and I felt it happen to me too.

I then thought: Perhaps for me the working life, life filled with intellectual challenges, may never loose its appeal?! I will just have to make sure to make work more fun by getting rid of the boring parts and focus on the the fun parts. Then, at 67, why would I stop if I got to an almost "pure fun" state? Of course what is fun is also determined by what you are good at so I have no idea what that "work" will look like.

Just a thought from a 41 y/o.
I honestly don't know which ones of these are luxury or not. I was in a VW and a Lexas, and many Toyotas. They all felt... totally fine?
Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to 'all the birds'
Out of curiosity, are there any simcity 4 refresh out there?

That game was way ahead of its time. I just want a 2023 version, but just couldn't seem to find it. Every successor game and other games seem to either focus on details/individuals or 3D effects with far less scale.

We have far more capable hardware to run large cities and more growable lots and better traffic pattern. But a better Simcity 4 is never made beyond the 20 years old base game code and addons... Or am I oblivious?
There are no dollar amounts in that article.
To share my ignorant thoughts on the topic....

It would be an entirely unconventional war.(I imagine) I suppose it would have to start with an extensive legal investigation to map out what kind of public attack apple can get away with without jeopardizing their revenue/breaking to many laws in other countries. A secret attack would be more of a finance question (I imagine) but if that can be arranged they can field their own political options or support opposing parties. Farages brexit project only cost a few million.[0] It was poorly hidden and not punished.

(I imagine) Apple could quite legitimately bid on things related to their business model (that they can always modify) and drive up prices, render more than just apple products unavailable and hinder technology companies in the UK sufficiently to make them leave. As long as the effort enjoys plausible deniability anything goes.

After project brexit an attempt to disrupt UK/US relations could also be quite effective (I imagine)

The long game (I imagine) could be to dramatically lower prices of apple products in the UK so that everyone buys them. Then argue the encryption thing doesn't sit well with their agenda and switch everything off and on again and off again. Perhaps something more subtitle, no IOS updates as the update has encryption and no apps for the current OS. They can do that as often as they like.

Investment funds are happy to kill everyone in whatever way possible as long as it makes money.[1](no imagination required)

It's a rather fascinating topic that I should study further (without imagining so much)

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/10/nigel-farage-s...

[1] - https://www.investorsagainstgenocide.org/about/resources/vot...
Anyone fully competent in both this and GUD on emacs? Have any thoughts?

I feel like I'm wandering around too much in all of these debuggers and can't seem to use them to drill down effectively but I haven't really been able to conceptualize what I'd change.

It's like I want a higher level organizational abstraction. The number of moving pieces seems to exhaust my personal working memory for really challenging problems and I quickly get disorganized with all the watches and breakpoints. Maybe there's opportunities for an AI debugging assistant.
Yeah, if that were to be the new staple protein option, it would rank only marginally better than Soylent Green.
I share this perspective. Most boxes in this diagram are AWS names for a thing existing in normal datacenter or TCP/IP networking. I am an old schooler who personally never worked a lot with AWS, but I think this is pretty clean.
Thank you. These people that demand perfection are poison to any kind of progress, and one of the reasons the US is an increasing failure. Was recently in Asia, and the contrast was clear as day.
>The questions raised by most political platforms are answered by personal values or personal preferences.

The democratic and republican parties makes a big deal about health care, housing, taxes, foreign policy, etc. These are also top issues for voters.

>These are completely inaccessible to the scientific method, and I doubt you or anybody else takes a scientific approach to voting.

They can, and they should. If you have a personal opinion on the tax rate, you shouldn't pull that tax rate out of your ass. If you have a preference for a tax rate, you should inform yourself on the matter.

>Scientists routinely do this too. The main difference being it’s only socially acceptable to scrutinise somebody if they’re not being venerated as an unassailable expert.

Now you've entered conspiracy theory land again. People routinely scrutinize scientists.
R/Place Atlas
they messed up AWS access to the videos, as of time of writing

they should upload to ipfs, pin with filecoin, and let a CDN like cloudfront’s serve the video
I’ve taken off a year and a half from work and similar to your theory, I have the same amount of stress in my life, I just apply it to non work parts of my life.

I was shocked.
Free health care isn't free housing nor is it free food. Housing and food are the most important things for maintaining health. Healthcare is of very little value if you're routinely sleeping outside in wet and cold weather and have difficulty finding food.
Here’s what I remember about Redmine. It was a really great project but it had an iron fisted dictator maintaining it. The big problem was that it severely discouraged outside maintainers. The original creator/maintainer prioritized stability for his own uses over everything else.

I remember there was a fork (chiliproject) that was created that initially had a lot of contributors and enthusiasm that however fizzled it out quite quickly. Turns out, maintaining an issue tracker is a major labor of love that very few can really commit to.
This doesn't do what most think it does: The "as a large language model" messages are part of the LLM itself. This is a filter that prevents you from getting any reply at all.
Presumably there's a bunch of teaching assistants in their 60s who have been waiting for him to die/retire for the past 30 years so they could get a crack at the job.
There is always a cost to the choices we make. I choose not to be on Facebook, and that has a social cost.

It's the same for the software we use, and the principles we adopt. I support Open Source ideals, but its not a -principle-. I'm OK using whatever to get the job done, clearly for someone like RMS (for whom it's a principle) how it gets done is more important than doing it.

We all have principles, but they don't have to be the same, and they don't have to be equivalent. I believe in climate change, I'm doing what i can, but I still fly occasionally.

It's great to have people who stand on principles, because it highlights the important. But I can't take on all the principles at the level that all my role models do. I can't be Greta Thunberg, and RMS, and whoever else all at the same time.

But i can borrow from all of them, they can all inspire me yo be better, and they can encourage me to find my own principles- things that are inviolate regardless of the consequences.
There is also right now an epidemic of homeless people harassing, assaulting, and even murdering people and generally making major cities nearly unlivable. So when you create a false dichotomy between "treat mentally ill people who might murder you" or "lock up gay people", YOU are in fact giving tools to the people who want to lock up gay people. However much your average, non-gay person supports rights for gay people, I guarantee you they support not getting murdered more. So when you force a choice between "maybe, hypothetically, gay people get locked up" and "you might get murdered", people are going to choose the "don't get murdered" side. People, really, really don't like being murdered.

Instead, how about we don't force that choice on people? How about we offer the option "don't lock up gay people" and also, "don't let mentally ill people murder anyone"? Call me a crazy idealist if you must, but I really think we just might be able to do both things.
Nobody really ever cared about privacy, they are perfectly okay with it being violated to the same extent as people living under a totalitarian regime for 8 hours out of every day. The security requirements that would need to be imposed in order to provide the assurance of privacy of data that you have given to a third party is so extreme as to be laughable even to imagine an attempt to implement it. The CIA cannot manage that, what makes you think Bank of America can? I also find it interesting that in attempting to protect a clients privacy, we must give up our own privacy and submit to workplace surveillance. Well, everybody is somebody's client and most everybody has clients, so we have a bit of a paradox on our hands it would seem where everybody has to be monitored at all times in order to ensure that nobody is monitoring others at all times....

If GDPR were actually enforced consistently, or similar laws covering more specific information that exist in the United States, the economy would crawl to a screeching halt and there would be warlords fighting it out over what's left of civilization within a week.

I'm not really sure what the solution to this is, only that we are lying to ourselves that we are anywhere close to having figured it out, and anybody involved that tells you otherwise (people selling ztna, etc) is willfully ignorant or a conman.

There is also interesting discussion to be had about the meaning of all of this. It's not clear at all that we have ever had a society that guaranteed the level of privacy that some seem to expect. We always had other ways of monitoring people and violating privacy that did not require electronics. Community involvement to a level sufficient to ensure nobody is totally screwing everybody else over has always been a requirement if you wanted to not be living in a cardboard box or a prison. I happen to think that is better than a total state or the modern corporation, but recognize that others can have different views on this.
Almost every person I know has the same goal about learning all these new hobbies. What happens instead is people do what they are passionate about and if you never learning X all your life you probably won't start at 65.
People don’t necessarily “like” Perforce. However it is functional for professional game projects, and other systems like Git and Mercurial are not. Perforce is ripe for disruption.

> if that’s not a copy of the repository, how is it in any way equivalent and what exactly is the difference?

“Distributed” implies the user machine is at least capable of downloading the full repo history. Git defaults to full clones and has various shallow clone features. It also implies support for extremely convoluted graphs and edge cases.

Offline implies a single central hub you connect to and sync with at some later point. I expect the only use case for downloading full history to be for backup purposes. Almost all operations can be performed without having access to every version of every file.
> Why is an ER fundamentally so much more expensive than another office visit?

Two main reasons: you need to use personnel, equipment, and rooms that can offer the highest levels of care. And you need to pay for having a facility staffed to handle worst case loading (with triage) 24/7.

You also tend to have pretty exhaustive testing on the "emergent" side to make sure everything is immediately OK prior to discharge.
All of this is common sense, frankly.

The people arguing against you are arguing from fear and emotion. You won't convince them with logic.
“This mechanism is the reverse of an infernal combustion engine”. I like this guy.
If I were to make a system for taking homeless off the street, my idea would be:

1) Outlaw vagrancy, and arrest people for vagrancy, the crime specifically being living on the street instead of paying for their own upkeep, but the important part is...

2) They can get their freedom quickly by working some minimum wage job, provided by the city, like cleaning the highways or picking up trash, for a week. Then when they're released, they can still work that job, or they can get out of dodge.

This is a clumsy proposal and not fully thought through -- but there can be some mechanism that lets people who aren't totally deranged get themselves quickly released while directing the others to treatment.

An obvious criticism of this is, it's not hard to come up with counterfactuals. What if somebody is homeless with their family, and they get arrested for vagrancy. Now their kids are separated from them. Then what? What if they have a dog?
Agree with this. Am a software engineer and musician (composition). Exhausting to do both.

But, have also found you can switch between them if you're a consultant. You work on medium-term length projects, build up a bank, quit, then focus on your other interest for a few months. Need to live frugally, but it is possible (have been doing this cycle for years).
Tomorrow, on hacker news, someone will “show HN” their rsync app for android and IOS that features automatic account creation on rsync.net and I will shake my head disapprovingly in impotent ignominy because I can relate.
I quit stalled “cloudd” process via System Monitor when iCloud Drive is stuck et voilà!
It's the law of concentrated profits vs distributed downsides. The few that benefit have the resources and incentives to lobby (by all means, both above and below board), without the need for complex organisation, while the widely distributed downsides might be in aggregate worse so societally there is a net negative, but they would have to overcome the hurdles of a huge organizing effort to get to the same effective action because the individual incentives and resources are relatively low per capita compared to those of the former group.

This asymmetry lies at the heart of many net negative societal problems.
Curious why you wouldn't be happy with Mercurial :)
But nobody wants to go to public pools, given the option. With a public pool available, those people probably would have done the same thing. Nobody with a choice is going to a public pool.