skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a much different take than most of this thread: cruise ships let people pretend to "travel" without actually traveling. You don't have to find a hotel (not that that's ever been hard, and now with the Internet it's trivial), and you don't have to research what there is to do and arrange it (ditto).

They're for people too lazy to travel. The absolute last thing I want is to be regimented into groups with 2,000 other people. And, by the way, catch their diseases, which is something that happened to cruise passengers even before the pandemic.

I found, when I went to Alaska, absolutely everyone asked, "Oh, did you go on a cruise?" No, I flew and rented a car. You should try it.
basically, someone got doxxed ?
Author here. Unusually weak? Yes, probably! I didn't feel any sudden pain, it kind of built up over a couple of days, although I've had back problems on and off for the past 5-6 years. In any case, this latest (and worse) occurrence was after a rather intense few weeks on a project with late nights, me not exercising/stretching properly, and coding either hunched over a desk or slouched on the sofa. I'm embarrassed just writing this but maybe it'll help someone else avoid this pain.
An opportunity for a reminder that chiropractors attempted to sue a respected science journalist (Fermat's Last Theorem author Simon Singh) into bankruptcy for criticising their "science":

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Association_...

It backfired.

"...before the case closed, a quarter of all members of the British Chiropractic Association were under formal investigation"
And most of those travel agents, like the one at my office in my company in the 90s, knew how to book pretty cookie-cutter plane flights and cruises.

I used "adventure travel" companies in that period for other stuff and my dad had a specialty travel agent who mostly worked with other private adventure agents.
You make it look like a discount for going fast
You're asking the wrong questions.

Buy yourself a new phone/computer/SIM card and get rid of the ones you own.

If you cannot even prove it, you're just wasting your time.

Having dealt with a paranoid customer in the past, I honestly don't believe when they said they've been hacked without even knowing what that means.
It really doesnt matter what the "meta-distribution" is, bar trivial ones. My whole point is that we can augment bayesianism by a-priori choosing these meta-distrbutins.

Is my hand in front of me? Is what's in front of me real? Are my perceptions indicative of reality? etc. -- keep recursing

If you're drawing from any sort of epistemically plausible (ie., any plausible model of subjective uncertaintiy) distribution on each of these points, you'll "recurse" to some extreme distribution --- where all possible evidence basically makes no difference.

This is why there cant really be an "evidential" case for realism --- and why bayesianism is an incomplete epistemology.

You have to assert the truth of some basic facts, and thereby focus in on a "region" of this "extreme distribution" which is near-zero. And say only, "simply by being above zero, i'll believe it".

That's the solution to the problem of scepticism.

But this doesn't work for local issues, because locally there really isnt any kind of non-bayesian a-priori analysis which can say, "here, believe the non-zero".

ie., you can 'complete' bayesianism globally by meta-theoretical concerns, but not locally. Meaning that 'from ignorance, only ignorance' everywhere, esp. the drake eqn.

The failure of bayesianism is an indictment of darke-like reasoning -- this only works on genuienly global matters.

eg., "a priori, the world exists, therefore the meta-distributin must be so constrainted..."
I wish, it was possible to build a city that is not car-centric.
XMPP is fairly established and even supported through some enterprise platforms, so I’m unsure what problem this is trying to solve.
It's ironic, but at the company where I provide support (50-ish employees), one of the most common things I have to tell people is that they actually have to sign in and cancel their memberships themselves. They just fire off an email rather that investing even four seconds into typing the same message into the Support Center or just looking at their Account page and doing it themselves.
Agda goes above and beyond that when you consider their mix-fix syntax…
While it might not be perfect, it’s a hella lot closer to mathematical proving/programming with normal functional programming “constructs” (for lack of a better word… idris etc, also the struggle with sized types)
I see nothing about the design that is broken. Most websites have implemented "remember this device" functionality in a way that 99% of users understand fine how to use. Some people have specifically implemented an option that says "Completely erase any potential for sites to remember this device", and then start bitching about poor design??

Queen, please. I have no objection for people choosing the "forget my device" option, but the nonsensical whining about explicitly choosing this option and then bemoaning that a website doesn't remember you is absurd.
Text only version: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/07/22/business/public-pools-extrem...
Have you been on one? I haven't but I've been to liberty ports while in the USMC and it was fantastic. I kept thinking how much more fun things would be if I were a civilian!
Helping the nuclear program of the country you identify as your home country using secrets from the one you came from is normally called treason and espionage. The rest is the motivation, it doesn't change what it is.
AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
>Firefox came into the mainstream because of power-user recommendations and the browser ballots.

But it was a completely different situation.

- There was a huge influx of new internet users who were all asking their techy friends which browser to use. This is not the case now. People mostly stick with what they know.

- FF was the better product for pretty much all use cases. If this proposal does go through, this will not be the case. It's nice that FF can block ads, but it's ultimately useless if the average user won't be able to access Netflix/Youtube/Facebook/their bank account. It will be an objectively worse browser.
I can think of some other equally popular but far more profitable plants in Cannabaceae family, I wonder if they enjoy the same conditions.
Nobel prize winners show up to teach classes, even if they're 100, because they expect others to aspire to greatness. That's what most would call purpose.
Avoiding Multiplications
Funny you mention that. My family has never been on a cruise before but we have an upcoming Alaska cruise next month.

Interested to see what the hype is about. Some friends of our love cruises and don’t particularly care about “travel” they just enjoy the cruise experience.
> that sounds a lot different from BPD, like a ... very narcissistic person instead.

Both is more likely. There's tons of overlap between the symptom groups.
Where to Invade Next? (2015)
There is also the 'emergency' case where your room is double booked, your flight is cancelled, etc. For the most part, humans are the best at navigating edge cases (as opposed to a phone tree or an 'ai' that's hardly intelligent, and 90% in an emergency you're just tapping your foot to get to the person anyways).

Want to get to your destination that day? A travel agent is often 'in the know' about what myriad of connection options is most likely to get you there, particularly if the nonstops are all gone.
There is likely still a price at which point the strain would be reduced enough that the taxes levied on those left would be worth it if e.g. used to improve local services or reduce local residential services fees or taxes.

But maybe it's not worth the hassle to figure out for some cities.
and everyone in general seems much more happier

Apropos of nothing, they also have weed in coffee shops and a regulated industry of 'negotiable affection'.
Like the other commenter said on this page, I tried other stuff first — medications, acupuncture, and daily stretches/exercises for a year. The acupuncture and daily stretches were helpful and I still do them, but out of compassion for myself I wanted something that would work more deeply and immediately to provide relief. And there are no side effects of Botox (for me) which is amazing.
There will still be plenty of Contikis dropping off tourists to go do the same thing without the environmental impact of cruise ships
Which should not be your entire strategy but is completely valid layer of mitigation
3 years?! You have my sympathies. I never understood just how painful it was when a friend told me they had a slipped disc, until it happened to me too.

Regarding the chiropractor, this may be a mistranslation on my part. I live in Japan and go to a 接骨院 which is probably closer to an osteopath (I didn't realise there was a difference), so I've updated the post.
The goofy aspects of Simcity like the animated advisors and the music really made it feel alive. It’s why I still prefer the old ones to CS.
This is just getting a PhD at a less prestigious school. Advisors there know most of their students won't stay in academia and mentor them accordingly.

Ultimately I don't think there is a need for something between a masters and a PhD. Any attempt to make an alternative PhD will just become "PhD-lite", and the best students (whether they want to stay in academia or not) will still funnel into the more prestigious traditional PhD program and will be more desirable hires in industry because they come from a more elite pedigree.
It was neither a cetacean nor a primate. It was a big and very specialized member of the order Carnivora. The only known carnivora that is evolving to turn into a filterer.

Currently is one of the most frequent wild carnivores in the planet. The crabeater seal, also known as krill-eater seal.

We could be talking about between 7 and 75 millions of krill-eater seals in Antarctic coasts, each one around 200Kg weight, and weren't mentioned a single time in this article.
The rhetorical tactic keeps winning. It works so well that, even though they've been doing in much of the rich world (Murdoch in the English-speaking portion) for decades, you still can't even describe the tactic and don't know why they use it.

Why would they stop unless they start losing with it?
I am so sorry for what's happening to this man, and I hope he finds peace in his last days.

the economics, ethics, and effectiveness around early approvals are really difficult to manage. companies have a strong incentive to get earlier approvals. but once the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to get it back in. if a sub-standard drug makes it to market and gains wide adoption, it makes later drug trials of more effective drugs really hard. where's the outrage for potential beneficiaries of better therapeutics?

I don't mean to say this man and others shouldn't get a chance at a hail mary when they're staring down death. just, it's risky business for others in the future. I hope the best for him and others.
Bhutan (the country) has done it by requiring tourists spend at least $250/day in the country and book through a tour operator. Post-covid they changed things to a flat $200/day tourism tax and eliminating all the other restrictions. They've mitigated a lot of the overtourism issues that have affected their neighbor countries.
Except you did not demonstrate any contradiction.
> there's something weird going on with that page that's preventing me from copying text on my mobile

reader-mode (if available) is often the best workaround to enable copy
> Both github and gitlab are not only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because the stripped down natures

I can show you plenty of repos where people do silly things with Github and Gitlab tickets in a quest to better track all the work that will never get done.
Thanks! I know some basics about DP and have adapted some of their results for my non-privacy related work, but it’s not an area I know much about the cutting edge of. Your blog post inspired me to catch up on some results from the past few years!
Most people don't contribute much to the real progress of human societies so it makes sense to FIRE so that they can at least recollect themselves and regain some passion for whatever.

I for one is at my 40s but I definitely feel older than the 100yr old in the article. I lost all of my passions of the tech in the previous 2 years and just want out when I have the $$$.
Reading this, I feel like I've wandered into the middle of some internet drama. Is there a summary from someone less emotionally invested?
> For me, the lack of free will follows from my study of physics, which seems to allow no room for free will.

We don't understand enough about thinking/consciousness to reduce them entirely to physics (the literal brain).

> The answer to this is that, upon more careful introspection, it seems I don't even really feel like I have free will either.

Why did you write the above reply then? I posit that I have free will because I perceive my typing this as occurring due to my free will. Maybe everything is (effectively) deterministic, but at the very least I exist in a reality where I can think and act in ways that demonstrate free will. That's more fundamental than any scientific finding, which is necessarily an approximate view of reality. Think of a computer that can somehow emulate computers such that apps in the emulated computers have no way to discover a distinction (timing and side effects are emulated too, I guess). What difference does it make to those apps that they're running in an emulated computer or the base?
Are there really apps than can distinguish AI vs human? I suspect that at best they can only id a small fraction of what is being written.
All things that would be more efficient if they just had a proper UI for them.
I would be interested to read here what arguments you did find.
> Contrast this to hellholes like most of the USA where it is an absolute necessity to own a car

This strikes me as disingenuous when taking into consideration the population density and just generally the size of land mass of the US, compared to the Netherlands or Denmark. You're comparing the US, which is, generally, much more broad open land with fewer people per square kilometer. Like, a lot fewer people. 523 people/km2 in the Netherlands compared to 37 people/km2 in the US.

Like, yes, in a wide open stretch of land, people will spread out more, necessitating more personal and speedy forms of transportation. It's not a hellhole just because you're not packed into flats like a sardine and the same convenience store exists on every kilometer stretch of city road.

Speaking as someone in the US who works from home and commonly bikes to the grocery store in my small town. The way the US is built allows for more of a sense of solitude (outside of the major cities.) This doesn't make it a hellscape just because it's not your way of living. Not by a long shot. Anyway, this is all at risk of sounding personally offended, which I am not; but the word "hellhole" seems a bit much, and far too broadly used for such a large piece of land with so many different subcultures within it.
Right, but the issue there seems to be execution, which admittedly non-tech firms dislike investing in.
be reasonable, you tried to insinuate that natural selection selects for fatal infant cancer, instead of against it.

the rate of incidence of "fatal cancer in infants" is extremely low compared to the rate of incidence of the capacity to feel bitter.
I've only taken one cruise in my life but this seems like a weird requirement. Someone from 100 years ago may call you booking a hotel not real travel because it doesnt require you befriend a local or get a local guide. Cruise people would say you still have to book the cruise, which is only marginally easier than booking a hotel + flight.
Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and any company that sells appliances made in China these days.

I don't short stocks, requires way too much attention.

> The Soviet movies were not about profit at all. Why didn't they make better movies than Hollywood?

Because they were propaganda, which is a lot of what Hollywood has been producing. Since it's failing, the execs are moving to squeeze out writers and actors rather than make better product.

You read an awful lot into me being against ruthlessness in business. I'm not in favor of communism; it's been dangerous and a colossal failure everywhere it's been implemented.

I am saying that today's Hollywood execs don't understand story, don't understand viewers, and don't care to build that kind of understanding. They only think in terms of knobs they can turn to get more money pouring in: "X marketing dollars yields Y revenue... Hmm... why didn't that work. Looks like we need to lower wages."

I'm kind of echoing what David Simon (creator of The Wire) is talking about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0c8rzOlUA
Perhaps, but that's also true with physical call centers, some of them are helpful and some are hell.

Hopefully the costumers will rewards companies with better customer service.

A good company will provide a good chat bot that will make it immediately clear when it can help and when it can't, with a clear and simple way to contact a human if needed.
Not the maintainer, all the copyright holders. If you accept contributions without a CLA, that closes that avenue.

I couldn't find any outside contribution in the repo yet, we'll see how they go.
> a purpose to fulfill in life

I add like to sense of stability there as well. If there is the nature unpredictability involved, waking up everyday is quite a challenge. Unless you consider unpredictability into your framework, getting paid to do things you love doing can be quite difficult. The person has achieved the highest accomplishment in his field, he has tenure and thus from the outside perspective he is living a much more stable and routine life.
> the sole reason why...

Strong disagree.

1. The USA's current stance toward Taiwan is largely a continuation of its historic stance, which had absolutely nothing to do with semiconductors.

The USA currently maintains a strategic ambiguity wherein the USA sell arms and also remains capable of providing for Taiwan's defense, but provides no specific defense guarantee. That basic stance has been US policy since the 1970s, long before Taiwan became a semiconductor powerhouse. The Six Assurances were communicated to Taiwan about half a decade before the founding of TSMC.

2. TSMC and Taiwan are enormously important to the economy of the United States. The economic damage caused by loss of chip supply would be a major economic event, leading to simultaneous rapid goods inflation, massive equity draw-down, contraction in the real economy, etc.

At least in the short term -- 1-2 years after invasion -- domestic unrest due to the economic damage would be far more disruptive to the USA's capability and willingness to go to war than chip supply in the defense industry (the DoD, through a combination of reserve supply and substitution, would be able to operate effectively for many years without new chip supplies).

The military's need for TSMC-manufactured chips certainly provides a more hawkish hue to the USA's ambiguity, but it's far from the primary reason for USA's backing of Taiwan.
This looks amazing, thank you for sharing.
While I can’t easily find the latter, I can find (what’s basically) weed beside my local coffee shop. And I’m in a state where it’s still illegal.
Already watched one on Tubi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMadjM0ZZI
>Also, it's fun that Amsterdam pretends it does not like certain type of tourist unless they spend money in museums but it clearly caters to the "sex and drugs go crazy in AMS" tourist.

This posts triggers the hell out of me. Amsterdam has been trying it's hardest for _at least_ 5 years and probably a lot longer to get rid of these types of tourists. With english bachelor party goer's in particular.
I think it's just the "Law of Triviality" [1]. They probably don't know enough about algae to answer the question, so they focus on the parts that they do understand. I don't think it's unique to "this particular set of people" - I see this over and over again with people from all walks of life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Why is there a separate company involved? What service are they even providing?
I did a Windjammer Cruise in the 80's. Only 150 or so on board.
Filming of cops should be legal, from a safe distance. But-- the entirety of the filming should be public property. Failure to turn over the entire video should carry criminal penalties.
This is a lot like the argument that Microsoft’s Office products could be so much simpler: 80% of users use only 20% of the features.

But of course everyone in that 80% uses a different 20%. When you consolidate the overlapping deductions, credits, exceptions, exemptions, … you end up with a staggering amount of data required to accurately “pre-compute” income tax bills for even 80% of taxpayers.

“Quick form update when life changes happen” is, I think, an overly sanguine way to express a requirement that grieving parents file paperwork with the revenue service when a child has passed. That’s a bit melodramatic, but my point is that centralizing the execution of a complex tax code inside a state bureaucracy creates a perverse relationship with the folks who are supposedly in charge.

Once all the calculations are taking place in an opaque, voracious IRS database, what constraint is there on even more complex taxes and exemptions? Your doctor knows you’re a smoker. Should you pay a Medicare surcharge? ACA plan purchasers already do, in contrast with most private employer plan members.
I have seen that businesses over the last couple of years HAVE replaced some or all people.

With amazon, I used to be able to email someone. Now I cannot. I have been forced to use a chat session. The chat session is partially automated. It could be completely automated, and I don't know if people will always be able to tell the difference.

Tesla basically forces all service calls to the tesla mobile app.

Getting a hotel is similar. web pages and phone calls are a minefield of dark patterns, where the customer is worn down and worn out by automated systems.

There are exceptions, but it is a supreme battle of will and patience.
Thought it was pretty cool at first, then I looked at my URL bar
> IMO it was the right decision. Does it make sense for a company to continue keeping folks who fail to meet an objective of getting from 11 to 20-25%? Is it fair if other departments are able to pull off similar feats and one department isn't?

Yes, because your most heavily optimized cash cows are also your least resilient when the market shifts.

A long-term business needs to have a mix of optimized growing cash flow products, legacy cash flow products that are declining, and new cash flow products that don't quite meet the bar yet. Otherwise, as soon as your cash cow gets hit, your business is dead.
I wish a grocery store would understand "tare" correctly and let me have barcoded and labelled reusable containers - fill the potato bag with potatoes, scan and weight the filled bag and be on my way.
The East India Company would like a word.
> Customer support execs in most companies at least either have documentation or enough experience to understand where the customer is heading with the discussion and resolve problems quicker.

This gives me the sense there's a nice training set, and a fairly clear way to measure the AI's performance. "It will get better in X years" sounds very likely
I know plenty of people who use that approach for all but their most used accounts ... just click on the "reset password" link, use it, and forget the new password!

It works but it's incredibly heavyweight. For every login you use an entire email infrastructure, doing all the email "security" processes. That a great deal of work.
They were supposed to be ice free by 2020.

Yet here we are.