skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, yeah, couched in a lot of doublespeak. I'm not sure how I feel about this, as a former embryo myself.

The angle that they seem to be working is: "this clump of cells can't become a fetus, so it's not-an-embryo." Or "this object will never develop into a child, so it's a little less than human." They've definitely invoked the "potential human" logic that's so popular these days.

And it seems to be the pathway for a rush to experiment in every possible way with embryos that has been, so far, forbidden by laws that protect human lives and dignity.

It's like, "these are tantalizingly useful, just insanely interesting to us, and we know that the embryonic stem-cell thing crashed and burned, but let's gerrymander the ethical and regulatory boundaries around this stuff so that we can do what we want without the baggage of pro-life fanatics dedicating rosaries to our failure."

I could be 180° wrong and certainly open to correction. If you were once an embryo, then you're entitled to an opinion.
You make it sound like they do it out of the kindness of their hearts when they allegedly do it out of anxiety and self doubt
Schema is the better word here. Look into "schema therapy".

Schemas are just your set of inbuilt, instantaneous responses to common situations or thoughts.

You don't need trauma to have maladaptive schemas.
You wont know how bad the product produced by consultants will be until it already had effect.

And on pricing specifically, both shitty and good consultancies charge about the same. The ones that charge well below market are an outlier that will guarantee bad product - those are to be avoided.
There is a scale from less obvious things (plants, programs) to more obvious things (your self, other people)

If you try to turn the scale into a category (not conscious, doesn't feel pain vs conscious and feels pain) you will have to haphazardly throw a dart somewhere based on vibes.

My personal vibes say Sydney does not feel pain, but many animals do. I'd love to learn more and see some interesting replies, although empirically, it's pretty hard to change people's opinion on a sensitive ethical topic like this.

If we were wrong, that would potentially be very bad.
This article tells more about the drug: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaglutide
You really can go anywhere.

Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft, Gouda, Utrecht, Zaandam, maybe even Alphen aan den Rijn. I’d even consider Groningen on this list (although Groningen is a 2 hour journey).

These are all places within approximately an hour or less by train of Amsterdam’s central station, that have fantastic culture (lots of art, history, and other museums), and are (mostly) classic old Dutch cities.

Don’t get me wrong, Amsterdam has some nice museums that I also go to occasionally too, but if you want to go and see Dutch things that are just as nice without the crowds, you can go almost anywhere else.
You can bolt one in / under / on the side, and map controls for it. The MVP is duct tape but it's possible to get a small synth & battery into the case.

I know it's not quite the same thing as you're asking for, but when you dig into the linnstrument it turns out to be very hackable.
He's not trolling, it's a well known result.

>so you do need to know the polynomial time program before you actually solve anything?!

No, you try all the programs one by one. Assuming P = NP one of them will work eventually. The number of programs you need to search before finding the correct one is a constant, even if we don't know what it is. Then by scaling the number of steps you do at each iteration you guarantee that the total runtime will be polynomial in the size of the input.

It's exponential in the size of the P-time algorithm for SAT but that's a constant and therefore irrelevant to the complexity class.
What an awful comment to make. I can't believe you thought it was worthy of submission here on HN.
They're not saying this impact is to the exclusion of other impacts
Changing habits works poorly because one’s body and brain fight it every step of the way.
If they were smart they would just lean into this and add support for easily looping shorter tracks into some kind of "atmospheric listening" product.

Surely that would bring down their bandwidth costs at the very least.

There are tons of popular paid apps that do this kind of thing already, there's an obvious market for it.

But I haven't found Spotify to be very smart recently, so they'll probably just keep complaining about it, or do something stupid like update their ToS to disallow this kind of thing.
> The platform seems to be just a sandbox for one guy at this point.

Even if that may be true, it seems X has been doing well lately. Admittedly, my timeline has been sharing a lot more interesting items than I had previously received.
My thoughts exactly. How out of touch are these people?
If people vote to boil kittens alive that doesn't make it okay. Don't make us spoon-feed you, you're acting in bad faith and you know it.
Main side project of mine is a Strava-like web app to upload bike rides. It’s intended for personal use, so I don’t care how long it takes to load for random visitors arriving for the first time. I don’t care if search engines can properly load the page for content previews. I don’t care if someone’s ten year old Android device chugs on the JavaScript. I don’t care about dealing with the headache of making whatever JS library I’m using work with hydration.
Statistical issues in investigation of suspected medical misconduct (2022) [pdf]
I am very sceptical regarding the "complexity" benchmark used by the Atlas. I would like to illustrate what I mean with my home country, Germany.

It does not make sense to directly compare states of such different magnitutes as USA and Liechtenstein. Or given the highly integrated EU, it would make far more sense to compare the USA with the EU directly. Or regarding the complex economic situtation in Germany after the reunification, it would make more sense to compare Germany with USA+Mexico as a whole (West Germany to East Germany in 1990 in terms of population and GDP is aprox. USA to Mexico today -- of course, the time gap does not make it ideal, but it is playing with numbers anyway). Then there are countries whose export economy is dominated by just a few regions while other, typically small states are quite uniform.[1]

As far as I can see, the Atlas does not use the domestic economy at all for its complexity model. It would also be hard to compare objectively, because money might not be the best benchmark for this (for example, cheap health protection is typically better than expensive disease treatment). From anecdotal observations, I would argue that a lot of complexity growth in Germany in the last two decades occured in domestic services, such as child care and care for the elderly.

My final objection is that the measurement of complexity might depend on the exact division of sectors. The Atlas destinguishes between "motor vehicles for transporting goods" and "cars". But why stop there? Why not further subdivide "cars" into "microcars", "city cars", "small family car", "large family cars", "compact executive cars", "executive cars", "luxury cars", "sports cars", "leisure activity vehicle", ...? Only then can one see that the German car industry, for example, is much more diversified than many other car industries. But it would also automatically increase the overall complexity rating of Germany. In contrast, a further subdivision of sections in which Germany is weak (e.g. in tourism) would automatically lead to Germany losing complexity in comparison.

I think that only a holistic approach can lead to a reasonable evaluation of the economic situation of a country. The data provided by the Atlas may contribute to this, but the derivation of a "future dynamic" with a growth rate accuracy in the per mille range is just something like astrology in disguise.

[1] Here are, for example, the latest figures for Germany (preliminary for 2022): https://www.statistik-bw.de/HandelDienstl/Aussenhandel/AH-XP... (in German). The data shows the still very large gap between West and East Germany: only the per capita export of Saxony (Sachsen) with 36.0% is above the German average (according to the "country sum" (Ländervergleich) in the table); Berlin is the worst of all with only 9.1%.
Elixir can. I’m not in any hurry to use it, but I suspect there’s a lot we still have to learn from its design.
We see the problem of coincidence of wants here with regard to currency transfers, and the real effects of attempting to alleviate it. National currencies just don't make sense in a globalized economy.
ChatGPT-4 happily uncensors itself for Elon vs. Zuck cage fight in SouthPark
No jailbrake.

```

Cartman enters.

Cartman: "Elon! You fatass, give me back my anal probe! I know you stole it."

Elon: "Why on Earth would I want your probe? I've got rockets, dude."

Cartman: "Respect my authoritah!"

Scene 3: Mark’s Meditation Zone

It's a digital realm with floating emoji. Mark (Indigo Butthead) levitates, reflecting the colors of the metaverse.

```
I think there was always a lot of hyperbole in the statement and it really downplays Australia's strength and culture (not a surprise given the colonial undertones involved). Also I think "the lucky country" often gets causality reversed.

But I don't think its a hot take to suggest that readily available resource income has hampered the development of economic complexity over the years. It has also led to a significant amount of apathy in the population. Easy money corrupts.

I'm kind of a bullish on Australia's potential for tech innovation as I believe there is a tremendous amount of underutilized talent that's just itching for an opportunity to apply themselves.
Question: How do projects like these sustain themselves? This project is being developed from 2 years and I see no sources of revenue. Do the developers get any form of compensation for creating this?
I've lived in rural areas and while there was some messed up stuff, your blanket statement wasn't entirely my experience.

I would suggest that, while you might find less cosmopolitan people in rural areas, they're also more willing to overlook aspects of you that they dislike. You can't really afford to be too picky about your friendships when there's not much to choose from.
The false "both sides are the same!" narrative is not productive or accurate.
I don't think there is a real contradiction. Once success gives you access to billions you no longer need to work the same way as you had to when you were much, much smaller.

That's why as a small team it is wrong to adopt 'The Spotify model'. And yet, many companies will do just that. At every level of the corporate ladder there are different appropriate sets of tools and ways of working that will allow you to achieve particular results. Once you reach the Microsoft of the 1990's era level size (or Oracle, or SAP) you can ignore some of the truisms from the leaner days and do different things that would have killed a younger version of your company.

Just like an adult can run and jump further and faster than a toddler.
I know a guy who has done this and this model turned out to work much better, because the competence stays in right hands. He simply walked around muslim/halal-oriented shops in the city and said: I’ll take your hassle with online orders for some margin. That resulted in a relatively successful webstore.

The reason these shops couldn’t do it themselves is not in software expertise. They just couldn’t work properly. Not all people are successful merchants. When I learned how they did accounting, it made me laugh: they simply called the guy and asked for money. They didn’t know how much money there is, most of them simply relied on the guy’s accounting, trusting him absolutely. He took not only web expertise from them, he took everything except producing or importing goods, including pricing. This worked because of his religion, he was very serious about no mistake in accounting, cause they are basically his brothers under god. Both sides were happy about that.
Recent, related, long-form article from the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/will-the-ozemp...
> Honestly there are so many issues with the PC TPM ecosystem I have a draft blogpost going through them all, but it might be a while before I can finish it.

I'm interested if that can encourages you. (Also, I liked your linked article, interesting and well argued.)
I thought the raison d’être for Rust was not having a GC. If this is a garbage collected language, and requires a runtime for such, isn’t this more like Go or any JVM language?
Heck, this is the market doing its thing, isn't it? You can't say you want capitalism and then complain because the market demonstrates as much demand for the sound of rain falling on a roof as for a particular singer-songwriter. I think WMG is just annoyed the person who uploaded the rain noise doesn't have to pay royalties to the rain and keeps the entire cut.

I'm sure WMG also thinks WMG's contribution to Ed Sheeran's music on the platform is worth the millions they get paid as middlemen. At least the rain is contributing something by making a noise.
Someone should delve into history and investigate who exactly comprises the group of people in big tech that are responsible for the demise of the RSS/ATOM brands. Yes, it was Google that shut down Reader, but who were the individuals behind this decision? Who removed RSS from Firefox?

Even on this blog, there is only an email newsletter UI, and no evident way discover and to access the RSS feed unless you intentionally inspect the webpage source code or have installed a browser add-on.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In 07 I made close friendships on the rs servers, enough that my friends would ask where I was if I took a few days. We reconnected years later, and if I was less asocial we could've met irl. I've been playing 07scape again and while I found a fun clan chat, I've been invited to several others by people I'm chatting with in public, due to just being prosocial and maybe well-adjusted.

My point is, maybe people have a higher barrier to entry for 'online friendship', now, as adults, but at least in this same game, people still reach our and form bonds despite there being little in-game support for that socialization. Many still recognize that it's the funny yellow text that touches the heart, and not the count of exp in stats.
Technically, yes for about seven years. We were introduced by a mutual friend because we were both staying on campus over the Christmas holiday. We hooked up on Christmas Eve and dropped some acid and had a fun few days. We were both the oddly precocious types who graduated high school at 16/17. We were both sorta slutty. We just became best of friends for the next few years (we both went our own separate ways romantically, we would eventually even go out and hook up with each others roommates...) We went out and got tattoos together on her 18th birthday. It was a couple of years later that we got married (I like to pontificate that we got married by the justice of the peace in the Blade Runner building. It was justice of the peace and somewhere in an old downtown LA building, no frills). She had her mothers or grandmothers ring or such, mine was a Peace symbol ring from a gumball machine with the Peace symbol torn off.... It turned my finger green unless coated with clear nail polish. About six months later I left university and moved halfway across the country. It was always interesting to eventually tell girlfriends and such that "by the way, technically I'm married". Around seven years later I ran into another mutual friend who told me that she had been looking for me to sign papers and such and couldn't find me. We did meet up again a few years later and nothing came up, she finally settled down and got really married. I assume she got a rubber stamp divorce for abandonment or even non-consummation (almost, but we were both so "too drunk to fuck" on Extacy that we gave up and just went back to the party). She's still a fond memory of a bestest friend for years, we could like read each other's minds, almost too dangerous to be serious.
> Sadly, Pine has a long history of using poorly-supported chipsets and doing nothing to improve support.

It wouldn't even be difficult either, they could just charge slightly more and then pay a kernel developer to solve these problems.

> Their products have potential and could build a huge hobbyist community behind them, but extremely few people have both the skills and the time to troubleshoot buggy kernel modules.

It's not just buggy kernel modules, it's also significantly buggy hardware too.

The only thing I would say they have got going for them is good connections for hardware and manufacturing which help them reduce costs, otherwise another player could easily take over.
What I learned about Lucy Letby after 10 months in court
I think that in general, richer people tend to have better education, therefore also being less likely to discriminate, but if you are super rich (born into a 100-milionare or billionaire) family, you don't need any education and therefore discriminate more.
He hinted that they were responsible for assassinating JFK.

Jack Dorsey supports RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign.
Absolute wrong think. There should be more stringent rules of comments of a political nature on HN.
Nothing more american than self-medication using drugs that should be for diabetics, leading to both diabetics ending up in life threatening conditions because of a lack of said medicine, as well as a high likelihood of suicidal thoughts and self harm coming from the use of said medicine (https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-statement-ongoing-revi...)

Watch as how, miraculously, every famous actor, singer, public personality that was overweight suddenly got thin because they decided to just "start exercising" a year ago, exactly as the time where Semaglutide's effects were starting to be known.
> But it's slow and probabilistic.

A couple of things I do:

1. Generate a list of files on both sides and the sizes & dates, and compare that ignoring any that have changed/appeared since before the last backup cycle started. Unless your backups are truly massive in terms of number of files this is practical to automate and run at least as often as your backup cycle, and this catches many system errors or simple failures of the backups to run at all.

2. Occasionally checksum the whole damn lot in your latest snapshot and the originals. This can take a lot of time (and expense of you are using child storage with read access charges) so you want to do it less often but it catches bit rot and similar issues. Again you have to skip files that have been touched since the start of the last backup cycle.

3. If you keep a checksum (or list of files with checksum) of each snapshot, occasionally pick one and verify it from scratch. As with hashing the latest snapshot this can be quite resource intensive for massive backups but is fine for mine. You can also just compare meta-data (files, sizes, dates) to a stored list which will catch some types of filesystem corruption affecting your older snapshots.

One of these days I'll might get around to tidy+documenting+publishing my scripts that run all this…
Not so surprising for a company
that "has been the subject of significant controversy related to its business practices. [...] and its work for authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia and Russia."
source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company

I would have taken the article more seriously if written by a company actually producing a lot of software.
The technical problem is that noise compresses poorly. What is needed is a way to generate the noise as needed.

Now people don't want just any noise, they want artisanal boutique noise. so all you need is a bpf style language artists can plug into your noise generator, then people can pick the superior custom noise algorithm.

hashtag: only_half_joking
Well apple chips are Arm but better so...
I don’t think they’re being downvoted for suggesting prevention; people overwhelmingly agree that eating healthy is the first step in weight control.

Instead, they’re being downvoted for performing a dimension reduction from “unhealthy weight” to “overeating junk food.” This isn’t the reality for many people, and that assumption (including by doctor) does more harm than good.
It clearly states: it targets web assembly. So, this should answer your question I think
Sorry, but Google Meet Is Better Than Zoom
How do I control the volume of the iOS “speak text” shortcut action?
or better yet, archive.today
How about a list of important wars and coups prepared by the CIA? The list would be long
I don't think that's the problem.

I put on weight in the US no matter what I eat if I eat until I'm full. I naturally drift up by about a pound a year, and faster if I recently dieted. The only way to lose weight is to be constantly hungry. I will sometimes do that for a few months to get my weight under control. It then wanders back up. I've tried all sorts of diets, including plant-based, and it doesn't help. I need to be hungry all the time.

I find it easy to lose weight in less developed countries, even eating what would be considered much less healthy food in the US (fried fatty food, lots of meat, etc.). The food also tastes more, for lack of a better word, real.

I'm not sure we have any clear sense of what, in out hyper-efficient industrial food economy does this. Come to think of it, we don't even know it's the food -- could be something else environmental.

But that's how my own body behaves.
Fun? Practice?

This isn't fun, it is wanton vandalism and you can practice on your own stuff.
Is it similar to Mito, isn’t it?
Sounds like building something simple that aids in tracking “coverage” of reviewing ToSs could be useful to increase that the odds of spotting something untoward?

Iirc there was (is?) a site which gives a rating to the various license agreements of popular services and the like, so maybe it’s a solved problem?
> Who mentioned outsourcing?

lijok wrote:

When we get consultants in to speedboat a new system, we give them their own separate service. Saves a lot of time and de-risks our beautiful monolith.
Sounds less like Spotify is annoyed than record labels are annoyed. Spotify is being paid by its users regardless of what they decide to listen to.

On YouTube one of my most-watched videos in terms of watchtime for a while was brown noise overlaid on a recording of ocean waves. The video was three hours long I think and monetized. YouTube probably doesn't care if that share of my YouTube Premium subscription money goes to the guy who uploaded that video, a professionally recorded studio production or some person doing vlogs in their bedroom. Why should Spotify?
I believe this sort of comment really epitomises the good the CIA had done to society. Knowing the truth is just instinctive to large swathes of the US population.
Well consumers of the diff aren't yet required to agree.
My experience is that these are usually caused by bad-quality frontend code that does not properly handle errors around bad-quality analytics SDKs, and breaks in subtle ways when these SDKs throw exceptions.

The e-commerce industry is obsessed with tracking and optimizing their conversion rate, so a lot of them have a lot of manual instrumentation of their "user journeys". Imagine they emit an analytic event after you fill your address, and before unlocking the next checkout step. If uBO blocks the analytics event submission and the SDK throws an exception, that next checkout step won't unlock unless they implemented basic error handling.
> The CIA is responsible for us being able to differentiate between truth and falsehoods so easily,

Lol the CIA actively engages in media manipulation.