skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://airportpianos.org/pianos/

Searching by airport code only seems to work in a few airports (perhaps by coincidence?). I see airports like Salt Lake City International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, and Los Angeles International Airport on the search page, but none of their codes work. DUB and MEX work, but that could be because they're the long-form names as well.
A refurbished Macbook Air M1 with 8GB of RAM (which works wonderfully for day to day stuff, even development with VS Code) is $849 directly from Apple. I never felt any slowdowns. The thing is chugging along nicely and I don't feel a need for an alternative any more. Apple Silicone has turned the industry upside down IMHO.
I'm pretty sure it would detect the flat tire, alert a technician, and refuse to move.
They might be the best in the world- but it doesn't matter because they don't answer to citizens. I trust that they have good information- I don't trust that good information gets to us, our politicians, etc.
This is congruent with the sense that my ‘soul’ is a local aspect of the dynamics that have been playing out in the universe and will continue after my death. I am a little piece of the dance, for a while.

That works for me.
It would be great if natural gas is replaced with propane for households. Just imagine to fill up your ICE/LPG car at home, and to have a real wok burner without the need to change gas tanks.
Drivers license ID numbers in many states are almost public: they're deterministically generated from basic personal information. You therefore can't use a drivers license ID number as a secure identifier anyways.
BEV Era Could Produce Potholes Aplenty
"Using data and technical assistance from the University of Leeds, the Telegraph reports that the average electric car puts 2.24 times more stress on roads than its gasoline ICE equivalent, and 1.95 times more than diesel. Larger BEVs weighing over 2,000 kg (4,409 lbs.) cause the most damage, with 2.32 times more wear applied to roads."
Not a single mention of the word ‘Apple’ in the original post, instead ‘the manufacturer’ and ‘the big corporation’.. curious if that is deliberate and if so what the reasoning is (legal?)
> Congress can do its oversight duty anytime it wants to

This is a terrible mode of executive oversight, particularly when it comes to something like warrantless search. Congressional oversight pertains to entire frameworks, not particulars of specific searches.
Sounds a lot like aider
It's not very practical for a lot of people to decide that they just won't be available by phone.
I did a similar thing. Built a plywood box, used cheap box fans, MERV12 4", with a replaceable activated filter. Didn't think to use the screen door covering for pet hair. That's a good fix. The plywood box contains... the cat litter box, one for each litter box. And then I have a few other air filters throughout the home of similar, box=>box fan=>MERV12 filter.
Time in jail or prison puts more fear in people than a fine even a big fine.
Relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%81ja_yoga#Comparison_with...
> If you've not looked at it I really recommend othello gpt.

I skimmed it and read the conclusion, and it looks interesting, will take a closer look when I have time.

The prompt covers a subject that goes completely over my head so I can't tell how well it reasons. I don't know what 1 proton to 100 neutrons means, but I gather it's radioactive. I don't think it's far fetched that it draws the same conclusion from the training set because to you it seems obvious, and is probably well known to anyone who knows the subject. Kind of like it would understand that "hotter than the sun" is super hot, can correlate to different melting points. But I wouldn't say it understands the concept of temperature. Given the right prompt it might give you the impression it does.

The feelings of the scenario reads like any PR comment after a tragedy. "We feel shock and disbelief" and so on. The scenario being hypothetical doesn't change that since it's probabilities. It acts just like you'd think it would. The earlier example with the helium balloon is similar, it assumes a human context and not the form, and environment the helium is in. True intelligence might not even consider the presence of atmosphere as the norm. "It has no weight outside of your human constraints" would be novel.

Lets say it has odd numbers between 1-9 in the database. Given the prompt 2 and 8 you will get back 1,3,7,9, sprinkled with some natural language and we get the impression it's intelligent.

Are you saying it understands the effect the neutron to proton ratio has, as opposed to just comparing the vectors closest to your prompt that it builds the answer from? Being tested on new and hypothetical examples only means it will be further from the vectors but still close enough to give us the impression it understands the subject. If the training data didn't include the words neutron or proton it would have no idea where to begin.

In my first comment that started this chain I said:

> I don't see why not. It's not taking a single answer from a database no, it's taking several based on probability and merging them into what it thinks we're looking for.

I don't think even this latest answer is any proof of anything other than that. Are you claiming there is? And what are you claiming is happening?
What's the difference between pleasure and hallucination o pleasure?

The thing with meditative pleasure is that it requires equanimity to appear, being content with almost nothing, which is perhaps why people do not become jhana junkies.
If a boss gives me a list of five things to do and tells me if I do 4 of them that's perfect, 5 and I didn't set goals properly , I'm going to do 4. Particularly if my compensation depends on only doing 4.

It boils down to that ridiculous "stretch goals shouldn't be achievable because you should be shooting for the unattainable". If you want to have that mindset, don't beat the exployees for achieving everything. Beat yourself for not curating their goals.
AltGr (the right alt key) essentially translates to ctrl+alt on Windows and some Linux configurations. It also acts as a compose key on some configurations, making it quite unreliable for navigation as the system IME may intercept the key before sending it through.

You can rebind it back to a normal alt key at the operating system level if you don't care about the AltGr functionality, that'll probably fix a whole bunch of unexpected problems you may be having in other programs. I think Firefox altering the ctrl+alt+left/right behaviour would break more workflows than it fixes, to be honest.
The credit bureaus replaced a much simpler system of "denying most Black families credit at all".
One answer: You are responsible for your agreeableness. Your agreeableness is an OFFER to the people around you. Stop making offers that you resent honoring.

Another equally valid answer: If I care about you, and to the degree I care about you, I willingly modify my behavior to help you live better and more happily, regardless of the how you may deserve or not deserve it.

My wife is one of those people who will work themselves to the point of collapse without complaining. I have to be careful what I ask for because she will assign herself secret tasks to provide it. I don’t lecture her on how she deserves her misery, I remind her that I am the only person around here who swore an oath to help her, and she should ask me for what she wants and expect me to provide it. Then I try to volunteer when I see her working at something I can do. And I try to make myself easy to approach. After 32 years we have a pretty good understanding— but her endurance is worsening over time and so there are new challenges.
Wait, according to the article FSD is now 15k PER YEAR? Holy smokes.
A better alternative that doesn't annoy your loved ones would be, to connect your phone to a smart watch.

Keep the phone on silent enable notifications on the watch. You get to keep an eye out for anything important while being away from the phone takes a bit of effort to reply immediately.

Im using an older garmin watch and it works perfectly, it even has a silent zone setting so I never get disturbed when I sleep. Also has a really neat feature where I can ask the watch to ping my phone if I cant find it, so when I get an important message and I need to find the phone I could quickly find it.
I can't speak for the mods but I think you're fine in this case.
Private Connected Accounts
Yeah, to be fair their web filter is really inconsistent (it even blocks some Microsoft sites).

Haven't seen any other search/browser and Brave/search has been working fine for as long as we've used this web filter... until this morning
I’m not enlightened and I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong :) But you’re asking questions I’ve spent years thinking on myself, and I’m interested to talk about it.

> If you convinced someone that the brain has a secret mechanism to feel perfect happiness, wouldn’t a lot of people hallucinate that they’ve experienced it even if it wasn’t real?

Your own experience is some proof against this — even after 10 years, you’re not claiming experiences you haven’t had, and aren’t hallucinating or imagining deeper states you’ve not reached. So even if some people are exaggerating, it’s not reasonable to think that everyone is.

And it would be _a lot_ of people. For thousands of years across many religious traditions humans have talked about reaching elevated states. Their experiences share common features. They teach others common techniques.

> From the outside, both of these people seem like normal humans, maybe calmer and wiser than usual, but who still seek material comfort and the validation of others just like anyone else does.

I think that’s an inevitable part of our condition — wanting to be warm and fed and in the company of those who love us. Even Buddha had disciples and friends. People like people. Sure, some folks live in a monastery or cave or ashram and use that social isolation as part of their practice and discipline. It doesn’t seem necessary for everyone.

> I haven’t experienced anything like the sometimes superhuman claims that come from people in this community.

Consider that meditation is only one part of the religious practice of (e.g.) Buddhism. There are millennia of teachings and traditions designed to prepare for meditation, to physically and mentally endure it, and to understand and process your experiences. Meditation without this set of traditions is a bit of an orphaned practice, a little like Catholics taking communion without going to church or praying or listening to sermons.

Meditation is a powerful practice and it can hurt. People with trauma, for instance, can have flashbacks or panic attacks brought on by it. Trauma is often deeply suppressed in the body, and meditation helps one connect better with the body, so of course it comes out unbidden.

Buddhist tradition distinguishes between the monk and the householder, between the person devoting their life to practice, and the person devoting their life to their family and job and community. It’s like living in the Shaolin temple and practicing kung fu 12 hours a day vs. going to the local dojo three hours a week. No harm in either one, and no judgement, but no surprise that people reach different places by being on different paths.
Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a lead front end engineer (remote, small team)
> Very inclusive and not dystopian at all

I don’t see how this can be considered dystopian. Some places are going to NEED to be more expensive then others, because they are more desirable than others.

It’s like calling California coastal cities dystopian because of their desirable weather, or whatever factors make people prefer to live in them compared to a small town in Montana.
NonEmpty Catamorphism
Real life is a hallucination
> But nobody wants a phone, they want a tiny portable computer.

Yes, including me. I want everything :/
> I think we can all agree though, that lack of confidence (from hair loss) is far more damaging than the actual lack of hair.

In what context? If we're talking about dating, I would disagree. First impressions are mostly visual, a bald head is far more likely to be rejected outright before "confidence" even has a chance to show itself. On the other hand, if you happen to be attractive despite a bald head, a lack of confidence may disqualify you down the line, but not outright.
“Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
― Timothy Snyder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder
One thing to keep in mind is that people rarely give honest feedback in person. It’s always nice to avoid conflict. When you get anonymous feedback, such as during your review, that’s what people really think.

If you’re getting wildly different experiences from in person feedback and anonymous feedback you’re likely not as easy to work with as you think you might be.
As someone who is not listening in on the flake stabilization process, and who just wants to use Nix my thinking is, what's the alternative? To me it looks like people can either build on the feature that exists now, or put plans on hold for who knows how long while getting by with some lesser solution, passing up public enthusiasm that could be directed to growing the Nix ecosystem in the meantime.

I'm getting the hint that some people aren't happy with the current state of flakes. But right now it's the best solution for a certain large class of problems so it's what people are going to go with. Again, as a relative outsider I see flakes as The Way Nix Works with the requirement of enabling experimental features just being a part of the Nix process. Nix is rapidly growing in popularity with a lot of people drawing the same conclusion as me. Maybe there is a better alternative to flakes in the horizon, and when it's ready I'll consider switching. But I'm not going to wait to use Nix in the meantime, and for me the best way to use Nix currently is flakes.
> How does one verify that their sensations during meditation are real reflections of how the brain works and not just subtle hallucinations?

I guess the scientific method[0] should be the de-facto approach.

But one shouldn't necessarily expect to reach certainty: science is intrinsically humble, as it merely limits itself to the creation of models of reality, and to their refinement, by way of minimizing the error between theory & experimentation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
In Defense of “Anons”
Actually this is my favourite feature of my work thinkpad. Especially during winter. Really. Besides tons of disadvantages of the platform for the price.
If everyone can band together and generate N fake clicks for every 1 real click, And provide N wrong Captcha answers for every correct answer,

Then we might just be able to send a message to advertisers and those "data anal-lysts"

Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? What if I use a bot instead? (Maybe that's why the author eventually abandoned this project)
I really want to think the best of DetSys, and I use some of their work and love it. Some people who work at DetSys have been prolific contributors in the Nix community as long as I can remember. I also understand the urge (and precedent, within the Nix community) to go off and build your own thing to experiment.

But I think with the general pain and anxiety many longstanding community members are feeling over increasing commercial investment in Nix as well as the whole design and rollout of flakes, more upstream-first development would go a long way (as would quickly making good on statements of interest to upstream these features).
per year doesn't seem right.
Chinese room -> systems reply. That should've settled it right then and there. For zombies, similarly straightforward objections exist. The problem is rather that people's capacity for logical thinking shuts down when consciousness is involved. I think not engaging with such obviously wrong arguments would be an improvement for even a random HNer's armchair musings.
My brother went to Carnegie Mellon. He went to do biology but lived with 3 programmers and ended up getting a CS degree.

Couple internships and then straight into a FAANG. Never had any other paid work outside of a couple summer working at a greenhouse shoveling dirt for a couple months.

Complete inability to understand how a lot of folks live. Lives in a "California bubble" even though he hasn't been in SF in a decade. Definite "engineer's disease" where he's able to think through technical problems like a genius but can't challenge his own assumptions about anything else and assumes domain expertise transfers easily.
> Humans are terrible at vigilance tasks, and if you ask them to passively monitor a system that gets things right 98% of the time, you're going to have a bad time.

I understand this as a hypothesis but it hasn't been borne out by any of the Autopilot usage data. I suspect the reason is that humans suffer greatly from fatigue and ADAS systems reduce fatigue.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is on the roadmap.

Step 1 (almost done with v1): Have a database with rewards programs names & base transfer rate (which don't change often).

Step 2 (TODO): Add more dynamic things, e.g., bonus transfers

Step 3 (TODO): Allow people to sign up and keep track of their programs & points/miles

Step 4 (TODO): more tools based on Step 1 ~ Step 3
What a useful write up! I had no idea this technique and service existed, it seems like a great way to deter bots.
Because a shiny new feature that takes 1/10th of the time gets 10x more praise and attention.

Because naive senior vice president MBAs believe there never should have been bugs in the first place, and every fix is an admission that the bug existed at all.

Because every email is now a weekly contest between teams, and when hard times come the ones who reported on performance improvements and bug fixes will lose their jobs long before the ones who made the header the president's favorite color.

Because every email is your team trying to convince the company of your own worth and it's much harder to show a pretty screenshot of a performance improvement than a new feature (Graphs of before/after performance every week? Every week?)

Because bugs don't always follow your bullshit schedule made by a bullshit manager who is looking for a pat on the back by replacing bullshit A with bullshit B, instead of anyone anywhere in the company ever just trusting anyone.
We will tell you in 15 days...
> Does anyone have any insight into why the hell we do this?

Well, it simply appears to me that the responder above believed they were contradicting the grandparent comment. So they responded in the tone of a rebuttal, without realizing that two different ideas were actually the same idea. Most likely they misinterpreted the top-level comment because it was glib and not elaborated. Perhaps the cynical tone of the top-level comment also primed them for disagreement.
I also have FSD beta and my model Y can't even get out of my neighborhood successfully. really wish I could get a refund.
Your grievance is misguided.

Transunion can't do shit about some Belarusian teenager stealing your identity any more than anybody can indict them for deploying ransomware on government networks. The framework for prosecution of international cybercrime does not exist.

Domestically, Transunion absolutely will shut down access to data furnishers who do not vet employees, in cases where an employee is bored and looking up their exes and random celebrities. It is a violation of the FCRA and subjects the bureau and the furnisher to fines. The bored employee scenario usually just results in termination but if there are other factors at play like identity theft/fraud, law enforcement absolutely gets involved.

This rogue employee scenario is the mechanic I'm guessing is being exploited here, only it seems crowdsourced to obfuscate attribution (so one person isn't making hundreds of fraudulent requests that gets them noticed).

This stuff happens at Equifax all the time too. People are always trying to look up Donald Trump, athletes and rappers in misguided attempts to see how much money they have or where they live. (Celebs have taken to getting around this by buying properties in relatives' names.)
I would argue your comment is cynical as well. HN tries to be a place of discussion which means challenging ideas. Someone having recently passed is sad and tragic and deserves respect, but it doesn’t make their public opinions immune from discussion
I still haven't figured out how to collect and view profiling information in when disconnected from the internet, ever since they integerated it with profiler.firefox.com.
and who will incorporate these 'non-profit' 'companies' that will get bankrupt in a single lawsuit? Monks?

i also would love a system like this, but 'should's never truly apply in the real world.
An Actual Defence of Anonymity
I'm not sure that's necessary for / at least, though /home is a different matter.

Everything that needs to be persisted for / is done so either in configuration.nix (or equivalent flake), or using Impermanence. Once you've persisted things in one of those, it will remain so for all future derivations.

You can also create separate ZFS pools for things like LXC/LXD that need to persist between boots, but don't naturally go in / or /home.
A lot of the deep web stuff has gone behind $20 or so paywalls so I haven't looked in a while. But, yeah, even 20 years ago it was obvious that by knowing very little about a person, especially if their name wasn't very common, you could find a huge amount of information about them.
Ooh, good example! McNamara's Vietnam War-era career is, in general, a long-ass list of well-meaning, manufacturing-inspired data-driven decisions and efficiency drives (after all, he was previously president of Ford) that horifically backfired. I wonder whether there's a "Mythical Man-Month" style book about that out there.
I went through a period of several years where I was meditating 2-3 hours a day, and during that time I had all kinds of experiences... which isn't so surprising since that's a pretty abnormal thing to do.

> I wonder, what do others make of these superhuman meditation claims?

Not much. I have no reason to be skeptical of their accounts, but they strike me as too personal to be relevant to others. Maybe it's similar to when people report the contents of their dreams, or describe something like synaesthesia. I notice that many mature practitioners do not make any such claims at all.

> How does one verify that their sensations during meditation are real reflections of how the brain works and not just increasingly subtle hallucinations?

What's the difference between "real reflections of how the brain works" and hallucinations? I'm not sure that it's actually necessary to reflect upon one's experience during meditation.
For non-fraudulent chargebacks, here's a One Weird Trick™ to avoid chargebacks that startups absolutely hate: don't do anything that would prompt a customer to dispute a transaction.

No dark patterns or surprise fees, no charging for a product/service that was not delivered/rendered, and provide actually competent technical support (aka no third-world slaves in a boiler room) so that any problems can be addressed quickly.

I understand that the model of startups and SV has become hostile and bordering on scamming/fraud (that's why you're getting chargebacks), but escalating the situation any further (potentially into an actual courtroom) when you've already got skeletons in the closet doesn't sound wise?

(this doesn't cover fraudulent chargebacks, but fraudsters would ignore these emails anyway)
You do need enough RAM for this, though RAM is relatively cheap these days.