skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of dreams as our brains' leisure time, an opportunity for them to do whatever they want to do, unencumbered by the demands of sensory processing or conscious thought.

However, that doesn't mean our brains necessarily take it easy. Indeed, I've noticed what I would consider considerable cognitive load in certain dreams.

Here's a great example. I recently had a dream in which I was at a party, playing a game with some friends. We had to come up with a silly name for a person, given their profession. I was assigned "dentist," and so I thought through some possibilities: Paul A. Tooth, Paula Tooth, Paul M. Out, Paul M. Allout, etc.

Then another person at the party, who was assigned "obstetrician," announced the silly name they had come up with, and I chuckled at it.

What's fascinating to me is that until they announced the name, I had no perception of the critical thinking necessary to construct it -- even though it was my own brain that was creating it! Somehow, as I was perceiving myself thinking up silly dentist names, another part of my brain was simultaneously thinking up silly obstetrician names, but I could only perceive the thinking about dentists.

Isn't it fascinating that our brains can pull that off?
In a sense, they are right. Survival is about meeting your immediate essential needs.

Of course, they are also very wrong. Opportunities to escape poverty are lost when you are only trying to fulfill your immediate needs, then there are the psychological ramifications of being vulnerable and in constant need for aid from others.

There is a reason why we have built our technological societies. It goes well beyond the personal gratification we get from gadgets or fine foods. We do it because it offers security of being and the ability to make our world a better place.
Why caveat it like that? Why not include other taxes paid by the employer, all of which affect what they can afford to pay you.

It's irrelevant to me, because it's not a tax on your contracted income.

You can make an argument that it is tax.on the value you created, sure, but not on your income because for most employees there is no direct link between value created and income.
Don’t want cars someplace? Don’t build roads there.

Don’t want pedestrians somewhere? Don’t build sidewalks and footpaths there.

The way infrastructure is designed has tremendous implications on demand of modes of transportation. Of course nobody will walk anywhere if it’s unreasonable to walk anywhere.

The problem is walkability is so bad people don’t even stop to think if they need to take a car. The just do and drive 800 ft down the road to visit neighbors. Insane.
>Capitalism is objectively a failure too (in certain countries, e.g. the US)

For one, no country on earth has ever been Capitalist. The word itself is a Marxist word describing a system that worships capital, it's actually meant to be derogatory and sarcastic. Every western country today is a liberal democracy and follows Liberalism, where any one in particular lies on a spectrum from Capitalist to Communist is variable but only within a fairly small range.

Finally, only a wilful idiot could call the current US a "failure". Is it flawed, far from perfect, miserable for a large part of its population? Yes. But does it also deliver them from starvation, war and natural disaster? Yeah, mostly. Better than nearly all other systems. It could do better, maybe a lot better, but it's so far from "failure" it's quite laughable.

But besides from that, European-style social democracies (note, also liberalist) can only exist because the US exists to guarantee that you can be that way safely. And because advanced, rich nations are more profitable for the US to trade with.
Based on what law? You can't copyright mere facts like a list of words.
There would be virtually no difference to me. I only get calls from contacts or from expected callers.

The spam call problem is much worse in America from what I hear.
After the moon, India launches rocket to study the sun
It sounds like you'd be much more comfortable in an IDE with a debugger. Any reason you're not using visual studio or clion etc? Even vscode should be able to give you a decent debugging experience if you're not doing anything too complicated.
I had to look it up but yes, according to ESA the Soyuz scores a mere 98%.
> This is just the intro flyby to show it works. The whole game is not included because it's a big download and not mine to give out.
A Tiny Mexican Border City Built a Budget Dental Empire
> Update is the same as Delete+Create

I gave a talk titled "UPDATE Considered Harmful" featuring exactly this idea a few months back. The etymology still makes no sense to me...they should have named it REPLACE instead of UPDATE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxMz-tyicgo
Nah. In Germany you need to tell your bank yourself.

Know that because one of my banks actually wants to see a copy of the certificate and haven’t been bothering.
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It’s not always possible to have a personal laundry machine available. Is it too much to ask that the machines also accept a credit card scanned in-person?
> you will have a feeling as if your face is squished against the pillow

That’s an excellent description. I watch myself fall asleep occasionally and this is indeed the case. Sometimes it’s like I’m flattened entirely or squeezed into a point. Strangely it feels expansive instead of restrictive.
Most large language models these days are trained on "tokens" instead of characters. A token consists of multiple characters. This makes it extremely difficult to learn character-level tasks. So why use tokens instead of characters in the first place? The reason is that by using tokens, multiple characters can be generated at once, which makes training and text generation cheaper.

OpenAI has this website where you can see how text is decomposed into tokens: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
https://archive.ph/YFSse
That’s not totally true though. React, used correctly, lets you use and share a mental model where you have clearly defined the minimum complete information required to display any state of the app, and separately you have a set of simple functions which reliably convert pieces of that data to correct html.

That’s insanely powerful and massively reduces complexity in highly interactive apps, because it means you no longer need to think about “user did this, update this here now, and here and here” chains, and can just do “user did this, update the state” and have that state update render potentially hundreds of changes across the app without needing to do additional implementation.

But if you aren’t disciplined with maintaining, or don’t understand the difference between pure functions and side effects, and fall back to hacks to try to “make things render” or “stop wasting render cycles” you’ll end up with even more complexity than necessary.

Using react as another version of `getElementById` leads to a horrible mess much worse than writing vanilla javascript, and most people who have that complaint are doing it to themselves by fighting react either unintentionally or on purpose to show how it can be bad when abused.

Raw HTML and CSS is much easier to understand, and mandatory to understand because at the end of the day creating HTML and CSS is the only goal, but higher level abstractions can be super useful to manage complex projects, and the mental models and abstractions are the actual benefit.
Unless you are entitled to that service by law, probably.
My big trouble is that my bank account is reacahable remotely either by mobile app or receiving a security code to my mobile. Essentially my fragile to physical impacts, constantly outdating (about every 6 weeks I have to update the app, just to have changes in the UI making me lost or adding features never missed), non-waterproof, expensive enogh (still on the cheaper side compared to average) to be attractive to thives, can go out of signal range (the cell companies provide the bare minimum of towers making inside reception unreliable), may have account troubles (carrier locks out by mistake, it happens to others), depletes without proper charging cable or possibilities, have no access to foreign carriers abroad, ...who knows if I miss some other limiting or risk factors, so this single point of multiple potential failures is the sole key to my bank account (remotely). I am genuinly paranoid about my mobile. I am living for it, not it for me this way. I want to live like you, without degrading quality infalting priced smartphones, but it was quite difficult and in many cases impossible. I am not happy about technology, not at all, it is holding me hostage! Instead of helping me.
Waiting a few weeks for a GP appointment is normal everywhere. And it was far better in London before Brexit. The significant factor actually being the defunding of NHS that has happened over the past decade.

My non-emergency care in London is still excellent. It was better ten years ago.

Yes I'd like to get an appointment within a few days but even with my excellent private insurance outside of the UK it's a few weeks wait. GPs aren't sitting around waiting for customers anywhere in the world.
I talk with my kids about addictive effect of different things, one of them are smartphones- they currently are interested in games but I already talk with them about other products that bring same addictive effect. We talk about mechanisms that lead to addiction, and why is it bad for them to be addicted to anything..

As for youtube ads I think many are inappriopriate for kids, when I see them I chat with my kids about things that should not be shown to them and why.

I sometimes relate to my experiences, as I was heavily addicted to games, social media and to tech in general (in unproductive way), I see how this addiction changed my personality and I don't want my kids to go and make same mistakes. But even when they do at least they will be aware..
New ‘droplet battery’ could pave the way for miniature bio-integrated devices
Yeah, that's how I see it.

I try to code small, assertion-like "invariants" into my programs via guard clauses and... assertions. When I get an error, it's usually handled by those, so I pop open the debugger, break on the exception and trace the stack back to see where I should have had a higher-level assertion or guard clause.

Invariants to make debugging fast and easy (and to force me to write better code in early, malleable stages), debugger to show me exactly where I wasn't thinking it through.
Last sentence under Early Life and Education says he graduated with a degree in economics.
Not all databases optimize NULL columns, so searching for items that aren't deleted might be a table scan worst case. I speak from hard-earned experience...

In such cases I fall back to computed columns. A deleted flag which value depends on deleted_time being set or not, for example. This retains your atomic state goal.
Ironically “vertical” is a very hard word to google
The Holiness in Reality
I didn't get this was a koan until I realized that most people cant clap one handed.
Runtipi: Home server management made easy
If a single economist (or anyone) could predict the future, they'd be wealthy because they could bet against the prevailing wisdom. If a lot of people predict the future, and share their guesses, then those predictions are the prevailing wisdom and there's nobody to bet against.
I was reminded that there was a guy who wrote a Python wrapper for Csound a long time ago. Apparently it's been superseded by this project, pyo: http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/
Biomimicry and Ecosystem Restoration
I am fine with the concept and minetest is available through pacman on arch. I sometimes play with them on local server
Well obviously I don't, seeing the email offers no unsub.
I'm curious to hear from anyone who's been using NativeScript for their projects. How has your experience been?
Scandinavian countries did not establish successful profitable colonies (except perhaps Iceland, if you want to count that). It's ambiguous enough whether the average Briton really benefited from their colonial adventures: the Scandinavian peasantry clearly did not. Finland in particular was an impoverished backwater until the early 20th century.
This is good. For the bigger picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

The earth's climate stabilized 10k-20k years ago, that allowed agriculture and all of human civilization in the last 10k years in the holocene.

We are rapidly ending the holocene through climate change and agriculture is probably going to fail, and billions of people will probably starve. The species might survive, but civilization won't and we will have to revert back to hunter gatherers.
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> I padded it with a bunch of meaningless fluff, resubmitted it and it was accepted.

Similar story here. In college I got extremely good at adding fluff to reach minimum word counts, I performed well on almost all writing assignments doing this. I would write an outline, fill it out with useful information, and then turn a couple sentences of actual content into multiple paragraphs each.
not a great test. on the flag test, I guessed gpt couldn't do it, and well, it couldn't, the stars are misaligned and cut out of the flag area, so it's not accurate.

test say tho that the flag is accurate, even if it isnt, then sclods me for how wrong I am

here's the render: https://i.imgur.com/jZVWjRx.png
>(I guess if you're a parent who wants to use e-scooters with your child, you're out of luck)

Check the TOS, children are, generally, not allowed to use the e-scooter rentals. Preventing this situation seems very deliberate.

For example, Lime-

https://help.li.me/hc/en-us/articles/115004915588-How-old-do...

You must be the legal age to enter into binding contracts. For most countries, this means you need to be 18 years or older to ride Lime scooters or e-bikes. In most countries, you can be 16 years or older for our non-electrical bikes. Before signing up for Lime, make sure to review the User Agreement for your country, which states age requirements
this was a real pleasure to read. I had just made my coffee and saw the title. I liked the way that the author followed the thought process you would go through AND took the time to find the actual evidence to prove or disprove a theory. Well done! I'm sending it to my colleagues as, given our Edward Debono training, a brain refresh. Thanks so much for posting
Garbage in, garbage out --- the futility of false accuracy.

There are too many unknown and unknowable factors here for much real precision.

For example --- user environment, expectations and individual tolerance.

How effective is the insulation? Was it installed properly?

Are doors and windows constantly being opened/closed?

Do the primary occupants expect a constant temperature? If so, what is their preferred temperature? How much variation is acceptable? There can be a large load difference based on the answer.

And of course, any provided answers are subject to change with the occupants.

Bottom line --- anything you do is really just a best guess.

All this leaves two practical options, neither of them really good 1) risk that an undersized system will still be acceptable or 2) oversize the system and risk that extra operating costs due to any decreased efficieny will be acceptable.

Most HVAC people that I know tend to lean toward option 2 because the only way to fix option 1 is to rip it out and try again --- and owner's tend to have a very low tolerance for the large expense involved.
The day I called Microsoft Support
It is a very subtle skill. It's not paying attention with the intensity of e.g. playing a game. It's more like barely observing what's going on in front of your mind's eye, barely floating above the water without sinking into oblivion.

You get better at it with practice. Not that I'm an expert, but it is an interesting experience.
You want outdoor-rated (longitudinally waterproof) single-mode fiber, with steel or kevlar braid. If it costs about 50…80ct/m (not including termination cost), you're in the right ballpark. It's possible to go cheaper, but then you need to know what you're doing, which by your question you don't ;-)

If someone is trying to sell you multi-mode fiber, they're 20 years behind the curve. (No, the transceivers are no longer notably cheaper.)

If someone is trying to sell you unarmored fiber, they want another sale after rodents chewed up your first fiber ;D

For waterproofing, note there's lateral and longitudinal waterproofing. You want longitudinal, otherwise the fiber can pull water like a hose straight into your patchpanel. (It's rare but it happens.)

Cheapest source I know is fs.com, for an outbuilding office order something that comes with connectors preattached (and add a good amount of slack). Splicing on connectors by any reasonable professional calls up mind-boggling hourly rates.
Ok, let's try it with an analogy:

"Pooling and sharing of computer source code makes everyone's products better"

Is there enough empirical evidence to support that analogy? Why shouldn't the same apply to wealth in a broader sense?
>Among the artifacts scientists uncovered were a liberty dollar coin from 1800, a 50 cent piece from 1828, a quarter from 1818, a dime from 1827, a 5 cent coin from 1795, a penny from 1827 and an Erie Canal commemorative medal from 1826, which was issued to celebrate the completion of the Erie Canal in upstate New York in 1825.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-08-30/west-point-ti...

I'm not denying there was racism and slavery at the time. I was asking if the contents would reflect a society that never had a thought or action that didn't revolve around hate, i.e. 'incessantly'. Do you think the contents meet this criteria?
How do you know someone can't just do it wirelessly?
> it was perfectly reasonable to allow the user to take control of the initramfs prior to LUKS unlock!

It’s still looks perfectly reasonable, just PCR should be fed with some value before that, maybe a hash of initramfs file? It seems to be reasonable as at this moment the state of the operating system differs from the one properly booted, which seems to fit the idea of secure boot.

This way it would be possible to still unlock LUKS with a pass phrase but not access TPM keys locked for configuration when initramfs shell is not running.
The easiest path is to hit "no" if your phone asks whether you want to trust the device it is connected to. Problem solved.
Very similar experience, decade in volunteer SAR with a lot of police and fire overlap.

I hold exactly the same opinion as you, however what is very telling us that the police and fire services love it. I think that's because of the accessibility of the system rather than the underlying algorithm or communication.

I am also coming to see w3w locations written more and more as a more accessible alternative to coordinates, especially in land sales and forestry situations.

I do particularly hate that government services and agencies are becoming reliant on a commercially licensed pattern. It does not tick the sustainability tickbox for me.

I hate it as much as I love it.
If creative effort was involved in curating that list, sure you can.

A book is just a list of words.
Because sometimes you want to check banking services on the go. Or you get a notification on your email and want to open the app to check. Or it's much quicker to log in with fingerprint. Or so you can quickly zelle someone on the go. Or because why do you want to go and pull out our computer and turn it on and log in and waste all that time when you have mobile computer in your pocket that's always on and always connected and not in your backpack in the corner somewhere. I know a lot of people who only have a work laptop and use their phone for everything else.
By that logic you should be putting your phone in a faraday bag 24/7, because even there's no evidence of a wifi/bluetooth 0day, "that doesn't mean that it does not happening right now".
It is even better idea if it is not a smartphone at all but a dedicated simple security device! Smartphones are a constant security risk alone!!

I had multitudes of non-smartphone based security devices in my life, cheap and dedicated small secure things, but those are endangered species now regrettably.
Oh I agree! I didn't spell it out in the article (I am the author), but I am a huge advocate of walkability. But if you gave me $1M and asked me to make this area more walkable, I still wouldn't build a bridge there. It's just so terribly unwalkable that that project would not even make my list. I would start with some sidewalks to get folks off the roads.

Funny story: the original residents of Richfield push back against building sidewalks, because they thought NOT having sidewalks would make them more distinguishable from Minneapolis as a suburb. That is bonkers to me.
It depends on where your brain creates the anchor. For me it is very close to visual thoughts so I can very easily feel when the attention moves to a place where you can relax to paralysis.

Thoughts are just thought beginnings where the attention creates this illusion of a continuous thought. So when attention is moved you will see hundreds of thoughts arising, seemingly random, all over the place, almost as if you’re dreaming, but the attention can be moved to avoid this pointless loop of random thought observing.

Attention starts with feeling the distance from the observation point created by the brain to your body parts. Then this attention needs to eventually make the feeling of your body very close which for me results in a paralysis. But the whole process does not feel like I’m guiding it. It’s like the attention mechanism of the brain finds a place from which it can consciously sleep. There is no effort at all.
I remember the days of real player and desperately going to trailers.apple.com to get trailers that weren't blurry, artifact-filled garbage. It was a daily stop for me for a long time.
This article highlights some (known) deficiencies, but doesn't seem to remotely support your assertion of “significant portion” being junk.

It also seems extremely likely that such things vary wildly by field, journal, etc.

Which is to say that throwing the whole thing out in preference to a completely unsourced and anonymous comment on HN seems, frankly, idiotic.