skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're oversimplifying animal behavior. Some thoughts:

There's a famous study involving capuchin monkeys that shows they have a sense of fairness.

I think many animal species are more sensitive to the suffering of other animals than you're giving them credit for: think of the way mother cats or bears act when they hear their offspring crying. Or the way mother dogs discipline their puppies about nursing.

Think of how donkeys are used commercially to guard sheep and the social instincts of the donkey (again it's linked to maternal behavior).

I think many birds are intelligent enough to want to pursue and punish potential threats.

We don't generally apply the concept of nature vs. nurture to animal behaviors but we really should.
But I don't want to get rid of it.

ChromeOS tends to provide the best experience for anything that ChromeOS is able to do.

I want to be able to choose at bootup, and not have that configuration be "easily obliterated" as someone else described. The warning is fine. The way back is a bit too simple...
1. Yes, it can.
2. No, it isn't really that good at it.

While standard GPT might be good only for some basic stuff. Some of these AI tools look quite promising, though.
As evidenced by the number of comments bemoaning the censorship of LLMs every time there is a LLM post.
Retarding the progress of science is sometimes (often?) a good thing.

Many people regard Einstein's later career as fruitless, but by attacking quantum mechanics, he improved its foundations as well as making it much more acceptable.
We seem to have based our ideas of on the excesses of the 1970's.

The idea of a tech union could simply be establishing the very basics. The expectations of the folks I know in the industry include more than 40 hour weeks, significant unpaid overtime during "crunch" periods. Managers promising the world to clients without even consulting the devs. Illegitimate H1-B hiring, and unspoken threats to H1-B workers when they are voluntold to do extra, unpaid work.

Again, I understand the hesitancy, but a tech union could be much more akin to the Screen Actors Guild, where the vast majority of the negotiation is about how the lowest-ranking get a fair shake, while the superstars barely notice the union. The benefits to the superstars, however, are obvious. When you have major players on record of egregious crimes of illegal non-competes a decade ago, which probably cost the superstars literally millions of dollars each over their careers, I would hope they would want to be on board too.

Unions can suck. They don't have to suck. I would think a bunch of habitually online, highly-skeptical, analytic, and systemic-focused folks like us could actively make them not suck.
Because at the time you want to form a union due to things being bad, your employer already has the workers in a position of fear and control, and they have reasonably free reign to do whatever they want and toe the line of illegality when it comes to intimidating workers who are discussing unionization.

Talk to a union organizer about this. They'll help you understand how this type of monopsony looks to a worker when they're trying to organize.
Thankfully. Handwriting caused me massive hand cramping until much later in life when I re-trained myself to hold a pen differently. A lot of my school essays were optimized for the fewest number of words that met the base requirements.

That in itself is a useful skill, but I don't recommend it as a coping mechanism to avoid physical pain.
Ruby as the main language
It can both be overly simplistic and also true enough for large portions of the population. Not unlike BMI as a metric where in aggregate it works and for most people it's a reasonable approximation, but there are outliers for whom it makes no sense.

Too many people like to point to the "yeah but's" on this topic when their underlying problem is that they eat too much and move too little. And then yes, there are people who have already fine tuned eating less and moving more and aren't seeing the expected deltas. Those are the people who should be worrying about the details. But for that bulk population it just turns into an easy excuse.
Yep. Or just use bootable media and install to an external drive, wipe, restart computer, repeat.
My mom sent me a photo of me when I was about 8 years old, playing on the home computer. It was very expensive to have a computer in Brazil at that age, and my parents used it for their work. I used it for games. I grew up using computers. Just getting the games to run, was something that needed knowledge back then. That lead me to at my teenage years, to try out programming, cause I wanted to make some changes to the open source version of a mmorpg my brother and I played. That lead me to choosing computer science. That lead me to being a FAANG engineer.
I had a leg up agaisnt every single one of my peers during all my teenage and university years. When my peers were learning to use a computer, I was already programming. When they were learning to program, I was already good at it.
You say that computer for young kids have no value?
Useless? That computer usage was the single most valuable thing that has happened to me in all of my life!
They do not, thats the point. If you start with a simple and reasonable sounding premise ('it is ethically correct to choose the option that maximizes happiness') but it leads to obviously absurd or inhuman outcomes then you might not want to adopt those principles.

Your second sentence rankles the hell out of me, you're only able to make that snap judgement to this because of your exposure to academic philosophy (where do you think that example that demonstrates the problem so clearly comes from?), but are completely unaware of that.

The bullshitters aren't puzzling at seemingly simple things, they're writing content free fluff.
Far-right EU lawmakers nominate Elon Musk for human rights award
> Counter-counter-counter point

(tangent) Does this remind anyone else of Melissa Peterson from Seattle, WA?

[0] https://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/
I think researching in the opposite direction has more potential. Let me explain:

what we want isn't to generate electricity through bacteria that digests wastewater -- what we want is to feed electricity to the bacteria that digests wastewater, just to enable that bacteria to do it better, faster, and "wider".

Let's imagine I have a septic tank behind the house. I don't need to find out how I can run a LED light from the bacteria in the tank. What I want is to plug that biosystem to electrical power, so that the septic tank biorection is 100x speeded up, in a 10x smaller tank. Even if it uses up a few Watts of power.

And, once we do that, think of the possibilities that open up: once you feed power into the biosystem, it becomes energetically possible to drive bioreactions in the opposite direction from the energy gradient, basically driving the reaction "up the hill" with electrical power. Now that's something!
I think lifespan plays an important part in this. I know a few aging
scientists, some with extraordinary achievements, who having
accumulated a lifetime of wisdom are finally entering the "We don't
really know" phase about every question.
> (e.g. sad neighbors make neighbors sad)

I much prefer, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." At least in that case nobody will confuse a trucker hat slogan for a viable system of ethics.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200301084451/http://sandiegomi...
Yes also i think they sent out update for controllers so it can be used outside of stadia
I've been enjoying watching the app Artifact progress - https://artifact.news

It's been a news aggregation app so far but with some nice features (article summary, read aloud, reader mode).

They just launched the ability to submit your own links. I have not tried it but it sounds like it may bring back things people liked about Delicious, Google Reader, old Reddit.

I mention this as I personally enjoy this platform as a way to consume content quickly. The article summary is very similar to Hacker News comments, I view that first & see if I want to read/listen the actual article.
Yes, but if you want to run linux, then I wouldn't suggest getting a Chromebook. It's a square peg in a round hole imho, just get a laptop.
Ignoring that the major media orgs were still able to post links without being completely blackholed, Substacks and other blogs were still prominent and viral at the time as well. "Steering public discussion" is only partly related, which is why I said "some subset".

Now there is practically nothing on the algo feed that links out of X.
Mr. Jaeger and the Scroll
Not only did you post links that don't actually disprove or deny anything I said, sometimes you posted links that actually enhanced my arguments.

Your excerpt for example makes the persecution of Bolsonaro obvious to everyone on this site. "Abuse of political power"? What made up nonsense is this? That's ridiculous. It's just like the totally arbitrary fines and censorship they imposed on Google for the crime of posting a link on their own homepage. "Abuse of market position" they called it. It's painfully obvious that these judges wanted to destroy the guy. One judge even bragged about it in public. Unashamedly. Who's denying reality? Your posts border on gaslighting.

The link you just posted is yet another example. I was a very vocal critic of Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic during his mandate. So I actually agree with what Dr. Luana Araújo said in that news article. That's why I think it's hilarious that of all the dumb things he said and did he went down for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting machines.
There are these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp
Yes, I had nearly the same exact experience.
In org-alert we use `org-map-entries` and a simple `org-alert--parse-entry` function for stripping out the details we're looking for. Depending on what you want, it's not exactly a data structure, but maybe it will help you get started!

https://github.com/spegoraro/org-alert/blob/master/org-alert...
Old Chromebooks can run Linux, or ChromeOS Flex
Google’s window of having the best product closed over a decade ago.

Payola schemes been keeping them afloat since mobile took off. App stores would have become the new default search for a solution engine.
Speaking of which, I’ve found that the api doc is getting better since Sublime Text 4.
Not crazy better, but that’s something.

I’d also enjoy some typing stubs for their API to import to help with autocompletion of their API, though.
A calzone is just a pizza that's already folded in half for you.
Love this. Thank you!
Yes, those are all things that your union can help negotiate on behalf of you and all your peers.
12,500MW - that is way lower than I expected - they clearly not industrialized.
I wouldn't say 12/12 counts as intermittent fasting, but it sounds like it's been working for you so keep on.
Agreed; I have a few friends who quit academia, and few who stayed. Some of their experiences are hope-inspiring, some are depressing. Same for those in government employ.

But I don't think as academia as the only, or even necessarily the most important place that science is happening in the world today.
One of my favorite novels of all time
Pairs of Rhyming Words
_____, _____, land value tax.
Whonix when used via Qubes DispVMs is more effective than Tails in my opinion (better protection against IP leaking), unless your goal is mainly the amnesic aspect.
If the industry is already able to determine quality, how do you propose to wrest that design process— enforceably, and without destroying value— and place it in the hands of aging politicians? The FDA example is a good one, with complaints like American sunscreen and toothpaste being subpar, and amid news that Phenylephrine is effectively a placebo (and was not the manufacturers' first choice).

Would I enjoy high quality items? As someone shopping for a new toaster after ours simply stopped working (and after allowing my son to disassemble it both impressed and appalled at its design), in a word, yes! I suspect, however, that attempting to centrally plan quality would merely achieve a lower standard of living for most people. Telling the average person "you're not allowed to buy that because we deemed it to not be high enough quality (trust us)" and following up with "Oh well" seems well meaning but, respectfully, out of touch.
I've seen a few folks here doubting that Google would actually follow through with this (which I think is a valid concern with their track record), but I'm more curious about if the hardware would hold up to 10 years of updates.

Granted, not all current Chromebooks are as low-specced as they used to be, but with the way the modern web has been gobbling up system resources the last few years I can't imagine a Chromebook actually being usable through an entire decade of bloat (whether it's technically supported via updates or not).
No, they are not selling their software specifically to the Ukraine and Baltic states.
They do sell it for UK, for example. UK spies definitely actively working against Russia.

By the way, Pegasus doesn't work against US phone numbers.
It is frequently used that way, and I suppose I didn't include it because I feel it's an incorrect usage... but I'd have to agree with you that it might even be the most common :-/
I'm still a bit salty that Google discontinued the Pixelbook and shut down the team responsible for it. I could easily see that machine becoming the perfect developer laptop with its Linux container support, and the high-end version had pretty good specs.

I would love a high end Chromebook, but sadly haven't found anything that is even close to where the Pixelbook was.
> What's the use case where data shrinks ?

Parent literally provided one: deleting a column.

Another is that it's very easy in PostgreSQL to bloat indexes. Load a bunch of data. Update (or delete) that data and now your index is bloated.

The only resolution is to REINDEX (or VACUUM FULL).
A surefire way to lose my sympathy—even in a situation in which one party is indie developers working on passion projecs, and the other party is almost cartoonishly villainous CEO John Riccitiello—is to issue a death threat. If you think a death threat is just a way to express how much you care about something, you're wrong. Death threats aren't punctuation marks, dummies.
Oooooof
I'm not the one packing it, the setup of the problem does it. "Barely above neutral" means you've picked an acceptable state. And then we are supposed to consider that acceptable state "repugnant"?
The ones outside of your metropolitan area. There are tech workers around the world, not just in Silicon Valley, and they are subject to all sorts of economic conditions.
Any Apple laptop has a good chance? My 2011 MacBook Air still works fine (as does the 2013) - the main problem is software support. You’re not playing games on that but it’s fine for email / web / video chat / office docs and light coding. Each of the earlier ones I had was replaced for performance reasons, not failure other than hard drives back when spinning metal was the norm.
Reddit seems to have easy sales. Specific subreddits can be targeted with specific ads really easily. So it should be easy to sell things there and easy to keep the users happy.
I have an original Pixelbook (late 2017 release date) and the auto update support page [1] has been updated from June 2024 to June 2027 (with an asterisk saying it is user opt in but that's all I can see). So at first glance it doesn't seem to be paid.

My Pixelbook doesn't get much use anymore vs my M1 MacBook but it's nice to know it will still be supported. It can be a handy thin client and I don't have to worry as much about it getting stolen/abusing at this point in its life.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?visit_id=...
Of course. That's because only bad things about three-letter agencies gain traction around here.
One helpful way to think of it is that having a wide variety of bacteria is what matters for a healthy gut biome.

If one species like e. coli flares up, maybe from food poisoning, it can overwhelm the immune system. The other type of food poisoning (like with botulism I think?) is where the bacteria have already contaminated food with their waste and it overwhelms the organs so the toxin reaches the body. But with so many variations of e. coli already in existence, I would expect the risk from an engineered version to be low.

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That said, I lost my gut health in late 2018 due to a number of factors including work stress, too many beers/cocktails and ignoring my body's response when I ate stuff like almond butter which I didn't know I was sensitive to. That punched holes through my intestines and gave me leaky gut. Which allowed gluten, lectins and lactose to pass the gut lining and trigger my immune system. Now I'm sensitive to foods containing those compounds, and they are in almost everything and especially processed foods. It took me at least 3 years to recover and I must largely avoid wheat and fast food now, which is.. annoying to say the least.

Gluten sensitivity has reached such levels that many people can only drink hard seltzer now, not beer. And having to offer gluten-free options has become a burden on restaurants. What most people don't realize is that gluten sensitivity can occur at any age unexpectedly. I look at it now like smoking: every time we eat grains, we run a small risk of becoming sensitized. IMHO that's mostly due to the increased use of wheat and gluten in processed foods, incentivized by the lowered cost of GMO crops:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-between-incr...

This was all predicted by a small minority of scientists in the 1990s and armchair activists like me who warned that GMOs would have unintended consequences. TANSTAAFL except with GMO foods.. right.

I'd choose GMOs for industry over messing with our food supply any day.
It's funny how people will get concerned if you fast, but if you eat yourself into morbid obesity nobody says anything.

Likewise, as I've switched to more whole foods I might eat, let's say, 4 whole peaches one day. My family speaks up, "4 peaches is a lot of sugar" they say, and they're right. But I used to eat 4 large candy bars in a day, plus a row of Oreos, and they said nothing.
As the other commenter said this was less than my necessary calories. So generally I needed 2800~ calories, and when cutting i’d eat 2200~ calories. Sometimes less when I wanted to step it up to 1.5~ or so lbs a week., but a lb a week was what I found maintainable without facing a binge eating session that I couldn’t stop myself from committing
https://x.com/MassiveMonster/status/1701808567140102633?s=20

What are you talking about?
Platform Engineering – What’s Hype and What’s Not?
Apple’s new $19 USB-C EarPods apparently support lossless audio
That conclusion is not repugnant at all, it's just that its phrasing is so simplistic as to be nearly a straw-man. It's a poisoned intuition pump, because it makes you imagine a situation that doesn't follow at all from utilitarianism.

First of all, you're imagining dividing happiness among more people, but imagining them all with the same amount of suffering. You're picturing a drudging life where people work all day and have barely any source of happiness. But if you can magically divide up some total amount of happiness, why not the same with suffering? This is the entire source of the word "repugnant", because it sounds like you get infinite suffering with finite happiness. That does not follow from anything utilitarianism stipulates; you've simply created an awful world and falsely called it utilitarianism. Try to imagine all these people living a nearly completely neutral life, erring a bit on the happier side, and it suddenly doesn't sound so bad.

Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that people can create happiness for others. What fixed finite "happiness" resource are we divvying up here? Surely a world with 10 billion people has more great works of art for all to enjoy than a world with 10 people, not to mention far less loneliness. It's crazy to think the total amount of happiness to distribute is independent of the world population.

There are many more reasonable objections to even the existence of that so-called "conclusion" without even starting on the many ways of dealing with it.
There's a relatively reasonable timeline of the coup available here. [1] And it was a coup in the most classical definition of the word. The military began refusing to carry out government orders, entire regional police departments were defecting to the protesters, cities were openly refusing to recognize the government, and so on. Had Yanukovych stayed, he would likely have been killed, with or without a Ceaușescu style kangaroo court.

And if you want to see the sparking of the coup, this [2] is a video of John McCain (who was working alongside Nuland) instigating and emboldening the protesters, "America is with you. Europe is with you. The destiny you seek lies in Europe!" At the same time this was happening, Nuland was on the ground with protesters, memed as 'handing out cookies.'

Try to imagine something comparable happening in America. Imagine America was a relatively weak nation, and you had e.g. leading politicians from China out there rallying the protesters in DC, telling them that "China is with you! The destiny you seek lies in China!" That is going to not only dramatically embolden the existing protesters, but also draw out people from everywhere in the country who start thinking 'this could be it.' And indeed it was "it."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Detailed...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eyhO8VTdg
And the related concept, reputation. If NSO had a reputation for screwing 0-day finders, their supply would dry up
I’m not convinced of that yet. Visual UI builders have been a thing for decades and this is more or less the same thing except the input mechanism has changed. Instead of point and click you’re prompting it with text.

I think there are a lot of problems, but mainly I just don’t think it’s ever going to be practical to write and maintain software (front or backend) using conversational text prompts. It’s a very imprecise tool for the job.
Of course. I'm thinking more about life after those 10 years.
As (The Verge's article[https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/14/23873319/google-chromeboo...]) about this points out

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The company currently guarantees eight years of automatic updates to Chromebooks. That period, however, begins at the time when the company certifies a Chromebook, not when it’s actually in the owner’s hands. Because of the time it takes schools and businesses to purchase, receive, set up, and deploy new fleets of computers, they commonly end up getting four to five years of use out of them in practice.
```

so this is really about ensuring that the laptops actually get 5 years of use before needing to be replaced.
This seems strange as a major corporation should be able to provide security to protect against death threats. And it should be the exact same security it provides normally for any large employee gathering.

Assuming that death threats actually took place and they were actually credible.

Seems silly for a company to not be able to act because of death threats. That seems like a viable reason for an individual or a very small dev, but it seems like there’s a now a way to just stop Unity from doing stuff.

Cynically, I assume they just don’t want the negative PR and wanted a reason to cancel.