skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This means accepting that a man who shoots into a crowd has no more control over his fate than the victims who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It means treating drunk drivers who barrel into pedestrians just like drivers who suffer a sudden heart attack and veer out of their lane.

> “The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over,” Sapolsky said. “We’ve got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn’t there.”

I don't how much the reporter has embellished things but this seems really, really, really silly.

"People have no free will" does not mean that "incentives don't matter." Obviously, or we could simply prove that free will exists by noting that incentives do, in fact, matter.

Would more people create Ponzi schemes if they didn't have examples like Madoff and SBF of it all crashing down? Absolutely. Would more people steal if they knew they couldn't face punishment? Yes. Would more people drink and drive if there were no consequences for doing so? Yes. If Company A offers me more money than Company B, am I more likely to take the offer from Company A? Yes.

Given that incentives matter, it is absolutely fair and reasonable to "reward people and reward people" for their actions.

Even though I think the premise that people don't have free will is likely correct!

(It's also quite odd that Sapolsky would ask people to change their behavior, given his apparent beliefs...)
Very allagmatic. Instead of storing & transferring structures transfer operations.

Iw as wondering what kind of checkingpoint or snapshotting there might be. Such that one doesn't have to "replay-the-world" if something goes awry (localstack persistence did/l (does?) this, storing state by just recording/replaying API calls). It sort of seems like having a globally accepted state is enough & makes sense, but it still seems like work to rollback & do again, still seems to require snapshotting.

Something like this feels like a 100% fit for having immutable data structures. Where you can snapshot the world very very quickly/at low cost.
I feel like blowing up the mayor's house is a pretty big escalation
Welcome to Chinese fruit clone vendors. They're all copying RPi and now copying each other. Good luck spotting the good ones.

Then when you get the device it won't do anything new after a while because the vendor never maintains their distro and the GPU or device tree are is proprietary so nobody else can either. If you're lucky maybe there's an Armbian build which marries new userspace with the older kernel and its unmaintained drivers.

This is why Raspberry Pi still dominates this market.
That doesn't seem like a meaningful takeaway unless those first-year users are also only seeing the "classic" homepage.

Most people aren't individually reviewing new-page submissions, they're voting for stuff that's already popular on the default frontpage. First-year users aren't immune to this— they're primarily voting up stuff that others already voted for. So it makes perfect sense that "classic" under this model would be a delayed version of default; indeed, one should expect that result with any randomly selected 10% of the voting userbase.
You'd have to ask them, but the Sonos v1 systems are abandoned. We're all supposed to buy new hardware.
I'm not one to defend Apple, but that's not really true in a practical sense.

You can swap GPUs, sure. But eventually the CPU will be too slow relatively speaking, so you'll need a faster CPU.

And if you need a new CPU, most sockets don't support future CPUs (or only +1-2 gen), so you'll need a new motherboard.

The power draw of CPUs and GPUs have increased, so you'll likely need a new PSU if you only just barely were getting by before.

Because of the new motherboard, you'll need new RAM. You can't socket DDR3 into a DDR5 slot.

New CPU socket may require a new CPU cooler too, depending on the brand of cooler and how good they are at maintaining compatibility. Even if it has a mount, you may need it just because power draw has increased so much that an older cooler may not be sufficient anymore.

If you're just swapping the GPU, thats easy and will most likely work for a few generations. But sooner or later, the whole computer will need to be replaced, except maybe the case.
They could also use ipfs as there are many http proxies for it including cloudflare. All proxies would individually need to blacklist the address.

In general it is going to be impossible to block content. We need to charge for bytes or something like that. But that produces other problems which could be worse
Both. You could either go for more precision or go for bigger models.
Yeah I had a dram or so of cask strength (60% iirc?) whisky per day when I had no taste just because I wanted to have some kind of taste-adjacent feeling even if that was just a bit of burning. I was so happy when I realised it was coming back slowly every day. Nose is still not 100% but I am fine with that, I can enjoy food and drink so I'm lucky and thankful
Because brand celebrities' commercial value is in the parasocial relationship that viewers have with them, allowing people to imagine romantic pairings with a person they see on TV or the internet every day while still being at a psychologically safe distance. If the celebrity has a real life boy/girlfriend, then the romantic fantasy is over and so, probably, the consumer brand attachment.
I would gladly pay 5% to support enforcement denying funds transfer to war criminals.
Two adverbs ('actually' and 'actually') are modifying two different verbs ('have' and 'lead').
My surface level take is they are similar to M-estimators. Whereas M-estimators are more mathematically rigorous, Windsorized metrics might be easier to compute manually.

It does feel like it's a very early 20th century technique. Nowadays we have so many tools which would be less feasible for calculators (the people) and more feasible for software.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-estimator
I’m not a fan of Stallman by any measure — his posture has often put people off some licenses and made GPL a bit problematic —, but even I think you’re engaging in unreasonable doublespeak.

The web is full of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript you can see the source for; and for which you can be sued by copying for your own commercial gain. By your definition, websites are open source; and yet, they are proprietary work. Something having its source open doesn’t make it Open Source.

This kind of doublespeak reeks of Reddit-grade corporate astroturfing.

The Open Source licenses are defined and protected in a certain way. You can’t just say “oh, me and my friends don’t think of it like that” and expect to be correct. I can’t build an app scamming people out of currency by abusing ISO 4217, and then excuse myself under “me and the people I know disagree with ISO”. OSI protects the licenses, the Vegan Society certifies what ‘vegan’ means, ISO does ISO things, and so on.

It’s okay to admit we’re wrong or ignorant, so I won’t pretend I’m an expert in this area. I also wouldn’t call anyone Stallman just because they are defending a term that deserves protection. “Source available” but not under the terms of an OSI license is NOT compliant with the term.
for sure. especially the doordashers. at least an amazon van usually has to make multiple stops on the same block.
Yeah, this article is Apple favoring FUD. There are tons of high quality USB-C cables. You just need to pick the right one.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder never stops surprising
Always been a bit curious about 23 and me. But also I'm northwest european so paying money and giving out my data just to find out "100% British isles" or similar did not sound that interesting. Glad I obstained!
My $10 USB-C cable carries 4k/60hz video + audio just fine, why should I overpay?
The raw data wasn't leaked, and the data changes over time when other users join. Many people expect this.

23&Me allows you to delete your data and your account if you no longer want to participate.
Soldering small stuff can sometimes be easier, because at that level surface tension will do the job for you. So hand soldering 14 pins on a small size TSSOP package can be faster than soldering a SOIC (through hole) package (google drag soldering — just be careful with that in certain parts of the US \s)

The hardest part with cables is to prepare the strands and keep them in place. For this you can build fixtures.
Thanks for taking the time posting this - so why could they not just give us 8 more P cores ??.

Power consumption or yield issues ???.
Same, been seeing quite a few of them around Portland, Oregon as well. Would definitely get one if I was in the market for a vehicle right now. I really like the form factor of a pickup or SUV vs. what Tesla has to offer.
I think steve jobs really liked the idea of a one-cable connection and worked with intel to create it.
I would write:

def safe_navigation(obj: Any, *path: str, default: Any = None, strict: bool = False) -> Any:
sentinel = object() if strict else None
for key in path:
obj = obj.get(key, sentinel)
if obj is sentinel:
return default
return obj

The only new disadvantage of this is that it only works on mappings and no longer works on sequences.

But I really don't like having this much `Any`; it's generally a sign of poor design.
> The core product line isn't really in a great spot right now

Pycharm -> Best in class
Rider -> As good as Visual Studio depending on your use case can be better.
Goland -> Best in class
CLion -> Best in class
DataGrip -> Best in class
An ultra-quiet electric leaf blower
I mean we can have it irrespective of family size in US. A single driver roaming around in a 15 passenger vehicle would be totally normal.
I eventually did, and also opted out from trials and sharing with pharmas prior to that.
I don’t know if you’ve already run across this but you might like Ableton’s Learning Synths site and also Syntorial. They’re both more on the side of learning to program synthesizers than using the DAWs themselves, but I always wished I had learned earlier about how all those knobs worked.

0: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

1: https://www.syntorial.com/
I feel your pain.

Good thing that more and more site and apps are supporting dark modes as time passes. Many supports automatic switching based on OS/browser setting as well, what is great.

I dream with the day where this extension won't be needed anymore. Hopefully HN itself will support it someday.
Shameless self plug, but if you like minimal/retro aesthetic check out Van Life Game

https://vanlifegame.com
Tesco Fresh & Easy enters the chat with:

- Small format

- Small quantities & worse value

- Limited selection

- Giant self-checkout conveyor belt confusing shoppers
For us less technical folks (in this field), what’s the big take away here / why does this matter / why should we be excited?
Of popular gadgets, Garmin watches (at least fenix series) can work without any additional connectivity and will do all metrics processing on the device.
I got pretty sick at the end of February 2020 and sent my sample in to the Seattle Flu Study along with the COVID opt-in. As far as I know the test was negative. There are lots of other viruses with similar symptoms that circulate around that time so not unlikely you (and I) had one of those.
The only "spokesperson scandal" I can think of is the Subway guy, and I don't really think even that enormous scandal hurt Subway very much.

It actually hugely increased sales among reddit and discord moderators.
25W PSU required but people complain about a 10W SFF PC.

Schrodinger's power consumption.
Some of those AI-generated green tea bottles look like motor oil labels.
Based on the OP, Ziemelis didn't think Sagan's paper was new but that it was a valuable control for other experiments (if I understood correctly).
> "get rich quick" grifters and speculators took ahold of it

Every single "feature" touted as a good thing by crypto boosters is exactly WHY grifters and conmen got into it.

The system doesn't even have a concept of a "fraudulent transaction" FFS. For a system built by people who claim to know so much about cryptography and computer security, they sure seem stumped by the very simple concept of "someone tricked me and I clicked on a link" which is still the number one problem in computer security.

The lack of transaction reversal is a god-send for crooks. The lack of a justice system is a boon for them. There's a reason they don't even have to be creative with their scams, and are just dusting off old play books from the 1920s.

Crypto isn't shitty because of bad luck, crypto is shitty because the people who built it are completely ignorant of the value of regulation because they are caught in their ideology that all regulation is bad.
>This seems like the future, though

Seems like that is in a race with outlawing human operated drivers once autonomous vehicles become the norm.
Well hello there!
The actors' complaint is tht studios want to scan their real-person appearance once but license it to be animated in perpetuity.
whoa, thanks for doing this! will give it try
It's an interesting issue.

If a stranger had asked OPs mom for OPs phone number out of the blue, there are many moms that wouldn't share a PHONE NUMBER without asking the phone number holders permission.

But fewer would ask their relatives if it's ok to stick a decent portion of their DNA into a database.
The browser had Javascript ON or Javascript OFF. If the browser had JS off for all until user whitelists the site, that would negate the need for plugins like uBO/NoScript/etc.
Are you just saying that no company should be selling pickup trucks or SUVs?
i'd still be using my Pixel 2 XL with LineageOS but it turns out it wasn't an OS/software issue that was slowing it down, the hardware was pretty borked. so when I flashed it, it died :/

picked up a newer pixel after trying the dumb-phone thing for a minute, but I'd rather still be on the pixel 2
It is a weakness of the USB consortia paper process to not enforce labeling on their hardware, cables and ports. Same physical port does not really matter. Also operating systems could help with clarifying the ports without special tools. Would be so easy.
You can read the whole paper here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5230747/
Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

Inspired by this exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37923271
If you really care about power consumption here, buy a proper NAS like a Synology.
thanks for sharing! yup you're right the balance sheet part. we currently don't offer debt capital/take on the balance sheet. we learned firsthand from our last company that if u start by offering balance sheet, you'd attract the wrong kind of players/customers to partner with.

fyi most of our customers have their own balance sheet or debt facility and it's not an issue for them. they prefer this flexibility too bcus every business model is a bit different, so there's not rly an one-size-fits-all like debt setup.
Most of our light pollution is caused by "carelessness". We put on way more lights than we reasonably need, and we put on the wrong kinds that are more confusing to wildlife.

Aliens might not do that. Their cities might be fairly dark at night.
I made it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932996
How much of their funding is deposits and how expensive is longer term unsecured funding for them?
I use Full Calendar Obsidian plugin that populates calendar from daily notes. But it doesn’t have an auto-sync option, so I add calendar entries manually at the start of the day.
> Delivery trucks make the most noise after garbage trucks and assholes with modified exhausts.

Is this a common experience? I don’t think I’ve ever noticed delivery truck noise. I’m talking vans and UPS trucks etc.

Bus noise on the other hand…
Typing is nice just for the documentation it provides. Refactoring old python scripts was a pain because you had no idea what the arguments and return values were.

Is date a string or an object? It gets tiresome.
I've had COVID 5 times since mid 2022 and have had total loss of taste and smell 3 times. The only reason I think two of those infections were mild is because they were almost back to back (3 infections within 10 weeks at the start of this year).
Do you trust that your data, that they fully control on their system, is actually deleted? Including their backups that reside elsewhere? I just assume they set your record's "delete" field to "true" when you press that button. No way for us plebs to be certain about what they do.
Without the hardware limitations, is that different from just making videos?
I’m not sure about these specific platforms, but we consume a lot of APIs at work for which we must agree to specific conditions of these APIs. That seems reasonable, otherwise the TOS cannot be enforced (because they can be ignored).
> the fed deciding to end the high interest rate era

I observe, with two USA war fronts, broad inflation will remain high and Federal Reserve will follow inflation with increasing rates.

Treasury's Yellen says we can afford it.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/yellen-says-us-afford-su...
The fees are coming from turn-key solutions that offer to solve the issues I note in the article, e.g. paid themes or paid plug-ins.

I've made sure to more explicitly motivate the intent of switching to Wordpress being to reduce custom code and on-going maintenance, in the article.
Do we know how easy it is to remove the microphone from the orange pi's motherboard? A microphone mixed with proprietary firmware is sort of a deal killer for me.
Posts by pg about /classic:

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271 - May 2009 (107 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611251 (May 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830485 (Sept 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619602 (Aug 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809683 (Oct 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513 (Jan 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166229 (Oct 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025810 (May 2012)

I posted this about it a couple years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787385 (Jan 2021)

Edit: maybe we should add a query param so you can decide how ancient you want the contributing upvoters to be
I don’t think there’s much to discuss in this case? The question must assume that people in the generated porn are also 100% no doubt fake
>The ChatGPT "AI" isn't an autonomous thinker performing its own actions based on reasoning of what's fed to it.

Yes it is. Or it very well could be. Agency is trivial to implement in LLMs.

https://github.com/microsoft/autogen

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924

The intelligence and tool access of the LLM in question is the only thing stopping things from being particularly dangerous (to humanity).
If you live in the US, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibits health insurers from using the data.
If you've read enough of these articles, you have heard every permutation of why this is bad based on the author's personal biases and convictions.

Subjects are all blonde and white? White supremacy. Subjects are all Asian and submissive? Fetishization of minorities. Fake models cater to male fantasies? Incel chauvinism sets unrealistic expectations for real women. Better than OnlyFans performers? Oppressing a vulnerable sex worker class already struggling with making fair wages.

Whatever your personal position, there's a brand-building opportunity for endless sanctimonious tweets.
> One plus point compared to CRDTs is that you get to decide how you want to deal with conflicts yourself, with simple, sequential code. I'm not up to date with the latest in CRDT-land but I believe it can be complicated to add application specific conflict resolution if the built-in rules don't fit your needs.

I agree wholeheartedly — we took the same approach for PowerSync with a server reconciliation architecture [1] over CRDTs, which is also mentioned elsewhere in the comments here. For applications that have a central server, I think the simplicity of this kind of architecture is very appealing.

Props to Aaron for bringing awareness to and evangelizing server reconciliation.

[1] https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-serve...
I'm a huge fan of your work.
Thanks for the great questions!

Our credit application API will return an error if you try to approve a set of offer terms for a user that violates their state's limits.

We also have a couple utility endpoints that help with coverage and compliance checks: 1) a coverage endpoint that returns the basic limits for each state and 2) an endpoint that allows you to verify if a set of offer terms are compliant for a given state.
Maximizing profit.

It's a large chunk of logistics. When EDL (electronic data logging) became mandatory a crapton of drivers left the industry because they could no longer fudge records.

The labor churn is an unintended, and ignored side effect.
Ah, very interesting!
Because I don't care about privacy and I wanted my DNA tested, duh.

I don't understand privacy nuts.
That's the opposite of what I'm saying. Checking the night side of a planet for visible light isn't useful because a technological civilization won't necessarily create large amounts of light pollution the way we do. If we happen to see nighttime light pollution that would be useful, but planning a mission around looking for it specifically would not make sense.
> Forex (for travelers) perhaps?

Again, we're talking real world. Have you ever travelled abroad and used BTC to buy something? Has anyone you know ever done that?
I'd have to say Access is the closest. MS Access is one of the easiest programs to use to make an app with a front end, dB, reporting, and SQL all in one package.

Prototyping for a dB backed app is extremely easy.

I'm fully aware of all it's drawbacks, but there's still nothing like it available today.
Why so quick to blame this on old Christian puritanism? Current opposition to AI-generated porn comes also from a school of feminists directly opposed to what you view as traditional Christian puritanism.
It does not follow from "Banks are extremely leveraged by their nature" that fluctuations in its asset value are meaningless. It is, right up until it isn't, and then it suddenly means everything. Which means it isn't meaningless at all.

It's not like we live in a world where we've been banking for thousands of years without this ever being a problem. It was most recently a problem this year, and if your memory is fuzzy, it wasn't just Silicon Valley Bank. If you're going to excuse that away, then it was most recently a catastrophic problem in 2008, which isn't exactly "hasn't been a problem since the Roman empire" or anything. And if you're going to make excuses for the Global Financial Crisis and how that doesn't actually matter and doesn't need to be incorporated into anyone's models of how banks work, well, our world views are irreconcilably different. I can promise you the banks don't believe it's irrelevant.
https://archive.ph/vDb9J
On Reddit (and similar) you can search for the question, then when you find games you like, join their Discords and look for a #games channel where people post their similar interests.

Roblox has lots of custom games, but they mostly prove that polish matters.
> When you say relative, you need to postfix that with "... to me."

That’s what relative means, right? Adding “to me” doesn’t add much value to the meaning.

I’m not sure your point anyway. As even Western Europe and the entire world no longer feared nuclear Armageddon from the Cold War. There were other problems, of course, but that period for most of the world was more peaceful than the immediately preceding or following period. If you were in North America or Asia or Africa or anywhere.
One man's outdated tech is another's timeless classic.
It might be possible to have it self-tune to transaction volume, no?