skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the elderly, sick and bedridden can talk to a computer they can also talk to real people through the computer.

If this is so dependably true, then why does this population still suffer loneliness? How many hours of your day do you devote to zoom chats with lonely old people?

I ultimately support your side of the debate - that digital simulation is not a true medicine - but without being honest about humans and human nature, you create empty arguments.

Some in this thread call pornography useless, call cigarettes useless, call drugs useless. However those products are used endlessly and with great satisfaction by billions of humans throughout thousands of years. It's simply not true - these things are useful to humans, quite obviously.

What causes this puritanical disposition regarding human needs and satisfaction while also literally arguing for humanism vs synthetic encroachment? Without acknowledgement of what humans actually are we won't find a real reason that AI chatbots shouldn't replace them.

You speak as if the "real world" for a bedridden and lonely individual is something that they should just endure and enjoy, but you would never choose to switch places with such a person.
WordPress makes those features disable-able themselves, nobody has "chopped up" anything here.

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);

That's it.
Ask your question in the discussion! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817
Asianometry's videos are good precisely because of the detail and background he goes into. If you summarize them you take that away and pretty much just end up with what has already been said here.
Ask HN: How do you feel about the 'Do you have a best friend at work' question?
Gallop has one of the best-known employee engagement surveys, known as the Q12. It asks 12 questions, and one of them is, "Do you have a best friend at work?"

Gallop openly acknowledges that of all 12 questions, this one is met with the most questions and skepticism, but they insist that it is predictive of top-performing teams.

Do you trust the research behind that question, and do you think it's a fair question to ask on engagement surveys?
It's just a reminder to install an ad blocker. Before I saw these comments, I had no idea there are ads on that website.
They really thing WordPress is something special. It really isn't; there are better systems. I think Matt is just mad because he is not getting any revenue from wpengine.

That being said, some commercial users of open-source software need to be better contributors to the eco-system and not just vampires.
Everything you described can apply to humans, too. We don't "mitigate" these risks in meat space, why would we need to with AI?
Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making
I'm interested in running locally, but I haven't found consistent advice on hardware specs for optimal performance. I would like to build a server with the best GPU and tons of RAM to run and experiment with these models.
Disagree. For people who don't fall into the groups I described, I think there's merit to pushing past the psychological hurdles and putting yourself out there in the 'real world'. Most people who fit into this category catastrophize the anticipated negative outcome or otherwise mistakenly imagine that they'll always be rejected. Most people who take the risk are surprised to find this is almost never the case.
You can't detect without affecting.

My idea for resolving this is that electron is never a point-like particle. It's always a cloud, just larger or smaller. When it's detected it gets reshaped to be narrower. Mass, energy, momentum and such are a quantities ascribed to the whole cloud and exchanged only on the moment of interaction.

Think about diffraction. Photon or electron that passes through a small hole had it's moment messed up proportionally. It becomes large again.

Interesting question is where's the gravity in all of this. There are various ideas how to match quantum uncertainty to shape of space-time.
Amazed that this got to the point where an official post was deemed necessary.
this is very smooth and scratches an itch I didn't know I had -- to use a windowed OS on my phone
On an Android phone, you can use AdGuard DNS-over-TLS server to block ads system-wide even on mobile data. Or install a browser that supports extensions or has a built-in ad blocker.

On an iPhone, you can also use the DNS method, but Safari supports extensions so you can install a proper ad blocker as well.
I have a long rant about how open source is wage theft and value extraction by unscrupulous third parties is built in and unavoidable. But setting that aside, I learned of WP Engine when they launched here, on hacker news. At the time their value proposition was "bullet proof and secure wordpress for people who just want to publish and not learn devops".

Over the years, I've watched them through a progression of management changes move from value of service to value extraction. Chipping away at costs while holding the price constant or raising it and extracting the difference for themselves. This isn't in and of itself a "bad" thing, it is what business does, however I find the integrity around value extraction varies tremendously. From zero integrity Mackenzie type MBAs to high(er) integrity owner operators.

It is rare when a management team says, "this is enough money" and that is sad.
I find interesting that both the example you gave are places for the dead. In contrast Notre Dame is still an active place of worship, and it would shock me less to see change to it. A similar but more secular example would be the glass dome on the Reichstag building in Berlin.
Artificial Intelligence in Emotion Quantification: A Prospective Overview
They're free to chop up WordPress as much as they like

Disabling a feature isnt chopping anything up. Im specifically commenting on this statement you made.
I strongly suspect it's a therapy that a certain type of person simply won't benefit from (I'm in this group).

I am sure I cannot suspend my disbelief enough.
When people sell drugs like cocaine or heroin and the consumer dies, they dealer is prosecuted for their death. The Slacker family has assisted with more deaths than any single street dealer and are not held to the same standards. This show how much political and monetary sway they still have. Slacker family highlights how perverse the US legal system is towards such individuals and how people are still not equal under the law.

Slacker family should be in jail for lying to the FDA about how their product was not addictive and for all the deaths they assisted with.
Feels like SS7 was deliberately left vulnerable from requests within the country for tracking purposes. A lot of the security seems to be done with firewalls within the walled garden so it's easier for the five eyes to track cell phones live without giving direct access to the databases.

That said, the real world example Veratasium used was chilling.

Having LinusTechTips as a 2nd example (whos showing off his new apple phone) was a nice counter too. I'm pretty sure LTT uses multi factor+user auth though so I'm guessing that sms 2fa email was an alt email for personal use.

Gonna have to watch that 2014 presentation on ss7 it seems.
Until AI companions actively argue, tease or are straight up disagreeing with you, no, we won't. It's part of the learning to converge all of our reality tunnels together. How can I learn that when I'm stuck in my echo box ?
> if most people could press a button to make themselves never ever use it again, they would.

You're projecting.
That’s better than I thought. But you still need to ensure that power source is clean, otherwise it defeats the purpose.
Problem with this imo is that AI companion will never tell you that what you are doing/thinking is not acceptable in a society, like how your friend or any other person you interact with would, because with real relationship it’s a two way street.

This may create a bunch of people who are even more distant from the social interaction than they were in a beginning
Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more
Omega 6 creates an endocannibinoid that is more like Delta 9 THC and Delta 9 THC increases glutamate release. This will cause psychosis in people who have high glutamate levels or low GABA levels.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714685/

Omega 3 creates an endocannibinoid that is more like CBD and CBD increases GABA release.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10436...
If I lie to Facebook and say I'm a minor, can I get a non-algorithmic feed? If so, it might be usable again.
Well the Time Machine comparison doesn't really belong in a laundry list, it's basically Apple's greatest unmitigated disaster ever.
Once you have postulated BigInt as available, the mathematician is going to make a rational approximation for phi using the continued fraction expansion that they know by heart (because of its “simplicity”).
We did some extensive testing of photo-acoustic and optical NDIR CO2 sensors indoors as well as outdoors and also in comparison to scientific reference instruments.

I just updated the blog post that I wrote last year [1] with the specs of this new Infineon sensor and also our experiences with doing CO2 measurement outdoors.

In summary we can say that under normal indoor conditions (e.g. small range of temperature, relative high range of CO2 etc.), the photo-acoustic NDIR sensors perform well.

However, outdoors they significantly underperform optical NDIR sensors to the extent that they are barely usable. See for example this chart [2].

It's hard to say why exactly they perform so poorly outdoors but I believe that they rely on quite complex internal algorithms that probably have been only developed with typical indoor conditions in mind and as soon as some parameters like temperature are out of the typical range, they significantly drop in their performance.

Furthermore, we also detected that they are sensitive to interference from low frequency noise which could for example come from ventilation systems, refrigerators etc. This is not surprising as they rely on their internal microphone to do the photo-acoustic measurements.

All of this and the rock-solid performance we see with optical NDIR sensors made us quite wary about the photo-acoustic sensors and not use them in our open-source hardware monitors. As I said, I believe they work quite well in general but because we saw also some really strange and unexpected behavior of these photo-acoustic sensors, I'd now always prefer optical NDIR sensors if possible.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/co2-sensors-photo-acoustic-...

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/co2-sensors-photo-acoustic-...
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I'm using the author's definition of chopping up.

> What WP Engine gives you is not WordPress, it’s something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress, but actually they’re giving you a cheap knock-off and charging you more for it.
A website with "bitcoin" in its URL is misleading? Shocking!

/S
Try visiting a hotel that uses them, for reference.
This was my first thought. The entire text label should toggle the radio or checkbox, not just the box and the padding.
Sure but demand for world wonders is low. Demand for basic cookie-cutter houses is very high.

An engineer's job isn't to build something perfect or beautiful, it's to build something that's just good enough for its intended use case. Lots of software engineers forget that.
You can’t license software as open source, with a liberal license, and then get angry when someone profits off of it. That is one of the many valid uses. If you don’t want commercial use, license your property with a limited license that meets your expectations.
I did study quantum field theory and I have a hard time viewing a fermion as a continuous field, whereas a gauge field I do view as a continuous field. I view a fermion as a true point particle, kind of like it is in a lattice. The fermion still has a wave function of course. It is very different from the wave function of a gauge field. The wave function of an electric field is a wave function over field configurations. The fermion wave function is a wave function of fermion spins. I don't think this is an unreasonable view, but I am not trying to force it on anyone else.
> I can make the case much more convincingly that food has basically no intrinsic added value to your life and if most people could press a button to make themselves never eat again, they would.

What nonsense is this? Do you only eat beans? Eating good food feels fantastic. Why would you want to give it up? Give me a button that lets me eat unlimited amounts of it without consequences, and I'll press that one instantly.

Good-tasting food is one of the most addictive things we have (also evidenced by the ever increasing percentage of people that are obese...)
> the contemporary architecture of today sucks

Don't be so quick to judge your contemporaries, as today's turd may very well be tomorrow's jewel. The Eiffel Tower was considered a useless monstrosity back then, with many people (including famous authors, artists, and architects) opposing its construction.
Title: Jony Ive's Life After Apple and His LoveFrom Design Business
I've been out of the WP community/scene for a number of years now, but this post is kinda weird. Revisions definitely aren't the hill I'd die on when choosing a hosting provider at all. Especially considering WPEngine does a lot of things very well:

1. Dead-simple staging environments

2. Support for Local, which makes WP development an absolute breeze because I don't need to maintain docker, vagrant, or a LAMP stack, etc. And it makes deployments quick/easy.

3. Dead-simple backup/restore features

4. Simplified cache-management

And yeah, I've got the technical know-how to handle all of that myself directly on a proper server and all that devops-y goodness. And yes, $5/mo shared hosting cPanel provider would be comparable (and let's be real, it's good enough for most people using WP)....But man is it nice to just charge/pay a little more for a host that just does that crap for me with a nice interface.

I like revisions as a feature. Hell, I made reference to them a lot in the training material and sessions I put together for clients way-back-when as a way to give clients the confidence to tweak copy without fear of completely ruining their site. But this blog post seems to pretend it's the heart of WP and without it, it's an entirely different piece of software all together, which is absurd.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/technology/jony-ive-apple...
Seriously :-)?
Brazil ain't Chile, let alone a more anti-American South American countries like Bolivia.

And in general, most polls over the last several years using various different methodologies have shown how Brazil tends to have a stronger pro-American sentiment unlike the rest of South America.

Spanish language literature and media might have had a stronger impact on building those views in the Hispanoblante world compared to Brazil's relative isolation.
I really appreciate this. Most of the time when I see a "desktop OS on webpage" it feels half-assed and honestly overplayed. This on the other hand is super tight and polished!
Of note is that tracy is aimed at games, where sampling is often too expensive and not fine-grained enough. Hence the manual instrumenting.

For the Bevy game engine, we automatically insert tracy spans for each ECS system. In practice, users can just compile with the tracy feature enabled, and get a rough but very usable overview of which part of their game is taking a long time on the CPU.
Safari is really, really bad when it comes to everything around favicons. The biggest annoyance being it doesn’t accept updates, so things like mail status favicons don’t work.
Related: One of the main designers of Fable recently released a free, highly imaginative Ultima-4-inspired game called Moonring. Check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/
Thanks for your reply.

> Hybrid is a requirement

If they know it's a requirement to work for you, and they're interviewing with you, they either want it or don't want it but have accepted it as a requirement. The former case is the one you say is the majority of your interviewees. I'm not saying you're wrong, but consider the latter case.

A person is looking for a job because they require money to make a living. They know your requirements. They will want to be as appealing to you as they can live with. Since they've already accepted the constraint of hybrid working, they may as well tell you that's exactly what they want.

> most people who say that bring it up themselves when asked what they’re looking for

And that's exactly what I mean by the above.

> Maybe they’re all lying, but it’s a pretty low priority thing to lie about

Which makes it a very easy lie as well. It's harder to lie about the things that have more weight as they tend to be harder to live with.

> after interviewing hundreds of people, you do get pretty good at parsing out how genuine someone is. Not perfect! But pretty good.

This is exactly what bias does to you. You start believing you're good at detecting things. Maybe you actually are, I don't know. I couldn't know. Even if I thought you were that good, it may just be my own biases telling me that.

> If I’m going to spend a third of my life doing a thing, I’m damn sure going to screen for people I respect

I agree. It's very difficult to try to build something with people for whom you have no respect.

> and want to spend time with.

Also fair. There's no need for friendship still. In any case, this is a strawman. I was responding to:

> > it’s nice to be around humans

I think it's nice to be around humans for whom I have more than just respect. That's where friends and family come into play.

At work, even though there will always be a preference to be around people who are nice, it's not a hard requirement.

> Work means a lot more than the money to me; impact and people are higher up there.

This is easy to say from a position of privilege. People interviewing for a job are much of the time at risk of ceasing to exist in society if they don't get hired. That puts them in a position where they will make as much as they can live with in order to get the job.

It's great that you and I can be selective about the jobs and people we work with, but in reality even in tech most people are in the workforce for survival and subsistence first and foremost.

Hell, even though I am at this moment in a relatively comfortable position, in very little time I could go from privileged to desperate and you can bet I would lie (and likely be very good at it) in an interview if it would be the difference between keeping my house and feeding my offspring, and any other altenative.
None of the carriers care if the phone is stolen, unless it's reported as stolen. They only care if it stays on their network. As a practical matter I have to work with the phone's previous owner to erase it (eg, an Apple phone that's been associated with an iCloud account, or a Samsung phone associated with a Samsung account). The carrier lock only matters after I've gone to the trouble of erasing it since I won't distribute a phone that hasn't been erased.
How do I know dead internet theory isn't correct?
It would seem trivial for all of my social media to be taken over by bots. In fact it would be trivial to believe that the internet I believe to be trud is just an illusion. What if Google isn't the biggest search engine but only the search engine that indexes the sunset of the internet for idiots for example? How would I know. It's "the matrix" but for the internet. How do I know Hacker News isn't entirely made by bots?
It's really a long topic, but the basic TL;DR, is that people are not interchangeable, unless you reduce the task to the lowest common denominator, and that means that we squander the talent of the most skilled, in order to cater to the least skilled. Basically, tell good coders to write bad code, because bad coders need to understand it.

We get "meh" results.

The issue is that everyone seems to be fine with "meh."

That's a shame.

The alternative is hire only good coders, and do what it takes to keep them around, and that's a really unpopular stance.
This semester is my first using Posit Cloud. It removes the headache whether you're teaching R or Python. The only thing I've found annoying is the need for students to install their own packages.

I ran my own RStudio Server on Digital Ocean for years. That worked very well, with students not needing to install packages, but maintaining things myself created more work for me.

Before that I had to deal with an unending string of support for the students using their own computers. I would never go back to that again.

I used Cocalc once during the pandemic. It has a great set of features, but the students found the interface confusing.
Looks incredible. Snappier than real Windows tbh
I think your view comes from right place. But no doctor would recommend ibuprofen as sole treatment in all causes of pain. Similarly, no doctor or therapist would recommend everyone replace meaningful human relationships with AI companions. It's another tool.

I personally am fortunate to have many rich meaningful relationships in my life. But I've also gotten additional value from voice chatbots. Using voice mode and having them act as therapists, coaches, or experts giving feedback are very helpful.
It means 'stupid' in Scots so... probably just a joke by the author? Or maybe they were reaching for some similar words and missed - like 'drookit' (soaking wet), 'gloweret' (ominous sky), 'gloamin' (twilight), 'glaupit' (slimy, muddy), 'glamsy' (sky a mix of bright and dark)

There's a dictionary here https://dsl.ac.uk/ but glaekit is a common enough word in normal conversation in scotland, most people here would know what it means.
I would rather kill myself than talk to an AI to “reduce loneliness.” People make life, without others we are nothing. Loneliness is how we realize we’re spending too much time by ourselves; it encourages us to be social.

I don’t mind being lonely, because when I’m lonely I figure out ways to be around people. If AI “fixes” loneliness without needing other people our entire world will fall apart.
A broken pattern I see constantly related to author’s example is large buttons where only the button label - and not the rest of the button - is clickable.
I could make the same argument for every form of entertainment. Sure, we should all be hunter gatherers and only have sex to procreate. It's not realistic.
I have no idea what that comment is supposed to mean.
Molyneux is obviously infamous for over promises and under delivering, but Fable (Fable, Fable The Lost Chapters, etc.) had such a special place in my heart.

An amazing game with raunchy wit, moving story, and great fantasy world building. The music still rattles through my brain and I still occasionally say, "Do you chase chickens, Chicken Chaser?".

I really enjoyed the games, but especially Fable and Fable TLC (which was an extended chapter at the end which changes the ending and takes you to a talked about continent that the base game did not).
Maybe they can offer a midway point. Allow additional eSIMs to be added if your main phone plan is still active. Currently this use case is impossible.
I agree. Good human friends should provide a mix of a positive/feedback negative loop, providing a good gradient to train one's behavior on.

AI seems like just a positive feedback loop.