skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pretty much every business runs psychological experiments on their customers. That's what the ad industry is, that's why retailers run sales to gather pricing data, that's what A/B testing is for.

Sure but there are differences between the psychological experiments. I would argue that running a sale is benign compared to manipulating words in social media post to see how it influences your mood. What effect will that have on people with already fragile psyches?

I understand its legal whatever facebook has done but still I think that there should be restrictions on the kind of psychological tests you can run like this. Unless I overestimate the effect these studies have.

> Clearly, people value killing foreigners > making money > discovering new knowledge.

Killing foreigners is mostly a way to maintain or gain influence so I would say its more: power > making money > discovering new. The killing foreigners part is just a means to an end.
It also creates conflict of interest problems among the owners. How do you ensure that only your share of the business profit is getting siphoned off to support your kid? Does each owner get one fail-son slot?
I've been wondering for some time: If you're one of those unfortunates who have, for unstated reasons been banned from the Google ecosystem for life, what options still remain to use an Android phone? You won't be able to download apps from the Play store, even if they would otherwise run on a device that doesn't have a valid google account logged in. Right?

I have one of those legacy (still free) custom domain things i.e. "workspace" and I'm getting increasingly paranoid about tinkering with its configuration (untouched for years) for fear of triggering some secret forbidden thing.
Fixing mental health is a lot harder than making it harder to get and fire a gun.
Needing to define "perception" is a much weaker criticism than "isn't a thing and doesn't make sense".

It's easy enough to specify an average person looking very closely, or a 99th percentile person, or something like that, and show the statistics backing it up.
The historical dictionary is the Deutsches Wörterbuch with a long history:

The Brothers Grimm started working on it 1838. Wilhelm died around the letter D, Jacob at the entry for "Frucht". Afterwards other Germanists started continuing that work, later Bismarck provided state funding. At the start of the 20. Century the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin took over the project with major work in Göttingen.

Then WWI, Weimar Republic, Hyperinflation, Hitler, WWII.

After the war the work was continued with Göttingen in West Germany and the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, East Germany collaborating. The final volume was published in 1961, with a sources supplement in 1971. In 2006 a project was started to update A-F to modern standards, finished in 2016.
>TV and movies are part of pop culture and depending on your circle can be critical to have knowledge on for social reasons. If something is unavailable to you due to means outside of your control (licensing, internet speed, accessibility of UI, etc) then there's more justification to that than not paying your Uber driver based on politics.

TV and movies are "critical" because... you want to partake in watercooler banter? I'm not sure how that's more convincing than uber being "critical" because you need it to get to work on time, or to get home safely after drinking.
Hi!

I agree with you, which is why I wrote this- but if you google "are mitochondria alive" gemini says it isn't. And yes, the cells in your heart have an effective and potenitial niche!

We seem to have many tools to engineer viruses, but few to engineer mitochondria- perhaps considering them as alive could change that!
Yep. People don't bother to even check anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7aLHCTeeE

And Amazon named its voice assistant after a well-known camera. And... and...
It's good if the countermeasures against the two things are indistinguishable.
> They can't legally force you to reveal your password.

Indefinite contempt of court seems like "force" to me.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/jail-looms-large...
I don't know what details I would be allowed to share, so I'd better not share any. You can try looking it up on the Internet.

But Google does a lot of work to protect against insider threats, because everyone understands that in an organization of this size there will always be bad apples, spies, etc. Google's systems are designed to protect customer data from malicious employees using technical measures; it's much more than just "if we catch you, you're fired" as was asserted upthread.
This reminds me when EU banned some eye drops with the product name Proculin which have been very effective. The replacement Berberil is useless, literally no effect.

Proculin made your eyes white white constricting the blood vessels for hours. All the stoners had it in their pockets.

Since it constricted blood vessels one could use it also to reduce the local inflammation on pimples, which was a neat off label usage.
It's been definitiely shown since at least 2010 that phenylephrine is useless for this purpose. How in the world did the FDA let the decongestant industry push this drug for 15 years before coming down on it?
I'm saying it about Trump, yes.

Also the majority do believe it about Trump, but they hand wave it away, or just don't care. And, in a minority of cases, they agree and enjoy being able to openly flaunt it. It's no coincidence that I see Confederate and Trump flags on the same properties.

Not too different than the Germans who voted for Hitler -- though in fairness to them, Hitler seemed pretty normal when he was elected, so you can forgive them for not knowing (and once knowing, it was too late). We already know what Trump is, so what's the excuse now?
i might have to have another go at dichronauts. that one broke my mind a few pages in and I had to stop.
They did that later, but it is accurate to say that when Mach was first designed, Rick Rashid and others lacked "industry experience". However, they had a lot of practical experience making real systems for academic purposes. The CS departments at U of Rochester and CMU are serious about building stuff.
Eh, I teach in a university and that experience makes me extremely skeptical of most high-school graduates' ability to get an education from online resources. If you can do that, great, it's certainly a much cheaper and convenient route. I don't think we should discriminate against people who got their education that way. But most people need more structure and expert guidance.
> Maybe that’s exactly how things evolve. Start small, get large and complex, cut back to become simple again.

I like to think it is! Two steps forward, one step back, but overall advancing slowly.
Revealed: The growing income gap between Europe's biggest and smallest farms
The Importance of Robust Documentation in Software Development
I see zero evidence of mental illness in the linked article.
To be fair I think the only reason the conspiracy even exists is because, apparently, nobody knows what RTO is really about. IMO it's mostly just a power play and insecure executives, but they won't come out and say that of course. We're left to speculate, and naturally conspiracies thrive.
One interesting thing is that many reactions actually have to occur in their own compartment- and since we have not lost the mtDNA, it may suggest that having an additional control center is beneficial.there are some interesting theories about the relations of that to lifespan https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/mitochondria-are-flingin....
RMS would reply to most on topic emails, I think I emailed him just a few years ago and got a reply. And in place of email, some people have had similar success with Twitter. Tim Dodd comes to mind, his Twitter communications with Elon Musk, always on topic and well researched, helped propel his career.
Guaifenesin, like Phenylephrine, is now widely viewed as having no efficacy.
> If changing the laws of the universe is fine, then nothing gets excluded even Harry Potter

the laws of the universe in Harry Potter are so fickle and ever changing with the plot line that to me, it can only be considered soft. compare with Egan who takes a given cosmology and then works 100% within that world. that's hard.
Why would US vote at UN general assembly be worth the same as China or India at 3 times it's population?
I just tried that and it said:

>Yes, mitochondria are alive, though they are not considered "living" in the same way as a cell because they can't function independently...

Maybe it's learning!
I don't know that they will. For example, 90% of Trump's previous platform was the wall. That's all he could talk about. No wall to be found, and he doesn't even mention it anymore. Things change from campaign to office.
Make pseudoephedrine great again.
Limited how exactly? What limitation are you talking about, and what math proves it?
> Populations of the weeds have been found that are impervious to nine different classes of herbicides. The plant can grow more than two inches a day to reach eight feet in height and dominate entire fields. Originally from the desert Southwest, it boasts a sturdy root system and can withstand droughts.

Well, I'm sold. Where do I buy Palmer amaranth? What about water hemp - is it edible?
Mitochondria allowed who different energetic regimes and structures. Like the scaffold that allows multicellular organisms to even hold together simpler are not possible (energetically) without mitochondria. It took the whole marriage of the two systems to allow the energy state (the "chemical reactions" as you say) to be possible

SFI Complexity podcast has a few great episodes on this
Mitochondrial health is considered a strong proxy for overall health.
Not even that. There could be better civilizations than us out there that either

1. Died off or regressed

2. Plateaued

3. Is sufficiently far away or stealthy enough for us not to notice them (whether intentionally or not)

I've often thought about the whole communications bubble argument... I don't buy it. I'd imagine, like wifi, other civilizations will maximize their communication bandwidth, which essentially also maximizes entropy which looks like noise to us. Compression, encryption, redundancy, multiplexing over frequency and amplitude and time, directional antennas and signalling... That's what we've done in under 100 years.

I know there's stuff like organic markers etc, but if machines are doing most of the heavy lifting I don't think that would matter. Same with stuff like hydrogen emissions lines. Whatever is abundant will be used for "settled" and "dead" solar systems alike.
I think it should be obvious that Elnur Soltanov should be dismissed immediately, and that this is totally unacceptable.

However… conflicts of interest are an interesting problem. There’s some similar discussion regarding Russia on the UN Security Council: “how we can let the source of our insecurity discuss/control our security?”. The issue is that an organization that does not, well, deal with the problem, cannot deal with the problem.

Oil executives probably should be involved in these conferences as much as possible. To that extent conflicts are inevitable. A room full of climate activists and politicians with no stake in major industries sounds strictly less effective than one which includes them.

Life is tricky, diplomacy trickier. I’m not sure there’s a good answer here, except publicly shaming and dismissing this executive and then continuing to invite powerful oil industrialists to the table.

Talk to everyone, especially your enemies.
Why 90% of Startups Fail
I'm not sure about that...

Isn't restricting people from reproducing based on their genetic material known as Eugenics?
The Long Game: Understanding US and China's Theories of Victory
Yep. And the Jury seemed to agree, even in the CIVIL TRIAL.

But I’m not here to be trumps lawyer. I’m here to tell you that you that this scapegoating and conspiring is giving you nothing but anger and not helping you understand the events this week.
Are there any automakers out there that use real-time Linux for anything at or above ASIL-B?
They need certain controls to prevent uploads in the EU they need processes so others can report claims, and they must accordingly to the claims.

So you must prove you at least tried.
Elon/Joe talk about that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZl_5xHoBw&t=678s
I mean at that point what do we consider multicellular organisms? Did you see what was going on with those frog skin cells and "xenobots"? Also, our gut bacteria kinda makes us a symbiote at a larger scale.
Once it starts raining you have access to all the bodies you need on the ship. Rewatch every flashback and take notes. Details really matter, and those flashbacks are crime scenes that need to be studied fully. Pay special attention to clips in quick succession, as a clue from another flashback may show the means of death or the killer.
Why is nobody at Apple sitting around with a USB protocol analyzer and a Cellebrite and patching these vulnerabilities one by one?
Judaism isn’t immune to anti-intellectual fundamentalism.

A good example is the 11th Century Mediterranean world.

In the Muslim sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly intellectual, and produced numerous scholars.

In the Christian sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly fundamentalist, and produced almost no native Jewish scholars.

Heck, modern day Israel or New York offers almost the same contrast, as did the first century Middle East.

Judaisms tendency to split into these two camps, usually simultaneously, is one of its many fascinating features.
> Whatever happened to the "rising tides lift all boats" mantra?

Even within the metaphor, most don't own boats, most of the boats aren't seaworthy, and most people can't swim.
> While yes, it was more than ten years ago, we can see that such stupidity is woven into their DNA as a company.

I don't know if it really meets that bar, but I won't argue about that right now. I'm just going to ask again for your definition of "real cloud" and whether you can suggest some that don't price gouge bandwidth (and aren't oracle, I would not consider them worthy of trust either).
The omni-presence of cars in US is from "command and control" through laws and the legal system, and in particular the planning system. Our planning system mandates all sorts of things about the built infrastructure that a purely market based society would not choose on its own. This sort of command and control mandates the exact number of parking spaces required for a shoe store versus a bowling alley, versus any other type of land use.

In nearly all of the US it is literally illegal to build out infrastructure with out prioritizing cars and car infrastructure over everything.

This was a political choice that we made, as we do live in a representative democracy.
On Ubuntu, I connect to iCloud with Firefox to access stuff from my iOS devices. iCloud is one of my Home tabs for several of my browser identities.

I guess it's more trouble than AirDrop. But that's a guess because it isn't really much trouble.
He listed eight economic entitlements, among them the right to a decent wage, the right to a home, the right to be secure in old age, sickness, disability, and unemployment, the right to a good education, and yes, the right to health care.

It's unfortunate that throughout the rest of the Western world much of this isn't even controversial, but assert to an American that they deserve such rights and many of them would call you a communist and reach for their revolvers.
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants
> the world is going to hell, that anything good they had is based on generations of blood and exploitation, the world is unfair and is full of rich people getting richer, and nepotism.

This is a big problem with the left.

Imagine a psychologist telling a patient, "The worst things you've ever done define who you are. Many peoples' lives were ruined, because of you.

You should feel bad. All the time.

The good parts of your life, the things you like, come at terrible hurts to others.

Even if you personally didn't inflict the hurt, you're morally responsible.

Any improvements you've made count for nothing. They are not equal to past wrongs.
"

Most people can recognize this is bad advice. Such a psychologist would probably be quickly fired by many of their patients, and would probably lose their authorization to practice if the licensing board found out what kind of "therapy" they provide.

That's what the left is telling our society.

Buying a steak for dinner? That money could have been spent on twenty African children will go hungry tonight -- only a greedy bastard would eat a steak dinner.

Flying across the country to visit your aging parents? Those CO2 emissions will make the next hurricane slightly more powerful, and one more person will die -- only a callous murderer would so wantonly consume fossil fuels.

Making an honorable, well-compensated living as a software engineer? Your technical skills don't matter, you only have that job because of a white male privilege. Only a despicable misogynist racist would work at a well-paying job doing something you love.

Things are a lot better for women and minorities in the 21st century than in the 1800's, or even most of the 1900's. But things aren't perfect when it comes to race / gender interaction -- so the past progress doesn't matter.

Certain vocal, influential segments of the left have gone from honest critique of problems in our society, to a game of "Think Of Reasons To Hate Yourself." I refuse to play that game: Even if you win, you lose.
The XZ backdoor was completely in the open. It only got found because an engineer at Microsoft was far too good at controlling his environment and had too much free time to track down a 1% performance degradation. So... no, you really cannot verify that there is no backdoor. Not against a well resourced, patient adversary.

I'm not sure what your links are supposed to be proving. I'm neither of the opinion, that PCC is useless, nor am I under the misconception that a signature would provide a guarantee of non-maliciousness. All I'm saying is that, if you include Apple as an adversary in your thread model, you should not trust PCC. But not because it's closed source (or whatever) but simply because you fundamentally cannot trust the hardware and software stack that Apple completely controls all interfaces to.

Personally I don't consider this a useful thread model. But people's situation does vary
I’m thrilled to be part of a community which is so curious and so distrusting of authority.
Haven’t seen that for years.
Yes! and there are additional cases, like the nitroplasts that we recently discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplast
It's one thing to use their judgement to refuse somebody who is going to get a bad drug interaction, and another for a pharmacist to say "I've given out too many of X prescriptions, I'm going to start cutting off people from their prescription based on my judgement of them," and this latter one is what was under discussion and the one that I'm rejecting.
This is a complete tangent, but FWIW: you can pay taxes in NY with an expired license.

Source: I've been paying taxes in NY with a learner's permit that's been expired for well over a decade.

Edit: I've also used said expired permit to buy pseudoephedrine. In my experience, they get frustrated and put random garbage into the tracking system when the card doesn't verify, demonstrating that it's all theater. It did take a while, though, so your point about this being a waste of time holds.
Abi is the binary interface, no? This was within the same compilation unit
This is the "ethically fraught" bit I was referencing. Once this genie is out of the bottle and into the gene pool, there's effectively no moral/ethical path to putting it back in.
I agree completely with all the points made in the article and would double down on the critique of the philosophy of biology as a discipline and science itself: namely that is has historically evolved as a mere system of typologies and that this is so settled in and so sacrosanct that biology is such a superstition with human-made categories a couple hundred years ago and not a real science.

We see the exact same things also when discussing what is a species and also completely disregarding the reality of horizontal gene transfers etc in the strict, traditional trees.

The models are quite wrong and even reduced wrong.

There is this one famous article that shows how traditional biology would go and analyze a transistor radio, namely just label its assumed components!

Here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697757
The brain gets good PR. The brain dead are thought unfortunate.
When I was a kid, using AOL with all my friends, I spent a few hours in Soundforge editing a clip of me saying "worms" as close to the AOL tone as possible. I did it pretty convincingly and began distributing the "You've got worms!" notification everywhere I could.

Anyone under 100 will probably think this was really stupid, but it was amusing to me - and all the other silly hacks on windows and such.
Assuming the tradeoff is even energy related. Seems like the tradeoff could be against a whole slew of subtle things that apply in a diverse, natural environment, but may be less important in a monoculture.
Couldn't it be that we haven't fully lost mtDNA because it's simply a very slow process that has not yet run its course?
but I thought that Bluesky wasn't meaningfully distributed /s
At least one actually did commit suicide from that IIRC.
I remember someone quipped that every program always has at least one bug left, and every program could be optimized to be smaller.

It follows then that with a sufficiently good optimizer every program can be reduced to a single wrong instruction.
Correct and there are final patches already released for the affected lines. The CPUs that die Intel is replacing with an extended warranty.
Hot take: I think the two will fall out within 6 months from when Trump takes office. Trump is notorious for screwing his contractors. Elon will want his ROI and Trump will at some point have enough.
Not very biological though.
I'm ok with "you need to leave your client open" as a requirement. I'm not a fan of "some people won't get it so no one can have it." Mozilla, however, loves that kind of reasoning.
Does it yield a rare Earth? If we didn't have mitochondria and had something say 20% less efficient, why couldn't multicellular life still exist?
The alternative is to do exactly what the company did. Parent-to-be gets the job secured but not the career prospect.

so having children will hurt your career? and that is good why? the only effect we will get out of that is even less people who choose to have children. this is not what we want.

historical evidence to show that these "flexibility" usually gets exploited by employers to pit workers against each other and to push the price of labor down

is that really the case? i don't see anything like that happening in the US or other countries where sunday work is already a reality.
Of course they are a political choice that we can make or not make.

And we can have ambulances (or not have them!) with or without car-dependent infrastructure. It turns out that non-car-dependent areas also have ambulances and get people to medical care quickly.

And we could get rid of ambulances and even still keep rapid emergency response by having mobile doctors distributed close to people.

Plus, ambulances are not dangerous to bicyclists. Come on. The danger is distracted drivers without blaring sirens on top of them.
They do have a chat ui. It's not as robust afaik, but I don't see why they can't expand on it. It would be a nice addition to their storage/Google one offering
Hey, I wrote a book with that exact same title as the blog post.. :) not sure if HN frowns upon this kind of self-advertising in comments, but well.. you can find it on Amazon / Packt, if you are interested lol