skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a PhD in neuroscience, where I studied circadian rhythm disruption and its effect on pain behavior. So I feel qualified to discuss this.

In humans, pain has two primary components [0]:

1. The sensory-discriminative component: where on my body, what type (hot? cold? chemical?), and how intense is the noxious stimulus?

2. The affective-emotional component: how much does the pain hurt, and how does it affect emotional state?

Very importantly, both #1 and #2 are considered “pain”, and they can be experienced both simultaneously and independently. Pain is entirely subjective, as TFA highlights.

It does sound valuable to search for biomarkers of the sensory-discriminative component. But I’m doubtful that biomarkers for #2 are readily observable, beyond fMRI. The “Nociometer” may capture this, but what if it doesn’t in a reliable way, since it’s designed to test #1? TFA discussed how this could save money for health-care system money; this gives me an awful feeling.

Relying on “biomarker-based pain measurements” worries me that patients who are primarily experiencing affective-emotional components of pain will only further be doubted or not trusted by physicians.

There are already far, far too many examples of physicians not trust patients about pain. Re: women at Yale undergoing IVF treatments without fentanyl injections due to a drug misusing nurse stealing the fentanyl. Physicians responded to the unanesthetized women in excruciating pain by saying, “maybe you are immune to fentanyl!” [1*].

I think we should tread lightly.

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[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6676053/

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/health/yale-ivf-egg-retri...

*There is a heart breaking podcast on this scandal, which is how I originally learned about it [2]. Of course when I was in horror telling my wife about the story, the news came as no surprise to her, as she’s experienced pain disbelief from physicians her entire life.

[2] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/804/the-retrievals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

The hygiene hypothesis does not suggest that having more infections during childhood would be an overall benefit
They might miss a type of pain that the current trials aren't measuring because healthcare doesn't believe that group of patients and further entrench that prejudice into the measure. It's a very real risk of such a device.
>Are your view of it on the comments of people online?

Yes, I'm noting that uniquely among US allies, the internet is full of Europeans expressing anti-Americanism. And this has reduced American enthusiasm for the transatlantic alliance. There's no sense in trying to please someone who complains about you no matter what you do.

I don't think it is just online, but the internet made it very clear to the US how Europeans feel about us. Naturally, conservatives are going to react more to that since they are more patriotic. That's why Trump has been driving the reset to the relationship.
Well, when Karpathy introduced it, I seem to recall he claimed that he didn't look at the code, just put it in production.

But it's entirely possible that there may be several definitions around by now.
That idea of an unelected policy maker is a work of political fiction. There are two types of federal employee: political appointees and senior executives, who do not have job security, and the merit-based civil servants who have job protection in the sense that they can only be fired for cause. All of them can act only within the bounds that Congress defines – that’s why there are lawsuits about things like whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant because the EPA can’t regulate outside of what the law authorizes.
It’s poorly photoshopped too, imo. It looks like what it is - a composite of two disparate images, superimposed to give a sense of scale / positioning. Even if you could see in UV with the naked eye it would probably not look like this.

This image is more like a map that shows Russia and Alaska superimposed to compare relative size. It’s not realistic.
I already provided an example with UK, which is terrible. UK is racing ahead of other countries requiring backdoors.

France has had similar proposals floating in their parliament. The latest iteration has been rejected

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-re...

But the fact that such proposal is drafted and periodically brought up to this level, isn’t good, and it might be approved in the future.

Example of data collection by the German government

https://privacysniffs.com/data-retention-law/germany/

Australia's Encryption-Busting Law

https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...

What makes you think that EU governments don’t collect data from companies such as Hetzner or OVH, the same way that US collects from Microsoft or Google?
Modules 100% solve this problem, but broad compiler support is still (frustratingly) lacking.

Some day, a class like in the OP will be implementable in a single file. The compiler will compile that once, and users can 'import' it infinitely without worrying about the usual header inclusion pitfalls, and without incurring any compile time overhead. The amount of electricity saved from the reduced compilation work will save us from the current climate disaster, and we'll become a maximally productive society unburdened by slow C++ compilers.
We had a history teacher in high school who noted that. He always tried to cover the factors that led up to an event happening. I always appreciated that.

Ultimately, there's only so much you can cover in a history class on a very broad topic like "Ancient History" or "American History".
> I don't know how many people on HN have served and heard of Rickover? But I'm pretty sure most people on HN could not function in a Rickover style management context. It gets things done, but it's not terribly polite about going about getting them done.

Ex-Navy nuke here; I had to interview with the KOG [*] to get into The Program.

My guess is that most people on HN would do fine in a Rickover-style program — albeit likely after some culture shock. After 50 years I can still recite my own interview with the man pretty much verbatim. I served only five years on active duty; I've forgotten most of what I knew about the specific subject of nuclear engineering. But the no-bullshit, face-the-facts general management style that Rickover created and propagated in the nuclear Navy was likely the single biggest professional influence of my life. To this day I regularly quote Rickover to my law students: You get what you INspect, not what you EXpect.

And in the fleet, most of us nukes were regular people, not nearly as abrasive or peremptory as he could be.

[*] KOG = Kindly Old Gentleman: Of those four things, Rickover was at most two.
The simple, and rather obvious, answer is that you use lights at night to see where you're going!

There is nothing wrong with that in general. If people are doing light sensitive things near me I'll of course adapt, if practical.
There is a lot that you can do to learn these skills and succeed in organizational roles. It’s different to be a CEO where the job is primarily politics and face to face discussion, and being a VP where you just need to make your org work.

I think with Musk/zuckerberg/gates you are seeing a giradian duality. They simultaneously appear charismatic and awkward. It’s either extremely context sensitive or you are unable to accurately perceive it.
I think the difference is that flight opened up quick trips where you might want a bag with just enough clothing for a few days. I also think the 1970s also hits a point where peoples' clothing had become a good bit simpler. Wheeled bags shine in airports for carry on bags.
>Well, what if you were in budget, your caterer failed to meet their obligation but aren't

Ok. This is for someone who is thinking that they need another $500-800 for the backup catering. For them, an extra $800 with no warning is an expense they can't just eat with the change in their pocket either, one presumes. But they're budgeting for a wedding that likely costs upwards of $7500 (all other costs considered), and they're spending that much without being able to set aside another $1000 for last minute incidentals? I think that this cost might just be the sort of bad decision making that we're all talking about rather than a legitimate use case. And that's even allowing for the recovery of the funds from the original caterer.
>“They didn’t take off on their own,” said Márcio Bhering Cardoso, the former director of the Brazil’s national aerospace museum. “They needed help.”

Let's also discount all rocket launches near the equator, as this is also cheating.
That's a good analogy!

A lot of the bubbles in our field have been like that.
The inventor of the aeroplane (to the extent that the question even has an answer) doesn't depend on what country you're in!

How many legs does a dog have if I call it's tail a leg?
Hmm seems really interesting and even simple!
How does this really work , can you please tell me the workflow , seems really simple and effective and i am just interested
There are two kinds of problem solver: The ones that think that a complex problem requires a complex solution and those who try to solve complex problems with elegant solutions.

The first group transfers all the complexity directly to the solution, the latter tries to eradicate complexity by trying to simplify the problem first.

I found that engineers tend to be usually in the first group. Designers (especially UX's) tend to form the second group.

Example:

This is (popular) software made by the first group: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.p...

This is essentially the solution at the same problem, made by the second group: https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/choose-b...

See also: https://xkcd.com/538/
This is only talking about a very specific and extreme type of transhumanist. Not acknowledging that makes the author sound to me like a crank with an axe to grind. (I'm choosing to ignore here the substantial an-LLM-wrote-this vibe I get.)

If you wear glasses or had braces or use an insulin pump or take Ritalin, then, congratulations, you're a transhumanist. The rest is just a matter of degrees.

As wizzwizz4 says in a sibling comment, the post is conflating TESCREAL and transhumanism.
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What threat to its integrity? The 40 bases that have kept peace for the last 80 years? The massive amounts of funding that we have sent to aid europe through USAID and other orgs? The tech, and drugs and discoveries?

We do not have to protect you forever, and us forcing you to step up military spending to comply with the UN mandates as there is an active war on your doorstep? Ensuring equal tarrifs from both sides?

I don't know why the US taking itself off massively taxing it's citizens and increasing government revenue through tarrifs, is called a "Trade war".

People seem to be so reliant on the US that the slightest sign that we aren't going to continue to hand out everything, people start getting hysterical.
it would be impossible for someone in his position not to know that. he would have to be shockingly, droolingly stupid to not know that, and I know it's fashionable to say that Trump's stupid, but he quite obviously isn't. he's not Einstein or Attenborough, but you don't get where he is by chance.

what he is is opinionated and narcissistic with a highly unusual, but predictable - and successful - way of operating that people still somehow fail to recognise. if you think he's stupid, he's winning because you're not seeing his real intentions.

I will also point out that he's a political obsessive, including when it comes to foreign policy, and it would be once again quite obviously impossible for someone in his position to not know how US foreign policy works. he quite clearly just doesn't care about losing the benefits of world influence and prefers the long term idea of a different system, one where the US is more self-reliant and his businesses have less competition from foreigners.

obviously most economists will tell you that that is stupid, and I'd mostly agree, but it's a far far softer kind of stupid than not understanding the incredibly basic central tenet of US foreign policy for the last 80 years.
Precisely. I'm specifically talking about cases where such a warning was present. Customers will claim they never saw it or any other excuse.
These socialist countries that are so happy because of the money they pour into healthcare and education, do so at the expense of their future growth and their own self defense.

This seems unsustainable.

The US is also a much larger and heterogenous society compared to the countries above us on most lists, such as the scandinavian countries or Lichtenstein.

Anecdotally, when the homeless have smart phones to accept donations and obesity is an epidemic of the poor, we're not suffering for material wealth. A poverty of virtue, maybe so.
I now know what it is, that alone is a reason to read the article. But has other interesting info.

>Transhumanism first emerged in Silicon Valley in the 1990s

That alone give me pause over this movement :)
> Agree re chicken wings but there are plenty of reasonable and responsible credit options for spreading payments for a relatively unusual purchase - at least, not a daily or weekly necessity - like a TV

That stopped being true a long time ago, at least in the US. TVs can be had incredibly cheaply nowadays. A quick Amazon search shows many models available for circa $100. That's like less than a dozen fast food meals.

If you need a TV, save your money and buy one you can afford. A predatory payment plan should not be used.
I've had that recommended to me before and it's not surprising. I was in that group myself at that age but the internet was a much nicer space. I'd break into computer systems (including USG) for the lulz. I'd get weirdos attempt grooming and hit them either with deletion scripts (deleting autoexec.bat and some key Windows files) or go full Back Orafice on them). I would take down the porn sites which kept spamming my gaming / book newsgroups.

Now those groups have been weaponised. It started on 4chan / SomethingAwful - at that time Americans were so obnoxious that we simple banned them from our gaming servers - where the ARGs were tested out and perfected. Then it was pivoted to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the other socials and perfected.

We should have saw this coming. I even thought to myself back then: "it's just as well that the internet was just a nerds thing because this could change society if it was used to control the great unwashed".

It looks like the evil people were also paying attention.
Don't tell us that you built a better LinkedIn. Tell us how you will remain a better one if you ever become successful.

LinkedIn was (arguably) a better place too before its unavoidable enshittification. How are you different? How will you remain more principled? How will you prevent the issues (say, the existence of "influencers") that turned LinkedIn into the awful place that it is today, especially if you get funded by some VC in the future?
He already got germany to increase their US grant from $1B to $2B a year. So, he's actively working it.
> without cost overruns

That's downright un-American!

I love hearing stories about him. One that I have heard, a couple of times, is that a salesgoblin went into his second-floor office at the Pentagon, with a sample of some electronic equipment.

Rickover is said to have grabbed the device, walked over to his window, and dropped it to the ground beneath. He then said something along the lines of "If it still works, we can talk."
this is wilful misunderstanding. the result of those "involved" actions is to be less involved, less close, less interlinked
I don't think the "cut costs" is an accurate framing of intent or outcome here. High costs are not being cut, but individual programs that are cheap but have every high positive impact are getting completely whacked. Such as the National Weather Service, there are reports all across the country of not having enough staff to launch the necessary number of weather balloons or generate reports that cover 24 hours of the day, leading to very small cost savings but massive inefficiency. Meanwhile massive contracts out to failing defense programs are untouched, and military spending is being massively increased far beyond what the military even asks for. Add to that the massive IRS staff reductions and tax cheats are having a hey day, with more than $500B lost to that already, which is 10x our entire science budget, which is actively getting slashed.

The goal is to assert dominance and to punish anybody that, as a group, was unlikely to vote for Trump and who Trump voters don't like, such as scientists.
Could this be an issue that ram can cause issues where a server can shut down and it would lose it causing data backup issues
It’s fine to be inexperienced with Christianity, but it skews the reporting.

For example “kingdom giver” is not someone who gives kingdoms, it’s someone who gives to Christ’s kingdom. But the widow and her mite is an example of kingdom giving as much as the Greens.
People who want to make sure that nothing wrong is shared with spammers or the world in general?
People move around, including doctors. Even knowing what doesn't work can help future patients.

For an example, most of urgent medicine (e.g. battlefields) in history was built on this sort of chaotic progress, and not on meticulous scientific research.
Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63
Here the `int` is being used in place of `char *`, not `char`.

And yes, the PDP-11 did have byte addressing while the PDP-7 on which Unix was originally created was a word addressed machine.
Why does use of technology to improve one's life need an identity marker?
I don't know; there was definitely an apocalyptic quality to the Singularity in Marooned In Real Time, and superintelligences in A Fire Upon the Deep were literally referred to as Gods (there's a brief reference to Applied Theology in there, IIRC.) So you could argue that there was at least an unconscious parallel to religion in the way Vernor Vinge saw the Singularity.
No. The whole point of hardware keys is that the private key bytes are securely locked inside the key, with no way out (cannot steal) and no way in (cannot forge / tamper with).

Reuse of an existing key for any reason after enrollment is not a good idea. A reluctance to just enroll another key may mean trouble with key rotation and revocation, and thus problematic security procedures. Key rotation should be fast, painless, and regular.
This was a surprising one for me:

During Isaac Newton's time, several contemporaries were making similar scientific discoveries:

- *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz*: Both Newton and Leibniz developed calculus independently. Newton formulated his version in the 1660s but didn't publish it immediately. Leibniz began his work on calculus in the 1670s and published his findings in the late 17th century. This led to a prolonged dispute over who first invented calculus.

- *Robert Hooke*: Hooke proposed ideas about planetary motion and gravitation. In the 1670s, he suggested that planets are attracted to the Sun by a force inversely proportional to the square of their distance. This concept influenced Newton's formulation of the law of universal gravitation, though the two scientists had intense arguments over the credit for this discovery.

- *James Gregory*: A Scottish mathematician, Gregory made significant contributions to calculus and series expansions. He discovered the series expansion for the inverse tangent function, known as Gregory's series, and worked on methods of calculating areas under curves, which are fundamental aspects of calculus.

These instances highlight the phenomenon of multiple discovery, where different scientists independently arrive at similar conclusions around the same time.
>I'm impressed you came back to this old thread!

Had to stamp out the fake news with reality.

>No matter how hard you try to rationalize it, 1,200 sales in one day at a single dealer just as the dealers become aware that the program is about to run through its' funds is suspicious.

Facts and reality don't require rationalization. It's only suspicious if you get your news from reddit. Dealers don't qualify for the rebate, buyers do. The Canadian government announced to everyone the program was ending. It hit the news.

>Doubly so with a company whose lawyers argue in court you can't believe what their CEO says

Did you get this fake news from reddit perhaps?

>that holds onto deposits for 7 years for a "coming-soon-car

Customers can get they deposits back at any time they please.

>whose cars never surprises to the upside on mileage.

LLM hallucination?
I can't imagine how anyone could even achieve such state. There will always be that skill I do not yet have, that book I haven't read yet, that hobby I haven't tried yet, that place I haven't yet traveled to, etc. etc.

Maybe if I get to have an active life of 300 years, I could maybe imagine starting to get closer to "having everything I need".
In case like me, you were also wondering what Transhumanists are supposed to believe in (what the article says is):

> transhumanists have deepened their belief in a fated future in which the human species will achieve “augmented” evolution through fusing with machines, leading to the emergence of an artificial superintelligence that will far outstrip all human knowledge and achieve God-like powers (The Singularity). This digital deity will lead us to a new era, in which all human biological limitations will be transcended; bringing about end to sickness, suffering and even death, and leading us to colonise the cosmos
Can't stop thinking about Ken Thompson Hack. This should be a clean one ...
Some related material that digs into the Zizian branch of these people https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationali...
What? In what way does it feel like a scraper?
Do you use them in Claude Desktop or Cursor? Or something else?
I played around with the file-system MCP a bit, and it was nice sometimes but then Claude started trying to edit files when I simply wanted it to spit out a chunk of code and wire it up myself... so I disabled that again.

It also tried to read files when I was putting in the context myself (because I knew it was too specific for a few read files ops to find the context it needed) that's just... not very practical.
Yes, but if you have a legitimate need, then you should just inform the user when the data will be removed and why.
Who do these world powers borrow money from??? Forget who built the pyramids and other mysteries of history. I have go now and ask DeepSeek ..
I see, now it makes sense.
They actually appear to be working on "Interceptors" which is what you're describing; https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/70961
> if Apple markets their devices as private then it seems reasonable

So they are people reading hackernews who really think that marketing is honest and good faith?

Yes, the "care" about our privacy. That’s what they wrote. It must be true then…
Oh, thanks for the info.
"I think the difference is that flight opened up quick trips where you might want a bag with just enough clothing for a few days."

Traveling salespeople etc. would often go on relatively short trips, even in the steam engine era. We underestimate mobility of pre-WWII people by a lot...

The point about simpler clothing is really interesting. I can imagine that this could be the crucial difference.
I thought of using this argument but realized one could argue the agreement is not divorcing you. If they disagree they will simply divorce and have the judge impute salary at the tech one, which will nearly certainly happen.

If you are married and take a higher pay job that is pretty much always a one way valve where if the spouse doesn't want you to lower it you are trapped. Which of course is how people end up in high stress jobs much longer than they planned, unhappy but no way out.
It's literally $0 with LetsEncrypt.