skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you rationalize that work a lot... But there's a whole lot of self-contradiction and logic abuse going on.

* "Pharma is super evil. Finance is super evil." But also, "nothing is purely good or bad, we all just make different tradeoffs." You see it, right? No?

* Tech "wasn't perceived as evil" when you made your career choice? After 2008? Buddy. And what happened to it all just being tradeoffs?

* "If you work for a fossil fuel company, are you equally unethical?" - this is what's known in the field as the false equivalence fallacy, if you remember that one. Also, yes, if you work for one of the companies which have used advertising to spread climate change FUD for 50 years, then I personally consider you ethically sus.

* "Basically everything interesting is caused and driven by lots of complicated stuff" - appeal to complexity.

* "our society is messed up for a bunch of reasons, of which advertising is one of the least dodgy" So you acknowledge it's one of the reasons... Until, at least, you again claim there's "weak evidence that it does much".

* "people find it easy to blame societal problems on external influences" - Oh, the critics are oversimplifying? Are there no sophisticated critiques out there based on psychological research that might identify specific harmful mechanisms? You studied this shit, so I know you must have at least heard of them.

* "I, with a PhD in psychology... don't understand why so many tech people hate advertising" - Idk man, feels like someone with a PhD in psych should be able to understand that just fine. Really dunno what you're missing there.

Taken together, these contradictions suggest to me that there's a lot of post-hoc rationalization going on. There are more consistent ethical frameworks out there than 'shit is complicated' and 'well, nothing is pure evil or pure good anyway'. They might not be super popular right now, especially in tech, finance, fossil fuels, advertising, pharma, etc - but they're out there.

A lot of psych research connects to that old quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". Cognitive dissonance? Moral disengagement? Motivated reasoning? The bias blind spot? ... Idk man, I'm not a psych PhD.
Against Economics (2019)
Despite the inflammatory title, it's David Graeber's review of Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky. For those who are interested in the history of economics, it provides a nonorthodox narrative.
> In the US, a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support owning a house with a yard, a non-working spouse, a car, and multiple children.

That was never sustainable in the long run and no one can bring that back.
A bad leader and a dictator are kind of the same. They want things to get so bad that their personal relationship with their tiny number of remaining allies and still profitable ventures look so essential in the short term that they don't have to suppress talk of jumping the J-curve with anything but rational fear of starving.
I don't love the way they came up with these numbers. Although it's possible I'm being overly skeptical.

The recording device turns on randomly and captures bursts and then a computer counts how many words were spoken and they estimate the total days count based on that. It amounts to about an hour of recording per day spread out over 17 hours.

I cant see the full paper but from what I can see they don't describe identifying who the speaker is in each recording, so does that mean any word the microphone picks up is attributed to the wearer?

With 5,258 hours or 657 workdays worth of recordings I wouldn't be surprised if they cut this corner given that even at $15/hour they would be spending more than $80k on just the transcription.

So, is it possible falling asleep with the tv on skews the results?

What about being a generally quiet person and living with a yapper?

And more abstractly, is asking "Do you want fries with that" making conversation or are they just doing their job? Should that really count? (no shade, I just don't think our customer service voice is a reflection of our true self)
I left a negative review about mould all over the property and got an abusive message from the host!
the hype of indepedence is in your early 20s then after a few travels its boring
“Amplification” has to be one the most misunderstood concepts In electronics

No signal is really “boosted” by some weird process. What happens is a very powerful DC signal (i.e constant) is selectively allowed through, being mediated by the input signal. The “volume knob” on a power amp works by ATTENUATING that constant DC signal prior to “amplification”
Most of those people didn't earn it directly, but via exploiting people working under them and not paying them a fair share for their work.
> there is nothing that recharges you more than first class tickets somewhere beautiful and getting pampered in a resort

From first-hand experience, 100% this absolutely. The most relaxed I have ever felt in my life (and with a decrease in my resting heart rate to prove it, thanks Apple Watch) was a nice flight and a week at a high-end all-inclusive with just myself and a spa and pool day every day.

And I totally agree with the realization one can come to about how similar we all are after experiencing what others may call “different” cultures.

Granted I still have the travel itch all the time, it’s difficult to scratch that itch with obligations at home, but you do what you can, and take the passport stamps as they come!
Here I would posit that even our ear canals distort a bit, particularly when things get loud. It possibly helps us zero in on pitch.

> I'd bet (without evidence) it's used on most tracks today.

The Aphex Aural Exciter supposedly adds harmonics related to the signal by generating distortion in a certain way. That's been around since the 70s.
Even Ted Cruz criticized them. When I read that I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1 and that I wasn't reading The Onion.
I just want to limit my server to usual human users. If you have JavaScript disabled, you won't be missed. Sorry.
Since your comment is comparing the US with China, maybe a bit of "whataboutism" is warranted here.

> stealing IP

Edward Snowden's leaks reveal that the US engages in wide-scale economic espionage. Additionally, the US also uses extra-territorial means of coercion to acquire cutting-edge technology -- see e.g. the Alstom case.

> manipulating currency

For many decades the US has been able to print money like a madman while the rest of the world absorbs the costs by virtue of the USD being the primary reserve currency globally. The US is also not above strong-arming its allies into appreciating their own currencies to boost American exports -- see the Plaza Accord, which partly contributed to Japan's subsequent Lost Decades.

> paying their people terrible wages

China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty in the last 20 years. In the US wages have remained stagnant for the working class over the same period, if not longer. Frustration among the working class -- which is entirely justified and understandable, by the way -- is probably one of the reasons why Trump was re-elected.

> crapping all over the environment

Chinese cities today are mostly clean and quiet, increasingly powered by renewable energy with more and more electric vehicles driven on the roads. The Chinese are also undertaking massive greening projects, such as the Great Green Wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China) On a per-capita basis the Chinese emit far less carbon dioxide than Americans do.

The US, especially when compared to almost any other developed country, is in no moral position to be sanctimonious about environmental issues.

Don't blame other countries -- China or not -- for America's own catastrophic, chronic failure in leadership and subpar policymaking, especially when America has enjoyed so many entrenched advantages for so many decades (and still does).
Yes, my thoughts exactly too. Not an endorsement by the way.
> but I am allergic to RISC-V for personal reasons.

Do you mind elaborating?
Statistics can hide or not capture a lot too. That’s the thing we should be talking about and not enough people looked at hard enough.

Stancil isn’t wrong per se, he’s quite right in many respects but I don’t know that his work captures the many facets of what is (and was at the time) going on
It's exactly a PoW system, but with fewer steps. Most bots can't run GPU workloads. Some do, and that's fine.
The idea of “traveling the world” when young is a very recent, very privileged and very Western perspective.

Growing up in post-communist Bulgaria during the 1990s and 2000s, I had never been abroad with my family as a child. At an age of 18 years, I started working from home as a PHP programmer for a guy from Switzerland I found online. When he invited me to his place in Basel for a 2-week visit, to me it felt like flying in space. I was valuing every second of my stay there like I am on another planet.
Apart from lifestyle explanation, John Campbell reveal hat from 1996 the DNA clean level of vaccines decreases. It is in the spirit of general decrease of quality around us, we've been treated like animals.
I never said they want to.

But as many responses to your comments; there’s a portion of the population who are not invested in the markets this way.

There’s clearly a very different perspective for some, and as per my original reply; it seems many more are worried (rightfully so) about assets others cannot even begin to comprehend - let alone invest day to day, or “spare”, money into.
Your experience with travel resonates. It opens one's perspective early on, but then it kind of gets dull over time. And after a while, travel is mostly an avenue to have good memories with friends and family, relax, indulge in local cuisines/culture, and enjoy the beautiful nature.

And the topic of whether wanting to travel will motivate one to make more money is a topic for a different thread altogether. It's probably difficult to bring that drive if one doesn't have it.

P.S. You forgot to post the Gokarna June '22 pics in your photo album. It took me a minute to realize it was you only after reading that you moved to Goa and seeing your Goa flat pic.
But each client gets their own token to solve.
I don't want to be online on my phone, except when I decide that I want to browse the Web because I have spare time or need some information. SMS is perfect when I want someone to reach me in a timely manner.

Well, luckily I live in country where SMS spam is not an issue. If I look at the inbox of our IoT-like devices in the US, my approach to communication might be less feasible.
Their "money" is actually shares too, so when market crashes, they get poorer. So probably not in their benefit.
The author misses a key difference: Orbán's regime is predicated on

* EU letting it go untouched for years: the amount of funding the EU sunk in Hungary is crazy compared to their GDP. If the government can skim 80% of it and still the economy is growing, people will think the government is doing fine.

* "effective populism" E.g. setting very low income and corporate taxes, a ton of "bonuses", price freeze on groceries etc. Mostly unsound stuff, but effective for shifting public opinion.

* lack of a credible opposition. Yes, the media is controlled by the state. Yes elections are gerrymandered. But the same opposition leaders who have lost elections multiple times are still there. It's not an accident that as soon as a new charismatic opposition leader popped up it went to 30%.

The US does not have the first thing, doesn't seem to be doing the second and, well the third is up to the opposition.
AirBnBs are as expensive as hotels now, except you have to clean it yourself and deal with an often insane host and their random rules. I am back to hotels and resorts all the time now, you at least know what you’re going to get.
Flow: A static type checker for JavaScript
They seem absurd to people using their common sense. Trump is not normal, this is his 5th grade understanding of how tariffs work. All these people saying "we should live through the pain". But why? This is inflicted not some outside market crash, it is deliberate destruction of the economy, I can't figure out any other reason that because of Russian kompromat on Trump.
The duty cycle (number of business days per year) is less than 1% for typical guests but around 100% for a sizeable chuck of hosts, and in the 20-80% range for a lot of the rest.

Hence I expect the host LTV to be a couple of orders of magnitude greater to that of guests.
I'm personally very excited about the progress in interactive theorem proving. Before the current crop of deep learning heuristics there was no generally useful higher-order automated theorem proving system. Automated theorem proving could prove individual statements based on existing lemmas, but that only works in extremely restricted settings (propositional or first-order logic). The problem is that in order to apply a statement of the form "for all functions with this list of properties, ..." you need to come up with a function that's related to what you're trying to prove. This is equivalent to coming up with new lemmas and definitions, which is the actually challenging part of doing mathematics or verification.

There has finally been progress here, which is why you see high-profile publications from, e.g., Deepmind about solving IMO problems in Lean. This is exciting, because if you're working in a system like Coq or Lean your progress is monotone. Everything you prove actually follows from the definitions you put in. This is in stark contrast to, e.g., using LLMs for programming, where you end up with a tower of bugs and half-working code if you don't constantly supervise the output.

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But well, the degree of excitement is my own bias. From other people I spoke to recently:
- Risk-assessment diagnostics in medicine. There are a bunch of tests that are expensive and complex to run and need a specialist to evaluate. Deep learning is increasingly used to make it possible to do risk assessments with cheaper automated tests for a large population and have specialists focus on actual high-risk cases. Progress is slow for various reasons, but it has a lot of potential.
- Weather forecasting uses a sparse set of inputs: atmospheric data from planes, weather baloons, measurements at ground stations, etc. This data is then aggregated with relatively stupid models to get the initial conditions to run a weather simulation. Deep learning is improving this part, but while there has been some encouraging initial progress this needs to be better integrated with existing simulations (purely deep learning based approaches are apparently a lot worse at predicting extreme weather events). Those simulations are expensive, they're running on some of the largest supercomputers in the world, which is why progress is slow.
I think you could easily get into the 30% range if you factor in manufacturing that happens that otherwise would not without global trade.
No, I will not explain because you clearly have no background or any prior knowledge in the fight against antisemitism and racism. You're just parroting using the cause du jour as an excuse to express your own antisemitic beliefs.

GTFO about Israeli colonialism. Jews are the indigenous people of the land. The archaeological record is clear on this.
Why no demo image in GitHub readme?
An alternative one-handed keyboard design I like is the half keyboard by Edgar Matias. Personally I am not sure which one is better for typing half-dvorak or half-qwerty.

http://edgarmatias.com/papers/hci96/
https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1257-half-qwerty-one-...
Some countries do, some did.
Just search for "coins with holes".

(I have danish øre coins with holes around.)
This is an interesting idea, but I'm sceptical of the advantages.

"there is more Co2" is valid for cars burning fuel. But as soon as you recuperate (even in a hybrid) you might only have a fraction of the losses any more. Adjusting the speed more aggressively is possible, without breaking, with little loss. I totally agree that stop-and-go is annoying, but looking into the future, Co2 should not be a reason for the vehicles in 5-10 years when the research can be rolled out.

Is "slamming the brakes" still happening? Around here you have dynamic speed limit signs on the highway. In high traffic everybody then goes a little slower, but smoothly.

I suspect that if a road is loaded beyond max throughput, this method will also fail, even harder.
Let me explain: I remember a graph from communications theory. With improving error correcting codes in transmission, you can get a clean signal for even worse channel conditions. But once it fails you will not have a signal any more. The better the code, the steeper the cutoff. Whereas without in FM radio, the degrade in user experience is also gradual.

So the analogy goes like this: I would expect that you could possibly load the road with another 10% more vehicles. But if one day you have 15% more, the blockage will be even worse than before.
Could be worth simulating throughput for various loading situations.
I find the instruction set distasteful. I don’t want to start a flame war. This is just my opinion, but it is a strong one.

It was designed late enough in history to have taken advantage of a lot of available information. None of it was taken advantage of. Which is why a lot of extensions are now being proposed to actually fix things that should’ve been done right in the first place. With all the additions, it is slowly approaching sanity, only 10 years later. And I don’t buy the excuses that the learning process needed to happen. All the information was available all along, and the mistakes were obvious to basically all of us all along

Some of the extensions are only Band-Aids for the real design issues. Eg shadd2 is a bandaid for not having proper addressing modes for accessing arrays. A common refrain to answer this is composed of promises of magical instruction fusion in the core. This is often promised, but never delivered. Certainly not in the cheap kind of processors that are the only target for RISC – V. Not having instructions for a bitfield extraction and insertion is also an amateur mistake. That’s why there are extensions to fix that one too. But it should’ve been obvious from the beginning that it would be necessary. A conditional branch based on a bit in a register is another obvious thing that should’ve been considered from the very beginning as it is commonly encountered. Any analysis of modern software would’ve shown this.

What annoys me is the information was available. We know what sorts of things modern software does. It was all ignored. Instead, we got a slightly updated mips-1. And now with all the extensions, it’s fragmentation galore. You can either target the final result (RV23, I think is the name), which is somewhat sensible, but no hardware implements, or you can target the least common denominator, which will run everywhere, shittily

There are other, more serious, design issues when it comes to attempting to use RISC – V for actual high-performance computing. I’ll save those for another rant.

At approximately the same point in history, another instruction set was designed. It actually took advantage of all the knowledge available about what modern software looks like, and it shows: aarch64.
>After 35, you don't like traveling but boy do you like 'Vacationing'.

My mother started traveling alone after 50. She's 62 this year and I think the only years without any traveling she had were the COVID years.

Same for me more or less. Never was interested in traveling until around 35.
Yes of course. I'm conservative with change because I'm worried about the suffering it will cause, not because I am fine with human suffering
Is the top link just an advertisement for a book to be bought or is it something I'm missing with the link? There are countless of books and website with that kind of content, but Google is good enough to find them...
It's an incorrect statement. An MMS is delivered by sending an SMS to the recipient phone and the phone fetching the message via http. Very unlike SMTP.
> the fastest ... purposely barebones

This piece of fiber cable is the fastest static web server.

It is purposely barebones, but I bet you, it does almost nothing to reduce the delivery of a static website. The trick is: The website is already in its final state when it gets piped through the fiber cable, so no processing is required. The templating and caching mechanism is left open for most flexibility.

I call it an OSI layer 1 web server.

The trick is to use fiber instead of copper.

Many webservers don't care about this.
You pay for the ability to have a doctor with all the equipment -- the value.
Not for the difficulty of that single task.
Hand-solderable might be relative. Certainly, QFNs and BGAs are more difficult. But I don't think the average hobbyist can solder QFPs, especially with an exposed underside pad. Heck, as a hobbyist, I don't think I'd trust myself to solder SOICs.
> because the federal government wasn't originally intended to do most of what it currently does.

Some times it feels like USA should become more like EU and EU should become more like USA in that respect.

Like the department of education, EU does not have that thing to begin with, each country takes care of that. So I am not very upset when they threaten to close that down.

While EU does not have a common defense which could be a good idea.
No this is because of trump and a few people he picked to agree with him, mostly from the failed Heritage Foundation. They only got a fraction of their project 2025 goals finished by trump so now they want to punish us all with suicidal economic action because they have a cache of money and gold and can weather it. Trump could have been pro business, kill of regulatory state, reduce some of the size of military obligations and government entitlement programs. Instead he pushed the economy off a ledge.
Republicans already laid out as a tactic for the very reasons you state. Crazy thing is they were transparent in how they were going to act.

Project 2025 even documented how this would work
Call me superstitious, but that's one of the things stopping me from taking a tourist spaceflight (together with the nausea and, well, price).

These capsules don't look that seaworthy, and sinking in one seems like a really terrible and expensive way to go - like that Mercury capsule.
This page lists several ATT publications and has a link to a 1953 publication that could fit your description (and could have been a subsequent editini).

Otherwise, maybe you'd recognize the name as one of the other publications?

https://www.long-lines.net/sources/ATT_tech_books.html
The best way to learn this stuff is hands on, build kits, those 200 in one things RadioShack used to sell, etc
> See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

I agree that the browser engine is the interesting bit.

But nonetheless, Firefox is completely useless on iOS.

I've had to change not because I wanted to.

I still keep it around as a password manager because of Firefox Sync, because I don't need to open it.

But I really need to start investing in another password manager.
that's another cost, have fun getting your emails dropped by microsoft because they don't like your ip addresses unless you pay someone else to send for you