jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think induction requires justification at all. I mean, if you do it and it works, great! If you do it and it doesn't work, well, what else were you supposed to do anyway? Ultimately, I use induction because I have no better idea, not because I think it necessarily works.

Also, generative or inductive mechanisms have a wider scope of application than prediction. They can be used to inspect your own belief systems and pinpoint inconsistencies: the easiest way to know if your model of the world is inconsistent is to generate ideas and examples that fit the model but trigger contradictions.
That may be the case; but it doesn't affect the theory. What's important is reducing the standard deviation from the average number of sexual partners.

Or to put it another way; to reduce the outliers who take a disproportionately high number of lovers. It is logical that this would hamper the "global" spread of disease.

This particular theory is saying that the way to do that is to reduce the opposite form of outlier - the sexual conservative.
I'm one of the original etherpad devs. Your project looks pretty cool - if I can help you resolve your memory issues, let me know!

Email in profile.
But things do have to be moved to where people can observe them. If a tree falls in a forest...
This is going to sound sad but.. I have been fullscreening videos and forcing myself not to press escape and check email/hnews/etc.

It really helps and I'm trying to find something similar with webpages and Balsamiq Mockups.
They iterate even more out of the public eye. There are endless reams of concept art that never even made it to scale model clay. All of the major manufacturers have design houses staffed with people who's sole job is to draw neat looking car ideas. Eventually a few float to the top and they make scale models out of clay (or in this day and age on rapid prototype machines). And then those design studies may end up as full sized, half-car (lengthwise) mock-ups made out of clay. If they survive that, they may even get made into a pure, non-functional concept car like we see at trade shows. It the public reception is positive, they turn manufacturing engineers loose on the design and they cut out all the artistic junk that would cause the car to cost 4 times as much to make, and introduce safety devices and such that change the styling.....it might make it to a functional prototype at that point where they show it at next year's auto-show, if reception is still good, it'll probably make it into to production.
Historical note: In the movie "Pi", the golden ratio appeared in a drawing of the subdivided rectangle, but they got the ratio wrong! It should have been (a+b)/a = a/b, but they wrote (a+b)/a = b/a, which is obviously wrong.
btw, I enjoyed the movie.
btw^2, the plots and numerical tables in the movie were from a Dover publication "Tables of Functions, with Formulae and Curves" by Jahnke and Emde published in 1945.
Yeah, and that is also what Skeptoid promotes.
Your brain takes in information 100% of the time.

You just decide which information you put in.
Speaking of git-blame, I find putting the following function in my .bashrc extremely useful:

gblame()
{
find . -name $@ | xargs git blame
}
> putting the window controls on the wrong side of the window for no other reason than user lock in.

How does that cause user lock-in?
I think it is, by reading the DMCA. I personally believe that would not withstand a rebuttal.

The material cited in this case can also be seen as a subject of the "right to repair" laws in the USA, so in light of other laws that stand along with the DMCA, the DMCA may have some "environmental limitations" (sorry)

I don't know if they could claim damage for loss of trade secrets because Ford distributed the information far and wide on their own.
The XPS 13 was the first thing I thought of when I saw this - a repairable, upgradable, expandable XPS 13.

What they are promising sounds awesome. And AS a Brit, that is not a word I use often :)

I really, really hope this pans out, and this summer - this is something I'd very much like to get my hands on!
If you have multiple jobs and must take every hour they ask of you, you clearly do not have time to find another job; you are very likely working more than a full-time job without adequate protections.

Look, here’s how it goes:

1) you have no job

2) you take the first job that comes your way, even if it doesn’t actually pay enough to survive - a little money is better than no money

3) you take the second job that comes your way so that you can survive

4) you have no time to actually do anything towards getting a better job

Understand?

This is why jobs that pay less than what is needed to survive are bad for individuals and bad for society; people have to take them. Nobody is going to help you survive otherwise.
>You want taxes on existing property owners to be increased so they can no longer afford to live there, and can be replaced by people who have more money.

Yes, people who want to build more housing and lower prices in the long term.
Can you elaborate on that? I don't understand what's inherently anti-competitive about labor unions, unless you think that any time humans organize themselves is anti-competitive and the only thing that counts as competitive is a total lack of organization and cooperation above the level of the individual.
The responses were fast. They were just also nonsensical.
Public mone is spent two times for a paper: first time to publish and second time to read it.

OpenAccess for a higher charge is becoming a norm though. Some positives. Mathematics community has done a good job at making many open access journals. Biology has only a few: eLife being the most prominent.
So cell breathing is effectively prevented?
You think 1400 wallstreetbets readers put in 10 million each over night?
> since it will take a while for the user's brain to adjust to the slower speed

Wait, what?
It makes me think of hanging sand in Minecraft -- you disrupt 1 column and cause it to be recalculated and fall, and this causes the columns next to it to be recalculated and fall, dominoing on until all of the hanging sand has fallen. This is the propagation in action.

The propagation time is a combination of the 'tick rate' and the 'size of the granules'. In Minecraft, I'm pretty sure the tick rate is around 1/10 of a second, and the granule size is defined as 1 cubic meter.

In our universe, the tick rate probably is 1/c, or .00000000333 seconds (please correct my math), and the granule size is similarly infinitesimal.
I've worked places where monsters (dracula, zombie, etc.) and planets (mars, europa, etc.) were names.

The periodic table example seems the most useful, as it's roughly the size of a /24.
I do tons of useful stuff on my computers running software locally on those computers.

You are right about network services working hard to own more and more of the interactions and make it increasingly difficult to manage one's relationships and interactions without those services.

Frankly, I've responded by making damn sure I have interactions with the people I care about that are not owned by these services. Should one change, or I somehow am cutoff, I can maintain my relationships and interactions with people I care about.

Regarding IRC, the resolution to your dilemma is open data in tandem with open code. Sure, they could be running an IRC like thing. But, your data, interactions with others over IRC, are all open. Same goes for email and such. You can take it with you. You can change servers. You can read all of it without enabling technology.

Regarding cheating...

That's a social problem being attacked with technology and it's going to bring grave consequences. Personally, I would rather not play than deal with what's being done in an attempt to prevent cheating. The people interested in doing that are playing their very favorite game, and the cost of escalating that cat and mouse impacts all of us. Impacts you.
So if I want to start an email conversation with a vendor about some work I might need, they can't correspond with me because I'm on GMail? And this makes sense to the Chinese?

But on the bright side, looks like China will begin a struggle to stop "organ harvesting", a euphemism if I've ever seen one. (Not that the effort is forecast to be successful.)

From a meta narrative, it's interesting that there was a great push for centralization of everything, which Google benefited from. Now, due to political realities, we may be seeing another huge push for localization, even if it means owning one's own cloud server somewhere that one can VPN into.
What an unthoughtful viewpoint. You are correct: all we have is life. Humble bragging about selling one's soul for clout is rather uninspired.

We both know that with a computer and internet connection, one can gain the skills and influence to do nearly anything, from anywhere.

Full potential is hardly realized only by joining FAANG. If anything, it can cause irreversible harm and arrest a guileless mind.

The callow campus life at FAANGs is ripely built to conceal the geopolitical and capitalistic affront. The workers tacitly support this affront through their mental givings, active labor, and passive complicities of employment.
> laboriously parse YYYY

Really? It's hard to parse the year??

What about when you come across a piece of paper written some time ago, is it not useful to know the year?

> most people convey to others that this box is 12x8x8 inches

"Most people" == nobody outside of the US.

> And no one uses decimeter (10 cm) for some reason which is actually nice since its the size of the index finger

I just measured my index finger. It is 8.45 cm.
I also always write 11 मार्च 2021 or similar whenever possible. No problems so far.
First, I don't think he ever admitted what he was doing was very wrong. Maybe he feels that inside, but I haven't heard many public statement about the actions of MS being morally wrong to the society.

Second, this debt is enormous, and is getting larger. When you buy a PC, most often you still pay the "Microsoft tax". This is the result of Bill's actions from the past, the famous FUD campaigns, calling another operating system cancer, sponoring a long lawsuit against Linux and so on. He will still have to do a lot if he wants to repay all that.
What’s amazing to me is my tiny esp32 d4 pico has attached psram of 8mb compared to the x386 powering this with only 4mb… I bet my ram is faster too…
If I'm going to eat rice, it's because of the carbs it has, so I'm fine with the amount of calories it has, but I see how it can be useful for certain people.
A control group is neither necessary nor sufficient for "science" to be conducted. It's just a tool.

edit: anyway, how could you have a control group? Find 15 sexless undergrads from similar economic and cultural backgrounds? or 15 one-year-old girls who have no experience with money?
No gravity may be worse for many industrial processes than a low gravity. One problem is that you can't count on convection to arrange hot/cold fluids and have to pump everything. You also cannot count on bubbles accumulating on the top of structures and have to take measures to prevent their formation or just engineer your systems to live with them. You also cannot rely on stuff staying put because everything wants to float away.

With plentiful materials and energy combined with a more or less static position in relation to Earth (the Earth is always in the same position in the lunar sky), a magnetic rail launch system becomes an easy option. You only have to carry fuel (or engines) if you intend to enter Earth orbit. If a landing is enough, you can aerobrake on Earth's atmosphere and parachute (or glide) down.
I like how you upload the files to a CDN and provide links to them for free. Very useful service indeed.
I believe the insight the author was after here was not a general comparison of Japan to China, rather that China's "growth" has a component to it which is artificial.

That artificial growth comes from reporting GDP on building things that nobody uses (like Cities). Conversely, like a large private corporation which doesn't have to reveal costs in any general accounting rules kind of way, China has the ability to create a view of their economy which is 'untrue.'

So put another way, the author posits that in a market economy the creation of a new city would be done by actors who were themselves creating more economic output as a result of productivity gains from having city infrastructure. Thus economists see new building as a leading indicator of economic growth. However if you simply spend a billion dollars to build a high rise office tower without any tenants or even a prospect of leasing it out, the 'leading indicator' aspect of that data point is completely wrong. The building will sit there empty, generating no economic growth whatsoever. There are hints that China is manipulating its figures in just that way.

The bigger challenge for China is that in the eastern part of the country the standard of living is growing much more rapidly than it is for people living in the western half of the country. The last time that happened Mao Tse Tung used it to his advantage to overthrow the incumbent government.
I agree with the article. I have been working out for years and still got back problems. Was diagnosed with mild herniated disk. Reason- Bad posture and sitting for long hours. Also the chair that we use to sit plays a big role.
Tangential Question: Is is possible to allow Chrome to modify files on the local hd? I'd love to use a web-based editor like this for many things I do.
this is great to see. pandora while you read anyone?
Rackspace can offer something pretty close to that as they do cloud and colo.
> If we could prove it, we wouldn't be arguing about it.

You have way too much faith in humanity, e.g. HN is full of discussion where proved positions are simply dismissed because they don't fit into the world view of some people.

I won't name the topics here, someone else can fall into that trap, but I think anyone who read HN for more than three days should know a few examples.
Good talk, but how was that controversial?
It's coming.. http://gigaom.com/2010/06/23/jungledisk-founder-launches-new...
Yeah, it is an extreme example. I used it to counter the opposite extreme posited by the article, that even unpleasant or unwanted or unexpected touching qualifies as "assault", but perhaps I was not adequately clear that less murderous assaults are also extremely serious and damaging. I don't mean to downplay those at all.

In my mind, I suppose the bar for physical "sexual assault" is set around the forced handling of sexual organs or material in a sexual context. I acknowledge that psychological sexual assault can also occur. I don't mean this to exclude anyone with a legitimate case, but I think we have to be explicit if we are going to prevent self-important mommy bloggers from exploiting an unpleasant security pat down at the expense of the many victims who face serious repercussions from sustained abuses.

Such wolf-criers make things much harder on women who have histories that include legitimate abuses and I've seen that directly in people close to me. Perhaps that is why the grandparent and I both feel strongly on this situation.
As important as technical editing is, I would liken it more to code review than traditional journalistic/literary editing. Someone good at reviewing code/editing technical texts is highly valued in any reasonable workplace, but you won't find job listings for "code reviewer" only.
Ah, yes. Looting and disrupting the process of democracy seems on the same level. No? Oh.
I am absolutely not. Looting does nothing to the Police or the authorities and everything to businesses including those who are barely keeping going after the lockdowns.

Twitter gave a platform to those who had taken over six blocks of a city (CHAZ) without a single ban.

Twitter consistently allows all out racism towards white and asian people from verified profiles without a single ban.

Twitter allows the organization of mobs for the left without a single ban.

I think you are arguing in bad faith.
I do not like people like you who are intelligent enough to be intentionally intellectually dishonest while being extremely malicious underneath.

You fool people for sure. I do not know why you do it, though.

There is no manipulation going on by “Big Tech”. Your fear mongering is unfounded. Pushing this sort of rhetoric is what created the insurrectionist events a few days ago.
That's because you use google, and vast majority use google... You kick enough people off, guess what their will be a conservative google, people who grew up in conservative households will use the same. What you suggested works when the numbers are small, but when its 50% of the population it's very likely they will make their own ecosystem. Tech giants became monopolies based on good faith...
So then AMD switched to TSMC. Otherwise they would have been stuck with an inferior process and fallen even more behind during the last decade.
>something we humans can directly communicate with and recognize as "similar" to us

By those measures, the second one in my list is closest to qualifying. We communicate with the Internet (or "the one" if you prefer, to differentiate it from simply the non-human network substrate parts of it) all the time, and it's two-way communication. And the Internet is a kind of reflection of who we are, so it's "similar" to us in that way.
Sorry, I should have mentioned this was quite a few years ago, so I'm very out of date. So I don't have any known good references that are handy. That link you shared seems pretty good on a quick scan through and inline with what I remember, I'm pretty sure I dug up similar resources for other vendors, including one I think was looking at satellite hardware.
You still are thinking about technological measures where a vehement political response is needed.

In long run, you can't keep running and hiding. You stand up and stand your ground.
Oh, right you are! My mistake, which is funny because I worked on the engineering principles.

The engineering principles take our overall organization values and lay out engineering-specific takes on them. I haven't seen the organization values posted publicly, but one of the top line values is "Work responsibly and sustainably" and I can say firsthand that this is something we talk about in management meetings.
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How do you know Gibson didn't mean a clear blue sky on a perfectly cloudless day? :)
Hope you dont mind my asking, but are you worried your dev position at a hedge fund isnt secure due to the virus/recession?
It depends on what you're trying to describe.

If you're trying to describe an offset from a starting position, then zero-indexing makes sense.

If you're trying to describe the rank/position of something in a list, then IMO one-indexing is not unreasonable.
Yeah that’s where I heard it. There was a question about remote work.
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The only reason it did work was because you did an upgrade. I was also on the betas. As an experiment, I backed up my Homebrew install and tried one from scratch. Failed badly. Very important things like gnu-readline would not compile. I couldn't even get as far as nvim.

Packaging work was already being done under 2.1 to fix what was broken, and Catalina bottles were already appearing.

By the time Catalina final came out, it was usable from scratch, but only if you had homebrew installed under /usr/local so you could rely on the aforementioned bottles.

I was using an alternative prefix of /opt/homebrew. (I have been for years). When I attempted to continue using that, a few packages for which there were Catalina bottles would not compile, and so could not be installed under /opt/homebrew. I finally gave up, and started from scratch under /usr/local.

I REALLY don't like how homebrew insists on /usr/local for stability. The whole "do yourself a favor" mentality speaks to something broken in their packaging methodology. Any package should be able to be compiled under any prefix. And for the most part they can be, except for the exceptions that the core team or package maintainer doesn't care about because "you were warned."

I wouldn't mind using /usr/local were it not for the fact that lots of other installers want to put stuff there, and it can cause conflicts. Keeping homebrew in an isolated prefix makes a lot more sense. /usr/local was and remains a poor choice.
Some say exaggerated alarmism is justified because people need to be scared to act.

But I wonder how many suicides it provokes :(
From my recent plan shopping in Washington state, the silver and gold plans looked like they might save you money if you were likely to use a lot of services, but not hit the out of pocket max (i seem to recall out of pocket max plus premiums was pretty close for all the plans); it felt like silver and gold might cover a couple things bronze didn't, but it's pretty hard to actually compare these things, because you have to go through so many layers of plan documentation, much of which isn't easily obtainable.
F.U.D. drove the world crazy during Y2K despite it not being an actual problem. Maybe we need a little bit of that here?
Just curious if you have considered migrating from VirtualBox to Hyper-V given you are doing your work on a Windows laptop.
Imagine all the people saying the crap they do now, but feeling even more entitled to say it because they paid to do so.
The main thing here is that a company that can't directly tie security to revenue will NEVER value it the way that security people think it should be valued.

I can't count the number of times that some wanker used the words "I will sign off on the risk" when they didn't understand the risk that they were putting off on departments that they had no authority over. What they were really saying was, "I can tell you what to do".

The truth of the thing is that business doesn't care about something being right if it can save a single penny by doing it wrong...the only way that changes is if the cost of doing it wrong becomes dramatically higher than the the savings gained from cutting corners. The operative word there is "dramatically". See the fines that companies pay to regulators when caught breaking the law as evidence.
You're missing the forest for the trees on Occupy. Loads of people and groups active today found each other through that or got their start there.
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Precisely. Some folks over-estimate the security risks and under-estimate the business risks. Typically, the biggest risk to any organisation is going bankrupt, and doing "too much security" can make that more likely.