skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A false dichotomy is when two opposing views are expressed as the only options. I am comparing a real solution (science) with a phony one (emotions).

Can a warm fuzzy doctor cure cancer with science? Yes.

Can a warm fuzzy doctor cure cancer with emotions and no science? No.

So, this is not a false dichotomy. The climate can not be changed by feeling different about it.

Is there a solution to climate change that does not involve science? I would argue no.
There is a large body of evidence that a warm soft doctor is more likely to actually try and succeed to fix your cancer than a cold hard doctor.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/should_we_trai...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20146
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.0045...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21300514
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21248604
Where to play poker online if you are from the US or Canada?
People on HN love to nitpick massive new inventions that will surely improve over time.

If my options are death or a battery pack, I think I’d go with the battery pack
Keep your inflammation down as well, that is going to be far more of an issue than your BMI.

With regard to organ donors, the meth problem is causing all sorts of heart valve infections due to users injecting impure substances into their veins.

This, of course, is no issue for people in non-socialized medicine countries, but in places like Canada it puts a further strain on available hearts as the meth users end up being another drain on Cardiac resources.
> But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes

The thing is a lot of the preparations would have multiple use scenarios. Bad hurricanes, bad earthquakes, bad eruptions, asteroid impact, nuclear exchange, conventional war relief, massive flooding, significant crop failure.
I lost is after the score of 0-5.

Okay, JWT may not be good at this, let give one point to session cookie.
Same here, very few games hold my attention long enough to finish, and his games do. Jeff's been a very good citizen of the indie game scene for a long time. I have a great deal of admiration for him and what he's accomplished.
I enjoy those sorts of stories, people doing research into something they find interesting opening up a field for others.

If this material (hBN) could be made industrially at scale I believe it would completely change the capacitor market. Based on papers that describe the amount of charge (current) graphene can carry, especially when isolated with hBN, I imagine that a capacitor made with an hBN dielectric would completely blow away its closest competitor both in capacitance per cubic mm and in low ESR. Think dots the size of periods replacing components that are now the size of rice grains.
Why are you trying to coerce the commonly accepted meaning of Luddite back into the original historical meaning?

If the OP were for some reason referring to the original meaning, why would OP have prefaced it with "it pains me to say this, but?" Comparing Stallman to people who objected to particular technologies on moral grounds would be mundane and not require an apology.
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This reply is a bit late, but I think I'll clarify myself anyway. The way I see it, it's not my brain or body that's "me". It's the ongoing process, which doesn't really exist as anything concrete (even though it's caused by a material body).
Therefore if there were some way of seamlessly transition this process to continue in a different body, I would still consider it "me" even if the new body actually behaves differently (my body certainly doesn't behave the same way it did ten years ago).
It is my view that mass media is largely biased, yes.

Sometimes you can get some reliable information from local sources that have not a primary stake on the matters (humanitarian NGOs for example).

Many times there's no way to know the truth : e.g. is there CIA involvement (or any agency of the country you like) ?

You are left to identify patterns for yourself, given a diversity of news sources, but keeping in mind what is the particular agenda of each.
Most larger registrars give you the same protection if you run any type of business. Though below certain threshold typo-squatting will simply not happen, but atleast in my jurisdiction I can actually sue the owner of the typosquat for the ownership of the domain.
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> What do you think a prefetcher is for?

We may be talking past each other. My understanding of a prefetcher is to get the data ASAP. It typically prefetches from cache, not from memory (if it prefetches from mem it's so slow it's useless).

> Memory is very latent, and moderately slow

Those 2 terms seem synonymous, but memory access is slooow - from doc in front of me, for haswell:

L1 access hit, 4 or 5 cycles latency;

L2 hit 12 cycles latency;

L3 hit 36 to 66 cycles latency;

ram latency 36 cycles + 57 NS / 62 cycles + 100NS depending

(found ref, it's https://www.7-cpu.com/cpu/Haswell.html)

for the ram latencies that's for different setups (single/dual cpu , I'm not sure) running ~3.5GHz. So for 36C + 57NS that 36 + (3.5 * 57) = 235 cycles latency. And it can get worse. Much worse.

I'm sorry i can't find it now but in hennesy & patterson I recall it being said that prefetchers can hide most of the latency of a L1 or L2 miss if it hits L3, but if it needs main mem then it's stuffed. Sorry, that is from memory and may be wrong! But I'm pretty sure a prefetcher is wasted if it needs to hit ram.

> If you miss on an even numbered cache line, and counters support it, it decides to also retrieve the next odd-numbered cache line at the same time.

I see, but I think it does better these days, it'll remember a stride and prefetch by the next stride. Even striding backwards through mem (cache)! But it won't cross a page boundary.

Really need an expert to chime in here, anyone?
That seems at least partially true. However, I suspect that people would continue to think highly of tech companies that posted post-mortems, even if the issues were hitherto unknown. Ie, maybe it isn't only an act to prove that 'we are still trustworthy and transparent,' but also somewhat positive in and of itself?
Didn't AIM for consumers shut down long before slack came out?
I wonder how much of that is due to our messed up healthcare system. If we fixed that, I bet we'd see a substantial boost because it's one of the most difficult aspects of starting and running a small business.
Google and Amazon get very marginal portion of their revenue from government, and reputation risks for main revenue sources likely discourage them in participation in shady activities with government.
enjoying watching people making the same arguments countered in the article without actually adressing the counterpoints -

the square peg of 'maximizing superficial appeal for the most short term popularity irrespective of the personal cost' is so deeply implanted in some people's minds that they literally cannot comprehend doing things in any other 'round hole' sort of way.
That's a good point, but I would assume they would be bed-bound at that point, and as they got better they would be able to carry this around.

The article talks about designing the machine to handle running, so I think it's intended for people to wear it for life and be generally healthy.
Yup, it's certainly a punchline in seemingly every office job I've ever worked. I've worked a lot of retail and cooking jobs though too, and I think a lot of people come from these fields as well and have trouble distinguishing intellectual work from physical, utilitarian work.
I like how Firefox uses / for search like Vim.

I also find myself hitting ctrl-s in Firefox in an online ERP system we use when I really need to find and hit an Export To... button. I sit there for about two seconds staring at the Save As dialog wondering where it came from.

Been using this system for over two years now but I still find myself doing it at least once a week.
Another filler article. Learning or at least being proficient in machine learning never works in the order the article mentions if you have no background. I suggest following user knob's suggestion in this thread. You can learn the mathematics while applying machine learning to solve a problem you care about. That is the way things get stuck into memory.
> Gotta love JS community. It flip-flops on some major aspect of system design roughly every year, yet people continue to arrogantly spout their opinions about system design as if they had been correct about everything all along. Not "these are the benefits, these are downsides" not "I've improved in X by using Y", always "nobody needs X, everyone must do Y, and if you're not doing Z you're wrong and unprofessional". Zero self-awareness.

Gotta love HN community. It flip-flops on other's people opinions every day, yet people continue to arrogantly spout their opinions about those opinions as if they had been correct about them all along. Not "these are the benefits, these are downsides" not "I've improved in X by using Y", always "nobody needs X, everyone must do Y, and if you're not doing Z you're wrong and unprofessional". Zero self-awareness.
Constraint breeds creativity.

Constraints ensure simplicity where there could have been excess.

If you have less pixels to work with, it helps you edit your design to what is clear and truly necessary. It prevents bad patterns from emerging in the UI and game interactions.

I applaud this developer for sticking to their guns, finding their niche and really making it shine.

There is nothing wrong with building around a practical and dare I say it, nostalgic design aesthetic.

"Make games you would want to play" is one of the mantras I repeat to myself whenever I'm tinkering with a game prototype.

Clearly Jeff understands all of this and follows through with the delivery.

Great article!
> Modern games are very detailed,

Detailing them is one thing, replicating them with physics is another (false equivalence from the author).
Call me old fashioned but I always carry cash, both because I don’t want to get stranded like that and because of the privacy it affords.
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No doubt the first 4 hours are intense and draining, which I definitely experience. But curious if any on this thread notice any correlation with what you put into your body? If I heavily caffeinate, I'll usually want to collapse right after work, which isn't helpful since I really would rather spend at least some time on personal projects each night (personal preference, not prescribing or judging to those that don't). Also, a bigger/carbohydrate heavy lunch usually knocks me out whereas something lighter or more fat+protein based won't as much.

[edit, cleared up who this is targeted at]
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I'm surprised this page and the page on "string metrics" don't say more about the mathematical implications of defining a distance metric on strings. Something interesting must pop up if you apply theorems about metric spaces from analysis and topology to the set of strings with edit distance.
I think this looks about as clean as I expected, I definitely like the look of the list comprehension better.
(But of course, this is just a superficial syntactic matter: there is no essential difference.)

Does JavaScript not come with a .flatmap or similar method? I'm not sure I like having to count the nesting to pass the appropriate number to .flat. Also building up a nested list and then flattening is less efficient than the comprehension which builds the flattened version directly.

The +0.5 is to deal with floating point. Sadly the cube root isn't always exact enough to be an integer when it should, so I used floor(cube root + 0.5) to round to the near integer and then checked if that rounded integer really was the cube root.

Have you tried running this? Is Number.isInteger lenient enough to actually find the solution?
False dilemma. Why not JWT inside a session cookie?

Benefit: retain horizontal scaling capabilities, don't have to use local storage.
Have you had any issues with it, or has it required any additional configuration? I'm extremely curious about the real world use of Power chips
"Victoria/Vancouver/Seattle, are basically the reason that the Oil Sands exist at all, it's where the vast majority of the product has gone over the last 50 years."

Er, what? The tar sands products wouldn't be coming to the west coast consumers, myself included, unless it was refined first. The whole point of the pipeline expansion is to add mass export for the diluted bitumen product, which is to be sold for overseas refining and use.

Some of the current pipeline capacity is indeed for end use out here, but I don't think it's got anything to do with the tar sands.
is Levenshtein distance a "metric" in the sense of "metric spaces"? For example, the TaxiCab metric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_(mathematics)

Also, this looks like could be related to the Hamming Code ? Error correcting codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
Philosophy absolutely has lots to say about intelligence, much of which is mutually contradicting. There are a lot of different models out there, based off of varying levels of cleavage to various priors, that all seem to have very little real explanatory (or, I should say, predictive) power. Approaches based off of current materialist, biology-based methods have a little more utility behind them as far as we can tell (some of our drugs seem to do something to the mind), but the furthest they've gotten so far is to be able to figure out some of the things that matter to intelligence, rather than a successful general model for what it is.

And while I'll agree that this lack doesn't necessarily preclude the ability to reproduce intelligence, it does make it darn hard to recognize it.
Joe Rogan gives plausible sounds cranks a platform and an imprimatur in the interest of open mindedness. But he mixes it in with good sources of information. It may be for you if you want to be exposed to controversial ideas, but if you are not careful it will make you less informed on certain topics. Saying depletion of stem cells causes age related infirmity is basically a tautology, as is with telomere lengthening.

If this guy's ideas worked, he wouldn't be doing his work in Panama, hawking supplements, and appearing on Joe Rogan. He'd be among the wealthiest persons in the world. "Snake oil" works because you are selling a cure to desperate people, and fear of mortality is almost universal.
I'm with you on this.
In my opinion, TypeScript can really get in your way when you develop in a way that's not TypeScript-friendly, but you'll benefit heavily once you start developing with types in mind.
This was the first algorithm I ever searched for on wikipedia, back when I first learned to code. Good memories.
The Avernum remakes look fine. That isn't what the article is talking about, though. It's his new game, which looks substantially worse and consists mostly of new art. He even includes an image of Avernum 3 with this caption: "Our previous game, Avernum 3: Ruined World. Why didn't I just write another game that looks like this? Because I didn't want to. Nyeah!"
That is not their core business. Their core business is data analysis. If I remember from some tech book, they were spun out from the fraud department in PayPal detecting fraudulent transactions and then selling services to FBI.

I became familiar with them through their disease prevention activities trying to evaluate bug transmissions and food borne diseases.

Certainly, you can analyze innocent people, but it’s not like they are a face recognition camera company or something.

I’m not employed by Palantir and not a fan or anything, but am surprised at how mischaracterized they seem to be.
Nobody has suggest nor enacted blocking all cookies by default. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. This is mostly about third party cookies and or Safari/Firefox's default privacy blocklists.
I have a pair of Nike Romaleo’s that are collecting dust. Can’t imagine ever wearing them again. I miss the feeling of the hard sole doing cleans but the toe box is just so tight.

I would definitely not do deadlifts with an elevated heel. If you struggle with depth, I would address that muscle tightness issue.
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Swapping out a tile set would have been pretty trivial on the old SW games on Windows (on Mac you had to meet with the Resource Fork). It was all just images in folders.
git commit || git revert
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I switched to Vivobarefoot shoes for work. So much more comfortable in the office and taking walks during lunch.
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> Brazilians have done a terrible job of protecting their rainforest

While the Amazon is in Brazilian territory, it is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world and therefore has a global positive externality. Therefore this is not a domestic issue.

Perhaps by spreading awareness we can shift the Overton window on how these cross-border climate issues should be addressed. E.g. perhaps Brazil should be paid from a global fund to not cut down the rain forest.
I also don't understand this. Seems like if you were willing to work for Palantir before this made news you'd have understood that surveillance tech to police depts, corporations, etc. is exactly what the company sells/enables.

I did have a recruiter reach out a long time ago and remember they did actually pitch the social good use case of helping law enforcement find and arrest criminals involved in child prostitution rings.
Well, with the current President and the unprovoked murder of two US service people, I doubt we’d see such restraint. Carter is much different than most other US Presidents.
If its so bad, the 'children' can use their two feet to stay in whatever country they come from. Instead, whatever evil ICE is doing if anything seems to be attracting them in unprecedented numbers. Also what are you going to do with unaccompanied 30 year old healthy male 'children' aside from holding them? Just turn them loose with a court date? If you're a citizen and you commit certain crimes or are suspected of such you are separated from your children, if they don't have any other guardians in reasonable reach, they're going to be held by the state. Why should a certain subset of people be immune to this otherwise universal rule? The entire detention system is pretty much unchanged from the Obama era. Where they heck were you back then?

PS Evil DRUMPF is apparently not living up to committing the genocide libs crave and hope is happening.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iXWgEkZtQjP...
> Palantir's entire business is providing data mining and surveillance software to government agencies.

Palantir has a number of commercial customers, here's a few examples: https://www.palantir.com/palantir-foundry/impact/
The decisions made by roughly 1800 C.E. industrialists to concentrate development in Northern Europe and the United States can be made on a purely geographic basis. African rivers are generally not navigable to the sea, and to this day the cheapest way of transporting goods is to barge it down the river. The US, on the other hand, has the most extensive network of navigable rivers, with the Mississippi and the connections made to various smaller rivers on the Eastern Seaboard via Chicago, the Great Lakes, and the Hudson.
(1) OP said "we're reaching the point" which is clearly a nod to the maturing TypeScript ecosystem, which is why they changed their opinion over time. I've also changed mine for the same reason.

(2) Sometimes there are such massive benefits that downsides are almost irrelevant. TS has instantly saved me from hundreds of bugs, some of them nasty, and only caused me grief a few times. There are few downsides. I agree with OP that as a default, TS should be used over untyped JS in professional environments.
Not at all. The line of sight is described as being required for legitimate military purposes.

And in international relations, it's generally very much a case of give-an-inch-and-they'll-take-a-mile. Seemingly disproportionate importance must be given to the tiniest things, because the enemy will be constantly testing you looking for weakness.

In a case like this, if the US and South Korea aren't hyper-vigilant about every single thing, it's an indication that political or popular support may be waning, and an indication to North Korea that it might be possible to reinvade and take over the entire peninsula.

If you don't believe this, it's a big part of what allowed Germany to take over Europe in WWII -- that vigilance wasn't taken seriously. Germany pushed what was "acceptable" more and more until it was too late.

It's not about the tree -- it's about fundamental legitimacy being upheld.
agree. but comparing what dilma did after elected (leading BRIC, distancing from the corruption to the point of political suicide, and enacting the powers that led to lava jato, also to the point of political suicide) with bolsonaro, who is just a new collor, who will rob everything he can carry while making the country look like a joke internationaly... shows a gross lack of intelligence and basic comprehension of how can one even begin to change a corruption based status quo without violent revolution, which was lula's main banner.
You can absolutely do that to a huge extent, but good luck actually capturing the productivity gains as an employee. You won't be rewarded with shorter days or salary increases, certainly not in proportion to your productivity increases.

At best, you can use the siphoned off time for learning new things, or networking your way into management.

Employers don't value that kind of thing, possibly because although it increases your efficiency, it also leads to a complicated, brittle environment that is difficult to scale to many employees, and staff that are less interchange and harder to replace.
Well, except for the fact that the article is trivially wrong, and that there is no reason to trust its conclusions, I don't think there are any.

But you didn't need my comment for that, the fact that there is an entire engineering discipline thriving on doing exactly what the article claims to be impossible should suffice.
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Ah, I did. I posted that on my phone. Autocorrect strikes again.
Some online editors are still struggling with that. Lost a whole day of work just because I had an IP change and Thrive Architect for Wordpress did not save my edits.
You state this like it's a natural fact. That's how it is in many places, _today_. It doesn't have to be this way. As far as I know, there is no law of physics that has us locked into this way of operating society.
https://blurt.app is awesome.

It doesn't delete your text, it just blurs it as you're writing. So like you said, you can get everything out on the page without self-editing.

I use it to write all of my blog posts and then export them to markdown when I'm finished and ready to publish on my static site.
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> Their best move is to acknowledge that they don't care and do so with pride. Everything else just feels at best insecure and at worst somewhat disrespectful towards devs who care.

You put your finger on exactly what felt wrong for me when I read their post.

They are just trying to find reason to justify their art, while they have none and simply don't care.

I'm not saying it's wrong that they don't care, it's alright, but doing this kind of post is disrespectful for people who cares.
I believe messages were originally built on SMTP, then it moved to XMPP, then it all moved to MQTT