skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're assuming imagination ~= simulation for an argument, you need to state the assumption up-front. That assumption doesn't hold for humans, nor for anything reasonably imaginable for people in our culture.

> Torturing someone in a simulation is not any different than […] performing lots of arithmetic operations.

Near as we can tell, the universe itself just performs lots of arithmetic operations.

I'm going to give an example similar to:

> If you torture someone then use a time machine to restore him to the initial state, did you do anything bad?

to make a point. If you create a person, torture them, then incinerate the person to restore them to the original state, did you do anything bad? If you're privileging "the present state of the universe, excluding historical events, even when evidence of those historical events is apparent in the present state of the universe", you're taking a very niche ethical viewpoint: one where anything can be undone by killing everyone involved.

> So the only logical thing is to admit that torturing/killing/hunting a species to extinction is bad not because of pain, but because of stealing computational resources belonging to someone else/some other sophisticated computational process.

I'd call this the principle of explosion, but I don't actually see how this can even follow from what you said earlier.
I'm neither bright nor a teenager but I have been enjoying working through Spivak's Calculus. I picked it up because it was recommended as a good intro to pure mathematical thinking for someone who knows calculus. I've found it challenging but it has delivered on that promise.

There are many good recommendations here but I do think it will be good for them to gain some exposure to pure mathematics. It's different than what's typically taught in high school so they can start to get an idea whether they actually want to be a mathematician or instead focus on applied math in an engineering discipline.

Also you're probably going to get a computing bias here. I found the threads on physicsforums.com helpful so you might ask there as well if you want a different bias. (https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/science-and-math-textbo...)
From wikipedias Copland article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)):

"The Copland development effort is associated with empire-building, feature creep, and project death march. In 2008, PC World named Copland on a list of the biggest project failures in IT history."
I've been starting a new project using Svelte + Routity + TailwindCss. It's been an amazingly productively stack, although the tooling is on the young side with occasional rough edges. Overall though, it feels great. Even for a side project, it's fun to pick up as it's pretty minimal framework overhead to learn. There's several templates out there, but I've created this one for specifically the above stack: https://github.com/jadbox/routify-starter/tree/tailwind
What US law defines that as spam?
This was my first thought as well. It was probably more expedient from a diplomatic perspective to allow this, despite the obvious lack of rigorous training & testing.
> This is pretty clearly "gender-conforming trans good, icky weird attention-seeking trans bad".

That's a reductive view and doesn't fit with my understanding of their position.

> Sorry, forming coalitions with people that seek to divide a marginalized community rather than work towards unity and solidarity is not a good idea.

I'm the one suggesting unity and solidarity here.

You're the one suggesting dividing people based on your guesses as to their motivations.

But, whatever. I'm going to keep working towards a world where "trans people choosing bathrooms most suitable for the gender they are commonly perceived to be and everybody else accepting that trans people just need to pee" is just an obvious and comfortable thing and nobody gets beaten up for doing that.

You keep doing ... whatever it is you're doing. If you ever decide that trans people not getting the shit kicked out of them matters more to you than ideological purity, we can pick the conversation up again then, I guess.
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Applied Science is also ridiculous. He's made so many things from scratch that require reading patents and endless experiments, e.g. photochromic glass, LCD screens, an EDM drill, chocolate holograms, air bearings, etc.
You think it kills more than 2.4 billion birds per year in the US alone? Or did you mean more than a single cat? Did they forget to put on the upper biological shield?

To be clear there are 98 reactors in the US, so that would be almost 25,000,000 birds per reactor per year, or 67,000 per day, or 2,800 per hour, or 46 per minute. That's nearly one bird per second. It would probably be hard to hear over all that racket.
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They’ll replace the drive for free - but likely with another used disk with quite some hours of runtime under its belt. If you want a new disk you need to pony up most of the time.
and thus the ghost writer industry turned to statistics to predict the tide of their topics for their esteemed hosts, whilst wall street made bets on which book ending would make it to final print.
Nice.. https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com

The one (20 minute) track that I listened to had sort of a atmospheric Bathory feel.
For reference:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-52630...
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My side project is usually making high end wordclocks[1]. But I’ve been using those wood working tools to make wooden stands to make sneeze shields out of plexiglass sheets[2].

This started by my neighbor (a dentist) asking if I could help him make some stands for his office. I’ve since sold over $1200 worth of the stands. I wouldn’t say this effort is sustainable in the long run, but it feels nice to be helping small business reopen.

I had plans to try and start some marketing efforts for my clocks but I haven’t had the time (no pun intended)

[1] www.finewordclocks.com

[2] etsy.me/2D7lrMW
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Isn't it oriented in the reverse, though? It's not the same symbol.
I have to disagree with you here, and strongly. I don't think Gödel, Escher, Bach is a good book. Hofstaeder is clearly very smart, curious, and open-minded, and I love all those things, but the book itself is just so pretentious and sort of pointless. It's precisely the wrong kind of book you want to give a bright teenager, because it will only encourage them to get a head-start inserting their head up their own arsehole, metaphorically speaking.
But, as a business, when you have customers asking the same question over and over, doesn't that suggest a failing in how you're currently providing (or not providing) that information? Why is the solution a chat-bot and not adding to or improving the features of your website?
Cops are civil servants with power of life and death over people.

Do not compare it with other jobs.
Thanks! I actually hadn’t come across Memeorandum before, but it looks neat. I like its simplicity as well, and the previews it shows. One issue I ran into making this is that not all RSS feeds seem to contain descriptions, so it was hard to make something like that work and look consistent.
But Windows NT itself was a rewrite not an evolution of Windows 3.1.
In the UK many crossings have full width barriers, and must be confirmed to be clear of road traffic after the barriers have closed before the protecting signal can be cleared for a train. These are effectively fail safe.

Confirmation comes from observation by a signaller or crossing operator either directly or by CCTV, or automatically by LiDAR and radar. These crossings tend to be used in areas of heavy road, pedestrian or rail movements, and when train speeds may exceed (from memory) 100 mph / 160 km/h.

Their disadvantage is additional installation, maintenance and operational costs. They must also be closed for longer before a train arrives than an automatic half-barrier crossing to allow for the required safety checks and ensure that signals are cleared far enough along the line that approaching trains do not need to slow down.
I think that’s fair, but it cuts both ways.

We shouldn’t make pessimistic statements about the potential benefits of the process of doing the research itself.

Science is valuable because of what we find, but it’s also always valuable because of what we learn to do in the process.

I agree we shouldn’t make exaggerated claims about benefits, but neither should we act as though one part is somehow incidental and not fundamental to why we do the exploration.
> Cantonese or Taiwanese are more distant from Mandarin than the Romance languages are from one another.

Please kindly refrain from making statements about things you clearly know very little about.
In this case doesn't your customer walk away frustrated at best, after a nonsensical conversation with a bot? That's been my experience every time. I ask a question, then the bot asks me questions that are irrelevant and make it very clear it doesn't understand what I'm saying and that I'm not talking to a real person.
I appreciated getting from maths to CS with Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
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I think it would have been worse; maybe not immediately, but over the long term I think it would be catastrophic.

The movie theater is on fire — how long can you keep it open? Keeping it open means it’s harder to keep the fire under control — and you risk the theater burning down completely. And how many people are going to want to keep going to a smoke filled theater? “Don’t worry, it’s only a risk for the people in the cheap seats.”

As far as the flu, this pandemic has revealed how cavalier we are about it. It is, as you say, an almost yearly strain on our system. So, for one, we’re adding an even bigger strain on top of an already big strain. Second, this is a novel virus — inherently there’s a lot more risk. There’s a lot we don’t understand, including whether there’s lingering conditions for otherwise young and healthy people.
> They have things to sell and customers to support...today.

Deau ex Agile.. knock out one "thing" at a time and let's keep loading the backlog for the next features/etc to be upgraded/rewritten. Tbh in banking I see very few rewrites, most banks (that make their own applications) don't fix it unless it breaks down. They only bother in massive upgrades where modules are rewritten, or an application is replaced one module at a time.
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Hmm, that understanding is a little bit off. Here's a common analogy:

You go before a judge for sentencing, and he says that you have inherited a debt of a trillion dollars. He then says he offers to wipe your slate clean. Your possible responses are:

1) I don't believe you, I don't owe any debt. (atheist)

2) I believe I owe this debt, but I reject your offer. (demons)

3) I believe I owe this debt, but I will pay it myself. (good works)

4) I believe I owe this debt, and I am eternally grateful that you have paid it for me. (christians)

So your description would fall under category (3). You owe a debt of a trillion dollars and then say, hey, here's a couple hundred bucks I earned through my good deeds, we're good, right? That's a complete insult, to reject the gift, and then try to pay it back with a pittance.
Those were worn during practice before he began kneeling:

"I wore these socks, in the past, because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments, not only put the community in danger, but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust. I have two uncles and friends who are police officers and work to protect and serve ALL people. So before these socks, which were worn before I took my public stance, are used to distract from the real issues, I wanted to address this immediately."
When I saw the title, this was the first book that came to my mind. Very nicely written, possibly the best math book I've read (as a Computer Science MSc)
I enjoyed "The Mathematical Tourist" by Ivars Peterson although it might be more "descriptive" than you are looking for. I found it quite inspiring, probably early in high school (forget when exactly I got it - maybe even earlier).
I worked through a lot of this partial differential equations book during downtime while working in a gas station after my freshman year of college:

https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Equations-Scientists-Eng...

Might be a little advanced for most teenagers (I was 19 that summer), but I love the book and still refer to it from time to time. I did have experience with ordinary differential equations at the time, but I haven't found an ODE book that's quite the same.
A plea to evaluate metrics in a meaningful way is dismissed on HN? This is exactly the kind of place that should be demanding objective measures.
It would be awesome to see these kind of tools taken to the next level. So far we are "just" doing Zettelkasten in computers.

What I mean by the next level is something like:

- when I pick up a new e-book, show me the chapters that have new ideas that I'm not familiar with yet, so I can skip the things I already know

- let me see how my ideas/opinions on a given topic were evolving through time, which encounters have influenced them

- let me publish a slice of personal knowledge base for others to explore, let me see what my friends published (better social media?)
Is it just me? I cannot find a a link to the actual gigpixel image anywhere on that page.
Some places just plain don't care what the end users want. The worst version of this is when you're stuck in a shop where features are very obviously only dictated by managers. You can usually tell this is the case when the manager insists on being a MITM for all communication.
RMT mentioned in lecture 1 that if the tests pass you can be pretty sure you would be getting full marks.
How does going to a bar take away freedom from others?

I'm not suggesting "permanent lock-down", rather the opposite - those who are at risk are perfectly capable of managing that risk themselves as they see fit - wear a mask - sanitize hands - avoid people - great! no one's stopping that.

There were diseases before this one, and there will be others to follow it.

If becoming a vector of transmission is equivalent to "taking away freedom from others" than we'd better never leave home again since we can never know what pathogen might be hiding out there in the world.

If I want to expose myself to such vectors, that's my prerogative. My example of my Grandam willingly taking risk to socialize is nothing like outright dangerous behavior that puts others at risk (speeding 80 in a 30). They are not equivalent.
Maybe a textbook like Topology by Armstrong, or Galois Theory by Ian Stewart.
Personally, if I sign up to be notified of something, I want to be notified of it. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to sign up.

Naturally some people are going to go "meh, I'm not interested in this anymore" and hit unsubscribe. But those people presumably weren't engaging with your thing anyway, or else are engaging another way (for instance, seeing new ones on Twitter or something). So why worry about them unsubscribing?

This is assuming that people actively opted in, of course. If you're signing people up via them not clicking an opt-out checkbox or something, well, that's a different story, but also, stop doing it, it just annoys people.
I'm in the same camp, all my notes are in Markdown files, organized as a tree of folders. Some folders are prefixed with YYYY or YYYY-MM, when needed.

My text editor, also VS Code, has extensions for Markdown live preview, to-do lists, and other conveniences - everything I need to manage the "knowledge database".

In the terminal, `find` and `grep` are perfect for searching notes. I have a few aliases defined for quickly adding new single-line notes, current date/time, paste a link and title, etc.

As a higher-level interface, I wrote a little React app / Node.js server that renders the Markdown files, with hot reload on changes. Not necessary, but I like having a "personal dashboard" of sorts, with calendar and whatever feature/widgets I want to add.

I also join the chorus, that we ought to welcome more exploration in the area of knowledge management. I love seeing new systems, open-source projects, applications, SaaS (though not as much) taking on this problem space.

Since the days of index cards, through Vannevar Bush's Memex, Ted Nelson's Xanadu, Englebart's mother of all demos, HyperCard.. In some ways I think the past decade took a step forward and a couple steps back. The personal computer, as an augmentation of the human intellect, has creative potential yet to be explored.

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Edit: A recent one I found delightful is the Johnny Decimal System.

https://johnnydecimal.com/
I switched to TW for journalling, but it's still not perfect. Before that I had just a text file I could press a button to insert a date and add some text in at the end.

I switched to monthly journals rather than daily as with daily there were just too many small tiddlers. I think you need a lot of discipline to categorize every thought you get in a nice hierarchy, and that takes time. I've started using the "Excise" command for that in TW, that lets you pick some existing text and move it to another tiddler, maybe adding a link (here the backlinks would help, so I might upgrade to Stroll, if possible)
Googling "MCB-OD crossings" will bring up various pages and videos that show such crossings in the UK. They are relatively new to the UK but I believe they have been used for some time in continental Europe.

They have disadvantages including expense, and additional road closure times (compared to automatic half-barriers) as they must be closed and proven clear early enough that an approaching train does not need to slow down.
And I'd just add that many of us get a ton of email. (For one thing, in the before times, I went to a lot of events including in the capacity of media.) Every now and then I'll go on a bit of an unsubscribe jag for companies I was never that interested in in the first place and literally never open. But, by and large, the emails that I end up just skimming past aren't a big deal and every now and then something actually catches my eye.
The week after I bought my odyssey I stuffed a 1500 pound playset into it and took it home. Huge cargo space. We've beaten the crap out of it for 7 years without a single hiccup. Still in great shape.
I searched for awhile on how to ask a question about asking a question on HN and I stumbled upon a thread that said to do exactly what I did and I just went for it. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
That doesn't impact us killing 100 per day. Relativity doesn't matter.
It was popularized in 1976 in Ste. Saint Marie, Michigan as we started doing that in our high school, this circle game.

That is, until someone can chime in an earlier date.
> I see a screenshot there defines an anki card? Couldn't find any mention about anki in docs or on the github (I only skimmed though). Would be interesting to see if there is a possible interplay.

I saw that too! I love the idea of using Git and an editor to manage my Anki cards.

It looks like it might be anki-mode:

https://github.com/davidshepherd7/anki-mode
What does HN think of Graham Hancock? The antediluvian period is definitely quite a mystery and almost certainly the traditional history we are taught is not as clear-cut as it is made to sound.

I think the ancient sky looked a lot different than it does today. And there were global cataclysms that shaped the mythology of these civilizations surviving through that event. Moving forward, the later generations adhered to the myths and propagated them but with minor details forgotten or changed. Fast forward centuries and people are telling stories told to them by their parents, without knowing what they are actually about or why, that are heavily modified over generation to generation and became more symbolic and less literal.
If curious see also

2017 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14634437

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003574

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003547

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944662

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460624

2008 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122189

2007 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24992

2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354

Also, the LambdaMOO article Shirky goes into was posted here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680965

and the "Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" essay was discussed a bit in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8255850
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Sincerely, is there an example of a HC RCT that hasn’t ultimately been discovered to be junk?
Its the constellations on the top.
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Loading JavaScript from an external website is not "just someone making a stupid mistake".

It means they don't have their security in order, they're a bunch of amateurs and their banking license should be revoked.
That it takes that long for this cycle to die out --> (infection, exhibiting symptoms, infecting close contacts(who start this same cycle again), becoming unable to infect others)
Yeah. The thing is, though, that whilst I was entirely unsurprised by TikTok doing that, I would not have expected it from Microsoft. It looks a lot like a dodgy framework that found its way across way too many applications, in which case trusting the app's developper is probably not enough.
Well, there is a reason that victims of a crime aren't the ones who prosecute or judge the accused. If your goal is to seek understanding, you generally don't want the most emotionally involved person being the one controlling the discussion.

There's a place to hear the testimony of people who personally live a topic, and it's fundamentally important, but to claim they need to be present to discuss whatever topic they relate to seems counterproductive.
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I love that the Englishman one gets really confused about the meaning of the word “mate” and ends up as a Royal Navy pirate.
Yes, that's a jagged/ragged/array-of-array, and most languages support them. There isn't a requirement for the arrays to be the same length. There are many arguments about the pros and cons of each, and how different they are the closer to assembly you get. Golang had a proposition to include multidimensional arrays [1], there were lots of arguments. I think the different perspectives depend on what you want to use it for and how much numerical processing you do.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6282
Body camera footage has to be reviewed and made public if appropriate. But not all body camera footage should be made public. To protect the rights and privacy of the innocent.
Why aren't we putting elephants in the wild on other continents?