skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I recognize this problem! I know it as Pirsig's Chemistry Professor. Here's the quote from Pirsig's "Lila":

"The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs up,' converting low energy sea-water, sunlight and air into high-energy chemicals, it keeps multiplying itself into more and better clocks that keep 'running up' faster and faster. Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact. The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it?"

Pirsig's exploration of the answer depends heavily on his own metaphysics. We don't have a grand answer yet. In more modern terms, the question still stands: If quantum logic is completely reversible, then why is chemistry reversible but only with extra energy in one direction?
http://gcfp.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BailoutsV12.p...
Not a scientist so posing these as genuine questions: do crowded cities become "hot spots" in terms of heat output (everyone has the A/C on, which leads to heat building up, which leads to people blasting their A/C even higher, etc.)? And does spreading people out give heat more room to dissipate?
Sometimes I will look all over for my keys, only to find them in my pocket. This is the obvious place to check first, but I am not perfect, so sometimes I overlook it.
I took https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat and it was great. Loved the book and the course was a great complement. The platform is nothing to write home about but the course itself was so good it didn't matter at all.
I'm gonna put forward the very view that gwern repeatedly argues against: "but... it's not understanding."

So far I see no evidence that this thing or anything else like it has any actual understanding, any model of the world. Indeed it can't as it possesses no sensory apparatus. It's not embodied. It doesn't experience anything.

I'm not sure the OpenAI folks would argue with me, but it seems Gwern asserts that this sort of thing indicates that general AI or even sentient AI is on the doorstep. I don't think it does, and I still maintain as I always have that CS people systematically underestimate and trivialize biology.
This is fascinating to read through. It’s so hard to avoid a variant of the Forer effect, though - where we unconsciously discount the errors, and selectively focus on subsets of the output and impute meaning to them.

Designing objective quality tests must be an active area of research, I wonder what the best approaches are?
This is an excellent point, but I don't think that zoning laws are a good fit for that. Zoning laws can be changed (and often are) by a town council or other governing body regardless of what the land owners want. A permanent easement that can be put on one's own property that restricts what one can do on it is much more effective, and is exactly what you're talking about (trading a development right). In my state we have many properties that are covered by conservation easements; these are permanent easements attached to the property that prevent most development and grant some state tax relief. It also obviously negatively impacts land value, but it's voluntary on the part of the land owner.
Kinda. The crawler is there, still missing the search engine. Think Google, but open source, and maybe self-hostable[1].

[1] I am pretty sure "hostable" is not a word.
And did you find any? I'd be interested as well.
For social-science applications, I think the information-theoretic notion of entropy is more appropriate.

There's no social analog to the laws of thermodynamics, but we can use the notion of entropy to make statements about information content. In particular, the idea (along with the adjacent subject of Bayesian statistics) has sharpened my thinking about news: there's less information (to me) in otherwise trustworthy headlines/stories that agree with my prior notions.

In an analytic sense this isn't surprising, but it runs against the emotional impulse to seek out affirming information.
For reference, the well-worn anecdote about everyone saying "it'll all be over by Christmas" at the beginning of World War I didn't actually really happen.

That was a later anachronism, and the phrase "over by Christmas" doesn't appear until late 1917. It was used as an intentional exaggeration to describe how those in Britain at the end of the war felt about the decision to enter the war in 1914.

The reality is that very observers anticipated an "easy" war. Virtually everybody predicted that the conflict would be the most destructive since the Napoleonic wars, and collapse the world economy. Overwhelming majority of the British public and politicians expressed a preference for neutrality. It wasn't until the Germans marched straight through the heart of neutral Belgium, and their sheer degree of wanton looting and destruction, that public opinion turned.

It's very clear that even in 1914 nobody thought it would be an "easy" war. Germany's Rape of Belgium led Britain, and later America, to reluctantly intervene. However it's a testament to the sheer scale of carnage in World War I that even these very dour predictions turned out to be underestimates.
Seconded. I felt baited when I clicked the link; I am in no way interested in Minecraft.
HTTPS link - https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/07/itll-al...

Surprised it didn’t redirect by itself.
I see. What else separates it from Wikis? (genuine question)

Side: I've read books and articles in an attempt to understand what sets it apart from other techniques.

I know Niklas Luhmann used it to write tons of books and articles, while others claim to have been able to use it as a "second brain".

But I'm still having trouble understanding how to deploy the Zettelkasten technique effectively -- a lot has been written about the technique, but not much has been written about actual use cases where someone has used it to accomplish something useful, which they couldn't have as easily or at all without Zettelkasten. Due to the lack of examples, I'm trying understand by analogy, by comparing Zettelkästen to something familiar like Wikis.
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It's not really surprising, that the same dumb accounting mistakes that got all these "2B2F" banks in trouble in the first place, are also made by their ardent fans on HN. GP is the same joker who dismisses people as "angry" and "uneducated" elsewhere ITT, but doesn't actually have any idea what happened. Reading Timmy Geithner's book doesn't help...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/2008...
Yeah of course, completely natural.

My point is that even with all these insights into how human perception works, I agree with the strategy that it's best to bypass railways completely by going under/over them. And if it's doable in a densely populated country like the Netherlands then it's doable anywhere. (Some of the underpasses that have been built in recent years have required significant changes to the whole surrounding layout of the town, like one they completed in Bilthoven near Utrecht. Yet it was done.)
Systems where there are multiple sequential collisions are not fundamentally deterministic. There are quantum-mechanical effects in the dynamics of the collisions between the electrons in the atoms, whose positions are thoroughly probabilistic in their nature.

Quantum physics is not compatible with determinism, so any dynamical system is only precisely describable in probabilistic terms,
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Two words, Org mode:

https://orgmode.org/

Add Magit and you're good to go:

https://github.com/magit/magit

Emacs is a quirky beast, but these two packages alone make it worth the effort to learn.
December 21: Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”

December 25: Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined. This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.

December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.

December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.

January 1: The Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Dr. Li Wenliang, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signed a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising not to commit further “unlawful acts.” Seven other people are arrested on similar charges and their fate is unknown.

January 3: The Chinese government continued efforts to suppress all information about the virus: “China’s National Health Commission, the nation’s top health authority, ordered institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing institutions, or to destroy them.”

Roughly one month after the first cases in Wuhan, the United States government is notified. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gets initial reports about a new coronavirus from Chinese colleagues, according to Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar, who helped manage the response at HHS to earlier SARS and anthrax outbreaks, told his chief of staff to make sure the National Security Council was informed.
And now we’re talking about left vs. right, dragging in unrelated injustices to construct our web of systemic oppression, and posing the false dichotomy. Do I accept the new terms or do I support lynching black people in Texas?

No, what I’m saying is it’s a game, it seems you are trying to play it right now, and I’m saying I reject it.
The big difference is testing capabilities. All places hit by big waves early on suffered from poor testing and public awareness, so testing happened in a burst as the deaths were starting to become problematic. And generally those getting tested at peaks were the symptomatic/hospitalized. NYC is estimated to have been around 20% infected, so the actual infection count was highly undereported. It is important to also recognize that every location hit hard was met with immediate lockdown, generally followed well by scared populations.

The situation is far different now, with a good chunk of people actively rejecting even basic distancing measures. If you look beyond positive test numbers at the % positive you can see the rates are rising even faster beyond our testing capabilities. And the idea that only 20-30 year olds are getting the disease is wishful thinking - the highest risk situation is from household transmission, at over 80% likely.

Combine high infections with a general disregard of safety and those older populations are bound to be infected as young spreaders interact with their families, at offices, supermarkets, etc. I think this is why the death spike lags a fair bit further than expected.
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Kathleen Stock is an intellectual fraud whose proposed public policies are straight up fascist: https://twitter.com/LisaTMullin/status/1116865382776590336

How seriously this crowd takes her says a lot about its own values and methods.

edit: as a parody of the sort of meta-level discussion that is more concerned with intellectually bogus, self-absorbed notions of "truth" and "nuance" than the lives of actual human beings, the response is peerless. Well done!
I wonder if that's the most cost-effective way to use $1.43B to save lives?
“Foxes complain about Apple improving hen house security”.
As a user, Google and their advertiser puppets can go whistle.
The reporting is just fine, since it discloses both groups. The title is click-bait, but that’s the reality of the news/youtube/etc. industry if you want views. It would have been equally click-baity if the title had said “Facebook-backed groups”, yet equally false (and true).

There’s also ad agencies not backed by Facebook or Google, but they’re not in the title either.
Define "correctly". Intra application "tracking" (logging) is helpful and can help for product flow for sure. Cookie based ad networks may make for more efficient marketing efforts which in theory "lower prices" but at what cost?
Yes, I think that's what basically the code is, some kind of a one time password. The fact it is just 5 digits is not something I've paid a lot of attention to be honest, as this is something really easy to change. Probably you could even use letters, symbols, etc... the trade-off is annoying a bit more the end user.

It also expires (see https://github.com/msurdi/wipku/blob/master/server/core/user...) , and the api should probably protected with rate limits, that should mitigate the brute force attacks I think.
I think you're letting negative emotions get the best of you - the existence of a prevailing opinion or a political leaning is not, by itself, "group think", and it's even further from "incuriousness", which is essentially just an insult if you don't know a person outside of their posts on one topic. The term "group think" is frequently reached for as an intellectually lazy self defense in places like forums where you can count the number of posts that "disagree" with you, which can trigger such defensive emotions.
This is dope, I wonder if they are working with Zap on the merchant side too
The developer will pay fees to manage garbage collection and school size increase when getting a permit. This is a city issue not a density problem.

Parking on the street is not a right but a public good. Everyone share, this has nothing to do with land owned per citizen. Raise the price of street parking.
Again Parking is not a right, it's a commodity, and people should pay a market price for it.
>The tendency to blame the victim

They're only victims of their own stupidity. The real victims are the train drivers who are often traumatized, injured, or even killed in these collisions through no fault of their own.

The same goes for other occupants of the car. Pretty much everyone but the driver.
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Yes, in which case you should be able to communicate its usefulness to the users, who will allow it.
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I don't think every turing complete language lets you create an interface and memory layout that would be identical to fortran.
If Facebook really cared, they'd offer to share an anonymized email proxy when connecting for the first time, like Apple does when signing with Apple on a website that supports its SSO.
If anybody is sad about Zettlr not having the graph view of like the one in Obsidian or RoamResearch, please be patient.
A PR is already open for it. -> https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/921

OpenSource powaaaaa! :)
The difference being agency. You intend to open a bank account, buy a car, etc. “you“ [for the majority definition of ‘you’] had no idea that you were being secretly tracked, and (clutches pearls) you might even object to that.

This is lifting the stone that’s been lying in the grass for the last decade or so, and watching all the creepy-crawlers scurry away out of the light, desperate to find somewhere to hide themselves again.
I can say that Bandcamp made this release possible... it just got released this week! and this is a record that waited years to come out and is a big band featuring some of the best/most interesting jazz musicians in NYC - the compositions are incredible— https://andrew-dangelo.bandcamp.com/
Any good courses on python and building rest APIs with Django? Out anything really, looking to up my Python skills
The pilots busted their approach clearance. ATC could certainly have rescinded their landing clearance and ordered a go-around.

That said, ATC's responsibility is to keep planes from hitting each other and maintain an orderly flow of aircraft. They are not any way responsible for the safety of the flight. That is what the second pilot and all of the automated alarms are for. The crew just ignored all of them.

It takes a basic standard of professionalism to fly a jet airliner, and unfortunately neither of the crew members on this flight had it.
The approach was so bad that they were above the maximum gear extension speed when they tried to put the gear down, and so the Airbus refused to do it, and continuously yelled at them that it was doing this, but somehow they failed to notice.

Monitoring airspeed on approach is about the most basic thing a pilot does, and if you're off on speed and/or altitude by much less than these guys were, the absolutely clear requirement is to go around and try again (before you slam the engines on the ground and destroy them).
The term you are looking for is "urban heat island": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
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The crew was never in contact with the tower controller that was in a position to see that gear were not down, or that the aircraft had landed on its engines.

For reasons that are not clearly explained (probably everything happening too fast and muddled), they remained in contact with approach during the landing after the approach controller got their landing clearance from tower on the phone.

Tower did report the gear-up landing to approach, but approach did not relay to the crew.
That's an observational study, which don't turn to be true all the time. The randomized controlled trials have shown it's a bust.
What a poor argument!

HK, Singapore, NYC, Paris, and London are slums?
The numbers of US tourist flocking them might say otherwise.
Ridiculous. Completely hypothetical argument devoid of any real-world considerations.

Reducto ad absurdem -- A single crack-house can bring down the value of every house in the neighborhood by 100k or more.

Housing has huge externalities (traffic, parking, noise, crime, property values) and a lot of what makes a property a "good" property is having an area where those externalities are controlled so you can walk your dog safely at night.
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> Given that it's clear that this is not how people behave in practice

Is that clear? Most people don't get hit by trains, so I don't think that's clear. I'd say most people are cautious around trains while a minority aren't, and a minority of those who aren't will get hit by trains.
Since when has zoning ever had anything to do with the Feds short of Department of the Interior/Bureau of Land Management?

I'll accept at one time public works implementation of utility infrastructure may have skewed things, but I was pretty sure issues of zoning were predominantly local affairs.
> what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but search

There are problems with search: you have to know to search for something, and you have to know how to search for it. In some cases this is an issue, in some it isn't. I have had many times over the years where I reviewed my notes and reminded myself of things I had completely forgotten. Search is useless in that case.

But in any event, there's no conflict between a knowledge base and search. They are different things and you can search a knowledge base.
It's been a while (I've never done autolayout and up) but I found Xcode Interface Builder to work in the fashion you describe. Probably not an accident as it descends from NeXT devtools which inspired e.g. VB (not sure about Delphi).
> How can we reconcile this? We can say that the system is not probabilistic, but it is approximately probabilistic.

It is indeed probabilistic based on your existing knowledge of the system. The idea that (say) a roulette wheel evolves according to deterministic laws of physics is not useful to you since you do not know the current micro-state necessary to make the prediction.

This is similar to the difference between frequentist and Bayesian interpretations of statistics. Bayesian statistics is more comfortable taking probability distributions over notional facts (such as 'is this coin unfair/weighted?') because it treats the experimenter's confidence as the fount of probability.

If you treat entropy in the same way, it makes more sense. The entropy of a system is related to the number of microstates it can occupy consistently with our known macrostate (e.g., measurement of temperature and pressure -- inherently averaged quantities).
>My criteria for hiring them generally was not their proficiency in particular tool but ability to grasp programming concepts in general and ability to grok any particular tool in short time.

I'm curious how did you test candidates for this? Did you give them any specific tasks to accomplish and then evaluate their ability to learn?
It's noted in the article, they're not forcing them out by direct competition. Rather, their squeezing their competitors profit margins and forcing competitors' prices up, but charging more prohibitive prices for content.
Can we really call this ANTNN "intelligent" when it falls victim to trivial adversarial inputs? Ones that arise in the real world, not just in artificial inputs mind you. Clearly those ANTNNs are still far from anything that could rival natural intelligences.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mA37cb10WMU
I maintain several OSS projects you may be familiar with, and I’m burned out
I cycle in 90 °F pretty frequently without issue. As long as you keep yourself hydrated and don't overexert yourself, you should be fine. On the other hand, you need to be careful not to burn yourself when getting into a car in that heat.
It's cool to conciously see the death of an industry and watch as marketing firms fail to migrate away from traditional ads.

You can whinge and whine, but progress stops for nobody.

It's also great to see Apple building this into iOS, definitely a highlight of WWDC, for me.
I often see the location indicator come on and wonder what else I'm not seeing.