skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some questions to ask about truth:

- What if someone claims that your truth is based on different data or perspectives than their own?

- How can you reliably expect to cement truth when data or educated perspectives may change with time, especially if they are based on news or new events/research?

- Who gets to decide what truth is? Do you? Why? Is it because you're convinced that you're a "truthful" person as a subjective-experiential observation?

- How do you identify a liar? What is to be done with them? Who gets to decide?

My subjective experience is that the establishment of truth, or reconciliation with such questions, is a deeper topic than many are willing to credit.

I'll be controversial and offer that it may be helpful to view "truth" as just one more mental model; broken in some ways, just like any other mental model. (If this leads to fears of e.g. rampant dishonesty, maybe that also points to the fragility of the model)

If interest in truth is really lower than ever before, it may be related to aspects like these.
> Plus nodes can easily know how far all of them have progressed and drop history before the most far behind point.

That may be easy coordinating servers that are almost always online, but it's definitely not easy for desktop/mobile clients that go offline for long periods (and sometimes don't come back).
Ugh. I hate these pseudo intellectual puff pieces. What ends up happening is that this is used by all sides to reinforce their own existing thinking patterns, not to challenge existing ones.

There are no actual actionable takeaways from reading this. As the article says, we have an abundance of information. This, coupled with bad actors who intentionally inject misleading, false, and emotionally charged information into our incoming data stream, means our lizard brains are overloaded and basically do the easiest thing possible: revert to emotion and agree with information that confirms our already held biases.

The only thing that has been helpful to me is two fold: one, to revisit technological triumphs of previous eras. I’m listening to 13 minutes to the moon with my kids. It brings me to tears the focus, determination, and pure dedication to science required to pull off such engineering feats. Second, I push myself to read books. Mostly books about espionage because I find them both entertaining and I like to think it helps me make sense of the noise today. Currently I’m reading Ben Macintyres books - highly recommended.
It's worth to know that the watch also tracks HRV whenever you use the Breathe app, so if you want to get consistent HRV readings the easiest way is to use Breathe once a day (for example right when you wake up).
The buffet example is bad. You can't really go back in a buffet, so it's a gamble where the certain outcome those first things (which you can see). Furthermore it doesn't factor in the cost of having to walk more to get the later items.

My only take away from it is that people don't really have as strong a preference for buffet food as they might think. I'd also wager that avoiding "bad" food is much more important than finding particularly "good" food.
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I missed the "A" at the beginning of the article title, and was wondering how hand-washing helped defeat the Daleks.
Given that the future of mac software will clearly be arm I don't see the point of buying intel now. Unless you plan on replacing it before transition period...but even then the resell value will presumably be shocking by then
In any case, I’d love iSH if it could just give me an arm64 workspace without emulation.
It's not that weird that people pick the first buffet option, or browse Facebook, or whatever the default easy option is. What I do find weird is that they stop there. You don't need some paradigm shifting insight or a leap in the dark to do a little random walk and find something else you like a little more.

I used to read PC magazines, the kind that were available in grocery stores (because I'm old), then I discovered USENET, then RSS, then Reddit, then HN, and a bunch of other more and more esoteric infotainment sources more aligned with my tastes. But so many people get on Facebook and just stay there.

I used to watch news networks. Then I started reading political blogs. Then I got onto Twitter and started following people with best leaks, insider info, and wittiest comments. Finally, I realized it's pointless and stopped following it at all. But so many people stay watching the news networks which just launder all that other stuff you can so easily get directly. Worse, they allow the media to capture their minds.

Sure, not everyone can be a groundbreaking innovator but, in this age of massive choice, why do people choose anything other than hyper hipsterdom?
So we can discuss precisely: how do you define dimensionless? There are well-accepted definitions, I’m just asking you to lay it out so we can refer to it specifically.

Ratios in which the numerator and the denominator have the same unit are only dimensionless if you decide to apply the division and cancel the common unit. If you do this cancellation, and you forget/hide the semantic role of numerator and denominator, you will indeed get mistakes.

Part of the issue is being able to capture enough semantic role to be useful. That’s usually ignored in units discussions.
I will be very curious when the Google Anti-Trust suit drops to see how the tech world reacts. We've seen a lot of consolidation in the past few years- Google seems to be gobbling up any tech company that collects a lot of personal information without consequence.

There are a lot of Googlers on HN who blindly follow Google, and more people who worship the ground Google walks on; i'll be curious to see what the discussion is like when Google's evil is laid out for the world to see. Lot of the stuff Google (and other companies like Facebook) is indefensible when you look at it from an anti-trust point of view. Stuff like this article, where Google is working with people who are against what a lot of Googler's stand for will be an interesting show.
It’s possible. It just takes time; very few people are in a position to devote that time.

This gives an advantage I haven’t seen discussed: when you put in the time, you make connections no one else thought of. It happens time and again, and it’s a clear pattern at this point.

It takes months of daily study, often tedious, with no clear benefit. But the benefits sometimes come. (I wrote “usually” rather than “sometimes,” but that’s not really true. The usual result is that you go to sleep more confused than you started. It’s not till much, much later that the connections even seem relevant.)
There have been discussions about adding back artificial noise, since a noiseless car would be extremely difficult to detect for people who don't have sight.

Also a fair amount of noise generated by cars is not the engine; for example, you have the sound of the tires rolling on the pavement.
Yes, I was a little surprised Hobart doesn't cover Hasbro. The multi-media/modal approach seems to be the natural way out of the churn, letting you own demand, and make it multi-generational (eg the MLP:FiM proposal/bible is very clear that it should be a show that moms can enjoy as much as their daughters).
Its actually Hans Herman Hesse and the people from the Mises Institute are on the outside. Hesse in particular philosophically speaking is pretty far is no longer even classically liberal in many way. They are decently not representative. They just have the best online media presence.
Sure, that's seriously cool but I don't see how it changes the material balance so to speak... If you still want llvm to codegen the same items, we don't have any radical departure at all, just a different way to do the same thing, when we are release-compiling any particular crate, from scratch.
> I have better things to do with my memory than remember keyboard shortcuts.

Actually you can memorize unlimited number of shortcuts. I remember roughly 500 shortcuts for different programs and OS, it's just a matter of time. As touch typing, this investment pays off very satisfactory over time
Also any MITM can inject JS code that will be executed in the users browser.
Don't-care term
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetZero
...or that a battery needs to be added to the system.
Could you give me a pointer to a discussion of type soudness in Rust?
I recently watched perhaps 3 years old video about Rust where Simon Peyton-Jones asked about this, and Niko Matsakis answered it was ongoing work back then.

Couldn't find anything proper by googling.
I'm surprised big companies haven't built up India to make it's own type of Shenzhen there. Seems like a huge investment by any forward looking metric. They already outsource a lot of software development.
Further evidence Trump got Covid back in February.
I thought about this sequence of comments seriously for quite a while. I accept that "grandpa judge" was inappropriate. But how would you phrase the problem of our judges not understanding technology? Is it a judge thing? Lawyers understand. But lawyer tend to be younger. There are few young judges. I think age, and the lack of life experience with tech because they grew up before it, probably is the factor that matters here.
> I respect the idea, but I find it impractical

I think it depends. I've ditched my telly when I was about twenty. I neither use Facebook nor Twitter nor any other social media, unless you want to count HN as such. But I do consume selected entertainment products, and I don't think such material is really "non-enriching". It's part of recreation, and as such I think it counts as a kind of enrichment in it's own right.
Sure, you can convert anything to anything if you can find someone else that wants to complete the trade at a suitable rate.

Taxes provide [part of] the reason to believe a market to exchange Aussie dollars will exist in two years time: tax and Aussie-dollar denominated debt mean a lot of people need Aussie dollars. That's the only reason the Aussie dollar is worth more than the plastic its printed on. BTC doesn't have that reason [to any meaningful extent; credit is a tiny part of the economy and nobody needs BTC to pay taxes] and unlike the fruits of your labour [which I'd hope are more useful or entertaining than an alphanumeric string even if they can't be exchanged in future], it doesn't have any non-exchange-related reason to be worth anything either. The some-people-need-it-to-pay taxes argument is why Aussie or US dollars aren't bad despite being as intrinsically useless as BTC.

So the argument is that BTC is bad because both intrinsically useless and almost entirely lacking a mechanism [similar to taxes] to create a stable flow of future demand to acquire it
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It's not that Rust doesn't care about compilation speed, is that final binary speed, zero cost abstractions and ergonomics lie higher in the priority list. If we didn't care about ergonomics you wouldn't be able to have diamond dependencies inside of a crate (like defining a struct in a file and it's impl in a different one, or splitting impl items between two files, this is very handy but requires that the compilation unit be a crate). If we didn't care about zero cost abstractions and final binary speed we wouldn't always monomorphism generics and have a threshold where we automatically use dyn traits instead (vtables), like Swift does, but we want people to have full control over the behavior of their code so you have to change your code in order for that behavior to change. This means that your code's performance characteristics won't change because of unrelated changes crossing some threshold, but it does mean that unless you opt into using a vtable your code will spend a lot of time expanding code for every type used in generics. This doesn't mean that we don't care about performance or that there aren't things we can do to improve the current situation or that we don't actively pursue those actions (take a look at https://perf.rust-lang.org/ over larger periods of time and you'll see that for the most part things are getting significantly better).
I connect again with a Surface Go. The pen/pencil is better than the non pro iPad and cheaper than an iPad Pro. It also runs a full OS + WSL.
And then a judge says that this is not a valid excuse. That was kind of the point of judges.

Go look at how complex topics were handled in common law, often with very good understanding and solutions.
The truth matters deeply. Those whose egos drags them into "being right" do nothing to help the truth, and are typically those most full of falsehoods they're busy doubling down on.
This is what's felt disingenuous about a lot of the pushback energy, at least to me. The conflict is framed in terms of: "People who say they'd be more comfortable if X were changed to Y," and "People who say X vs Y is meaningless… but spend inordinate amounts of time arguing that branch changes and other relatively inconsequential change is _literally the death of freedom_.

If it doesn't matter, it's low-effort, and the change results in an environment that's more comfortable for some people, it seems like a pretty straightforward equation. Anyone who wants me to oppose that kind of change is implicitly arguing that it does matter, and the current state is the better one… without bothering to make a case for it.
I don't think it's about ageism, but about the pace of technology. Many (if not all?) of the concepts being debated were likely invented after most current judges were born: the internet; HTTP; web scraping; browsers. It's not easy to understand something you've not spent much time learning about. And the rule book on laws regarding the internet is not fully written yet.
I laughed at the analysis of the buffet because of this.

I don’t want sausages and eggs, but if I get to the end of the line and find out Janine has made off with the last of the Cheerios and pastries again my whole day will be ruined and I’m not taking that chance.
Boycotting has been proposed in previous generations.

In Martin Luther King's last speech before he was cancelled, he suggested boycotting businesses until such time as they were willing to treat all God's children fairly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414101 "All we say to America is to be true to what you said on paper."
This is an anonymous Reddit comment that provides zero evidence.
This is an excellent counterargument. Here is another one:

You will never be a completely rational being, no matter how hard you try. You are very good at tricking yourself, and it happens all the time. If you attempt to "think, don't believe", you will fail, and along the way yield all control over what you believe.
I see a problem - target user group.

I'm watching MIX08 The Story of the Ribbon [1] and trying to be objective. He is optimizing for 50% who paste with mouse. Essentially it is Microsoft Bob 2.0.

Office was done, "good enough" but some people complained, there was bad press. Microsoft added intellimenus, task pane - acknowledged mistake. Then ribbon. It could work for new users. Not for me. Now I better understand why.

The menu / toolbar / shortcut UI provides progression - from least often to muscle memory. Menu is hidden, fallback, toolbar provides customization, no need File > Save or Edit / Clipboard once I know shortcuts.

Ribbon is always expanded menu represented like task pane. They display text when icon is not enough. And group name ... because something. Information density is extremely low. Actual toolbar moved on the title bar.

Layout demo looks good. But as writer tool it is awful, clutter is still here, just behind a tab. Could be fixed with Firefox-like customization menu, not with their spaceship like-control.

I can see how he applied design tenets but in very specific meaning:

* a person's focus should be on their content - constantly changing UI, "content" is styling

* reduce the number of choices - no way to customize toolbar, select one of the tabs

* increase efficiency - of those who struggle with discoverability

* embrace consistency - among office, not OS

* give features a permanent home - even universally known

* straightforward is better than clever - no hidden controls, more visual clutter

* design tenets has to be religion - stick to decision, do not listen to users

Same tenets produce my layout, which is opposite.

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX08/UX09

[2] http://sergeykish.com/side-by-side-no-decorations.png
The pencil on the non pro iPad is not as good as the Surface or iPad Pros. There are latency benchmarks.
Sure it’s not an ISO base unit, but then again neither are most of the things in Frink.

+1 to the idea that real scientists use Kelvin for everyday life.
Oh man, I was just about to recommend this book, you beat me to it. I am currently reading it, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you're interested in distributed systems and learning about database fundamentals, it really is a must read.
At the altitudes these are flying at (10km+), the air is bone dry. Unless moisture is encountered on the ascent, there is no need for conformal coating.

P.S. - I've done a fair number of these flights and can speak in more detail about this hobby on request. Great fun!
And how is the layman supposed to differentiate between the two? It's a fairly intractable problem. Credentializing ends up having the opposite effect of creating an orthodoxy that freezes the ability to think.
Shame I hadn't seen that thread. He's right that most of the rust projects "replacing" standard Unix utils are not feature equivalent and differ in intent, but that doesn't mean there aren't other efforts to do exactly what he is asking.

Eg here's tac (admittedly not cat, but hey, ./goo | tac | tac) published a few months before his email: https://github.com/neosmart/tac
As the Wikipedia link shows, it's not actually Taleb's coinage.
My favorite example of this is Pasteur's revolutionary work in immunology itself:

A careful reading of Pasteur’s presentations to the Academy of Sciences reveals that Pasteur was entirely mistaken as to how immunity occurs, in that he reasoned, as a good microbiologist would, that appropriately attenuated microbes would deplete the host of vital trace nutrients absolutely required for their viability and growth, and not an active response on the part of the host.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342039/
I would argue the lack of internet over ham radio is more about technical limitations and less about regulation. The only practical transport frequencies are in the VHF/UHF range and those rely on line of sight. Even if you did put some kind of access point on top of a tall tower you are limited to 1200 baud on 2m, 9600 baud on 70cm (which is what most radios support). That is barely enough bandwidth to load simple static HTTP pages, add the overhead of encryption and it is completely impractical.

Hams have access to bands higher than 70cm, and some look technically promising for an implementation of internet over radio - but the lack of equipment manufactured for those bands make it a challenge to get off the ground.
“Hire the best” → A critical perspective on standardised hiring processes
Yes, and what is a short term mitigation technique if the camera is hacked? Covering it with something so that you can work with the computer until it is secure again without video being recorded.
Most of the time on certain environments you don’t hear the cars motors at all, all you hear are the tires having a contact with the ground.
> Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs.

Most people who I have encountered that are really really bad at their job do not suffer from impostor syndrome, because the whole point of impostor syndrome is that you are open to your own vulnerability and your own incompetence.

The people that are exceedingly and amazingly bad at their jobs are often bad because they refuse to learn, because they don't feel they need to. They don't practice humility, they don't ask open questions to learn and they don't improve their processes over time.

So while it's easy to kick in an open door and say "everybody can't be smart so some 'impostors' must actually be bad at their jobs" I think it's more useful to take a step back and try to focus on what behaviors and mindsets lead to development and growth, and which do not. I strongly believe that having impostor syndrome rarely correlates with refusing to learn due to one being convinced of one's own brilliance.
I was briefly on a project which used React Native ~3 years ago. The non-descrpit red error screen was a killer. Has the dev experience for RN improved much since then?
I think you hit the nail on the head. I grew up with Street Fighter and never really connected the dots as to why I love the game so much.

Sure it had pretty good graphics for the time, and gameplay was great as well.

But the real differentiator was the ability to "compete" with other people.

Not just compete, but the fact that you plopped down 25 cents and within 3 minutes one of your lost. At the time we didn't have much money, so 25 cents per game play was quite a lot. So it really came down to being great and trying to beat as many people as possible so that your 25 cents could last longer.

It was probably my first real memory of truly being competitive at life.
Literature and Hyperconnectivity, Week 1: Introduction
“The curse of our times is that so many people have developed the habit of seeking to feel temporarily more powerful when they feel devalued.”

This isn’t a curse of our times; it’s just how the brain works. It’s well documented that Humans get a chemical rush when they are in a position of power over someone else. I think the curse of our times is that so many modern Humans don’t try to be better than mammals.
Land acquisition in India is a grand legal process going into years and property rights are individual.

This is unlike major portions of China where the CCP can simply takeover land and property is leased out by the government on long term deals.

If India truly wants to become a leader, they need to cut red tape in everything but especially in flipping of property.
These are run by solar panels that only transmit during the day. The capacitor just gives a half a minute or so in the event of brief cloud cover, panel not facing the sun at a good angle, etc. Not strictly necessary, but since a WSPR message takes almost two minutes to send, a good idea to not have it abort in the middle of the transmission due to lack of power for a couple of seconds.
If someone isn't getting paid, what incentive do they have to patch vulnerabilities in a timely manner?
I wouldn't trust the indicator light, its not a mechanical switch, its something programmed that means - you know what I mean. I would prefer covering with a tape, I'm doing it for a long and it didn't damaged anything.
I appreciate learning things that update my physical intuition for how things work. Thanks for sharing this.
Both "professional confidence" and "job performance" are hard, if not impossible, to quantify, so I'm not sure how one would even begin to answer that question.
Even so, the main point of my comment was that the maximum capacity of a Boom supersonic plane is a lot smaller than that of the Concorde (and presumably a more comfortable layout rather than the Concorde's narrow cabin.) So at least the battle it's fighting is a lot less severe.

Theoretically speaking, if the seat cost per mile is as low as advertised some airline might want to take some business class seats out and put some premium economy in. What a plane does with seating layouts is its own concern.