skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your irritation notwithstanding, a complex argument that falls apart to "correlation does not imply causation" is a flawed argument. And humans so consistently err on the side of leaping to conclusions in advance of the facts, that we need to consciously counterbalance by reminding ourselves of the fact.

Yes, correlation is suggestive of causation. Yes, it suggests an often fruitful line of research. But while pursuing that line of research it is important to remain aware that it isn't proof. And to not shut off other lines of research.

In this light, it is worth reading http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm again. Science isn't supposed to be easy. Scientists have had to learn the hard way how to be honest with themselves. Some fields have done better on that than others.

Medicine's record on this front has generally been abysmal. And their failure to be honest with themselves about the limits of their own theories in this case has had an opportunity cost measured in trillions of dollars spent on millions of tragically preventable lingering deaths.

In the face of that, it is wrong to argue that their mistake was a defensible jump in reasoning that people shouldn't be blamed for. Instead we should notice that a logical error really can have a cost measured in trillions spent on millions of tragically preventable deaths. And figure out how to not do that again.
>t's also been effectively disproven since the cognitive revolution at least.

How so?

>Since we can understand ideas, take in / generate perceptions, and act in meaningful ways based on what we've understood

That's not necessarily 'proof' of consciousness or free will.

>some kind of raw behavioural conditioning is not a valid explanation for our behavior. Nor the behavior of most higher animals.

Behaviorism isn't epiphenomenalism. I'm concerned you might not understand what epiphenomenalism is.
Spotting Mystery Methane Leaks from Space
These large games are often horribly unbalanced, yes. But you don't really play them to determine who's the more skilled player, you play for the experience. And even conventional games are often balanced by obscurity - Shadows over Camelot was recently "broken" (a reliable winning strategy was found), but plenty of people had fun playing it. An exploitable strategy was found in Caverna, but I still enjoy playing it with my family. A game like MTG even leans into that - every time new cards come out the game changes, and adapting to that is part of the game.
I was a hiring manager for 25 years.

I never gave one single test, and I could usually weed out the spammers from a quick glance at their résumé. I often hired folks that didn't "hit all the sweet spots" on their CV, because I found them to be eager, energetic and curious.

Had a couple of bad decisions, but very few.
I see those. Dentist, Gas, Pub. My dentist is 10% off for cash. Gas I bought last week in New Hampshire, $0.07 cheaper with cash. Pub has a minimum and sur-charge for card. And my coffee place too.

But, online, eg PayPal, has the same-price rule.
Tedious, but that's only twice a year. I think this one hits even harder:

> When he's not changing the time, Fjodor's job includes spending one full day a week winding up the mechanical clocks to keep their pendulums swinging.
Reminds me of an experience where, my brain fully convinced itself for around 4 hours (felt much longer ofc) that I was an outdated Azure "SmartCodeCreator"[1] instance being deallocated for upgrades... it's a strange experience to embrace death. I haven't been the same since.

[1] I had no name for it at the time, but that's the gist of it
Just speaking as OP, I think it's bc of the little information that gets into the public about nuclear science in general, much of it is about the cost and dangers of nuclear waste. I have the impression of this thing that has to be maintained by burying it under a mountain in North Dakota for the next 50,000 years.

So while 5 orders of magnitude makes the financial case clear, I don't have a good idea if the risks of keeping it around are potentially 6-7 orders of magnitude greater than getting rid of it.
The other problem with "no code" is that code is more than just text on the screen. It's a way of thinking. A very formal and precise way of thinking, which is what you need to have to be able to make a computer do what you want, and not do the things you don't want it to do.

To build complex things with "no code" tools, you need to adopt the coding mindset anyway. You end up discovering concepts like modularization, abstraction, you end up internalizing what the "no code" building blocks actually do, vs. what they advertise to be doing. But by then, what you're doing is just writing code in an extremely inefficient, unergonomic and probably visual way, and you'd be better off having learned a programming language.
hope this doesn't work.
It’s like you’re not even reading what I’m saying. So I’ll just end it here. You’re wrong.
> Absolutely not, mutually assured destruction only works if both sides know that the other is committed to carrying out a retaliatory strike in the minutes before their death.

Not really. You would need to be absolutely certain that the other party won’t carry out a retaliatory strike before they’re destroyed.

The only thing that matters is that the other party is capable of indescriminate destruction, not the certainty they’ll actually do it.

It’s like punching someone holding a gun in the face.
The whole move to streaming is going to not live up to it's promise. I have no intention to sign up for multiple services, and figure out which one has the content I want. I got rid of cable because I was tired of 500 channels and nothing is on. I can't wait until some of them consolidate.
Alpine.js has partial hydration. ;-)
How to easily set up your Mac to empty the trash at timed intervals
Uhh, wireless charging and Bitcoin mining are literally orders of magnitudes apart. Bitcoin is estimated to have consumed over 64tWh of electricity last year, more than Switzerland.
Thanks, I stand corrected!

Isn't eDRAM an IBM-only technology?
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." Now with more JavaScript.
I've cancelled all my streaming subscriptions and found better things to do.
This is bitterly true but also profoundly, maddeningly, horrifically sad.

Death is monstrous. We can do better. We have to do better. And it's tragic that we probably will but everyone alive today will probably miss that chance by a sliver. We happened to be born 99% of the way from the beginning of humankind to the end of death, but we just barely missed it.
Vitamin D is not a true vitamin also because it’s not even a vitamin. It’s a misnomer. It’s a hormone!
I should have to replace the head unit in my car because Apple wanted to change the port on the phone?

I’d rather they stick with lightning.
Most QR systems (in merchant presented mode, anyway) require good internet connectivity, which may not be a given in developing markets. This isn't a problem for NFC.
I actually was surprised to read the following sentence in there, While amyloid continues to be a target,
26 of the 41 pharmacological trials supported by NIA are
focused on other targets.

That's still far too much being thrown into a theory with a history of failure. But there is a shift there. Perhaps being criticized in places like Nature and Scientific American had an effect? One can hope!
Bazel likely won’t deal with this at all, but you could write your own rules to implement something like “insert to a database”.
Incandescent light bulbs should really be understood as space heaters that happen to emit light.
I dunno, Putin? Yes. Trump, shmaybe? Obama, not really.

I guess that’s why they consider the idea here and not there.
I always called it a "that can't be right" interrogative.
> And pawns capture diagonally which I have always found very weird.

If you ever do reenactment of a sword-and-shield line fight it'll make a lot more sense. You naturally counter the person in front of you and neither makes any progress, the people who are diagonal from each other are where the action is.
Dunbar's number isn't about "strong personal connections", it is the approximate number of people that the human mind can keep track of in terms of their identity and relationship to you (and vice versa) and to each other[0].

Anyway. If you expect everyone in an organization to have strong interpersonal relationships with each other, you'd probably top out at something like a dozen at most, and that's really pushing it. Eight or nine is a lot more reasonable, which, coincidentally, is about the size of a two-pizza team.

If you use the "two-pizza team" as an organizing principle (assuming a balanced tree), you can extend this to eight teams of eight, plus their eight managers, plus a ceo, with a total of 73 people, which is probably the point where relationship fatigue sets in and you can't claim to know everyone in the org even casually, unless you start dropping external relationships and the company is your social circle.

[0] If any. Just because two people both know you doesn't imply that they know each other. But if they do, you would probably know that and know what their relationship was. If everyone in the group had non-trivial connections to everyone else, the number of relationships in a group of 150 is over 11k.
It's a shame the market mostly allows for building mediocre products that millions of people want, instead of great products that thousands of people want.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24908695
If Google wanted to takeover React, the solution is at the browser level. Fix rendering and state management with native language built ins, and voila, we are out of the stupid frontend hell.

Wtf is hydration? Is that like when websites used to render json payloads on the page on first render?

This field is getting scammy with its nonsense. Create one more stupid word, and I swear I will lose my god damn mind.
I have used excel a lot in my career, but I don't think I have ever created or even seen VBA in any spreadsheets. I think it probably varies a lot by domain, but if I were to guess I would probably say that far less than 1% of Excel spreadsheets use VBA. And a lot of spreadsheets that do are probably good candidates to be rewritten in some other tool.

In my opinion, the reason that Excel has such a commanding lead in that space is more due to familiarity, compatibility, and that Excel is still just one of the nicest spreadsheet apps to use.
Other than not being bored, what do you want to get better at? Start with a goal based on "wouldn't be cool if I could Z, or I had X, or the world had a Y", and find a project to suit.
Sounds familiar. Freedom be scary.
Google is also blocking many services endpoints by IP; try to switch to your enterprise Gmail account when using Gmail in any city in Iran.

Iran is not blocking anything on GSuite here.
Culture is always changing regardless of anyone's consent, as it always has.

I'm confused about what you're saying about ".. don't think you'll find anyone that is satisfied ...". If no one is happy about these things, why do they continue to do them?
Google fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev/
Perhaps this title could be edited to end with a complete word?

Also, today I learned that "artifact" can also be spelled "artefact" (although chiefly British):
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artefact
Perfect! Cancelling TV and these streaming services are the BEST thing I have done. Allows for more real life interactions and focus on friends and family!
The problem is, in the software world that log across a creek is added to and added to and suddenly its 10 logs duct taped together crossing an ocean for trucks to drive on.

You see this in how excel is used and abused.
As someone who originally joined more than 11 years ago, my general impression is "old timers" tend to like the arcane interface. It's part of what makes this forum brilliant.
Vitamin D and artificial sunlight can even prevent seasonal flu. But it wouldn't be good for the vaccine industry.
Why running won't ruin your knees
The context here is English speakers, not the whole earth. The vast majority of people on earth to not speak English or live that far north (or south), but this is hacker news which is a different population: we speak (or at least read) English. Those populations are heavily skewed to Northern Europe (Germany is mostly too far north and they are as far south as English is common), North America (half of the US is too far north, much less Canada). There are scattered areas elsewhere of course (India, New Zealand, Australia come to mind, I believe all get enough sun)
Yep that’s what I use to read HN
So it looks like the youtube-dl repo owner has made no effort to reject the DMCA claim which github needs them to do before they can restore the project.
I’d also guess that MagSafe won’t wear out the phone socket as quickly, as one isn’t wearing down the socket with the friction of inserting cables. I’ve had to replace at least a couple phones from the socket being too “jiggly” to trust that the charging cable would retain contact. Nothing sucks more than waking up to a phone at 5% charge on a day when you need your phone.
Probably not, or humans would be much more sensitive to RF interference.
I generally throw up a status report type of thing "you are applying $this_operation to $this_many_machines on $this_farm. Continue (yes/no)?" and enforce yes/no full typing. Anything other than yes is a no
Facebook Confirms That Logging into Multiple Quest Headsets Won’t Get You Banned
But you dont experience tallness as an objective property of the object. You view it relative to the scene, people who intimidate you appear taller, etc. The tallness might cause us different emotional experience too - maybe im intimidated, maybe it makes me feel safe, maybe it makes me feel trusting, etc

Its entirely possible that when the exact same light hits our eyes to form a scene, you and i would experience the tallness of the person in the scene differently.
Modernizing the Tech Stack for a B2B SaaS Product Running on Bare Metal
One important negative effect of Vit D supplementation is that it reduces magnesium absorption (due to increasing calcium absorption, which is a magnesium antagonist).

It’s no big deal if you have sufficient magnesium, but for people who have low magnesium (which is common) it can make the problem worse.

This may explain the fatigue/lethargy at least one commenter here reported after taking fairly high-dose Vit. D supplements.

IMO this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take them, but they should be taken with caution and ideally with clinical nutritional profile testing so magnesium or any other deficiencies can be addressed.
Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
Exactly. If this theory was correct an MRI would knock people unconscious very quickly you'd think.
There are as many ways to live, as many meanings to life, as many philosophies of the nature of things as there are beings in the universe. There's really nothing much to learn, because there are endless things to learn.

One of my favorite comments on Hacker News was posted a few days ago. To quote:

"On and on you will go, making sense of the world, forming notions of order, and being surprised in ways large and small by their failure, forever." — Albert Burneko on Wile E. Coyote: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote-explains...
I did FPGA development for a few years a little over a decade ago. I recently came back to it for a project after doing software and just wow--the tooling is still absolutely awful. Possibly worse than before. Vivado in particular seems almost designed to foil version control systems. Which files actually contain user input and are necessary to rebuild a project? Why would you want to keep source and configuration files separate from derived objects? Entire swaths of documentation and examples become immediately obsolete with each new tool version. Not to mention infuriating bugs at every turn.
> Taking a step back, I personally question why being able to code should be considered important?

Ability to code gives you a particular mindset that makes it much easier for you to work with computer technologies. It's helpful, but on the other hand you could argue that all other technologies we use in daily life have been sufficiently abstracted away that you can get away with not knowing how they work.

The real reason why coding is a big topic in society is that, for the past two or three decades, programming has been an easy way to move up one or two socioeconomical classes. Most well-paying fields are nowhere as easy in terms of workload or required education. Of course, if everyone became a programmer, the payoff wouldn't be as high anymore, but there's lots of money to be made right now by pointing to college dropouts made tech billionaires, or fat FAANG paychecks, and selling people coding bootcamps.

(Or, in less cynical terms: the demand for software developers still outpaces supply; this manifests as a background social pressure to create more software developers.)
A lot never will though. I don't see no-code replacing many custom developed applications. It see it making apps accessible for processes that used to managed by spreadsheet and email.
So, you might add both of those to the docs, perhaps as a roadmap, with or without the timeframe.
> s/he certainly like they have some familiarity with graduate/research level mathematics in relevant areas

You should not assume this about any anonymous person on the internet.
Plenty of beautiful things have no market.
Hence why Visual Studio Code destroyed the editor world. As an editor it was nothing special at all; at that time it was just intellisense that blew it up IMO. People were willing to eat non-native solely for intellisense.

By now VSC has developed a moat with their incredible velocity for delivering new features, like voice chat, shared sessions, git + docker + debugger integration, etc.

By the time Nova came out they looked incredibly behind. The front page advertising their app looks cluttered with catch-up features.
Yeah, but that's only twice a year. The bulk of his job is further down in the article:

> The rest of his week is spent in his workshop servicing and repairing clocks, many of which are 200 to 300 years old. When a part breaks or wears out, Fjodor makes a replacement using a lathe, a milling machine and lots of hand tools.

That sounds like an absolutely awesome job to me.
When you describe the "big providers" such as Gmail or GitHub as allowing Iranian IPs, but they only do so on endpoints for personal use. GSuite, the same thing as Gmail and using the same address for most aspects, have IP blocked endpoints.

This is where the misinformation is: many providers outright block Iranian IPs and in the other thread I linked you to services who do just that.

Just because the most well funded consumer facing personal services don't outright IP block or account block doesn't mean it's not standard for everyone with a tighter budget.
How did you come alive. Did it really happen, and how come it never will happen?
Just a correction, Germanic tribes, not Germans. Barbarians were of Germanic origin. As you don't call ancient Romans, Romanians.
is there any forward proxy I can use which supports HTTP/3 so I can monitor the traffic
By massive volume? Or by targeted ads, since the company has an idea of what you buy. And your phone is just a convenient personalized billboard in your pocket.
> E.g. it's possible that all matter has some level of conscious experience

I've tried to reason about this, and one hypothesis is that all matter has compulsions, like to get to lower gravitational potential energy, to react this way or that, etc. And that desire can be thought of as conciousness. So for more complex assemblies of matter, conciousness becomes the sum of those compulsions, but still reflects the sum of what the base components want to do - oxidize stuff, etc. But the point is, conciousness is the manifestation of the inherent desires we have, based on the rules of the universe.

Just a hypothesis of course, not testable, but my demonstration is that if you pour water into a maze with an outlet, it will solve it, based on its desire to reach a lower potential energy, and to make hydrogen bonds.
> it has canonicity, which I'd argue is necessary for a general-purpose programming language

MLTT, even without HoTT/CTT, already features canonicity, no? (At least for positive types.)

I thought the main advantage of HoTT is that you can define non-trivial equalities, and the advantage of CTT in particular is that univalence can be derived in it (rather than introducing it as a non-computational axiom).
My own addendum to the theory is that this is why they've introduced MagSafe charging – if you have a power bank in your bag that is supposed to be charging your phone, but its wireless charging its just gonna fall off / come away from the charger. With magnetic attachment that is still more likely than an actual cable, but much less so.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
So the scientists claim that people who do not wear masks have so called Antisocial Personality Disorder: "https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13033230/refusing-face-mask-sign-serious-personality-disorder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunmaintwitter&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1603805518"

I would understand calling them ignorant, reckless, a-holes, etc. etc. But disorder? This "social" crap is getting a bit out of hand I think.

Back in USSR people who did not have official "party line" views were called sick/having this same disorder as well and some were even put in psychiatric wards.
I feel like it's got essentially no coverage as a response to a virus that overwhelming affects overweight/unhealthy people.

Abstaining from junk or doing exercise has an immediate effect on your metabolic health.
A Turing test might do good. For e.g a captcha. It might hurt the ux, though.
US Coast Guard to net wayward Chinese fishing fleets
> pay like Google.

So notoriously low that the CEO had to approve a company wide raise of 10 percent one year?
Regardless of how valid the criticism is, there are eight comments jumping down my throat over a comment that already included a qualifier and further jumping down my throat over my saying "Yeah, I realize that. I did use a qualifier."

I don't intend to reply further to any of this silliness. The number of people who feel the need to state yet again that I am wrong is really just crazy. It has no basis whatsoever in any real need to clarify what is true here. If that was what was going on, it would have stopped when I posted my comment saying "Yeah, I covered that with this qualifier -- I realize supplements make sense for some people" after the first three comments overlooked my qualifier to act like I am wrong and stupid.

But I am done arguing this. If people wish to add another twenty comments urgently and strenuously repeating the point that "Due to some nitpick or other, you are so very, very wrong here!" they can have at it. But I'm not replying further to this completely ridiculous thread.
Do you have some cycles to spare on...

Time cube
Chemtrails
Flat earth
Lizard people
Heavens Gate
Time wave theory
Etc.

Should we give them equal time? Why not?
I'm pretty sure that it's the same few seconds looped for ten minutes.
Systems Biology of Human Aging – Network Model
Where is there to go from non-existence but back into Life?
>I really don't like the idea of non-fixed desks/hotdesking. Ergonomics and having a correct desk setup up for your needs is incredibly important and something we don't value as much as we should.

Someone who gets me! Hotdesks sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice definitely are not. What happens if you show up late and somebody has your seat, do you boot them out? I'd just rather have a fixed desk, thank you very much.