skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The man wrote and recorded an album, “Amused to Death” [1] (inspired by Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” [2]), which contains some very pointed criticism of mass media in the 80s and 90s. Is Zuckerberg so out of touch with Waters’ work that he could not see this coming? Not only that, but Waters has been and remains very active politically in the fairly radical left. I mean, with lyrics such as these:

We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told, bought and sold
It was the greatest show on Earth
But then it was over
We oohed and ahhed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen eyed lookout spied a flickering light
(Our last hurrah)
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their list
And then
The alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amused_to_Death

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

On the topic of the album, it is in my opinion Waters’ finest non-Floyd album and very much worth a listen this Sunday. In terms of music, lyrical themes, and playfulness when it comes to the soundscape, it truly is an excellent example of great Progressive Rock.
Not by much.. he was actually burning romE, but it’s the first thing that I thought..
The grass was probably not greener and eventually reached an equilibrium at the new company. This letter reminds me of my recent departure. I wasn't really coding much anymore, the company had been ignoring suggestions since I started years ago. We fought the same fires and nothing was learned on company time. I had to devote my own time to growth. Sadly we don't know the rest of the programmer's story. I'd like to know if they finally found the dream job.
Do you have more information on this being a famous mistake? I don’t understand.
A lot of those questions would be answered by "I don't know", and I don't know how that could be considered a god or similar to religious thinking. "I don't know" is a concept religions seek to avoid.

You seem to have some motivation to bring non-religious people away from their thinking, or looking down on them in some way, and making strange and spurious arguments in order to do so.
Beyond a leisurely walk, getting a serious workout in helps a lot.

Also playing music. I especially enjoy playing electric bass, which maybe isn't usually that interesting by itself, but to sit for a while and play along with albums can be very relaxing.
elevator.goToFloor(0);
elevator.goToFloor(1);
elevator.goToFloor(2);
elevator.goToFloor(3);
elevator.goToFloor(4);
mass-energy is only conserved in static spaces. since the universe is expanding, it doesn't necessarily hold all the time.
If someone waves me on that goes against the right of way, I'll sit there till their arm gets tired.

Unpredictable traffic is dangerous, that's like, driving 101. It's nicer to let everyone follow the rules and stay safer.
You weren’t entirely wrong; the application is named for the emperor, who was reviled for “burning” Rome. (Quotes for uncertainty around how literal that fire would’ve been.)
Apple PR often says things that are not reality... It is almost like Apple PR does not really know what is happening inside of Apple....
This is a standard argument most Christians make. It is not really true. You do not have to believe anything. You do not have to have answers.

Let me give you an analogy. Imagine growing up in a militaristic society, and the expectation is that you join the military and fight in whatever wars your imperialistic country engages in. Now suppose you do not feel like doing that. Then your community starts asking you, "but then, if you don't fight with us, then who will you fight for?". Do you feel in your life that you have to fight for one particular empire?
The 30 years war, the 7 years war, the crusades, the inquisition, the witch hunts can also be understood in terms of power and secular belief. That does not mean they were not also powered by religous fervor.

Or the break it down: Mao is the godhead, the little black book the scripture, the gang of four the disciples, the 4 olds the devil, the red guard the clergy and inquisitors, communism the religion and promised socialist utopia the heaven. Watch some youtube videos of red guard rallies and tell me you are not watching a religious service akin to a evangelical tent revival.
History is full of buffoons in positions of power.
Right people around you (network) + mindless ambition (ie persistence) and you have a good shot. Others more competent cannot compete with that combo whatever they do.

That said the theory of bounded rationality states chimps with 6 inch brains will blunder on any problem requiring 7 inch brains or 200 inch brains or 2 million inch brains. And since the chimp troupe has been wrangling with such problems ever since they started speaking blundering about in spectacular ways is the norm.

The theory recommends focusing on simple problems when faced with complexity, but you know us chimps...we are too full of ourselves and ofcourse from birth we are trained to blame others even when we have no solutions. Overcoming those 2 issues is how we get to nirvana.
We, the people who aren't interested in unicorns, are rarely mentioned on lists of fantasy fandom although we do share the same feelings about a particular element of the fantasy genre.
You must be fun at parties.

Games never exist in a vacuum of their own mechanics. That's what makes them interesting. Learn the meta of your opponents, not just the game's if you're focused on winning.
i recognize this qualifier was buried, but if you look closely, you'll see i wrote "other" things.

> meditation can help one to realize the various other unnecessary things we do on a daily basis.

surely, cooking and cleaning aren't the only ways the parent spends their time. for instance, they're writing comments on HN!
PS: Roger, We also need to rewrite the line "we don't need your thought control" to something more pro advertisements
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-franci...
Seems to be a direct counter example. Punishments for shoplifting was effectively made nonexistent and then organized crime rings sprung up to begin shoplifting.
Well, yeah, the way Australia treats it's indigenous people is absolutely disgraceful.
This post covers it in good detail:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
All of those things cost money. You are kind of making my original point that it's a privilege.
Comic Sans has a reputation for being more accessible for dyslexic people, presumably because the glyphs are more easily distinguishable. (Though I wonder if making it monospace negates that advantage somewhat)
The web platform code in Chromium uses a C++ garbage collector [1] which gets a lot of benefits of a memory safe language and integrates well with V8/JS. That fixed the vast majority of issues without having to rewrite any of the code in another language.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

See also the recent posts from the V8 team, ex.
https://v8.dev/blog/high-performance-cpp-gc
This intuition is very dangerous and leads to huge misconceptions about deep neural nets.

Neural nets don't learn anything like us, and they don't reproduce our functions. We build on massive amounts of general symbolic knowledge, and can zero shot tasks (without explicit examples) easily.

Neural networks really should be seen as just giant random functions that you progressively modify in tiny ways until they fit your data. As parent says, we've just been lucky or good at constraining these functions in a way that they can only learn useful functions (ie convnets) or that they somehow learn these more quickly
No thanks. I’m so tired of yet another programmers font.
Ha ha

We must apologize for the sins of Apple. We always apologize.
> the website performs very well

IME you could measure page transitions in seconds, it is an extremely slow website
Wizards with a Wizard
Thanks. That's quite informative.

But... having flavor eigenstates not being mass eigenstates is almost as mind-blowing to me. How is that possible?

And, by "p/q ≠ 1", I presume you meant their norms?
Market and use emotion, trick the masses.

The intellectuals will be dragged along.
What a remarkable, long-lived life! It's common to turn one's attention to spiritual pursuits in one's old age, but a full third of one's life is very long and unusual indeed.

An excellent human interest story!
I agree with you , and have been influenced by Zizek. We assume religions are primitive , but it’s likely that they are advanced stages of earlier ideologies. I’m expecting contemporary / secular ideology to evolve into a formal religion with canon , priesthood etc
Keeper of the loaf. Guardian of the Garlic Bread. Yeoman of the yeast. Barrier of the Baguette. Protector of the Pumpernickel. Savior of the sourdough. Knight of the nine grains.
>most people are completely unaware of the foundation of irrational nonsense that their worldview is based on

Maybe I live in some kind of intellectual bubble, but me and the vast majority of my atheist friends are all too aware of the fact that the rationality ends at some point, so I've gotta disagree with this pretty hard. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to find anyone I know personally who thinks it's rational all the way down.
I ended up with text from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game:

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights
reserved.
Release 59 / Serial number 851108

You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round
your head. Or at least it would be if you could see
it which you can't.
> Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

They have arguments that they make to nonbelievers. That's not the same as being genuinely open to debate.
There is no specific center in the brain for teleological thinking.
Reminds me of that Nun who gave it all up to become an Austrian socialite. Van Trap something?
The difference is that science, by nature, must produce testable hypotheses. I don't assume on faith that F=ma. I can make a prediction of what the force will be based on ma, and then conduct an experiment to see if that's true

I cannot test whether or not I will go to heaven after I die. This belief requires faith
more realist view: shareholders would revolt because these stocks would seamingly have less value.

broad realism: most of todays monopolies are accepted because the dumping of retirements into 401ks and pension funds means private interests and corporate interests resist any thing that could potentially devalue their holdings.

you dont need politics to see this, just the tendrils oc capitalism and privatization
You have to think smaller! Here's a binary search that trips over intermediate overflow. You can run it and everything!

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Which one are you talking about, Friendster or Myspace?
With no context, that sounds like a trading term to me, like "a put".
Yes I'm interested in that and would like to know when you release the source code.

And I'm glad you visited my blog and liked that post :)
Suicide letters where he commanded people to commit suicide? [1] Tacitus says he killed his mother (who was pretty nasty in her own right). [2] Nero was pretty nasty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Domitius_Corbulo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippina_the_Younger#Death_an...
This is a discussion of a military matter, which is all about life and death struggle in many levels.

War is about killing. It's an ugly fact but fact nevertheless. It seems like the world kill offends you, but it is an accurate description of the severity of what's going on.
The US ranks very high in terms of absolute mobility. Measures of relative mobility are only comparable between countries if they have similar wage compression curves, which is also partially a function of country size. US wages are much less compressed than in Europe -- see also: engineering wages -- so they aren't meaningfully comparable in relative terms.

Given two countries with the same median wage (PPP), a 20k increase in income in one country may be relatively "economically mobile" and a 40k increase in income in the other is not, even though the income increase is much larger in real terms. When average people talk about economic mobility, they mean the second case; using relative mobility is misleading.
More likely in this case the individual dealer was compromised. It’s been a few years and I doubt much has changed but smaller to mid sized dealer IT networks are an an absolute dumpster fire. No one at the dealer wants to put money into something that isn’t directly adding to profit. Plus the computer skills of the average employee are at the bottom of the barrel.
Babylon and the Square Root of 2 (2011)
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Probability (NERO Burning ROM| New Yorker) = 0

Probability(Emperor Nero | New Yorker) = 1

We often have multiple meanings for words. Computers would really excel at not confusing the meaning in this case.

Doesn’t matter in this case, of course, but I wish writing and developer tools were better at predicting/assisting/correcting my writing.
> in an age group with a 0.2% of COVID turning into anything more than a standard cold/flu

except that's not the statistic... that's the death statistic for that age group. the odds of getting sicker than cold/flu are higher still and you will get much much sicker than the vaccine will give most people.
Personally, if I see an app uses Electron, I look somewhere else... The only one I use is VSCode.
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Low-entry trucks improve driver safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_von_Trapp
Should be `for (let elevator of elevators)`
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Twitch will never ban one of their huge sources of revenue.
> I have a sort of data representation in which I can note how things/concepts are linked, and also express doubt, references, references to references and so on, to allow expressive representations of thoughts including incompleteness or ambiguity.

Could you tell us more about this?
The problem with that text book definition of Atheism, or Anti-Theist is that the the label of Atheist has taken an a life of its own, and the majority of people publicly proclaiming themselves to be an "Atheist" do not simply seek "evidence to support the existence of a deity", no instead they adopt the so called Atheism+ movement that incorporates loads of other philosophical and political positions into the label of "Atheist". It has become decidedly Authoritarian Left in its political positioning, so much so that many libertarians that used to proudly use the Atheist Label has stopped referring to themselves as Atheist
I think you're arguing against something the grandparent didn't claim? They didn't say that various moral systems wouldn't have different outcomes, just that none of them would be intrinsically correct.

We can note, for instance, that "produces a thriving society" is a thing for which you're imposing a preference. There's no inherent reason why that's the true system, just that we think it'd be nifty if that was an outcome.
If you're interested in this kind of thing I highly recommend 'art of the kill' The book is more in depth but you can find the youtube version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCFMX5z-ed4
Am I the only one on here that actually bought the Sony minidisc with a scsi interface? I had it plugged into my Mac G3 and was used for backing up video projects that I was shooting on miniDV tape at the time. I also used it for playing music, but never bought pre recorded albums.
It doesn't completely change the meaning, it drops a subset of the meaning. Eschatology encompasses both types of ends. The OP seemed under the impression it only involved the end of the universe/world.
Were you using firefox by any chance? I get this on firefox after switching from chrome and its so annoying. no idea how to turn it off. every other scrollview in osx works fine but mozilla must have made changes to it
How do you punish a dead man?
Marko Kreen? He still maintains it so I guess some people still use it and the associated logical table distribution system.
Well, Tacitus was a fairly decent historian, and IIRC he says there was a fire, during Nero's reign - a fire big enough that Nero went looking for scapegoats to blame it on.
Dolores Hart (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart>) left Hollywood to become a Benedictine nun.
The answer is simple: make strictness the default and laziness opt-in, by giving a keyword/operator to turn something into a lazy thunk.
> Why not declare AT&T, Comcast, et al. to be public utilities, by an Act of Congress?

Because of the expense (5th Amendment.)

Making them more-regulated-but-still-private utilities would have a lower up front cost, and probably work just as well.
for (elevator ... Like that is making a new global variable called elevator which is getting overwritten on the next loop. You need to for(const elevator... (or let).

The other thread is the same answer but for a slightly different case
Check out Diplomacy. It has no RNG and each player writes their moves for the turn, which all get evaluated at the same time.

It’s a very long game due to the discussion turns and having to evaluate everyone’s moves… but it allows for exciting politics.
One of successes of religious text like the bible is how skilfully it leverages our ancient psychological needs.

I don’t think it’s purely a semantic argument though, religion is predicated on the supernatural whereas ideology isn’t.
Music they don’t even license.
> Athiesm is to religion what not collecting stamps is to a hobby.

I believe the point of the article and discussion is the particular atheists "collecting stamps" with more ideological ferver than the hobbyists.
Upvote for you and downvote for OP.

I think there will be more tricks from Apple to handle search result of other apps.
If they crank it's because they have a shot off and they think you have a low Pk. Or they're bluffing and they have brass ovaries. It's nerve wracking just thinking about it.
A layperson doesn't need to be able to reproduce mathematical proofs to understand something that is obvious and material in front of them that is explained by the proof.
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

Hubris is a sin. I'm sure someone with your sharp cognitive tools can recognize that.
tryapl.com has a nice keypad for special characters and integrated help. Great for playing around and learning APL.
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Soundflower: macOS system extension to pass audio between applications
Christians, Muslims, etc, cannot even agree among themselves what their "belief system" is! I think you're overestimating how well-defined people's religious beliefs are, especially the average person's.
> Yes, this is a very well corroborated claim, but fundamentally faith based nonetheless.

This is a really weird statement to me - what is the definition of faith that you are working from?

As someone who grew up in an evangelical environment, "faith" was the belief in God and his plans ("Have faith this will work out, God would only give you what you can handle." type of thing). Outside of that context I've generally understand it to mean "believing without evidence."

A well corroborated claim is the opposite of lacking in evidence and does not require belief in God. This sounds like you are conflating "belief" and "faith," which are not the same. I believe the sun is coming up tomorrow because the preponderance of evidence says it will, that does not require faith.
1. Publically degraded Erica Albright on her breast size publically--because little Marky got his ego bruised.

2. Stole the idea for Facebook from paying clients.

3. Tricked his best friend in college into signing his (Eduardo) share of Facebook over to him.

4. Publicly stating his customers were stupid in trusting him with personal information.

5. Printing up "I'm CEO bitch!" while he was swimming in money.

6. Marrying his college girlfriend--most likely because he knew he would never know if the opposite sex liked him for his money, or his kind soul? (She was interested in him after FB was famous.)

7. Moves into a SF mansion and buys out every house in proximity to his home.

8. Buys a huge swath of Hawaiian land, and then put up huge fences so the locals will not be able to cross.

9. Does the usual wealthy boy 501c3 tax dodge.

10. Has the audacity to believe he could run run for president, and poses on a few tractors in the midwest, but gives up when it wasn't fun, and people found him insincere.

11. Tells congress to enact strict rules for Social media, knowing most startups couldn't afford enforcing the new laws.

12. Buying any competition.

13. Buy up prime commercial real estate in San Francisco during a pandemic. Telling his employees they can work at home. I'm counting the days he brings in the troops so he can monitor their performance.

14. Donates 20 million to a SF hospital, but demands his name is front and center.

15. I don't hate the guy. He's a product of his generation. Sorry---a small percentage of his generation. Marky is all about money, and most of you guys arn't.

A real role model?
I'm looking for a property in London currently and, only today, came across a 1 bedroom apartment that sold in 2001 for £86,000 but is now on the market for £800,000 ($1.1M USD). That's 12%/yr annualized.

This example is extreme, but not by much.

And let's not forget, those that took out mortgages 20 years ago have been able to refinance to lower interest rates as they fell.
I watched this movie a few years ago, I highly recommend it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613092/

Anyway, it features a guy who left his well paid finance job to go dedicate his life to working at the Kalighat Home for the Dying. The whole movie is inspiring, but that particular section stuck with me.

It's stories like this article and the one in the movie I mentioned that make me excited for later life. Although, sometimes I think I should do it today...
Up until the very end I figured you missed out on a legit credit. Pretty impressive if they were that convincing. It’s not easy for fly-by-night hackers to makes calls like that and sound remotely convincing. They are putting in some effort.

Receptionists at car dealerships rotate more often than toilet paper. The only ones that might have an idea of anything going on at a car dealership is the service manager, sales manager, and owner. Even then it’s a crapshoot.
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And some quotes didn’t make sense at the time they were said, either.
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Infidel! Everyone knows you're supposed to perform ritual sacrifice at the next full moon, not bathe in sheep's blood.
it's almost like they used a js compressor
I think it makes sense for touchscreen scrolling to work the way it does, but for mouse, I don’t think either way is really more natural, it’s just what you’re used to. I used the “old” way in Windows and Linux for years, but it was pretty easy to “relearn” when I switched to Mac.
I thought they did license it