skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always shake my head when confronted with "rationalist" positions.

Rationalism is almost by design going to be either different logic or a different position from what seems and feels like a good idea. That is why it gets its own word.

So while overt rationalists are often bad communicators, it is quite possible that what you are identifying is inherent in the message anyway. If the rationalists agree with common sense then there isn't much to talk about.

Plus it isn't rational to identify as a rationalist, so the really good rationalists are hard to spot.
Exactly the same score and strategy.
38/40

I feel like I spent an entire decade mostly in contemplative reflection and observation as I searched for intrinsic meaning and purpose.

I imagine many others who score well have some similar period they've been through where it almost feels like they spent more time observing themselves and others living than actually living.
I'm pretty sure most socialisms have a pretty good idea of how socialist workplaces should actually operate.

i mean, the fired/quitted Current Affairs staffers were trying to start a worker co-op.

does that not qualify as 'how a socialist workplace should actually operate'?
> But the paper is talking about a different kind of bias, say, that a data set of loans has thousands of data points of people born in the first neighborhood and tens of data points of people born in the second neighborhood. Even if you were to control for economic status (or perhaps explicitly control for things like ethnicity), an algorithm that performs well on the data set as a whole might perform poorly on the particular subset of people born in the second neighborhood, simply because it has less data. The algorithm might have an acceptable (to its human supervisors) false-positive rate rejecting loans to people born in the first neighborhood, but the exact same model might have a much higher false-positive rate to people born in the second neighborhood.

Right, the paper is talking about models that perform poorly on data clusters with low cardinality in the dataset. This is a problem, but it's an intrinsic problem. We simply don't have enough information about those clusters to make informed judgments.

I think the paper is sort of assuming something is happening in which the model forgets information about the scarce groups to make room for even more information about the dense groups, but I don't think that really makes a lot of sense if you think it through. Most neural networks are information sparse, that is, they have lots of neuronal capacity to spare. They don't need to forget things to learn new things, and if they did, we could solve that problem by simply adding capacity, not by forcing the model to forget things its learned about the dense groups.

I accept that it is in principle possible for things to work the way they're describing, but I think there's very good reasons to believe that they don't, and I think it's pretty telling that this paper contains no math, and no supporting data or experiments to back up this model of statistical learning.
> I don't see a lot of trouble with number vs string in CSV data. You convert the string to a number or you don't.

The trouble is that a lot of existing software (not just Excel) won't properly roundtrip text that looks like numbers and will e.g. strip the leading zero from phone numbers, or worse, change the last digit to make a number that exists in floating point.

> The pain points are usually dates or currencies - the same problem I usually have with JSON, because there's no standard format.

Hmm, I've never had a problem with ISO8861 dates - a string is either a valid date or not, it's very rare for someone to "accidentally" put data in ISO8861 format when it's not actually a date. Dates without timezones can cause problems, but that's more of a semantic issue than a serialization issue. What are the problems that you get?

I can see how currencies could be an issue with the lack of a standardised fixed-precision type. But in my experience they're an order of magnitude less common than issues with phone numbers, postal codes, and the like.

> I think you could fix most of the pain of CSV simply by adding a second header row which defines the type of the column, using a common vocabulary of types. TEXT, NUMBER, ISO8861-DATE, etc.

I'm sure you could. But at that point you're defining a new and incompatible format - you have to make it incompatible, or otherwise people will open these files with a tool that doesn't understand the header format and you're back to square 1 - so you'll pay all the same adoption costs as a completely new format. So it make sense to fix all the issues we can - and a format which can be split and parsed is definitely a major improvement for many use cases.
yep, just snap your fingers and it's done.
> Furthermore, if you have been following closely, you would have seen the huge and humiliating mess ups he had with Tesla where he literally flushed billions and billions of dollars down the toilet.

I have been following it closely since 2012. Not sure where he flushed the money down the toilet? And with that he still grew the company well. Without Elon Tesla would never have become the 666B company that is today.

> Since Musk, another 4 private companies have reached orbit, or will reach orbit this year (Firefly, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, and Virgin Orbit)

Rocket Lab was founded in 2006 and reached orbit in 2018 (and failed in 2020)?

Virgin Orbit's vehicle LauncherOne was started in 2007 (under Virgin Galactic) began operations in 2021.

And we'll see how Firefly and Relativity Space succeeds with their launches.
I made a bochet a few years ago. It was slightly terrifying boiling up the honey and the smell of doing so seemed to attract a number of bees!

I think I went too far on the caramelisation though, and the finished product was a bit ashy.
+1 to Angela Davis recommendation.

In a similar vein please read “I am Troy Davis”, a truly moving account of a terrible fate.
Sure, how about they can send me a bill for my share of roads and educated workforce (granted, this could be provided much cheaper via selective immigration while the US still has the leverage of being attractive to immigrants)? I'd like to not pay my share of e.g. invading far-away countries, or supporting those not paying taxes, or many other such things.
> what happens on the internet, stays on the internet, leading to a lifetime of re-victimization

Nonsense. The odds of you stumbling upon a particular porn photo or video are miniscule unless you are specifically searching for it or it's very popular (which is very hard and not going to happen for unwilling pictures).

Particularly as most sites would take down images of you on request.
ZeroTier & Tailscale are based on WireGuard protocol but end resultant will be the same with hopefully better latency if clients are able to establish P2P. We are tracking the developments & can support WireGuard if there prevails.

Dint particularly like the /16 IP assignment between all the clients & just ACL based clients bifurcation.

In OpenVPN each client gets a dedicated server & full view of users/Devices connected to their network through the app which is less Voodoo & easier to explain to clients.
The convention of declaring all the variables at the top originates in Fortran, so it is indeed very old school.

When writing a program, I find it more convenient to declare the variables at the first point of use.

Nevertheless, when reading a program written by someone else, I strongly prefer to see all the variable declarations together.

It might be that this preference is caused by the fact that I mainly use C when writing programs for resource-constrained embedded environments and in such applications it is valuable to be able to estimate at the first glance to a function which are its memory requirements.
> Could you imagine ants finding a method to annihilate themselves?

It's not very hard for ants to collectively commit suicide.
I don't think delusion is the best word for it. Delusion implies that the vision of people in leadership roles are unrealistic in some way. I think resiliently optimistic is probably a better term. I don't think most people are motivated by myth, they're motivated by good support.
And there are plenty of women willing to pay other women to do things as well.
Natural for who?

Perhaps better expressed as “5 fold”.
CloudLAN is focusing on SME segment who may not have a technical expertise & look for straight forward solutions. We are replicating a LAN network that businesses are used to but as app based interface which includes features like Static IP, Port Forwarding, easy Device/User onboarding without any dependencies, intercommunication between devices etc...
Molecules as Nanomachines
You seem very knowlegable witb React abd really I cant wrap my head around it. Di you know any a short tutorial that would show best practices and shows the strengths of React?
UK is as close to police / surveillance state as it can get: a lot of things are benned, privacy is severely limited, internet is censored, strong crypto isn't exactly legal (even though no one been thrown in jail, yet), banking banned crypto and have severe KYC requirements, etc.

So in many areas UK has less freedoms than poor authoritarian countries. I cant say anything about Germany since I havent lived there.
My gripe isn’t about the form, the article says it will fine students and “will also lose access to Wi-Fi and the campus intranet network if they fail to to get vaccinated by Sept. 14”.

I’m all for vaccines, but fining people over $2k per semester for not getting a vaccine is ludicrous.
> It's too easy to misjudge who's accomplishing what if your only input is observing who speaks up the most in meetings, who's the most talkative in Slack, or who spends the most time putting together presentations.

I would assume that it is the direct manager of the team that makes that decision or at the very least provides input.

And if you are managing the team and don't know who is accomplishing what, then you are in a whole lot more trouble than just a problem of choosing wrong strategy of splitting the team.
No, not some robin-hood narrative, just that in terms of self interest you'd want to pay accomplices, and perhaps a sense of gratitude or fair play. There aren't any share holders to appease or anything like that.

That isn't to say everyone who chips in is going to get a cut and its all lollipops and sugar snaps in the extortioners guild! But if you're thinking Oceans 11 or something you've missed the mark.
In Slovak, "med" is also honey, but mead we call "medovina".
In the UK you literally have to ask your ISP before you are allowed to see porn (or use a different name server).

And Germany is far from secular too - for example church taxes (even if you can opt out) are still collected via the government. There is also much more censorship in video games than in most other countries.
I generated a picture that shows its own NeuralHash
Computer is too large. They definitely should license Apple M1 (M1x, M2) for this robot.
Really interesting concept which has a lot of explanation power. I work with some of the people behind this idea on a global historical databank called Seshat: http://seshatdatabank.info/. Idea is to record all of the political and social datasets from human history (big parameters!) and provide in a machine readable format. Basically trying to understand the past (where elite overproduction occurred etc.) and make data driven predictions about the future. Uncertainty, complex schemata, complex data, and difficult to digest formats abound. The project was the starting point for TerminusDB: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb
Intel Ponte Vecchio: 45 Tflops, 5TBps HBM2e
A #define is just a source code generator run by the build system, with fewer steps. In my opinion the fact that it has fewer steps doesn't make it less of a mess.

I'm not talking about "The simplest option that comes to mind", but "modern C++".
> UI component design is extremely difficult

I don't see much difference between UIs of today and 20 years ago. Actually, I think UIs are nowadays less complex (more screen space available; and you have to worry less about CPU consumption). One would except that was enough time to figure out component design.
Same word essentially!
Modern Russian has word "medovuha" but OLD Russian was just "med".
Mostly agree, but "The few geniuses stay and do research" is probably not true. I don't like the term "genius", but many of the best and brightest are put off by academic elitism and bureaucracy and leave, while at least some not particularly gifted individuals stay because they are more comfortable to play the academic game. One could even go so far to say that academia needs both of these types, but arguably, there are too many "game players" at the moment.
(And of course, this is an oversimplification, and most academics try to play the game AND do useful research, but to different extents.)
Thanks for pointing out.

And self-reported feelings of sadness and lonelyness could also be interpreted as symptoms of a more or less mild depression.

Which makes this study prone to the same problems of the hypothesis of depressive realism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
> What's worse than being raped and having your video put online? Knowing that everyone you ever work with may have seen it, for the rest of your life.

There's no mechanism I can imagine that would make this situation true. HOW would everyone have seen it? Are you aware of just how many porn videos/pictures there are in the world?

You'd be well served to post a stat for how many people have had their coworkers see their rape videos, I'd bet $$$ that it's a negligible number compared to the livelihood issues suffered by onlyfans removing all those creators.
Don't forget her book "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/...
Hey, you write `const` on the right too! There must be, like, dozens of us!

Is there a style guide recommending this, or have I just managed to dodge every example that puts it on the right?
Astonishing this is considered news, its been a story trope for centuries.
Have a reference for strong crypto being illegal? I know the government store a month of all our personal correspondence (due to the snoopers charter) but Afaict crypto is still legal.
It's not clear to me that it is net numbers, and it doesn't show 2021, which is the year we're talking about. I'd like to see the actual data and a study and not an MP4 file to be sure.
In Polish, 'miód' is the generic word for honey, while 'miód pitny' means 'drinkable honey'. I wonder if, in the past, there was a phrase for 'spreadable honey'.
BTW I think that OS/2 was NOT single event loop, right?
That was overturned.
Apogee: Programming environment inspired by spreadsheet and notebooks
No, your link shows SMB, my link shows the overall loss. There is no gain. Please learn what these numbers mean. I have had this conversation hundreds of times. You are completely wrong.

EDIT: If you don't believe me, simply email the folk at the Danish Arctic research institution (the link you provided). They will confirm.
There is zero reason to come up with an alt/shit coin for this. Accept payments using a popular crypto-currency and link your customers to reputable exchanges they can purchase the currency at.
That is my point, it's a complex question with multiple possible answers. But the test the study is based on reduces it to a binary problem.
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Scientists Decipher How NeuroImmune Interactions Burn Deep Fat
I think this assumes the ransomware team contracts with two people from the same company. In this case if they still want in they could use two different software or methods to encrypt the data.
Anyone using .NET for cross-platform desktop development, like Avalonia?
But it's not e2e encrypted so I don't know what point you think you're making here.
I meant more the caramelization - if you're going to nuke all the aromatics, why not just use sugar?
I would question how invested the existing customers are in XAML. I have worked at about 6 companies that all use .Net exclusively and I don't think we used XAML once except for maybe an experiment or PoC.

I think the XAML stuff relates more to trying to make things move between devices more easily by using generic ideas like stretching, grid layouts, flows etc. I guess MS are still holding onto the write-once use anywhere ideal which has never made it particularly well in any stack.
Don't cast the result of malloc chanting always seems like C programmers getting envious of C++ legalese to me, who cares
I recently had to spend 14 days locked in a hotel room alone as mandatory quarantine to enter Australia.

Shockingly (for me), after just 14 days I already felt more comfortable inside the room than out, and I got a real glimpse into what being "institutionalized" means. Life was so simple and not scary, it was enjoyable, in a sick kind of way. I couldn't imagine what coming out after an entire year would be like, let alone 29.
Unfortunately that's too simple: imagine a collusion with a low orbit satellite which explodes, some part of the debris will be boosted to an higher height..
It's not easy to write good reflowing UI in WinForms. You have anchors, but they aren't enough for the more complex layouts. And you have actual layouts, but it's a real pain to set up anything non-trivial with them.

However, there's also WPF. Which is also kinda in the same spot in terms of support and future development, but it's a lot more modern and flexible compared to WinForms.

As for MFC, the main reason why it's such a pain is because it's a relatively thin abstraction layer over Win32, and it doesn't even try to hide most of that underlying complexity (or limitations)
There is a lot more.

There is Animal Crossing

There are dress up games

Race games

Games that detail the high school lives of people

Fifa

Just to name a few
I wasn't asking you, but this strange rant is even less coherent than the other one.
But Twitch is already established as a billion-dollar company (acquired, no less) providing SFW streaming services. I could understand staying out of the porn market in their case. But OnlyFans is _only_ associated with erotic content.

It's corporate suicide and it makes zero sense that they aren't fighting it. It's a valuable market, it's ethically sound and they are making the world a better place by having a safe place for adult performers to sell their services.
After the first few questions in that link, I decided to choose the most cynical answer instead of the one I thought was "correct". Apart from one or two, most had answers that I could classify as more cynical than the rest.

32/40.

I'm not sure what this says about me or the survey.
Revenge porn is just another form of harassment. The problem isn't it being uploaded to pornhub, the problem is a dickhead sending it to all the victims contacts. It becomes a non-issue with reactive takedowns and going after those who repeatedly upload it as you would any other form of deliberate harassment.

Going after porn sites does nothing really to stop the harassment (they can just send the pic or video directly rather than a link).
Ask HN: What are current good Linux developer laptops?
I'm looking for a new laptop for my job. Any recommendations?
EF = Entity Framework. (1)

It's an ORM (Object-rational Mapper) for querying SQL databases into objects. Somewhat the same space as "Hibernate" in Java. (2)

Some prefer e.g. Dapper (3) as it's much more light-weight. EF is very much a big thing, but some people need and want that.

1) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/

2) https://hibernate.org/

3) https://dapper-tutorial.net/
Ok, I'll accept that and admit my mistake. Then tell me this, what has been the loss in SMB to calving and sea water contact this year? Where do we find that data, to see what the equation looks like for 2021 (since your data only goes to 2020)?
Well, it's because of the money system. People were told that working hard and smart is the path to success because people believe in the absolutism of morals even though there is no such thing in economics.

The acquisition of degrees is just a form of specialization to avoid the effects of the current money system. The reason why large cities are so rich is that international investors prefer established cities. When parents put money into investments and their children follow that money out of their hometown into a large city. Considering how much we do to compensate the bad influences of our money system I seriously wonder when nations are going to change it. Probably in 2030.

The problem isn't "free market" or "capitalism" although the adherents of those ideas tend to love the existing money system. Of course there are also other non reproducible assets like land and patents but I feel like properly taxing land should be more than enough. Patents only slow down progress, they shouldn't make things worse.

There are two fundamental problems: 1. The velocity of money keeps going down. It's not circulating at all. Meaning fiat currency is becoming less and less a medium of exchange and instead turns into a store of value just like Bitcoin. 2. Positive interest only works with either a growing supply of money at constant velocity or an increase in velocity at fixed supply. Basically inflation via endless debt growth if there is no productivity growth or population growth.

Combine this with the rise in neoliberalism in politics which basically runs into the contradictions of money at every corner. Global trade? Causes deflation which lowers interest rates. Less regulation? Businesses become more efficient. More deflation. Austerity? More deflation. Union busting? Lower incomes mean more deflation. You see, at some point you have created more deflation than the money system can survive. What breaks isn't the economy, it's the people that end up breaking. To be fair to neoliberalism. If there wasn't this pesky zero lower bound on interest rates it could have worked.

I've read an article about the "negative impacts" of negative interest rates and it mentioned a complete subversion of the standard response regarding competition for interest rates. Countries will end up competing to have the lowest negative interest rate. Isn't that absurd? Countries like Zimbabwe, Greece or Turkey who are net borrowers would see negative interest rates that would pull their economy out of the gutter and yet it is considered a negative effect. It's actually weird how that article never mentioned inflation, as if it was dead for some reason.
Wonder why Musk did not buy Boston Dynamics
> Or anything really.

Exactly, it does not have to be full frontal lewd nudity for it to be a personal picture. It might as well be a photo of a bank statement or a chat screenshot. Anything, really.
"They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison."

--Angela Davis on Czech opponents to the communist regime

Seems her opposition to prisons was a bit... selective.
Is there anyone who uses Haiku seriously or is it just a nostalgic hobby? Does it have anything that Unix or Windows would want to copy?
There's also significant difference in debt levels across the auto industry which also influences valuation.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jpr007/status/1405525073218314248...

With 50% CAGR the PE ratio does not seem so crazy, if growth were to stop, then yes it is crazy.
int * const foo = baz;

and

int const * bar = baz;

have different meaning.

foo is a constant pointer (you can't change the address) while bar is a pointer to a constant int (you can't change the value it's pointing at).

However,

int const * bar;

is the same as

const int * bar;
Can someone explain the point of keybase.io? Does tying multiple accounts together actually increase trust in the user?