skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it did not just expose it, it engaged in it. I think the whole experience has proved that it 's a bad thing, nothing of value came from the hordes of idiots who peddle this and that drug/lockdown/masks/vaccinations because their tribe leader told them so. My bet is that, going forward, scientists are going to be very wary of debating crises in public. Science is not done by committee, and definitely not by popular vote
You sound more a lot more outraged than me. I thought the Heinlein quote is kind of gross because it sits on the idea that the high point of a woman's life is to be 18. I'd feel similarly it if you replaced 'girl' with 'boy'.

It's also funny when people try to be poetic but just reproduce some of the most ordinary and depressing sentiments of their society. Something you and Heinlein have in common, I guess.
I love nitter! That redirect is great, I wasn't aware of that; thanks.

I still want Twitter to fix their trending topics "links" though because if their presumably smart engineers can break things like that then others will follow suit and we'll all suffer as a result. I may be tilting at windmills but I can't help myself.
> because the saudis willingly hosted American troops.

Saudi royal family are one thing, and Saudi nation is another.

Saudi royal family is effectively an occupational regime, largely propped by American handouts, and backing, on top of gigatons of $$$ coming from ArAmCo
Like Latin, Greek was a language whose use extended far past the decline of its birthplace. We do not have extensive contemporary sources for the Gospels. All we have are copies produced much later. This word is found in authoritative sources for the text of the new testament, which is written in Koine Greek.
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata by John von Neumann [pdf]
Unless you are a perfect programmer, you will sometimes make a mistake, and shoot yourself in the foot even though you didn't intend to.

Perfect programmers don't exist. Everyone will screw up sometimes.

With Rust, I know that my code will be free of memory errors and data races as long as I never use `unsafe`. No one can say the same about a C++ program, not with certainty.

If you don't care, that's fine (I guess), but please don't get all huffy with those of us who do. I think it's telling that you seemed to need to get all defensive even considering that my original post was in support of the libtransmission author using C++ instead of Rust.
In special relativity, you have two notions of time:

- Time relative to an observer: Designating a non-accelerating massive object ("observer"), you get a coordinate system which assigns a time and distance to each event (point in spacetime). In this coordinate system, the observer moves along the time axis.

- Proper time: For an object taking any path through spacetime, you can measure the "subjective" time which has passed between two points on its trajectory.

The two notions coincide along the path of an observer: For each second of subjective time, the observer moves one second along the time axis in its coordinate system. Observer time moves at one second per second, if you will.

What you usually call "velocity" is distance/time in the coordinate system of some observer. For massive objects, this is always smaller than the speed of light.
If you want, you can define another notion of speed, to illustrate the original commenter's point: distance in some coordinate system per proper time. This can be arbitrarily high, because at high velocities the proper/experienced time becomes shorter.

To get back to the speed of time: If you measure coordinate distance per proper time, it is only natural to also measure coordinate time per proper time. If you take earth as the observer and follow a spaceship, this is earth time per spaceship time. For a fast spaceship, time on board passes slower than on earth (time dilation), so reciprocally, the spaceship moves through (earth) time faster than 1s/s.

(Unfortunately, the notion of proper time becomes useless for massless particles moving at the speed of light: proper time along their trajectory is constant. They "do not experience time".)
PipeWire is fantastic already, and I can't wait for it to take Linux audio to where it should and can be!

I've got my broken mess of a configuration for alsa, mpd, mpv, Firefox and pulseaudio all working again after a long, broken spell.

The only thing I haven't gotten working is the upmixing of channels for 5.1/7.1 audio channel movies on mpv. Currently I rely on my alsa upmixing setup in ~/.asoundrc but am looking forward to having that work with Pipewire alone, hopefully soon.

Yes, documentation for pipewire is sparse, and I'm surprised all/most links I see go to pipewire.org, which is where it is sparse. The useful one is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/hom...
The translations were almost certainly not personally done by them. That's the purpose of the Preslav School in the linked wikipedia thing.

Well, the article mostly mentions Catholic Church and the problems translating the Vulgate.

I guess I see a papally-commissioned translator's difficulty with this 500 years before OCS translation as evidence it was already confusing then. "horned Moses" is a sort of layering of confusions over time. Maybe I'm putting too much stock in the pope!
Depends in what you mean by "fundamental level". Generally, we do know that the brain does not work "like a computer" or some AI today.
Or you could use it to automatically save the erotic images so you don't have to do it yourself. Everyone wins.
In my understanding, Eigen uses its internal routines unless you point it to external BLAS/LAPACK libraries[0]?

Eigen's internal structures and features doesn't map well to traditional BLAS/LAPACK structures anyway.

[0]: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicUsingBlasLapack.html
You don't need perfect UX for your initial product, get the functionality down and make it simple to use. Prove that it solves the problem your users have. You'll have plenty of time to improve the UX, and your pilot user's feedback will help drive that direction.
That's absurd. We know very well that human cognition has a complex layer of deductive reasoning, goal seeking, planning. We know very well that GPT-3 does not.

We also know very well that human learning and GPT-3 learning are nothing alike. We don't know how humans learn exactly, but it's definitely not by hearing trillions and trillions of words.

GPT-3 is doing just that, and then trying to remember which of those trillions of words go together. This is so obviously entirely different from human reasoning that I don't even understand the contortions some go not to notice this.
Then someone has to do it for you, because for the foresable future there will be plenty of critical libraries, and compiler infrastructure, that won't be available in anything else as implementation language.

Hence why I keep my C and C++ skills sharp, even though they aren't my main languages any longer.
agree, cool 14 moves but 87 seconds ;-)
They could join efforts with scientists who study people with suicidal tendencies.
>Or should it just be seized by the government when they die?

Yes, pretty much.
The usual nonsense repeated every year, this time repackaged in an "easy to consume" iconographic for the idiot voter.

> A new study shows that 17 billion life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards, but there's only one way to do it – ending the system that pollutes the world in the name of profit.

The system that pollutes the world sustains 7 billion additional (compared to life without it) lives and "produces" 17b life years in just 2 years, morons.
Yeah, no punctuation at all and not even lower case letters!

Modern texts have all these things inserted by editors, it does indeed sound much harder to have to learn without these extra aids.
Have you tried

[1] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1372444 ?

I'm feeling very comfortable with it in GTK2/3 and QT4/5 apps.

Fits perfectly with the built-in theme metal2 from IceWM.

Use this with a filemanager like

[2] https://gitlab.com/antix-contribs/zzzfm

for an optional desktop, and give a shit about what Gnome does.
Microsoft pretty clearly does "shady" stuff with all the Windows desktop telemetry and ads.
Yup, the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire used Greek as a lingua franca.
Ok lots of bickering about C vs C++.

I personally choose to stick with C because C++'s syntax is a nightmare.

Templates are a nightmare..

Everything is overly complicated.

C with constexpr/consteval/constinit, plus a feature I'm working on to introduce RAII in C, is really all I need or want.
Why have my HN antivax comments been deleted? (An exercise in fake news)
So, I made several comments that did not recieve positive feed back. Many of my comments need to be taken in context and specifically with the time and date of these comments as the science seems to be constantly changing (Wich is a good thing!). Eventually I came to what I believe was my own decision to get vaccinated...but I can not find these comments. Possibly they were flagged? Or does so many DownVTs result in a dissaperance?

TVYM
Just had the mental image of the dev shredding away with a steno keyboard in order to manually convert the suspicious bits into non-suspicious ones.
Adam Smith was not the libertarian thinker that 21st century conservatives seem to think he was.

He was an economist genuinely interested in understanding society's emerging mechanisms. Wealth of Nations is his most famous book because it is the one that contains the most actionable piece of models, but he also wrote a book (The Theory of Moral Sentiments) where he explores all the things we do out of generosity and selflessness. Unfortunately, he did not manage to infer a really useful model for these so it is less known.
> And you still have not had the decency to acknowledge or accept anything I wrote, or answer my question.

Sorry, there was just a lot to respond to and I picked what seemed like the most productive parts to reply to.

> So now you see how it wasn't an argument? You have to guess at what their actual argument!

Regardless, a rhetorical question isn't useless. Most of the famous paradoxes are rhetorical questions that sparked a lot of debate within a community. Simply because it is not an argument does not mean it's lazy or not to be responded to.

> Why must one question that?

I find this an odd question to hear on a forum full of skeptics... IMO, we should question everything. It's just the best way to engage with a world full of misleading appearances.

> My argument was not "religion is responsible for nothing that I personally like or agree with".

But if you derive benefit from something created by religion, it is somewhat hypocritical to want to stamp out the ability of religions to create benefits for people.
> while there is no dark pattern here

I still think this is a dark pattern (see my grandparent comment).

E.g. consent should be opt in and not opt out.
I noticed that for tech content I mostly watch videos from tech conferences.
That sounds horrible. This place has become a little solace of mine. There’s probably some theoretical threshold for when a community grows to a certain size it becomes more and more difficult to having meaningful discourse. The noise becomes too great
We evaluated Jupyter Book against Read the Docs when building our new docs site (https://arcdocs.leeds.ac.uk/), the main reason we favoured Jupyter Book was that its easier to build and test locally and being able to use GitHub actions to build the html without relying on and being at the mercy of another third party service.
From it article it seems to be a new coinage in latin at the time of the translation. It makes sense only in the logic of theology so don't think too rationally about it. some clues from the article:

> Taken literally (epi-ousios: "super-essential"), it refers directly to the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ, the "medicine of immortality," without which we have no life within us.

> In all languages that traditionally Eastern Christians use—Greek, Slavonic, and all the Arabic languages... the best translation would be: "Give us today the bread of tomorrow". Give us today the bread of the coming age, the bread that when you eat it, you can never die. What is the food of the coming age? It's God himself, God's word, God's Son, God's lamb, God's bread, which we already have here on earth, on earth, before the second coming. So what we're really saying is, "Feed us today with the bread of the coming age", because we are taught by Jesus not to seek the bread that perishes, but the bread that, you eat it, you can never die
The entire New Testament was originally written in Greek during the late 00’s/early 100’s. The papyrus mentioned in the article is a copy of Luke’s gospel dated to about 200 AD, but the original manuscript was written closer to 100 AD [0]. We have fragments of and references to the book of Luke from earlier than 200, but the copy from 200 is the first fragment containing the Lord’s Prayer and that unknown adjective.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke
FYI this ships with zfs modules precompiled, if you're into that sort of thing.

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/commit/dcc35b75676f3...
I have been sounding that trumphet since 1993, but there are lots of very hard listeners.
We are all time travelers traveling at one second forwards in time.
Try https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1372444 the good old Mist from gtk2 resurrected for modern gtk3, and qt4/5 apps take the gtk-style. Problem solved. (For now)
>>Yes, not just coffee. Ritalin/Adderall use to cope with workload is not unheard of in offices I've worked.

The most obese person I knew drank like a large latte every 45 minutes, smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day.I thought he was addicted to coffee, but it was actually a combination of both sugar and coffee. Eventually I saw that spillover to him eating bowls of desserts every day at lunch. Cans of beers by eod. The office free food just made that worse.

He made lots of money, but he had to retire early, he was like close to 160 kgs or something and would breath heavily just standing 5 minutes during the daily stand up. He had troubles using the rest room. And it was pretty clear he was just months away from a heart attack.

He just had to quit and fix his health.

Another manager I knew had similar problems, eventually it took him a lot to quit smoking. For coffee addiction he would keep a small quantity of black coffee decoction around and would just feel the taste on his tongue by taking an occasional sip. By his own admission it was next to impossible to get rid of this. He wasn't obese but being a chain smoker and coffee drinker does as equal damage to your health.
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It's a great debating trick. Its very funny. It doesn't invalidate RCT as a statistical model.

The underlying ethics behind RCT are complex. There are instances of RCT being abandoned early because of abundant evidence the tested drug worked, and there are instances of RCT post-treatment for participants who were denied the drug under test by virtue of being the control, and there are examples of widespread concern at the ethics of RCTs.

"The Emperor of All Maladies" by Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the history of RCT in the context of Cancer treatment, where the drugs were so cycotoxic the hospitals were extremely concerned at the ethics of even trying to use them.
deep learning is mostly a dead end rn for any sort of "general reasoning", like great image labeling is much better but beyond that who knows
they use rlang (don't confuse with erlang) as their C++ compiler (rlang is a C++ compiler written in rust, giving the benefits of ownership to C++ programs for free)
Google images used to work very well. It seems it was hobbled at some point either intentionally or unintentionally.
> Yet die-hard jiwa parents say those with means will still find a way to schedule one-on-one tutoring for their children.

> Rainy Li says the best teachers at her local Beijing public school have already approached her to offer such a service, under the radar, charging $300 an hour. She declined to say whether she herself would take the teachers up on their offer. But of course, she says, there will be parents willing to pay.

It looks like the ban on private schools benefits the wealthiest of individuals who will always be able to afford private tutoring for their kids.
Here, targeting Commodore 64 with C++17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
"I thought 'tanks at Harvard yard' was just an ironybro proposal"
Daily Notes / #14
Is that a problem? It can be true in isolation of the fact that sometimes, what's going to happen without a RCT is just obvious, because an experiment is not needed to answer every conceivable question.
At the moment, I'm using a slight modification of the gist plus `sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'` to look up words from the shell on Linux. It would be nice to have some XML parsing into plain text, but it kind of works.
There's a massive difference between I like football a lot and I am accountable to God to keep the 4th Commandment.

Ezekiel 22:8,31 ESV

"You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths... [31] Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD."

Ultimately freedom of religion prevents the situation in which a person is forced to come to the conclusion that a lower authority (government) is attempting to usurp the highest authority (God). At that point, any religious person has three bad alternatives:

1. Disobey God.

2. Suffer persecution from the government.

3. Rebel against the government.
Thank you for writing this and introducing the word axiomatic. I was using the word convention as something that is defined and unquestionable. It's an assumption we base all of our physics equation on. Axiomatic might capture the meaning better.

This means, and I assume, we can also base all of our equations on say "energy is not conserved and always increase by 1 Joule", though the physics equations might be much more complex.

Pro-science folks are too enthusiastic about current science to the point that they become unscientific. Pointing out that these theories/laws/conventions might become invalid in the future is getting downvoted.

Newsflash: physics theories/laws/conventions are getting invalidated all the time.
I mean, apart from cells and etc dying and being replaced as we age. ;)

Truly, the Ship of Theseus was inside us all along. (Which is super convenient, considering how often we step into the same river twice!)
Re [0]: Apparently Leonardo da Vinci has the earliest design but the first actual implementation goes to Sébastien Lenormand. https://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/parachute
The ruling was largely interpreted incorrectly, with nearly all media outlets claiming Apple lost the case.

Epic lost 9/10 claims, winning only that Apple cannot ban mentioning or linking to a website with other payment options. However Apple is still entitled to its commission even in that case the judge ruled.

I think the drop was related to the misinformation being parroted around
And that got you one upvote from me at least. Welcome.
I haven't used any yet. But if I do, I will try to either make a merge request modularizing it (it's pretty easy for libraries, and it doesn't change anything for non-modularized consumers) or just try to patch it with "Automatic-Module" and then use CLI commands to setup the module correctly.

This post explains in detail all the options: https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/java-modularity-5/
I think if we removed the need to earn money to get a decent living, we would have a lot of people teaching for free.

Most people are not motivated by money, they reluctantly accept that they need to earn a living, but it is not a big driver per se in most people I know.
"obvious straw man" researchers should be worrying about the non-obvious strawmen. Because these extreme conditions help up check the boundaries of what is possible to verify or not.

> The problem is that there are plenty of research questions where RCTs show us that previous non-RCTs were wrong.

And that is fine. When you are able to use an RCT.
There are biosafety level laboratories, so why not similar labs for self-reproducing machines? But one mistake is not going to go well...

Another science fiction example: the Replicators.
"Great chaos"? Hardly. It causes needless boredom and annoyance.

I once reviewed a paper. It seemed familiar. I pulled up a paper by the same authors from a decade previous. Yup, the first 10 pages were almost identical. I had read the earlier paper, and others had cited it -- though not the authors.

That was a waste of time, adding nothing to the dialog.
#2 depends on time horizon. Getting 3% above inflation is better than losing ~2% per year to inflation. With the former, over 30 years, you're doubling your purchasing power.

Over 30 years you'd be very surprised and unlucky not to make a positive return with a globally diversified stock portfolio
WHATS THIS ALL ABOUT?
btpd
It's good to treat it as a war in terms of policy, but that doesn't mean scepticism should be shot in science. I don't think it was though, that is an exaggeration in the article.
The "Foundation models" term has sparked some fiery debate at that workshop and at the core the issue isn't about general or strong AI at all.

The Foundation Models paper is a strategic attempt of the Stanford AI researchers to coopt the field and define a research program for large-scale pre-trained models. Propagating a new term that is slightly hyperbolic is one way to differentiate your work from other's.
But it's only marketing.

Watch how all Stanford-adjacent research will now cite the Foundation Models paper instead of the original BERT paper, other surveys of pre-training, or field-specific papers. There are over a 100 authors on that manuscript, it's a cheap and easy way to increase their researcher impact.

Other researchers naturally aren't too happy with this cheap marketing approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

Are you Korean? If so, you might be familiar with Johnny Depp. In America, it is arguably the case that Depp raised his social standing by being best buddies with Thompson, not the other way round.
What is this “product” you speak of?
Exactly. Did a couple of road trips this summer and while I don't have an electric car, I did notice that half the hotels I stayed at had charging stations in their parking lots that allowed overnight charging. So had I had an electric car it would have meant I started each morning with a full 'tank'. I can only see that number growing.
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I find that documentation that has relevant screenshots or diagrams or even GIFs can explain the topic well enough without forcing people to watch an hour-long video.

Though I do agree that GUI-heavy processes like AWS are better presented in video so you can find exactly what to click on and what happens next.