skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree.

There’s a big difference between an Orthodox Jew being required to work on Saturday, and someone who just likes college football.

Accommodations that come from deepseated beliefs need to be treated with utmost respect.
I don't find this controversial, but I just find it humorous that some people are using Steam Workshop as free cloud storage now.

If the developer was more clever, they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods.
Thanks for the response. I was trying to illustrate why my argument doesn't work, but you did a much better job at that.

I may have found what I've been looking for in a related topic called Oracle machines for the halting problem. Part of its definition is that it can't solve problem for machines equivalent to itself, which, I believe, would exclude Z-type programs from the domain.

To put my plea into some formal jargon, "Just because the halting problem is undecidable doesn't mean oracles Turing machines for the halting problem don't exist." Kind of a simple and obvious point in hindsight, but I'm happy with it.
Ahh I wish I'd watched the first few in that beginners playlist before watching the movie! Thanks for that.
> But I fear its not for me. At least not yet.

What do you mean not yet - what do you think is gonna change?

> pure functional programming is too much mental overhead for me

This means Elixir is just not for you, I don't think you have to be in an endless eternal debate about it. There is quite the disconnect between Hacker News hype and the real world sometimes.
Since China is a low-trust society, networking is far more important than in high-trust societies like most of the West (or Japan, for that matter).

This is not unique to China, of course, but it does mean business, politics and even seemingly mundane things like healthcare and schools operate quite differently to what you might expect.
Agreed, I wish we'd have gone down that road. How is it more efficient for my signals to go a thousand miles away and back just to talk to my neighbor across the street?

I've often thought, the web isn't designed for efficiency, it's designed for scale. Scale around big tech giants, to concentrate wealth, exploit gray areas, and magnify harm.

I used to love JavaScript, but when I look at what it's become, I'm glad I left it. We weren't doing the world any favors by contributing to a massive body of casual execution of untrusted code.

The web was a mistake, but I think the internet, good old TCP/IP, still has a few tricks up its sleeve for us yet.
Smoke induces mucus secretion which can trap viral particles before they reach the epithelium
Number.isInteger() – JavaScript
We Can't Shake Ambergris
I thought maybe it was about a game called "Porn Stash".
Same.
Don't use the palm. But keep adding to contacts.
I found a an easy app to convert Palm contacts to Android. It works.
But all that issues with Google!
So computer is still back up still works in Windows 10.
What makes it a false premise?

People are quite tired of the unvaccinated who choose to opt-out without medical or traditional religious reasons; it’s worn thin because the decision affects people who want to get vaccinated but can’t.

You don’t have worry about government mandates, though that’s inevitable.

The unvaccinated won’t be able to find a job; or even conduct business the way things are going.

And soon, you won’t get ICU beds either. These choices have consequences.
I don't think that's correct. Stocks suffer with inflation. Interest rates rise and money moves to bonds. Credit is costlier and profits fall. Both weigh on stock prices.

Historically stocks perform poorly in times of high inflation.
Don't upset the zealots by talking about reality please, you will get downvoted to oblivion.
In areas where it's hard to find vaccinated nurses, most patients probably have similar opinions on the vaccine and so won't care if their nurses were unvaccinated. The same isn't true regarding nursing certificates.
I agree and disagree. Yes it was created for size. But when indexing std::vector you can index up to the size, and thus should use the same type for both.
> People can do that, stay home when sick. Then they just have fewer vacation days.

I experienced that too, when I lived in the US.

In Denmark I have separate sick leave. Staying home sick doesn't count as PTO. For more than a few days I'll need a note from the doctor.

I think it's around 6 months before sick leave is grounds for termination.

In any case, in the US people don't take sick days unless it's really bad. Obviously, this must cause more infections.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
yes, especially the culture revolution initialed and directed by Mao in the sixties period of china。 Mao wanted to throw the top Party bureaucracy with the help of the bottom people, but the endeavor have failed. Hope we can find a suitable mechanism
to cope with this worldwide hard problem.
> There is no evidence that there was a closed Hebrew Canon prior to the time of Jesus.

If that's the case, then any argument that predates Jesus in favour of the Deuterocanon would also be invalid.

> I'm not sure why you think that is relevant?

My argument against the Septuagint is relevant because it's often used as an example of why the Deuterocanonical books should be included in the Bible canon. The Septuagint is a direct translation of the Hebrew books (i.e. what would eventually become the Hebrew canon). If the Hebrew canon (even if it was just a loose canon at that time) never included the Deuterocanonical books, then there is no reason to assume the Septuagint would suddenly include them in its first copies.

> Numerous Old Testament books, like Esther, that Protestants believe to be inspired are not quoted in the New Testament - does that make them not canonical?

No, of course not. I provided a body of evidence against the Deuterocanon. This is just one part of that argument. The argument is strengthened by all the points, not just one of them.

> Numerous non-canonical works, like the Book of Enoch, are quoted in the New Testament - does that make them canonical?

No. Again, same as above. The point alone isn't extremely meaningful until you consider all the evidence.

> And anyway, it's interesting to know that the original KJV of 1611 (which included the Deuterocanon) included 11 cross-references in the New Testament to Deuterocanonical books, where it believe New Testament authors were quoting from or alluding to parts of the Deuteronincals.

I think the key word there is "believe". Unless a writer says something along the lines of 'the prophet says...' then the argument is weak at best.

> This is inaccurate, look at the historical record:

Well, according to Wikipedia: "Early church fathers such as Athanasius, Melito, Origen, and Cyril of Jerusalem, spoke against the canonicity of much or all of the apocrypha, but the most weighty opposition was the fourth century Catholic scholar Jerome who preferred the Hebrew canon, whereas Augustine and others preferred the wider (Greek) canon."

So it's certainly debatable, but there's much evidence to support what I said, as far as I can see.

> Actually that's not the case - their "problems" are the same as those from the rest of the Protestant canon.

Examples: Tobit claims to have seen events in his lifetime that cover more than 250 years, but Tobit 14:1-3 says he died at 102 years of age. Judith contains geographical oddities that can't be resolved except with miraculous assumptions. Ecclesiasticus 25:33 blames Eve for human sin instead of Adam, which contradicts Apostle Paul's writings. Baruch says the Jewish exile would last '7 generations', contradicting the Bible canon which says it would be 70 years. That's just a small sampling.
If religion isn’t necessary to the well functioning of our system, we should expect to see just as many irreligious court challenges to this requirement that succeed. That said, we don’t. Regardless of whether it’s “inherently valuable,” it seems to be valuable here and now, in this system we live in.
Simple Code: Readability
Ask HN: What does AI think about AI
Hey HN,

Random (and potentially silly) question:

Has anyone tried training an AI using material that doesn't mention any sort of opinion on AI, or take any preference between human intelligence and AI-intelligence (no bias at all) and then ask it what it thinks about AI and AI vs Humans?

Anyone knows if a project that has spent millions training an AGI (such as OpenAI) has tried that?
What’s the Future of Open Source?
Wonderful that you use the time sheet still.
Something about their software design was so simple and efficient
I use the contacts software daily. It's Installed on Windows7 and 10, and Mac, and Unix. It is still the best most logical. Anna adaptive contacts manager. Also converted to Android, where it's useable, but not so flexible.
Probably not if you are in CA:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications...
Could be 1. Just adopt the C++ std as the C std.
> The early internet also ran over the existing phone lines

Highly regulated phone lines, and a market that exploded in innovation when the government stepped in and forced Bell Systems to allow 3rd-party devices and license their patents royalty-free. And the fact that other networks existed doesn't change anything about the fact that the modern Internet we have was largely built by researchers and government projects.

But you're still missing the point.

Who CARES who built the Internet? What does that have to do with whether or not Capitalism requires extreme levels of wealth inequality to function well? You keep on arguing about government vs companies, and that has nothing to do with the original article. You're still debating about Socialism on an article about Capitalism.
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (2003)
I believe gap insurance is the term you’re looking for.
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I don't work for Xiaomi.

But as a manufacturer, we have to get regulatory compliance for our products from the countries we sell to.

Yes, this is a Big and Expensive deal.

Of course, a grey marketer can physically ship our products from one regulatory regime to another without our permission.

So a countries regulatory authority finds our product for sale in their country and it doesn't comply with the regulations.... what recourse do they have?

The most common one is confiscation from the sellers.

But if the problem is sufficiently widespread, they may choose to put pressure on the manufacturer.... do something about this or we will block the sale of your goods in our country.
What examples? How do they demonstrate that? Clearly not all available examples were used!

And nowhere did I say that that is the only reason a society would be willing to turn to the state for protection, so spare me the false counter examples dressed up breathlessly to look like some incredible gotcha.
Hear me out… could this be a typo?
That has nothing to do with nicotine and everything to do with monoamine oxidase inhibitors in tobacco smoke.
While it‘s technically true that they can land fully loaded, using the word „safe“ is not ideal [1].

They _can_ land fully loaded but you are exceeding the maximum weight for landing which is neither advised by the manufacturer nor is it guaranteed that nothing will break. So if you it‘s not an emergency that requires immediate landing, you won‘t go for it.

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/33253
>Now, sizeof does measure the size of things, but, one of the obvious sizes you can measure is an array†, and that's definitely also the maximum index value for the array

Make sure to be careful and realize that sizeof my_array returns the number of bytes that my_array uses, not the number of elements. An array of 10 ints likely has sizeof == 40, while indexing past 9 would be undefined behavior.
This seems patently ridiculous. How can there be no limits just because a perspective employee can theoretically refuse?

What if all the companies decided to have these requirements?

There's an inherent power imbalance here that isn't so simple as dismissing any issues simply because there is no literal gun being held to the head at the moment of decision.

And I'll assume even you have limits somewhere. For example, predicating employment for a cushy remote via snail-mail job on a specific person happening to die... Eventually you just get to the most threadbare excuses for soliciting illegal activity.
so if we're talking about raising capital, as well as capital returns, and capital markets and then I ask so what's the capital of france?....
Disagree.

There's no reason the state should say one person's personal choice to follow a religion allows them to forever be exempt from Saturday work, but someone who chooses to follow football has no right or guarantee to ever enjoy a Saturday. They deserve equal protections.

There are many people out there far more passionate about their hobbies than many people who use their religion to excuse them from various expectations. They shouldn't be denied enjoyment.
If you don't understand the reference to grey goo, this Wired article from Bill Joy (ex Sun microsystems) is the first place I heard it.

https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
You can ask most adults why they did something and not get a coherent answer either but ok, I’ll address your main point of there being failure modes instead of nitpicking your example.

First off, I said “researchers underestimated how effective” they are, not that they are perfect or that they are close to AGI.

Effective is defined as “successful in producing a desired or intended result”. To that end, these large scale language models have certainly outperformed previous models, certainly beyond the previous expectations of researchers.

If you read the paper closely, you’ll see that the point is not to solve every general case (e.g. introspection) like you’re talking about but rather to be fine tuned for specific downstream tasks. There was never a claim that these models are able to do every task so I don’t get your criticism.

Either way, I don’t think edge cases are completely avoidable so systems that use these models have to have some error tolerance. I disagree that a model needs to explicitly answer the question of “why you did this” in order to be useful.
Narf!
Very nice! Thank you for posting this.

I run a cronjob which sends me the forecast for the next day based on german weather service MOSMIX forecasts. I am using https://brightsky.dev for this, which makes the clunky xml files of MOSMIX available as a http api.

I’ll definitely check out open-meteo
At the risk of putting forth someone else’s argument, I feel like it’s pretty easy to guess what they were saying. Because you were stating that no one should receive special benefits because of their religion, one must question how weekends could come about in such a system, considering they likely started as a religious observance. Obviously the system that fostered their development allowed such benefits to be granted, but if they followed your model, they would not, and we might be working 7 day work weeks today as a result. Is that not bad?
> Otherwise I think it lacks structure and can't be harvested automatically easily

Indeed, it depends on the language and your goals - I had a very high success rate plucking out Russian grammatical tables from English Wiktionary with a few hours of scripting the data cleaning (https://github.com/thombles/declensions). I have a theory that you could get better results using an offline archive of the page sources but haven't tried this yet.
Sorry I wasn't able to determine that was your statement from your comment on "core fascist tautology" which sounds like internet warrior speak.
>The only episode of Dr. House where it was actually sarcoidosis

Thank you for this comment. It seems like every episode has a moment where they say, "Sarcoidosis? Porphyria? Lupus?"
Technology prediction for the 2020s
Costs are lower for independents though. No franchise fee, you can source your own goods (franchisees often have to buy from one supplier). The franchiser can squeeze a lot of margin from the station.

Of course being independent is much harder, but also potentially more profitable.
Depends what the cargo is.
I created a tool that could help you on creating this type of palettes.
It's based on CIELAB and you can see where all the colors are placed in the lightness, chroma and hue space. You can also see they boundaries for any family color so you know how much you can stretch chroma without shifting lightness or hue.

Tailwind.ink
We have to add cigar smoking to Joe Rogan's successful medication package.
If you try "two humans hugging", it gives pretty good results it seems. I tried "bicycle in the wood", same.

I think I'm going to use this engine for all my future presentations ^^
Pappus’s Centroid Theorems
Does usage of this account for money supply variation?

If you're printing away the value of a dollar this will inevitably get larger no matter what.
If they don’t care, so what? What business of it is yours? Perhaps there is more to life than a myopic fixation on exactly one very specific illness.

By doing these mandates you are imposing your own values upon everybody else. For more than a year and a half! With no clear end goal! Indefinitely! Talk about selfish!
Louis, this sounds like a conspiracy theory. A huge, controversial claim with misleading points, a belief that everyone is biased yet only you are "looking at the facts", a fervent desire to keep arguing on a technology-focused forum, and an ignorance of the links shared in the thread so far.

If you really want to set the record straight, the place to do so is in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books. You can edit the page and see what the theologians and experts on Wikipedia have to say about a frontend enthusiast's view on Biblical Historicity.
I found the army to be a very good example to explain abstraction layers. It's intuitive, that a general should not know about the flawed boot of a soldier. It's also intuitive why the rarer it is used every day the more it is factored out into specialized services.
the procedural nature of beginner programs is like a obsessive drill seargant.
Its even nice for a start into parallelism.
Reminds me of “I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361341

IEEE 802.11bf will happen, because we allow it to happen and after it has been established everywhere for some questionable reasons everybody is looking like a suprised Pikachu when stuff like this is being abused.
Most seasonal upper respiratory illnesses don't routinely cause loss of smell or taste, which should be a clue to something more nefarious potentially going on. If I were the author I'd worry about subtle frontal brain injury.

For me, boosters and nasal vaccines can't come fast enough (nor can the ability to administer them to younger children).

At some point I think this virus will become like the flu in terms of public health implications, but I don't think it's quite there yet.
Remote Monitoring and Management Introduction
omg stop. This is just sophistry.

There are lots of good arguments against the surveillance state or the idea of privacy as a fundamental right, reverse-engineering 2000 year old religious visions to mean something opposite of their plainly stated text (notwithstanding translation) is neither necessary nor helpful.

Need I remind you that the events of the New Testament start around the time of a Roman census, so the idea of individuals' own names being catalogued by the state was not an unfamiliar concept even back then.
This link provides the context for the blog. Or, maybe better put, the blog is essentially a response to that discussion.
There's a market that works on software engineers. Ability, work ethic, and quality of output plays a significant part in who gets hired and fired. There are no mechanisms by which bad teachers are removed, as long as they check the boxes for attendance, not being visibly intoxicated, etc. The profession is riddled with incompetents and bad actors.

Actual good teachers are rare.

Simply being able to fire the bad ones would improve things immeasurably, but for some reason people put all teachers on pedestals. It's grotesque. Give PTAs hire/ fire powers or better yet, give the public a vote, weighted by testing scores or some performance metrics. Union ride or die is a garbage way to do things.

Treating teachers like a special caste of unimpeachable holy people is nonsense.
I translate this as “divine” when I recite the Lord’s prayer:

“Give us this day, our divine bread”

As per the linked article, that’s as reasonable of a translation as anything else.
> they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods

*steganography
>You said farmers wouldn't seek to optimize if the state seized all of their output (i.e. removed their incentive). I countered that they absolutely would if forced to do so with the threat of death or brutality (i.e. this certainly motivated slaves).

I didn't argue that they wouldn't. I argued that they didn't. This is not a hypothetical; history has shown that people use different, more globally optimal strategies when they have a personal stake in the outcome. Slaves worked hard, but they did not invent tractors. Salesmen sell significantly less if they don't get a commission.

>Irrespective of your opinion of that decision, the point is that we could've equally as well optimized for general welfare, lesser productivity, and a more even distribution.

I don't think we can equally as well optimise for arbitrary variables. Sure, we can tilt the balance one way or another in favour of total wealth vs. inequality, but if people can't compete for status by providing (economically) valuable goods and services to society, they will compete in other ways.
Yep, this is exactly it.
It's not that networking is unique, is that such connection is often used to replace things like law, justice, or a simple queue.

In my own experience, where I went to kindergarten was an outcome of who my grandma knew. Similarly, when I was sick and needed to see a doctor, I had to know someone who knew someone...

Yes - it's similar in the west. But to say they're the same would be like saying 100M dash and marathon is the same sport.
Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux
Didn’t have a choice. When we signed up, we didn’t know what would be available where. Our biggest fight was trying to find a place that would give us an appointment at all.

Through a tip from a friend, we found a place nearby that had been in the phase 1a period for a while, and had not done any vaccinations recently — no one in that group wanted them, at least not from that provider. So, they moved on to phase 1b, and we were able to quickly get an appointment with them.

A couple of days later, the whole vaccination process became much more centralized, and we would never have been able to get vaccinated as early as we did. But, they grandfathered everyone who’d already gotten their first shots, so we were okay.

We ended up with Moderna.