skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my own experience having debates and discussions in this day and age, there’s this pervasive notion that you can’t assert anything without some citation or study to prove your point. This isn’t necessarily bad, per se, but it does mean people are offloading reasoning about a problem to letting some citation’s abstract make the point for them. There is a massive replicability crisis in academia and we know that the publish or perish culture means null results put careers into jeopardy. It is also heavily biased towards studying things that can be measured empirically.

So, here is my example, up until the mid 90’s it was widely believed in the medical community that babies could not feel pain. Anyone who has ever spent time around newborns knows that these little humans can indeed feel pain. Yet somehow, secular men of science came to the conclusion that no, they could not, and what we thought were pain responses were just reflexes. Besides, the infant wouldn’t remember it. They would perform surgeries without anesthesia on babies up to a year old.

Part of the problem as to why this profoundly wrong notion held on for so long was that there really wasn’t a good way to quantify infant pain. Eventually some researchers finally got around to devising some kind of measurement and the science eventually came around. But for a good part of the 20th century an incredible amount of pain was inflicted because a scientific notion couldn’t be refuted by a non-scientific argument (of course that baby feels pain, just look at him).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3523036

This isn’t a scathing indictment of secular values, but rather, a cautionary tale. Not everything needs to be proven via peer-reviewed papers. A lot of the human experience can still be asserted and known using unscientific or pre-scientific reasoning.
More information should help make more informed devision, if the algorithm can not clearly explain it to FDA or FDA cannot understand that is the case... something seems wrong here... all the best wishes and also encourage more exploration.
> Poverty is a much bigger driver behind low economic mobility.

You can test this, by looking at economic mobility rates for bottom quantile kids who differ along other dimensions. And it’s not just right wing people noticing that these days: https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/new-harvard-study-w...

> Of all the factors most predictive of economic mobility in America, one factor clearly stands out in their study: family structure. By their reckoning, when it comes to mobility, “the strongest and most robust predictor is the fraction of children with single parents.” They find that children raised in communities with high percentages of single mothers are significantly less likely to experience absolute and relative mobility.

This likely one of the reasons why Asian kids raised in the bottom 1/5 have a 25% chance of ending up in the top 1/5 as adults, versus 11% for white kids. Asians have by far the lowest rates of single parent families, across the income spectrum.

> Poor people in the west tend to have less stable family structures, it has nothing to do with social norms and everything to do with money. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44127459

Saying it has “everything to do with money” is a pretty remarkable assertion given that the single parenthood gap between classes is growing even as everyone gets richer in absolute terms, and is extremely low in countries that are very poor in absolute terms.

I’m not saying we should turn a blind eye to anything. But we should be cautious about undermining institutions and hierarchies that may be doing more good than harm because we’re only fixated on the harm. And education and cognitive elites should be especially careful not to project their own experiences rest of society.
My own interest comes from nostalgia mostly. Many old games looked better using a voxel engine than contemporary polygon based ones. Though, of course I later realized in fact there weren't any real voxel engines in the sense of what I wanted them to be. I think Voxlap really was the first time we saw one.

Why the appeal now? Voxels are a simpler model for describing the world and adding granular detail, at least at first sight. Ultimately you still have to model bending, physics, animation, free rotation, etc. which is AFAIK more complicated than for polygon based 3D data. Essentially a voxel object still needs to have a secondary parametric representation to describe things like elasticity or connectivity, etc. (not sure how it's done), though I assume the techniques are not too far off from skeletal animation etc. in traditional engines (which also use such a simpler representation overlayed on / inside the mesh.

But I think that leads to the second appeal: Trying to squeeze out a few more polygons per second or a specific little effect on the fundamental technique level in traditional 3D engines is pretty hard but only gives you so much in return. I can understand how something you can approach with a fresh set of eyes, with fewer established working solutions, is appealing in itself. There's (seemingly) more to discover, more to invent.
Okay okay okay. I got up to 10.7 million unique colors in a 67 MP raster. I expect at least about 30% overlap because the vertical gradient wastes 25% of space and the rightmost nodes of the horizontal gradient are mostly replicated in other places. As for why it doesn't have full coverage and why there are so many repeated colors: idk yet and have to stop for today.

<svg width="4096" height="16384" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 4096 16384" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<linearGradient id="a" x2="4096" y1="8192" y2="8192" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<stop stop-color="#f00" offset="0"/>
<stop stop-color="#ff0" offset=".125"/>
<stop stop-color="#0f0" offset=".25"/>
<stop stop-color="#0ff" offset=".375"/>
<stop stop-color="#00f" offset=".5"/>
<stop stop-color="#f0f" offset=".625"/>
<stop stop-color="#f00" offset=".75"/>
<stop stop-color="#000" offset=".875"/>
<stop stop-color="#fff" offset="1"/>
</linearGradient>
<linearGradient id="b" x1="2048" x2="2048" y2="16384" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" xlink:href="#a">
<stop stop-color="#808080" offset="0"/>
<stop stop-color="#808080" stop-opacity="0" offset=".25"/>
<stop stop-color="#fff" offset=".5"/>
<stop stop-color="#fff" stop-opacity="0" offset=".75"/>
<stop offset="1"/>
</linearGradient>
</defs>
<rect width="4096" height="16384" fill="url(#a)" stroke-width="24" style="mix-blend-mode:normal"/>
<rect width="4096" height="16384" fill="url(#b)" stroke-width="24" style="mix-blend-mode:normal"/>
</svg>
I’d say it’s anything but shallow. What I’m getting at is that there may be things completely beyond our current understanding related to consciousness. As in, multiple paradigm shifts away.

Without getting into the weeds too much, I just find the certainty of the systems line of thinking a little unfounded.
Last month, I build my server using $5 server digitalocean/Linode a like.

Everything perfectly fine, to get better delivery use 3rd party.

From cost perspective, I’m happy because don’t need to pay google $50/m.
I don't think anyone was burning CDs in 1984, unless you mean literally burning pits and lands into the master CD to make the inverted submasters (jargon here is probably wrong) that then go on to press/mass produce the actual CDs that ended up on shelves.
I think titles get used more as a discussion topic starting point.
Sorry to hear your are going through this. Here are a few I have found interesting. I am not a doctor and by no means is any of this something I am suggesting. It's just interesting content on your topic.

- Prof. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06e-PwhmSq8

- A New Cancer Strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmIACbPUNI

- The MOST Important Cancer Prevention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBhD7N0qRbg

- Antiangiogenic Therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjkzfeJz66o

- Sulforaphane and Its Effects on Cancer, Mortality, Aging, Brain and Behavior, Heart Disease & More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg

- Q&A with Dr. Jed Fahey on Sulforaphane, Moringa and Chemoprotection [An authoritative discussion!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PNGxNzogOY

- https://jcto.weill.cornell.edu/open_clinical_trials/a-phase-...

Also watch this site if your doctors run out of ideas. Look for newer and more targeted methods.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/

Some people that were written off by doctors had some success with prolonged fasting. Also important would be to get opinions by many doctors inside and outside of your medial group.
sortition (also known as selection by lottery, selection by lot, allotment, demarchy, stochocracy, aleatoric democracy and lottocracy)

Related posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28589855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10548480
How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]
The oldest program source I still have is Empire written in Fortran-10 for the DecSystem 10, circa 1978 or so.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-10

I thought backing it up using github was a good idea.

A modern version that will run on Windows can be obtained from:

https://classicempire.com
My main "professional" language is Python, but I have written at least toy programs (100-1000 LoC) in R, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Go, Crystal, C, Common Lisp, Racket, Guile, Idris 2, Haskell, Zsh, Bash, and POSIX-ish Sh, as well as written non-trivial AWK, Sed, and Jq scripts. Also Hy and Fennel to the extent that those count as separate languages.

Having a package manager means I can easily reuse other people's code. Not having a package manager means I can't.

Note that my use cases almost universally involve either "scripting" or developing low-volume server applications that are deployed in container of some kind, or on a VPS that I control.

I have only developed nontrivial standalone "libraries" in Python, and I only use Lua/Fennel for Neovim plugins (where I am not alone in bemoaning the lack of a standardized way to declare dependencies [1]).

In almost every program I have written, my priority has been on rapid development/prototyping. I want to be able to do things like parse JSON, make HTTP requests, perform lookups in tables/mappings/dictionary-like structures, and manipulate text.

I also have a day job, an amazing life partner, and more interests/hobbies than I have time left in my life to spend on them. For me, time spent fussing with manually copying source trees and reading through dense manpages is time I could be spending on other things.

I also come from the worlds of statistics and data science, where it is often said that "nobody cares about your code." Time spent reinventing tools is time not spent cleaning/exploring data, revising a report, building a dashboard to accompany said report, or trying out some new techniques.

So to answer the 2nd part of the question: it's going great!

[1]: https://neovim.discourse.group/t/plugin-metadata-formats-wha...
Ha, are you me? get out of my head. My thoughts exactly.
What % of the money youtube makes on ads goes to artists? If I pay some random goon 5€ to listen to a song they didn't make, I am technically "paying for entertainment", but that's hardly "doing the right thing" either.
I just got put on a pip this week. One thing if you're over 40 and in the USA you have 21 days to review any sort of severance package. Take it to a lawyer, he can probably get your more.
> What's worse, their pension plan was mostly invested in Nortel stock.

Why? Didn't they see what happened with Enron? Or did they try to diversify but couldn't?
Lofi beats are nice and all, but honestly I’m able to focus best with black metal. It’s oddly relaxing. Just a solid wall of noise, with no chance of understanding the words. It’s what I listened to all through grad school, and back when I had to work in an office.

Such as:

Leviathan - X (demo)

Krallice - esp first four albums

Yellow Eyes - anything

Ustalost

Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light
What about performance? E.g. you don't want to implement an O(n) algorithm if an O(log(n)) equivalent exists, and merely testing inputs and outputs won't reveal that.
I do have my favorite selection for coding. But lately nothing better than Progressive Deep House or Melodic Techno.

For truly special moments I need Michael McCann work on Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Total masterpiece.

If I have to solve really hard problems, I need no sounds. Maybe even noise cancellation with absolutely nothing but my "voice" in my mind.
brainfuck isn't an obfuscator, but a language with a very small and simple instruction set. Technically it falls somewhere between c and assembly, since it doesn't have a 1:1 relationship with machine code, but in practice it is less powerful than assembly because you have to work within the confines of its restrictive conventions to recreate something as simple as y = x

There are some tasks which lend themselves to the way the language is constructed, and can be done with few instructions.

Reversing a string, for example, is just ,[[<]<+>>[>],]<[.<] which is quite short compared to most "practical" programs in this language.

And a destructive y = y + x is just [->+<] (destructive because this also sets x to zero)
This is interesting insofar as most arguments against addiction seem to be philosophically connected with either spiritual guilt or assigning a clump of cells person status at conception due to the presumed presence of a soul. How precisely do you arrive at your stance in the absence of a soul?

Virtually all the actual brain development happens very late in the game and almost all abortions happen in the first or early second.
I think they could just avoid using it and find entertainment in things that are not monetised - which sounds OK, unfortunately society isn't structured this way so you're both missing out on huge parts of it and ostracizing yourself.

But when I think about it the fact that it seems outrageous at first glance really tells me how consumerist I am, not sure that I like this.
Yeah. I think Tesla is making a mistake in going for cost optimization before their product actually works. You can see that it's technically possible to drive on sight alone; that's how humans drive cars. (But, it's not completely clear cut to me. Having the cameras in every Tesla means that they have a lot of data to use in their simulations, and that might help them more than depth data from lidar. I don't really know.)

Their current strategy does get people hyped. I wonder how many people you can program a machine to run over before it becomes an unprofitable activity.

I have a random comment I'll interject but it's totally off topic. My impression from watching people show off their Teslas is that they are constantly in awe of being able to get to work without controlling their car. But many of us have been commuting to work hands free for decades -- it's called public transportation. One person uses the power of electricity to take hundreds of people around the city, every 1.5 minutes during rush hour. It is pretty nice. But we didn't need self-driving cars to get there, we just needed to design our living and working spaces for hands-free commuting. Shrug.
OOps. Thats what I get for not reading carefully. Still recommend the book though
I want an in-and-out-app-specific firewall on linux and only then, I will be happy... something a lot like https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/
PayPal launches its super app combining payments, savings, crypto and shopping
looks like you need to watch the WAT talk

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
One of my closest friend is also a metal listener and I admire him. The rhythms are so complex to chill to me, but I deeply respect the genre.
After 12, kid is grown up.
Great recommendation! Never heard of him before!
Chinese scientist achieve cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from CO2
I'd say much the same as it is today. If I think how much it's changed in 10 years, it doesn't feel all that different. I'm still writing ruby most days. The focus will switch to even more web based. Likely more security though.
Of course. I added credit and link to the playlist in the description once I finished moving all the songs over.
I wonder how the authoritarians in western countries will explain this.

Will people be pearl clutching and tweeting "People will die!" and calling people in nordic countries alt-right anti-vaxxers because they've moved on with life?

I wonder if politicians in western countries will be willing to give up the power that covid gives them and let people get back to normal.
I'm curious: can you can undo the obfuscation of JScrambler and Obfuscator.io easily? Some time ago I tried to run both through Closure Compiler, but it was way harder than I thought would be.
The opportunity set outside where you are now is huge. Take advantage of the whole market, not just one company with lousy leadership.

If you're in a bad situation, the best thing to do is to leave. Your first and greatest loyalty should be to yourself, not to "the team". Your time is finite; do not waste it in situations that you cannot control. You will kid yourself that you might be able to make them see sense, or that things will improve, but that is wishful thinking.

Again, your time is finite; do not waste it in situations that you cannot control.
to me, it's easier to concentrate with music, but with no lyrics. I'll check your references, not in my radar yet.
I feel like GUI vs. IDE misses a major part of the workflow. There's a lot to this workflow that isn't replicable on Github currently (dependency graph, frequently edited files, etc.). Navigating locally in your IDE is also part of this workflow, and yet is only one small part of what's being presented here.
I can only speak for myself but I find it to be a banal position[0], not worthy of serious argument or discussion. It is also both broad and over reaching to a degree that implies that a reasonable discussion will not be had and is an aggressive tangent from the article topic: 'moron[1] tries to argue that his 'AI' is sentient and therefore capable of being an inventor'.

[0]Roughly the equivalent of 'I believe that if <Fiat Currency> ever served a legitimate purpose, it has now run its course and needs to be dismantled. <Because of Bitcoin/crypto>'

[1]Derision intended
How is your example specific to secular values? I'm sure there are many doctors who are religious.

> there’s this pervasive notion that you can’t assert anything without some citation or study to prove your point

Yes. That's to prevent people from making false assertions. I can't believe you're arguing that people shouldn't need facts to back up their statements.
Interesting... Original research is not welcome on Wikipedia. The hedge "for some people" is probably not wrong, but how do you know you actually set up the experiment correctly?
The first statement acknowledges the economic reality of the entertainment industry as-is. In that, I occasionally tolerate the things I dislike about it, and pull out the wallet or reluctantly tolerate an ad.

The other statement is my ideal where creators are free to make things they actually enjoy, and that I might. Take video games, for example. I find the deepest and most rewarding experiences to be had in free games (e.g., Dwarf Fortress, ToME, and various rogue-likes), compared to the output of the for-pay video game producers, like EA.

Creating stuff does cost money, energy, and/or time. In the former example, I might be inclined to donate to the project, and if I don't, others usually will. Or, they can just give it away and not ask for donations too, which many (including me) do. Imagine the world of entertainment working similar to FOSS, as a good example we're all familiar with. Like with FOSS, it changes the nature of the product produced, arguably for the better.
I think you missed this sentence from the comment you're replying to:

> We even made a few tweaks to the code so that you couldn't just reverse it back into JS with something like https://enkhee-osiris.github.io/Decoder-JSFuck/.
> "If it ever gets too bad, they'll just steal again"

Is it as easy to steal as it used to be? I'm not even sure I know where to get torrents reliably atm. Last I knew pirate bay was always being disrupted.

And is it easy to rip stuff when the source is streamed? Like dvds, music, software is easy to copy and distribute when it was just a cd to copy and some authentication to work around.

Im totally out of the piracy loop, maybe im wrong and still as easy as getting on to pirate bay and find a decently reviewed torrent?
Using modern techniques and technology can a better violin be made now?
I actually had a chance to meet Martin once during JSConf in Singapore back in November 2014. Very cool guy with a hysterically fucked up humor with JS.

I mean... http://aem1k.com/world speaks for itself.

JSFuck was included in his presentation back then and boy did it inspire me to do more JS. Here we are, a little under 7 years later, still in the JS world.
Drug use and abuse levels do differ between religious and irreligious folk, but one explanation for that might be regional availability rather than religion.

https://drugabuse.com/featured/drugs-and-devotion/
I would 100% not give PayPal my crypto. Not your keys, not your crypto.
We used to believe that diseases were the result of bad smells and physicians used to go from cutting up corpses to delivering babies without substantial sanitary measures. The difference isn't lack of irrationality. To err is human after all. The difference is how science and religion move forward in response to new data.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_axioms_for_Boolean_alg... for claim dispute.
Spotify is a constant reminder that my browser (Brave) doesn't work with it because of a broken DRM requirement.
Listened to a podcast about them recently interesting start of a company (in a bad way). Talking about the founders that were kicked out.
Wow. You can repeat the same drivel that lots of naysayers can. How wonderfully helpful!

Did you offer any real evaluation of the purpose of this post? No. You came here to just shit on it.

Just because you can't do something doesn't mean you should tell others they shouldn't.
> Fear of GoFR is similar to the fear of nuclear power - there are obvious risks, but people don't think about the benefits.

You should explore this comparison more deeply.

How many people has nuclear power killed in the past 20 years? How many people has SARS-CoV-2 killed in the past two?
Agree, a comparison to rainloop would be nice.
Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas
> - Iran attacks Iraq,

bro, it's not 1989 anymore
> money sits at the top of the power pyramid, and we have no effective mechanism to balance human well-being against it

That's a succinct analysis of the root cause of many problems today, and it helpfully points towards some patches that would address the problems directly. Firstly, the link between money and political power could be severed by having publicly funded elections and limits on political advertising (which might require a narrowly-targeted constitutional amendment[0] in the US).

Secondly, the fact that money creates power is not a problem for human well-being if everyone has a similar amount of money (assuming that having power ensures well-being). Progressive taxation already exists in much of the world, but some countries go a step further with a wealth tax. I would advocate for a wealth tax which makes millionaires pay an amount in tax each year which is an equivalent percentage of their net worth as the amount paid by the median tax payer as a percentage of their net worth (to whom the wealth tax would not apply).

[0] https://campaignfinancereform.org/explanation