skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm getting quite frustrated with this kind of ontological debate. Exist or not exist, why does it matter?

One's philosophical / metaphysical worldview determines how one views reality.

As an example, some variations of Islam follow(ed) occasionalism:

> Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God. […] The doctrine states that the illusion of efficient causation between mundane events arises out of God's causing of one event after another. However, there is no necessary connection between the two: it is not that the first event causes God to cause the second event: rather, God first causes one and then causes the other.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism

Whereas Christianity rejected it and went with secondary causation:

> Secondary causation[1][2][3] is the philosophical proposition that all material and corporeal objects, having been created by God with their own intrinsic potentialities, are subsequently empowered to evolve independently in accordance with natural law.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_causation

So in in the first case asking "Why did X happen?" you answer "God willed it.", while the second case you would say "There is something in Object A that interacted with Object B." The latter then leads you down the path of examining objects and their relationships, as opposed to chalking events to spirits, gods, or God exclusively. Plants/crops growth because of something with-in themselves and not because of Ceres / Demeter willed it.

Without this worldview, you don't operate under (e.g.) the zeitgeist of being able to investigate Nature:

> That this objective reality is governed by natural laws;[35][36]

> That reality can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation.[35][36]

> That Nature has uniformity of laws and most if not all things in nature must have at least a natural cause.[36]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...

So on a day-to-day basis you may not deal with these axioms/beliefs, but they are there nonetheless.
Sure. Mozart had unusual skill, but it was mainly due to piano practice. (Don't know much about Bach's backstory, so I won't comment on him)

Actually, this is an interesting point. I am also a great piano player. Many people chock this up to innate skill, when they hear me as an adult.

It's not. I just worked insanely hard at piano practice. In fact, I was a well below average piano student. My teachers were often frustrated with me, and other students were much better. However, those students are now much worse than I am. It's because in high school and middle school, I spent hours upon hours at the piano, and now I can play better.

For example, I can play very well by ear, and pump out a piece without much practice now. People think this is due to some innate talent. People ask if I have perfect pitch, was a musical prodigy, etc. I was not a prodigy, and I do not have perfect pitch (in fact I often failed the aural portion of my piano exams). What I do have is an absolutely insane number of hours that I practiced, publicly and privately, to make up for what I perceived as a deficiency.

I do not believe in innate intelligence, at least not in the general case. I believe in exceptional circumstances. For example, Mozart started playing very young and was in a very musical family. In retrospect, had my parents been more musical, I think I would have been 'better' at the piano early on, because several discoveries about music I made later on would have been inculcated in me earlier.

So in general, I reject the idea of 'innate' ability. Those that have 'innate' ability often only appear to have it. In reality, they worked insanely hard.
A big part of the UX problem is the form factor. Same story as early 2000's "tablet computers."
Indeed, I even mentioned that. ;)

> ”Similar argument if you base it off of… number of domesticated animals…”

But again, I think that fact isn’t surprising, either, considering the Old world is much larger and had more wild animals and more humans than the New World.
> don't really make us use math differently

Even is we suppose what you're saying is correct — the goal isn't really to change how we use mathematics, but to understand what math is in a deeper explanatory sense. If that's not a project that interests you, that's totally fine.
I read it as, at first, they had a mundane take on a problem and a mundane solution. Millennials want experiences so we can <do whatever>. Then, the outburst revealed they actually had a more insightful take on the problem, the specific example of difficulty relating to the author's niece. However, they still didn't have insight into the solution.

My takeaway is something like it's better to drive from the clearest articulation of the problem to the solution, rather than divert into business-speak and make yourself sound cookie cutter. e.g. "I couldn't connect with my niece. It was isolating. Many millenials feel isolated this way. We solved the problem with my niece by doing X. X can scale to other millienials" is a better type of pitch.
Your comment brings up a point that actually bothers me the most about this discussion -- the delusion we all seem to have that Facebook conversations are Very Super Bad, and if only we could pry Facebook out of the hands of the naive, dumb little users, they'd be free from the spell Facebook has cast on them and start posting insightful, kind, witty writing again.

No, super duper no. People are shouting into the void because there's a burning need for humans to shout into voids. If it weren't Facebook's void, it'd be some other void. The common denominator here is people.

Human brains validate their existences by communicating, and Facebook built the most effective communication tool that's ever been created. It's not Facebook's fault that most people aren't able to create anything other than hateful shouting.
And fails to mention building codes in an entire art critic puff piece.
Since Apple has been relying on Intel processors for many years now, I'd bet they've spent more time optimizing MacOS for Intel at this point. On the other hand, iOS has given them a quick way to transfer optimization knowledge.
You think Tesla will have cheaper batteries than literally everyone else forever? Incredibly hard for me to believe that at least one company won't be able to create a competing battery. Differentiating on hardware has never been a way to create a trillion dollar company. It requires lock in via incredibly brand loyalty and Tesla doesn't have a big enough customer base atm.
The best info has it being introduced in small numbers in the latter half of next year and ramping up into 2023.
The name is a double entendre. It also refers to making an "alpha" bet.
> Miners are consuming renewable power that would otherwise displace coal/gas elsewhere on the grid.

This isn't necessarily true. Transporting electricity over distances is expensive. I've seen the pricing.

Coinmint, in upstate NY, has a direct feed from Moses-Saunders damn. The lines were originally built to feed the Alcoa Aluminum smelter that once existed there (and became a superfund site). There isn't anywhere else that the power company can send the power, without a huge investment.
You thought solving for X was hard... wait till you're solving for 你好!

I doubt there's much behind the joke beyond the stereotype of "Asians being good at math", tbh.

My Algebra teacher in school once solved a system of equations on the board using the Batman logo/symbol, a Peace sign, and a happy face. Just to illustrate the concept of variables since a few people were having issues grokking the concept.
This is highly tangential, but abuse of a fetus needs to be a federal crime. My mother drank caffeine and smoked while pregnant, and I will live with the consequences for the rest of my life. It is unforgiveable.
I own a model 3. The car has no presence. It doesn't feel special, like a 50k car should. Having said that,the interiors look good as new 2 years later, the autopilot is great for commute, the audio system is great, and it feels like this is what future would be.
> Unlike any other tech giant, they will never be able to reap the kind of margins with their products (cars!) like a "normal" tech company can

Why? Only a minority of customers purchase FSD but the take rate keeps increasing. This can easily double the margins. Also, the insurance business is nascent and hugely profitable. And the new Model S and X production lines were almost suspended for 3 quarters due to shortage (most profitable products). Also, each new factories are far more efficient than the old ones, and they'll open two giant one in the coming months.

Me? I'm still holding shares since 2012.
"Meh--same climate, different continent. We'll stick to raiding the shorter commute South, they have stuff worth taking."
Progressive patented this in 1998

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5797134A/en
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The worst nightmare of consumer privacy: A car that monitors your every move.
"Exist as an idea" and "exist as a physical entity", to name two off the top of my head. There are probably more.
VW, Renault- maybe. Toyota has a lot of work to do if it has to avoid getting wiped out by the EV revolution.
Is geekbench seen as a valid score? It seems that on the pc hardware sites and youtube channels I frequent that they don't seem to mention it. The only time I seem to see it is for mac stuff.
If anyone is interested in a less in-depth, but still informative overview of game console architectures and DRM cracking history, ModernVintageGamer on YouTube has a lot of videos on the subject that I've enjoyed.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFaPUcJU1vwk193mnW_w1w
It's certainly possible, just seems unlikely now that other car makers are releasing electric cars that are actually good.
Start your own port then. It's not as if there's a shortage of coastline.
It's naïve of you to maintain the façade that English can be fully represented in ASCII. We've just had longer than other languages to adapt to that particular encoding technology, and the good luck to have a code set built to represent our language become the lingua franca of computer technology.
They will try to fill them. Washington State is having a bit of a hard time hiring right now given the current worker shortage and state pay steadily losing ground against private sector pay.
I'm very curious to see if tracking the actual driving data turns up any surprises in terms of safe behavior. What if say tailgaters turn out to be safer than average drivers? I don't expect that to happen, which is exactly why I'm curious to see if it does.
I don't know about most, but my school defunded shop classes because they didn't have the money and it was easier on optics to cut shop classes than AP classes, despite the students in our school often failing AP exams if they took them.
In Warren Buffett's case, I'd say there certainly is value in scouting out profitable, well-managed companies and giving them access to a large centralized pool of capital. Probably not $100 billion worth of value, but I do think the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella helps the acquired companies to grow beyond what they'd be able to achieve without it.
There’s something to learn here about calling on a bigger bully to stamp out the local bully…
As far as researching competitors goes, it’s tougher to do that if the initial principle exists and companies are all releasing dry statements.

That’s my point. I’d like to hear more forward looking statements of the kind that the SEC frowns on.
5 is a bit young.

ORNL's Titan lasted about 7 years: 2012 through 2019. Its predecessor, Jaguar, was 2005 to 2012. Also 7 years.
Just add a “Decline all” button right next to the accept button.
The thing is heavy though. That was also a dealbreaker for me. I'm used to ~1.3 tons of my BMW. Just fun to throw into corners. The Model 3 I tested had about 1.8 or 1.9 and it certainly felt like it. Understeered like crazy. Also I was constantly moving left and right on the seat.
It's actually compatible with a tremendous range of third party external batteries like so: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004918MO2

And forget about fast charging—you can charge this battery up from 0% to 100% in less than a minute just by pouring some gasoline in the thing!

It's the very pinnacle of portability!
Nonsense, we directly regulate even that which is not about health care. For example, most countries limit the amount of children a man can sire via sperm donation.

> These considerations do not apply to prostitution since we have contraception and abortion.

Whose burden falls solely on the women, and for which large portions of the population would object to the use of abortion as birth control. Even many pro-abortion people object to abortion's use as birth control, because they view abortion as justified murder, but murder nevertheless.
M1 is, compared to precious editions of Macbooks, much better.

My two year old Linux desktop is a beast compared to my M1 Macmini. But I love the Macmini compared to my 2019 MBP.
Mexico: Drug cartels recruiting youths through video games
I've generally found Pragmatism to be pretty parochial and limited, I mean, looking at general statements like this one:

> that a claim is true if and only if it is useful

one cannot be judged for thinking "what good is there for any quest for true/false if all that matters is the usefulness of the thing/action itself?".

I find pragmatism to be too anchored in this socio-material reality of ours, one in which things/actions have to be "useful" (the fact that many of the pragmatists come from the Anglo world, so obsessed with usefulness and utility generally speaking, also helps accentuate this).

Back to the post per se, I think "the exist or not exist" issue/problem when it comes to mathematics is a subconscious sociologic-related plot (I'm only half-joking) of the people studying maths and believing in the power of maths so that they would impose on the rest of us, the non-maths people, the statement which says something like "what we, mathematicians, are studying does indeed exist and stands at the roots of the (scientific) world as we know it! Give us symbolic power in return!".

Tell some lay-person that what a mathematician studies is in effect just a figment of his/her imagination, and one of the questions posed in return by that lay-person might be: "why should we believe what mathematicians say more than what poets say?".
The NSA does perform that function for the government. They protect DoD and IC assets and critical civilian computing infrastructure. They created SELinux and sponsored many of the major cryptographic standards out there. They don't actively provide defense for iOS and Android because those are product owned by trillion dollar private companies who can pay for their own security, not expected publicly-funded agencies to do it for them.

The Internet is an interesting case. Nobody owns it. It isn't even American. The fact that it was originally created by and for universities that all implicitly trusted each other has led to a whole lot of security flaws baked into the core assumptions of the most basic protocols. But the NSA does protect the hell out of military networks. Military and IC networks are absolutely nothing like the Internet. There is an inherent difficulty in bringing the same assurance to public networks, though, because nobody on a military network expects to be anonymous or to have any privacy. Users implicitly trust the network's central authority. They have to because they work for it. Security is a lot easier with a trusted central authority.
Well if you actually do ‘work’ with the device, like installing software thats not in the appstore you might run into some troubles...i love my 2013 macbook air for most daily tasks, but never was there a time where i couldnt do with having a windows and linux device on hand. But yeah, thats just life. Happy to see sobering comment here that the m1 is a ‘mobile’ processor, my 12 year old pc agrees. Another question that came to mind is; what professional is gonna edit ProRes video while commuting? Is this the ultimate precarious labour creative industry machine?!
Disagree. The breaking changes then were a tough pill. More would not have been better.
It only took quitting and giving away all his money.
Supply-chain crisis, hoarding products spark food shortages across US
Not strictly correct. It's provided by whatever WSL distro you download, and that download comes from the distro as opposed to Microsoft.
I am no fan of Walmart but you can't pin this on just them by the time they were pushing suppliers the damage had already been done.

It wasn't always this way. Walmart used to proudly display banners with 'Made in America' on them.

But as companies left the county, the poor and then the middle class downsized as well.

Companies left looking to lower costs, the public was wooed with lower prices and the idea that you could get more now and the politicians made promises that the affected sectors would be retrained, first we would have a service economy then it became knowledge workers.

It turns out that the service economy is fickle and doesn't pay well for the most part. Not everyone can be a knowledge worker and that is not outsource proof either.

Now we are in a trap where companies can not return because they would have to raise their prices and reduce profits and the people who used to work for them can't afford to buy their products now.
Super interesting answer. Thanks!
Imagine if someone was doing an analysis of chip fabrication in the USA and never once mentioned Intel, pretending they didn’t exist.
Hell, with some sports and arts if you haven't already been doing it at least a year by age 7 and live (or move to) somewhere with one of a handful of teachers/coaches who are top-tier at teaching young beginners, and have parents able and willing to pay for lessons from them while you're still very young, you're never going to be truly great no matter how hard you try if you try to break into it starting at, say, age 14. It's my understanding that tennis and playing violin are both more-or-less like this, for instance. Gymnastics and some kinds of dance, too, I think. Like, if your kid's 10 and they aren't already damn serious about some of these things, you can just cross those possibilities off their list for the future.

Probably any sport or art in which people tend to peak very young (early 20s), or that have opportunities available for young participants that will effectively lock them out of further high-level advancement if they miss them (because you're expected to have done those if you're "serious"), are like that.
As I understand it, someone has to be a member of some "protected class" to sue over discrimination. I'm guessing that the protected classes vary based on the issue.

I sincerely doubt that "anti-vaxxer" is a protected class. I'm guessing that some suits will be filed, and those filing the suit will have to come up with membership in a protected class, otherwise the suit will be tossed for lack of standing. The suits that don't get tossed will be decided on the basis of "are you really in that protected class". That's a dual-edged sword. Make it super-easy to claim religious group membership? You've just made it super-easy for peace churches to really go after registering for selective service.
I think the root of this is you cannot buy "security". It has to be part of the engineering ethos at all levels. This gets really hard to do at scale. Pouring money u to Blue teams is too late in the process.
The comment is difficult to read, and makes a bunch of vague and unsupported arguments that are unrelated to the topic at hand.
> I fail to see how IQ tests are racially biased

While there are some concerns that have been raised about bias within the tests themselves[1], in my experience the concern about testing among actual educators is usually that the tests are pitched as objectively "measuring intelligence" when in reality they measure a confluence of factors.

Intelligence is certainly a major factor but external factors such as having a stable home with quiet times that are conducive to studying, good nutrition, good role models, and good teachers play a major role as well.

There have been controversial attempts to control for those factors, for example by including information about the test takers socioeconomic status, but for the most part "intelligence tests" do not attempt to control for external variables. So it's impossible to tell how much of the delta in scores between two individuals reflects actual differences in their intelligence compared to differences in their environment and starting conditions.

The risk of tracking students solely based on such tests is that you end up compounding the existing penalties of having a bad environment.

Don't get me wrong, I think testing has an important role to play, but we should be honest and stop pretending that these are "intelligence tests".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Test_bia...
Totally. Speaking is so easy for me, writing is a bloody challenge. I think it has to do with interaction resonance with another person, too, not just the medium.