skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's start with the hypothetical that a pregnant woman is expected to die unless her fetus is aborted... Who would you choose to murder?

First, how ever cruel and wrong doing so may be, letting nature take its course isn't murder - it's something else altogether (sometimes morally defensible, sometimes not).

Second, your hypothetical situation is a well-covered case in situational ethics -- "whose life to save when not all can be saved". I know in this case many Catholic hospitals would save the baby and let the woman die -- so they can baptize the baby and save its soul (so they believe... correct me if I'm wrong). I disagree.

In my ethical framework, the woman's life is the one worth saving. Between the two of them, it will be more devastating/hurtful overall for her to die than the baby... not to mention devastation/hurt to those who love her. Therefore it is more loving to save her. And if the baby dies, I believe he/she goes to heaven (that's not justification for infanticide or abortion, just that based on scripture, I don't agree with the Catholic belief that the baby has to be delivered and baptized for him/her to receive salvation).

> It hinges on an arbitrary "It's alive!" moment that's not really debatable, so much as a gut feeling.

... except that science has pretty much established when a new organism begins for every other species. It's well known. People just don't want to accept the moral ramifications for human babies.

Consider someone on a ventilator who is otherwise a vegetable -- yes they're alive, and stabbing them would be murder. However, it's not necessarily murder to let nature take its course -- to let them die by unplugging the machine that's keeping them artificially alive.

I think it's your ethics (or perhaps your gut feeling, as you put it) that doesn't allow for a binary "alive or dead" state. But biology is pretty clear on when an organism is alive or not.

Yes there are edge cases when tissue lines are kept alive for years, or organ transplants are done... but no one disagrees about how alive or dead someone is in those cases. The point is whether a human fetus is an alive person - that's where the rubber hits the road ethically. And biologically there's certainly no question in that case. He/she is a human and he/she is alive -- that's the moral starting point. Anyone who says otherwise is equivocating to avoid the moral ramifications.
Thanks for sharing this, really interesting.
>The vast majority of developers could distribute their apps on Google Play for free (currently 97% do so at no charge). For the developers who offered a paid app or sold in-app digital goods (currently just 3% of developers), the flat service fee was 30%.

Do they mean only 3% of dev accounts who ever published something became sustained? Nice corp speak!
The choice of state symbols is really interesting. I like the orange with the silhouette of Florida. I also really like how New Hampshire's license plate depicts the state's iconic gradient fill tool.
Wow that is an amazing demo, mainly because of how clean and contained the forearm is. I am not sure what the external hydraulic source is like (size, efficiency, etc) and of course a mechanical design like this isn't self-healing the way a biological arm is, but still pretty cool to see.
I'm not going to pretend there's a choice on mobile because there's not, both Apple & Google are acting as they are part of the same company and with similar rules. it's just a duopoly without competition, I don't buy the illusion of competition.

Going into the debate of Apple vs Google is already missing the point, both are part of the same mobile conglomerate.

> I’m an engineer, I have a desktop and a laptop I can install whatever I want on. I’m ok with not doing that on my phone. In fact, I don’t want that experience on my phone.

I want that, phones are just computers like any others and having two companies control the worldwide app market without any competition is terrible. It's not just me who want that, it's that society and the global economy needs that.
I indeed can imagine being inconvenienced by email not working. I can’t imagine thinking an hour of downtime a year that might cause one of those inconveniences being something that is an unacceptable risk.
That does not work like that in the presence of other forces. E.g. you can "undecay" plutonium by pressing together lighter atomic nuclei.
seems like the seed of an argument against disposable goods.
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I can't remember how I stumbled upon it, but I've definitely seen that Lain one at the top within the past 4 years or so.
"Pop quiz! What will the following program return?
int main() {
printf("Hello World!\n");
}

In C99 or later, it produces a mandatory diagnostic because `printf` is not declared.

In C90, it has undefined behavior because a variadic function is called with no visible prototype.
Not really like SV but all of Lucas Pope's games definitely stand out. Another individual who does pretty much all his own work. Paper's Please and Return of the Obra Dinn, both excellent and very unique.
> That's not actually the truth. You can go to F-Droid, or Cydia, Amazon or one of the dozens of SEA app stores that exist.

Is that sarcasm? All of those combined don't even have 0.5% of the market.

There's no competition, period.
Doesn't work. You don't assign anything to $b, so it's undef:

% perl -MData::Dumper=Dumper -e 'my $a = 'Perl'; my $b =~ s/pe/ea/ir; print Dumper $b;'
$VAR1 = undef;

You probably mean:

my $a = 'Perl';
my $b = $a =~ s/pe/ea/ir;

Anyway, thank you for the /r modifier, it didn't know what it did, since there's no example in perlre(1).
Autonomous race cars to battle at Indy Speedway
Unpopular opinion: with women taking a larger role in professional life, men are having to pick up the slack when it comes to child rearing. That leaves less time for men to invent, discover, create, etc. But women aren’t inventing, discovering or creating in proportion to their increased professional participation. Our society is worse off because of it.

Look at the people who made major scientific discoveries, or built new industries, or penned the most well known symphonies. They were almost entirely young men who were unmarried, or married in a time when women were expected to take care of the child rearing.

I was reading “How the Laser Happened” and the guy who invented it had four kids, but still had plenty of time to sit on park benches during evening walks by himself and ponder the physics of light. He went on many trips to visit other universities for research and worked tons of hours at Bell Labs. That was a normal way for men to work back then, even expected and viewed honorably.

We are going to have to accept less great discoveries and new inventions if society starts expecting men to bear half the effort of child rearing. You can’t come up with the laser or the Theory if Relativity if you’ve got crying kids you’re on the hook to watch while their mother is at work.

The alternative is to not even have kids, or to raise them poorly. And that’s not fair to them. Unfortunately, that seems to be what most people are settling on. Which does not bode well for the future of humanity, either.

Any way you slice it, it’s a bleak future.
I distinctly rememver taking one apart and being very disappointed: the segment display was completely fake and showed 2 predefined numbers, not correlated to the CPU frequency at all.
There shouldn’t be any neighbors in the middle of nowhere.
The only thing necessary to friendship is maybe one thing in common, and chemistry. None of my friends were met through any kind of vetting process, and I'd never want to do that.
That entire last sentence came off both naive and quite sinister. I'd like to think that if robots are to "serve people for fun, as butlers" at least they don't have to look like human slaves.
Should we follow people, or topics?
Yeah or for that matter, what about the times when people wrongly thought he was smart?
That actual content of that work was good but very misleading with an excess of backpropaganda and a poor literature review. The training procedure makes sense as continuous time backprop but it is mostly a special case of adjoint sensitivity analysis. The use of a NN as defining an ODE system seems fair to be named Neural ODE, imho its a good name, although again it was not completely novel as the writing style through the paper makes it look.
Majority of the android app are ad supported.
Mostly junk IMO, except insofar as there are market participants who trade on the back of it and move prices.
Technical trading made millionairs and billionairs during the pandemic era. You can't do that with astrology unless you find a sucker to sell your astrology services.

It surely is "junk" as far as the value to the society is concerned but in finance/trading it's all about money and technical trading makes money.

It's not really like astrology because it has some logic. For example: if a stock was sold for $ 10 yesterday and now it jumped to $100, based today's trading volume and on historical data we can infer that a percentage of them will sell to make a profit. Of course it's not a sure thing so we will balance our trades(bets). We don't even have to win "this" bet/prophecy. We just need to win most of the bets or the highest bets.

Add to this the fact that if enough participants follow the same patterns they can move the market and make their bets a self fulfilling prophecy.
Chaina won't attack it would be pointless and make zero sense they are more interested in building their economy and a war with Taiwan won't allow their expansion in these markets so it makes no sense but that is just my humble thoughts
Cash is king. Totally anonymous, easy to carry and works when there’s no power grid. Long live cash.
Putting a centralised auth that depends on Big Tech for a software which was supposed to be decentralised and against BigTech principles?
I wonder what kind of glue it uses, it's used in all of the processes
Yeah, most of the film was shot on a 9.8mm Kinoptic.
I would love to know if there are any "hobby" communities for "doing things" with bamboo.

I'd love to pot some of the fast growing stuff at home and harvest it to muck around with.
The house represents people, the senate the states.

Hence why senators are elected for 6 years, because states interests don't change that often and the house every 2, in order for the people to have as much influence as possible.

Same reason all tax bills have to start in the house, why senators weren't elected by popular vote.
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You can order a MacBook Pro with M1 Max with 64 GB of RAM right now.
For a rough estimation, you can use my bc at [1] which uses goto extensively for safe and effective use of setjmp() and longjmp(), while having no memory leaks (to my knowledge).

When going through the code, though, be aware that some goto's are in #define's to make it easier to work with setjmp().

If you're lazy, it's about 10k loc with about 100-200 uses of goto.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
> …so we paid BAE a third of a billion dollars to build a software platform that we then threw away in less than a decade, all because of an unrealistic original goal (“a single platform for the US IC”).

In their defense, that "unrealistic original goal" is a mistake all kinds of enterprises make, because at a high level there are obvious benefits and the problems are harder to see because they're at a lower level.
Nice posting, thanks for that. I still cant really understand the hype around Gould and its goldberg interpretations. Yes, they are good. But no, they are far from the best I know. If you ever get the time and a recording, listen to Ragna Schirmer playing Goldberg. Her interpretation blows Gould's out of the water, IMO :-)
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Oddly - cash can be, and appears to be, widely tracked. Many ATMs scan serial numbers of bills, and network analysis of that data can be VERY informative.
Doesn’t Spotlight on Mac do this already? What’s the added value?
What if you need to pull out more than a few hundred bucks at a time? ATMs have serious limits.
Sorry, are you asking how to get part time gigs? Or what kind of work I’m doing? Or how to juggle part time with a new venture?
I've literally told you multiple times that I did too, and my computer behaved in the exact manner that all of the results googling the concept turns up.
EEE isn't about the code, it's about the community. They brought in a lot of people from the Linux world through .Net Core, proper Linux support and porting tons of libraries. They could next try to convert those to paying customers by locking them into VS.

I work at MS, and I love .Net, but I'm really frustrated at this. I have a disability and VS Code is far more accessible for me (b/c extensions), but it's painful getting things done compared to VS.
> I wouldn't ever call it "beating around the bush" because it creates the impression you're wasting time and that's not what you should want, but saying upfront "hey I am gonna consciously ramble a bit and we'll circle up on the synthesis" often buys you some runway to do that.

The link I posted about the etymology of the phrase is interesting for this very reason, as it’s a bit of a misnomer. Beating around the bush is safer than beating the bush itself, as you have to get that much closer to the unknown that may be lurking inside said bushes.
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Smart, reproducible technique! I do hope you are being careful with that: heating liquids past their boiling point can potentially create a superheated state. Very clean containers in a microwave are said to be especially good at causing this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheating#Occurrence_via_mi...

I've personally never encountered this with water, but have seen it happen with diethyl ether and dichloromethane (at ~40 deg C, so much less scary)
Through whatever quirk of my psychology, looking stupid has always been something that I have been 100% ok with. There are various stories that come to mind, but the two that stick out the most happened in middle school science class.

One time we were learning about volcanoes. And, of course, that they erupt. I was thinking about how the eruption is dangerous and causes harm, and what we could do to prevent it. My first thought was, well, to put a cap on the volcano. So I raised my hand and asked the teacher "what if we put a cap on it?", and everyone laughed.

Another time we were learning about plants, and how if you give them too much water they will die. That immediately sounded insane to me and I raised my hand to ask, "Wait, why don't they just not drink it?!"

Both of these stories lingered around for years and people knew me as someone who lacks "common sense" and who is known for asking silly questions.
he said "should be able to" not "must exclusively". Maybe you enjoy the limited offerings in the official store but that doesn't justify preventing the People (including you) from installing without the store.
All funds, on average, get the market return. The certain difference with actively managed ones is that they charge a fee, and may pay more in liquidity costs. It's not surprising therefore most underperform.

In investing, the first thing you have an influence on is avoiding fees (go passive).

The second thing you have an influence on is time (remain invested).
Alec Baldwin shoots and kills cinematographer on film set
Seems like people are sharing their investment theories, so I'll add mine. Invest in 100x-ers, like Zuck or Musk.

To be clear, a 10x-er is not good enough for this strategy to work. Those are the people who lead at SpaceX and make the impossible possible. What I am talking about is the person who is the 10x-er to the 10x-ers. The person who comes up with the idea and gets those 10x-ers into the same room and organizes them.

Obviously, the scale of that talent is hard to estimate, and "100x-er" is just a figurative term. Think of it this way - there should be only 10-20 such people among the CEOs of public companies (the other 100x-ers are musicians, politicians, authors, athletes, etc). They are easy to spot - definitionally, they do extremely well and will be in the fortune 500, shooting rapidly towards the fortune 50.

The cornerstone of this theory is that given enough talent, an individual can outperform the efforts of thousands or tens of thousands of regular people (hence think of the 100x-er as a figurative term). Just look at Musk going up against the entire automobile industry (while also building SpaceX on the side). Such people tend to find the right problems to work on, get the needed funding, hire the right people, and avoid all the possible calamities. Occasionally they also crack under pressure and smoke a joint on Joe Rogan's podcast, but they always prevail in the end.

Another way of looking at this is to look back in history. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Edison, Ford, Merrill, Walton, Schwab, etc. Would you want to bet against any one of them? So the key is to find that same group of people in today's society. I already mentioned the two obvious ones, but there should be another 10-20, at various stages of their careers. One that recently retired would be Bezos, some of the younger ones could be Max Levchin, Jack Dorsey, etc.

The important point here is to be extremely picky. Max and Jack are probably still too young and need a few more cycles before you can expect them to move mountains. Don't get me wrong, they are exceptionally amazing today. But if you're going to put a considerable amount of money on them (which you would have to if you buy into the idea that there are only 20 investable people of this caliber), you want them to be Steve Jobs-level at his prime in the 2000s, not Steve Jobs-level in the 1980s.

This is super contrarian and the difference between wins and losses will hinge on picking the top 20 versus the top 100 people. YMMV!
i dont know why the summary paragraph is so authoritative about what pressing the button means when a couple paragraphs down basically says “sometimes it’s wired backwards, so really it could be either faster or slower”
Gould is a sort of package deal. I like his Goldbergs but to see his “authentic self” I’d look at something a little kookier of his like his Alla Turca [1]. It will not be what you expect.

[1] https://youtu.be/eTZ33EVK3Ug
On the other end here in India there are few vending machines, but mostly are now based on digital payments.
Which if you have a dashcam, paperwork, and lawyers could put him in jail or get you shot.

You do have enough lawyers right?
Good. It’s not like cops are hard to find. It’s basically an unskilled position with excellent benefits. It’s not even particularly dangerous unless you’re in very, very specific neighborhoods.
Is the philosophy of Communist China to advance a harmonious society by letting individual’s “interests, left to themselves, tend to harmonious combinations”?

Bastiat claims that liberty leads to harmony and those seeking the latter should embrace the former!
Covid was the number one killer of police this year and last, so if they had to pick between vaccinations and bullet proof vests…
The 1796 is likely because that's when Tennessee was admitted to the United States.
Depending on your hobbies, having access to cash to make purchases is pretty important. (Do you collect arcade machines, vintage bikes or vintage anything else? If so, you might want to buy something with cash that costs a $1000 or two).

For a while last year, bank branches had pretty limited hours, and I bank with a out of state credit union (because they have decent interest rates, even if that's 0.5% these days), and some co-op network branches weren't doing shared branching either. So, if I want to be able to buy something over my daily ATM limit, I had to hoard cash, since I couldm't be sure I'd have access to it.

Of course, prices haven't been great for buyers on most things (although I did pick up a well priced Street Fighter II Turbo early last summer and a not terribly priced tandem this spring; lots more nice things went at prices I'm not willing to pay)
Great read but should put 2002 in the title...
Apparently the compiler writers thought there was, and the compiler writers get to define semantics above and beyond what's in the C spec.
"Metaverse" is a bad name for a thing that seems to be meant to be a Virtual Reality platform.

According to Wikipedia, "The prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta

"Meta" does NOT mean "Virtual"
Good post. Not a fan of Jack though. Maybe I have him all wrong though.
I ran recoll on a Linux Laptop for a while. It worked pretty well and was very fast because of the index it created.
“Intelligence wins in conversation, and thus becomes the basis of the dominance hierarchy.”

Okay Jordan Peterson. This is myopic.
Toby Fox (Undertale/Deltarune) as well, although he has some art help.
Yeah, I've been going back and forth. Kind of leaning in at the moment.
I didn't judge Einstein, and my question was not about Einstein. I'm not in the position to judge his works in physics. I really know nothing about him, all I know is what they teach in school and what you occasionally read online. Like most of us.

It is interesting that one might get defensive when they think that someone questions Einsteins intelligence. Why is this meme so important? It's almost as if he was some sort of a God.
I’ve found that archive.org also has a large number of out of print vinyl.

What the market finds valuable is partially a signaling problem, as it is only loosely connected to any individual’s taste, and more connected to quick sales for record companies. The market as a whole can’t discover prices for products that individuals aren’t aware of and seeking out in the small window of first-sale. It’s not too different from the traditional VC investment strategy, now that I consider it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
IMO - Rider. It's way better with its autocomplete, refactoring, renames, code completion, debugging, 3rd party code navigation, overall responsiveness. I've switched and I feel physically disabled whenever I have to do something in Visual Studio again. The only thing that is lacking in Rider is Azure support(plugin is meh), but I don't really use that anymore, we have CI/CD for that.
I am going to be honest with you, reading ConcernedApe made me think of NFTs.
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I agree! Never been happier with an email service and hope whoever is attacking them gets struck by a second lightning, some years after the first.
which linux?
I really don't like license plates having the county on them. Knowing that someone is from a different county can encourage certain undesirable behaviors towards them. In states that use county codes as part of the plate number, this is unavoidable, but for states that write out the county, you should be able to leave it off. One of the reasons I have a specialty design on my vehicle is because it excludes the county (plus the extra money the design costs goes towards wildlife conservation).
As the Nvidia Linux driver doesn't support DSC (Display Stream Compression), a lot of people are having problems driving 4k/240hz and 8k/60hz displays with DP 1.4 and HDMI 2.1.

Frustratingly this works fine using Windows.

Any ideas on how to run Linux guests on a Windows host while sharing the GPU like libvf.io? This would allow us work around the DSC issue until Nvidia implements support.