skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree that free will is an illusion, but I don't think this negates my position.

Even a fully deterministic computer takes input/instructions and completes actions.

Humans are complex logic engines with programing. They can be programed to need external input to take an action, or take actions without external input.

You can program a child to think they need permission to go to the bathroom, or to think they can get up and go without permission.

You can program an addict to think they helpless to resist a drug, or that they can resist the urge and stop.

In this sense, humans can be programed with logic that either helps them achieve their goals, or prevents them from doing so.

Human "agency", "willpower", and "control" is simply shifting a person's program to take actions less on environmental inputs based more on their core values (e.g happiness - also programed).

I think that telling humans that they are helpless to control their behavior and need outside input is bad programing which harms their outcomes.

People overestimate the helplessness and dependence on circumstance. It is better to program people to act with more self control.
Is that what you meant to link to? It seems to be just a single frame from the episode.
Exactly what ereader buk.io does for ebooks.
Huge amount of misconceptions in the comments.

I bought a house and my realtor never suggested a lead test. Basically it’s on the homeowner or the buyer to request it, because lead is such a low risk to adults, it’s better to be willingly ignorant. This is especially true in urban environments where it’s far less likely that a kid will ever live there.

At the same time, you can 100% test for lead as part of an inspection. It’s just that there’s not a lot you can do with the information. If it’s lead free that’s awesome. Likely it’s not though, if it’s old. Sellers won’t really lower the price because older homes are basically guaranteed to have lead, so the test just clarified what should be assumed.

Now, I had a test done and there was a lot of lead. I had it mitigated. Lead paint was stripped to bare wood in tons of places, but it’s actually safe to have lead paint in places like intact walls. Walls don’t chip. Windowsills, door jambs, they chip. Even a very strict town in a strict state like Massachusetts won’t make you fully 100% de-lead, you have to remove anything with a risk of a kid eating it, or it sloughing off (like a door or window rubbing). All in all it cost me a few thousand dollars but I feel much better about the place.
Software only tables do have all types of neat features that can't be matched mechanically-- namely the variety of "mini game" type tables that Zen has used on their own tables. I think the Stern AC/DC sub-table + Banzai Run or Safe Cracker novelty dynamic, cranked up to 11. It is so much easier to do without physical constraints. Physics are so much better vs even 5 years ago, but Virtual Pinball X still doesn't match the real world physics of balls hopping when you hit certain targets, or even the same clinks and thuds. It is light years simpler to run & cheaper than a real table, though.

I never get the different edition value props besides market segmentation. Obviously the Pro/Premium/LE may have different shaker motors, speakers, buttons, but some of the price difference seems excessive. Even more so with Jersey Jack-- especially on the 2nd hand market. Do red rails and legs and a topper make the playing experience worth that much more, or will it be that much more valuable in the future? (Is it like the collectible market, where things made specifically to be collected like modern Star Wars figures, won't ever be as valuable as the originals? Or is it just a bubble where prices revert in another 5 years?) If games like Circus Voltaire have consistent issues with the main feature, how will the home versions with multiples hold up over x,xxx plays?
This one for fictional starships is well done https://youtu.be/aTPwbVqU6lc
Even up here in Canada, employers are getting pickier and pickier even as their workforces bleed workers in gouts of resignations. I think they’re desperately trying to find people who won’t leave at the first sign of shitty manglement practices by becoming more stringent with their applications process instead of just increasing their fucking wages.

McDonalds is now offering $18/hr in my town and is still chronically understaffed. Meanwhile, applicants are being turned off by hiring processes that now include four, five, and even six interviews.

News flash: you don’t get better employees by making the process harder and more stringent, they’re valued enough that any better company is going to snatch them up long before you’re done with your bullshit process. All you are going to get are the desperate ones who can’t get hired anywhere else.
How would you ever know? If your computer or a program has ever crashed or acted weird. That's a symptom of memory errors. It's also a symptom of a million more common issues but you would never know.

There are some bugs that get raised on linux once every few years that are so obscure they are suspected to be random memory errors.
The article is in early draft, so there might be some errors and/or bugs.
>there’s no need for a draft because ranks will be filled with volunteers

This reflects the fact that the US military has learned how to carry on a substantial conflict without large numbers of casualties.

That sounds like a great achievement. But I think it's the problem.

There shouldn't be wars that can be run by a relatively small number of volunteers. That is the problem.

WWII and the US Civil War had drafts.

I wish I could find some cartoons that I remember from fairly soon after 9/11, about the dread people had that we were headed straight to hell in the military response.

I remember them as profoundly different from what you might see today with a left-wing slant, exactly because of the general sense of unity and nonpartisan feeling. Foreseeing the obvious subsequent events meant being against seemingly everyone and not just the red or blue tribe.

My recollection (of what I read more recently) is that only one congressperson voted against war in Iraq.
I'd probably rephrase the original statement in the title as "Don't only read what other people are reading." I do agree that there is some value in getting "off the beaten path" from time to time, and I see that as being something of a feedback loop with what you're talking about. I believe that a lot of what a reader takes away from a Work A (which everyone reads) involves what is in the reader initially, which may be related to their having read Work B (something pretty much no one reads).

Anticonformity IS conformity.

Well said.
Kind of ironic when you open up "wappalyzer" on this website.Might want to check your priorities.
Thanks for catching my faunatastic typo
I dont have a problem with your narrative. Actually I agree with your narrative. Every companies has business to run.

I just have a problem with Apple suggesting they are doing "good" with X, promising "good" with Y, with a big smile on its face in marketing, pumping up PR to the maximum. But every time you scrutinize the details they just dont hold up.

BTW people may want to look at Samsung's market share in China. Hint: it is a single digit number.
If it's possible, customers will buy as many of the cheap ones as they can, at the lower price, and aftermarket enable the unused silicon to get a better product, for less money, which may make the business people unhappy. This happened with some GPUs where they could be "upgraded" to be a better product with a soldering iron.
IIRC they did sell people a software unlock for the other capacity which goes against the idea that it was designed to be like that.
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Agreed: there must be consequences. And this human management problem is not specific to science nor cosmology. The total dollars sunk into research is small compared to revenues spent elsewhere. Heck, in the US Government, it is still not yet using its check book leverage to reduce drug prices.
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Does the Easel programming language still exist and is it supported? I’m just curious, because I worked with it in 1994 at Sears. The last I’ve heard very few people supported it at the company that owned it.

It was event driven but not object oriented. By that I mean, code was executed based on responses from a control like a push button or when text was entered in a text area. You would have click responses to a button that would execute code written for that button. That’s why it was considered event driven. It wasn’t object oriented because it didn’t have classes. We used it for a marketing system at Sears for many years and I was wondering if the language still existed.
As the article mentions, it's a very sketchy hypothesis that antibiotics help agricultural production by the mechanism of permitting survival in cheaper conditions. Antibiotics actually seems to improve production for other, unknown reasons. We just assume that the mechanism must match the mechanism taken advantage of by antibiotics use in humans, but it looks like there's probably something else going on.

It might be as simple as the antibiotics shifting the balance in the gut towards bacteria that just happen to be more beneficial to rapid growth? That would be consistent with the thesis of this paper, where antibiotics are used naturally to encourage the growth of "compatible" organisms. I wonder exactly which antibiotics are used for agriculture -- if some antibiotics help and some hurt, that would support this hypothesis.
I would say that a mentally disabled person has physical properties of their brain that do not work. Emotional disability is... what?

I wouldn't call a person with down syndrome of having poor physical health, or emotional health. I'd say their mental health is permanently damaged. The same way someone with a life long disease might have permanently poor physical health.
I always reference the Power Broker when it comes to urban planning, but in particular I'd like to reference the language Caro uses to describe how Moses built his creations: driving, ramming, pushing. Getting something built in New York is a process of force, of sheer will, of political domineering. It's a nice sentiment to view building as a collective effort where we all come together in a democratic process and build something that we all love. But that's just not true. It's a process by which some will lose and many will win. It's a process that, for better or worse, will have long term effects that are only understood years after the fact. It's also a process that is not suited to an electoral system with candidates who leave office after a few years. You need someone who will sustain the effort for decades, who will not buck or bend, even to public will, and who can offer the institutional knowledge that the article mentions.

This does provoke a rather tricky question: Is too much democracy bad for public works? Because someone like Moses was ultimately a dictator. And granted, Moses caused horrific damage to many neighborhoods, carved racism into the city's structure, and irreparably shifted the city in favor of cars. But he also got stuff done and it's debatable that a more democratic system would have accomplished even half of what he did.
> we've never had the problem you're describing even once so it seems like either you have really bad luck and have gotten these repeated failures by luck or Apple was right and you're not taking care of these properly.

Well, I'm not the only one around me who's faced such problems, and they aren't caused by stress because the cables disintegrate at various points, not just near the MagSafe connector.

My guess is that it's humidity at work, since Singapore, unlike Cupertino, is ridiculously humid all year round — whoever sourced the white insulation for MagSafe cables probably didn't test them in high humidity environments.
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Their specific test was about how the immune system reacts, it says nothing about how dangerous the virus is.
Partisan fits. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partisan

1. An adherent to a party or faction.
2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.

Maybe that word isn't judgemental enough for you, but it fits and I used it carefully.
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The internet sort of centralized journalism. Local newspapers couldn’t keep up.

I remember my dad reading local printed newspaper and always keeping abreast of what issues impacted local infra, municipality effectiveness, elections and general know how about how the local gov functioned.

No one cares about it anymore. Instead, a friend of mine is asking me about Cuomo’s sexual assault case - mind you, he lives in Perth, Australia. Who cares!
Quote from reviewed book in link: “a bedrock and simplistic assumption that has long shackled the charitable world: that money spent on direct services is the only worthy use of charitable funds, while money invested in organizational effectiveness is to be kept as close to zero as possible. It is an equation widely accepted by the donating public, by the press, by charity watchdogs, by government regulators, and by most charities themselves. To keep overhead costs down, charities forgo necessary investments with devastating and sometimes deadly results.”

There are a lot of parasitic organisations that provide shitty expensive advice/consultancy services to crappy charities. A sort of web of symbiotic parasites, helping charities to provide no value. It is no surprise that crappy charities can spend a ton of money on “organisational effectiveness” that only return negative value overall.
Are you going to make that argument?
If you like this sort of thing, you might like this remake of the "Death Stranding" trailer, in a PS1 style[0].

I'm not sure what tools were used to achieve the look, but the outcome is great.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTgJHU3MB24
It's a billion dollars just to do environmental review for the Link21 Program[0] in the SF Bay[1]

[0] https://link21program.org/en

[1] https://climaterwc.com/2021/08/20/1-billion-estimated-just-t...
>What is that based on?

Personal experience as a civil servant with NASA. Often, quality aspects take a back seat when schedule pressure is high. It’s the whole reason their current safety and mission assurance org became a separate entity after Columbia

>And has NASA had many software failures?

There's been quite a few high profile ones like Mars Climate Orbiter and more recently with CST-100. In the case of the latter, there were clear process gaps that should have caught the issues if the software assurance procedures were actually followed. Note that last one is for a non-crewed test of a vehicle meant to take people into orbit; presumably this is the highest threshold for quality procedures. There are many, many more lower profile ones that don't get talked about, even within the agency, dating back to Gemini.

>especially considering how far beyond the bleeding edge they operate.

I know that's the public perception. Much of the missions are bleeding edge (because there's very little incentive for anyone except the government to do them), but you might be surprised about how they don't always use state-of-the-art tech. Now some of that is by prudent choice because you'll often prefer tried-and-true of bleeding-edge, but some of it is just because of complacency.
Yet another non-business grabbing $ from clueless investors. Surely there must be a word for the “we are grabbing $ from clueless investors” business model? WeWork is the poster child for that one.
Unfortunately we have seen too much of governments lying to the public or even under oath to Congress and violating existing laws with impunity. The Obama administration and the head of the NSA James Clapper lied to Congress about breaking the law:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/fire-dni-james-c...

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This is the link that the Schneier (who explains some very complex stuff really well) post is based on:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/interview/g...
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There are no useful facts to provide, outside of strictly regulated markets banks pull these fees out of their asses. The receiving bank might charge various mystery fees, so even if your bank is playing nice they won't be able to tell you how much will actually arrive.

It's just almost impossible to know the answer to the fee question beyond "probably a lot"
Nothing like a little ad hominem to get the blood flowing
This is a case where some modern history and perspective might be useful. I recommend reading some objectively written history texts about the Cold War and notice the rhetoric used in the period, and realize where that led us (relative peace, freedom and prosperity). The Russians had their “Black Colonels”, the US had their Curtis LeMays. It’s all just diplospeak. Border states are a general pain in the rear (Cuba, Turkey, Ukraine, Taiwan, etc.) but they are where the ever-evolving notions of global peace are actually worked out among the major players.

Are the major players going to continue to act like grown-ups? They have so far, and there is little reason to think they will suddenly change. Jaw, jaw is better than starve, starve which is better than bang, bang which is better than BOOM.
Good ol path traversal https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/c798c0e958d15d9cc7...
And ¡Viva España! is entirely unproblematic except when thrown into revisionist history troll posts. Similarly, regardless of whether the average German ever feels inclined to use the "Deutschland uber alles" phrase at all, if they're using it in forum posts arguing the way German soldiers treated conquered peoples was pretty reasonable actually, they're signalling something quite different to excitement about Die Mannschaft reaching another final

Anyway, every time I've watched Germany at the World Cup they only sing the third verse of the Deutschlandlied which doesn't include that phrase. You'd be shocked to learn why it's fallen out of fashion. So that was a really pointless tangent for you to go off on...
> failing which I am tempted to presume that the manager was not acting in good faith.

That was my impression. It looked like he saw an opportunity to rip off a bunch of neat software (without knowing exactly what it was he was acquiring) for no money at all.
Wow. Epic troll, sir.
> Well, for one thing because we outside China would automatically assume they are showing the same thing inside China as we see. Now we know that is not true. That is deceptive.

Would you expect a big pop "WARNING: THIS CONTENT IS SHOWN DIFFERENTLY IN MAINLAND CHINA DUE TO REGULATIONS!"? Also, this will mostly yield a well-duh response. The only "appropriate" option in scale would be to put it somewhere in the fine print (IMO), but this is so close to not mentioning it at all that they might as well not.

Also, I don't think there's a general expectation for website to be the same everywhere. If you open google.com from Germany, would you be suprised to see Google in German? Project Gutenberg also was unavailable in Germany for quite some time; I don't think they informed every non-German reader about it.

> ... And a[s] a shareholder, I was also kept in the dark -- Which is actually also pretty problematic and deceptive.

I'm pretty sure they don't inform shareholders over standard legal requests. They probably didn't ping you about FCC restricted radio frequencies either.

It's not that I generally agree with censoring, but I don't think Apple acted unreasonably here.
Affects all 8.x releases
This whole thing is also loaded with TOCTOU problems. It's almost always best just to try to do what you want to do and check for failure.
It's still pretty epic to watch.
https://earthquaketrack.com/r/coast-of-oregon/recent

...and a good reminder to make sure your water heater / stacked laundry / fridge / etc is tied down properly...
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This comes as a big surprise to me. Especially during the early lockdowns I was expecting closed bars and no commuting to reduce traffic fatalities.
Didn't Wikipedia show Alexa rank in info boxes on articles about websites / internet companies until recently?
Nowadays startups often delay going to the stock market, and remain private while they're growing fast. It's only when they are growing more slowly and the VCs want to get out that they go public.

This way, the average investor usually does not reap outsized benefits from the ride.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It is insanely complex. Yet modern C++ is easy to use. Just don try to be Alexandrescu. I am very far from being C++ expert yet I have zero problem using it to write stateful multithreaded business servers that run for month at a time (maybe able to run for longer but I update with new features more often).
Biggest barrier is not enough sales or interest from others for my ideas. I've got my products out there, but I don't earn enough from them to afford working on them full time.
idk whats your definition of good lang, but
C# has shitton of keywords

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
They set up admittedly impressive environmental controls. Everything covered in plastic and sealed with positive pressure in the house.

But the actual carpentry work was a joke. Hacking away at the friction surfaces with a coarse grit power sander and leaving everything chewed up with some paint in the deep areas.

The areas that didn't need to be removed but just left "intact" were peeling and crumbling all over the place. They would scrape a little paint off of a surface leaving paint edges raised off the wood where they would crumble at the slightest touch.

Here are some photos of their "finished" work...

https://i.postimg.cc/hf6c4VTZ/IMG-0542.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Lgs25Txw/IMG-0544.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/vccGd0g6/IMG-0546.jpg
> Despite very careful instruction, and even writing down simple steps to make a call, etc., I could see her eyes glazing over. She just didn't want to know, and after awhile I had to buy her another keyboard flip-phone.

I feel like I'm already getting there with some things and I'm half that age. If something as disruptive as systemd or GNOME 3 came out again, I think I wouldn't even listen to the rationales and just follow the old fork this time around. Things work as they are for me.
I think that is an interesting take, but would obviously have a lot of pushback. I doubt private industry would willingly work against their own profit incentive. Can you imagine if the government mandated social media sites to limit the use of algorithms to grab people's attention?
> We need a shift to more missions, building these things more often and more on price

This only very recently became financially reasonable with SpaceX. It would have been impossible for NASA to know at that time that private industry would manage to lower the cost of launch by magnitudes.

Cost didn't matter back then because you only got one shot to launch anyways. If the rocket blew up and took the satellite with it you're never getting approval to launch again. It would be better to let the project overrun than to worry about financials and contractual obligations when the risk of cancellation or failure is already so high. But now, with launches being relatively cheap, it is actually possible to envision a backup plan where a second satellite goes up with a second rocket. Again, this only very recently (maybe ~5 years ago?) became possible.

I agree with you now though - NASA ought to be reconsidering overhauling its procurement process now that Falcon 9 exists.