skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> facts are rarely indisputable

Almost all major facts that people disagree on are, essentially, indisputable. It is indisputable that:

- The Earth is round

- The Earth is at least millions of years old

- Evolution occurs

- Vaccines generally work

- Politicians are not secretly lizard people

- Humans walked on the moon

These things are all extremely clear and obvious to anyone with a healthy mental model of how the world works. They are all interconnected with tons of evidence from a huge range of disciplines; any one of them being wrong requires a mind-bogglingly huge amount of commonplace and easily verifiable evidence to be flat-out wrong.

It's actually very hard (if not impossible) to be self-consistent without being true. How many made-up stories have plot holes? Essentially all of them. Statements that are backed up with thousands or millions of data points and shown (through simple, followable, verifiable logic) to be consistent with the rest of our understanding of how the universe works can essentially be called "facts". Again, this is the vast majority of things people disagree on.

> The vast majority of facts we have to build our worldview on are not directly confirmable without huge amounts of personal effort

Only if you're persnickety about what exactly "directly confirmable" means. For some definition, literally nothing is "directly confirmable". It's actually extremely easy to confirm most facts that people actually dispute in a political debate.

> we have to choose who to believe based on a complex web of tribalism, perceived history, social cues, emotional intelligence, and priors that have served us well

Do you have a list of individual humans you have chosen to believe, and you ignore everything else? I don't think you do. I think you have a complex mental model of how the universe works and you constantly try to fit new ideas and concepts into it and see how well they fit. If you're good at it, you keep that new idea quarantined for a long time while you search your mental model in-depth for anything that might dispute that new fact, and then you arrange a contest of ideas where you seek out other information to clarify the situation. Based on the outcome of that contest, you update your mental model appropriately, making an effort to flag pieces of information that may not fit for further review in the future.

People who don't do this have chosen not to. They've decided that they don't care about their relationship with truth. And any time we talk about these people, someone comes along with their false equivalency and claims everyone is that way. No. Some of us have decided to care about truth.
First 4 (reals, complex, quaternions, octonions) are normed division algebras.

Normed means that each number has associated nonnegative real number that describes the "size" of the number, also |xy| <= |x||y|. Number having a size (a norm) is very useful concept.

Sedions and the rest are less useful because they are not normed algebras.
btw, I'm not a billionaire yet :) I contacted GCP support and they are looking into this bug.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

... emphasis on the last part.
> pipx is a solution without a problem

It is a solution to the problem of: how do I run something without having to install it into my user environment and having to worry if it conflicts with package versions used by other things in my user environment. I often use it for simple code demos, share a pipx command to run code from some github repo I made to show how something can be done in python.

And it does not require any special consideration from package maintainers.
That gas holder article says they contained methane or coal gas. Methane's density is 0.657 kg/m³; hydrogen's is 0.08375 kg/m³.
Making resolution-agnostic applications in C# Winforms wasn't hard, it was a simple flag to tell the OS how to scale the GUI. And if you used the native widgets and set tab-indexes you'd be all set for changing sizes, blind users, OS re-theming, etc. A good UI framework should handle that stuff internally... even a bad one should do that (bad, like how winforms set the wrong default font).

Imho, the real reason we don't see stuff like this for the Web is that the web isn't designed for modularity. CSS, Javascript, and HTML IDs are all global.

Programming 101 lesson 1 is "don't use globals" and the Web is the perfect object-lesson in why not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

There's no way to tell these days. I feel bad for The Onion, really. Parody is dead.
Either socialized or nationalized medicine. Removing the insurance companies entirely removes the price-gouging they do from the equation. On the non-insurance front, every hospital and care provider is then required to either

- negotiate with the government on prices, or

- work for the government, charging their rates.
His opinion on fleeing from the US? What are you on about?
> Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion.

Much of this, I feel, is survivor bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias) and I totally agree with your thoughts on it.

Anecdotal story from my grandfather which occurred circa 1955:

He purchased a "name brand" television in 1955, when TVs were still very new and rather expensive (I don't know the brand, sadly, and he's long since passed to ask him). Got the TV home, plugged it in, and almost immediately the vacuum tubes in the television burned out.

Called a repairman to service the television. Repairman came out, replaced all of the vacuum tubes, ran a few checks on the electronics to see if everything checked out. It did, and the serviceman took care of the billing and left--all the while, the television was on and operating.

As the serviceman was leaving the driveway, the tubes burned out again.
I'm not sure if we should be encouraging all this candle talk, wouldn't want to ruin another elevator.
How many orders of magnitude? Can you quantify that for us? While I recommend that everyone eligible protect themselves by getting vaccinated, I don't think the current data supports the strength of your claim. Exaggerations and hyperbole aren't helpful.
How will any of these be available? If they're free and unrestricted, people will squat them and never give them up. Why would you ever give up any of these? And if you don't need payment details, you can just make multiple accounts to squat them.
It would destroy 90% of the current version of the tech industry.

I find it hard to believe that a better version isn't possible.
Gotcha. I had signed up in a US region and there was nary an ARM server to be found. I was quite disappointed. Then sales people reminded me of my disappointment weeks after.
They probably make them in stainless steel too, if you don't mind the shiny aesthetic.
Shouldn't the insurance company care because if they can reduce their premiums, they can be more competitive for employers/purchasers? I don't understand why the insurance company isn't cost driven.
Goodness, for those who don't know, 1 USD ~ 10 SEK. They printed a page to charge someone 10 öre or 1¢. Maybe I don't need that free account after all.
If I had to guess, Electron probably opens up a hidden main window and uses that to launch its different components (the chromium UI process and node backend). The snow most likely would only apply to the hidden main window.
"Instances". I thought they're getting rid of surplus.
More than half of US hospitals are non-profits, and Obamacare capped the profit % for insurance companies.
What happened is the web replaced most native desktop apps, not mobile tablet UIs. There is a reason why web devs are the still the most common type of devs, despite mobile devices being the most common type of device used today by a large mile.
My personal problem: Coping with long Covid. If I talk, or walk for more than a few minutes, it wipes me out for a few hours.

The next year: Figuring out some form of employment compatible with the above, or navigating the bureaucracy to get disability.

Long term: Convincing people that we need to implement capability based security. Until that point, we're going to keep losing liberties in the name of cybersecurity (theater), and nothing will actually get better. It's the only way to actually own your computer.

Other: I want to find out if Bitgrid was a dumb or smart idea before I die, for real.
Yeah, I signed up specifically to try out the Ampere instances (and when chosing the home region it said x, y, z were at capacity so I chose w), but wasn't able to actually create an Ampere instance because of lack of availability. I ended up just using a free x86 instance for a different project, but it was pretty disappointing.
The only change will be the introduction of Field Level Security to hide this information from screens for the wrong RBAC role
On the other hand the "we're professional products, you'll eat the cost and like it" approach worked fine for Adobe.
Recently a group finished a stone block of the size in the Egyptian pyramids in just a few days.

Another group hauled a Stonehenge sized block of stone from area the stones came from to the site of Stonehenge in about two weeks.

Estimate is that, using existing tools of the time, 100 stonemasons could have done the Sphinx in about five years.

And we have medieval and classical buildings in Europe where the building methods are fully known and there were no flying saucers or other magical methods.
Edit: These ideas are largely moot [with->without] a robust mechanism for value discovery.

Seems to be understood though. Sorry.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Assets/Docu...

The rate of growth is indeed faster in developing countries than developed countries. This is to be expected given that they recently started at a lower level of development.

In rich countries, however, inequality has trended up, while in many developing countries it has trended downwards. But even that is a mixed bag.

In the largest developing economies (China and India), inequality is increasing, so the rich are getting richer there faster than the poor are getting richer. Of course, the jump for many people from utter poverty to having even the basics is a massive one.

It gets more complicated though. In Latin America, inequality is generally decreasing despite relatively high growth.

In the developed world, inequality has grown as those with investments and/or skills tied to global growth have seen their wealth rise, while people lacking either of those have seen wealth decline. This phenomenon and the disinvestment in public infrastructure that has accompanied it, has been credited with the recent populist swing in politics in the developed world.
It makes me so happy how the software community has treated Terry despite the very terrible demons he struggled with. It's not often that happens.

It reminds a lot of artists who were societal outcasts. Suffering their whole life and shunned only for their work to be deeply appreciated after they die.

Hope people can continue taking this point of view to heart, especially in the age of one unpopular tweet destroying someones reputation and careers.

But more on topic, that's so cool to hear you learned C from TempleOS, I don't know many actual users that dive in that far.

I'm going to try running this after work today and try out the game if I can :)
"Shouldn't exist" simply means that nothing else like it has ever been found, and (almost) nothing like it has even been described in surviving literature.
GDP per person in the US is around $50K. Some of the GDP has to go to investment and the government, so at best people can consume on average $30K worth of products/services per year.

Would you be happy consuming just $30K/year? I didn't think so.

The ratrace is not a matter of absolute numbers, it's because everyone wants to have more than their neighbors have and more than what their parents had. Also, everyone seems to want to spend 20% more than what they are making hence most people in the country are in (consumer) debt. Government is no exception and mirrors the behavior of the citizen.

This whole thing about the rich not giving enough money to the poor to keep them working is BS.
Doesn't matter what you run your browser in. The lion's share of job market for developers is distinctly not Windows native applications.
> is why then we still see such widespread admiration of the notion that states are legitimate organizational structures?

Because the states (indirectly, carefully, and tactfully) guide the media in those states, and the majority of people uncritically assume that the narratives they hear over and over again ("land of the free", "rule of law", "innocent until proven guilty", "justice is blind", "a free press") are true and correct, simply because they've been repeated at them so often.

Information that contradicts those beliefs is ignored, discredited, or discarded.
That is the law in the US as of January of 2021:

https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency
that charging thing... I didn't think about something like that :( christ. It's becoming absurd but you made me realize that there might be other things I missed.
That was an absolutely wild ride. I must be missing some context though, I don't understand all of the "talking space alien" stuff (well, I don't understand any of it. But, the alien stuff seems pretty left-field, comparitively).

>I made the third temple. I proved God scientifically once and for all.
I am more famous than Jesus in the history of man.

>I have a talking space alien.

>I jhave authority to impose a temple tax on the world.

>I have authority over INtel and Microsoft.
Right we would need a "progressive bet"
It can.

GC pauses cause stuttering. More memory is a longer GC pause.

This is only the case if you allocate and deallocate a lot.

Also: never go larger than 32GiB on heap else you’ll end up with 64bit inter pointers: that will seriously degrade performance.
This technique is often used to reduce eyestrain and refocusing by extending the optical distance to the display, making it.more similar in terms of vergence angle and focus distance to the view outside. I'm not sure if this was the motivation in the Prius but given the fairly advanced state of VFD displays at the time I'd guess so, there would have been options to avoid the complexity. It's further curious that the Prius used to use half mirrors to combine multiple display units for that dashboard, I'm less sure of the reason for that other than that perhaps the assembly was expensive and they saved money by doing it only for critical instruments like the speedometer.
To be clear, my preferred solution still includes the idea of an oriented plane. It just dispenses with the 'geometric product'.
I would almost like WOF is component styling wasn’t one of the most miserable clusterfucks of XML boilerplate I’ve used.
1) Social media driven by algorithms, destroying the fabric of society.
2) Being the product, not the customer.
3) Endless, gratuitous, unstoppable changes to the tools we use.
4) The raging battle for our attention.
What was the basis of the lawsuit?
It would depend a lot on what time period you're talking about. I'm not an expert, but I do a bit of amateur forging and have learned a couple of things just reading about this craft. By the 14 or 1500s, spring steel had been developed in Europe. This would enable a sword to flex rather than break. Japanese swords from the time weren't flexible and were generally more prone to breaking. This had a lot to do with the raw materials that were available. They also tend to have softer mild steel core to help with this problem, with a very hard and sharp edge. If the entire blade were made of the same material as the edge, it would be extremely inflexible and brittle. They're kind of designed in a way where a part of the every hard and brittle edge can crack, but maybe it won't extend all the way up through the blade leaving it somewhat usable. The European longsword from the time might just flex in the same circumstance.

That's not to say that European swords were better than Japanese swords in every way. This is one of many, many factors. And I'm sure there were plenty of crappy longswords at the time (and crappy katans), so you kind of also have to decide if you're comparing the best examples, average examples, or low quality items as well. The skill of the wielder is also important. If you're throwing out a bunch of random soldiers without a ton of training and giving them a sword, you might want to give them something they're less likely to break. My understanding that is there was a period in Japan where only samurai were allowed to carry swords (if my reading is to be believed), who were generally very skilled. They would probably know how to avoid putting their blade in situations where it would be prone to breaking.

And Japanese traditional Japanese sword making techniques are extremely impressive and interesting to read about given the materials that were available at the time.
Couldn't there be ceramic boilers? Roman steam-punk legions of amfora-powered siege weapons ...

> Perhaps they would have found employment in the Roman world in the same place they did historically: de-watering mines.

It could be that the coincidence of coal mining and coal being good steam power source was what was required to kickstart it.
Anyone on HN understands these magic words: defense in depth.
AWS Tools Suck
Insurance companies are require to put a certain % of the premiums towards actual healthcare. In other words administrative fees (read profit) is capped as a % of the premium. The higher the premium the higher the profit.
How do you recommend actually getting people to use the "right tool for the job"? Nag them if they post in the "wrong" place? Do a training? Have a manual for how to communicate? I haven't seen that work well before.
> All claims of increased productivity are noise

That's a far-fetched and overly broad statement. Just as the universally quantified "all users will have increased productivity" would be an invalid and overly broad statement, as you would be right to complain about.

But for my use cases, for example software development and engineering, specifically in the field of embedded, server, system, and other software that is not related to web, android, mac, windows, etc., the productivity increase is absolutely enormous - 20:1 probably. For me windows is just trash - it's impossible to properly configuration control, it changes all the time for no reason, it's horribly insecure, and needlessly difficult and inefficient to use. Command line and text rules for what I do. For me to use windows would be severely masochistic. When I'm inevitably forced to logon to windows in a corporate network, it's pure torture. To me.

To abuse your analogy, sometimes it is the brush you choose, or better yet how you choose your brush. I would not want to paint my house with a 1mm fine-tip, nor a tiny detail with a industrial paint spray rig.

So I won't tell other people what will work for them, but it is absolutely worth supporting and introducing people, who perhaps have similar use cases as you and for whom it might also be beneficial, to things like UNIX and Linux.
The normal market pricing feedback that is present in other markets is broken in medical markets. This is mostly because prices aren't known and the recipient of services often isn't directly the payer.

Publishing prices so people can shop around like any other product is a good starting point. Hospitals do not have to compete on price because insurance covers it in most cases and in many places they have a local monopoly.

Also the more people pay out of pocket for medical the more they care about what the price is.
> I must be missing some context though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis

> In 1996, he began experiencing regular manic episodes, one of which led him to hospitalization. Initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he was later declared to have schizophrenia.

He died in 2018.
> $6.70 a day is 3 and a half times what is considered extreme poverty.

The question then is, do you think $6.70 a day (US ppp equiv) is actually quite a decent income, or do you think the extreme poverty threshold might be a pretty low bar to have set?

(FWIW I think the UN's targets were more closely tied to the need to be low enough to stand a chance of being hit - which is fine - than Max's editorial is linked to what the donors to his data website may or may not already think about poverty.
This chart speaks volumes.

https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CPIChar...
What software engineering can learn from the analytics community
For me, the only thing I truly remember about Borland is Philippe Kahn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn). Kahn is a giant: supreme intelligence, accomplished musician, worldwide competitive sailor. He is also a big and tall man. He is also the person who sent the first photo via a telephone.
I first met him in 95 when I invited him to speak at a Wharton meeting. His vision of the internet blew me away. Shortly after meeting with him I quit my job to start one of the dotcom companies.
Like a lot of companies ran by Founders, Borland had a face, for me it was Kahn.
CPPItertools
At a friend's new years eve party many moons ago we hacked up a copy of xsnow to drop pastel-colored confetti on the living room wall via the entertainment center's linux box which had a fancy projector.

Feeling old...
What I learned about people that scale
What representation you want depends on what you want to do. A matrix is good for applying to vectors, but bad for interpolation and inefficient for storage.
Tool to measure market readiness of open source projects
I didn't claim that terse is always more readable. It was in the example I gave, and practically every golang program could be written in a more terse, more readable, and less error prone way in Python/Java/C#/etc.
I didn't mention dbz btw. If you have soundtracks of those I listed, feel free to spam me.

I admit having next to no knowledge of today, beside a few returns from people watching animes (less positive than you). And in any case I don't think SS OST is bound to relativity, it's really instrumentally and harmonically extraordinary. I'd place it near or even above John Williams...
It's common to buy multiple pairs of glasses, and breaking/losing them isn't exactly unheard of. That said, aye, you're not going to be spending $960/y on glasses!
I still use Delphi (it is being actively developed) for my Windows Desktop products and Lazarus (Delphi's opensource clone) for Windows / Linux desktop clients.

I do not think anything comes close to the practical feature set, ease of use, power and long term stability for GUI creation. Well QT does but at what expense.

Meanwhile HTML/javascript based frontends is a pitiful clusterfuck comparatively. Modern computers have more than enough power to have the HTML/javascript front end with the power of Delphi. Why oh why web tool creators have to come up with abominations like React instead. The end result is that in case of Delphi the tool works for you. In case of popular web GUI frameworks it is the other way around.
The 'never again' part of working with soap for me was that Microsofts and Javas soap libraries were more or less incompatible for a variety of reasons.

I could handle the xml madness but at least make sure the standard is a standard.

I'm pretty happy with rest apis on that front. I can always make them work.
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” - Stephen Leacock, long before computers, much less the internet, were a thing.