skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. I guess about one third of his predictions were correct. Eye-opening moments for me:

- "white countries"

- "radial energy"

- "the servant problem"

- no smoke in the house, "perhaps not even tobacco"

- "the child is likely to be taken over by the State"

- His vision of a house filled with frequently replaced disposable surfaces

- "king of Jugo-Slavia" [will still reign]

- "the American race [will become homogenous]"

- "there will be no more opportunity [in America]" but that's a good thing
That's one definition of liberty, but not the only one. I'd propose the alternative: Liberty is the freedom to take actions in society as it exists. Therefore a society that had greater prosperity has greater Liberty.

You sort of admit as much, what is keeping the piece but ultimately deciding which things are good things or not?
Neither counter nor idx strike me as an improvement over i.

If you want to be descriptive, name the purpose of the loop variable. If it's an array of foos or an array named foo, then use something like fooIx. Then when you loop over an array of bars, use something like barIx. If you're counting retries, call it retryIx or retryCt (or something that describes what you're retrying, like loginAttemptIx).

Depending on the context, i may be fine. However, a single-character name like that is bound to be reused, which is a bad smell.
>actually pulling the trigger is hard.

I'll push the damn button, no problem. Just show me where it is. However, I'm guessing it's harder to find and is actually split into 7 horrocruxes.
> I also wonder if there is anything out there that can even "remember" the context of a conversation it's supposed to be having.

IBM's Watson project involved an internal model of the world, though I have no idea if that got specialized into a local model of an ongoing conversation. Same type of thing though.

Having a context of this type available is actually necessary if you want to synthesize sentences in a language with definiteness-marking, such as English, because definiteness is marked according to whether the noun in question is or isn't already part of the context.
You assume they gained access because of/due to the info in your github repo. Based on?

Trace back as you might have overlooked something. Start from the beginning.
For sure, however the trend really kicked into gear in '20. A local kitchen store owner said he sold more bannetons in '21 than he sold in the last ten years. As he said, the trend quickly switched from "gluten will kill us all" to "home baked bread or die".
If you need a shortcut for accessors, you may aswell make your fields public and avoid get/set altogether...
It was at the time, I think they released the source a few years ago.
I can definitely go with this "pay them to build and manage their own homes" idea. As long as what they build is up to code.
I appreciate the context and the different point of view! I live in a bubble of how I perceive my coworkers (and indeed myself), alongside the culture of my employer where "getting it right is more important than getting it out"

Was interesting to hear your experiences and maybe update my expectations of workplaces somewhat
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Should this now be interpreted as „it’s a lot“ or „it isn’t a lot“, relative to the economical and social importance of bitcoin? How much does all watching of TV consume? Of all personal PC gaming? Of all cooking? Operating every theatre on the planet?
The GPT2 version of the AI Dungeon [1] could keep track of context for maybe couple of lines at a time. I've heard the GPT3 version is substantially better.

The problem is, of course, that these "AI" chatbots on websites, marketing buzzwords notwithstanding, have very little to do with state-of-the-art machine learning, and are indeed unlikely to be any more sophisticated than the original ELIZA for the most part.

[1] https://play.aidungeon.io/
That's what this thread is about. Parent of my comment was disputing that prediction from the article, and I presented a counter-argument.
I mean, technically, you don't have to have async/await in C#. Nothing's stopping you from using threads from the thread pool.
You can't have "real ai" (strong AI), until you have a simulation engine of some sort: https://blog.jtoy.net/on-the-wondrous-human-simulation-engin...
I have had it a lot. But I guess it is all about drop of adrenaline - i.e. symptoms where masked, and body finally had time to rest a bit.
> I have started assuming that most of the people here have some kind of side project that makes them money.

Nah, hundreds of thousands of people participate here and you only see a scant few posts like this. Lately it's been more, things like this tend to come in waves, but it'll die down again. The culture here is one oriented towards startups, so the things that will be submitted and upvoted are going to have that success-oriented "I built this" slant.
That's a pretty grim statement. You want everyone to die? Would you mind unpacking this a bit?

I'd like this material existence I am currently experiencing to have no end (i.e., I hope I never die), so this comes as a shock. I can understand not wanting yourself to live forever, but wanting everyone to die?
Would you rather have 2 enemies or one enemy?
This is a big part of why I think that making feeds better discoverable could help a lot. Often the feeds are still there, but the browsers are not showing it to the site visitors.
Agreed.

Our employer does not invest on this kind of tools, so when a free version does not exist for us the tool does not exist.

We would be happy to provide usage metrics and reports, our company is full open source and open data, and we work/invest time on open projects when possible.
Java has as many developers as a smaller country, ranging from the numerous enterprise domain (you mention) to robotics, to HFT. The culture between these are really distinct between them.
I have a side project[1] that has made me $0 over the past 8 years. It's not well known and few, if any, other developers make use of it. I still work on it most days because I enjoy working on it.

I assume I'm part of the majority. Thinking otherwise would damage my self-belief and self-confidence.

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
Is this bypassable? Bonus, equity, options, salary revisions...

It would be great if it's solid.
It does persist, all else remaining the same, but since it is so much less infectious it will go extinct if and when anything makes a dent in Omicron. Dents including lockdowns, increased vaccination, changes in public behavior or eventual immunity.
No we shouldn't revisit ethics, and yes doctors should always communicate prognosis.

Patient benefit should never be a singular goal to the exclusion of all else.

Even if it were, there are significant downstream effects to reducing the trust in medical professionals
I was never a big consumer of RSS, but I built a number of feeds over the years. Most of the time we would build them and no one would use them (except maybe the guy in IT who pushed for the feature).

From posts like this, it seems like RSS still has a hardcore group of fans but it is not something everyday users ever found that useful.
The common cold is not one disease. There are hundreds of different viruses which all cause similar cold symptoms, including four other coronaviruses.

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_ca...
How does this compare to Pixie? [0]

[0]: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie
Author here; the idea came from frustrations with the original Python roguelike tutorial on Roguebasin. Since the entire thing was written in one file, it was difficult sometimes (for me anyway) to tell what was going on.

While I'm happy with the way the diff style turned out, I will say there is one big downside for me: It's a huge pain to write. Not only did I do a "git diff" every time I made changes and documented it, but if you end up changing something later down the line, then I basically had to go back to the very beginning of the chapter, follow the tutorial along, and double check everything. Maybe there's a more efficient way to do this, but it was a bit tedious and time consuming.

Still worth the effort in the end though, I think.
I mean, it's pretty early to be drawing conclusions about this with omicron. Especially since it hit right as people in most of the vaccinated world were hitting 5-6mo since their second shots. That doesn't mean it's "unfalsifiable" it just means it hasn't been yet.

That said, I don't think the null hypothesis is suddenly "vaccines do nothing" for some reason. It's clear enough it spreads more easily but that doesn't suddenly invalidate all prior assumptions about the vaccines' effectiveness against severe outcomes.

Edit: I'm very happy to be proven wrong about this but I feel like people should direct some of these replies more to the person I was replying to? I'm not the one who thinks vaccines do nothing here. :P
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Personal anecdote, sample size of 1: I know an unvaccinated person who has had it 3 times. Not immunocompromised, otherwise healthy.
I like it, because it makes the transition to real sprites much easier. You don't have to support a TTY library and a GUI client at the same time.
Thanks for the kind words!

I'd say Netvyne is a tool, and it remains to be seen how exactly it evolves.

I'm not too sure what you mean by slant, are you referring to something like the "culture"?

Content discovery is already there on the main site (or at least content aggregation), is that what you mean? On the site (and the extension), you can see links and even leave comments using the default temporary account.

Moderating is a daunting task indeed, but we're up for the challenge!
There is Disqus by the way, which I think addresses what you are saying in terms of allowing the site owner to do their own moderation. Though I think it requires making an account?
I highly recommend everyone here to watch these two cannels for Covid news and analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching

https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1

The first one is a bit more user-friendly, the second one goes more in-depth into mechanics and research, but neither peddle fear or moralism. There is actually quite a bit of positive news lately:

Omicron uses two different ways to enter cells. This is part of why it's so transmissible, but it's also why it is less severe:
https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1/omicron-science-is-differ...

Omicron generates some immunity for Delta, so it is likely to displace Delta entirely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLbJ0H8zdc

Most Omicron hospitalization are accidental so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2VgBm9pTI
" We can easily see that in many graphs, but my favorite is below from New York City, showing a clear distinction in hospitalizations among vaccinated compared to unvaccinated people"

I don't see this as much here in Ontario. Among the vaccinated as of today there is a 10.10/100k hospitalization status vs 16/100k for the unvaccinated (and 11.9 for one-dose). The hospitalization rate among the vaccinated is climbing quickly. Yes, there's still a gap, but yikes.

ICU is better, though, with a 0.76/100k rate for the vaccinated vs 4.74/100k for the unvaccinated.

This may have to do with different hospitalization and testing criterion, I don't know. But hospitalization here is in full exponential growth and not just among the unvaccinated.

Obviously being vaccinated is still far preferable. I have had 3 doses (1 AstraZeneca and 2 Pfizer) FWIW.
Yeah I've consistently found her writing to be good. She's one of the primary sources I use for keeping up to date with what's going on with covid.
> we collectively pay the teachers

Poorly, in a normal environment.

Laughably, with what you are demanding they do for you.

There's a whole lot of "other people should endanger themselves for me" around this topic and it deserves some introspection.
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The absolute end to that line of reasoning is that there shouldn’t be any state at all.

Why does the state need to “keep the peace”? It does so through a monopoly on force. Why can’t private individuals simply work things out on their own however they see fit?

The idea of liberty, to me, is the idea that citizens have power over collective decision making, ie the rule of law, consent of the governed. I realize I am in the minority in modern day America though.
Employers are just butthurt they might not be able to do geographic arbitrage anymore. This was always coming in a globally connected world, but they’ll fight it kicking and screaming like always.
Again, read the first chapter. A dogmatic text would not tell you to go find and study other sources and develop your own path. That they then tell you their ideas in an opinionated fashion is not in (total) conflict with that sentiment.

The claims of dogma are, in my opinion, grossly exaggerated and a consequence of people failing to read (or failing to comprehend) the authors' own caveats in chapter 1. If they didn't include those statements in chapter one, maybe I'd agree with you. I still wouldn't discard the text out of hand, because, you know we have brains and can think critically and read a text to evaluate it ourselves.

(I say "authors" because Bob Martin was the primary author, several chapters are written by other people.)
A great, great man. We shall not see his like again.

I'm so happy I got to see him at Google. I thought [1] was the video, but since that was in NYC, it couldn't have been the one I was at.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_ijizSTAE
The problem here is the conflict of interest. World No. 1 tennis player does not consider entry to Australia a privilege, worthy of taking a medical procedure which he does not have to perform otherwise.

Australia does not want to take many people in, and many people do not desire to enter Australia. But that ruins the idea of tournament. Which is based on assumption of admission on liberal terms.
This is a feature of HN which seems to be increasingly populated by an older crowd that enjoys pining for an imagined golden age of technology. I’m in the same boat: I love plain text, RSS, and Vim as much as the next guy, but the trend of reminiscing about the superiority of ancient tech rather than musing on the future and how people actually use computers these days is woefully out of touch.

I also like mechanical calculators, horse drawn plows, and fine tinsmithing all for the skills and craftsmanship that go into each. And yet I wouldn’t think to start campaigning to bring back animal powered plowing. The new generation of technologists and programmers entering the workforce doesn’t give a damn about your ugly RSS feeds or your plain text productivity workflow or your finely tuned EMacs config and I think that mindset shift is going to be irksome to a lot of established old heads.
If they are judging your response as pass/fail vs partial credit for showing work, then you're screwed. I'd be doubtful that partial credit is given as showing your critical thinking ability is present.
You should not dismiss these views as just Russian-patriot sounding. These views acknowledge a realpolitik world view. They also acknowledge Russia as a "great power". And of course Russia has interests in the affairs of nations in their immediate periphery. The united states has done the same and would do the same again in a heart beat. I am as American as they come but I think the world would be safer if we were truthful about balance of power politics in international affairs.
Some say "historical baggage", others say "backwards compatibility"... two sides of the same coin...
They may very well be happier because they (as evidenced by their choices) prefer to live in a detached house and have a yard over having a shorter commute.

Cars and the highway enabled that increase in happiness, even if commute times are unchanged.
Based on the chart it's 100% of the positive tests being Omnicron.
I think it's the core, the 2D engine, just never got the love it needed to be a great place to start. Nobody seemed to prioritize making that happen.

Like, the antialiasing was noticably fuzzy. I never found an applet that looked like it belonged on the webpage. And when I built a few, it was a lot of work to even get font rendering to not be horrendous. And even then, you'd see what the browser rendered vs what the applet rendered and they were always off. I remember using images instead of font rendering sometimes.

So, if you made a swing app, it was easy to put together, but hard to make look "professional".

By the time of the Oracle acquisition, I'm pretty sure everyone just realized the browser and mobile "won" and that's why we just had JavaFX get broken off the platform and basically put out to pasture. But it's not like much went into the core platform itself to make building great UIs easy. The underlying 2D rendering just a great place to start.

I mean, even today, there's some serious performance issues with IntelliJ on 4k monitors with scaling. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-526

When I look at where JetBrains is going, it sure seems like they are building on top of a better 2D engine, in this case, skia: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija.
Hah, I mentally added it every time I read that phrase. The implication was pretty clear even in this email.
Not very hard to find the current, best understanding of the phenomenon:

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Current-Research/Coronavirus-and-N...
As a language are there any parallels between "Wolfram Mathematica" and "Elixir", since both talk about pattern match, search and replace in the context of evaluation a lot.
> It doesn't seem to have worked for Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff.

Penalizing mass murder also doesn't seem to have worked to prevent 9/11. The question is how representative the perpetrators are in these cases. I'd say not very -- do you disagree?

> According to this fact sheet, "the certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than punishment".

Just because you read it in some fact sheet doesn't mean it's true or even makes any sense. Probabilities and punishments are not commensurable so what does this even mean (without some attempt to describe a subjective loss function)?

Taken literally it's obviously untrue. Examples abound where people don't care much about being caught because the punishment close to non-existent or very light in comparison to the rewards. This is why why gangs like to groom minors, the likely reason why San Francisco has a shoplifting problem, or to bring it back to white-collar crime, why certain types of corporate and individual malfeasance occur over and over again, because the risks, even when caught, are minor but the rewards are not.

Your original claim is tantamount to saying that people don't react to incentives. Which beggars belief. That is not to say that criminals in particular respond to incentives in a way that maximizes their life outcomes or is intuitively obvious, or that for many crimes lowering penalties and investing in other things instead (like detection or prevention) wouldn't produce better societal results. But on the whole I'd expect high-flying financial criminals to respond to incentives set by justice system in a way that is more aligned with their actual utility function than say crack addicts committing robberies to finance their next fix.
damn, I never thought of it like this. So if I understood you correctly - Gates wants to stroke his ego?
I have some skeptical family members who like to talk about 3rd party anecdotes. "A nurse told me she saw blah blah blah happen". As you say, stories like this are not a way to know a thing, but I can't get them to understand.

It's like we rolled a die once, and it came up 6, and now we're all forming our own special opinions on whether or not the die is fair. We just can't know. Of course, if someone rolled the dice 30,000 times and reported what they found, that would be great (wink wink).

Instead of using Calc 1 as a filter course, we should use Statistics instead.
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I found this demo of a bare-metal Lisp, but I can't find much more about it. I hope he releases the code! Seems like it has been developed more than upon first appearance - debugger, custom opengl graphics library, and drivers with a shader compiler.

For now, he has written the USB driver and SD card reader in C, but he plans on moving it all to Lisp. I love the shader compiler example, and the minimal look.
I actually wrote both versions of this tutorial during such events! First tutorial was written during the first event (2017 I think?) and the most recent version was done in 2020. Many others have done something similar since. It's a bit hectic trying to write ahead of the event, but I find having a deadline to get the "parts" done is a fantastic motivator.
Yeah, sure. Who knows what viruses could be spreading and mutating amongst those weasels. It's not like SARS-CoV-2 is the first, and it won't be the last. But when you say

> This is a lottery that's less fun to play

How exactly do you propose not playing? Lockdowns, social distancing, masking, etc. for life? We're eventually going to have to start treating Covid the same as we've always treated "the flu" and it definitely appears that once Omicron has run through the population, we'll have reached the time to do that.
From what I understand, Covid is endemic and we should expect new seasonal variations each year like the flu and common cold
"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear."
> "the child is likely to be taken over by the State"

I'd be interested what daycare and school looked like in 1922, because arguably childcare is mostly state run at this point
If the prospect of impending austerity or violence leads to more suffering than the experience of these things themself then I would not say that being at war or hungry is the worse situation. While maybe subjective and personal by some criteria, still real and measurable.
I've also found this blog to be useful: https://thezvi.substack.com
Yes, it's bonkers to have to write so much repetitive code when you could have a better abstraction such as numberArray.forEach(printline)
It's almost like hospitalization statistics might just back this assertion up with actual irrefutable data.
yeah whenever I relax my face, I start to feel ideas flow to my brain. It's weird.
I'm talking about the structure of the technology.

What you are replying with is a political science style defense of the idea of centralized power.

Your argument is like the political science idea of the benevolent dictator, who is vulnerable to coup unless they can keep the factions happy.

Political science also has the idea that the institutional democracy can be more resilient than that to such simple attacks as a coup by a would-be dictator.

When I'm talking about decentralized I'm saying that the technology doesn't even have a place for the benevolent dictator to exist. Not that the node is constrained politically. The node is not even there.

Centralization is easy to build and provides easy "solutions" to problems like abuse. Centralization simply reduces all problems to the one problem of choosing the center. Like you say: "selecting the work of a third-party aligned with your views."

Centralization works, insofar as it does, because the human beings controlling the center have to maintain some kind of political alliance in outside society to maintain their spot.

Fair enough, I guess, for some purposes. But it's like CAP theorem, sometimes you want a different set of tradeoffs for a different purpose. Not all systems work by choosing a center. Some systems fragment, some unify by non-political (mathematical) means.
There are always exceptions to the rule. This much is obvious and shouldn't need to be stated.