skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of a position that I took in that last comment. It was mostly a comment about the views of the owners of capital in America. They may be fools, but their opinions are the greatest force shaping American governance, especially now that they've greatly advanced their vision of replacing the judiciary in the US (who are now the de facto legislators), so it's important to know where they're coming from.

My own views tend toward the pragmatic - when the time comes to replace my roof, I just want someone who can do the job, because I sure don't want to.
It’s still wise to define acronyms before you use them to enable future Googling (links are better!). Three extra words is a small price to pay to make documentation more friendly to newcomers.
Yes, I wonder about this also. Wouldn't need to be toroidal - could just be spherical, but would need to wrap in a 4th spatial dimension. It would explain a lot of things, like the expansion not having a clear centre, the requirement for dark matter (expansion would happen in an orthogonal dimension), background radiation (which I never quite understood) and the size of the universe.

But that was a high-school idea, and I'm sure some clever physicists and astronomers will tell me why this isn't the case.
No, I'm a consumer of a giant publicly traded company that rides on some amount of publicly funded infrastructure. Hmm... sounds like Google a bit doesn't it?
The other side of that coin is that they are not driven by profit motive, so the cost of improvement is not passed on to the users as "what the market will bear", but instead "at cost" so improvements are much more likely to be worth it for users of the service instead of just a new and exciting way to justify price increases.

As for "no reason to improve" well, there's no reason for people to do more than the very bare minimum, and yet they do it all the time. Sometimes organizations improve because they want to. I might even argue that it's harder to improve under existential crisis, not easier.

I think it's become a bit of truism that private businesses are more efficient than government run organizations. I wonder if that holds up under scrutiny?
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with us observing and communicating with dogs every day for decades.
Nice high level overview of the three waves of AI (two have happened, the "Contextual adaptation" wave is yet to occur). Includes examples and successes and failures. ("Young man holding a baseball bat", indeed :) ).

"Systems construct contextual explanatory models for classes of real world phenomena" is the next goal. That is, understanding + being able to describe the reasoning for the understanding.

No technical depth, really, but lots of words to google if you want to learn more.
No point in per square feet if people own home not square feet. If price is up, people can't own home and they are not. This is what matters.
OK I've updated it to exclude "Alley". Thanks
Couldn't have written it better myself. Thank YOU!
I have sympathy for what he is trying to do (actually put data on what people traditionally just use "gut feeling" for) but yes, it is the sort of thing that might sound sadly misguided depending on how things turn out, much as how late 19th century writers like Spencer suggested that the trend of the 19th century suggested that things like war and famine were fading away not predicting the world wars or the famines of Stalin and Mao in the 20th.
I believe you're basically referring to the computable reals; for the curious, here's the wikipedia page (kind of abstract): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number and here's the paper where they implement them programmatically, including for the android calculator application (I believe this is how the android calculator works now): https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3385412.3386037
This is rich, maybe Miyazaki just has different judgment than me but Dark Souls is one of the grossest and gloomiest games I've played due to the immediate application of gross-out body horror.

[0] is the Asylum Demon, which is literally the first boss in Dark Souls.

Bloodborne cranks the gross-out factor up to 11 with [1] and [2].

[0] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6qCB_x7KQR8/maxresdefault.jpg

[1] https://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Bloodborne/ludwi...

[2] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXCskueejFY/XLlAKLB-nmI/AAAAAAAAd...
They are usually marketed and smartly named

People really underestimate the contagiousness of Apple brand names.

Earlier this week I was listening to several non-technical people in the real world talking about their "AirTags." Eventually one of them took hers out, and it turned out they were talking about their Tile trackers. Nobody says "Tile," but everyone says "AirTags" now.

And in my company, everyone says "FaceTime," but nobody means FaceTime because it's a Windows-only organization. They mean Teams, or Zoom, or even BlueJeans, but they never actually mean FaceTime.
And so does Meson. I don't think the xmake author spent a lot of time using other build systems (in fact their short paragraph about Meson demonstrates that they clearly never did use that, using vcpkg with Meson is like 0 effort), it's pretty trivial to simply install a library with "vcpkg/conan install whateverlib" and then use it in your build system via the standard "find_package" (CMake)/"dependency" (Meson) mechanism of adding dependencies.

> In addition, there is another problem, that is, we need to additionally call the vcpkg install [packages] command to install this package.
>
> Each of these links requires an additional exploration process for users, and it is impossible to achieve real one-click compilation.

And personally I don't think that this "real one-click compilation" should be a goal. On the contrary, I think the current process is pretty much exactly how it should work - first you install your dependencies via your package manager, then you can inspect/vet/whatever them if you want, and then you let your build system build.
We're talking about being toriodal or curved in a 4th spatial dimension I assume?
It wasn't quite that dramatic a whim or lucky hunch as it's made out to be.

There was input from galaxy researchers on such an idea, and I think it was viewed as a bit of a calculated risk compared to other normal proposals to spend the telescope time on well-known targets visible with a few hours of observing. Especially when proposals outnumber available time by a factor of approx. 7, people will question why you should gamble on something unproven. Hence "director's discretionary time".

But of course it was a smart move in setting up the field for "what's the next big thing", because if you were to find something interesting, it obviously drove the call for larger and larger telescopes to study farther and farther things. Just studying the crap out of brighter nearby things would have been relatively predictable/boring by comparison. (I exaggerate a little)
If there are fewer jobs than people, some people will not have jobs and theus be tempted into criminal behavior.

If there are more jobs than people, felons will be hired.
I made it for my dad for Christmas and the very first time he played it was the tiny street where he grew up. He didn't believe me that it was random
> People often complain about bureaucracy and broken red-tape in the US but after thinking about this deeply, I'm beginning to suspect that the US government is one of the more efficient governments in the world:

In a lot of cases, I think US complaints about "bureaucracy and broken red-tape" are more a function of anti-government ideology. It's not like businesses don't have annoying bureaucracy, but the complaints tend to be selectively directed at the government, because for many people government is a boogeyman.

For an example, take Google. Wouldn't it be light-years better if they had customer support that was as good as the the worst DMV's?
You don't say. I hear people keep reinventing operating systems in their free time, even. Insane.

Except I personally do not mind this kind of churn. Bring it on, the more the merrier! Having choice is good, and one day someone will strike a gold nugget, no doubt.
“Hairless apes, not wingless angels.”

- me
>> This amounted to a total loss of 824,097,690 IQ points, disproportionately endured by those born between 1951 and 1980

> At the risk of stating the obvious, IQ points aren't a measure and adding them up doesn't yield a meaningful number. It's like adding up the numbers on football player's jerseys; if the total of a team's numbers goes up, that doesn't make the team better. Similarly, a reduction in the total amount of "IQ points lost" could easily correspond to more damage to cognitive intelligence caused by lead exposure.

This is how I read it when I saw this number based on the title (I didn't read the article):

There are about 300 million people in total.
Half of that is 150 million.
A loss of 824,097,690 IQ points over 150 million people is over five point per person.

https://www.google.com/search?q=824%2C097%2C690+%2F+150+mill...

This is, of course, extremely misleading because someone born in the late eighties didn't suffer the same as someone born in the sixties.
Similarly, someone born on or after January 1, 1996 didn't suffer as much as someone born in the eighties.
Therefore, "five points per person" would be more misleading.

At the end, the actual number doesn't matter much.
What matters is that the number conveys a sense of magnitude.
We collectively lost almost a billion IQ points!

It doesn't matter what it exactly means.
We just need to know that "they" robbed us.
When I say us, it isn't just those of us in the US, I mean the whole world as the baby boomers voted and continue to vote
(older people are more likely to vote compared to younger people).
Who knows maybe if we had higher IQ, we wouldn't have fallen for nonsense like "starve the beast".
If you stop to think for two seconds, reducing income because you think you are spending too much is asinine.
It doesn't matter whether it is the federal government or a small family, it makes no sense to say well I am spending too much but if I had less income maybe my expenses would suddenly come under control.

Maybe with a slightly higher IQ, the people who voted in the eighties would have demanded this nonsense be nipped in the bud.
I can't even imagine how much of a better place the world could be if we took a different path instead of following Ronald Reagan's shenanigans.
in the off-chance you see this, I added this + drag and drop file uploading which leads to a very nice workflow:

https://twitter.com/max_leiter/status/1502428528855322624
Absolutely. Never thought they would make such a difference until I got introduced to them when contributing to SDKMAN!.

Never had a conversation about formatting afterwards.
Not sure what you're talking about. Isn't radiation that green cloud of poison like in Hollywood? It's scary stuff, man!
I was just watching a video of about 6 officers killing/pinning down someone and that happened about 2 months before George Floyd's story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWJe6G5guc (no-one got charged even if it was caught on video (and not that it matters, but the victim was white)) ... I have see a lot worst before but not when that many officers were involved.
I know they're using Mastodon, did they disable federation?
not the original commenter, but I think they said it

> we currently build condos but don't build the public spaces that serve to supplement them and make them comfortable for, e.g., families with kids.

you need

* several bedrooms

* some utility space (for things one would have otherwise done in the garage)

* nearby [safe] parks and playgrounds

* nearby recreation centers

* good schools

etc
I found it somewhat interesting psychologically how much of a paradigm shift async/await seems to have caused, even though it's really just syntactical sugar.

It changed absolutely zero about JavaScript's processing model - but because it "looks" like traditional multithreaded code, people seemed to start thinking about it like that, suddenly asking about synchronization, locks, etc.

You could have asked all those questions already during callback-hell times, but I don't remember reading any blogs about that stuff back then.
Ironically, making a bullshit that someone is bullshitting outside of a bullshitting game, is rude.
Google Fi Suddenly Strikes
In the context today, someone called someone else bullshit without evidence.
This is a copy of earlier work done (for example) at Walt Disney Research. Contrary to scientific work, startups do not usually cite related work.

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2012/12/03/an-led-to-led-...

https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/connecting-network...
When it comes to having children, there's plenty of selfishness on both sides of the decision.

I agree that people who remain childless often do so for some of the selfish reasons you describe, but let's not pretend that having a child is a selfless act. Many people have children because they believe doing so will give their lives meaning, because they want to carry on their family name/line, because they are afraid there will be no one to take care of them when they get old. They do so because they feel pressured by their family and friends to "join the club". They feel pressured by their parents to give them grandchildren. And hell, some people have kids by accident, due to a lack of family planning or education.

How many people decide to have a child because they want to enrich their communities, to help with future demographics and the future economy?
Why 100% remote works for working parents
Same here on desktop Chrome. I think its a poor execution of Tesla site. Moment I touch the wheel it takes me to next slide... that is - split on the screen with the previous one. Nightmare.
Chelating treatments, although I have no idea how they can be administered or used it if there are constraints to their use. I think it's unavailable at the pharmacy.

I remember because the molecule is quite funny it has some kind of slot to capture the lead atom.
> Nobody can build something with squirrel levels of manipulation and agility, even in simulation.

Isn’t that what alpha go or the StarCraft league are? Organic strategies in well-defined contexts (action options of the squirrel at Tn)? “Squirrel” is a nice reference frame.
On bell hooks and the Solace of Ritual (2021)
IQ has a interesting property in which it is multiplicative at the individual level, but not additive at the individual or collective level.

A 140+ IQ person is not 40% smarter than a 100 IQ person, but much smarter. Someone with an IQ of 100 may struggle at college math but someone with an IQ of 140 can do cutting edge research.

Likewise, adding two 120 IQ people does not equal a 140 IQ person. So even a dozen 100 IQ people working together will not be able to solve a math problem that a single person who has an IQ of 140 can solve.
Performance. It matters even in the 20's.
That's not an excuse. Many of those displayed have been living comfortably numb under petro-dollar funded consumerism for the past decade or so while being 'non-political' and not caring enough about what their new czar was up to. Don't get me wrong, there are still dissidents, but putin managed to beat out any trace of viable opposition while people not only allowed it, most were jacking off in front of the television watching OMON beat in some skulls.

And speaking of that opposition, I urge people to check out Alexei Navalny's opinion on Crimea..

I'm tired of the 'innocent Russians' narrative shat around the internet. Nobody forced them to do jack shit. There's just an epidemic of cowardice mixed with a dash of imperial nostalgia going rampant in Russia, that is all.
Online gaming: Real issues in virtual worlds (2015) [pdf]
"I would enjoy Ulises more, if only James Joyce had published a 3rd Grade version alongside".

Sometimes it's worthwhile to keep an artistic vision as intended, even if not everyone will enjoy the work for it.
Well, if you anthropomorphize your dog, it's like having a little human in the house.
Isnt art just consumerism with extra steps?
> Can you give me the coordinates you played in? I will review the "objects".

Here's the osm for the pedway object, labelled a footpath. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11909462

Here's one of the trails: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/511807176
Somewhere between US stagnation and China/UAE building for the sake of building lies a happy medium.
I assume you’re referring to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
When Sabine Hossenfelder wins from the toy crane, maybe I'll take superdeterminism seriously.
Looks like the "moon patrol" but from UFO's view :)
Well that explains a lot. Seriously though, for a wealthy first world nation the levels intellectual rational debate in America is generally pretty shockingly poor.
I reckon you're looking for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
The author exhibits huge confirmation bias in their example of an otherwise good applicant stumbling on a technical test. They assume without any doubt that this means they narrowly avoided a mishire.

Testing for simple algorithms knowledge biases for recently graduated people who have these in their active memory. Experienced people rarely encounter these details in practice and are more likely to have their heads full of deep knowledge no one in your organization knows about. If you screen these people out, it will be quite literally your loss.

Technological fields are blue oceans where only junior people spend significant time near the safe harbors. Experienced people have sailed far away and seen lands you don't know about yet.

People also have this inherent bias of treating everything they know well as some common knowledge everyone else knows as well, or at least should know. This bias of underestimating the vastness of the field is largely because of inexperience. People who haven't seen how deep it goes are liable to think that the basic university exercises are the important things.
I'd only disagree with the somewhat recent common ancestor since it was on the order of 60 million years ago. Even geologically speaking, that's a bit. But it's quite clear if you observe rats, dogs, and other mammals (especially social ones), they've got some of the same wiring. I'd go so far as to say that most human laws are just codified innate primate tribe dynamics.

I even hear people say they can relate with their reptiles, but that seems harder for me to square.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely fix the pin accuracy and I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty
A lot of companies don’t hire people who were born before leaded gasoline was banned. For many roles with high mental load it’s seen as a liability.
There is a whole field about that, called numerical analysis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis
You know, your answer is the funniest one but also the closest to the truth.

This is a great article, but comes to a roundabout conclusion that endorses deregulation so that more community-affecting projects can get built. Which of course is the wrong solution since it merely doubles down on what we're already doing, so will only exacerbate our race towards environmental collapse.

I feel that the answer is in stuff like solarpunk. Specifically, helping someone else by solving our own problems. Every house off the grid reduces the demand for electricity, lowering its price so that others can afford it too. Backyard hydroponic/robotic gardens lower the price of food, and so on. After we pick ourselves up by our bootstraps, we have the resources to help others do the same.
> What matters is that the number conveys a sense of magnitude. We collectively lost almost a billion IQ points!

But losing a billion IQ points might be less bad than losing 10M IQ points, because there is literally no scale.
Pure coincidence that 0xAA55 marks the end of the PC master boot record?
There are two possible things going on:

1. actual anthropomorphizing, that is ascribing distinctly human motivation to a non-human actor

2. in Dennett's words, "taking the intentional stance", that is choosing to describe and understand an active entity in the world as if it had intentions.

We do (2) with other people all the time, without much to really back it up. I don't consider such a bad thing to do it with dogs (or other animals).
> If we could have somehow preserved the knowledge

Most of the stuff from the ancient would is quite easy to reproduce--throw hordes of people at it. The ancient world didn't have some fantastically superior knowledge.

I forget the magician, but he stated something along the lines of "Magic is simply being willing to devote to accomplishing a task an amount of time and preparation that any rational person would regard as insanity."

Sadly, when the ancient world couldn't support throwing hordes of people at the problems, it collapsed.
D (dlang.org) has a "real" type alongside float and double which represents the widest float available on the target (so 80bits if x87 is available). It does see some use.

(But don't use it without a valid reason or your program is going to be slow because no SIMD)
AC in general wouldn't help so much; air circulation would help a little
The Joyent that made Node wasn't really the Joyent that brought TextDrive, afaik. That company has a long history of.... fuckups, maybe ?
I’m a few years beyond you and my expensive sports car was really cheap (a saturn sky). But I 100% agree with your sentiment. When I found we were pregnant in the mid 80s I stopped all screwing around and got to work. It’s was a necessary transition.
KDE connect does what the Remote Hippo app did a decade ago, from what I’m seeing of it’s documentation - let’s you use your phone as a trackpad and maybe share files and such. Yes, it’s more advanced, but it’s not a rethinking of things.

This feature is indeed innovative yet iterative - it’s like a zero-configuration Synergy or Logitech Flow where you can use the same mouse on multiple devices - but it requires basically no configuration at all to do so. And the impressive part is how it built on top of previous work to add shared clipboard between devices and other “handoff” features, plus has a similarity to features that shipped before handoff such as airdrop.

To underscore how impressive it is, Microsoft still has yet to ship a suite of such features and they should have very similar resources available. Apple might be all marketing and sometimes buggy, confusing or unexpected, but there is an undeniable sense of progression when you look at the 5-10 year improvements.

The caution I would have is that it works so well I was confused when my mouse cursor disappeared and showed up on another screen. And it can’t automatically figure out the positioning of displays or computers, which is annoying now that Apple is experimenting with chips that can precisely position devices relative to each other. [Full disclosure, I have a couple shares in Apple.]
Yes, it takes a remarkable amount of mental gymnastics to reconcile decentralized transparent information and the Facebook corporation.
I found a reddit post that had a screenshot of an email an applicant received after applying to work at Canonical (as in Ubuntu). I am just wondering if this is legitimate, standard practice and if others had this experience? Some of the questions seem a bit odd.
It gets worse, and it gets better.

Apple Music still won't sync all of my wife's MP3 songs to her iPhone 13 Pro, even though she pays for the subscription. Some stuff goes through. Some doesn't. It's very random.

My iPhone X syncs fine, even wirelessly, with the same library, though.

I'm just glad (OK, amazed) that Apple Music still syncs songs with my 17-year-old first-generation iPod Shuffle. I used it just yesterday. My only complaint is that the icon displayed in the Finder sidebar for the second-generation Shuffles has the wrong aspect ratio. Still the best music player on the planet.
「はい!!」
Wow, what a great idea. This is incredibly fun.